The campaign is still really terrible

0.2.0, Lich Sorc made it to 35~, Lightning Strike to 30~, Lightning Spear made it to 15.

Please GGG play the game with your changes starting from level one. Endgame changes are great I'm sure but people have to get that far. Right now getting there isnt fun. Its tedious, monotonous, slow, offers little feeling of progression. Its REALLY REALLY bad. We play games to relax

The folks on here are those who got lucky(I guess) or hardcore enough to muscle through the pain to get to the reward. There are lots of people who arent either of those things and I suspect those people are the people who never game back after this patches launch.

They'll be back I'm sure, but understand that you're spending good will in your testing.. and every time a player has a horrible experience it costs you something

The campaign is the best thing about this game at this point.

They just need to shrink the zones and give them the same layout each time. Reducing the campaign length to around 3-4 hours is essential for the games replay value. No one wants to grind a tutorial for 10 hours per character every league.

Honestly I had to go with a few characters this league and was too burned out to even get past campaign. Started infernalist necro and it was a nightmare... Went to ballista totems and got it to level 40 and decided I wasn't having fun. Try a LS... Still didn't have fun, also got to about level 40.


Nothing about this game is hard, except my willpower to play it. It's not a challenge thing... it's just a "this feels bad" thing.


Most scary -- the lead dev said, "if we just put enough things in the campaign it'll be fun", absolutely insanely not true, most of us want LESS things in the campaign and significantly less campaign on top of that.

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rifraf-_-#9478 が発言:

The campaign is the best thing about this game at this point.

Sick burn.

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JarlaxleDaerthe#2435 が発言:

They just need to shrink the zones and give them the same layout each time. Reducing the campaign length to around 3-4 hours is essential for the games replay value. No one wants to grind a tutorial for 10 hours per character every league.

We told them this for years... Did you know they have been slowing down the campaign in POE 1 as well? POE 1 was a 2-3 hour campaign for veterans... Now it's like 6-10h for vets depending on starter

It's the most tone deaf thing they ahve ever done. This was welcomed by literally 0% of us. Nobody enjoys the campaign, and were not going to enjoy the campaign. The campaign is in the way of the fun it's not ever going to be fun outside of the very first few times. It's already such a huge nightmare I couldn't bother even getting to endgame this league. It was just painfully boring and slow.

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Rakie1337#5746 が発言:

We told them this for years... Did you know they have been slowing down the campaign in POE 1 as well? POE 1 was a 2-3 hour campaign for veterans... Now it's like 6-10h for vets depending on starter

I overall agree with you but I don't think this is right, one of Chris's seemingly last major decisions (besides Ruthless) was attempting to remake Acts 1-5 in PoE1 to 'update them' to the modern game, and they updated Act 1 for the worse and made it slower for no reason but stopped there. Vets are still clearing the campaign in under 6 hours, 6-10 is the more casual rate if you aren't hyper focusing.

But still, 10 ish years of doing that.. I really don't want to do it again in Path of Exile 2, especially with how slow PoE2 is, and I can't see myself playing the game that often if I must keep replaying the campaign. I think GGG needs to move on from this requirement somehow.