GGG take some time to play your game

The after death stuff, the frame rate drops, the sun monster thing that casts incinerate without any reaction time that tracks you like a computer (!!!!!!! -- your players are human), and the volatile plants.

If you actually played to enjoy the game rather than meet a metric I think you'd do things a bit differently.

The monster affixes need serious work. This is like fricken Kalandra league with the nemesis mods running into some of these creatures. It wasn't fun then. It's not fun now.

To manage in high end content you need screen clear but you nerf classes to limit ability to screen clear so we end up gravitating toward a limited number of skills. Throw in support gem limitations and you end up with a bunch of the same crap over and over with limited build diversity.

You seem to want to build around slow and methodical souls-like play but you throw so much **** on the screen with heat seeking missiles the only alernative is to go full ES and start blasting.

Take some time to play your game and make it fun.

I have found playing a cold sorc to be literally dogshit in this game so far. It seems to forgo dps for the ability to spam nova in an attempt to freeze things instead of doing any real damage. The exploding ice effects look fantastic if i get time to pull off a combo,but all i ever seem to do is fucking dodge roll..

I struggled my ass off for 2 weeks to get through the campaign, never really getting any decent loot, or currency. I have seen 2 divines and 5 chaos in my whole time. Carried one staff from Act II into early maps before replacement. Constantly out run by every single mob, spammed with machine gun projectiles, destroyed by every rare or boss that came near me, forever dodge rolling in a futile attempt to dodge one of four different homing missile orbs + trash mobs spam.The constant hinderance to my movement speed EVERY time i cast, results in me tip toe-ing 3mm at a time at snail speed backwards across my screen as the onslaught of mobs engulfs me in real time.. Its fucking infuriating.

Finally get to end game and after having cleared over 150 maps, I have gained 2 levels in 4 weeks worth of gameplaying. I won't even tell you how many hours per day... Still cant find any real replacement gear, despite the requirements having drastically increased. Any good base that I get is immediately ruined within 1 or 2 exalts with this dreadful RNG craft. All I do is waste mats, I cant deconstruct to get them back, I get about 3-4 every 2 maps.I cant scour a negative mod, I try the recombinator and destroy 8 items in a row before giving up on that. Collected tabs of inv worth of stuff only to cycle through one by one getting melee mods while looking for caster stuff. Pointless loop. Never earn enough to afford the cost of trading for anything..

The XP I get from completing 5 full map clears is less than what I lose from one single death. Can't improve my defenses or my DPS. I have respecced ascendancy and passive points over and over, changed skill gems setups, all I see when looking at skill/support gems is negative effects that make me hesitate to actually equip them. I still can't get my 3rd set of Ascendancy points. No matter how hard I try I can't beat the trial of Chaos or the 3 floors of Sekamas to save myself, despite being lvl73. I waste 45mins + for absolutely no reward, only to die because my gimped character is further hamstringed by over powered negative afflications into a state of absolute uselessness. All day long all i see is ppl asking for carries in chat. I look at forums and ppl struggling to no end, and I know that I have 1/3 more defences and still cant beat it either.

I get through my 5th Sekamas attempt today, kill the 2nd boss, and still have 95% of my dogshit honour yet have to go onto another fucking floor, carrying the 7 neg afflictions, that gain no water, no honour, -40 damage, no point in a merchant being their cause I cant afford to spend anything. No matter what I do I cant avoid them, always steered into them everntually. I get into the next room and it is absolutely full off criss crosssing flame traps, lava mines every node for the entire screen. IM already fucking over it at this point. If the 2 floors of tedium wasn't already enough this was it. I get thru only to die in the next room. Again, all for no reward.

It's like every thing I do is just time wasted for no damn reason. I cant progress any aspect of my character. I tried to roll 3 other characters, but the slog through to Clearfell just reminds me of how pointless it is. This new character is just as slow, weak, and essentiall useless as my other higher character. And I'm not going to waste any more of my time trying to slog through this campaign on the chance I pick a better skill set lest I potentially end up in the same state again. Bricked at 70.

No game has made me more self aware that I am doing nothing more than wasting my life whilst playing it in a futile attempt to progress my fictional character. I do believe that is the opposite of what a video game is supposed to do. I am having no fun what so fucking ever. It has absolutely been the most emisserating experience I have had to date in 40yrs of gaming. I hate myself for persevering lol


Don't get me wrong, I've watched countless videos, and streams too. I am absolutely positive that those of you whom are having a blast one shotting screen clears hitting the higher tier content are getting exactly what you want out of this game. I've seen it, it looks fun as hell.

I'm just trying to share the perspective of someone who happened to just choose the wrong class that requires a whole different playstyle. 45button press combo that is mostly ineffective for the most part that doesnt work when all I end up doing is dodge roll one shot homing missiles, 40ft flame throwers and attacks. Im sure it would improve with gear. But I am absolutely sick of struggling. I don't enjoy this at all, and now I am to sour to try another character.

Shove your Trials up your Sekhamas!!

On a positive note, it certainly is a fantastic looking game. Love all the flashy effect interactions, map designs, etc.

This is so true, I just posted the same thing. it's starting to look like Diablo 4