Literally the worst gaming experience I have ever had.

I have found playing a cold sorc in this game so far to be the most dogshit experience I have ever had. 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. havent replaced since. 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. Every action I have has some dogshit penalty: delayed effects, cast time, lengthy regen, cool downs, movement impediment. Every mob action is instantaneous.

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. I have picked up literally thousands of junk items to deconstruct or use. 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 forum posts of builds 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. The Honour system is just a garbage way to pretend your clever by adding another layer of 'resists' to be catered for..

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 essentially 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. Its like GGG balanced Act I player/mob interaction around the idea of players returning at lvl 90 with full gear and max clear and movement speed.

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 in a vain attempt save the money I put into it 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.

The long winded combo tricks end up making me feel like im playing turn based against the mobs who act in 2x speed. At what point am I supposed to enjoy any of this? I see no reason to think its going to get any better for this character. 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, sound FX etc. It's just not worth hours of agonising punishment, only to end up finishing the day where I damn well started.

My current only two gripes are:

1. 3rd and 4th ascendencies... make them quicker. As it stands, its a 45 minute to 1 hour+ experience minimum and if you die, you wasted your night. Miserable.
Respect my time.

2. Mapping takes too long to meet the requirements of completion. The maps are too large, checkpoints don't help with this. Combat is slower (I welcome this btw). And youre required to kill 5,6,7 rares. Sometimes these rares have a crappy combo of affixes. Im lightning/crit based and get the travel bonuses of projectiles the further they travel. I ran up against a crit resistant proximal tangibility dude. Come on...Maps take 10-15, sometimes 20 minutes to run. Its hard to make any meaningful progress toward endgame bossing unless Im playing 5-6+ hours a day. Miserable.
Respect my time.

tbh not succeeding in sekhema is a skill issue. Not in your personal skill in playing, but in your decision making.

Sekhema is pretty easy. I did 3rd ascendancy right when i got to lv 65 and it was fairly easy. I had 1300 Honour when i entered the boss room that was 60 short of my maximum. That got reduced by an affliction i took. I ate one hit of the boss and gt to 800 honour. That was it. I had zero Honour resistance and only used one Relic that had a chance for double water and some starting water.
In sekhema you need to know what affliciton you can take and still beat sekhema. Furthermore if you take a room where the next 2 copnnections are only to on other room. That can definitgely lock you into bad affliction. Always consider what the next rooms can do. There are some horrible afflictions. One of the worst i think is actually seeing one room less.

Furthermore simply dont take random afflictions. Sometiems a run is potentially doomed, because even if you have 2 options for an affliction both are run killers. That happens, but it is how it is.

You can try to remove said affliction further down the line, but it might not work.

If you have too many affliction when entering time trial, you did sth. wrong.

Sekhema takes some time and its a bit too long. But for 4th ascendancy its faster than chaos if you farm the necessary items.

ya absolutely skill issue, random disconnects, invisible mobs firing before they materialize. I dont have a lot of choice when it comes to afflictions, i get one of 2 paths they evidently all have a few along the way. Here i was carrying 7, but I got a boon that restores 29 honour room completion Kinda get sick of how many rooms look like this that I have to pass through 3 or 4 times to get through to the end. I pull a lever and randomly lose 2000 honour, then its down hill from there.

Welcome to Poe2 rules bro ...

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ya absolutely skill issue, random disconnects, invisible mobs firing before they materialize. I dont have a lot of choice when it comes to afflictions, i get one of 2 paths they evidently all have a few along the way. Here i was carrying 7, but I got a boon that restores 29 honour room completion Kinda get sick of how many rooms look like this that I have to pass through 3 or 4 times to get through to the end. I pull a lever and randomly lose 2000 honour, then its down hill from there.

What afflictions do you have? And yes u will have some, but in general many of them wont harm you at you at all.

- no armour
- losing water
- less water
- 100% damage taken when on low life (you basically never get there, if you get there youre fucked anyway)
- 25% Monster action speed etc. (good one to take)
- 50% reduced Effect of your Non-Unique Relics (i took that in my 3rd ascendancy run, i had only 1 relic i didnt even need)
- Rewards are unknown

and many more you can take. Sometimes you have to make decisions that hurt, but most of the time u are able to take afflictions that dont hurt to much.

Not to get into the weeds, just based on feel after trying a few characters, I think sorceress is in bad shape, at least in early game. Other classes feel much smoother.

I enjoyed PoE2 before patch 0.2 as never before in my gaming history , but after this creepy patch I released that this game fall apart , simple: GGG screw it...I played 1 h after release 0.2 and decided to stop.

Still I do not play and still I wait when GGG will back on decent track.
Right now game is like Souls ...not for me

I mean, pretty much spot on really.

I too quit playing sorc. What a fucking joke of a character. My Warrior doing way better damage (even at low level) and ofc, no question about survivability.

Yea, build / class diversity in the game atm, is just a terrible joke. I won't even bring up the single class dominating the field atm.

As far as I'm concerned I wouldn'y say anything near "worst ever"
But yeah, poe 2 is just not plesant to play at the moment. In my experience in 0.2 it's the type of game you feel you have to force yourself to boot and will create multiple "alright screw this, I should press alt+f4" moments in a 1 or 2 hour session.

I think ggg should give the player some ground here, let players have their cake and let them have fun instead of being cockblocked out of everything they want to do because the developper absolutely wants to force a specific balance on the players, even though they clearly do not like it.
Also quality of life improvements should be an absolute priority, for exemple if this game REALLY wants to stick with wisdoms scrolls, fine, but you need to not have excruciating systems like the reforge bench where you have to grind hundreds of dirt items three at a time, only to receive dirt 99% of the time, which for some reason you also have to identify, why ?
This it just not possible.
Just let us throw all our items into a vendor window to three-to-one them, you know, like we did in poe 1. Also for the love of God please increase Inventory size. Give everyone a rucksack instead of it being locked behind an ascendency (btw wtf ?) why not ?

If I had to use only one word to describe poe 2 it would be a close fight between "tedious" and "unrewarding"
Worst thing is a lot of these frictions didn't even exist in poe 1