Dawn of the Hunt HC SSF less fun?

I can't quite put my finger on it, but I took a couple months off between early access and dawn of the hunt; I tried playing a few melee classes, and it appears that HC is nearly unplayable now?

I used to be able to get to end game in a about 5 hours or so prior, but now I tried 10 characters all melee, and only one has made it to act 2 so far in hardcore.

Just seems like there are severe damage spikes that cannot be anticipated or mitigated very well.

I do play strictly on hardcore, and as solo self found, so just gearing my way out of it is not an option.

I am not sure if it is the new stun mechanics, or overall monster offensive power increases.

I just feel extremely squishy even if I push down a pure defensive line in the passive tree.

What I have noticed is that the Damage over time from certain monsters is dramatically higher, and that occasionally there is just a random one shot, that I am dying from over and over its happening, almost always out of nowhere.

It does feel like perhaps Hitpoints are all together too low and impossible to scale?

Did armour just get made non effective?

Anyways, having to run out of melee range for 80% of melee fighting seems not fun. the game is boring now. Why did they nerf it into the ground for hardcore players?

Chooses the option SSF which is meant to basically be a self imposed challenge.

Complains about it.

Confusing post since they just nerfed mob danger by a metric fuck ton, which was the reason i stopped playing when they patched. Was already too easy. Now it's even easier.

If you're struggling to survive, it's either a gear issue or a skill issue. Even SSF is braindead easy. There's a build for almost every class now that basically 1 shot clears everything with almost 0 gear. Go watch a speed runner.

Did you look at poe2.ninja? HCSSF has a lot of Smiths of Kitava in armor, though no one's hit lvl 100. There's been chatter for months that armor isn't strong, so I've focused on ES. But people can do it, at least with that one ascendancy.

Edit: I'm in softcore SSF, fwiw.

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DistributedAutomaton#5739 が発言:

Did you look at poe2.ninja? HCSSF has a lot of Smiths of Kitava in armor, though no one's hit lvl 100. There's been chatter for months that armor isn't strong, so I've focused on ES. But people can do it, at least with that one ascendancy.

Edit: I'm in softcore SSF, fwiw.

OP is complaining about act1. If all due respect to OP, act1 is easy with whatever you are doing. Ascendancy doesn't matter. It's probably a skill issue or he/she is just new to poe2 and are still struggling to adapt some poe1 knowledge here.

About armour, I'm the one that defends that armour is fine (not good, but fine) in this forum. But smith of kitava doesn't rely that much on armour because players usually pick 25% physical dmg taken as fire. A Titan, on the other hand, can stack enough armour to rely on that and, with new soul cores it can make sense to focus more on that if you make a combo with some new soul cores (0.2.1). Doesn't know how rare they are though. Probably pretty rare I guess.

That said, Smith of Kitava is indeed tanky and can survive the road to 100 for sure. But melee's clear speed is really slow in general. Not near as good as some meta builds.

I'm confident that I can reach 100 with my char, but XP-gain is extremely low at high levels. I'm 98.4 and it would take more than 2-months to reach 100 at this pace.

edit: btw it is funny to see my char on poe2.ninja with a spear LOL. I was just trying something else to increase clearspeed, but I'm still using 2-handed mace.

That was a great comment, thanks.

HC SSF players are the best in my opinion, and should be listened too more.


But your not really HC until they remove the Pause on HC mode.


Pausing before death is weaksauce, you might aswell just join us because you aint hardcore.

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Krym0r3#7733 が発言:

HC SSF players are the best in my opinion, and should be listened too more.


But your not really HC until they remove the Pause on HC mode.


Pausing before death is weaksauce, you might aswell just join us because you aint hardcore.

weak bait LOL