Itemization is Boring

If PoE2 wants to be a different experience than PoE1, then why do we have the same itemization, but honestly worse, here?

Nothing about prioritizing attack, casting and movement speed over everything else screams "slow & methodical gameplay" to me.

Being required to cap resistances to just play the game doesn't seem like players having agency or choice with how their build their characters. Neither does every pair of boots without movement speed being useless.

Why do we even have modifiers like "light radius" other than for just bricking items?

In every build, it seems like covering the entire screen with as many projectiles or AoE explosions as quickly as possible is the goal. That's the only way to play.

It really eats into class fantasy, different gameplay styles, etc. when literally every build basically ends up playing exactly the same.

Take your pick of all these "builds"; you can blow up the entire screen with blue ice explosions, red blood explosions, lightning explosions, or rock explosions.

Maybe if we had other ways to build our characters, through itemization, we could see some different styles of gameplay, because currently the itemization only supports this one gameplay style of blowing up the entire screen with your explosion color of choice.

There's no room to make a slow character that's really tanky but powerful, or a caster that drops slow, but devasting spells. Every character is just a "spam explosions" build. What's the point of active blocking, active dodging, etc. if the only viable way to play is nuking the entire screen or one shotting bosses before they can do anything?

yup it sucks.

lets be honest here. the REAL reason why loot drops are utter garbage is so everyone gets funneled thru trade.

+1 on that

Idk if it was this league or what...

but it seems most of affixes are trash
most of ranks, seems a bit lower it should be

Dont think it will get better before 0.3 =(

There is little incentive to play the game.

Slog through an overtuned campaign.
all you find is trash items.
Hoard currency when it drops.
Don't craft anything.
Finish campaign.
Go to online store.
Buy all of your gear.

Start plying end game.
go and explicitly buy what you want, specifying every stat max and min every stat you want...
You are in T-15 cause, just buy it.
Ask yourself ... why am i doing this , what is a goal .. its just random


Sound about as unrewarding and bland as can be.

0 to hero with a credit card.