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I want the genre to evolve instead of continuing to de-evolve into this vampire survivors cookier clicker slot machine gambling simulator.
Okay if you wanna help, then play the game and post some feedback that is more specific than "do it better with less monsters" and more helpful than "all arpg has no combat"
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โพสต์โดยAverBeg7#1689เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2025 21:27:41
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I want the genre to evolve instead of continuing to de-evolve into this vampire survivors cookier clicker slot machine gambling simulator.
Okay if you wanna help, then play the game and post some feedback that is more specific than "do it better with less monsters" and more helpful than "all arpg has no combat"
who are you quoting here?
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โพสต์โดยAintCare#6513เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2025 21:32:03
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no not really man, playing semantics is a fun way to avoid acknowledging the answers you are getting.
its pretty clear to me that people are speaking of combat that lets you 'play the game' on a second monitor while watching YT.
this thread has 30 pages. official build examples were given, exact points in the game were pin pointed. but many will still come here and refuse to acknowledge any of it.
I mean....none of this is true. I have acknowledged everything said to me, and offered counter-arguments. The one question that was NEVER answered was the one you quoted. And those "examples" you bring up are all of wildly different parts of the game, and different levels of "combat", and different builds and styles of play. That's sort of the point....
And you still didn't say exactly what "engaging combat" means to you in PoE 2....and you also made incorrect assumptions about other people too in exactly the same way you are accusing me and others of doing in this post. Do you not see that?
The only semblance of an answer I got was from the OP when he said "Every rare should be like a mini-boss". THAT is something to work with, I acknowledged it, and refuted it. Because such a design can't possibly work in the setting of PoE 2. One thing would need to happen for this to be a viable design path: rares would need to FAR more rare, and drop a hell of a lot more loot....but then what happens to all that time between rares? And if they DIDN'T make that adjustment....what happens when you have 2, 3, and 4 rares on top of you all at once? What happens when you literally can't progress more than a few steps every 5 minutes? Where will the drops come from? How long will it take to get to the next stage of your character development?
Is that TRULY going to be an engaging game experience, within the context of a loot-based arpg character builder game?
"It's pretty clear to me that people are speaking of combat ..... on a second monitor while watching youtube".....really, that's clear to you? Then you haven't read anything written in this thread, and formed an opinion on what anyone might say back at you about 20 pages ago and ignored everything since.
take a look at this exchange. what you are asking is shown explicitly with video examples.
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3855439/page/15#p26374129
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โพสต์โดยAintCare#6513เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2025 21:36:27
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Have a look at bow players killing pinnacles without ascendancy too. Nice balance there, also very engaging.
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โพสต์โดยIILU81II#8410เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2025 21:39:06
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Came back to try POE2 again with 0.3 launch after playing first few weeks of early access and I have to say the game almost feels identical to POE1 in the endgame. I do not know what or how it happened, but the game feels very sped up and all of the "zoom" mechanics of POE1 have creeped back in. It just seems to be drifting back to blowing up screens of mobs and deleting content.
I am indifferent to it all since it is only 0.3, but the combat to me has taken a step back from what they had in the early going. Maybe the devs thought the difficulty was too punishing?
แก้ไขล่าสุดโดย nickzzzzzz#7923 เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2025 21:43:16
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โพสต์โดยnickzzzzzz#7923เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2025 21:41:45
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^First off, that's in a different thread.
Second....that video is from the freaking closed beta of PoE, at least a few months before its full release.
And guess what? At the SAME TIME as that video, there were builds that deleted the end Act 3 boss in less than 2 seconds. All the Cast on Critical strike build videos from the time. I played them.
Cherry picking one example of ONE extremely slow build, being showcased in campaign areas and no endgame.....doesn't prove or show anything.
And does that video show engaging combat? It shows SLOW combat and few enemies, sure....but engaging? Every enemy dies in one hit and he takes no damage. He doesn't use more than a single skill for nearly the entire video.
Is that your idea of engaging combat? What exactly are you trying to "prove" with that?
Example: my favorite build from that same time period
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/580583
If your video represents engaging play, and mine doesnt....then what does that say about the WHOLE game at the time?
Starting anew....with PoE 2 แก้ไขล่าสุดโดย cowmoo275#3095 เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2025 21:45:23
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โพสต์โดยcowmoo275#3095เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2025 21:42:20ถูกคาดโทษ
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^First off, that's in a different thread.
Second....that video is from the freaking closed beta of PoE, at least a few months before its full release.
And guess what? At the SAME TIME as that video, there were builds that deleted the end Act 3 boss in less than 2 seconds. All the Cast on Critical strike build videos from the time. I played them.
Cherry picking one example of ONE extremely slow build, being showcased in campaign areas and no endgame.....doesn't prove or show anything.
And does that video show engaging combat? It shows SLOW combat and few enemies, sure....but engaging? Every enemy dies in one hit and he takes no damage. He doesn't use more than a single skill for nearly the entire video.
Is that your idea of engaging combat? What exactly are you trying to "prove" with that?
why does it matter what thread was this in? did you listed to the commentary how the FaceBreaker build was OP? and was too powerful? we are talking about one shooting white mobs one at a time and 2-4 hits per rare. all while having to avoid projectiles.
you wanted examples, examples were given, now you saying im cherry picking.
im sorry man but i find you just insincere at this point if you can take a look at these videos and still claim you don't know what the issue at hand is.
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โพสต์โดยAintCare#6513เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2025 21:47:17
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But your example......isn't an example of anything. What am I supposed to do with it?
What are you trying to say by linking that video? Explain it to me?
That the build showcased was OP for its time? And only killed one white mob at a time?
What on earth does that have to do with this thread or anything being discussed? It doesn't show any form of engaging combat, nor did you even try to explain that it was.
"What difference does it make that its in a different thread".....uh, you accused me of not reading THIS thread. And you give me a quoted post from a completely different thread with no context lol. Are you serious?
Starting anew....with PoE 2
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โพสต์โดยcowmoo275#3095เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2025 21:55:08ถูกคาดโทษ
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I am done with this thread. Cutting myself off.
These last 10+ pages have been utter nonsense.
Starting anew....with PoE 2
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โพสต์โดยcowmoo275#3095เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2025 21:56:32ถูกคาดโทษ
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But your example......isn't an example of anything. What am I supposed to do with it?
What are you trying to say by linking that video? Explain it to me?
That the build showcased was OP for its time? And only killed one white mob at a time?
What on earth does that have to do with this thread or anything being discussed? It doesn't show any form of engaging combat, nor did you even try to explain that it was.
"What difference does it make that its in a different thread".....uh, you accused me of not reading THIS thread. And you give me a quoted post from a completely different thread with no context lol. Are you serious?
well i thought showing you these video would clearly illustrate what me and others mean when we speak of 'zoom zoom vs meaningful combat'. i linked you another thread because my explanations and others didn't work here. unfortunately i no longer have any ideas how to convey this to you.
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โพสต์โดยAintCare#6513เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2025 22:00:43
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