Some people don't want to read or plan strategies around mechanics or take the time to actually craft a unique build on their own capable of toppling endgame bosses. That balance does not seem to have been altered in any way for D2R, which is good news! It means there's finally a viable alternative to POE for people who don't want to be constantly mentally engaged by the game. like, maybe once or twice per build, if I was being extremely sloppy and zoning out.

And even in Hell, deaths were incredibly rare. I'm discounting Iron Maiden suicides for this, just talking strictly about the ability of the game to kill me with enemies and bosses here. I played D2 for multiple years, from release up through the 1.11 patch, and I don't think I ever died to monsters, literally not once, before Act 3 of Hell difficulty. Because here's the thing a lot of people seem to have deliberately forgotten about Diablo 2: Honestly, I'm excited about D2R even though I have no intention of playing it. And there is no logic in this decision to be honest, ggg, why would you show the new players how garbage and unfair this game is just from beginning? Altho thanks for this level of transparency.Ĭhris Wilson always compares PoE with Diablo 2, and says it is some 'golden standard', but if we compare first two acts between these games, I had totally different experience. More acts (2,3) will be made more 'challenging' in 3.16, and I'm predicting it will be a terrible gameplay. Seems like damage of monsters in Path of Exile (all monsters) is heavily overtuned. When fightning act 1 boss, I was not killed if I stand in place for 2-3 seconds like during Merveil fight.

There are no such mobs.Īltho there were some monsters with big HP, there were no monsters like Oak that constantly heal so the fight takes like 10 minutes (don't tell me about frost bomb trick). How many times I was frozen in place into death? Zero. There are no mobs like Rhoas to do that, that are unnaturaly fast and can stun players easilly. How many times I was stunlocked into death? Zero. You can actually take many hits even if you are surrounded/having a big problems, and monsted don't have any abilities to kill you in few hits. You know how many times I was one-shotted or killed with sense that it was unfair in D2? Zero.

Path of Exile's 'reworked' 1 act is complete GARBAGE compared to Diablo 2. The first two acts on normal difficulty were opened during this beta test.

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