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I understand that this game would be different than PoE 1. I expected as much when starting to play it, but honestly, this is not it.

The game is a slog, you move at an astounding 0.1 m/s in a map that's like, I don't know, 200 km² in area. The monsters are ALWAYS faster than you are, making kiting an impossible feat. The dodge roll is terrible and you can't even go through enemies to avoid being surrounded, since they body block you.

There's barely anything dropping from monsters to even be able to upgrade your own gear, so getting through the acts feels like a chore and it feels like a lottery whether or not you'll be able to even reach endgame.

At this point, I do not expect them to change the core of the game, which is what I have problems with. So GGG, if you are actually reading feedback all I ask is that you do not put PoE 1 in life support for this.

I came to play an ARPG, but in exchange all I got is a souls-like with an ARPG skin.

First things first: this game is not a bad game, I love it, but people need to criticize when it's needed. I wish I could somehow not be bound by the whole "positive" or "negative" review thing.

The game is amazing. Both solo and co-op are astounding and the game is addictive as hell, giving you also a variety of guns and classes to play with. Totally awesome game.

However, season 4 came in and... it was very bland. One could call it season 3 part 2, or maybe season 3.5, because the content was really lacking for the time it went without big updates. We got the same recycled event from season 3, but now with a new boss and that's about it. The battle pass was lackluster. No new biomes, no new overclocks (just a little balancing on a couple of them), jet boots that are indeed fun to have, but appear once in god knows how many missions.

I have to give them credit to say that the game is indeed good and I recommend you to get it, but when I'm not happy about something, I will voice my concerns. Which brings to another point, albeit not exactly related to the game itself, but to its community: toxic positivity. The majority of the community is way too forgiving and "wholesome" and will automatically target you if you say the slightest thing against the game, so beware of this. I should be able to voice my concerns freely about a product that I purchased.

Even though I'm selecting a negative review for this game, do not think that the game is bad, it's just that I want for more people to see this and to hope that the devs also see this.

Latest league (3.19 Mirror of Kalandra) came with a bunch of poorly tested changes that, not only they tried to implement for 3 leagues in a row, unsuccessfully, and yet they stubbornly repeat the same mistakes over and over (archnemesis modifiers). However I wish that was the end of it. The loot got severely gutted, people dropping much, much less loot when compared to prior leagues which in result took all of the fun from the game. Patches were made to "fix" these issues, yet they still present to be a problem at the date, an issue that deserved full attention to be patched ASAP, but took almost a week to "fix". GGG however seems to be happy with the changes and does not seem to care about what players are saying, as you can see by the recent reviews. There's also more. They also decided to indirectly kill the crafting in the game (harvest changes, exalt to divine change), which is pretty much the most stable way to get good gear in the game.

This says a lot about the company. They are developing the game's sequel: Path of Exile 2. I'd be wary of it if I were you.
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Update: 3.20 Forbidden Sanctum

The newest league brought a fresh breath of life to the game. Most of the concerns were somewhat tended to and the game feels much better. Archnemesis were nerfed significantly, reducing the overtuned monster's difficulty.

League mechanic is interesting, but not perfect. Still an improvement.

There's still two main problems that need to be addressed, but I am not hopeful that they will ever be: removed harvest crafts and build diversity. The removed harvest crafts were of extreme importance to the whole crafting of the game, which is now more than ever dependent on nothing else than luck. The removed harvest crafts (mainly reforge keep prefix/suffix) contributed with reducing the luck factor by a significant amount. Secondly, build diversity. Build diversity is tough in current PoE. You have no choice but to play meta builds and you need ridiculous amount of defenses, which is not feasible to happen on the majority of builds. The majority of skill gems are not viable and their efforts to improve them are not very noticeable.

That being said, I still recommend the game for 3.20 brought to many of us the best league since a good while now. Maybe praising them when they do the correct actions will change their minds into listening to player feedback more.

The game is in a bad spot. Past seasons had connection stability issues which seem mostly solved as for recent seasons, including the new one that launched a few days ago (season 16). However, the developers seem to really not care about the game's health and overall player happiness, as they perform big balance changes mid-season either completely harming a class performance by a great margin or making another class extremely overpowered for what seems to be no reason. There is also an ongoing bug involving immunity frames, so players are dying much faster than they should and has not been fixed due to, according to what the owner Elias said in their discord: "It's the weekened night, we won't fix it until monday." At the moment I saw this comment it was friday.

Honestly a shame how the game and the company turned out. Had a lot of faith and I feel like I wasted my money when purchasing the newest expansion. I doubt its situation will improve but you'll truly never know. Do NOT buy this game at the current state.

Outstanding game. After you think you've done it all, there's still mods. Make sure to buy this.

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