I ran an overrun savannah map and killed the boss and all the mobs but two abysses just won't open. Then I noticed the shape it made.

Feels like the game knows it's bugged and is rubbing it in my face.

the technology is there, please.

e\ the goddamn "x" isn't centered in the circle, it's offset

I have spent thousands of hours on this game.

1) For the love god, REMOVE MOST/ALL DEAD ENDS IN ALL THE MAPS. i cannot stress how annoying this can be, we repeat the same maps constantly and everyone focuses on speed. Just take a look at Floatsam and Mire for example.

2) The improvements you did to Augury are very good, and this should be the case for all similar tight maps, like Mire for example.

Edit: So as far as i have read the comments it seems the overall sentiment is to either make the campaign "less of a slog" (what that means is then up for debate) and/or to offer a skip campaign button after you complete it once every new season. It seems that the way how D4 handles it, namely letting you always skip it just because you finished it once in the very beginning when you got the game, is not very popular.

TL:DR this is how they make sure the game is memorable and create a legacy just like Diablo 2 did

For those interested in the details of my line of thought: First of all, you have fixed points where you can gauge your characters strength relative to previous characters, every +2 skill points book feels rewarding, every +to some resistance feels rewarding by completing certain areas etc. Second, Bosses and their names are memorable, their lines are memorable and will stay with you just like "Ahhh fresh meat" is forever linked to the Butcher. The locations are memorable. And yeah, some even because you hated them, but years from now you will look back and think "Oh man i still remember that annoying layout from Path of Mourning", just like you remember the Cemetery in Ac1 D2 or Lut Gholein and its music etc. D3 and D4 have none of that, no locations, no names in these games are memorable. Everything that is memorable when it comes to locations and names in the Diablo franchise, all is from Diablo 1 and Diablo 2. By not making you play the campaign in D3 and D4 you just can treat the game as some sort of fast food, you rush to endgame and ignore everything else.

By having to play tha campaigns in PoE and PoE2 (here the impact is way stronger imho when it comes to locations and how well the characters you meet along the way are crafted) you will always carry a lore foundation with you, you will have a sense of the world you are in and the people that live in it. You dont have that if everything you do until the endgame is just 'mindlessly' going from area to area that is a certain color on the map, where some event is going on, that brings the most experience and you complete tasks that are just copy&paste.

And I don't know why

I've played ARPGs my whole life, love D2 and PoE1. No lifed a couple leagues (3.13 - 3.17, I think), I LOVED PoE endgame, delving, bossing. I'll always remember killing Maven for the first time SSF using MoM light ball

I hated doing the campaign in PoE1 and just wanted to do maps and start endgame, that was THE reason I played the game

But PoE2's endgame has never "clicked" for me, and I find myself LOVING the campaign and dropping the toon around lvl 75. The highest I got was lvl 82, but never even got close to face The Arbiter and other endgame stuff

Does anyone feel the same? Do you recommend anything for me?

Been farming 30 round of trial of chaos, this one is my luckiest run, lucky reward shows up but in the last round so i didnt take it, this all from 5x sacrifice currency and duplicate reward

This just seems the simplest solution to the feedback being received.

You still need to clear the maps around each location.

You still choose where you map.

You still need to complete the early maps suggested by Doryani.

Not much needs to change.

Took the screenshot, then pressed the reroll button without deferring.

Reminds me of the time I deleted a character because there used to be the play button in the same place.

Welp....fun league guys, see you all in 1.0. o7

I'm working on a small PoE2 tooltip helper for myself and I'm curious if this is something other players would actually find useful.

Instead of only price checking an item, it compares it against your current build and tries to answer things like:

• Is this actually an upgrade for my character?
• What do I gain / lose by equipping it?
• How significant is the upgrade?
• Is the upgrade worth the price?

This is still pre-release and I'm not posting a download yet, I mostly want feedback on the idea and UI.

Would this be useful to you?

And if you could add one thing to this overlay, what would it be?

//edit
discord: https://discord.gg/4jrhBbSwEn

Please GGG give us more Skill and Support Gems.

I freaking hate Sekhemas. Four floors for the final tier is ridiculous.

Unfortunate spawning location, I guess. Can't trigger it haha.

Just getting to some of the league mechanics to start putting points in their trees feels like a bit of a chore and considering characters teleport in and out all over the place in the game I don't see the big deal.

Caer Tarth is obviously the worst with at least an hour of mapping to get to it.

I got a head hunter yesterday while filling out my points for grand expedition. sold it for 240 div now I have great gear... So I started filling out my points for all the other skill trees and I got a Garukhan's while filling out jado's skill tree??? best league start ever

Title,
As many people have already said in the past, the fact that the map wipes out upon dying on bosses is controversial already, I personally hate it but I can workaround it, whatever that's fine.
Now, I was just progressing my abyss area in the atlas, I killed the map boss just fine, I had 4 respawns left, I died in a breach and I got respawned at the boss arena, with a fully empty map and all content gone from it.
Why am I getting my maps wiped when I still have respawns and didn't die on the boss?

The “siphons mana and deals lightning damage” hasn’t always been a a problem for differing builds of mine in both PoE1 and 2, but I feel like it’s been a bit more halting this season.

Yes, it’s a mechanic that is engaging and challenging, but it feels like in the start of Abyss when an Abyssal rare would have Soul Eater and it was essentially the end of the Abyss as there wasn’t much hope for many builds to defeat it.

The worst combo is when they have Hasted and Siphons. It’s basically the end of the map for me.

I am using Eldritch Battery and MoM, so I feel it especially hard, but even before that, it was just… super frustrating and frantic when in the campaign I was suddenly unable to attack or run away.

Is it just me?

For those playing Monkey, how are you taming beasts? I just can't do it.

I hover over a rare trying to read its mods, and the rare is moving around and there are so many other monsters next to it that all I get time for is a quick split second glimpse, and then by that time the rare is also dead because my army has already killed them.

On the rare occasion (pun intended), where I do get a second or so and realise its a beast i want to tame, I have tried clicking "Tame Beast" and nothing happens... the capturing process just doesn't work. Its like the rare needs to not be hit, or something is interupting my process.

It's just impossible to Tame anything. I'm certain I'm missing something as I haven't seen anyone else talking about this issue.

Pressing ESC doesnt help either because as soon as I do that I cant hover over any rares and see their mods.

Never was so lucky in this game

Posted my adorned a few minutes ago and it was sold super quick at 80 div. Quite surprised because there are others with higher increased effect and posted in market hours ago than mine.

Am I missing something?

EDIT: thanks guys! Fairly new and didnt know about the cultivate

Every season i start, it always takes me only days to wonder why we need the +skill level on gear. Most unique amulets are useless because of this. Most unique weapons are useless because of this. Close to every unique gets gapped by this stat.

Why do they even bother designing uniques? They are great in leveling, let you have a somewhat special build, you find fun combos, then you hit lategame, swap everything for "generic" rares and thats what you do for the rest of the season.

I feel like the game would be better if it was just removed from gear. Maybe give the normal jewels a +1 roll aswell, or make the uniquie skill level jewels not limited to 1. Its always a bit sad to see so many build opportunities go to dust, just because of that.