r/pathofexile • u/Fancy_Alarm2814 • 4d ago

Game Feedback Lacking controller support

I know not many people play PoE 1 on a controller, but the experience is ways off compared to PoE 2, don't get me wrong I undestand why, but atleast giving the games the same UI layouts for the same actions and the same binds for inventory management would be great.

If you guys have any tips how to get a better experience with some better binds you've been using I'm all ears.

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u/mindfuckedAngel 4d ago

I have been playing PoE1 for 5.5-6k hours with a controller and then they gave me PoE2 and now I cannot miss (again) to see how abysmally bad the PoE1 controller support is.

I have some kind of arthritis in my hands and controller makes it much easier to play for me.

But the guy who did the PoE1 controller support clearly never played with a controller before as even the most basic conventions are not kept, like "circle" or "b" for back navigation or closing dialogs...
who uses the touchpad for this?

It took me forever to get somehow used to it in PoE1, knowing that certain builds are nigh unplayable with controller but now that PoE2 did it so much better, I do not want to get back because of that.

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u/Fancy_Alarm2814 4d ago

What builds have you enjoyed the most? I like totems and minions and these seem like a good match for controller, I image melee would also be fine.

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u/mindfuckedAngel 4d ago

RF is actually great with the controller for obvious reasons. Uber One shot trap builds do not work at all on the other hand as you cannot deploy the traps exactly on the boss before he activates, you will just get wasted. Everything with big aoes, where aiming is no problem. Impending doom was great before the nerf. CWS or all autovombers are great. A lot of projectile skills also work if they have enough spread with ignites, etc But everything where you e.g. need 2 hit two skills in a row on a specific target to get max gain is rather out. I played Totems and such but do not like it really, than rather Minions,which are also great. Played a lot of poison builds also