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Path of Exile 2's Druid Class Showcased at Gamescom

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See I was excited for D4 initially but the combat is boring, the build options are extremely limited, the lack of stash space and respec costs puts a huge damper on trying different builds and the endgame is nonexistant. Once you get to level 70 there's literally nothing left to do apart from repetitively grind to 100 for an Uber Lillith kill, which is actually a terrible fight full of flaws like inaccurate hitboxes, and punishing one-shot mechanics that are poorly telegraphed. There's also no reward for achieving it, despite the boring, contentless grind from level 70-100 requiring 2-3x the time investment as the 1-70 levelling journey. Not that you need a reward. My first S1 character was a bone-spear necro with the Barber heart and I was literally four-shotting 25-man world bosses by myself in 8-10 seconds. It's SO SO BROKEN.

The only good thing about D4 is that tons of friends who are casuals jumped into D4 and it was nice to play an ARPG with them for a change.

I'll probably play Season 2, but I've now completed all content on three different classes and I'm truly disgusted how imbalanced the game is and how broken it still is for $70. It's far worse than shoddy performance like The Last of Us or Fallen Order released with, it's a game that focuses on skill mechanics and items with stats that interact with those mechanics. Several of those mechanics and stats are still FUBAR. We're not even expecting to get a basic fix for resistances until some point in Season 2. For any other game, that would be a critical patch fixed within a few days of launch, and it really should have been picked up in the betas. Blizzard aren't an AAA games developer any more, they're a bunch of incompetent leftovers after all of the talent walked out in disgust in the years since the Activision takeover.
I left D4 for now. I started with few characters but never finished. gotten to a 40lvl maybe with necro and barb. Started wizz but that is it to be fair. I stopped playing for months now and not even thinking about going back. Maybe at some point when the expansions show if any or something. game is not bad when you start but when you play it is somewhat repetitive.

I am truly excited about the PoE2 and i will definitely play it. Same goes for Grim Dawn 2 if it shows up. I only hope the atmosphere in GD2 will stay as it is in the first part.
 
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i don't think i've played PoE and i've certainly won't touch diablo 4 until it's either 90% off or free on epic...

¿can you play poe2 for the "campaign"?, ¿is there something of the sort in that game?, you see i don't give a shit about grinding, raids, guilds, bosses, anything of that sort, i just want to play essentially only for the campaign -maybe with a friend or two in coop- but that's it, no pve, no nonsense, no re-reruns(that's how i played all diablo games).
 
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A complete mess of game!
 
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i don't think i've played PoE and i've certainly won't touch diablo 4 until it's either 90% off or free on epic...

¿can you play poe2 for the "campaign"?, ¿is there something of the sort in that game?, you see i don't give a shit about grinding, raids, guilds, bosses, anything of that sort, i just want to play essentially only for the campaign -maybe with a friend or two in coop- but that's it, no pve, no nonsense, no re-reruns(that's how i played all diablo games).
You can find third party 'info' speculating there's no co-op multiplayer for the campaign, but nothing official has come from the developer, GGG, apart from the statement that PoE2 *is* a mutliplayer game for co-op with up to 6 players.

I suspect that means that the 6-act campaign will support co-op eventually, but they haven't showcased it yet.

You can certainly play PoE(1) co-op multiplayer, and it's actually a lot more fun to whizz through the campaign with a buddy or two. It's also fair to say that the "story" doesn't end with the campaign. There are currently three major bosses (and several more optional, legacy bosses) that continue on from the campaign and progression towards those bosses comes in stages with quests to track and maps to run in specific ways. Arguably, if you want to conclude the story of PoE you actually do need to do some of the post-campaign content (or you could just watch youtube videos of it, I'm sure someone has put up videos of all the Maven/Eater/Exarch content that makes up the current season's main post-act campaign.
 
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