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One of the worst games i've ever played. If at the start it felt diffucult, but worthy of trying, endgame is just abysmal.
Economy is clearly broken and the only way to get endgame gear is either RMT, grinding 24/7, or becoming a trade bot. 250 exalted orbs for 1 divine is ridiculous as even on tier 15 maps with 150+ rarity on gear drop is completely horrible, it'd take weeks to get some 10-20 divine orbs for a semi-decent gear.
Diffuculty spikes are ridiculous, even maps with almost same monster modifiers can be either a oneshot from the first mob or a walk in the park, it's totally just flip of a coin. It's a total nonsense sometimes, as i can pass 10+ 15-tier maps in a row without breaking a sweat even on the worst modifiers, and then just die to a white mob attack on a map that has no damage modifiers at all.
It doesn't help that those oneshots happen instantly, often in a ton of mobs and effects, and you don't even get to deduce what exactly you did wrong and what killed you. As there is no logs or anything in this game, the only way to at least look closely is to record your gameplay on video, which takes a lot of storage space and doesn't really help much. Therefore, almost no opportunity to mitigate these except for getting tanky gear, and even when you have 5k+ energy shield, chaos immunity, 90 of every resistance and 90% of evasion, oneshot it is.
And every time those spikes happen, you lose a lot. You lose your waystone, you lose EXP equivalent of several hours play (of days on higher levels), and on top of that you even lose bonuses that this particular node had, forcing you to eventually replay it to get to further nodes, wasting even more of your time.
After you reach level 90 and get all the ascendancy skills, progression becomes not simply slow, but rather universe entropy death kind of slow. You almost stop getting EXP so no new levels, seldomly get any loot that costs more than 1 exalted orb so no new gear, and everything else, such as ascendancy, atlas etc is already completed.
Therefore i've stopped getting any feeling of progression and only get disappointed by useless loot and get depressed by oneshot deaths which not only kick me back in progress and cost me a lot of my time, but also don't provide any information on which i could learn and adapt, and so, feel even more meaningless.
Current technical state of the game is also lacking. or, to say it better, lagging. Getting disconnected and dying, getting your game frozen etc, which is completely infuriating given the penalties you get for something that is not your fault. I'm running 4070 GTX, i7-13620H, 64 GB of GDDR5 of 5200Mzh RAM, and an SSD, which should be more than enough for a game that has graphics that i've already seen in 2010s.
Interface is also "great", it's enough to just mention that you can pause the game, but if you choose to change keybindings, it will unpase for some reason. Probably, ability to change them on pause is too much of an advantage. Also half of the game is revolving around trading, which needs usage of crutches like PoE website or Overwolf overlay to be somewhat effective instead of an ingame-system.
There surely are some things that are great, but pretty much all of them are from poe1. The only good additions are new flask system and new skill gems system, as they're just less time-consuming and less of a chore to do.