POE 2 - Day 1 review, I'm not really liking it

POE 2
Game is so slow right now, feels like ruthless 2.0 like what my friend said lol. The struggling is so real with minions, if you don't play SRS for minion builds, I think you might actually quit the game before act 2. Nonetheless I hope every is enjoying "exploring" POE 2
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[@Alex-dm3dr]

I don't see anyone sticking with a game that is this hard and punishing longterm. I've been playing PoE for 8 years and even played ruthless when it came out, this is way worse than even ruthless. I know many people are saying they are loving the game I just can't wrap my mind around that.

[@chengxengyang]

Suk how minion build is like D4

[@sombrego2260]

They will have to significantly rebalance the game because going through this level of difficulty and time to clear the campaign once for the first time is ok but in a world where 95% of the fun is in endgame and there's no campaign skip having to struggle through this BS every season with every characrer you create is just insane to think about.
Also you are talking about how difficult end of act 2 is on one of the strongest build that has a lot of aggro not on you. Imagine doing it on a freaking Monk which has atrocious defense in early game, has to be in melee to get anything done and get bodyblocked and bodied by a pack of trash mobs. I died so freaking many times on the area before the act 2 boss just because of trash mobs with spears bombarding me as I was bodyblocked on a bridge.
I love the game, I genuinely do, but has anyone at GGG did a single playthrough of the campaign before? I really don't get how this went through QA and they said yep, this is fun, let's release it. It's obvious that trash mobs are too fast, too strong, too hard to kill, that the droprate of currencies is way too low.
Also the fact that you have access to so few skills during the campaign is super frustrating. Invoker Monk for example is supposed to be based a lot around Spirit and Meta gems. Well that's amazing and all but you are still stuck on 30 spirit at the end of act 2 and 0 meta gem. The ascendancy provides almost nothing at the start because everything in it is gated towards the later stages of the campaign (stacking high energy shield values for spirit conversion, having spirit at all, having meta gems, having high crit chance).

[@DaveGreco]

if you have to redo the campaign on alts, its gonna be a total dealbreaker.

[@inquigor6076]

LOL

[@Jbob648]

Game is garbanzo in its current iteration.