Path of Exile 2 - Why I'm Rerolling from Warrior to Sorceress

[@wmwwv3504]

I'm so glad I had to work all weekend so you Chads could figure this shit out.

[@vexmyth0clast]

Fellow Witches. If you are struggling and your minions are getting clapped early on, level Summon raging spirits, flame wall and multi shot skeleton Snipers. This will carry you through all 3 acts. Using spark when your flame wall is up also helps clear everything. Good luck, minions are terrible early on. Edit: Arsonist with scattershot and AOE size gem(magnified effect) are even better than the snipers if you use the flammability curse.

[@MikeyJ28]

You can just play SRS can’t ya? Infernal Legion pops with a bunch of minion health.

[@knaz7468]

​@@MikeyJ28srs minions have way too little life

[@forcefulstorm6187]

Switch from Snipers to Arsonists once u have access to some minion aoe on the tree and link them with Scattershot + the support that makes their aoe bigger, their proj shotgun and u are overall getting more bang for ur buck from Flammability cuz their dmg is overwhelmingly fire alrdy

[@gentoolive]

I'm lvl 18 witch, and the SRS gem isn't listed anywhere.. I must have fucked up somewhere along the way, rerolling witch now because it is dogshit without SRS.

[@gothikaboy]

​@@gentooliveits a buff so you need a spirit gem.

[@ForTheViolence]

I was struggling on warrior until I learned how to space my skills and manage my stun meter with the shield.

[@devinegamingtv3427]

My friend is playing Warrior titan ascendancy, he's at Act 2 cruelty or what it was called. He has gotten two unique and great rare items. He's blasting through. This game is extremely gear dependent.

[@ExInfamous]

I struggled at the end of act one but a mace in act 2 with multiple damage modifiers had me blow through the act with little to no difficulty with any of the bosses. It seems like everybody’s experience is a little different.

[@ushireborn]

it's optimization dependent

[@Doggowoofenbark]

Loving warrior. Once you get your shield bang skill going and tankier, I'm a literal wall. I'm in act 3 and walking through it so far. What helped me most was learning NOT to jump in. Use your shield charge to cut distance, shield bang to go toe to toe with any mob, then when they soften up slam them.

[@EdwinSherwood]

Yep same and act 3…

[@EdwinSherwood]

I’m dual wielding great maces and slaying everything. Picked titan which I feel was a mistake now

[@brandontucker1898]

@@EdwinSherwoodwhy is titan a mistake

[@EdwinSherwood]

@@brandontucker1898 @ actually I feel stronger know then ever. The last couple boses in act 3 I literally stood there and just mace attacked so maybe not. I’ve only got 2 points into titan so far though so probably not making much difference yet. In act 2 I was struggling for a bit though because everyone had a ton of armor and the other path had armor break I think.

[@furshizzle]

as sorc i die alot on act 1. i could barely get past the first couple boss. gonna switch to warrior lol.

[@Tenkiei]

Good luck, I hope it goes well!

[@LordDivine1]

Just a heads up. Sorc is the MUCH easier way to play. If you're going Warrior... Prepare to get your face fucked.

[@agentfyre]

I've tried all the classes, and honestly thought Warrior would be my main, as I love Barbarian and Warrior classes in other games. But in PoE2 I quickly found how much easier the game is with every ranged class over melee. It's not that ranged is better than melee, melee is a ton of fun in it's own. The problem is that everything hits like a truck, and you get hit WAY more often in melee combat than in ranged. With any ranged class you can kill a good amount of the enemies before they get to you, and this isn't the case with melee. With melee, every encounter means taking damage, no matter how good your dodging is. For this reason, I find energy shielding and good health flasks to be WAY more important on my melee fighters.

[@fuku512]

Sorc has high survivability

[@xMikeDezzyx421]

Warrior even worse. Trust me, you take too much damage from small ads

[@Olderbird]

It’s the hardest ARPG I’ve ever played. I’m rerolling into a cold sorc as well. I don’t see how a melee can make any progress in this game

[@Tenkiei]

It reminds me a lot of Diablo 2 in that way. Very challenging and unafraid to destroy you. TBH I think if I was really enjoying warrior I'd be tinkering and finding a way to make it work. But I wasn't having fun so I rerolled. So far Sorc is L21 now and I'm having a blast.... we'll see how A3 goes.

[@YoutubeHandle_DontCare]

Oddly... sorc was my first character. Definitely had some struggles but Made it to act 2, started a monk and this MF is eating everything with no problems. Don't know if it's me or the classes lol

[@Kay0Bot]

Monk on standard does well as merc

[@khrishp]

Warrior seems to be the only class that is getting consistent complaints about its power and survival.

[@transporterrepair8172]

😂lol literally once you get the act 2 and into the bone tusk map. Warrior is basically obsolete.

[@oldgamer1299]

EA is basically open Source Testing, which requires feed back from us, the testers. It saves them time and money. I've found PoE2 very hard, after PoE1, and I'e got good few thousand hours in that one. I had fun with Witch, and Monk. But, I really am finding it tough at times. But all in all, this game has got some huge potential. But, please, re-farm zones! Plus keep checking vendors. Also get your RES up to 75%

[@amauryfages6386]

Man you're acting like everyone is struggling on endgame. You do realise that in act 1, you don't have the required gold to buy vendors until let's say end act1 and res 75% at this stage ... lol no comment.

[@DelbertStinkfester]

I'm playing Sorcerer. I have no idea what I'm doing and I'm only in act 1. I plan on doing Stormcaller ascendancy. I'm in no hurry I'm just taking my time and learning the game. I'm having a blast so far.

[@MikeyJ28]

I’m starting my first run as Glacial Bolt/Frag Rounds Freeze Witch Hunter. Fingers crossed it goes smoothly.

[@ShhTime]

you will be more of a granadier than a soldier hope you like it

[@Brycewallker]

The moment you get oil grenade... it will change your life

[@R0NIN_1987]

I’ve tried 4 classes and I think I’m done with this game now.

[@Droogs_OTR]

I play ARPGs to unwind and de-stress after working long hours. I noticed playing this game had me more stressed than before I started playing it, which is ass-backward.

[@Guapimus]

Man I’m telling ya…I should not be this stressed out playing a game. I worked all week 😩

[@WinFromWithin-o5w]

This game isn't for the braindead

[@briom1425]

@@WinFromWithin-o5wyou mean it’s not for some casual players , some people have other things to do they want to play for 30-40 mins max and kill some monsters , exactly this reason why Diablo 4 is not going anywhere .

[@ohyeah4308]

Exactly. Getting played by bosses during days getting played by games during nights.

[@jeraora3045]

No one forcing you to play this. Dont fomo on somethin. This is not the game for you then. Move on play other game probably diablo 4 😊

[@Binguza]

honestly i love poe 2 but for how hard some of these bosses are i expected some good loot but all you get sometimes is trash and maybe a lucky drop of a unique which is super rare feels like im doing all that work for nothing and it really sucks.

[@neliz8]

I got already one orange piece in act 1 from the wolf boss. This is not a pinata game like diablo 4, it is more like d2 and that's a good thing.

[@RX69420XT]

its like that for everyone, loots is pretty BAD

[@antm7368]

I I be also beaten Elden Ring and the DLC solo and completely agree that, after act 1, the bonks just fall off, you don’t do damage, and you begin struggling in the game very quickly. I’m trying to hear my character, I have meaningful skills, and I’m selling/crafting. I cannot get through this game in any way that is satisfying or fun. What an absolute shame, warrior does not feel fun anymore.

[@kustomkure]

I started as warrior, switched to sorc immediately. was taking too much damage

[@erikschreckengost9361]

I just Uninstaller it. It's not bad but it's so draining as someone else said. I figured it might be but wanted try it. Game is good but over tuned and I doubt they will change that so it's not for me.

[@monrepos1001]

play poe 1 till poe 2 is free,its great games.

[@cliffordharris1101]

Nah you can do it. Just read everything. Just gotta focus and google a bit.

[@MrBuffdizzle2006]

Diablo 4 has spoiled alot of people. That get OP and wipe everything ruined D4 for me no challenge whatsoever. I'm enjoying POE 2 challenge so far

[@amauryfages6386]

@@MrBuffdizzle2006 Maxroll team is starting to get every spoils. POE1 was a thing, now we are in eras where everything is set on a silverplate quick. Live with it and don't look at guides if you don't want "spoils".

[@CyberData4]

If rerolling to another class makes the game significantly easier than it’s just poor design.

[@UpgradeLemonade]

I was thinking the same. Most creators I've watched are playing ranged classes and claiming it's not too bad 😅 well ya

[@MrMestapholese]

It's all in how you're building. But there are also skills that will just be plain bad. I haven'tvtried warrior, but I've been playing melee monk. I went crit, ice, and chaos khaluya monk. It started off really rough, but the moment I was able to roll a good ilvl quarterstaff into one with additional flat damage and the element I wanted, I more than doubled my damage and shit got better from there.

[@Iridium-77-g]

Melee is trash. The problem is the design focused on the dodge roll. That means a huge nerf on melee because ranged classes can just attack from a safe distant and roll if needed, whereas warrior HAS to master the dodge roll just to do damage. Warrior should be tankier and deal more damage. As it is currently its a trap option.

[@REE-Animation]

Listen man.. I have started like 6 characters now, played them up till level 12 or so. And I'm having a blast.. Everytime I learned something new and critical about the game and the systems, I would delete my character and make a new one, utilising all the new things I had learned, either by making mistakes and finding out the hard way, or by watching smarter people than me on youtube... This game is absolutely phenomenal.. Once you learn how everything works, you will be able to make much better characters, and you will fair much better in the game. Learning how contagion works for the witch, was game changing for me. Learning which things the contagion could pass on to the next, changed everything.. Adding the correct support gems, so make things like contagion scorpions last longer.. I mean, I'm just having a blast, that's what I'm trying to say here.. I have zero concerns about starting up a new character, if I have an idea about how to improve it early on. I don't feel like I have wasted my time at all. This is a learning experience to me, and it's very fun to me.... Of course, if you play to just complete the game, and not for the fun of it, then yes, I can see how starting over is annoying...

[@Tenkiei]

So far, I've been having a blast with my sorc reroll. Just finished act 3, I think ranged just fits me better than melee.

[@Torbero47]

The difficulty is what turns me off to this game. I'm casual for sure and I don't mind a challenge here and there but every step of the way is draining and not fun.

[@lysanderhuynh]

It's about combos. I play merc/nade. Shotgun, nade scatter, and knockback. Sniper for bosses.

[@gilcorrea283]

For me it’s what really turns me on in this game and why Diablo 4 didn’t keep my attention. I’m also a casual but I hate to have to wait for endgame to be challenged. They will probably tune these things til full release but I do hope they keep the challenge on.

[@rain1g]

same or warrior is just a bad early class

[@zhengistasbolatov8480]

My combat routine as a monk is to leap into a crowd of mobs with a heavy AOE attack, then create Ice spike that explodes when attacked freezing mobs around. Then I stack a 4 hit combo to summon Tempest bell. Hitting the Bell creates AOE vibrations that deals amplified damage and also apply ice, fire, and lightning damage if you have those effects. Also, I have lifesteal on my weapon attacks, so far, it lets me trade damage with mobs and even bosses.

[@Noevad]

I pretty much did the same thing however I didn’t last nearly as long as you did as warrior. I got through the first boss and decided that up close Melee was just not for me. Rolled a witch and played that for six levels and then decided to switch to a sorceress. I think I got that up to about the same as my witch, but then got a wild hair to roll up a mercenary and now I am level 15 and I’m loving it. That being said, I’m also a pretty big alt’oholic so I fully expect to have one of every class before too long.

[@HeavyIndustryMusic]

I'm playing with sunder and earthquake. I got some decent range and building up stuns is still decent. Currently act 4 and it's alright.

[@Tenkiei]

Nice! Are you going RT or capitalizing on armor break + Sunder crits?

[@HeavyIndustryMusic]

@@Tenkiei Yes I am running RT. Besides that I think that the armor break mech requires way too many nodes on the passive tree to be worth it. Stacking small passive nodes for melee / two handed / physical damage and on mace did the trick for me. The "Hulking Form" ascendancy point with the 50% effect of small passives was the point where I started having fun again.

[@SikGamer70]

I'm currently playing with rolling slam to stun + armor break, followed up with an infernal cry empowered perfected strike for rares and bosses, insane damage one shotting rares and two shotting bosses when I combo it properly. earthquake is really nice for clearing trash mobs too

[@JocelinCaron]

Also, if not playing with a shield, did you tried tye totem build? All foes get attracted to it so you dont get surrounded by ennemies!

[@hulahala4065]

I played my first build as a witch focusing on Bone abilities and potentially getting into blood later. That was my theme. I had to restart not because the campaign was hard. But because i was bored outta mind. Unerath does chip damage against mobs and boses from late act 1, same with Bone cage. Bone storm does strong damage but takes time to charge up, very difficult to use in a quick pased boss fight where you are dodging for dear life. On a fast-paced Boss fight, the bone cage was my best bet. And it took time. Each encounter, even with regular mobs, was draining. It's not hard, just tedious. Restarted with SRS, and ita been a smooth ride.

[@alnm951]

Im loving poe2 difficulty! Yes, it is challenging, but that makes it feel super rewarding

[@Ari_711]

Freeze sorc is nuts, still squishy but at least everything (includint bosses) gets stunned for ages

[@Ari_711]

Also, even better than cold snap, is the cast on freeze+comet combo.

[@Tenkiei]

That's what I'm going to be doing.

[@davidnunya8331]

Playing a Chaos Witch but I am finding this game very frustrating...not only the difficulty but things just don't seem to work the way that I am used to..I am always being "stuck" on nothing...I dodge roll in place A LOT, and being body blocked as a Witch is an auto death (if more than one mob). I do reasonably well again bosses (very little resistance to chaos) but large mobs packs are what super frustrate me. I have to hit the same mob with Essence Drain and Contagion...when it works everything on the screen just melts, but almost always the contagion gets cast on a different mob and ends up doing nothing and I just get steam rolled. I think contagion gets casts on the nearest mob automatically, instead of the one I am targeting, and since mobs move at different speeds I have to spam my spells to get both of them to land on the same mob. The targeting just sucks.

[@chaddrusso8850]

Slow down you’re playing the game like it’s d4 or poe1. This leans more to souls games which require patience and timing. You only get body blocked and swarmed if you rush in let the enemies come to you

[@J36gE]

Yep this was me. Targeting is very bugged !! Found an uncut spirit gem and switched to srs build . It’s reallyy night and day wow !

[@scotdempsey3897]

On my sorceress freeze build the bosses always continued attacks after being frozen.

[@jfitz1982]

Ice sorc and ranger seem to be the classes every other class/build should be buffed up to. All that talk about end game, that basically nobody is going to see in it's current state.

[@ownzye-3630]

Act 2 the traitor is where the issues started for me as monk, before i was blasting

[@balor84]

I “rerolled” into going back to Last Epoch. POE2 is a nightmare, and it’s the fundamental game design, not some glitchy “early access” woes.

[@Unouna10]

Please describe the fundamental issues

[@chaddrusso8850]

Lol this is such a goofy take. You just don’t like the game because it is hard. Stop trying to dance around it with big words

[@vandannski]

30 hours in with Scattershot / Molten Blast + Boneshatter on proc for packs and Perfect Strike for bosses shield/1h warrior/warbringer. Only time it was slowing down was when gear was starting to fall behind. Otherwise it was pretty smooth sailing.

[@calebpowell5754]

Playing something similar. If you use dual wield you get six shots.

[@instatortoise3210]

Hey Tenkiei, thank you for your content, as always very informative^^ What is the support-gem at the end that you use so that the ice attack repidly shoots out 2 to 3 waves of ice shards instead of just one?

[@Tenkiei]

Unleash support.

[@Herbagamers]

As sorc all I've done is literally throw ice orb with increase freeze and multiple orbs. Explode novas to freeze around them if they don't instantly freeze (happens when gear is not quite up to speed) and then explode them with snap and see my screen get deleted. If rare or higher add ice bomb to their feet so they take more damage and have that explosion after the combo. Usually kills or leaves them barely alive. Easy mode until mid act 2 for me so far. Looking forward to do comet with cast on freeze that in my mind will be awesome af Edit: about cc... I've been playing lightning ranger and no cc... I just burst shit to death. Mana intensive tho

[@Mr_Tokon]

I rerolled from monk to ranger and it's so much easier. Still getting 1shot occasionally

[@tylerpickens1096]

I did the same exact refill for the same exact reason. I’m much better off now. I will go back to my warrior once I have currency to invest into it

[@kickingitwithtimmyb]

My sorcerer has been an awesome experience! I made a mix between a fire/cold/ sorcerer, archer, warrior. Amazing!!

[@EdwinSherwood]

I’m act 3 as warrior and loving it. I can see it being difficult but man I hope they don’t nerf it prematurely because I feel like the majority do like this difficulty. Dual wielding great maces and that made big difference

[@Rokxis]

i play monk and warrior. i have to say its not a skill or player issue. its gearing. if you have good gear you maul through mop packs like a hurricane on crack. its crazy. i tested the limits with my monk with lvl 5 gear vs lvl 25 mops. after i switched to normal gear it was like easy mode. the trick with warrior is totem in early like act 1. use two sets with twohander and 1h+shield. and besides, the lore is more interesting with warrior.

[@TM-cm4gb]

well i just started running into walls as a cold sorc and i could try rerolling into grenades or monk but you know i am going to play something that is actually fun instead of this torture chamber. Pure mental torture..

[@TheRealTrucido]

Im playing arc/spark lightning sorc and its pretty fun. Im kinda bummed I didnt choose the build Wudijo is playing. Its cracked.

[@jpcsik]

I'm playing as a sorc too, are you guys investing into energy shield on the tree?

[@zhengistasbolatov8480]

I'm a newbie playing as Monk. Just beat Act 1. Monk is also a melee hero, so you got me worried there. As a melee hero, I find enemies that leave damaging puddles after death very annoying.

[@mrsplosh999]

I'm running warrior and totems seem amazing for getting early damage/aggro + earth quake to slow and deal aoe for more crowd control. Focusing on high stun will will allow huge damage

[@DMT-ix9zj]

This game IMO is like 3-5 times harder then POE1. In 1 i finally got it to where i can not die till end game red maps like Tier 8-10 maps . In 2 i just beat act 1 and died like 10 times 5 to act 1 finally boss. Now over in act 2 i've died twice getting to first boss and he just wrecked me. Taking a break who are the making this game for because it sure isn't normal/casual players.

[@LegendofGopher]

They made it for me, and I’m very grateful.

[@rednab2001]

What your experiencing is typical GGG. Every league in POE1 is launched with the league mechanic over-tuned and under rewarding. They go in after a week or so and up the rewards and balance the tuning a bit. The problem with GGG & POE1 is that the game was designed and balanced around the very top% of the player base. New and casual players have never been a thought in the heads of the GGG developers. It was never meant to be a game for normal players. GGG stated that they were going to make POE2 new and casual player friendly. They also stated it was going to be harder than POE1. You can't make that square. If it is harder than POE1, it is not new or casual player friendly. I have my doubts that GGG can make a game that is new or casual player friendly. Based off GGG's history, I would say the answer is no. I have not seen anything to make me think they can. It seems that they will always revert to making the game more complicated and harder because that is what that top % of their player base will always want. A great example of GGG's lack of thinking of the new and casual player base in POE1 can be seen in how they started to redo the Acts to make them more difficult. Instead of starting in Act 10 so the game got harder as you got closer to endgame, which seems to be common sense, they started in Acts 1 & 2. Another good example was their most recent league, the Settlers of Kalgur. I think it was a brilliant league, but again, it was not designed for casual players. With the gold mechanic in the game, I found myself in a self-defeating cycle of logging on, seeing that my settlement had run out of gold, and nothing was running, so I had to spend my limited time farming gold to get the settlement back up and running. I would accomplish that only to log off and when I logged in next, the settlement was out of gold and not running. This league was great for players who have 8-12 hours a day to play. For the rest of us, it just was not very good. Unless some real changes are made, I don't see how POE2 will build a bigger audience for GGG than POE1. Once the hype wears off and players see how difficult the game is, many will be heading back to play other games in the Genre. In my opinion, Last Epoch has the best feeling ARPG from start to finish. It is a happy middle ground between D4 and POE. It still has its issues, being a new game, but it will appeal to more people than POE.

[@amauryfages6386]

@@rednab2001 Listen, I'm Innovation & Business Director : they are baiting POE fan base with difficulty first, "oh look it's more accessible but still difficult" but they are going to nerf it hard when they realise that if they want the "best ARPG and more player base", they need to find a better balance (maybe not to the point of D4, because D4 is a game service, intended to be played for some hours and then switch to another ... blizzard game :) ).

[@ForeignFabric]

My girlfriend and I play together. I’m on PC, and she’s on my Xbox Series X. We beat the first act together. The final boss took us a few tries, but we finally defeated it. I’m enjoying the slower pace of the game more. It’s like a Dark Souls-like game.

[@Tenkiei]

Grats on taking the boss down. It's definitely a bit souls-like but also very ARPG, reminds me a lot of Diablo 2 but with very different gameplay.

[@redatakhdate2519]

i started warrior and went titan played like you in act 3 started dying a lot now switched to witch and just finished act 1 in 2h easy

[@StjepanKralj]

So I started with the Sorc. It was kinda easy and after a while wanted to change a little bit. Tried Merc, also not hard but the reloading mechanic in the beginning kind of annoys me. Started then with the Witch and it is super easy, but also really fun so far. Haven't tried Monk or Warrior.

[@mikeh4469]

so you were dying as the tankier class? did you roll into tanky nodes or just yeet all damage? cause im playing a warrior fire battle mage type. i just dump all my spells, hold my shield up, and watch the world burn. i can just soak loads of damage.

[@armydude142dontunderestima9]

I'm so glad I went merc. I don't think I would've done too well with a melee character.

[@Youtube_Globetrotter]

It was not on my radar before, but I fell in love with the ranger, and that is my pick. Level 17 at the moment. I think I will go deadeye as ascendency. But who knows.

[@orlof507]

I'm pretty much treating it as a single player game too I do think they should make the campaign memorable at least at the first year, the best way is to make it challenging while there is no meta

[@MichaelThomas-do9ys]

As bad as I want to play this game, I actually ran out and got it day one I’m just intimidated. I do not want to start a build poor hours of time into it only to hit a wall. I never made it off the beach in part one and in part two I’m currently still on the beach afraid and intimidated to really dig into this game. I guess this is why they say you should follow a guide?

[@Wardemonxi]

Man I loved the original diablo and fell out of the game and genre after diablo 3 Seeing an actual hard ARPG makes me actually want to try the game. Is there any penalties for death?

[@Tony_Kaku]

I died a lot but early on but learned to spam roll more and spam attacks less as warrior. Im using resonate and molten shield skills together so Im blocking and attacking until enemies are stunned then smash them down. Lots of different set ups to use. Got bow as ranged backup with lightning to wittle from afar then use block skills.

[@rankyb8088]

Sounds like melee is struggling out there the most. I been having success with mercanary grenade/ rapid shot build im making

[@Zelberger]

Warrior, act 3. It’s…. Now what I expected. Not sure if I just bad at game or I should just change class… thx for sharing your experience

[@Tenkiei]

You're welcome, it does look like there are strong builds for warrior in maps, so I think you should stick with it and over-level for zones if you're enjoying the playstyle. If you dislike the playstyle, try something else.

[@chrisb.9083]

Sorc is no cake walk. On lvl 12 and everything basically 1 shots u

[@an0mndr]

16 hours in and Ive almost fully cleared the first area after the town in act 3. Other than zalmarath, the dreadnaught, trial of sekhma, and the mighty silverfist have really caused me problem. Basically only using rolling slam. Just picked up volcanic fissure for some combo damage. Am going to stick it out until I can get stampede, but I think going warbringer as a self-attacker may have been a mistake. It was a twitch reaction because of the armor break and wanting to get my defensive aura online already. If they ever allow us to switch ascendancies, I'll definitely go titan, but if not, I'll likely switch to sorc or witch before I actually get to maps if stampede isn't at least half as good as I'm expecting

[@MicroNQTrader]

I decided to stop this afternoon instead of a new character I can’t go thru it again.

[@danielb4480]

yeah I'm on the verge of putting the game down myself. Act 3 in general seems overtuned (probably because of chaos dmg). If you add the lack of loot and currency to craft good items to that, it feels even worse. Right now it feels like the game just wants to waste a lot of my time without me getting cool loot for it :/ There is definitely a great game somewhere in there, but right now I'm not feeling it yet.

[@Olderbird]

@@danielb4480 from what I’m reading the game wants you to craft instead of depending on loot drops. I’m not far enough along but I’m thinking it will be to my advantage to not get in a hurry and farm the early maps for things to sell and craft a decent weapon at least

[@MicroNQTrader]

@@danielb4480agreed there is a really good game here but I am having doubts if they want to change it enough to bring that game out :(. Only time will tell.

[@thrasher2753]

@@danielb4480 same

[@MUZA1875]

Same here

[@trashmand]

I absolutely love warrior, i am a little cheeser using a molten shield and shield charge stun break build in act 3, but i think two handed are in a terrible balance place and suck, while one handed are broken, hope two hands get buffed

[@nathasix3334]

Being a warrior, this reminds me of D3 barbarian before their update. shit is hard. gonna stick with it regardless.

[@Wintermist-SWE]

I think things are gonna get ironed out, I had a spot where I spawned after death, and that spot was a zone of mobs, which promptly killed me over and over until I finally managed to get out of there xD

[@Tenkiei]

I think a lot's going to get ironed out too. That's the point of early access.

[@Cortezuma]

I made the mistake of playing Warrior also. I tried Mercenary first, which was ok but not nearly as fun as I’d have liked. Warrior is slow but feels kinda cool, however every boss is way more difficult as melee. It’s sort of just not fun to play overall though. Problem is none of these classes are actually very appealing to me. I’d love to get the other 6 classes in the mix.

[@lendog4466]

Someone please help me I love sorceress but my cold snap is ten seconds cool down I thought it was instant or at least five seconds I saw your video and your resets so fast what am I doing wrong please help.

[@piplupxpp]

You have a support gem equipped on your cold snap thats doing that you gotta remove it

[@junk3996]

thats exactly how im rolling my warrior. i have my mace attack and leap slam set to build stun, and bone shatter to blow everything up. everything has been gravy up until now - which is the trial and act2 beyond trial (lvl 22+). im sure it would be much easier if i can get the trial done, but right now i can't...or haven't been able to yet my gear is crap, and i feel like im super hitting a wall. i have terrible res (because bad gear) and im starting to face off vs a lot of elemental damage and my armour/hp doesn't feel nearly as effective as it has been up until now. im also considering rerolling and hoping i can get gear upgrades for my warrior on another char i can get to a higher level my perma plans for warrior were to be a warbringer with armour break and totems. my ancestral totems would use volcanic fissure, because when fissure is hit with another slam it causes aftershocks which spread to the other fissures. so my totems would break armour and lay down fissures, i would use a combination of supercharged slam and hammer of the gods to create aftershocks (which inherit the damage of the skill). aftershocks would ripple through, breaking armour and getting crazy overlapping aoe dmg to blow everything up. hammer of the gods for its insane damage boost, to super nuke bosses etc when its off CD, from the aftershocks using its base damage. thats the plan, and i want to do it still, but its a real slog getting there right now. gear feels impossible right now. i have barely any currency, barely any gold, and drops are non existent. im just trying to farm through the story of act2 to get gear/higher lvl to then try the trial again. once i can get the armour break i think that'll help significantly

[@junk3996]

i just logged on and scored a chest piece from a guy that had no use for it. its insane for me and a MASSIVE upgrade. literally just saved my character, lol. awesome

[@TheIonBull]

Hope it works out for you, I didnt hear anything in the video about resistances and which armour/evasion/energy sheild you had on its a big thing when you get further into the game you want more resistances & spec gear into the desired defence will help. (for all classess)

[@Tenkiei]

I had 30-40% res and ~50% mitigation from armor in mid-late A3 when I was struggling.

[@trashmand]

​​@@Tenkiei if you ever go back to the warrior, you should try putting the support gem for poison chance woth attacks, and the plague thing thst spreads and does 200% poison damage onto your "Mace Swing", it makes dealing with act 3 a breeze for me personally, and also imo Shield charge with a high armor shield (,with 50% stun increase support gem) is legit a warriors best friend as it is a get out jail free card

[@Tenkiei]

I think if I go back to the warrior I'm going to try a physical crossbow build. But for now I'm blasting on sorc and it's fun so I'll be going through cruel and trying the endgame.

[@bile897]

Ugh idk what to do, I’m a ranger toxic build all poison. Definitely struggling and have to kite all day.

[@mint5438]

I wouldn't mind the difficulty, but by act 2 the stuff they're throwing at you feels awful. Through the entirety of act 1 and halfway through act 2, I earned a total of like, 5 regal orbs, and even in the end of act 2 I haven't gotten enough rune slots equipment drops to scrap and ugrade my weapon or armor. I might just be unlucky, but man it feels like a slog.

[@MimiMimi-yj4kl]

Leap slam and shield charge is a perfect combination for warrior

[@avidian888]

Thanks for all the tips. My main issue with this game is, that it's not a true Diablo 2 style offline game, which i could mod and change to my liking and have to go through all this painfully slow progress to get to the fun part... Act1 is really slow and ugly...

[@Provokatze23]

Playing first time poe, and made a witch and am currently at the end of act 2 with it. Using as well the frost spells, seems to be only good thing against those fast running mobs lol. And i‘m proud, took me only 3 tries to defeat the wolf boss from end of act 1 xD

[@Saiperia]

took me like idk 7 h to get to act 3 then... i did act 3 the whole saturday. now on sunday night iam in act 3 part 2 again. i still try to have fun with crono mancer but i need my 3rd trial and idk what or were it is ( heared that doing a 2 wing sanctum didnt gave the 2 points)

[@Tillymander]

I'm playing duo right now, but Poison Gas nade and armor piercing round + a spark stormweaver, its going mostly well rn

[@jeraora3045]

The game is so good. I dont sleep when playing it like when i play diablo 4

[@FranciszekWolc]

you can try different playstyle within the warrior no? i guess people forgot this is path of exile. Why dont you go into merc part of the tree, pick up some grenade nodes and start blasting?

[@BrayzenBull]

02:30 I was having real input lag last night too.

[@Bryan26Hawaii]

I play mercenary, with ice shot that cc then I’ll chuck my grenades. Thinking about moving to stunning shots instead of freezing shots.

[@tannersharp643]

POE2 made me realize how good Diablo 4 is, you literally do 6 min boss fights with no rewards same as a 30 second boss fight in d4, I think ppl talk shit about d4 but as of now the combat is 10000% more crisp this game is like a 1 second timing to cast a spell

[@Johnnybsknees]

Yes they will finish after freezing unless they cancel out. Same for us as the player, i have been frozen while doing rolling slam and then come unfrozen and finish the attack.

[@LakerTriangle]

Cant see damage numbers so how do i know if i crit?

[@Tenkiei]

I'm not sure exactly where it is in menu options, but I have damage numbers. (You can see this to the top right of a boss's hp bar). Then basically you use the skill, see how much it does, use it again, look for a much bigger number, that's a crit.

[@yesitsreallyOtter]

I'm playing merc with maces. Ran into the same struggle point at the trial of the sekhemas onwards, but I think I might stick with it.

[@Gasman-g]

Playing Sorc was definitely far far easier than playing warrior or any melee class. I was surprised when I switched to Sorc and breezed through Act 1 kinda easily. Melee characters need help though. I'll try out monk later, just to see how it is. Boss fights for melee characters will be especially long since the window for attacks are extremely limited since bosses switch from doing melee attacks and aoe attacks. LIke when am I supposed to deal dmg.

[@Erdbeerenserver]

I started pure summoner, bad decision 🤣 Had to give up and take the SRS pill, the only worthwhile minion...

[@tyhjyys]

they really need to make melee classes more beefy. having a dodge roll doesn't magically make up for the lack of defense, especially when it seems to be a pace or two short of the distance i feel it should give you. shields are great situationally but start to feel like a waste of time pretty quickly. you get into melee distance and get bombarded before you even begin the lengthy melee animations. it's like poe1 all over again. room clearing ranged/mage classes are easier to build and more viable than melee. ice sorc should not have a tankier toolkit than an armor clad behemoth anymore. hate to say it because of the stigma around diablo and all, but that games melee classes are insanely fun in comparison. edit: forgot to mention how janky melee feels on controller especially but that's a problem i'm having with every character.

[@Kitingaful]

I’m really really bad. I can’t even get past king of myst so ur doing better than me :) not sure I can be bothered to start again

[@tomdub5215]

I did the same thing i threw in towel on warrior started over with monk im enjoying game way more

[@Shabbahhh117]

Made a decent minion death knight build on warrior it definitely feels good

[@Conformist55]

I played Warrior for all of 5 levels and rerolled a ranger. It’s still nowhere near easy. It’s probably the most fun I’ve had in a while playing a new game.

[@panzergott5622]

Game litterally doesnt have a melee character. Unless you're block tanking in a party. Warrior is just an earth mage and Monk is obviously not a melee character even with some melee skills. Might just be as simple as buffing armor or giving the Warrior some elemental resistances somewhere. Because right now you just cant play Melee much at all.

[@Stanwize]

Warrior slaps in act 3. Stack armour and never die

[@KING-dw3we]

People have been posting videos losing their minds, but you must remember THIS IS EARLY ACCESS! Thing are supposed to be weird and unbalanced because WE ARE THE BETA TESTERS THAT WAS PICKED OR PAID TO BE SO.

[@Tenkiei]

I'm well aware, which is why I'm not making any sweeping judgments about the game. But at the same time, if I'm not having fun with warrior I'd rather play something else like Sorc for the time being. So far Sorc has been a blast, though I'll see if that holds up thorugh act 3 haha. But I'm meshing much better with the playstyle.

[@Johnnybsknees]

I am very bad as well sir but I am going to stick it out with warrior because I am also stubborn. I will be a turtle and overlevel or do what's needed but I like the class. My run through act 1 was shamefully long with many deaths. Now I'm going to just take my time anyway and do all side content. I do love the play style but it is quite a challenge as a solo making my own build.

[@irrelevant12]

poe2 is not hard, it is tedious, battletoads, contra, metal slug are hard games poe 2 feels poorly designed and poorly balanced, with long draged fights and mediocre loot probably to artificially inflate available content. Im still waiting for the honeymoon period to be over so people can start having serious discussions about the game issues.

[@tokinimo54]

my warrior died a lot, so i made him a mage and did a lot better. so ironyy.. the nodes he had to go through from warrior to magic nodes is thankfully not that far.

[@bigbeef8190]

Is there only 3Acts?

[@Tenkiei]

For Early Access yes, but there's going to be 6 on release.

[@LifeInAlternity]

My sorc has massive aoe and not so much single target so it's interesting that you find you don't have much aoe

[@adriangodoy4610]

I'm seeing your act 3 footage and that was sorc from half of act 1 😅

[@calzord]

I think bone shatter is your issue. I am really enjoying War with rolling slam. Just keep slamming everything dies. Some poisen packs needed a totem first then more slam. I am using 2 2h maces.

[@digibobz6180]

I pray they don’t change anything difficulty wise. I think people can’t watch build guides and they are having trouble thinking for them selves for once.

[@jdeezerton]

I have a suspicion of this. I’m completely new to the game and even from hearing everyone’s valid reasoning on issues with the game I still haven’t had any difficulty progressing through the game. I’m completely new to path of exile and haven’t played a lot of ARGs at all but I take time to read everything and plan my build. in Act 2 rn and cruising through.