Maybe, probably, I’m in the minority, but i dont feel like poe2 campaign is as bad as people claim. Yeah, act III is a bit long and could probably be two acts, but with act IV and the interludes added, its a pretty darn good game imho; especially when compared with the cruel mode repeat of acts I-III early on.

In a world where everything feels like a rush and everyone seems to always be in a hurry, why not just take it easy and enjoy the game? Take in the beautiful graphics and think about the effort that went into the fantastic sound/music score.

What’s the rush? You wanna skip to finish, so you can go rush another game? Then another? I think the fakeness of the social media internet has made people seek some sort of constant stimulation overload. It’s pretty sad imho and everyone will need one form or another of detox soon.

I sincerely wish everyone the same enjoyment and satisfaction as I get for the duration of the league.

The acts in PoE are quick and to the point. There are a few areas that drag, but people can bang out the whole thing in a few hours. Plenty of movement speed and travel skills to zip you right through.

The acts in PoE2 are the opposite. Your characters are slower, and don’t have very good travel skills. Lots of tools are still missing from the toolkit. The areas that don’t drag are rare, most of them are huge expanses of dead ends and Scooby-Doo doors, always wandering around trying to find some side quest item.

Your progress is severely hindered also. Your gem levels and “crafting bench” (read: runes) are all RNG. You need RNG to link more skills, requiring you to invest in Jeweler’s orbs before you can test support interactions with new skills, instead of them just being low level.

I think PoE 2’s campaign needs to do one of two things:

• Streamline the campaign to remove bloat hours. Story areas could be reduced in size by 25% and they’d still be large. Half the areas have smaller versions of themselves before or after (Dreadnought, Dreadnought Vanguard as an example) that could be trimmed away and we’d lose nothing. Quest item drops that either drop immediately from the first pack or require 15 minutes of full clearing (clan relics, sacrificial heart) need to be balanced.

• Give us a “Skip Campaign” button that lands an un-ascended and naked level 64 character in the Endgame with Doriyani and Co. Make it cost a million gold.

I’m the opposite. Levelling in PoE2 is smooth and fun for me, but in PoE1 I kinda hate a lot of it. Just feels like a grind.

I like the campaign. Story and lore are good. Somehow it feels slow though. I would like an option to start different, like different maps or something.

I’m the opposite. I often give up on poe leagues a few hours in because the early gameplay is not fun and I’ve done that part of the campaign too many times.,

i really enjoy being reckless in PoE1 campaign. zoom through, quicksilver or two, flame dash, maybe die and maybe not. but the zone doesn’t reset if i do, i actually do survive, and it’s a fun “on the edge of my seat” experience
and hcssf for league start is a blast too when servers are dying more than i do

Not at all, love the poe2 campaign. Poe1 campaign is kinda meh to me but when I learnt how to do it quickly it doesn’t bother me really

I learned doing only what is critical for progress unless I just happen to find them on my way.

It significantly reduce the time to get to maps and really changed how I see the campaign since now finding an extra boss for some loot makes me happy instead of having to clean the map to find the last loot able chest that give another orb a alchemy…

Since I play only hardcore it means that I spend a large time during the campaign, ran it 6 times this league.

No, the campaign is essential to keeping the game fresh.

Ask yourself; what do you expect to do without the campaign?

Start mapping at level 1?

GGG cannot afford to create a whole alternative levelling system, the campaign is enjoyable, and can be cleared pretty darn fast once you know what to do.

Right now, campaign is necessary, since endgame is non existent. Campaign holds the game together Campaign is a bit tedious though, I am in a minority, but I really dislike act 4 and the interludes. I actually like doing act 1-3 two times better not sure why, it’s it the boat?? More long maps with more backtracking. I like skip campaign in d4, but I don’t feel exactly the same in pie2

I wish they would give an option for those that don’t like the campaign to level in a different but less efficient way as the campaign so that the vision of the game is still built around the campaign but you can skip it if you really hate it.

But then again, I love levelling toons in D2R. A well balanced campaign with map that are crazy long is so fun to progress into.

Leveling in a campaign is the dumbest thing ever added to aRPG. Original Diablo had this right. Make it a graphical rogue like game not a discount RPG. I don’t want to play the same linear path for every single character.

PoE’s campaign is less frustrating than PoE2. The bosses are easier, if you die on them you don’t have to start over. The leveling pace is also smoother, you can run past areas you hate and the xp curve will catch you back up later. PoE2’s seems more built around clearing almost everything along your moving path.

Having said that I got through act 3 in PoE yesterday and decided I’d rather go play something else than waste my time on the rest of the campaign just to see the end game changes.