Died to something offscreen in a GE map last night. No idea what hit me. Was it phys? Chaos? A crit stack? An on-death effect I walked into? Zero information.

This matters because dying without knowing the cause makes it impossible to fix your build. If I knew “you took 4,200 lightning damage from X monster’s Y skill,” I could actually respond — cap my lightning res, get more EHP, avoid that mod, whatever. Right now the feedback loop is just “you died, guess.”
Other ARPGs already do this (Last Epoch’s death screen shows damage type and source). Even a simple log would go a long way:

What killed me (monster + skill name)
Damage type and amount
My mitigation at that moment (res, armour, ES state)
Any map mods or debuffs active

Deaths in PoE2 are punishing by design — XP loss, one portal on maps. That’s fine, but punishment without information isn’t difficulty, it’s just frustration. Let us learn from deaths instead of guessing.

Anyone else want this? Or is there a reason GGG hasn’t added it that I’m missing?

Specialist_Safe2723

35 | 11 hours ago

They are working on it. It was confirmed in some recent interview. Give them time to cook.

neo243

6 | 11 hours ago

Dang Really? Finally

Specialist_Safe2723

5 | 11 hours ago

I don’t want to misquote but either Mark or Johnatan said that they have some sort of death recap on their internal versions of the game and at some point they will add it to the game. But their current version is rather dev feature not really fitted for players.

HalfXTheHalfX

5 | 11 hours ago

me when I die to fire damage and see 18k damage as overkill (total hp 11k)

TheRealOwl

7 | 11 hours ago

Fire dmg is just insane, it’s always humbling at the start if I have only have like 50% fire res and I walk over ignited ground and you just have to watch your hp go down even when using pot.

Sufficient-Tour3635

2 | 10 hours ago

Ignite is the only thing that kills me. Its crazy overdone. And yes i use a charm

papasmurf255

2 | 9 hours ago

That’s not enough. I used to die a ton to ignite but now have 4 layers of protection against it and never die to ignite anymore. It’s something you have to actively invest in, not just throw on a charm.

I changed my megalomaniac from pure damage to one that gives -ignite magnitude. There’s a few nodes and some even have damage but I ended on the -50% one.
Run some kind of -ignite duration. Armor can give over -50% for example. I run cool headed on my spirit for -50%.
Ailment threshold. I took 2 nodes to get it from ~1k to ~2k. Doesn’t help with big ignite, but what it does help is stopping small ones that eat your charm charges.
Stack more regen. My build had almost none before. Getting more flask heal probably helps too but I don’t have the spirit for herbalism.

The first 2 are most important imo. That cuts ignite damage to 25% already. And there’s always crystallized immunities for the ultimate solution.

E: looking at it more I really lucked out with the megalomaniac. I also have shock protection on it. But most people don’t buy it for these so it was fairly cheap

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/papasmurf255-3711/runesofaldur/character/mqcfohn

Skin_Ankle684

1 | an hour ago

DoT in general is insane, purely because very few things actually interact with it.

I always blame HP regen and flask mechanics for stuff like this on RPGs. If you weren’t able to heal your entire HP bar in a second with a button press, devs wouldn’t feel the need to one-shot you all the time to give any sort of challenge

Thoriv420

2 | 10 hours ago

Hopefully this is in the game at 1.0 release. I’m having this problem since 0.1, I just don’t understand what kills me 90% of the time. (Even though is was way worse in 0.1 and 0.2 with the skills that got invisible after some time when out of screen, but they still followed you and you were suddenly dead on the spot lol) In general an overview wha damaged you for how much In the map would be awesome.
I’m fine 95% of the maps and barely get damage, but on some I’m constantly taking huge damage and am on low health even though I spam the flask all the time.
I stopped playing this league some days ago after dying several times without knowing why. I just randomly got a huge dot on myself and cant heal against it, no mobs on the screen, no ground effects, im just dying…

PoE_Acronym_Bot

1 | 11 hours ago

I noticed some Path of Exile keywords in this post:

eHP - Effective Health / Hit Points / Pool — total damage that can be taken before death, after all mitigations (e.g. combination of Life, Energy Shield, damage avoidance and mitigation) (Wiki)
ES - Energy Shield (Wiki)

^(I am a bot.) ^| ^(All acronyms) ^| ^(Suggest)

ChazzyChaz_R

1 | 11 hours ago

This is already in the works. They have one in place already but are making tweaks to highlight how your defenses might be lacking and how to improve them before going live with it. This was mentioned months ago.

Thoriv420

1 | 10 hours ago

Did they mention it’s coming for 1.0? I wouldn’t even care about that highlight, just some flat text ‚this big mfucka oneshot you with physical damage, gid gud‘

ChazzyChaz_R

1 | 10 hours ago

I think that is their intention but we don’t really know. And I think it’s important that if you see a death notice that it has more information to relay than just “you got hit for 120,000 dmg by that dude over there”.

Knowing how you died is pretty critical to not only identifying gaps in your defensive layers so you can shore them up and see if it happens again and also…it’s a huge way for the players to identify a bugged monster. If all of a sudden you get blasted for 25K by some white mob then we know that attack is bugged and we can report it.

So, in short, they’ll release it when they feel it can help provide useful information but we do not know when that will be.

Thoriv420

1 | 10 hours ago

You are right, But imo it would already be useful to get any kind of information 😄 just a simple combat log with every hit you took (in the last 15sec or sth like that) would be miles better than knowing nothing at all. It’s really frustrating right now

Stealth_Cobra

1 | 10 hours ago

I mean consoles always record so just press the share button and pick like the last minute of gameplay, and on steam you can easily set up game recording too and watch the part of the replay near the end where you died.

If it’s any consolation almost every time I check my replay it’s some cheap , unavoidable oneshot coming from nowhere…

Admins_Always_Badmin

1 | 4 hours ago

I’m wagering that a part of why they’re hesitant to add in a death recap is because there will be a lot of, “well it was just bullshit I guess” and everyone will have easy documented proof of it. Seriously, I barely ever die and any time it does happen it’s almost always me having no idea what even happened. Even when I do know what happened it’s usually still just well it was just bullshit I guess. Like last time I got stuck on a tiny pebble and like 10 expedition monsters spawned on my ass and I couldn’t move plus the prior dead ones were releasing the death farts so I was just screwed.

HemoglobinaX

1 | 10 hours ago

Problem is that unless they give you a very detailed report, it’s useless. Saying: you died to a lightning hit means nothing.

Was it because I was shocked? Was it a crit? Wasnthe lightning conversion of a skill? The lightning part? Does it penetrate resistances? Maybe a huge phys hit left me 1 hp and then died with a lightning hit?

Nrwoope

1 | 2 hours ago

Good job gpt

CollegeOptimal9846

0 | 11 hours ago

Agree, and miss this coming from Last Epoch.

The endgame was lacking but christ they cooked with some of the QoL in that game.

We need a death recap — knowing why I died would actually help me improve my character