POE2 has ruined Diablo for me
Important to note: This is NOT a "Diablo 4 is bad" discussion. Diablo 4 does some things very well (story presentation/animations a.s.o.) but there's something that drives me crazy and I really need to know if I'm in a minority here thinking this.
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Ok so I am currently taking a break from PoE2 because I reached endgame which I currently feel is not thaaat great (lv 80) + there's 0.5 with endgame changes on the horizon so I was thinking "wth, let's jump into D4, get the expansion and play through that with paladin". So I bought it and started playing with a friend I introduced to PoE2 and ARPGs in general before. We are currently having a "good" time (I'm a little bored because we need to get through the main campaign before anything else bc. he doesn't know it and I did it 2 times).
So today I created another character just for the lulz because my buddy is visiting his family over the weekend and I never played anything but campaign->endgame in D4.
Let's say ... it all felt wrong on every level possible. The balance curve (because everything is just set on your level) felt so OFF to me. Right from level 1 I'm basically bulldozing the same 2-3 types of enemy hordes by the thousands (goats/vampires/ghosts). The combat is flashy and still fun but it all feels so pointless because the game drops every illusion by throwing those underleveled cannonfodder enemiegroups at you (in WAY bigger numbers than they are in PoE2 from my experience now) which I know will stay the same until the end of endgame.
This - I know - is very much on me personally but am I the only one who know understands why GGG still wants players to always do the campaign before endgame in some capacity? To present some sort of curve in terms of progression?! Today I lost every sense of urgency/threat I felt from D4 enemies and I hate it.
Am I so weird? I know that games like Titan Quest 1/2 (gonna check out 2 in the future) are less about big enemy horde sizes but PoE2 is also not going overboard with them from my experience until endgame? (when you want to feel powerful because by then you have so many spells/skills/good armour)
Compared to this enemies are SUCH a threat in PoE2 which you need to dodge and look out for which feels SO MUCH better to me. Am I the only one?