Feedback after 80 hours

Dear ggg,

first of all the game so far looks good and i think it will be even better when ea is over.

I am now 80 hours in, have one cha in tier 7 maps and tried and tested and lvled a little bit on other builds. I play kinda selfimposed solo self found and only used the currency exchange for trading twice now in SC. atm i am on 60 deaths while atleast 35 where in the campaign and just learning the systems.

but for now i am kinda sick of some stuff that i simply cant overlook anymore.
-The Performance on my pc is all over the place. i drop from stable 80 fps to 40 in heatbeat.
i have a ryzen 2600x and a geforce 2070rtx super wich should be fine for atleast 50+ fps smooth. drivers are up to date so is the rest of my stuff

- the maps are somtimes kinda ridicules for my merc with grenades. Last map was the Witchcamp and my grenades fell of every bridge so i couldnt get shock or electrecute and it was a hassle. Everywhere are roof in the way for seeing and special map events are so intese on the efects that you cant see the ground or mosnsters.

-Wich brings me to one of my biggest Problem with the game atm. Its so straining to play it because of how little you can see. I play a volitile grenade, shockburst build and i cant see shit. From dead mobs having still the shock effekt on them to lightning that is so bright that every mob is just a silluete of lightning and shadows. I wanted to play with imposing presence but that effect is just making the mobs a blur of black. Every caster is either invuln, teleports or such a small silluette that you cant even aim properly and the auto aimsnap makes it even harder. i have pierce on my bolts but when i aim at a shocked enemy it mostly shoots the guy next to him who is not shocked so in the end my 1 2 combo does no dmg. The Mobs blend so much with the map that i cant rly disearn them somtimes and even if i can i get wave after wave until i cant anymore. with overlaping stuff so you cant see the ground while siluet casters aoe halflife you from offscreen. In short the visal clutter is kinda straining atm and i wish that this will be a big workingpoint. because atm the fighting doesnt feel responsiv and to me and i cant rly react a lot because i cant see shit.

Getting my accendency was a struggle because now ther is a resistance that you need to farm to play the 3rd secima trial and having a chance of surviving. I dont get why 7 round trial of chaos isnt enough for the 3rd assendency but thats sth you need to decide.

Shocking enemys kinda feels wierd. I cant put numbers on it but i have volitile grenades with minimum +60% to shock, the support gem for more shock chance, ailment chance, played with imposing presence to lower enemy ailment threshold and still there are mobs that i need 3 rounds of 4 grenades to even shock them. on bosses i even use voltaic mark and have nodes with incresed against boses and rares and i still need multiple tries and then the shock doesnt even last enough so i can empty my clip of shockbolts sometimes. I feel its to inconsistant and having it a bit streamlined would be better for me. So i can atlest feel if enemies are constantly taking incresed time to be shocked and i can then take countermessures. but atm there i shock most mobpacks with one round of 4 shock grenades but then there are some that just dont want to get shocked.

Maps are not that interressting. I cant rly put the finger on it but the loot is kinda lackluster and as mentioned above fighting the mobs (atleast) with my setup atm is straining. The "special" mechanic are kinde wierd also.

We have delirum as the new way to get your annoints but you cant upgrade the low once (correct me pls if i am just stupid and missed it) so most of the time dooing them is a hassle and i cant get any good anoints because i need the rly rare stuff. And the Dilirium mobs that spawn from the cracks always block or even spawn so they instant surrund me.
Then there is expedition wich now is all rog. Kinda sucks tbh. I rly liked that you could get bases, crafting and the currency from different one. But i didnt engage much with it so far so maybe it gets better.
the on death effekt of rares need to go in my opinion. They are just more clutter to the already hard visable game. they already multiple times overlayered an on death effect so pls. i dont see any use in that animation.
And then we have ritual wich for me is the best one but fighting ritual is a struggle. they mostly spawn in areas already tiny and then i get spawned on by mobs that i need to shock and then can kill while i get blocked by trees, urns and whatevery you got while atleast 30% of the area are blocked of by envirement. couple that with chaos effects on mass and i again cant see anything and just spam buttons and pray i survive. Wich tbh is not fun.

On items i just wanna say that i am atm thinking about getting a loot filter because there are so many different types and most of them i dont need. I just e.g. need one crosbow with the additional projectile on grenades. But most of the time i get the others or one with a rly bad stat already that i cant even try to craft on. there is for me atleast a lack of white bases i can get so i am left with just praing, aug regal and mass gambeling.

and pls give us an option to remove sockets. destroy the sockets if you want of even remove the socket places so i need to farm the orbs again. but not beeing able to remove those feels so punishing in terms of resistances. if i get a good item i cant use because then i overvcap and cant chance the sockets feels bad. Because i then need to get 2 other upgrades on stuff so i can use that one item. and with how rare these are i just keep on praing and alt regaling stuff. This puts you down such a narrow path with what affixes you wnat on your gear wich for me doesnt feel good. with how rare resses are (atleast in my expierience) a little helping hand would be appriciated. Because destroying my chest and replacing it with another simmular one just because i got and upgrade and now have 12% res in dead stats feels not good.

enough bla from me. i hope i maybe could help you with my feedback.

pls keep your good work up! I rly already love the game when i try to ignore my critisim and i trust that you will give it the right tweeks as you already did.