Death Penalty is Super Unfun

I'm on the side that death penalties are overtuned, but still necessary. What my biggest complaint is, is unfair deaths. A lot of them were fixed in the last major patch, but a few groups of them still remain:
1) Things happening off screen:
-I finish killing a group of mobs with a couple elites, move in to loot, and then a corpse explosion kills me. There was another elite OFF SCREEN. I didn't even know I was in combat.
-Map bosses and zoom level. Enough of their 1-shot abilities can hit me when I can't even see the windup that I'm scared of bossing in any meaningful way. This of course, leads to a much larger discussion on zoom levels, but just the fact that combat is significantly easier moving left/right than up/down, points to the root of the problem.
2) No combat logs: If I die, or even come close to dying, I want as much information as I can get. I want to see what enemy, skill, damage type, etc. hit me, so I can see why something killed me that normally doesn't.

Another huge tangent for background, I'm playing 99.9% SSF since the market's borked, and I'm playing grenadier with armor stacking (armor is just bad in general, waiting for that rework eventually). I know I'm squishy. The above criticisms are only valid because I'm playing a different game than the 1-shot everything, OP builds. I find my combat fun, engaging, and satisfying. Most enemies are a threat, and I can't 1-shot them before they can attack. This is much closer to the vision of PoE2, and I'm having a blast with it. I have my fair share of fair deaths- and I learn from them. It's the unfair deaths that destroy any sense of fun in the game.

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N3vangel#0037 schrieb:

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CovidPatientZero#0332 schrieb:

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N3vangel#0037 schrieb:

I used to die often and then I took some of my damage nodes on the tree and invested them into more defense and CC. Now I rarely, if ever, die. It’s also worth buying an omen of amelioration so when you do die it decreases your xp loss by 75%. They’re selling for about 120ex right now.

The tips people offer to mitigate death penalties completely ignore the core issue. The death penalties force me to walk on eggshells and be overly cautious, which as a Merc just forces me to shoot enemies on the edge of the screen as soon as they come into view while back away. I don't even dodge roll anymore because I do everything possible to avoid getting close. I literally just spam AOE explosive shot with 3 heralds to while out mobs before they get close, and bosses I just run in a big circle and melt their hp in 10 seconds.

This is a complete 180 from campaign where I was constantly dodge rolling and out maneuvering enemies and close range. This is 100x more fun because I actually have to engage, especially boss fights.

Right now the way they "balanced" the endgame was to add lightning fast mobs with cheap oneshots combined with exp loss and map bonus loss to counteract player power. Seems like almost no thought went into it

The core issue isn’t the death penalty. The core issue is your build isn’t capable yet of the content you’re trying to run. Removing consequences for death doesn’t make the game better. It actually has the opposite effect and hurts replayability along with trivializing content. I fought the Arbiter of Ash today for the first time and six portals turns the fight into a joke.

Lol ok buddy. You don't even know what build I'm running while entirely missing the point. You have no clue what passives and gear I'm running. In other words, you're talking completely out of your backside.

If the content I'm running at lvl 91 requires hundreds of div in gear to run, then the game is extremely flawed and unbalanced at it's core

I gotcha. Sorry for not being more helpful. Best of luck to ya.

Try not dying then?

Dying is not suppose to be fun. Avoid it.

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asoiarf#0289 schrieb:

Try not dying then?

Dying is not suppose to be fun. Avoid it.

Oh don't die. Wish I thought of that

If someone can reach lvl 100 in HC, you can do it in SC for sure xD dont be a glass cannon xD

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EightInchFloppyDisk#2190 schrieb:

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khaledcaipa22#2153 schrieb:

for casual players as my self leveling up after 90 is already a nightmare

How did you got to 90?

Speak the truth please.

It was super easy if I'm going to be honest. In the sense that every wall I hit felt impossible to pass and then when I did pass the wall it was amazing and made me feel AMAZING!!!!!

I did NOT pass these walls because the game allowed it or helped me or showed me in ANY WAY. It was thru HOURS AND HOURS of research on the internet. I put in time. I read and I read and I read more, and I watched video's, more and more videos, so many videos, and I didn't stop until I understood why my build was sub-par. I kept going because it WAS completely beatable. The game does NOTHING to help you understand WHY things ARE the way they ARE.

The wall the OP is refencing is different.... It has been corrupted.
It's very real, and it is caused BY the game, NOT the player.
Lots of people are going to say it is working as intended. I'm at this stage also and there are no helpful hints to get past it, because it is working as intended.