Please Fix EndGame and Please fix SSF

Hi,

I would like to express some feedback that I think is very important. I have played around 172 hours of PoE2. And for the most part, I have really enjoyed the game. I have mainly played a Poison Ranger.

The main issues I am running into are running out of way stones for t14 and t15, can never get any to drop, dying, being one-shot by everything if something touches me and losing 10% experience and not being able to find upgrades. So I am stuck in a endless crap loop where I cannot progress and am just stuck at lvl 85.

SSF - feels horrible to play in the end game. There just is not enough drops and eventually you just get stuck in the game and cannot progress. Add rarity to your gear? Yes I have some and all of the Atlas nodes that I can for it, but cannot get good pieces to drop with the stats I desire on them. I am looking for rarity, plus at least double resistance at least and life on most pieces. I am also looking for high evasion and ES for defense. I have spent millions on gambling gear and use so many chaos orbs, exalted orbs and the other orbs trying to forge new gear . It's to the point where I only find an upgrade maybe once a week if that. And still have not found a belt with 3 charm slots on it. I haven't found a perfect jewelers orb to get 5 slots for one single spell. I am over 120 hours just on this character.

I have almost max resistances, max lighting, max fire, 50% cold resist and 25% chaos resist, and above 80% evasion. And I just get one-shotted by most everything. I have around 1800 life with 400 ES. Which is low probably, but I CANNOT FIND GOOD GEAR or Forge good gear. I have around 16 or more talent points specced into defensive nodes as well. I have great dps and kill things quickly, the thing is, even with max resist or close to it, equipping the best gear I can get my hands on, defensive talents, I still cannot let anything touch me or I die. I am a Gas Arrow build, but I do not want to change it to the uber builds that I see online, just to progress. DPS is not a problem for me, staying alive is.


I cannot find t14 and t15 way-stones to continue or to at least gain decent experience so I can level. I run t12 and t13, but nothing ever drops.

I can swap out gear for rarity to get around 100%, for drops, but then just die even more because I am sacrificing defense for random gear with rarity on it.

People in the normal standard leagues have the luxury of trading and having it very easy. I wanted to play SSF because it sounded great to me, but then realize I can get crap to drop for me.

What am I missing here? What do I need to do different?

I am at a point, where I think it is just pointless to eve play anymore and I am just wasting my time. And will probably be quitting.

I might recommend increasing drops for SSF players, or giving them a passive buff of 20% rarity at the end game or something like that.

And would also like to see the lose of 10% experience for dying just go away. It's one thing to make a game challenging, I get that, but there is also the point where I am debating if my time vs the game mechanics are even worth it.

game is balanced around trade, certain builds will simply just not work in SSF due to what you're experiencing: your build is too weak to progress.

That's why majority of SSF players are invoker or stormweaver as energy shield and chaos inoculation basically remove two avenues of incoming damage making your itemisation much easier.