In this game knowledge is the key. Summoner is weak early on you need to use contagion and essence drain with skells as meat shields. Later on minions will completely face roll.
I've played POE since alpha, I have a lot of game knowledge :) This isnt my only character either, I'm playing all classes. However the reason I'm replying is to criticize when people say what you just said: "You have to use XYZ skill and do it ABC method, or else...." If the game only lets you progress by using a cookie-cutter method, then the game is broken. There are always going to be imbalanced / OP skills and combos, especially right now in early access before they tune everything. They will be tuned (nerfed). What will be left, is all the other skills - and then people who say what you just said, will cry and/or quit the game because those are the players who can ONLY use the broken (untuned) OP skills/combos........ What I'm talking about is everything else in the game. The 90% that is "working as intended". Not the 5-10% thats broken (and is going to get nerfed). I've found some nice OP combos too but I want build diversity. Thats what POE is about. Isnt that what you want too? But anyway - I'm not complaining! I'm just realizing that POE2 isnt really an "ARPG" as the genre has been defined in the last 30 years. Have you played Lords of the Fallen? It specifically marketed as a "Souls-like ARPG". POE2 is like LotF. Fits in the same genre. Sortof...
it's literally a twinstick
In this game knowledge is the key. Summoner is weak early on you need to use contagion and essence drain with skells as meat shields. Later on minions will completely face roll.
I've played POE since alpha, I have a lot of game knowledge :)
This isnt my only character either, I'm playing all classes.
However the reason I'm replying is to criticize when people say what you just said: "You have to use XYZ skill and do it ABC method, or else...."
If the game only lets you progress by using a cookie-cutter method, then the game is broken.
There are always going to be imbalanced / OP skills and combos, especially right now in early access before they tune everything.
They will be tuned (nerfed).
What will be left, is all the other skills - and then people who say what you just said, will cry and/or quit the game because those are the players who can ONLY use the broken (untuned) OP skills/combos........
What I'm talking about is everything else in the game. The 90% that is "working as intended". Not the 5-10% thats broken (and is going to get nerfed).
I've found some nice OP combos too but I want build diversity. Thats what POE is about. Isnt that what you want too?
But anyway - I'm not complaining! I'm just realizing that POE2 isnt really an "ARPG" as the genre has been defined in the last 30 years.
Have you played Lords of the Fallen? It specifically marketed as a "Souls-like ARPG". POE2 is like LotF. Fits in the same genre. Sortof...