When half of your player base plays a build that only requires one button

Reported, hope for the best

Don't worrie about that. In 0.3 they be sure that none of such skills will exist.

And that build is..? It's a 2-3~ button build for clear and like 4-5 for bossing, depending on variant.

The problem isn't how simple the build is, the problem is how strong it is relative to others.

i laughed thanks

what if, in 0.3, they put LS in a higher lvl req? Alongside serpentspear and solaris? So player base wont one shot through campaign

Its like the devs have actually played Lost Ark and the playerbase hasn't.

Everytime a good combo is discovered its nerfed into the dirt and the effort to reward ratio between 1 button and combo is too lobsided

devs need to just realize most people like one button builds, and blasting through content fast. There will never, ever be "meaningful" combat in an ARPG like PoE (or any of its competitors honestly)

GIMME RIGHTEOUS FIRE ON POE2 AND I WILL BE HAPPY

To each it's own, but leap+boneshatter or mace/shield + boneshatter + warcry + hotg feels really good to me. The pacing of combat and bosses that to have to learn (and finally have a few attempts for each to do so) also feels great. I'm not saying people prefering something else have less valid opinions, I just think that there are people like me who are enjoying this "vision". I know it's badly balanced for now and I was lucky to play what works this patch, but when it works, it really works FOR ME. If it gets even better or more balanced I would prefer this to PoE1. But, to each it's own! 

Their goal is to have 75% of players using the same skill in .3 LOL

Seriously though, the more they try to force out 1 button builds, the more people will play the one thing people find that still works for a 1 button build. 

Honestly GGG needs to have everyone in the company take a psychology class, because clearly they don’t understand basic human behavior. 

The skill is op, people gravitate towards strong and easy things

Tbh i did not get into arpgs back then in the late 1990s to play 8 button builds. Peak arpg for me is when i can hold down the right mouse button, occassionally do some buffs and drink health potions if needed, thats it. If an arpg forces me to play it like an mmorpg then its not an arpg. Luckily there are one button builds in poe2.

Half the player base is playing lightning spear, which isn't a one button build. What even is this meme lol

And if they nerfed it today I’m sure you’d be one of the first complaining about it. This is how you know the community is childish and / or just wants to be mad.

People play what streamers told them to play, big shock

There is just way to much of a gap , power wise, between the LS build and ...everything else on Amazon.

If you have limited time/play casually , and want to actually do maps efficiently, LS is really your only option with Amazon.

Respeccing also just costs way to much , gold wise and gem wise if you end up stuck in a bad build that you don't realize until you start maps.

Balancing for the campaign then letting builds scale multitudes beyond the campaign seems wrong.

Most players will always find an easier and more enjoyable to play a minimal button build, a combo build is good to play once for the experience but then the effort outweighs the enjoyment. I truly believe if they weeded out every single build that doesn’t use a combo of 3+ skills, people would just leave.

0.3 lightning spear while chain an additional time after you successfully parried and consume all charges to pierce one extra enemy.

Combos work when the payoff is 5-10 times more damage, not 1.5-2 times more damage

Idk why that's such an issue. It's clearly what the player base wants, combo spells are not only more annoying, they're weaker! Make it make sense, GGG

Tbh I really tried out minions and spectres for a dif play style but every other build feels lackluster (and spectres are buggy/useless) compared to lightning spear. I really tried to go off meta but they really wanted us to suffer.

Fuck LS. I've cooked up my own build and it's blasting shit apart. Feels good.

I think it's a mistake ignoring what the players are building and trying to break that instead of facilitating that.

They released their combat and people chose not to play it, no better feedback than that.

I’m a poe vet with 10k hours, of course I’m folowing a YouTube guide of a meta build, that’s how knowledgeable o am 🤣

There is playing a 1 button build because you want simple gameplay so you sacrifice power to reduce complexity.

Then there is playing a 1 button build because it is 10x stronger than everything else, and all enemies die in 1 attack, so you never need to push another button.

One of these is fine and a matter of play style, and the other is what is currently happening. People are being very disingenuous, claiming that so many people play the op broken build because that is their play style rather than because it massively over preforms.

It's good to have a skill that is dumb OP and just feels good to use.

Absolutley no-brain, fast clear, ultimate exp/currency farmer.

But you need to have more than one of those skills at the same time. That's the trick.

If we would have 3-5 skillls that could seriously compete with LS I'd call it a great league.

In maps mobs spawn so fast that you need to insta oneshot them. Pressing 2 buttons is just too slow...
I tried playing frost sorc with 5 skills combining them, felt terrible, I can clear a bunch of mobs in a small area, but they spawn everywhere.
Then I switched to frenzy spiral volley ranger - spin to win - oneshot whole screen and beyond with 1 button. The most fun I had in games for the last couple of years...

I agree but if I have to farm tens of hours to make a mediocre build work it's not worth, I think many people don't have that amount of time available