Lvl20 rogue Beta Feedback

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This is coming from someone who has many hours, 50k plus in POE and more in D2/D3. Normally I play HC, but for the purpose of playing through the beta I did normal…sorry t.t

  1. Log in experience, of course I was expecting it to take a while, took me about 2 hours before I could play, with many error codes and authentication boxes. But when I did get in, I was able to play for a couple w/o being kicked =)

  2. Story is good, VA was not bad for most

  3. Char skill progression needs work. I felt weak, even with legos, the skills for the rogue felt so lack luster. barrage feels so bad, even using it w/ full combo, it starts feeling better when you go shadow imbue for clearing mobs, but hardly. skills need to be reworked w/ a bit more powerful customization. like a pierce or smthn, they are jsut way 2 weak. This also goes for every other skill…like the customization options for them would be either enemy get vulnerable after 2 or 3 casts or get more crit or crit dmg…no imagination with these skills at all.

  4. Gear, didn’t even look at what I was equipping for the first 17 levels, but later, you start to want specific stats etc. Again, w/ this aspect, there is a lot of throw away stats on gear…felt weak…yes I was playing on world tier 2, but dam, gameplay is so slow cause you dont do any freking dmg

  5. Monsters. Varity is good, but most kinda just cheese you, even w/ dashes claptrops and any other method to slow /get away from mobs, they will always be able to get to you and hit, the hit boxes are insane on archer mobs, and any mob that wants to get close to you will no matter what you do. Normaly in this case, you would be able to burst these down, but again, you feel so weak through the entire play test you cant

  6. Bosses. Now again, yes, its very clear you want us to know mechanics dodge and weave, but for like 15 min im kinda over it lol. I play Solo, this was miserable. the Butcher and the Last boss (SPOILER!!!) with virgo or whoever helping out , has a weird shaper/dominus vibe to it, its just me a wet noodle hitting it for 10-15 min. For Solo play, or even for groups, may need to work on HP or Armor rating for these guys. also butcher is an example of nomater what you do he can be on you like white on rice.

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Cant tell how good marksman is but melee does well. Shadowimbue shadowstep, dash and clone does amazing damage. Dont have to use many potions but i agree with butcher. Killed me twice. The legendaries have a very good synergy. I love the rogue play. Feels well so far.

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This is a part of Rahsna’s beta feedback collection project
This is part XI: :dagger: Playing as the rogue

My chosen skills
Basic: Forceful arrow
Core: Rapid fire
Agility: Caltrops
Imbuement: Poison + Cold
Ultimate: Rain of Arrows

Rogue’s skills felt frightening to experiment with. I wanted to go all bow, and while I was mostly able to achieve that tactic, it felt like an increasingly inefficient way to play as the game progressed. Worst of all the ultimate skill never felt powerful. Maybe I am used to Diablo II and III, where the “end skills” is always the best choice?

Had my time had been infinite, I would absolutely had refunded skills more and dared experiment. Likely a knife/bow combo.

Around level 15 I changed to World Tier II for two reasons:
1. Because World Tier I(1) felt too easy at the time (but got frustrating later, but I did not switch back)
2. Because I thought that I had to switch to World Tier II, if I wanted to see when Ashava spawned.
a. :information_source: Did not help that your communication about Ashava spawn times were confusing.

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Can’t tell for Marksman but my melee Rogue was fine in all aspects of the bêta: Open World, Dungeons & Ashara. I killed the Butcher w/o any problem.

Here was my build:

Basic: Invigorating Strike
Core: Twisting Blades
Agility: Shadow Step & Dash (No Dash for Ashara)
Imbuement: Shadow
Ultimate: None. (Clone replacing Dash only for Ashara)

On Youtube “Solo’d Ashava World Boss”, you can see a Marksman rogue soloing Ashara on HC difficulty… maybe this can helps you comparing his build/dmg output with yours.

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Brother,you had plenty rogue guides,and there are some pretty awesome builds people came up with,considering it was short beta testing.

You had range build,demolishing full screen of mobs and you also had high mobility/high dmg mele spec as well,teleporting all over the screen,killing elites in 2-3 seconds.