Path of Exile 2’s last patch of the year makes its brutal difficulty significantly less frustrating
The first thing you learn in PoE 2 is that everything can and will kill you. Skeletons hit you like their last gig was a boss in another game, and fighting three wolves at once should reward you a Medal of Honor. The first 20 hours is a survival game where the trees punch back, and all you get for finishing the campaign is another difficulty spike.