History YMMV / PathOfExile

* DisappointingLastLevel: The Sceptre of God. ''Seven floors'' of the exact same types of enemies with no variation aside from a miniboss on the second and sixth floors, and unlike the Lunaris Temple, the enviroment remains [[CopyPasteEnviroments exactly the same]] no matter how far you are. Oh, and the Waypoint is located on the ''third'' floor, so if you die to [[spoiler:Dominus]] and forgot to use a portal scroll, or if your game disconnects or crashes, then you have to slog through four levels of the same damn enemies just to get back to the final battle.

* Early BirdBoss: Most sub-bosses in Act 1 on normal difficulty, primarily Hailrake (see below).

* ThatOneBoss:

*** Now that they've implemented an option for permanently allocated loot, it's more broken between StopHavingFunGuys who think that free-for-all loot should be the only way to play and that the developers should never have added the option, and everyone else who just plays with the option they prefer.

*** Now that they've implemented an option for permanently allocated loot, it's more broken between StopHavingFunGuys who think that free-for-all loot should be the only way to play and the developers should never have added the option, and everyone else who just plays with the option they prefer.

*** Now that they've implemented an option for permanently allocated loot, it's more broken between StopHavingFunGuys who think that free-for-all loot should be the only way to play, and everyone else who just plays with the option they prefer.

*** Now that they've implemented an option for permanently allocated loot, it's more broken between StopHavingFunGuys who think that free-for-all loot should be the only way to play, and everyone else.

* ThatOneLevel: ''The Battlefront'' of Act 3; filled with Black Knights galore. The worst part of the zone is when you come across the mages who constantly use a thorn-type of spell that causes damage taken to be transferred back at the player. It's ''absolutely'' brutal to player builds not dumping their skill points into increasing their health or shield.

* BrokenBase: The orb market, either it's a great replacement over using gold, or it's too complicated and grindy.

* HolyShitQuotient: The typical reaction when someone sees this game's skill tree for the first time. Fans call it a skill forest for a reason!
** Most players are those who jumped from ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' out of disappointment over how dumbed down that game got, you can't really blame people for the reaction which most of the time is from the excitement of knowing that the player can control how to build their character up again.

* ThatOneBoss: Oak in Act 2's bandit quest. He's incredibly strong, and he has a leap attack that instantly sends him to his target. He's even harder to deal with if you like using a lot of fire skills. Expect to find yourself joining random parties just to deal with him.

** Mervil, the end boss of Act 1, is this for some players, especially those who are new to the game. At first, it seems like she just attacks the player with many powerful [[AnIcePerson frost-based]] magic attacks, but upon defeating her, her ''true'' form appears and she not only completely regenerates her health, but also becomes a [[TheMinionMaster summoner-type]] boss (alongside being an ice-mage) that will endlessly spawn {{Mooks}} to [[GodDamnedBats constantly annoy you]]; some even being suicidal-bomber types which will instantly destroy a chunk of health if the player let even one get too close. To top it all off, she has a shield that will regenerate if players hold off on attacking for too long, and in the second fight against a summoner-ice-mage, expect it to happen A LOT.
*** Long story short, players are in for a long, drawn-out, fight against Mervil if they're not stocked up on cold-resist, or they're short on any area-of-effect type attacks to keep the summoned pets at bay.

** Mervil, the end boss of Act 1, is this for some players, especially those who are new to the game. At first, it seems like she just attacks the player with many powerful [[AnIcePerson frost-based]] magic attacks, but upon defeating her, her ''true'' form appears and she not only completely regenerates her health, but also becomes a [[TheMinionMaster summoner-type]] boss (alongside being an ice-mage) that will endlessly spawn {{Mooks}} to [[GodDamnedBats constantly annoy you]]; some even being suicidal-bomber types which will instantly destroy a chunk of health if the player let even one get too close. To top it all off, she has a shield that will regenerate if players hold off on attacking for too long, and in the second fight against a summoner-type, expect it to happen A LOT.

** Mervil, the end boss of Act 1, is this for some players, especially those who are new to the game. At first, it seems like she just attacks the player with many powerful [[AnIcePerson frost-based]] magic attacks, but upon defeating her, her ''true'' form appears and she not only completely regenerates her health, but also becomes a [[TheMinionMaster summoner-type]] boss (alongside being an ice-mage) that will endlessly spawn {{Mooks}} to [[GodDamnedBats constantly annoy you]]; some even being suicidal-bomber types which will instantly destroy a chunk of health if the player let even one get to too close. To top it all off, she has a shield that will regenerate if players hold off on attacking for too long, and in the second fight against a summoner-type, expect it to happen A LOT.

*** Long story short, players are in for a long, drawn-out, fight against Mervil if they're not stocked up on cold-resist, or they're short on any area-of-effect type attacks to keep the summoned [[Mooks]] at bay.

** Most players are those who jumped from {{Diablo3}} out of disappointment over how dumbed down that game got, you can't really blame people for the reaction which most of the time is from the excitement of knowing that the player can control how to build their character up again.

* ThatOneBoss: Oak in Act 2's bandit quest. He's incredibly strong, and he has a leap attack that instantly sends him to his target. He's even harder to deal with if you like using a lot of fire skills. Expect to find yourself joining random parties just to deal with him.

** Most players are those who jumped from Diablo3 out of disappointment over how dumbed down that game got, you can't really blame people for the reaction.

* BrokenBase: The orb market, either it's a great replacement for using gold, or it's too complicated and grindy.

ThatOneBoss: Oak in Act 2's bandit quest. He's incredibly strong, and he has a leap attack that instantly sends him to his target. He's even harder to deal with if you like using a lot of fire skills. Expect to find yourself joining random parties just to deal with him.