In my ~30 years of gaming, I have never hated anything with the passionate fervor with which I despise Proximal Tangibility.

"if you wanna mess up ranged characters SO BAD, why not give melee a taste too? Share the love."

Shade walker, kurgal's last grasp, temporal bubble, breaks armour, trail of fire/ice/lightning, magma barrier(IMP). Oh no? Proximal tangibility???

I used to get annoyed/die to it when I first started playing the game. Now I can’t not see the mob that has proximity tangibility. It sticks out like a sore thumb.

This game requires more than one layer of defense, sounds to me that’s your issue.

Ranged or not it’s one of the easiest mechanics to deal with in the game.

It's fine, never had any issues with minimal investment in def. Go play LE if if you don't like building any defences and just go through game without any punishment.

"Literally screaming obscenities at my monitor. Threats. Promises."

This shit had me cackling lolol. I fucking feel that, but for me its the fucking shield guys that return your projectiles with thier skulls they shoot out. Especially when you get the map mod that they shoot out extra projectiles. You are coasting through a map before all of sudden youve got 5 million skulls flying out at you from off the screen before you have a chance to react.

Isn't this what ggg lives the most? Sometimes it feels like half of their staff is busy finding new intricate ways to make the game unpleasant, and then call it "friction" and say it's needed for the longevity of the game

But, even if I am furious at the game 40%of the playtime, I prefer ggg being stubborn and staying reasonably true to their vision. Unlike blizzard that listens to everything the lazy complainers say and dumb down the game a little more for each season passing. But, I dlnt like that they didn't deliver on their promise of meaningful combat. Poe2 is now just a zoom zoom power creep game like Diablo 4 is. It just takes a little more effort and a bit longer time to get there. That's why I love act 1 and half of act 2 so much, unless you are very lucky with vendors or drops, you are weak enough to have to fight enemy mechanics. And that's nice

Don't worry, shround walker and head hunter belt will make sure you get within proximity of monster, whether you want to or not.

This should be one of the MOST OBVIOUS MODS in the entire list.

Can't say i agree with this, for the very reasons you mention right at the start:

It doesn't get me killed or leave me with unkillable rares.

It's not dangerous, it's pretty obvious when the mob isn't taking damage. Personally the visual effect is also pretty clear but I get that's subjective. Why clutter an already-cluttered game with more stuff?

As an exclusively non-melee player and someone who's been playing poe for over a decade, melee players do not need a taste of more inconvenience --- the proximity bubble is literally just forcing you to be melee for a little bit to give you some perspective of what melee players go through.

Yeah just wait until they have Proximal Tangibility and also the one that sucks all your mana. So you have to get in their bubble to do any damage to them, and when you do they just burn your mana instantly.

I had the thaumaturgy guy have prox... On my glass cannon archer. Need to stand on top of him to hit him.

Lucky it was temple so he didn't keep healing.