Tried 2c-e for the first time last night; great experience! DPH really helped.
However, I was quite surprised at mental ease and lucidity of the trip, given that I've heard people refer to it as an "ego shreeder" many times. I have to wonder if tolerance was the key factor, or if I'm merely a hardhead...
The previous night I had done 3 hits of (VERY) degraded acid and about 25mg of 2c-D. This provided an enjoyable, but very mild +2 trip. The next day (last night), I decided to do 2c-e. I knew tolerance would be an issue, so I decided to up the dosage and choose a more intense ROA to make up for this.
First, I plugged 20mg. After about 2 hours, I was at a very mild +2, extremely similar to a light 2c-i or 2c-d trip. I knew that the drug had finished coming up, and also knew tolerance was the cause of this. So, I decided to take 20 more mg orally. After another hour, I felt slightly more inebriated, but still, easy on the body and light visuals - and virtually NO mental alteration. FINALLY, I thought to myself, "shit, I am not totally wasting 40mg of 2c-e. I'm going to snort this shit." So, I snorted 15mg. This is where things finally got going - the visuals increased 10 fold, I saw wonderful floral patterns on a mere blank white wall, saw entrancing hieroglyphics on my couch, in addition to many little stick figures. The bodyload also increased - I dry heaved a couple of times, but thanks to the DPH, this wasn't even as bad as the bodyload I get while IMing or snorting 2c-i. Once the nausea subsided (pretty shortly - after maybe an hour), I actually found the body load relatively pleasant (aside from the over stimulation when I tried to sleep - ugh) and music + synesthesia was nuts. However... my mentality was totally unaffected, aside from a slight increase in creativity. I was having extremely lucid conversations with some friends online, who weren't even aware of the fact that I was tripping.
My guess is that a combination of tolerance and hardheadedness played a role in this - given the previous night, and the spacing of the dosages, but also taking into account the sheer volume of 2ce I consumed. My plan is to wait a week, and then take 20mg orally with a 5mg snorted - and, after I can gauge the effects at the peak, possibly supplement with some 2cd.
I have to say though, this substance RULED! Bodyload, at least with the DPH, was totally overstated by people, I felt, and music was out of this world. After the nausea subsided, I felt a remarkable similarity to LSD at higher doses (3 + hits), and to be honest, I'm not sure I could qualitatively differentiate the two in a blind test.