Path of Exile 2
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He peaced out when he discovered that a few months tolerable behavior wouldn't erase years of faggotry.I think the meme-coppers might have gottenChris , been a while since last post.
Just use the search function to find it in the amod thread.
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Kirun
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I have a feeling rolling a new char is going to be a fucking nightmare. It was bad enough in PoE1 having to do 5-10hrs of "gameplay" every new char, but I have a feeling it's going to be even worse in PoE2 and worse still when acts 4-6 come out.
Derkon
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Not having to deal with trying to fix sockets/links while leveling will be pretty huge.
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Kirun
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Eh, yes and no. Less worrying about links now and more worrying about which support gems to choose for which skills, etc. I don't think the time difference there will be that huge.
Fogel
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Only thing different with PoE 1 to 2 for supports is they said you can only use one support per skill so you couldn't use ice pen on 2 different skills, but I see that as a good thing as long as they get away from what supports in PoE 1 became which was how many "more" multipliers you could stack.
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Xevy
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Only 2 out of 3 Witch Ascendancies are being released. Still a chance.
I can't wait to playing a Legionnaire and spend half my time using shit skills until I can ascend and use any skills then find out it's super hard to get non-class specific skill gems cut and then realize I'm behind the curve.
That's real motherfucking gaming right there!
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To be fair that's not a bad take, ascendancies definitely restrict what you can do in an efficient manner. It doesn't mean you can't, but like if you play Witch in PoE1, you're gonna have to do either an elemental based char(can be melee/archer) or an energy shield/dot char. If you try to do a phys slam witch, it's just going to mostly suck(I guess golem shit might make it less bad maybe). You can kinda make it work but it's just a vastly inferior build than picking marauder, duellist, ranger or scion. Templar I'm not too sure if there's good support for that I haven't played in a while(guardian maybe?) and shadow I don't think can make it very good either.
Now depending on how it goes, Blood witch with Druid spells might work perfectly fine, but we won't know until they add Druid stuff(not at EA launch), and the 3rd witch ascendancy might also fit very well with it(assuming it's something like occultist again, there might be synergy with dot and nature poisony stuff).
Kirun
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The new tree seems more much adapted to allowing you to "explore" other classes' areas than PoE 1 did.
I don't know if it's going to be efficient, sure. But, that's the whole point in exploring all the new shit.
Caliane
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its specifically the ascendancies the cause the problem. cause its not just an issue of long distance pathing. ascendancies flat out prevent classes from making builds.
Necromancer is pretty obvious one. the difference between a necromancer summoner and anyone else is huge. or elementalist golemancer.
Necromancer is pretty obvious one. the difference between a necromancer summoner and anyone else is huge. or elementalist golemancer.
Xevy
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They moved away from the "this is for x skills and that is for y skills" stuff. A lot more of these ascendancy is generalistic so they can be played with minions, DoT's, melee, arrows, etc..
I'm going to play a minion character and though the Infernalist has minion stuff, none of it really makes it look like it's mandatory. The Hell Hound (Summon Guardian V2) is cool and may be very powerful fully linked, but besides that and SRS it actually has normal class abilities like it's flame shit and it's demon form. The Blood Mage looks like it has basically nothing that screams minions to me.
I'm going Gemling Legionnaire hoping that gem quality is really good (maybe?) and the attribute thing means I can just stack straight hp or es hopefully without worrying about bullshit dex requirements for oddball supports. The additional 3 active skills could also be really helpful depending on how much we can fit in with Spirit costs.
I'm going to play a minion character and though the Infernalist has minion stuff, none of it really makes it look like it's mandatory. The Hell Hound (Summon Guardian V2) is cool and may be very powerful fully linked, but besides that and SRS it actually has normal class abilities like it's flame shit and it's demon form. The Blood Mage looks like it has basically nothing that screams minions to me.
I'm going Gemling Legionnaire hoping that gem quality is really good (maybe?) and the attribute thing means I can just stack straight hp or es hopefully without worrying about bullshit dex requirements for oddball supports. The additional 3 active skills could also be really helpful depending on how much we can fit in with Spirit costs.
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Oh it's not minions specific really, but you're not playing Infernalist without fire stuff for example. Can be minions, spells or weapons, but you're not making a cold infernalist(at least it didn't look like it, again haven't seen the details). Blood mage looks like it'll work better as generic caster, so that'd work for a nature caster possibly, depends on what exactly is in the tree and how it works.
The passive tree is definitely not a concern, pathing is fine and most builds in poe1 path halfway across the tree already because of life nodes and specific keystones and what not. You won't need to go for the life wheel anymore but you'll still likely still go grab random shit somewhere else, it's not super expensive usually to cross over and unlocks several good nodes on the way(including a bunch of jewels slots).
Chris
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No and doesn't seem like it will:
Announcements - Changes to Path of Exile's Account System - Forum - Path of Exile
Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.
www.pathofexile.com
Actually this seems really bad, having cross play between PC/PS5 is great but not cross microtransactions makes it pointless? How would that even work with stash tabs!?
Luckily I have stash tabs on both already but would have been nice to double up.
Aazrael
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It's a Sony issue.No and doesn't seem like it will:
Announcements - Changes to Path of Exile's Account System - Forum - Path of Exile
Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.
Actually this seems really bad, having cross play between PC/PS5 is great but not cross microtransactions makes it pointless? How would that even work with stash tabs!?
Luckily I have stash tabs on both already but would have been nice to double up.