Path of Exile 2

Uber Strict at Filterblade might have been a bit overkill. Remade a Very Strict with no changes besides hiding T8-13 Waystones. Quite a lot of items still show up but they are the better iLVL stuff.

Anyone tailored their own filter they want to share?

It's early access guys! Better not have any commentary or feedback on anything during it. That's not at all what it's for. Even though it was paid early access!

Shut up and consume product!

You kids wanting end game content. Back in my day we farmed merc docks and Piety and we liked it!

Real talk, current maps is aids and while early access, with all of GGG's experience with end game and PoE1 atlas I expected better from the gate. I've spent more time leveling characters than playing end game until they fix some of the stuff under the hood. But I also expect them to fix shit quickly with all the experience they have, so we'll see.

Chris said:

Improve your build. Try a different character. Get gud.

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Huh? My build absolutely rolls through it. I'm talking about the mechanic itself is just awful. Nowhere in my post did I say mapping was too hard (although the one shot mechanics are retarded).

Had they just copied PoE1's mapping exactly it would've been infinitely better than this garbage.

Bubbles said:

Only homos and retards use RMT. Dont care if you're selling or buying. Let me me quote the greatest orator of our time by saying FAGGITZ.

Melonie should really be added to the reaction pool

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Only thing you’ve ever posted that was good.

Gravel said:

Huh? My build absolutely rolls through it. I'm talking about the mechanic itself is just awful. Nowhere in my post did I say mapping was too hard (although the one shot mechanics are retarded).

Had they just copied PoE1's mapping exactly it would've been infinitely better than this garbage.

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I’m not in maps yet because I keep dicking around on different characters. It really looks like they copied last epoch’s monolith design to me and I found that fucking awful. PoE1 mapping was straight digital heroin.

This forum is sounding a bit like the Ashes of Creation Forum.

"BUT ITS ALPHA!!!!!!!!!.............."

Mahes said:

This forum is sounding a bit like the Ashes of Creation Forum.

"BUT ITS ALPHA!!!!!!!!!.............."

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I mean its really just Chris and Mist most other people know that even though its alpha this was a poor showing for GGG considering they are not new at this. Reality is at some point they will have to relent from the "vision" because this game isn't the game built in a garage, this one has the Eye of Tencent staring at them from Barad-Dur, and it has to make a lot of the monies. Remember this is what 3-5 years of Dev time in? They have 2 pretty good act and 1 great one and a shit show at maps and no semblance of balance and even with a very knowledgeable player base cant communicate what their idea of player power or speed is at end game.

The real bad thing is its clear this has pushed the next PoE league back, I think everyone was fine with this pushing it back a little but I think its going to be a lot and its going to cause a real shitshow.

Mist said:

"This unreleased game has not entirely consumed my life quite enough. The amount of enjoyment I received from this product is limited in intensity and duration, rather than the limitless joy I had unrealistically expected."

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Yes pretty much.

Juvarisx said:

The real bad thing is its clear this has pushed the next PoE league back, I think everyone was fine with this pushing it back a little but I think its going to be a lot and its going to cause a real shitshow.

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This. At first I was fine because I thought poe2 would be a different type of game. But it's literally just poe1 with a worse crafting and end game system.

Juvarisx said:

The real bad thing is its clear this has pushed the next PoE league back, I think everyone was fine with this pushing it back a little but I think its going to be a lot and its going to cause a real shitshow.

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Damn clear. They told us during the PoE2 livestream in November that the new PoE1 league was delayed to get PoE2 in to early access. What we're waiting to see now is how many more times it gets pushed back. The last info we got was "late February" without being exactly sure if that meant late Feb for the reveal trailer or late Feb for the launch. After giving zero info during the Q&A I think we're looking at early March for the first teaser reveal where we get the league name.

Settlers started in late July. So late February will be 7 months. And they threw in that extension part of Settlers when they had trouble migrating the player database and MTX stuff they owned to PoE 2 from 1 which was a delay of the EA.

"its early access" seems like a really strange take considering how much is inexplicably a giant step backwards from poe1 and for how long its been in dev.
Its not a question of content. no one is saying anything about acts4-6 or whatever missing. its the actual game design choices that are being criticized. its not unlike Bannerlord. for all the good, theres some really glaring gaps, and outright bad choices.

like the citadel system. That had to be designed. someone looked at atlas and said, "lets make it better". how do you do that, build the new atlas, and not having markers, roads, or some other form of pathing to lead players to citadels? thats like game design 101. pointing players in the direction to go. That kind of shit is in poe1. its all over the place.

The rng map presumably causing load times on when opening up the map/waystones. what even the hell? how did this even make it past q/a? again, why was this even done on a design level?


That said, the game HAS also drawn me into it like old school poe1 in a way, current poe1 does not. 8 days,12hours /played. absurd.
yet.. again. was not enjoying the lack of bosses, and map juicing process at all. so, stopped playing. started an alt witch and deciding on another Kenshi run. (poe2 itself interrupted a black geyser playthrough...)

Mist said:

idk how people play league after league after league
after 3 leagues of PoE i was very fucking done
i literally took extra shifts at work because it got to be more fun than poe

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You're just saying words you know everyone will disagree with at this point. The jig is up!

Khane said:

It's early access guys! Better not have any commentary or feedback on anything during it. That's not at all what it's for. Even though it was paid early access!

Shut up and consume product!

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It's the people playing 100s of hours and posting unhinged takes about how much the game is lazy and it sucks.

All the feedback is valid, but I don't get how being mad over Christmas and New Year and ranting on niche forums the devs don't read is healthy.

The game is really fucking fun.

Every map needs a boss, pinnacle bosses need 6 attempts, more valid defense layers outside of Energy Sheild would be great.

Nothing wrong with waiting for the next patch, class or act.

Chris said:

It's the people playing 100s of hours and posting unhinged takes about how much the game is lazy and it sucks.

All the feedback is valid, but I don't get how being mad over Christmas and New Year and ranting on niche forums the devs don't read is healthy.

The game is really fucking fun.

Every map needs a boss, pinnacle bosses need 6 attempts, more valid defense layers outside of Energy Sheild would be great.

Nothing wrong with waiting for the next patch, class or act.

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This game is fine. TBH I'd put it on the same tier as Last Epoch. Its fine. I got my $30 bucks worth, played a couple characters had some fun, some frustration, some annoyance, some super great moments beating +4 Pinnacles as melee. I expect way more out of a 5 year DEV cycle from GGG. I havent played for two weeks or so either, this lasted less time then i do in a PoE league.

Complaining about complaining should get shawed however, no shit they are not going to read this, this rarely read anything, they get direct feedback from people like Ben, Mathail and Ziggidy D or whatever.

Why isnt there life in the tree Chris? Can you point to a design choice that would necessitate that? Can you elaborate on what you think led to that design decision? This is this shit im talking about being super duper concerning.

Yes that Spark build should be nerfed or the enemies buffed. What is baseline? They were asked and couldn't even answer. Thats REALLY concerning.

I have consistently given them $60 ever league for years cause the game was worth it. I wont pay more then $30 on this regardless of 6 acts being released tomorrow or not, there are fundamental issues with this game that need solving to make it actually fun.