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Caliane

Caliane

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bloodmage is probably the safer pick. since its more obvious what it does.

blood mage. gain spell life leech. Gain ES from armour, as extra max life. gain crit damage based on max life.
its clearly a Life based witch ascendancy. full hp, regen, life steal. easy peasy.

Chronomancer.
time stop. skill. ??? just stop? no damage? how does this work with dots?
temp rift. revert back to previous location with reset hp/mana. whats the use of this? does it reset death? some weird self burn build?
time snap. resets CD on use. ok, potential here, but what's ITS CD? if IT has a big CD then its use is very limited.
a bunch of new skills that don't do any damage.

I kindof expect chronomancer to be damage over TIME based. it would make the most sense to me. esp if time stop instantly adds time to dots. like say 6s of time stop, causes enemies to instantly take 6s worth of dots, that have been stacked up.
 
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Khane

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I'm thinking Witch hunter start. Who doesn't love explode?
 
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jooka

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Imagine they are holding off on the pre load as long as they can because it will be datamined within minutes
 
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elidib

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Caliane said:
bloodmage is probably the safer pick. since its more obvious what it does.

blood mage. gain spell life leech. Gain ES from armour, as extra max life. gain crit damage based on max life.
its clearly a Life based witch ascendancy. full hp, regen, life steal. easy peasy.

Chronomancer.
time stop. skill. ??? just stop? no damage? how does this work with dots?
temp rift. revert back to previous location with reset hp/mana. whats the use of this? does it reset death? some weird self burn build?
time snap. resets CD on use. ok, potential here, but what's ITS CD? if IT has a big CD then its use is very limited.
a bunch of new skills that don't do any damage.

I kindof expect chronomancer to be damage over TIME based. it would make the most sense to me. esp if time stop instantly adds time to dots. like say 6s of time stop, causes enemies to instantly take 6s worth of dots, that have been stacked up.
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Time stop just stops the enemies, you can keep doing stuff and damage still ticks.
Temp rift - this skill is already in poe 1 and nobody uses it. no it doesnt reset death, just if you take a huge hit and are low hp, you can turn back time.
Timesnap's cooldown is not known currently, it's probably 24 seconds or thereabouts.
 
Fogel

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Starting class really only affects starting location on tree and ascendancy, it doesn't really affect anything else.
 
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Droigan

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I am going in blind other than the 2 hourish thing they showed earlier. Not looking at any builds and especially not datamining.

My most "enjoyable" PoE experience was when they first released the 10 acts and I did a run where I talked to everyone, did the lore and such, explored and did all quests. Will do that for my first run of PoE 2 as well, then switch to a build guide once I've tried a run or two myself.

Zizarian talked about that yesterday too. He has been talking to GGG for six months now urging them not to give out any early access. Since he is one of the people who will benefit the most for actually getting early access, he hoped his opinions had some weight. He said he still remembers the time before data mining where PoE said there were 7 new uniques, and people had to find them. Explore and try to find things. Using the latest D4 expansion as an example as there were already optimal "this is the best build and here is the math to prove it" before it released. That's no fun (for a first run).

I am really looking forwards to it.

Also wondering about his interview today with (Jonathan?). He plans to question them about acendencies being permanent picks and their reasoning behind it, and if there is no way to respec. He feels those choices are made way too early to be permanent. It doesn't feel right to him, especially considering they made it much easier to respec regular non acendency points. Hopefully there is a plan behind that.
 
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TinMan

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FYI, you can claim your key directly on the POE website if you're eligible, just go to your account and look for the "Path of Exile 2 Early Access" link. Can't wait!
 
Kirun

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Palum said:
So I'm still not clear, what does the actual class get you aside from the ascendancy and starting stuff like gear/stats/location on passive tree?
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Basically just your starting location on the tree and potential ascendancies.

And even then, most ascendancies are somewhat "generic" or have "generic" type nodes in them. I have no idea why people keep clinging to this whole "class" idea, given what we know so far and ESPECIALLY with how PoE 1 turned out.

Classes just aren't really a thing like they are in many ARPGs. Create your own, basically.
 
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TJT

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The rapid creation of third party tools for this is incredible in its own way.
 
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