Cleared act1, surprised the servers aren't shitting themselves. Boss fights are definitely really cool and quite challenging. Really liking the new skill gem systems, feels good to just find a generic gem and cut it into whatever skill you want, don't have to remember which quest unlocks what gems and buy them in advance, don't have to put them in offset weapons to level them either, just feels good to use. And you can use way more skills that you would in early poe1 too.
Playing summoner witch, so far the summons are pretty meh but that's also how they are in poe1 early on, not sure it's gonna pick up though. The autoresummon thing is weird, it's a nice qol for running around against trash but on boss fights it's a bit of a problem since you often end up with no/few summons up, so your damage just goes to shit. The summons also seem very balanced around their active and their personnal damage seems pretty low(but it is early and I didn't really check every support setup, I have faster attacks and additional poison on the archers but they don't seem to do all that much).
I went with the early dmg nodes into the nearby minion life area but they still pretty much explode on bosses too so that feels like kind of a waste(the nodes have minion revive speed though so that's good). Unlocked zombies but without a way to generate corpses it's pretty useless a lot of the time.
Been supplementing the damage with Essence Drain.