Path of Exile 2

Intrinsic said:

So what’s the crafting loop? Having no PoE1 experience and trying to work through the terminology from the last few pages.

Get White / Blue items that seem a good base for me, use one of the orb things to increase it to Blue and/or Yellow, and another orb thing to add stats to it? I’ve just been vendoring items now for gold. I also need to salvage?

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Gamba

Palum said:

I noticed a lot of people who did ascendancy in act 2 and went glass cannon get fucked immediately.

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I just noticed my lack of defense now at Balbaala (spelling?). Unless she has some fire (she does, and poison) in her base damage. That fight is a clusterfuck of damage. Another rage quit inc.

Intrinsic said:

So what’s the crafting loop? Having no PoE1 experience and trying to work through the terminology from the last few pages.

Get White / Blue items that seem a good base for me, use one of the orb things to increase it to Blue and/or Yellow, and another orb thing to add stats to it? I’ve just been vendoring items now for gold. I also need to salvage?

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Dunno, I'm struggling with act 2 last boss cause he keeps one shotting me at like 20%.

Figured, I'll go farm Dreadnought a bit and see if I can get some items. Yeah, nope...just garbage. I'm leveling like crazy, which I think will make it worse as the boss seems to level with you.

I've seen people say to check vendors, but that shit is awful. It's either super low level (why are act 2 vendors selling lvl 12 shit?), or base item for 2500 gold which is like 10% of what I've got. So I can then use a currency or two on it...and turn it only 1/10 of the currency I used because getting a good stat on it is retarded RNG.

This faggot finally got gud and killed that dog faced sonuvabitch.

Again, GGG personally attacking me at specific time. I walk into this area and immediately freeze and crash to desktop

Intrinsic said:

So what’s the crafting loop? Having no PoE1 experience and trying to work through the terminology from the last few pages.

Get White / Blue items that seem a good base for me, use one of the orb things to increase it to Blue and/or Yellow, and another orb thing to add stats to it? I’ve just been vendoring items now for gold. I also need to salvage?

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anything with a socket should be salvaged at the table to get artificer's shards, 10 of those become artificer's orb and lets you put a socket on stuff
yellows disenchant into regal shards, 10 of those become regal orbs which upgrade blue to yellow.
i just sell blues, but disenchanting them, gives transmutation shards, 10 = orb of transmutation what upgrade white to blue

no idea for every class or what, but should probably upgrade all blues with +all skills, (weapon and neck?) and boots with +move

I do wonder how many people complaining about difficulty aren't using wasd/controller (not melee peeps, rip you assholes)

Weird how I was breezing through A2 and the last zone/boss difficulty ramp up was insane. Went to one tapping packs to having to work hard for them and the last boss of a2 didn't take dick for damage.

Playing Legionairre, my build is all fucked. Thought I would try elemental shit which was working fine until I got there (using poison grenade for break and voltaxic shards) and just wasn't giving me amazing damage anymore so I swapped skills to do high velocity and poison grenade. Looking more around the tree in merc you get a TON of ailments so that's probably what I'll lean into. Maybe a bleed/poison build seems to be something that can be accompolished.

Something weird about phys ailments (bleed/poison) is it says it can only be applied to something that explicityly states it. So unless I find an item, or a node I'm missing, I can only apply bleed with a skill (lacerate) and poison with a skill (envenom), which is different then POE1.

Gonna respec and try out some new things. I think I'll lean into poison grenade for break buildup to build up high velocity, while hitting with lacerate frag rounds. For clear I might try something like envenom on a skill with chain or some nonsense.

Slaanesh69 said:

I just noticed my lack of defense now at Balbaala (spelling?). Unless she has some fire (she does, and poison) in her base damage. That fight is a clusterfuck of damage. Another rage quit inc.

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I had to hit yt for that one. Basically her gimmick is turn invis and you get poisoned until you find her and make her attack you again.

according to this, no +skills on neck, so guess was told wrong, unless new ones show up at 40+

moonarchia said:

I had to hit yt for that one. Basically her gimmick is turn invis and you get poisoned until you find her and make her attack you again.

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figured out the trick after about 5 tries, but get instant gibbed when i reveal her. after about another 5 tries just figured best to walk away and come back later.

Goatface said:

according to this, no +skills on neck, so guess was told wrong, unless new ones show up at 40+
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Those are just the implicit modifiers (always active on that type of item so a Gold Amulet always has increase rarity of items found) The +skill is probably an explicit affix.

Goatface said:

figured out the trick after about 5 tries, but get instant gibbed when i reveal her. after about another 5 tries just figured best to walk away and come back later.

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She drops the quest item for first trial, so you kind of have to beat her. But yes, come back after a level or two and she will be easier.

moonarchia said:

I had to hit yt for that one. Basically her gimmick is turn invis and you get poisoned until you find her and make her attack you again.

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Yeah, I asked in game chat for that particular gimmick.

Loot is such ass lol.

Gambling should be 10x cheaper if they're going to dog fuck you with these drop rates, at least in the campaign.

Make sure to check your vendors. In POE1 they reset every level up/map clear. I'm not sure the mechanic here. I found a boss yellow weapon on one.

Crafting without alts feels shit. But if you were going to craft just keep checking the vendor and buy white weapons and trannie, aug, regal (only if you hit a good stat).

Dunno if they have the vendor recipe from poe1 for weapons is in the game that would be useful.

My thoughts thus far as someone who has limited PoE 1 experience but has played quite a bit these last two days:

1) Hit collision is terrible. It's incredibly frustrating not being able to dodge out of mobs that circle around you or when a boss spawns some and you're placed in a situation that you can't get out of that.
2) Loot rates need a re-work. While the itemization has been really good, there is not enough good upgrades and you often sit with items that are -15 your level because nothing drops.
3) Balance needs work, especially for melee. There are several bosses that are simply more frustrating than fun, which is a shame because some of the bosses are actually really great.
4) Mob density is terrible in some zones which creates a really frustrating experience given how much hp/high damage that some of those mobs have.
5) Waypoint placement needs a complete overhaul. Super large maps are not fun if you're stuck restarting after 30 minutes & 50000 mobs because you died and the last waypoint was at the start of the zone.

I have a feeling more people are going to start hitting the mid/end of act II today and these complaints are likely going to resonate quite a bit.

With that being said, the game has a lot of good too. It's clearly a game made by gamers and the love of the project shows throughout. It's not something I would recommend someone picking up right now though, it needs work.

Yaamean said:

Idk after I put some decent support gems in my 2handed abilities I feel like Im doing decent dmg / stun buildup. Only the side quest boss bitch in the traitor passage in Act two felt kinda cheap and I barely won. Probably easier if I took time to learn her moves but every rolling attack I did she would teleport and I'd whiff completely. Leapslam / rolling attack / infernal cry / totem all go together pretty well most of the time.

I did put the 25% faster support in rolling attack so that helped a bit as well.

Starved for sockets but most of my gear is rare at least aside from rings / amulets. 2 sockets on my weapon and 1 on body armor, thats it. Have also been basically full clearing every zone so probably overleveled a bit. 29.5 going to Denshar when I can log back on.

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This fight is prior to Leap Slam being available. It is barely past where you can get your first lvl 3 gem and even have access to Shockwave Totem. Even if you have all that, though, there is *literally* no downtime from boss attacks to allow an attack. That is just bad design when you are going for this type of punishing game play. And that is even in the first phase of the fight, as it gets more intense the only time you are even able to reliably get close to him is when he rushes in with 5 quick attacks before immediately going into the next attack animation. I actually think the fight has great mechanics, but it is not properly tuned for all classes and their abilities at that point in the game.