Path of Exile

Fogel said:

Gem tab would be pretty pointless now that we can buy almost all of them. I'd go with map tab just for the sort feature. Fuck looking for maps.

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Gems would be useless atm but I mentionned that it'd be only useful if they added some gem customization. Like a new type of currency that lets you roll special mods on gems(like +aoe, reduced cast speed, lower mana cost, gain xp faster etc). Then you have a bunch of gems with a bunch of mods and you might want to keep them for certain situations.

Map seemed more likely though and is apparently already in the files so yeah. If they remake some of the endgame mechanic it might also prove more useful than currently where just dropping everything in one normal tab and then using search works pretty well anyway.

They could with some sort of expandable UI rather than the current static one. Select a tier, select a map, it opens a small tash tab of x slot with your maps in there. Go back and select another tier/map and it opens another small tab. The total amount of slots is limited to Y which you can see at the top. Can still sort by white/blue/yellow and do the usual search, just instead of being displayed as one large block with all your maps, it's a neat interactive tab thing. Not sure if it's possible with the tech though.

Alternatively as I mentionned last page, the map changes in that expansion could make the difference. For example, they could remove map crafting on the map themselves, and instead have the map mods work like Zana mods where you just drop a map in the thing, click some mods and roll it like that. Like instead of the random system we have currently we'd have a controlled system where you pay x currency to get y effects of your choice, with some drawbacks and the corresponding amount of rarity/quantity for that mod. The small effects would be worth a transmute or an alt, the stronger an alch or a chaos, then the zana map mods would be added to that at their normal prices. This way a map stash makes perfect sense since all maps are white.

They might have a completely different plan too I don't know but that's just 2 ways a map stash would potentially work.

These new uniques look pretty meh. The summoner helm especially looks like something you'd only wear from 34 to ~65, which is super limited even for a leveling unique. Would have been better if it was lower level, even if it had shittier stats.

Fogel said:

The only unique that looks like more than leveling trash is the +2 shield with the ability to have some empower/aura shenanigans going on. Level 28-30 aura would be pretty sweet though.

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Yeah that shield looks strong and you get free freeze immunity and some weird cold damage absorb which doesn't really hurt. Rest kinda looks like whatever, although maybe the boots will find use in some extreme glass canon lightning build or whatever. Someone posted a unique teaser on reddit that they made and it was also lightning based(can't be shocked and mobs that are shocked explode dealing x% of their health mechanic and some other shit) so there might be some super fast clearing lightning build coming next season which could make the boots good.

Body swap as a movement skill sounds meh too. Like assuming it works by swapping an enemy, it'd make it useless unless there's enemies on your screen, and generally when you want to be able to use a movement skill to move between packs, not just during fights(plus during fights it has limited uses since it can't be targetted freely). Might use different mechanics though so we'll see.