I havent bothered to keep up with the details of PoE2, but the end game looks like a complete cluster **** of tedious bullshit. The citadel (or whatever the towers are called) shit looks like they took the delve bossing and put it into the mainstream end game. That's entirely unfun.

I mean the mechanic of losing a full level of experience that can take days to get in a couple of deaths is just crazy stupid. I won't even bother with it if they don't change that.

the XP loss isn't going to change and it's not that punishing until mid 90's. Well in POE2 right now I died once going from level 93-94 and it's kind of like dying at level 99 in POE1. But I'm going to try and buy all of the xp gain tablets that I can find on the market and that will make leveling up a lot faster and try to get mechanics like breach in there with it. I could also change the passive tree around. There's ways around it all I'm saying to make it less punishing but you need to not die once you hit the mid 90's or you won't level up. And if you are you simply need improvements.

my main gripes are where the **** is the waypoint (map) tab and console doesn't have access to loot filters yet, which makes it painful. But I am enjoying it, whenever they start up a league and add a new mechanic to it it's going to be awesome.

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LMAO

My first mmorpg was daoc. Dark age of Camelot.
Pre add-ons and websites dedicated to games.

Deaths took you back.

Luke wowhardcore realms now. Death is permanent.

I've been there too but in video games it isn't real life and that is the entire point. A game isn't a job, it's fun time and that is not fun time. We have hardcore modes for that even today, not my thing.

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Economy reset incoming but not yet. Also looks like Console players will get Loot filters soon.

the loot filters are the only thing holding me back from playing more, I can't stand more than an hour of mapping at a time because of this. And forget about doing breach or anything. So ready for that.

Sounds like my build is not getting nerfed either so I'm ready to invest more into my character which is already good but could be better. Just bought a nice 12 div wand that added 12K tooltip damage on my spark. the +5 levels on it gave me an extra projectile which is big.

Sounds like a reset is coming, I wonder if they will let us keep the old realm going though?

A new league is coming, which would be a fresh start with a new mechanic/usually crafting method or power creep thing, but you'll keep these current characters in the early access realm I guess.

There should also be a new POE1 league too. I might skip it all for Civ 7 but I dunno, there's a good chance Civ 7 will be trash since it's a western AAA game.

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I'm still enjoying it.

But it really needs some new shit in the end game. The only thing I find that's actually worth farming is ritual, made hundreds of divs doing that. It needs more though, something new and interesting.

I moved back to Diablo 4 since probably gonna reset and lose everything in early access. I like that you can Beta test but in this kind of game not for me. I typically play eternal realm anyway as I hate resetting back to zero on everything.

I'm the total opposite, I love starting over with a fresh character/economy. Seems like POE2 is going to be a little stale for a while, the devs aren't trying to put in new content just yet.

You would love Roguelike/Lites then. I would rather keep the stuff I spent hours grinding in ARPGS.

the only rogue like I've played is Hades and loved it.

Which is amazing, because according to that latest video posted, GGG is also not planning to release a content patch for PoE1 until PoE2 gets a content patch. What a ****ing joke. How do they not have 2 teams working on these games, since PoE1 was still supposed to be supported because its the only actual full release they have? Settlers league is aptly named though. Going to have to settle for it being the last league of PoE1 apparently.

Broken promises, they moved on to their new toy. Personally I would have been happy if they just greatly improved the graphics/gameplay from POE1.

Yeah tbh just update POE1 please. POE2 is still years out clearly.

I've had my individually priced public tab named Elon's map the entire time so whenever anyone buys anything it says "I'd like to buy your xxxx from stash tab Elon's map for whatever price"

only 1 person has noticed and laughed at it though

I'm level 90 and xp loss is pretty insane right now in POE2, you lose a full bar which takes a while to get.

yes, you really just have to not die. There's an omen of ameliation or called something like that, it prevents 75% of xp loss and costs about 100 exalts on the currency exchange. It definitely helps if you are dying every once in a while.

If I had about 50 or so divine orbs I could get better equipment and not die but ya....lolz not happening.

Not sure how farming in PoE2 is, but this is one of the big reasons I love PoE1. There are so many different farm strategies and each one of them can get you at least a handful of divines an hour. So even if you are only playing an hour or so a day, in about a week you have a pretty damn good character. Unless your build uses some unique item that breaks the game and skyrockets in price, you have to actively try to avoid currency strats to not get what you need.

If only POE had better graphics or they cared to update it then that would be great. It seems like POE2 is their new baby and the old one will get way less attention though. I did manage to get some upgrades on my toon for about 15 Divines, but I wish I could do different builds the cookie cutter Spark sorc is kinda meh now.

My optimistic hope is before they alienate their player base and kill the game, they finally get a second team and Mark heads PoE2 and Chris heads PoE1, or vice versa. Chris stepped back and became just CEO right when his vision of the game (PoE2) was just about to beta release... that's kind of weird to me. So I'm hoping he is/was burnt out and needed an extended vacation and comes back before his game implodes.

The legacy of Phrecia event looks cool, can't decide what build to play though.

The clear choice is manaforged arrow but I might actually try the stupid spider build

I'm spamming endless heist for the first day of the event. Hopefully I can find some good Replicas or hopefully a Simplex Amulet to get some divines and work towards mageblood. I'm gonna play a non-meta build and hopefully my gear will be cheap.

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Huntress looks pretty amazing

Looks pretty good, would have liked a brand new end game thing that I haven't seen before but oh well. Will play it, the ascendency with the extra ring looks cool

Is it getting Poe1'd yet?

seems like they want to bring over the mechanics from POE1 ya, but with some changes. If that's what you mean. The rogue exile thing looks cool in theory but I doubt there will ever be anything valuable equipped on them. This patch looks cool though, I watched the whole video.

Seems like they're seeking to really juice up the endgame with lots of variety, it's early access and I'm sure POE started off in a similar spot.

ya it's going to take some time. This looks like a good patch though and I will be definitely starting up a new character and a fresh economy is always appealing. I should probably practice going through the story tbh, it took me longer than I'd like to admit the first time around.

Doing a huntress right now, this level up is going a lot better than my first playthrough (I only ever do 1 build per league and make it as good as possible).

Gonna end up doing crossbows because they got a big buff and amazon looks cool for crit and it's new.

RIP my archmage build lol, they completely gutted that thing but it was OP

They gutted every good build and are forcing everyone to change it up, I'm not sure if I wanna play until 1.0 hits though. Still stuck on The First Descendant for the time being.

Everyone about to riot about the new patch, I'm going to wait for Last Epoch's huge update launch in less than 2 weeks. I'll come back to this hopefully in 1.0 once they actually make it fun to play(hopefully).

3.26 out in June... allegedly, until they delay it again because PoE2 just isnt a fun game and for whatever reason they act like its a full release and make it priority.

POE 1 is old hat to them, they want some of that big $$$


NOW mostly negative on Steam

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LMAO the description on Steam now says Souls like Category

ya that interview was a disaster lol

We need Chris Wilson back, Jonathon doesn't have the vision.

Mark seems passionate about PoE1. Just need Mark and Jonathan to split. Then Mark can get a team together to dev PoE1 and Jonathan can bask in the mostly negative feedback of his vision.

ya Mark seems solid and he should do that. I don't want POE1 to die, I'd rather play new POE1 leagues than POE2 tbh.

You need a PC bro, so you can play some Last Epoch. ;)

I know, I would try that if it came to PS5.

I have a really hard time getting into anything new these days though. Maybe I'm a creature of habit now with games

Fair enough, you would be wise to head back to POE1 then until this mess gets rightly sorted. It's just not even fun now, especially slogging back through the campaign so slowly.

once you get over the hump it's more enjoyable for me. Today's patch is a step in the right direction. I'm going pretty slow but my gas arrow build is starting to pop off. I thought about playing some standard in POE1 but nah lol

They still went the wrong way bigly, I'll wait and hope they lose the Souls like crap otherwise it's just a waste of life for me.

im having fun this season with both of the builds im trying so far - lightning javazon and lich witch

Went from over 300k a couple of days ago down to 105k last I looked. Also I hear Chinese bots take up about 50-75k of the population on pc anyway

I don't know if it's the same for POE2 but in POE1 China's path of exile is a drastically different game and had pay to win stuff in it. Like pets that auto pick up loot for you, an auction house and other stuff that made US players jealous lol.

But ya, there are a crazy amount of bots still. If you price something valuable too cheap you get spammed by those bots.

Unfortunately, there is nothing to head back to PoE1 for. The Phrecia event is ending in a couple weeks and with a lack of atlas tree you wont get any progression done because it takes a lot of currency to set up even a basic idol farm and you probably cant find enough idols on the market to even do it at this point.

There might be some Phrecia private leagues popping up with the traditional atlas tree, but... meh. Building up Kingsmarch again after its been out for 9 months now just does not sound appealing. I didn't even bother with mappers in Phrecia. I pretty much just got the recombinator up and running and sent out 1 ship shipments with 2-3 ore fishing for gems/tattoos and even that got old after a while because of how frequently you lose a ship, it's actually ****ing stupid how often that happened.

That's enough to make me jealous lolz, I like QOL stuff which is one major reason I'm looking forward to LE season 2.

only about level 83 on my amazon and just dropped the gas arrow build and converted to the lightning spear on a budget and yup that feels so much better lol

imagine when I get good gear. Gas arrow was really nice for leveling though but awful clear later on. LS just clears the screen

Last Epoch tomorrow.

I sure hope they don't screw this up, they better have the servers ready as the 1.0 launch was horrid as far as stability.