They said you cannot change ascendancy classes in an interview I saw today.

best change ever IMO, will make playing sc so much more rewarding and satisfying

get your fireproof chairs ready boys! ahaha you won't be able to play glass cannons anymore, no of course you can, but it will be risky how people will suffer, those who are used to playing poe1m running through the map in 1 minute, they simply won't be able to afford that in this game, also you won't be able to throw your corpses at bosses, re-enter during a boss fight EEEEEEE BOYS!

nobody asked and this is completely unrelated but I reallyyyy hope they walk back the design for shapeshifting that you take exponential ramping damage while in the form, kinda feels DOA to me.. in general to it takes away the class fantasy for me, they should make a keystone or support or something that makes you take ramping damage while in the form but do more damage BUT make it so default this just isnt the case. hope others talk about this as well because shapeshifting is a big deal to me because its something we haven't gotten to experience in poe at all.

So true, right now ppl are all hyped UNTIL the game kills them on ea launch xD

JUST ANNOUNCED: ASCENDANCIES CANNOT BE CHANGED... ooof This means Gemling Legionnaire will be quite weak on a first playthrough unless it gets some good early game nodes.

We just heard on Tri's interview with Jonathan that you cannot curently respec ascendancies. ://

They are trying to make boss killing the most prestige accomplishment. If we want to just blast we can in maps we can. And trade for boss summon materials. Poe1 is no different

No specialized content means RIP Shitstain_steve.

Tbh trying to maximize block, relect resist, element resist, armor, evasion, ES, Life, etc. Was irritating as a blaster. Im glad they've added mechanics that are more skill based. Taking the time to dodge or space makes the game feel more satisfying as a player.

GGG still thinks they can make you grind for 3 months for every patch. That is what they are telling tencent anyway. I wish Jon or Mark would of looked at the big mistake VOH made with 300 paragon points that take forever to grind. Only streamers will do it. Same problem because streamers will be all for these things. The way POE has been going for the last two years has me looking at other games. I don't know if Im going to play Poe2 beta but I will not lie its looks better than what they were going with. I think there are things that are bad that we ain't going to see til week 1. GGG love to ninja nerf even if its to themselves. Can't wait to hate watch.

we can call aggressively anti-consumer and heavily pay to win Diablo Immortal like im all for that We can call companies that are past their prime and seemingly doing everything in their power to kill any goodwill left in the company a Blizzard like company Blizzard doesnt make new games anymore they make "remasters" cause they are creatively bankrupt and milking the last of the goodwill from the customers

I don't think Jonathan has any idea what level of backlash awaits them. So many PoE1 releases were met with a similar hype at first and ended to be a giant disappointed and a dead league after few weeks. People want to enjoy the game, they don't care if GGG's game designers are happy or not.

So map portals mean nothing now? You effectively only get 1, and the only use for additional portals is for parties to enter? I'm.. not thrilled about that. I'm not a fan of extremely harsh punishments for failure, as I typically build skill in new games quite slowly.

I thought that Atlas death mechanic thing was interesting too. But it also made me worried about bad players, wouldn't it be possible for their game to be perma bricked if they manage to die on every node they can access? What steps are being taken to avoid that?

I think when they mean "if you die" it is "if you use all 6 portals"?

Didn’t they mention there is a way to reset it?? That way you won’t brick your Atlas…pretty sure they mentioned it in Ghazzy pod yesterday

yeah it's amazing, players will now have to make their characters in a way that they can survive for the next 20 seconds upon server disconnection that happens once couple minutes cause fuck players who actually want to play softcore instead of semi-hardcore

Going to be so funny to see people lose rare currency or items on death.

Another problem for some builds are ailment immunity

Fun fact, I have no hype none, zero, nothing for Diablo anymore POE2 has brought back my interest in games like this.

Good change

Wouldn't this mean you could literally get stuck if you die in all directions and have to delete your toon?

The operative word for it all to work is fair. One unfair death and people will be tilted.

Yeah, not sure how I feel about the change to how mapping works. We shall see, of course, but I don't love not getting 6 portals.

this mdf doesnt fool anyone.... he wants to make i dont have an slogan his slogan smh.

i did not even think of this, good points. This will impact how i play and what builds i will make.

Damn, we gonna have GTA 6 before the slogan at this rate :(

bro? he forgot DragonSlayer and Hydlide exist before Diablo :3

Longest 2 weeks of my life…

So i am going to play hardcore i guees

Lets see if we will have mana to cast all that

"If you die then the map can no longer be run." this is the worst part of the new endgame for my coop group. this forces the players to be super cautious but not only that. this will be the most annoying part for group play! we had hope that there is a another way to punish reckless players. THIS is just the most annoying way and ruins group play more than PoE 1. :( sorry but this kind of game mechanics are to HC. even for "not casuals". i am super spectical about this. we will see.

Could you softlock yourself if you died in every map?

Fromsoft learned with the Souls series that by reducing the distance from spawn to the boss with each sequel while making bosses more and more challenging, this gives players more chances to quickly fight the boss repeatedly rather than having to do tedious run backs. this seems like a step backwards from what already works

oh god no, scrolls of wisdom still exist

thank you ggg for following diablo-formula several portals were not right

1000+ /deaths Andys in shambles.

this forced hardcore mechanic will be the main reason why the new players they are hoping to attract will drop the game.

It will be interesting to see how the new atlas navigation will work. If atlas will be endless and spreads in all directions, how quickly we will be able to find what we want to run. Let's say, we are far out on one side of the atlas, and on the other, we have saved a boss run, which we want to do now.

I have tried to explain sc players that block, evasion etc is not tankiness...now they will finally find out :D

I actually really like the idea that defenses matter in softcore. I played a little last epoch and having to play well and live through the maps actually made the game feel refreshing.

All rod said is, here at blizzard we are not cable of doing arpgs like this so let's go back to the Diablo like style thanks.

It depends on the difficulty of the bosses. If they're as difficult as Elden Ring bosses, and you can't attempt them 1000 times like I do when I learn bosses (I'm old), then they'll have to change this system because it'll become so frustrating to lose rare encounters with no way to try them over and over. If the bosses are pretty easy and quick to learn, they can probably get away with this punishment on losing. I still think it's an unfortunate choice for slow learners like myself.

Blizzard with a big head as usual. They may have made the ARPG genre mainstream with Diablo, but they were far from the first. Diablo came out in 1997. The genre goes back to the 70's with many earlier games classified as ARPG.

This is not a good change. The slowdown of your grind should be the only downside for losing in softcore. There's a reason hardcore is not as popular as softcore.

Devs said they expect you to die a couple times per boss. So if people are surprised and salty for dying then they are hopeless

How do you know it's healthy for the game when the game isn't even released yet?

I would have made it so if you die, you can re-enter to finish and pick up loot but not to get completion. So any atlas point coming from completing or killing a boss would not be given if you die but you could still learn the mecanics. Because our first breach, delirium or even ritual might be realy deadly, even without any upgrades on the atlas.

One of the biggest things i want to see changed since it seems they kept it from poe1. Bosses having energy shield. They added this in poe1 to punish you for corpse rushing. But now that this isnt a thing, bosses dont need it anymore. PLEASE GGG, Please remove bosses having energy shield in poe2