[ExileCon 2023] Path of Exile 2 Gameplay Walkthrough 3

[@zackanderson8126]

they have come up with so many creative solutions to tons of concerns and problems they and players have had over the years. amazing work!

[@johnb8132]

0:48 PoE 2's new classes on each attribute combination 1:16 BIG MONKE appears (Silverback Blackfist) and over 100 bosses in PoE 2 because each area has a boss 1:51 Melee and Mobility 2:53 Killing Palm skill and culling enemies, gaining a power charge 3:23 Skill locking on cullable enemies, and skill has a pathfinding 3:42 Falling Thunder skill 4:16 Redirecting a target 4:30 Whirling Assault skill, allows you to spin to a direction while hitting monster 5:02 Vaal Mechinarium 5:09 IT'S ALVA! 5:17 Feature to summon NPCs on a certain location to help with quests and more information 5:47 Wind Blast, knockbacks enemies 6:54 Glacial Cascade 7:43 in PoE 2 each character has a dodge roll by using spacebar, it has pathfinding, no cd, melee and projectiles will always miss. 8:37 Wave of Frost is a new skill for Monk that has a built in retreat 9:00 Shattering Palm for extra freeze 9:37 Flicker Strike 10:27 Blackjaw, The Remnant. An optional boss 10:37 Freeze and other CC explanation, and in PoE 2 it allows you to freeze or stun bosses with internal meters. 13:03 Consumable quest item in PoE 2 gives your character permanent buffs, making exploration rewarding 15:02 Sorceress gameplay starts 16:10 Spark skill with pierce support 16:29 Ice Nova skill 16:46 Arctic Armour revamped 17:13 to 17:46 Mana Reservation, Aura skills, Minions reservation, and new mechanic: Spirit 17:54 Frost Bomb 18:06 Comet, a cold based, channelling skill calls down a cold meteor that deals massive damage in a targeted area. 18:40 Caster weapons redesigned, each caster weapon now has a free-to-cast skill and attack mods are no longer in caster weapons. 19:15 Unleash, next skill gets triple cast 19:49 Mana Tempest 20:38 Combos (Frost Bomb -> Mana Tempest -> Unleash -> Comet) 21:06 Uncut Skill gems, allows you to choose a skill gem. 21:40 Cast on shock and trigger gem explanation, counter in the top left via percentage. 23:10 Weapon Swap revamped system, unholstered weapon will now be automatically used on a specific active skill gem by checking either both weapon set, or a specific one. 24:32 Passive skill tree being reactive on your chosen weapon set. 25:44 Barrier Invocation, a meta skill gem 27:00 THICC SNAKE BOI boss fight (Zicoatl) From what I've learned: Monk - sounds like an Ice skill heavy character, and has a lot of mobility skills, uses power charges. Ice skills might be a specific tag. Unsure if it was intended to be called like it is but it still goes under cold damage. Not sure if there will be specific ice skill tags modifiers in the future. It look sick!

[@NoulisVraxati]

im confused will the classes of PoE 1 will still be playable in PoE 2? i really want to continue playing necromancer.

[@popadopalis4480]

​@NoulisVraxati yes, they're simply adding the classes corresponding with each attribute. So monk+shadow, necro+sorceress. The same or similar ascendencjes wil exist with the 36 new ones

[@johnb8132]

​@@NoulisVraxati Unsure, but the Trailer 3 shows the available classes, not sure if they'll change any Ascendancies on the older classes. Pretty sure Necromancer would still be available for Witch, along with a few redesigns to it along the way. I assume they didn't include all of the classes in PoE 1 to give space for the newer classes, and possibly the interaction with the environment and NPCs would've been a lot more because they have to do a lot of voice lines. Don't take my word, I might be wrong for it, since we haven't heard anything if they were going to include them, but to me, I doubt they're going to include them. Scion is the only one missing anyways. Duelist, Shadow, Ranger, Witch, Templar, Marauder are still there. EDIT: NEVERMIND MARAUDER IS STILL THERE.

[@4ndyLA]

you are the hero we needed

[@johnb8132]

Only Scion is left out. I mean the class was very controversial anyway, in terms of power. They usually end up having expensive builds most of the time.

[@brandonjohnson9876]

My goodness that weapon swap feature is very nice!

[@sharpazn]

the automatic weapon swap thing is AMAZING

[@MrSfxer]

Yeah they copied that from Diablo 4 Barbarian Arsenal system. It's rather nice on the Barb.

[@gok408]

who care:)))

[@recaster1165]

@@gok408 apparently you do since you commented.

[@madsealion3863]

​@@MrSfxeri mean, why assume it is a copy and not just a coincidence?

[@idrinktapwater6174]

@@MrSfxer Lol seethe more D4 noob

[@VexWerewolf]

I love how in the previous teaser trailers people had all sorts of concerns over the new skills and animations and this gameplay demo addressed every single one of them

[@Pogey_Bait]

Blizzard devs see chalk boards full of theoretical physics equations looking at this. I bet resistances work too !

[@Atixtasy]

lol because theyre all a bunch of fresh out of college idiots with no true idea about what is FUN!!

[@yeahright420]

Yeah so do you.

[@heavytrix9998]

This looks insane, I cant wait! Everything demonstrated looks so good

[@lendial]

poe was never about graphics but theyve made the game looks so beautiful. the shine on wet surfaces as your character moves around, the shadows created from ice chunks and the details on the enviromental objects.

[@igorthelight]

Newcomers would came for graphics but will stay for gameplay ;-)

[@LaigledeMeaux]

Animation canceling on the dodge roll is SICK. This kind of thing always makes games feel incredibly responsive.

[@Voroniirijeglaz]

Its stupid, when in endgame cast speed is fast, and already we have better movement skills, just need to add evasion frame rate like in dark souls

[@Metzlii]

@@Voroniirijeglaz Ah, you somehow know how endgame feels to play in this game already?

[@MATCHLESS789]

Incredibly responsive, but makes your decisions not matter because you can always back out. Gimme 3 seconds long cast time nuke which I can't cancel out of. Now that's satisfying.

[@Metzlii]

@@MATCHLESS789 Canceling does also cancel the cast though. It's still a decision to make, and a reaction you have to be good enough to do.

[@LaigledeMeaux]

@@Metzlii agreed, the decision is still there and it is important, but you don't get super punished from being locked in a long cast time.

[@steel5897]

The uncut gems thing is amazing, I have to give massive props to that. It's such a nice middle design ground between ruthless and standard way of doing skill gems, you get the excitement of dropping gems while playing the game but you still get the choice of what skills to get, just not from a boring shop. Very good. And even more props to balancing stronger skills around longer animation cast times and recovery, instead of annoying cooldowns. That is very very big brained and people who think the game is "slow" are not getting it yet. A break from all the bloat and speed creep in PoE1 will be great, I could never get into PoE as much as I wanted due to the bloat and obtuseness of how the game is designed in a lot of ways, I love the decision to separate the two and starting fresh instead of an expansion.

[@Bolaway]

Yeah, but you guys didn't realize the time spend for killing a mini boss in the beginning for 0 drops. In few words, They will decrease the drop rate for sure.

[@SonKev1]

@@Bolaway Itll be different in end game obviously

[@theunfazed7109]

It's going to be the exact same with poe2 as far as bloat, rest assured

[@f0kes32]

Someone's at GGG got a great passion for VFX, and I love it.

[@ManoImp]

Insane and beautiful! Can't wait to play it!

[@nutrino75]

well u can wait a couple of years.

[@ebon227]

release probably in 2025, closed beta (low chance to test) summer 2024

[@killswitchgaming1516]

2026 🙂

[@ebon227]

@@killswitchgaming1516 may be. On first exilecon they shown they are going to release PoE 2 after 3.12, then, after some time, in one of league reveals Chris said they are going to release it before D4. Now faar after D4 (~2 years later) so how can we trust this clown show?

[@naweedock]

​@@ebon227and as we've recently seen d4 should've been postponed, so what if Poe couldn't release before a rushed game? In other words d4's the true clownshow

[@DrinkingWhiskey]

I'm gonna watch this video on repeat instead of playing any more Diablo 4

[@n0b0dy_know]

same

[@ricekick]

The little effects happening on screen, i love it. I can actually see whats happening.

[@N5O1]

this is a demo, in game everything will be the same as it is

[@nickepvik]

This honestly is amazing! Can't believe how good it looks with so many new smart ways to solve "problems". Looking forward to playing PoE 2, but in the meantime new Poe leagues will do just fine :)

[@noordstradamus]

Who can compete with this! Damn good!

[@zafit02]

This looks like d2 act 3 kurast but improved with much more monsters, missions, etc . What all Diablo fans wanted looks AMAZING

[@sleepylion9788]

Players: How many classes can we have? D4: We can only have 5 classes with a fixed skill tree for each. POE2: Yes

[@BossBelsham]

The closest title we have to D2. The combat looks glorious.

[@descriptiondescriptiondescript]

This

[@WitherAndrot]

So poe1 is not better than d2? 😅

[@ganjatrooper7193]

@@WitherAndrot Story-wise (no) pace-wise (no) new player friendly (no) these two games are very different cause you know...one came out years ago D2(2000) the other POE (2013).

[@simonhansen8113]

Huh?

[@WitherAndrot]

@@ganjatrooper7193 I started Diablo 2 four times and dropped it every single time because it's boring as hell. To claim that Diablo 2 is better than Poe 1 you have to be on heavy drugs.

[@adzer0_0]

This is awesome! Some really good mechanics and thinking here, especially love swapping the weapons and passive points, such a great idea!

[@Tackitt]

everything about this looks incredible

[@JC-kl3uc]

I like how so many skills seem to be designed to work in synergy with others to get the most out of them to avoid players spamming just one skill.

[@CapoFisk]

Ah, the Diablo 4 we need.

[@juveboy01033]

Poor man's diablo

[@descriptiondescriptiondescript]

still at least a year away from release but this game looks amazing already 😮😮So many cool mechanics

[@matheusguerrascheffer6518]

more like a year and a half, since the beta is going to be june next year...

[@ovidiudiumea4012]

Never really got into PoE 1 but this one looks really amazing so far. The weapon swap part is quite brilliant.

[@killerv135]

Play on hardcore it was the only way i could play it.

[@Pichupintos]

The final ACT boss design is so cool! Super excited about PoE 2!!! Already looks incredible and it seems to build upon PoE in all the right places!

[@rubisco5997]

I don't think they have shown a single "act boss" yet

[@phinguyen6399]

No just bosses from acts. They said act bosses will be much cooler, have more phases and dialogues

[@dennisole457]

Questioning why I bought diablo 4 currently 🤣🤣

[@usercvor]

same

[@Djaym0]

this game is still a long ways away. its ok to play other ARPGs.

[@dennisole457]

@Djaym0 oh I totally understand, but with baldurs gate 3 coming out and then possibly starfield, I will have plenty of time taken up by them as I just got into the arpg genre with diablo.

[@minitelevision]

I got fucked by blizzard again

[@Sloth-ZA]

poe2 is a year away to be fair. at least you have season if the malignant.... LOL D4 bad baseg

[@NicolasSilvaVasault]

10:40 thank you !! this is huge, it was really annoying to build a character just to end up realizing you can encounter so many enemies that are immune to what you built

[@arintazerri]

Is this a thing in poe 1?

[@NicolasSilvaVasault]

@@arintazerri enemies that are immune to the element you're using, yeah and is pretty damn common, or bosses that are stupidly resistant to

[@tNuOcCaFrUmS]

@@NicolasSilvaVasault heavily resistant, yes. immune, no. edit: well yes its possible in expedition, but you have control over the modifiers... so just dont roll it.

[@troublednamed8054]

​@arintazerri that's poe2 showcase, yet to be released

[@copm4260]

@@NicolasSilvaVasault that was patched out, it was problem about 2 leagues ago when arch nemesis was overtuned but in sanctum they greatly improved it. i play mostly dot build so dps is almost entirely based around nothing but resistances, and i havent had a problem since. i do know that there is a slight issue when it comes to attack based builds and the expedition mechanic, but that not because of res but due to the high base block on many of the mobs in that mechanic. the best work around for that though is overwhelm damage or bleed if your melee and if you bow/wander your kinda just got get one hit in and explosions will normally handle the rest.

[@MichaelBranch-km4rh]

Absolutely incredible! Thank you so much GGG for your hard work and innovation!

[@adzer0_0]

That boss fight at the end is so sick! PoE has always had the coolest bosses and fights/mechanics out of any ARPG

[@DouglasRivitti]

That boss is scary a lot LOL

absolutely amazing. love the player agency. seems so much more skill based than D4.

[@SidneyPearls]

I’ve been hardcore grinding D4 but this is incredible, I wish it came out sooner so I can play this instead 😂

[@GlazeonthewickeR]

We all do mate

[@aalexi11]

D4 is so damn underwhelming, can't wait for this

[@lunchbox4415]

you have to be seriously mentally ill do think d4 is anything more than a 4/10 game, seek help

[@ryanwall1470]

It looks like what I wanted D4 to be

[@Sithalos]

Ah, a real ARPG. Very refreshing, after dealing with...whatever the fuck D4 is.

[@ArthurMorgan-hg4xp]

Cry more

[@jWeslo]

​@@ArthurMorgan-hg4xpseethe more 😂😂😂😂

[@nmelol]

D4 feels like mix between D3 and WoW.

[@kivie13]

@@nmelol I haven't played D4 and have no intention after watching some streams. After seeing the extraordinarily bland color pallet of D4 and the really boring looking game play I think if they just did it or had a mod to make the game black and white it would actually be an improvement and make it look far more interesting than it does now.

[@nmelol]

@@kivie13 I did and I put game on shelf already. Way too many underlying issues. Static maps, static difficulty with level scaling, boring itemization based on legendary powers, clunky combat based on cooldowns or generator-spender system. Campaign is painful to repeat with forced dialogues and cutscenes all day long. One big map instead of acts. From design point of view one large map instead of acts resulted in very boring world that has no real diversity in terms of theme. Plus many more. Will try in like year or so again.

[@TalkativeTri]

I am in absolute shock of this announcement. Truly, gathering my thoughts right now.

[@corvo_corax]

They are creating a perfect ARPG ecosystem. Just 1 more year away......

[@MrRavager420]

@@corvo_corax just 1 year, for closed beta. then open beta. its going to be like 2 years

[@Yamifira]

@@MrRavager420 worth it atleast they take their time to get it right and not make a cheap chinese copy of their own game filled with chinese malware

[@SABER_Knight-King]

The ability to swap both weapons & passives when you are using specific skills is fcking awesome! also I loved the staff that give you the ability to triple cast a spell & that meteor skill looks sick! also I loved the visuals & monster design, all in all very excited for this! if there is a small minus in my eyes that would be "death animations" I would like to see better death animations for all monsters & also bosses, since the game won't be released for at least a year still you have time to work on this. Keep up the good work I can't wait to try this! 😍😍😍

[@wpb5876]

This looks incredible. I tried PoE but life happened and I didn’t get a chance to explore it more - PoE2 looks phenomenal and the timing is perfect

[@morbid1.]

this looks good... I hope there will be more reaction from enemies to hits and kills. Ragdolls, corpses flying from explosion, decapitations etc to sell power of the skills

[@R4ZORLIGHT]

+1, thats THE feature i would want for that game. Even D4 has baked in death animations :(

[@R4ZORLIGHT]

@loveyourself3246 no tell me, why do proper physics cheapen the game... I am very curious about your answer.

[@JdotCarver]

This. Diablo IIIs combat felt super fun because of ragdolls. Being able to comet blast an enemy into the stratosphere is always hilarious.

[@gubzs]

Automatic weapon+talent swapping to cast defensive abilities is gonna be nuts, imagine if you could automatically switch to an armor stacking shield and get 10 more passives of armor before casting molten shell.

[@DevK0z]

I wonder if they'll bring back some of the UI they had in the first preview 2 years ago. Rare enemies used to have yellow teeth outlines inside their names, that were shows as HP ticks. I thought that was a nice tough. Also portraits returning for dialogue would be nice.

[@Metzlii]

All of this looks awesome. I am already dreading how much time I am going to be spending in PoB lol.

[@sirtopnotch1738]

And I'm dreading the amount of work the PoB devs have ahead of them xD

[@Solidrum]

Holy crap everything I've seen from these vids for PoE2 look amazing. Can not wait.

[@fishswat1]

This looks amazing! Looks like a HUGE step up from the original POE. Can't wait! With the increased mobility, any chance that we'll have the option to use WASD keys for movement control, and rebind the other abilities?

[@steelgoofy2816]

Nice and clean gameplay, beautiful graphics. No bullshit numbers and texts popping up, no cutscenes breaking the flow of the game (looking at you D4)

[@five2112]

Never got into PoE but this has me very interested. it shows actual innovations and clearly thought-out mechanics with the skills and systems.

[@pockystyx4087]

Most excited I've been for an arpg in a while.

[@Slicky1988]

amazing work ! i hope many poeple from diablo 4 will try this game out its awsome !

[@TheKakazoo]

So now I have to allocate the tree twice!? Fuck me the build guides will be unreadeble. Love it.

[@mash3814]

So, with this new passive system, i can use the AoE part of the tree without compromising my single target? Neat. Also, noticed they are pushing the "multiple active skills" playstyle as a viable option, but i still can't see how a single strong active skill won't out damage it. especially with cooldowns not being a thing. None the less, the gameplay looks clean. Very much excited to play this.

[@Tehwhitekity]

Remember that each skill gets it's own set of support links now, so it's not a tradeoff between "single highly-suppoted, high damage skill" and "multiple active skills", but "single, high damage skill" vs "multiple high damage skills, with combo effects"

[@anhiirr]

@@Tehwhitekity exactly and Durational buff/proc based implementation/stacking/chaining so on with uniques/ascendencies ofc. I mean i was an avid USER of orb of storms...and it only got better/clearing/utility etc...or using brands for the same/concept applying buff/debuff/shock etc...for dot builds too or on hit/crit. Seeing that POE2 will be more fluid/oriented towards this combat/playstyle has me HYPED that potentially trash mobs will be easy/clears just like in poe/orb of storms etc....and the ELITES/bosses will be more worthwhile encounters. As well as how these skills/utility potential crosses over into HC/viability and the various/high value combinations/gem links that will be essentially on the A+ to S+ tier list of mandatory/mitigation/debuff links. Vortex an other Clear skill/1 link that has its value...or vall coldsnap. ETC honestly if POE 2 Goes deeper into this aspect of utility/flexibility it can be very "build enabling" in non HC as well. and add a lot of caveats of fun to builds/party play.

[@VonDelacroix]

also, if they really want to push multiple active skills, they can add immunities. Hope they don't, but it's an option.

[@aliaksandrzmrocny1888]

It's like a perfect marriage between D2 and FromSoftware design, never could've hoped for something like that in the current age.

[@canisinumbra]

What?

[@tanatwat5254]

Insane improvement over POE1 but the thing I want the most is in-game market board

[@im.weasel]

The lighting in this game is beautiful.

[@Gin-mz5wo]

They showed a non-legenary drop from POE2 having a more interesting affix than D4's rarest legendaries. Truely pathetic Blizzard

[@vondano]

GOTY 2024 for sure!!! cant wait to play this!!! Good job GGG!

[@jbshbsskskhbs6713]

This looks really good, PoE always seemed super complex for my casual gaming self but I might have to get into this next version of the game.

[@alrasouli3916]

that attack or cast cancelation when rolling is going to be a GAME CHANGER. Doesn't matter if this game is being released tomorrow or by the time I'm 70, I'm sure no game will have this smooth animations and no game will put this much thoughts and time in this game to change such simple but very impactful things. PLEASE, keep up the good work!

[@williamjohnson5022]

The weapon/skill swap thing looks neat but I'd guess it won't see a ton of use unless there are specific use cases for swapping elements, like say if there's a fire spell that does a lot of extra damage if it hits a shocked/frozen/what ever enemy. Otherwise it seems like you'd still want to be focused on one element so your auto skills are always getting the maximum benefit rather than, as the example content shows, having a triggered cold ability go off when a lightning ability shocks and then either having that skill not benefit from your cold weapon and passives or forcing a weapon swap at a potentially inopportune time. Regardless it looks good, I'm super hyped to give it a try!

[@ravotheone]

I mean, you get skillpoints for each weapon.. So you can go full single target dmg on one and a fast clear on the other weapon. Gotta remember it probably wont be as PoE works now with skills. Will be interesting to see what they do with it tho.

[@williamjohnson5022]

@@ravotheone That's true, I hadn't considered keeping most things the same and then moving AoE nodes out for more damage or crit on single targets.

[@MT-ot5ed]

its so powerful, every build will use it somehow even if only for debuffs, buffs

[@TheMaulam12345]

it just give u more point for something else like curse or shit likie that

[@chupasaurus]

Don't forget that shapeshifting is a thing for every class so that helps it too

[@incordiaq]

this is sooo gooood. fun fact, my name is Octavian and i do manly play casters in all the rpgs, felt good to see the sorc player's name! GG GGG :)

[@camp4life1]

unlimited dodge roll with I frames? is this fun I'm detecting?

[@Scorptice]

I must admit i was an avid critic of GGG ever since 3.17. They have absolutely blown me away with PoE 2. It's amazing in every aspect, the demonstration was top notch and I can't wait for its release. You guys have proven yourselves to be the very best!

[@FallenJustice]

This is what D4 should have been.

[@TheCrimsonElite666]

Can't wait to hoo-mannay as the monk, though I might start with witch since she has the most fun dialogue of the classes in POE 1.

[@MechShark]

It's nice to have a dev that doesn't water down every mechanic "for the average joe".

[@rodneyashley8375]

Bro I’ve never played Poe because I feel like I’m so behind I’m so happy for this game

[@cookie-dq6zj]

Well this looks amazing!The combat is very good as D4s combat,different but both very good,bosses way better than D4s and graphics art very beautiful,I like this style(I like D4s graphics too).But please make the loot feel important because D4s loot sucks in all the ways and half of the joy in these types of games is loot!!🙏

[@BR3NO_Akira]

eu acho os bosses do diablo 4 melhor ainda

[@pigeon7777]

POE's loot is far far worse. Practically every time you drop is utterly worthless and you cant only upgrade by buying items

[@chupasaurus]

@@pigeon7777 D2 says hi, good luck upgrading by shopping after finishing the campaign.

[@huy7402]

@@pigeon7777 That's when the trade comes into action my friend, and that's where PoE fun.

[@darksouldso]

@@pigeon7777 u can also craft items ???

[@Deffine]

Wow, this looks much better than what was streamed and yt already butcher the quality somewhat. Cant wait to play a HIGH FIDELITY POE 2!

[@5686darryl]

the reactive gameplay looks lightyears ahead of poe1 much more dynamic.

[@aschtheconjurer]

The Monk looks like he's going to be my first character pick, watching him fight is like watching SekiroBorne or DMC-lite combat in an ARPG.

[@tjpld]

I need to pre order this!...oh wait

[@ivanshulika5359]

Hah, so much puns about D4 :D Gj, looks great!

[@billkozac7974]

Makes D4 looks like a budget game.

[@consonaadversapars]

This feels more 'Diablo' than both Actizzard's games. I'm gonna only play D2R and PoE2, D3 and D4 were both steps into wrong directions. PoE2 graphics look so great and the monster design is SUPERB!!! I can't stress enough how much I love all the creatures!

[@emarbeats6896]

I will wait as long as it takes. D4 showing what happens when you release an unfinished product

[@anhiirr]

XD i mean as if they care....they knew the "HYPE" was real and literally CASHED in....thats all they did...and all that company/org will ever do. use their brand recognition/marketing DEPT to instill/build hype...and use the rest of their workforce/capital to cash in on said hype....while the rest of the company cosplays as "game developers/designers." From a mgmt standpoint. As if consumers/gamers arent cucked into loot boxes and spending $$$ on free games as it is in this day and age...all bets are off with "expectations" and sentimentality towards "integrity" in this industry. Tencent is this "BIG" GGG isnt....luckily.

[@juniisenpai3777]

I never been excited like this before since I saw the trailer of Lost Ark, waaaaaaay back in 2020. God damn, Im gonna play this till I break my hands HAHAHAHA Awesome

[@HeyLoIo]

these devs are on another level. my god

[@badger297]

The design of all the enemies (especially the bosses) is fucking awesome

[@BeauKnows147]

my brain is so fucking broken after all that holy shit you guys are absolutely killing it. Is it weird that this makes me super fuckin proud to be a POE player? Like this game is so incredible and there really is nothing like it. Bravo GGG, bravo

[@ZeroHayabusa]

I really love the focus on increasing mobility in combat for POE2. The monk class looks very fun. Looking forward to when it eventually comes to PS5.

[@b.janisch4108]

Seeing this makes me realize how lacking D4 is...

[@Erumyr]

Seeing this has no PvP makes it shit

[@dreamsoflorien8237]

LOL OK BUD

[@nnocon]

Totally agree

[@ZarroTsu]

With the addition and focus on much more complicated movement options, does the game finally support WASD controls for movement with the mouse cursor for aiming? Or are we still multi-tasking with one hand?

[@JdotCarver]

For posterity : All characters can swap between click to move and "twin stick" wash movement.

[@decimo3609]

GGG, we understand that You guys are savage when it comes to timing, but D4 community can’t take any more of these hot and cool previews of GOTY ❤️

[@KB-rn3in]

OMG WOW!!! this gonna be sooooo good! the visual effects of skills are damn good.. wow!!!!

[@slvrization]

PoE2 looks like QUADRUPLE A project in comparison to D4.

[@mikelezhnin8601]

I gotta say I love some of the ideas / features here - the spirit stat - extra mobility on the spells - dodge roll - bigger better bosses - cumulative stun/freeze - and ofc separating skill sockets from items I especially love how you can cancel casting via a roll - I remember being unable to play lost ark cuz the casting there felt super stiff and literally stun-locked you in the cast animation

[@comancostin4623]

The closest thing to the REAL Diablo 4 we should have got. It looks glorious!

[@SedrikGSX]

22:31 that has to be on of the coolest animations I've ever seen

[@InkLink]

looks awesome, I just hope it's easier to get into than PoE1. I know that people love the complexity in that game but maybe it could ramp at over time and not throw everything at you at once or something like that. Would really love to play this game without just following a guide lol

[@sammysalgado1475]

Yeah it's scary jumping in and playing hours only to realize your build sucks but poe 2 looks more convenient

[@leo-fg9du]

Yeah I was thinking about it, I have no problem with complex and different kind of mechanics, but easy it out on the beginning and ramp up like you said, make things more complex in the end game

[@BubasparksAB]

To be honest, PoE is not that hard. Do your first 2-3 play throughs following guides, get familiar with main game systems. After that you are ready for experimenting with your own build. The most fun part of PoE is experimenting. You don't even need to aim for late end content, but you always can do it if you feel you can do it.

[@TheVenhammer]

@@BubasparksAB So much this, and watch some Ziggy D guides. He's really good at explanations.

[@frankyfila6578]

​@BubasparksAB how long is 1 play through? 40 hours? Lol so your saying I have to pay 120 hours to understand how to play without a guide.... that's not that complicated? Do you hear yourself? Lol.

[@Enzo-kb4oj]

Uber Uber Pinnacle ARPG game!!! ♥ Cheers all the team for make this game that promises a lot!!!

[@TheFawz]

New classes is wonderful news, but keeping things genderlocked is a giant disappointment. Especially when there's overlap with similar allocation choices on top. What a waste

[@adhabens]

If they will keep the gameplay slow (without creating a freaking ball of light moving in the endgame) I will probably play it.

[@bojan6]

I cant belive this game is free

[@RadiantFluxDecoupled]

Ohhh, I love these changes. :)

[@RelihSchneider]

THIS is the best game of the year!!, I expect a lot from grinding gear games. PLEASE, don't ruin the game with ugly microtransaction skins, make them harmonious, aesthetically appropriate to the game, because in poe 1 everything seems bright and exploding. they look epileptic. my honest comment after playing since 2013 :). i love this game forever

[@steveracer1985]

Amazing, cannot wait to play! June 2024 is very far away still but hope GGG can make it and we can experience this gem! Another king of ARPG games is on the way!

[@DoubleDownAzn]

The death of Diablo is upon us

[@DoctorStrange01]

Yes, millions of players will leave D4 because PoE 2 releases next year.

[@malikaia9652]

Ofc it wont, diablo and poe fill different niches lol.

[@benja9029]

@@DoctorStrange01 nope millions of players will leave before poe2's release cause they can't be bothered to fix resistance hahaha

[@DoctorStrange01]

@@benja9029 I'll copy the comment above you : "Ofc it wont, diablo and poe fill different niches lol." This is why D4 has nothing to do with PoE 2, they're different games for different people. Resistances will be fixed in S2 apparently. If anything, players will leave because of no content if they don't start adding it.

[@moondragon5630]

Now this feels epic, a world full of monsters that can actually stop you. Unlike d4 garbage empty small areas that puts you to sleep.

[@azneric]

This is what Diablo 4 should of did. But they never listen to the community. Glad GGG does the right thing. This game looks so awesome. I am so excited. To play monk and druid.

[@BabaHase59]

this looks amazing, cant wait to play it- Actually looks very satisfying and Fun with Weaponswap and Ability morphing. I'm super hyped😂

[@jpm8288]

The downvotes are from Diablo devs

[@juliangarces2011]

😂

[@Patraquashe]

The weapon swap and skill swap is just amazing. Holy shit guys.