IS ACOLYTE WITH A CROSSBOW GOOD? - FROM ZERO TO HERO | PART 1 | PATH OF EXILE 2

[@toshee2791]

Never would have thought Monk and Guns goes well together

[@PBehr]

Poor ECat suffering along with the rest of us. I feel your pain sir!

[@sceletox]

He purs He meows But most importantly, he takes a character from zero to hero. Btw from all the content people posted up until now, yours is by farm the best. Clean, well edited and unique. Keep it going ! And thank you so much. 😊

[@ExiledCat_PoE]

Glad you enjoy it! Thanks for the kind words 😊

[@swervbe]

So good to watch an Exiled Cat video to cure my early PoE2 shock and disappointment (which is only due to starting warrior and slogging through the first dozen levels or so, it's all good now, calm down fanboys). Cool music choice for that first gameplay segment and appreciate the good humour. Great to see you in PoE2 ! (still looking forward to new PoE league in January though)

[@Xeroelo]

GREETINGS EXILE, I'VE BEEN WAITING

[@xenariz]

Build looks nice and was something I wanted to try too! Glad you did it so i can see it in action without having to level another mink :D And hey! At least you didnt get hit with the enormous cast-on-X meta gem nerf!

[@SirJoint]

OMG I have to try this :) Most enjoyable PoE2 video I saw so far

[@ExiledCat_PoE]

@@SirJoint baited:)

[@elementochannel6994]

Another good video as usual! keep going dude!

[@ExiledCat_PoE]

@@elementochannel6994 thanks man)

[@KMGZbis974]

Still haven't finished the campain but damn glad to see a vid of you so on dis game. Sometimes we'll get lucky...surely ?

[@ExiledCat_PoE]

@@KMGZbis974 surely!

[@RageQuitLieut.]

Fellow ranged chonk checking in. I agree that the two flame nodes felt very underwhelming because it is impossible to maintain those buffs while mapping. However I decided to keep them and for my 3rd ascendancy I got the random damage boost node which at level 71 finally felt like my first damage increase from an ascendancy . Once you get some proper movement speed the flames become a very nice quality of life I have to say - there is no need for a mana flask at all (although I'm using a bow instead) and a quick recovery life flask is all you need now and again (T4/5 currently). On boss fights it is much easier to stack purpies to give you a nice damage boost when you need it. IDK, this ascendancy plays pretty much exactly how I expected so far, except for the fact that there simply aren't enough purple flames anywhere near me while mapping. Still though it is quite enjoyable. Seeing other builds struggling for recovery makes me think it's maybe not that bad. That campaign was torture though... Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

[@stakanseme4ek]

I was waiting for so long! Thanks for the video

[@Shazeerh]

I was waiting for you, good video as always !

[@wafflecrunch]

I agree with the map design. It seems like they took the "area is a maze" meta from the really early PoE1 days and made it their design principle for maps...

[@danielpirez381]

I don't mind the direction of making the player be more cautios and strategic about positioning, I'm all for PoE 2 being less "zoomy", but some things need to be adressed to make it more enjoyable. Still, very happy for the state of the game for an EA that has been there for less than a week and the new changes for Checkpoint teleport should fix the experience of mapping a lot.

[@sharppotato1856]

Scuffed might be a understatement

[@Heydad956]

I've been eyeballing Acolyte since they dropped the trees. Didn't expect the play to be guns LOL!

[@ExiledCat_PoE]

@@Heydad956 grenades are strong so they OK for any ascendancy=) Also shockburst rounds is surprisingly a good DPS skill

[@squidwardenjoyer2904]

Finally some good fucking content

[@ExiledCat_PoE]

Thanks!

[@JujakAmanojaku]

Yooo!!! finally, I've been waiting for your video and build..!!

[@ExiledCat_PoE]

It's finally here, enjoy!

[@BloodyN1nja]

NGL I kinda dig the idea of bigger maps than PoE 1. Maybe not as big as PoE2 seems to have em, but still

[@reks890]

Well done cat

[@JaysiiN]

hype zero to hero ! lets go

[@dosquats]

Go cat! Path of exile 2 is here!!!

[@RickBomhof]

7:25 that mini-heart attack

[@iulianwar3229]

Turns out that your build is not only a struggle for you but for your pc as well with all that explodions

[@伝説の]

Dark Path Souls Exile of Diablo

[@johanchaffanjon3237]

We want the video: "My honest opinion about the game !"

[@Antimakker]

See Cat! Watch Cat! Whether it's poe1 or poe2!

[@abbyabby3746]

very heavily agree on the mapping design feeling awful, i don't know why ggg decided to make it like this, i'm playing melee invoker monk and every 2nd map i am battling the terrain way more than the actual monsters, also i think rares and bosses are extremely weak compared to white mobs. Some of the monster types are just absurd and can get on top of you in like 0.2 seconds, so if there's ever a big pack that you don't oneshot you immediately get overwhelmed and either circled, or stunlocked. This feels especially bad in with current league mechanics that we have which spawn a billion monsters right on top of you

[@thekvng201]

Its much better using physical monk gems and spec into poison and chaos. Staggering palm, wind blast, vaulting impact, etc. spec into poison magnitude and extra poison. Felt clunky at first but got better later on.

[@lapaul1668]

100% aggre on the level design issue I play minions and they get stuck in every doorway or every corner, it's so annoying 😭

[@AkDoza]

For grenades base with additional greande is best

[@ProlexyInc]

my body is ready for new era - best content ever!

[@ichiwo1526]

I didn't even know we had divine orbs in poe2 hahah....

[@dungeonkeeper103]

sometime lucky all the time !

[@86lngd25]

and BACK TO ZERO in a day or two

[@MovingTargetOne]

I was thinkin of acolye of chiwowa but with mace and shield

[@TheDeadStyx]

I was wondering how a wasd vs skills would look like

[@ExiledCat_PoE]

With all those "corridor maps", WASD feels good because you have more control for your character

[@TheDeadStyx]

@@ExiledCat_PoE yeah, but I cant seem to find a proper path to map the skills for not to interrupt movement(can, but it will be a whatWasThatButtonAgain). I can remember my bindings from the dark days of archeage, but that was a bad memory.

[@NoCodeWithDavide]

3:04 😂

[@keplerk]

Tbh it resembles quite a bit to Diablo 3.

[@timos9416]

no way!

[@robery4008]

Pog

[@ExiledCat_PoE]

@@robery4008 it's time for a POG in poe 2 :)

[@robery4008]

@@ExiledCat_PoE ^_^

[@milodebruin4821]

Yay cat

[@taneracun862]

btw leech is not working for now

[@ExiledCat_PoE]

@@taneracun862 nice xD

[@faederSSF]

I died at "another useless video titlted 'my honest opinion about poe2''" never change mr exiledcat!

[@ExiledCat_PoE]

=)

[@Realist-Now]

Nice nice. Crossbow more looks like shotgun🤣

[@ExiledCat_PoE]

you're right, they do feel like a shotgun and it's funky

[@Raffinari]

The mana leech nodes for this ascendancy are near useless as mods atm only have phys dam leech and the ascendancy is all about chaos dmg. Darkness is ok for a one shot buffer, but that's it. The entire ascendancy needs to be buffed, because as it is it feels incredilby underwhelming. My opinion is to have the flames spawn more often or allow the buff to be affected by skill duration (though this actually messes up my build as I am a negative skill duration hand of chayula attacker) or at least make it so the stacks don't decay individually. Darkness is interesting but I fail to see how it is optimal in the face of aura and herald options. The damage is miniscule and the recharge rate is silly (10 secs for it to come back, 5 if you take the other node on the path). The damage value is piddly too in the fave of things like the armor implosion node. 3/10 would not reccomend this ascendancy and I will probably make this build on the witch next and use the blackflame ring to do some chaos ignite.

[@ExiledCat_PoE]

Chaos res and additional chaos damage is very very strong. Main issue with an Acolyte is: what to take for 2 last ascendancy points...

[@Raffinari]

​@@ExiledCat_PoE certainly. But the rest of the ascendancy is pitiful. The only nodes you take are basic stat nodes. Not any of the ones that really change gameplay. It's incredibly underwhelming and boring in comparison to other ascendancies.

[@randylopez6814]

muy largo y aburrido es el juego, malas recompensas y ni hablar de l odificil que es conseguir la tercera y cuarta acendencia, en lo personal lso de gg solo quieren que pierdas el tiempo en la historia de 3 dias para completarla y los mapas latgos y aburrido de 20 minutos cada uno, una tortura sin hablar de la dificultad, explosiones que no vez en tus pies y modificadoes en los vichos que son mortales como ultra velocidad de daño y dps cuando tu no tienes movildad ni gemas de movildad, 30 dolares perdidos

[@АлександрВеселков-о2ц]

furst

[@mateusacauhi8357]

The answer is no

[@ExiledCat_PoE]

Keep me in touch bro

[@drumcorpful]

The way he edited the video seems the game is purrrfect, but we all know is dog shit atm

[@ExiledCat_PoE]

@@drumcorpful if you don't like the game don't play it and don't watch the video about bad games, also stop crying about it...or go to reddit when you can cry all day.

[@SpadeApeiron]

Hot Damn Boi You saved my idiot melee mnk from getting deleted because I had Zero Honor in every third-forth room, While my merc cleared ascendancy 600/630 honor. Never did i think to myself Waitttttttt Hold up.. Lets get the monk same dressing code as my merc ;)