Path of Exile 2 will Revolutionise ARPGs - The 10 Best Changes

[@Lolcohol]

In case you missed it, I did a video covering some of the crafting changes coming to PoE 2! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGrCZGxnntStjJo

[@hawaiicarl9854]

I found crafting in POE1 insanely expensive for a RNG outcome, absolute waste of time and resources, hope POE2 fixes it

[@joshuahensley9395]

pssshhhh i need this, i definitely haven't watched the reveal 7 or 9 times, the q and a 3 times each, interview twice. Please i have some restraint.

[@Lolcohol]

You and me both :D

[@gasser5001]

Adding PoE2 to my library felt so good. This is probably the most excited I've been for a game since waiting in line for the CoD4 release.

[@imperialsect4257]

POE2 is another Baldur's Gate 3. Once it's released we'll start hearing devs say POE2 is setting unrealistic expectations.

[@13fds]

Although I'm a huge fan of poe and BG3 I have to comment on this that in this case there is some truth to the fact that poe 2 will set some unrealistic expectations. As ggg themselves have said this is not a game built completely from scratch. It was initially supposed to be a big expansion patch for poe 1 that just had enough feature creep to be turned into a separate game. But the fact that it did in fact start with the basis of poe means that they can reuse lots of content from poe 1 that is known to work and appeal to the players. All the end game mechanics are based on poe 1 leagues. Any new game will not have that. Last epoch is a good example. It's a very good game. It appealed to several tens or hundreds of thousands of players, but there was not enough content to make them return. I hope that new arpgs show up with enough appeal to have presence in the genre and that can keep ggg and poe from stagnating by providing active competition

[@reninngun]

​@@13fds I think I am correct in thinking this is almost the same situation as BG3 had at the start. As in the devs had both their Divinity series, BG2 and DnD to use as inspiration and base.

[@airidasmarcinkus6101]

But same could be said about other games, no? D4 for example had D1 2 and 3 to get inspired from. Hell, they even could have taken inspiration from PoE1. Same goes to Last Epoch. And many other games, CoD, BF2042 and etc.

[@royalecrafts6252]

Baldurs gate 2 was better tho, 3 was a good crpg but just a good baldurs gate

[@reninngun]

@@airidasmarcinkus6101 Yup, that is indeed how new great inventions are made. Starts from inspiration.

[@sniprick]

I love the one death limit change on maps. To say "if you want punishment, do hardcore" is equating losing a map to losing an entire character. That's a massive difference.

[@jarlbarack466]

I love that they make it so its only one portal. Better for people to learn how to build defences from the start

[@Lolcohol]

Yeah I actually really like it too. We'll have to see how it plays out and if it chases away too many people, but let's face it: if they made it to maps, they're addicted for life so it'll be okay :D

[@HolyDawntaker]

I thought maps for 6 portals still they showed 6 in the reveal when did it change to one portal

[@Lolcohol]

@@HolyDawntaker The 6 portals allow you to go in and out to loot or for friends to join you :)

[@valjohnson7112]

@@HolyDawntaker6 portals but you can’t use them if you die. They are for dropping off loot or going back to escape. If you die the portals close.

[@pestek6663]

But it's worse for limit testing and knowing what killed you.

[@circaen]

Removing Scouring Orbs is one of the best decisions they have made. It's going to make bases have more value & there will be an end to items before corruption. If they can get people exalt slamming in Act 1 that will have a massive impact on how likely they are to continuing to craft items. By the time they get to end game & find omens they will be much more comfortable. The new Chaos is great too. I really hope they keep the 1 portal per map. It really puts a clamp on degeneracy. You choose the way stone level. If you are dying a bunch you are very likely pushing higher than you ought to be. I've done it plenty but in POE you can Juice your maps higher than you ought to & just lean on portals. I find this kind of icky - and it is something I have done. Dying 5-6 times in a map? Should you really be able to do that & say you have 'completed' it? I disagree with the 'if you want hardcore play hardcore argument' as it is a bit dishonest. Holding people accountable does not have to mean - start an entirely new character. I don't believe new people are going to be the ones crying about this - it will be POE 1 players trying to do what the favorite content creator is doing without understanding what it took to get there.

[@1995Kasimir]

you are a 100% right!

[@nextgen3ric]

I've always played medium core. Making death as meaningless a hurdle as it is in PoE 1 just cuts so much out of character building. If death doesn't matter, defence just doesn't matter in the same way. I'll never play hardcore in an online only game (probably), because I don't trust my choices of ISP to provide a flawless experience. Doesn't mean I don't want my deaths to be an interesting outcome to work around during play.

[@1995Kasimir]

@@nextgen3ric yeah exactly! and when death is meaningless, the whole game gets boring for me quick.

[@themasterofw4295]

I think death should give you the waypoint back maybe but yeah ending the map is fine.

[@i_love_hitagi]

I hated having six chances to complete a maps, often I would roll a difficult map and faceroll in it and die 6 times so lose 60% experience. Or just get onetapped randomly, then needing to walk 2 minutes back to the combat.

[@jlindsay9331]

It’s an overall positive change for sure. Players won’t be able to just stack absurd damage and blast the atlas in a day. It will result in better, more well rounded builds imo. Medium Core ftw.

[@LittleRadicalThinker]

Now you have only one. Good job.

[@ZagarelisOxf]

I remember avoiding crafting until I couldn't find a bow for a good price and ended up sinking all currency into the bow craft following a guide. So I couldn't finish the bow but what I got from it was the knowledge about different crafting methods that made me craft most of my own items every league after. Truly an amazing system!

[@n3cr0s90]

I love the 1 try for a map option, and I don't completely agree with the "if you want to be punished, then play hardcore", because in hardcore the punishment is absolute. Here it isn't, you still have a way to redeem yourself. It gives a game more challenging vibe.

[@n3cr0s90]

Also by a time you get to the Atlas, you're already low tens of hours of gameplay deep. You should know your character by then, you shouldn't be surprised much by new boss or mechanic, and it also teaches people to think about the tradeoff between high blasting and defense. D4 is an easy high blaster game and it gets quite boring after some time because there is not much of a challenge then.

[@TheKobool]

I have only every switched ascendancy once while playing Poe. And i have been playing since 2012. They are probably going to add it sooner or later. Would not be too worried

[@valjohnson7112]

Well in poe1 it’s not a big deal. You can just level up a new character and have him ready for maps in like 5 or 6 hours. Poe2 campaign is supposedly 25+ hours. If you don’t like your ascendancy and decide to switch it’s a very big deal.

[@collapsiblechair9112]

@@valjohnson7112 Apparently it took someone at GGG, forgot who, just five hours to complete the six acts. I'm sure twenty five hours would be for the first run. With experience I would imagine the majority of players will being getting to end game in eight to five hours.

[@johndubois2229]

@@collapsiblechair9112 Yea I agree. I know the people who played at LA made it to act 3 and it was 7-8hrs they had access to the game. I think there will be a big difference in campaign length if you're an experienced PoE1 player and also how hard you're pushing to get to end game.

[@madhatten5123]

@@valjohnson7112I highly doubt if your a long time PoE 1 player the acts will take 25+ hours.

[@Rogerztheurbanlegend]

I am enjoying the fact that there is a 1 death incentive for maps. It is a bit more 'hardcore' than LE's system, where all you do is lose the loot drop at the end. It will either a) incentivize people to learn the game or b) weed out the ones that the game just isn't for. I want GGG to succeed, but I also don't want the game watered down so much that it becomes simplistic; the difficulty and rewarding gameplay loop is the reason I play to begin with. You don't get that in some other ARPGs now. I am concerned with how simplified the crafting looks, but we will see. I like videos like this and although I am going to continue to support POE creators, watch their videos from time to time, etc, I am going to go into POE2 blind. The meta gaming that so many channels are doing are going to make POE2 feel like just another POE1 league and not a new game.

[@jacob5373]

I haven't felt this excited for something since Christmas as a kid. I don't know if that says more about me, or this game. I'm full in cope baby!

[@stillprophet7529]

I really hope they dont backpaddle on the one portal mediumcore too quickly, give players some time to get used to it. Personally ive always wanted exactly this so I hope it sticks around

[@joshuahensley9395]

Oh hearing that I can not respec an ascendancy left me with a pit in my stomach I regularly level all 7 classes in a PoE league to have access to any build, while im not sure ill do it 12 times, the idea of it approaching 36 . . . fuck me dude

[@RobertJohanssonRBImGuy]

welcome to grim dawn mechanics works well there

[@Lolcohol]

Don't panic - it's very likely this will be changed before long

[@valjohnson7112]

Not to mention this campaign is supposedly much longer than poe1.

[@joshuahensley9395]

@@RobertJohanssonRBImGuy i'm sure it does, this is not grim dawn.

[@madhatten5123]

Jonathon said that it is coming just won’t be in EA

[@stillprophet7529]

2:25 im pretty sure the high level requirement is not because of the rare, its just because it provides a high level skill. We have seen that any level 20 skill gem requires character level 90

[@reninngun]

I like ascendancies being locked once you've chosen one. Might be the more hardcore part of me where I want choices to matter and i can't explain the appeal better than that. I know why people want to be able to switch or being able to strategically switch later on as in it was a plan to get a better start. But i just don't intuitively don't vibe with that.

[@rutessian]

You can switch ascendancies in poe 1?

[@valjohnson7112]

You can yeah. You just have to complete any of the labs and you can do it again the end.

[@MixSteven38]

all the best to your new full time career, i hope you find what you want in poe2 (and poe). love the fun (but sometimes frustrating) crafts!

[@davep5788]

I expect the ascendancy lock will change, but personally I've only changed ascendancies maybe 4 or 5 times over many years of playing. Even back when I rolled several characters I'd pick a different class.

[@AuRelion77]

Same! It always felt easier rolling a new toon. I hated how many regrets I’d end up using and all the gear switching and whatnot.

[@stealthcobra1525]

I mean I think the ascendency change lock is to make more ppl test the other classes and overall making new characters during the Early Access. Assuming the minute they will unlock the full ascendencies they will give us a full respec, if not earlier, so we can switch to the new ones.

[@MyEconomics101]

No. 11 - "meaningful combat." Not just bosses, but also rare monsters (as mentioned). Which then GGG put work into refining magic find and itemisation (/the loot drop system). And GGG took the gamble, to removing 6-portal defence meta of Glass Cannons.

[@royalecrafts6252]

Melee builds will be the prefered ones as well, mobs charges at you much faster than poe1 making range weapons not really good

[@collapsiblechair9112]

people will have to git gud mechanically. The game will be hard for so many

[@royalecrafts6252]

@collapsiblechair9112 sort of, theres a video of a guy with a frozen staff bypassing and 4 shooting bosses in act 1 tho lol

[@devildante9]

@@royalecrafts6252 woah, the first act of the game (the tutorial) being easy if you play and overleveled character from an imbalanced class (this is a beta)???? No way, trash game, back to diablo 4.

[@royalecrafts6252]

@devildante9 didnt say that, and i dont play diablo 4

[@ThePoETrader]

i am so hyped to play PoE 2 i played PoE a ton. I am so excited how the new gameplay will feel like. there a ton of new stuff, new gems, new ascendions, new uniques and the list goes on. i never felt so excited of a game before its insane.

[@j.d.6915]

Hopefully with rare monsters they also keep the affixes thematic. For example, a lava dog shouldn't have a cold spell as an affix.

[@Lolcohol]

True! Yeah I'd like that to be the case too

[@vohbovohborian28]

I don't think I've ever switched ascendancy. I like that it is locked. Leveling up an alt will probably be fairly quick anyway.

[@LittleRadicalThinker]

It matters very little

[@Powernudel]

Fairly quick? From what we know its almost 4 times as long as in poe1

[@vohbovohborian28]

@@Powernudel That is not entirely accurate. I remember 10 years ago when I started playing, having no knowledge, it took me 3 days or so to get through the campaign. But now, especially if you have twink gear ready to go, you can go through the campaign in a few hours easily. That probably will not change. I predict that by the end of the beta, people will do the campaign in less than 8 hours easily.

[@ProbablyJacob]

Relatively cheap respecs but being locked into the ascendancy class seems like a fair compromise to me, we know GGG wants people rerolling characters as part of the game

[@marcoadel6419]

I love that more attention to breach in poe 2

[@JohnB-ws4ge]

i think 1 portal forces you to build more well rounded, i actually like it.

[@fredrikaxelson8079]

I don’t think they meant you only have one portal (since all spawn like usually). I think they meant that if you lose all portals that waypoint will be gone forever!

[@SoshiroGames]

I love point 6 too! Lovely video lolcohol ❤

[@Slothpeek]

I'm also pretty sceptical about the one portal end game. Maybe 2 portals would be nice. If you die once you then can go back for another round at some point later when you have a stronger character.

[@TheKobool]

That lightning staff fills me with hope. Same with the scepter they showed. Makes me wonder is something like that is gonna be ground loot

[@RibeyeBass]

I personally love the mid core with maps. I never really like the 6 portals because it basically made me just corpse rush my maps as opposed to making my build not be a glass cannon and im here for the challenge!

[@bensel1547]

they already said that there will be a change to the ascendecies not being able to be changed. But not on start of EA

[@randomdude8877]

Millions of people played elden ring, not because it's but because it's hard. Have some faith in the player base to deal and live with one life in a given atlas node. I like this idea and hope it will never change. Players in poe1 are so used to brainless rush through the content and never have to fear of losing to much, except materials to fight the pinnacles. So yeah I fricking love it. Finally a bit more difficulty and brain is needed while actually playing the game.

[@LittleRadicalThinker]

It’s a different game. You are comparing apple to orange.

[@lynco3296]

It's really strange to me that players who devote thousands of hours to such a complicated game want such basic and brainless gameplay to go along with that depth. My theory is that PoE players are a bunch of relatively old people with messed up bodies and the mechanical skills of a potato.

[@garhong9125]

Small correction: In PoE1, certain atlas bases like Vermillion Ring requires level 80. Some of the pinnacle/uber uniques do as well. The new top armor bases also require 84.

[@Lolcohol]

Ah yeah true. But nothing as high as 90!

[@garhong9125]

@@Lolcohol True as well! By the way, I've seen other creators do raffles or something to hand out free PoE2 keys on their channel. Not sure if you are interested in that kind of thing but if you are, I bought a Liberator pack and just realized (after asking around) that none of my friends play arpgs haha. If you are interested I'm happy to donate the 4 extra keys I have for you to hand out. Just let me know.

[@Chris-rt8kc]

@@garhong9125 Would love to get one if you in the mood to share one.

[@franks_9254]

About WASD, this is a no go for me. Need to remap all keys such that they are located on the right half of the keyboard. Will be a configuration fest for me. This is because of the doge roll on space bar. Using WASD, I 'am not able to reach that with my right hand.

[@TonyKrger]

You don't have to use it. Just use mouse click to move as in poe1

[@obscurside3652]

controler will work as well

[@Lolcohol]

Fortunately it's optional but it'll be tricky to use for anyone who isn't used to games like WoW where WASD is standard. I'll be using controller!

[@kylewilzon8612]

I think a cool end game item would be an item that allows you to go back in a map after one death. that would be a sick item. I mean like a one time use like a scarab that you add into your map device.

[@LevelOneSkelly]

I would be totally on board for reduced portals tbh. Maybe 2-3 portals for maps. 2-3 portals for bosses but when you die, you have to do the whole fight again. I think that would maintain a relative level of punishment, hopefully minimize glass cannon meta. I like the medium-core concept. But it probably will be too punishing I think for long term

[@S3nn4h]

They said they had to keep 6 portals because of the MTX compatibility between PoE1 and PoE2.

[@BartoszBielecki]

I only wish they added 2 new orbs to either remove orb and destroy item or vice versa.

[@patrickb8127]

Craft5ing is the thing that got me hooked for PoE on first League (Perandus). it changed alot since then, and its still my favorite item system. sure I´m curious how it will all work out in terms of endgame gear for PoE2 (for example are influences or eldritch implicits still a thing or some similar options?), but i have faith in Jonathan and Co. :) it will be a bigger beta as d4 is a game now xD (dont get me wrong, i enjoyed d4 a few seasons, poe is just another dimension of arpg game ^^ ) Also: HAAAAAIIIIIP :D

[@KTD0711]

Insane how people are upset about their choices mattering and being permanent. That should be something that makes the game better, because it gives it more gravitas. IMO anyone complaining about that sort of mechanic should just go play a different game 🤷‍♂️ I hope GGG keeps all that stuff in the game.

[@LittleRadicalThinker]

Because they simply don’t know the consequences of the choices. A permanent choice which can’t change is a big deal. Imagine you have to choose one job and forever stick to that one job.

[@seanmartens8740]

Last epoch "Soft" removes the maps/bosses if you fail and it doesn't feel horrible. It definitely makes you play cleaner. I know there is investment in POE maps that doesn't exist in LE so that's a thing. Personally I think it might mean we don't get as many *unfair* deaths that POE1 definitely has. Trade League is basically don't care about deaths much (if at all). That's also wrong. You do get 6 portals to bring loot out so multi portals does exist in a softer sense.

[@SpudNug69]

+5 to level of skill gems!? Jesus dude, that's insane!

[@Prophocy408]

That staff is cracked

[@RobertJohanssonRBImGuy]

new game new rules Likely wont be as impactful people come to assume from poe1 to poe2

[@AI_futureverse]

​@@RobertJohanssonRBImGuy wanna bet it's gon be one of the most powerful mods for spells on these items even tho we dont anything about balance yet? Coz we know how ggg mindset works on these mods

[@Minerva-Shield]

Baneful Path here, as a crafting enjoyer I can't wait to see what kind of things we can cook up. I can already envision like using multiple currencies at end game to attempt a craft, the system looks more simplified at base compared to PoE 1, which is good but it seems to have some depth as well with essences and omens. and if I miss I can just sell it or if it bricks I can vaal it and yolo for a good outcome XD I'm hyped

[@RobertJohanssonRBImGuy]

explore the design mechanics endgame and whatever along the way I suspect many kids will try to follow build guides and never understand the game they play

[@Scorptice]

Ascendancy respecc is 100% coming, hardcore maps is staying that is the entire identiy of the combat and design philosophy of the game

[@lurio8492]

Personally I love having only 1 portal because it will remove people that play glass cannon builds and are really fast. Everyone will have to invest in some defense and I think that will be good for the economy.

[@coldfirelightpoe6803]

I was surprised that they made it 1 portal maps. Imagine standing too long in a chaos puddle and losing your first divine. Certain players might tap out if that's their early experience, but I'm ok with it because I'm more veteran, and I think it'll reduce botting.

[@num2007]

for the portal change, if you have kids and need to attend, is there a way to get to safety and comeback?

[@Lolcohol]

You can now pause the game at any time! Wonderful change :)

[@Caldaron]

i hope that ggg adds a checkpoint mechanic like in the campaign that you can at least try the pinnacle boss 3 times or sth. i dont think with all the grind required to get there they should add another layer of padding by only giving us 1 try.

[@adry0927]

6 portals is still available for pinnacle bosses however the boss hp resets

[@_MikeJon_]

I wonder how loot and gold will work on couch co op

[@cheeromatic]

RIP HH and Mageblood

[@johndubois2229]

Might be the odd one out but I love consequences. It makes succeeding that much better. No problem with no ascendancy change. I think respec for points in the one you chose is fine but not be able to change. There has to be a penalty for dying as well and i believe they took away exp loss anyway so 1 portal seems fine.

[@Maeniel83]

I really dislike the one-try system on bosses. If you are learning the mechanics of a boss it is not helping if you get to see that boss 1 week after your first try again, that won't change anything for fight #2 with said boss. This is a pure powergaming change for ppl who get to play enough in one go to be able to learn to proceed. Never seen a more anti-casual player design choice before.

[@patrickb8127]

oh @lolcohol maybe i understood that wrong but i got the map failure mechanic more atlas oriented. so basically 6 ports as always but if u fail all 6 you have to work around for your atlas... but maybe im wrong lel

[@pTk91]

all new armour bases are lvl 84 req in poe1 :D ill be sure to join in on the action on stream

[@Lolcohol]

:D I forgot! It has been so long since I played PoE 1 lol

[@Ninjutsu2K]

This probably confirms everything we've seen so far, and with the care GGG is putting into it, we might witness the first quadruple-A (AAAA) game ever made.

[@obscurside3652]

you forgot about skulls and bones :)

[@Ninjutsu2K]

@@obscurside3652 🤣 this is not a the type of thing WOKEsoft should state, those things the costumers shold say. lol

[@BassFishingNEB]

I knew Elon played Diablo but I didn't know Mitch McConnell played poe

[@Lolcohol]

Omg ouch 😢 I'm way cuter than that guy

[@mikeywatson25]

Yee boi, i hadnt actually seen the rare mob changes those are really nice. hopefully this means no more juiced up kitavas heralds lmao

[@pestek6663]

I believe they will change the ascendancy lock. At least for EA it doesn't make sence to lock it. Wouldn't it be better for people to check out the game more and look for more bugs without having to replay whole game? Or maybe that's what they want.

[@kylewilzon8612]

I hope they bring back legion and sentinel league somehow. those were my two favorite leagues.

[@Caldaron]

maybe we can at least have an omen that gives us another try at the pinnacle boss or sth. that would be great...

[@kokorochin01]

It's stupid to say/think friction is a negative. Fuck new players, they are welcome but the game shouldn't cater or be designed around them.

[@Lolcohol]

There's good friction and there's bad friction. The socket system changing is the removal of bad friction and I'm all for it.

[@kokorochin01]

@@Lolcohol Well, I wouldn't necessarily call it bad friction, it used to be a double-edged sword, which could also feel highly rewarding and added a layer of complexity. Could it be tedious, absolutely. I see it as debatable. If you casualize/simplify every single tedium and/or friction, you're left with what would be the antithesis of what PoE is supposed to be. Take an MMO for example; most people nowadays think traveling time is bad friction, when in fact it's an absolute core part of making a world feel vast and alive.

[@LittleRadicalThinker]

Then the player base is tiny.

[@Alice-yt9pj]

This is how I think the game is gonna go for new players. They play through the campaign and have a good time. Then they get to maps die a fair bit cause they are new and the build they made is not the best. Then start doing maps and die every few maps (4/10 or something like that) finally they find a boss do some damage to it and die at 3/4 hp or something then realize they have to grind all the way back to another boss then just to die again. After that I just see them quitting the game honestly its far too punishing IMO like I think it should be a league thing or something you have to opt into. Pretty much just like hard-core or SSF keep it there and have it be more rewarding but keep soft-core well just that soft-core, no hardcore-lite stuff. If they are going to keep it I think bosses should have 2-3 tries at least. Keep maps 1 portal sure but people have to learn the boss fights and how are you going to learn if your done after one death? Like at this point just play hard-core.. cause if your build has to be a build that is pretty much deathless might as well do it in hard-core.

[@viniciusdopradovieira7926]

@11:41 apparently, even if you failed a map, you can still use the portals to loot stuff, and probably even finish the map itself if you want, you will just not be granted progression from that "tile" in the atlas. But i'm going off what i heard in the multitude of videos i watched, we just gonna be sure how it works on the 6th. I love this change, honestly. I like the idea of we having to take our defenses and our playstyle way more seriously as an important part of our progression and being punished to "slack" on this, this was a factor that always tipped too much the scales in PoE1 in favor of very blasting builds that could do everything quickly from the get go while foregoing decent defenses until reaching content that absolutely demanded it. I don't think it's "too hard" on newer players too, i think this honestly helps them because it put checks on every step of the way, instead of letting them build something unreliable and have a lot more trouble respecing it all when they've spent a multitude of points.

[@psychogore]

So, potentially, you could fail the first 4 maps of your atlas and get softlocked ?

[@obscurside3652]

thats incorrect, you can tp out to go empty your invetory, refill flasks, make a trade, 6 time if you want. But if you die once, the map is failed, and cant go back in it .

[@viniciusdopradovieira7926]

Thanks for the correction!

[@junoslenstorm4914]

New people will eventually become usual players, and maybe even veteran. They will get used to some "new players unfriendly mechanics" such as difficulty. Elden ring proved it. One has to be punished for mistakes, otherwise one may never find gratification of success.

[@anonv2030]

If they go with more deaths you get less rewards. I rather have it harder and get great rewards

[@foxstudios8979]

watching this during maven grace period

[@Lolcohol]

Top right top top left right

[@yanj111]

the crafting of POE 1 is not difficult, the problem is the accessibility, it is not accessible to causal players. how difficult it can be ? a lot of players here have PhD🤣. but the fact it is so expensive to craft the end game items making it not accessible to players who can not have enough time to make currency.

[@maltymax7788]

nice guitars ;)

[@TheCosmicAstro-]

Ascendancy lock is NOT good. No clue why that was even a discussion at GGG, let alone went through to early access.

[@losiele90]

Poe1 crafting...is like phd level. Really. You need huge study to understand or you will get punished of not knowing well-bricked item. I love the change made in poe2. Deterministic, still has jack pot chance from the ground item.

[@AuRelion77]

New people that are learning the game aren’t going to get into maps for a while. By the time they do they should have some semblance of a build going on and beginner maps shouldn’t be that hard. IMO

[@pTk91]

MIrrors will be lost for sure with the 1 portal setup :D

[@jbroot7200]

After a week of hype and excitement, I think there's one thing wrong with poe 2: The deathless maps. How are we gonna do to kill unknown bosses (that will be rarer ~1 in 4 maps apparently) if we only have one try to do it? How are we supposed to learn bosses patterns if we die early in the fight and don't face this boss again for like 20 maps? And what about pinnacle bosses? I wish they didn't take one of the only few negative aspects of last epoch to put in poe 2. Maybe it would have been better to copy their ingame loot filter instead 😅

[@masterslayerable]

They arent unknown, the map bosses will be the campaign bosses they arent unknown. At most they will have slightly adjusted mechanics. And pinnacles are meant to be restrictive

[@adry0927]

as for pinnacle boss you can still use 6 portal however the boss resets its hp so thats it

[@AlejandroMeri]

I think I've never changed my ascendancy. I love playing the campaing so I just level up a new character.

[@JayBigDadyCy]

Man this Diablo-like looks amazing (😂😂😂😂)

[@guitaraholic]

Inb4 I run like 30 builds in the next 3 months

[@GuybrushTThreepwood]

All of these are small changes. None of this is revolutionary, and it won't have any effect on the genre as a whole. The biggest change, and the thing that actually matters, is combat. They actually thought about it, it's intentional. It's the first ARPG to actually have any real action in it, and that's what is revolutionary.

[@Lolcohol]

Yup that really is the biggest thing but I wanted to share some of the less obvious ones :)

[@No1WatchesUrTTV]

Will it be “Diablo like”

[@mus1617]

cant wait already 🤪

[@abc-yg6tk]

No I like the 1 portal. Keep it please. 6 portal creates too many cheesy and tedious tactics that's not fun

[@OrgiiYT]

obligatory comment to support your poe content creator journey

[@Lolcohol]

Thank you!

[@Cryttanz]

HOWSIT everyone!

[@Lolcohol]

helloooo

[@Exterminator19861]

Oh man i just cant w8 people start yelling how bad is slow gameplay in late game .imagine forcing softcore player to build actual defence .No way :D Oh god its gona be fun af

[@tychongcty]

Mod tier is reversed in poe2, T1 mod is lowest tier

[@GeneralTariq]

Revolutionize*

[@Lolcohol]

I'm not American.

[@erikao3049]

Ryzen 5 2600, RX 580 8gb, and 16gb RAM is enough to run PoE2? 😢

[@JX531]

With dynamic resolution, and 480p graphics, anything is enough

[@LizardGulps]

it exceeds their minimum specs

[@obscurside3652]

you'll be absolutly fine

[@latincristo]

Oh hey it's another of those Diablo likes .... Don't bring out the torches I can't stand the direction Diablo went after d2!!!!

[@luismiguelcostaperestrelo1164]

Mediumcore is awesome. There's a lot of people who don't want the "extreme commitment" of hardcore, but still want punishment for failure. I'm really looking forward to 1 attempt per boss/map

[@valjohnson7112]

Should make it more intense for sure. But I’m a little worried. I’m not sure I ever did a deathless maven.

[@johnturtle6649]

uh... how exactly will it revolutionize anything at all?

[@Lolcohol]

Play it and you'll understand ;)

[@johnturtle6649]

@@Lolcohol nope. ggg had its time. they have let me down with all the nonsense they've done. I will not be playing nor patronizing this. and by nonsense I mean broken mechanics and cheating rng and paying off streamers to push their digital drug.

[@collapsiblechair9112]

I hope GGG don't back down on being unable to respec ascendancies and failing a map on death. These were included because GGG think they were needed. It seems to me the only people who respecced their ascendancies in PoE1 did so because they didn't want to run the campaign. GGG spent a lot of time and money on the campaign, the last they want is people respeccing to avoid running the campaign.

[@yesitsreallyOtter]

I've never actually switched ascendancies in POE 1, but yeah, it doesn't make any sense to lock people in on that to me.

[@meshri7]

Why give us 6 portals if we are only able to use one ?

[@frigidmontana6441]

Mainly because of mtx from POE1. It also allows more looting of a map.

[@Sprainful]

You are wrong. A Map is failed if all your Portals are gone. Every Waystone opens 6 Portals.

[@Rogerztheurbanlegend]

In the announcement stream, they literally said you die one time in a map, you lose the map. It is noted all over the place in videos and FAQ's. The 6 portals are for leaving the maps for trading or dropping off loot, or for other players if you are in a group.