BLASTCAST - Path of Exile 2 Early Access Podcast

[@maxrollgg]

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[@Zemlja_je_ravna]

Why not give us the option to choose between bosses or rare monsters in the maps? It would be much better to select what we want to focus on. Right now, we're forced to clear the entire map just to fight a boss. Plus, since bosses aren’t in every map, you end up grinding through random ones and killing rares just to find a map with a boss. They should give us the option to shape our endgame experience, allowing us to focus on the content we enjoy the most and have fun with. Additionally, doing towers becomes quite dull and monotonous.

[@trytoxania7020]

I sold a divine I found in campaign for like 16 ex. I feel like the bitcoin pizza guy.

[@nickh4354]

i sold a perfect jewellers orb on day 3 for like 70 ex instead of the 140 its at now, not as bad but yeah pain

[@dislikeme1626]

atleast div price went down i thought it will go 100ex +

[@Ugoofy1]

You can currency swap a divine for like 90 ex

[@Corrupted]

​@@Ugoofy1 Im pretty sure they are like 70 now

[@Zemlja_je_ravna]

I sold my first divine in campaign for few regals, I was desperate on my Warrior, someone got lucky. 👀

[@berkertugrul9055]

the problem with mace skills is that the flat added attack time does not scale with your attack speed. So i tried playing with one hand maces dual wielding. my sunder attack time was almost the same with 2h so why do we even have 1 handed maces if you cant scale with attack speed? they really need to fix that shit

[@newbasick]

corrupted wanderlust boots get up to 24% movement speed and can be worn at lvl 11

[@ironymaiden1089]

One of the core issues with mace is that all attacks have massive recovery, that can be canceled early with dodge roll. This concept is fine by itself, but not this implementation, because you can roll cancel BEFORE you can cancel with attacks or movement. This results in spending ~30% of your playtime rolling after each attack because it feels like the most efficient thing to do, and it genuinely speeds up many skills, especially leap slam and shield charge. This degenerate roll after each cast has to stop. You should not be able to roll before you can attack/move, or at least the difference between cancel windows should not be as wide.

[@thomasjaroscha7701]

Of course. But Mace Skills need MASSIVE Buffs to be competitive. First, many skills feel clunky while e.g. monk skills are fast and happen immediately. And they arent even that powerful... And on top, with so many builds being so op and fast, even a 100% dmg buff wouldnt be enough, which is ridicolous because it would oneshot everything...

[@RJMacReady1]

This is a good point. Would actually be cool if some mace skills had LESS recovery time if you just used another mace skill. Like, youve already built up momentum or whatever. That would make it a lot more rewarding to Stand and Tank(tm) instead of playing it like a slower, less agile monk

[@plaxy100]

Guess you just have to roll with it. sorry couldn't help myself

[@thomasjaroscha7701]

@@RJMacReady1 Yeah that's why they pretty much failed with that design. It could work if they were the only build ingame and everyone has problems. But so many builds like archmage spark, any deadeye, monks, grenade builds are so much EASIER and FASTER. All the ES and Evasion/ES Builds are also much tankier (didnt see an armour/ES warrior yet, but you would have to play a ranged warrior, which is possible). But i play now a deadeye like Pal and i feel so tanky in my bad gear. Going to Evasion/ES prevents nearly all deaths in t16+ maps.

[@SugiCNT]

Gorathas icon not being in middle of his square is triggering my OCD hard lol.

[@wh0reb0t]

literally unwatchable

[@freshmaker0088]

You calling a rectangle a square is triggering me lol.

[@ahmedbadreddinemoucouf3662]

@@wh0reb0t imagine "watching" a podcast

[@wh0reb0t]

@@ahmedbadreddinemoucouf3662 imagine leaving such daft comments

[@Nanniiii39]

i mean if you think about it, a lot of the issues are resolved in poe1 by just bench craft. res early, attributes early , etc i miss a crafting bench to be able to tweak early the little i miss for gear etc

[@Sindamsc]

It would be solved if we could replace runes

[@Tracerbullet328]

Mace skills need their fixed attack times cut by 1/3 to 1/2, should get hyper-armor through the animation, and should hit like a truck. As of right now, attack speed barely moves the needle, you need huge stun threshold investment, and pour everything into strength and damage nodes to be halfway viable. That doesn’t even get into defense investment requirements

[@bnny.5442]

and also they need to remove the "reduced attack speed" on warrior damage nodes, mace skills already have like a ridiculous windup time to perform i don't need more to be more uncomfortable than already is

[@Hawntbawt]

Mages are legit tankier than warrior while also being able to play ranged. Like wth were they thinking?

[@SteveEsp3]

I dont understand a lot of peoples experiences with bloodmage. I've heard others say that it's bricked as soon as you ascend. I've been really enjoying it, Dispair with decaying hex, contagion, ED, and dark effigy and start spamming unearth, and im almost instantly at 2x health and ES with Grim Remnants, it feels super tanky.

[@AndThenShwarmaAfter]

ye sure, let us nnow how great it is on endgame shit 😂

[@SteveEsp3]

@AndThenShwarmaAfter i mean, that's true, but as I said, I was specifically speaking to the "bricked as soon as you ascend" crowd, as that has certainly not been my experience. Also, I would hope that the core abilities of the class i chose are viable in endgame.

[@MrJaldal]

​@@SteveEsp3Its not bricked, you can make it work. Its just weak...

[@raspernor11]

@@MrJaldalweak in clear speed, at least compared to sorc. But you don't get one shot ever, which isn't weak in my book.

[@DaveTV12]

Some feedback for this podcast. I am a new PoE player so I have no idea what any of these acronyms mean and can't follow your conversations. Can you just use spell names so newer players can learn?

[@user-yu9qq3dr6b]

If you search on KZbin for poe terms for newbs there's like 10+ vids explaining all the terms. I think lolcohol did one recently for new poe2 players

[@TheSilverwing999]

The thing I don't get about this type of feedback is that we were all new at some point. I didnt start that long ago myself. And it's just something you learn though. Put some effort in and you'll get it all down in no time. If everyone talking has to always says every word out every time they use it gets super tedious for everyone

[@Audovic]

Ventrua really cooking this ep

[@Gl0wStickss]

45:20 BEST TAKE

[@Kamelosk]

Ventrua at the end so based.

[@bartpapst]

nice chat. Thanks for the thoughts my guys

[@resolveyeetlord8340]

no loot filter and bad targeting on controller. if I move away from an enemy it targets who I move towards, rather than continue to aim at what I was locked on to. let me lock on, let me hav loot filter, I shut up

[@brentp6724]

There is targeting toggle, but I agree it sux. Half the time I am moving rs and it doesn't change

[@HawooAwoo]

With how often minions clog up at doors, minions would likely be borderline unplayable if they could body block you.

[@bmem1993]

This... Frustrated me. I wondered why prices have skyrocketed. I am on trade league but may as well be SSF. The only viable builds to reliably farm are ES builds, a single ES chest is 2 div let alone the amulet lol. Im playing an evasion build so definitely cant build rarity to help find chase pieces. It feels reeeeally shitty.

[@bidondhuile2740]

but if you have rarity and rarity can upgrade exalted to divs, shouldnt you be able to get div with rarity in lower tier maps ? i dont know the answer btw

[@bmem1993]

@@bidondhuile2740 me neither man I am brand new to POE in general let alone POE2 haha I am loving it dont get me wrong and I can farm T15/16's but I tend to die 1/4 maps or so and it feels like a struggle

[@JtotheDoubleL]

this isnt quite true, the fastest farmers are deadeye ranger with max rarity. I have 150% rarity on my deadeye

[@bmem1993]

@@JtotheDoubleL are you running evasion or ES?

[@SETHthegodofchaos]

I think its because people got to the "end endgame" and apparently there is lots of currency to be farmed there, increased drastically by rarity of items found.

[@UIMcocodog]

they seem to have some low level problems going on with targeting. they already put out a "fix" for this but it didnt really do what they said it should. your guy will still turn on his own and ignore where youre aiming. the fact theres not just a "all smart targeting off" checkbox in the settings(which i would use, if it existed) is rubbish. and the fact that "fix" that didnt really fix anything makes me really worried that this controller user helper (autoaim lol) is so low level that they cant just let you turn it off......

[@Sidnv]

Atlas mechanic points really shouldn't all be locked behind pinnacle bosses. It would solve a lot of problems to simply bring at least half the points back to maps, and earlier into maps. For example: the first breach you complete in white maps gets you 2 points, the first in yellow gets 2 points, the first in red gets 2 points and the remaining points can be boss gated (with the tree being weakened if this meant they wanted to keep progression for each boss difficulty). This would make the progression from tier 1 to 10 maps feel less shallow and lifeless, and it would improve the progression for the mechanics themselves by not gating them behind annoying boss rng. They've put far too much behind bossing, and have backloaded everything, which is the opposite of what should happen imo. There's a reason the poe1 atlas tree feels so good, it's because you constantly get points as soon as you enter maps and can feel the progress you make step by step as you complete maps.

[@gorecomplex]

bruh you dont use WASD? i cant ever go back to click to move

[@dislikeme1626]

some prefar click to move i guess i did my first campaign run with wasd but after 20h my finger start hurting u want me to continue idk i moved to click to move

[@schnudercheib]

2:03:00 there is a way to do exactly that with jewels: vaaling a jewel can give both resistances and attributes. I've been plugging my resistance "holes" with jewels all the time.

[@stephenkeelty8407]

I love the regular podcast. Would you guys be able to leave the date in the description?

[@kalashydra9016]

2:13:24 ok but why cant i give flame wall fire resist penetration lol

[@KyokujiFGC]

I think warrior single target honestly isn't the worst. The problem is that every single skill feels like absolute garbage to clear with to the point where the current fastest clearing build is a default attack one.

[@Gl0wStickss]

How about sorercess comet build? Same as melee, takes 2 long to cast.

[@paulamblard3836]

the "+6 level" is not "+80% damage, +30% mana cost", but "+80% damage, +80% mana cost"

[@kalashydra9016]

2:26:55 raise specter gem and make it work like container for the specter lol (you can catch them in gems and store them in chest lol)

[@kalashydra9016]

2:10:40 i think it would be really cool if lets say you got lvl 14 gem you schould be able to select the lvl of the skill it uses freeli in the gems menu

[@semi6544]

Solo Self Found needs some kind of bonus for bad luck protection. It can be any type of innovation on Last Epoch's system that is alternate to trade. Maybe get rid of the rarity implicit and just give it to Solo Self Found players only.

[@HawooAwoo]

I suspect the idea/goal behind ES is that it is meant to be the north side's main defensive layer due to north side has relatively poor access to physical mitigation, evasion, and increased max resistance. With that said even if the idea is good, the execution can still be unbalanced.

[@iFoss]

Yea, idea is just bigger pool while life is more about mitigation. Think all pure armor gear should be able to roll % phys mit and max res to balance them better

[@LycanDreams9159]

I’m curious if we got like duelist instead of monk or Druid instead of witch if people would feel better about monk because if you think about it even though we have 2 magic, 2 range and 2 melee it ends up feeling like 4 ranged and 2 melee. And monk isn’t exactly a “normal melee. Maybe Druid with close combat shapeshifting would make people feel better about melee as a whole even if mace felt weak and Druid was strong and popular or if monk was the duelist

[@darthasavage7213]

Balancing is only necessary if something is insanely overtuned by no means should all spells be able to do the same damage

[@Gl0wStickss]

I actually did stop buying blizzard games. Didn't buy D4, even with a D3 world first. Last Blizzard game I bought was Starcraft remaster/diablo II remastered. aka games that already existed.

[@AdamTHEPlumber]

What is stat stacking ?

[@BrestCubing]

stacking attributes - Strength / Dexterity / Intelligence

[@TheGamedMind]

Eh, movespeed should probably be an implicit from advanced boots onwards. With like 10% on advanced and 15% on expert. And then remove some of the higher tier rolls or adjust their weighting so they are rarer. Rn, getting/slamming boots and they have no movespeed (20% minimum imo) makes them basically unusable, no matter what stats they have.

[@_unknown_guy]

Yeah, in PoE1 this is not that big problem, because there is more sources of MS, also there is movements skills, for PoE2 that stat is just mandatory.

[@Stephencurran_7]

Please can we discuss how bad melee is vs ranged so I can get a buff because damn ranged is so easy and melee is so hard in Trials I'm literally forced to walk into enemy auras like mana drain while ranged classes just sit back chilling 😅

[@SloppyGarlic]

Youre supposed to either walk into mana drain or stay out, there is 2 rings, aslong as youre not inbetween those 2 rings your mana wont siphon, I deal with them fine on monk

[@Stephencurran_7]

@SloppyGarlic The mana drain is still an AOE aura that ranged can easily stay away from and also there is things such as exploding enemies and other enemy auras such as freeze or fire that melee need to look out for that ranged dont really need to deal with. It's unfair on melee builds atm and to try argue otherwise is just ego talking.

[@trytoxania7020]

@@Stephencurran_7 You’re not listening, he’s correct. The rest of your points are super valid but the mana drain is a ring like Saturns ring, and if you’re inside or outside of it you’re fine. It’s only standing ON the ring that drains you.

[@Stephencurran_7]

@@trytoxania7020 updated my comment for more clarification. Melee still has to deal with the aura more than ranged due to it still being a close range mechanic regardless of what part of the ring you stand in.

[@destroyermaker]

38:00 Am I taking crazy pills? People just wanted to be able to 'craft' during campaign like they promised we would. In retrospect I wonder if it would've been fine if players focused on rarity from the beginning (not that that's good gameplay). PS. Goratha is a great addition to this show.

[@timmipeople]

If u focus on rarity during campaign, u end up spending all currency to add useful mods on gear. It is easier to craft weapon and body armor though.

[@TaylorL4664]

Idea. Every map should have a boss as they exist now. And there should be a separate "boss map" that is even harder than the regular map boss. Tuna said something similar. Additional idea, once you go into a map it's considered "complete." Because if you're punished after death by losing the map, you shouldn't be additioinaly punished by having to run a map that has NOTHING on it... The punishment is currently double dipping.

[@shadowvor]

A Tier0 Quest Boss for the League Mechanics is a good idea

[@Smudge7Four]

Biggest issue by far right now is not being able to destroy equipped runes so you can put new runes in. It makes it almost impossible to use new gear without getting a full new set.

[@osiykm]

8:30 I aslo thought like this but in ssf it was mirrored for me

[@WinterOnsen]

Now this is a council of gamers

[@feelsgoodman420]

are they going to nerf the energy shield ?

[@Epic_Epochs123]

Wtf i always thought Ventrua and Goratha are the same person. Just like Darkee, Darkee Cat, Lightee and this Ben_ fella

[@zefrogi]

I returned to LE after 80 hours in PoE2, and the QoL is sooo much better. Also, LE has the best crafting.

[@c-tothefourth4879]

Incorrect

[@_unknown_guy]

PoE1 has the best crafting...

[@zefrogi]

@@_unknown_guy Nah, I can't be assed with a degree learning it all

[@joelhodoborgas]

We NEED to be able to change runes.

[@ericayy9598]

“Nobody gunna play poe1 league” take is insane. Pretty much everyone I know can’t wait for it lol. Poe 2 is great but if you like fast game play and you can’t afford 200 doc builds, Poe 1 looking reaaaaaal good.

[@_unknown_guy]

Biggest PoE1 league to date incoming

[@kalashydra9016]

47:13 yea i hate that shit soo much , even in campaign some rares move soo fucking fast andthey dont even have mods for speed . lyterali copypasted from poe1

[@Dropbare]

Who's playing some weeb game in the background? Can hear it occasionally in the video.

[@jarodsinger6453]

Plays build...dominates game...go on podcast and says "I don't know what they were thinking". Is the expectation that everything needs to be/feel bad?

[@iFoss]

?? Are you aware of this thing called "nuance"?

[@raspernor11]

Bloodmage advice is super bad, you can't say the ascendancy is bad if you refuse to adjust you skills because of mana. You take node two, stop using sorc skills, and spam bone blast. It's so ez, and you cruise with double hp. You don't need screen clearing skills until end game.

[@joelhodoborgas]

Bro, no way a new player can absorb all info for poe1 in a timely manner, takes 2-3 leagues to familiarize with the game IF youre studying wikis and youtube.

[@soshspotgames4380]

new players aren't absorbing "all info" for poe 2 either. still plenty of idiots running around with no effing clue. peeps are just more willing to actually read and learn with a shiny new toy that looks pretty. the marketing for poe2 didn't hurt either with all the talk about how "new player friendly" it would be. it's been simplified to some degree, but not in any way that would functionally matter for a new player. you still have a massive skill tree you need to navigate; you still have tons of skills to choose from, and tons of different stats on gear to figure out. oh, and all this new crafting currency that new players have never seen before, that they're naively using on gear because the devs said they wanted more crafting...all the while there's actually no crafting at all and it's instead just rng "slam a thing and pray". I don't honestly see how any of this is more "new player friendly" than poe 1 tbh. I think poe1 was hurt alot by pretentious streamers warning that the game was so hard and brutal. now, in comparison, poe1 is a cake walk. you can literally get through the campaign with damn near any build you can dream up. just focus on getting life and resistances everywhere you can, and you're golden. you even have a simple, convenient crafting bench to add needed life, resists or attributes. we keep pushing this narrative that poe 1 was so complicated, and i think at this point the narrative is doing more harm than the game ever did. #rantover

[@syrupytaco7653]

Doesn't it make sense to balance around the lower skill level players? High skill players will excel regardless. They will find the meta in any case. They will grind/get OP. Casuals need to be first and foremost considered, they don't have the same mindset.

[@iFoss]

So its even easier for the dedicated players? Balancing for low skill players cuts out aspiration

[@c-tothefourth4879]

Nope

[@Rooster70]

I wonder why they dont integrate some sort of profile system for the passive tree that lets you save your current build layout so if you respec you can revert back if you dont like the new build etc.

[@HomemadeSteamEngine]

Ventrua said a very important thing. Repeating the campaign twice is a concept so outdated.

[@c-tothefourth4879]

You do realise it’s temporary?

[@dylanstanfill2897]

Is it bad that I try everything that's broken before they nerf it and think it's fun as fuck? Probably spoiling myself a little bit, but I love the semi broken state of the game right now.

[@Alexia-ys6yx]

As someone who has been stuck in campaign since launch, constantly rerolling chars to make something that feels good, for me the main problem with redoing the campaign isn't the length, or replaying the acts. It's just too exhausting. Everything takes so much focus to not die from *something*. PoE1 campaign is very mindless, so I can play that for weeks without ever touching maps, but in PoE2? It's hard to want to do anything in the campaign because it's just stressful.

[@Wedgez]

At that point just copy someone's build and call it a day, it's been 2 weeks.

[@RJMacReady1]

Then the game is not for you. Thats not a tweaking issue, you dont want the involved, combo based gameplay. Thats fine. POE 1 is still here

[@joelhodoborgas]

Just do lightning arrow ranger and spec every point in damage. easy mode.

[@_unknown_guy]

@@RJMacReady1 PoE1 is not here, there is no league to play due to PoE2.

[@RJMacReady1]

@ so a small downtime of a few months, youll probably survive

[@iwantsaveu]

I dont mind to reroll, the campaign is fun

[@Haloanonymous]

During the run up to launch Jonathan mentioned in interviews that melee was really strong in comparison to other stuff. Tough to see what he was talking about in that regard. I think maybe something with last second balance around tankiness messed it up? I would be fine with the clunky long animations on mace skills IF they were able to tank hits while they were doing it. But an armor life build is just so far below other forms of tankiness right now. i think warrior might feel better after they rebalance tankiness

[@UIMcocodog]

i think he mis-spoke. being in MELEE RANGE of bosses is actually much stronger than standing at range in many cases. but ya dont have to be a melee character to do that tho do ya xD

[@Complication84]

I've leveled like 10 characters already. I love the acts and I don't mind the length. I get immersed in it.

[@lizard_irl]

Login

[@Zemlja_je_ravna]

Don't make it poke balls they will get sued. 1:54:46

[@MankoMeister]

1:03:10 It's hilarious that there is an ascendancy based on chaos damage and leech (acolyte of chayula) in a game where you can not leech chaos or elemental damage.

[@iFoss]

This. I truly dont get this design decision, like how tf are you supposed to phys scale on this to actually build around the leech nodes. Wouldve made way more sense as a Templar ascendancy

[@K1m9857]

Based ventrua and goratha takes You can see the difference in mindset and opinions, especially if you played diablo 2 or not Crouching tuna isnt contributing since he is poe 1 brain and has no patiences Wont change his mindset and is suffering for it

[@chandothemando]

5% movement speed runes

[@_unknown_guy]

9:57 that's a streamer problem - you play a lot, reroll for me - that's two days in campaign again, while it was fresh first time, it is snooze for the second time, the move speed and no movement skills alone make me not want to do it.

[@Gl0wStickss]

Charms work AFTER you get the status. That's how it's worded. It's used to prevent chain status. You get poisoned but during that duration you can't get poisoned again. Otherwise op asf.

[@samenoise532]

Personally I like rarity increase.

[@RhebelGaming]

Love this series

[@AndThenShwarmaAfter]

why is palsteron looking like he's 14 year old in the thumbnail lmao

[@circaen]

Melee is incredible. Right now Warrior only has maces, & while it is a play style only 15% of people enjoy - i'm glad it is there for them. But the melee quarterstaff skills feel super nice. Once swords, axes, & daggers are in the game melee is going to be more than fine. I'm guessing they started with maces so they had a point to work from speed wise. On the balancing topic - Monks Ice Strike is just insane. With the unique Polcirkeln you are popping massive massive packs. In Breach you can let the Breach build up & kill the entire screen & off screen at the same time. I say this to point out that it is not just DPS that they have to worry about. Some of these mechanics are just so powerful. Bossing this character is probably where they want characters to be. You do good damage but you have to do the mechanics & fight the boss.

[@emoctopus]

great vid

[@corymeyer1162]

did any of you actually play warrior? i feel like ya'll are missing the entire class. warrior is so fucking good. all stages of the game. just can't suck. autoattack is fine for one mob but an earthquake + shockwave totem will prime the entire room for stun. and then boneshatter + gems will blow up the entire room. it's so easy. and once you stun a boss once, which takes a few hits only, you can seismic cry + infernal cry and oneshot a boss with hammer of the gods (endgame.) and perfect strike beats a boss in 3-4 hits during the campaign. it's not exactly as fast but it's super fast. leap slam -> dodge to cancel animation on land. then boneshatter and dodge to cancel animation (the swing animation is longer than it takes to do damage.) every single time...entire room blows up. i felt way OP and it got kinda boring.

[@battlecarrier]

20:55 I don't really understand why people keep comparing ES to life, it's not a 1:1 comparison whatsoever because it's in lieu of other defenses. The conversation about ES should be about the effective HP it provides, which we don't have the exact numbers on without PoB. Someone with 90% evade and 80% armor may be getting more use out of 2500 life than an ES stacker is getting out of 12k ES. Whether ES values are too high compared to evasion or armour values, or whether it's too easy to gain extra sources of it would be a better conversation.

[@obscurside3652]

campaign is the only poe 2 part in poe 2, and its also the best part, i've been zooming for 13 years now, its time for a different game. GGG advertised a ''souls-like'', don't try to turn it into a ''diablo-like''.

[@kalashydra9016]

21:07 and then you get to maps and max res is still mandatory i hate that

[@iFoss]

Max res isnt mandatory. Capped res is tho

[@kalashydra9016]

@@iFoss same thing

[@Cryttanz]

I personally can't wait for PoE1 league, PoE2 EA is super bedge and undercooked.

[@nightlightloot]

In the trials, getting "you have no energy shield" will reduce your honour - thank you Balbala for a "random minor affliction" (CI build) [;

[@voodoo1069]

Was missing blast cast glad to see it back. Hope grim comes back around as well. Personally not enjoying poe 2 I get on run a map or two think man I just want to play poe and I get on 1 lol. The passives feels super uninteresting, basically zero crafting, I miss just running the same map over and over at some point. Skills being locked to weapons feels so un poe to me. Wanted to play pillar for leveling an alt because I hear it was broken and I hated all the monk skills that wasn't bell so I just auto attacked my way to maps which felt boring as fuck. Pretty sure this is going to feel 10 times worse when all weapons are added. Feel like stats are all I can go for early on if you want to actively change gear around while leveling. I'm sure in a year or two it will feel really good but currently it is just reminds me of expedition league or kalandra league where I just see no reason to log in.

[@phishmastermike]

I like the rarity reminds me of d2 magic find I just wish it was on chr stat again lol

[@Gl0wStickss]

in-game ladder per each ascendency/character IN GAME............ SO TIRED OF 3RD PARTY BS. Weapon swapping is garbage, unless it's like CTA from diablo 2.

[@iFoss]

Wdym, weap swap is amazing

[@ItsNaberius]

Sheesh. Reading through these comments, am I the only one here having a ton of fun with this game? I've played ranger, merc, warrior, and monk so far and they have all been very fun and different. I do agree with some of the comments about the mace skills being so slow but it doesn't ruin the class

[@joelhodoborgas]

Imagine not understanding feedback to make a good game a even better one. sheesh

[@TheMikeMassengale]

There is a big difference between the spirit of early access and making people pay to be the alpha testers. It's super clear they aren't actually playing the game. They are probably making stuff works in some sandbox level and thats it. The idea of early access was never to get people to pay to be your QA team. It was to get something developed as far as you can alone and then get feedback. There is far too much in the game that clearly just wasn't ever actually given a real test run through a real campaign. I hope they get a wake up call over the holidays with how much is messed up.

[@iFoss]

Seek help dude

[@majed2488]

Touch grass

[@_unknown_guy]

It was a soft release, for a future free game, selling EA... can't deny how smart this is. GGG made a ton of money. Now how this will end up in long term, time will tell.

[@semi6544]

Why are the smartest and best players trying so hard to not play the game? I mean getting so powerful you just ignore gameplay. It is like aiming for the game to be in its most boring state. No one on the screen is competition anymore. When you get to the point where a warrior just jumps and lands on the ground over and over again without actually aiming at anyone but clears everything; is that fun? When it gets nerfed, why is that upsetting? PoE 1 exists for that degenerate gameplay. Endgame PoE 2 is just PoE 1. It is kind of sad.

[@_unknown_guy]

Well, that is PoE1 ruthless, most of the players don't like it, but there was niche part that did. PoE2 is expecting that kind of players to be it's base... Also your so called "degenerate gameplay" has nowhere to go now. There is no PoE1 league for them. I don't think you fundamentally understand PoE1 - that degenerate gameplay is the endgame target, think nowadays 10% of players get there. It works very well with 4 month cycles. From zero-to-hero each league.

[@semi6544]

@@_unknown_guy -- The degenerate game play does have somewhere to go. PoE 1 still exists and GGG says they will keep producing PoE 1 content. They don't need to satisfy the wants of PoE 1 players on PoE 2. Just stick to their original convictions.

[@semi6544]

@@_unknown_guy -- There are levels of being OP. A warrior just jumping and landing on the ground over and over again wiping out the map and creatures off the map is maybe two or three levels of OP too far. I'm using warrior in the example because many consider the warrior as one of the weaker classes. I didn't even need to mention Storm mages or Invokers.

[@Gl0wStickss]

It's funny watching these because so much poe1 based takes, not admiting how garbage unbalanced this game is. "I don't want to say anything too bad, or I'll get canceled" jesus christ. nice podcast though, ES is not broken, I'm struggling to do my 3rd asendency at level 80(ssf) only 4k ES (because some unique armor)

[@dislikeme1626]

i was alot negative to 1st week tbh but i feel like poe 2 still need solid 1-2 to complete why i have to be mad at incomplete game we all just testers xdd

[@turbanheadless]

This is Baeclast. Youre misstyping again

[@aberwood]

Palsteron steals other small creators builds and takes full credit. Bad guy.

[@Ebonbert82]

maxroll trash

[@AbsurdRenegade]

Blizzard is just the better company with WAY MORE RESOURCES and it's not even close. Tired of people pretending and trying to push a false narrative to support GGG. Diablo is king. Its shameless how much GGG took from the Diablo franchise for their mediocre game. I'm tired of people pretending. NUMBERS DON'T LIE and GGG isn't producing enough. STOP LYING TO PEOPLE FOR GGG. Stop bootlicking a basement studio. Don't come for me. You people know who you are and what your true motive is

[@iFoss]

😂😂😂😂

[@optics4062]

🤡

[@z3r0pointflux]

😮

[@majed2488]

D4 bad

[@AbsurdRenegade]

@@majed2488 numbers say otherwise 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@Ugoofy1]

Who are these unemployed nobodies? Holy shit, this was terrible.