Path of Exile 2 goes HARD on the grittiness! Fighting the Executioner

[@duskxable]

aww would have loved to see ya solo the bosses and have your reactions to the boss fights alone

[@lumek4513]

PoE has lute boxes? 21:10 BabyRage

[@lg6707]

Glad you're still enjoying it. I am too! A lot of people are too hung up on poe1 or d3/4 -I've even seen people playing minion builds complaining and they're the easiest league starter. I struggled all the way into cruel before my monk came online. The ascension bug really didn't help much because am not using a guide ,so i was counting on getting the 3rd ascendancy for my build. but into early maps with only 4 ascendency points regardless. Once i get a new token now they've fixed it will take the experience even further.

[@mike9512]

People are hung up because GGG never said they were going in a completely new direction. In interviews, the head guy literally said they had to delay the game at points because PoE 1 players weren't enjoying the experience and that isn't what they wanted to do. He specifically said they wanted to design a game that old poe players would like, and would bring in new ones. So yeah, players are hung up on not liking PoE 2 because the top guy of the design said that we would. And the game is very hard. All of the content creators I've listened to so far acknowledge that. If the player base, and the content creators, are all saying the base difficulty level is high, then it probably is.

[@Sindamsc]

5/6 ascendancy are not bugged, only 7/8. I got mine 5/6 days ago

[@PipBoykin]

The biggest issue I'm having is the laggy controls. I'm still stuck on The Executioner, but I find basing the whole experience around dodge/roll a bit disappointing -- if I wanted anything like that I would fire up Dark Souls.

[@tigerbelly2152]

wow you should livestream these.

[@robjamysan718]

Loving this game - SO much better than PoE 1!

[@EkkoMr]

i rally dont understan either. the wepon bound skill points? someone mentioned benefits to that wepon? pls someone help me :D

[@buzzardb]

Say you have a +2 lightning staff in your main hand and a +2 ice staff in your off hand. You can set your main passive points on lighting stuff and your weapon set points on ice passives You can then set your lighting skill like arc to use your mainhand and frostbolt to use your offhand Now when you use those skills they will auto switch weapons and auto switch which passive points are being used. OR you can just focus on one weapon and one skilltype and use those points completely as normal passive skill points which I imagine 99% of people will do.

[@Corusame]

The big advantage of weapon passive skill points is that with each normal SP you get you're effectively getting 2x weapon SP's. For example say you have a fire wand and a lightning staff and you currently have 6 SP to use and you've unlocked a max of 6 weapon passive SP for both both sets 1 and 2. You see there is a cluster of passive skills for fire and another for lightning, you click weapon set 1 then unlock 6 skill nodes for your fire wand. You then click weapon set 2 and do the same for 6 lightning skill nodes. Now everytime you switch between your fire wand and lightning staff your passive skill tree will automatically switch between the two elemental clusters of skills, both fire and lightning. All for the cost of just 6 skill points. If you chose to unlock all those skill normally it would have cost you 12 SP instead.

[@mike9512]

As someone who wants a reasonable challenge, the difficulty level is frustrating because it feels like GGG kind of lied with their PR, at least the stuff I heard. If they had just said we are going in a new direction, and PoE 2 is a Dark Souls like game for hardcore players only, I'd be like "okay, a little bummed, but it is what it is". Instead, it felt like they gave the impression it was building off of PoE 1, and they wanted to bring in new players. Aesthetically speaking, it's based on PoE 1, but it feels like it's for an entirely different audience.

[@ramschasar7654]

Bullshit. I know a lot of poe1 players that like it. I actually dont know even one who really dislikes it. Combat is so much more fun compared to poe1 but it still has the awesome skilltree and systems.

[@ThrallFrostwolf7]

It's my first arpg and i think it's pretty easy. iq diff i guess

[@nikovz4719]

@@ThrallFrostwolf7 its funny seeing Grubby play bc of the complaints on creep block but like Grubby is managing pretty good. Guess the RTS Wc3 creep block helped condition him xd

[@mike9512]

@ThrallFrostwolf7 when you can't bring a good argument, bring an insult.

[@mike9512]

@ramschasar7654 agree about the skill tree and systems. And a lot of the game is fun, but a lot of people are saying they don't like it, and nearly all of the content creators acknowledge the barrier to entry in terms of boss difficulty higher. I'm no better at games when I played poe 1, but the difference is there. I'm not imagining that. I'm happy you're enjoying it, and that is valid, but so are the people who are saying it's a grind compared to the first. And this gatekeeping attitude of being dismissive about people who are critical of the game is old. I'm not trying to take away anyone's enjoyment, so don't try to take away my frustrations.