[Megathread] Path of Exile

[Fencers]

Maybe my build is bad. This is pretty slow going.

[Edge-]

Maybe my build is bad. This is pretty slow going.

Are you parrying a lot? If not, that's maybe why. Parry is super strong and the frenzy-buffed skills feel pretty "mandatory" for the class.

Parry -> Disengage -> Triple Explosive Spear while walking back in melee range -> Rake or whatever the bleed is -> repeat.

[Fencers]

Are you parrying a lot? If not, that's maybe why. Parry is super strong and the frenzy-buffed skills feel pretty "mandatory" for the class.

Parry -> Disengage -> Triple Explosive Spear while walking back in melee range -> Rake or whatever the bleed is -> repeat.

I am attempting to parry. It seems it works only half the time? I am not sure. But I am usually having to back peddle from a huge swarm to stay alive and might be forgetting the charge or whatever I should ideally be using.

I feel like I am doing so little damage.

[Edge-]

I am attempting to parry. It seems it works only half the time? I am not sure. But I am usually having to back peddle from a huge swarm to stay alive and might be forgetting the charge or whatever I should ideally be using.

I feel like I am doing so little damage.

You have to actually be "hit" by the attack, so sometimes enemies just whif and miss your model entirely. Otherwise it's got the short coodown after you do parry.

Herding enemies around Explosive Spear has been a very successful strategy for me so far. Throw spears and then kite enemies around to clump them within range as best as possible and then mop up with Lightning Spear. The 50% reduced duration or whatever support seems very mandatory for this.

Don't expect/hope to use it too long, never been the biggest fan of delayed damage skills like this but it's working well up to level like 10ish so far (i'm working so can't play too much)

[Cyclone Jack]

Huntress might be the clunkiest design I have played in an ARPG. I gave up after I killed the worm. I don't need a full tray of skills by level 2 and play finger twister on my keyboard and mouse just to do mediocre damage.

[Fencers]

The explosive spear and the bleed move seem to be the play. All the other Tier 1 % 2 skills for spears are lackluster damage.

I don't really have a build yet.

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POE2 reminds me a lot of Darkest Dungeon 2; I like the ideas and style of the game on paper. But playing it is a drag for a long time to get a cool moment/item, then it drags some more.

POE2 even has that language bloat of Darkest Dungeon 2 relative to each game's first iteration(s). Right, like now, I am thinking about "Open Weakness", "Infusion", "Incision", or "Presence" and these are all things that could have been accomplished more elegantly within the existing and established game language of Path of Exile.

Path of Exile 2 and Darkest Dungeon 2 have/had the problem that the game designers overthought their previous design choices. A case of getting lost in the sauce, if you will.

I swear I can feel the Darkest Dungeon 2 pitfalls all over POE2.

[NoiseTank13]

Man a lot of the known PoE streamers don't look happy.

[Edge-]

I'm into A2 and...I'm waiting for T7 gems but huntress is feeling rough -_-

really need a new weapon

it's one thing I think PoE2 does very poorly right now compared to other ARPGs - playing something like grim dawn you find a good number of upgrades as you level. theoretically without gems being tied to gear you should have a lot more flexibility but...i'm like level 20 and i've been using the same spear for around 10 levels now and it's not even that great. just too broke to craft/buy and no luck with drops

[Fencers]

I got a unique spear.-15% attack speed and disables ranged attacks.

So useless.

Sweet mercy. I'm rolling Smith tomorrow. It has come to this...

[Edge-]

I got a unique spear.-15% attack speed and disables ranged attacks.

So useless.

Sweet mercy. I'm rolling Smith tomorrow. It has come to this...

Well...assuming they patch it in. Currently it doesn't exist in the game. It's a very Early Access Early Access patch : |

[Mevaya]

I am sitting here since yesterday, thinking about that i want to play in PoE2 Dawn of the Hunt.
No matter what class or build i look at - i immediatly think to myself: "this is super slow. this needs to press 6 buttons and drains all mana for one fight. this needs 6 seconds of setup each fight". i literally feel the drag of playing the build inside me and it makes me want to uninstall the game.
Dunno...guess ill just skip the update? I dont anticipate any fun for me from playing this, even though i want to.

[Edge-]

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3741050

Smith is finally back in the game.

I'm not quite so dooming as reddit, but at low level I'm definitely feeling the "where fun?" bit more than I should be : /

[Aoewy]

Feel like this patch should have stayed in the oven longer even if its been a while already.. not sure what I was expecting, initially I wanted to skip this update but ended up downloading it anyway because I was curious, but this ain't it.

[Gorsameth]

Man a lot of the known PoE streamers don't look happy.

Might be because its just not very good.

[rogoth]

Might be because its just not very good.

seems like a good snapshot of the general consensus of how the game feels right now.

and it's hilarious at the smooth brained low IQ individuals that defended these game decimating nerfs as 'needed' when the reality is that GGG have broken what was a functional foundation all because people whined like little bitches about a couple of outliers on specific classes.

Stat stacking is dead, spell casters of any kind are functionally dead as a result of the EB change, the fact that you cannot get energy shield in any form with CI taken is ridiculous when you consider just how badly nerfed character defense is now.

if you're championing this kind of game design, you need to give your head a wobble because this is utterly pathetic from GGG, and if nothing else, they have given EHG and LE the BEST free marketing they could have hoped for, this level of widespread failure is a blizzard level event, and it's hilarious to see honestly.

[Snakepit]

(YT video) seems like a good snapshot of the general consensus of how the game feels right now.

and it's hilarious at the smooth brained low IQ individuals that defended these game decimating nerfs as 'needed' when the reality is that GGG have broken what was a functional foundation all because people whined like little bitches about a couple of outliers on specific classes.

Stat stacking is dead, spell casters of any kind are functionally dead as a result of the EB change, the fact that you cannot get energy shield in any form with CI taken is ridiculous when you consider just how badly nerfed character defense is now.

if you're championing this kind of game design, you need to give your head a wobble because this is utterly pathetic from GGG, and if nothing else, they have given EHG and LE the BEST free marketing they could have hoped for, this level of widespread failure is a blizzard level event, and it's hilarious to see honestly.

Ok, apart from the fact that I confirmed my opinion that most streamers are degenerate mentally unstable nerds and need a therapist (plus reminder for myself why I chose to only be looking at a handful of the more sane ones like Wudi, Raxx, Darth, Ghazzy etc) - I did not see anything insane?

1. Bugs - yes, there are, I crashed loads last night. Within 24 hours it was mostly fixed
2. Monster scaling in campaign - I suppose they didn't test the leveling process enough, which is a huge oversight for sure and a red flag, but they've (almost, as they had to revert and we are now waiting for a redeploy) released a hotfix to reduce monster hp in the campaign by up to 25%. Problem (will be) solved with the feeling of no dmg.
3. Some people might be using the wrong builds? I remember at launch I went minion witch and minions were so bad till you scale some, that I had to move to pure elemental caster style to start killing stuff. That's pre-0.2. And I also got destroyed on my monk 3 times by first boss. Even pre-0.2 I got destroyed more often by white mobs in the early campaign than by bosses/elites in the endgame. Again, pre-0.2
4. If you look at other videos from the same streamers that are included there, there are a handful that have "this build is smashing the campaign/ this build destroys levelling". So which one is it? Can't be THAT bad, I guess

[Shpriest]

Clearly kripp just needs to git gud.

[Snakepit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bRNhNDjTfI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYWqPSGKF-o

And they must be lying, right?

[Gorsameth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bRNhNDjTfI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYWqPSGKF-o

And they must be lying, right?

"If you play the perfectly correct setup the game is fine, anything else is dogshit" is not the selling point you think it is.

A big part of PoE 1's strength is that almost anything is good enough to get you some way into maps. Despite the gap between the top meta builds and everything else being absolutely vast it doesn't stop meme builds from playing the game.

[deenman]

it literaly blows my mind how 230k people are playing this slop on steam when there is an actual fun power fantasy arpg like grim dawn on the market,it has challenging engame,and you can even start lvl 1 on ultimate if you are a poe2 masochist,but atleast its an option not forced,dying at lvl 2 to an aoe 1shot from ONE WHITE MOB in po2 is psychotic game design