Incline Path of Exile 2 - Dawn of the Hunt coming April 4th 2025

[Baron Dupek]

1k hours
full understanding
good luck with that

 

[Jermu]

300-500 hours and you should know everything about poe2

poe1 then I got 500 hours now and I don't know shit

 

[Jermu]

watch for 2 hours and get guillotine mtx finisher

live now

https://www.twitch.tv/pathofexile

 

[Baron Dupek]

we have lightning javazon at home
new endgame system
about time

 

[ADL]

 

[Israfael]

new endgame system

Where ? It seems they've added new set of towers, lol, new class, three ascendancies, rogue exiles, a bit of rollback on midcore with portals, and wisps+ghosts rolled into one. Pretty underwhelming, no meaningful changes to crafting and fracturing orb for some reason

 

[tritosine2k]

"...then we drank the kool-aid of self-reassurance haaaa haaa"

Famous last words

 

[frajaq]

Ritualist looks fucking insane

 

[Jermu]

some info here

https://pathofexile2.com/hunt

ascendancies pics

huntress does not look too busted

ritualist 1 ring slot kek one of the best passives in the game with ring+amu bonus (ingenuity will get nuked unless devs are retards)
travel nodes have downside but 15% all res is nothing

lich with mini profane bloom, looks good
unholy might you can get over 10k mana so thats extra 120% dmg

smith looks meme other than for hc res manipulation might be decent
smith masterwork again looks more hc thing with chaos dmg probably shit

tactician might completely break the game depending on how easy it is to trigger pin vs bosses (pinned enemies cannot perform actions)

fracturing orbs are nice
recombinator slot machine is back, probably not as busted as in poe1 since no meta crafting mods but considering alternatives for crafting probably gonna be mainly recomb or spamming chaos orbs in fractured base

The number of towers has been drastically reduced but they have been made much more powerful. Tablets now affect twice as many areas and running higher tier Maps in Towers increases this number further still. In addition, each Tower will be able to consume up to three Tablets at once.

well juicing is pretty easy if all tablets affect same maps

then maps have 1 to 6 portals now depending on mods (more mods less portals)


edit also 2 different support packs with different tiers (up to 90e/d each)

greedy fucks

 

[ArchAngel]

Seems they are continuing with Path of Exile 1.5 game, nothing here is hype for me. Maybe some of the unique maps with many boss fights and maybe fights vs rogue exiles are going to be fun and offer meaningful combat.

But I got a feeling I am going to be waiting for No Rest of the Wicked to come to Xbox and switch to that aRPG.

 

[ADL]

They added significantly more determinism with the recombinator and various additions of currencies and changes to the loot pools at endgame. Wouldn't say that's insignificant.

edit also 2 different support packs with different tiers (up to 90e/d each)

greedy fucks

Those are the supporter packs from PoE1's Settlers of Kalguur league. People were already buying them with the intent of using them in PoE2, they're just selling them in PoE2 now because they ported the MTX over.

 

[Israfael]

fracturing orbs are nice
recombinator slot machine is back

1) not really, because you can't turn a yellow fractured item into a blue item (and you can't fracture blues), so you can only spam chaos or annul/exalt them. So basically the same sort of random shit as it is, just with one stat saved if you completely f up the item (which is not worth the currency in trade I guess unless it's some uber important frac like +5 minion levels et al)

2) If stats are weighted in the same way as in POE1, good luck getting anything worth of value, it's just a slightly better 3-to-1 machine

 

[Jermu]

1) not really, because you can't turn a yellow fractured item into a blue item (and you can't fracture blues), so you can only spam chaos or annul/exalt them. So basically the same sort of random shit as it is, just with one stat saved if you completely f up the item (which is not worth the currency in trade I guess unless it's some uber important frac like +5 minion levels et al)

yup as I mentioned chaos spam, poe1 essence system would be handy so you could guarantee 2 mods
and yeah probably not worth it to spam except for few better mods such as spirit or +5 skill and shit

regarding recomb you can choose up to 6 mods (no randomness) but this time item either gets made or both bases gets destroyed
need to see odds before knowing how good that is but if for example you have good odds just picking 2 rare mods (amulet with +3 skill and 50 spirit for example) it should be decent

anyways I probably check out new content with my old character or skip whole patch don't have enough motivation to start at new reset, poe1 tickles my balls more now

 

[Cyberarmy]

Where is my druid GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[frajaq]

Curious if Spears are ONLY 1-Handed or if there are 2H big spears also

 

[ArchAngel]

After watching whole Q&A with ZiggyD it seems they might have nerfed most of the skills and buffed many others, but we will not know until patch notes.
Hopefully they also slowed down enemies since they still kept talking about combinations being useful in endgame.

At same time it seems there was almost zero fixes for the campaign or any added content. I feel like they will get much less players this time as they added almost nothing for the more casual playerbase that came in big numbers last time.

 

[Baron Dupek]

one of the character is wearing Ralakesh boots
wonder how they work there - just got one dropped in Phrecia yesteday from random T16 boss
but my build can't use them and most uniques outside of MB are worthless, welp

 

[Turisas]

one of the character is wearing Ralakesh boots
wonder how they work there - just got one dropped in Phrecia yesteday from random T16 boss
but my build can't use them and most uniques outside of MB are worthless, welp

You vaal them and make money out of the implicit.

Or that's the theory anyway, more like you'll brick it and then cry.

 

[Israfael]

Ralakesh + maven belts is a pretty nice combo, especially if your build scales with spell damage (so you can have both normal and alternative charges, as well as extra scaling from things like templar timeless jewel "more spell damage per charge" keystone)

 

[ItsChon]

New changes to Towers seems pretty great actually. Now I just hope they address the weighting of certain shit maps compared to the good ones. If they fix that, looking forward to running this new update.

 

[luj1]

 

[Latelistener]

I feel like them trying to tie up endgame with PoE1 at some point was a big mistake.

Campaign was really good, but it all came down to "zoom zoom" all over again.

I'm not sure if it can be fixed, but I sure as hell wish they actually relied even less on PoE1, especially when it comes to endgame content.

The patch is adding a decent amount of new content, but it won't really solve many underlying problems. It's certainly not enough for me to jump into a new league.

 

[BlackAdderBG]

PoE2 was supposed to be just a campaign and then both games would have had merged in end game. They did the opposite of what you are saying and made separate PoE2 specific end game. This is exactly what people like you wanted, so now it's time to eat the shit you ordered.

 

[luj1]

I feel like them trying to tie up endgame with PoE1 at some point was a big mistake.

Campaign was really good, but it all came down to "zoom zoom" all over again.

I'm not sure if it can be fixed, but I sure as hell wish they actually relied even less on PoE1, especially when it comes to endgame content.

The patch is adding a decent amount of new content, but it won't really solve many underlying problems. It's certainly not enough for me to jump into a new league.

You sound like a reasonable guy, what is the TLDR here? That PoE 2 started off as an expansion but gradually turned into its own thing with completely different design pillars? And now it's impossible to reconcile the camps, as it turned into an "Augean stables" type of problem?

 

[frajaq]

Anyone got the ONE GAME TWO CAMPAIGNS picture from when they first announced PoE 2