Incline Path of Exile 2 - now available on Early Access

[blessed king of longing]

Anybody else experiencing freezes sometimes when the game is loading in to area? Happened to me three times so far and I had to power off the computer and turn it back on.

let me guess, ayymd?

lolyes. Tho it happens on intel cpu's also but less so.

hasn't happened to me yet, knock on wood Nvintel chuds

 

[Lacrymas]

I feel like people have shit builds in order to have such problems with bosses. It's almost as if people just google "PoE meta build" when playing PoE1 and don't think twice. Since there are no meta builds yet, people are struggling to make a functioning (not even decent, just functioning) build.

Builds? I spent hours experimenting with the skills and how they combo. Shit is shit no matter how you try to polish it. There are few things you can do, with high chance of failure that do more dmg than basic attack.
I don't know how the various tidbits will arrange in end game, maybe it's possible you can get some coherent gameplay. But atm, while leveling, warrior is an absurdity. And I'm not talking performance wise since it's the first class I played. Game wasn't particularly difficult when i was sticking with the obvious spam basic attack 90% of the time. But I keep trying to understand what the actual fuck those designers were thinking, and trying various things and so far... NOTHING.

As far as I understand it, warrior scales with gear rather than build quality as such. Get regal orbs/salvage shit items and upgrade good items I guess. I'm not a warrior guy myself, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[blessed king of longing]

forgot to add:

socketing runes shouldn't be permanent either. it just punishes mistakes / low information players for no discernible reason

same with ascendancy, if you pick the wrong one you have bricked your character for endgame more or less

 

[Israfael]

As far as I understand it, warrior scales with gear rather than build quality as such. Get regal orbs/salvage shit items and upgrade good items I guess. I'm not a warrior guy myself, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So if you don't play warr why even advise ? I've got like 5 regals and 5 exalts in three acts, got bad rolls and vendored 3 of 5 resulting items. Judging from the fact that they consistently nerf 'outlier' skills, it seems this cerebral gamestyle of 'press m2 until you or boss dies' is the intented way to play

 

[Israfael]

same with ascendancy, if you pick the wrong one you have bricked your character for endgame more or less

What's fun the Titan ascendancy has nodes that basically make heavy stun to autoapply after the bar is filled, which ruins boneshatter. I've already seen a few messages on reddit and ggg forums of how people ruined this zdps class even further

 

[Deflowerer]

Need to get on this asap as I know they will eventually submit to your average braindead POE fan.

 

[geno]

I feel like people have shit builds in order to have such problems with bosses. It's almost as if people just google "PoE meta build" when playing PoE1 and don't think twice. Since there are no meta builds yet, people are struggling to make a functioning (not even decent, just functioning) build.

My theory is that newcomers have the advantage of not playing this relying on their muscle memory: I suspect veterans go to zones above their actual love and ignore rare and unique bosses who don't give them permanent rewards. Just to make an act in about 1 hour, wich is not feasible if you start with an empty stash and don't know what equipment you'll need for act bosses.
I didn't need to grind, just check all the map markers for bosses and chests and take care of my gear if things get too rough.
I can't imagine what will happen when these people finally reach NG+

 

[Lacrymas]

As far as I understand it, warrior scales with gear rather than build quality as such. Get regal orbs/salvage shit items and upgrade good items I guess. I'm not a warrior guy myself, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So if you don't play warr why even advise ? I've got like 5 regals and 5 exalts in three acts, got bad rolls and vendored 3 of 5 resulting items. Judging from the fact that they consistently nerf 'outlier' skills, it seems this cerebral gamestyle of 'press m2 until you or boss dies' is the intented way to play

This is me assuming the build is good btw. Stuff like all the 12% damage to two-handers nodes in the skill tree if you are playing with a two-hander. You know, the basics. Sure, you might've had very shit luck with items and it might be the case that warrior itself is extremely bad without good items (I doubt it), but just farm stuff you can easily farm, it's a farming game. Hack and slashers are the easiest games on the market right now, PoE2 isn't as difficult or as unfair as people are making out to be. If I were them, I'd up the difficulty even more. Seeing as how the devs are on a crusade to mercilessly nerf everything perceived to trivialize the game, their vision seems to align with mine. They already nerfed Supercharged Slam by 60% (!), so I'm assuming warrior isn't as bad as people make it out to be.

 

[tritosine2k]

Streamer verdict™ is mostly in and anti-fedora who could have guessed. Foot the bill though

 

[geno]

Anybody else experiencing freezes sometimes when the game is loading in to area? Happened to me three times so far and I had to power off the computer and turn it back on.

If your whole PC freezes and not just the game that is an issue with your PC. If the game froze you do not need to power off the computer.

Nah it's not the pc it's the game. I am not the only one, there is a 50 pages thread on their official forum with people having the same problem.

I heard it's about the game pausing if it has issues connecting to the server. The usual cancer of always online games.

warrior.

Weird. Just when i posted i got jawellers orb and then second one 15 min later. I think if you redo previous areas they have boosted rarity or something.

I think this is the case. I only have reran 2 (rare) bosses and they dropped yellow gear, one of them even 3 yellow items at once.

 

[blessed king of longing]

i reran some areas when playing solo (after doing them with a friend) and i swear i see more stuff like runes etc. the feeling i got was the same, as if they in a hidden way made farming areas multiple times more lucrative

 

[Israfael]

. They already nerfed Supercharged Slam by 60% (!), so I'm assuming warrior isn't as bad as people make it out to be.

Have you checked when this skill is available? It's literally act 5 or 6, so no one except Alkaiser got to use it before it was removed. Instead of theorising just play the game and report on results, I actually am playing and not just watching some streamers etc.

My theory is that newcomers have the advantage of not playing this relying on their muscle memory: I suspect veterans go to zones above their actual love and ignore rare and unique bosses who don't give them permanent rewards

While I'm no veteran (just measly 3000 hours or so), I've killed every mini boss, did all the stuff and it's still the same boring slog. And it's actually the other way around - people who play meta™ builds (like meteor sorc or the grenades before they were nerfed) were cruising through the game, killing boses in under a minute and geniunely not understanding how can someone struggle. But no worries, GGG seems intent on nerfing everyone to the Warrior's level

 

[Lacrymas]

But no worries, GGG seems intent on nerfing everyone to the Warrior's level

Music to my ears.

 

[Artyoan]

Played to level 10 last night as a Sorceress. Early random thoughts:
-I'm using a large range of skills consistently and the spells look great
-The passive skill tree seems intimidating but I've had what seems an obvious path to follow with increased spell damage, cast speed, and crit
-One death total. Against a boss that enclosed me in a bone circle and blasted me to death, easy enough to get out of it though, I just didn't realize I needed to projectile blast out the first time
-Mana has not been an issue. I have a flask but have used it maybe twice.
-Inflow of loot has been appropriate. Got a couple rares that are very nice and got a staff that can cast level 4 ice shards now.
-I've crashed to desktop four times. At least two of them are within ten seconds of loading into a new area. So I suspect the freezing bug affecting some people is causing this.
-I'm already not paying much attention to dialogue, the story is of little interest to me.
-Music and tone are great.
-Enemy variety is outstanding. Some enemies are zombie walking my way, others are teleporting up to me, others are wolves nipping at me while I roll away. One enemy deflected my projectile attacks so I had to actually consider what I was doing.
-Bosses are impressive. A lot going on and it has been easy to see so far.
-Comparisons to Dark Souls and Elden Ring are overblown. Yes, rolling is a necessity but I'm not rolling constantly. I'm rolling when I need to and just moving most of the time.
-Using a controller feels outstanding to me. Even inventory management hasn't been annoying. Spells are going where I want them to as well.
-Global chat seems to be full of people getting their asses kicked and venting

Obviously I'm early in the game but this is easily the best top-down arpg I've played. I strongly dislike wading through hordes with ease just to get gear to wade through them even easier. Efficiency for it's own sake sucks. This so far feels like gear is acquired to get over a hurdle and my mind doesn't get to go on auto-pilot.

 

[Hobo Elf]

Played to level 10 last night as a Sorceress. Early random thoughts:

-Comparisons to Dark Souls and Elden Ring are overblown. Yes, rolling is a necessity but I'm not rolling constantly. I'm rolling when I need to and just moving most of the time.

Play further. It's not exactly like Dark Souls, but there is a lot more rolling involved in the later boss fights. The early game bosses can be avoided with strafing a lot easier than the later fights, though I think strafing can also be a viable tactic later on if you have a good amount of movement speed.

 

[darkpatriot]

Hating the addition of spirit and active dodging/blocking.

Boss battles are just exercises in spamming dodge (both manually moving away and the actual space bar roll) now, which you spend half of the time or more doing. And it imbalances it heavily in favor of ranged attacks.

I am playing a melee witch, and so far for most of the bosses in the later act of act 1 I wound up beating by just dodging out of their attacks while pelting them with my one ranged attack (one of the starting spells the witch gets). This isn't fun, this is just tedious. And I don't want to make my ranged spells stronger because I am want a melee witch, not a spell casting witch. I try doing it melee first, but I run out of health and potions when they are still at around 1/3 to 1/2 health, so then I spend the rest of the time dodging around with no health potions while pelting them with that one ranged attack.

And for spirit I don't want to have to have a fucking scepter in my shield spot just to have my skelefriends. Nothing was wrong with just having permanent summons reserve your mana. I don't really have much use for mana aside from that, and not having the extra defense from a shield is noticeable. I really hope there are some ways to get spirit that don't involve wasting my shield slot on a scepter so I can properly have my melee witch that fights with her skelefriends.

 

[BlackAdderBG]

Attack, attack, roll! Attack, attack, roll! Attack, attack, roll!

 

[frajaq]

I'm having fun banging my head in HCSSF so far, any fellow retards?

 

[blessed king of longing]

I'm having fun banging my head in HCSSF so far, any fellow retards?

no way, this game isnt figured out nearly enough to do it - and i still wouldnt even if that were the case. also gear is not easy to come by when it starts mattering (mid-late act 2) so SSF is just further kicking yourself in the balls. i assume you can't even use the currency market, so you will be having an even harder time rolling the meager amounts of gear you can get your hands on

 

[Lacrymas]

HC is usually a game of knowledge, I doubt anyone is mapping on HC right now.

 

[ArchAngel]

I'm having fun banging my head in HCSSF so far, any fellow retards?

Do not forget that you can pause the game at any time and reset to nearest checkpoint so just be careful to not die to one shots.

 

[Israfael]

retards

We prefer the term 'poepithecs', bigot!

 

[Peachcurl]

I feel like people have shit builds in order to have such problems with bosses. It's almost as if people just google "PoE meta build" when playing PoE1 and don't think twice. Since there are no meta builds yet, people are struggling to make a functioning (not even decent, just functioning) build.

Builds? I spent hours experimenting with the skills and how they combo. Shit is shit no matter how you try to polish it. There are few things you can do, with high chance of failure that do more dmg than basic attack.
I don't know how the various tidbits will arrange in end game, maybe it's possible you can get some coherent gameplay. But atm, while leveling, warrior is an absurdity. And I'm not talking performance wise since it's the first class I played. Game wasn't particularly difficult when i was sticking with the obvious spam basic attack 90% of the time. But I keep trying to understand what the actual fuck those designers were thinking, and trying various things and so far... NOTHING.

As far as I understand it, warrior scales with gear rather than build quality as such. Get regal orbs/salvage shit items and upgrade good items I guess. I'm not a warrior guy myself, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That depends on what skills you use as a warrior. For instance, Totems don't use your weapon, so they don't scale with its damage.

 

[Dr1f7]

I'm having fun banging my head in HCSSF so far, any fellow retards?

i don't understand people playing HC on a blind arpg run thru, u know there's going to be some gimmicky thing that 1-shots you and then it's like bye-bye-10 hours

 

[Robber Baron]

My only complaint is armor and character design which are pretty meh. I really really hate female proportions here.