Incline Path of Exile 2 - now available on Early Access

[ArchAngel]

This style of game is dead. Much like an immune system to a virus, the human brain built up a tolerance to loot hoarder games. I don't believe it's a simple matter of POE>>>>>>Diablo or vice versa. I believe all of these games have become useless, as every fading dopamine hit in any addiction. They both suck. It's time to return to the simple days of Diablo 1.

You can also make a Sorc girlfriend in this like you did in D4 but no need to spend 70$ first. You can also spend 200+ $ to buy her bling like you did in D4. In the end she does not look like a trans like your D4 sorc girlfriend did.
This should be best game for you.. unless you get a hard on for trans.

 

[Israfael]

What a disingenious ratman, "skill system more restrictive in poe1" ,"tree is more powerful in poe2", "more one shots in poe1" (shows his true experience in the game, lol)

 

[Israfael]

What's the logic behind curses having a 1s delay after cast before they are applied?

To make us suffer, of course. Same reason why we can't use the same supports in different skills - because of 'vision' etc, like the local campaign warriors like. Hindrance for hindrances sake.

 

[ArchAngel]

What's the logic behind curses having a 1s delay after cast before they are applied?

To make you slot in the support that reduces that time (Focused Curse)

And to spend passive points on further reductions. Or to think about using Blasphemy Buff that makes it an aura.

 

[ArchAngel]

Fucking Early Access, this Infernalist is completely useless except for two builds (SRS minion and uncapped Demon Form fire spells). I finally got Demon Form and as soon as you transform you lose access to all minions including your Infernal Hound.. Also at first my Buffs also turned off but after logging out and logging in at least that part started working lol.
Also when I turned into Demon Form for first time it duplicated my Infernal Hound skill in Skill list, also at some point it was shown 3 times :D

Then I went to google about it and there seems to be million problems with this Demon Form with spports not working and other shit. Since my plan of using Demon Form and Infernal Hound to use him to take his life to power the damage support for ED went bust (and you cannot even use Zombies while in Demon Form because that skill is not a spell and it turns off Demon Form if you try to cast it) I respeced Infernal Hound and took the 2nd point behind Demon Form and went full spend time in Demon Form at 10 stacks and try to just kill stuff with ED before they kill you. Since in Demon Form you lose access to both your weapon slots bonus damage from Demon Form is nothing special and you lost any defensive or spirit benefits from 2nd weapon slot.

Not sure what to do now. I wanted to try a non summoner witch and uncapped Demon Form gameplay is too frantic for me as you are fully dependent on using healing potions all the time to stay alive and that does not fit with this supposedly slower gameplay that I wanted from PoE2.

I am thinking I just finish campaign with this character and then start a new one until they implement fixes for Demon Form.
Best part about Demon Form is if you go Exit to character selection while in Demon Form you are left looking like that in character list

 

[tritosine2k]

"Skill" gameplay is totally at odds with rpgness and tactics too. And supposed to diminish with gearing anyway and youre left with nothing.
Infinitron even tried to shut down path2 talk in chatbox as un-rpg no wonder.

 

[TedNugent]

Has anyone actually tried Warcaller ascendancy?

From what I can see, nearly everyone picked the obvious choice of Titan.

I was mostly curious about Turtle Charm which makes block work against everything rather than just working on white auto attacks.

Some guy said the proc rate did not match the character sheet block rate for so called unblockable attacks however.

 

[BlackAdderBG]

Big red flag when Jonathan talked that he wants PoE to be more action oriented. Big, big red flag.

 

[Turisas]

After playing this for a while now, I have to give it a solid

ihan paska / 5

 

[Peachcurl]

What's the logic behind curses having a 1s delay after cast before they are applied?

Makes it easier for the mobs, so they don't rage-quit.

 

[Peachcurl]

Has anyone actually tried Warcaller ascendancy?

From what I can see, nearly everyone picked the obvious choice of Titan.

I was mostly curious about Turtle Charm which makes block work against everything rather than just working on white auto attacks.

Some guy said the proc rate did not match the character sheet block rate for so called unblockable attacks however.

Warbringer.

I picked it for the totems, and that char is not yet at 3rd ascendency, so no clue about the weird block stuff.

 

[Jaedar]

Fucking Early Access, this Infernalist is completely useless except for two builds (SRS minion and uncapped Demon Form fire spells). I finally got Demon Form and as soon as you transform you lose access to all minions including your Infernal Hound.. Also at first my Buffs also turned off but after logging out and logging in at least that part started working lol.

Lul. Early access indeed.

 

[Filthy Sauce]

I'm not a sucker for cosmetics/pets, but today in camp, I saw a tiny black cat, floating and swimming through the air doing summersaults and barrel rolls....but It ain't in the shop!?! Whut?!?

 

[ADL]

https://www.pathofexile.com/shop/item/CelestialCatPet
A lot of stuff that technically works in PoE2 isn't being sold in the PoE2 shop yet. I'm guessing it was for optics of not having thousands of MTX in the day one early access version and testing the new preview functionality.

 

[Jermu]

seems like vaal can add extra socket, this seems the best item so far I have made (bought base without life)

 

[mediocrepoet]

Pages and pages of pets and no battle chihuahua? These guys can eat my ass.

 

[Israfael]

I picked it for the totems, and that char is not yet at 3rd ascendency, so no clue about the weird block stuff.

I was under impression that you can't ever reset ascendancy points but it is available via

Spoiler

Doriani

respec menu. No need to redo the labs to respec ascendancy points, just gold. Also, it seems they've went back on atlas getting bricked if you fail a map, now it just the extra stuff (bosses, beyond, deli etc) that disapppears. It's actually quite ironic that Titan is good at packs in campaign, but is actually a yellow mob/bosser class in the maps (well, at least low tier ones, but I guess with this sort of Anvil /Sunder scaling it should be the same wholethrough). It seems chaos res is again very important, like half the mobs have chaos projectiles and ground effects, I mostly die to those.

 

[lukaszek]

seems like vaal can add extra socket, this seems the best item so far I have made (bought base without life)

i was surprised to find out that i can slap a socket on unique robe

 

[lametta]

ascendency skip seems to be a thing

https://youtu.be/yEgHkJ7Fshc?si=0mHyqs-8y3RtvwtQ

 

[Emmanuel2]

Reached level 90 last night. Straight up farming Ultimatum 10 trials, and t15s.

Started out with bolts as a meme, they're super bad unsurprisingly, so I switched to grenades for Cruel. Using a homebrewed grenadier build that doesn't abuse the gas nade? thing that people are talking about. Running blink, wind dancer, and blasphemy (flammability) for auras.


Loved the campaign -- the pacing, the mechanics, the deliberateness, and the overall design.

But I was disappointed with the endgame being pretty much PoE1 but slower, a complete 180 turn from the campaign. You still need "auto"-defences like high 60+ evasion/block (both buffed to also involve spell hits automatically), a large ehp pool (armour, raw ES), and 50+ chaos res (something that wasn't required in the early days of PoE1 funny enough). Giga AoE room clears are a must or else you just die due to getting swarmed.

On-death mechanics also return and are a bitch and a half especially once you start stacking additional mods on rare mobs via Atlas Passives, AKA the only real way to make real currency. Using Breach? Get those rare nodes so that your breach rares are more juiced. Using Delirium? Get those rare nodes so that your deli rares are more juiced... etc. etc.

I recommend it for first time Path of Exile players, especially just running through the campaign once; but it's gonna be really, really mixed for veterans.

EDIT: I also forgot to mention the whole build diversity thing. Everything feels cookie cutter, especially the way how the passive tree is structured AND having most skills locked behind weapons/entire archetypes pretty much. The combo/enabler gameplay doesn't help either.

There are no "highways" for you to use so you can traverse to a different side of the tree with minimal points. There are so many filler nodes that branch to practically useless singular trees in your way that it's almost always not worth pathing for something original.

 

[Fedora Master]

Honeymoon's over huh? Good to see you people figured out what took me all of 20 minutes.

 

[TedNugent]

But I was disappointed with the endgame being pretty much PoE1 but slower, a complete 180 turn from the campaign. You still need "auto"-defences like high 60+ evasion/block (both buffed to also involve spell hits automatically), a large ehp pool (armour, raw ES), and 50+ chaos res (something that wasn't required in the early days of PoE1 funny enough). Giga AoE room clears are a must or else you just die due to getting swarmed.

In that case, turtle charm is worth it after all, I take it, for the passive block % against all hits?

How does ascendancy actually work? Obviously you unlock the nodes, but once selected, you're stuck with it, right? Is there any way to unlock another path or respec your ascendancy?

 

[ArchAngel]

Reached level 90 last night. Straight up farming Ultimatum 10 trials, and t15s.

Started out with bolts as a meme, they're super bad unsurprisingly, so I switched to grenades for Cruel. Using a homebrewed grenadier build that doesn't abuse the gas nade? thing that people are talking about. Running blink, wind dancer, and blasphemy (flammability) for auras.


Loved the campaign -- the pacing, the mechanics, the deliberateness, and the overall design.

But I was disappointed with the endgame being pretty much PoE1 but slower, a complete 180 turn from the campaign. You still need "auto"-defences like high 60+ evasion/block (both buffed to also involve spell hits automatically), a large ehp pool (armour, raw ES), and 50+ chaos res (something that wasn't required in the early days of PoE1 funny enough). Giga AoE room clears are a must or else you just die due to getting swarmed.

On-death mechanics also return and are a bitch and a half especially once you start stacking additional mods on rare mobs via Atlas Passives, AKA the only real way to make real currency. Using Breach? Get those rare nodes so that your breach rares are more juiced. Using Delirium? Get those rare nodes so that your deli rares are more juiced... etc. etc.

I recommend it for first time Path of Exile players, especially just running through the campaign once; but it's gonna be really, really mixed for veterans.

EDIT: I also forgot to mention the whole build diversity thing. Everything feels cookie cutter, especially the way how the passive tree is structured AND having most skills locked behind weapons/entire archetypes pretty much. The combo/enabler gameplay doesn't help either.

There are no "highways" for you to use so you can traverse to a different side of the tree with minimal points. There are so many filler nodes that branch to practically useless singular trees in your way that it's almost always not worth pathing for something original.

That is funny. And Krip complained that auto defences mean nothing in end game and you need to dodge attacks or get one shot.

 

[Jermu]

Krip was a good player back in early poe1 beta but seems kinda retarded sellout nowadays, does sponsor streams daily and only grinded heartstone for 10 years since that was were the money was

reached lvl 11 maps today, blasting through em after upgrading gear seems too strong skill. pretty safe too since you kill stuff 3 screens distance

I do melee next after Im done with this char ranged can abuse/skip quite many mechanics

I was hoping I would get good enough early access so I can do hc at release but there are too many bs mechanics for me like wait 5 seconds every time you kill rare enemy in case of corpse explode and shit. main campaign hc is something I do at some point but not mapping

downloaded sidekick for fast price checking seems to work well

 

[abija]

How does ascendancy actually work? Obviously you unlock the nodes, but once selected, you're stuck with it, right? Is there any way to unlock another path or respec your ascendancy?

You respec same way as the tree but more expensive. I remember them saying you won't be able to switch ascendancy but no idea if they stuck with it.