>>537698448
druid looked clunky as shit from the little bit they've shown of it. It's complete comboslop. I'm only interested in shadow/templar being added

>>718964926
It's obvious that they plan on releasing weapon types with their (thematically) associated class. They could have the itemization finished since all the other weapon types have been up on poe2db since 0.1 but they won't release them until their accompanying class + ascendancies are ready.
>Swords -> Duelist
>Marauder -> Axes
>Templar -> Flails
>Druid -> (Str/Int Sceptres are out because minion builds need Spirit)
>Shadow -> Daggers/Claws/Traps

>>718965567
They don't really care for Poe1 vets right now so much as getting and retaining a new audience so overwhelming them with layers and layers of old mechanics right away will turn them off cause there's too much of a knowledge gap between Poe1 vets and noobs to the franchise currently. I think their goal is to turn Poe2 into current Poe1 *eventually* (we're seeing that now with 0.3) but that will be a gradual process to get the noobs properly acclimated to giga autism mechanics and crafting.

>>536441506
Druid WAS ready and they probably did plan on releasing it with Huntress, until they saw the playerbase's reception to Warrior/maces and held it back on purpose to rework it. There was no way it was going to be competitive in % usage along with Huntress if it was released in the state that they showed in previews.

The other left side melee builds probably all play like that in their current state which is why there's no word on Duelist and Templar either kek

>>717251902
Bears are cool. That being said they most likely held it back due to the reception that Warrior/maces got in 0.1. It would have never gotten any usage if they shipped it as is with Huntress coming from all the previews from previous years. Dunno how they'll solve the slow combo playstyle other than redoing the class from scratch though