0.3, what we know so far:

Basically confirmed:
>act 4 and with it more zones/bosses
>Kingsmarch (hub city of act 4, most likely with similar mechanics as settlers league)
>TotA as the 3rd ascension mechanic and new late-game farm
>a league mechanic with new crafting, juicing and pinnacle content
>more ascensions
>full rebalance of bad skills/ascensions and the tree

Speculative:
>Druid and transformation gems
>Shadow, dagger and mine/trap support
>Complete re-balance of player and monster movement speed
>Expansion of previously introduced mechanics (more atlas nodes)
>On the fly switching between KBM and controller
>Auction house trading
>Endgame/Tower revamp

Are you hyped or is it too little too late?

>>717335325 (OP)
poop of dogshit lol

>>full rebalance of bad skills/ascensions and the tree
oh boy, can't wait for melee to still be dogshit

>>717335325 (OP)
This game is so over bloated in beta I can't possibly imagine what it would look like on launch. What was the point of making an entirely new game if you're going to port 10 years of shitty mechanics and systems into it? Outside of a few system changes like how gems work the game is identical to the first one with just a lot less content.

I feel like mines will be super busted in PoE2.

One of the best parts about Act 4 is that you won't have to play Act 3 twice.

where has any of this been confirmed

>>717335619
filtered

>>717335814
We know that TotA and Kingsmarch are in act 4 because of the artbook and previous showcases, they confirmed a full league mechanic in the announcement, there already was a leak for a new Monk ascension and the re-balance was confirmed in an interview.

For the speculative stuff, that's all shit we know they are working on, but if they make it into 0.3 is anyone's guess.

>tota
why are they adding the worst mechanics first

>>717335325 (OP)
>full rebalance of bad skills
hahahaha
doubt it

>>717335619
What do you find bloated about Path of Exile 2? I personally find it rather simple right now.

Unless there are leaks, you can never really predict what GGG is gonna do.
They're Schizo designers.

>>717335619
>bloated
I got through the beta spamming 3 moves with the warrior or whatever its called, I tried other skills but they weren't as good so I was incentivized to keep doing the same shit, its too primitive.

>>717335325 (OP)
unless we get shadow and melee is actually viable (i have been asking this ever since 3.7) i will not be coming back

My wish list:

-Armor/life balance. Bring it in line with evasion/energy shield

-Passive tree rework. Right now it feels like you're only collecting damage/crit nodes and that's it. Add some more defensive nodes.

-Ascension rework. Trials of the Sekhemas is the worst part of PoE 2 imo. I can't believe they did away with the labyrinth.

-Give us alterations/scourings. Early game crafting still feels like you're flinging shit at the wall, praying you get the resist you're looking for.

-Make reforging/salvage benches the same. Such a pain in the ass to come back to town and click on a bunch of different tables and vendors.

>>717335619
Wat. There is significantly less content and bloat than PoE 1. Have you even played the game? It's like breach, delirium, strongboxes and rogue exiles.

>>717335325 (OP)
>paying to beta test this garbage
LMAO

My hopium take is this: they know they have to impress with 0.3 or the reputation for the game will be fucked for a long, long time. That's why we didn't get any more patches for both games, because they are trying their best to get as much shit done as possible.

>>717335619
What is this brain dead take lul. It's bloated but has significantly less content? Huh???

>>717336726
It's been a while since a game gave me this much fun for 30 bucks.

>>717335325 (OP)
6 acts otherwise i'm not playing the same shit over an over.

>>717335619
I wouldn't call it bloated but the general game design and systems are at complete odds with one another. The developers want you to use skill combos and take deliberate actions, while also making the endgame consist of very fast hard hitting monsters and also the progression being on the grindier side which again punishes builds that don't destroy a screen in a click or two.

>>717336596
Slams are good in poe1 right now

>>717337464
The game definitely has a "numbers problem". Some skills simply don't deal enough damage, and most end game builds are built around one button clearing anyway so they've clearly failed applying their design philosophy.

>"lets make a new game!"
>"with the same mechanics as the old one!"
why

>>717336443
>>717336595
>>717336680
>>717336743
strongboxes/essences/breach/expedition/ritual/delirium/atlas trees/towers could all be removed and it would not fundimentally change the endgame (which is boring and repetitive with map levels not mattering almost at all until you reach 15+). Which begs the question why are they even in the game and we get dev time wasted on them when your eng game maps feel like something that was made in a weekend?

Also I'm sorry to say but if you're currencies tab looks like this and yet crafting still feels awful to play with then you have failed as a designer. There's simply no reason to have all of this crap in the game when it serves no purpose outside of ''Well it was in the first game, so lets just put it in the second one, huehue!''. There's nothing there, It's just coats and coats of paint on a rundown shed. This does not look like intelligent design to me.

It's always the same pattern:

>trailer drops
>poe community goes nuts
>everybody hyped to play
>league starts
>people like fubgun and emyrian break the game and farm 50 mirrors week one and make insane builds
>casuals and dadgamers everywhere start crying that they can't play the same build as youtube man
>player count falls off a cliff
>rinse and repeat next league

>>717337678
That probably took very little effort to implement compared to actual game content.

>>717335325 (OP)
>act 4 and with it more zones/bosses
Maybe i am the only one
But I wish they just dropped the campaign
Endgame is fun. Campaign is not

>>717335325 (OP)
Are they allowing me to use skills from lower levels like in PoE 1 or do I still have to play 10+ hours to get into maps and only then I unlock the most interesting spells/abilities?
If the latter, they can go fuck themselves and I will just play TQ 2 even if it has barely any content.

>>717335325 (OP)
Make the game actually require skill and make mobs and bosses 10x stronger.

I know they won't and the game will keep being about destroying the entire screen in 2 seconds to pick up loot as quickly as possible. Rinse and repeat.

>>717335325 (OP)
I gave up on PoE2 following 0.2.0, not because I disliked Huntress or the difficulty balancing, but because it was a buggy unstable mess.

Not even 0.1.0 was as bad as 0.2.0 in terms of shit simply not working, and server disconnecting every 5 minutes. I lost so much progress on 0.2.0 on my huntress.

I also dislike how they caved in to casuals wanting to ignore parrying. I enjoyed the parry/counter gameplay a lot.

Really on the fence as to whether I even bother with 0.3 now, given GGG's track record with shitty server stability. I imagine many will do the same, we've just given up trusting there'll be any semblance of a smooth gameplay experience.

BUT IT'S EA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111

Yeah fuck off. They're still charging for MTX and shit, they need to provide a playable gameplay experience at the very least. Basic shit that should just be working. You don't make money by pissing everyone off.

>>717335619
It's maybe 20% of PoE1 the hell are you going on about

>>717336112
It was originally intended to be a PoE2 mechanic that was backported into PoE1 along with Sanctum. You'll find most of the least liked PoE1 mechanics were originally intended for PoE2.

>>717338053
>Are they allowing me to use skills from lower levels like in PoE 1
What are you talking about? PoE also has level requirements for gems.

Last epoch season 3 on the 21st

>>717338386
Not reading that shit. The formatting alone exudes mental illness.

no dagger no play

>>717338452
Yes, it does. And you unlock all gems by end of act 3. Meanwhile in PoE 2 a bunch of gems are only unlocked after you get to maps, something around lvl 68 iirc. Also getting to lvl 38 in PoE 1 takes 1h30 min for someone who knows the game well on a new start. Getting to lvl 70~ in PoE 2 takes 10h~ I was in that argument once before, so I checked a bunch of launch streams for the last PoE 2 league, and people like steel, ziz, even racers like darkee/ben took 10h~ to get there.
Which is dogshit, and I have other games to play if PoE 2 expects me to not have fun for 10h but later, oh later it gets good I swear. I would rather play a game that is fun from the first hour onwards.

>>717335325 (OP)
>Auction house trading
It's insane it doesn't already have this.

There should be some kind of story-like progression in maps, where you move from one biome to another and there's a semblance of doing something. As is, the game is just a boring grind.

>>717338843
It has it for commodities

>>717335325 (OP)
Ill wait to release
Theres only so many times I can repeat act 1-3 again
Even with a twinked out character its such a slog, had to switch to hardcore last league just so I could feel something besides disdain

>>717338617
>And you unlock all gems by end of act 3.
Yeah, no. I get the point that you're trying to make but this is just fucking wrong. Even if we ignore Enlighten etc, there's still the issue of transfigured gems.

In PoE2 most core skills come online at around lvl 20-40, the gems past that are strong, but they are mostly build enhancing, not build enabling. In PoE half the meta skills are transfigured and farming them day 1 is giga cancer and I'll take a higher level requirement any day of the week. I started VFoS in SSF this league and had to do 37(!) lab runs to get it.

Auction house trading would fundamentally change the entire economy of the game. Right now I'm not selling anything that isn't work at least a div, and even for that I'm often too lazy to leave the map.

>>717335325 (OP)
>attempt to "diablify" PoE
>end up not satisfying anyone

>>717339265
>but they are mostly build enhancing, not build enabling
Bullshit. You literally don't get cast on X skills until lvl 68. A bunch of literally build defining skills are unusable until maps. Same with the minions can be targeted as corpses ability. Also 68+

However fair. Trans gems are a thing in PoE 1, but there are maybe a handful that could not be used in their base configuration. And the most important, you can buy them. I can just buy a FRoS gem and use it at lvl fucking 16.
Have fun playing PoE 2, if you enjoy being miserable. But the cadence at which you obtain abilities, is objectively worse than PoE 1. I will be playing a game that does not force me into hours of C'n'B torture just to have some fun in the lategame. Which is also an objective downgrade from PoE 1, with less choice.

>>717338508
zoomie can't comprehend text longer than 140 characters

>>717339469
And you think an AH would improve this? retard.

>>717339563
>PoE 2 is setting trends every other ARPG is copying
>They copies shitablo 4!!

Ok dude.

>You're making an ARPG in 2025, but you're stuck in 1999

https://webcdn.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3687939/page/1

>>717335619
>Bloated
Your mind on buzzwords

Fully confirmed
>game still has a dodge button
>game still has korean-tier flashy animation-locking abilities
>game still has gold
>game still has cooldowns

>kingsmarch

>>717340651
And? PoE 1 has all of these too.

>>717340743
cope.
seethe.
poetroons are basically the new diablotoddlers

>>717340743
>PoE 1 has all of these too
They finally updated PoE1 for modern audiences?

AIIEEEEEEE I CAN'T STAND THESE KOREANTIER ANIMATIONS!!!

>>717335325 (OP)
Poop2 was designed to heavily incentivize RMT, that goes against every core principle of ARPG.
Untill they fix the loot it will never be a good game.
Did they fix it in 0.3? No.
Into the trash it goes then.
I have LE 1.3 coming soon and GD to provide with an enjoyable experience.

>>717335619
Because it is not a beta.
EA = Release
0.1, 0.2, 0.3 etc = 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc.
1.0 = game at the end of its cycle.
Everything that will come after would be maintanance mode and PoE3 advertisement cycle starting.

>>717341834
>heavily incentivize RMT
thats a good thing though
have you ever sold divines at league start? easy money

>>717341039
So is that the same character from the first game?

>>717339967
Yeah, you're right. He literally wrote it like a series of tweets instead of just structuring his thoughts properly. lmao

>>717340651
Oh so the game is actually good and not a gookclicker one button ARG slop? Sign me up.

>>717335325 (OP)
Tota and kingsmarch being added would be the death of this game for me. I want good encounters and action combat with an exploitable world and interesting maps/tilesets. I could give two shits about memorizing the disparate rules of a dozen different gimmicks and carnival rides plopped into the game.

That's the shit that ruined poe1 and they're just going to bloat the shit out of 2 from the get go?

>>717342121
>wow the game has all the stuff that we have criticized into oblivions at everychance since day 1 of the release of PoE1? sign me up!
poebots are so cute

>>717335325 (OP)
>TotA as the 3rd ascension mechanic and new late-game farm
The fuck is this
I never played poe1

>>717337678
That's the thing about poe players. They exalt all of the games 'content' but all if it boils down to random bullshit thrown into the same map tilesets they've have for 10 years. Literal vomit-inducing gimmicks just plucked into the middle of a zone is "content" to these people.

>3 weeks away from release
>is not even announced yet

Mercs are more or less confirmed, too. The mercs in 3.26 literally use the PoE2 skill system.

>>717342107
>Separating different points by using line breaks is somehow signs of a mental illness, or posting structure of twitter.

Anon.............................. I think you might be retarded.
My condolences.

>>717342061
No PoE 2 is 20 years after PoE 1.
Unlike PoE 1 where all the characters backstories revolted around Oriath, In PoE 2 their backstories are intertwined with the entire world with the different regions, cultures and religious groups etc.

>>717335325 (OP)
Dead game

they should have stolen combat ideas from lost ark. Lost Ark is a kino game but it's crippled by Korean monetization and progression.

>>717343016
Asala owes me sex for stealing my Jamanra kill

>>717343016
Hips too wide.

>>717343118
I fucking knew it. I went and read the first 2 paragraphs and they instantly prove me right:

>I gave up on PoE2 following 0.2.0, not because I disliked Huntress or the difficulty balancing, but because it was a buggy unstable mess.

>Not even 0.1.0 was as bad as 0.2.0 in terms of shit simply not working, and server disconnecting every 5 minutes. I lost so much progress on 0.2.0 on my huntress.

These aren't 2 separate points, this is a disjointed mess. You could have just said: "I dropped the game after 0.2 because of the constant disconnects" and conveyed the same information. Learn to structure your thoughts.

>>717343952
The thoughts were structured, just not in a way that wouldn't trigger your specific type of autism/ OCD.

It isn't anyone's job to satisfy your textual requirements. If written word causes you to sperg out that badly, perhaps anything literally internet related isn't the best fit for you.

Maybe touch grass?

>>717335325 (OP)
>Auction house trading
I will never ever play PoE again if they add this.

>>717338041
Honestly, the campaign is pretty enjoyable compared to PoE1. The main issues arise from:
>Having to do it twice (especially Act 3 which is a slog and easily the worst part of the leveling process)
>Knowing a Skill is good.. once you get tier 2 Support Gems, which is where almost all the good ones that aren't pure damage are

>>717344450
>actually wasting time with chinese bots is part of the experience!
Good, this genre needs less troons

>>717344450
I'm baffled this game basically requires you to trade to progress in, and at the same time the trading system consists on looking for items on a fucking website to then manually chat with the seller (and receive no replies).

>>717344886
>genre
Why should PoE be like every other shit game in this genre when it already stands at the top? It's entire appeal is its unique crafting system and economy. If you add an AH it'll just become a boring and shitty World of Warcaft daily quest simulator. The level of resistance is important for keeping the economy healthy and making itemization fun. I am dead serious when I say this is the one thing GGG could do that would make me never play their games again. Who uses the AH in Diablo 4 or Last Epoch? No one, because the economy is fucking dead and broken.

>>717345196
>and receive no replies
This is a skill issue on your part, I've made over a hundred trades in a single day. If you aren't making deals you are doing something wrong. It's something that has to be learned and mastered, just like any other gameplay mechanic.

>>717339265
Transfigured gems don't have higher level requirements. Enlighten is not a skill gem

>>717335325 (OP)
the game has been so fucking bad that I forgot druid was even a thing
jonathan should be put in a cage

They could drastically reduce enemy headcoun5s while drastically upping droprates, but perhaps that would make too much sense while poe1tards keep screeching for how you need to be able to clear tightpacked maps in 90 seconds

>People responding to the avatarfag again

>>717345958
They only started screeching because that's what the endgame is. Were it not so, they'd howl a different tune.

I really, really don't fucking get it. Why does the community want GGG to alternate between PoE and PoE2 updates? PoE is a fucking overbloated mess already, let them focus on PoE2.

>>717342729
It's an autobattler mode from a widely disliked league.

>>717346206
The community doesn't want GGG to alternate, they want PoE1 to die.
GGG are the ones that said they're going to go back and forth. People just try to hold them to that.

>>717347219
I don't want PoE to die, I want it to go into maintenance mode. They have no many league mechanics at this point, they could just combine 2 every 3-4 months and we would have "fresh" content for literal decades.

Tencent shill thread

>>717347362
>combine 2
But that's not maintenance mode.
Maintenance is something super simple like "this mechanic spawns every zone" and "we buffed Ground Slam by 2%."
Entire mechanic mashups would be quite a lot of effort.
I'd prefer PoE1 to be killed off and repackaged as a single-player experience with peer-to-peer connectivity. Like Grim Dawn.

>>717347582
>I'd prefer PoE1 to be killed off and repackaged as a single-player experience with peer-to-peer connectivity. Like Grim Dawn.
I'm beginning to realize it's not that people want PoE to be changed so they can play it, they want it to be changed so others won't play it any more. It's a crab in the bucket mentality.

No ARPG should be played offline btw, you're absolutely mentally retarded if you're doing that. Play literally anything else. I have no idea what sparked this infantile regression in milennials, you have people playing offline WoW with AI bots now. It's just so strange that people like this exist.

Okay.

>rebalance of movespeed
This better happen. The movement is so extremely slow that the game is unplayable. The maps are built for PoE1 movespeed but we move at like 1/4th that speed

Zooming is retarded and unfun, anyone who likes it has no idea how to play an arpg

reminder that poe cultists unironically paid GGG in time and money to do their jobs for them, only to have all feedback ignored and watch the game become a confused, directionless mess with no clear release date at all

>>717348031
>you have people playing offline WoW with AI bots now
Playing games for raw escapism has become normalized. People are absolutely desperate to shut their brains off because their lives are so fucked up and vapid they can't be alone with their thoughts for even 2 seconds.

>>717348273
>Zooming is retarded and unfun
I don't know what alternate reality people like this live in when you can play trapsin in diablo 2 and get like 200% move speed and just spam auto firing turrets everywhere by the end of the very first act on normal. And then immediately get a teleporting staff. Is it your own ignorance that is the problem, that you just aren't aware of how bad you are? Simply stop using the internet and your problems are solved.

>>717348398
Ah yes, videogames used to be such an intellectual activity otherwise.

>>717348189
>The movement is so extremely slow that the game is unplayable.
That's literally not true. Fuck you hyperbolic retards. One of the biggest mistakes of modern gaming was fostering the idea that retards like you should have a say in game design.

>>717348631
One-click screen clear is and always will be boring, and to say otherwise is coping

>>717348784
depends on what you find fun about the game.

>>717348672
He's right, video games are supposed to be a challenge. And yes, one of the main issues with games that have a high budget for development is that they are focus tested by teens and stoners, whereas low budget games are tested by college students and people who care genuinely care about it and already want to play it.

>>717348784
Its existed since diablo 2. At least in PoE clearing maps is not the main focus of the game, but rather one cog in a giant mechanism. If you are spending a lot of time grinding in maps its because you fucked up somewhere and bottlenecked your progression.

Man I wish I could enjoy the game when 0.3 drops. So far I've only liked the audiovisual part of the game. I dont like the new way gems level, i dont like the current gems in early game, i dont like most of the campaigns (act 3 is literally total shithole) and the loot acquisition feels very random like sometimes you just dont get fuck all during campaign(ssf only so maybe trade is better). Only truly positive things are the new link system, music and visuals. FUCK i want to love this game but act 3 is literally so fucking boring and trash that its almost impossible for me to not quit during it.

Outside retarded shit like LS, poe2 pace is pretty nice

>>717349203
>ssf only
You shouldn't play SSF if you don't understand crafting and other various methods of obtaining gear. PoE is usually trade playthrough>break game>HCSSF/gauntlet in that order. You play HCSSF when you already broke the game over your knee and still want to play that league some more. And regular SSF without HC is just boring, that's not a real thing.

>>717349376
Ive played 2k hcssf on poe 1 but I just cant find enjoyment in poe 2. There isnt really anything worth looking forward when making new characters. I play normal ssf just because I wanted to get through the game couple of times before doing hc

>>717349552
Just play trade and actually learn the new crafting and mapping system

>>717349552
That's my exact opinion about poe1. There's no diversity since everything is zoom

They HAVE to differentiate 2 by making the zoom meta impossible. I sometimes get back into 1 to just turn my brain off grinding and enjoy that but they need to make 2 *actually* play differently. Drops need to be weighted to your character even if it means you won't be playing for a thousand hours.

Find a way to reward slow deliberate play. Anything, anything at all to not make the optimal choice blitzing through content because the drops are so awful.

What is the structure of the game now that they are adding act 4? Do you replay 1-4 twice or 1-4 + 1-2 or what the fuck?

>>717348031
>No ARPG should be played offline
kys

>>717350386
They said you play 1-2-3-1-2-4 now.

>>717335325 (OP)
This is gonna be on the level of "50 gems reworked!" or whatever it was, isn't it.
I don't trust GGG to balance anything except their god damn checkbook.

>Kingsmarch
>again

Delete towers
No, wait, delete the entire endgame and start over because it sucks.
If the endgame still sucks I'm not gonna play

>speedrun SSFHC
>game instantly turns into the best roguelike ever made

I'm looking forward to it.

>>717335325 (OP)
nice try, I already wasted too much time when I fucked up and paid for your dumbass beta like the moron I am.
shame on me, shame on you

>>717351457
the endgame still sucks

>>717345475
If systems designed to inconvenience you are the backbone of a game, the game is shit.

>he doesn't have a PhD in PoE2 criticism
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vT-m-jOy8LDgo_uui2p-AfnFnQq2BHeWuHU5MyAgvgDQCD9_fdrz6EYt4JBoDcuDEbcvnz1U2xYdA5h/pub

>>717335325 (OP)
How are they going to implement act 4? The game currently has the structure of Act 1-3, then Act 1-3 again. You're gonna do 1-4 and then what? Acts 1-2?

I don't buy Act 4 or even TotA coming out. I mostly just predict it will be a new mechanic + ascendancy reworks/skill balance. Even getting Druid or Shadow is like a 10-15% chance.

>>717335325 (OP)
Poop Of Excrement II.

trading is fucking stupid
how hard is it to create a game where you can farm your own gear

>>717355048
i guarantee not one person has read this word vomit
try again

>>717355048
This dude is in the running for the least useful words ever authored, what a hero.

>>717355048
Do yourself a favor and get an LLM to trim this down.

>>717335325 (OP)
I forgot I purchased this dogshit game back in december. Anyway to get a refund since it's still looking to be dogshit?

>>717335325 (OP)
I just wish it was more like poe1.

yay

act 1-4 then 1-4 again then maps
wow

>>717335325 (OP)
will not buy before release sorry, it's just simple as that haha just release the full game for free hahahaha

>>717335325 (OP)
9 month dev pause only to release 4 act that was ready in 2023 lol, this game is a fucking joke.

>>717335518
I have gotten warrior to L90 every patch and never died. Melee is extremely good, you must suck something awful dude

>>717335325 (OP)
Think it's a bit too late. Too many bad design decisions that they apparently thought were very important to keep. Not very interested in the binary "nuke the stage and/or die in one hit" gameplay.

>>717335325 (OP)
Nice
Can't wait

>>717337839
Nah. It's not even as good as that.
>Try a non-meta build
>Get stomped by lame-ass oneshots because you're not oneshotting the enemy zerg that goes 10x your speed

>>717357127
Retard.

>>717345593
>Lying on the internet
Lol

>>717345475
sex with mahiro

>>717357312
>Not very interested in the binary "nuke the stage and/or die in one hit" gameplay.
What builds did you play? DoT Lich had a very good balance for me.

>>717358443
Never even got that far desu, I liked witch well enough but the ascensions were fucking dogshit, bloodmage forcing you into a node that bricks any build that takes it before lategame was just so fucking stupid.