Developer Questions and Answers

Q: What are your thoughts on a 1 or 2 week "all previous leagues" race before 1.4 release?

Q: Do you have plans on adding/improving ways to progress your character over a longer period of time?

Q: Do you have any plans to publicly address/discuss the growing cheating problem in various forms?(RMT, illegal macros, etc)

Q: A lot of players believe that melee is still not in a particularly good place. What are your thoughts/plans on this?

Q: After 1.4 is released and has had some follow up patches, do you have any plans to increase focus on QoL/bugs/balance issues beyond what has been done in the past?

A question I wanted to ask for a while:

Are you happy with the current state of elemental damage and resistance?

Why do I ask:
Right now, resistance feel like an unnecessary gear check. Without 75% resistance you are very likely to get oneshotted. This becomes worse when you face unevadeable attacks like Arc. I for one feel like it is just annoying to find equipment, just to see no resistance on it, and basically trash it.

How happy are you guys with the state of alternative defensive skills, such as Frost Wall, rejuvination totem, etc? Will they be buffed if/when the standard defensive CwDT setup (EC, IC, inc. duration) is nerfed?

Will mines ever get some love? They have no uniques, traps have four.

Can we please get some new cold skills? The last one we got was Glacial Cascade, and it's 33% not a cold skill. A cold skill with a DoT/duration element would be fantastic.

On that note, it's absolutely bizarre that the only cold melee skill (Glacial Hammer) is aligned with strength, when cold is aligned with dex. Not really a question, just wanted to mention it.

1. Any chance for a longer super hard mode league? Something like LAMT for example (BLAMT without the "B"), but for a few months?

2. Is it intentional that leagues start out harder and become easier? We have seen nerfs to Invasion, Beyond, Bloodlines . . .

3. Trade System, to exist or not to exist? It is becoming a pretty big question . . .

3 questions:

1) What was the initial motivation to create what we now know as Path of Exile? I assume you didn't just wake up one day and say "You know, I think I'll make a video game."

2) Do you feel that your work on Path of Exile has somehow changed or influenced you or your behavior? If so, how so?

3) Do you have any advice for aspiring game developers?

WHen will u reset all passives? Will you remove the useless trade chat and make a better trading system? In game.. Not crappy like poe.xyz where players put buy out and after u pm offline or they will say whats your offer? Or they will say the price is not updated!!

Q: Is it possible for you to implement an option to minimize effects on some spells(Discharge, but also other skills like arctic breath/Evangelist Specters explosions).

Hey, will there be improvements to trading in the new patch coming with Act 4?
If yes, can you tell something about it?

Discharge mtx make it look like a nuke mushroom cloud. And I want recognition this time :)

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Paid Leagues

In addition, we plan to allow guilds or groups of players to pay for the creation of their own league with a choice of game rule modifiers. Only players invited by the people who paid for the league can create characters in these private leagues. This option helps cater towards any groups of players who want to play online together but don’t want their playgroup to have access to items traded from external players.

Is this still something you plan to do? Is it still a few years away? This is something I feel that addresses a lot of issues with the game, you wouldnt have as many people complaining on the forums if they were able to set their own rules and applying their own difficulties to the game. Its great that you have a variation of this with races, but you cant please everyone with a single league, no matter how good your ideas are.