Q&A with the Developers!

Are there any sweet new Vaal skills in the works? Would really love to see Vaal Determination at some point.

The new artificial intelligence of SRS has nothing intelligent. I guess you have plans to leave as it was before, right?

The idea of having a 2-6 slot currency satchel was a popular recommendation recently. Are you considering adding this in the future? Maybe even adding the satchel slots as quest rewards?

First off i want to say thanks to you and all the many developers behind the scenes, who make this game what it is.

My question is, are we gonna see guild improvements in the near future?
Things like control clicking the stash, moving tabs, member tracker to see who is active, more ranks, guild leagues, officer having permission to kick as well as modding chat, guild events, or other things to attract guild play. While I understand that a lot of what I ask for it easy to ask, and harder to implement, I would love an assurance that this is some sort of a priority.

As an officer in a guild, I try to promote and brainstorm ideas that help the guild flourish, even through the current limitations of the current guild mechanics. So any sort of improvements would make me quite happy, and help the promote the social aspect of Path of Exile.

Do you guys planning on remaking the way armour mtx are shown on templar? Ex. The neck area, pants, Helmet mtx too small (golden skull etc.) Or way too big (Vampire helmet).

How many acts you plain in the future? how many expansions? any work in progress in mind after Ascendancy? :D

When will you make maps drop like candy? Maps should not be gated by RNG but gated by a characters strength and weaknesses. A bad character should not be able to run high maps, but not for lack of maps.

1. Will you fix the UI operations to have no latency again? Example: I open the skill menu by clicking the RMB slot, select the skill I want (e.g. Wrath), it selects Anger on T slot instead. This happens if I do it fast, not waiting for the stuff to cache/load (??????) on mouse hover event. Same thing happens with other menus, like options or Zana map device, there are cases where the character just runs through & menu closes if I click on the Launch Map button too fast.

This painful behaviour was not the case prior to 2.0, UI was like in other games, instant & without such quirks.



2. Anything that could be done to minimize run-time loading? So people don't have to buy SSD to have stable framerate & enjoy surprise 2-5 second freezes on things such as Strongboxes, Beyond, Vaal Skeletons or even another player joining the area.



3. More of a suggestion, maybe someone likes it the way it is, but nevertheless: movement skills such as Whirling Blades/Flame Dash only go max distance if you Shift-click far away, but when using only single button they force character to move-flamedash-move-flamedash-move-flamedash instead of flamedash-flamedash-flamedash to max distance, which would be logical & comfortable. Will this be changed?



4. Anything that might allow adding weather conditions to the game, with locations changing color gamma over time & possibly some other effects? Kinda boring to see them all look the same way all the time.



5. Question for the Championship: what are your reasons to not integrate all the current community-driven trading mechanisms into the game (poe.trade, acquisition & the likes of it)?

T. in A.

Right now ground effects hit performance too hard on specific configurations.

Why you just don't disable them from appearing in the game temporary (and enable later, after working fix will be released)?

will we get more choices for rare item quest rewards soon?