Developer Questions and Answers

Have you ever seen the true face of god, exile?














Serious question, what's your favorite quote/lore related thing? Can be anything that's not related to gameplay, so a favorite enemy model or something counts.

With the increase of monster damage, and the buff to armour, stacking mitigation seems to be the most efficient thing to do now in terms of defense.

Int characters seem to have no decent defense options beside using shields or having big hybrid pools. This didn't use to be an issue before due to how fast people could leech but now it seems to not be enough. You need mitigation in order to survive.

Same thing happened to Evasion Characters. Life nodes aren't that common on that side of the tree, jewels helped it a bit but most evasion builds on HC are still forced to go to the Scion Life Wheel.

Are there any plans to introduce different more mitigation based defences for Dex or Int characters, beside MoM?

When you play maps the chance for a decent rare drop is very low. (I define decent as it has one or more properties that fall in the bracket of of its ilvl or just below and the other properties are also at least midrange.) Playing maps give you a lot of rares and it feels like a waste of time to pick them all up and vendor them. The suggestion forum has several topics about this subject.

I am very curious if the dev team discussed about the general quality of rares and if there are plans to do something about rares being not rare at all and about the crazy small chance to get a decent rare in maps.

Already thanks for the answer! I love the game!

Hello GGG, is there a chance of us being able to have an ice theme pet?

I would love an icy wolf!

Is barrage going to get a buff? its only use it to provide coc but it itself isnt a good skill.

Also any chance we can get ranged units as a summoner?

Only three questions guys:

- When are you gonna change that hideous area white entrance effect, with something more beautiful like a blue or yellow light effect?
- When are you gonna change that hideous mouse pointer to something more nice?
- Why don't you add more 3D unique art in the game?

There you go ;-)

Hello GGG! My question is as follows:

Will map bosses get the same audio-treatment as Merveil just did in patch 2.0.2 - Since personality and/or boss-recognition is non-existant in maps.

I did a (whining post) in reddit about this a while back - https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/3esy9z/lets_talk_about_mute_bosses/

Thanks!

did The Awakening expansion change anything in regards to the Albino Rhoa event and Hearing a sound in the distance?

What do you feel is the biggest current problem in the game, for players, and what is the biggest current problem for the developers?

Are there any features or recipes that no player has discovered for an extremely long time (akin to Master Metamods)? Do you think you'll lean towards giving a small ARG or hints towards it if it takes too long?

Are there any features that developers wish they could implement but can't for unspecific reasons?

One person claimed the sound effects from monsters being hurt apply very frequently and are the cause of some performance issues, and that's why the -nosound launch option helps. Are you working on sound-related performance fixes?

To Chris: Do you yourself browse reddit, or do other people on staff look through and bring your attention to hot topics?

To Rory: Are the other two heralds still being worked on? Anything you can tell us about them?

To Qarl / people working on the skill tree: Are you satisfied with current keystones? Are there any new keystones in mind, or changes you are thinking of for current ones?

Is there any possibility for mini-games like "Dicing with Kraityn" or "What's under Bestel's hat"?

In 2.0 you released jewels that are placed into the passive skill tree. This means the tree takes at least somewhat of a physical form. Where is the tree?