What's coming in 0.9.5?

Can't wait for this! :D

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Big_Z wrote:

This is all great! I've been wanting to test put the currency system for ages. Any word on when the act 2 boss will be ready or better yet the beginning stages of act 3?

You can have an early peek at the act 2 boss in the templar trailer ;D

Havent been able to play much recently but looking forward to it!

I love you guys, the game rocks and you make a great job!

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MindBullets wrote:

Also Chris:

Making the game easy wont keep the population up and going, but quite opositive. Mob's and game dificutly atm is a joke.

I'm against easy mode.

Seriusly think about it and where the game is going.

I concur 500%. A lot of new changes offer the game to be a lot more easy than before, especially these two below have potentials;

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Chris wrote:

• We're now biasing towards higher item base types extremely strongly for most item types. This means that it's much easier to stay up to date with the current highest item type for each slot.
• We've revamped how flasks affect gameplay in terms of the amounts/speed they heal and how quickly they recover. This is a pretty major change that will affect most existing characters. We're still testing this one and making changes, so I can't go into more information on it yet.

I hope PoE will NOT get easier with these as they seem that will alter the easiness to a tad lower level, unfortnuately. Hope i will be mistaken about my thoughts on this.

Personally I'm looking forward to all the changes mark mentioned, like more descriptive and/or accurate tooltips or other bits of information, and fixes/modifications to certain mechanics.

Would have been nice to mention that as two points, but I guess it depends how much was really changed.

i hope the changes to drop rates will be good this time ;) its really hard to lvl with 0.9.4 as completely new player to beta. But i would love to see something like the drop rates getting lower as high difficulty you go. And i mean not in quantity but rarity and the "up to lvl" problem. I think the main problem now (at higher lvls) is to get good item WITH ENOUGH SLOTS.
The funny thing i encountered yesterday - i dropped this:

and its better then the armor im using on my marauder ... but cmon the slots arent the best :/ so basically i will have to first get the right colours and then links - too hard. And also its just not heavy armor. And i cannot drop anything good for marauder last days.

also : "a new skill" ? just one ? i hope it will be melee aoe usable with all kinds of weapons !!!

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Chris wrote:

If it gets easier, then we'll correct it so that it's sufficiently hard. The beta test is to get feedback about this so that we can make sure that it remains challenging to experienced players while still being easy enough at the start to allow new players to learn the ropes.

id suggest a discussion poll thread for HC and default a few days to a week after the patch. each league values differnet things when considering "difficulty" hence the 2 threads?

looking at the notes im pretty sure i know how it will go on the HC side (too easy). im not some pro player, but i am getting to the point where i seriously don't think i can build a toon that will die OR be unable to kill things.

in fact i am about to ask my guild to come up with the absolute worst build they can think of (like a bow witch for example) to see if i can get it to chaos within 2 weeks :D

Really, the only thing that makes the game even slightly challenging is the damage spikes you can get while in the middle of a pack of mobs with substantial damage increase in Maelstrom of Chaos. And since you're buffing everyone's health, and buffing flasks, this challenge will greatly diminish as well, at which point it will just become "click and win".