[ Suggestion ] Path of Exile - Lost Treasures

Hello ladies and gentlemen, it has been a long time ( I guess ) since my last big suggestion, so today I would like to present you guys:






To get a Profession, first you need to reach Level 45 with a character of the respective attribute:

Any Strength based character can become a Mastersmith.
Being them the Marauder, the Scion, the Duelist and the Templar.

Any Dexterity based character can become a Chemist.
Being them the Ranger, the Scion, the Duelist and the Shadow.

Any Intelligence based character can become a Gemcutter.
Being them the Witch, the Scion, the Templar and the Shadow.

The Cartographer is the only Profession that can be chosen by any character.

After that, a new zone will open on the first 4 Acts of the game:

• The Mastersmith's Furnace on Act I
  
• The Gemcutter's Lapidary on Act II
  
• The Cartographer's Museum on Act III
  
• The Chemist's Laboratory on Act IV
  

Each zone will have its respective NPC to teach you the skills and basics of your Profession.
The NPC also have a shop in which you can buy your Profession Tools and starter materials.

Selecting a Profession will lock all the other zones disregarding the one you've chosen.



By picking any profession, you'll receive an extra inventory tab, specifically to keep currency items and materials from your profession and your tools:



When you successfully craft a new item, you gain EXP for your Crafting Bench, for your Tools and for your Profession to unlock new Craft Recipes.

At reaching the Rank 4 and Level 100 with your character, you will unlock a specific Keystone for your future characters created.

All the items you Craft, will have your character's name on it, for people recognize your work.
You can only select one Profession and if you don't like the one you've chosen, you'll be able to reset your Profession by spending 1000 Orbs of Regret.
Not to mention that you also lose all your crafting tools and workbench, and will have to re-level your profession if you go back to it at some point.

It needs to be this expensive, to make players think a lot before they make a choice, also, the items you can create with the professions are a really nice way to make money, since they'll be created by the player, which means, they're not accessible for everyone else, only for
those who craft them or buy them from the market. As less Professions exists, as high the prices of these items will be on the market.



Here are some examples of what a Mastersmith can do:

Rank ★ (Requires Level 45)

Rank ★★ (Requires Level 65)

Rank ★★★ (Requires Level 85)

Rank ★★★★ (Requires Level 95)


(Requires Level 100) Legacy of Hephaestus:

• Projectiles can't Pierce you. Projectiles are sent back to enemies when hit.
• 30% chance to Stun an enemy when hit by a Melee Attack.
• 5% less Evasion if you've been hit by a Projectile recently for a maximum of 25%.
• 5% less Armor if you've been hit by a Melee hit recently for a maximum of 25%.

Everything in your body can become a Weapon if you use it properly.
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Here are some examples of what a Chemist can do:

Rank ★ (Requires Level 45)

Rank ★★ (Requires Level 65)

Rank ★★★ (Requires Level 85)

Rank ★★★★ (Requires Level 95)


(Requires Level 100) Legacy of Dionysius:

• Increases and Reductions to Flask Charges Gained also applies as Increased Damage with Poison.
• Can only apply Poison during Flask Effects.

The recipe is a Secret, but I can assure you, it is as deadly and pleasing as the drunkenness…
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Here are some examples of what a Gemcutter can do:

Rank ★ (Requires Level 45)

Rank ★★ (Requires Level 65)

Rank ★★★ (Requires Level 85)

Rank ★★★★ (Requires Level 95)


(Requires Level 100) Legacy of Athena:

• Mana Multiplier from Support Gems will always be equal to the Lowest Mana Multiplier Value on the Linked Setup.
• 30% Increased Attribute Requirement for Skill Gems.

The more the Knowledge, the less the Pressure on your Mind.
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Here are some examples of what a Cartographer can do:

Rank ★ (Requires Level 45)

Rank ★★ (Requires Level 65)

Rank ★★★ (Requires Level 85)

Rank ★★★★ (Requires Level 95)


(Requires Level 100) Legacy of Hermes:

• Reductions to Movement, Attack and Cast Speed have 0% Effectiveness on you.
• Increases to Movement, Attack and Cast Speed have 40% Effectiveness on you.

Exploration gets more interesting when you have no bounds.
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Now that you've seen what the Professions can do, I'll explain a bit of the new systems introduced with this Suggestion and with the Professions:

Mastersmith:

• Enhancements

Enhancements are a type of "Item Buff". The buff have a Durability that can be regenerated overtime (only on Weapons) by Sheathing your weapons.

Each material base-type, Gleam, Rainbow, Void, grants specific bonuses to each type of item you're applying.

The effect list can be viewed on the Mastersmith section above.

• Sheaths

Sheaths are a new way to engage combat with enemies. Only a Mastersmith can craft Sheaths for Weapons, and they have a special place
on the inventory screen. Right beside the belt slot, you have 1 Sheath for each weapon. Each base Sheath will grant a different effect,
but its purpose is to regenerate the Enhancement Durability of each respective weapon.

So when you have your Weapons Sheathed, you'll regenerate Enhancement Durability overtime.

To begin the combat, you'll now need to Unsheathe your weapons, but you gain benefits everytime you Unsheathe them.

Since each Sheath grants you a "On-Unsheathe" skill, you have the option to Unsheathe your weapon to begin the combat with the button .

By doing this, you'll start the combat unleashing the respective Sheath skill from the sheath you're wearing.
(Note: You'll always use the Skill from the Right-Hand first, then the Off-Hand afterwords. So if you're dual-wielding, you'll need to press it 2 times.)

If you just want to start the combat normally, press to the Right-Hand, or to the Off-Hand, in case of you're willing to attack the opponent with only 1 hand first, then with the second hand after that, or even unleash the Off-Hand Unsheathe Skill.

And, yes, if you have two different weapons equipped, for example a mace and a dagger, you can use 1 different sheath for each. So you have 2 "On-Unsheathe" skills available to be used. Only 1 Sheath will work for Two-Handed weapons.

Here you can have an example of all Sheaths and its Skills:

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Gemcutter:

• Socketed Support Gems

As you might have noticed by the gif, Socketed Support Gems are literally Support Gems that can be filled with Active Skill gems.
Then you get both the Socketed Support Gem filled with the Active Skill gem you want and place it on the Socket of your gear.

The Socketed Support Gem follows some rules:

• Only Level 1 Support Gems can become Socketed. Otherwise, they'll be downgraded to 1.
• You can't put Socketed Support Gems on Socketed Flasks
• You can place any amount of Socketed Support Gems on the same gear, but you'll end up with a lot of Active Skills.

• Socket Shapes

Now, this is the most interesting by far imo. Why? Well... Because, recently, skills have its own mechanics, and all you do is to increase its damage.
When at first, back in the old poe days, the trailer showcased a Fireball, a very simple skill, and by adding extra Projectiles, or making it to be cast by a Totem you completely changed how you play the skill. The positioning is different, the strategy, the build, everything is different. But today, all you do is increase their damage. Then I thought, what if we make Active Skills, act like Support Gems ?

But instead of increasing damage, area, speed, etc, it modifies the MECHANICS of the skill supported by them ?

Then, the Socket Frame Idea came to my mind.






I'll just get an example to make it easier to comprehend how versatile this system is:

Let's say you have a Lightning Arrow skill gem. Then, you are a Gemcutter, and then, you place a Triangle Shaped Socket on your gear.

Then you link Lightning Spear > Lesser Multiple Projectiles > ARC.

Wait, what ? Arc ? Yeah. What the Shapes do, as what you might have read before, is to add the SECONDARY property, in other words, part of the Active Skill Mechanics to your first active skill at 50% effectiveness. What the 50% effectiveness means ?

It means that you now have a Lightning Arrow, that shots 3 Projectiles, AND Chains 3 times. Why ? Because Arc at level 20, chains 7 times. But it is 50% effectiveness only, then you get 3.

Another example, Lightning Arrow > Arctic Breath. You now have a Lightning Arrow that spreads chilling ground when traveling to its target, and when it finally hits, it creates chilling ground where the target was. 50% Effectiveness ? The Chilling Ground will last half the normal duration or (what GGG prefers to) be half as large as the normal area.

With this system you can have a Cleave + Lightning Arrow that strikes a Lightning Bolt per 2 enemies hit by Cleave.
Or a Raise Zombie + Arctic Breath that creates Chilling Ground while it walks and creates chilling ground on hitting enemies.
Or a Blade Vortex + Glacial Hammer that converts 25% of Blade Vortex's Physical Damage to Cold Damage.
Or a Dual Strike + Double Strike that hits 4x with 2 hits per 2 uses of the skill.

The Socket Frames also follows some rules:

• The Socketed skill can't be used. So you can only use Active Skills outside of the Framed Socket.
• You can only have One Socket Frame per piece of gear.
• Only 50% of the Effect will be applied to the skill you'll be using.
• Does it work with Vaal Skills ? Hm. Idk. Probably not. Maybe too overpowered. What do you guys think ?

The combinations are almost infinite. And, of course, some overpowered combinations would come up from this system, but
nothing a Nerf can't handle it ;)
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Cartographer:

• Compasses

Cartographer's Compass are a new type of item called Artifact. (you'll know more about them soon.)
And the Cartographer profession is the only one capable of creating those.

They will affect your character just by keeping them in your inventory. They're like charm items.
But differently from the real Artifact system that i'll be presenting to you guys on this thread, this ones doesn't have a drawback.

Which means its a win/win situation for the price of some space in your Inventory.

The bonuses are very low compared to the real Artifacts, but what really matter about the Cartographer's Compass is that they can
point things out to you.

You can see some of the examples here:

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Some of the Craft Recipes above will need Special Materials to be done. These Materials can be found by exploring the game.
To get those Special materials, you need to 'mine' the resource before monsters destroy it.
If they succeed in destroying it, they'll permanently gain the respective buff and upgrade their tier.
So if a Normal monster destroy the Material they'll become Magic, if a Magic does, they'll become Rare, and so on.

The amount and quality of materials collected depends on the amount of 'Life' left on the resource.

Each Ore or Resource type, will spawn randomly among the game zones, like strongboxes and vaal side-areas.
And like everything in Wraeclast, its corruption will affect both nearby enemies AND players with its own properties:
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Mastersmith Materials:

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Gemcutter Materials:

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Chemist Materials:

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Cartographer Materials:

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To increase even more the diversity of customization, (and because I love designing skills and support gems).
I thought that would be interesting to add different types of Support Gems.

Those are Defensive Support Gems, Conditional Support Gems, Time Based Support Gems and Threshold Support gems.

I've made at least 2 examples of each group, but we hope to see more and differently types of support gems in the future.

• Conditional


• Defensive


• Threshold


• Timer

But why stop on the Gem Design ? This next idea is VERY optional and I think it's very interesting for some current problems I've seen players complaining about, one of them is the Attack Speed and Cast Speed "meta".

I can't really call it a "meta", but, most of builds needs to rely on attack or cast speed to increase its clear speed on maps and to balance their damage output, sometimes they can't reach enough DPS, and this is counter-balanced by having huge speed.

What if there were some ways to modify how your skills would be Cast / Used ?

I call them Assaults.

• Normal Assault is when you use your skills normally. In other words, a simple click.

• Rapid Assault is a new way to use your skill. A rapid succession of clicks makes your character use the skill very quickly, here's an example of a Double Strike being used via Rapid Assault:

When you use a Skill by Multi-clicking it, or Rapid Assault, the skill gain other effects and speed.

So for example, Double Strike shots some slashes like reave in front of the character. Mechanically, the skill remains the same, but it gets a little 'boost' in option and how you'll engage your enemies.

There's a lot of potential in this system, because if you need to get a "On-hit" buff, for example, you now have the option to increase the number of hits your skill does, and increase the chance to get the buff.

Another example of Rapid Assault being used with Ice Spear:

The balance of the Rapid Assault is that you gain more hits in less time, but each hit deal less damage.

This may be useful in certain situations, but in others you just want to DESTROY stuff.
There's the opportunity to use the Charged Assault.

• Charged Assault is the opposite of the Rapid Assault. If you click and HOLD the skill button, it will get more damage and/or area of effect. Not only that, those are just a few examples of how this system might change the mechanics of skills.

Here's some example of Ground Slam being Charged:


And here we have Ice Nova in Charged Assault:

This system is meant to replace the attack and cast speed modifiers.

You'll have Attack and Cast Speed if you click fast enough, and you'll have more options to deal with your enemies in different situations.

There are various possibilities that this system offers, for example a Charged Heavy Strike stuns the enemies in area while the Rapid Assault version of it might stack knockback on enemies and pull them very far away from your character.

Charged Assault Reave gains all of its stacks in less time and get increased Critical Strike Chance, while its Rapid Assault gets increased Melee Range. There's always a way to change how a skill works, and I think this method gives players more freedom.

Beyond that, there could even be some buffs or effects "On Rapid Assault" or "On Charged Assault" or "If you executed a Charged Assault recently" etc...

But as I said, this one is very optional and just something that came to my mind, you guys might like it or not, but I would love to hear what you guys think about this one =).
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With the high amount of Enchantments available for each build and equipment, it can be really difficult and mostly annoying and time consuming to get what you specifically want.

Because of that, this content update introduces new items called Dices.
Each type of enchantment will have its respective Dice Group, for example:

• Glove Enchantments will be affected by


• Boots Enchantments will be affected by


• Helm Enchantments will be affected by

The Dices WON'T give you specifically the Enchantment you want. But it will restrict the Enchantment rolls to its respective group.

If you use a Dice of Flesh on your Gloves for example, the item will be locked to only roll Words, Decrees or Edicts of Attacks.

If you use a Dice of Summoners on your Helm, it will only receive Totem and Minion Skill Gems Enchantments. And so on.

To get those Dices, you'll need to look for them in the Labyrinth, Argus and Izaro himself may drop a few of them, you can also find some on Silver Chests, Secret Rooms and even by killing Rare monsters inside the Labyrinth.

Upon using a Dice on an item, you can't use it again on the same item until you Enchant it, then on your next run, you can try again with the same method if you want.



• Checkpoint System:
Everytime you enter on Aspirant's Trial you will find an Emperor's Hourglass.
By activating it, a timer starts, then you have 3 minutes to get to the next Hourglass.



If you die before reaching the next Hourglass, you'll still return to the first Hourglass you activated, but now, it will be destroyed and CANNOT be activated a second time.

But the time will still be running, so you can try to reach the second one, but now, you'll have to be more careful.
Then if you die AGAIN you're out of the Labyrinth.

If you successfully reach the second Hourglass, you'll have 2 checkpoints to return in case if you die, being the most recently
Hourglass activated first and so on until you have no Hourglasses left, and have to reset the Labyrinth.
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Finally ! The Artifacts!

Every time you kill an Enemy or Redeem a Material from the wilderness, it has a very low chance to drop a Cursed Artifact.
Those artifacts can be cleansed to unlock its various bonus and effects, and will affect the user if they're in the Inventory or in the Artifact Box.

To be cleansed, the Artifact MUST be on the character's inventory or even if you try to complete its Cleansing Quest the item won't be cleansed at all.

The 'Quests' will be more like riddles, very similar to vendor recipes, but out from the vendor screen.

After Cleansed, the item may roll various unique benefits to the user, but will always also roll a negative effect.

This negative effect will have a modifier that increases its intensity accordingly to how many Cursed Artifacts you're carrying.

Such intensity can be weakened by placing the Artifact on the Artifact Box.

The Artifact Box is given to you by Yeena on Act II, after completing the Golden Hand Quest,
and cannot be traded.

You'll still get the drawback, but the modifier that increases its effect 'per Cursed Artifact' will be negated.
There's a limit of how many artifacts you can use inside the Box though.



Some Artifacts can't be obtained by killing enemies, but found buried on the ground or in the walls or trees, even under water.
Those will work like switches on the Labyrinth, they'll be invisible and very discrete, until you place your cursor over them to be visually found by the player.



As you can see by the gif, that very lucky Witch just found an Artifact that prevent its Cold Damage from being reflected.

But, that's not the only effect this Artifact has. In fact, all the Artifacts has at least 4 Modifiers to be rolled.
So on the next time this Witch find this same Artifact, it might roll something like:
'Cold Resistance from nearby Enemies are Ignored.'

You can also notice that while in your inventory, the Artifact will glow a purple color, and when cleansed, it glows a blueish color.
This Glow will increase in frequency while you're next to the quest or close to complete its quest.

There will even be Artifacts with "Levels of Cleansing" you can notice on the Description of the item a "Curse Durability".

The Quest of the Merveil's Wedding Band only requires you to say her name on the chat, but other Artifacts has some other steps to be cleansed, and if you cleanse more than 50% you'll start to see some positive modifiers.

In the Market, this will be a factor to be considered while pricing some Artifacts, since you'll see some 100% Cleansed Artifacts and some with just a few benefits.
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• Legacy Underline
All Legacy Mods, or Items will have its Name or Modifier properties underlined to highlight them out from the others.


• Off-Screen Drops
Item Filter or Default game option to show items dropped off-screen.
The name will appear on the edge of the screen, and getting into place as you get close to them.


• Press Alt to show Affix Tiers
When you press Alt to show the Item Level, it now also shows the Tiers and values of Affixes and Prefixes of an item.


• Vendor History
Shows the items you recently have sold (by accident or not.) to a vendor, and makes it possible to buy it back.


• Favorite Items
Marks or Unmarks an Item. Favorited Items can't be sold to NPCs or Dropped on the ground.
It also works well as a way to highlight Legacy items.


• Auto-sort
PLEASE.

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Well guys, I know it has been a HUGE wall of text, but I'm glad for those who spent time reading this, and I want to thank you for the attention to even look to this thread. I'm a huge fan of Path of Exile and I'm very pleased to be able to even try to improve the game in some way. I hope GGG find something useful in this whole mess I've created xD.

I would like to thank my friends illthani, Drgman and Thorzueiro. Some of them helped me with some of the suggestions, the Hourglass is a 3D Model made in 3DS Max by Thorzueiro, and I applied it to the game footage in After Effects =).

And illthani helped me with the Artifact system.

Well, that's all. Please tell me what you guys think about the stuff, and let's hope GGG find something useful and make it live into the game!

If you're interested in more of my ideas, here you can find some more!


Thanks a bunch everyone, and have a nice day you all !!

Again, an amazing idea backed by a ton of effort. Good job my man. My biggest concern is sheathing and if it'll add to the game or not. It's hard to know without any actual testing, sadly. There will be a way to fix it somehow though. The keystones are AMAZING, although it'd be nice to know at least somewhat of a location on the passive tree just to clear things up, and maybe brainstorm about other decent locations that make sense. Overall, great work. Keep it up!

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Drgman wrote:

Again, an amazing idea backed by a ton of effort. Good job my man. My biggest concern is sheathing and if it'll add to the game or not. It's hard to know without any actual testing, sadly. There will be a way to fix it somehow though. The keystones are AMAZING, although it'd be nice to know at least somewhat of a location on the passive tree just to clear things up, and maybe brainstorm about other decent locations that make sense. Overall, great work. Keep it up!

Thanks a lot my man! I'm glad you liked it.
I'll probably do some min-maxing with the thread tho. I'll be updating it from time to time =) so i'm definetely going to update the keystone images with their locations.

Thanks again for your patience reading through this road of text XD

Really interesting concept. I like the basis, but I'm afraid some of it is really reaching; sheaths and socket types for example create a large variance between gameplay of the haves and have nots. Some might consider this a good thing, but it can just as easily be considered a bad.

I'm also not sure I agree with going all the way up to L100. I understand what you're going for, but I feel as though it reinforces the mandate that players actually get to L100 (when most builds are considered "complete" well before that), which is more detrimental to Leagues and Hardcore in general (but not to say impossible). It also threatens to make L100 players the richest players simply due to exclusivity of content thanks to their time sink, when they're already rewarded with extra skill points. Keep in mind that more expensive isn't always good, as available currency goes hand in hand with time and level; that is to say that the highest level/most progressed characters are usually the richest to begin with. In essence, you end up limiting your market, because the majority of those players who have enough money to buy the most expensive thing are probably going to be the ones able to make them to begin with.

Lastly, I'm sure many of these bonuses are a WIP, but I'm confused in particular by Legacy of Hephaestus; it seems more like something I'd rather not have. Reliable stunning is all well and good, but why would I ever want up to 50% reduced armor as a melee character!? Understandably you seem to have tried to create an a pro/con system with them, but that doesn't really work when there's only one option. Obviously you could just not take it, but then it becomes a pretty underwhelming "reward".

In short, the theme is great. I love the way you present your ideas, the attention to detail, and I like how you tried to "fix" certain issues within the game. However, I feel as though many parts of it are too expansive and too exclusive to gain real traction.

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Archimtiros wrote:

Really interesting concept. I like the basis, but I'm afraid some of it is really reaching; sheaths and socket types for example create a large variance between gameplay of the haves and have nots. Some might consider this a good thing, but it can just as easily be considered a bad.

I'm also not sure I agree with going all the way up to L100. I understand what you're going for, but I feel as though it reinforces the mandate that players actually get to L100 (when most builds are considered "complete" well before that), which is more detrimental to Leagues and Hardcore in general (but not to say impossible). It also threatens to make L100 players the richest players simply due to exclusivity of content thanks to their time sink, when they're already rewarded with extra skill points. Keep in mind that more expensive isn't always good, as available currency goes hand in hand with time and level; that is to say that the highest level/most progressed characters are usually the richest to begin with. In essence, you end up limiting your market, because the majority of those players who have enough money to buy the most expensive thing are probably going to be the ones able to make them to begin with.

Lastly, I'm sure many of these bonuses are a WIP, but I'm confused in particular by Legacy of Hephaestus; it seems more like something I'd rather not have. Reliable stunning is all well and good, but why would I ever want up to 50% reduced armor as a melee character!? Understandably you seem to have tried to create an a pro/con system with them, but that doesn't really work when there's only one option. Obviously you could just not take it, but then it becomes a pretty underwhelming "reward".

In short, the theme is great. I love the way you present your ideas, the attention to detail, and I like how you tried to "fix" certain issues within the game. However, I feel as though many parts of it are too expansive and too exclusive to gain real traction.

Thanks for your feedback my friend! Just a little correction there, you can't get a profession by simply being at level 100, you need to do it at level 45. So you have to re-level a character unfortunately. It is made like that to avoid the problem you stated in your comment. The 100 characters you have will receive the respective keystones though.

And don't get me wrong, i agree with you in various points, but this is just a suggestion, so GGG will probably take 1% or even 10% of the whole concept and change it to fit the game better =)

But i'm happy with your in-depth analysis of my idea, and thanks for considering the effort i had to make this happen lol, again, thanks to be polite and rational about your analysis.

hugs!

Looks really good.

So much effort went into this and it is very well presented.

Even if GGG doesn't want to take any of this into consideration, it deserves a lot of community attention. Specially the QoL section. That off-screen dropping thing is absurdly needed.

+1

what the hell did I just read.

Orb currency is not crafting. You can't even use exalts to make items (rarity) and trying to get mods that you desire for a build is very difficult - to the point of invalidating a full set of rares as a top tier gear choice.. Alchemy and Chaos orbs are just new items in disguise.

A system like this is truly what we need. It's pretty well thought out. While there's a lot extra that's probably shooting for the stars, you have some pretty good core concepts. Overall, nice job, maximum effort. Hopefully GGG will notice...

WOW, I'm amazed!
Here is my opinion.

Profession System, too strong and time consuming. But I like the idea.
Sheating... Not what I would want out of a game like PoE.
Socketed Support Gems, very interesting for build diversity!
Rapid and Charges Assault, YES! Thats such an awesome idea! Basically rewrites the whole combat system.
Lab Improvements, so pleased with your ideas on that.
Artifacts, great idea to have items hidden in the game.
QoL Changes, to all of them! YES YES YES! Give that to mee!!!