Anoter feedback of the ea.

First of all, sorry for my bad english.

To put things in context i played d1 when i was so young, d2 -d3, poe, torchlight, grim down, sacred, d2 resurrected, d4 , you got it, i love arpg's.

I was not playing anything since the few months i spent on d4. Wasnt expecting too much for poe 2 as i didnt like the turn poe 1 took (build planner then 2 buttuns action, zoom zoom , for me uninteresting.) , which i quitted before the ruthless mode, or i never realised , whatever :D.

When i tried it like the second day it came out, as a all time supporter got my access granted. Since then bought a pack to support you anyway.

And, incredible, ambiance, sound design, graphics, animation, just jaw dropping.
The work is amazing and if it doesnt define a game for me its important, so much detail and love in every animation, its crazy at this point, but on top of all, the whole make a true desperate world in suffering, you feel weak and determined at start, but so weak, i loved it instantly, wow.

Playing exclusively hc here, i just cant play sc, i need to feel the adrenaline when i am about to die, played hc first time in old school d2, never came back.
Actually 3 warriors in maps (t4-8) 77, 74, 71. So i can play the class i love with 3 differents builds, and if one dies, it will be less heatbreaking :p.

I love melee, i love warrior design, look, the spells are absolutely genius (boneshatter, stampede, hammer of gods , sunder, almost all spells are insane to use for me and the power feel is here.
Minus Leap which, with no z axis considered, let you get destroyed/controlled while in the air, by pure ground monsters lol no that fun :p

First thing that changes everything for me, the movement separated from the aiming, wasd + mouse : insane. Took a bit to adapt cause 20+ years of mouse click for movement on other games, but in the end its perfectly fonctionnal and add so much depth to the gameplay, along with the roll : win for me.

I play only warrior , and only hc so heres my feeling for it :
Slow technical class (i dont have huge stuff so in t7 i actually must play carefull, had some close calls already ), everything changed, when, based on a Krypp movie i made a try on ghostewrithle + -30 req 2h and mass es nodes investement, going from 3.9k life to 1.6k + 7k es along with huge faster start and es reg.
This convinced me on the fact es is indeed way superior to life + armor and i really hope you'll buff those two, in order to reduce the gap.
The two other remains armor life so i can compare.
I love the warrior gameplay, i do feel the -% speed nodes are really hard when you realise at the end you lose so much attack speed on an already slow weapon.
The shield block, active or passive, is super nice and i actually use like 6+ active skills on every of my char, which gives a really nice technical gameplay, for an HnS.

Crafting is hard because a lot based on luck, so result from same good base can be as incredible as total mess :p.

Uniques feels pretty useless for the most part, but you already buffed some low i understood, which is awesome step.

On the fps/stability etc never had any pblm, no crashes, no pblm in any way, got a beefy pc.
Ah just one thing, playing on an asus rog OLED display (when at home), i feel the hdr less impressive than let's say : d4 or Ori 2 (this one has CRAZY hdr) or d2 resurrected, which are impressive on this part, i would just see the light pop even more :p but thats such a detail.

In the end :
Really loving the game so far, its simply amazing, really loving your incredible reactivity, your movies when you explain what you will do next, being really sad when i think of the horribly toxic posts, for almost anything for almost every single aspect in the game as everything could be solved at everyone's desire in a matter of days.

I really hope you dont get affected, working in vg industry today seems incredibly ungratefull, and thats sad, really sad. But you seem to love what you are doing so much =).

Big up for being on geforce now which allows me, who moves a lot for my work , to play on macbook pro m4 max and its incredible screen , and it work so well, i am amazed. Took ultimate just for that. Would be awesome if you could make a M silicon native version, so i can get ride of windows forever and still play my fav game :p.

Go on with your vision of the game, doing such work on an already amazing game !
Poe 1 and 2 are really two different game , two different visions, and thats so good. The one isnt for me since long time, but you realised with the two something i thought i would never seen again in an arpg today ! GG GGG ! Let's go !