Path of Exile 2 - Patch 0.1.1 Patch Note Preview

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My 23 leagues of PoE experience made me realize these problems in PoE 2:

• No crafting system.
• No built-in loot filter.
• No tabs.
• Ridiculous atlas tree system—unacceptable even.
• Rare items from the ground are bad.
• Constant backtracking in maps—checkpoints, when?
• Splinters and other loot don’t drop after breaches end, but in Breachstones they do.
• You shouldn’t be able to buy pinnacle boss fights.
• Towers should correspond to the area they’re on in the atlas.

• The atlas mechanic is uninteresting.
How you added the atlas in its current state is beyond me. There’s no excitement in exploring further or, conversely, clearing everything around, as there are no rewards or bonuses for doing so. The feeling of being on a continent or somewhere significant should exist. For example, there should be moments when you face the ocean, sea, void, or anything else that forms a border or endpoint of the Atlas of Worlds. It would be logical for you to face the border if you are moving in one direction for a long time, especially if you are traveling by land.
There should be a limit to maps in the atlas, even if it’s a crazy number, with the ultimate goal of clearing all the Atlas of Worlds. A small map pool is another reason why general mapping feels boring.

• Everything not related to breaches feels bad, and it affects the player's mindset. The player thinks, "Why do anything else if breaches have it all?" But doing breaches all the time gets boring very quickly. When it comes to in-map interactions, if you’re not interested in a breach, there’s nothing you can do about it or shift to instead.

• A similar issue comes with adding delirium through Distilled Emotions to maps. It makes sense logically but comes with an extremely over-the-top visual effect. You end up using Distilled Emotions on every map, and it feels bad to skip delirium and miss out on the loot for not using it.
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A Few Thoughts on Crafting
The crafting system is very important to me. Even though most of my characters were made in softcore, I always played in an SSF style, crafting all my gear myself while buying interesting synthesized or rare base items. Buying rare items from trade always felt bad.

One major problem with Diablo 4 is the lack of a good crafting system. After PoE 1, it’s surprising that you didn’t realize how important crafting is for the game. Instead, you added Omens. Can I ask who was a big fan of Omens? I don’t think anyone really appreciated or felt anything about them.

The only Omen players used was the Omen of Amelioration. Others, like Omen of Connections, were good only because of their value as a drop. Whoever thought Omens was a good addition to crafting in PoE 2 should be fired.
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Expedition
What even is Expedition now? (I played the Expedition mechanic every league after it was introduced, and I loved how impactful your decisions were when placing remnants. Tujen, Rog, Gwennen’s gamble—it was all amazing.)
Now in PoE 2, it’s just a huge boring mess. I’m sorry...
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Hideouts
Hideout building is one of the most amazing features of PoE. Even in early access, with the amount of assets you already have, there should be a pool of models to use. Right now, players can only work with what they currently have, which is disappointing.

Other Thoughts
The storyline was amazing, but forcing players to do it twice for every character, without the ability to change ascendancy, is frustrating.

I didn’t even mention Trials, Ritual, general balance, skill balance, and much more. Everything I wrote before is just what I miss in the game—it means a lot to me.

I’ll say this: the lack of motivation to log into the game, even right after the PoE 2 beta release, feels new to me. I’ve never experienced anything like this before, especially after waiting so desperately for it since the first announcement at ExileCon.

Fix your game, GGG!

♡ Huge fan ♡

24h2 fix when

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Vanijorou#0863 wrote:

Does this mean the bug where swapping weapons with a crossbow and going back stops you from using any skills until you roll isn't fixed?

Not fixed. One of the most gamebreaking bugs and it's not fixed.

SO SMALL CHANGES

It's mostly underwhelming, and why do I think so?

- Warrior Class needs to be redesigned from scratch. Armor and life suck. Ridiculous attack times while others teleport around and clear whole content with sparks. Playing warrior feels like being an idiot currently with clunkiness all around you. I am lvl 91 btw and can see how bad this class is.

- Horrible "buffs" to Horrible uniques. 90% is totally useless and uninteresting. Get armor but lose resistance, literally an idiot item. Armor is garbage, it needs like 100% buff or something and not 15%.

- Where are my cosmetics you promised I purchased in POE 1? Will it last years to make them available?

- Game is not rewarding, picking rare loot is absolutaley worthless. I had to trade to get anything with 3 decent stats.

- Crazy imbalance among classes and zero good build variety.

- Performance is crap when you party with others, can't see Jack **** when somebody uses minions

- Probably 100 things more...

Please nerf Ultimatum debuffs/penalties, I was stuck 10 times in a row with bad my first Ultimatum 4 gates encounter.

With the recent change allowing dodge rolls during object interactions, can we now perform a dodge roll while interacting with levers, or does the animation still prevent other actions?

Can something be done about death penalties in endgame already??? This is painful - I feel like Sisyphus at level 93 - dying to the silliest s*** and losing a whole 10% of my exp is harsh. Maybe drop it to like 5%? I'd be okay with that - I can actually deal with a 5% penalty.

Pretty nice! It's amazing how you change the Game and fix buggs etc. so quick. Other Publishers need Months for a new Patch and never listen to the community.
I Like it!

nice