Massively disappointed in playable characters and Ascendancies.

The "new" characters are just copies of the old ones, 2x beefy Karui guy, 2x skinny blond archer girl, 2x black haired evil themed girl, 2x generic fights for money guy.
The only one who sticks out a little is monk, but I bet when we hear him talk he's gonna be edgy too.
When we see the druid I foresee an old man of great faith.

And for the Ascendancies you seem to have doubled down on locking playstyles down to certain classes, which goes against everything else in the game and just really sucks.

For the good parts, seems like most every system has been improved and I'm sure all the gameplay stuff will be way better. My hype is still pretty much 0 though.
IGN: Amarenzu / Balinora
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ggg has already chosen their direction for poe2. nothing much can be done now and things will only move forward to their completion.

poe1 is still there for you if you prefer
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And for the Ascendancies you seem to have doubled down on locking playstyles down to certain classes, which goes against everything else in the game and just really sucks.


That is factually incorrect. Two examples:

Witch bloodmage is life stacking. Almost any playstyle in the game can exploit lifestacking.

Mercenary gemling legionnaire. Every single possible build in the entire game uses gems. This ascendancy generically buffs every single gem.

Did you bait me or can you physically not execute critical thinking?
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Daxgalex#6239 wrote:
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And for the Ascendancies you seem to have doubled down on locking playstyles down to certain classes, which goes against everything else in the game and just really sucks.


That is factually incorrect. Two examples:

Witch bloodmage is life stacking. Almost any playstyle in the game can exploit lifestacking.

Mercenary gemling legionnaire. Every single possible build in the entire game uses gems. This ascendancy generically buffs every single gem.

Did you bait me or can you physically not execute critical thinking?


And if bloodmage life stacking is significantly stronger than any other life stacking you are effectively forced into playing bloodmage if you want to do more stacking, is my problem.

We saw this with necromancer for several years where it was head and shoulders above any other ascendancy for minions, so 99% of summoners were necromancers. So much for build freedom.
IGN: Amarenzu / Balinora
Yea I lost all hype once i figured out that they where going with all the acendencies locked again. Thought it was supposed to be open this time. 11 years still cant play a male summoner.
You guys seriously think the game will be balanced LMAO!!! They dont even know what some effect combos will do. Im very excited to play but you can figure all balance was tossed out the car a long time ago.
Yeah. And if the last 4 classes are dudes(like some leaks/speculations are suggesting), that's 8/12 being dudes and like 8/12 being old classes. That together with all the old POE 1 leagues they've crammed into it just gives me big POE 1.5 with cool bosses-vibes. Hopefully I'm proven very wrong
Ninja.
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The "new" characters are just copies of the old ones, 2x beefy Karui guy, 2x skinny blond archer girl, 2x black haired evil themed girl, 2x generic fights for money guy.
The only one who sticks out a little is monk, but I bet when we hear him talk he's gonna be edgy too.
When we see the druid I foresee an old man of great faith.

And for the Ascendancies you seem to have doubled down on locking playstyles down to certain classes, which goes against everything else in the game and just really sucks.

For the good parts, seems like most every system has been improved and I'm sure all the gameplay stuff will be way better. My hype is still pretty much 0 though.


Thinking I watched wrong GGG Live. Only ranger had same ascendancy names (but different nodes) because they were still thematically correct, the rest were reworked, branded new or never existed before class.
I’ll check the show again, I must has seen the wrong show.
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Yeah. And if the last 4 classes are dudes(like some leaks/speculations are suggesting), that's 8/12 being dudes and like 8/12 being old classes. That together with all the old POE 1 leagues they've crammed into it just gives me big POE 1.5 with cool bosses-vibes. Hopefully I'm proven very wrong


And no option at all to play as a Karui woman, which is a shame. The only non-white woman is sorceress who is Maraketh. This is inspite of the Karui and Vaal focus of the story.
IGN: Amarenzu / Balinora
Last edited by Neuropain#6925 on Nov 22, 2024, 12:10:31 PM
Alright... I'm listening...

So: please suggest what playable characters GGG should have created?

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