Path of Exile 2: Upcoming Changes and Improvements

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Dblankenship81#2656 wrote:

I've yet to see it mentioned anywhere, but as an ARPG fan since D2 who avoided POE 1 solely due to ridiculous talent trees (with traps no less), my group bounced off of POE 2 after a couple of days of grouped play and currently have no plans to return.

I purchased the $29.99 EA tier 3 times so I could play with my partner and a close friend we've been playing Last Epoch with for a few months now. We all played with controllers through Steam and were all turned off immediately by the lack of individual loot options and the inability to trade legendaries without leveling to 25 (even though the legendary dropped while grouped). The temporary player loot is annoying at best as the timer ends before most mobs are killed and rarely results in picking up "your" loot if someone else isn't paying attention, and with the majority of the best loot found on vendors (at least in the early game) we all want to sell what we can to make sure we can afford the item(s) when they appear.

Splitting up to complete maps also turned out to be counter to what we expected coming from Last Epoch/Diablo 4. When splitting up to look for the map objectives (bosses, altars, etc) we repeatedly ran into issues with exp/loot/objectives not sharing if someone was "off screen" of the others, having to reset and re-do maps because someone clicked a rusty altar not realizing the others wouldn't get credit, insanity.

I know this is still early access, but at this point at least 4 of us are going to wait until it's released to see if grouping becomes worthwhile before we give this another look. There are plenty of other good co-op games to play, and at the moment this is far from one of them.

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Dblankenship81#2656 wrote:

I've yet to see it mentioned anywhere, but as an ARPG fan since D2 who avoided POE 1 solely due to ridiculous talent trees (with traps no less), my group bounced off of POE 2 after a couple of days of grouped play and currently have no plans to return.

I purchased the $29.99 EA tier 3 times so I could play with my partner and a close friend we've been playing Last Epoch with for a few months now. We all played with controllers through Steam and were all turned off immediately by the lack of individual loot options and the inability to trade legendaries without leveling to 25 (even though the legendary dropped while grouped). The temporary player loot is annoying at best as the timer ends before most mobs are killed and rarely results in picking up "your" loot if someone else isn't paying attention, and with the majority of the best loot found on vendors (at least in the early game) we all want to sell what we can to make sure we can afford the item(s) when they appear.

Splitting up to complete maps also turned out to be counter to what we expected coming from Last Epoch/Diablo 4. When splitting up to look for the map objectives (bosses, altars, etc) we repeatedly ran into issues with exp/loot/objectives not sharing if someone was "off screen" of the others, having to reset and re-do maps because someone clicked a rusty altar not realizing the others wouldn't get credit, insanity.

I know this is still early access, but at this point at least 4 of us are going to wait until it's released to see if grouping becomes worthwhile before we give this another look. There are plenty of other good co-op games to play, and at the moment this is far from one of them.

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A nerf to the damage over time component on very high levels of Tornado and Vine Arrow. These were never intended to be dealing damage themselves, but more so act as a way for other skills to propagate damage.