Lets hear it: Hopes, predictions and wishes for PoE 0.2.0

I wanna hear your thought on what coming, not coming and when we are getting the next patch / league for PoE2!

My predictions are we get the patch mid-late february. It will include obviously a full league reset with new economy. I suspect we will be getting 2 classes, and maybe some new acendencies?

We have already seen a bunch of unique weapons for classes in the game, my hopes are to see a Duelist/Gladiator and the Spear class. Though Marauder might be more likely over Sword class.

I think there will be MAJOR nerfs to Witch and Sorc abilities along with several interactions of ice-wall, sparks, temporalis, stat-stacker gemling etc.

Personally im very excited for this next patch and cant wait for more info. Hopefully they will do an info drop sooner rather then later. If they plan on getting the full game out within 10 months tops, they have to release a +0.1 patch on average every month.

The economy reset update will tell a lot about their direction and I sure hope they heavy nerf the zoomer elements.

I just feel the game isn't quite interesting enough and there's only a few ways to spec to be effectively when you contrast your efforts to what all day players are doing. I don't want to be forced to wear Unset Rings for +2 skill slots and I want to see Spirit Skill nerfs as some of them just downgrade player effort massively.

If they can make more focused/thoughftul crafting and trading that will be a massive luxury I feel but I don't see it happening anytime soon.

I really hope Reviving a teammate gets implemented... or you know, actually being able to use the portals like they were meant to. 1 death maps solo is fine ( not really, but meh i can deal with that ) but not being able to revive someone when you want to do anything together is a total disappointment...

game might as well rename itself to path of exile 2: solo edition

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RietN7#0096 wrote:

I really hope Reviving a teammate gets implemented...

OH HELL NAW.

This would make playing with other mandatory on every damn league start to be efficient and not lose time due to death.

Have we all forgotten D4 start when you had to play with others to get more stuff and better chances in a dungeon? Did yall forget how the forums were flooded with criticism?

If this update is one where we get new classes, I can say almost for sure that it will have Huntress and Druid.

Why? Because they've said those classes were nearly done and will be added to the game quite soon after EA launch. They were actually intended to be part of the initial release, that's why they got so much screen-time when they showed off the game pre-launch. They even got their own walkthrough videos.

However, before launch they figured those classes needed some more time to cook, so they held them back for a little while. So if we're getting new classes, those two will almost certainly be there.

On the same not, we haven't seen any promo material of Marauder, Templar, Shadow or Duelist, so I'm not so sure we'll be seeing those at first. I think it's more likely they'll show up in a later patch.

Hope = GGG hiring more devs .
Prediction = They won't .

Not much hope. I'm sure the game will be great one day but it's got way too many bad ideas in the design IMO. The endgame right now is terrible and a place holder so we'll see.

I want to see a giant list of fixes, balance and QoL improvements all the way through the game. It's badly needed.

When 2.0 drops I'll log in again and check.

i'd like to see some new skills for existing weapons, or new weapon types with new skills

i'd say right now its less about class types and more about weapon types, differences in builds and such.
so lets see what other weapons there are and what skills are associated with them!

im most intrigued by axes and spears

obviously though some of these weapon types loosely have an associated ascendancy, like swords are probably more templar? (str/int) axes more duelist like (str/dex) and spears more huntress (dex/str), but i am still more interested in seeing the weapons and skills than the ascendancies/characters themselves

When it comes to ANY developer. I don't hope. Ever. I prefer to hope for things in my control.

Developers have disappointed me almost every time I've hoped. So I don't hope. I don't hope it'll be Druid at long last. Nor do I hope it'll be soon. Because if I got excited they'd find a way to fk it up.

I HOPE they design a system that allows us to modify skills further than what the support gems offer. The support gems just don't feel like a meaningful change to the gameplay. The entire game is basically the same gameplay, even in high tier maps. I don't know, but that just doesn't feel like what I expected.
Comparing this to Last Epoch. In that game, character building felt significantly better also because Unique gear could completely change my build. This isn't even a thing so far in POE2.
Also the endgame enemies needs work. It's frustrating and unrewarding.

But this is actually the only criticism I have for POE2, everything else is absolutely 9/10 or 10/10.