Content Update 0.2.0 -- Path of Exile 2: Dawn of the Hunt

Its all about views.. Not about fun.

Cant wait, looks awesome :) TY GUYS

Parting from the fact that the patch notes are incomplete (no numbers on most skills and no support gems), my initial reaction is very negative. It's not about nerfing the best builds (I did all the +4 content with an Infernalist, so I include that here), but the lack of buffs on some of the most underused skills or ascendancies. Witchhunter buffs feel very insufficient for an ascendancy that had a ridiculously low play rate (something like a total of 40 in top 1000 Standard, 0 in all three other leagues). I want to see the changes on some of the Crossbow skills are most of them are unusable and I don't think it's just a numbers thing. Grenades being made clunkier feels hard to understand too. 7 seconds CD on a skill that you can't choose where it lands is absurd.

I also see this walking contradiction. Combat can't be meaningful and more slow paced if over half of the enemies double your movement speed (becomes higher with map mods, rare mods, etc.). Fights against the Pinnacle content can't be long, arduous fights, when they have literal one-shot mechanics. It's not compatible.

I also read a few comments about Diablo 2 and I think that these people have not played the game since 2003. Diablo 2 classic Chaos runs take around 2 minutes to complete.

There's also the fallacy that nerfing X is a buff to Y. Witchhunter was not underplayed because Gemling was better. WH was not played because it's a terribly weak ascendancy.

"Mallard Duck Pet"

Thank you.

warrior too strong so they nerfed all the good warrior support gems

ha low

"Tablets (except Overseer Tablets) inherently add twice as many mechanics to Towers. Using higher tier Waystones in Towers also now increases the number of mechanics applied by Tablets. By Tier 15 the bonus is double, allowing a single Tablet to now add four times as many things as before."

just noticed this. nice one

Flameblast getting a cooldown is a bit wild but I guess it supports the idea of not just spamming one button

Honestly this patch note is Kalandra 2.0 all over again. Straight up.

I can understand balance changes, BUT why the hell would you increase curse delay?! That was already so clunky and NOT FUN to use and now ot is worse ... Please overthink this change, that cant be it...