No swords? No axes? Still?

Why add axes, swords, etc if everything works as bombs anyway.

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Illegal_Bygone#9693 wrote:

No life added, es league take 5

Well seems like passive tree will stay the same. However for those you mentioning we need to wait a patch notes.

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default_mp3#9394 wrote:

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Illegal_Bygone#9693 wrote:

No life added, es league take 5

Well seems like passive tree will stay the same. However for those you mentioning we need to wait a patch notes.

This is true but the leech nerf hurts life builds so much from what it sounds like. On top of that there is a very high chance they wont add life to anything until we have more than 1 melee weapon. So all signs point to 2 full years of ES dominance.

Im thinking some of the new kalguuran skills might be axe/sword/dagger/flail skills being tested before bringing out the full weapon type.

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Direfell#7544 wrote:

Im thinking some of the new kalguuran skills might be axe/sword/dagger/flail skills being tested before bringing out the full weapon type.

It is possible but does not really make sense. I still think pushing Druid to the "front" was a big mistake and should have been saved for 1.0 release as last to really make a splash. They could have been working on it in the background for a very long time and they even stated it was the hardest one to complete and if I remember correctly, they claimed the others were all already being worked on. So I have to ask, where are they?

3 theories...

1. They do a "gotcha" moment and drop at least one with .5 right before the patch notes

2. They are going to mass release what is left for 1.0 which I believe others stated they heard them say in the reveal today (The part where there are no more patches for the rest of the year or something)

3. They just release 1.0 at the end of the year with all of these classes/weapon types still missing

I really hope for option 1 but have a feeling option 3 is what they are doing.

Side note, a lot of the new stuff looks cool but the hype for me just is not there. Have to redo the same (basically) campaign with the same weapon types... Does not sound very appealing to me to be honest. Really hope a new weapon type is added or there are some new skills to existing ones at the least.

Jonathan vaguely said in the interview with Destin (which was today) that swords are not coming before 1.0

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default_mp3#9394 wrote:

Jonathan vaguely said in the interview with Destin (which was today) that swords are not coming before 1.0

I believe he also stated that about daggers as well correct?

I think they direct quote was along the lines of daggers/shadow "would be last."

So ES casters meta for 2+ years unless they nerf them enough to make is LA meta again.

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default_mp3#9394 wrote:

Jonathan vaguely said in the interview with Destin (which was today) that swords are not coming before 1.0

Swords are most commonly popular weapon type because they're more beautiful aesthetically than maces or axes. Swords can also fit into both "brute" and "finesse" characters, meaning bigger target audience. So, what GGG aims for is:

a) stall for time now, releasing all niche weapons first, using up all possible chances to feed people with intermediate supporter packs. If they could delay bows as well, they would've done it, but there are only 2 bowstring weapon types in existence, no room for maneuver here.

b) preserve the most popular features for 1.0 release to prevent this release from being a flop or being viewed as "another so-so league". GGG wants 1.0 to be epic event, yet poe2 already carries the long trail of negativity from disgruntled players.

Everyone wants swords/axes and cyclone skill. Who cares about monk and hunter new ascendancy.

I honestly felt the same. A lot of new shiny things, and I hate to admit that maybe I'm burned out (skipped PoE1 entirely just to be fresh when PoE2 starts), but I feel dissapointed that we still have only 1 "true" Warrior archetype for how long? 1.5 years now? That's insane. I would prefer axes for anything really. Don't really care about new runes or anything, it is just numbers. New playstyles, animations, weapons - that's what is needed.