Who cares about new class/weapons. Existing class, ascendancy, and skills suck.

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Skutz123#5377 wrote:

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Sheldon_ballantyne#2597 wrote:

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teobibu#1278 wrote:

Of course there is build diversity. But admit balance between class skills sucks...

.5 to 1.0 is where a lot of the balance will come from as per devs - theyve been focusing on adding mechanics which took priority over balance. Theyre well aware of balance issues.

Frustrating I know, but its EA

Dunno friend, that sounds like some wishful thinking to me. Not sure in what world 'we know all the current basic features are broken and imbalanced, and have been broken/imbalanced for some time, but we're adding some new things that based on our track record will also be broken, but trust us, we'll fix it all up right before go live, without any large scale testing of the fixes prior' is a defensible approach.

Hopefully your faith isn't misplaced. I would think its more likely that the more features they add and have to contend with the fewer resources they have to work on balance, and the more difficult it becomes to achieve said balance.

Wouldn't shock me if they do something lazy like follow these suggestions of allowing all ascendency skills and any atlas start point for any character, so they can just declare its all balanced because every character has access to everything.

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Argonlo#6237 wrote:

Thats the point though, they're not going to add new content between 0.5 and 1.0.
Theres going to be 0.5.x patches that will have a lot of balance changes and also come with a new economy reset.

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Skutz123#5377 wrote:

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Argonlo#6237 wrote:

Thats the point though, they're not going to add new content between 0.5 and 1.0.
Theres going to be 0.5.x patches that will have a lot of balance changes and also come with a new economy reset.

I mean, they say they're going to do that. Not holding my breath that it actually happens.

Really dunno why I or anyone expect class balance to be a focus in a game where a content trivializing and build negating item like the Headhunter belt exists anyway. Balance was never a priority and likely never will be in PoE2.

No truly compelling reason for them to balance game mechanics either, as long as enough builds exist that enable zoom zoom screen wipe loot explosion and cross your fingers that the item you want finally drops gameplay, who cares if classic melee, Damage over time, or minion builds are technically viable right? Streamers will show the masses how to do it.

I mean, I care because its more fun when things work and there are options to explore. But it's not players like me this game caters to and depends on financially. That's clear now, and I'll move on after a few more days of posting my whines along with others who are upset by the bait and switch. Crossing my fingers that some other game studio takes note that there is a desire at least from some for a different experience than PoE2 will offer.