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Path of Exile 2 Early Access |OT| An Exile like ARPG.

playing as a warrior and having a blast. game got significantly easier once I figured out how to use my skills properly

shockwave totem, earthquake, rolling slam, bone shatter combo is fun and seems to do decent damage with a 2 handed weapon. im going 100% into damage on the tree. usually everything is dead from the earthquake and totem alone but I'm only level 9

I'm squishy but you can actually play this like a souls game and roll around during most boss battles lol. it's pretty great
 
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Rentahamster

Rodent Whores

Jinxed

Member
If there are any other keys going for PC let me know (have purchased PS5 but would like to try on PC)
Apparently some streamers are giving some away. I need to look into it, I'd like to be able to play on PC and ps5 with criss progression
 

amigastar

Member
Yes, except for your ascendancy choice.

amigastar amigastar See this post for more helpful tips.

Thx, this game is huge even in EA. Also i like the fact that NPCs may have useful item to sell, actually, in many ARpgs that's not the case.
i just found out the Yellow Bar growing under the enemies health is the stun bar. So you can stun the enemy when it's full appearently.
 
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Doomtrain

Gold Member
I made the mistake of googling whether or not this game has sexy armor glams or not. The broader PoE community seems vehemently, defensively opposed to it -- hilariously so.
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
Should I be disenchanting or selling crappy magic gear early on?

Disenchant enough magic items so that you have enough mats to craft magic items yourself.
Disenchant enough rare items so that you have enough mats to craft rare items yourself (worry about that in later acts)
Sell stuff so that you have enough money to buy NPC shop items (they're sometimes really good) or to respec your passive tree.

Keep an eye out for how much stuff sells for and only bother picking up valuable stuff.

Also pick up high quality items and items with sockets, and salvage those in town too at the iron anvil thing.
 

hinch7

Member
Just bought, dammit GAF. Too many games to play atm. Will try complete Indy asap and get stuck in this.
 
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Marlenus

Member
Started playing a sorceress with my wife. Given a lot of people are moaning about the Warrior I have to say I am not sure the Sorc is easier.
 

bender

What time is it?
Played a few hours thanks to Arsic Arsic .

The good news is that it runs really well on the Steam Deckard Cain and not only that, but it feels really good on a controller. I'm playing as a Sorceress. The four bosses I've faced have been varied and fun, but a tad on the easy side. I really like the overall tone and aesthetic of the maps. The only downside is that my first legendary drop was a crossbow and I did have the overworld map reset after fully clearing it and then going into the underground dungeon with the Worm boss.
 

Arsic

Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Played a few hours thanks to Arsic Arsic .

The good news is that it runs really well on the Steam Deckard Cain and not only that, but it feels really good on a controller. I'm playing as a Sorceress. The four bosses I've faced have been varied and fun, but a tad on the easy side. I really like the overall tone and aesthetic of the maps. The only downside is that my first legendary drop was a crossbow and I did have the overworld map reset after fully clearing it and then going into the underground dungeon with the Worm boss.
I’m a level 25 sorceress and everything has been easy until act 2. Now we gaming.
 

Mikado

Member
Lol, looks like they fixed the issue that was causing sorc to briefly render without a shirt when selecting MTX options - now the MTX screen won't come up at all until everything has loaded. That being said I'm somewhat impressed they actually painted the nip textures in the first place :messenger_ok:

Not sure what I think about the rest of the game but at least it's got jiggle physics which automatically boosts it several rating points in my view.
 

Arsic

Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Lol, looks like they fixed the issue that was causing sorc to briefly render without a shirt when selecting MTX options - now the MTX screen won't come up at all until everything has loaded. That being said I'm somewhat impressed they actually painted the nip textures in the first place :messenger_ok:

Not sure what I think about the rest of the game but at least it's got jiggle physics which automatically boosts it several rating points in my view.
I had this happen on accident today and was so excited to see those tiddies!

( . Y . )
 

amigastar

Member
How do i turn on Rumble effects on the Dualsense on PC?
I have it turned on in the options but no rumble.
Edit: seems i don't have vibration at all on PC, strange.
Ok, i fixed it by allowing PS5 controller in settings in Steam.
 
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Lol I really should avoid Gaf. I bought a few games over the last few weeks and am finding it incredibly difficult to justify buying another one! Also to hear it's running great on Deck is making it more difficult.
 

Exede

Member
So i bought it, its a nice game. But i don't see the Holy Grail of gaming yet.
Have so far "just" Diablo 2 vibes, i mean that's a good thing but it isn't the second coming of Jesus for me.
 
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Amazing job guys, game is fantastic
 

Arsic

Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Fired up a monk on ps5 because cross progression isn’t working at all for some reason?

Coming off of sorc easy mode this is just miserable lol. Got to the cemetery and I have the bell ability now which I think is good, but the class just feels like a struggle having to do x to be able to do Y. I prefer just being able to focus on damage spamming moves: this class is not that.
 

DavidGzz

Gold Member
Damm, the game is amazing. Same feeling I had when I played diablo 2 in 2001.

Yep! It's been a while! For me not since Dark Souls 1. D2, DS and now PoE 2. It's about time.

Shield charge into frost nova into R1 spam is so good. Just having a blast!
 
what I'm really loving is how the game doesn't instantly flood you with a billion rare weapons with 100 mods early on

I've played d2 on and off since it came out, spending a ton of time on it again with d2r. after like 10 minutes I knew d3 wasn't for me, and the loot system was something that I immediately hated

this game feels a lot more like a d2 proper successor than d3 and d4
 

Viruz

Member
is there any way to zoom in the camera with a controller?
Same on PS5 can't zoom out, also when you show the map while playing can't zoom out or move the map. fix this shit GGG!

The game is so so good! I'm playing mercenary and the gameplay feels to me like dead nation or nuclear throne, the arbalet feels like a shotgun ;) . The different synergies reminds me of the binding of isaac! Like many I was a little intimidated by the actual complexity but so far 10h in and it's a blast. Complexity sure will come later.
Everything is done in a manner so you don't fight the game, there's a pause menu, when you launch your 'save' the game is paused, from everywhere you can teleport back to the village if you need to sell items, you can respec etc...
It's really a pleasure to be introduced to the arpg genre with POE2. GGG did a really good job at letting you experiment and play without holdind too much your hand.
 
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