POE 3.26 is going to Launch in June and Why POE2 people should care and play it.

I don't like POE1 and so... yeah, I won't play it.

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OP

What you've said here about poe1 is true, but there are also things you haven't said. Since you specifically address poe2-only players, there are other things they should know. Poe1 is not all unicorns and rainbows.

- Uber bosses and T17 maps: poe1 ubers are not the same as poe2 Difficulty 4 bosses. They are dps checks with original fight choreography intentionally destroyed by their "uberesness". At the same time GGG had gradually gated more and more build-defining and scaling-space-extender items behind those ubers and T17. What began as optional gimmick for the top 0.1% players is now a fully fledged final content level. What OP said about "pick any skill you want" is not cutting in T17, good old meta returns instead.

- Poe1 has been around for a long time, and GGG had all this time to balance loot and crafting about top players with 1000s hours of experience. Going in blind you'll find yourself at the very bottom of economy. Read the ton of build guides
(for this specific patch), use trading tools and live searches, or you won't be able to buy serious endgame upgrades. For example aurabots + MF culler parties are so much worse in poe1.

- Visual clusterfuck + oneshots + exp penalty. Poe2 tried to address this, but poe1 was the ground zero for this design, crude and disrespectful progression blocker is really bad at level 93+. Expect to go to TFT for 5-way rotas which will utterly destroy your CPU even by standing AFK in there.

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Rakie1337#5746 wrote:

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Fhrek#4437 wrote:

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Rikku#7536 wrote:

Pls no they‘ll just complain about XP loss on death

At least in PoE1 Exp loss is outweight for real endgame activies that works.

in poe 1 you get much more experience, it takes less experience to level, and leveling is faster -- and you lose less experience when you die in POE 1...


They really did amplify all the bad things from POE 1 for POE 2 lol

If not mistaken the exp loss is the same (10%) in both games, the difference is that in PoE1 earning that EXP back is easy and we actually learn when dying. Plus six portals to get back and clean up any loot or map mechanic left behind, or simple to go back and smack the map boss for the completion.

Thank you sir

Well presented

Not sure i can bring myself to start a game after missing 10+ years of lore and changes.

Most POE 2 players that i know wont play POE 1 because of that, yes its a strange reason but with so many games that are within the few years release window its hard to bother grinding another 1000hrs on an older game.

If POE 2 was easier to reach max level i would have definitely started this league, but i need another 300hrs here, by then other seasons of other games start etc.

POE 1

4,021
players right now

6,591
24-hour peak

That is pretty bad, hope your post and this league bring back players, we need POE 1 to succeed (yes there are a lot of idiots out there and they will think who cares about POE 1, news flash every POE 2 should care).

I dont care about the exp loss like i used too, its been explained to me that it is essential to the backend mechanics. But compounding exp penalty based on level and lack of gain is my biggest issue with POE 2 everything else is great in my opinion.

Yes make it difficult, but level 97 to level 98 (almost there) will take 96hrs for just 1 level that is just to hard core and i dont run any maps without min 27% exp gain boost, 0 deaths.

I have 730hrs playtime with 120 deaths.

i do feel like thanks to poe2, the next league will be more popular than kalgur

A small but important point about gear sockets: Possible maximum sockets are based on item level:

Number of
sockets Minimum ilvl Weight
(6S & 3S) Weight
(4S) First vendor
availability
1 1 50 100 Act 1
2 1 120 90 Act 1
3 2 100 80 Act 1
4 25 30 30 Act 2
5 35 5 — Act 4
6 50 1 — Act 6/7

As for assistance and resources, there are a TON of channels on YouTube with useful tutorials on everything from crafting to boss fights. Yes, they also have build guides, but those really aren't an absolute necessity in PoE. Also, you will discover the joy of uniques which don't all suck to the bone. Thematic builds with uniques (such as the Daresso-themed gear) are possible and potentially viable through the campaign and even early maps, while other uniques can be build-enabling in ways which may surprise you. Experiment, have fun.

See y'all on the sunny shores of Wraeclast, Exiles. Say ""HI!" to Hillock for me! =^[.]^=

Sadly poe1 looks old and feels old right now, which may not necessarily be a bad thing to everyone, but it is for me.

In terms of visuals, I just can't bring myself to play it even though I prefer some art styles much more on poe1 than poe2. The whole soldiers related stuff for example, I think it's a much more interesting art style than poe2's corruption blobs of meat.

In terms of gameplay it's not what I want in an arpg, except for maybe the build diversity.

But most importantly, no wasd and the whole gem socket stuff is just a big nope for me.

The same person creating yet another post about "Zoom-zoom is great, I love it and if you don't, you are wrong"

This guys who created this post (and many others) is a good example of vocal minority.

PoE 1 is fucking zoom-dopamine overload-bullshit.
Mashing movements skills while you can't see anything and whole screen exploding non-stop isn't a gaming.
This is enjoyable to a very limited number of people.
I am not even going to watch a release trailer and ofc won't play PoE 1 ever again, same as many others.

Btw, this post isn't a PoE 2 feedback. Get it out of this forums.

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Sargoth_CZ#3391 wrote:

Btw, this post isn't a PoE 2 feedback. Get it out of this forums.

Quite so. As it is directed toward players of PoE Deuce, it ought to have been posted in the Early Access Discussion forum. =^[.]^=

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Sargoth_CZ#3391 wrote:

The same person creating yet another post about "Zoom-zoom is great, I love it and if you don't, you are wrong"

This guys who created this post (and many others) is a good example of vocal minority.

PoE 1 is fucking zoom-dopamine overload-bullshit.
Mashing movements skills while you can't see anything and whole screen exploding non-stop isn't a gaming.
This is enjoyable to a very limited number of people.
I am not even going to watch a release trailer and ofc won't play PoE 1 ever again, same as many others.

Btw, this post isn't a PoE 2 feedback. Get it out of this forums.

Poe2 doesn't even have its own forum. You are on Poe1's page, show respect to the king :D