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

Thank you for the buffs, great game! Excited to play !

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yummysushipjs#7638 wrote:

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Azumodei#0837 wrote:

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AZDOG90#7336 wrote:

Games been out 4 months & this is the 1st LARGE patch update.

Yep they basically killed their own EA, It'll peak post patch and crash again weeks in.

so pretty much like every season in every ARPG including PoE 1 ever?

This would be a good argument if not for the fact that GGG is trying to bring in new players and it's not working.

They're going to make the game far more difficult and casual players are going to find other games to play as a result.

no they won't, the only people that are complaining about these changes are the poe1 vets, and the poe1 vets complained about everything anyway.

People will log on, play and enjoy the game for 2 months, just like last time, then drop off and play other things till the next patch.

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yummysushipjs#7638 wrote:

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EvilainExile#4428 wrote:

I for one wanted the game to slow down and I welcome these nerfs. Many broken builds now also can't be done. This is exactly what early access is for.

I think this is a great patch. Thank you.

That could have been accomplished by you playing slower.

But instead now all of us are forced to play slower.

Some of us actually enjoy fast paced game play that requires quick thinking and reflexes.

Lmao you meant to say mashing 1 button repeatedly

Rip hexblast builds, was gonna play that on a lich on league starts, not anymore. Rip all concoction builds.
People give me ideas on what to play on league start!!!! I have no clue after all the nerfs! also GGG saying they want to make more builds viable, proceed to nerf every build that could deal over 100k dps :)

I'm amazed headhunter wasn't buffed. That belt is so bad. Chris Wilson would be so ashamed.

I'm impressed. I expected them to remove the little fun to be had in poe 2 but this is next level

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Moxeru#1852 wrote:

Disappointed by the patch notes and vision. Games are meant to be fun, games CAN definitely be fun whilst being hard.

Looking at all these nerfs across the board, it feels like GGG wants the game to be punishing instead of hard.

That being said, I agree the broken builds needed nerfing, but nerfing everything into oblivion, everything having to have a downside, a boring passive tree (compared to poe1) and unique items of which the majority will go straight into the trashcan. Is not the type of cookie I enjoy eating.

I will sit this one out and wait for 3.26 sigh..

Yea GGG had hinted at the fact before Poe 2 came out that they wanted it to be more like ruthless, difficult and with very little reward. I'm done with poe 2 to be honest with you. I love loot. I'm looking forward to LE even more now. LE probably didn't even need to move their launch date based on how trashy these patch notes are.

quite sad to see the amount of nerfs being introduce. hopefully the new unique will make up for these.

hopefully melee will get more buffs especially warrior and mace

Definitely going to check out 0.2.0

But after reading the patch notes, I can't shake the feeling that you're stripping the soul from Path of Exile and replacing it with artificial complexity—complexity that exists just for the sake of being complex, rather than for the joy of discovering different and fun ways to play.

It's like, instead of encouraging creativity, you want players to spend their time figuring out which skills don’t work with which support gems and which interactions are not possible.

In POE1, we could shuffle things around knowing they would interact—we just had to find the best way to do it. But in POE2, we have to shuffle things around just to see if an interaction is even possible or if there's a hardcoded restriction blocking it.

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no they won't, the only people that are complaining about these changes are the poe1 vets, and the poe1 vets complained about everything anyway.

People will log on, play and enjoy the game for 2 months, just like last time, then drop off and play other things till the next patch.

I don't know about that. After the patch notes I've talked to many players, mostly my poe 2 players I've played with who played on the first launch, but who are sitting this one out. That's okay LE is right around the corner, so I won't have to wait long. The problem with GGG is if a build gets to even be semi-good, they trash it. They just can't stand the idea of a build being good. They want everyone to struggle, and that's fine if that's their vision, but it's not my idea of fun, so I'm out.