Dawn of the Hunt - What We’re Working On

Maybe you should focus on poe1, cause poe2 sucks

Edit: 2 ... 2 points to uncap it just to only get to 18-20 stacks and still get oneshot.

The good:
starting out demon form capped is a great idea because until you hit 2 ascendancy points or so you just dont have the resources to even use it.

Fixes:

Demon Flame cap- have it be an initial cap and make the max 50, 60 hell even 100 but let players allocate into how many stacks it actually stops at within that range.

Self DMG: With how much you already have to invest in life regen (hard to get not very much at all in the tree and for whats is there it is far out of the way of dmg nodes) Having the self dmg be so insanely high is wild to the point where we become our biggest threat because 9/10 we one shot ourselves
Just remove the self dmg think of something better but taking fire dmg to myself as a demon born and master of fire dmg is just sooo very bad and makes no sense.

Would be cool to instead gain buffs and even have a visual affect from how much fire dmg builds up on the player it could be like increase dmg but at the cost of lowering mana like the fire is so intoxicated to the demon fire lord that it makes them more primal thus reducing mana from intelligence bonus.

Infernal flame:
One shot to self final game boss in it's current form. instead have it play off the above yes you deal fire dmg to self giving the buff but instead of decreasing the pool of mana which is gone it increases the pool of infernal flame making it happen less often or something unique and fun - could even have a self slow debuff attached to it the more flame you have the more intoxicated / primal you become causing you to move slower the higher the flame is

Demon dog:
Lets be real the only reason anyone used it in the first place was to make using demon form at all a little more manageable with how much self dmg the ascen does and how much you have to invest or sacrifice in terms of res or other def to be able to do dmg (cool risk reward but execution bad) now demon dog which barely works in demon form among many persistent buff, aura or minion things is now just a dog that deals just a tickle of fire dmg. - Useless

Again its a demon fire dog give it a cool mechanic around that if you all dont want it to leech some f the player dmg taken. Make it so as it takes fire dmg it gains stacks causing it to multiply into more dogs and possibly give the player a way to feed it this fire idk would be cool and fun.

Huge problem I forgot to mention:
Persistent buff allocation was bugged before but not it is very very very bugged/unusable at least for controller players not sure about kb/m. Also before and most def now there are not a lot of good fire spells at all firestorm sucks flame ball dmg is tragic flameblast ... well that one was actually in a good spot it could have used a very small nerf but now it is trash. So in demon form what flame skills is there really to use. the way the game plays and how the skills are now there isn't much reason to use fire skills except as a minion fire build not using demon form at all where minions do all the dmg.

I would play POE1 I really would but hate to say it my first ARPG was diablo 3 on controller and so point and click I just can't do I tried POE1 many times over the years with controller plugins that controller support is the one thing POE2 got a little more than half way right.

It may be weird been a PC player for like 10plus years there are just certain games i play on controller and certain games I only play using keyboard and mouse

Really lack of controller support is the only reason I'm not on POE1 rn. Diablo4 I don't even want to mention here idk what it was about that game but something was just missing like the endgame there was just terrible and lack of content and focus on microtransactions

Please make light stun less unbearable. Who is it for? It's not fun in the least. I have stun resist on tree and gear and still can't even get my moves off consistently sometimes and it just feels really bad?

Choose your philosophy, either you want this to be a slow game (which I disagree with since it will be less fun but i'll still play it because I love you guys) where you take 4 seconds to charge your melee attacks like perfect strike or other various skills that take literal seconds to cast even with speed buffs. Or you want to add light stun.

It's not fun at all, please address this in upcoming patches or unfortunately I do not see myself forcing myself to play this game much more which would be a huge bummer.

Back again Just want to say while i was gone i hopped on the game standard league has 0 players all i did was stare at my skill tree because i knew any map i wetn into would lead to me dying i complained to no one in global chat no one was there then i switch to the new league

Lich which might i say is sucha boring ascend again with way too much neg effect 5% mana drain on top of all the mana nerfs chaos dmg does so little smh and one last thing yall really really missed the opportunity to have spirit gain (leader of the undead but no resources extra resource to summon more undead) Also a ghost form would have been sick Was soooo hoping for that but nope also again ascendancy points really only thing i can use is the chance to explode on enemies cant use the bonus chaos dmg because at level 35 when u ascend you will just never have mana -lvl 45 where i am now i would never have mana to endgame with mana nerfs I would never have mana

Hugely underwhelming ascendancy like nothing really unique about it war got something unique they can craft armour actually super cool huntress got unique ascendancies meanwhile lich is just meh I could have just stayed base witch give it a ghost form (aren't all Liches in an undead form of some sort) change all the nodes please make it unique make it fun.

Back on topic yeah new league Global just filled with people complaining and standing around I stood arround read the complaints looked at my shitty gear at level 43 looked at my points all in chaos dmg yet my dmg is so low and logged off I wont be logging back on that is a promise not until you all hear our complaints. I will leave this game as a short lived fun exp that died a very early and abrubt death to Self dealt Fire dmg = to max energy shield and health

I doubt people were playtesting this during development and thought it was hitting the mark. As a game developer (working on a somewhat related genre), I understand that making games is challenging. This patch smells like someone at the top who likely didn't listen to people on the team and thought they knew better. There are so many leads and directors like that in the industry, with egos that prevent them from accepting feedback. These people rarely get held accountable and throw people in the trenches under the bus. As a lead, I always searched for the best ideas, even if they weren't mine.

I feel for those in the devs forced to push this terrible patch out because I know the studio is full of talented people who pour their heart and soul into the game. To the fans acting like this is the end of the world: relax. The game is still in early access. The devs have heard our complaints and will address the issues. This will be a great game, and hopefully, the directors/leads will pull their heads out and listen to the team moving forward.

Ideally your priority for what you are working on should be getting stable servers and a stable game.

rue is a cat

It's not that players don't 'want' to parry. The way you use that term sounds like it's a preferential thing. Death is too punitive in this game with area resets or having to start boss fights over that getting through the campaign in any reasonable amount of time doesn't not permit the change of getting heavy stunned by something that should be parry-able and dying. Players not 'wanting' to parry is because we don't want to roll the dice on seeing death screens. Some bosses I've tested on don't appear to have a single parry-able attack to begin with.

woo hoo affinity for other stuff in tabs,man im a junk collector. lol make sure to have a stash tab sell when this comes out