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SBFord · August 2017

Path of Exile - Oriath Impressions - The Hype is Real - MMORPG.com

I have been playing Path of Exile since the very first closed beta. It’s been my go to ARPG ever since then. Most importantly the depth of the game and the amazing replayability. Oriath changes a lot of the core game and some things I like and some things I dislike. It’s bound to happen, changes to a game we don’t like. For this look, I would like to just go over those things and express my concerns and express my joy depending.

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xyzercrime · August 2017

"Energy shield values have been reworked which was a huge change and has impacted a lot of the builds current and future. This change impacted my friends and I more than anything. A lot of builds are based off CI. I love this change though because I feel it will bring more variety to builds rather than everyone just going CI."

Captain here..

CI = Chaos Innoculation, which makes you immune to chaos damage but your maximum health will reduce to 1.

Elthium · August 2017

My pet hate with ARPG's has always been being forced to play the game 3 times. About time games got away from that.

irnbru69 · August 2017

they are reworking poison (DoT's) again ??, Jeez come on GGG get it right this time, Ive always wanted a viable viper strike build, played the game for 2 years in closed beta and been through so many changes.

I actually used to cal lthis game Patch of Exile, many did aswell.... Uhg ive been holding off going back to PoE and wil do when this patch launches.

I stil have one pet hate about this game, for many solo players who simply dont want to get involved with the whole trade scene it can be daunting to get GG items, I wish they would just put a Auction House in already.

DarkVagabond · August 2017

DMKano said:

Have they added a way to respec all points as you wish, so that ine can freely experiment with different builds?

hahaha

jpedrote52 · August 2017

DMKano said:

Have they added a way to respec all points as you wish, so that ine can freely experiment with different builds?

You can respec every single point from your build, you just need a huge amount of currency XD

Now in all seriousness, it's not that type of game, you have one build per character, if you want to try another of the "infinite" builds just level up again it takes no time (5-10 hours) if you know what you'r doing.

cheyane · August 2017

I should go back and play this again. I did enjoy it but I was not very really into these types of games but Grim Dawn has taught me how much fun this genre can be.

xyzercrime · August 2017

DMKano said:

DarkVagabond said:

DMKano said:

Have they added a way to respec all points as you wish, so that ine can freely experiment with different builds?

hahaha

PoEs best feature is the deep skill tree system.

Its worst feature is that you cannot freely respec to experiment.

This is funny..... why?

I never understood why allowing players to enjoy the best aspect hassle-free is somehow considered "crazy talk" by the playerbase.

Yes, it is "crazy talk" because what you asked basically remove one more reason to trade with another players.

OoR always intended not only act as respeccing tool, but also as a form of currency. Just please stop beating another dead horse.

xyzercrime · August 2017

DarkVagabond said:

DMKano said:

Have they added a way to respec all points as you wish, so that ine can freely experiment with different builds?

hahaha

Indeed, basically he's asking to "Diablo3fying" Path of Exile.

Tiamat64 · August 2017

If it wasn't for that eerie claustrophobic feeling I get whenever I play this game these days, the lack of resets would probably keep me away anyways. I start up the game after a long hiatus, look at the utterly massive passive tree, play around with a few builds in my head or on the skill planner, but just can't bring myself to click the "Confirm point allocation" button or whatever it's called because I'm paralyzed by fear so I just leave it be and then leave the game for another half year (well, more specifically, I run around a bit before I start getting feelings of actual depression at how SQUISHED everything looks because the camera's zoomed in so damn much and then after that I leave. Dunno if they changed it to let you zoom out more since then but I haven't heard anything about it)

cmacq · August 2017

Tiamat64 said:

If it wasn't for that eerie claustrophobic feeling I get whenever I play this game these days, the lack of resets would probably keep me away anyways. I start up the game after a long hiatus, look at the utterly massive passive tree, play around with a few builds in my head or on the skill planner, but just can't bring myself to click the "Confirm point allocation" button or whatever it's called because I'm paralyzed by fear so I just leave it be and then leave the game for another half year (well, more specifically, I run around a bit before I start getting feelings of actual depression at how SQUISHED everything looks because the camera's zoomed in so damn much and then after that I leave. Dunno if they changed it to let you zoom out more since then but I haven't heard anything about it)

Sadly I have to agree with this especially the camera being too close. It has bothered me since beta and still holds me back from committing to this game. They do so many things so well, I just wish the camera could be changed.

xyzercrime · August 2017

Torval said:

xyzercrime said:

DMKano said:

DarkVagabond said:

DMKano said:

Have they added a way to respec all points as you wish, so that ine can freely experiment with different builds?

hahaha

PoEs best feature is the deep skill tree system.

Its worst feature is that you cannot freely respec to experiment.

This is funny..... why?

I never understood why allowing players to enjoy the best aspect hassle-free is somehow considered "crazy talk" by the playerbase.

Yes, it is "crazy talk" because what you asked basically remove one more reason to trade with another players.

OoR always intended not only act as respeccing tool, but also as a form of currency. Just please stop beating another dead horse.

It's not a dead horse. It's useful information. I like ARPGs with an open respec mechanic. I would rather know that now before downloading the xpac and wasting my time finding out otherwise.

You're making this like downloading the whole expansion is the only way to know skill system..

As for DMKano, he numerously posted in PoE news here that he wanna skill reset system to be changed (even though usually the news weren't for skill system) , as if the PoE devs will ackowledge his posts on this site, hence "beating dead horse."

Robbgobb · August 2017

Respecting would be nice. I will agree with people who want that. As games have gotten to where the visuals are better, PoE is a great game that I want to play but can't. So many people love the look of the game and to me it is a depressing world. I play games for fun and I no longer want to look at the world after a couple of hours. I hope this proves great for GGG. I wish I could get the mechanics of the game with the graphics of D3.

Good luck to all who are playing today and this weekend.

Phaedruslives · August 2017

Robbgobb said:

Respecting would be nice. I will agree with people who want that. As games have gotten to where the visuals are better, PoE is a great game that I want to play but can't. So many people love the look of the game and to me it is a depressing world. I play games for fun and I no longer want to look at the world after a couple of hours. I hope this proves great for GGG. I wish I could get the mechanics of the game with the graphics of D3.

Good luck to all who are playing today and this weekend.

Ironically the Pixar technicolor ejaculate is probably Blizzard's biggest limiting factor, imo.

ManWithNoTan · August 2017

Torval - ["Yeah, I know he's asked it before. I've asked it too. I don't think either one of us has beat it to death though. It's asked every once in a while because maybe it will change. I think it's a bad design especially monetizing it.

When he starts making a bunch of posts out of xpac cycle asking when this is going to change, then I'll agree it's beating a dead horse. "

I don't believe respecs are monetized, you don't buy them in the game store for real money or anything like that. Points can be un-specced by in game drops. Probably on reason that easy respecs aren't askef for by most people is that they play the game on the current Season. Those last for a few months or so, after which the character gets rolled to a normal server - which I've never played on. So for me at least, characters are temporary. " (BTW I hate the way Quotes work on this site... it's messy and I screw them up trying to get rid of the pages of pages of quotes...)

mmrv · August 2017

Tiamat64 said:

If it wasn't for that eerie claustrophobic feeling I get whenever I play this game these days, the lack of resets would probably keep me away anyways. I start up the game after a long hiatus, look at the utterly massive passive tree, play around with a few builds in my head or on the skill planner, but just can't bring myself to click the "Confirm point allocation" button or whatever it's called because I'm paralyzed by fear so I just leave it be and then leave the game for another half year (well, more specifically, I run around a bit before I start getting feelings of actual depression at how SQUISHED everything looks because the camera's zoomed in so damn much and then after that I leave. Dunno if they changed it to let you zoom out more since then but I haven't heard anything about it)

This a thousand times over, far to zoomed in and cannot see enough real estate on my screen, the ugly models dont help but if i could play without the feeling of my face mushed against the windshield I would really enjoy the game, until that happens i will always be out. Its the main visual fun of the genre and when you have such a small visual field its just bleh.

xyzercrime · August 2017

Torval said:
Yeah, I know he's asked it before. I've asked it too. I don't think either one of us has beat it to death though. It's asked every once in a while because maybe it will change. I think it's a bad design especially monetizing it.

Monetizing the respec system? lol, do you have any proof of your claim?

As far as playing PoE myself up until act 4 cruel difficulty (still on the mid of journey), I found nothing of monetized respec system of any kind. The only respec points you get are either from quests or farming currencies and convert them to Orb of Regret, that's it.

And no, respec system will not change.

Torval said:

When he starts making a bunch of posts out of xpac cycle asking when this is going to change, then I'll agree it's beating a dead horse.

Fair point.

But then, I feel he already made some posts about it in the PoE's past threads. Sorry, I'm not trying to offend anyone, but if you feel that the original skill system of PoE (prior patch 2.0.0) was not fulfilling your need, I don't think that will change in the subsequent patches either.

Thebeasttt · August 2017

Is the animation still choppy garbage?

Xoph · August 2017

O_o, Some real interesting personalities around here, that's for sure.

Akulas · August 2017

Acts 6-10 auto completed themself for me.

P.S. The community is probably from upper east side Detroit

cheyane · August 2017

It had 80,000 in queues to get in. Very popular indeed.

Tiamat64 · August 2017

Gorwe said:

Robbgobb said:

Respecting would be nice. I will agree with people who want that. As games have gotten to where the visuals are better, PoE is a great game that I want to play but can't. So many people love the look of the game and to me it is a depressing world. I play games for fun and I no longer want to look at the world after a couple of hours. I hope this proves great for GGG. I wish I could get the mechanics of the game with the graphics of D3.

Good luck to all who are playing today and this weekend.

And Diablo's not depressing? ...since when?

Even if the overall plot of D3 is meant to be dark and depressing, I actually felt there's so much self-referential humour in Diablo 3's random sub-quest events throughout the game that the game felt like it was a tongue in cheek parody of the typical ARPG dark atmosphere at times. Not that that was necessarily a good thing.

Still, Diablo in general I found to be slightly less dark than Path of Exile if only because human civilization was still in a working state in Diablo. In Path of Exile, the extent of human civilization is all refugee camps (or bandit camps or brutal totalitarian fascist regime army war camps). Which makes sense because you're an exile in exiled lands, but I did find it a good bit more depressing than the Diablo games. There's also a "humans are the real monsters" thing going on in Path of Exile. It was easier to distance myself from the horrors in Diablo 3 because demons will be demons so they're contractually obligated to be horrific assholes, but almost all of the horrible dark things in Path of the Exile are of human origin, which made it hit closer to home.

I actually liked that it was depressing that way, myself, as it made the game and its plot stand out from the Diablo series, but it was still genuinely depressing.

Dr_Shivinski · August 2017

DMKano: "Ya'll got unfucked respecs yet?"

GGG: "Nah gurl"

Peanut Gallery: "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

I for one can't figure out what makes having 1000 characters for different builds somehow superior to being able to invest in one character and make changes and tweaks and entirely new builds hassle-free.

Vasel · August 2017

POE has done great with expanding its content. IT is the 15 hours of crap content to get to the good stuff that is the problem. Fix that and people might come back.

Phry · August 2017

Dr_Shivinski said:

DMKano: "Ya'll got unfucked respecs yet?"

GGG: "Nah gurl"

Peanut Gallery: "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

I for one can't figure out what makes having 1000 characters for different builds somehow superior to being able to invest in one character and make changes and tweaks and entirely new builds hassle-free.

The whole respec thing appears to be a topic that makes people very defensive, the whole point of being able to respec, is to avoid having to have 1000 characters because you either messed up or changed your mind about your characters abilities, is it not? Perhaps a simple solution would be for them to have purchaseable respec tokens in the cash shop, it sounds like there is a significant demand for them.

aliven · August 2017

Nyctelios said:

Torval said:

xyzercrime said:

DMKano said:

DarkVagabond said:

DMKano said:

Have they added a way to respec all points as you wish, so that ine can freely experiment with different builds?

hahaha

PoEs best feature is the deep skill tree system.

Its worst feature is that you cannot freely respec to experiment.

This is funny..... why?

I never understood why allowing players to enjoy the best aspect hassle-free is somehow considered "crazy talk" by the playerbase.

Yes, it is "crazy talk" because what you asked basically remove one more reason to trade with another players.

OoR always intended not only act as respeccing tool, but also as a form of currency. Just please stop beating another dead horse.

It's not a dead horse. It's useful information. I like ARPGs with an open respec mechanic. I would rather know that now before downloading the xpac and wasting my time finding out otherwise.

The expac will allow respec since the passive tree changed. Everytime passive tree changes they give your characters a free total respec.

Yes, this is beating a dead horse, you guys already asked this over and over and over and over and it was already answered over and over and over.

I just think it's funny the same behavior is not found in any d3 posts here. Just like d3 fits his playerbase PoE fits his own playerbase - and it won't change to suit other ones. If we have to accept "our differences" in regards to ARPG when talking about Diablo3 I think you too have to respect our differences when we are talking about PoE.

PoE is a theorycraft porn, and it wouldn't be so if you could respect at any time. You don't have build if you don't have a commitment.

That works for D3 because it does not asks for commitment, but PoE does.

How respeccing kills creativity? Is this Bizzaro universe?

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