Half the player base in 8 hours
I’ll blast through the campaign without planning, clear maps for a few hours and then I’ll just spend the bazillion of gold I have to respec my tree if I need to. Screw planning I’m building the plane mid flight baby.
Don’t forget a parachute!
Yeah, this is part of the fun for me, figuring out a build and what works and what doesn’t work.
What class though
First time warrior, I’ll try totem warbringer and see where it leads me.
This is the way
Came here to say this lol
There goes my hero
I only wish in this case that “building the plane mid flight” was as dangerous or challenging as the metaphor sounds.
I spend my time at work looking at the skill tree.
“are you playing that game again” some co-worker sometimes say. No im theorycrafting! its not gaming. Technically it isnt.. Its like work but .. whatever!!! /alt tab.
When you spend more time theorycrafting than playing the game and still end up with builds more expensive and less powerful than ordinary streamer guides
Part of the fun
Picking a new skill and seeing if you can make it strong. You might hit a eureka moment where you combine it for some insane damage
Or you might be slugging along behind the damage scaling and reverting back to using base skills because they’re better
The latter is me all the time, but it is fun making stupid shit.
Me when Rapid Fire
The old joke - Path of Exile is a really great simulator for Path of Building.
It’s still your intellectual satisfaction.
That’s the whole fun. Taking your shitty homebrew as far as you can and then eventually just re-rolling a better spec
See, with the couple hours a night I can sometimes spare for gaming I’m clearly going to outsmart the people who make a living doing it.
Its like D&D, spending hours creating a charcter/build is simply the second game that comes with the book. I may or may not have more hours spent making character builds then playing the game.
If steam could show me hours in PoB it might be higher than hours in PoE.
The amount of time I spent doing this with 3.5 was so damn high, I miss Prestige Classes!
Nooooo, it’s a GAME THEORY!
We can figure out our build while they have time to fix the servers. Win win.
I’m actually down for this. If we can get an updated planner somewhere I’m probably good for most of the weekend lol
can’t wait to try 2 builds at once with Witchunter
STORMWEAVER INFUSER BAYBEEEEEE
all the cooldowns made me scared to even try Sorc and Witch
Same tbh. Was super hyped to try an Arc build, but seeing how they slap cooldowns on every spell, I guess I’ll just go Witchhunter.
Inb4 GGG sticks cooldown to various crossbow skills
…like Grenades?
Yeah I was looking at a few things but then they went full Oprah with the cooldowns.
Eh I’ve been planning something similar to Jung’s coc snap ever since I saw the firestorm changes, aiming for it to be firestorm with a bunch of skills automated by my coc to generate infusions.
Just trust. I’m not on copium what are you talking about. It’s all fine. 🥲
My rule: don’t play a class I’ve already played. I played stormweaver in 0.1, so until I hit all the other classes I can’t return to sorc.
After playing each class, I’ll only play ascendancies that are new to me.
Keeps things interesting.
I wonder if a snapshot minion/aura bot combi wozld work lol
They need to have a solution for not being able to spec out of jewel sockets and keystones on weapon swap. Jewel sockets especially are a problem, but even with keystones a lot of them shouldn’t be an issue to swap out of.
I can certainly see not being able to swap out of chaos innoculation, but a lot of the keystone effects aren’t so massively game changing that you shouldn’t be able to weapon swap with them.
Also the other big problem is that you can’t have alternate paths to get to a keystone/jewel socket. Even if I can’t swap out of them I should be able to path to them in a different way when I weapon swap.
I think that’s part of the limitation to balance it.
I don’t mind the keystones and jewels tbh but who knows, we only had points just for a few nodes so I’ll find out if it feels bad or not
This is accurate.
Although… not sure if 2 hours is enough. And perhaps it will be staring at the tree for 10 minutes every third level up.
Whoever going to yolo a class without looking at a tier list or guide going to be 8h ahead of meta slave dudes ! Time to abuse the market !
As someone who doesn’t use tier lists or guide i will probably be behind you i think i stare longer and try to figure things out forever and then in 5 levels i swear i do the same thing and throw out my old plan
Just save your changes to the build into Path of building and open note to record your findings and info
Nah that ruins half my fun
Me every league. Way more fun just figuring out your own build anyway
My leaguestart plan is literally just to click WItch and pray. Too little info to even bother thinking about a build. Just pure vibes.
Really can’t go wrong with witch. All 3 ascendancies are great. Even infernalist could be really good with minion especially after latest patch 50% more damage against non uniques.
That’s on top of the already 25% damage buff, changes to unearth, and always hit buff
I’ve been trying to make a poison build from jump and can’t get past act 2 without heavily over leveling. So… guess what I’m going to try!
All I know for certain is that I’m making a monk and I’m rushing Hollow Palm. Not even sure if I’m going invoker or chayula.
This, but with the changes to Vaulting Impact I might rush to see if I can make a Vaulting Impact + Stomping Ground + Pillar of the Caged God build to carry me until maps.
Yeah, I start doing my own shit and when that stops working I just check who plays similar stuff and borrow ideas (because looking through the whole tree myself is too much work).
I usually get “my builds” to like 80% but I’m just too dumb/lazy to get the last 20% optimization so I start yoinking good ideas
I’m already decided on going Bonk (of some kind) Titan since it’s the only Warrior Ascendancy I haven’t played yet, and the campaign progression from Rolling Slam - Boneshatter to Leap Slam - Boneshatter is the smoothest I’ve played. Gonna go with a focus on Slams and Stuns, I think, so I’d probably end up skipping on the Maximum Life Ascendancy.
The removal of Devastate for instant armour break with Boneshatter is gonna change a lot of my plans tho, so I hope there’s something that can replace it.
This is why I take so long in campaign lol
Guilty
Staring at the passive tree *is* also playing the game you know.
Arborist build
I’ll be staring at the skill tree for 13hrs whilst the 46GB update downloads with my 1Mb/s connection.
Can’t even go to bed because the update sometimes fails. Have to babysit it otherwise won’t be able to play tomorrow too.
That is my sad reality too
Plenty of time to check out the skill tree while updating patch + in queue :p
Assuming someone makes a visible skill tree outside of game
When exactly is the patch going to drop? Living in CET
8 hours 24 mins and 3 secs from now. 4:00 pm est
Thanks
https://pathofexile2.com/home has a countdown.
https://pathofexile2.com/home
Homepage of PoE2 always have the countdown timer as well whenever the next league is about to come :)
This meme is just wrong we all know it is gonna be sitting in the queue right?
Someone in the game will post the skill tree and we can all look at it for two hours while in the queue. Meme still checks out 😂
When’s the free weekend starting?
When the update goes live at 4:00 pm EST
Cheers.
TBH I’ve never had an issue with spending time in the skill tree in poe2. You literally just figure out what skills you wanna use, you search the damage type and path towards them while hitting other relevant damage nodes on the way.
Then you can just optimize your build in maps because respecing isn’t really expensive.
It was almost believable bait until you said respecing isn’t expensive
Well I need to know if titans bonus to small passive nodes do anything don’t I :p i raise you 4 hours
Now that I understand the game better I think this is what I’m going to be doing too. My first character was a mercenary and the skill tree path I took was very linear.
I just plug and play whatever says “more” as I go and I’ll let the people way smarter than me figure it out.
I’ll likely only get to act 3 before needing to log for the night anyway so gives the creators time to fix my build while I sleep lol
There’s like 10 nodes on the tree that say that
Okay I didn’t mean verbatim. So I’ll say I go with “number on X go up” nodes
I wonder if it runs better on steam deck now. It was fine mostly but in end game or super thick spots it did not run so well. I better try
2 hours ? those are rookie numbers !!
ED/Contagion builds meanwhile - there is nothing to even look at in the tree.
Just play the game
Actually, we will spend it looking at the queueing screen.
I go fully blind every league and have fun trying to figure something out.
Add to that looking at support gems manually because the recommended list is shit.
I am travelling and I can’t play at all, I will stare at it and the new uniques until I am able to download and play
Glad to see someone in the same boat lol. Gonna try and avoid act 4 spoilers like the plague
We will stare at multiple login screens if anything. They made it free to play on a weekend. Bye bye GGG servers
It’s so annoying not having any info on builds. We only have an idea of what might be kinda cool, not what will be good or even playable. Like if they knew they couldn’t drop the passive tree they could have at least given us the level 20 gem data.
I’m going to be an unarmed huntress so i only care about like 3 stats I’ll see what happens when the dust settles around the tree and skills
If I’m not looking to master endgame, climb up ladders or whatnot. Can I still play a few hrs a night and make a non streamer build and at least make it till the end??
Definitely. Some bosses may be more challenging than they should be but other than that, you can 100% play your own build
Me starring at deadeye for 24h straight.
I go in blind and figure my build out by endgame.
Ended 2.0 with a monk invoker cold twister who does 300k twister Ele damage on tool tip and primal strikes doing 500k on tool tip
I am going full tank, no damage, wish me luck, with the warbringer I have at lvl 65. I hope the new skill that deals damage according to the one mitigated is viable XD. Full block + the new armor passives that apply to elemental damage. My build was full block + some armor breaking but I’ll try full tank.
Do we have to download the patch at release or is it like pre-downloaded?
I was thinking of giving poison bow pathfinder another chance with new toxic growth changes…..
Pray for me
Bah, I’ll just do the same thing I’ve done every patch, play warrior, auto attack everything to death, random walk on the passive tree and then get bored after the first couple hours of maps.
I am at work right now, so yea. Theory crafting it is.
2am here in Aus and I’m too exhausted to stay up for release, getting old sucks. Have some extra fun for be boys and girls. Will see you out there when I arise!
I assume the skill tree hasn’t been released yet?
Waiting for people to develop builds 👍🏻
only 2?
Tbh, I would bet that 90% of the player base doesn’t even really look at the tree much less theory craft. Most players just follow build guides.
there will be infinite queue and server crashing every 5 min
I have over 2000 hours on summoner builds, i think ill be fine just yoloing it.
i will have to leave my pc at exactly the time it drops 😭😭😭😭😭😭
I’m just putting “deflect” in my search box and pathing to it (after grabbing some damage nodes.)
I’ll figure out the rest in act 3.
Yeah, just play the game without planning for the first day. The campaign doesn’t need min/maxing, it needs careful attention to item drops for good upgrades and some generation of gold for gambling items you’re missing.
That’s me….
Staring at the skill tree IS the game.
Im going into this blind and Im drunk. I feel personally attacked.
You got to stare at the skill tree for two hours?!!?!
Finally I can make my character good again
Proceeds to build a terrible new skill tree using the same favorite but bad nodes
Huh… I suppose I should have headed home. Was a long work week so I was out for dinner.
Me attempting the impossible by trying to get armor to perform.
plays Chaos Witch Practically no meaningful changes, besides the Chaos Fire one
plays Chaos Witch
Practically no meaningful changes, besides the Chaos Fire one
Rest of the Skilltree looks funky tho
Other half: staring at loading screen of Clearfell encampment for 20 minutes before giving up and quitting
Me. So me. While you all were having fun leveling, I was preparing to update my build guide for everyone else in pob
I for one will be playing the game and bum rushing to Act 4 lol
Man i read these comments and it feels bad man. I have no idea how any of this stuff works and either just pick what i think might work or follow some one else because I’m a noob though I’ve played hundreds of hours 😂
I’m a noob and I’ve played 1100. Plus 2000 in poe1
Does anyone know how to convert the stash tab to premium tabs? I can’t find the button on the website that GGG referred to.
Don’t think you can til it’s live
stopped playing. game is just not good and wont due to console design
I like how people pretend they look at the tree for hours before playing while in reality most of them will just follow what Big streamer play and will end with playing with the most broken skill like 50 % of the player
Nah I’ll be browsing reddit hoping I win some of the EA keys giveaway
