Path of Exile 2 Full Release | Play 1.0 for Free on December 11
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as they used to say in Diablo 2 - spin to win
Oh, they still say it
I can already imagine the amount of charges you need to use it once.
Tbf he does have frenzy charges while cycloning which is worrying. Please let it be for some random finisher and not for cyclone.
My first thought too. But there is a second spin in the video without charges so that gave me hope
Frenzy infused 50000 base damage, but can be used without frenzies for 7 base damage
-60% movement speed xdd
Gemling is the way
I very highly doubt gemling will be alive the way it is now after this league.
They put way too much effort into the second quality mechanic to scrap it after one league. At worst they’re going to nerf the good qualities and leave it to rot for a year or two. Every so often a change will make even one of those nerfed qualities OP and it’ll slip through the cracks because GGG forgot Gemling exists.
Even if just to play whatever sword skill gets a broken second quality effect gemling indeed
How the blood starts flying out behind the spin when they hit the mob is so fucking good.
I don’t care if it’s meta or not I will build my character entirely around that skill and find a way to make it work
I love how I’m not the only one hyped about cyclone lmao.
literally yelled out loud “Cyclone!!”
they finally added short spears
they finally added sharpened clubs
they finally added skinny axes
they finally added pointy staves
they finally added long daggers
they finally added melee arrows
they finally added straightened sharpened bows
they finally added long thin talismans
They finally added sharpened wands!
They finally added non-throwable traps
They finally added flat maces
I gafawed at this one. Nice.
they finally added bladed staves
They finally added melee arrows
Sword looks insanely good, animation wise.
The dualwield moves were great
dual-wielding seems to enable parrying as well, maybe this is a skill for one-handed swords?!?
Would be cool if we had different styles or special skills for:
Daggers might also fit sword dance style. But given their location on the skilltree they seem to be the missing link between spellcaster and martial weapons.
I’m super hyped for it. I wonder if they will slow down the game for it. I cant see some of these skills at high speeds
Ye I hope they slow down game a bit, evne now on higher levels it looks again like PoE1.
The intent was always for high-level gameplay to speed up dramatically as you grow in power; they just wanted achieving that to feel like more of a, you know achievement–not the default.
You are correct, but even at the highest levels, it was supposed to be a scaled down version of poe1
I’d say the bigger challenge/problem of POE1 is that monsters get too fast to react meaningfully react to, so you have to rely on building correct character defenses to actually counter them before they hit your character without any active counter play.
As such if their intent in POE2 was to change combat to “meaningfully being able to react to threats to your character” it took them several patches to get there but I think they’ve mostly achieved that^1 by not making monsters capable of off-screening you or instantly melting you without a noticeable windup.
How fast and instant killy your own character gets is in your hands, but not monsters, so if they want the game to feel “fair” or have “meaningful combat” they need to have a cap for how crazy monsters can get, but not necessarily how crazy players can get.
^1 By mostly achieving that, I mean that if they continue to create new leagues like they had for POE1, new league content will likely be overtuned and need to be nerfed to be fair after the initial release, usually throughout the league.
WE SPIN2WIN
watch it be “spin to win for 3,67 seconds after you successfully parry”
Based on it firing out other sword skills it looked like I think it might end up being a Glory skill.
actually looked like blood & sand stance (ala poe1) interactions to me. The perforate-esque skill also fired out the bladestorm wind storms
And U need 3 powercharges and „Cannot gain charges during effect“
Pick up 5 spin remnants for 3.67 seconds of spin after a successful parry.
most likely “consumes charges to extend whirling stance for Xs/per charge consumed”
The true spin to win has arrived!!!! Goodbye hollow form + whirling assult your services are no longer required.
This is gonna be the meta, everything else is secondary
GEONOR ICE SLASH WOOO!
looked like a special unique too, id imagine only on that sword
has to be. It’s literally Geonor’s sword
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Geonor build, unique sword and werewolf talisman.
If we don’t recite poems while slashing up mobs we riot
inb4 it’s the next oni-goroshi farm. omegalol
Watch it be a 1⁄10000 drop off Geonor at the end of Act 1, have to repeat act 1 each time to have it while leveling
And like a 1⁄10 off his fight in the Monoliths during mapping
I got the same vibe
Good thing rune forging is a thing cuz that sword deserves some good time of use during leveling.
Looks incredible
This trailer really felt like a “THERE, HERE ARE YOUR SWORDS, HAPPY NOW?” kind of trailer, especially with the emphasis on it when he draws the sword at 0:17. lol
Loved it.
Yeah, this was 100% for the fanbase, not the general public lol
When the game gets 500k+ ccu just on steam alone I’d say the player base is the general public
I don’t think they needed to pay $300k or whatever for the trailer slot at gamescom lmao
Two birds one stone. They need the biggest crowd they can for 1.0 has it can set the tone for the life of this game years to come. But they also wanna support the community so they just did both
yeah they definitely knew what they were doing there
And the answers to that question is “fucking yes we are happy!”
Looking at those clean animations tells me they put their best effort into swords and that’s probably the sole reason it took so long. Mess up swords and people would have rioted.
While you wasted time on Reddit, i studied the blade
Absolute classic lmao.
“DRAGON TWISTER!!!!”
How did you get this footage of me?
SOON!
God those sword animations looked sexy.
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!?
This needs to be the name of one the Ascendancy nodes.
Legit
Holy shit, 95% of sword players in 1.0 😉
They kinda have to add another one or two major things or 80% will play swords in 1.0
I mean after seeing that, I’m 99% playing swords. They look fast, not like macs, and probably being swords have a higher base crit and easy to scale crit and damage that way.
I feel like they should really add another power scaling vector besides crit to the game. There are ways to scale your power but everything besides crit is a kinda convoluted eye cancer GPU destroying spam projectile build (spark builds, twister builds, fireball builds, oil barrage builds) and not much else.
Now to demand the Axes!
Probably be two classes (along with ascendancies) and finished campaign for 1.0.
I hope ur right, but they have said it take a long time to design classes. I would guess daggers are up next, but I am not expecting anything other than swords as a class/weapon.
Yeah for sure. It just depends on what they are struggling with, like Druid shapeshifting gave them fits trying to get it just right. They have for sure been working on all these classes simultaneously. Some are just easier than others to put together.
I would also guess daggers are next, but I would prefer Templar so I can play RF :P
We shall find out alot more at ExileCon!
Templar pls
The beauty of PoE and PoE2 though is that you can potentially play swords on every ascendancy. Even if you only care about swords, there are 36 flavours of swords. Hell I’ve even played melee Djinn and it wasn’t half bad.
I thought 1.0 would have all the classes.. guess not?
Just seems like an arbitrary new version number.
Me and the boys spinning all the way through 1.0 campaign is gonna be lit.
sorry cyclone isnt availible until level 58 lol
Consumes 3 power charges per second
Level 90. Like Hollow Form 6th socket.
Also +1 second to total attack time because fuck melee lol
And frenzy charges, dont forget charges.
It will be a Ascendancy skill only unlockable after spending 8 points
inb4 it requires glory to spin
Holy shit, SWORDS!!!
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Is that FLICKERSTRIKE?!
If they are quietly announcing we can move skills across weapon types finally that will be so hype
It’s flicker slash, Jonathan told me in my dream
Your dream:
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By far the funniest version of this meme
Would make sense.
Is there really a difference between a Cyclone and a Whirling Assault attack?
Cross weapon skills would do a lot to opening up melee options, even if it only works on 2 weapons and not all.
Channelling?
It’s really up to how they want to go about it but I think introducing the same or “definitely not the same” skills for different weapons makes sense for the classics and where the same type of weapon is essentially used the same way. You can 100% do a cyclone with an axe too, arguably whirling assault on spears could make sense as well
Even if they wanted to do slightly different stuff with each weapon type, if that is purely a stats thing just add it to the tooltip. If it’s more fundamental it would always be more interesting to have that on a support gem anyway so it isn’t locked to one skill
Keeping fundamentally the same skill as a single gem shared by multiple weapons also helps keep the clutter of the gem system down even just a tiny bit. A player wanting to start over on a second character could then have the choice to replay a skill they know and liked, in a slightly different flavour, instead of finding out that it always existed under a different name 20 hours into their new character
theyd just make flicker specifically work with both staves and swords similar to how barrage works with spear or bow.
I WISH IT IS
We are so excited for you to play the Duelist when 1.0 lands :) In the meantime and if you’re at gamescom Cologne, do stop by Hall 6.1-B031 to try out the Duelist!
I’m so fucking ready for Christmas break. Best present I could ask for.
Literally on my birthday too lol. Best december incoming
I hope you get some birthday sloppy toppy from Queen of Filth my bro
Booking time off tomorrow lol
I CANT WAIT FOR FULL RELEASE SO I CAN PLAY CASTERS ONCE MORE
Believe it or not, minions
where the fuck is my templar
Exile Con brother.
They will drip feed us classes to generate hype going forward. Doing all classes in 1.0 gives them no “big thing” later on. Casuals will come back for new classes 100%.
I think they just straight up don’t have time to do all classes before December. I don’t think they’re deliberately being slow about it.
Whats the point of calling it 1.0 when all the intended launch content wont be there? Just for marketing I guess lmao
I dunno I feel like I’m the exact opposite. I just want them to get the base classes in the game already.
If 1.0 is just another single class drop like beta patches, that they’ve taken extra time to complete. I don’t see how that generates hype for their official launch.
Doing all classes in 1.0 gives them no “big thing” later on.
Not doing all classes in 1.0 doesn’t really feel like 1.0…
I was so confused at the start, but then once I saw the gameplay it was obvious it was PoE2.
Excited to see the new character!
same. i didnt know it was Poe2 with the beginning intro.
I only caught on because the banner pic posted prior was in a coliseum as well
WTF? I was sure the release date would only be confirmed on Exilecon
God damn what a great early Christmas present this will be
Slot at gamescom might be too pricy to announce swords only :P
Has me hyped wondering what will be at exilecon now. I definitely thought a 1.0 date would be revealed there also.
Full reveal of the class and it’s ascenddecies, plus acts 5 and 6 of the campaing.
They might use exile con to show the last 2 acts and some endgame stuff. I feel like the general population probably cares less about what new endgame mechanics are in the game and want to know more about classes.
Templar, trust.
Way more fresh eyes on the game. Exilecon is mainly already in Poe players minds, so makes sense to let everyone else know 1.0 date with gamescom.
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Lol GGG really said “yall wanted swords?” and make a trailer all about swords. Templar? Who knows. Flails? Meh.
Swords.
PRAISE
prepare your swords it’s time to spin to win.
Almost cried seeing the cyclone 😭😭😭😭
All I want in PoE2 is just vanilla cyclone, hold button and go I hope there is no you must have 20 frenzy charges
“The new cyclone now has two activation buttons, one clockwise and the other counterclockwise. You can spin in one direction for a maximum of 5 attacks, after which it enters cooldown, and you can only spin in the other direction. Trying to spin in a specific direction while in cooldown will make your character trip and fall, so be careful not to overspin!” /s
Delete this before Jonathan sees it
To compensate for the increased power of the counter-clockwise spin we have nerfed all mace skill attack speeds by 13.37% (this is a buff)
In the trailer you can see that he had 3 frenzy charges, and it was not consuming it, so let’s see
ARPG players when their new game let’s them do the same old thing they’ve done in older games for 30 years
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You can spin after consuming 3 power chargers for 3 seconds.
-80% movement speed while spinning
Those animations were even better than I expected holy shit. 11⁄10
The two different animations for the cyclones, one where the sword swings around and he turns to catch up with the sword, the other where he always faces towards to centre of rotation, with beautiful footwork in both. really feels like the weapons have weight in the animations.
I moment of silence for the exiles who didn’t make it…
Let another decade of memories… begin. Let’s… make… history.
RIP Dolly Parton
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I’VE BEEN PRAYING FOR TIMES LIKE THIS
I don’t care about swords but wasn’t expecting a 1.0 date
I don’t care about swords
This is heresy holy shit
Ranged gamers smh…
As a lesbian I’m an axe gal, no interest in swords.
1.0? Aren’t half the classes not in the game or am I wrong?
They wanted the full campaign by 1.0 and f2p
We already knew all classes weren’t gonna be in 1.0
4 have yet to be added, yes
only missing 3 classes after Duelist
We’re 4 months away and they have been working on the game for years now. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect duelist and at least one other class to be ready for 1.0.
Even if it’s not the case, it’s a live game, updates with new classes can come later. For free, no less.
WE NEED THE LIGHTSABER MTX
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There’s potentially good news for you
YOLO release right before the 2 weeks holiday monkaGIGA
Holy login. Finally.
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Love how they made Gut’s greatsword the highest base type for 2 handers.
To go along with the behelit and the brand of sacrifice.
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YEAHHH BITCHHH FUCK YEAHHH THOSE SWORD SKILLS LOOK INSANE AHHHHHHHHHH I LOVE YOU GGG
on 2nd watch the sword skill look FAST AS FUCK too, also man i cant wait to reach that gladiator arena in the campaign, i hope we have to like survive waves of enemies/bosses
There’s Sword Parry LMAO.
I watched 90 mins of the stream and switched off of it 5 seconds before the reveal LMAO
But will it include swords? I think I might’ve seen one in there, but I’m not sure.
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spin to win lets fucking go
SPIN TO WIN BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
That spin is sooooooo goooood.
Sword skills look so good. Also there’s a flicker strike like skill too. Can’t wait
I got my blade so firm in my grip right now
Shadow when GGG?
Okay community, you win we got swords. Can we yap about shadow now? Cause I’m desperate af
I’m going to get flamed for this, but if it isn’t all weapon types and classes in 1.0, it’s not 1.0.
1.0 is whatever they decide it is, sorry,
1.0 is full champaign and Free 2 Play.
They could’ve called 0.1 the actual 1.0 release and no one would complaint. Its an arbitrary choice
We still haven’t got all the classes and all the weapon type. The “its in EA” people won’t have that excuse anymore
HELL YEAH CAN’T WAIT FOR DECEMBER
So 75% of the classes at launch. Feels weird to call it 1.0 but I guess they don’t want to keep it in EA for another 12-18 months required to make 3 more classes worth of skills.
Guys why is the shadow’s dagger so long
I’m just wondering why his neck is so short
Never booked vacation time faster in my life after seeing this post lol
Can’t fucking wait.
kinda makes me think they will release 1.0 without any other weapons or classes. no templar ( the most iconic character in the entire game ) , no shadow, no daggers, no flails. kinda sad tbh if true
I. Want. Flails.
Are you spinning son?
I …. cannot believe this. I booked tickets to Ecuador (from Europe) to spend 40 days there as a vacation ….. i leave less than 48 hours after release.
I … really hope you guys have fun
You knew 1.0 was coming out in December though lol
Yep it is self harm at this point.
See it positive: You come back and you can enjoy a patched and better version of the league!
40 day vacation? What do you do for work brother.