You know we need more sockets for gems right?

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heyyous wrote:

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DER_PSYCHOPATH wrote:

It will take another year or two until 4.0, but then you will probably have more gem slots than you know what to do with. I do not see a point in trying to create an interim solution if an actual solution is already confirmed.

What are you referring too? I just started playing again.
Give us pants!

In PoE2 (or 4.0, if you prefer to call it that way, they are the same) gear will no longer have variable numbers of gem slots but always the same number depending on the slot, and they will no longer need to be linked.

Instead, you will socket active gems or meta gems into those sockets, and socket your support gems into the gem slots of your active gems.

Meta gems are gems that work with several active gems that are used at the same time, such as several auras that can then be turned on all at once instead of one at a time.

Instead of modifying sockets and links on gear, you will modify sockets on these active or meta gems. Since unlinked gems are pointless in this context, all support gem slots will be automatically linked. Experience will be transferable from a gem with few slots to one with many, although there may or may not be a price for this.

It is currently assumed that getting 5 support slots for a gem will be more difficult to obtain than 6 sockets on an item nowadays, but easier than 6 linked sockets.

Anyway, you will have room for somewhere around 8-15 gem setups that can all be either 6-links or meta gems with several active ones in the same setup, so around ~48-90 gem slots equivalent of the current system. Exact numbers are probably still subject to change. The text for the presentation at ExileCon mentioned 8 sockets for the most part, but in the demo there were 9 already, and things like unset rings exist.

You can check out the VODs of ExileCon for more details.

That doesn't sound better at all. Can already tell it's just going to be a push to get those extra sockets and being weak without them, Have fun trying to balance that... They will find out what a nightmare they have created.

This is really just an Rng slot machine tbqh.

2 exalts dropped last league and it ended so fast I had them sitting in my stash still...

As everyone has mentioned this game being a one skill spam fast is extremely boring. Summoner is about the only play style I felt actually had skills.

I guess poe will transform into poe 2 and this one will be gutted?

its a million times better than what we have now.

you will have 4 skill slots on the weapon, 2 on your chest, 1 on each of your hat, gloves and boots and they are all 6 links.

so thats nine 6links, vs two 6links and three 4links that we have now.

It's actually worse for certain niche builds that use tons of unsupported skills, though only quantity minion builds ever get near that point. And if they go through with their proposed Build-A-Totem AI for spell totems, even those minion quantity builds will probably be fine (since you can just slap your desecrate, offering, and other utility skills onto the same single spell totem gem)

theres gonna be meta gems, theyll probably make a one4all type gem where you can socket 1 support and 4 skill gems in a meta gem and all 4 skills get supported by the 1 support socket. they did say talk to us and tell us what u need to make the system work, what meta gems we need. im sure we can make the case for these sort of gems if theyre not already planned. i think the last thing they want is to limit people more than they are now, the problems theyre looking to solve is socket on gear issues in terms of item upgrades and 1 button spam builds because only one 6link etc.

My necro uses three six-sockets (staff, armor, helm), a five socket (gloves) and a hungry loop (5 socket).

I could absolutely and easily make use of twice that many lol!

I'm still wondering how they're going to balance summoners that can suddenly have a bunch of six link minions out at the same time. That's a lot bigger power increase than having a ton of six link self-cast skills of which you can only cast one at a time anyways.

If Trigger skills didn't cost mana, I could see how non-summoners could get a similar power increase just by having a ton of six link triggers turning them into living fireworks factories. But now after this latest league making triggers cost mana? Nah

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TiamatRoar wrote:

I'm still wondering how they're going to balance summoners that can suddenly have a bunch of six link minions out at the same time. That's a lot bigger power increase than having a ton of six link self-cast skills of which you can only cast one at a time anyways.

If Trigger skills didn't cost mana, I could see how non-summoners could get a similar power increase just by having a ton of six link triggers turning them into living fireworks factories. But now after this latest league making triggers cost mana? Nah

Yeah, I expect they will be rolling out some necro nerfs once PoE 2 goes live. If I had another few 6-links to toss around I'd add Animnate Weapon or SRS to my Golems, Skeletons, Zombies, Phantasms, Holy Relic, Labby Glove Enchant, Specters, Animate Guardian and Vaal Skeletons. Or maybe both LOL!

Quantity has a quality of all it's own, and once PoE 2 comes out, I will literally choke the screen with a minion swarm.

Perhaps Mass aoe attacks, more piercing and chaining projectiles from more types of monsters would be a good way to curb necros. Simply make the mobs better able to cope with a necro having 40-87 minions on screen at once.