Quick heads up: Melee is completely terrible.
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Warrior definitely picks up in the mid game. Currently halfway through Act 6 on warrior titan and bosses are a complete joke with perfect strike + hammer of the gods.
Trash clearing is still pretty annoying and the skills just dont feel good to play to be honest. Everything is way too clunky and unnecessarily slow. The baked in movement on over half the skills also feels bad. You don't feel in control of your character. It's often a jarring experience. |
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" Yeah, that's exactly what I predicted when they showed off how the game would work in previews. And everyone would jump down your throat and yell, "You haven't played the game, you don't know what it's like, it will be fine!" Reinventing the wheel almost always ends in messing up the wheel. After having played games since the 80s, I've learned to trust my intuition. I hope they go back on this design choice, but I really, really doubt they will, it's just too core to what they spent years making. Last edited by Selenti#1482 on Dec 8, 2024, 9:45:07 PM
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Drop 1h and shield as warrior, you'll get much more done playing 2h
early on abuse armor break synergies on default attack to deal with most trash, later you'll have sunder to deal with most enemies at range as long as your weapon is up to code Speaking of which, every decent weapon I've had in campaign so far has come from gambling, so save your pennies for that, I've personally only hit a single decent roll from self-crafting in some 40 attempts. For bosses, they become a lot less time consuming once you get perfect strike, until then honestly most bosses you can dodge and default attack until you get an opening/boss stun to use one of our many 1.5-3s wind up garbage skills Once I got the hang of it, the only boss i really struggled with was the forge boss, mostly due to dps That said... this is a slog. Playing melee as warrior at least feels worse to me than playing melee in poe1, which is quite an achievement. the slow speed and obnoxiously large maps, especially in act 2, dont help. One thing i really cant understand is giving me 'stay in place' option, but the ranged attack still moves me forward a significant amount Last edited by kanoxuk#4589 on Dec 8, 2024, 9:51:50 PM
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And supercharged slam is getting nerfed before I even have the skill so I'll be over here with my zdps lol
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/988f3369-4b68-4eb9-bc0e-edfce4c3c950
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This game is completely terrible. There, fixed it for ya.
I am on full-on hater mode out of being so let down... I wanted more from this game. I don't want souls games... I hate them. |
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" lol when i first saw the new movement with wasd that scene popped up "Path of Exile's engine is currently modern, lean and fast." - Chris Wilson, September 19th, 2019
"It looks like we broke something with 3.10.0. We don't know what it is yet." - Bex, March 16th, 2020 |
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" This doesn't change the fact that it'll still walk a few steps (aka ministry of silly walks) before stopping. it's a ridiculous new invention that should be removed from the game completely. It feels incredibly floaty and your char never ends up where you want it. Last edited by nexus1712#3142 on Dec 9, 2024, 4:53:46 AM
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" This. movement in PoE 2 is just baaaaad... and MILES behind the competition. |
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Rolly Polly Olly combat. Bad box-in with enemies doesn't help. Can't phase through enemies and at that point you get interrupted quite a bit.
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" This right here and what I said earlier. I switched to a 2h mace the instant one dropped and haven’t looked back since. Shield and one handers just doesn’t feel good to play. Seems more like a defensive option. Go 2h. You could even go double two handers with the keystone. |
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