First impressions, builds, respec, campaign, trials, feedback

Character Builds

At least early on it feels like very build is DD, you press a button to add corpses / lightning rods / frostbolts / etc and press another button to do damage. If you don't play it like DD style, if you only shoot lightning arrows for example, your damage will be significantly lower.

Respec

Maybe one reason for this to not be free is that it'd be a dev sandbox. People would find all builds in the game very quickly damaging game longevity. While Path of Building allows you to simulate things, it doesn't allow you to play that simulation, so it's not quite the same thing. Actually, I don't know, I'm just speculating why wouldn't GGG want it free.

But what if a full respec was allowed once per character? IAMJUNGROAN would be able to play his character without having the shit feeling of losing 60 Exalted Orbs because nerfs happened. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiOnMCLThos

Campaign maps & Maps

I've found myself crossing the entire map multiple times, I don't see a door I go all the way to the other side of the map, but if I had taken just a few more steps on the side I was before the door would be there.

Could we potentially get a little bit more map revealing since these maps are many times bigger than POE1? And/or more range on key locations (quest items and doors would show from further away). It'd also be nice to be able to see rares in the map with a similar range.

Trials

PoE 2 - I hate trial of the sekhemeas so much https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3595950

Didn't put any thought on this:

What if you could retry maps your failed on after a month?
What if you could fully respec your character for free once a month?

The map reveal issue:



I went all the way to the boss, but I passed 1 rare that I needed to complete the map, I had to go 90% of the way back to the start of the map to kill it.

I could've cleared the map in half of the time, but I spend most of this time just walking with nothing to kill (all already dead).

This is so obnoxious.

Backtracking part 2

Part 3

Not mine, but...