Spear / Huntress is the worst levelling experience I've had in poe 1 or 2

GGG forgot to rebalance mobs for the new patch:

In the patch trailer: The Amazon moves quickly, uses skills fast—mobs in the background are slow.
Patch 0.2 reality: White mobs move quickly, use skills fast—the Amazon in their background is slow.

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cavexs#4102 wrote:
Rake + Stomping Ground + Lacerate works decent. Simply ignore anything that is not extremely good in favor of small passive strength nodes. Allround solution for any class right now that is struggling as it seems.
Positive effects: You don't care about your weapon, because most damage is stomping ground anyways and your tree is kind of easy built by itself no matter where you start or went. I am not trying to defend, just posting a workaround that is as hillarious as seeing Quin playing the Blacksmith.


Just wondering why we need lacerate for Rake as the skill already 100% bleed chance?
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cavexs#4102 wrote:
Rake + Stomping Ground + Lacerate works decent. Simply ignore anything that is not extremely good in favor of small passive strength nodes. Allround solution for any class right now that is struggling as it seems.
Positive effects: You don't care about your weapon, because most damage is stomping ground anyways and your tree is kind of easy built by itself no matter where you start or went. I am not trying to defend, just posting a workaround that is as hillarious as seeing Quin playing the Blacksmith.


Just wondering why we need lacerate for Rake as the skill already 100% bleed chance?


You want Lacerate for Stomping Ground. The 100÷ bleed seems not to apply for that and it is by far the biggest part of your damage early game.

Nothing I found out though, Goratha experimented with it. I just followed suit.
i use to play daily but with this New trash no thx logged out more than logging in... like the OP says thx but no thx
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Posts that don't explain what they're actually trying to do with the spear while complaining it's bad. These are people who just want to vent instead of being useful.

"I don't want to engage with parry/disengage" - ok, so why aren't you picking up a different weapon to level with? Or at least picking up a shield to bash?

"Explosive spear takes too long to explode" - have you inserted Overabundance and Expedite? Are you trying to hit single mobs with it, perhaps without any slow effects?

"I don't want to be doing combos on white mobs" - what size white mobs? Tiny beetles vs big giants are very different. Anyway, if you don't want to be pressing 3 or 4 buttons to clear ordinary medium-sized mobs, why are you trying to play a Dex class?

"I don't want to be thinking so hard, this game is too stressful" - a fair opinion. Hope you find something you do enjoy, be that a different playstyle in PoE 2 or another game.

"The player numbers are going down, the game is dying" - the initial numbers were going to be too high because nobody knew what to expect of the game. Everyone imposed their own fantasy on it. Give it time and a more stable community will remain. Trying to maintain the first release numbers is being lethally indecisive.

"You should play X instead" - there's no need to tell them the obvious. They have the right to speak, we have the right to selectively listen. It's down to them if they want to write useful feedback or just seethe.
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cavexs#4102 wrote:
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cavexs#4102 wrote:
Rake + Stomping Ground + Lacerate works decent. Simply ignore anything that is not extremely good in favor of small passive strength nodes. Allround solution for any class right now that is struggling as it seems.
Positive effects: You don't care about your weapon, because most damage is stomping ground anyways and your tree is kind of easy built by itself no matter where you start or went. I am not trying to defend, just posting a workaround that is as hillarious as seeing Quin playing the Blacksmith.


Just wondering why we need lacerate for Rake as the skill already 100% bleed chance?


You want Lacerate for Stomping Ground. The 100÷ bleed seems not to apply for that and it is by far the biggest part of your damage early game.

Nothing I found out though, Goratha experimented with it. I just followed suit.


I thought that might be the case, thanks!
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Posts that don't explain what they're actually trying to do with the spear while complaining it's bad. These are people who just want to vent instead of being useful.

"I don't want to engage with parry/disengage" - ok, so why aren't you picking up a different weapon to level with? Or at least picking up a shield to bash?

"Explosive spear takes too long to explode" - have you inserted Overabundance and Expedite? Are you trying to hit single mobs with it, perhaps without any slow effects?

"I don't want to be doing combos on white mobs" - what size white mobs? Tiny beetles vs big giants are very different. Anyway, if you don't want to be pressing 3 or 4 buttons to clear ordinary medium-sized mobs, why are you trying to play a Dex class?

"I don't want to be thinking so hard, this game is too stressful" - a fair opinion. Hope you find something you do enjoy, be that a different playstyle in PoE 2 or another game.

"The player numbers are going down, the game is dying" - the initial numbers were going to be too high because nobody knew what to expect of the game. Everyone imposed their own fantasy on it. Give it time and a more stable community will remain. Trying to maintain the first release numbers is being lethally indecisive.

"You should play X instead" - there's no need to tell them the obvious. They have the right to speak, we have the right to selectively listen. It's down to them if they want to write useful feedback or just seethe.


All good points. In general this community has been overreacting. They have a difficulty with one class/style, moment and say EVERYTHIGN is ruined. The fact that some people are navign no problems at all PROES these people are wrong.

Surely some stuff needs to be adjusted, I have seen strong evidence than minions are now too weak. But problems must be pinpointed... you do not make Toyota improve the cup holder on their cars by just bashing "the car is SH1#,, rollback to the previous year version"
Very Strange because as soon as you manage to parry, the experience was quite "simple"
In my first playthrough with monk, (not copying pasting anyone) i probably struggle a bit more even.

Huntress(spears) very rewarding as soon as you manage parry, i barely build any defensive layers and i cruise through the campaign, Just needed to add some lightning pen for Act 2 boss but that's all.
You can level up with ele(lightning easy), whirlwind/twister or bleed quite easily.

I am really starting to think people should play D4 or keep playing POE1, there are no challenges (No rewards as well mechanically) and you can reach "end game" in few hours.

I hope we won't arrive there with POE2.

I never had that much fun in term of gameplay with any ARPG.
This class is not one button and kill everything. I actually enjoy it. Go play another class. Not every class is for everyone.
Another LMB nuker.

Im clearing screens and shotgunning 50% of uniqes HP in 3-5 step combos.
Try watching VOICED VIDEO INGAME tutorials.

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