Content Update 0.4.0 — Path of Exile 2: The Last of the Druids

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FizzyH2O#2707 wrote:

The only real changes to the endgame I saw in the notes were nerfs to an already boring system...so they made it...worse or, at best, no change? (very confused face)

There is still essentially no endgame content so the main chase after the campaign is simply build completion and getting uniques for other builds...pretty much the same as it has been since launch.

.....to an endgame that is stagnant, repetitive, and lacking an interesting experience. The endgame is relatively intolerable after ~10 hours if you are playing to experience the actual endgame content; i.e. not preoccupied/distracted by some ulterior motive like leveling, farming currency, farming an item, etc.

There seems to be more taken out of the game than added in, and they fixed fewer issues than the ones they ignored or likely brought back.

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Timmy2000#0228 wrote:

Do I understand it correctly ? You cant use delirrium emotions to juice maps no more ?

IF so that sooo stupid horribly baaaad idea.


Its a great way to affect maps difficulty and rewards, cant imagine how GGG gonna make it work. Endgame mapping gonna be either to easy/boring/not rewarding enough or too hard. Also emotions itself gonna become worthless and running simmulacrum pinn pointless cause of small chance of getting valuable megalomaniac


I get the idea to remove mondaine stuff like instilling every waystone, you can just move it tablets, use emotions on them, even adding full stack to auto take and instill all uses left on tablet.

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Chepheus#7425 wrote:

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Timmy2000#0228 wrote:

Do I understand it correctly ? You cant use delirrium emotions to juice maps no more ?

IF so that sooo stupid horribly baaaad idea.


Its a great way to affect maps difficulty and rewards, cant imagine how GGG gonna make it work. Endgame mapping gonna be either to easy/boring/not rewarding enough or too hard. Also emotions itself gonna become worthless and running simmulacrum pinn pointless cause of small chance of getting valuable megalomaniac


I get the idea to remove mondaine stuff like instilling every waystone, you can just move it tablets, use emotions on them, even adding full stack to auto take and instill all uses left on tablet.

You really gotta read more carefully.

Yes instilling and using the Abyss Currency on maps is gone.

While also those mods/powers will transfer over to Tablets now so you only have to work with Tablets and Maps again without actually losing any/much juice.

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TomPo75#7422 wrote:

- Deadeye nerf - good
- Lightning nerf - good (but still will be OP)
- Rhoa buff - very very bad (Like seriously?!)
- Kitava Smith buff - good
- Fire/cold buff - good
- Bows nerfed - good, but Nimis quiver? - very bad
- Crossbows reload still in game - bad
- Lich + LastLament the only way to play crossbows - very bad
- Less but harder mobs - not sure. This should be a node in the Atlas tree so people could choose depends on their build (more single or clear-screen oriented). Similar as is in PoE1 with mobs life and damage.
- Some maps still too big and empty (Grotto) - bad
- Still +level on gear exist - very very very very bad
- Still movement speed is not implicit - very very bad
- Still +rarity exists - bad
- Fog is gone - great (hope the Delirium music is tuned down as well)
- Base movement speed still slow - bad
- Endgame not changed - very bad
- Bosses' anti-burst mechanic - good
- Invoker weak ascendency points not changed - very bad (literally only one node is worth taking, the rest is worthless)
- Trial of SuckMyA$$ still mandatory - very bad
- Still no swords/axes/daggers - bad
- Druid - let's wait and see.
- Minions still 3 screens behind - bad
- No ToTA - bad
- Improved uniques - good, but probably not enough (just because totally OP and mandatory +level mod exists)
- CPU optimization - very very good
- Atlas tree not changed - bad
- More punishment for dying (on top of everything we had, now we will lose robo parts) - very bad
- ES still OP - bad
- Reduced action speed on top of already slow melee skills on nodes (Crushing Verdict, Singular Purpose, Overwhelm) still exist - very bad. You are saying that melee is hard to do, so why you are making it even worse on purpose?
- No opacity slider for particle effects - bad
- Trigger spells - as long as the only usable nodes (Energise, Dynamism, Invocated Efficiency) will be only on North-East nobody (Druid, Warrior, Mercenary) would care.
- Watering plants - interestning concept but who cares if you can one-shot everything with lightning skills? The same problem goes with ignite and chill. Why bother if you can insta kill with lightning/shock skill instead? Just make them equal. Shock -> increased lightning damage taken. Chill -> increased dmg taken from cold. Ignite -> the same but fire. OP shock problem solved.
- Spell totems - good but who cares if you need to spend Charges which are so hard to generate in this game for no reason?
- 2026 release? - I don't think so. Too many things are broken and/or missing, especially if you would like to bring new leagues regularly.