Path of Exile 2 has been out on Steam Early Entry for nary every week, however already it has been a wild trip of record-breaking participant counts, servers buckling beneath the load, and overpowered builds that may one-shot bosses (although once they’re not being ganked by damaged builds, the bosses are literally far more difficult than Diablo 4’s).
Grinding Gear Video games has wasted no time in rebalancing ridiculous strikes just like the Supercharged Slam, which had been extensively agreed to be overpowered, however evidently the group is not too proud of a number of the nerfs carried out in patch 0.1.0D which rolled out final evening, leaving many Sorceress builds damaged.
The precise problem that is been gaining traction on Reddit is that Forged on Freeze and Forged on Shock have been closely nerfed on account of sweeping modifications to the Set off gem system. Which means the likelihood of triggering highly effective automated results has plummeted, leaving followers annoyed that builds they’ve poured hours into at the moment are not match to progress with their campaigns.
The overall consensus appears to be that gamers perceive Early Entry is inevitably going to be a maelstrom of huge, game-changing updates (particularly within the first week), however that Grinding Gear Video games ought to supply extra respec flexibility in order that gamers can simply adapt to those modifications. Because it stands, respeccing in PoE 2 is a little bit of a faff, and the gold costs will increase relative to your degree.
The OP of the above Reddit publish stated: “We have to have a free respec as a result of proper now my character is totally brick[ed] and I’ve no strategy to spec into one thing else. I consider each time GGG make change that COMPLETELY rebalances some builds, we must always have some free respec.”
One other common publish stated: “I perceive needing to shortly deal with the really damaged issues just like the charged slam assault one-shotting bosses, however whereas forged on freeze was sturdy I do not suppose it was “have to turbo delete an enormous quantity of gamers characters” sturdy. It additionally looks as if a big [part of the] identification of the sorceress was constructed across the set off expertise and this has virtually been eliminated as a core identification from the sport now. Go attempt forged on shock, it is laughably dangerous.”
Some gamers are extra blunt of their frustrations, with a rising narrative of ‘Does the construct really feel good to play? It’s going to get nerfed’ rising in the neighborhood.
Whereas placing restrictions on respec forces gamers to be extra discerning about their builds, that complete thought goes out the window when a construct refined by dozens of hours of grinding and analysis will get rug-pulled in a single day by a patch. Hopefully devs and followers can discover a comfortable center floor throughout these unpredictable early days of the monster-melting ARPG.