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0:00Like, I I don't know. I'm just saying
0:01like I personally I'm not I'm not
0:03opposed to the idea of having
0:06um
0:07sped up progression tools. Someone said
0:09that GGG is talking about shortcut
0:11features for second characters, which is
0:13basically talking about speeding up the
0:14process. I don't think that is
0:15necessarily a bad thing. I just don't
0:18think the skipping the campaign as a
0:19whole is is a good solution, but I know
0:22a lot of people are very vocal about
0:23this, but that is my personal opinion,
0:25and you know, that's just my take. You
0:27know, it's it's like there's a saying in
0:29Sweden where we say that the taste is
0:32like your butt cheeks, they're divided,
0:34which is good. It's just that, you know,
0:36to add to that saying, sometimes, very
0:40rarely, in between the butt cheeks,
0:42there's [ __ ] and that's where you find
0:43D4.
0:45Kind of curious about this video.
0:48>> Path of Exile 2 is a game I absolutely
0:50loved when it first came to Steam early
0:52access at the end of 2024. Back then, I
0:55was someone who never really got into
0:56PoE 1 due to finding the game a bit
0:58confusing as a new player, but PoE 2 I
1:01found to be much more accessible,
1:03intuitive, and I preferred the WASD
1:06movement controls with the dodge roll.
1:08Since then, the game's had a lot of
1:10updates, multiple seasons have passed,
1:12the end game has had a complete rework,
1:14new classes were added, new gems, skill
1:17tree rework, Act 4 was added, and
1:20honestly, it's just too much to list.
1:22Now, as much as I enjoyed PoE 2 at
1:24launch and have been meaning to jump
1:26into previous seasons, for whatever
1:28reason, I could never find the time to
1:30put in enough hours. But, with patch
1:330.5, Return of the Ancients,
1:55>> two in 2026. As someone who hasn't
1:57played since launch, and at the end I'll
1:59list all the things that I liked and
2:01disliked about the game in its current
2:03state. I did something similar not too
2:05long ago with Diablo 4, so this is the
2:07PoE [music] 2 version. Maybe Last Epoch
2:10is also due a revisit, too. But before
2:12we begin, please support the content by
2:14listening to today's sponsor. While
2:16starting out in PoE 2 this season, I
2:18decided to play a ranger. There's been
2:21two new classes added to the game since
2:23early access launch, the Huntress and
2:25the Druid with four more.
2:27>> To be fair, yo, I see Kick in the
2:29channel. Kick, we don't have any
2:31sponsors lined up and things are pretty
2:33down bad at the moment. We're just
2:35waiting for content to make anything up.
2:38If Raid Shadow Legends want to sponsor
2:39the stream, hit me up. I could use the
2:41bag right now. So, like, yeah. If if
2:44they offer me something, I'll probably
2:46accept it cuz everyone is down bad right
2:48now.
2:48>> Still to come. Previously, my favorite
2:51build was Ice Monk. So, the ranger
2:53equivalent to that seems to be Fubgun's
2:55Ice Shot Deadeye build.
2:57>> [music]
2:57>> To level up though, I'd be using a
2:59lightning arrow build, and this is where
3:01the first huge quality of life
3:02improvement became noticeable. Since
3:05patch 0.5, content creators can create
3:08build files which users can import
3:10directly into the game, which includes
3:13passive tree pathing, gear
3:15recommendations, support gems, as well
3:17as creator notes. This made the whole
3:19process of following a build during the
3:21leveling so much easier, and it was nice
3:24not having to constantly tab over to an
3:26external website every level up. As for
3:28the leveling itself, it felt mostly the
3:30same leveling through acts 1, 2, and 3.
3:33There was a few new areas within those
3:35acts that were added, as well as the
3:37Ruins of Alzer League mechanic that are
3:39spawning waves of enemies before giving
3:41you a reward of your choice. Since the
3:43last time I played though, act four was
3:45added to the game.
3:46>> Did I see that correctly? Did the guy
3:48use a dot build file but not use a loot
3:51filter, or was that just me?
3:53>> And I really enjoyed playing through
3:56this act overall. I liked the settlement
3:58of King's March, and I also liked that
4:00to travel to the different areas you'd
4:02have to do so by boats, and it wasn't
4:04entirely linear. My favorite map from
4:07Act 4 was the abandoned prison because I
4:09thought it was really cool how the water
4:11from the ocean periodically washes
4:13through the dungeon, and the boss at the
4:15end was also quite cool as you needed to
4:17impale him multiple times with the
4:19ballista for him to actually die.
4:21Another memorable boss from Act 4 was a
4:23sand shark with an encounter that plays
4:25out exactly how you'd expect it to. Upon
4:28completing Act 4, you then need to play
4:30through a temporary placeholder
4:32interlude section which will have you
4:34around level 60 to 65 by the time it's
4:36complete, [music] and then you're ready
4:38to begin your journey into endgame maps.
4:41Honestly, this is the point where it
4:42feels like the game truly begins because
4:45once you've leveled through the campaign
4:46enough times, you just want to get it
4:48over with as quickly as possible. When
4:50it comes to endgame maps, this is the
4:52part of POE 2 which seems to have
4:54undergone the most changes. Starting
4:56out, you'll be given your first waystone
4:58by Doryani as well as a precursor tower
5:01on the map that you must path to for a
5:03quest. Upon pathing to that tower,
5:05you'll get another cinematic cutscene of
5:07a giant fortress rising from the ground
5:09and then you'll be given another
5:10location to path to. Whilst mapping,
5:13you'll run into NPCs [music] for each
5:15league mechanic which will give you
5:17their own questlines and objectives to
5:19complete. The biggest thing I instantly
5:22noticed with the new POE 2 endgame is
5:24that you've got a clear sense of
5:25direction now. Previously, you was
5:28pathing aimlessly hoping to run into
5:30certain locations by chance. This was no
5:33longer the case. The questlines given to
5:35you by the NPCs will unlock the atlas
5:38trees for each respective league
5:39mechanic. You've got the general atlas
5:42tree which you'll gain points for by
5:43following the Doryani questline, but
5:46then each league mechanic also has its
5:48own passive tree such as Breach, Abyss,
5:50Val Temple, Expedition, Ritual, and
5:53Delirium. As a new player playing your
5:55first league, you should no longer get
5:57to maps and feel like you don't have any
5:59goals. Patch 0.5 was also the first
6:02proper challenge league for PoE 2, so if
6:05you complete all eight challenges,
6:07you'll earn a full microtransaction
6:09armor set, and by the time you've
6:10finished all those challenges, you'll
6:12probably feel like you've completed the
6:14season to a satisfying [music] enough
6:16degree. Another huge improvement to PoE
6:192 since the last time I played was the
6:20addition of an in-game market browser
6:23where you can buy and sell items without
6:26>> I'm curious, how many of you guys are
6:27using the in-game market versus the web
6:30browser version of it? Cuz I am still
6:33using the web browser version. There's
6:34two reasons for that. One is old habits,
6:38but the other reason is I'm able to use
6:40live searches, which I cannot do with
6:42the in-game version. That's a lot of
6:45people saying both or in-game only. I
6:47use it by as a pause button. I'll be too
6:50just to track it
6:51things to race as a team beast.
6:53>> the need for both players to be online.
6:56If you're an MMO fan, this probably
6:58sounds like something you'd expect as
6:59standard, but previously in PoE 2, you'd
7:02use an external website for trading.
7:05You'd have to whisper the seller, accept
7:07a group invite, and trade player to
7:09player.
7:09>> [music]
7:09>> It was a bit tedious, but now that's no
7:12longer the case. Something that did seem
7:14relatively unchanged from the last time
7:16I played though was the ascendancy
7:18trials, the trial of Sarcophagus and the
7:21Temple of Chaos. I did both of these a
7:23bit overleveled because I always found
7:25it to be horrendously boring content,
7:28and that hasn't really changed. I think
7:30out of the two, I dislike Temple of
7:32Chaos the most.
7:33>> Yeah.
7:33>> It's not particularly difficult, and the
7:35only time I failed was due to bugging
7:37out on one of the lifts, but it's just
7:40not fun. There's a lot of waiting
7:42around, slow wave-based challenges,
7:44escort challenges. And to get your final
7:47ascendancy point, you need to go through
7:49the 10 waves three different times. If
7:52you disconnect midway through, then you
7:54need to start all over again. I think
7:56the ascendancy trials is the one part of
7:58PoE 2 where I'd like to see a complete
8:00redesign. This should be content that
8:02you look forward to doing. I'd honestly
8:05rather than just design a completely
8:07unique boss fight for each ascendancy
8:09point than what they currently have.
8:11>> [music]
8:11>> Shortly after reaching my
8:14>> I like Sekhema. I genuinely hate
8:18Sanctum, which is the equivalent in PoE
8:211, but I actually like Sekhema. And I
8:24think it's fine that Sekhema is the
8:27first one because first one's very, very
8:29easy. So, if you don't like Sekhema, you
8:32only ever have to
8:34have to You don't actually have to, but
8:35you kind of If you wanted it early, then
8:37Sekhema for one floor, it's fine, then
8:40you never have to go there again. I
8:42actually like Sekhema, and which is
8:44crazy cuz I absolutely hate Sanctum,
8:46which is exactly the same mechanic but
8:48in PoE 1.
8:49But PoE 2, it just feels good. I don't
8:51know why.
8:53>> maps I respect from Lightning Arrow
8:54Deadeye to Ice Shot Deadeye, and arrived
8:57at the Burning Monolith.
8:58>> I I will say this. I I think I hate the
9:00lab in PoE 1 because I've done it for
9:02so, so, so many years.
9:05And I definitely think that that plays a
9:07huge uh factor into my personal opinion
9:10around it.
9:11>> left for the main quest. Next, I'd need
9:13to travel to two other locations to
9:15obtain fragments to unlock the Burning
9:17Monolith and the subsequent boss fight.
9:20Whilst inside the fortress, every map
9:22that I cleared was giving me at least
9:23one Atlas tree point. So, even if I
9:25didn't get any particularly good loot
9:27during a map, I was still getting that
9:29constant sense of progression via the
9:31Atlas tree, which was a nice feeling.
9:34>> [music]
9:34>> Whilst mapping, I noticed that Breach
9:36was completely different compared to the
9:38last time I played. Back at launch,
9:40Breach was easily my favorite league
9:42mechanic, but back then it was probably
9:44a bit too OP. It's been toned down a lot
9:47now and was dropping some currency that
9:49I'd have to grow on something called the
9:51Tree of Genesis for rewards. So, I
9:54passed through the maps that would
9:55reward me with Breach Atlas passives,
9:58made it to the Tree of Genesis, turned
10:00in those drops for rewards, and started
10:02both the Breach quest line as well as a
10:04quest line to hunt down animals for an
10:06NPC [music] called Hilda. This is the
10:08point where I got myself a Headhunter
10:09belt, started reaching close to peak
10:12fun, and decided to record some live
10:14reactions. I think I can now do the
10:16Burning Monolith cuz I've got this
10:18crisis fragment. So, what is this?
10:21Cool. Is this the Archnemesis boss
10:23fight? If it is, I've never done this
10:24one. This was in the game back at
10:26launch, but I could never find the
10:28towers to actually fight this boss. Am I
10:31strong enough? I think I think so.
10:35Is this going to be like an easy version
10:37of this?
10:38No, it isn't.
10:39Big damage. Doing some mechanic. Oh,
10:45Oh,
10:46okay.
10:48I guess we're a bit strong.
10:52Bloody flying mount. That was the guy
10:54that we freed earlier. Says to send the
10:56elevator to the top of the Origin Tower.
11:00Okay, so another tower. It appears the
11:02end game has only just begun. It seems
11:04like maps have way more of a sense of
11:06direction about them now. I started
11:08here, then I was told to go here, unlock
11:10the door, then go here,
11:12and then I had to go get keys, so I had
11:14to go
11:16over here to the left, grab one key,
11:17over here to the right, grab another,
11:20then unlock this, which is now allowing
11:22me to proceed further. And every
11:25encounter I do, like past this point,
11:29gives me these Atlas points
11:32over here because it requires a minimum
11:33of tier six or higher. That gives me one
11:36Atlas point per clear. But through here,
11:38it's now going to start giving me three.
11:41Which is nice. And now it requires way
11:43stone tier 11 at the minimum.
11:46>> So who the [ __ ] gave him a head hunter
11:48before he killed Arbiter? I'm a little
11:51confused here, boys.
11:53Did someone feed him Giga gear? He said
11:57it or did I miss that? What did he say?
11:59Oh, he found it. Oh, that is dope, dude.
12:02I missed that. Sorry. I was I was so
12:04busy looking at other things.
12:06>> Recently got myself a head hunter. So
12:08>> he said it.
12:09>> absolutely zooming through maps now.
12:11>> Wait, so now he said it then I didn't
12:13miss it. Or did he say it before as well
12:15and I did actually miss it?
12:16>> It's the first time I'm ever using this
12:17item and it's absolutely crazy because
12:20every rare mob that I kill, I inherit
12:23all of its buffs. Feel like there's more
12:24elite mobs in the maps now than there
12:27was the last time I played at launch.
12:30Okay.
12:31Do all this. Oh, I guess that's like a
12:33defensive thing. Maybe I shouldn't have
12:35picked electricity yet. It's getting
12:36chaotic. Wave 20 out of 20. Is it going
12:39to end in a boss? Surely. Travel to the
12:41hive colony. All of this is blocked off
12:44so I can't finish the level.
12:47>> I mean, it says destroy the breach and
12:48escape. He just finished the breach. Now
12:51he needs to escape.
12:53And I think your voice line is something
12:54like get out of here or something.
12:56>> I conclude that the
12:57map must be bugged. Or maybe if I leave
12:59the map or I can't I can't even make a
13:02portal or TP out. Interesting. If I was
13:04playing a minion build, surely I could
13:06just AFK and get free XP.
13:09>> Oh, shut the [ __ ] up, brother. What do
13:12you mean you can just AFK?
13:15NO.
13:17NO, I I DON'T need people saying [ __ ]
13:20like that. Okay? Cuz I'm the one who has
13:23to take the heat for that later, man.
13:26>> Because they're just infinitely
13:28spawning.
13:31Okay, what if we go down?
13:35I had to leave.
13:37>> You had to escape.
13:39I love the face of realization he has
13:41here. That like I like this
13:44because this this is like a snippet of
13:46the footage in this video that just
13:48makes him very like it makes him very
13:50genuine. I like that he kept this in the
13:53footage. That was good. That was good. I
13:55like that.
13:56>> What?
13:57Well, that wasn't intuitive. So, now
13:59because I completed a breach related
14:01event
14:01>> It literally just said destroy the
14:03breach and then escape. It's pretty
14:04freaking
14:05>> Then I can also spend points.
14:07In the breach atlas tree. Okay, onto the
14:09hive colony. I'm guessing this is going
14:11to be a big boss fight.
14:13Let's do it. This is the boss fight.
14:15Ooh. Freeze big damage.
14:18No, I like straight up I feel like I
14:19can't just make this video very genuine.
14:21Ooh, yeah.
14:22Dodge through that.
14:26Just getting all powerful.
14:29Yeah, this is cool. So, I don't need to
14:31hold down. Oh my god.
14:33What do I do? Just dodge?
14:36Yeah. Fight them both at the same time.
14:39Just keep spamming dodge.
14:41There it is. Breach Lord Sack.
14:44Oh, you got the ball sack dude.
14:47>> Fresh sack.
14:48>> He's surely going to [ __ ] himself. He's
14:49surely going to [ __ ] himself.
14:51>> Nice.
14:52Is he a friend?
14:54>> No, I like
14:55>> Curry come back.
14:56>> Into the twisted bow room.
14:57>> The entire video feels way more genuine
14:59this way.
15:01>> Definitely been neutered heavily since
15:03the last time I played.
15:05I remember before breach was my absolute
15:07favorite content in the game.
15:10Cuz it was like super OP and the mob
15:12density was mental.
15:14But
15:15yeah, they've definitely toned it down a
15:16lot since then.
15:18Now it's just kind of meh. Straight to
15:20the boss.
15:21>> Can you get like 20 bucks?
15:23>> hunter modifiers. It's nuclear. down
15:25quickly. One shot them.
15:30Okay.
15:30Let's out speed that. How's he going to
15:32go? He's chasing me.
15:34I'm going to show you what I'm going to
15:35show you.
15:37Flashes and
15:39That's it. When he starts doing this,
15:42I think you would run over here.
15:45That's it. That's going to one shot me.
15:47No, it's not.
15:50Breathe in.
15:51There it is. Got him. Six hours skill
15:55points. Wow, you can really fill out
15:57these Atlas trees quite quickly now.
16:01Raise the chosen one. Quest complete. I
16:03think Delirium kind of sucks now. Like I
16:05just don't get it.
16:07Like I killed a monster and it revealed
16:10this thing here on the mini map
16:13and it says that there's something here.
16:15Nothing dropped and I don't know what it
16:16means. I've run so many Delirium maps.
16:20I've even asked my friends how it works
16:22now and no one seems to get it. It's
16:24just weird. The mobs seem to drop next
16:27to nothing.
16:28It doesn't really make a whole lot of
16:30sense. I'm going to have to like look up
16:31some YouTube guides on how Delirium
16:33works. So, I've tried to intuitively
16:35figure it out myself and I can't.
16:38And this used to be one of my favorite
16:39league mechanics back at launch.
16:42Seems weird now. Like here, there's a
16:44little icon on the map. Okay, I go here,
16:46I smash it.
16:49I kill the thing.
16:51Nothing drops and now what?
16:53What does that mean? What does that do?
16:55Okay, so this one has now appeared as
16:58gold.
16:59What does that do?
17:01Oh, that summoned a little boss.
17:03Interesting.
17:04So, why did this one summon a boss but
17:06the other ones didn't? But now the boss
17:08thing's glowing. What does that mean?
17:10Nobody knows. Val runes is probably my
17:12most hated league mechanic. I just don't
17:14bother with it. It's not fun. 27 buffs
17:18from killing rare monsters.
17:2028. Holy, what a fun item. The origin
17:24tower, the origin engine. This is going
17:27to be another boss fight.
17:28>> We we we can laugh all we want, but I
17:31like straight up
17:34I like that he comes off as very genuine
17:37and down to earth when when he's keeping
17:39you know these confusing moments. I like
17:43it. It's something that I personally
17:44really appreciate with Path of Exile is
17:46genuinely just how complex the game is
17:50and how you always learn something new
17:52when you're playing. Is that to me is
17:55the charm of the game. Like I played
17:57over 30,000 hours and I'm still
17:59learning. It's crazy.
18:01>> Travel to the halls.
18:03And once more
18:04>> I like it.
18:05>> So I guess this is where the next boss
18:07fight would be. But first I'm going to
18:09need to make my way over here
18:12and clear each of these. Each of these
18:13give seven Atlas points. Very nice.
18:16Holy, this map has some mob density.
18:19>> Pewee two 30,000 hours in map.
18:22No, I did that would be impossible to
18:25have 30,000 hours in Pewee two.
18:2730,000 hours in Pewee one and two
18:30combined is over 30,000 hours.
18:32>> Pewee really is an ARPG where it just
18:34becomes more and more fun. Like the
18:37deeper you get into the game. It's very
18:39different to Diablo 4. There's like for
18:41Diablo 4 you kind of hit peak fun quite
18:44>> quickly.
18:45>> Like maybe around level 80 or something
18:47and then there's just massive
18:48diminishing returns. But Pewee two, the
18:51road to peak fun is
18:53>> If you're a dev, you can. Brother,
18:56there's
18:578,000
19:00700 something hours a year. 8,760
19:06hours a day a year, sorry.
19:09Okay.
19:10So if you take 30,000 hours, that is 3
19:14and 1/2 years.
19:16>> So much longer
19:17compared to Diablo 4. It's longer, it's
19:19more satisfying.
19:21And it just feels like
19:24things just get way more ridiculous
19:26in this game
19:28compared to Diablo 4.
19:30I like both games,
19:32but
19:33PoE 2's definitely my favorite out of
19:35the two.
19:36>> This has been a fun map. This has
19:38every league mechanic you could want.
19:39>> Crazy mob density.
19:42Absolutely loving it.
19:44This is pretty close to peak fun right
19:47here, though.
19:48And I love that when I interact with
19:50this, it like pauses the game and lets
19:51me choose my choice.
19:54So, I don't have to like risk dying or
19:56anything. Annoying ass boss.
19:59>> [laughter]
20:00>> Such
20:01a such a satisfying combo at the end.
20:03You like freeze the monster, and then
20:04you charge up a big snipe,
20:07and then
20:08dead. I wish you could assign these
20:10stash tabs so that I could like write
20:14>> This guy I think is 13 hours a day for 4
20:16years.
20:19Well, I played PoE 1 and 2 for
20:2212 plus years now. It's been a while.
20:25>> click
20:26this and set it to ring, so then I can
20:28just press control click, and it
20:31instantly just deposits to the correct
20:33stash tab. I think that'd be really
20:35nice. I think Abyss is probably my
20:37favorite league mechanic this season.
20:40Just feels really good. The rewards are
20:42great, the mob density is good.
20:45Lots of elite mobs, treasure. Just feels
20:48fun.
20:49I really do like Abyss. Not only do you
20:51get to
20:53kill lots of mobs, you also get to open
20:54these chests, which sometimes have good
20:56stuff.
20:57And then sometimes you can dive into the
20:59abyssal depths as well,
21:01and get even more rewards. I don't know
21:03if it's considered good or not, but
21:06it's certainly fun.
21:08And that's the whole point of playing,
21:10isn't it? I cannot see what's going on
21:11right now. The less I can see,
21:15the more I'm probably having fun.
21:18Such is the way of ARPGs.
21:22Ooh, divine orb, we like that. Ooh,
21:24abyssal depths, we like those. Abyssal
21:27depths is like the only map within a map
21:29that I ever bother doing.
21:31The loot is pretty good. The end of the
21:33depths with all these monster modifiers
21:36I've got. Next map we've got a boss
21:37requires way stone tier 15 or above.
21:41What is that? Yo.
21:44Is that leading me to where the boss is?
21:48Ooh, he runs me over. Okay, interesting.
21:51Ouch. Oh.
21:55>> With zero attention span.
21:57>> [ __ ] I was not going to fight
21:58that thing that was running me over. I'm
22:00assuming these balls
22:02are going to require me to do something.
22:04Probably stand here.
22:06Makes sense. Summoning balls.
22:09Stand here and chill, I suppose.
22:11Interesting boss.
22:14Oh, he's dead. Activate this. Origin
22:16spark, thank you very much. Seven atlas
22:18points. Okay, that doesn't connect.
22:21I'm going to have to go this way.
22:23Oh,
22:24>> [groaning]
22:24>> love it. Let's put abyss on every map.
22:27>> Oh.
22:28Here's the reaction. It's oh.
22:30I love that. Everybody has the same
22:31reaction when it comes to things. It's
22:33like a little kick of dopamine. He is
22:35like, oh. Oh, yeah.
22:37Just whatever.
22:39I love it.
22:39>> Pays for itself. Even if the map turns
22:42out to not be that great, it's really
22:43nice getting one of these atlas points
22:46at the end of every one. It just gives
22:48you that constant sense of progression.
22:50Oh, so many things are spawning.
22:53Beautiful. Absolute chaos.
22:56Anything good? That's level 91.
22:59Obviously cannot leave the map without
23:00doing abyss.
23:04Oh, yeah, so that's why.
23:07Oh, love it.
23:10Oh my god, that's like freezing my game.
23:14Love it.
23:15>> Another take.
23:16>> Thank you very much. Five random
23:18currency. Let's go for
23:20five mirrors.
23:22>> I swear to god if he gets five divines
23:23in this, I'm actually going to be mad. I
23:25played so much 0.5 and I never saw five
23:28divines in that.
23:28>> Or five divines. Imagine five mirrors
23:31though.
23:33Oh, five chaos orbs would be nice.
23:34Another expedition. The loot for these
23:37are usually pretty good. I just can't be
23:39bothered to set them up half the time.
23:42Expedition logbook logbook logbook. It's
23:46the first one of those I've had and an
23:48overseer tablet. Nice. I think every
23:50future build I'm ever going to have is
23:52going to involve a headhunter belt.
23:54It's going to [laughter] be so hard like
23:56going from
23:57>> He's got to taste the headhunter and he
24:00will never look back again.
24:04>> [snorts]
24:05>> Yeah, he's got him hooked, dude.
24:07>> Using this to not having it cuz it just
24:09makes the game so much more fun.
24:11Sometimes I forget to do this. Sometimes
24:13I'll kill the boss and I'll forget to
24:15interact with the precursor relay which
24:18completes the map.
24:20I mean, sometimes it's just hidden by
24:22the loot. So much mobs, so much going
24:24on. My frames are in the bin.
24:27Oh my god.
24:29What is going on?
24:32This is a good map. Invested in some
24:34better tablets, so hopefully we can get
24:36some more loot now.
24:38Oh, [ __ ]
24:42No, thank you. Back we go. Last time I
24:44played this game, sprinting wasn't even
24:46a thing and it's not even a thing in
24:48most ARPGs.
24:50It's going to be difficult to now go
24:53play an ARPG.
24:54>> Right, sprinting was not there in the
24:56start of the game. I forgot. They added
24:58that later
25:00to solve the speed between packs without
25:05causing
25:06uh without breaking the combat that they
25:10wanted for moment-to-moment combat. Yes,
25:120.3.
25:13I kind of forgot about that.
25:15>> PJ without sprinting.
25:18I just love the way PoE 2 controls. Oh,
25:20a legendary strongbox. These are kind of
25:23rare. Why is this text orange?
25:26And this one's yellow.
25:28What does orange mean? I've never seen
25:30that before. If someone in the comments
25:32can tell me why sometimes the loot is
25:34orange and sometimes it's yellow,
25:37>> It's not
25:37>> uh please let me know. I'd be fascinated
25:39to find out the reason. Oh, what's this?
25:43What the hell?
25:44Am I even fighting?
25:45>> Heart of the world? Is there a abyss
25:47there? No.
25:49>> I I don't know. It's dead, though.
25:51Ooh, another dude.
25:55Ooh, onto the next boss. Same boss
25:57again.
25:58>> Oh.
25:58>> Controls are not good.
26:00Okay, we didn't die, though.
26:02GG.
26:02>> Love it.
26:03>> Beautiful. Seven more Atlas points.
26:07Ooh, our first Tier 16 way stone. Nice.
26:11I turn to Doryani. So now I killed those
26:13two bosses, we return to this tower,
26:15summon Doryani, place this in here.
26:18Oh, Origin Spark.
26:20>> Now, stand back.
26:22>> Activate.
26:24What's that going to do?
26:29Is it not going to summon a boss?
26:32Origin Core. Now you have sent it this
26:35way. Is this going to be another boss
26:36fight?
26:38Pretty cool boss room.
26:40Place the Origin Core. Little cutscene.
26:42This is cool.
26:44Have a little cinematic. Don't think
26:46I've seen an in-game cutscene like this
26:48in PoE 2 before.
26:53>> Day the
26:56>> Okay, Arbiter of Divinity. Let's go.
27:01Oosh.
27:01>> This is over again.
27:04>> Oh, almost got him.
27:06What's going on?
27:08He's healing himself.
27:11I guess that was phase one.
27:17What's going on?
27:19I'm trying to locate the boss.
27:21The bro's off-screening me pretty hard.
27:25Watch out. Oosh.
27:30>> I love how
27:32>> I've got the timing of a god.
27:34Big damage.
27:37Still chipping him down.
27:39Zapping.
27:41Dodging.
27:43Cool boss fight.
27:45Very cool boss fight.
27:51That's some spectacle.
27:58Oh, that doesn't look good. Dodge here.
28:02Wow.
28:04>> Get the guy out.
28:05>> Okay, I enjoyed that one. Really cool
28:07boss. Activate the ancient mechanism.
28:13Oh, there's more.
28:16Activate tower relay.
28:19Oh.
28:21What's that done?
28:23That's given me 50 passive Atlas points.
28:26What? So, I guess I can
28:28go here. They've made some massive
28:30improvements to the structure of this
28:31end game since the last time I played.
28:33And the dopamine of getting 50 Atlas
28:36points to spend at once, that feels
28:38good. And now all of this is unlocked as
28:40well. Irradiated pre cursor
28:42>> You got to keep in mind that the very
28:43first fight with Arbiter is a quest
28:46version. Same thing with Divinity.
28:48They're quest versions, which means that
28:49they're considerably easier than the
28:51second time you kill them.
28:54So, the quest version is very, very
28:55easy, and he's pretty well geared, you
28:57see.
28:58>> Tablets may now be found. That's why I
29:01never got them [clears throat] before.
29:02How many have I spent? 153.
29:05So, you can just get all skill points if
29:07you want, and that seems to be the end
29:09of the standard quest line. So, now I've
29:12got two precursor towers to clear.
29:15And then that's going to unlock
29:16something else. So, let's go do that.
29:18This game is just so damn fun. It's just
29:20the best ARPG. What are these precursor
29:23bosses like? Displacer, precursor dodge.
29:27>> It's all over, boys.
29:29>> not too difficult. Four more points. So,
29:31after clearing that precursor tower, I
29:33can now venture over here,
29:35but these do not give me Atlas points.
29:38These are just
29:39probably random infinite endless
29:42uh maps. So, for me to get all of my
29:44Atlas points, I'm going to first want to
29:46clear everything in here, because these
29:49give one each.
29:52>> DOUBLE DIV, WHAT THE [ __ ]
29:54>> OH, double divine drop. Don't mind if I
29:56do. Another radiated tablet, thank you.
29:59Another four points. I got a quest here
30:02for Hildur, so let's go do this map.
30:04These maps are getting a bloody crazy,
30:07and I haven't even unlocked all of the
30:08Atlas tree yet.
30:10Oh, three divine, beautiful.
30:14BG, complete the quest.
30:16>> Imagine if that dropped with a divine,
30:18dude.
30:18>> Hildur's hunting. I feel like it'd be
30:20cool if they added some kind of bonus
30:22for you completing all of the map
30:24content, cuz it tells you like
30:26everything that's included in a map.
30:28Just a small bonus would be nice. I
30:31don't know what they could do, but maybe
30:32some treasure chest or something, I
30:33don't know. I see, so I get to choose
30:36from one of three, increased rare
30:37monsters. So, the next one's over here.
30:42Level 92.
30:45Wee, perfect exalted orb. Interesting.
30:48One perfect exalted is worth 1,200
30:52normal ones. I continued playing off
30:54camera and then next made my way to a
30:56corruption stronghold which upon
30:58completion gave me a point to spend in
31:00Doriani's science. I did eventually
31:03complete the Hilda's hunting quest line
31:05to unlock all the points and that's when
31:07I realized that for these NPC specific
31:10talents you can only have one active
31:12[music] at a time. So if you activate
31:14Hilda's bonuses then you won't benefit
31:16from the points that you've earned with
31:17Doriani. After that I decided to
31:20complete [music] the Abyss quest line
31:21since this was by far my favorite league
31:23mechanic this season. The quest line had
31:26me venture deep into the Abyss area then
31:28close the north, south and eastern
31:30[music] abyssal scars on the map. Then I
31:32was able to return to the well of souls,
31:34jump inside then take on a boss fight of
31:37which I had the choice to take my loot
31:39early or fight the boss at full power. I
31:41chose the latter, defeated the boss,
31:44dinged level 94 [music]
31:45and that's the point where I stopped
31:47recording for this video. So after
31:49revisiting Path
31:50>> So he did the entire quest chain, the
31:53baseline quest chain.
31:55He didn't do many of the other
31:58mechanics.
32:00He only did two out of the three
32:02masters.
32:04And he ran up to level 94 with the
32:07build.
32:08Surely he'll have He will lose
32:10considerably higher than D4. Surely.
32:13>> of Exile 2 in 2026. As someone who
32:15hasn't played since the early access
32:17launch, my thoughts on the game so far
32:19are as follows. Things I liked. I
32:21thought the end game overhaul is
32:23definitely a big improvement. I enjoyed
32:25having a clear sense of direction and
32:27the frequent Atlas tree passives gave me
32:29a constant sense of progression. I like
32:32that every currency has its own stash
32:33tab now so you can dump your inventory
32:35really quickly and it remains organized.
32:38This is something
32:39>> The only thing that they lack now is a
32:41one button click to move affinity
32:44related core stuff in your stash or in
32:46your inventory to your stash. I think
32:47that's one of the things they should add
32:48to the game.
32:49>> And you have to pay for that. Despite
32:52the Atlas tree passives eventually
32:53allowing you to fill it out entirely, I
32:55like that there's still decisions within
32:57these trees that allow you to target
32:59farm specific drops. I enjoyed this
33:01season's league mechanics with the
33:03runestones. I like that they added an
33:05in-game market browser. I really love
33:08that you can import build guides into
33:09your game, which is incredibly nice for
33:11quality of life. I enjoyed Act 4 and
33:14it's probably my favorite one so far. I
33:16like that crafting seems way more
33:18deterministic than back at launch.
33:22>> Right, so he didn't play. He played 0.1,
33:26which is December 2024.
33:29And then he point two was whatever.
33:32But he missed point three, which was
33:34like the deterministic crafting
33:37sequence, right? And then that got
33:39stripped in point four and then we got
33:41some other stuff and then we got the
33:43abyss crafting and [ __ ] like that where
33:44we got instead. And I think that point
33:47five crafting is considerably better
33:49than point one, yes, but he did miss
33:50point three.
33:51>> In the future, I do plan on doing an SSF
33:54run, so this will definitely make things
33:55smoother. I love that they added
33:57sprinting into the game back in patch
33:590.3. I
34:01>> Is that a hot take to think that
34:03sprinting is good?
34:06I actually don't mind sprinting.
34:09I've been a little on the fence on
34:10sprinting. But I don't mind it. I think
34:14that sprinting is like the best middle
34:17ground between what the players were
34:18screaming for and what the vision for
34:21the game is.
34:23Sprinting kind of bridge the gap between
34:25the two and it's like a good compromise
34:28solution.
34:30It minimizes the downtime between packs,
34:33not supposed to be used in combat. Now
34:36you have fights like in um
34:39in act two, the fire lady, when she says
34:41burn burn burn and she starts chasing
34:43you, you can just sprint in a circle
34:45till it's over. Like there's some things
34:47you can utilize with a sprint, but
34:48there's also the associated risk with
34:50sprinting in boss fights in case you
34:52trip over a pebble and hurt your knee,
34:54you know? But I mean other than that, I
34:56think the sprinting is a good compromise
34:58solution between the two different um
35:00you know, categories of what people
35:01wanted in when it comes to actual
35:03movement speed.
35:04>> I also think the knockdown risk was a
35:05good way of balancing it. As for league
35:08mechanics, I absolutely love Abyss. It's
35:10my favorite league mechanic by far. I
35:12like what the devs did with way stones
35:14and tablets. I think it makes sense that
35:16the more modifiers that are on your way
35:17stones, it allows you to add more
35:19tablets to the map. As someone who likes
35:21Abyss, I can make sure that every map I
35:23run has my favorite league mechanics.
35:26Whereas the last time I played it was
35:28much more random. And finally, I like
35:30that you can earn microtransaction
35:32cosmetics through completing all of the
35:34league challenges. And this also gives
35:36you a good end point to aim for and
35:38consider yourself finished for the
35:40season.
35:41>> This is something Jonathan was talking
35:42about, which was less so about the
35:45challenges
35:47and more about the quests that was
35:50presented in the game. Like, hey, finish
35:53your Atlas,
35:54finish the league mechanics or the
35:56different league mechanic quest chains,
35:58and that will give you incremental
36:02stepping off points. Well, oh, I
36:04finished this. I don't like that
36:05mechanic, but I finished everything
36:07else. So now I am quote unquote done
36:10with the league. And the challenges is
36:11just another one of those things where I
36:13did what I wanted to do, then I had fun
36:15with the league. Now I'll just finish my
36:17challenges. When I'm done with that, I
36:19have checked all the boxes. I am now
36:22done with the league and can play
36:23something else till the next league
36:24starts. I I think that
36:26Jonathan was very correct or very
36:28accurate when he was talking about the
36:29importance of stepping off points. And I
36:32think that they really succeeded with
36:33that.
36:34>> Season. Things I disliked. I was
36:35honestly surprised that the trial of
36:37Sekhema's and trial of chaos are pretty
36:39much the same as early access launch.
36:42>> Okay. So, here we are here. Ascendancy
36:45circuit of a dog water caught. Okay, so
36:48I don't know if it's because I have
36:50played Whenever did When did the
36:53labyrinth actually in get introduced to
36:55period one? Hold on. Period one, when
36:58did the labyrinth
37:01get introduced to the game? Come on, AI.
37:03Don't fail me now.
37:06Uh 2016,
37:09March. Okay.
37:11So,
37:13for 10 and 1/2 years, I have been
37:16running the [ __ ] lab.
37:18I don't know if I hate the living [ __ ]
37:22out of that place because I have done it
37:24for more than a decade,
37:26or it's just because it is ass.
37:29I don't know what you guys think of it.
37:31I hate Sanctum. I hate trial of chaos. I
37:34am I'm so bored out of my mind when it
37:37comes to the to the lab. It's just an
37:38evil necessity.
37:40But, I do find myself enjoying Sekhema.
37:44And I know a lot of people hate Sekhema,
37:47but I find that to be the best
37:49ascendancy of all three.
37:51I straight up think it's the best one.
37:54I enjoy it and I think it has more
37:55variety. It's more enjoyable. And that's
37:58just my take on it. But, it seems like a
38:00lot of people hate it. But, that's my
38:01take.
38:03>> This is by far the absolute worst
38:05content in the game, in my opinion. With
38:07the main challenge being staying awake
38:09until it's completed. In fact, recently
38:12I've been struggling with a bit of
38:13insomnia, so maybe I'll try running this
38:15content before bed as a potential sleep
38:18aid.
38:19>> And that's over the top, man. That
38:21that's it. THAT'S OVER THE TOP, BRO.
38:24OKAY?
38:25Val Temple was the most boring league
38:27mechanic by far.
38:29Well, I kind of uh not a big fan of the
38:32Val Temple myself. I don't mind the Siri
38:34rushes, but it's not like it's a in like
38:37it's a fun, complex, interesting
38:39mechanic like it it how it was
38:41introduced in the beginning. Now,
38:43obviously, the whole to abuse over to
38:44the Temple snake kind of set the tone
38:47for the Temple and anything anything
38:51um lower than the efficiency that that
38:52brought to the table feels like a waste
38:55of time and not as rewarding and even
38:58though that one was an extreme pinnacle
39:00thing to build a full snake. Yeah, it's
39:02like uh
39:05Not sure if I think it's the most boring
39:07league mechanic. I think Delve is kind
39:09of
39:10generic and dull compared to Temple, but
39:12that's my take at least.
39:14>> There was a few league mechanics that I
39:15thought felt really bad. Val Temple in
39:18particular is by far the most boring one
39:20to do. It's a map within a map and it's
39:22annoying to set up. Apparently, the
39:24rewards can be good, but after doing
39:26around 10 of them whilst playing, I
39:28hated how low the mob density was and
39:31all of the running around. Absolute
39:33trash content. Aside from that, Delirium
39:36seems less enjoyable than it was back at
39:38launch. I'm not a huge fan of Expedition
39:40because it takes you out of the grinding
39:41flow and both Breach and Ritual feel
39:44okay, but not amazing.
39:46>> I was under the impression that the
39:48majority of the player base actually
39:50really liked Expedition since you could
39:53I think it mostly is because of the
39:55reward structure behind it. You didn't
39:57have to gigajust the content to make a
40:00lot of currency for it, making it feel a
40:02very like a very rewarding set of
40:04challenge for you whilst also being
40:06lucrative. And then if you wanted to
40:08double down on it, you could do that
40:10with an excessively increased value of
40:12rewards from it, making it even more
40:14lucrative with a higher
40:16uh, challenge ceiling, if you will.
40:19Slow, I touch the Lava Vaal expedition.
40:21That's fair. It does take a little bit
40:23of effort, which is you're not playing a
40:25game, you're setting up each expedition.
40:28I think that's a fair take. I was just
40:30under the impression that the majority
40:31of people actually liked it, and not the
40:33other way around.
40:34But, I don't know. Like, I I think that
40:36least of Pierce's video here is really
40:37good so far. It just feels very genuine.
40:39He's talking about his expedi- his
40:41experience with the game, and not having
40:43touched the game since point one. I
40:44think This is a really good video.
40:46>> I guess I'm trying to say that the
40:47league mechanics should be better
40:49balanced in terms of fun and reward.
40:51>> [music]
40:51>> During my time playing, I encountered
40:53server stability issues on multiple
40:55different days. At one point, it was so
40:57bad that I had to stop playing. I wish
40:59you had the option to assign stash tabs
41:01to different gear slots, such as rings,
41:03belts, and necklaces, like you can for
41:05currency, to make loot dumping even
41:08faster. And as much as I don't mind
41:10playing through the campaign once per
41:11season, it's probably my least favorite
41:13part of the game overall, and I dislike
41:16having to check my map constantly for
41:18the perm
41:19>> So, the idea of running campaign again
41:21on multiple characters in a season is
41:23mind-numbing.
41:25That's an interesting conversation,
41:27actually.
41:29Cuz it's very clear that I don't think
41:32we will ever see,
41:34um,
41:36them, uh, introducing some sort of sped
41:38up process, or a campaign skip.
41:44And I am personally in the category of
41:46believing that they should never
41:48introduce a campaign skip.
41:51But, I know a lot of people are very,
41:52very vocal about this, and think that we
41:56should have availability to do so,
41:58especially when it comes to making
41:59secondary characters.
42:01Um,
42:04I'm personally not opposed to it for
42:06your second character, but I also feel
42:08like
42:11it takes away a lot.
42:14I think that having some sort of speed
42:16up progression
42:18for your second character, I'm not
42:20opposed to that. But at the same time,
42:23if you're leveling a second character,
42:25you're not going to do so from a league
42:27start scenario. You will have leveling
42:30gear on that character. You will have
42:32access to a bunch of extra support gems.
42:34You can buy a bunch of extra skills. You
42:36can have leveling gear, which is already
42:38speeding up the process of you doing the
42:40campaign again. So, do we really need
42:43even more tools for that?
42:45I don't know, dude. Like I I don't know.
42:48I'm just saying that I personally I'm
42:49not I'm not opposed to the idea of
42:52having
42:54sped up progression tools. Someone said
42:56that Caesar's talking about shortcut
42:58features for second characters, which is
43:00basically talking about speeding up the
43:01process. I don't think that is
43:02necessarily a bad thing.
43:04I just don't think that skipping the
43:06campaign as a whole is um
43:09it's a good solution. But I know a lot
43:11of people are very vocal about this, but
43:12that is my personal opinion. And you
43:15know, that's just my take. And everyone
43:16has different opinions on this thing.
43:18You know, it's it's like there's a
43:19saying in Sweden where we say that the
43:22taste is like your butt cheeks, they're
43:24divided, which is good. It's just that,
43:27you know, to add to that saying,
43:29sometimes, very rarely, in between the
43:32butt cheeks, there's [ __ ] And that's
43:34where you find D4.
43:35>> And then campaign power increases and
43:37skill points. [music]
43:39Overall, I really like the direction
43:41that Path of Exile 2 is heading, and the
43:42game seems to be greatly improved since
43:44the last time I played. I would consider
43:46PoE 2 to be my favorite ARPG. I do think
43:50it's better than Diablo 4 overall.
43:52However, I do still enjoy both games,
43:54and I think they can both exist
43:56alongside each other because they both
43:57offer very different experiences.
44:00Considering I gave Diablo 4 an 8.5 out
44:03of 10 the last time I played, I'd have
44:05to give PoE 2 a 9. I didn't play much
44:08PoE 1, so I can't comment on that one
44:10too much, but I absolutely love the
44:12dodge roll, sprint, and WASD movement of
44:14PoE 2, so not having that would feel
44:17like a downgrade [music] at this point.
44:19I'm really looking forward to the
44:20eventual 1.0 release, and I'll probably
44:22do a PoE 2 in 2027 video when that
44:25eventually arrives. But, that's it for
44:28this video. As always, let me know your
44:29thoughts on PoE 2 in the comments below.
44:32And is there anything I forgot to
44:33mention that you would add to my pros
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44:51>> Good video. Good video. Make sure you
44:53like the video.
44:55Yeah, like I said, I mean, I'm not
44:56personally opposed to there being
44:59solutions.
45:01Or maybe not solutions, but I don't mind
45:03there being features that would speed up
45:05the progress for a new character.

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