Grinding Gear Games is launching POE2 with an arsenal of brand new weapon classes. Whether its spears, crossbows, foci, or something else, all these new item types in Path of Exile 2 are going to open up a variety of brand new builds and playstyles, especially because methods of play in POE2 are based on weapons now. Enjoy, fellow exiles.
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@playpathofexile – POE2 trailers, POE 2 footage, ExileCon2023 footage, and Path of Exile 1 footage and logos.
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0:00 – POE2 Weapon Playstyles
0:54 – Weapons in POE1 Versus POE2
5:16 – Crossbows in POE2
7:18 – Spears in POE2
9:33 – Flails in POE2
11:13 – Foci, Traps, and More in POE2
12:40 – Conclusion
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I'm looking forward to the skill system change. It'll be glorious to experiment with ALL those new attacks and am courius how spells will work within the new system
I am beyond hyped for PoE2, and I cannot wait for it to release. I haven't been this hyped for a game in YEARS
Finally spears!!!
Iām really hoping the skills arenāt this limp when it comes out. Mechanics are cool and all but if combat is this slow the game will be a slog fest. Gimme a taste of some screen melting builds then Iāll be convinced for sure.
Ughh it looks SO SICK. Im thinking spear wielding templar, exacting divine vengeance upon these fools
poe2 hype
I don't like to restrict the Skill to even less Weapons. It makes sense in PoE 1, even lore wise, it would look silly to do a leap slamp and then the wand snaps.
It's seems they wan't to focus more on the Weapon Skilltree and Weaponswap and that than can be nice but over time the majority of users are going to automate it, if even possible, or just don't use it att all.
Regarding the new Weapons: It's either Melee or it's not, those are the only real two destinctions that will be of importance, sure at the beginning everybody will love the new Animations and whatever gimmick. In the end it all comes to speed, and nobody will care anymore.
What I wan't to see are more Builddefining Uniques, Weapons that open up new options otherwise not Possible or even don't work at all with certain Archetypes because of it's downside, same for other Uniques.
Shavrones, Voltaxic Rift, Chains of Emancipation, Facebreaker, Scolds Brittle, Starforge and Hiltless are just a few that have/had unqiue interactions on opened Builds that where other wise impossible. Most of the other Uniques are just worse than 1 or 2 good rares, and that's where PoE 1 changed over the years. You get so many crafting options and they still add something almost every 3 Months, the result is that alot of Uniques lost any purpose over time.
Wanderlust were a good option for any CI build, but now we get Freeze imunity from Pantheon, Aura, Boot Craft, Reduced and Avoid on Rare gear and Permaflasks ouside of PF.
So my hope for the new Unique Weapons in PoE 2 is, that they get back to the original concept of the Uniques meaning that they are indeed Unqiue and that they can't be "replicated" by crafted rares, ot it will end like today with Bow Casters and one melee option.
POE1 is the best ARPG but POE2 looks like a huge step up !! And i didnāt think that was possible.
nice, you get to spend several hours theory crafting your play style and archetype to clear about 8 monsters a minute, sorry but many leagues of same unbalanced meta gems into a new game that literally can play slower than a turn based game isnt an improvement to the ARPG genre, its just niche expansion. This is less novel, and more different.
We need this now
They're all Diablo 2 weapon classes that PoE has been lacking so its not surprising at all which weapon classes GGG chose. Whenever GGG does some really weird decision, most likely it is because Diablo 2 did it.
I love it. I just wish D4 was this good.
Weapons doesn't have to be an item, energy blade for example.
Yeah… took the build versatility of PoE 1 and just… chunked it right out the window, didn't even miss the trash bin, then tossed a Molotov cocktail on build diversity just to make sure players are shoe-horned into particular tracks based on class and class + weapon.
And shifting skills to socketed skill gems will very, very likely reduce the number of skills a player can utilize in their endless quest to reduce auras to a max of three – and that only for edge case twink builds.
So are they slowly down potion use in PoE2? The guitar hero system they had in PoE1 really turned me off.
The fact that they're not holding anything back for later "expansion" and microtransaction really shows. Blizzard wants us to PAY them to beta test D4 AND milk us for future possible $90 expansion is just bananas. The thing is, when you milk your player base dry…. they won't be back for more!
From what I understand, the new trap/mine skills are going to functions similarly to the bolt skills from the PoE showcase. Having either a trap or mine weapon equipped will change how the skill functions instead of traps and mines being two separate skill types.
I don't remember exactly what part of the showcase this bit of info was in, and I don't know if the are still planning to do this.
bows are SO much weaker then staffs fpr casters. bows are the bis of poor dudes cant effort staff crafting….
the crossbow is basically a shotgun
nice video
If Blizzard doesn't update their animations in diablo 4, they will have problem š
I hope GGG puts the final nail in the Blizzard coffin.
If Cyclone is Axe only and spells are Staff/Wand/Sceptre only how will the CoC Cyclone work? or CoC Bow
I really really want to know if old weapons are getting a facelift with new implicits. I'm just worried with all the new weapon types, old ones will be totally left in the dust.
I have a few concerns about the style of play shown. In POE 1 we are used to roaming through hordes of enemies and killing them in a massacre. What's being shown here is much more reminiscent of Diablo 4 than POE 1 and that worries me as a veteran. I have the feeling that GGG hopes to appeal to D4 players with POE 2, but this should definitely not be done at the expense of the existing player base, the skill system and the hordes of enemies and loot.
Every Iso-ARPG has looked something like this in trailers. And then scaled into a mess of non-ideas and meaningless information. The challenge will be to retain the pacing of meaningful mechanics you're seeing demo'd. I can respect that it was never presented as a goal of PoE, and they were starting from nothing. But they rode that wave, and are now in a position to push past 20 years of a stagnation in a genre.
I hope POE2 is a lot slower. Iām loving POE1 but Iām not a fruit fly give me a break š .
never seen so many falils in my life
the only flail they show us do only elemental damage instead of phisical damage. i imagine they will be like the str-int scepthers of poe 1 but even more focused in delivering elemental damage in Meele form
crossbow looks and feels too much like a gun – this is a dumb move by GGG
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Couldn't agree more that this is an exciting development for the game.
Not only at launch when we get a gazillion new combinations and play styles to try,.
Not even just thematically having skills that look and feel 'right'
But most of all for the game going forward for league after league where the designers can add unique and tailored new skills to the game that will change the meta within specific class fantasies. Super Exciting stuff!
FINGERS CROSSED for two handed flails and hand dual wielding hand crossbows!
Great video TRI as always š
Meanwhile, in PoE 1, there aren't even any Affliction League Supporter Packs. Hmmm… ='[.]'=