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I can’t wait to see what they do with shadow. That class could be crazy with the new gameplay theory.

the combat montage was a bit too epic and made me go buy your cd

I think we need a new category for builds other than off-meta, because this one is wild. Beyond meta... cosplay meta? Also the custom intro is truly great lol

Had an idea like this - but used A3 merc to enchant skele warriors, just a thought to expand your fire necromancer theme

I really like your builds and attention to aesthetics, but if I may make a suggestion: during your showcase it does become boring to watch you check every armor at the shop or to identify every little rare you come across. I don’t like twitch streams and it makes your showcase videos feel like a twitch streams. I do love the builds and creativity! Just my two cents.

Well it depends on how they go about slowing the gameplay down. If its a constant series of skill and gear checks that is fine. But if its constant resource starvation and overly tanky trash mobs im not going to find the game enjoyable.

to the succubus "character" speculation; I think that if we go by hair then we can speculate that it's a sorceress ascendancy, also there aren't any minions in the video. But yeah could be either or..

Forsaken so is truly executing cyclone. The top down view shows exactly the cyclone trail. 😮

Thanks for the gift of your passion and ingenuity! For this and all your work! Salud! I wish you the best, I myself am very grateful in the worst years of my life... (--"The worst years of your life so far...") 🫠😅

Pretty awesome theory craft. Here are some of the changes I'd make and why: 1- Using Fist of War with Falling Thunder. The current version of this support gem is equippable at around lv30ish in PoE1, but could be different in PoE2. If loyal to it's predecessor, every 6 secs you'd get a huge dmg and aoe multiplier. Since you only want to use Falling Thunder with lots of power charges (and perpetual charge is on Charged staff), this is a no brainer for me. 2- Conduction on Tempest Flurry. The last hit of Tempest Flurry is a guaranteed shock, so I feel it's kinda of a waste to use this support here. From a ''rotation/muscle memory'' perspective, you always want to finish the chain to make sure Siphoning Strike hits a shocked target. Since the most important part of Tempest Flurry is the last hit, I'd rather use supports that enable me to get there sooner/more frequently Ex.: Faster Attacks or Extended Combo. 3- Mana leech support after Herald of Thunder. When we get the first 30 spirit on act 2 and equip Herald of Thunder, Mana leech becomes useless for the build, this is because 100% of our phys dmg will be converted to Lightning and Mana leech only works for phys. 4- Siphoning Strike supports. With Killing palm already on the build, I see little use for another ''culling'' move. If this skill works like I think it does (Removes an exiting shock on hit for a Power Charge but then can apply it's own shock) maybe Conduction or other shock enhancers would make sense. 5- Staggering palm. Although this is a Lightning-focused build, I'd like to make the argument that this skill could be huge for Bosses. If used in combination with the Devastate + More Duration support, we can press it once during hard encounters whenever the yellow indicator pops to gurantee a heavy stun, fully break armour and enchance all our attacks with wind shock waves for about 8secs.

Great video, thank you. It feels like this game is made for me.

Poe2 endgame is to be trash actually. We already have a game where developers tried to implement dodge-roll into ARPG and force players to dodge all incoming damage instead of tanking it (noooo im babycry redditor i dont like when people zoom zoom with 100 HH stacks I want to force all the people who enjoyed affliction league, which is still a leader in terms of player retention/pick online play naked warrior with 2 handed mace PVPing with blue mobs for 30 seconds). Last epoch is so trash. I doubt poe2 will be different actually. I like zoom zoom gameplay, if you dont - nobody is forcing you to play it. You can play Shield Crush Juggernaut and PVP with mobs, who stops you from that in poe1? You want the playstyle you like to be the only meta and the only way to play in poe2, whereas in poe1 you are not limited (or at least wasnt limited before Mark Roberts came in charge and slowed down game + deleted all juicing). Shame on you babycry redditors

the hype is real

At this point let d4 be the fast passed mindless screen explosion simulator, and let this be something slower where you always have to pay attention = win

I'm making a witch, gotta love the Lilith form

9:35 In the 'money shot' you also see a female figure standing on the other side of the caravan, I believe this is one of the major story NPCs that you fight. Seems to be the same person at the beginning of the Exilecon 2023 trailer that has the Witch captive.

seeing a boss dropping its weapon after getting stunned is amazing! the attention to detail really adds up to players immersion.

At 17:30 The monster/boss has the eye symbols that are related and iconic for the old prophecy mechanic from POE 1 on him. I bet it has something to do with that lore again, even though the whole prophecy system is an old POE league mechanic that was core for ages, but GGG retired and removed it from the game some years ago.

Slowing the game down and limiting support gems to 1 copy per character are things that a player would never think to do, but that actual veteran game designers figured out counterintuitively MASSIVELY increase character build options, and there's probably going to be dozens of these types of adjustments in POE2. The sheer volume of viable builds is going to be completely insane.

They probably noticed that the Druid did around 17 dps...so they pulled him, because only shitty devs would release a Druid in such a state

I really enjoy your content. Keep it up!

Love it!

21:12 i know you dont know PoE 1 but there's a few 'maybe' characters from the first game that have turned into him or are him that came back or something. Its super excited to find out if he is someone we already know.

Lost all credibility when you said how the sockets are similar to ff7... uhhhh sockets were in diablo 2, you know the game the creators modeled many aspects of their game off of..

Cannot wait to chat, dude!!

I want to make a Shadowknight build out of a War, with 1 pet and life stealing abilities. Then a ranger/rogue!

7:35 i think thats just a boss... lol

I think there's a real possibility of that transformation being the Witch. The apparent location, so far, of what should be the main "shapeshift" passive cluster on the outer rim is positioned in the middle between Druid and Witch starting points. Those platforms on the scorpion arena are probably vents, might be safe spaces during some arena-wide poison breath phase. One thing to note however, which I didn't catch the first time I watched the video (too focused on scorpion-chan) is there are turned over braziers around the outside of the arena. Let's say she moves to the middle and spews gas everywhere, when it reaches the perimeter it will probably catch fire and explode the arena. I feel like that would probably set her/her tail on fire too. Might be a pretty interesting fight. The Vaal guy riding the giant electrified construct might be Doryani, basically the father of Vaal technology. Several Uniques bearing his name in PoE 1 are lightning based, though there are some multi-elemental items too. Good chance he's got some extra elemental tricks up his sleeve. The game really does look great in an over-the-shoulder perspective though, getting those straight on PoV perspectives. Everything just looks even more epic from close-up. I don't think the boss with the giant Breach hands coming out of his shoulders is for monk ascendancy. It's probably a reworked Breachlord for the league mechanic. I do still think the monk might get a Chayula themed ascendancy focused on chaos damage or unarmed/claw attacks though. Most interesting part of this scene though is that the one being attacked by the Breachlord looks to be a helmet-wearing Warrior, where they usually show him without, with a shield and holding what looks like a 2H hammer in the other hand (the rumored Titan's Blood Keystone effect), but one thing that stuck out to me is that this "Warrior" is apparently left-handed. The Warrior isn't left-handed... but the Templar is ;) Or they know exactly what they're doing and flipped the video clip to troll us. The floating guy with 4 arms and a shawl dotted with purple eyes may be related to Hinekora, a Karui god who is able to observe all timelines. She also has 4 arms, and the purple eye is her symbol. The spherical protrusion on one of the golden plates also bears some resemblance to the old itemized Prophecies before they were removed. This boss is apparently blocking the way to some kind of giant hourglass with no sand in it but carries a mote of light in the top half. Not sure what to make of it. The thing coming out of the top of his head kinda looks like the hilt of a sword as well. Wonder if he pulls it out as a "phase 2" gimmick. Maybe floats the sword out of his head, replicates it and gets a completely new skillset. Man I can't wait to play this damn game. I wanna find out what all these bosses do. And then we fight buffed versions of them in endgame maps. Gonna turn us all into red milk for the first few days (hopefully).

I don't see mercenary have bow on his back, and 2nd weapon should be alweys visible on your character. What if there is an ascendancy for mercenary that allow use bow skills with crossbow?

Excellent video and narration

I think it might be a vampire ascendancy at least I hope...

Subscribed. Really like your analasys on many aspects of POE2. That Mercanry observation is THE reason I enjoy POE so much. Since every class can use any skill Build variety is off the charts. Love hybrid builds. Viable or Not.

this is the best Breakdown for the Teaser, thanks man

13:30 - that's probably a manticore

Man, these videos you’re making are so chill and at the same time informative. I really enjoy them. Thank you!

I very much appreciate your straight to the point style

UPDATE: my podcast with Talkative Tri has been pushed forward to November 23rd. Please Like and Sub if you enjoyed the video and comment more insights on things I missed or lack context for. The game looks better than ever. 5 days until the BIG reveal from GGG.

Like & subbed! Beautiful breakdown! Can't wait for December 6th ..

Have fun chatting with the cringe lord, it's a hard no from me. Trust me your content is far better than his.

Regarding the Vaal cataclysm, I think we mostly know what happened. Queen Atziri wanted to be young and beautiful forever. To achieve this, her best thaumaturgist Doriyani (after a lot of research and human sacrifice) cut his way into The Beast to commune with it. It was this communion that caused the cataclysm. Pretty much the same thing happened centuries later when Malachai tried it as well. In PoE 1, you follow Malachai's path during Act 4, and Doriyani's during Act 9. I don't expect the time travel in PoE 2 to reveal much more about the cataclysm, since the focal point would be under Highgate, in a different part of Wraeclast. Still, you never know. The giant heart *screams* Vaal; they were big on magic powered by sacrifice. In PoE 1, Alva (who is of Vaalish descent) activates her time-travel powers using her blood. Stabbing a heart that big and bloody *might* be the trigger for going back in time. Alva's temporal incursions are always very short, so it'd take a lot of blood to go back in time for tens of minutes...

This will be the only live service game that will be 10/10 for me

Going to be the best arpg ever made for a long time. Every video I watch is amazing, GGG are the GOATS!

Great editing. Best breakdown by far.

My guess is that they reworked arctic armor and some other skills since they implemented moving while casting

I don't think that was a witch transforming into something else like a succubus or whatever it may be. It's probably a cut scene of some sort they made. The perspective is not something that we play in, from behind view of the enemies.

thx for the immense work^^ u got a new subscriber

Seems like they teased a lot of ascendancies. Can't wait for the live event

That's my official workout playlist from now on, thx Michael!

The more i see about PoE2 the more it looks like isometric hack'n'slash version of Elden Ring :P