Path of Exile (Free Action RPG)

Yeah, the quality of the free stuff coming out next year is amazing! Next year (ironically if the world ends in 2012) will be the best year of gaming for quite a while!
 
There is a thread about it (well the beta I guess):
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33985227

Played the beta quite a lot until I hit the endgame, my Dualist and the spec I was using was a breeze up until I hit maelstrom of Chaos, where it did not work at all.
And the XP penalty at that level when you die made it entirely unviable to try to level in Maelstrom with that character.

So I kinda trailed off on other games.

Great game though, had a lot more fun with it then the D3 beta, largely since there is a ton of content in Path and very little in the D3 beta.
Some great ideas and concepts, slotted skill gems, passive talent tree and the customization to everything with all the orbs.
One thing I did mind is the rigidity of the Passive tree, when the active skills are so readily swapped out.
Respeccing the passives is a ton of grind (cept for the few respec points you get in quests).
Which in turn makes it hard to try for example dual wielding after speccing hard towards 2h weapons, outside of starting another Dualist char from scratch which they´ve stated is their philosophy regarding that stuff.
 
Tried the game, it feels very much like Diablo 2.5. Not something I really wanna play at this point in my life.

Also, can't believe PoE does not have damage numbers - game feels very lacking without them.

Lvl9 and already bored, hmmmm...
 
In fact I was so fed up with the game at one point towards the end of my play test that instead of clearing and exploring a new zone I just ran past all the mobs in it until I found the entrance to the next zone (which I eventually ran through as well, lol).

2 problems with that:

1) a good ARPG should not allow you to do that
2) a good ARPG should not MAKE me wanna do that
 
yea, i can hardly muster up any interest in it now. i really wanted to play it a few weeks ago but now there's no point with diablo 3 here.
 
Has anyone re-visited this after playing Diablo 3? There's a lot of talk about it on the battle.net forums.
 
Will test it when the open beta starts soon. But it seems a bit complicated for an arpg for my liking, the passive tree, how skills work, etc
But havent tried it so I may be wrong and its streamlined to be easy to understand without reading a wall of text
 
badboy said:
Will test it when the open beta starts soon. But it seems a bit complicated for an arpg for my liking, the passive tree, how skills work, etc
But havent tried it so I may be wrong and its streamlined to be easy to understand without reading a wall of text
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Did you play Diablo 2? As long as there's a way to fix mistakes, skill trees are a lot of fun and offer a lot of breadth and depth to classes. Currently you can spend $10 to support the game and get into the beta. I may do that tonight.
 
ViN86 said:
Did you play Diablo 2? As long as there's a way to fix mistakes, skill trees are a lot of fun and offer a lot of breadth and depth to classes. Currently you can spend $10 to support the game and get into the beta. I may do that tonight.
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I have no problem with skill tree, i loved d2. But have you seen the passive tree? Its lika a damn universe map with dots.
And the skills are gems sockated in gear that lvl up and change abilities depending how you socket them. Yes it gives Lots and lots and lots of customization but seems overly complicated.

But as I said havent tried the game so I dont know. This is just what I read on their site
 
badboy said:
I have no problem with skill tree, i loved d2. But have you seen the passive tree? Its lika a damn universe map with dots.
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badboy said:
I have no problem with skill tree, i loved d2. But have you seen the passive tree? Its lika a damn universe map with dots.
And the skills are gems sockated in gear that lvl up and change abilities depending how you socket them. Yes it gives Lots and lots and lots of customization but seems overly complicated.

But as I said havent tried the game so I dont know. This is just what I read on their site
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People have been playing quite a bit already, so you should be able to research the path you want to take. I don't mind spending more time researching if it means more options. :)
 
I discovered it yesterday by chance while browsing through IGN's Free to Play article and so far i like the game although the skill points system is extremely daunting at first but discovering all the detail is half the fun
 
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