With Dawn of the Hunt, the new season of Path of Exile 2 is coming soon. An expert has now named 5 things that need to go better with the new league.
Who is it about?
DarthMicrotransaction is a content creator on YouTube and Twitch who focuses primarily on ARPGs. He regularly publishes videos about Path of Exile 2 and Diablo 4. He is known among his viewers for his good analysis and clear criticism. Since the Early Access release, he says he has already played about 700 hours.
In a new YouTube video, he has now named five points that Path of Exile 2 needs to improve with the new season so that the game really gets better.
Back to square one
For DarthMicrotransaction, the following points are the five most important areas that the developers of Grinding Gear Games have to tackle with the new season “Dawn of the Hunt”. In addition to these five points, there are other things that can be improved, but here the content creator has limited himself to his most important ideas.
1. Reset the economy
The first point that DarthMicrotransaction addresses is a reset of the game economy. Due to the high inflation in Path of Exile 2, new players have a hard time getting high-quality items, as they cannot farm the enormous prizes.
So far, however, there is no confirmation from the developers that update 0.2.0, “Dawn of the Hunt”, will also start a new season that has its own economy and you can’t simply give already farmed items to your new characters.
2. Crafting System
The progress of your own character in the mid- and endgame of Path of Exile 2 is based too much on the trading system, which many don’t like at all. The second suggestion from DarthMicrotransaction goes in a similar direction. For him, PoE2 has to build in a real crafting system.
DarthMicrotransaction criticizes that the current crafting system is too random-based and not very rewarding. Items that are dropped with good stats are improved to be valuable with a lot of luck, but in most cases they end up in the trash. A new crafting mechanic, which comes into play as a league mechanic, for example, would be advocated by DarthMicrotransaction.
3. Skill Balance
DarthMicrotransaction describes that the current skill balance has major problems. Many of the best builds would build around the skills “Herald of Ice” and “Herald of Thunder” because these skills simply do much more damage than other skills in the game.
DarthMicrotransaction demands that not only nerfs for these skills come, but also weaker skills are buffed to allow for more build variety.
4. Skill Tree
DarthMicrotransaction thinks the skill tree needs far-reaching improvements. According to him, there are still too many placeholders and problems with defensive skills in the tree. The content creator describes that players currently rely primarily on Energy Shield in their builds and alternatively on a skill that drains mana instead of life should they be hit.
According to him, builds that rely on health points would be disadvantaged because there are few nodes in the skill tree with good buffs to health. A nerf to the energy shield in favor of dodge would be a sensible change, according to DarthMicrotransaction.
With the Atlas tree, the content creator is looking forward to an expansion because he finds the current system a bit boring.
5. Atlas
The content creator makes it clear in the video (via YouTube) that he is not an enemy of the Atlas system. However, he understands why some players would not like the new system and also sees room for improvement. For DarthMicrotransaction, the towers on the Atlas are the fun killer. He describes running them to improve other maps as boring.
DarthMicrotransaction would like to see more interesting places and better rewards on the atlas for the next season. As an example of such points of interest, he shows, among other things, the map “Moment of Zen”, which drops a guaranteed unique item, but also says that the interesting places often have even worse loot than the normal maps.
What is the conclusion?
DarthMicrotransaction gives a conclusion at the end of his video on YouTube. “I enjoy the game very much,” the YouTuber explains first. He thinks the basis of the game is good, and with a few changes, something very good could even come out of it for him. For him, it is clear that Path of Exile 2 needs more development time, and a full release in 2025 is unrealistic. Buy POE2 Currency to stay ahead and enhance your experience as the game evolves!
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