Honestly i am not that hot about "POE2"
I'd rather have non linear way to get to end game rather than second campaign.
Second campaign will become same as first one after you play it 100 times. Boring.
Ascendancy stuff is also imho bad. I loved POE system before Ascendancies were introduced. Ascendacies basically removed freeform of POE and changed from fake classes into true classes. And now instead of giving it more freedom it further makes ascendancy choise more important to what you play.
I also didn't see any comment about changing meta of the game to slower one. POE over they years just goes faster and faster and faster. Lately basically every build you make is zoom zoom build otherwise you basically are playing it wrong as monster speed, damage etc is balanced around that speed and nothing else.
Diablo 4 for now looks like more interesting to me, mostly due to slower pace of gameplay. There are some stuff that i don't like, like ultimate moves but team there is open to feedback and plenty of people already gave feedback that ultimates shouldn't exist in arpg.
New socket systems looks really neat and imho it is good change. So are new boss battles which look much nicer and are way more interesting. Unfortunutelly until they change meta of game it is like pissing in the wind because zoom zoomers won't care about those boss battles.
No it is not. For one you can't buy power in game only some cosmetics. There are stash tabs to buy but you can make as much accounts as you want so it is kind off moot point and POE gives you more default stash space than any other ARPG right now (outside of modden Grim Dawn). You literally can play game for 1000s of hours and never even see or use their shop.
I agree with him to be honest. In order for your character to look decent in the game you have to spend serious cash. For many people your character looking badass is important in ARPGS.
?? Every unique has ... unique look to them and you can easily make decent looking character. Secondly they will be revising all base items for POE2 making them look much nicer. Or do you mean those conspetics with retarded wings and shit like in WOW ? IMO they shouldn't be in game to begin with as style doesn't fit POE.
Why does the trailer say 1 game, 2 campaigns if this is a new game?
Because you will be deciding at start what you want to play. POE1 and those classes or POE2 and new classes. They are effectively adding new campaign to game. They will be also redoing whole POE1 campaign to look much nicer to POE2 campaign standards. When you finish campaign in POE2 you will be doing same end game as POE1 campaign players.
Exactly this. PoE may be a good game, but having to pay for the cosmetics which are Uniques in Diablo or Grim Dawn is what kills it for me.
POE has literally more uniques than D3 and Grim Dawn combined and 90% of them have their own unique 3D art. None of which you need to spend any money on. In shop you can only buy some bullshit attachments or alternative look for some spells which usually don't look better than original skills.