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  • The video mentions smaller hitbox, but a smaller character model also gives you more ability to see around your character from the 3rd person camera perspective. When I played World of Warcraft, I chose the man model of the largest race (for the racial bonus) and wore bulky plate mail body armor as part of my character class. I realized it was hard to see whether I was standing in fire or other ground effects. Watching other people play, I noticed that it was easier to see whether you are standing in bad stuff if you chose to play a woman human character, and much easier if you played as a gnome. I chose to start using consumables which made my character model visibly smaller.







  • The gender of the class is locked, but you can use any skill with any class and all of the classes use the same skill tree but start at different locations. The most popular build of this current expansion of POE 1 was to play the Ranger class as melee.

    In POE 1, each class had more access to a specific attribute, like Witch was Intelligence, Marauder was Strength, Ranger was Dexterity. Scion is a hybrid class in POE. In the trailer for POE 2, they showed that you can change the attribute node on the passive tree so that any class can specialize in any attribute. So you could choose to be a witch but then stack strength.

    Each ascendancy has a special focus. The trailer shows 6 ascendancies in the early access which are women: Stormweaver (lightning abilities), Chronomancer (time manipulation, this is new idk), Deadeye (projectile abilities), Pathfinder (poison and potions), Infernalist (fire abilities), and Bloodmage (blood magic). At first glance, Deadeye looks to be an ascendancy that is meant to be played only with bows, however the class actually benefits all projectile abilities including projectiles created by spells and melee weapons.

    It’s hard to say right now what builds will be possible because of limited information. Many of the most powerful builds in POE 1 were from using classes in unconventional ways, like by having the Maurader be a spell caster, having the Witch fire a bow, or having the Ranger do melee attacks.


  • The early access has 12 class ascendancies. They are promising to later have 36 class ascendancies.

    The early access campaign has 3 of the 6 acts completed. In the early access, you will level 1-45 in Act 1-3. Then from level 45-65, you replay Act 1-3 but with levels scaled. Then at level 65, you enter the endgame ie exploring the atlas.

    The early access POE 2 end game has over 50 bosses, over 400 monster types, and 7 playable end game systems. The atlas system is entirely reworked.

    Any in game purchases that you made in POE 1 are transferred to POE 2 and vice versa.




  • CGTN has released a dozen videos onto youtube promoting Black Myth Wukong. Why would Chinese media promote a game that is unliked by China?

    Who is even the author of this article? No author is listed. It says it is an opinion piece. Whose opinion is this? There is a reference link to a quora-like website, but the link is an unrelated question. The question on Zhihu asks people how they feels about a video on bilibili called “Who wrote journey to the west?”, which doesn’t seem specifically about the game. The commentor on Zhihu seems to be someone who doesn’t like the story of “Journey to the West”, not specifically the game.