Path of Exile 2: 6 MAJOR CHANGES to the Passive Skill Tree 

Also not mentioned in the video, GOLD will be used to respec passive skill points instead of Orbs of Regret Who's excited for the weapon swap tech in PoE2?

Lowkey the 0 life nodes is such a massively important change

Masteries are probably my favorite mechanic on the POE1 tree (along with jewels that rely on specific placements due to radius) so i’m kind of sad to see them go. But its a minor thing compared to the excitement of the rest

4:35 that would have been much more effective in PoB where everything would have been circled in red

Choosing the effect of a travel node is awesome in my opinion! 😀

The PoB Community Fork team have their work cut out for them for PoE2. I can't imagine the amount of work that will go into development......

Thank you for the great summary of a lot of info across many interviews etc. Makes sense and I am just wanting to try it all and see how it all gets polished into a great game.

looking forward to specing half my passives into armor nodes on the tree and dying in 2 hits to overwhelm phys dmg lol

Thanks for your time and imput its always appreciated

nodes changing per character will make learning the tree somewhat harder and more confusing, as the variability and positioning are no longer inherently linked. Seems like some good changes with some drawbacks

Thanks for this i was actually wondering about all that, hopefully we see all the ascendancies soon. Kinda sad scion is gone tho would've been interesting to build with that many ascendancies available

Probably not a big deal but I really like how health orb turns green when you're poisoned(I assume). Considering most time when I die the first thing I think about is "how tf did that happen?"

I'm so glad that life nodes are gone from the tree in PoE2. I've been saying for years that requiring at least 150% inc life on the tree is extremely limiting and frustrating in terms of build design

Tbh, I feel a lot of these changes are healthy for the game, not all, but most. The lack of life nodes in particular is massive. We all remember for sure when we first found out we need to click life nodes on the tree, and how, as beginners, we didn't even consider clicking them. Well, that's a non issue in PoE2. By also foregoing life nodes, you can do something else with them. If the passive points amount is roughly similar, imagine how much you could do with 25 additional passive points. Moreover, you can spend those 25 passive points to use on layered defence, not just life because it's mandatory. You will now be able to click more evasion/armour/fortify/avoidance/etc. without feeling bad. You won't have to get into the same areas of the tree over and over again because that's where the life nodes are. The two weapons thingy is also incredibly cool, because you make single target skills viable, which opens a lot of build diversity. I feel a lot of these changes are badly needed in PoE. There's a huge issue in PoE atm where you end up on the same nodes over and over again and it feels bad, such as: - Bottom left corner of the tree by Marauder/Duelist featuring The Square™ - Chaos life wheel + Mana Reservation on the Top Left - Spell suppresion by Scion + Magebane - Entrench wheel on the bottom right And a lot more. I feel that foregoing the + %inc life nodes on the tree, it would help break the monotony of picking the same best nodes all the damn time.

Can't wait to get rid of the annoyance of trying to make off-meta builds in PoE 1 just to see them completely sucking, or being funneled towards the same overpowered items that leave almost no room for other options.

GGG can do something like split personality for that non-class nodes. Farther you go - more stats you get.

You're a true gem in the RU-vid community.

Love the changes

i love poe 1 since my jugg is fully geared, i have several other characters but he is the only one i prefer to play since he's so tanky!

LET ME IN!!!

I don't know how I feel about stats selectable travel nodes, I feel like it breaks the stats align character (i.e. sorceress is intel, druid is str/int) it would have been cool to have the choice, but have the main attribute in that zone be better, like 10/5/5 , so it's still an opportunity cost to be on one side on the tree or an advantage.

Would be very interested to see how they force players to diversify, specialization and investing all your skill poinys into a single skill is almost always better unless the skill of choice has a huge cons to it forcing players to pickup another skill to make up for that weakness

Hmmm, keystones for +1 weaponswap or -1 weaponswap with slight downsides for 1st and upsides for the 2nd. Should be at least interesting.

I'm excited for the life changes but I hope there aren't items like Defiance of Destiny in POE2, and hope we have more choices for our defenses other than Phys taken as. Pretty tired of using Lightning Coil and a crafted phys taken as helmet on most of my builds.

Do we know if it will still possible to have some build like strength stacker, armor stacker……

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I see it now. This is definitely the sequel to Diablo 2

I really hope the ascendancies are broad and not super niche.

Seems promising even if wasd isnt my type of game im curious about crafting anyway

I feel like they shouldve added a dash like in bloodborne instead of a roll. I think that would feel much more engaging

Forgot about crafting

What about ES nodes? are they removed as well?

Removing the scion as a multiclasser and making items have passive skill investment for diversity or versatility (basically like mini multiclassing), and then making the player passive tree less accesable without a centred path.. doesnt this sound a little confused and like a mixed message? Idk, the more they reveal of poe2 the more apprehensive i feel

Is it possible to summon minions with a minion tree and then stay in the defensive tree with a shield?

mah, my 2 cents is having the same nodes for every class opens for more explorations, basically in poe2 if you are a necromancer you are much more likely to play some minions because your full tree is expecting you wants those nodes. It could be better but it could also be worse

I wonder If there will be some degen weapon swap bullshit Having a shield on ur other set and swapping to it for defensive stats when soaking dmg

all is good, but gold?

Pathing in Poe tree should be removed too. You just can't balance that, some weapons or classes will always have better pathing then others like axes now have much better pathing then maces, swords or staves.

I really hope they make more powerful passive tree nodes. Iv found once you hit ~lv80 passives stop mattering as much and gear is the only major difference you feel in levelling a build. It would help a league start quite a bit as well as give the player a feeling of progression if they go on a loot drought in mid game.

I love the new weapon swap system but is it known if each set still have their own skill binds like in poe1? I want to make a warrior with a 2H mace for quick stun buildup and a 2H axe for damage combos and making the mace set binds mostly mace skills with 1 axe skill just for active swapping and vice-versa would be really practical

The complaint about skill tree mobility is the stangest take to me. Some of you guys are way too locked in to the rpg archetypes. GGG has designed a system, about as well as you probably can, that gives you the bones to play a hard locked class if you so choose but simultaneously you can split off and make something of your own. Nothing is being truly taken away here and if it's not perfect it damn sure is close.

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Potions are so ugly like 2d gif

With no masteries I really hope they bring back as many uniques from PoE 1 as possible, otherwise the build diversity is going to be a huge downgrade. ESPECIALLY defensive ones like ivory tower

i hate weapon swap. i hate wasd. this game looks amazing though so ill just ignore those features.

I dont like they removed life. I understand the balance argument. But removing it results in removing player agency. Then i am sure you would say I got access to defensive nodes. But the player choice was in finding a balance between 3 aspects, which was damage, health and defences. Now you only got two. I basically got very little control over how i want to engage with the content. That aside, it also removes life scaling builds. One less option. But removing my choice as a player is the most annoying. There are plenty of players out there that prefer the safe slow path.

Might be in the minority but I don't find it good to increase the complexity of this at all, it looks like you have to use every ability like flask piano, that's not fun, that's clunky. No life, how about ES?, either way, if it's poe damage balance I am more concerned the end game will be the real 1% crowd accessible. I'll run numbers when I get some solid idea on the game, right now it's vaporware with a few video's, could be good, could be bad... will see.

damn, didnt read properly. was hoping for a poe 1 passive skill tree change to make spell suppression more accessible to strength based classes :/

keep it up , poe 2 will be the new lost arc

Poe 1 will be the GOAT when poe 2 releases

New Forgotten Uniques Video: REAL SHITE New PoE2 Video: REAL SHITE wait that's not right

I'm fully on board with POE2. Every decision they've made about changes to the game has been really smart and seemingly well-thought-out out and I can't wait to play it

Hi, I believe Jonathan has reverted back no life node change because melee were struggling quite heavily without them.

more i look at PoE 2 more it is like Diablo 4 witch i do not like that much...

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The more I see about POE2 the more skeptical I’m becoming over its success.. the slower playstyle isn’t really matched with intriguing enough fighting mechanics, players are forced to use elemental combo loops and it feels like you can just spec into whatever (2:01) which could lead to a situation where most your characters feel somewhat the same. With all that said, the largest flaw that doesn’t get enough attention is the development process itself. POE1 was so successful because it started out small then grew into what it is today, with POE2 they are doing the exact opposite by throwing a shit ton of money, time and manpower at a game where its core mechanics haven’t been vetted yet. If say the new fighting mechanics are not well received at launch, the uphill battle they will immediately be found in will keep the devs up at night

3:48 this talk about difficult to balance and not being able to cut across the tree to make super awesome builds is making this look more and more like a D3 with a PoE skinjob

10 seconds in views no, off bro fell

>no bestgirl scion >no life on tree >takes three days to kill a pack of mobs in all demo footage >rollslop >le shifting tree nodes nah all good here, broski

the more i see of POE 2, the more i like POE 1

God, I’m so frustrated by this PoE2 hype-noise, mostly because of poor developing of PoE1, which I’m always excited to play every league. Watching Necropolis being a Kalandra-like “success” was painful, but hey, we got more PoE2 vids and look what we’ve done so far, but you wont be able to touch it for like 2 years at least. Oh well. PoE2 fuss is like dust in the eyes, while league’s quality sucks. Though, QoL were awesome this league.

POE 2 has been shoved down my throat for so long that i'm no longer hyped. i'd prefer to see some effort put into poe 1 but that's just me