This changed my mind about POE2 COMPLETELY!

16:55 I was sitting next to Neversink, and he was playing Sorceress, using Spark, Flame Wall, and Orb of Storms to kill the boss. It was really difficult with that playstyle to consistently dodge the anvil, so he was stuck on the boss for 15-20 minutes, until I convinced him to go grab the Crossbow I was using to trivialize the fight. Then, once he did finally kill it, a bug prevented him from going to the next area, so he rerolled. I got further, but didn't make it to the final Act 1 boss. (Jonathan politely asked that we not show footage of using a bugged Crossbow to trivialize boss fights. He let me keep in the 360 no-scope finishing blow, though!)

Such a different game than POE 1, which I think is great. It has the essence, but gives us two distinct games to play.

Random and unimportant but: I love the map art

I cannot wait to play this!

The animation of the bosses (even mobs) in the game are top notch

Thanks for this showcase. Definitely excited to give it a try!

I can't wait for the wasd movement for poe, definitely gonna play more again. But I do hope they'll still work a bit more on it. I don't know if it's just a feel thing because I'm only watching instead of using the wasd tech myself atm but the way the characters (ranger/bows builds?) kinda lock on to your mouse cursor with their body/face, everywhere where your cursor is, even while in invetory or gem tab the character in the middle of the screen seems to lock on to your mouse cursor on default and moves with it, to always face it. I don't know if it's a big thing but it looks ans feels clunky when I compare it to something like Hades for example. It plays the same way with wasd there, pretty much, but you can wasd back and forth even make your characters quickly turn around while having your mouse cursor at the same spot on the screen and still face the opposite direction, and all the skill shot abilities go where the cursor is pointed at but your characters is not bound to the cursor, he just quickly turns around to where the cursor is and does the ability. Makes it look and feel much better imo. Looks like you play League or the old poe with your mouse movements, looks more responsive and quick. This right now, looks a bit like a mobile version when the character is so locked on and doesn't move around much with its whole body like hes in a locked skill/attacking animation, like walking sideways while shooting things.. a bit weird. Would love the Hades wasd movement way more for poe 100%

11:13 I love how the voice acting goes so well with the animations of the attacks, it's so cool

it's kind of crazy how good all the bosses look. out of all that i have seen, only one was really weak that felt like a POE1 boss (the hyena or wolf pack one). I truly hope they make ubers out of the all the mechanically good ones.

I love the effect of the projectiles going through the fire wall. Setting little lightning bolts on fire just looks great.

its cool everyone is really loving the wasd movement and the devs are learning into it with design changes. I just hope all these dodges and added mobility etc still has a purpose in late game.

I like every new piece of info about PoE2 so far. The visual style, bosses, default dodge, new gem system is so good and right decision, weapon switch with different passive skills, the fact that the game is now slower but more tactical, I like it so much. I can understand why some people may hate slower gameplay, but for me, it's a win.

this ranger gameplay has rallied my confidence in poe2, this looks great

tbh I love the intro/character select, no "why do the other exiles not help" well, they're dead, jim. also, puts you in the "dying is common" feel.

"A boss, The Devourer" Me: "Okay it's a devourer... No! It's a longer devourer!" :face-purple-wide-eyes:

Omg I want to see the monk game play. If that's real with the character classes next to the gem cutting menu I'm hyped.

I'm pretty sure at 14:05 you should be going to the Ranger tab and you can use like multi projectile support and such. :) I saw Ben do that.

As I've said on another video, the game looks great. Got this for a more slower experience of PoE 1 and still have the first game If I want to zoom for abit. I wasn't super Into It In the start but It's slowly growing on me as time passes, hoping It turns out great. :)

I'm shaking to play this game, what a great footage to show us, holy this is amazing, if the game keeps the pacing like this it's going to consume me, also the bosses, enemies, the fights, everything looks cool, engaging and unique, this is so good and clearly GGG takes inspiration from everywhere and compile into a great game, I'm super looking forward to this, mid 2025 honestly, it's sad to wait but hopefully everything is fine and they are not having major problems to delay it, sometimes I feel like this game can be too much work due how much content they have along with POE1 and how quick they do things, anyway, I wish all the best for this game's future

I am sooo hyped :D This will be awesome, thanks for the video ziz (: