Path of Exile 2

Penance · 2026-06-05T09:29:28-0400

Is charged staff and rend bugged? When I rend with charged staff and go back to attacking I still have the buff icon but definitely don't seem to be doing lightning damage.

Springbok · 2026-06-05T11:40:14-0400

Xevy said:
The unaffected by chilled ground passive doesn't work. Still get chilled, still get slowed even though it doesn't show your character sheet change either way, but you ARE slower. Hopefully they fix that.

This patch has been HUGE in terms of all sorts of shit, but also buggy as fuck. Like, buggier than 0.1 probably. I'd say it's like a 9/10 for new content (they need to let you block content and/or SOFTEN content somehow in endgame, Delirium DR bullshit mostly) and probably like a 7/10 for game feel. The destination quest lines are cool, but they're bugged as fuck, a lot have bad quest updates, some can soft brick, and some take too many interval maps to get to the target map(s).

Definitely a step in the right direction overall, but looks like they're sorely lacking in the QA department. We've always been the REAL beta testers, but some of this stuff isn't just stuff not working like that last minute passive notable I mentioned, but full on quest lines or ascendancy's. They gotta tighten their shit up.

Yeah bugs aside my only real issue with the updated endgame are just how many maps it takes to traverse around doing all the content/quests. Fast travels or the like wouldn't go amiss. Also getting a fair amount of hard freezing, which has only happened with frequency in this patch for whatever reason.

Vorph · 2026-06-05T12:03:21-0400

Yeah, it's pretty sad that the single biggest issue with PoE2 now is their technical stuff. There's certain times of day where the game is simply unplayable. I log in and the latency meter constantly spikes from 35ms to 6000ms and then disconnects. I've tried everything--changing servers to EU or asia to avoid primetime or even just afternoon on DC or Canada East, changing chat channels to some random number no one else is using, etc. It's not my internet, I can switch over to playing Division 2 without so much as the slightest bit of lag. The only solution that works is "wait a few hours and try again". The problem is that PoE2 forces you to use the garbage 'lockstep' networking mode instead of having a 'predictive' option like in PoE1. GGG knows that nobody uses lockstep when given the choice, so why the fuck are we stuck with it here?

Dr.Retarded · 2026-06-05T12:08:14-0400

So I've never played the first one, is it worth starting on it and just playing through the campaign so know the story and everything and then trying this one out?

Arbitrary · 2026-06-05T12:20:38-0400

Dr.Retarded said:
So I've never played the first one, is it worth starting on it and just playing through the campaign so know the story and everything and then trying this one out?

If you need the story in a game you are playing to do some of the heavy lifting than probably? Much of the PoE2 campaign is going to revolve around a guy and a thing that you are assumed to already know about.

TheBeagle · 2026-06-05T12:23:56-0400

Vorph said:
Yeah, it's pretty sad that the single biggest issue with PoE2 now is their technical stuff. There's certain times of day where the game is simply unplayable. I log in and the latency meter constantly spikes from 35ms to 6000ms and then disconnects. I've tried everything--changing servers to EU or asia to avoid primetime or even just afternoon on DC or Canada East, changing chat channels to some random number no one else is using, etc. It's not my internet, I can switch over to playing Division 2 without so much as the slightest bit of lag. The only solution that works is "wait a few hours and try again". The problem is that PoE2 forces you to use the garbage 'lockstep' networking mode instead of having a 'predictive' option like in PoE1. GGG knows that nobody uses lockstep when given the choice, so why the fuck are we stuck with it here?

Yep. Same thing. I was up at 5am this morning and not a single lag spike until about 8 am. Gradually got worse until 10 am or so and the game becomes damn near unplayable.

Clearing shader cache and /flushdns helps a little but its obviously an issue on their side.

Talos · 2026-06-05T12:29:30-0400

Dr.Retarded said:
So I've never played the first one, is it worth starting on it and just playing through the campaign so know the story and everything and then trying this one out?

Maybe just watch a story/lore recap then start playing this one.

I never played the first one either and I'm not really paying attention to the story in this one. I skip all the dialogue. I just like turning things into ice chunks with the werewolf.

Penance · 2026-06-05T13:24:16-0400

Dr.Retarded said:
So I've never played the first one, is it worth starting on it and just playing through the campaign so know the story and everything and then trying this one out?

No you have to play the first one first and you can't come to the second one until you've done all your ubers.

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