Path of Exile 2

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ahh that's really good to know. so the raven-touched shard perminantly burns out a socket, but then makes the helmet able to be anointed using the standard method?

i wonder if it burns out both sockets on a corrupted helmet....or if corrupted helmet prevents anointing. hmm

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Na just one socket, the shard is "socket bound" meaning you can't remove it once it's in there, and yeah it makes the item annointable normally. There's also 4 uniques that can roll it but these are very build dependant, like the cull gloves. There's also double annoint amulets but these cost a fortune if you want 2 good ones so...

So how different is the game versus the first one? I'm finally about to finish up act 10 in the original, and the game's been fun, but there's some really annoying stuff, like suddenly exploding from some mystery attack that you can't even tell hits you. I'm sure my goofy build isn't optimized, but I don't really know how things start to scale as you get closer towards the end.

It just definitely seems that it's very new player friendly, which isn't bad and I'm having fun messing around with stuff, but there's definitely a learning curve, especially with crafting. I mangled a couple of deals and ruin some things over the course of leveling just not knowing stuff.

Biggest thing is I wanted to just kind of cut my teeth on it because I figured a lot of stuff would transfer over to the second one systems wise, or am I wrong about that?