Path of Exile - Page 40

On August 17 2011 19:29 papaz wrote:
How many abilities will each class have?

Since the people streaming often is low level I only get to see like 2 abilities being spammed over and over again.

Anyone in higher level can say something about this?

On August 17 2011 19:52 iCanada wrote:


As someone who has been "dying" to get into the beta you'd think you'd have read about how all skills are based on Gem that you socket into things. The difference in Classes is simply how they develop their stats.

Technically any class can wear any item, and use any skill.

On August 17 2011 19:52 iCanada wrote:


As someone who has been "dying" to get into the beta you'd think you'd have read about how all skills are based on Gem that you socket into things. The difference in Classes is simply how they develop their stats.

Technically any class can wear any item, and use any skill.

On August 17 2011 20:21 carpola wrote:


This is true. Once you get farther, you'll figure out your particular style of play and choose a few skills that revolve around that. I am a templar (strength/intelligence) and I chose to go a more melee-driven path. I use a melee attack skill that adds fire damage and an explosion (Infernal Blow), Leap Slam, Freezing Pulse for some ranged control, Endurance Cry for some buffs.

I believe with an upcoming patch, and maybe the one this Friday, there will be greater differentiation between classes as I shared a similar concern to you all.


As for gems, Chris (lead designer) said he won't be satisfied until at least 100 gems are put into the game.

On August 17 2011 17:19 NotSorry wrote:
Worse thing I would say is that the monster AI is pretty weak, making it near impossible to die unless you're just not paying attention or have are lost staring at the massive skill graph page. They group up perfectly to be aoe'd and get stuck on walls alot.

On August 17 2011 4:01AM Path of Exile wrote:
Hi Puphy,
Welcome to the Path of Exile Beta!

At the moment we're scaling the beta based on the rate that we can handle people's feedback. It's currently way too much feedback (duplication of the same problems reported), so there's no need to scale it further (though we'll keep giving out keys, of course). We expect it'll be substantially larger over the next few months.

On August 17 2011 23:24 Serejai wrote:


Just to reassure everyone, it looks like this beta will be lasting a while so if you can't get in currently you'll most likely be able to get in at some point in the next few months.

This company is actually using their beta to, *gasp*, test their game and get feedback. As such, they're not simply flooding it with a bunch of people the way other betas such as StarCraft II did (which was only a beta for marketing, and not feedback).

So, I count this as a blessing. It means the devs are more focused on quality at the moment, and hopefully that line of thinking will continue.

On August 18 2011 04:41 FliedLice wrote:
yay, key
meh, no time atm

On August 18 2011 05:01 trainRiderJ wrote:

Actually, the Starcraft 2 beta served a HUGE purpose both towards balancing the game as well as testing an entirely brand new game engine and online gaming platform (they didn't just throw the "2" on the end of Battle.net for grins).