I havent seen much attention for this amazing game: Path of Exile

http://www.pathofexile.com/

So, its a ARPG thats based off Diablo 2. 

It has a skill system of Final Fantasy 7's materia. Armor has links on it and you can combine skill gems with support gems to give them different effects. I.E a gain life on hit AoE cleave skill with added fire dmg? No Problem. 

It has a talent tree system that is strictly passives, and based off Final Fantasy 10's sphere grid, except you can move ANYWHERE, not just a defined path. If that passive tree looks complicated and overwhelming, its probably because it is. 

Lastly, the game is completely free and not pay to win. It is currently in open beta with no more character wipes according to the devs. 

I have been playing this game for about a month and still having a blast with all the possibilities. Just trying to get the word out about it. Have not see much talk about this on these forums. 

I was having a lot of fun with it also, but I got burned out on it hard a couple of weeks ago and stopped playing it.

It's a great ARPG, but I've had enough of it for now.

Yep definitly a game that needs more attention. Been playing it non stop for a month. If you liked Diablo 2 or Titan quest you'll love this game.

I beat it on normal mode and started it on crushing(?) mode but it has some lag issues with its hit counters for me, plus I have two other buds I usually play with and we typically aren't all online at the same time.  However, it's a great ARPG, it's one of those F2P games I wholly endorse and hope a lot more people turn out to play it.

Me and 3 buddies are going to be starting it up soon.  I alredy put many hours into closed beta a year or two ago.  The game seems so promising.  I really like a lot of the ideas and presentation.

I really like the game, but I've been having a lot of issues with the lag.  I need way more responsiveness in my ARPG's, so until that's fixed I'll just put the game mostly on hold.. maybe play every once in a while.

Some aspects of the game I absolutely love. Other aspects seem really cheap and rushed (like the combat animations).Mcspanky37

/oos to fix lag

[QUOTE="Mcspanky37"]Some aspects of the game I absolutely love. Other aspects seem really cheap and rushed (like the combat animations).BPoole96

Thank you for telling me about this game, I will play it. :D

[QUOTE="BPoole96"][QUOTE="Mcspanky37"]Some aspects of the game I absolutely love. Other aspects seem really cheap and rushed (like the combat animations).Advid-Gamer

I was having a lot of fun with it also, but I got burned out on it hard a couple of weeks ago and stopped playing it.

It's a great ARPG, but I've had enough of it for now.

JohnFifteen12

Same. A few buddies and I played it a lot for about a week then just stopped.

I might not be able to speak for the majority but I think some of us are burnt out on ARPG's. :P Maybe if a developer brought in some sort of innovation to the genre, it might be interesting again. But then, you'll have people that want it to remain conventional.Elann2008

Check out my 2 links. The skill gems and passive tree add a level of complexity that is almost a entire other game in itself. The currency system, which is also the crafting system(you have to choose to upgrade your items or save the currency to use as trade)adds so many aspects to freshen up the genre. 

Its ok.  Just another generic and forgettable action RPG.  I played it for maybe 3 hours and got tired of it that quickly.  The environments are extremely boring and generic, plus they are randomly generated so they are different every 15 minutes or so which is annoying.  Enemies are what you would expect - your basic skeletons and creatures.  Combat is ok, really nothing different from any other ARPG.  

The only thing that this game does differently and even remotely interesting is the massive skill tree, and even that is deceiving when you dont' look at it closely.  The reason it is so huge is because it might have the same thing repeated over and over again 10 or more times (+ 10 to Dexterity).  It really isn't anything too special other than its size.  

Considering it is free you should definitely give it a try, but don't expect anything special.

Its ok.  Just another generic and forgettable action RPG.  I played it for maybe 3 hours and got tired of it that quickly.  The environments are extremely boring and generic, plus they are randomly generated so they are different every 15 minutes or so which is annoying.  Enemies are what you would expect - your basic skeletons and creatures.  Combat is ok, really nothing different from any other ARPG.  

The only thing that this game does differently and even remotely interesting is the massive skill tree, and even that is deceiving when you dont' look at it closely.  The reason it is so huge is because it might have the same thing repeated over and over again 10 or more times (+ 10 to Dexterity).  It really isn't anything too special other than its size.  

Considering it is free you should definitely give it a try, but don't expect anything special.

hoola

It is amazing. I was in the closed beta since last summer. It's just way too good. Can't get enough of it.

[QUOTE="Mcspanky37"]Some aspects of the game I absolutely love. Other aspects seem really cheap and rushed (like the combat animations).BPoole96

The devs have acknowledged that the animations are weak and stiff, and they're actively working on them. They get a little better with every new patch, on the way to "finished" status. The last patch from just a couple days completely changed all of the animations for the Duelist class (which is great because, pre-patch, the Duelist's animations were the worst by far). The drops definitely need some work, and they are getting it. Bunch of new stuff being added all the time. But, part of the game system relies on making good items out of bad ones. With all the consumable, item-altering orbs, you can make any plain white item into something much better. Some of my best items were originally dropped as plain, crappy, white items. After upgrading them to rare, and rerolling the stats a couple times, they're waaaaay better now.

[QUOTE="BPoole96"][QUOTE="Mcspanky37"]Some aspects of the game I absolutely love. Other aspects seem really cheap and rushed (like the combat animations).the_bi99man

The devs have acknowledged that the animations are weak and stiff, and they're actively working on them. They get a little better with every new patch, on the way to "finished" status. The last patch from just a couple days completely changed all of the animations for the Duelist class (which is great because, pre-patch, the Duelist's animations were the worst by far). The drops definitely need some work, and they are getting it. Bunch of new stuff being added all the time. But, part of the game system relies on making good items out of bad ones. With all the consumable, item-altering orbs, you can make any plain white item into something much better. Some of my best items were originally dropped as plain, crappy, white items. After upgrading them to rare, and rerolling the stats a couple times, they're waaaaay better now.

The game is not trying to be bardie doll dress house or pay2win. The Real money transactions are a means of supporting the devs who provide this game for free.

I couldn't get into it, I tried a few times, but there aren't enough waypoint portals and its really tedious having to clear the same levels over and over. The maps for the levels are also effing terrible. I'm bored easily by ARPG's in general though so my opinion likely isn't worth anything. 

The game does look very good though. 

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[QUOTE="BPoole96"] Yeah the animations definitely need some work. They also need to cut back on the amount of crap loot that drops. I'm level 35 in the game and constantly come across weapons/armor that wouldn't have been good when I was level 10BPoole96

The devs have acknowledged that the animations are weak and stiff, and they're actively working on them. They get a little better with every new patch, on the way to "finished" status. The last patch from just a couple days completely changed all of the animations for the Duelist class (which is great because, pre-patch, the Duelist's animations were the worst by far). The drops definitely need some work, and they are getting it. Bunch of new stuff being added all the time. But, part of the game system relies on making good items out of bad ones. With all the consumable, item-altering orbs, you can make any plain white item into something much better. Some of my best items were originally dropped as plain, crappy, white items. After upgrading them to rare, and rerolling the stats a couple times, they're waaaaay better now.

Yeah the real money store is barren right now. But that's also fixing to change. According to the website, they'll be continually adding new things. They'll never sell anything that gives an advantage in the game, since they want to avoid being pay2win, but there will eventually be a bunch of little cosmetic things. They mentioned dyes for coloring armor and weapons, weapon effects, altered skill/spell effects, altered animations, and some other things. They also said they might start  selling passive skill respec points, in case people run out of all the respec points they get from quests, and don't want to search for orbs of regret to respec.

[QUOTE="BPoole96"][QUOTE="the_bi99man"]

The devs have acknowledged that the animations are weak and stiff, and they're actively working on them. They get a little better with every new patch, on the way to "finished" status. The last patch from just a couple days completely changed all of the animations for the Duelist class (which is great because, pre-patch, the Duelist's animations were the worst by far). The drops definitely need some work, and they are getting it. Bunch of new stuff being added all the time. But, part of the game system relies on making good items out of bad ones. With all the consumable, item-altering orbs, you can make any plain white item into something much better. Some of my best items were originally dropped as plain, crappy, white items. After upgrading them to rare, and rerolling the stats a couple times, they're waaaaay better now.

the_bi99man

Yeah the real money store is barren right now. But that's also fixing to change. According to the website, they'll be continually adding new things. They'll never sell anything that gives an advantage in the game, since they want to avoid being pay2win, but there will eventually be a bunch of little cosmetic things. They mentioned dyes for coloring armor and weapons, weapon effects, altered skill/spell effects, altered animations, and some other things. They also said they might start  selling passive skill respec points, in case people run out of all the respec points they get from quests, and don't want to search for orbs of regret to respec.

Is it available on Steam? Then I might check it out. If not, as already sayed, it being tied to a server / basically an MMO type of server structure it makes it as well pretty unappealing to me, don't want to log in in this kind of games.

Is it available on Steam? Then I might check it out. If not, as already sayed, it being tied to a server / basically an MMO type of server structure it makes it as well pretty unappealing to me, don't want to log in in this kind of games.

Justforvisit

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Is it available on Steam? Then I might check it out. If not, as already sayed, it being tied to a server / basically an MMO type of server structure it makes it as well pretty unappealing to me, don't want to log in in this kind of games.

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