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[nenjin]

One thing that slightly disappoints me about this game is the reuse of abilities for enemies. The vast majority of enemies use the same skills as players. It only slightly detracts from their uniqueness, but it makes the game seem less interesting to me and more formulaic. I tend to dislike teh "one size fits all" method of design, where you reuse everything so you get your money's worth out of it. I hope they invest in their enemies a bit more to give them some extra zazz.

[aristabulus]

In-setting, skills are bestowed by gems, there's no reason why the bad guys shouldn't also have access to them.  It also ties in with threat cognition... The bad guys are using the same things to pwn you as you use to pwn them, so all you need to see is what skill they're using, and you know exactly how deep in the shit you are.  (very deep, most of the time)

As for the gamedev angle, GGG has been laboring with a small handful of people for most of the years prior to OB.  As I understand it, the staff didn't really expand until the last year or so prepping for OB, and it's still a small team in the grand scheme.  They don't have Blizzard's war chest.  They're just NZ indies making a thing.

[nenjin]

Oh I get the reasons. I simply don't like them. Threat recognition seems like a weak justification for it, especially since you'll learn to recognize other abilities just as quickly. I get sick of seeing the same abilities used everywhere in the game, period. I've seen a few non-boss enemies that do unique things, and I'm hoping for more that in the future. PoE has some issues with feeling generic already, and to me making every enemy based on skills and support gems the players are already intimately familiar with is rather boring.

[aristabulus]

So...  There's a big patch getting deployed today.  It's a whole bunch of stuff, so I'll just link to the announcements.

The verbose news post about the major changes can be found here.

The terse patch notes can be found here.

[Aklyon]

Quite a lot of stuff indeed. Debating whether or not to jump back in though; my computer can't really handle anything in Act 3 even at my reduced standards.

[PrimusRibbus]

The new challenge leagues sound fun, but I REALLY burnt out on PoE shortly after finishing Normal.

[Levi]

I liked that Path of Exile is one of the only two games I've ever seen that do F2P in a way that doesn't offend me, and I like how interesting the skill/item/stats system worked.  I found the actual gameplay pretty tedious though. 

Might just not be my kind of game though.

[nenjin]

Glad to hear about the rebalancing. Act 3 Cruel was just getting way too brutal, getting one shot every couple of minutes basically killed our play through.

[aristabulus]

Glad to hear about the rebalancing. Act 3 Cruel was just getting way too brutal, getting one shot every couple of minutes basically killed our play through.

Yeah, some of the noisier people in PoE's General Discussion have been using "Path of Life Nodes" as a pejorative.  Based on my own experiences, I can't really argue with it.  In spite of grabbing every node I could (with a Marauder) and favoring +life gear when possible, I kept running into a brick wall in Act 1 Merciless, just not enough HPs to quickly defeat an average mob.  Act 3 Cruel wasn't a cakewalk either; lots of strategic running through areas, and picking my battles.  Finishing Cruel was a huge meat-grinder, died dunno how many times.  (Hardcore, with all those lag spikes?  Hah!  Fuhgeddaboudit.)

Before these changes were announced, I was considering a hiatus until winter.  I suppose whether I do that depends on the details of how much the passives really changed.

[Aklyon]

Hello again, thread. So, it seems PoE is going out of beta now (on October 23rd, US time not NZ), and with it, a bunch of added things. Here's an interview which seems to have most of it, but have a summaryish post anyway, since the thread had died for a bit.

-Scion class - Unlockable class, dead center of the passives tree. Daughter of a corrupt noble.
-More skills, including a couple that make white items useful (or magics, or rares, or if you're far too wealthy, uniques!)
-Act 3X, the extended and more properly finished version of Act 3. More lore and boss and areas and other nifty things like that.
-PVP that is not duels. (race-like tournaments and capture the flag)
-Guilds
-Apparently going to be on steam

[aristabulus]

I'm still playing a bit, but that's been erratic, schoolwork permitting....  And the 1.0 patch is landing during midterm week. 

My hardware is still on the fence for running the client well, so I won't be up for co-op, but I'm able to do some light trading for low level twink gear.

[Rose]

I'm quite excited for this, and will be willing to try coop with anybody that wants.

[nenjin]

Glad to see this is finally heading to release. Haven't played much since the difficulty nerf to Cruel, but what I did play I enjoyed as usual.

[Aklyon]

I'd be willing to do coop as well, but I've been waiting until I had a computer that doesn't require a party to lag through the Act 2 normal boss into Act 3 to play it more than occasionally.

[aristabulus]

Patch notes for 1.0.0 have been posted.  Patch goes hot about 10am tomorrow (US West Coast / GMT-7).  No word on the DL size, but I'm guessing 2-3 GB.

The one big thing to discuss here would be the guild additions, which are quoted under the fold...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Features - Guilds:

We've added Guilds! To create one, use the Social screen. Guilds can initially hold 30 members, but more slots can be purchased.

There are three membership tiers - Leader, Office and Member. Leaders can change permissions. Officers can invite people to the guild.

There's a guild chat channel (bound to the & symbol). It spans across leagues.

Powerful guilds can obtain tags that appear next to their members' names in chat. This requires sacrificing a set of end-game Maps, each of which corresponds to a letter or symbol in the tag. Tags are unique and some symbols are much rarer than others.

You can purchase Premium Guild Stash Tabs which allow you to store your guild's wealth. You can set permissions for different tiers of members to view, add items and remove items.

Guild purchases are handled by the guild leader. Players can visit their guild page on pathofexile.com to donate points to their guild.

Guild Challenges are coming very soon!

So, anyone interested in doing a PoE B12 guild?  I'm still on fire with schoolwork, but I think I'll be a little better off in a week or two, once the mid-term squeeze is done.