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This reminds me: But yea, when I imagine assassin carrying around a giant two-hander to sneak up and backstab people with it I can't help but giggle. Sad giggle when I play POE ...

I mean, they have one of the most powerful passives in the game in Sneak Attack, and you could just multiclass to those classes to get access to those passives It is potentially powerful, good luck actually reliably proccing it with a single class without dying and rest spamming, because rogue's abilities for what they do have too high cost. Other single classes do reliably more damage overall and survive, so those few potential high dps attacks of a rogue don't do much for the party. Multiclass rouge, on the other hand, is a whole other story - it's great. I don't know what can be done to single class rogue to make it more appealing without making multiclass too OP, but as it is I find it too weak. Maybe single classes should have some extra passive ability that beefs them up, but I doubt devs will put anything extra so late.

Cool. I'd guess they are people who are pro-giant statue Eothas given the name. You know it. People see weird unexplainable stuff in the world, good chance is they gonna start worshiping organizations around it. All in all it's good to see so many factions in the game, but I gotta say I don't particularly like that UI and all those disposition icons are still confusing af in dialogues. I preferred it much better in POE1 when it was plain text that told me exactly what it was.

Blue upside down crown = Principi Crossed Cannons = Royal Deadfire Company Set of Scales = Vailian Trading Company The "ninja star" over waves = Huana Snake = mysterious fifth faction Not sure what the symbols above of the factions represent. The symbols below the companions represent dispositions. Royal Deadfire Company - that's Rauatai, right? For factions with small icons: I think the black one with snake jaw is Hand Occult, maybe? Or maybe it is the big one with the snake? Five Suns in a circle obviously something Vailian Republic-y. Purple with three stars is probably this. Eothas related? Night Market? Dunno about the hands holding a lightbulb(?) though.

Can somebody give me a rundown of all these factions icons? Which is which? I don't recognize like half of them.

Gotta say I'm sad rogue is so subpar single classed compared to other classes. Devs wrote previously they'll look into to it, but nothing much came out of it by the looks of it. Still too squishy, still too much hassle for a chance at good hit while other classes do it without a sweat. If this gonna stay the way it is I don't see a real point in playing that single class. I doubt high level abilities will suddenly make a superman out of it and in any case it's not enjoyable playing in low levels. Maybe it needs the cost of abilities to be lower, maybe more potent penetration abilities, dunno, something to give it more edge. I like what they did for the wizards though, even single classed without a subclass it does good damage and plays smooth.

Yea, it's a shame that passives are basically the same across the board for all classes. I'd hoped for more uniqueness for each class, but I guess it's all stuffed in the active abilities, which aren't new either, for the most part. So basically, we got what we had in POE1 with minimal innovation, stacked in a different looking interface for better progression planning, that's all .

But multiclasses gain benefits from both classes, in some combos they are very powerful even without extra abilities.

Josh Sawyer confirmed in the last stream that wood elves having beards in POE2 beta is indeed a bug. Can you please fix this:

Getting back to this discussion: in the last stream I got my question answered - wood elves having beards is indeed a bug. So if you take a custom portrait of bearded half-elf into POE2 that's still wrong lore wise.

Lore/appearance question: In POE1 it was established that only pale elves could have beards, for wood elves facial hair options were disabled. Why then in POE2 beta wood elves can have beards? Is it a retcon or something you forgot to disable?

According to this Josh's tumblr post about Deadfire changes single class rogues are rather weak dps-ers compared to other classes and/or combinations of classes. Will single class rogues get a buff for some of their abilities, or two ability points per level for single classes across the board is all they gonna get?

They're not wrong though, this is bad. All 3 of the tracks. But I guess those people who complained that POE1 combat music was borderline plagiarism of BG combat music will be pleased, new tracks are sure...different.

Not sure what people didn't like about POE soundtrack, I found it quite lovely and fitting to set the right atmosphere. There were quite a few good tracks there but my favorite was this: Set the somber and mysterious tone for the story right off the bat. But I'm sure since we're going to tropical pirate infested islands in POE2 the soundtrack will be more lively. I've even seen shanties available when you're sailing your ship in the beta .

That'd be cool but I somehow doubt it. Still, I think something spoilery is going on there. Yeah they probably won't do that. However I do think it is possible that companions have different portraits which changes based on what happened in the game. For example during certain quest some of your companion might lose an eye, so in the rest of the game he/she will have an eye-patch on. Yea, that's plausible, could be good for reactivity. Also, check this out, somebody asked the right question: https://jesawyer.tumblr.com/post/172422159216/hey-you-deleted-the-companion-portrait-directory

That'd be cool but I somehow doubt it. Still, I think something spoilery is going on there.

Browsed through the portraits folders again after the new beta release - companions folder now is suspiciously empty. Perhaps some of them are being redrawn?

I recall them saying it somewhere that single class rogue was underwhelming. Now that we have two ability points for single classes across the board, isn't single class rogue still underwhelming compared to other single classes? Is that gonna be it, or some classes will get buffs to some abilities?

Everyone talks about mechanics improvements while I'm simply glad that more hair color options got added and some heads got rid of the rash dots HUD improvements look nice too. As for mechanics, I'm not deep into them but having two abilities per level for single classes does feel better.

And what's more, expect some of your decisions be bugged in POE2, because it's very common in games where you import your save. For example, in BioWare there wasn't a single Dragon Age or Mass Effect game sequel where all decisions imported correctly. Thankfully, most of them were patched later on. And in the end their Dragon Age Keeper portal was a more elegant solution to save importing. Therefore I may actually consider choosing everything from scratch in POE2 instead of importing my save, especially considering that devs already said that differences between choosing from scratch and importing will be insignificant.

Also, I'm not sure why they're doing this questionnaire. Haven't they pointed out numerous times through their comments that they already have all that data, at least from those people who were playing online? Wouldn't it be better to just release that more accurate data instead of putting a questionnaire where people can pick whatever?

Check the results, so many people picked this one! EDIT: https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-83FTDGN58/ Well, what people chose doesn't necessarily equal to what they did in the game. And there is also no such option here: https://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/Sacrificial_Bloodlines

What what what? Yea, that wasn't an option anywhere. Perhaps a trigger bug?

And the drugs, don't forget the drugs. You can even play as a drug using monk . Add to that naked butts, alcohol, violence with gibs and sexual themes and you got yourself a solid M for mature. And that's how it should be .

Cool trailer but I didn't like the music. It's too epic and not like in the first game at all. I hope it's just for the trailer.