A Massive Path of Exile 2 Q&A with Jonathan and Mark - The Beta Reveal Postshow

A monumental QnA chat with Mark and Jonathan about the Path of Exile 2 beta reveal - we discuss everything from how the beta is going to work to the endgame, skills, new ascendancy trials and way too much more. GREAT PoE 2 GUIDES:    • PATH of EXILE 2: How to ASCEND with NO SKI...      • PATH of EXILE 2: How to Trade PROPERLY - T...   Endgame Reveal (Watch First):    • Path of Exile 2: Endgame Content Reveal   Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - End game being added early 3:30 - Competing against yourselves? 5:50 - "What was that initial pitch regarding PoE 2?" (Project Chimera) 10:40 - "How do you feel getting everything out there, and being 2 weeks away from everyone playing it?" 13:00 - "How long are we going to be playing for?" 19:20 - "Beta release roadmap?" 23:25 - "What do you guys want out of the beta?" 26:00 - Flasks 28:50 - Mana flasks and Mana solving 31:30 - "what is the plan for PoE 1 during this beta?" 35:39 - Talk about story and cinematic 36:40 - Making second playthroughs not annoying 38:36 - The Beast cinematic conversation 40:00 - Character lore 41:30 - Bosses/characters changing dialogue/attacks based on its lore/your abilities/class 43:30 - lcons text lore 44:25 - Area subtitle text lore 45:30 - Shadow ascendancy class 46:18 - Tattoos added to classes/how abilities interact with ascendancy's 48:00 - "How do you ascend?" 50:30 - Jewels/end game choices 52:30 - "How hard is it to ascend?" 55:30 - Unique jewels, unique socketables, unique ??? (talk about rewards from trials) 57:20 - Vaal Orbs 1:00:40 - "What about ascendancy's themselves?" 1:04:20 - "The plan was to keep PoE 1 ascendancy's?" 1:06:00 - "how has the list of skills shaping up?" 1:14:15 - Support gems 1:18:00 - "Vaal skills, transfigured gems" 1:18:50 - "How many skills are there?" 1:21:40 - "Reworks to skin transfer?" 1:22:00 - End game (trials) 1:25:10 - "Everything has its own distinct passive tree?" 1:27:20 - "Breach nodes 'increase' difficulty? What does that mean?" 1:30:55 - "Encourage players to adapt build to harder content?" 1:33:45 - Atlas talk 1:37:35 - Min maxing the Atlas 1:40:20 - aesthetics/Atlas lore (extra dimensional in PoE 1) 1:41:08 - "Non-boss maps?" (1 in 4 maps are boss maps) 1:43:25 - boss hunting tree 1:46:00 - Random stuff in the Atlas tree, smaller stuff 1:47:00 - anymore leagues/alt grinds planned? Delve/ Vaal/Incursion/Bestiary 1:49:00 - any leagues planned for beta? Crafting: 1:49:29 - Crafting (scouring removed) (higher drop rates) 1:53:30 - regal orbs 1:55:00 - crafting bench 1:57:30 - crafting complexity and tier items 1:59:40 - exploration to find items 2:02:20 - Trading and Economy 2:04:50 - expanding trade to other things? 2:05:40 - "What are you aiming for in terms of PoE 2 economy and progression?" 2:08:45 - "Will there be a penalty for individual party member dying when grouping?" 2:13:40 - Click to move vs. WASD 2:15:30 - Challenge rewards? Races? Private league? 2:16:13 - Cluster jewels? 2:17:00 - "What is the best class to play in the beta?' 2:19:30 - wrapping up Thank you ‪@readifdumb‬ for the timestamps! #pathofexile #pathofexile2 #poe