The developer staff on this indie title is going to make their game available in 20 hours or so: https://www.pathofexile.com/
I’ve been looking for something to replace the hole in my life that was Diablo II for me, this looks to be exactly what I’m looking for. It’s completely free, why not give it a whirl when it’s released to the public?
I played the weekend public beta test way back with a couple of friends, and we enjoyed it so much that we shelled out $15 each for closed beta access.
I highly recommend this game, I haven’t played an RPG that much since the first Diablo.
Going to try it out now, this looks like the game that Diablo 3 should have been.
Doesn’t look like the type of game I usually enjoy, but it’s free, so I guess I don’t have a reason not to try as soon as I get back to my regular PC.
Here I come 
Can’t create, 6 hours till player wipe
and BF3 is offline, FU-
This game is win, shits on D3.
Not really… I still like D2&D3 better, I know it’s just a beta, but something tells me that the term “gameplay balance” is unknown to them. Also I’m not fan of their passive/talent tree idea, neither of skill gemming and no gold ._.
You do realize gold became useless in D2 a long time ago right?
Sure I do, just like in D3 
but that’s not what I’m talking about, the whole “buy items from vendors for scrolls and orbs” is kinda weird.
Played for about 6 hours yesterday, so far pretty good, a few things though:
-Needs some sort of quick sell
-Portals close and instances reset/randomise if you spend too much time in town
-Bag room is a huge problem, depositing items straight to the stash would be cool
-No brightness control
-Quest objectives aren’t always relative to their location on the map, a bit annoying
-imo an instance should stay cleared unless you start a new character
Downloading the open beta now. This isn’t really my type of game but I feel like playing something like this.
Edit: I was in the closed beta, and when I open the client to download the open beta files it says it can’t connect to the patching server. It looks like the site is down too.
hold ctrl+left click
Their servers are overloaded. I expected this from them considering it’s a small time indie title.
@dotard, if it’s not your game, it’s not your game.
Honestly, I like the game and its concepts that’re added in. But I agree with ya, it’s no D2. But I’ll take what I can get.
I’ll be sure to rebuild my summoner on there with the highest breakpoints possible so I can pvp. Now if they had a fucking teleport skill…
The normal attacks feel kinda weak but I love the effects of the skillgems.
It certainly isn’t nearly up to the quality of Diablo 1 or 2, but Diablo 3 was painfully stupid so it’s nice to have an alternative to the butchering of the franchise
Question guys, dunno if it’s a development overlook or I’m missing something… but let’s say there’s a “cleave skill” gem and it’s to be used with weapons, but why can I socket it into armor as well? Can I use it that way? If not, shouldn’t it give some other bonuses as in D2 when the bonus was dependent on the given equipment piece? If neither that, then it’s pointless.
Skill gems give you skills. It doesn’t matter where they are placed. They don’t work like D2 gems.
I’m liking this!!! 
PoE is sucking my life away.
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