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Info from the Path of Exile 2 Developer interview with GGG Jonathan by @DarthMicroT and @GhazzyTV - You can ascend in a party - Rarity not only affects regular item rarity like magic vs rare vs unique, it also affects currency (more rarity = more rare types of currency drops) and ALSO affects the ranges of tiers of affixes that roll on items (!) - Loot filters supported confirmation ✅ - First classes to be added to Early access past the initial 6 will be the Huntress and Druid (Druids will have 3 "primary" forms) - Blight is a "relatively easy" league to add to PoE 2 in the future, it's possible that it'll come back - 8 ascendancy points confirmed - Endgame "juicing" is important - EA characters will stay in 'Early Access league', this is not Standard - Righteous Fire confirmed to exist, but not ready yet - There is a failsafe in place (full atlas reset) if you brick every map in a way to no longer be able to progress in any direction on the atlas - Maps being able to be failed means they can be more rewarding. You can't just "corpse run" a rewarding encounter - You really don't want to fail maps surrounding Pinnacle bosses! - Biomes give possibilities of target farming - Untainted Paradise (600%+ XP map) spawns in a corner of a forest + beach biome. There are other "unique" maps like this which players will have to figure out the spawn conditions for - Johnathan is open to adding short races like in early POE 1. Unfortunately it doesn't bring in new players - Gem quality exists, but it's an endgame thing - Any class can ride the 'ranger' Rhoa mount, but it's only an advantage to the Ranger (shoot arrows while moving at normal speed). They don't want mounts to be a "requirement" to just go faster - Crafting bench got cut, might return as and endgame thing. Lots of design problems with it - Can only use 1 Omen at a time. Would be too powerful to combine multiple - Atlas is personal, doesn't share in group - Skills granted by items ARE supportable with support gems 🤯 - Monke exists 🐒 - Jade form is more controllable than one would expect, you can cancel it early etc. - Time stop does not freeze your friends - Spectres not in EA (yet) but there is something that "took their design space" - Dual Wielding sometimes alternates weapons, sometimes merges the damage of both weapons into one damage packet. Skill dependent - Golems not in the game (yet) - Strongboxes opening will be MUCH faster than showed in the announcement stream - Planned support to quick swap from PC UI to Controller UI. Not initially in EA - Ignite is 25% of the base hit, Ignite Magnitude is a multiplier on this value - Ultrawide monitor support exists, up to an unconfirmed number, black bars past that - Cyclone exists, on another class coming later in EA - Spell Totem exists, unclear if it's at the start of EA - No reflect map mod - In-game build planner in the works - There will be teasers leading up to EA launch!