Path of Exile discussion

Agreed, I've also been loving your videos building the PoE2 hype!

Hopefully when the beta releases it's the whole package, not drip fed balance changes like past few leagues. For me it feels awful how they keep trying to "slow down" the players, but the enemies still have the same speed. And don't forget archnemesis, oh that was a shitshow.

I'm curious about that, too. A quick search shows it has never been referenced in PoE. I'm guessing it's an Egyptian-themed desert area with Vaal ruins inside, as the exile references Queen Atziri.

We'll see soon enough :)

Tough to say. There is supposedly going to be appearances for each ascendancy, but with how much new dialogue with different voices has been in this trailer and the prior, they might've done 7 new classes for the new campaign and the new ascendencies or have done a complete overhaul of the existing classes.

The ascendencies may also tie into the classes more, like how Chieftan fits into the Karui background, maybe this guy is a Maraketh version of the Chieftan or Templar with Maraketh themed ascendencies.

A year doesn't seem too likely; two teasers for mainstream attention seem to suggest a much closer availability date, especially coupled with exilecon being included in the teasers and GGG's implication that you want to leave for home pretty immediately after the convention. I'd expect the start of some kind of beta a month or two into the next league, with an aim to release for the winter league. Granted, that might just be wishful thinking on my part, but it seems a sensible way to capitalize on the hype they're building.