Survivability, Performance, and General feedback on 0.2+0.3

Game stills runs bad on older hardware. CPU is maxing on r5 2600 (Looking at upgrading soon).

Last Epoch looks better and runs at a smooth 60fps on my old machine. Granted graphics settings on PoE 2 are set as low as they will allow. Think A-sync compute could be helpful for older hardware ?

I saw the trailer for 0.3 and decided to come back (since January) to make plans for League start.


0.3 W's
- Async trade
- Deflect
- Block now works for nearly everything
- New currencies (greaters)
- Chayula *FINALLY* getting a rework. Took you long enough. :P


0.2 & 0.3 L's

- Class balance seems all over the place, Deadeye looks like the strongest ascendancy in the game, and the most versatile (Nothing against Deadeye, I love Deadeye, and so will 90% of the community next league). Not asking for 1:1 balance. Make melee classes innately tanky and ranged classes innately bursty, more incentive to party up and work together.

- Still not enough defensive layers for mid to late game (without seeing the new passive nodes). One shots are too common and shouldn't happen, excluding Pinnacle Bosses, and 4th Ascendancy bosses. A single trash monster dealing physical damage below level can one-shot my Amazon in late game. Learn to math. Increase Mana and Life gains per level, add Life passive nodes, or nerf trash monster damage, or put a limit to damage dealt capping at a % to total HP from trash, or all of the above.

- Trials still suck. They're not fun. Tedious and Frustrating. They're also buggy in Co-Op, Elevators.. Disconnects ... Continuity ..

- Currency drop rate still feels way too low for baseline 0 Rarity of items, however it does seem slightly better since 0.1. Baseline Currency drops do not allow for crafting, better to trade them for items (typically, it is fun to get super lucky). Omens need to be way more common.

- Spirit gem drop rate feels extremely low, there's no reason it should be so low in the campaign when we're still limited on spirit.

- Movement speed still not a implicit modifier on boots? automatically thrown in the trash if they don't have this stat. Rhoa mount is cool but .. should it really cost spirit? Especially when Darkness Chayula can't use it?

- Downscaling in coop is too strong, my low level amazon does more lightning spear damage consistently throughout the campaign than a level 88 amazon geared for damage.