Skills viability

One thing i hate about PoE 1 is that you can't really start a playthrough without selecting one of the "meta" skills which is starting to seep into PoE 2 a little with every patch.
What is nice in games like Grim Dawn, D2, Last Epoch and even D4 is that till at least end game you can play with any skill you like as all of them are equally supported by the game (gearing etc.).
Would it be possible to dedicate one patch so that more skills are viable at least through the acts?
Right now your choice of skill can put you in position of doing 5k dmg with fully geared character and fully supported skill which when changed to one of the meta skills puts you into 10x damage with no extra effort.

I pretty much never level with the meta gems and have no problem making it to end game and clearing all content with off meta build in PoE 1, really don't agree with that take.
In PoE 2 the skills are not balanced to the same extent yet though. Combined with the early acts being over tuned it makes it worse.

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I pretty much never level with the meta gems and have no problem making it to end game and clearing all content with off meta build in PoE 1, really don't agree with that take.
In PoE 2 the skills are not balanced to the same extent yet though. Combined with the early acts being over tuned it makes it worse.

Same. It's worse for new players.

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One thing i hate about PoE 1 is that you can't really start a playthrough without selecting one of the "meta" skills which is starting to seep into PoE 2 a little with every patch.

That's because PoE1 leveling meta is pretty much solved and spread around by now.

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Right now your choice of skill can put you in position of doing 5k dmg with fully geared character and fully supported skill which when changed to one of the meta skills puts you into 10x damage with no extra effort.

So in other works, we have diffrent skills for diffrent means. Is that your complaint? :? I can't help but imagine you trying to make Contagion a main damaging skill while it exists to spread around curses and Chaos DoTs.

Also, coming from Permafrost/Fragmentation Shot player: tooltip DPS is lying, PoB is lying, only boss' health going down is not lying. :)