Path of Exile 2

I’m enjoying PoE2, but I still strongly prefer PoE1’s approach to character building. In PoE1, the socket system in weapons and armor gave you enormous flexibility. You could take one skill and keep layering mechanics onto it until it became something completely ridiculous and uniquely yours. A projectile could split, chain, ricochet, leech, trigger other effects, and the fun came from seeing how far you could push the system. The passive tree supported that same philosophy. I would often create entire “highways” of minor nodes just to reach a cluster or notable that genuinely changed how my build played. The small nodes were the cost of getting somewhere interesting, and the payoff usually felt worth it. In PoE2, I rarely feel that same incentive. A lot of supports feel less like upgrades and more like tightly controlled tradeoffs: more projectiles, but less damage; chain, but less damage; more speed, but another penalty somewhere else. The passive tree also feels much less rewarding to path across when the destination often amounts to another modest numerical increase instead of something that meaningfully changes the build. PoE1 felt like the game handed me a huge box of parts and said, “see what you can make.” PoE2 feels like it hands me the same box with a rulebook attached. I understand the balance philosophy, but for me that restraint comes at the cost of experimentation, build identity, and the sheer fun of creating something stupidly powerful and weird.

If your account gets stolen and banned they wont work with you. they'll just mark it "non appealable" and walk away. wasted my money supporting them early in this endeavor and buying pages in the first one.