HaillieJade007: Have to stay this season has been a stable start.

No lag, no dcing.

Smooth.

ZachoZub: sirgog thumbnail with no generative AI? huge w

Dragon211: This is perfect because I alway start the league late waiting for videos like this. I can only make one character and I want to make sure that the build actually performs well because things can get changed last minute.

Unbaked89: 75% of the meta is playing the right side of the tree. Wild.

Azonavox: I was SUPER happy to find there are three types of gargantuan wasp! G wasp, Star Harvester, and Plague Harvester. All count as different mobs, and all benefit from Muster. It’s been great! One handles stun, one handles pure DPS, one handles debuff effects. It’s fantastic! I thought minions was dead because of Infernal Legion being gutted, but it’s decent! Endgame in a single day. :)

retekretekretek: I was away for the weekend and couldn't start yet, nice timing gog!

EKEnjoyer: When will they fix loot filter sounds? I saw for many people including me have no loot filter sounds for filter blade

Alan157: Not an AI thumbnail? thanks

kapistar1: Thanks for that. Any chance we could have a short clip showcasing playstyle of each build in the future? Knowing data is nice, but actually seeing how the build plays would help me choose so much more.

scire105: Great video! Love the meta recaps

So. Though.

I think chronomancer landed, the problem is skill balance. All the builds that chronomancer can do well at are known factors, they aren't shiny and they aren't bad but neither are spectacular.

Gemling has the problem of not really solving defenses in any real way and competing with two great ascendancys that make you borderline unkillable very fast. On top of qualities being an unknown factor.

AlucardNoir: got 5 hours in the first day, only one crash before the great bug that stopped the few of us who got the first hotfix early from playing but then it was smooth sailing. Can't say the same for today. Barely got 4 hours in, a lot more instability despite the far more numerous hotfixes... almost like they're breaking more than fixing. Glad you at least had a good start.

OH, and I've been having issues with my controller, for some reason the game now auto connects to my mouse and keyboard and needs me to move to controller from the options menu each restart. Really annoying, especially after the seamless last league.

divinityai: I'd say martial artist is harder than ranged focused classes (I know you can play bow martial artist but it's not really the big amount anyway).

Playing melee on leaguestart is harder in general due big amount of the on-death effects and gear matters alot more for melee to survive. Monks never were the early tanks (10k es versions from prev patches doesn't matter at league start scenario).

sombrego2260: It's sad to see how melee feels as per usual super clunky and frustrating to play.

It's not unplayable, but boy is it objectively way worse than any ranged build. I tried to play monk with a warrior friend between the hitbox detection of allies and the dash being buggy af it was a nightmare to do anything I immediatelly learned Hollow Form to use clones from a distance because being in melee was just so frustrating.

I really hope they fix melee combat for 1.0 because range feels great but there's still a good third or half of the base weapon skills in the game that are clunky and never used.

I mean look at the spear. Nothing of the "intended" gameplay is done beyond twister whirling assault. Nobody ever uses parry, disengage or all that BS past level 10.

brooksp1191: Maces dead last once again...

wessredd7237: Love these videos. I'm contributing to the spear spirit walker lol. I played twisters before and knew it would be a good LS. But my plan is ritualist with all the crazy ring buffs. But I gotta get rich first :P

godlymajins: Thanks my brother ~ Always a treat to catch your early season analysis.

I don’t know why some folks are so wrapped up with the meta. Each league I play off meta and do my own thing. I start off slower but usually fully min max my character faster than most of the serious player base. Just play what you like people. It’s a game so have fun and stop worrying!

Edit - no knock on the meta analysis though. These analytics are important to track trends.

adamlevi9295: I love the way you covered this. It feels like watching the news

But for poe2 and it’s all data driven

Meinacci: I am pretty sure the reason why Martial Artist drops off in Maps is because bell and locus is bugged against bosses. You cant detonate the locus nor shock/freeze/ignite the tempest bell in boss arenas. that severely hinders boss damage and therefore progressing in endgame.

ShadowoftheDarkgod: Gawddamn, hitting those bells with Hollow Palm is so infuriating.

GoreMyst09: Just a friendly thing on your methodology (since you are of the quality to share it in the first place).

Are you concerned about misjudging if Martial Artists are struggling rather than the majority of us just being slow? As in, not hitting a wall at 50-70, but that's where the majority's playtime left them, regardless of class? Just a thought I had while watching - I'm playing WH grenades but I'm also like level 55 - smooth league start but lower playtime.

If you read this far bless you, awesome content love the channel

owlmostdead9492: Did anyone notice they nerfed dodge, now you can’t dodge through small enemies anymore.

Very annoying for my grenade build.

DJDeckardCain: They have something going on with their actual code.

You can see it constantly recaching shaders. And it’s using more ram than usual. It’s not even an internet issue, you can see the video card going to 0% usage and then back up after it loads shaders.

This has nothing to do with isp.

Swervbe: If they change the obnoxiously awful sound effects of Entangle, Plant Mage may be playable.

martinzyka6432: Man why they dont change darkness on acolyte, its been there since the start, no one has ever played it. Are they trolling? They keep releasing ascendanvies when a tgird of the existing ones straight up suck

Eas_Planeswalker: Can't count the instances the game frooze and l end up dead when it unfreezes...

Brotection_: Plants isn't particularly strong but it's good enough, tanky, and fun. Minions are arguably better right now for disciple but who the hell wants to play minions?

VelvetSky1102: im contributing to 0.5% ppl who play Chonk

Jun 01 2026

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