Heisen_WW: No endgame changes is the biggest pain for me ;(

RandomTraveler69: I still think they need to reduce the overall power of gears and increase power of notes on skill tree. Leveling up doesn’t mean much because gears overshadow everything.

njannjan3: Endgame is like the shelf in your house that you had been planning to fix since last autumn, but…

mihai.abrudan: Another big winner I think is the arbiter. He got the abitility to make tablets rare locked behind beating him and also Morior Invictus got some good buffs.

Super_Seaton: Well the game is just unfinished. We still need like 2 acts and many classes, subclasses and weapons.

anthonysnyder18: Honestly, if they say the endgame changes aren’t ready I’m good to sit back and let them cook, as long as they give me something to snack on in the meantime. I trust GGG (which is something I can’t say about 90% of the other game studios), I know whatever they do, when it’s done, will be worth the wait. I’d rather them push something when it’s done, then rush something out to please random streamers and sweaty gamers. Quality is key

madzaisa: I'm pretty sure that if their endgame changes were ready, they would push those in. It sucks that they aren't, but i really doubt it's because their "focus is wrong". And if they have the whole league mechanics ready, but endgame changes are not, it says more about magnitude of those changes or/and that GGG don't want to split those changes into different patches.

michanidzinski7225: Everything they did in this patch is great for the game. What hurts me is the things that they didnt do. I couldnt care less about instiling maps and crafting them in the well, so for me they did not touch end game at all :/

WuRaidr: Smith of Kitava getting immunity to crit and damaging ailments pretty crazy

InkDevil999: I wouldn't be surprised if the incursion room that can modify your body parts can give an alternative ascendancy for the bloodmage or something. That or maybe we can bathe in the blood pool Atziri has.

liamhendricks8782: Damn I came here to see what the comments would say

sabat3332: the whispering ice gains 3 cold spell skills level and 60% exposure (prev 30%)

kooplip: man both game is suffering, pls expand ur team ggg i understand its not easy

junk3996: i also think one of the biggest winners is herald of blood/bursting plague interaction

no mention of that being nerfed or changed so that herald of blood can't poison or bleed and visa versa. so this interaction will still be on the table to get amazing clear on basically any build that can use physical damage

of course monster density is going to be going down 40%, but maybe a focus on pack size will actually become a thing now that all those monsters will be getting a 40% increase in drops

sirrubbers5797: Minion players took about a 20% hit losing ants. Rest of minions pretty much suck and or have the worst visual clarity of any build in game. Also losing ralakesh soulcore (limit 1) is a huge hit to minion endgame build

eepopgames2741: "Placing a new league mechanic ahead of solving the core of the game"

I agree it is the core of the game for me, you, and probably everyone who watches this video. But I think thats a lot less of the core for the mass market folks that have entered PoE2s ecosystem. I think some of the confusion for us is going to be that we don't see what those other players want as clearly as GGG might.

Also, Jonathan mentioned a few times that a fair bit of the league mechanic came from him working on an idea he was particularly passionate about in his off hours. I don't know that we can reasonably expect to be able to direct what work he does in overtime.

And even then, the endgame rework seems to be much more of a Mark thing anyway. What we really probably got instead of the PoE 2 endgame rework was probably the druid and additional support gems, the 90 updated skills, and the passive tree changes. And probably also some amount of PoE 1 balance changes, Foulborn uniques, and Bloodline Ascendancies.

I tend to agree that for me, I would have also preferred the endgame rework to the Vaal stuff, but I just don't think that was ever really a realistic thing they were deciding between.

willlyle8027: Gotta love the big ego "I predicted this!" at the end of the video xD

who681: Xophs blood got an absolutely massive buff for blacksmith.

Rain1: It's a ritualist league by the way.

With the nerfs to amount of rarity you can get on your gear, and the fact that negative rarity farm exists, ritualist is king.

MasterRisto: To be fair they stated they don't care about retention, they just want people to come back and check in each league. As this is also a free week start I'm sure this is an end of the year numbers boosting move. They will get a large amount of people logging in to play druid and new people due to free weekend. After that they don't really care because they will have the new league start metrics to report on. Closing out the end of the year metrics for their business.

CharlyLPride: Morior Invictis getting juicy buffed too is a pleasure.

stevensirrell517: How did smith of kitava not make it in to the buffs for you?

stephencorwin9776: Worth noting that The Covenant can now be added to the list of ways to get life overflow. With this patch, it now gives you the ability to collect Life Remnants even when not a blood mage.

grimmjowthepantera: Fangs of frost , Glacial Lance and Primal strike im happy. :)

bencook3453: babe wake up new dream core video

norbertrezz: i was really hyped by all the changes made,but really dissapointed by not making too much for endgame,especially the atlas tree skill being ignored!

Dec 08 2025

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