Wraeclast feels weirdly crowded again, in a good way. I logged in expecting the usual “week-one fade,” but the towns are still noisy and the instance list keeps rolling. It helps that the game’s finally behaving on my rig too—less stutter, fewer random spikes, and I’m not dreading every big pack. If you’re the kind of player who likes getting a build online fast, I’ve even seen folks casually mention u4gm poe currency while they’re theorycrafting in chat, which tells you how serious the pace feels right now.
The Druid Clicks
The Druid is the first new class in a while that actually changes how I route fights. It’s not that old “shift, wait, shift back” rhythm. You cast, you move, you swap, and it all keeps flowing. Human form for storms and setup, then a quick switch into a beast when the screen fills up. The bear and wolf forms feel like tools instead of gimmicks, and the Wyvern is just… stupid fun. You’re over the pack, dropping fire, then you land and keep going. Rage also makes sense now; you feel it build, you spend it, you notice the difference.
Fate of the Vaal Is a Trap—in the Best Way
The league mechanic, Fate of the Vaal, looks simple until you mess up your first layout. It’s basically a DIY temple where room placement matters, and yeah, you’ll end up staring at adjacency bonuses like you’re doing homework. But it’s the good kind of homework. You start planning two steps ahead: do I chase rewards, do I stabilize the run, do I gamble on corruption? I’ve bricked temples by being greedy, then hit a run that pays out and suddenly I’m queuing “one more” like it’s 2 a.m. again. And seeing Queen Atziri back as a pinnacle fight is pure nostalgia—right up until she deletes you for missing a beat.
Fixes, Balance, and the Economy Rush
Launch day wasn’t flawless for me. A couple crashes, some weird temple entry bugs, the usual early chaos. But the fast hotfixes mattered, and the follow-up balance pass cleaned up a lot of sketchy scaling. Armour feels less like a placebo, and the game’s less eager to turn random trash into a one-shot machine. Trading is also wild right now. People are flipping, crafting, hoarding, panic-selling—everything at once. If you’re not grinding all night, you feel the gap faster, so it’s no surprise some players look for shortcuts, including grabbing poe2 cheap divine to skip the slowest part and get back to actually playing the build they wanted.