Path of Exile 2 has been out in early entry since December, and now that the preliminary hype has died down we’re all in form of a ready room till they add extra content material. In the meantime, GGG is working some smaller occasions to have interaction the neighborhood, and an early frontrunner for the sport’s worst class simply completely demolished the competitors in our first official race.
Path of Exile has lengthy supported official speedrunning occasions, and this primary occasion was an any% run to clear Act 3. There are two extra runs being held as nicely, on March 9 and March 16, so it is not too late to hitch within the enjoyable. The prime racer for every class will get a singular merchandise to mark their achievement, and the general winner for the ultimate race will get a laptop computer. Neat!
Clearing Act 3 took most of us over 10 hours when the sport first got here out, however Angormus cleared it in a blistering 2:28:37. This was forty minutes sooner than the second place finisher and made the remainder of the competitors appear like they had been standing nonetheless.
He did this on a Warrior, which has been maligned by many, together with myself, as Path of Exile 2’s worst class. Its lackluster clear pace, incapability to scale life with the passive tree, and dependence on armor as a defensive layer have made it final place on most gamers’ lists of greatest lessons. However, particularly for speedrunning the marketing campaign, it seems to be prime canine.
Angormus confirmed off unimaginable approach in the course of the run, making good use of a slick animation cancel that gamers have found over the course of PoE2’s first few months. If you launch right into a Rolling Slam, hitting Boneshatter after the primary hit will cancel the second assault. This helps you to out of the sluggish second animation, as a substitute hitting an enormous AE slam. This is particularly nasty for those who can put the primary monster you hit over 40% stun threshold, which lets the Boneshatter hit for much more injury in a bigger space.
Another notch within the cap for Warrior is the flexibility to make use of Leap Slam and Shield Charge to traverse nice distances when you get to Act 3. The remaining zone in Act 3 is stage 45, which implies gamers should be someplace round stage 28-30 to have the ability to kill the boss. You can obtain this stage on the finish of Act 2 nonetheless, which implies many of the remaining Act of the run turns into a race previous all of the monsters. Using the mace and protect journey abilities gave Angormus an enormous benefit within the remaining stretch, letting him open up a huge lead.
Finally, the RNG gods had been clearly on his aspect. His drops had been robust in the whole run, together with some early 15% motion pace boots, strong life and resists on his armor, and a singular belt off the chimera boss. The crown jewel was the completely monstrous 2H mace he acquired from a chest within the Dreadnought (open your chests, folks!) which dropped with assault pace. He aug’d a disgusting 67% elevated bodily injury, and snapped off the regal and three exalts sooner than the attention might see, leading to flat phys and flat chilly. Bonkers.
So possibly I used to be improper. Maybe, for speedrunning not less than, Warrior has an essential place within the Path of Exile 2 ecosystem and is not complete rubbish. I did have a superb time enjoying Palsteron’s Sunder Totem Titan, a construct that permit me completely demolish the Arbiter of Ash, so for those who’re in search of one thing to do with that Warrior you simply speedran by the marketing campaign, test it out.
