ghazzy interview

nerfing party play - less loot so its not abusive like in poe1
will still give "more" loot overall to make sense to group, i.e. 2x currency in a 2 man group

rarity now increases quality of loot, 5 tiers of loot, you can upgrade through them
first 5 tiers of loot open posibilities for extra loot, next 5 tiers tiers 5-10 increase tiers of loot
"well rolled rares"

loot filters will be in poe2, work exactly like in poe1
john hopes they wount be used to necissairly hide but to highlight things

next 2 classes will be druid and huntress
3 primarly forms for druid + other transforms in the rest of the game

starting part of the tree changes for each class ie which and sorc have slightly different starts
other classes would have different passives there

blight MIGHT be added in the future

still want juicing to be a thing
not to the level of poe1 but close
juice is substantual but doesnt know if it can happen every map or every few
will come down to trade economy

rf will live
"will be significantly different" when it comes to stats
gameplay it will be the same but scaling isint the same

can restart atlas if you brick it by enclosing yourself

encounters that if you accidentally miss will show up in the next area while leveling
will drop an important item to make sure you cant miss it

endgame "guardians" required for the pinnacle boss will be 1 time
if you die, you have to find a new one to get credit

"unique maps" are tied to certain biomes
untainted paradise - "jungle/forest" biome only
other biomes can be used to target farm other things

potential for a competitive mode or support for it like races

gem quality is now an endgame thing
only starts dorpping in endgame
meant to be another grind to perfect your gems at the endgame
quality will increase something interesting about the game, not always just damage
gems cannot drop with quality, can only be increased with gemcutters

summon rhoa mount is meant for ranger only

essences will give mods from a pool i.e an essence gives a "speed mod"
in most cases theres only 1 mod, ie ms on boots
some few specific cases it will be multiple
ideally in most cases it will be the same as old essences

crafting bench was going to be reworked into an encyclipedia of mods
was cut, possible that it might come back

you can weapon swap only main hand or offhand - not in ea yet
new interface not in ea that will allow you to setup exactly whats up on each weapon
i.e x aura up for weapon set 1 and 2, y aura for set 1 only, z aura for set 2 only

mouse + controller at the same time

ignite magnitude is a multiplier

you can login to poe1 and poe2 at the same time

there will be hard mods - reflect is gone
there have to be things that your build is good and bad against
all upsides are prefixes, downsides are suffixes, can only have 3 downsides

build planner at some point