u/Andromanner

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3998062/page/1#p26830591

Timestamp: 1:59:00

While acknowledging that no one's going to like the answer, Mark explained that it is ultimately because they want the game to "feel like a multiplayer game" and want players to "see other players" and "be part of this universe where there are other players."

But this feature is already in PoE2. Are these things not important in PoE2?

• Added support for the new Supporter Packs.

Thank you for your support!

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It feels like Talismans have slowly and quietly faded into complete irrelevance over time.

there might be a few niche builds that utilize them, but for the vast majority of players, Talismans might as well not even exist.

When we see Talisman rewards in Heist or Blight, we basically treat them as a dead reward standard. Nobody even bothers picking up any Talismans anymore, except for Eyes of the Greatwolf.

In the 3.13 league, we could use actually usable Talismans due to the well-rolled modifier system, but this system was also deleted in 3.14.

Sure, it's easy to just hide them on our loot filters and pretend they don't exist, but wouldn't it be great if they were reworked so we could actually utilize them in diverse ways?

What if we could get un-corrupted Talismans as rare drops? Or would that be way too overpowered?

Maybe I'm just missing some hidden utility here, but right now, it feels like the only purpose of Talismans is to dilute the reward pool of other league mechanics with completely useless junk.

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I’m finding the revamped Exceptional Gem system introduced in 3.28 highly engaging, and I hope to see even more Exceptional Gems added in 3.29.

The main improvement I'd like to suggest is expanding these additions to league mechanic bosses that exist outside the Atlas.

Currently, with the exception of Enlighten, Empower, and Enhance, all Exceptional Gems can only be obtained from bosses within the Atlas or Memory Vault.

Rather than restricting the drop sources of Exceptional Gems strictly to bosses inside the Atlas, I think it would be much better to add unique, boss-specific Exceptional Gems to non-Atlas content as well, such as Heist, Delve, Expedition Logbooks, Kingsmarch, and Bestiary (Farrul, Craiceann, Fenumus, Saqawal).

I believe adding these Exceptional Gems would just provide another good reason to farm these currently neglected league mechanic bosses.

• Fixed an instance crash when opening portals to an Immortal Syndicate Safehouse in a map.

Players that travel to hideouts to purchase asynchronous trade items can no longer initiate trades directly with other players.

• The Hinekora's Lock remnant crafting option has been temporarily disabled.