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. Within the meantime, GGG is working some smaller occasions to interact 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 properly, on March 9 and March 16, so it isn’t too late to affix within the enjoyable. The highest 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 seem like they have 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, incapacity 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 finest lessons. Nonetheless, particularly for speedrunning the marketing campaign, it seems to be prime canine.
Angormus confirmed off unbelievable method throughout the run, making good use of a slick animation cancel that gamers have found over the course of PoE2’s first few months. In the event you launch right into a Rolling Slam, hitting Boneshatter after the primary hit will cancel the second assault. This allows you to out of the sluggish second animation, as a substitute hitting an enormous AE slam. That is particularly nasty if you happen to can put the primary monster you hit over 40% stun threshold, which lets the Boneshatter hit for much more injury in a bigger space.
One other notch within the cap for Warrior is the flexibility to make use of Leap Slam and Protect Cost to traverse nice distances when you get to Act 3. The ultimate 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 may obtain this stage on the finish of Act 2 nonetheless, which implies a lot of the closing Act of the run turns into a race previous all of the monsters. Utilizing the mace and defend journey expertise gave Angormus an enormous benefit within the closing stretch, letting him open up a big lead.
Lastly, the RNG gods have been clearly on his aspect. His drops have been robust in all the run, together with some early 15% motion pace boots, stable 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 may see, leading to flat phys and flat chilly. Bonkers.
So possibly I used to be unsuitable. Possibly, for speedrunning at the very least, Warrior has an essential place within the Path of Exile 2 ecosystem and is not complete rubbish. I did have a superb time taking part in Palsteron’s Sunder Totem Titan, a construct that permit me completely demolish the Arbiter of Ash, so if you happen to’re on the lookout for one thing to do with that Warrior you simply speedran by the marketing campaign, test it out.
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