Just answer me one question, new season drops, do you go to maxroll and pick a build? or start crafting your own.
I thought I saw some people mention in a video the forge quest/tutorial was round the end of area one near that dude riding the big ol’ bird and shards more than likely will drop before then so you get to use them once you activate your forge. When I first played LE I dont think I hit the F key til I was about level 40 so no drama here haha!
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I make my own builds based on patch changes. Use the le planner. That is almost more fun theory crafting vs playing the game…
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Correct. I just looked again and it’s in the osprix war camp so yes quite a bit earlier than originally stated. Things still weird to not let them Drop before that but either way you can get here by level 6-8 easily so all in all it’s fine. Crisis averted 
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I reckon it’ll still drop you just won’t be able to press F to open forge to use them until you activate the tutorial, least that’s what makes sense to me lol
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No, patch notes say they don’t drop.
I mean i dont think this is a make or break, but Im not really sure I agree with their logic here.
So now players cant organically find out about it. And if they skip the random tutorial they wont drop mats and thus cant figure it out either?
This feel almost counter to how it should work…
I think as mentioned just above this comment - it’s much earlier on and you still get shards and the npc interaction is right by the boss so you literally can’t miss it, you could “speed run” and portal out as the birdman dies and save a whopping 12 seconds on your levelling OR you could click it, next next next next and unlocked → then portal
I don’t think it’s an optional quest. I think you can’t skip it.
interesting, feels really forced, I guess we can never underestimate peoples ability to not read or listen to what the game tells them. the game already hit you with “hey this is what does this, here is game guide” and already had a forge placed in the armory in chapter 1 that explained the forge… and in chapter 2 there is a lady who wants you to go to a forge as well.
And people didnt read all this then were confused, and then now I need to do some stupid mini quest because of these freaks? yeah kinda agree that maybe we dont need to dumb down the game this bad…
“new quest, shows you how hp works, you cant die or heal or progress until you finish this quest” like i dunno its a bit grim for gamers if they cant figure these things out.
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PoE2 pauses the game until you use a health flask for the first time.
If I understand correctly. On your second character after you completed the quest on an account that has a shared stash. They will drop. Just not until it’s unlocked account wide.
So first playthrough nothing drops till the forge quest.
Isnt the crafting area the zone after end of time? That means no more ascendance lucky runes at start.
Seasons are nice & long , so I’m just gonna play their game the way it’s put forward to me. No race for me anymore.
Still enjoy the game & will be in my rotation list of top down arpg’s for a long time.
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I agree.
I really don’t understand what the big deal is. In previous seasons, I always got through the first chapter pretty quickly, not even using the shards at the beginning mostly because at that point you are still getting major item upgrades every few minutes. Yeah, I understand not building up an early inventory of them, but the time spent getting to the forge quest is pretty quick
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This is hilarious. lvl 15 is giga fast to get…
its also pretty easy to read and not need the game to literally force you to engage with it because you are so dumb and impatient you click through every menu that tells you how to play the game…
like I dunno, its very easy to brush this off as “haha just get to level 15 its whatever”
and its more shocking they felt the need to add this because people are so uncontrollably stupid and unable to actually learn things in a game that they are going past level 15 without understanding what the forge is…
Im sorry but getting to lvl 15 in this game really is nothing hard or a thing that takes too long so I personally dont see this as an issue
Pretty big overreaction considering you can get to level 20+ naked…
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