u4gm Why PoE 2 Keystone Passives Make or Break Builds
After a few long nights in Path of Exile 2, you stop looking at the passive tree like a map and start treating it like a dare, especially once you're planning around Exalted Orb buy upgrades to finish a gear break-point. The small nodes are nice, sure, but Keystones are the ones that flip your build on its head. You take one and suddenly you're not "a caster" or "a melee" in the usual sense anymore. You're playing by new rules, and you're also paying for it. That push and pull is why people keep respeccing, rerolling, and arguing in global chat. New Keystones, New Habits Patch 0.4.0, The Last of the Druids, didn't just sprinkle in options. It poked at how hybrid the Druid really is. Primal Hunger is a good example. Losing the built-in damage bonus from Rage sounds like you're nerfing yourself, and a lot of folks walk right past it. Then you try a setup that actually spends Rage instead of hoarding it, and it clicks. The bigger pool plus s...