I just want to thank the creators of D4 for making a game to advertise and promote Path of Exile.

I feel like a lot of people had that same kinda death by overcharging the first crucible. I know I did

The good old first time opening the passive tree moment. Never fails.

im 1 minute into the video. But i just love seeing new people come and play POE. Especially after D4

Man, I was so excited to see you open the passive tree 😂😂😂 Yeah. This game is legendary. Enjoy, my friend.

Oh man, as a guy that grew up playing d1, d2, lod and then getting really into PoE, i hope you give this game a fair shake. This is what d3 / d4 should have been instead of the BS it became. The only downside I think that the game has is there are so many ways to craft things and so many things to do that it can be overwhelming. However it is extremely satisfying when you get a build right. Good luck keep up the great content.

I just got my 15yo son into the game and we went though the campaign together and are about tier 3 maps, doing an act or so every night after schoolwork/sports. Hes loving it, and was blown away after I told him hes experienced less than 10% of the game so far. I loaded up a bunch of old characters (those that havent been broken by updates and need a skilltree respec, at least) to show a variety of builds, that are only a tiny fraction of playstyles available.

D4 introduced me into PoE as well and i am about to complete the campaign. This game is the most rewarding/fast paced game i’ve ever played. The game FEELS like an ARPG, level quick and kill stuff quick. Love it

Don't go by the name of the item. You can use almost any item in the game. The only restriction is stats. Level, Str, Dex, and Int. These will show up as red when you hover over the item. Also don't waste too much time picking up blues and white items. Progression of items is White=Normal, Blue=Magic, Yellow=Rare, Orange=Unique. Generally don't use scrolls of wisdom on blues. Use on yellows and oranges. Buy a currency stash tab and use it to store all your currency. Generally you also have caster items, melee items, and bow items. If you are using a spell stick to caster items ect. I cant recommend enough to get a loot filter. It will block all the trash and will highlight useful items.

It is always fun watching everyone's reactions to the passive tree for the first time! But this is just a scratch of the mountain of content this game possess. Hope you good lad have a wonderful time playing this game! Stay sane, new exile.✊

Enjoy it dude! It's always fun to see the shock when somebody first sees the passive skill tree, once it clicks, you'll realize it's not all that complicated and can lead to some real funky builds.

As a player with thousands of hours in PoE, I'm happy to see more people waking up to this game!

I've never clicked on a video faster. Hype that you're giving POE a go, before POE2 comes out. It should give you a way better idea of what you're getting into, when it drops. Unfortunately, POE is pretty tough and I do recommend following a build guide, since most of them explain basic mechanics, and the build, at the same time. Quick note: Make sure you get a decent bit of % Life on the tree, and aim for 75% fire, cold, and lightning resistance (check via "C" > Defense), during your play-through. It will make the game feel infinitely better and save you a lot of hassle. To answer your questions while I'm watching: -Game is 10 years old; POE2 should come out next year. That game is massively overhauled, but I'm sure you've seen those trailers. POE1 plays way different than POE2. -Yep! Support gems are modifiers to skill gems. You can change attributes/damage types of skills and redo how they work, completely. Like, changing Fire to Chaos damage, then making it deal damage over time (instead of a burst of damage). -If you have a nice PC, make sure Global Illumination is on and turned up, with DX12 or Vulkan. It definitely makes the game look even better. Honestly, the newer maps have the same quality of graphics as D4. -The skill tree is the same for all classes, therefore, any class can get any passive skill for anything (other than ascendancies). Like, a warrior can become a full mage and you can use any item on any character. Make sure you get a decent bit of % Life and aim for 75% fire, cold, and lightning resistance, during your play-through (assuming you're going life, not ES/hybrid/ward/etc., which you'll learn about later). -Carvings and books that you find in the acts/maps, are ways that POE tells lore. You can skip them entirely, like all dialogue, it's totally optional. But they let you click them and listen to them while you walk through zones.

Another hint, if you left click on your skill you can set it to "attack without moving" I do this to damn near every skill accept movement skills. - This is a serious game changer it really helps. You're also going to want to change your left click button to "move only".

Once you go PoE it all becomes clear. Devs that know what's up. Hawg gonna be a PoE player now. The skill tree is amazing. It looks more intimidating than it is.

I admire you trying the game without a guide :). You did well, the more you play the game, the more you will like it, I am sure

Can't wait for your full playthrough of the game, nice reaction so far very entertaining especially the passive tree 🤣🤣

would love to catch a live stream of this. As a poe vet love seeing people get into the game and helpin them out

Diablo 4 did the same to me...pushed me right into giving PoE a fair shake. Just hitting level 20 and every single moment has been enjoyable. Don't see myself going back to D4 any time soon....keep it up man !

Watching new players first gameplay/reactions is my crack cocain right now. Keep it coming, keep showing me that 17% fire resistance in act 7

This was so much fun to watch. Picking the mana flask though made me die inside lmao. Good luck further exile.

Hi hawg.nice you're enjoying poe. Just a little tip a lot of players like to play with left click to move only. It helps prevent you to stuck in an attack animation.

bloody brilliant game!!!! so well done! everyone does that with the crucible! and END game gets even better!!!!!!!!!!!! everyone gets confused with the passive tree (and some get put off), but it gets simple as you play!.

I'm listening to this as I work. It's an absolute gem, welcome to the game. I hope you stay for awhile and PLAY!

Love your vibe and your ability to go outside of your Diablo comfort zone. I haven’t tried POE yet. You earned my sub

Ahh yes, a game for grown ups. Glad to see you playing POE. Hope you make more videos of your escapades, my friend💪👏

Adding a few little tips in the skill tree. You can use the search button on the top of the passive tree so you can check what you want to prioritize. You can type Fire and the tree will highlight it. May it be fire damage, fire resistance, fire damage overtime multiplier and so on but you can be more specific like "fire damage". If you can see the highlighted nodes, you can now plan how to get there to enhance your character. ALSO if you're always out of scroll of wisdom, you can sell Blacksmith Whetstone or Armourer Scrap for multiple scrolls of wisdom. They are not too useful early on since they add damage/armour by a percentage which is not really good on low numbers from low level items. Much better to identify rares than use it to add 1% damage/armour

Didn't even saw the video yet, but already liked the video.

Dam it’s good to see someone try this fresh, kill everything on the beach, be intrigued by everything, discover the tiny details I’d forgotten about and be amazed and impressed with the skills/passive tree. It’s like nostalgia for my first experience 10 years ago. Love it. I really hope you enjoy it and to see you in endgame! Perhaps one day you will be one of many I make trades with in the future!

Poe is so good. I love it and at the same time am shocked it exists. I don't see another game going all in on the complexity they way they have so I imagine it gets the greatest game of all time award from me forever.

looking forward to the next part, keep it going.

Seeing you play POE for the first time is amazing. Enjoy the journey. I've played since open beta when there were only 3 acts. Just do what you find fun and delve deep into that game mechanic. You will have many leagues to learn about all the different sub systems.

That opening, was exactly my first crucible experience. Accent and all...

Quick tips without getting into the deep end: Ctrl-click to quick move items (vendor, stash). Only identify yellows and uniques unless your slot is empty to keep a stock of scrolls. Keep buffing life (not only shield) throughout. Keep buffing elemental resistances throughout. Space to close dialogs etc. (default bind). You can tune overlay transparency. You can smack interesting gems to items even if you don't use them at the moment to level them up for the future. The stone was a lore piece. Love to see new POE players!

Fun to watch someone new to the game, you did great.

Chain dying to that megajuiced crucible pack in the coast is perfection 👌. Looking forward to more!

I started two weeks ago, it's still overwhelming but I'm having fun

So fun to watch. The number of non-optimal decisions you made while still having fun! 😂 Keep it up! In a few weeks the new league starts.

Nice playthrough, make sure to play the 3.22 league launch! I felt pain when he picked mana flask at 47:00 lol

He's already Jamming in LOGIN screen. Lmao. Edit: And it seems he's enjoy reading lore. 😂

Something you want to do is play with overlay map setting so it can up non stop. What we usually do is put map transparency to about half and less and then landscape transparency just little bit(5% or so) just so it is barley visible(helps with navigation).

I sincerely hope this becomes a series "The Adventures of Hawggyna"

Hell ya, glad you got to play this, I think you will dig it man.

Just a heads-up, poison is only based on physical and/or chaos damage! But Poison is a fuuuun, mechanic! It only lasts a few seconds, but you can stack poisons!

More PoE gameplay please! Love this content!

Definitely looking forward to those streams.

Bro passed on the quicksilver flask ☠️☠️😂

Jackin' that Crucible up to 100% and immediately eating shit right out the gate LMFAO. This is gonna be a fun watch. The PoE community will welcome you with open arms my friend.

Oh shit you came through. Sad im not in the right timezone to watch live but imma watch the shit outta this here on YT. Heres hoping you enjoy, pressing play now 👍

See so many of these pop up now, awesome to welcome yet another first timer! I'm sure u will have a great time, stay sane out there exile! :)

It is always fun to see new players discover things we learned over 10 years playing this game. If you ever get overwhelmed with a mechanic in future acts just remember you don’t have to do every optional quest instantly. Many systems work best in late game after you complete story.

I love to watch the new player experience in PoE! I had many of the same reactions you did when I first played, like that realization you can build and modify your own skills by linking skill and support gems :) Looking forward to seeing more of these videos, Lot's of the beginner tips I would have made were already commented by other people (most notably ctrl+left-click to quick vendor/stashinventory) but another fun thing to note about those lore carvings, as you may have briefly noticed, is instead of clicking "continue," which ends the narration, you can just walk away and it'll keep narrating the lore in the background while you're playing (you can click "x" on bottom to stop it).

Loved this man! Earned a new sub. Looking forward to more. Coming from a 10 yr PoE vet let me say you did great. That first crucible (current league mechanic) was easy to accidentally overcharge but you still handled it well. Also I can tell you've got arpg skills. Good movement, positioning and flasking etc. Keep at it and don't get overwhelmed. Game is complex but fun as hell.

The Carving is just lore, any books you see on the map are just flavour and won't impact gameplay. I hope I get to catch you live sometime, it's always fun seeing new players try PoE and you were picking it up crazy quickly. I also love how you highlighted PoE's versatility by using spells with a claw and then a bow as soon as you started playing, haha.

Theres an insane amount to learn and the more you learn the more you appreciate. Youre going about it the right way, theyve done alot in the tutorial menus and tooltips to try make the game easier to understand piece by piece. Reading over everything is the way to slowly piece together all the base mechanics that become more complicated later. Also despite not having a large array of gaming experience, you come from a really solid position of what is an isnt acceptable or what did or didnt have alot of work put into it, really refreshing in this space where everyone is scared to be blacklisted from the next blizzard pre-release

Man you are hilarious, as someone who has never played Diablo it is great seeing how exited your getting about all the options you have. Enjoy the game man

I've gotten a handful of people into this game. The NUMBER 1 tip for new players playing PoE that you have to know. Max out your resistances. If you do not do this then you will get 1 shot randomly by just pretty much anything.

lol the appreciation of the music and air drumming only a couple minutes in, love it!

i love all these vids popping up with players trying poe for the first time. its the most wholesome thing in the world! items that wouldnt even be picked up by a veteran player is getting you all pumped up and i love it! stick to poe and you will have access to a truly expansive world.

Im so glad you came over to poe. At least you tried it.

When I saw you talking about how there's skill trees on items, the first thing that came to mind was "wait until he finds out that you can put skill trees ON your skill tree!" lol... Love your reactions man, keep on keeping up!

This video filled my heart with such joy xD what makes this game so good is once you get some skill gems you like and some good support for them you can just shred everything in sight. after ,my first 2-3 hours with the game i was a wrecking ball from then on. i use no build guides. just look over the skill tree in your general area and use the first bit for health and mana but i would say save some till you really decide what you want your main skill gems or play style to be. if you already know then you can generally just chose the passives that best suite what you wanna eventually do really well.

Instant CLICK. A few minutes in and you already have me cracking up. THIS will be entertaining. OH and I'm updating my POE right now so I can jump back in and play.

The derision in your voice at 45:12 made me crack up. We want MOAR!

The thing I will say is that there are about another 10 zones in this act that you're going to need to progress through, and then there are 10 acts in total for the main campaign. Some are shorter some are longer, the first few acts are probably going to be the longest as you'll be able to pick up the pace once you're more familiar with things. Act 2 and 3 are a little confusing on where you need to go at times, when open up the wave point interface you can select a quest (the ones on the left side are the uncompleted ones) and it will highlight a zone you need to go to to help progress that quest. Believe it or not the entire campaign can be done in less than 6-8 hours once you get much more familiar with it (and racers do it even faster), some people say the re-playability due to the acts and having to play through it for each character is a downside but I enjoy it even after years of doing this questline that has been in the game for the last 22 leagues since this current storyline was implemented in 3.0

Love seeing you give this a try. Many may have mentioned, but you really do need to follow a build guide on your first try to make sure you don't hose yourself in the skill tree. If you mess that up you can find yourself screwed because the item needed (orb of regret) to unselect passive skills don't drop like walnuts in fall. Enjoy Hawg!

I wish I could wipe my 5,000 hours of PoE memories so that I could experience it fresh and new again.

Just a tip: If you are about to enter an area, you can do shift+lmb or alt+lmb (i cant remember) and open the instance manager where you can create new area instances or join ones you've already created. An instance expires in 10 minutes when everybody leaves it. So for example, when you overcharged that crucible, you could've went back into town and created a new instance for the beach area and avoided the monsters altogether.

Long time poe player here and it's the first time I watched you. The honest excitement about the depth of PoE was really enjoyable to watch. You have plenty to learn in poe, but I still had fun watching you! Stick to poe and you won't be dissapointed - the amount of work they put in each league is just awesome. Maybe try a build guide to get used to everything - it will be overwhelming at some point. Good vid!

So interesting seeing someone experience this game for the first time. Reminds me of how blown away I was by it. So many amazing discoveries, so many lessons learned lol.

I've played PoE for about 10 or so years off and on, and I love watching peoples first interactions with the game. The game may seem overwhelming at first, but if you take your time and learn it piece by piece, it becomes a very rewarding and customizable experience. A very important thing in PoE is wording used in skills. For example, when you see "on hit", like that chance to poison support gem, it means literally on enemy contact with your weapon. 9 times out of 10 this is going to be a weapon based ability, so ALMOST all spells (freezing pulse for example) will not trigger on "hit" effects. In order for chance to poison to poison, you would have to make an "attack" skill opposed to a "spell" skill. So, if you went duelist for example, and hit your enemy with your sword, this would work with the chance to poison support gem. Also, the rock you interacted with that was showing as a book on your mini map, is just a lore tid bit. They can be skipped or enjoyed with no downside. I rarely comment on youtube, but I just wanted to clear up a potential pain point with how PoE labels and identifies certain interactions through the use of specific words on skill gems. I hope you keep up with it! I will for sure be here watching it!

This is one of my favorite games, please take your time, and look at possible builds maybe even play with Asmon sometime.

You can set left click to move. It will make game 100% smoother. And don’t need to worry about stuck in mobs

Oh cool he's tryin- oh no he's holding down the button.

Game can be very overwhelming but you need to keep in mind that pretty much everything is optional here. You dont need to learn what betrayal is on your first playthrough, you don't need to figure out incursion, heist or delve etc you can focus on basics, just complete campaing, start doing maps and slowly learn what is interesting to you, what you find fun.

It was funny af you charging crucible to 100%. We all got baited into doing that at some point

That carving on the beach, like many such things throughout the game, is optional lore that is great to look at. PoE's story is really rich and full of both story for your character and lore as to why things are the way they are. Dead civilizations built on the bones of others, mistakes repeated by those seeking Corruption. All optional lore. If you have time, I recommend KittenCatNoodle's videos on it, I tend to binge it when im going through maps or long work days.

Control or shift click will auto transfer items from inv to tab. Further you delve into POE the better it gets. Links are your friend. More link with support the better. Also Int on items tends to get blue sockets, dex green, strength red. Any item can get any color just harder.

When you started charging up that crucible to lethal I was literally going "no no no no no no no!" lol

Hearing judgment being handed down to Hawg, & watching his reaction, was entertainment enough. Ohh Skill Gems.... Like looking at a kid with a brand new toy and being continually surprised.

So happy to see you enjoying the game. "Shit, what have i been playing?". Amazing lol.

Glad you gave it a shot! Was looking forward to this

Glad you got on board😁 i played poe once n always come back

"It's gonna take me 10 damn years to figure this game out" - 14:53 Yes ;) And that's what's beautiful about it. League after league you get better and better; You understand more and more. You figure new ways and tricks about things. You try new classes and archetypes each league which helps you to understand what makes an item good and how to price them for sale. It's so robust you got content for years and years and every 3-4 months they add new content which even more extends the replayability. Once you get good enough to start making your own builds it gets even better. Got 8k hours played and I'm still learning new things. Best game ever.

It's been 13 hours and I already want another video

Ok, well I don't see anyone mentioning this, but wisdom scrolls are like gold. You might think that vendoring your armor for a scroll fragment is not worth selling your item for, but it's exactly what you should be selling your item for. I generally don't pick up white items unless they are a Green-Red-Blue linked item, 6 socket, or 6 link. Since it's your first time every playing have lots of fun. Pick up everything if you want, vendor everything you want. Most of your currency will come from vendoring items. Even sitting on 300 scrolls of wisdom is not enough for my liking. Oh and you can sell Town Portal scrolls for Wisdom scrolls. Once you get 4-5 Orbs of Transmutation then start Identifying Rares. One other very big thing is ID all your boot until you find some movement speed boots, the you can pick and choose what to ID. Save flask and vendor them in packs of 3 of the same kind 👍

The grocery list of crimes is for Kaitlyn, you'll encounter him as part of a quest in act 2.

oh boy here we go!!! welcome exile!

Ayyy hawg honestly super fuckin stoked to see you on PoE. just keep at it and legit do not be scared to check out some build guides to see where you may be making some early mistakes. if not all cool brutha. earned a sub from me anyway

When he juiced the crucible 😂😂 💀

I've played this game for such a long time that I've gotten so use to things like the music that I've lost my appreciation of it. Thanks for pointing that out now I can enjoy the music again =D

The truck book with wheels was a spot on metaphor lmao

Okay, you're doing great, now just keep going like that and being surprised by a new mechanic every 20-30 minutes for the next 20-ish hours of gameplay, and you'll finally have surface-level knowledge of this game. Believe it or not, it gets more complicated than that. God I love it!

The game is about 11 years old at this point since the original beta, What you saw in the game so far is not even the tutorial, there is so much content in the game its unreal, i played all the diablo games but this game has managed to keep my attention for over 10k hours since the beta, it's very much a seasonal game for me though so ill come back when a season seems good and that is how the devs intend the game to be played, really glad to see you try this game out, welcome to the big leagues xD Edit: A few tips, you can hold down CTRL i think it is and click items in to the vendors trade window for faster selling

14:00 I'd love to see your reaction to Last Epoch's skill tree setup after this moment. It's not the massive grid on PoE, but the fact every skill in the game has it's own tree, and each class has a passive tree, and each sub class has a passive tree. It really shows how those devs have looked at PoE and said "We have to compete with that." So they took the 'lets break this down into easier to digest chunks.' approach.

Big brain actually reading stuff and taking his time to learn the game.

>him chosing the mana flask >me dying inside a bit

It's great to see a longtime D2 player discover PoE. The thing I love about PoE is you feel like you're learning a lot for literal thousands of hours played.

Love seeing how slowly you take in the game and absorb everything. Wish I did that the first time I played so I didn't quit immediately. Didn't know what I was missing back then haha

Heeeey he actually tried POE, neat haha. Good to see more new people try the game for the first time. I recommend following build guide for beginners, then once you're used to the passive tree system, branch out and make your own build, in path of building. You'll realise the passive tree is actually quite straightforward, once you start viewing it in segments, each part of the tree is for different styles of play and characters, think of it like each class sharing their passive trees with each other. If you you don't follow even a basic template, you will inevitably brick your first character, but if that's ok with you and you want to learn that way, more power to ya. I know bricked a couple of characters the first time I played and then quit, I decided to return and look up a guide and never looked back since. POE is one of those games that really rewards your time and effort spent learning its mechanics and all the nitty gritty details, even things like learning gem keywords are important.