Tried to brew my first potions - did break the recipe steps unintentionally and thought I´d have to start all over - but NO u can set the mortar back down for example and "prepare" later steps in the recipe to still get it right - THIS IS GREAT GAMEPLAY DESIGN! Well done and chapeau to the whole Team of Warhorse but my personal shoutout goes out Petr Pekar (Cinematic Director)! As a Director of Picture IRL - these are some of the most beautiful and well thought out Camera Shots I ever seen in a videogame! Hats off - Truly a cinematic masterpiece!

As a Diablo 2 LOD lover this game brings me back to the times, where I would get up early to sit down on my Pentium 233MHZ and sink hours into blasting minions - while certainly very difficult at times Path of Exile 2 just scratches that ARPG itch that d4 (while being subjectively better when it comes to storyline) couldn´t uphold after beating the main campaign.
Path of Exile 2 does feel way more rewarding due to the many and different boss mechanics as well as an overall very steep difficulty that can lead to certain frustrations for some players and builds especially early on...
My Merc lvl78 is blasting thru (if i am not gambling at Finn or Alva :D) and its such a joy so here are a few more postives as well as things I (as I have never played POE1) would love to see improvements upon:

Gameplay 9/10
Sound/Artdesign 10/10
Voiceacting 10/10
Graphics 10/10

Things that can be improved:
Some Minions still seem to be overtuned
Incredibly terrible performance if you play in a grp of 3 or more players (PRO TIP! : use lossless scaling if your gaming with friends) due to the amount of stuff goin on
Serverlags here and there
Outline for elite Mobs
Possibly Outlines for Coop Party as well (very hard to see other players in grp again due to lots of effects on screen etc)