giving up on blizz. anyone wanna show me whats up with poe?

install the game and play it

well no shit. but theres alot to it. just wondering if some questions could be answered

sure we can answer your questions, shoot them!

well, ive made it to act 3 and until now i pretty much one shot everything. all i have is what i find and i just wear whatever has the best stats for me. is there a way to get better gear? ive done the beast thing and gotten one piece but its not for my class...

someone told me there are three sub classes to a class... how do i get there?

what are gems in the skill tree for?

you get those classes by doing the labyrinth, its that shit in act3 that everyone hates, do trials for it first so you can qualify

the gems are for jewels, you can put those in the skill tree

trials? qualify?

yee, when you go to lower prison in act1, you will see some part with spikes coming out of the ground and there you will see some pale green sign. well that same pale green sign will be in 5 more levels through act2 and 3, do them all! those are called lab trials !

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Trial_of_Ascendancy

doing trials unlocks the fight against izaro, 4 of these fights possible, giving 2 ascendency points each ( first "lab" -> the fights basically take place in the "labyrinth" is important to chose your ascendency class to go on with )
-> yes, there are 3 ascendecy classes possible for 5 of the main classes, the Scion base class however works different ( i strongly advice not to start a scion if you are new to this game ).

hf learning, this is a different story compared to any blizzard product ( remotely some similarities to d2, but way way more possibilities )

https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=78943299&f=160

had some good advises in there