Hell yea, path of exile. since last time you've played devs pushed few updates, so it's a lot better now with loot and dodge roll, among few dozen other things.

Your idea of mace and shield with crossbow is not as outlandish as you may think. Game has mechanic of weapon swap skill points. you can designate skillpoints into weapon set 1 or 2, and skill tree will change these sections on weapon swap. 1st weapon skill points you will find in Act 2. good luck.

i did enjoy bettel pretending to be dead whole episode last time, but i do hope he will play this time.

we haven't see all Staff skills, but we have seen staff skills page, which doesn't sounds like have any chaos based staff skills. aside of Hand of Chayula. and GGG did say that staff skills are Ice, Lighting and Wind based. Maybe eventually they will add chaos staff skills, but not at EA launch.

Chonk (chaos monk) probably will be my experimental character, i don't really like how Staff skills are elemental, while he's chaos themed, so i'm planning to try to build him around Occult spells, like ED/C. since he starts in Int/Dex region, it should work.

Venus's day length is 243 earth days, could move there.

at first, i thought you put him under tiny blanket.

[Laughing in no DST]
But seriously, I hope you people won't be dealing with it for long.