2┃new-player-in-campaign-help

[swift rapids]

i can remove them later right?

[quiet fossil]

oops

[lament stone]

jewels? yes

[daring dragon]

Yeah

[scenic bloom]

Heya. Does the X% Increased Physical Damage on weapons apply before or after conversion?

[lament stone]

it applies locally to the weapon

[shut abyss]

so i guess before

[lament stone]

conversion applies to all flat damage you have

[quiet fossil]

Can dots crit?

[lament stone]

so your weapons total damage, any additional damage from other gear

[scenic bloom]

So it would "locally" increase the weapons stats, which would then be converted?

Perfect, thanks.

[quiet fossil]

I'll take that as a no :3

[lament stone]

damage over time cannot crit

[quiet fossil]

Sorry for all the questions. I'm PoE2 noob

[lament stone]

but since dot is scaled by the damage of the hit that inflicts it, if you crit with your hit, that would increases the damage of your dot

[runic acorn]

If i dont have lightning damage, will this add + increase the lightning damage to attacks?

[low oasis]

is charged staff considered an empowered attack ?

[eager basin]

is that how it works in poe2

[lament stone]

the top line adds flat lightning damage to your attack, the bottom line would increase any lightning damage that you do

[shut abyss]

well not INCREASE but it's going to ADD lightning damage to attacks yes

[eager basin]

wouldn't that only apply to ailment dots anyway

[runic acorn]

oh, so the increase% is not going to apply ?

[shut abyss]

ah yeah the second line applies to the first line ofc

didin't read that far 🙈

[runic acorn]

cheers

[lament stone]

wdym by that

damage over time is damage over time

bleed/poison/ignite are damage over time

[eager basin]

those are ailment dot

[low oasis]

is charged staff considered an empowered attack ?

[eager basin]

if it works as you say, critting would not affect dot from skill effects like ED

[lament stone]

stuff like that has built in numbers for the dot

[boreal peak]

Hello I just disabled npc names and drop names, Idk how I did it

[lament stone]

i see what you mean now

[daring dragon]

Z

[boreal peak]

Thanks buddy

[low oasis]

Guys im trying to use a gem but im not sure if it applies to charged staff skill, is that considered an empowered attack

[spark marsh]

Hey everyone - I finally made it into Cruel, but I did have a quick question. Do the enemies become more spongies than I should expect at the next level of difficulty? I'm curious because my build was pretty effective up until then.

[tired forge]

For minion build, which is better: Alpha's Howl Armoured Cap or Leer Cast?

[haughty niche]

No attacks are empowered by default as far as i know. You need to use othed skills to empower attacks. If charged staff says it empowers itself then maybe

[haughty niche]

Past act 3 is a cakewalk

Cruel difficulty isnt balanced well and you can just outscale it easily.

Once you hit maps is where difficulty picks up again a bit

[tired forge]

I 100% agree with this.

[eager basin]

it's a buff skill but doesn't specify that it empowers attacks, so I don't think it does

[wooden lava]

When I saw river hags at the beginning of act 1 cruel I panicked but it's actually not bad

[low oasis]

well if i hit tempest flurry then hit charged staff isnt that empowered ?

[spark marsh]

Ok, I must have screwed up my build then...enemies are taking much longer to kill

[low oasis]

charged staff into tempest flurry i mean

would that be empowered

[tired forge]

Act 1-3 means weaving and bobbing enemy attack, while supporting my minions who often just dont have enough firepower to dent enemy. Act 4-5 bosses tend to die in mater of seconds.

[eager basin]

charged staff doesn't specify that it empowers attacks

[tired forge]

Since I hit 10000 armor I sometimes dont bother evading anymore.

[eager basin]

so I would not think it does

if you look at mana tempest it says specifically that it empowers spells

[lament stone]

armour only applies to physical damage from hits

and its less effective the larger the hit is

[tired forge]

I notice spell too, I think.

[lament stone]

if the spells do physical damage then it would apply

[tired forge]

Agreed, but in any case I havnt had any bosses recently who can knock off more than 30% my health in a single attack.

While my minion can eat any non-invulnerable cinematic bosses in < 10 seconds.

[lament stone]

youll notice it more when bosses start to do more elemental damage

[tired forge]

Hmm

[lament stone]

and the more endgame bosses that do physical damage also have overwhelm which is basically armour penetration

[tired forge]

Any advice on how to handle that other than increase resist to >70%?

[scenic bloom]

When does an enemy count as "Chilled"? Is a single percent point of build up enough to count? For something like Polcirkeln

[lament stone]

so against somethinig like the breach boss, if you have less than like 15k armour you effectively have 0 armour

armour doesnt apply to elemental damage

[scenic salmon]

Unless it does in which case it applies before resistances

[visual lion]

i just started cruel mode and wanted to ask how do i get a new good weapon cause ive been using the same one since lvl 23

[lament stone]

thats a couple of specific uniques tho, not something youd normally use

[lament stone]

pick up weapons off the ground, check vendors every time you level up, gamble

dont be afraid to use transmutes and augs on white bases

[low oasis]

how can i shift my ui on console

[normal ibex]

define shift, options are limited to centering the UI and scaling the UI

https://i.imgur.com/DVq1ATE.png

do you not have these options?

[low oasis]

ill check ty

just want to move it see

if its more comfortable

[fluid heart]

is the new patch already live?

thx

[foggy birch]

any nubs wants this (free

[azure lava]

If they asked for it, they'd be breaking rules by asking for a handout

There's no trading allowed on this server at all, technically

Yeah, rule six. No giveaways either

[azure lava]

https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1328202289755983932

[azure lava]

Chill doesn't build up. You might be seeing freeze build up. An enemy is either chilled or not. Being on chilled ground also chills.

Hold alt and click on chill for more info

[scenic bloom]

So, what exactly does Polcirckeln do?

Thought it would turn freeze based shatters into chill based shatters

[azure lava]

The five damage types are physical, chaos, fire,cold, and lightning. The last three are collectively known as elemental.

Both spells, attacks, and damage over time can deal any combination of those five damage types.

Except I think damage over time can't be converted so it can only ever be one type per damage over time effect

[azure lava]

Yeah, chilling is generally way easier than freezing

Shattering is shattering no matter how it happens

[scenic bloom]

But at what point does one count as chilled? As I understood, chill buildup slows down the enemy and leads to freeze at 100%

[azure lava]

Oh, it has to be chilled from a hit to shatter

[azure lava]

Incorrect

[scenic bloom]

Mind correcting me?

[azure lava]

Hold alt and click on chill to read more. Chill and freeze are independent

[scenic bloom]

SO its more akin to shock and electrocute then

[haughty niche]

Freeze has its own freeze buildup

[azure lava]

Any hit that can chill has a chance to chill based on the damage of the hit vs the enemy ailment threshold

[azure lava]

Shock yes, electrocute no

[scenic bloom]

Ah okay.

[azure lava]

Electrocute builds up like freeze does

[scenic bloom]

Meant the difference between the two

[azure lava]

Ah, yes

They're similar. Main difference is that chill magnitude scales with the hit while shock magnitude is fixed. I think

[scenic bloom]

Alright. So I can't just put a miniscule amount of ice dmg on my weapon and expect it to count any hit as "chilled"

Makes sense. Thank you!

[calm palm]

As a complete noob, is there a friendly build that doesn’t require sweating when playing this game or $$$$ to build it?

[azure lava]

Correct. Tho a lot of people are using herald of thunder with ice infusion and herald of ice with lightning infusion to cause chills/shocks to propagate through big packs of enemies

[scenic bloom]

That sounds like a fun thing to try. Thx for the informations.

[haughty niche]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/build-guides If you click on the "Leveling" filter you should be able to find a bunch that don't require anything to get going

[calm palm]

Thank you 🙏

[haughty niche]

and in case you were curious, "Twink leveling" is leveling a second character with existing gear / strong leveling uniques etc

[tired forge]

OKm so Armor CAN deal with spells, but only with spells resulting in physical attack?

[haughty niche]

a physical hit

[tired forge]

And the most common type of attack is physical?

[haughty niche]

The most common type of physical hit would probably be the default monster attacks etc.

[trim turret]

Attacks and spells can both be any damage type.

[haughty niche]

Id say the most common stuff you get hit by will be a mix of elemental damage and physical hits.

Unfortunately armour itself is in a incredibly bad state at the moment.

[tired forge]

I see, tyvm for info

A pity since it is very easy to get armor very high on Titan

[haughty niche]

In poe1 it was pretty solid.

1. It just gave more mitigation per armour in general
2. There were a ton more mitigation layers armour users could use to assist in mitigating the damage
3. Conversion occured before armour was used, and conversion was more prevalent. So you could convert like 50%+ of phys taken to an element which gets mitigated by ele res. Then the remaining damage is a smaller amount and armour is better at mitigating smaller amounts.

In poe2 those layers aren't here, and conversion happens AFTER armour.

I guess as a 4th, you also just get way less armour

in poe2 the ultra high end is like 30k armour on a full investment character.

In poe1, baseline investment with an armour flask and a couple points is like 40-50k.
Then armour being less effective per point in poe2 makes that even worse

[rapid snow]

what's a good guide for ssf invoker monk? Starting fresh, would be good to have a guiding light

[haughty niche]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/build-guides

[craggy gyro]

When should I change my bow? I'm currently level 49.

[tepid cape]

If you’re LA, around 5k dps is good for starting maps. I’d suggest 10k but good defenses can make up for no one shotting.

[azure lava]

Enemies don't distinguish between attacks and spells like players do. It's better to think of them as strike/projectile hits (can be evaded/blocked), slams/aoe hits (cannot be evaded/blocked), and damage over time

[dry stone]

Guys i need help, i killed boss but he killed me also

http://prntscr.com/jHSIXg1n7RFJ

I cant pickup items

Can i restart somehow? Thanks

[craggy gyro]

How do I see my dps?

[tepid cape]

Yeah that happens, too bad.

[tepid cape]

G key

[azure lava]

You lose all the items on the ground in the zone on death. If you cannot access the area for a quest item, you'll need to remake the instance and try again. Ctrl+click the entrance/waypoint to make a new one

[craggy gyro]

so I should have 5k dps when I only have 672 on LA?

[azure lava]

When you find a better one

[tired forge]

OK I think I should simplify my question:

I can get my armor up to 12000, but I will lose 10% of my minion in the process, is this worth it?

If not my armor will be only 4000 or so.

[tepid cape]

You’re going to struggle in maps but may be ok for finishing acts. I don’t remember where I was in A3Cruel…

[azure lava]

What does 10% of your minion mean? 10% life?

[tepid cape]

Armor is still bad after patch, avoid it.

[dry stone]

@azure lava sorry i dont understand. How to remake? I tried ctrl+waypoint from town but it doesnt remake

[tired forge]

No, as in 40/440 spirit, effectively losing 10% of my minion population

[lavish pagoda]

Armour is ok for non-haevy hits, so I guess its fine for campaign

[azure lava]

Click the waypoint to open the map, then Ctrl+click the zone on the map

[craggy gyro]

I'm doing pretty well for now atleast in A1Cruel, also just curious how do I increase my LA/other skill gem's DPS?

[tepid cape]

Armor is ok for white mans in campaign, even bosses in campaign go right through it

[normal ibex]

ok, i need to do this, literally everyone keeps saying armour is bad, and literally nobody is explaining why

trust me bro source is insufficient

[tepid cape]

Level up the gem, get heralds up with spirit gems, flat damage or % damage on armor/jewelry

[dry stone]

@azure lava thanks, didnt know this. You saved me 🙂

[lavish pagoda]

checkout this table and you can find out why it's considered bad: https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1hs3y2n/poe_2_armour_mitigation_table/

[normal ibex]

also a link to the ndefence algorithms would be nice if you have them

[azure lava]

Armor is less effective the higher the incoming damage is. So you need astronomically high armor to mitigate, say, a 10k physical damage hit. It's much easier to get 10k es and live than to get enough armor to survive a 10k physical hit on 2k life

[tired forge]

OK, I understand, but what do your recommend I then go for? Raw Hit Point?

[azure lava]

We don't have the formulae for poe2, but there is a strong indication that's is the same or very similar to poe1.

[tired forge]

My objective is that it would be nice to be able to survive 2-3 strongest hits from bosses.

[tepid cape]

ES/MOM is the only option

[normal ibex]

i'd like to survive 3 hits from mobs 😛

[tired forge]

ES = Energy shield?

[meager galleon]

yes

[azure lava]

Armor can be fine for smaller hits with good investment, but it still leaves you prone to one shots, which is what most players are worried about

[trim turret]

Generally speaking the game isn't designed for you to tank the strongest hits from bosses.

[tired forge]

This is what I am worried about.

[azure lava]

Arguably, armor is the best defense against numerous smaller hits

[pine oar]

I walk into a level 1 map with no modifiers and instantly I am dead WTF man I am level 70 IDK what to do, I need someone to help me where can I go?

[azure lava]

https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1328202289755983932

[azure lava]

Cap your ele resistances, get 2k Life

Get movement speed on boots

Res cap is 75% by default

[tired forge]

At present my armor basically allows me to sit in middle of crowd of mob enemy and tank, but the bosses can kill me in 3-4 shots, and if I understand you guys correctly this is going to be an expanding problem going into L70 and upwards.

[pine oar]

I cannot, I have no gear to do that

[azure lava]

Then follow the guide I linked or buy gear on the trade site

[pine oar]

Where do I see that?

[tired forge]

This is a bit sad and different from Diablo 2

[normal ibex]

good gear stats appear to be wholly based on grind and pray to RNG gods

[tired forge]

In D2 there are genuinely some Paladin builds that can literally have tea next to Diablo and not be damaged.

[azure lava]

Pathofexile.com/trade2

[azure lava]

To me, that's way sadder

[pine oar]

nothing on that site that is good I can buy

[tired forge]

Its not an optimal build, their DPS is horrifyingly bad

[pine oar]

I have no stuff people want

[tired forge]

But they are very well tanked.

[azure lava]

That cannot be true

[pine oar]

my level is 70 the best stuff requires over 70

[azure lava]

Can you screenshot the currency you've accumulated?

[pine oar]

I checked last night

[normal ibex]

by cannt buy im guessing cannt afford?

[daring dragon]

Don't immediately buy the best stuff?

I mean

[azure lava]

You can buy stuff cheaper or just work on upgrading stuff you have with sockets/runes or checking vendors or gambling

[tired forge]

Last question: What sort of enemy drops Divine Orbs?

[pine oar]

you are saying cap my resist I cannot cap it I am low in resit

[daring dragon]

Any

[pine oar]

if I cap one the rest are low

[tired forge]

OK, so any drop them but only in high level?

[tepid cape]

Everything has a chance but the higher level, the more quantity/rarity, the better the chance

[daring dragon]

No idea if there is a minimum mob lvl

Probably not

[tepid cape]

I saw one in A5 on my third char

[tired forge]

I see

But +% chance find magic item helps?

[tepid cape]

yes, rarity upgrades drops, including currency

[tired forge]

tyvm

[azure lava]

And I'm saying this guide will help you get better gear https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1328202289755983932

There is no silver bullet here aside from learning how to better find upgrades. Gear in this game gets incrementally better over time if you're actively trying to upgrade. It sounds like you neglected your gear for too long and this is the consequence.

I've given you all the tools you need, but if you have further questions feel free to ask

[tired forge]

I think minion build may have advantage here. Some item are critical for us, but quite a few slots have very low value

[tepid cape]

Just about every build has room to include rarity on gear

[autumn fable]

has they patched it yet?

[haughty niche]

no

keep an eye on #old-game-news

[autumn fable]

do they say when the patch will be live today?

[velvet rock]

Can you add loot filters on console now?

[uncut dome]

can i get some help with getting to trial of sekhima and with it

[azure lava]

Once the patch drops, yeah

Idk if it's out yet

I'm out of the country

[pine oar]

Bro I have been a gamer my whole life I know what you are saying, what I am saying is it is impossible as I have no gear my campain is over I am on maps now. I checked every level and never got upgrades that is the problem. I would never find things for my monk always other characters. I watched people play and level for weeks before I bought the game and tried. The issue is 1. I got bad RNG drops from game and vendors, 2. I mismanaged my currency so now I have none because I never knew I need it for trading because I never wanted to trade I wanted to do it all alone. Now I am stuck.

[azure lava]

#2┃looking-for-group

[pine oar]

I might as well start over a new monk because IDK what else to do at this point.

[haughty niche]

@normal ibex Assuming you found the formula/defense calc stuff, heres just kind of a high level over view of some changes that affected armour's viability.

[velvet rock]

if it is 01.011 i just got it yeah

[azure lava]

Did you read the guide I linked and if so, did you implement all the strategies in it? If you say yes, then you should have zero gold, no currency items, and as many runes/sockets on your gear as possible.

This game will repeatedly kick your ass unless you maintain your gear as you go. And you can search by required level on the trade site to buy lower level items.

You can also use the currency exchange to get exalts for trading

[tepid cape]

not very good at poe if you can't read, very important step

[azure lava]

And if you think your char is bricked, I don't think that's possible. As a last resort, you can farm earlier zones to accrue resources

[smoky fractal]

yo yo

whats the difference between hardcore and hardcore ssf

[azure lava]

Ssf means solo self found. No trading or partying with other players

[lime relic]

If Zarokh gets to his stage where he starts dropping shit everywhere, you are cooked? Is there any way to live through that shit

[pine oar]

Bro I know that stuff now, what I am saying is it is to late.

[tepid cape]

never too late

[smoky fractal]

word

[pine oar]

How to I get better if I cannot get drops and cannot trade?

[daring dragon]

It's not

[azure lava]

It's literally not. But if you feel that way, there's nothing wrong with rerolling

[daring dragon]

You can get drops tho

[azure lava]

If you can't get drops then you're doing something very wrong. You can get drops anywhere

[pine oar]

Where?

[smoky fractal]

for a new player do you recomend standard or just hardcore until i die, i heard it just goes into standard after you die right?

[tepid cape]

Go back an act, a waystone difficulty, remediate

[pine oar]

I mean drops that will help

[azure lava]

Everything helps mate

Did you read the guide?

[tepid cape]

zero chance he read

[pine oar]

YESS!!!!! that is what I am doing I have it open lol

[daring dragon]

Anywhere

[normal ibex]

just go standard and skip the extra steps

[pine oar]

I am acutally trying to get advice I am reading it

[haughty niche]

even killing monsters in low level areas is enough. They give gold too which can be spent at vendors.
Considering most leveling buildguides function off of poverty gear, your goal is likely literally just some life and res.

[pine oar]

Most of what I read however cannot help

[normal ibex]

you are gonna die, period, for sure, with certainty

[smoky fractal]

alright

[pine oar]

I wish I read it at the start.

[azure lava]

Then how are you saying that nothing good drops when the guide states that everything you pick up (and you should be picking up basically everything) can be turned into useful resources and potential upgrades?

[umbral mauve]

Why can't I find Ball lightening in the skills?

[pine oar]

I know about ok you pick something up then use orbs and try and see

[umbral mauve]

I went to all gems and searched and nothing.

[supple oak]

Hello

[mortal shell]

Bust out the LoL kiting skills

[azure lava]

And if it doesn't work you sell it for gold and then buy stuff from vendors or gamble

[azure lava]

Did you click "all gems" in the bottom left? It should be in the elemental section of skill gems

[pine oar]

I am about to sell everything I own and gamble then because I am not about to keep losing XP in level 1 maps

[umbral mauve]

I did, and searched. I'll look again

[azure lava]

You can farm act 3 cruel zones if you're desperate

[haughty niche]

if that includes your equipped gear that sounds like a dumbass idea

[umbral mauve]

Just found it, thank you. was driving me crazy

[tepid cape]

hahahah

[daring dragon]

You can't downlvl from exp loss so losing exp is a non issue for you right now. It's the least thing you should worry about right now.

[pine oar]

Thats what I was doing since yesterday and I am dying which is confusing to me, I am over leveled for that zone, I beat it and all of a sudden I go back and I am getting creamed with better resists.

[long crag]

what does improving staff/wand quality does ?

[pine oar]

Yes but I am going broke buying level 1 maps that I keep failing and getting no drops in

[haughty niche]

did you end up capping your resists

[daring dragon]

The quality of its skill

[azure lava]

I think it's bugged rn and does nothing, but it's supposed to add quality to the innate skill

[pine oar]

I cannot cap resists because of no currency ok here is what

[haughty niche]

you showed a currency tab with enough currency to pimp out a new character. I don't see how you could be struggling in T1 maps if you actually used some of it.

Like didn't you have a greater jewelers orb? Or were you ssf

[azure lava]

Do you have sockets/runes on all your gear?

[long crag]

is this applicable to amulet that provide skill as well ?

[azure lava]

No

[long crag]

rn choir of the storm doesnt improve quality of spell

[pine oar]

yes

[tepid cape]

Sounds like you need more remediation, just delete the char and try again

[azure lava]

And you have resist runes in all the slots?

[pine oar]

ok you will be ignored

[azure lava]

Including 2 on your chest piece

[pine oar]

My boots are the only thing that doesn't have resist and ofcourse the stadd

staff

[haughty niche]

I specifically remember yesterday going through a whole discussion on how to buy 90res items from trade for an ex each, which would only take 5 items to fully cap resists. What happened to that?

[pine oar]

my current resist situation

[azure lava]

In the sockets? If so, you can replace runes now

[pine oar]

YOu can? how?

[azure lava]

Swap lightning runes for cold if you can

[haughty niche]

ok so you just didn't follow any of the advice given yesterday then i guess

[azure lava]

Put a new one in

[pine oar]

not working

[daring dragon]

He clearly expects handholding imo

[haughty niche]

I literally sent a trade link. hes just complaining to complain

[atomic widget]

can't resocket until after patch

[azure lava]

Not a helpful comment mate

Oh, is the patch not out? My b

[atomic widget]

nah, not yet, no worries

[haughty niche]

i havent seen an announcement for it being out yet #old-game-news

[pine oar]

I need a solution to being stuck I am new, you cannot say get more resists, and expect me to know all the systems that come with that. I don't even like asking for help. I am just trying to because I actually like this game, not it's loot system but all else is fine.

[fluid heart]

do we know when the patch is gonna happen?

[pine oar]

and last I checked there is no update for switching runes

[azure lava]

Not til the patch, my b. Someone said it was out I think

[scenic salmon]

Friday afternoon? Friday

[azure lava]

Friday new Zealand time which is today in the western hemisphere

[haughty niche]

yesterday we mentioned:

1. sell either the chaos orbs or the greater jewelers orb on trade for exalts. Can use currency exchange.
2. Buy 5 80-90res items from trade. Probably rings/gloves/helm, maybe boots.

That would cap your resists properly and solve your issue.

Could even get a bit less res to have some life on the gear too and still be fine.

[scenic salmon]

Damm time travellers

[azure lava]

Chronomancy intensifies

[pine oar]

Alll my best resist gear is for a warrior as they require high strength stats or so it seems, this is what I do not understand, I keep getting insane drops for a class I do not have.

[winged quiver]

Question for my fire summoner witch should I grab from feast or raging spirits

Grim feast*

[haughty niche]

is this the first spirit gem?

[winged quiver]

I use flame wall rlly often

[pine oar]

ok I will try finding that gear

[winged quiver]

Yeah

[azure lava]

Raging spirits is your main skill so if you don't have it yet, you'll probably want it

[haughty niche]

1000% summon raging spirits

[winged quiver]

Sick!

[scenic salmon]

No that's just bad luck
That said if you want you could adapt to the gear you are getting
Very SSF thing to do only issue armour sucks

[haughty niche]

permanent minions kind of suck in act 1-2. They die too frequently

[weary cloud]

how am I suppiosed to beat mektul

[haughty niche]

So the Summon Raging Spirits helps out early a lot

[weary cloud]

I dont mind

[winged quiver]

I'll get grim feast next

[weary cloud]

like hard boss

but the dps check is so fking stupid

wth

[vernal wedge]

Someone to play with me against the mother of immondice ?

[azure lava]

If you have too much of some attributes you can respec to balance them out so you can use more types of gear

[weary cloud]

I have like 90% full uptime and by the end he has 25% left

???

[azure lava]

Which one is mektul again?

[haughty niche]

better weapon

[haughty niche]

straight line lava boss

[azure lava]

#2┃looking-for-group or https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1328202289755983932

[weary cloud]

I alr have a quite good weapon

[azure lava]

Can you screenshot it?

[pine oar]

This is what I see for gear with 80 plus cold resist lol I cannot equip that

[azure lava]

Because if you're losing to that boss I don't believe you

[wise cedar]

when playing in co-op is it generally better to double down on a certain element/status like freeze, or diversify the party and have 1 do freeze and another stun/shock/whatever?

[haughty niche]

he breaks a lava dam and walks slowly from one end to the other. A lot of new people have struggled on him cause they have ass damage

[weary cloud]

I am not struggling with his mechs

[haughty niche]

and if you reach the other end of the arena its just a hard-fail

[weary cloud]

I am struggling with the fact that the dps check is hard

and I am alr doing like full uptime

even on the lava mechs

[haughty niche]

what level are you?

[weary cloud]

48

wait

yea

49

48

[haughty niche]

you should DEFINITELY have a better bow by then

that ones pretty solid but its just super old

[weary cloud]

I even bought this one

sigh

what a stupid boss

I hate useless dps checks

[azure lava]

Depends on the specifics of the combos. Some stuff works fine with overlap like freeze since they both help build up. Stuff like ignite and bleed, though, do not stack. So if you have two people using an ignite build, one of them will literally do zero ignite damage to the boss because only the strongest ignite is active

[haughty niche]

Yeah well low level gear isn't going to last forever

[azure lava]

What level are you?

[weary cloud]

48

[pine oar]

So I just seached for level 70 equip requirement, 60 plus resist and they want 20 exaults lmfao

[azure lava]

Yeah that's pretty terrible then

What skills/supports are you using?

[weary cloud]

lightning bow

dropping the rod

and just going ham

[haughty niche]

Seriously dude?

Do the weighted sum like i showed you yesterday

[wooden lava]

@pine oar you're better off looking for several pieces of gear with two 25+ resists, it's a lot cheaper

[weary cloud]

1 alch orb

....

MANNNNNNNNNNNNNN

THIS SUCKS

do i really have to buy a boew from trade

[pine oar]

you know what I gtg I giveup

[azure lava]

I think you're searching for 60+% in one mod instead of a total sum

[scenic salmon]

One alch orb? Time to start selling your other stuff

[scenic salmon]

Do you really need transmutes

[haughty niche]

i showed them exactly what to search for yesterday and even provided a trade link. They just aren't attempting to try

[scenic salmon]

You forgot to add all Res with 3 weight though

[haughty niche]

good call, though in my experience that usually bumps up price. Still, should open up a decent amount that have like 10 all res rolls

[wise cedar]

alright makes sense. thank you!

[tawny zodiac]

is it good?

[haughty niche]

that is awful

[delicate geode]

how do you get 30 spirit for the gem?

[scenic salmon]

Fair, in any case any decent weight search will find awesome rings fast

[toxic jungle]

LF help lvling if anyone can assist it would be appreciated

[tawny zodiac]

👍

[azure lava]

#2┃looking-for-group or https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1328202289755983932

[weary cloud]

https://Nijika.is-a-good-waifu.moe/0UAg6m/chrome_l39G8MnOVb.png

[scenic salmon]

Mission reward act one

[weary cloud]

this one ok?

3 exalt

[quiet fossil]

I have a question that isn't related to "new player campaign." Where can I ask a question about poe2?

[scenic salmon]

How are you searching? Just curious

[weary cloud]

https://Nijika.is-a-good-waifu.moe/jXwmrC/chrome_qAMMQqvDJg.png

[haughty niche]

idk how big +4 proj is over just getting something like 100pdps or 150 edps

[scenic salmon]

For lighting arrow?

[weary cloud]

yea

[scenic salmon]

I'll look for highest DPS just put your budget down in the bar
And ask it to find increasingly more DPS till you find a good bow
I'll bet you can do better

[smoky fractal]

okay so im a new player so idk whats good and bad, it sounds super cool to put the unearth spell on my monk to get minions while i bonk but idk how good that actually is considering im, well, a monk.

[azure lava]

Here or #2┃general is probably fine

[quiet fossil]

Thank you

[weary cloud]

should I be looking at

dps at max quality?

[scenic salmon]

Do you have whetstones for it?

[smoky fractal]

wait nvm i need another weapon for it dont i

[scenic salmon]

Or plan to use them

[weary cloud]

not rly

I rly dont know what I am looking for

I just seartch for

lightning

and projectile

and like see the diff in the skill bar

[trim turret]

Yes and the minions will be weak without passives invested in them as well. Which can be done with weapon swapping, but might be tough for a new player.

[weary cloud]

I just think the dual string bow

likes

double the dps

cause u know

2 arrows

LMAO

[tepid cape]

they don't shotgun in my experience

[trim turret]

It's not. The two arrows can't usually hit the same target unless something has changed. Might be skill dependant.

[tepid cape]

so they help with density but not single target (rares, bosses)

[weary cloud]

oh ok

[haughty niche]

theres a bunch of ways to search. Could do generic dps search and look for ones with phys/lightning on them. Dualstring will definitely up the price a lot. It doesn't actually give much more damage, especially that early. Certainly good but not a prio

[azure lava]

All classes can use all skills and gear. That does mean there are good and bad combos for everyone, though. If you wanted to make a minion monk that's completely on the table. The question is how you optimize it and use the monk ascendancy classes to your advantage for it. All builds can work on any class, but the nuances differ based on your nearby nodes and ascendancy options

[weary cloud]

ah cheers amte

[smoky fractal]

i looked at the skill tree and i kinda wanna go a life steal, lightning monk rn but it might change

[weary cloud]

do u think the

% chance to chain an additional time

will be really good

cause u know my elec arrow chains with the rod right

[azure lava]

Careful, because it's very very hard to get leech (not life steal, this ain't LoL) for elemental attack damage. Most leech available is for physical attacks

[scenic salmon]

Your minions won't get the benefit from skill points that don't mention them
So trying to be a lightning monk and minions spreads you out too much unless you find a link

[haughty niche]

i think lightning arrow and elec arrow specify they cannot chain

so it probably wont do anything for those specifically

[azure lava]

The beams from lightning arrow can chain, but not the projectile

[weary cloud]

does it?

[weary cloud]

hmm

I guess its useless

ok

[scenic salmon]

hmmm....

[haughty niche]

Oh does it just have chain apply to the beams instead? or is that a separate mechanic. I haven't done a lightning ranger in poe2

[wooden lava]

if it converts physical damage to lightning, wouldn't a bow with lots of physical damage be best?

[tepid cape]

I'm not seeing chaining, most of damage I see comes from herald pops

single target: shock, Lightning Rod+Orb of Storms

Fub's build with Cast on Shock Ball Lightning does huge burst with the above, but drains mana super fast

[weary cloud]

https://Nijika.is-a-good-waifu.moe/SV8woU/chrome_P7nR9wKFyw.png

[tepid cape]

turn of CoS when not bossing, back to CoF

[weary cloud]

I dont enjoy that % to chain

[scenic salmon]

It's good though

And cheap

[scenic salmon]

You should sort by DPS at max quality btw

[tepid cape]

before you get into divine prices, theres going to be wasted modifiers

[weary cloud]

yeah

I can deal withr egal orbs

they are farmable with rare items

[tepid cape]

I used dualstrings the whole way up, budgeting 5 ex at lvl 28, 45, 75.

[weary cloud]

oh ayam dumb

this is level 48

I am level 44

fk

:)))

well

time to level up

[fossil mulch]

I'm in campaign, that's a good staff isn't ?

[civic rose]

sometime the game feel like it's slowed down 10 or 20%, is it because of the servers or the client?

[tepid cape]

pretty good for campaign

[stone onyx]

I keep getting consistant freezing and It's very annoying

[wooden lava]

press F1 to see where the slowdown is, for me it's usually shaders compiling

[stone onyx]

it's showing cpu

is it AMD issue?

[weary cloud]

question

do I need to upgrade my quiver

its level 8

HAHAHAH

[tepid cape]

AMD fine here

[weary cloud]

I mean the high level quiver seems like it gives the same stat

[haughty niche]

quiver is a considerable portion of your damage

[stone onyx]

I got 5950X it should be overkill for a single app

[tepid cape]

80% increased from this cluster

[weary cloud]

this aint it huh chief

[tepid cape]

could be network or shaders, watch your graph

[civic rose]

my graph is... wild

[haughty niche]

tried different renderer in settings?

[tepid cape]

those network spikes hurt

[haughty niche]

Any time a patch gives me wack performance in poe i try the different renderers. Super dependant on your specific pc parts etc

[tepid cape]

are you streaming something?

[stone onyx]

no didn't touch settings much, since didn't see improvement with textures nor shadows

[civic rose]

I don't think so, my network in task manager still 0%
Maybe my internet provider's problem

[stone onyx]

I am going to try out tonight hopefully something will change or wait till next weekend and try again

[haughty niche]

tried a different gateway?

im canadian but play on Washington gateway cause its just a lot more stable

[civic rose]

yes, I tried but there isn't much of a change, will change later again if this keep happening

[normal ibex]

pretty sure the guy who designed that metrics UI designed it for a 60" 4k TV hes sat 3foot away from, it looks horrible on a 1080 monitor

[haughty niche]

i think the guy who designed the metrics ui designed it in an hour for debugging and decided to leave it in for users to diagnose issues

its super barebones just cause its not meant to be up all the time

[winged quiver]

Ok so yah fortress flame wall with raging spirits is crazy thanks xD

[weary cloud]

ok so Iassume what I want is

%increase damage with bow skills

for ma quiver?

[lime epoch]

ı help relic altar level 22

[winged quiver]

Is incenrate or solar orb good with raging spirits? I can imagine it spawning on the pulses

[lime epoch]

kyochiwazz nickname

[civic rose]

another question, can you trust dps when comparing items?

[proper jay]

I got this on act 1 should I be looking for something to replace it or is this good, im playing lightning so

[haughty niche]

try out #2┃looking-for-group

[winged quiver]

113 increased lightning dmg!? Sheesh

[tepid cape]

sheet dps tells you what damage the ability does alone, you have to factor in any combos you're doing

[haughty niche]

not really

[proper jay]

also how do weapon slots work, like I have on one thing (I) a want and a focus, on (II) I have a staff, do I get all the stats of both all the time how does it work

[haughty niche]

in general its not super accurate, especially accounting for uptimes of other debuffs/skills. But worst case scenario you can estimate with it

[proper jay]

i got that on like first or second boss, or one of the early ones

[haughty niche]

only the active weaponset provides stats

[safe lance]

Idk about special cases but ideally you shouldn't get stats from the weapon set that is not active. But there are some bugs across various builds iirc.

[proper jay]

ohhh

[tepid cape]

Every 'pro' SRS build I've ever seen uses firewall with fortress. Not saying others don't work, just that there's a consensus that they're not as good

[proper jay]

So I got a good wand and focus and its not even doing anything because this boosts lightning more

[winged quiver]

Yeah that's what I'm using now I was just checking other good options

Fortress fire wall is crazy with it

[proper jay]

Wait is it better to have this 69% spell damage + 43% lightning damage or my staff with only 113% lightning damage

[tepid cape]

This game loves to give room to experiment, no requirement to follow cookie cutters though

[civic rose]

like these 2, i'm not sure if the poison may affect dps, or also the crit chance

[haughty niche]

%increases are all added up to their applicable damage types

[civic rose]

but the left one give higher dps

[haughty niche]

so if your spell scales with spell damage and lightning damage then it doesn't matter, they are effectively the same stat

[azure lava]

Poison magnitude is based on the physical and chaos damage of the hit that inflicted it. So critting would boost your damage and thus your poison magnitude

So if you're not actively scaling poison or phys/chaos damage it's probably not enough to even consider in your comparison

[proper jay]

so how is it that my wand and focus which looks like it provides more % damage and faster cast speed total shows as doing less dps on the ability?

wait it doesnt nevermind

[civic rose]

I'm using sniper build so phy/crit are my focus I guess

[proper jay]

would it be bad to try to chaos this and get rid of that fire damage
is chaos completely random on which thing its gonna get rid of

[dusky burrow]

completely random yeah

[safe lance]

not the harvest emoji I was looking for nvm

[proper jay]

I have a unique staff that apparently is worthless on trading so what should I do with it then

sell to merchant ?

[wooden lava]

disenchant to merchant

[safe lance]

I usually disenchant them

Gives chance shards > chance orbs

[stray bough]

Anyone on act 1 gonna get on and grind for a bit?

[tepid cape]

#2┃new-player-in-campaign-help message

[stray bough]

Gotcha sorry for the misunderstanding, thanks for the shout ✌️

[tepid cape]

https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1308714168576249887

[narrow violet]

is the new changes to meta gems gonna nerf cast on spells?

[haughty niche]

anything that runs multiple cast on x gems

[marsh valley]

hey can some one explain to me armor in this game

i find my self dying a bunch as warrior and have a lot of armor

[azure lava]

I'm confused about that change, tbh. What does it mean exactly?

"Skills socketed in a Meta Gem's sockets can no longer gain energy."

I thought that:

1. Only meta gems can gain energy
2. Meta gems cannot be socketed in meta gems

Therefore, no skill could have possibly gained energy while in a meta gem.

What am I missing here?

[shut abyss]

a bug ?

[azure lava]

Armor scales inversely with the size of the hit you take. In other words, the bigger the hit, the less your armor protects you. During the campaign, life and resists are far more important for your survival than armor, evasion, and energy shield

https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1328202289755983932

[azure lava]

But that change wasn't in the bug section. It was in the skill changes section

[stone wedge]

Sup I got a question

If you know it perhaps

Co op is Fucked on console it’s very Buggy, and I wanna transfer the 2nd account ( the couch Co op ) account to this other console

Does this mean it would be on both consoles

Or 1 looses full acces?

[shut abyss]

but afaik they were never suppose to like you said so has to be a bug ?

[stone wedge]

The way I read it, it sounds like the Zyclonia account would go to that console

And I keep Blackout?

[marsh valley]

so does that mean for warrior do i wanna focus on life regen and physical damage?

[azure lava]

I'm an ssf pc player so I have no clue. I only use the standalone client

[marsh valley]

plus stun

[shut abyss]

idk but it does say "accounts" and "merge"

[stone wedge]

Yea that’s what I’m reading too

[azure lava]

Warrior is just your class. All classes can use all skills and gear. What you focus on is up to you. I'm just saying that maximum life and elemental resistances on gear are incredibly strong and helpful for getting you through the campaign

[stone wedge]

I assume it does

Just abit scared I wipe my progress 🤣

The Co op has completely ruined the game in some aspects

Like Sekhmet doesn’t work Temple doesn’t work The Rituals are broken

[marsh valley]

so how do u get maximum life?

[stone wedge]

Like it fails to detect I’m the leader for some reason

[azure lava]

It sounds like it will wipe either your Playstation progress or whatever that other account is

[azure lava]

On gear

It can roll on any non-weapon piece

[marsh valley]

is it just like add on health as like a buff?

[azure lava]

Same with elemental resists

[rotund river]

nothing really got nerfed this patch right?

[shut abyss]

on trial of sekh atleast it matters who came to the zone first and who put in the coin

[azure lava]

No, an item can have a mod like, "+50 to maximum life"

[marsh valley]

ooooh

is there any vendors that would be good for that

im on act 2

[stone wedge]

The problem is

The timer ends

If I finish the mission it doesn’t open the door

[shut abyss]

ohh

[stone wedge]

And same for the Minute of survival timer ends and monsters keep coming

That’s why I wanna Unlink it

To put it on another psn account

[azure lava]

All vendors sell randomly generated items and all mods are randomly generated on all items. So you just have to keep your eyes peeled and seek those stats out.

https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1328202289755983932

I'd highly recommend reading and following this guide

[stone wedge]

But I’m afraid I’d wipe either my wife’s or my account

It says merge but this cannot be undone sounds like I’ll loose one

[vernal finch]

can I pause trail of chaos?

[azure lava]

You can pause it by pressing escape or opening passive tree, yeah

[vernal finch]

as in, can i log out of the game and come back to this later? or leave the zone to clear my inventory

[azure lava]

Idk, tbh

[vernal finch]

i know how to do it with trial of sek but idk with chaos

[shut abyss]

@stone wedge i guess email ggg or yolo it

[stone wedge]

Ah I read the bottom now

It sounds like it’s just that account

In that case it’s good

As it just ruins the game for me that half the modes don’t work

Alone it works all fine and if I do Co op it’s always broken so risking it is the play

[stone wedge]

Is there any mods in this discord?

[shut abyss]

this is unofficial poe discord

[stone wedge]

As on phone they deleted the Bar on the side to see who is online

[shut abyss]

so probly not

[stone wedge]

This game has Co op too right

Like with PC

Crossplay*

[azure lava]

The mods here are discord mods, they have no GGG authority

[proven matrix]

#is chaos statue in utzaal anything must have?>

[loud dirge]

Hey folks, how do I work out DPS for a weapon? I use the trade site and a weapon might say 200DPS, and then when I equip it, using the 'G' gem screen I see different values, it makes it difficult to know if I can trade for an upgrade.

[vernal finch]

well i ported out, went to my hideout, came back and the door wont open.. so i guess you can not leave trial of chaos lol

[azure lava]

https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1323030345876111530

[loud dirge]

@azure lava This answers my question perfectly, thank you.

[sturdy barn]

hi, is there a way to direct sniper/cleric/frost mage minions to just stay behind me?

right now the minion ai control is indeed quite bare minimum

[oblique bear]

Can anyone help me fight the final boss of act 1

[patent apex]

@oblique bear i can

[oblique bear]

@patent apex awesome

@patent apex ninyo5551

[swift rapids]

did a patch happen now?

[haughty niche]

#old-game-news

no

[wooden lava]

https://poe2db.tw/ says 3 hours from now, not sure how they came up with that though

[haughty niche]

they usually rely on past-times for stuff.

[loud forge]

which class is the best to start campaign with?

[haughty niche]

The stash tab sale one is usually exactly right

[haughty niche]

whatever interests you

[loud forge]

i was thinking monk or ranger

[haughty niche]

Theres no bad choice. Warrior has probably the worst tree / maces are kinda bleh, but even thats still useable

[loud forge]

i tried playing mage

feels squishy in act 3

[haughty niche]

every class feels like ass early

[loud forge]

oh

i was used to poe 1

[haughty niche]

also make sure you are trying to keep up with resistances

[azure lava]

https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1328202289755983932

[loud forge]

and d3

[haughty niche]

yeah compared to poe1 you are like... SUPER weak

then sometime around act 1 cruel you start outscaling the enemies pretty hard and just roll through the rest of campaign

the cruel difficulty isn't really balanced well. Makes sense considering its temporarily there to replace act 4-6 while they are being worked on

[scarlet falcon]

with stitched mask does grinning immolation only use your hp or does it still use your maximum ES

[onyx dock]

Is there any guide to help me get a better understanding of how to value items for my character/build and in general for trading?

[azure lava]

#price-check📉 might have something helpful.

But for the campaign most stuff isn't going to be worth much. I'd keep nifty items for leveling alts and that's about it

And all the currency, of course

[queen sinew]

summon witch is good for first timer mapper ?

[azure lava]

Almost all builds can do early mapping well if they're properly built

[haughty niche]

I believe stitched demon just means you always are at 0 ES, but your max ES is unchanged

[scarlet falcon]

so grinning immolation would hit VERY hard

[haughty niche]

probably? It would hit the same as normal

you just dont have ES

[onyx dock]

Not only price wise, but for example if i get to rare quarterstaff, to know which one would be better for me

[fierce cloak]

what builds use pariahs embrace?

just found one ssf hardcore and died so

[scarlet falcon]

well I have like 6K ES

[fierce cloak]

wanna try and use it

[azure lava]

Equip them both and check your skill dps in the skill panel for an idea of which is better

[haughty niche]

oh yeah then it would damage pretty hard

[azure lava]

There's also https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1323030345876111530

[azure lava]

Can you screenshot it in #2┃build-planning? I enjoy a good theorycraft based on a unique

[velvet notch]

Is it somehow possible to filter on physical damage on poe2.trade? I can sort but cant find the correct filter:

[azure lava]

Oh that's... Just a leveling item. If that

I wouldn't make a build around that

[fierce cloak]

ah shoot okay 😄 lol thought it might be good because of the spirit

and the % and the reduce mana

[azure lava]

I'm not quite sure what you're asking. What do you mean filter?

[azure lava]

All chests can roll spirit and the %reduced mana isn't gonna make up for the lack of life, res, and base stats on it

[sturdy palm]

can somone help me? i trying to get last points, i killing bosses on ilvl 82 (tier 16 waystone, irredated and corrupted maps) with no corrupted node on atals and i dont recive any points

[river grove]

Did the update drop?

[azure lava]

#2┃after-acts-help also hover over the 8/10 for Insight

[haughty niche]

#2┃after-acts-help

[azure lava]

#old-game-news

[scarlet falcon]

final question, how does damage taken before life work. with the helhound that's 20%, if I take the talents and jewels of 4% damage taken from mana before life if I hit 80% will that be all the damage?

[main quartz]

last 2 points are achieved from killing the arbiter of ash

[velvet notch]

Well i can normally filter the stats with the stat filter but i cant find the correct one the filter physical damage overall of the staffs. This just gives me the added one:

[river grove]

All it says it's coming out today ;-;

[scarlet falcon]

or is it multiplicative and I'd still need to get to 100% it's just it hits 20% less because the helhound takes some

[haughty niche]

it would say "patch has dropped" when it does. All game news including patches goes there

[azure lava]

You should be able to sort by physical dps after you search. You might also be able to filter by min/max damage on the left, I think?

[river grove]

(normally id be able to read through it fully, but I'm at work)

[haughty niche]

no like an actual message & ping will show up in game news

saying the patch is out

[viscid jasper]

Skeletal Snipers Witch Minion Infernalist T15 Quad Breach Map Showcase - Path Of Exile 2

What does Quad Breach mean. eli5 thank you

[haughty niche]

Breach is an endgame mechanic. That map has 4 Breaches

touch hand -> circle expand -> kill things -> pick up loot for 45 minutes

[delicate geode]

trying to find a monk build i can follow while leveling, ive been looking but can only rly find a leveling build which will be needing a respec when entering later game or i find a full endgame build which i cant do yet. anyone got something that lets me follow it from early to endgame?

[viscid jasper]

youre the GOAT thank you. how do you add 4 breaches to one map

[main quartz]

Breach tablet and Breach atlas points can give your maps more breaches. So instead of having one breach in your map, you can get up to 10+

[haughty niche]

get lucky

with breach atlas passives

#2┃after-acts-help

[viscid jasper]

🙇‍♂️

[river grove]

Yeah was typing that msg out as you sent that typing on phone is slow

[azure lava]

If you want to play a lightning rod + orb of storms monk build, you can use https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1326972100409426081

Idk if there are any endgame monk guides for lightning rod, but if you find one, it's a great skill to level with

[quaint tusk]

Hi

Is level 22 appropriate for the valley of titans boss?

[haughty niche]

check the area level

[quaint tusk]

How do I do that

[haughty niche]

top right of screen

[quaint tusk]

Is that monster level?

[haughty niche]

Yeah

[quaint tusk]

It was 16 last time i checked

[haughty niche]

you should be around the area level usually.

[quaint tusk]

Boss is beating me into a pulp

No issues with regular enemies

[haughty niche]

that boss is also just buggy as hell

I think his stab move still does 15x expected damage or something insane

[quaint tusk]

Thats not the issue

The issue are flying enemies that spawn

[haughty niche]

those should die instantly when you attack them

[quaint tusk]

Oh no

[haughty niche]

unless your damage is abysmal

[quaint tusk]

They dont

They take 2 hits

[haughty niche]

thats basically instantly

[quaint tusk]

Also the hooded figure

Will he always and forever identify my items or do I need to keep the scrols thst identify items

[haughty niche]

he always ids. then a different person does it for you in endgame

[quaint tusk]

Ive got a long way before end game

I can't believe a game like this would appeal this much to me

But here we are

[haughty niche]

depending on what appeals to you about this game, poe1 could be more fun. Or it couldn't . Depends what you like

[quaint tusk]

Also is this the right channel to talk about games performance?

[proven matrix]

is chaos statue in utzaal anything must have?

[azure lava]

Idk, but enough people do it so it's socially acceptable

[haughty niche]

we can help with some game performance issues, but its kinda random dart-board technique

[quaint tusk]

So theres this setting

Called shadow quality and one option enables global illumination

And if I enable global illumination my fps gets cut in half

[haughty niche]

global illum can be demanding

[quaint tusk]

Is it ray tracing?

Im sitting at max settings at comfortable 160fps @ 1440p

If I enable that it gets 70-80

[haughty niche]

It is not ray tracing, but it does attempt to achieve similar things as raytracing by simulating bounces off of surfaces

[oblique bear]

Can anyone help me get better gear I am lvl 18 merc

[quaint tusk]

Ah thats the reason maybe why

My 7900xt doesn't perform well with RT

Or anything that simulates RT

[haughty niche]

I really don't know much about it, but its like supposed to be more physically correct or something than ray tracing. Ray tracing is actually kind of hacky in how it works and its nuts how good it actually looks with how they calculate it

[quaint tusk]

Ive been using mercenary and i must say hes a lot of fun

[scarlet falcon]

with helhound (20% damage taken before life) and talents and jewels (damage taken from mana before life) do I only need 80% of the latter or still 100% because they happen off the remainder of damage?

[quaint tusk]

@haughty niche do u have any expirience in builds? I could show u mine and u could tell me what am I doing good/bad

[haughty niche]

You could ask for help in #1308715058716610580 but it can be slow for answers.
If you are struggling with damage id suggest checking when you last updated your weapon

[quaint tusk]

I believe its updated

I crafted it from a normal item to rare

When I began act 2

[haughty niche]

I want to say the latter, but I don't know

[round drum]

If i leave a trial of sekhama will it end it? or can i go back to where i was

[quaint tusk]

Trials are in act 3?

Do enemies scale if I invite people into my group?

[haughty niche]

i was told leaving between floors lets you re-enter. But i have had no luck with that

[haughty niche]

Trials of the Sekhima are an act 2 thing. Trials of Chaos are act 3.

Both provide ascendency points

And yes enemies do scale life values with more people

[floral isle]

hello i need help

[junior marsh]

Ive already killed Doryani in Cruel and takled to him in the camp but nothing is happening. How do I access the Endgame? Anyone could help me?

[floral isle]

each time i want to insert relics and move my mouse the box disapires

[haughty niche]

press z

[floral isle]

tyy

[haughty niche]

that toggles item highlighting which also toggles some ui, including that one for some reason lol

[trim turret]

But did it get good stats in the process? It being rare doesn't mean its necessarily good.

[fleet sleet]

Is it better to just reach endgame and hope for djinn baryas to drop? I have only gotten one and I unfortunately failed/the trade site didn’t have any up for third ascendancy. Trying to do it solo. I farmed Utzaal/Aggarot in Cruel for 2.5 hrs to no avail.

[haughty niche]

talked to him in the refuge?

[junior marsh]

yes

[quaint tusk]

For my needs yes, it gets better physical damage than anything ive used or seen so far

[haughty niche]

just do it later when you get them naturally

[quaint tusk]

What are ascendancy points?

[haughty niche]

Ascendency is the subclass feature in poe

[quaint tusk]

Ah I believe ive seen that in a video

[haughty niche]

you can get up to 8 points. 2 per difficulty of trial

[fleet sleet]

Okies ty! I just wanted to do in campaign so when i reach endgame I’d be a but stronger lol

[haughty niche]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Ascendancy_class#AscendancyClasses this page has tabs that explain things

[haughty niche]

sorry dont know

[quaint tusk]

Also if I buy an armor set from a microtransaction shop do I get to use that armor on all characters?

[haughty niche]

Yes it is useable for all characters unless it states otherwise (which is only for a couple things in poe1), but you can only have it on 1 character at a time

when attempting to equip it on another character it will unequip it from the previous

[daring dragon]

Talked to him in the past?

[quaint tusk]

Im thinking about that cosmic set

[daring dragon]

As in the past timeline

[quaint tusk]

I see I see

[haughty niche]

theres a lot of cosmetics

[quaint tusk]

The galaxy one

Like stellar

[junior marsh]

Ive killed the last boss of the 3rd act and takled to him on the campment

[daring dragon]

In the past timeline?

[junior marsh]

yes

[rotund river]

its smexy, i use it

[trim turret]

Wait for it to go on sale. There are usually daily sales of various items.

[haughty niche]

theres a lot of space-focused ones too, at least in poe1 lol.

Should work. The cases where its for 1 class only is like Maroider in poe1, which makes your Marauder more and more ripped depending on your strength

[quaint tusk]

@haughty niche so is that like a whole armor set or do I get to keep armor that im using right now but just change how it looks?

[rotund river]

its like a skin that goes on top of your armor

[quaint tusk]

Alright man, thanks for letting me know that

[junior marsh]

I have the portal in Zigurat open and everything

[haughty niche]

press k in game (i think thats the button)

[arctic bobcat]

how to check your characters crit chance ?

[quaint tusk]

I see I see

[daring dragon]

I hoped this would be it since someone else had a similar issue yesterday and that worked for them. If it didn't work for you then that was my best shot.

[junior marsh]

oh no

you were Right

killed him in the past

[rotund river]

and it doesnt change and you dont have to re-equip if you change armor, if that was your question

[junior marsh]

but talkted to him in the present, gg

[humble karma]

is that to low? i am pm-ing the dude but he isnt inviting 😄

[trim turret]

Check vendors, use your cheap currency like transmute and augment orbs to craft, make sure you're picking and identifying gear from the ground, and not just rares. Magic (blues) also.

[junior marsh]

thank you so much

[quaint tusk]

Alright, thanks

[rotund river]

yup

[daring dragon]

Glad you found a solution

[haughty niche]

you get to equip cosmetics you own in the cosmetic menu and it just replaces the visual of your armour regardless of what you are equipping

[lucid quarry]

Open skills, and then arrow there, should be in that detailed info

[junior marsh]

glad you gave it 🙂

[azure lava]

You can also right click a skill on your bar to open the detail window directly

[quaint tusk]

Well thank you guys, if im having trouble with something I'll probably come here

[arctic bobcat]

ah okay was confused since i couldnt find it on character tab

[azure lava]

Yeah, each skill can have a different crit chance

[arctic bobcat]

wait so does it show crit for each skill ?

[azure lava]

Yes

[arctic bobcat]

ahh i see

[daring dragon]

In each skills advanced info yeah

[azure lava]

If you check all their detail windows

[arctic bobcat]

gotcha

thanks

[gilded parrot]

how many prefix and suffixes an item can get?

[haughty niche]

normal - 0
magic - 1 of each
rare - 3 and 3

[azure lava]

Normals, 0
Magics, one of each
Rares, 3 of each (except jewels, 2 of each)
Uniques,???

[azure lava]

Uniques, 0*

[haughty niche]

yeah uniques can have as much or little as they like. Pretty sure one of the jewels can roll 0 on a stat and become a 0stat item

[azure lava]

I wonder how long til we see a 0-mod Erian's Cobble

[haughty niche]

and yeah that helmet can technically roll 0 on everything, which doesn't visibly show the 0 stat on the item, making it empty

[humble karma]

does block chance is lucky work the same like in poe1?

[humble orbit]

what passive node which makes you 1 hp and gives chaos damage immunity used for, at least google says that chaos damage is most rare one, why even use it?

[wooden lava]

chaos inoculation

top right

[humble orbit]

ye but what this passive is used for

why its worth losing all hp

[wooden lava]

oh sorry, misread

[humble orbit]

for resist of least used damage type

[solar bison]

What's the easiest class for someone who never played PoE1 to understand and use somewhat well?

[viral saffron]

You become immune to chaos damg

[shut abyss]

afaik chaos also does double damage to es

[azure lava]

Yeah. Idk if there's a keyword, but if you hold and click it should show how it works

[rotund river]

whatever seems coolest, you can use any type of weapon as long as you have the stats for it

[haughty niche]

should. Lucky means roll twice take best in poe

[solar bison]

I'm thinking of trying out witch as my first character

[humble karma]

i still didnt buy the item just looking on trade right now

dont even know where to start at

[azure lava]

Life and resists probably

[solar bison]

I should just play standard right?

[rotund river]

go for it, it seems cool

[azure lava]

Depends on what you wanna do

We can't tell you how you should play

[solar bison]

I just wanna kill stuff and get cool loot ig I know hardcore is one life but idk what solo self found is

[azure lava]

It means no trading or partying with others

[solar bison]

Ima just so standard then

[azure lava]

You can migrate ssf characters (and your whole stash) to standard later if you want

(once the patch goes live)

[haughty niche]

Imo the best way to play if you don't know what you want is to just stick to non-ssf non-hc. You can always just not trade if you don't like it

[humble karma]

thats a problem.. what would be the best place to get res on atm dont even know, but i dont need stats, mana, hp
ES, ES max and res, spirit, +to minion skills
but i dont know on which parts can be what atm

[azure lava]

I say the best way is to play ssfhc because if you don't like it you can always go to standard, but not the other way around

[solar bison]

I'll just do standard and go from there

[haughty niche]

Trade is quite powerful, and i agree that it does ruin progression in many cases, but its also a super strong crutch for newer players to help them catch up and fix issues with their build

[azure lava]

https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1328202289755983932

[solar bison]

What movement type do most people use? I'm guessing wasd

[azure lava]

Wasd is more popular by far just from word of mouth in discord

[humble karma]

i finished campaign, got my fingers on 28d now i am shopping 😄

[haughty niche]

I like wasd. I was tempted to stick to click-to-move but it feels fucking TERRIBLE in poe2. Like they dipped you in honey and you are crawling around

[trim turret]

Chaos is used plenty in the game. Being immune to one of the five damage types in the game is very valuable. You go all in on energy shield and use that to survive. Or right now there's a way of doing it with mind over matter, which makes all damage go to your mana.

[azure lava]

Ah, I see. In that case rings and belts are probably the best places for res. They don't have great suffix options and rings can have implicit res

[trim turret]

How do you have 28 divines with resists that look like that?

[dusk umbra]

whats is MAGIC FIND?

[humble karma]

thats called getting lucky, doing 10, t1 maps and pulling 28d out of it

[azure lava]

It's community shorthand for the mod, "%increased rarity of items found"

[azure lava]

X

[trim turret]

That sounds sus and highly unlikely. Hope you didn't pay real money for those.

[haughty niche]

they were similarly "lucky" in poe1

[humble karma]

seer gave me a ring xD

[azure lava]

You found a seer while doing your t1 maps?

[humble karma]

some transfer ele dmg to chaos dmg bs

[azure lava]

Can you ss the seer vendor node?

[humble karma]

yes

[azure lava]

Okay, getting it from an insanely lucky unique pull makes me less sus

[humble karma]

w8 i still have the screen shot of it

[azure lava]

Tho they could have just bought the unique with real money

[reef meadow]

if there is a blinking skull with a + under it... it means theres a boss i never did right. because i fully opened the area map but theres nothing

[azure lava]

There's a legend in the top left of the map

[humble karma]

😂 ❓ ... nope

[azure lava]

And some are bugged to not Grey out

[hard cypress]

Icon also shows the boss location so make sure you're in the right map

[reef meadow]

its right beside azak bog

[azure lava]

You've avoided the gaze of shame. For now.

[azure lava]

Hover over the skull icon. It should say the zone it's in

[wooden lava]

i believe blinking means that it's new or changed since you last opened the map

[solar bison]

Is there any way to increase my fov because I can't find it in the settings

[reef meadow]

narags hut it says hmm

[humble karma]

dude i farmed in settlers like 20 mirrors and spend 1,2k hours in 4 months in the game in my first league so expect me going nuts again
but yes that was a lucky drop

[haughty niche]

Just know that everyone's suspision about your currency game in both games is warrented cause you have unbelievably insane luck in both games while simultaneously seemingly not knowing whats going on at all

[humble karma]

btw did have a lucky start there as well lol

[azure lava]

In poe1 you could increase fov by going windowed mode and lowering the window height while maintaining the width. idk if it works in poe2

[reef meadow]

ahhh its in matlan. thx

[wooden lava]

@humble karma nice try Elon

[solar bison]

Damn

[humble karma]

ask BiPolar he knows at least lol

[solar bison]

I wish there was just a fov slider, it feels really closed in

[azure lava]

If you can scroll in/out, that's the best you can do

[haughty niche]

fov only really works for 1stperson

[solar bison]

I mean like a way to zoom further out

[azure lava]

I mean, you still have a field of view in this game, it's just top-down. But yeah, a slider would be harder to give an accurate description of how it enhances/reduces fov

[dusk umbra]

tyvm

[light hedge]

Man does anyone know how long the ticket response time is I’ve been waiting 7 weeks now

[daring dragon]

That seems indeed very long when I take other games as a reference.

What was your issue?

[haughty niche]

ggg was on holidays for the last few weeks

[daring dragon]

Yeah they are probably very busy + that

[light hedge]

Yeah the initial response was like 2 days

[daring dragon]

Definitely a factor here

[light hedge]

The follow up response going in 7 weeks

[daring dragon]

#2┃looking-for-group

[solar bison]

Is there an easy place where I can find the story of PoE1?

[haughty niche]

https://www.youtube.com/@KittenCatNoodle

local poe lore fiend ^

[solar bison]

Thank you

[haughty niche]

check the playlists

[austere tree]

is it possible to filter for what it allocated, for example im speicifly looking for doomsayer

but this would show all

[solar bison]

Much appreciated

[sturdy barn]

hello, does the rage meter affect spell/spell phys damage?

[haughty niche]

you can hover over dotted text for descriptions/explenations

specified attack damage

[humble karma]

do we have just one atlas-tree page?

[daring dragon]

Yes

[haughty niche]

yes

the atlas tree is worse in practically every way compared to poe1 so don't expect much from it

also #2┃after-acts-help

[sturdy barn]

i suspected so, but check this build guide by a utuber
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/1t190x01

he opted for font of rage for the soul offering skill, thats why its confusing

[jovial latch]

hey. I am new monk looking for sekima trial carry. can any one help?

[haughty niche]

skeletal brutes use attacks

minion damage scaling is always annoying to understand because its soo different per minion

[haughty niche]

#2┃looking-for-group

[sturdy barn]

i see that means if i m not using a melee weapon/have melee skills my character will not benefit from rage (like detonate dead)

[haughty niche]

you don't benefit from rage at all

but your font of rage affects allies

which would help the skeletal brutes

[sturdy barn]

thanks

[humble karma]

did they mention a bench and when we will get one 😄

[haughty niche]

no and no

Im pretty sure they want runes to replace bench

The patch coming sometime today will let you replace the rune on gear

Current issue is you cannot replace runes on gear to swap resists etc. Also super early on you can't guarantee you get the runes for the resists you need. Its kinda just a worse bench

[humble karma]

i dont know why they are so anty crafting, or letting u easy play around with ur gaer

[humble karma]

saw that, btw which runes can i place on my weapon

i did try some of them but they dont wanna

[haughty niche]

depends on weapon and what damage you intend to be doing.

[humble karma]

all of them say martial weapon

[haughty niche]

caster weapons dont get sockets

[humble karma]

a ok

[fleet sleet]

Are chance orbs more common in endgame or do people just break uniques for the shards?

[main quartz]

both

[fleet sleet]

Thank you!

[humble karma]

but i saw some caster weapons with a stat looking like a crafter one

[haughty niche]

corruption outcome

[shut wasp]

hi im playing monk and I got no clue what to do with talent tree, does anyone have a beginer build guide?

[humble karma]

this

[haughty niche]

instead of replacing implicits in poe2, theres an outcome that adds an enchant

[humble karma]

how do i get that

[pastel saddle]

Don't know where else to ask, in which channel should I ask how much an item is worth?

[main quartz]

Corrupt and hope for the best