2┃new-player-in-campaign-help

[loud dew]

so physical damage increas in passive skill tree also add damage to your physical spell like bonestorm?

or just add to normal hitting?

[haughty niche]

poe has never given significant damage from attributes. Unless you did some expensive attribute stacking build that gets damage enabled by specific unique items etc.

[rich prairie]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/562ii0n6

[rich prairie]

Ouf 🙂‍↕️

[sour pebble]

it's a "From Nothing" with Iron Reflexes. The maxroll passive tree is bugged.

[rich prairie]

Okok Ty

[sour pebble]

Use PoB. It's just better.

It can handle this situation.

[trim turret]

Depends the wording of the specific node.

[loud dew]

confuse the heck out of me

[dusky burrow]

"#% increased Physical Damage" ✅ (only if not on a martial weapon, like a mace or bow)
"#% increased Global Physical Damage" ✅
"#% increased Spell Physical Damage" ✅
"#% increased Physical Damage with Hits" ✅
"#% increased Attack Physical Damage" ❌
"#% increased Physical Damage with Attacks" ❌

[loud dew]

no wonder SHtlon musk cant play this game

[dusky burrow]

the most important distinction is attacks vs. spells

[loud dew]

thank for the infos

[oak monolith]

Act 2 of the campain. Which one should I do first?

[sour pebble]

Keth

[oak monolith]

got them all at the same time

[oak monolith]

oki :)

[sour pebble]

Keth is the best choice to do next

[dusky burrow]

the damage of attacks will be based off of your weapon directly, like leap slam with a mace. for spells, the weapon will just provide stats, like spark with a wand.

[oak monolith]

thank you

[loud dew]

yeah the colosus boss at valley of titans is buggy so watch out

[rich prairie]

And what I need to add at at the trade site at „stat filter“ to search this

[haughty niche]

also this is only in relation to the passive skill tree.
The %increased physical damage will only increase the weapon's local stats if its rolled on a weapon, confusingly.

[safe lance]

Now keth 😽

[sour pebble]

filter search is ~Iron Re

[rich prairie]

Tysm!

[shrewd jay]

How do i sell more than the max quantity of items om trade2 website? i can only stack 20 of the item but i have 60 🙂

[vivid cedar]

what do i do to get 40 spirits from buged boggggggggggggggggggggggg

[sour pebble]

if you have 60 items and you want to sell all of it for 5 divine, then you type 5/60 in the price

you put all 60 into a public stash and right click and set the item type (e.g divine orb) and in the box you'd type 5/60 or w/e

[trim turret]

If it's currency use the currency exchange.

[sour pebble]

bro i can never remember which should be the numerator or demoninator lol

[trim turret]

Kill the witch in act 3 cruel and use the item she drops.

[vivid cedar]

what happens if item isnt droped

[sour pebble]

then you killed it in act 6!

[haughty niche]

you already got it then

[exotic wasp]

Hey guys! I hope this is the right channel. I'm completely new to PoE 2, never played PoE1 before. Just finished Act 2 but I'm struggling with core mechanics and have a few questions. Is anyone willing to answer a few of them in voice. Thank you in advance

[sour pebble]

actually they both drop it

nvm

[haughty niche]

The icon on the map shows shes not killed yet despite her being killed btw

[trim turret]

This is the channel, ask away.

[haughty niche]

its a visual bug

[exotic wasp]

could we do this in voice maybe? feel like my questions are way too broad to be answered through text

[trim turret]

I won't do voice. Someone else might but we get questions of all kinds here and have been doing this for some time.

[loud dew]

man, monk sure is a hard class for new comer

[trim turret]

Monk is super strong. What issue are you having with him?

[loud dew]

die...alot

i had to switch to summoner

[trim turret]

Like any class, you want life and resists on gear. Monk has good disengage skills.

[exotic wasp]

well then I'll try asking the simple ones first. so I know that you have three basic stats, but what do they actually do despite being requirements to equip weapons or skills?

[vivid cedar]

any idea if venom drought visual bug too?

[haughty niche]

dunno

[trim turret]

Hit C and mouse over them. They provide small bonuses but their main purpose is to meet requirements. There are attribute stacker builds, but they require specific gear.

[vivid cedar]

this shows like its not claimed right?

[haughty niche]

i think that shows that you chose the green option

[vivid cedar]

i c makes sense

thats all attributes right?

or i can check that somewhere

[loud dew]

me playing monk...jump in...bitch slap by a boss...jump out...boss spit fire ball....die

[trim turret]

How far did you get?

[loud dew]

end of act 1 as monk before i quit. i am playing as summoner at mid act 3

[trim turret]

Maybe just not your playstyle. But act 1 is when I was able to start chaining abilities to together and crushing things. Monk is very setup and payoff.

[exotic wasp]

okay I see. so far I've collected a few new gear pieces. how do I know if one of them is actually worth keeping? I know to disenchant or salvage gear to receive items to upgrade future gear

[trim turret]

During campaign, life and resists on gear, movement speed on boots, and weapons that are appropriate for your build are what you need. Everything else can be salvaged/disenchanted/sold. There is no gear you should really be hanging onto if you aren't going to wear it.

[fierce panther]

what does the tier 2 mean?

[trim turret]

It rolls less lower tiers of mods on it.

[strange onyx]

should i chance sol.ar amulet?

[loud dew]

i just started playing this game after that noob elon musk screw up so hard. so i want to test myself to see if i can handle this game

pretty far....not good

[exotic wasp]

so simpley equip gear that has better stats. on monk that means better evasion and energy shield, right? I feel like I'm dying from one hit by enemies right now. is that normal or does that mean my equipment sucks and I should go back to get better gear?

[dusky burrow]

prioritize resistances and life

before you look at the evasion and energy shield

[trim turret]

All characters can use all equipment. But yes the monk has easy access to evasion and energy shield passives. But yeah life and resists are more important.

[exotic wasp]

so get gear with armor on it or what kind of resistances?

[trim turret]

Things that say resist.

Armor isn't a resist.

[vivid cedar]

sry dumb question but does 5% increased Attributes per Socketed Rune or Soul Core do anything here?

since we have all elemental res

[trim turret]

Lightning, Cold, Fire, Chaos resists.

[haughty niche]

all ele res is just the 3 of fire/cold/lightning

[haughty niche]

it gives you 5% increased attributes per socketed rune or soul core

[vivid cedar]

would be nice to have chaos as well haha

[vivid cedar]

soo it gives 5% increase to ur overall stats for each socketed rune not just armor

[exotic wasp]

okay. maybe the braodest question. I don't deal any damage right now. whats the best way to increase my damage? i feel support gems don't do much right now. maybe I'm building wrong? I kinda want to build my own character though and not rely on build tutorials

[haughty niche]

per sockeded core/rune in that body armour, yes.
Attributes being str/dex/int.

[trim turret]

Need way more info. What class, skills, supports? What does your passive tree look like?

[vivid cedar]

that would mostly help for stack builds prob thats why it costs soo much..

[haughty niche]

exactly

[vivid cedar]

could u give me any good suggestions to switch all attribute to something else

[fierce panther]

does going into the passive tree while solo pause the game?

[dusky burrow]

yeah

[haughty niche]

https://poe2db.tw/Morior_Invictus#MoriorInvictusModifiers

[exotic wasp]

invoker monk

[trim turret]

What's your weapon look like? Attacks scale off your weapon so you have to keep that up to date.

[exotic wasp]

i'm having issues with trading rn so once the support fixes that I'll trade for the pillar of gods cuz apparentely thats a way to get through the early game pretty easily

[trim turret]

That is for the aforementioned stat stacker type builds.

[azure lava]

What level are you?

[exotic wasp]

35

[trim turret]

You're better off just looking for a better weapon. Are you checking vendors and crafting on base itemsthat you find/buy? It never hurts to transmute and augment a couple decent white base items to see if you get something better.

[azure lava]

Okay that staff isn't too far behind. If you cannot find anything better in the vendors, If I were you I'd regal it and put two sockets in it with iron runes for 40% inc phys damage. And maybe even whetstone it to 20%

[trim turret]

Or do what Byron says. Those are good options as well.

[azure lava]

Tho tbh you can probably make a better one by transmuting/augmenting white qstaves you find

[exotic wasp]

ok wait so I should use items to make my gear better rn? I thought I should keep it for later stages of the game where I might need them more

[trim turret]

Nope. You should spend currency pretty freely unless they're exalts or divines or by some miracle you drop a mirror.

[real glade]

Can't you see monsters level? Lame

[trim turret]

But that's why you should be salvaging and disenchanting, to have a decent source of currency to use.

[azure lava]

If you press tab you can see the zone level in the top right

[sour pebble]

It's determined by the zone level.

[trim turret]

Monster level = area level which is displayed when you open up your minimap.

[exotic wasp]

oh I seee okay. what are those items you just listed tho?

[haughty niche]

Rares/unique monsters drop gear a tiny bit over area lvl unless that changed from poe1

[azure lava]

Exalted orbs and divine orbs are typically the main currencies people trade with, so those are less likely to be worth using on your gear

[trim turret]

Valuable currencies that are used for trading. Exalt orbs are like the $1 bill, divines are the $100 bill, mirror of kalandra is something most players never see.

[exotic wasp]

okay perfect. so dont use those, but everything else is something I should use?

[safe lance]

Idk I did this and I regret it, I used exalts in act 1 as it seemed like it was their philosophy based on the reveal stream and was out of currency and struggling until late normal acts.

This was on day 1 btw.

[sour pebble]

Huh... TIL that rares in PoE 1 are +2 monster level and rares in PoE 2 are only +1 monster level.

[safe lance]

TIL too

[trim turret]

I did too, but we're so early it's not like saving up really does anything for us long term.

[sour pebble]

Unless the wiki is wrong, but this is so easy to test by just killing mobs and looking at the ilvl of stuff they drop

so it's hard to imagine this is wrong

[exotic wasp]

thank you guys. Ill try and play some more 🙂

[safe lance]

there are also other reasons (I was also trying out how the new weapons and skills work), but it took a very long time to recover. It might turn totally new players off.

[trim turret]

Beyond that, it's also how you set things up. You using killing palm to get power charges before you use falling thunder, etc.

[safe lance]

There seem to be some coded drops for exalts, alch and obv skill gems in acts. Not quest rewards but I have seen that you definitely get a certain number at least while leveling.

[exotic wasp]

yes I got the hang of that already. I will try to advance further and see where that takes me 🙂 maybe I can make a build on my own

[safe lance]

Idk how others feel but maybe using these whenever you feel stuck sounds like a decent idea?

[fierce panther]

does corrupting a unique item do anything?

[safe lance]

If you are struggling and cant get past a certain point then you try to buy gear from vendors, or try to craft with orbs etc

yes

look under uniques https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Corrupted#Corruption_outcomes

[main quartz]

Unless you're SSF it's almost always better to trade than to craft in early levels

[trim turret]

Yeah it can have multiple good or bad outcomes.

[trim turret]

One other thing. You typically don't want to fill in an entire passive "wheel" on the tree. You want to go up the left OR the right side to get to the notable (the larger passive). You want to purchase as few small nodes as possible.

[hollow marsh]

Hello guys! A question regarding itemization. I am running a minion master witch. I bought myself nice https://pathofexile2.wiki.fextralife.com/Enfolding+Dawn+Pilgrim+Vestments. When I looked at poe2 trade website I could not find rare items which would give me 100 spirit. Am I stuck with this armor or does it make sense to switch it to something with more ES/other stats (but less spirit) later in the game? I am currently halfway through act 1 cruel.

[oak monolith]

hi there, i have these quests now. The top 2 I have no idea with how to continue. Is there something im missing or do i need to complete the bottom 2 first?

[fierce panther]

whats the difference between "Mana recovery rate" and "Mana regeneration rate"?

[trim turret]

Well there are other items that give spirit, namely sceptres. And 100 from the campaign. So you need to decide if it's worth it or not.

[storm oriole]

anyone tryna group up i have a lvl 89 spark

[hollow harness]

How does mana regen work? Is it always a percent of the max mana?

[trim turret]

Well the bottom two feed into the second one. And ancient vows you'll discover from exploring.

[trim turret]

#2┃looking-for-group and this is the channel for first time campaign playthroughs anyway.

[lament stone]

https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Path_of_Exile_2_Wiki in future use the official wiki, the fextra wiki is already outdated

[oak monolith]

okay tyy

[stuck void]

Where should I report a bug? I'm entering Jiquani's Machinarium from the waypoint and there's a door that wont open

[lament stone]

youre entering from the wrong side of the zone, there is a waypoint inside jiquanis machinarium

[stuck void]

Oooh. Weird that it doesn't stay unlocked

[lament stone]

zones reset if you havent been in them for 7-15 minutes

[terse wyvern]

Am i missing something with skill set passive points? Can I just allocate the skill points normally and use them for both weapon sets?

[haughty niche]

Ye

The weaponset points use normal skillpoints

They just let you split one into 2 branches

[restive heron]

italiani?

[haughty niche]

This server is english only for moderation reasons. You could see if someone who knows can help you out in direct private messages.

Id suggest looking for an italian poe streamer and joining their discord if they have one

[sour delta]

for the relic u can use them for the trials and they give u some upgrades during the trial

[restive heron]

ooooh thanks u 🙂

[floral geyser]

can someon explain to me

how dafuq 1 divine is 170 exaltedd ???

[main quartz]

It's because many people want divines and many people have exalted orbs

[floral geyser]

will the price drop again to 110 as it was before ?

[rugged lagoon]

Maybe?

[ripe cargo]

i finally beat sekhema to get my 3rd ascension, but the game crashed in the room with the chests and balbala, before I clicked the thing giving you the ascension points. How can I get back? Please tell me I can get back and get my points? 😦

[floral geyser]

thansk

[trim turret]

How would we know since it's a player run economy?

Can we not link RMT garbage in new player channels?

[main quartz]

unlikely it'll ever be that low again imo. I'm hoping it'll come down to around 130 but it may also keep going up

[rugged lagoon]

Sorry I just googled what the person was looking for.

[trim turret]

If you use stuff like that you'll get banned. It's against TOS.

[desert sedge]

Rule 5. Do not encourage, promote, advertise, or discuss anything that violates the Path of Exile EULA or Discord ToS. This includes: real-money trading (RMT), use of gameplay macros in any capacity, or modification of game file structure.

[rugged lagoon]

I don’t know what RMT is.

[floral geyser]

what is that

[rugged lagoon]

Ok. I won’t post links again.

[trim turret]

Real Money Trading. Ingame items for real money.

[thorn yew]

how can i find a gigachad to help me kill a boss

[final geyser]

It's not posting links, it's what you're linking to. Posting links in general is fine.

[main quartz]

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

[rugged lagoon]

I didn’t know that was even a thing, I was just looking for a chart that tracked because the person asked.

[trim turret]

Official trade sites and the ingame currency exchange show values of currency items in relation to each other.

[winged quiver]

so question how difficult do you think it is to play a warrior rn?

ik armour isnt that great

[rugged lagoon]

I didn’t know people traded real money for items.

[lament stone]

class doesnt say much about a build

[trim turret]

I'm sure it's doable.

[lament stone]

the people that do get banned

[rugged lagoon]

I’m new to gaming (besides like Pokémon go and marvel snap)

[haughty niche]

Not difficult at all. just frustrating.
Every aspect of a mace-build warrior is just done better by other classes

[winged quiver]

true i was thinking matbe a sword and mace warrior with like shield bash and magma

[haughty niche]

Swords dont actually exist atm

[final geyser]

I personally enjoy Mace Warrior plenty, but I'm someone that doesn't tend to go into maps far.

[winged quiver]

mb meant mace and shield idk why i said sword

[final geyser]

And I like big, slow hits, so it works for me.

[trim turret]

I was gonna do a mace mercenary.

[lament stone]

warrior minion builds are good

[trim turret]

Hit all the attack speed nodes.

[winged quiver]

mercanary looks cool tbh

i like paladins so i thought id try to get the closet thing which would be a warrior lol

[final geyser]

Eventually, they will add Templar and Flails, so that should be exactly what you're looking for. Until then, Warrior will have to do xd

[winged quiver]

yeah lol

even two hand warrior wouldnt be bad ngl

big hammer or somethin

[meager flower]

Did really GGG never thought to implement a dummy of any kind so we can verify any kind of DPS or simple skill procs?

[topaz junco]

No they’re aware that’s what people want. But it goes against what they want in terms of game design

[scenic salmon]

We have been asking for it for years
come with us maybe one more will push them over the edge

[azure lava]

They did, but then they were worried it would mislead people since it wouldn't provide an accurate simulation for certain fights. Then they'd have to have settings for the dummy to tailor it to any fight, and before long it became too big of a project for them to bother with

Especially when pob exists

[rose tartan]

is this bugged? my spirit did not change after i selected it

[topaz junco]

No it should be working

What else is using your spirit

[rose tartan]

grim feast

and 3 arsonists

[azure lava]

try deactivating and reactivating the minions

[rose tartan]

yeah i just did that and it updated, went from 1 spirit to 16 t.t

so lame

[topaz junco]

From 1 to 16?

[rose tartan]

extra

spirit

[azure lava]

unreserved spirit, I reckon

[vagrant anchor]

12% is a small number

[topaz junco]

Ohh thought you meant the reserved amount

[vagrant anchor]

especially when coming from 100s

[graceful jacinth]

you'll feel the 12% only if you use a lot of minions

3 minions is nothing it won't effect u much

[rose tartan]

i see

i will respec

[graceful jacinth]

it's a big one tho for people like me who use 14 minions

(14 is low, some use up to 20)

[vagrant anchor]

you have a lot spirit so yeah

[rose tartan]

my minions are weak, they take awhile in each pack (act 2 yet)

[graceful jacinth]

try changing the support gems

[rose tartan]

they will get strong just by minion level?

[graceful jacinth]

yeah, and good support gems

[topaz junco]

Check your support gems and yes minion levels help a lot

[rose tartan]

for arsonists what do u advice

i can use frost mages too but they are even worse

[graceful jacinth]

scattershot, martial tempo and idk which ones i use too cuz i don't remember shit, i gotta login

[vagrant anchor]

campaign or end game?

[rose tartan]

campaign, act 2 yet

3 gem slots

[vagrant anchor]

@rose tartan get +minion level on gear(helm, ammy, sceptre

[topaz junco]

Yea I did scattershot martial tempo and feeding frenzy

[graceful jacinth]

go martial tempo, scatter shot, heft (if u don't like heft, u can go fire infusion)

feeding frenzy is better for the SRS

[topaz junco]

I actually liked heft on them

[rose tartan]

arsonist better than frost mages?

in acts

[graceful jacinth]

arsonists are best DPS, but people play other minions cuz they enjoy them more

so, play what you enjoy most

[topaz junco]

^

[graceful jacinth]

the others aren't bad too, just not as good as arsonists

[topaz junco]

Arsonists are very strong especially when you combine them with flame wall and srs

[rose tartan]

i see

[graceful jacinth]

also, take note that, GGG said the demon witch should work with minions, and they will fix it

so maybe people will cook a build for demon witch with minions

as it'll be fixed in the next patches

afaik

[topaz junco]

Just at the low low cost of losing scepter

[vagrant anchor]

@rose tartan for arsonist support i went scattershot, mt and fire infusion.

[graceful jacinth]

can't use scepter on her ?

[azure lava]

not in demon form

[topaz junco]

Demon form disables weapons

[graceful jacinth]

ah, makes sense, haven't played it so idk

[rose tartan]

just made it, ill try now

[vagrant anchor]

what passives are you investing in?

[rose tartan]

1 sec

[vagrant anchor]

you can get some cheap jewels on trade with 9% minion damage 7% minion element reduct which helps alot. Your path through passives will touch at least 2 slots

[topaz junco]

Good start for sure but now it seems like just powering through the weaker early game to grab nodes that’ll make the minions stronger

[winged quiver]

i think instead of warrior ima try monk because it looks rlly fun

[rose tartan]

minions def. need free convocation skill

[vagrant anchor]

make sure to grab the blue nodes. The jewels slot you can fill using the trade market. budget 3 ex for all of them, min damage, min as or min element. the blue arrow is point to a direction with more minion damage nodes so you can start branching out there

[winged quiver]

probably like lightning themed for me

[topaz junco]

go for it, monk is very strong

[azure lava]

if you allocate this node and CI, will using a chaos skill kill you?

[floral geyser]

can you guys stop buyng divines at ava pls

[rose tartan]

yeah my pob is planned to go there next

[topaz junco]

.03 of 1 is a decimal, so no

[topaz junco]

not us, and not the channel. Please use #2┃general for random poe 2 discussions. This channel is for questions about the game

[rose tartan]

did u highlight mind over matter? isnt it too early?

[graceful jacinth]

thoughts on this tree ?

[topaz junco]

for

[graceful jacinth]

minion witch late game obv 😛

arsonists

[vagrant anchor]

i picked it up right away. All i do is put down flamewall which is cheap. i dont run any aother skills

[crisp quarry]

How can I share my character for people to give advice?

[rose tartan]

oh i dont have flamewall im using unearth for more minions

[graceful jacinth]

sadly, it's screenshotting your own gear, or using a build planner and put your gear in there

[crisp quarry]

Okay ty

[topaz junco]

I dont think you need dead can dance notable and should grab that last minion revive speed small node next to nectotized flesh but otherwise looks good

[vagrant anchor]

yeah, that was too clunky for me, as soon as i got arsonist i got rid of it and just used arsonist flamewall

[rose tartan]

ill try that

[crisp quarry]

Unearth gets surpassed pretty fast by arsonist/raging spirits/flamewall

[graceful jacinth]

didn't want to pick it because mine never dies (2 clerics) and because minions now insta respawns if they die due to being far away

[vague prairie]

could someone help me with trial of chaos

i just got a coin for it

[topaz junco]

yea you dont need it, just from my personal preference especially since I was using their detonate skill a lot

[graceful jacinth]

what do u think of getting rid of that node to get a jewel socket node ?

[topaz junco]

#2┃looking-for-group please

[rose tartan]

sad that srs needs spirit t.t

[vagrant anchor]

@rose tartan do you have the spirit shield?

[topaz junco]

dead can dance for a jewel? absolutely

[graceful jacinth]

ty ty

idk if anyone told you, but i bet you're handsome af

❤️

[rose tartan]

shields have spirit? lol

[vagrant anchor]

lol, yep +50

[graceful jacinth]

there is a unique shield that has 50spirit

[rose tartan]

xD

[vagrant anchor]

use the trade market and get it. 1 ex.

[graceful jacinth]

if you have 1exalt, you can buy it for 1ex

pretty cheap

[rose tartan]

any shield has spirit?

i mean base

[graceful jacinth]

nah shields don't have spirit

except that unique

[rose tartan]

oh ok

[graceful jacinth]

it's even cheaper than 1ex 😛

[winged quiver]

thats a nice shield

[haughty niche]

attempting to buy anything for less than an ex is usually a bad idea.
Mostly just people that don't respond etc

[tired forge]

So Am I correct in understainding this game is in early access?

[haughty niche]

it is

Expected to remain in EA for at least 6-12 more months

[tired forge]

This surprises me since this game already seems a lot like a complete product.

[winged quiver]

im wondering when theyll drop a new character

[haughty niche]

when it leaves EA it will also be free

[graceful jacinth]

^^

[winged quiver]

i want templar baddd

[haughty niche]

if you played poe1 you will know what its desperately missing

[tired forge]

Whats a Templar?

[winged quiver]

a paladin pretty much

[vagrant anchor]

also put shield charge skill on there. Helps with moving around somewhat

[tired forge]

I see

So that is PoE2 equivalent of D2 Paladin?

[winged quiver]

yeahh

kinda

[tired forge]

A self auraing minion build would be fun.

[haughty niche]

< templar

[winged quiver]

templar can be like a mage too

[rose tartan]

just bought 1ex

[winged quiver]

or full on warrior

[graceful jacinth]

ggwpez

[rose tartan]

nice rolls

[haughty niche]

All classes can use all weapons/gear/skills.

Templar in poe1 usually had easy access to staff-based melee, spells, even minions

also small note, amost all melee skills in poe1 could use any weapontype.

He just had a lot of staff nodes near him on the tree

[rose tartan]

now i have srs 😄

[haughty niche]

now you do damage

[vagrant anchor]

sweet, put execute on them for support

[rose tartan]

done

[vagrant anchor]

srs is raging spirts right?

[rose tartan]

yes

not srs anymore right

poe1 stuff on my head

should i use that support that makes flamewall round?

forgot its name

fortress or something

[graceful jacinth]

depends tbh, it's not a bad idea

if your PC can handle the graphics

put fortress and the support skill that makes 2 copies of it

so every flame wall = 3 circles instead of 1

[rose tartan]

each one summons more raging spirits?

[graceful jacinth]

no, each summons 5

[vagrant anchor]

you have a max of 10

on screen

[graceful jacinth]

so u need to cast twice always

[rose tartan]

ah ok

so its just QoL for arsonists

[rose tartan]

i mean this

[graceful jacinth]

?

wdym ? if the 3 walls create the max number of SRS ?

[rose tartan]

making flame wall 3 circles is for arsonists or to summon more srs?

[graceful jacinth]

for arsonists

SRS counts on you clicking the skill

[rose tartan]

kk

[vagrant anchor]

you gain increased damage when the grenade crosses firewall

[graceful jacinth]

so even if flame wall makes 3 circles, you'll still summon 5 per cast

[rose tartan]

damage is alot better now with srs

[vagrant anchor]

so its good for encircling the boss or add

[meager flower]

Thank you

[vagrant anchor]

alos put maim and culling strike on your warrior if using a minion sceptre

[meager flower]

I am looking for nice suggestions for gems I can put in these 2 skills. I can get them to at least 4 sockets if you have multiple suggestions

[rose tartan]

is there a pure raging spirit build? they look so protagonists now, made everything else secondary xD

[vagrant anchor]

how many arsonist are you summoning?

[graceful jacinth]

they fall hard late game

compared to arsonists and other minions

[rose tartan]

only 3

plus 2 free warriors from sceptre

[vagrant anchor]

you did the did the bog witch yet?

[meager flower]

Anybody pretty please?

[rose tartan]

wdym

[vagrant anchor]

its a boss that gives 30 spirit

[haughty niche]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Quest#Quest_Markdown
Act 3 boss.
Gives 40 in cruel too.

[rose tartan]

oh yes i did

[topaz junco]

it really depends on your build

[meager flower]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/a5676af4-778e-43ae-b445-cbad25548ae7/builds/0dbaf502-7080-45e5-97bb-91b448edf7cd?weaponSet=set1

[rose tartan]

no wait*

thats act 3 isnt it?

[haughty niche]

bog witch is act 3.

[gritty merlin]

I have a question little confused
Without gear on my sprit is 100
I got chest with 42 and amulet with 38 when both are equipped I only go up to 111

[meager flower]

I would not really chase people for answers but this game is complicated as hell

[rose tartan]

i did freythorn only

im still in act 2

i did the bog with my monk earlier hence the confusion

[haughty niche]

ah

[haughty niche]

are you an invoker monk? Do you have the stats to equip both items?

[vagrant anchor]

ok, spend another ex and look for energy shield + 30 spirit chest piece. Thats 4 arsonist plus the bog witch, which should give you 5 arsonist before cruel

[topaz junco]

is this the correct build guide? they dont use combat frenzy or infusion. Also this build isnt going to be very cheap, hand of wisdom and action(howa) is a few divines right now iirc

[rose tartan]

should i got armor+es chest base?

[vagrant anchor]

nah. armour suck

[rose tartan]

full es?

[vagrant anchor]

yah

[rose tartan]

k

[vagrant anchor]

i think you lose movement speed with amour

as well, not sure

[rose tartan]

prob

[haughty niche]

its more effective atm. Armour barely makes a dent in the damage it mitigates its tuned very poorly.

[gritty merlin]

Monk yes and both can be equipped been using them for awhile now

[haughty niche]

Did you ascend already? Monk has a node that makes spirit not apply on chest

instead you get spirit per evasion/es on chest or whatever with the node

Just want to rule out that first

[rose tartan]

1ex

[vagrant anchor]

@rose tartan something like this should last you into cruel

[rose tartan]

too late xD

[vagrant anchor]

lol

that works as well

[gritty merlin]

Fully ascended
I didn't know that I'll have to look into that then
Thanks

[haughty niche]

oh i didn't realize, its not just the body armour, it prevents spirit gain from equipment in general

Makes sense considering how strong the upside of that node is

[gritty merlin]

I see
Ok thanks for the help back to the drawing board it is then

[vagrant anchor]

@monge how many lesser jewellers do you have? if you have 2, 3link your arsonist and raging spirts

[rose tartan]

3 only in arsonists but i can 3 link srs too, i forgot

[jade skiff]

how do I reset the boss in HC? I exited to character select screen but each time I log back in, I'm still int he boss fight

[vagrant anchor]

feeding frenzy, fire pen and execute are great options for raging spirits

[crisp quarry]

Why is it that sometimes I can quickly stash things to my stash and other times it makes me pick up and manually move them?

[rose tartan]

done

[vagrant anchor]

so you have 4 arsonist, and 2 warriors?

[rose tartan]

yes

[graceful jacinth]

skill issues

jk jk

[vagrant anchor]

K, how much + minion level gear do you have? @monge

[graceful jacinth]

ok steam

[haughty niche]

stash affinities?
Do you own stash tabs like currency tab etc that would prevent certain items from being put in them?

[rose tartan]

only +1 from sceptre

[crisp quarry]

I do have the correct currency tabs and it doesn't happen all the time It's really strange

[graceful jacinth]

click on the tab to modify it, then tick Affinities

and tick currency

for the currency stash tab that is

[vagrant anchor]

good enough when you get cruel, consider getting it in helm and ammy

[rose tartan]

maybe i should regal this 🤔

[graceful jacinth]

like this

idk how u do it on PS5 tho

[vagrant anchor]

sure it wont hurt it. the main attributes is there

[crisp quarry]

I think I'll just accept what's happening because I have a currency tab an essence and map that I can just tap triangle on and it moves the things over in the right spot

[graceful jacinth]

even if u buy the tab, you have to set the affinities

[rose tartan]

+4 all elem res

[crisp quarry]

Yep I just did that and still happens, I just got to act 2 cruel maybe it's a different kind of stash?

[graceful jacinth]

well that's weird then

does it happen to all items or just some ?

[crisp quarry]

Yes it is, It applies to all items

[graceful jacinth]

like, you sure currency never goes to currency ?

[crisp quarry]

Usually there is a shortcut by pressing triangle to quick move and everything goes in the right slot but for some reason this is making me pick it up manually

[vagrant anchor]

its ok. keep checking vendors for +2 as well.

[crisp quarry]

But ty for trying

[lament stone]

are you in the trial of sekhemas area?

[graceful jacinth]

sorry couldn't help more tbh, no clue how things on PS5 works

can help you more if u buy me a PS5

😂

[crisp quarry]

Apparently neither do I 😭

[vestal nacelle]

Price check pls

[lament stone]

#price-check📉

[vestal nacelle]

Sorry

How do I get access

[lament stone]

read the most recent message in that channel

[vestal nacelle]

I done that

[rose tartan]

should i go CI? at some point

[vagrant anchor]

CI - whats that?

[chilly stratus]

How should blood witch be built? I think i messed up picking blood witch with a minion build

[graceful jacinth]

nope, never as witch

you'll be stackign Energy shield you shouldn't worry much about CI.. just get your resistances to near the cap and you're set

[rose tartan]

chaos inoculation

[graceful jacinth]

• you'll have increased spirit based on max health, and increased ES based on max health

going CI makes your health 1 and bricks everything

[vagrant anchor]

oh its for those sorceress super high sustain builds

[rose tartan]

i see

[graceful jacinth]

you get this from ascendency btw

[rose tartan]

i have not thought about them yet

[graceful jacinth]

red first, blue 2nd and 3rd, purple last

[vagrant anchor]

you can probably power through the trial right now

[lament stone]

dont take altered flesh before you have 50% chaos res if you have energy shield

[graceful jacinth]

get the hound as soon as u can, it's gonna help u a lot

[vagrant anchor]

put meat shield on as support gem and any other sustain gem

[lament stone]

it makes you take more damage

[rose tartan]

does it need spirit?

[vagrant anchor]

nope

[graceful jacinth]

tbh he's playing the shield, it wouldn't matter a lot cuz he'll be blocking.. also early on resists are hella useless

[lament stone]

resists are the most important stat early on

along with life

[vagrant anchor]

not really with his current build

[haughty niche]

This is the most wrong statement i have ever read here

[graceful jacinth]

i ran the whole campaing with barely any resist as a new player to poe with the minion build

u literally never die when u get the hound

[haughty niche]

Resists are important at all stages of the game

[graceful jacinth]

if you one shot everythign, why would u need resists ?

[haughty niche]

Because its poe. Resists are required

[graceful jacinth]

not really

[lament stone]

because theres plenty of on death effects that can one shot you

[graceful jacinth]

before maps, i can run negative resists and still reach maps ez

[haughty niche]

50res vs 75 res, you take double damage.

[lament stone]

if you have negative resists, you take more damage

[haughty niche]

Negative takes over 5x the damage as someone at 75

[graceful jacinth]

i'm not arguing that resistances are 'bad'

[haughty niche]

You are an outlier or are unusually ok with dying frequently

[graceful jacinth]

i'm saying, as a minion witch you will one shot everything before they do any damage to you

[haughty niche]

Literally every person i know who plays this would agree ignoring resists is possibly the worst thing you could be doing

[rose tartan]

should i try sanctum with this build? (for ascending) i hate sanctum

[graceful jacinth]

bosses dies in the first 5 seconds

[lament stone]

.

[graceful jacinth]

i would still agrue that EARLY ON resists are useless

[haughty niche]

Poe constantly throws undodgeable oneshot ondeaths at you, even in campaign. The best way to avoid these is resists.

Useless is a very strong word, and you are just wrong im sorry

[graceful jacinth]

they nerfed most of them

[haughty niche]

they didn't

they nerfed 2 of the like 50, and the ones they nerfed now do normal amounts of damage that would still 1shot a non-resistcapped character

[lament stone]

funnily enough, taking less damage is good

[vagrant anchor]

yes

you are atleast lvl 28 with 4 arsonist and raging spirits. You should steam roll through

[haughty niche]

You can do your own thing and be a glass bones build but please god stop telling new players its a good idea to ignore resists. Resists are the FIRST most important thing in a build

[round karma]

anyone know if u can drop melting maelstrom from difficulty 0?

[graceful jacinth]

i never said (ignore them), i said they're useless early on, till maps, at least

[rose tartan]

dont fight for res guys

[haughty niche]

THEY ARENT

[rose tartan]

we do what we can xd

[haughty niche]

They are by FAR the most noticeable defensive increase at all stages

and absolutely make levelling feel significantly better.

[graceful jacinth]

if you say so 🤷‍♂️

leveling felt better to me when i one shot bosses before i knew their mechanics

js

[lament stone]

you have 20% cold res you take 20% less cold damage

[haughty niche]

in general, geting resists does not lower your damage tho

resist gear isn't competing in the same slot as your damage gear.

and theres no resists on tree in poe2

[lament stone]

a few small sources

but mostly resists come from gear

[haughty niche]

theres 1 node on tree that gives 5 all ele res.

thats it

[graceful jacinth]

it doesn't but focusing on getting the max dps is better than focusing on getting max resist

[vagrant anchor]

get resists, but dont stress yourself over getting them max capped in campaign with your particular build. More important is +minion level for more damage and spirit for more arsonist. When you in mid cruel you can look at grabbing some juicy 20% minion res on your build path for more sustain with your minions. Keep upgrading mana flasks as well, if you get that share node.

[lament stone]

you shouldnt be ignoring either

[haughty niche]

thats usually not a tradeoff you are needing to make either

[graceful jacinth]

if my dude has 5 exalts, you suggest he buying betetr resist gear or better DPS gear ?

[lament stone]

damage on weapon, defences on armour

[fresh cloud]

is this game still kinda gay?

[topaz junco]

resistances

[lament stone]

theyre separate slots so dont really compete with each other

[haughty niche]

The only case i can think of this is shield slot and amulet slot, which you don't really need resists on those to cap res anyway.

[topaz junco]

?

[vagrant anchor]

lol, what?

[rose cairn]

Im lvl 16 im at act 2 rn idk what to do im eveytime i teleport to maraketh i just get killed im to weak to go to act 2 and idk how to get better armor and idk what is better armor and items

[haughty niche]

Resists are the #1 thing you want

[hearty lintel]

It’s so cheap to get resists and damage during the campaign if you are using the trade site, no reason not to max what you can

[graceful jacinth]

fair ig

[lament stone]

life and elemental resists are the most important stats on armour

[topaz junco]

also with resistances, you're more likely to stay alive and thus do more damage overall

[vagrant anchor]

what class?

[rose cairn]

witch

[vagrant anchor]

minion?

[rose cairn]

yeah

[hearty lintel]

So far act 2 boss was the only annoying part, but after upgrading gear and resists for a few ex he was cake

[glacial palm]

Part of the problem. Minion witch is a rough start imo

[trim turret]

Life and resists are the two most important stats on armor. How are your resists?

[haughty niche]

minions dont take off until Freythorn area boss in act 1when you get spirit + summon raging spirits gem

[rose cairn]

33% fire 27% cold

[novel sun]

Do you lose all your gold and stash when you die in hardcore?

[haughty niche]

no

the gold and stash stay in hardcore

[novel sun]

ohhhh

[haughty niche]

your character gets kicked out of the league

[vagrant anchor]

what skills are you running?

[lament stone]

no, your gold and all items in your stash will stay in hardcore, your character gets moved to softcore standard

[rose cairn]

u want me to name all?

[lament stone]

whats your life like? imo youd want around 300-400 life by the end of act 1

[rose cairn]

343

237 shield

[haughty niche]

Most cases for struggles on act 2 boss ive seen is damage. Including myself

[lament stone]

maraketh, what zone is that?

[rose cairn]

the monsters are more a struggle then the bosses

[haughty niche]

Hes just got a really big life pool and causes a lot of builds at that point to run into mana issues or the fight to drag on too long

[lament stone]

so i can get an idea of where in act 2 you are

[rose cairn]

vastiri outskirst first spawn of act 2

[haughty niche]

do you have a "get off me" skill?

[lament stone]

oh the very first zone

[rose cairn]

no

[haughty niche]

you want one

[lament stone]

rathbreaker killing you?

[haughty niche]

at least until you get solid damage

[rose cairn]

the monsters are killing me not rathbreaker

i cant even go to the boss without dying

[lament stone]

yea you need good clear skills for that fight

[rose cairn]

broooo im telling u i cant even go to the boss fight without dying

im just dying in the spawn area already!

[vagrant anchor]

@rose cairn what skills are you using, list them

or take a pic

[haughty niche]

Also maybe picture of weapon

sounds like a damage issue if your life is fine and resists are decent

[lament stone]

your defences sound fine, this sounds like a lot more of a damage problem

you not being able to kill stuff quick enough before it swarms you

[haughty niche]

like i was killing monsters before they could close the gap on all my characters in that area

[rose cairn]

Flame wall, skeletal frost mage, grim feast, contagion, skeletal warrior, unearth, raise shield, with Rattling sceptre

[haughty niche]

no Summon Raging Spirits?

[rose cairn]

dont have it yet

[vagrant anchor]

how much spirit do you have

[haughty niche]

SRS is like 90% of minion players damage

[lament stone]

have you been upgrading your weapon? the levels of your skills? support gems on the skills?

[rose cairn]

159

[haughty niche]

You should go back to act 1 and complete the freythorn are's quest

[vagrant anchor]

pic of your passives

[rose cairn]

no, yes, yes

[rose cairn]

where do i see those

[haughty niche]

that rewards an uncut spirit gem which can be cut into Raging spirits

[rose cairn]

i completed the whole campaign and every boss in act 1

[lament stone]

you havent upgraded your weapon at all?

[haughty niche]

did you waste your spirit gem then?

[vagrant anchor]

press P, scroll out and prn scr or take a picture

[lament stone]

like youre still using the basic one you get in the first zone?

[rose cairn]

no idk how its gold tho

[rose cairn]

i used it for grim feast

[lament stone]

you just pick up better weapons from the ground, or check vendor for something good

[rose cairn]

no

[haughty niche]

oh. massive mistake

[rose cairn]

i already have a decent one

[haughty niche]

your damage will just be really fucking bad without SRS

[lament stone]

it being rare doesnt necessarily mean its good

[rose cairn]

i was following a build

[lament stone]

you could have a 6 mod rare with 0 useful mods

[lament stone]

levelling or endgame?

[haughty niche]

The permanent minions don't start feeling good until higher levels when their stats are better and you have the gear to support them

[rose cairn]

its called brood crusher rattling sceptre
129 spirit
level 5 skeletal warrior minion
29% increased spirit
allies deal 28% more dmg
allies have 11% more crit chance

thats my weapon

[lament stone]

more or increased?

[haughty niche]

rare gear has randomly generated names btw

[lament stone]

more/increased mean different things

[rose cairn]

lvl 1-85 build

[rose cairn]

sry increased

[vagrant anchor]

yeah dont follow build guides blindly

[unreal heron]

is it possible to use the trade shop to search one persons specific stash?

[rose cairn]

my brother told me hes max lvl idk i just started yesterday

[haughty niche]

no

you can search for all items listed by a person tho

[unreal heron]

isn't that the same thing? lol

[lament stone]

no

you can only see items in public tabs

[vagrant anchor]

are you on pc?

[lament stone]

and you can set items in public tabs to be hidden from the trade site too

[rose cairn]

ye

[vagrant anchor]

k, post a pic of your passive tree as well @rose cairn

[crisp quarry]

If I created a new character do I have access to my stash from a different one? I'm debating on if I should keep older things

[unreal heron]

Yeah tha's what I'm trying to use, but it's not showing any results when I search for my acc

[haughty niche]

so long as its in the same league / gamemode as the other one

[lament stone]

all characters in the same league share the same stash and gold

[haughty niche]

So Standard stash will be available to other standard characters. But SSF Standard or Hardcore Standard will not.

[crisp quarry]

Okay cool ty, how do I know if I am SSF?

[haughty niche]

you can't group or trade. Also it should say top right of minimap

if not, might say on character screen. Forget console ui

[haughty niche]

just a heads up, if a stat doesn't mention minions, it won't affect them. Those 3 cold passives on your tree for example won't

[rose cairn]

at wich person should i buy items?

[haughty niche]

Up to you. I think its more fun to not use trade, but trade is certainly a billion times easier to get a character started than not using it

You should be looking at vendors though basically every level up

[vagrant anchor]

how much gold do you have?

[rose cairn]

what cold passives

[haughty niche]

those only affect your own damage, not the minion's

[lament stone]

if it doesnt say "minions" or "allies" it doesnt affect minions

[rose cairn]

ehm that aint cold dmg mate

power of the dead

[haughty niche]

oh is it different on witch

i assumed the class-specific nodes didn't reach that far

my bad

[lament stone]

they do

[rose cairn]

minions deal 15% increased dmg
Minions have 3& increased attack and cast speed

[lament stone]

the entire diamond is the ranged of whats affected

[haughty niche]

for example sorc its cold

[lament stone]

its probably that same sort of area on every class start position

[haughty niche]

thought it was just the first 5ish nodes near the start. Interesting

[vagrant anchor]

@rose cairn how much gold do you have, you are gonna have to respec some stuff

[haughty niche]

ignore my concern about the nodes on tree then. Wasn't aware that node changed specifically

[rose cairn]

6k, why do i have to respec stuff

[vagrant anchor]

you need damage

[rose cairn]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/15fcdb6b-735b-484e-86f7-610728bcdff1/builds/1149867c-dbe1-4f32-bb8d-0cf5c416ebfb?weaponSet=set1

[haughty niche]

if they are following a guide then its probably fine

[rose cairn]

thats the build im following

[haughty niche]

I honestly think their main issue is not having SRS but i haven't actually played minions yet 🤷‍♂️

[vagrant anchor]

@rose cairn you can respec ltr when you have the stats for it. Right now you cant do shit , so you need more damage, which means you need to respec and fork away from your build until ltr down the road.

[lament stone]

yea they use raging spirits

[haughty niche]

also yeah this build sucks bad

guidance-wise

theres NO text

doesn't mention important stats, not even a point-form list. Doesn't tell you order of gems or why they are use. Doesn't show skill tree order/levels etc

This is why im not a fan of mobalytics imo

They let anyone cook, which ends up with scenarios like this

Like SRS was probably the most important priority gem, but since you used it on grim feast you are kinda screwed out of damage early on

The permanent minions only start getting better later with more supports and minion levels. Early on they just die too easily and don't do much damage

[rose cairn]

should i just start over?

what site do u guys use??

[haughty niche]

Maxroll.gg is more vetted

hard to find bad builds there

Mobalytics is fine, its just anyone can make a guide there so theres bound to be some bad ones

And honestly id bet that build works fine, its probably just SRS.

I watched Ghazzy's opinions on minions early on and he said they are basically unuseable until SRS

[vagrant anchor]

if you want to. But you are here now, and we can try and fix it. up to you.

[haughty niche]

"Play literally anything else until you get srs"

[rose cairn]

[lament stone]

i found a frost mage build on maxroll, this is an endgame build you cannot level with this, you can save this for later
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/build-guides/frost-mage-infernalist-build-guide

the author of this build also has a levelling guide, use this one until you have the items you need to switch
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/build-guides/minion-army-infernalist-leveling-guide

[rose cairn]

ill just start over

[scenic seal]

does anyone know why my skill tree says "requirement not met" i tried looking up a vid and some people say its bugged, some say its not

[lament stone]

just check your current build and compare it to the levelling one, its probably close enough to be salvageable

[trim turret]

What do your weapon set points look like? Did you use some of them?

[lament stone]

just make a ranger and rush to freythorn to pick up another spirit gem, cut that spirit gem into srs and put it into your stash to use on the witch

[scenic seal]

im sorry, ive never ever played a game like this. I have no clue what set points are

i see weapon set points 1 and 2

they both say 10/10

[trim turret]

And you have a passive point available to spend?

[scenic seal]

im trying to realocate and it just wont let me go past this one point no matter how many skill points i have

[trim turret]

You may be trying to respec more than you have gold for.

Respeccing let's you plan for more than you can afford.

[scenic seal]

i have more than enough gold

[lament stone]

are you trying to refund a point that connects the rest of your tree to your start point?

[vagrant anchor]

or, you are wearing gear that require an attribute

[scenic seal]

its the actual skill that says require not met

[trim turret]

Like a skill gem?

[azure lava]

are you trying to assign weapon set points?

[lament stone]

that wouldnt block you from refunding points

[rose cairn]

imma be a monk

[scenic seal]

its the passive skill tree

[rose cairn]

my name is AfricanMonke

[lament stone]

jewel sockets and keystones (and the path leading to them from your starting point) cannot be allocated using weapon set points

[azure lava]

my guess is that you're refunding or allocating a weapon set node

[haughty relic]

How do you get access to the trade market? I know how to put my stuff for sale, but how do I find others and buy?

[scenic seal]

i havent used any weapon set nodes

[azure lava]

pathofexile.com/trade2

[lament stone]

would you be able to screenshot what youre trying to do?

[trim turret]

Can you take a screenshot?

[azure lava]

can you screenshot your passive tree while hovering over th node you're trying to allocate?

lmao

good job, Moe and Larry

[trim turret]

When our powers combine...

Nyuk nyuk nyuk.

[azure lava]

damn, I was worried I was getting too old to make a three stooges reference

[trim turret]

You're not the only old person around.

[stuck stream]

I’m getting destroyed in WS12…. Might have to respecc

[azure lava]

WS12?

[stuck stream]

Tier 12 Waystones

[hot herald]

How do I do my 3rd ascendance?

[azure lava]

ah. #2┃after-acts-help

[azure lava]

gotta get a randomly dropped djinn barya or inscribed ultimatum that meet the requirements listed above

[hot herald]

Thanks

[lament stone]

oh its an ascendancy point

[azure lava]

wtf kinda mushrooms is your monitor on?

[scenic seal]

Wdym

[lament stone]

passive points are not ascendancy points

[scenic seal]

What’s wrong with my monitor lol

[azure lava]

this is what my tree looks like

I can taste the color coming from yours

[lament stone]

you need special ascendancy skill points to allocate nodes on your ascendancy tree

[scenic seal]

Oh lol, it’s a $1000 oled monitor lol

But how do I get the ascendancy points

[trim turret]

PrintScreen takes actual screenshots.

[azure lava]

or win+shift+s

[lament stone]

you get 2 points from each tier of ascendancy trial you do, up to 8 points

[scenic seal]

How do I get more of those trial things

[lament stone]

by progressing through the campaign

[scenic seal]

I’m on act 3 and I’ve only gotten two

[lament stone]

yes thats normal

act 3 is the earliest you can get your second set of points in the trial of chaos

[scenic seal]

Oh ok

[lament stone]

if you dont want to do the trial of chaos you would need a level 45+ barya to do the 2 floor trial of sekhemas

[azure lava]

typically you'll get your 5th and 6th after the campaign by a lil bit, and then the 7th and 8th WAY later

[scenic seal]

Would someone be able to tell me why my dps as horrible

But Ty y’all were extremely helpful

[azure lava]

probably a terrible weapon

[azure lava]

also, win+shift+s

[scenic seal]

Weapon

[azure lava]

yeah that's pretty bad for act 3

[trim turret]

How many of those items are uniques?

[scenic seal]

Even videos I’ve seen on act two this guy with my same build has like 2k dps

[azure lava]

I think I count 4, but maybe 3

[azure lava]

yeah but the weapon is like 80% of what makes your dps good

[scenic seal]

Ok ok. Thank you

[trim turret]

Especially for attacks.

[brisk sundial]

Im following a build guide as a first time player, going for witch hexblast, i have 1 issue though im stuck because the "guide" leaves a gap between level 25 and 52 for hexblast.. any suggestions what i could do to make bosses and clears easier?

im hella stuck

[lament stone]

the helmet is the only thing there that looks unique to me tbh

the art for regular items is just that good in poe2

[trim turret]

That's possible, I don't know my icons all that well yet.

[azure lava]

what skills are you using currently?

[azure lava]

pretty sure the boots are wondertrap, but I'm not certain

oh, wait, nvm

they got the curled tips

I've been baited

[brisk sundial]

these mainly

[dreamy flame]

As someone who stopped playing at Difficulty 5 before the holidays, what’s the TLDR? Same game or major changes

[vagrant anchor]

difficulty 5?

[dreamy flame]

Yeah Map 5/6 before reaching endgame. They might be called something else in-game m guessing

[azure lava]

just use spark

and level with that

respec to hexblast later

[lament stone]

waystones?

[vagrant anchor]

there were some updates, but largely the same.

[lament stone]

or act 5 (cruel act 2)

[dreamy flame]

Campaign is mainly unchanged yeah?

[vagrant anchor]

yep

[brisk sundial]

aight ty @azure lava

[lament stone]

you can teleport between checkpoints now

thats about it

[dreamy flame]

All cool, I’ll keep steamrolling with my Infernal witch then

[marsh valley]

hey does item level matter

or is it more whats on the item

[dreamy flame]

Finally

[dreamy flame]

If you’re Elon then yes

[marsh valley]

huh

[azure lava]

it's what's on the item. An item with high ilvl and bad mods is worse than a lower ilvl item with better mods. Unless you want to craft or alter mods, at least

[dreamy flame]

It’s a joke, don’t worry bout it

[azure lava]

elon didn't even look at the ilvl

[marsh valley]

rn my gloves have 39 max helath and 8n dex

[lament stone]

the item level only affects what mods are able to roll on an item, the actual mods you have on an item are more important

[marsh valley]

but they are level 8

[azure lava]

in the campaign, the only stats I see on gear is life, resistance, and movement speed

if another item beats that 39 life or has solid res, I would replace it

[lament stone]

^ these are the most important stats on armour

[marsh valley]

im getting my butt kicked by the final act 2 boss

[azure lava]

check this out https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1328202289755983932

[lament stone]

whats your total life and lightning resistance like?

[dreamy flame]

75% lightning resistance is your best friend

[vagrant anchor]

players trying to avoid respec cost so much, they dont want to use the basic leveling build/skills for classes??

[azure lava]

act 2 hcssf baby. resists and life all the way

[lament stone]

imo id want around 600 life and at least 30% lightning res for act 2 final boss

more is better

[azure lava]

I'm at 800 life before the dreadnaught

it's possible

[lament stone]

i dont actually know what normal life amounts are tbh

[vagrant anchor]

or just roll LA Ranger or Min Witch and steam roll act 2 boss

[waxen osprey]

if an item gives lets say +intelligence, does that attribute count for equipping that item?

[lament stone]

i had 600 at the end of act 1 and 1k at the end of act 2

[azure lava]

same, I'm learning those on this hc character tbh

[plush mantle]

yes and no 🙂

[azure lava]

if you can meet the int requirement with another item, equip the +int item, then remove the other item, yeah, that would work

[plush mantle]

it counts for keeping it equipped, but not for putting it on the first time

[lament stone]

it wont let you equip that item if you didnt already have enough int to equip it, but once the item is equipped the int on the item will satisfy the int requirements needed to equip the item

[fierce panther]

whats max level?

[waxen osprey]

lol? who designs things that way... might be a bug

[plush mantle]

and yes, this does mean you can get in trouble if you needed 2 pieces of gear for, say, an int requirement and change one, which makes the other not usable, which makes the rest of your gear/skills become unusable

[lament stone]

100, altho i wouldnt worry about anything above 90

[fierce panther]

thanks

[lament stone]

i think its still less than 20 people have reached level 100

and most of them have been levelling in groups

[fierce panther]

do you still lose exp on death?

[lament stone]

yes

[azure lava]

after level 70(?) I think

[lament stone]

after you finish the campaign

well not exactly

its zones outside of the campaign

[vagrant anchor]

why is this a thing?

[azure lava]

devs made it that way

[plush mantle]

It's been a thing for as long as PoE1 existed, don't think they're interested in tracking every attribute change to prevent what's mostly an edge case

[lament stone]

if you go back to the campaign you dont lose exp, but obviously you dont get much either because of being too high above the zone level

[vagrant anchor]

what does it solve? Seems like they are just punishing players for playing

[haughty niche]

adds some incentive to build tankier characters in softcore

[azure lava]

punishing players for dying

[haughty niche]

though tbf current endgame is already overly punishing for dying, they could do with less punishment

i personally dont think removing xp penalty is the play tho

[vagrant anchor]

thats what hardcore is for

[plush mantle]

it's a failure state; if you die more often than you can gain exp (and ever increasing amounts of living vs losing exp) then your build has plateued in an obvious way

[lament stone]

you need deaths to be punishing in softcore too

[vagrant anchor]

its a very stupid mechanic.

[lament stone]

if you dont lose anything by dying, whats the point in trying not to die

[azure lava]

All games are obstacles fabricated so you can enjoy overcoming them. The high of winning is elevated when the punishment for failure is increased. By removing the xp penalty for dying, they would also lower the enjoyment of reaching a higher level

[vagrant anchor]

it already is. You lose the map plus the resources you used to juice the map

[scenic salmon]

I feel scarabs will balance the end game
If they add a bunch of scarabs that give extra portals, make the maps easier and other difficulty down modifiers

[lament stone]

it still makes reaching a high level "easy"

[dreamy flame]

endgame is for hardcore players. if you’re looking at a strictly casual experience probs replay the campaign with couple of classes and move on

[vagrant anchor]

that makes no sense, when you dy in endgame you lose map, plus the all the resources you put into making the map saucy. On top of that you lose exp? Again thats why they created hardcore mode.

[lament stone]

level 100 is impressive right now because its a grind to get there, and dying sets you back, if there was no exp loss on death, anyone can reach level 100 with enough time

[dreamy flame]

Or just RMT the best gear to steamroll endgame content

[azure lava]

Unless you have a reason other than "I personally don't like it" or "I think deaths are punishing enough already" then I'm just going to state that it's GGG's game and they get the final say on how punishing they want their game to be. Your preferences don't align with the devs in this one area

[lament stone]

this isnt as impressive even in poe1 where levelling is easy enough that 1000s of ssf players reach it every league

[plush mantle]

you're more likely to see changes to the 1 death per map mechanic than the xp penalty for dying

[dreamy flame]

Do we know how many hours of grind we lose approx per death after let’s say lvl80

[azure lava]

we already did with pinnacles getting 6 deaths (soon)

[lament stone]

maybe a map or 2 of progress

[azure lava]

It's 10% of your xp at your current level. No deleveling

[lament stone]

its not until you get into the 90s that the time starts going up a lot

mid 90s are not too bad

[dreamy flame]

So like less than 20 mins?

[lament stone]

98-99 is a few days

99-100 is weeks

[dreamy flame]

Yeah I am not reaching lvl 100 before EoS

[humble karma]

whats in that back room?
there is a checkpoint

[plush mantle]

the corruption altar

[humble karma]

ahh

[plush mantle]

if I'm thinking the correct zone

[humble karma]

i am looking for this...

[cursive bluff]

There's some in the molten vault you can't get past though lol

[humble karma]

but i am not sure if i done it since they sometimes light up even after

[lament stone]

youre in the wrong zone for that

[plush mantle]

yeah, you're in Sanctum, not Machinarium

[cursive bluff]

You haven't since it doesn't say the reward

[vagrant anchor]

you havent done it

you would see a special item in your stash

[plush mantle]

Blackjaw is behind a door that requires a soul core to open

[stone idol]

So I'm currently at waystones 5+ but I feel like I havent progressed in the game in days.. I have a budget gemling howa + pillar build. I put the filterblade filter for strict but I have literally no idea which items I should pick up from the floor, which ones are good etc...

[plush mantle]

I've played since PoE beta and I'm still not sure what I should be picking up from the floor 😉

[humble karma]

how am i in the wrong place i did press the waypoint

and it did tp me here

[plush mantle]

because the waypoint is above ground, even though the icon is below

[cursive bluff]

Personally I'd say just focus more on the game rather than the selling part you will spend more time doing that than playing for that new gear to matter lol

[lament stone]

compare the name of the zone to the name of the waypoint

[stone idol]

Yeah, but how? I'm just mindlessly going through nodes in the Atla I have no idea what's going on. The game gives 0 help on what I sdhould be doing lol

[cursive bluff]

That's the point you choose what you wanna do

[plush mantle]

above ground

[silent rock]

I do think the devs are actually operating under the assumption that you either would look up a guide, or be happy having it all be a surprise

[cursive bluff]

It's not meant to hold your hand like diablo series

[silent rock]

you can mouse over the different trees to see how they work

[vagrant anchor]

Shots!

[cursive bluff]

Poe1 has always been more of a hardcore grindy game where you have to actually spend time and days playing

[silent rock]

but some of the explanations are ambiguous

[cursive bluff]

Haha I love diablo series I'm not hating just meant for different demographic

[silent rock]

like the boss one, it wasn't clear to me that you had to do lvl 16 waystones to get points after the first 2 pairs of points, I thought that just made the drops juicier

[plush mantle]

since you're in Cruel:

[plush mantle]

yeah, they could clarify that better; but tooltips were a rushed last minute thing for EA

[cursive bluff]

Do y'all remembered before internet was a thing and people played a game without guides and still had fun lol

[silent rock]

I'd kind of like a chart to make it explicit for that one. I don't know about the other trees, I haven't gotten to the pinnacle content yet

[silent rock]

you could buy guides generally

[plush mantle]

pretty sure 80%+ of the chat wasn't born then 😉

[floral urchin]

what causes the little yellow skulls to show up on the min maps while doing maps? killing x amount of mobs or ?

[silent rock]

and the games were even more cryptic

[silent rock]

number of monsters remaining

[lament stone]

less than 200 enemies remaining makes any remaining rares show up

[weary osprey]

those are remaining rares

[cursive bluff]

Our guides was the booklet that came inside the physical game copy haha

[azure lava]

they're asking what makes the skulls appear

[floral urchin]

Thanks!

[silent rock]

those actually had information though

like the original diablo basically contained a short story anthology

[weary osprey]

I remember borrowing maxim strategy guides people donated to the library

[cursive bluff]

Info that you had to manually understand and figured out yourself and no external software needed like pob and such

[plush mantle]

I'm sure there's people today that don't know what a booklet that comes with a physical copy of a game looks like (or think they're the ad flyer for other games)

[vagrant anchor]

were the games as complex?

[cursive bluff]

Or the song lyrics on the cassette tapes haha

[silent rock]

I mean yeah, but the whole world was like that at the time. People don't know how to get places without gps map guidance at this point

[cursive bluff]

And we still managed

[silent rock]

sometimes

[cursive bluff]

Now we have access to all this which does most of the playing for you

[silent rock]

I mean the text based games were deranged

[cursive bluff]

Yeah I'm not that old hahaha

[humble karma]

let me guess its one of those 2 rooms?

which on top or bottom?

[silent rock]

the ultima games rivaled most modern games, I think daggerfall came out when online guides were still mediocre

[plush mantle]

basically, SgtTurtle is telling us about how they walked uphill in the snow both ways 😉
(and I AM that old to have played text games 😭 )

[brisk sundial]

i cant seem to kill the boss of act 2

[lament stone]

probably the top one

[brisk sundial]

any tips?

[plush mantle]

top, bottom is a treasure room

[silent rock]

go north
You encounter a grute

[vagrant anchor]

sorceress?

[brisk sundial]

witch

idk what im doing wrong haha

[plush mantle]

what's your lightning resistance?

[azure lava]

prioritize life and resistances on gear, try to upgrade your weapon, get movement speed on boots, get an up-to-date life flask with two good mods

[lament stone]

idk what youre doing, youve somehow managed to use every damage type

[humble karma]

and why cant i open the treasure room? 😄

[cursive bluff]

No what I'm saying is people don't have the drive to grind like we used to but complain about it XD

[azure lava]

these are my stats and I'm not even to the dreadnaught in act 2 yet

[plush mantle]

find more soul cores 🙂