2┃new-player-in-campaign-help

[devout hare]

oo

new league launch pleas

[fringe obsidian]

i SO hope that spears are strength dex when they drop them in new league

but I feel like they're pure dex 😦

[lament stone]

theyre pure dex

[fringe obsidian]

yeah

very sad

[safe lance]

why?

[glacial palm]

Honestly I can't wait to see armor get love as well.
Kind of like the idea of doing a str/int build.

[lament stone]

doesnt really matter that much, its only attribute requirements

[fringe obsidian]

@safe lance because I really REALLY love the 48 weapon swap points on witchhunter, and that heavily encourages you to use 2 weapons with similar attribute requirements. AND i love crossbows

[haughty niche]

i dont see that stopping you much, especially if you lean into evasion side of tree for defenses

[lament stone]

youd just have to get enough attributes to equip both

[fringe obsidian]

yeah it's just easier to support if they're all dancing to the same tune i've found so far

[haughty niche]

(thankfully you also have 48 weaponswap points on that build to do so)

[safe lance]

Honestly if you watch the huntress gameplay video spear doesnt feel as cool as I originally imagined

[fringe obsidian]

yes the 48 swap points is probably my favorite thing in the game

[safe lance]

I thought it'd be more like a bg3 spear

but its more like a pantheon in league of legends spear

[haughty niche]

spear to me seems like it has potential to be the most broken shit for a while.
1handed maces suck ass and are currently our only 1-handed melee weapon option.

Spear would offer another 1-hander, so you could go shield which is ridiculously strong defensively, AND its nodes are on the evasion side of the tree which is also insanely overtuned. Kind of sets you up to be unkillable.

[glacial palm]

Only thing I've found about the dual attribute requirements though is it can be limiting on your skill gems.

Like you are kind of dependent on your gear to be able to keep double-attribute builds up to date on their skill gem levels.

Currently toying around with a dex/int build and during campaign I found myself having to sit on skill gems for a bit until I could either get a drop with more stats or get around on the passive tree a bit to get some more stats in there 😦

[haughty niche]

well if you are doing int shit on a mercenary then yeah of course you are going to have attribute issues early.

[fringe obsidian]

he never said merc did he? I was the one on merc (my beloved)

[haughty niche]

oh

missread

[glacial palm]

And for what it's worth I'm on monk, so yeah.

Probably the most accessible with respect to combo dex/int passives.

[haughty niche]

ye

[safe lance]

iirc in the gameplay video huntress was barely doing any damage

[haughty niche]

while you can get attributes from gear and travel nodes, it does help to be in the area with a few +10 point nodes.

[haughty niche]

there was a severe balance issue in the press demos

[safe lance]

We already know the dex start path and spear nodes but I am hoping the ascendancy and points are OP enough

[fringe obsidian]

that's always how their gameplay demos look lol

[haughty niche]

the classes had gear that was effectively non-existent

[glacial palm]

Yeah, it's not been terrible so far. Only like 1 level behind on skill gems usually. Just noticeable.

[safe lance]

true

[haughty niche]

like people said warrior was a miserable experience in those press demos, and you look at their weapon and it was like 2 acts old with zero offensive stats or some shit like that

[fringe obsidian]

I always see people say warrior sucks, then I watch gameplay videos of them walking around turning the entire screen into a nuclear explosion

so IDK what to feel

[haughty niche]

Thats NOT warrior

thats herald of ice

[fringe obsidian]

it is?

[haughty niche]

Warrior (mace skills) are insanely clunky and slow. They feel awful to use unless you are masochistic or haven't tried the other skills in the game yet.

That said, warrior almost always does good damage

its just that the way you do the damage is slow

sure Perfect Strike can 1-2shot bosses in campaign on a good build, but its still a 4-second charge up which feels bad on everything else

[devout hare]

https://youtu.be/LJFHxN0Lgy4?si=ijCRPvwqxXKYFCP4

[haughty niche]

Mace skills were also the target of the most nerfs early on when ggg was actually balancing things early on.

[obsidian forge]

hmm I keep hearing that but then I see videos on youtube of people exploding the whole screen with mace skills

maybe they are just overgeared

[haughty niche]

Like there used to be an armour break + explosion thing that proliferated to every enemy in a pack which felt really satisfying but they gutted that which ruined warrior's clear without herald of ice

[lament stone]

endgame looks totally different to getting through the campaign

[fringe obsidian]

yeah that's true.

[devout hare]

campaign is so hard rr

endgame easy ww

[obsidian forge]

totally agreed

[devout hare]

[fringe obsidian]

haha. I like the campaign a lot. I think end game is also very good, but needs a bit of sauce

[lament stone]

most of the damage nodes near warriors start point have reduced attack speed on them, so its not until you start getting far enough away from the start point that you start getting damage without reducing your attack speed

[haughty niche]

Starting in act 1 cruel player power starts outscaling monsters significantly which kinda leads to this bullshit 1-shotting boss stuff

[gentle mountain]

I'm sure it's a skill issue, but I felt super fragile building and leveling my warrior. I dunno why, but I just expected Warrior to be a lot more tanky, even when not holding a shield up.

[haughty niche]

then mace skills have stupid amounts of forced reduced attackspeed too so it just compounds

[lament stone]

life and elemental resistances?

[haughty niche]

warrior is currently probably the weakest class defensively. At least with the tools available to their ascendencies and starting area of tree

That said, its likely a mix of your life and res thats causing issues in campaign

[gentle mountain]

I don't disagree, but how much is enough when you have a new player that doesn't have a bunch of orbs to trade for the best gear yet? It didn't seem to matter much, especially in those lower levels.

[lament stone]

you dont need to trade

magic (blue) gear with just a life roll + a resist roll is good enough

[gentle mountain]

Okay, well then I go back to where I was before... without great gear, the class is just meh.

[lament stone]

movement speed is super important on boots

thats true of any class

[haughty niche]

checking vendors is a good habit to get into. i never found 1 good weapon during my entire time playing the game besides from vendors

[obsidian forge]

agreed, both warrior ascendancies seem the weakest to me

[lament stone]

titan is generically strong

[obsidian forge]

demon form says hello

[echo berry]

What is the meaninh of the emotions?

[haughty niche]

the warrior ascendencies can be quite good, but usually for things enabled by endgame gear/scaling..... or minions for some fucking reason lol

[lament stone]

warbringer is a lot more niche so you kind of have 2 specific builds you can do with it, and not much outside of that

[haughty niche]

endgame item from Delirium side mechanic

[obsidian forge]

I think the titan ascendancy itself is fine, but so far away from all the good passive nodes

[echo berry]

i know, i have some, but no idea what to do with it

[haughty niche]

read them

in your inv

[devout hare]

what is meaning of emotion...

[haughty niche]

they say how to use them

[ionic niche]

Anyone tryna help me fly through the campaigns

[devout hare]

why do we have emotion..

[haughty niche]

it lets you get a notable from the passive tree on your amulet

[haughty niche]

nope

That would take like 15 hours

and leave you with a useless character

[gentle mountain]

Warrior feels so sluggish too with all of it's 1.5s casting times. There's some kind of disconnect between scaling at high levels vs low levels and what makes a class fun to play. I want to cause chaos and wreck stuff, not tip-toe around and hope I don't run into an enemy that regenerates its health

[ionic niche]

Not for someone that alr got broken build

[haughty niche]

which would require you to run back through all the areas again anyway to level

[devout hare]

you need big money

[obsidian forge]

you are talking about mace skills, not warrior

[devout hare]

maybe 3 divine

per act

[desert sedge]

Rule 6. No trading, begging, asking for 'loans', giveaways, tips for services, etc for any game. See #trading for alternatives.

[devout hare]

chat is this real

[gentle mountain]

Fair enough... not like we have two-handed swords or anything to play with

[lament stone]

exp penalty. if youre too high or low level vs the enemies youre fighting you get no exp, so if someone does a bad job and leaves you underlevelled at the end of the campaign you would have to go back and do the campaign again anyway just to level up

[obsidian forge]

stop begging xDD

[devout hare]

IT NOT MEE

[haughty niche]

yes thats a discord channel rule here

[devout hare]

it was someone else

[haughty niche]

i know

[devout hare]

aa

[haughty niche]

Its not gonna mute or ban you, it is just a warning for people that are asking for services etc before we get mods to remove them etc

[devout hare]

oki

i reacted to so many messages my react permission is removed xd

[haughty niche]

As for why trading/giveaways/etc is forbidden here, I guess its just easy to moderate if none of that is allowed.

[devout hare]

yaa

but i got poe2 by free giveaway by someon in chat

ww

[haughty niche]

its not super heavily enforced, just an easy way to get people who are begging to shut up

[devout hare]

[indigo badge]

Hol up

You mean to tell me

I can I do the thing?

[devout hare]

what thing are you doing

[indigo badge]

I demand everything

[obsidian forge]

is Kasumi still begging for divines?

[indigo badge]

[devout hare]

i never begged...

[indigo badge]

Lmao

[obsidian forge]

just messing with you 😄

[devout hare]

i think it was creo guys!!

[indigo badge]

[devout hare]

[indigo badge]

If I vaal my HoWa and it gives me a 1-8 I might jump off a bridge

[devout hare]

dont worry

[indigo badge]

I'll wait until I get a second one

[devout hare]

i believe in you!

[indigo badge]

Then gamba

[devout hare]

woa

so smart ww

[indigo badge]

I'm 0/6 so far

I think the game hates me

[devout hare]

it oki

not in one day but one day for sure!!

[indigo badge]

[devout hare]

[cosmic solstice]

my ms rises and falls suddenly how can i fix it

[arctic blaze]

What is the highest tier right now?

[molten meadow]

what's the deal w/ my skills?? they're all greyed out when I hopped back in...

[devout hare]

not enough stat to use?

checkk

[glacial palm]

If you mouse over the skill icon, it should give you a tooltip telling you why those skills are disabled.

[devout hare]

waystone tierr?

[molten meadow]

got it ❤️ took off a blue ring my friend gave that had 30 dex, so my weapon came off 😛

[haughty niche]

#2┃after-acts-help for postcampaign

[reef stirrup]

any pro ice strike users?

[trim turret]

You can just ask your question and someone will answer sooner or later.

[gentle mountain]

Just post some factually incorrect info about ice strike and what the pros do, and then be amazed as everyone teaches you 🙂

[eager basin]

https://dontasktoask.com

[safe lance]

ok lets try beetlejuicing then, ice strike sucks!

[echo rivet]

Guys when is the ideal time to start trial of sekhemas. I am lvl 40 atm

[dusky burrow]

the first one?

[gentle mountain]

You should start the Trial of Sekhemas as soon as possible, the lower the level the easier it is.

[drifting girder]

Girlfriend is trying to build pure chaos hexblast. I know it's not very viable, but she is headstrong on making it work so I was wondering if you guys had any tips or critiques

[dusky burrow]

it depends how useful the first asc notable is for your build

[echo rivet]

Yes

I never did trial of sekhemas thinking it will be easier once I level up more

Please help me guys

[glad grove]

Do it.png

[echo hound]

L40 should be very comfy for the first trial

[drifting girder]

oh shoot wrong channel mb

[dusky burrow]

i dont have a grasp on the levels yet, what part of act 2 are you on?

[echo hound]

1st trial is like L22

[glad grove]

Jump in there and try it. You get infinite retrys for the first and second trial you have access to.

[echo rivet]

Oh. So it should be fairly easy right?

Aight. How should I do it. I didn't do that part and moved to act 3

[ember sinew]

What does Sacred water do, and why NOTHING is explained upon entering the Trial ?LOL

[echo rivet]

Got it. Will do it right away

[dusky burrow]

for warrior, i didnt do it until i was almost done act2, then i went and facerolled it

[echo hound]

If it isn't then it's a good indicator to look over your build xd

[dusky burrow]

so you should be just fine

[echo rivet]

Aight. But how do I start like where do I go now 🥹

[echo hound]

It's currency to buy boons from the Merchant. It'll randomly appear on one of the rooms (it'll be Balbala's face as the icon), and you have a guaranteed merchant at the end of every floor (1st trial = 1 floor, 2nd trial = 2 floors, etc up to 4th floor).

[echo hound]

If you haven't unlocked the waypoint for it yet, you need to use the Act 2 Caravan map to go to it first, it'll be next to the Traitor's Parh and there should be a quest marker anyways.

[echo rivet]

Alright. I will see. Any tips for trial of sekhemas

Also how long it takes!!!

[glad grove]

Dont get hit a lot. You have a second healthbar in there that is hard to restore.

Read the possible downsides you can pick very carefully and about 20-30 mins max I'd guess for your first one.

[echo rivet]

I am playing witch btw

[fringe obsidian]

don't take any downsides that kill you basically. and if you get downsides that have no effect take those

also look for rooms that offer boons, or merchants

it's like any roguelite really

[echo rivet]

Ahhh

I kinda like roguelites, so thanks. Hope the rewards are good

[safe lance]

The rewards are good if you do it in endgame.

[echo rivet]

Ohh. So I shouldn't do it now?

[safe lance]

I had a run this morning that gave me ~300 div "profit" I am pumped and have been DMing everyone I know

[echo hound]

Avoid the afflictions where possible. The boons/water/keys are generally not worth taking an affliction.

[trim turret]

You should absolutely do it now. The reward right now is your ascendancy, and that matters a lot.

Making currency off of it is an endgame thing.

[echo rivet]

Got it. afflictions means bad thingey...right

[echo hound]

You'll earn more Baryas to farm it as much as you want, and those will be much higher level versions than what you have now.

[echo rivet]

Aye aye caps

[echo rivet]

The small disc?

[echo hound]

Ye

[safe lance]

boons good, afflictions bad

[echo rivet]

Got it

Steam downloading 200mb why? I don't play today until now...is there an update?

[safe lance]

There have been a couple updates, idk when you played last tho

not today afaik

[echo rivet]

I played yesterday

[wheat dagger]

Hey, I have 2 Level 9 Spirit Gems and I just got an armor with 40 extra spirit in it, I’m a Stormweaver. Do I go for a second aura? Do I upgrade Mana Remnants to 9? Or do I go for Cast on Shock or something?

[gaunt pagoda]

I'm new. I heard there is a unique stellar amulet that could be worth a lot??

[mystic forge]

astramentis

[trim turret]

Well cast on shock is 60 spirit. Upgrading won't reserve more spirit to my knowledge. Really it's about what you feel like you need.

[trim turret]

Yeah, like yocttar said, astramentis. It's good for attribute stacker builds, which are popular right now.

[cosmic solstice]

i bought map stash tab about 1 month ago but i still dont have it when it come to the game

[gaunt pagoda]

what about "the fixation of yix"??

[echo rivet]

Where should I go

[gaunt pagoda]

it's like a team one, lots of buffs for people around you

[echo rivet]

For sekhemas

[lament stone]

i havent heard of that one so its probably not that useful

[trim turret]

You can price check it on the trade website.

[trim turret]

The location that mentions the trial. It probably has a quest marker also.

[echo rivet]

Clear image

Don't see any trials here

[echo rivet]

Nothing by the name trial tho

[lament stone]

id check everything that has a quest marker

[hard cypress]

Have you killed balbala ?

[echo rivet]

No

I haven't

[gaunt pagoda]

you need the item she drops

[hard cypress]

Killing her unlocks the trial

[gaunt pagoda]

go to the traitors passage a nd kill her

[echo rivet]

She is in

Traitors passage?

[hard cypress]

traitors passage

[echo rivet]

Got it! Will check! Thank you everyone

[echo rivet]

My lvl 40 witch obliterated balbala xD

[hard cypress]

Time to ascend \0/

[echo rivet]

Oh yes. I hope I get it in the first run 🥹

[hard cypress]

Make sure your interact button is not bound to another skill

[echo rivet]

Interact button what's that

[hard cypress]

Its umm x on ps5. The thing you press to interact with environmental things

[echo rivet]

I am on pc btw

[hard cypress]

I think its the same as the pick up item button

You need to interact with a bunch of torches in one of the trials. It has a time limit so you need to be able to interact with stuff with mobs around basically

[echo rivet]

Ohhh

Got it. Thank you for the heads up.

I got 3% movement speed relic from balbala

[echo rivet]

Are these reusable?

[hard cypress]

Yes relics are shared betweek all jobs

[echo rivet]

So let's say I can use them even in trial of chaos?

[hard cypress]

Only with sekhimas trials

[echo rivet]

Wat Boht chaos one

[hard cypress]

The relics apply only for sekhimas stuff

[echo rivet]

Also can I use portals while in trial to go to caravan and use stash?

[lament stone]

no

[hard cypress]

You can't go back in if you peace out

[echo rivet]

And should I always pick sacred water at the end of 1 mission in trial?

[lament stone]

you can use the exit button at the end of each floor

but if you use a portal you cant reenter

[echo rivet]

So I need to be careful what I pick

[hard cypress]

Please make sure you have your ascendancy selected before leaving anywhere out

[echo rivet]

Does it save progress?

[lament stone]

yes, if you use the exit button at the end of the floor

in the chest room

[echo rivet]

Ohhh. I did the first mission in trial and got the sacred watter

[hard cypress]

You have to keep going deeper

There's like 8 floors or something to finsh the trial

[echo rivet]

What to do

[lament stone]

8 rooms on each floor

[echo rivet]

Ohh

[lament stone]

you just pick the rooms with the least worst effects

[echo rivet]

One says bronze key and one says sacred water

One is large sacred water and one is just sacred water

[lament stone]

neither of those really matter on the first trial tbh

[safe lance]

Dont worry about it too much

[echo rivet]

What even is this water thingey

[safe lance]

its currency to use with the merchant

[hard cypress]

Its currency for the current run

[lament stone]

any loot you get at the end is too low level because youre level 40 now you can get better stuff in act 3

[ember sinew]

"More flask duration" it means the same amount of Life/Mana, is recovered in more amount of time (Hence, bad)
Or it means that the same regeneration rate is applied over more duration (Hence, more healing)?🤔

[drowsy copper]

Water is the currency that gets you stuff at the vendor. You'll see. Just do it!

[hard cypress]

Probably best not to over think this at lvl 40. Just take ones which don't give bad stuff and clearge

[echo rivet]

Got it

You guys are amazing

[hard cypress]

This is true, we are amazing

😄

[echo rivet]

Breezing through xD

This was spike one. Ahh too annoying ahha

[lament stone]

with that specific wording its the first thing you said, it takes longer to recover and the amount you recover is unaffected

where are you getting that from?

[echo rivet]

There are some afflictions but how do I know what each one means?

[ember sinew]

"cautious concoctions"
"Increased flask effect duration"

[lament stone]

hover over it, it tells you

[ember sinew]

A passive at the begginning of Ranger kinda

[hard cypress]

How does one know in console btw ? I just never bothered to check lol

[lament stone]

thats "increased flask effect duration" (which im pretty sure still means exactly the same thing)

also "increased" is different to "more"

[echo rivet]

Aight. I hope vendor comes. I am down 20 honor from 1000 honor.

[ember sinew]

Why am I watching guides on Yt, that pick passives that increase the Crit chance with Attacks, in builds for Shattering Concoction?
Its an unarmed skill, and Attacks use the weapon

[echo rivet]

One option says awards a pledge and other says awards a boon. What is pledge

[lament stone]

but its useful because you can get stuff like increased attack speed during flask effect

[lament stone]

the concoction skills have built in attack damage/crit chance

[ember sinew]

exactly
Then IDK why they pick stuff like "struck through"

[lament stone]

all unarmed skills (that dont use a weapons stats) have built in stats like that

[ember sinew]

"attacks have + critical chance"

[lament stone]

because its an attack

[ember sinew]

Concoction doesnt use the crit from the weapon

[lament stone]

the concoction has its own base crit chance

[ember sinew]

Or am I missunderstanding?

[hard cypress]

It does something good and does something bad together

[lament stone]

see shattering concoction has built in crit chance

[lament stone]

.

[ember sinew]

Oh wait, it does say "Attack" 🤔 😅
And yet in the description it says "Unarmed", and in the description of "Attack" it talks about Weapons
Looks misleading

[echo rivet]

Aight. Will just go with boon

[lament stone]

"unarmed" counts as a weapon

[ember sinew]

Lol

Allright...

TY BTW 👍

[safe lance]

It was also counting bow skills but they fixed that

[lament stone]

that was a single mod on quivers, it didnt gain anything from the bow itself

[ember sinew]

Where do I get Spirit skills, BTW?
I got one from a mission early on in act 1, but I chose uncorrectly, and I dont seem to get one dropped😥 🤷‍♂️

[lament stone]

theyre just very rare drops

[fringe obsidian]

They drop. but rarer

[ember sinew]

I got "Plague nova" on my Pathfinder
Now Im gonna play "Shattering concoction", which is Cold, not Poison
Hence Plague nova is useless

[lament stone]

you only get a handful of guaranteed ones, like theres one in a shrine somewhere in act 2 or cruel act 2 (dont remember which) all the bosses that give you spirit also give you a spirit gem, etc.

just do all the icons on your maps

[open rover]

where can i get some help for crafting? got really good item want to make it better 🙂

[echo rivet]

Haven't seen vendor yet ..more than halfway in

[lament stone]

thats an ascendancy skill, you can just refund that (at 5x the normal refund cost)

[ember sinew]

Concoction builds, dont get the passive that regens Mana flask?
How do they sustain their Mana charges?🤔

[hard cypress]

Vendor is guaranteed after you kill the final boss. He may or may not show up as an option inbetween

[lament stone]

only at the end of each floor, which is why its useless in the first trial

[restive turret]

Is it worth Vaaling spell gems if you're at lv 14-15?

[echo rivet]

Is this for just this room? Or even the boss one

[hard cypress]

No

[echo rivet]

Haven't seen one

[hard cypress]

All further floors

[echo rivet]

Woah

[hard cypress]

The bad stack till you clear or die, soooo yee

[haughty niche]

it makes the bosses practically impossible to dodge

[lament stone]

thats because you havent reached the end of the floor yet

[echo rivet]

Is movement speed important for this?

[lament stone]

the end of the floor is after the boss in the 8th room on a floor

[hard cypress]

Movement speed is important for all the content in this game

[haughty niche]

ms is by far the most important stat in the game, and definitely in that content

[fringe obsidian]

I thought vendors could spawn as room rewards no?

[hard cypress]

They may, yes. Don't have to

[lament stone]

i also dont think they can in the quest version

[fringe obsidian]

ooooh ok

[hard cypress]

They have for me, vendor as a mid floor reward

[haughty niche]

i suicide ran the quest version on a character for relic drops and never saw one

probably a lot rarer on first floor maybe

[lament stone]

what is the exact wording?

[haughty niche]

the skill is just terribly balanced. You don't need any flask sustain nodes to sustain it by default, unless you are taking a long time on bosses for some reason

[lament stone]

it depends what the wording is

[echo rivet]

What to get

[safe lance]

you need the gains charge ones

[lament stone]

they might be talking about something that doesnt apply to concoctions at all

[safe lance]

not mana recovery

[fringe obsidian]

if death toll wont kill you take death toll

[lament stone]

like mana recovery is useless

since you use the flask charges themselves, not any actual mana

[hard cypress]

First one since you are near the end

[haughty niche]

tbf all the mana recovery/flast recovery nodes are useless for pconc

it simply doesn't need them

[echo rivet]

I got the death toll and it removed my -40% minion damage woo hoo

[ember sinew]

They dont get "Arcane Alchemy" which regens their mana charges, to sustain spamming Concoction?🤔
@haughty niche

[haughty niche]

are you having trouble sustaining?

[hard cypress]

hahahaha

[haughty niche]

I played t15 map bosses and was llike 3shotting those

[lament stone]

they probably just dont need that tbh

[haughty niche]

never ran into flask sustain issues for it

[echo rivet]

It says use alter for ascendancy how

[ember sinew]

Nah Im just barely Act 2 😅 😳

[fringe obsidian]

just click on it

[lament stone]

looking where it is on the tree, its probably just too many points to path to it

and its just not needed

[haughty niche]

Maybe on pinnacle bosses it might help but the build creator didn't think it was necessary. I took the alchemy boon spirit gem in my inventory as a backup in case i ran out of flask charges, but never used it

[hard cypress]

ggs o7

[echo rivet]

I chose infernalist

When do I pick the passive points there

[fringe obsidian]

you can do that now

open your passive tree

and select them

[hard cypress]

You get two at teh center of the tree

You can refund these passives like others just fyi, buyt more expensive

[echo rivet]

Oh. Can I pick anything? Anywhere on the tree? Or

[hard cypress]

There is a starting point

[fringe obsidian]

no you pick your infernalist passives in the centrre

from the starting point for the ascendancy

[hard cypress]

oh the tree is in the center picture yee

[echo rivet]

Got loyal hellhound

Thank you

Now what

[fringe obsidian]

now you have a loya dog with you

he's great

we love him

[echo rivet]

Also I converted all sacred water to key

I don't see any key...tho

[echo rivet]

Uwuu

[fringe obsidian]

in the bottom of your screen there's a display that shows your keys

[hard cypress]

Keys listed below your honor bar

[fringe obsidian]

you may not have had enough water to make a key

[hard cypress]

Hound is a spirit-free minion skill which you can add supports to fyi

[echo rivet]

Damn

Shd I do another trial?

[tight python]

which staff for now?

[fringe obsidian]

just equip them both and keep whichever one gives you more damage

[hard cypress]

If you open skills, you can swap both to see how it affects dps

[short flame]

i have a ranger what should i do for my 2nd char

[tight python]

how do I know exactly?

[echo rivet]

Also what if I run out of these discs?

[fringe obsidian]

gem screen displays damage

[hard cypress]

The trial tokens ?

[fringe obsidian]

they drop randomly

[fringe obsidian]

I rolled a withchunter merc recently and love it

minions are also good

[echo rivet]

Yes

[tight python]

skills panel?

[hard cypress]

The first one which gives you the ascendancy points can be reused I think

[short flame]

does it do good clear and dmg?

[fringe obsidian]

so far yes. I'm only in tier 9 maps so far but it's doing well

[echo rivet]

Hard to farm?

[hard cypress]

Monk is 10/10 after you hit lvl 14

[lament stone]

you wouldnt gain anything from it

[short flame]

is it cheap to do and can you send me a build?

[lament stone]

each trial needs to be a specific level to give ascendancy points

[hard cypress]

The token description will say "WILL NOT GIVE ASCENDANCY POINTS" 😄

[fringe obsidian]

I cannot send a build because I have been making it up as I go. Up until this morning I had spent maaaaaaaybe 2 div. but I just bought a really nice crossbow for 5 div.

[echo rivet]

More ascendency points?

Then how 😭

[short flame]

so youre playing wizard but as a merc?

[hard cypress]

Witchhunter is a merc ascendancy

[short flame]

o shi

[fringe obsidian]

no lol. siege cascade, rapid shot, ripwire ballista, and artillery ballista

making use of 48 weapon swap points

[echo rivet]

Thanks but how should I do 2 floors and make sure to get more ascendency

[lament stone]

you cant yet

you need to get trial token drops at a higher level

[echo rivet]

How then

Ohhh

[lament stone]

that screenshot explains it pretty well, its not that hard to read

[hard cypress]

You do get a quest token for trial of chaos right ? To get your second ascendancy ?

[echo rivet]

Yes

I have them

[lament stone]

well except where it says "any other ascension 1" it should really say "any other quest token"

[echo rivet]

But dunno if I shd start now

[echo rivet]

Got it !

[fringe obsidian]

here gimme a sec

[echo rivet]

Is trial of chaos okay for me as a level 40?

[restive slate]

how should i be raising my attributes?

[lament stone]

the quest tokens being the green items you get

[lament stone]

attributes are only needed to be able to equip gear and skills

[hard cypress]

Passive tree primarily. You can get them as stats on items too

oh which ones

[restive slate]

ok. i just got 2 lvl 3 skill gems. want flame wall, but need 7 more int. wondering how to bridge the gap

[lament stone]

you just get more int from attribute nodes on the tree or from gear

[hard cypress]

Could do a quick respec two nodes

[restive slate]

im like level 5

[lament stone]

you might be able to replace other attributes like dex or str if you have more than enough to satisfy gear/skill requirements

[hard cypress]

oh just keep playing and you can put those points on the tree

[restive slate]

i just got this

how can i get this but for intelligence

[lament stone]

int cant roll on belts

[hard cypress]

???????

lol

[restive slate]

misclick

have a macro to harrass friends with

misclick

[hard cypress]

oh my

But yeee there should nodes on the tree which lets you allocate +5 to str / dex / int

Or some nodes have a (nice things) + 10 int or something

[restive slate]

what other gear would int roll on?

[hard cypress]

At this low level, I don't think its worth to use orbs till you get the stats on an item

Its rng heavy

[restive slate]

is there any way for a baby to farm int gear? for example: int only spawns on headpieces so go gamble at the trader

idk how game workds

[hard cypress]

Can't focus farm gear with specific stats, its "kill mobs and prayge"

[restive slate]

yeah, but you jsust said no int on belts

[hard cypress]

Just keep playing till you can level up and get nodes on the passive with int

[restive slate]

tell me where i shouldnt be spending my wisdom scrolls & upgrade ball stuff on

[hard cypress]

What class did you start as ?

[lament niche]

there is someone who is willing to rush mwith me with my second account? ❤️

[haughty niche]

Ptobably not

[lament stone]

this early in the game you should only be using the attributes for the skills youre using

[haughty niche]

#2┃looking-for-group might have one if you are lucky

[lament stone]

like if youre playing witch, all your skills have int requirement so focus on int

[restive slate]

ramger

lmao

still not enough int

but just got that

[lament stone]

gas arrow?

[hard cypress]

Ooooo so close dang

[lament stone]

if this is gas arrow build you want a minimum level flame wall

and never level it up

[restive slate]

yes. why?

[haughty niche]

You can respec the travel nodes on your passive tree for a bit of int

[lament stone]

because the damage doesnt matter

what matters is the guaranteed ignite

[restive slate]

not if i dont have any travels node yet 🙂

[lament stone]

the only thing levelling flame wall up does is increase the amount of int you need

[haughty niche]

Oh you are that early. Then yeah you should have a low lvl flame wall for that build

[restive slate]

minimum level flame (lvl3?) wants 14 int. i have 7

[lament stone]

also note that this interaction is getting nerfed

so the magnitude of the ignite will matter for the explosion damage

[haughty niche]

It is?

Man thdy dont want any combos to be useable lmao

[lament stone]

at some point yes

[restive slate]

so eventually you will want higher level flame wall?

[azure lava]

I thought it already got nerfed

[lament stone]

only the damage

[restive slate]

wym?

[lament stone]

they want to make it based on the magnitude but they couldnt do that quickly

[restive slate]

are the differences between armors and helmets cosmetic? or are they different stats?

asking for a friend who is standing at the slot machine

not me

[lament stone]

#old-game-news message

[hard cypress]

Different substats like armor, energy shield, evasion ,combs of these

[fringe obsidian]

different stats.

[lament stone]

and afaik they havent done it yet

[restive slate]

where can i find the stats so i know which one to roll for as a ranger

[lament stone]

the way it sounds is that the damage nerf is a temporary fix until they can do the magnitude thing

[hard cypress]

Ranger kinda likes evasion

[fringe obsidian]

you probably want the one with only evasion

[restive slate]

yeah, but which one does evasion

[fringe obsidian]

or evasion es. or evasion armour

[restive slate]

and i also want it to do int

[hard cypress]

If you hover over them, they will say "Evasion: ?" as a stat on them

[lament stone]

just level up to get attributes on the tree

it will be way easier, and you wont be dependant on gear for your attributes

because your gear is going to change a lot during the campaign

[hard cypress]

Depending on gear for stats can be a big crutch since if you want to replace it, you're at an awkward spot

[restive slate]

do i want evasion, evasion + armor, or evasion + energy?

[ember sinew]

What skills do I use with my Mercenary for Act 1?
I have Bolts and Grenades
Arent there many Fire resistant enemies in the game?🤔
And no way to reduce their Fire res

[hard cypress]

Evasion

[restive slate]

thats like payday dodge right?

where you just wont get hit by stuff

[haughty niche]

i dont think its anything like that no

[restive slate]

whats evasion do then

[haughty niche]

during campaign none of those are a primary focus. Resists and life are the most effective

[hard cypress]

There are ways to reduce fire res, maybe not very early game

No enemy is omega resistant to one element in campaign

[lament stone]

its just a chance to evade incoming damage, you can only evade projectiles and melee strikes by default

you can hold alt on items and click any underlined text to read exactly what it does

[haughty niche]

Evasion in poe is not quite rng. It has entropy that guarantees you get hit every now and then based on your chance to evade

[ember sinew]

The thing about Evasion IMHO, its that it doesnt give you feedback
Just like there are no dmg numbers in the game, you dont read "Evaded!", when you evade a hit
Your HP just doesnt go down, and thats it🤔

[fringe obsidian]

it's also entropic assuming it's like poe 1

which is a little alarming lol

[haughty niche]

https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Evasion#Entropy

[restive slate]

alr looking at that

[ember sinew]

"Entropic" WDYM?

[restive slate]

so i want to max out 95% evasion, then get the rest into shield or armor?

[fringe obsidian]

it's not like it just rolls your evasion chance when you get hit. each dodge, lowers the chances of subsequent dodges hitting, until you get hit

[ember sinew]

Ah Im reading

[fringe obsidian]

then it resets

[haughty niche]

the tldr of entropy is instead of having the possibility to just dodge everything technically, you WILL eventually be hit through evasion.

[lament stone]

no, during the campaign you want to prioritise life and elemental resistances, forget about the other defences

[fringe obsidian]

hence, entropy. even with all the evasion in the world, YOU WILL GET HIT eventually

[restive slate]

😭 so why was i lied to abt the armor

[ember sinew]

Does it work the other way too?
If you get hit a lot with high Evasion, because of bad RNG, your Dodge% increases, no?
I hope xD

[lament stone]

evasion gear will be the easiest to equip since youll need a lot of dex to use your main skill

[hard cypress]

Life and elemental resistance are substats on your gear. Evasion / armor / energy shield are primary stats

[fringe obsidian]

it goes back to what your evasion says. honestly I like to combine evasion with armour for this reason

[echo hound]

Is the Evasion cap 95%? I had heard it was 85%

[lament stone]

it is 95%

[fringe obsidian]

95 in poe 1. no clue what it is in poe 2

[echo hound]

Does anyone know what Acrobatics turns that into?

[scenic salmon]

Yes I think so
It's entropical both ways isn't it?

[hard cypress]

Get evasion gear with (life and resistance as substats if possible).

[fringe obsidian]

pretty sure getting hit just resets the entropy

[ember sinew]

Isnt Armor, like literally terrible tho?
It just blocks 1 out of 5 dmg types
ES and Eva block all of them 🤷‍♂️

[fringe obsidian]

evasion only blocks melee and projectile hits

[haughty niche]

during campaign i completely ignore the base type of the armour, so long as i can equip it, and only look for increases to resists and life

[lament stone]

you can still get 95% with acrobatics if you could stack enough evasion, altho idk if theres enough sources of evasion in the game to get enough for that

[drowsy copper]

For later runs of sekhemas, you'll want to add relics before you enter that add honor resist, and maximum honor, among other things you may want. Honor is based on your total defenses I believe (shield, HP, armor).

You can get good relics from the trade site for rather cheap.

[haughty niche]

with minor investment on tree its fairly easy for an endgame build that has evasion gear to reach like 80% with acro

[hard cypress]

How do I get more sekhimas relic spot ? Like removing the little dots in relic box

[haughty niche]

hover over the dots

[ember sinew]

IDK if I like Honour
What do you think about it , guys? as in, personal opinion
The trials become a thing of "Trying to not get hit"
Hard to enjoy 🤔

[drowsy copper]

The more levels you complete. You unlock more

[fringe obsidian]

you progress further in the trials

[hard cypress]

I don't hover over a lot of things with console lol

[lament stone]

having like 2k armour to mitigate smaller hits once you get to the endgame is pretty good, but theres just never a need to stack more than that imo because its just bad against big hits

[echo hound]

Currently, compared to ES and Evasion, yeah. GGG recently buffed it by 15%, but 0x15% is still 0 so who knows xdd

[haughty niche]

oh. That content is just incredibly poorly designed for console ui gl

[echo rivet]

Thank you!!!!! Big help

[tight python]

how important is armour? does that only help against physical attacks?

[hard cypress]

Armor, evasion are all mental gynamstics for the campaign. Just wear whatever number is big

[echo hound]

White mobs can have attacks that hit as hard as weak boss attacks so armour, which is supposed to be good against mobs, ends up not being as good as it should.

[echo rivet]

Is the second thing a debuff?

[hard cypress]

Yes, sell it or throw it in fire

[haughty niche]

Armour has 2 issues in the game:

1. You just dont get enough, and the formula was nerfed between poe1 and poe2 so its mitigating fucking nothing (armour mitigation is based on the size of the hit. The bigger the hit, the less it mitigates).

• For comparison, the armour mitigation calc is like a magnitude worse in poe2 or some shit, AND instead of getting 50-100k armour like in poe1 you are getting closer to 10-30k. So you get significantly less armour that does significantly less mitigation

2. The only thing it really protects from is small physical hits basically. Which are inherently not that dangerous.

[echo rivet]

Like is this a waste?

[lament stone]

if the breach boss did 5.5k phys damage instead of 3.5k you would literally never have any armour against that hit because there isnt enough sources of armour in the game to stack enough to get past the armour scaling AND the overwhelm that the breach boss has

[restive slate]

figured out flame wall. was using lvl 3 skill instead of lvl 1

[hard cypress]

If you heal, it takes from mana. Maaaaybe not the worst ? I had mana flasks which would take from life, threw those out pretty fast

[drowsy copper]

I think it's right stick click to view descriptions

[hard cypress]

It is. Just that its tedious and kinda wonky to do that in lot of places

[echo rivet]

Ohhh so it is permanent? Like if it takes from mana, mana won't regrow?

[fringe obsidian]

no. it just costs some mana to use that potion

[hard cypress]

Not from your max mana, just your current mana

[echo rivet]

Got it now!

Kinda seems not useful tbh

[hard cypress]

Drink flask -> Lose flaskh charges + mana

[drowsy copper]

100% agree. It's not as bad as trying to use the interact button while casting skills that drain my hp, but still rather wonky

[lament stone]

the mana flask version of it is funnier

[hard cypress]

My first time in sekhimas trial, I died everytime when it was escape trial

[lament stone]

im pretty sure it only exists to catch ci players off guard

[echo rivet]

Haha it sounds crazy to think fr

[hard cypress]

Me trying to interact, my character "Got it, let me fly towards the closest enemy to ice strike them and take some dmg myself"

[ember sinew]

Im in Act 2
Playing a Ranger, and Mercenary
In the "+5" stats in the passive tree, what do I choose?
All Dex for Ranger, and half half Str and Dex for Mercenary?
IDK really

[hard cypress]

See what kinda stats your skill and gear are wanting

[trim turret]

You choose what you need to equip gear and skills. Maybe some dex for accuracy if you don't have a 100% chance to hit.

[lament stone]

whatever you need to equip gear and skills

[fringe obsidian]

you kind of just take what you need for gear/skills

[drowsy copper]

Yep, people using controllers eventually learn to make your character spin in 20 different directions to finally interact with that world objective. I think looking away from an obj actually let's me interact almost always

[trim turret]

All physical hits, not just attacks. Life and resists are most important. Other defensive layers you choose based on your build and the gear you want to wear, your passives, etc.

[hard cypress]

I mean I just unbound the interact button. Could even bind interact to like l2+X so its just that action on that key

[drowsy copper]

Nice. My paddles are all taken so it'd have to be a combo like that. I'm just stubborn

[restive slate]

any reasons to hunt certain bosses like borderlands?

or will that be a full game thing

[haughty niche]

nope

Besides some side content in endgame. Theres pinnacle bosses that have their own uniques they can drop that are quite powerful

The campaign bosses are not worth farming

The endgame waystone system will have bosses at the end of some of the areas which drop a bunch of loot. Soyou will see a bunch of the campaign fights again

[covert nest]

yo mama

[visual onyx]

Will I get to keep my loot and/or character when the next season starts?

[haughty niche]

yes and no

You cannot bring existing characters/gear into a new league

But they will still exist in standard

[restive slate]

does this actually do anything?

[haughty niche]

On character creation, you can select the new league and then you start fresh on that.
You still have access to your standard characters in standard, just not within that league

[mystic forge]

yes but u should augment it

[haughty niche]

actually yes, it makes hhigher tier currencies drop more frequently and more rare/unique gear drop.

[restive slate]

as in increase the number of buffs?

ye ofc

[mystic forge]

yes

[haughty niche]

Id still prioritize life/resists, but rarity is certainly nice to have

[restive slate]

how much prioritization should i give to that buff?

[mystic forge]

not important at low levels

[visual onyx]

Ah okay that's fine then cause I was thinking whether or not I wanted to continue on my lv 52 character depending on if I could test stuff in the future on my character in any shape or form

[mystic forge]

u need total 100 rarity at high level

[restive slate]

why?

[mystic forge]

to increase drops

[hard cypress]

Rarity is a feel good stat in campaign. Do you need it ? Na. Do you feel superior while using it ? Yes.

[haughty niche]

they definitely incentivize you to make a new character, but its totally an option to just play standard. Just that most players play in leagues

[crystal gate]

Anyone aware of a bug where loot is vanishing from ground before you can pick it up and/or you pick it up and its not in your inventory? been happening all today. was fine before. ty.

[hard cypress]

Maybe loot filter shennanigans ?

[steel junco]

press z

[visual onyx]

I know I will prob also play new Leagues just that if I want to theorycraft/learn new stuff or whatever it'd be nice to have somewhere to test it live

[haughty niche]

after 100% rarity it starts reaching diminishing returns. You will still notice a 40% increase after that but its much more annoying to get those %s of rarity.

Id still just prioritize life and res in campaign, taking rarity if you can but not going out of your way for it

[crystal gate]

Checked my Loot filer and nothings changed, as far as i can tell.

[steel junco]

u might have accidently hit z to close highlight

[crystal gate]

Im on Xbox , where would u see that? ty

[steel junco]

go to input

in options

see whcih keys toggle it

[azure lava]

You've accidentally pressed whatever buttons it is on console to hide nameplates. Check your controls for how to undo it

[haughty niche]

might be l3 i dunno

[crystal gate]

ty will do

[crystal gate]

ok ty

[azure lava]

It's a dpad direction plus another button I think

[haughty niche]

oh thats wack

[crystal gate]

ok ty

[steel junco]

where do i get t2 waystones? im running t1 maps cant get any

[hard cypress]

#2┃after-acts-help

[steel junco]

okok

[hard cypress]

I don't know the answer hence the redirect lol

[crystal gate]

Ty all for the replies. it was the ground filter thing that i was pressing. sorted now.

[restive slate]

should i be disenchanting and then selling everything i can? should i use wisdom scroll for the hidden stuff before i disenchant?

[hard cypress]

Identify (it becomes free after a bit) then sell if you're going to sell

I disenchanted blues and golds for the mats for a while just so I have a ton of magic orbs to play around with

If I needed gold like after a respec, I just sold everything for 2-3 areas

[restive slate]

is there a way to instantly send stuff to stash?

like i stuff i want to send to stash such as currency

[haughty niche]

ctrl+click sends it without needing to drag

[restive slate]

no

[haughty niche]

but you still need to be IN the stash

[restive slate]

i mean in mission

bummeer

[haughty niche]

still no missions

But yeah no you cannot send to stash unless you are actively sitting next to it

[hard cypress]

You need to portal to town and do the whole routine

[restive slate]

whats this?

anything interesting for a non witch or whatever?

am ranger

[hard cypress]

Unique, which has a substat which can be niche.

You need to identify it to see what it does

[restive slate]

sellable?

or no

[hard cypress]

You need to identify it to know what it does

Then see if its selable or no

[hard cypress]

Trade site says its not worth a lot ? Not sure then

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/XKX88VdHP

[south mantle]

Anyone know what Quiver to use with Widowhail I’m struggling with Geanor

[haughty niche]

depends what you are trying to get for your damage skill

[south mantle]

I’m doing lightning skills mainly

[haughty niche]

if you don't know, thats a bigger problem. You should absolutely know what stats will be scaling your damage

try +lvls or increased damage stats

[south mantle]

I’m just asking if anyone knows a decent quiver that isn’t going to cost a bomb

[haughty niche]

but tbh i haven't heard of lightning builds going widowhail

You don't use widowhail with unique quivers

it just doesn't provide much benefit like that

[lament stone]

most unique weapons have that problem, the damage just isnt good because its a low level base, and most of them dont have good scaling options

[haughty niche]

if you aren't going to put in the effort to find a solid rare quiver then widowhail is not the play

[hard cypress]

Looks like that unique's gimmick is "take life for spell mana", how would that be any good ?

[south mantle]

The effort isn’t the issue here I was just asking if anyone knew anything that might help

[haughty niche]

bloodmages have to spend both life and mana costs

[lament stone]

it can help, some mana costs are pretty extreme

[hard cypress]

oh

[haughty niche]

so making more of that be life could help. That said, weapon is like 90% of your damage in this game so using a slot for that is kinda ass

[lament stone]

but that wand itself isnt great because it just doesnt have much damage

[hard cypress]

I see, thanks for the clarification

[tight python]

how important is energy shield?

[restive slate]

is there a way to see exactly what the chance is?

[hard cypress]

In what sense ?

[restive slate]

tf does this even mean???

[south mantle]

What bit are you at

[tight python]

am I able to change names?

[cerulean zephyr]

the shock chance? not currently, estimated shock/ignite chance is on the to-do list of things to display in the skill info popout

[haughty niche]

yes though idk if its available for poe2 yet. on the poe website near account

[restive slate]

lmao. so no way to know for now

[cerulean zephyr]

correct

[craggy gyro]

hi can anyone pls give me 5 exalts i would really appreciate your kindness

[hard cypress]

Not the channel to ask for handouts sorry

[craggy gyro]

i was just hoping someone was kind enough

[haughty niche]

under My Account on the pathofexile.com website.
But it only offers poe1 characters atm

[restive slate]

How am i supposed to kill grave makers? the ones with the shield in the graveyard of eternals

i shoot at him and he shoots back at me

???

[hard cypress]

Probably the worst enemy for a caster in the game. You're meant to bait his attack and shoot his back

[restive slate]

wild

[hard cypress]

Or side strafe as you're casting

[restive slate]

the one i was fighting had a plant thing. so even as i was baiting that attack

the plants were hitting me

[hard cypress]

RIP

[desert sedge]

Rule 6. No trading, begging, asking for 'loans', giveaways, tips for services, etc for any game. See #trading for alternatives.

[restive slate]

does that enemy show up again?

rule 7

[hard cypress]

Not very much outside of those two areas

[restive slate]

how did you do that

wild

[restive slate]

gr8

[ember sinew]

What layers of defence does Mercenary build?
Spellcasters go ES, Rangers go Evasion, melees go Life+armor
But I neve see any defensive stuff, in Mercenary trees in Youtube for instance 🤔

[haughty niche]

Theres no absolutes like that

[craggy gyro]

i wanted to do a surprise giveaway to someone who was kind enough in this discord and asked for 5 exalts but not a single person responded.

[haughty niche]

Merc has easier access to armour and evasion. Most people would probably go evasion atm since armour is so ass

[craggy gyro]

there goes 75 divines

i guess i am going to have to try somewhere else

[haughty niche]

Read the rules of the discord.

[hard cypress]

Certain classes definitely seem to favor some types more than others based on passive skill tree starting point though

[mint raven]

Take your drama to Reddit please thanks

[steel junco]

i was browsing cosmetic armor sets, when a sudden lag occured, and i saw my sorceress became naked. nice tits

[haughty niche]

Also doing a giveaway like thay totally fucks the new player's experience

[hard cypress]

yeeeeeee

The first time I got an ungodly great roll from my only exalt aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I got more light radius my second use though lol

[craggy gyro]

well @south mantle since you kindly replied i guess you are the lucky one whats your ign

[desert sedge]

Rule 6. No trading, begging, asking for 'loans', giveaways, tips for services, etc for any game. See #trading for alternatives.

[haughty niche]

Please just dm if you are trying to do this shit

Its against this discords rules and you are just completely ignoring that

[ember sinew]

Rathbreaker sends shockwaves with his sword
I block them with a shied with my Mercenary, and I still take the whole dmg
Why?
Meanwhile other weird skills like flamethrowers, I totally block

[lament stone]

by default you can only block projectiles and melee strikes

[haughty niche]

think those "projectiles" count as slams or some shit

[lament stone]

aoes/slams/ground effects stuff like that cannot be blocked

[ember sinew]

"Projectiles" is so vague tho, in game
It kinda is a force that is coming my way
Hence, I should be able to block the shockwave

[tight radish]

is this good lol

[ember sinew]

k👍 🤷‍♂️

[meager flower]

Do we know what's the most important ele res in end game? I have a choice for + max ele res and I'd like to get the most of it

[lament stone]

all of them

[molten meadow]

anyway to increase text size for items and quests?

[meager flower]

Someone told me it's fire actually but I want a 2nd or 3rd opinion

[ebon hamlet]

is there a faster way to apply this on pc?

[haughty niche]

This is a major issue with the defensive system. Its a lot different from poe1, and kind of relies on things to be visually clear, and if theres 1 problem poe1 has had for its whole lifetime its visual clarity. Not much has changed in poe2. You simply cannot tell what you can and cannot block or evade. Be it because its hidden on screen, visually unclear, or hitting too fast to realise what it is.

[mint raven]

Probably good for a new character up until probably level 25 when you would want better stat values

[meager flower]

macro clicker from your mouse manufacturer. For example I have it from iCue and it's awesome not just for that, but any activity that requires multiple clicks, like crafting 100 maps in seconds

[tight radish]

ye bro my dmg increased by 200

[haughty niche]

hold shift when clicking

lets you keep clicking to apply more

In poe1 they introduced a shift+hold click for 2 of the orbs but not those ones. Doubt they brought over any of that qol anyway

[tight radish]

what support gems should i use for falling thunder

[ebon hamlet]

thanks

[lament stone]

if youre getting multiple actions from a single input with a macro you could end up getting banned

[hard cypress]

Perpetual Charge, maybe magnification or lightning infusion

[spice coyote]

how do i check the qualilty effect on gems using a controller

[haughty niche]

If you see streamers doing spamclicks like that, its windows mouse keys rebinding scroll wheel to click. Still bannable if you have a free-scrolling mousewheel

[tight python]

is energy shield better than armour?

[haughty niche]

whatever the context key is on console. I assume R3.

its alt on pc

[hard cypress]

Probably l3 or r3

[spice coyote]

yea it dont work anymore.

[ember sinew]

Is it my impression
Or the reason why almost all bosses in PoE1 and 2, create adds (Small mobs)...
Is so that you gain potion charges?🤔

[hard cypress]

l3 shows the tiers of substats, does that what alt does ?

[haughty niche]

yeah

[hard cypress]

Minion bodies ?

[haughty niche]

iirc there was a bug a while ago that didn't show more info for console when they did that but i thought that got fixed

[haughty niche]

this is the primary reason, yes.

also why act 2 boss sucks for mana use, since it doesn't really have any adds.

[hard cypress]

The gain X charges is nice if your dps is kinda terrible against act 2 end boss

[lament stone]

as in, if you press the button once, and multiple actions happen as a result of that single button press, that is bannable

[haughty niche]

Do not recommend this in help chat. its still bannable

like do what you want, but do not recommend stuff thats against tos

I totally agree that macros for clicking to rapidly apply orbs like that should not be bannable at all or they should offer better tools for using them, but it is what it is

[lament stone]

if you were pressing a button every 55ms so that 1 input = 1 action thats safe

which is why people do the scroll wheel thing, because thats just way easier than constantly pressing a button

[frozen kernel]

If I have this AND have Chaos Innoculation, would I immediately die if my Mana reaches zero BUT I still have 10k Energy Shield?
Does having this bypass Energy Shield?
Thanks

[lament stone]

no

[dusky burrow]

you die if you have 0 life

[lament stone]

damage normally goes energy shield > life

with that damage goes energy shield > mana > life

since that damage is taken from mana before life, but it is not taken from mana before energy shield

it basically just inserts mana as an extra life pool before life

[frozen kernel]

Oooh thank you so much!
This explains all

[lament stone]

you wont actually taken any damage from mana if you have any amount of energy shield

[frozen kernel]

ahh alright! Thank you :>

[craggy gyro]

Anyone new just started that wanna play?

[haughty sentinel]

Could anyone help me with running through act 3 cruel?

[haughty niche]

#2┃looking-for-group

[hasty remnant]

maxroll or mobalytics for builds?

[high haven]

Anyone knows where i could grind VIII spirit gem?
Tier II auras.

[vague hollow]

is there a way to see the sales history of an item?

i'd like to buy a morior invictus but it's hard to figure out the actual price; the trade site listings are all over the place

[lament stone]

unfortunately not at the moment

for poe1 we have poeninja, a website that can be used to track stuff like item price history

nothing for poe2

[vague hollow]

ah ok

last night there were tons of listings of the 5% attri/5% mana morior at 50ex

today it's all 100ex+

so i can't tell whether the prices were off yesterday or today lol

[ember sinew]

Skill issue...
Or Ice shards is terrible?🤔
Gameplay wise
The mercenary skill

[restive slate]

?

WHICH ONE

soz for caps

[trim turret]

Doesn't matter all that much. Whatever resist is lowest maybe?

[restive slate]

this stuff?

well i alr have a cold and lightning charm :/

so ig fire

[trim turret]

What are you using them for? I haven't used them but I'd imagine they're like the sorceress ice wall. Use them to block and freeze enemies and explode them for damage or use something else while the enemies are frozen.

[trim turret]

Well at this phase you probably only have one charm slot and you want to get resists either way. Charms or no charms.

[nocturne apex]

can someone hlep me with act 2

[placid lava]

What catalyst works on this?

[dusky burrow]

what you want to augment, the skill speed?

the damage? the crit chance?

[placid lava]

The damage

[dusky burrow]

i dont think there's a catalyst for that

[placid lava]

What about skill speed

or crit chance

[dusky burrow]

skittering for skill speed

there's no crit catalyst either

not exactly spoiled for choice, you are

[placid lava]

skittering didn't work

was 18 before and now still 18%

After 20% quality

[dusky burrow]

ok checking on poe2db the skill speed mod is untagged

which doesnt make any sense to me

but it means you can't augment it with catalyst quality, even if it says speed

[dusky burrow]

yeah if it's not tagged it's not going to work

[placid lava]

What does it mean if it is tagge

[dusky burrow]

like the ele res modifier is tagged "elemental fire cold lightning resistance"

the crit chance mod is tagged "critical"

the es mod has "energy_shield defences"

[tight python]

those -30 elemental res makes that item so shit no?

[dusky burrow]

the skill speed mod has... nothing

[dusky burrow]

it's called a downside, a lot of uniques have them

[lament stone]

you could make the elemental resists even more negative, or increase the energy shield

thats all you can do with catalysts on that item

[tight python]

I guess but the other mods arent that good tho right?

[placid lava]

Grand Regalia

[dusky burrow]

you can't get inc damage normally on amulets

[lament stone]

and thats a lot of skill speed

[dusky burrow]

and you cant get attack speed either

[obsidian pawn]

I have a question i am a high end tier player +15 been time. all i am looking for high Quality loot such as div. in maps do i focus on killing only rare monster and if i finish the map i dont worry about the little monster and leave to safe time or how?

[dusky burrow]

dont waste too much time

but if they're there in your immediate range kill them

[obsidian pawn]

i see only focus on rare

[tight python]

the left one is still better right?

[dusky burrow]

yeah

[tight python]

so my game crashed and now the names for like npcs, waypoints etc dont appear until I hover my names over it

[eager basin]

press z

[tight python]

thanks

[timber fog]

Im new to this game and im seeing everybody saying ti activate the skills but i cant on PS5 i dont know how to

[trim turret]

What do you mean activate the skills?

Like skills in general or spirit skills?

[safe lance]

Probably persistent skills?

[timber fog]

Yes that

[safe lance]

Press big button > go to skills tab > press square on any skill then use joystick to go to top section

there you can turn on/off persistent skills and set minion counts etc.

[ancient walrus]

just wanna doublecheck b4 i do it, using a sibilant catalyst on a pearl ring will increase the cast speed right?

[trim turret]

Assuming you have enough spirit to turn that skill on.

[safe lance]

true

[timber fog]

Oh…

That

I have 0

[safe lance]

then you can activate nothing

yet*

https://tenor.com/view/willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory-gene-wilder-willy-wonka-you-get-nothing-nothing-gif-5432076

[timber fog]

Minimum requirement to activate at least 1

[trim turret]

You get 30 spirit and a spirit gem in act 1.

[timber fog]

Oh so should i just continue

[safe lance]

these skills cost 30-60 spirit and also need spirit gems to engrave such a skill

yeah continue

[timber fog]

Mm bet

Ty guys

[restive slate]

how should i be using these?

[trim turret]

I would think so.

[trim turret]

To fill out your resists.

[restive slate]

not for more dmg?

[trim turret]

Depends what you need more and what items you have sockets on and how much damage you'll actually get out of it. Depends on the skills you're using but the 20% increased physical damage can often be good on weapons.

You had 2/3 elemental resists at 0% in your last screenshot.

[tawdry yarrow]

yeah! got my first lvl 2 support gem

[restive slate]

yeah, at level 13ish.

doesnt feel like a concern yet

by what area/level should i make sure i have them at a certain level

also what level should they be at

[trim turret]

It's better to get ahead of it before it becomes a concern.

You get a 10% penalty every act.

To make sure youre paying attention to them and your gear.

[restive slate]

10% penalty?

[trim turret]

If you hit act 2 with negative resists you're going to start getting crushed.

[restive slate]

so my stuff goes down by 10

aha ok

[rare nimbus]

anyone need campaign help? lvl 80 here - bit bored atm

[trim turret]

Your resists.

[restive slate]

so i will need to build from negative resists later game

[trim turret]

Well ideally they'll never be negative.

[restive slate]

if i strip my character i mean

[trim turret]

And there are some boss rewards that give 10% to one of them.

[restive slate]

aha ok

[trim turret]

Yes.

[restive slate]

what should i use persistent buff gem on?

ranger

[trim turret]

There isn't one answer just because of your class. Depends on your build.

[glacial palm]

Give #2┃looking-for-group a try, we try to route people there for help.

[restive slate]

ium up for that

am baby at 13

would lvoe beginner help

[trim turret]

The last thing you need is a carry.

[rare nimbus]

hm? lol. if you're 80 you dont need my help hahya

[safe lance]

wind dancer is a solid defensive skill that most ranger builds seem to use early

[trim turret]

You're going to progress the campaign and be underleveled and undergeared.

[restive slate]

meant lv 13

[rare nimbus]

ahhh okay. what is your pc name? I will add you and you can invite me

[restive slate]

was hoping for a voice chatr

not a carry

i agree w u there

[restive slate]

my character name?

[rare nimbus]

yeah

[timber fog]

Best way to kill asinia with monk because im dying every single time lmao😂

[restive slate]

check friend req

no public doxing myself

[rare nimbus]

get her hp to 0 before yours 😮

[restive slate]

i gave my character my full name and social security number

[glacial palm]

What's your build? What's killing you?

[restive slate]

so dont wanna share here

[trim turret]

Avoid her damage and hit her? What skills are you using?

[safe lance]

who's that even?

ah the praetor consort

[timber fog]

Shes literally destroying my life im using glacial cascade frozen locus quarter staff strike and tempest bell

[trim turret]

Do you have life or resists on any of your gear?

[timber fog]

Yeah i only hace 198 life tho

[glacial palm]

If you're having trouble with the moves, that might be doing it 😅
How about defenses? Energy shield, armor, evasion?

[timber fog]

Shield 12

Evasion its at 34%

and armour at 36%

[safe lance]

having movement speed helps with a lot of these early bosses but this is irrelevant and probably not great advice for new players.

[trim turret]

Just need to avoid her then. Her circles on the ground can be avoided and happen in batches of 4 I wanna say. Then hit her during an opening. Especially with cold damage ideally you're freezing her at some point.

[glacial palm]

Gotcha. More life would help here, but getting those moves down helps a lot.
Any move that's catching you a lot?

[timber fog]

basically the finall circle

Thats the inly that that gets me

And if i dont hit her in like 5 seconds she starts getting shield

[glacial palm]

If you're talking about the big circle during the rite move, that one should be and to be dodged by just constantly walking away from the center of the circle

[trim turret]

Are dropping locus and exploding it with glacial cascade?

Got a couple support gems on one of your skills? Checking vendors for better gear? Hitting items with transmutation or augment orbs to make them better?

[fierce panther]

If I use chiming staff with +spell skill levels to cast the weapons sigil of power and swap away, are the extra stats for that sigil snapshotted?

[timber fog]

Bet thanks i will do that

[ember sinew]

What skill do ppl play with Gemling legionare?
Theoretically he can play any skill, with the ascendancy that allows him to use any stat for skills 🤷‍♂️

[trim turret]

Yes the sigil should retain its stats. That sort of thing is basically the reason why we have the automatic weapon swapping in POE2.

[tight python]

which one here is better?

[thin jackal]

looking for the equivelent of blood nova from d3, close range aoe kinda ordeal