2┃new-player-in-campaign-help

[tender heath]

do you know if there's like, some sort of build guide that i could follow?

[sacred agate]

She does like drama

[azure lava]

Not off the top of my head, but Maxroll.gg usually has some.

But I'd recommend trying it blind your first try, tbh. You can only experience poe blind once and poe2 is as about as approachable as it's going to get.

Hold alt to read more about underlined keywords, read stuff as thoroughly as possible, and you should be pretty much set

[dusky burrow]

poe2 is much, much friendlier than poe1 in terms of just logging in and playing without a guide

[tender heath]

okay ill craft my own build then and see how that goes
ill stack as much attack speed as humanly possible

[dusky burrow]

if crossbows sound appetizing, i'd suggest to click mercenary, and figure out the rest for yourself as you play the game.

[tender heath]

maybe some ricochet action for fast clears

[tender heath]

but someone earlier said something about all characters being able to use all weapons and all skills is that true?

wouldnt deadeye holding a crossbow just be better in that case?

[azure lava]

It is. Ascendancy nodes/skills and starting position on the tree are basically all that delineate the classes

So yeah, I would read about the ascendancy options. Hell, titan might even be able to get the most attack speed

He has a node that gives 50% increased effect of small nodes

[tender heath]

damn

[granite totem]

Hulking titan is great fun

[azure lava]

So that's a lot of bonus attack speed, depending on how many attack speed nodes you get

[tender heath]

ok cool ill go read all the ascendancies

[dusky burrow]

but to start, the crossbow stuff on the tree is closest to merc start

[tender heath]

alr

[azure lava]

Also, there is a node that grants attack speed based on your accuracy, so stacking accuracy can also be a path to ludicrous attack speed

[tender heath]

ill mercenary and craft my own build

[tender heath]

Oooo

[dusky burrow]

you can build it with anything, merc is just the path of least friction

[granite totem]

Both Merc and Rogue are good at crossbows, you don't need the specific crossbow nodes to get fast reload, attack speed increases both reload and attack speed for crossbows

[azure lava]

Yeah, one very slight difference between classes are their starting attributes. Merc starts with higher str and dex (which is what crossbows require)

But only by like 5-7

So you can remedy any difference in a couple attribute nodes

[plush mantle]

what's a Rogue? 😉

[granite totem]

Isn't that what the class is called? Oh no wait it's ranger

[dusky burrow]

its ranger yeah

[granite totem]

I don't play rangers haha

Always forget the name

[dusky burrow]

we're going to have shadow soon TM, which is similar to a rogue

[plush mantle]

Rogue is Diablo, that's why I'm teasing you 🙂

[granite totem]

"soon" like 4-5 months?

[azure lava]

Huntress is the soonerest one, according to viper

[granite totem]

I don't play diablo

Huntress and druid are next

[azure lava]

Maplestory then

[tender heath]

this sounds straight from tiny rogues

[granite totem]

Don't play maple story either

Play DND

[azure lava]

proceeds to list every rpg that includes a rogue class

Is there any way to make a skill not knock enemies back or reverse the knock back direction?

[granite totem]

I don't speak English a lot so I confuse words , both start with R haha

[hot ledge]

hey does anyone know the path of exile 2 file size after its downloaded?

[tender heath]

rogues arent really a class they're just the ''cool'' characters
in some games rogues are rangers, in others they are thieves and assassins, hell, ive played some games where rogues are freaking magicians

(baldur's gate 3 is the game where rogues can be magicians)

[azure lava]

All good. I'm in Mexico for a work trip and I can understand full-speed Spanish worse than an 8-year-old

[plush mantle]

after install? 88GB for the standalone, not sure if the steam client is different somehow

[granite totem]

My first language is Gaelic but lived in Asia for 16 years so mostly speak Japanese and mandarin

[hot ledge]

so the game is 88 gigs?? usually after installation they shrink :(

[azure lava]

Holy hell that's cool

Irish or Scottish Gaelic?

[granite totem]

I do play the game in English but I very rarely read anything 😅

Scottish

[azure lava]

Dope

[granite totem]

Born and raised in Edinburgh for half my life

My family speak Gaelic

[azure lava]

Beautiful city, beautiful country. Sorry for derailing

[tender heath]

here you go you're welcome
I'm the only one providing direct answers in this channel

[granite totem]

Not at all, too cold tho haha

[plush mantle]

😭

[azure lava]

(I was apologizing to everyone else lol)

[granite totem]

Think it's mostly sleepy time for most people

[hot ledge]

GRAHHH too much space for me, thanks for answers

[trail thistle]

How to hide the Poe1 channels?
Dont want to see them when I search.
Poe1 is dead to me. Long live 2

[tender heath]

what are frenzy charges?

after reading through mercenary ascendancies, i feel like Gemling Legionnaire is decent and Witchhunter sucks

[azure lava]

If you're ingame you can hold alt and click on the underlined keyword to read more

[tender heath]

no im not ingame

[azure lava]

They don't do anything on their own, but they can be consumed to boost other skills, essentially

[tender heath]

im doing research on what class is the most goofy fun attackspeed

[azure lava]

Gemling with the double innate attribute bonuses + dex stacking + attack speed per accuracy sounds pretty solid as a foundation

Or titan with the extra effect of small nodes

Tho do keep in mind you'll have to figure out how to pay the cost of the skill you're gonna be firing at 300rpm

I'd recommend getting path of building

[tender heath]

oh nooo 😭😭😭

[azure lava]

There should be a link in #other-news not too far up

If paying the costs is worrying you, you may want to look at infernalist. They have a unique way to "pay" for skills

[tender heath]

hold on is there a flamethrower or laser build?

[azure lava]

There's a spell called incinerate which is basically a flame thrower

Lightning conduit or arc would be the closest to a laser, I think

[tender heath]

im gonna go learn the game now

pick mercenary and craft my own silly and probably horrible build

[azure lava]

Gl! And again, I highly recommend path of building

[tender heath]

thank you ill use it if i ever decide to follow a build

can we spin the camera in this game?

like in V rising where you can hold left click to spin the camera

[azure lava]

Nope

You can zoom in a bit and that's it

I tried grim dawn a while back and you can spin the camera in that game, but it was so jarring and weird that I unbound the keys to do that

[tender heath]

okay i love that we can move the character with WASD to utilize the mouse entirely for aiming

[honest coyote]

spears out yet?

[tender heath]

i kinda hate top down games where you have to move and aim and do everything with the mouse

[honest coyote]

back to the depths I lurk

[azure lava]

If they were, they would likely post in #old-game-news about the huntress being released or something

[honest coyote]

yeah we are pass that point if any ARPG ties everything to left clicks it's not worth playing

PoE2 is good but currently there's nothing for me to play in it

[azure lava]

Yeah 😦

But we're digressing

[honest coyote]

I like bleeds, poisons, spears, and axes. bleeds and poisons are fundmentally broken and spears and axes currently don't exist

[azure lava]

This is a new player campaign channel

[tender heath]

okay the controls are awesome

[honest coyote]

ah clicked the wrong channel

[tender heath]

they feel really good especially being able to move and shoot at the same time

the arrow hitboxes and stuff also feel a lot better than PoE1 with its needle hitboxes on the arrows

[granite totem]

Why do you think poison is broke?

[tender heath]

How to turn on damage numbers?

[trim turret]

There aren't any. They don't want it to be that kind of game. Closest you get is damage numbers above boss health bars like in Elden Ring.

[tender heath]

Oh alright

fresh experience playing an ARPG without damage numbers :D

..

i love how impactful the crossbow hits feel

feels like im holding a call of duty gun

even the way merc holds the crossbow and aims it is like a call of duty M16 aiming pose

[bitter nimbus]

how to trade anyone?

[tender heath]

Okay, spell slots not being tied to item sockets feels fucking AWESOME

[trim turret]

It's very much about using skills that work together well. It was a pain to ammo swap early on but I used permafrost bolts to freeze enemies and fragmentation rounds to explode them because it gets a massive bonus to frozen enemies.

[trim turret]

Buying or selling?

[bitter nimbus]

buyin

[granite totem]

Not entirely true as you can see your damage above the health bar when you damage a boss

[trim turret]

Which I said. In that message.

[granite totem]

Ah I misread the start

My bad

[trim turret]

Its a questions channel. Please don't clog it up with every little thing.

[tender heath]

sorry

[trim turret]

Find what you want on trade website, click whisper button, if they invite you to party, go to their hideout, pay them. Buyer always goes to seller's hideout.

[safe lance]

Who initiates trade request btw? Looks like seller does? They usually have already sent it when my loading screen into their hideout finishes

[trim turret]

Usually seller.

[plush mantle]

yeah, usually seller, because they may have been in a map or something and need time to get the item. As a buyer, you're expected to have the currency on hand by the time you accept the party invite

[dusky burrow]

#2┃looking-for-group

[tender heath]

I went with armor piercing rounds instead because haha attack speed go brrr

instant regret this thing does less damage than my grandma's kitchen spoon

[trim turret]

I was just giving an example. Read the skills. Armor piercing rounds are good for breaking armor, which sets up more physical damage against enemies.

[trim turret]

Many skills aren't just inherently damage dealers. They need to be built around with support gems and passives and gear or need to be used in conjunction with other skills.

[fresh torrent]

guys any idea how i can fix game crashing when loading character

[strong wind]

Would anyone happen to know, can you only do the trials of ascend on one character? I just finished the first trial on my main, my 2nd character is at the same point, so I should have unlocked it but I didnt get the unlock quest.

[sacred agate]

You can do it on ALL characters.

[bitter nimbus]

BRO

[sacred agate]

Go to Traitors passage you might have forgotten to kill the boss that drops it

[bitter nimbus]

JUST DROPPED THE ITEM I WASTED 1 EXALT ON (im poor first character)

[strong wind]

Thanks 🙂

[sacred agate]

You need to kill Balbala there.

Would be silly if you could only ascend on 1 character 🤣

[bitter nimbus]

which act gives us our hideout?

[sacred agate]

None.

You unlock it in maps

(endgame content)

[tender heath]

I found a way to make swapping ammo early not a pain
my mouse has 2 buttons on the side which can be used to comfortably and instantly switch between 2 ammo types

[thick patio]

My mouse does too but only allows forwards and backwards navigation on web pages. RIP. Time for a new mouse

[elder ember]

you can bind those keys in game

in any game

[thick patio]

Hmm

[tender heath]

I did not like mercenary gameplay one bit

will try lightning arrow archer now

[elder ember]

they just default to forwards/backwards in web browsers

[thick patio]

Will check shortly

Waking to my pc now

[ivory solstice]

Anyone got a POE2 code lol?

[thick patio]

Like an invite code?

[ivory solstice]

yeah

[elder ember]

its $30 dude

[ivory solstice]

broke rn

[thick patio]

And I fail to see how this is our issue

[craggy gyro]

hahahaha

[midnight bridge]

just play poe 1 my dude

[craggy gyro]

i have extra code

[thick patio]

Unpopular opinion

[ivory solstice]

ive played before, wanted to try poe2

[tender heath]

Go read #rules-and-info

[thick patio]

Go find a corner and do a job

[midnight bridge]

itll be free by the end of the year

[thick patio]

But corners always pay

Sometimes you get a bonus. Like hiv

🤷🏼‍♀️

[ivory solstice]

ok have fun without me

[thick patio]

Will do my man

Magic launch box and a bottle of wine in hand

Pc is loaded Poe is loaded. Now time to find out how to bind these keys

[ivory solstice]

i have an old magic launch box , doesnt work well anymore

[thick patio]

That’s sad. Write to them

[ivory solstice]

was great little vape though

[thick patio]

My buddy has had one for 15+ years strong

[ivory solstice]

yea i stopped smoking so i havent had a good reason too

[thick patio]

I mostly vape cbd

[ivory solstice]

had the power adapter and everything

[thick patio]

I need that in my life

[ivory solstice]

its great, mine stopped working but i had the early version

[thick patio]

We’re talking weed

[dusky burrow]

??

#offtopic

[obsidian pawn]

i have to watch u this guy is a scammer 新的人生

in the game watchout

[clever geode]

there are tons of scammer out there

[sacred agate]

No reason to post that here.

Just report them.

[obsidian pawn]

did report just wanna others to watchout

u think report may do something? like return to the victim?

[grand sonnet]

cant relate, i just swap with mouse clicks and some specific times i need to press q to reload

wich is 90% optional to be fair

[clever geode]

go TFT

and post it

[open nebula]

as a deadeye ranger I find my staff pretty useless, because my bow gear has the +120 Spirit, and that's where I get all my kills from the 3 or 4 buffs I have. when I switch to my quarterstaff I lose a TON of bonuses. seems kinda useless to have that secondary weapon/shield/etc..

[clever geode]

why are you using quarterstaff?

what's your question in the first place

[open nebula]

not really a question, just having a secondary weapon (via the 'X' key or just firing it) doesn't seem very useful yet; or I don't know how to use it. all my attacks are bow so far.

[grand sonnet]

i find it very usefull on crossbow

[clever geode]

are you using elemental dmg?

[open nebula]

mostly lightning I think.

[clever geode]

so

u can put a +5 lightning wand and a +2 all spell shield

and put a curse on it

then u got higher level curse on 2nd weapon slot

then u can also split your skill tree

for curse

example

[open nebula]

hmm interesting. i will have to explore the splitting a bit more I think, thanks for the advice. I noticed tonight when I switch weapons I don't loose ALL my spirit like I did last week when I switch weapons. odd.

[clever geode]

i am coc build

so i have main slot meta skill stuff

and 2nd slot for curse and stuff

[open nebula]

yeah, I think I need to find those little off-shoot skill trees that don't branch out further than just that offshoot.

[obsidian pawn]

what is TFT?

[clever geode]

The Forbidden Trove

a trading discord for poe

go google it

[open nebula]

gonna google that now also. Any ideas what level a player commonly completes act 3? I'm lvl 43, still working on the Large Soul Core in JiQuani's Sanctum.

[clever geode]

60+

depends on skips

[open nebula]

ok, hehe. gotta plan out my nights/weekends for the next month or so to balance this game with hiking and whatnot 😉

[clever geode]

in normal?

[open nebula]

yeah

[clever geode]

you are way overlevel

[open nebula]

figured

[clever geode]

u die alot?

[open nebula]

not particularly. Just on bosses maybe 3 times until I'm about 4 levels above the boss then I can defeat them.

[clever geode]

i dont see a reason why u are so overlevel then

do u like

clear the whole map

[open nebula]

usually I clear the whole map, yep.

[clever geode]

even so

i think your build issue

tbh

[open nebula]

unless it's 4+ levels below me. I try to only clear if I'm getting 1.2Million XP per hour.

yeah I'm sure it's my build issue, heh.

[clever geode]

yeah

[open nebula]

i throw down Orb of Storms, lots of lightning rods, and lightning arrows as my main attack.

[clever geode]

i am doing like

10 level underlevel maps

just to level up

huh

how are u unable to kill

LA builds are the easiest to level

and clear

without any good gears

did u follow any build guide

[open nebula]

watched various youtube videos, but most of them assume you are in end-game with 6 support gem slots in every skill. haven't found a good noob video yet.

i've only just started finding level 2 support gems.

[clever geode]

nono

like leveling guide

but your passive tree

[open nebula]

no. not sure where to find a good guide.

[rich thorn]

is blood mage any good late game?

[open nebula]

i'm doing mostly +10% attack and speed on the tree. not sure how to distribute my stats well.

a link to a good build guide would be most welcome.

[clever geode]

yes bloodmage is good

[clever geode]

just follow the end game guide u are following

but make smart pathing

like get more dmg at the start

so u can clear campaign

[clever geode]

just do coc

ez

[open nebula]

ok. more DPS. Should I focus on armour or evasive stuff at first?

or energy shield

[clever geode]

tbh no

in campaign

just kill them

before they kill you

ez

[open nebula]

ok

[clever geode]

u are RANGE

[open nebula]

danke. gonna head to sleep, thanks for the quick advice 🙂

[clever geode]

shoot them

just

swap around the support gems

when clearing

and when bossing

[open nebula]

yeah, i do need to figure out how to better keep gems in my inventory to swap out during exploring versus boss fights I think. and better swap out defences for fire/lightning/cold attacks.

Is there any advantage to putting on a bunch of "+chance for rare items!" gear for repeat runs of an area?

[clever geode]

no

[open nebula]

ok

[clever geode]

please dont

that's for endgame

[safe lance]

Any reason to do Freythorn in cruel act 1?

[bitter nimbus]

how many acts are there?

[clever geode]

3 2x

normal cruel

1 2 3

[bitter nimbus]

I see

[clever geode]

cruel is placeholder for new acts

[bitter nimbus]

What is a good level to do second ascencion?

[clever geode]

as long as u can clear

act 3 normal i geuss

[bitter nimbus]

I'm level 38 already got the key to enter

[clever geode]

yeah

[bitter nimbus]

yeah I'm act 3

normal

[clever geode]

u should be able to clear

[bitter nimbus]

K ty

[clever geode]

the green one right

it can be reuse

so dont worry

[bitter nimbus]

yeah chimeral offering

[clever geode]

i can help u if u want

or u want to try it yourself

[bitter nimbus]

I could use some help actually

[clever geode]

dm me ur ign

[granite totem]

I have seen a lot of stuff on Reddit about invisible aoe effects one shotting people in maps, is there a specific tier this starts on? Or does anyone have any more information about it, I'm currently on T10s on HCSSF and not having any issues currently but want to move up to T15s

[clever geode]

any

[granite totem]

Ah ok so it's not something that's related to a tier

Finally moving up to T11 then

[granite totem]

Can anyone suggest some end game passive nodes to reach for on a titan, I'm really struggling where to go next other than the small boosts to armor or attack

[meager galleon]

#2┃looking-for-group #1312645838727811163

please keep to the appropriate channels

[cursive scarab]

Fyi, the Story obtained Invitations for Ascendency 1 and 2 in normal are 'reusable till success'.
You can just try, try and try again till you get good mods and win.

[cursive scarab]

Only if you want a 'act tier ritual', else it's save to skip. (No extra spirit)

[deep storm]

Are you on act1 cruel.?

[stray zephyr]

rathbreaker sucks

idk what to do I have such issue on this boss

[mild quiver]

he has a noise cue when he does his one shot move

it is not too bad when you have that move downloaded furry ears

[cursive scarab]

First boss in a new act, make sure to check your resistances cause they were reduced by 10%

(Each act eats another 10%, so -60% Fire, Cold and Lightning Resistance at Endgame, to force you to keep your gear up to date)

[last jewel]

Hello guys, quick dumb question "+# to Stun Threshold" means it will take me more to get stunned?

I don't really get the meaning of it

[cursive scarab]

Stun treshhold is based on your HP unless you change it. Stun treshhold basically makes it harder to stun as if you had more HP. It's mainly important for lower HP builds. For CI builds which only have 1 HP, you usually take passives to base your stun treshhold of your ES instead of life.

[round flume]

I personally imagine the stun check factor as: (life + stun threshold) * life increases * stun threshold increases

which often simplifies to life * stun treshold increases for very vanilla characters

[last jewel]

makes sense! thanks

[round flume]

I'm not certain tho, cuz the tooltip isnt in the game yet

[cursive scarab]

Does stun treshhold get boosted by % HP increases?

[round flume]

And from personal experience, there might be some bugs here too.

[round flume]

Na, prolly not, unlike what my math dictates

but there's so little %life in the fashion I play the game, that it barely matters

The main point is that I believe flat stun treshold is added to life, and then the stun is multiplied by increases

[cursive scarab]

So likely rather
(((Life + Added Life) * Life Increases) + Stun Treshhold) * Stun Treshhold Increases

[round flume]

Yea

On a tangent, I can't run stun build-up map mods for shit. I don't know what's wrong with that.

I even had Unwavering Stance (double stun threshold) and it didnt make a difference

[cursive bluff]

is pain offering random?

[round flume]

A random mob? It might be your 'cursor target'?

[cursive bluff]

i thought it was on cursor but its not

[round flume]

Hm, most injured? There's some brand new targeting stuff in poe2

Some people hate it, some people love it

[cursive scarab]

Remember there is a stun immunity charm and evaded hits dont stun.

[cursive bluff]

nah all minions are full and i hovered over a skele warrior but a seperate skele warrior was used

[round flume]

Clearing a map relying on charms is not how I play the game, certainly not with the current death penalities. Besides, the charm only works after you've been stunned

Saw a guy actively laughing at how bad it is. For me it's more about getting the charges back before I get stunned again that I don't see happening.

[cursive bluff]

its based off per hit so even if you have a lot of stun threshold 20 small hits will still do more stun buildup

more single hits you take the less stun threshold works

[cursive bluff]

multiple belt slots with same stun charm?

[round flume]

With lots of well and a decent speed, where you get stunned a bunch still. Yea, it could maybe work. Tedious as hell, probably.

[cursive bluff]

some charms you can have more than 1 charge per

[round flume]

Yea, the problem is that once it runs out, it takes forever to fill

[cursive bluff]

rarity you cant and dunno about other "immunity" charms

[round flume]

You really don't get the same number of flask charges as in PoE1 and the charms system is kinda using that same system

[cursive bluff]

chance to gain a charge on kill

yeah we was too reliant on flasks

[round flume]

With all that said, I'm penalizing myself through ssf, warrior, armor and stuff. Hardly very meta

[cursive bluff]

that was my og char

doing my own sunder aftershock warrior with regen as my sustain lol

[round flume]

I'm just doing warcry + bleed sunder, it's pretty clean for t15 ssf

But this idea of armor makes no sense

[cursive bluff]

armour is trash

they need to update their code for it or add other damage mitigation ways outside of block

[round flume]

I pretty much benched my endgame char when I realized armor is bad. I've been trying to play the game blind for the first 2 months

[round flume]

They did, just not in the direction we expected xd

[cursive bluff]

168 hours all blind (not following any guide)

[round flume]

I'm prolly at 400+ I imagine

Vast majority of that spent in the campaign, cuz that's what I find more enjoyable

[cursive bluff]

no they didnt. they increased all armour by 15% that includes enemies armour but the formula for armour doesnt work

even with tonnes you get ohko still

by random rares

[round flume]

The armor formula in poe is damage/(damage+armor*5)
In PoE2, that number is 12

[coarse basalt]

is T1 better or T5 better

[cursive bluff]

this is in the witch tree

[coarse basalt]

in poe2

[cursive bluff]

all recoup life on damage

warrior has 2 nodes in total for that

even more

[round flume]

Recovery is not an issue

[cursive bluff]

its damage "mitigation"

not the greatest i know lol

[round flume]

Rather being in melee

You feel like you need some extra for being in melee against trash

[cursive bluff]

just showing examples of how the tree for warrior doesnt have much for defence compared to witch tree

[round flume]

Bosses are rares have been rather irrelevant. But what do they want me to do with armor in a ritual lol

Shit spawns on you and hits you

[cursive bluff]

im not in melee range since i use the aftershock of sunder and ancestral warrior totem using armour breaker

i dont get too close unless they run at me with haste

[round flume]

I wouldnt mistake recovery for defense if I were you

[cursive bluff]

what if you dont focus much life regen

you're reliant on flask

[round flume]

And leech

[cursive bluff]

with recoup you get some of the damage you took as life back over 8 seconds

if you focus leech

but leech is an offensive defence

[round flume]

No, it's just a recovery mechanic

[cursive bluff]

which scales with damage from the mod on weapons

[round flume]

Never really been a factor for me, and I'm wearing a lvl 50ish weapon in t15s

[cursive bluff]

the whole point is the lack of options

block leech and armour mainly

[round flume]

But I mean, there's recoup in the warrior that's again based on armor

[cursive bluff]

if you dont wanna run giants blood or a shield/1h you cant use block

[round flume]

The problem is just the armor, and shouldn't be overanalyzed until that's out of the way

[cursive bluff]

those are the only recoup

[round flume]

Though, I gotta admit that chaos damage is way more rough as a warrior

[cursive bluff]

for warrior

[cursive bluff]

yeah those plants that do the homing chaos orbs are annoying

[round flume]

Don't mistake that recoup for the other, because it's based on prevention which should be much higher in a properly balanced game

But if they fuck up armor to the point of irrelevant, then it's obviously trash

Hell, they might nerf that warrior recoup once armor is in a better place

[cursive bluff]

small nodes are just "damage recoup" for 12% then the 2 notables are 15% recoup for phys and elemental

[round flume]

But you don't flip the formula here

Looking at what was mitigated vs what was dealt to you

[cursive bluff]

this is in witch tree

[round flume]

Yes I know

[cursive bluff]

my point is theres options

might not be a 1:1 for what they do

[round flume]

My point is that the prevention one should be multiplied by something like 9 in a lot of cases once armor is in a better place

[last jewel]

anything i might be doing wrong when trying to buy a breach tablet? I've dm'ed like over 50 people and no one answers

[round flume]

that's 135% recoup

[last jewel]

should I specify something? I'm using the whisper option on poe trade

[cursive bluff]

yeah the numbers im not on about im just on about the lack of defensive options in warrior tree. if you dont wanna play shield then you lose out on block

[last jewel]

people have this listed 10 min ago and wont answer

[round flume]

I imagine you're buying stuff that's too cheap to be real? Not sure tho

[last jewel]

theres tons for 1ex

im dming everyone

0 answers

lol

[round flume]

I have poor experience buying anything for 1 ex. Try setting a minimum to 5 or 10?

[cursive bluff]

it be like that. you're not doing anything wrong its just most people have a dump tab which has the same price listing for it all depite the items

[near violet]

You're not doing anything wrong, Poe trade just sucks

[cursive bluff]

they put items in and if people message them quickly they ignore and raise price

[last jewel]

but like

[near violet]

No one is bothering to stop for a few minutes to sell a 1 ex item now unfortunately

[last jewel]

why would this guy NOT sell

[round flume]

Play around with the minimum and figure out what works. Once you start getting whispers.

Simple as.

[near violet]

You can go to the TFT discord where there are bulk sales sometimes

[cursive bluff]

1ex this late into the game most wont come out of a map for

[last jewel]

I cant really go and give 5ex into a tablet ill get broke

[last jewel]

yea ive started to realize people have lots of it

[round flume]

5ex is nothing for most people

[last jewel]

I rarely drop currency 😭

[last jewel]

im brokie

[near violet]

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/exchange/poe2/Standard/3ZgkvOZc5 bulk trade here might give you a better chance

[round flume]

Why are you broke? Low hours, bought something?

[cursive bluff]

thats why you dont use tablets everywhere you find somewhere new with multiple towers all close together then you do those towers taking the shortest route and put tablets in those then farm the maps around to get that currency back

[last jewel]

I played on launch, have around 90h

but I never understood how people farm so much cuyrrency

[cursive bluff]

i have 168 and played at launch im sat on about 60 ex total

[last jewel]

Yea i've watched some videos and im trying to do the closest route to put breach tablets on the towers

[round flume]

You sell 1 item, apply it to something you find a valid currency strat, like a breach tablet. Get a little fruther. Invest that and get a little richer

[last jewel]

so I can try and farm some gloves i need

[cursive bluff]

you have to play for hours and hours a day to get proper currency income

reliably

[last jewel]

makes me feel better

looks like everyone has thousands haha

[last jewel]

I gotta look for some "valid currency strat" I have 0 clue on this

[cursive bluff]

it shouldnt lol it was meant the opposite way. i have more hours and still struggling to get currency. im only in like t9 maps also. and you have less hours than me

[last jewel]

I just farm maps and catch the loot

[round flume]

I mean, I like to figure this stuff out myself. But if you need to know now, then by all means look something up.

[cursive bluff]

essence farming you cant go wrong with lol

i sold a greater essence a while ago for over 100ex

i got that greater in the campaign

[round flume]

I don't think it's any secret that everything involves breach atm

[last jewel]

I'm doing t5 maps still 😄

[last jewel]

I'm completely clueless on most of the endgame, thats why im a bit lost

[round flume]

GGG has some weird mentality where you aren't allowed to get proper currency until t13 or some shit usually

[last jewel]

I need some gloves that drops from the breach boss, thats why im trying to get breaches

[cursive bluff]

if you have higher tier maps you can run those and it counts for the progress and higher tier maps can give more rewards. the atlas has increased rarity in maps also

which give every map a base rarity chance

have 100% rairty on gear

[last jewel]

well thats nice to hear, just need to keep grinding then

[cursive bluff]

and play 5+ hours daily

[shut abyss]

yeps, you need to progress into endgame before you think of grinding anything really

[last jewel]

hmmm i can try this, i have some t6/t7 but i was afraid i could die and run out of maps 😭

[last jewel]

Since I have a full time job this is very difficult haha

[round flume]

That said, that mostly applied to PoE1. Don't expect insane levels of currency from higher maps. But you will find better rolls on items. Have you even seen a Tiered rare yet?

[cursive bluff]

ive had my only divine drop from geonore cruel and ive had a perfect jewlers orb from low level maps with less than 80% rarity on gear

[last jewel]

i did! tier 2 rares, when i identify them they dont look very good tho

[cursive bluff]

if you die once then you drop down a tier

[last jewel]

i dropped a perfect jewelers in my campaign hah

[round flume]

6L in t14s , vast majority of exalts from maps

[cursive bluff]

but also just because you did die that might have been an enemy with a 1hko mechanic or specifically a hit that is against your worst resistence/defence etc etc

[last jewel]

Yea I mean i usually can tank pretty easily, the issue is "random 1 shots"

[round flume]

And try to imagine that GGG didn't want divs at 300:1 or soemthing dumb xd they probably expected 40:1 lol

[last jewel]

most of the times i dont even realize what killed me

xD

[cursive bluff]

i was just saying it is possible to get higher currency at low tier maps. rare asf but possible lol

[cursive bluff]

you and 80% of the rest of us lol

[round flume]

Oh true, but currency drops are not how you turn a profit

If anything , they're a starting point for something

And once you do get started, you start seeing a lot more currency drops, but that's obviously not a helpful way to look at things immediately

[cursive bluff]

i wasnt saying currency drops for profit i was just adding to your message that its not t13 as its rare but possible at lower. but essence is which i mentioned to them

[last jewel]

im gonna look how essence farm works, u got me with the 100ex sale

[shut abyss]

i don't think farming currency should be the goal. Especially if you're new to the game you got much easier and more fun goals you can do

[last jewel]

thanks for the tips guys

[cursive bluff]

like fuck up jamara?

[shut abyss]

little bit too easy goal tbh, maybe one of the easier pinnacles first?

[last jewel]

I mean I could go and drop the item myself but that seems very hard

[round flume]

Tier2 rare means they you cut off some irrelevant number of mods, so it's practically a normal rare item. At the higher tier , you cut off all bad mods.

[cursive bluff]

was a joke because im about to mess him up with my army of minions XD

[round flume]

So you can see how this is more valuable in higher maps

[shut abyss]

you better not die 🧐

[last jewel]

alr alr, I'll pay attention when i start dropping tier 3/4

tysm

[round flume]

Hope it helps, I don't play trade league myself so it's all I got

[cursive bluff]

i was afk typing in here both times i think im good XD not my first playthrough this witch is an alt

[last jewel]

🙂

[round flume]

If I was playing trade league, I imagine I'd make way more profit from Chaos Orbing random items that people couldn't figure out how to improve

[shut abyss]

@last jewel anyway, if you set your goal to get to t15 maps you'll probly drop few divines on the way there so you don't really need to grind for them

[last jewel]

yea guess thats gonna be my focus

thanks!

[cursive bluff]

this is a level 30 alt currently in act 2 normal lol

[last jewel]

100 of these deaths were to act1 boss on launch 😭

[shut abyss]

overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer

[cursive bluff]

you have another 85 hours on that char XD

[last jewel]

I had lots of fun playing melee!

[cursive bluff]

i was replying to their 300 deaths because im on a new char where they are on their 90 hour main lol

[round flume]

And expect a lot more rewards in endgame over the next half a year, at least if you're in a place of confusion. Because currency there's probably a few good strats, and once there's way more strats, it becomes downright simple to make some baseline amount of currency

Typically the meta strat gets toned down, and the rest gets brought up

[last jewel]

yea i mean i thought i was in the endgame, but "endgame" is really the beginning of the real game isnt it

[cursive bluff]

the meta will be ever changing at the start of the updates

they add more and new uniques

skills

supps

that will change what items are sought after

[shut abyss]

endgame starts somewhere when the maps turn red

[round flume]

Yea, I was talking about rewards, not power

[last jewel]

ill get to higher tier maps b4 i think about farming currency

[cursive bluff]

yeah i am too when they add new stuff in there will be new things to farm which can/will shift the meta from what it is now

breach and ascendancy running seems to be the most common atm

[round flume]

I was just puzzled by why you mentioned supports and stuff.

[cursive bluff]

its all indirect if they add a new chest piece which boosts a specific skill and seems good people will focus trying that out which in turn shifts what rewards people want

[round flume]

Depends on how you view it. In PoE1, the game is all about blasting through the campaign without a care and get to the real game.
It's less of a factor in PoE2, partly because of where the time was spent on things. I'm really enjoying the campaign myself, but you need to be okay with low rewards, because it's more of a pregression system than a slot machine.

[last jewel]

I agree the campaign is more interesting, I'm not the guy to really dive deep into the game lore, but this campaign is more enjoyable than poe1

[round flume]

If you tag on ssf and HC, and reset between characters, it's practically a custom made roguelite

[cursive bluff]

i stopped at t9 maps because i would do 1 map and quit the game out of boredom. ive started an alt minion and been on it for 2 hours currently this play session lol

[last jewel]

oh, i think im not at ssf level, i wanna get to the "real endgame" first to get more knowledge idk

[round flume]

Why do you reckon the boredom kicked in?

[last jewel]

If i get stuck ill get bored quick i guess x)

[cursive bluff]

the lack of content from some maps/layouts

[round flume]

Na, that's okay , but it's something to aspire to if that's your goal. Or if you wanna be a trade-baron, that's your choice to.

[last jewel]

yea i played like 80h first two weeks, finished campaign and then started playing again few days ago

[round flume]

Yea, I'm the kinda guy who would rather randomly find a breach than know it's already there.

[cursive bluff]

with me being only at t9 maps loot and such is trash and i dont like the mechanics in the game besides essence which isnt in every map unless i get an essence mod on a boss tablet

[cursive bluff]

i dont like all the mechanics even in poe 1 i avoided breach, strong boxes, sanctum, bosses, excavation

[round flume]

Tho maybe that's less of what you're saying. I'm not as much against the layouts as many others.

[cursive bluff]

so im limited to pretty much corruption/boss/essence

[round flume]

Eventually, we're gonna get some high fidelity leagues in poe2, like Betrayal/heist. Gonna be awesome.

[cursive bluff]

not all layouts but for my sunder warrior the small tight spaces like crypt and such ruin my build

[round flume]

Didn't matter much to me, but I do recall that expedition is fucking annoying in narrow corners.

[cursive bluff]

i prefered the more casual stuff like delve and blight

[round flume]

I'm a puzzle guy in all aspects of my life xd

[cursive bluff]

i always got fucked over by expedition, delirium, breach in poe1 so i avoided them

[cursive bluff]

i was a RF enjoyer so those 2 content was pish for RF jugg

[round flume]

So
betrayal board: Yup puzzle
Rog crafting: Looks like a puzzle to me

[cursive bluff]

i know 0 about betrayal

seems so complicated i ignore anything and all

[round flume]

I dare say I know everything

[cursive bluff]

i have 600 hours in poe1

[round flume]

11k

[cursive bluff]

and besides essence farming, delve and blight the other mechanics ive mostly avoided

(harvest only at the basic level)

[round flume]

Hopefully you went where the fun was, and not just the currency

That's what I hope for everyone tbh

The game can trick you into thinking something is fun just because it shits out currency

[cursive bluff]

essence was 100% currency delve and blight was my fun i always had 1 focused for fun and 1 for currency

[round flume]

That's where GGG got this fun idea that people loved Ultimatum xd

[cursive bluff]

so times i did just delve/blight id do blight for fun and delve for currency

since fossils and resonators sold well

[round flume]

Yea, delve can be meaningful in ssf, which can be enough sometimes

[cursive bluff]

i joined at the end of that league then the next one with the arena was my first full league on rf jugg before rf jugg variant was nerfed heavily

[round flume]

But I definitely hate the azurite events, and I think PoE2 endgame is just better than delve already.

[cursive bluff]

aul drops amulets fairly often and they was worth 15+ div at minimum

[cursive bluff]

i didnt mind them they was just tedious but thats where the money was at you use azurite to buy resonators to sell for chaos lol

[round flume]

That was my earlier point about fun > currency

[cursive bluff]

at 800+ depth t3 azurite nodes was so common i could to 4-10 in a row at a time

[cursive bluff]

and as i responded i had delve for currency and blight for fun

or in other leagues i did delve for fun and essence for currency

[round flume]

Right, but why don't you try to use blight for currency too?

I know it's possible and it's what you find fun

[cursive bluff]

because my pc couldnt handle blight ravaged

[round flume]

Got it

[cursive bluff]

so was mostly glacier map farming essences with a 95% chance i got a blight encounter in there also

that wasnt tedious doing essence farming in same map

[round flume]

So you're not finding a lot of content fun, and technical limitations prevent you from having fun in that which you do. That's awkward

[cursive bluff]

ive not been back to poe1 since nov which i only played 2 days of lol

[round flume]

No, but it can be repetitive.

Not a lot of variety when doing that

[cursive bluff]

i have a new gpu so i expect blight ravaged wouldnt be as bad now

[round flume]

Obviously, we all have different requirements for levels of variety

[cursive bluff]

yeah i probs would enjoy other content but i cant learn mechanics from YT videos they dont always answer my specific adhd brain questions

guilds never seemed fun as group content isnt fully liked in generic play

[finite steeple]

What the stash tabs should i buy?

[round flume]

Did you consider learning mechanics from the reveal videos? That's practiclaly what we OGs did - would be light on spoilers too

[cursive bluff]

premium/quad if you wanna sell items to people. currency tab is a must

[round flume]

There's a stash sale if you can wait?

[round flume]

If you wait for the next stash sale, which happens regularly, I reckon you get like 30% more bang for the buck

[finite steeple]

Ik, i’m just asking which to prior

[cursive bluff]

im not bothered about spoilers but it was my fear/annoyance of crafting that made things like expedition and jun/syndicate stuff seem too in depth for me to learn about on my own

[round flume]

Got it

[cursive bluff]

if i couldnt buy what i wanted i was screwed

[round flume]

I usually just make due with whatever random shit I get from harvest plant rerolls

[cursive bluff]

even the harvest bench outside of changing essences it seemed too convoluted for me to wanna get into learning

[round flume]

Grab a mid ilvl base, roll some harvest Defense on it, get like 250 ES hat and cruise to endgame with like 6-7k ES

Once you've done it for all pieces

[cursive bluff]

i never did ES/evasion classes at all

was always a marauder

[round flume]

Maybe that's the core of the issue

[cursive bluff]

or armour focused

[round flume]

Melee is in a better state in PoE2 if you ask me

[cursive bluff]

yeah the options for classes/builds i liked the look of in poe1 drastically reduced my playtime

[round flume]

Practically wouldnt know what to do in poe1 SSF with a melee character, other than throw everything at a weapon and hope to get lucky eventually

PoE2 has so much lower requirements for a melee build its insane

[cursive bluff]

ive been RF jugg and another ascendancy variation i cant remember the name of it (not invoker) BS jugg and EA champion

[round flume]

Try a trickster sometime , it's a breeze

[cursive bluff]

dont plan on going back to poe1 now with poe2 out lol

[round flume]

Heh, same

[cursive bluff]

and last epoch update round the corner

[round flume]

That said, I have 11k hours in the game, so I'm just done

[cursive bluff]

ngl last epoch crafting system for a noob is the best in any arpg (poe1 is best overall for the amount of crafting options)

[round flume]

It usually goes hand in hand with not being as appealing to veteran players

LE needed to add random stuff like exalted items and other superior systems

[cursive bluff]

there was a lot of hype on LE launch a lot of bigger YT/streamers played it and it had a lot of users on steam but the end game is lacking which is what this next update is aiming to revamp

so maybe that will bring some vets back

[round flume]

Oh definitely, but keeping them around is hard without having the traditional grinds

If you have something that new players can succeed at, you usually need a tiering of systems to engage with, like Primal Legendaries or whatever

[cursive bluff]

i have 437 hours in last epoch since 0.9 launch would have more if end game was better lol

the skill system is top tier also

[round flume]

Overhauling the endgame as an indie studio isn't an easy feat. And designing good bosses is even harder.

[cursive bluff]

the amount of options and how drastically some perks can change a skill

[cursive bluff]

XD they arent no indie company no more lol since 1.0 they doubled their workers

[small widget]

is there a trading discord channel?

[round flume]

Fair, I guess I'll not cut them that slack

[round flume]

I reckon you're looking for that sketchy PoE1 discord?

[cursive bluff]

nope dont im not no more. i have super high hopes for 1.2 release and if its a dud ill refuse to play it

[cursive bluff]

the forbidden trove

[round flume]

It's got a bad rep, but it's where people go for this stuff.

Despite of whatever rep it might have.

[cursive bluff]

wrong reply

was meant for them lol

[small widget]

whats the name

[cursive bluff]

its a whole other discord server called the forbidden trove. its exceeded the invite limit so you will have to manually look for them

[round flume]

Aren't you setting yourself up for failure here? Keep expectations low in general

[cursive bluff]

not if going off their past releases on an older engine is anything to go off this update is gonna be awesome

[round flume]

I hope you're right. Anyway, I gotta bail. Thanks for the chat

[cursive bluff]

u 2 i should really fight jamarna now lol

[mild quiver]

why in hell does game keep sending me from artillery tab to ballista tab

without my input

buggy as hell

won't even let me read the skill

[eager badger]

i wanted to get the full idea of what sgt turtle and immoteph were talking about, so i scrolled up and up and up and yeah im not reading allat

sounds super interesting tho so that sucks

[hasty sorrel]

I have cleared the entire map - nowhere else to explore - but map hasn't completed? any ideas why?

[craggy gyro]

how to see my flat dmg?

[last jewel]

if you press tab, doesnt it say how many monsters remaining?

[trim turret]

Which? Overall, just on your weapon, etc?

[silver zealot]

First-time player here. Never played PoE either.

Just finished my act I with warrior, it felt pretty good and on-spot challenging, however I don't have any comparisons as I've never played other classes.

Your commentary made me rethink if i wanna keep playing it.

Is it that trash? I mean, I don't care if i'm kinda stuck and need to farm some hours to get past a certain boss. But if it is REALLY unbalanced and the game brute-forces me to farm for several hours then i'll definitely change class.

[shut abyss]

it's not trash, warrior is not the meta pick but it can one shot endgame bosses and it starts getting good act 2

around act 2 you get herald of ash and now you one shot everything on your screen then you need to decide which direction you want to go for your ascendancy

[craggy gyro]

I don't know the damage formula, but the one that is increased by the passive tree

[silver zealot]

Thanks for your input!

[trim turret]

I would use the DPS in the skill screen. Still far from perfect but the best we have ingame right now unless you want to use POB, which many of us do.

[astral gale]

playing titan summoner on hc lol

on the ladder lvl 96 rn been fun

[silver zealot]

By that you mean the class is viable?

[astral gale]

yeah sure

[silver zealot]

I guess you are a really experienced player by doin that feat

[astral gale]

aint no gemling tho thats the meta

big damage there

can do all the content but cant break the game

[trim turret]

Warrior and more specifically mace skills are slow. Much slower than anything else in the game, so people write it off. But once you get momentum going with the warrior he can destroy shit. I'm using resonating shield to break armor. I have a support gem that causes explosions when their armor breaks, and armor broken enemies receive guaranteed crits from sunder. I break them, the explosion kills a lot of the smaller enemies, and crit sunder wrecks most of what's left. It isn't super fast zoom one button clearing, but it feels chunky and awesome.

[astral gale]

i aint melee tho fuck that

shits pain

[silver zealot]

That's fine by me. I just wanna enjoy my first run at this game. Thank you guys.

[astral gale]

titan is a good ascendancy, tho

[shut abyss]

to be fair my warrior is only at act 3 because my friend said the first ascendancy was too hard so i had to prove him wrong

[astral gale]

its solid for alot of builds

[last jewel]

died like 100 times on act1 on my first char playing melee

so fun!

[astral gale]

cuz of hulking form

50% more effect of small passive skills

20 more bag slots + 15% more life is nice too

[shut abyss]

i think the point is that you are not locked into warrior as much as you think

[trim turret]

Early it's rough but once I hit a rhythm with rolling slam and got herald of Ash in act 1 things started to pick up and feel much better.

[astral gale]

yeah

i mean u can even use caster gems

if u have enough int etc

[last jewel]

i wasnt warrior, but i think its a bit like this for a lot of melee builds, very hard 1st act, but once u get ur main stuff it gets fun

[shut abyss]

herald of ash is awesome

[silver zealot]

That looks so fun! I'm sure my ""build"" is much weaker, but stun + boneshaterring my mobs feels good and not weak or unbalanced.

[trim turret]

Yeah on Monk once I was rolling with falling thunder and killing palm my clear got awesome.

[trim turret]

Primed for stun + boneshatter is super popular right now. I went my route because it seemed like less people were doing it and after 3700 hours in POE1 I don't like to follow the crowd.

[astral gale]

whats the strongest class/asc on softcore?

is it attribute stacking gemling?

[silver zealot]

I mean I just did it cause it appears on recommended and didn't yet know i could choose other gems for my skills

Thanks, will stick to warrior

Lets go

If i'm forever-stuck I'll complain with u

[astral gale]

lol

[silver zealot]

XD

[shut abyss]

we'll fix your build when you get stuck 😛

[astral gale]

the game is fuckin lit tho

holy moly

its ruined my life

[last jewel]

its fun bcs its infinite content ig

there so much to explore

[trim turret]

And it's in the worst shape It's likely to ever be in. GGG tends to make good changes and improvements over time reliably.

[astral gale]

just dont listen to reddit ggg

those cunts always crying about something

[steady storm]

hi, how are u selling your uniques?

[shut abyss]

disenchant

[astral gale]

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/

[steady storm]

thx

[trim turret]

Most uniques aren't worth selling to other players if that's what you mean. Certain ones are very valuable though.

[astral gale]

ye

but u can sell alot of stuff not just uniques

pretty much anything on that site, but u need a premium stash tab to do so

[last jewel]

and u can download an extension to make price checking easier

it changed my life if im honest

[astral gale]

poe overlay?

[last jewel]

exiled exchange 2

[astral gale]

u can price check with overlay

but i'll check that out too

[last jewel]

ctrl alt d on the item and it tells u the price

[last jewel]

didnt know about this one!

[astral gale]

nice

didnt know about that one either lol

u need overwolf for poe2 overlay

[shut abyss]

sidekick is one and standalone

[astral gale]

nice i will check both out ❤️

[azure lava]

Do be careful, the price checking add-ons just check prices on the trade site and gather data. But people on the trade site sometimes list items for way lower prices than their actual value in an attempt to get people to list them very cheaply so they can flip them

[mortal frigate]

Is there a good list somewhere of uniques that are potentially worth a lot based on rng? I've been checking them as I get them but I recently learned that some which looked cheap might be decent depending on stats and some can be corrupted to be worth more. Not sure where to begin other than just searching dozens of items

[tired forge]

How do some players get 100 Skeleton Snipers?

I have tried a dozen builds, even replaced the +2 minion helpment with Alpha and I can still only deploy about 40 or so.

[trim turret]

No one gets 100. You can get more by getting more spirit.

[tired forge]

I dont think that is possible.

OK, one choice is to be a maxed out witch and get Bidet's will, but that still only adds 60 spirit

Which manes 44 Snipers, not 100

[trim turret]

Then you've maxed it out. Minions require spirit. If you have the most spirit you're capable of getting, then your minions are maxed out also.

[tired forge]

rgr

[trim turret]

Where are you seeing 100 snipers?

[tired forge]

A friend deployed them in front of me

He had to switch all the spirit gems off, but he did it.

[trim turret]

That's wild. Seems extreme and not necessarily effective.

[tired forge]

The only thing I know he had that I didnt is the +3 Sniper skill Jewel.

[tired forge]

Agreed, I suspect what he did is to reequip the 100 spirit unique and fuck his tank in the demonstration.

Whereas my build with 44 Snipers is still more or less a balanced build.

[trim turret]

Quality also decreases reservation if he had some source of that.

[tired forge]

For Snipers, yes.

Actually perhaps he WASNT a maxed out witch, but a Gemling Legionaire.

[mild quiver]

died at room 8 of test of will rip

so many aoe attacks

[tired forge]

What is test of will again?

[clever geode]

I think they are swaping weapon set

It bugs out the number shown

But they dont have 100 snipers

[tired forge]

Hmm, tyvm for info

I am maxing out absolutely at 44.

[clever geode]

If u set sniper to set 1

And swap

It doubles

But u still have same number

Visual but

If u have 44 snipers i think u are at end game

U should go other chat

[copper wyvern]

lf area help pls

[fathom abyss]

Dmed you

[tired forge]

lf?

[hard carbon]

I'm in act 3, monk invoker. I already unlocked charged staff, but I was wondering what is the best way to set it up for now? When will I start dropping spirit gems level whatever I need for combat frenzy?

For now, without access to combat frenzy I've been using siphoning strike because it seems easier to me, especially during boss fight I can shock and gain charges more frequently than killing palm. How did you set up charged staff before combat frenzy?

[sage vault]

Hi everyone. So I’m a D4 player, but have been looking at POE2 recently and have been heavily considering trying it. But I had a handful of questions about it. Would any vets be willing to answer some things for me before I potentially jump into it?

[hard carbon]

I never played any diablo before nor poe. However my friends convinced me to start poe2. They are diablo veterans and they said that diablo 4 sucks compared to poe2 . The best diablo according to them is diablo 3 and poe2 is at that level, probably even better

I never liked topdown games, but poe2.. woo boy! Made me rethink that. Now love this game!

[tired forge]

Did they change the Divine Orb drop rate?

I didnt see any for my first two weeks, now I just collected my 5th one in 2 days.

[lament stone]

its just rng

you can slightly increase the chances with more rarity mods on gear, but its still just rng

[craggy gyro]

Automatically sell all weapons without + skills?

[mild quiver]

Yes

[viral shale]

how do i fix this?

Text disappeared out of the blue and i can not pick up anything from the ground

i relogged and reset instances and nothing

changed ui scale and nothing

[hard cypress]

Reset loot filters ?

[viral shale]

also did tht

u.u

[soft bison]

Hold alt

Or press z

[lament stone]

press z

[hard cypress]

Igdanduk, The Bog Witch in Act 3 drops a spirit gem guaranteed

[viral shale]

im on console..

[hard cypress]

Its probably L2+down arrow

[sage vault]

So here’s me questions:

1. It’s currently in early access. What does that mean exactly? Like, what’s available to play and what isn’t? Is there a campaign to play through? Is it complete? What are the endgame activities like?

2. Does the game have seasonal content and is it currently doing that or will that start after it’s fully out of EA?

3. if there are seasons, do you have to make a new character every season like Diablo?

This isn’t meant to be a “what game is better” thing. I just simply only know Diablo so I’m curious as to how this game compares in terms of content. And I’m curious as to what state the game is currently in vs what it’ll be when it goes free to play and is considered “done”.

[hard cypress]

Its one of the interact buttons thingy on your hotbar

[viral shale]

kk

[ivory solstice]

Is poe2 more similar to Diablo 2 or 3

[lament stone]

1. game is still in development basically. only half of the classes are available and half the campaign is available to play, the other half will come at a later date, they realised people would want an endgame to play through instead of just the campaign so they stopped work on the rest of campaign to do endgame stuff altho that does mean the endgame isnt as polished as the campaign
2. yes, theyll start once the game is out of early access
3. yes

[lament stone]

d2

[viral shale]

SOLVED

[ivory solstice]

Cool

[viral shale]

there is a "toggle visibility" (eye icon)

i will unbind it, lmao

must have mis-clicked it

[lament stone]

whats it bound to by default? just for future reference

[viral shale]

well, i logged back in and changed the OG scheme

but it looks like this:

(the eye)

[lament stone]

ok

[viral shale]

my config was reset after patch

[hard cypress]

yeeeep same

[viral shale]

thx

[prisma jasper]

which assendecy is better for merc?

is easier?

[obsidian acorn]

if ur rich gemling

[spare plank]

Hey guys do u need to get stash tabs to play poe2 im a new player never played poe1 or is it not necessary?

[obsidian acorn]

but i think there are normal non uber expensive gemlin builds

[obsidian acorn]

you dont need one but you will want many

if u want to sell items on the website you need to buy a premium stash tab

quad stash tabs are really useful

currency tab

really good to have

you can play for many hours and not spend more money

[hard cypress]

There will be a sale around the 14th for stash tabs too

[obsidian acorn]

but u already have currency because u bought the early acceses

you have 300 tokens

or coin?

points?

idk

[sage vault]

What’s the current time sink for what’s currently available? Like I’ve been playing D4s current season pretty consistently for the last like week and a half on just one character and still have probably another week or more to go to hit my end goal for things. Idk how the leveling system and all that works in POE 2, but how long would you estimate I would spend before hitting end game and having a pretty solid build going? I know that might be tough to answer.

[obsidian acorn]

spend them on 1 premium tab 1 currency tab 1 skill gem (or just gem) tab

while they are on sale

they go on sale really often

just wait a few days

@spare plank

[spare plank]

yea thank you i need to think what version i wanna buy the standart or the supporter pack with the 300 coins but ty

[obsidian acorn]

tldr
you already have 300 coins from buying the EA pass
when stash tabs on sale buy
currency tab
gem tab
at least one premium stash tab

[hard cypress]

Can you even buy a version without coins ?

[obsidian acorn]

standard comes with 300
poe 2 is free to play so ur actually just buying points and EA pass

u also have those points in poe 1

and you will have the same tabs in poe 1 and poe 2

and skins

[finite raptor]

Is there a way to farm exp? Like the best place to do it? Also can I get boosted if I play with a higher level?

[trim turret]

Staying within 3 levels or so of the zones you're in nets you the most XP. There isn't really power leveling because if there was you'll just be undergeared and underskilled anyway.

[last jewel]

Hey, where can I check my own quarterstaff dps to compare with this?

[shut abyss]

sidekick for example, maybe pob too¨

[long sequoia]

will standard leagues reset eventually sometime too? like not this beta one.

[shut abyss]

afaik no

[long sequoia]

thanks

[trim turret]

POE1 standard has been running for more than a decade. It's part of the draw of a league. New league mechanic, fresh economy, new challenges for cosmetics.

[long sequoia]

If you get the new challenges done in the new leagues, will that be transfered into standard league?

[haughty niche]

will what be transfered?

Cosmetics/stashes/etc are account-wide

Completing the challenges in leagues would reward cosmetics which you could use in whatever environment you want. In league, standard, standard SSF, league Hardcore, etc

[silver zealot]

I'd like to understand that "season reset" part of the game. How does that actually work?

[haughty niche]

You still have full access to your existing characters and gear in standard. League characters get dumped into standard at the end of a league, and league stashes get dumped into standard as remove-only tabs.

[silver zealot]

Ohh!!

Nice, I guess it matters most for more experienced players then?

I mean, I don't pretend to touch anything beyond standard anytime soon

[haughty niche]

When a new league starts (usually after 3 days of the previous ending), if you want to participate you must create a character in the league (no bringing existing items or characters or stashed items in), this is why people call it an economy reset.

Any stashes you purchased at any point in the past will also be waiting for you in the new league empty

We highly recommend playing in league whenever theres one available (there isn't one at the moment)

• More players
• easier trade (more players, fresh economy)
• Challenges (reward cosmetics such as armour set costmetic)
• new league mechanic (new toy to play with and get loot from/craft with)

[silver zealot]

Cool man, thanks. then I'll have to learn the game and get ready for the first league!

How long does a league usually last?

[tender heath]

what do i do with uncut skill gems that i dont actually need?

[atomic edge]

Well you can put them in a gem tab if you have one, or just any casual tab, or just throw them out i guess

[haughty niche]

3-4 months. Though during early access id hope much shorter, unfortunately ggg appears to be treating their patch/release schedule as an already finished game like poe1...

[silver zealot]

XD

[tender heath]

its only a level 1 gem and there aren't any usable level 1 skills in my build except lightning arrow and rod

might just get the contagion ability for extra dps

[atomic edge]

Yeah that could be an option why not

[cerulean zephyr]

it's not so much a conscious choice to do that as that it's basically impossible to put together enough content for a major patch faster than we already do 😅

the goal is definitely to get 0.2 out as soon as possible rather than on a specific schedule

[haughty niche]

Yeah, i guess I was more soo expecting more frequent smaller patches to get changes out right away for whatever was ready

[silver zealot]

I'm not used to this league thing. So in PoE there isn't such a thing as pushing your character to the endgame limit? I mean, after you get strong "enough", eventually things will reset?

[haughty niche]

there is for sure, though most people reach a point where they are satisfied with their character and have minmaxed it to their liking somewhere within those 3-4 month leagues.

For like 1% or a bit more of players they might take it to standard and continue from there, but at that point the gains are soo miniscule and the standard economy/legacy gear becomes its own beast to work with

[cerulean zephyr]

fair enough, that was our original plan but we got very negative feedback from the first few times we did balance changes in smaller patches, so trying to respect that where it's reasonable. still doing patches for bugfixes and uncontroversial improvements.

[silver zealot]

Nice

[haughty niche]

im just worried the month gaps between patches will extend EA a ton and also leave players with expectations of how the game will play only to drastically change them later on, but I am neither a game dev nor a designer/lead so il stick to answering random poe questions

[fringe obsidian]

yeah the league system is great. gets you to try out new stuff, and what better time to release new expansions than into a totally fresh economy

[meager galleon]

but you are a player, and communicating how you feel is important info for the devs

as some dev said: players are great at indetifying that something is wrong, but they are terrible at comming up with the correct solution

[haughty niche]

For example, if an upcoming major patch drops everyones damage by 30%, 300%, or 3000%, whatever it takes to make bosses in endgame not take 1 second to kill, I could see massive whiplash for a lot of people

[tender heath]

what is the max level an ability could reach?

[haughty niche]

20 by default

Corrupting can push it past that to 21, but it could also lower it by 1, or have other outcomes

This is all before +lvls from gear

In poe1, skills scaled up to lvl 40

then they stopped benefiting from additional lvls. But realistically, most of the time if you heavily invested into the skill you were only reaching like late 20s or early 30s with a lot of investment

[fringe obsidian]

yeah basically you can "level it" up to 20. but then there are a bunch of currencies/item mods that artificially raise the level

and for spells, raising that level is very important

[meager galleon]

an average player will be hitting like lvl20-25, cos thats like a +1 corruption with maybe a +3 to 4 on one item

[haughty niche]

Poe2 offers the stupid amounts of additional lvls from weapons too for whatever reason. Like up to +7 from a 2handed melee weapon lol

[hard cypress]

I stashed them away so that when I start a new class, I don't have to wait for the random drops to get my build going. Very useful for that

Its also nice to experiment around the skills mid game to have these handy

[tender heath]

but the main use for uncut skill gems is upgrading skills, right?

[fringe obsidian]

you can turn them into any skill at the level of the uncut gem

[tender heath]

yeah i see

[hard cypress]

Skill gems can be used to upgrade an existing one or get a new skill

[tender heath]

cool ty

[hard cypress]

For eg, if you decide to use contagion at a higher level.. You can use a lvl 9 skill gem to get a new lvl 9 contagion skill

Assuming you don't ahve one to upgrade

[tender heath]

i shouldnt waste these things early game right?

i remember them being very important for late game in poe1

especially the golden one with 3 faces

[hard cypress]

I'd be conservative (but not fully stash them away) with regal orbs. The "make white into blue" and "add one more to blue" are very common and feel free to unga bunga it

[tender heath]

alright

[trim turret]

Transmute and augments can be spent pretty freely. You should be getting plenty from drops and disenchanting. Regals, save for blue items that already have two good mods.

[hard cypress]

Like if you see a blue item with one nice stat, augment another line to see if you now have 2 nice things on the blue item.
Got two very very nice thing on an item ? Regal and pray to see if you get even more nice things.
And so on

[trim turret]

I have strong feelings about people that get upset over balance changes in an early access game missing a large portion of its final content, but I'll keep it simple and say that some of us understand the need for adjusting balance on the fly.

[tender heath]

Transmute and augments are these, right???

[trim turret]

Mouse over them and read them.

[tender heath]

cant

i used them

[trim turret]

They're the ones that say transmute and augment.

If it turned a blue item yellow, it was a regal.

[tender heath]

[tender heath]

so i used a regal here?

[trim turret]

Looks like.

[tender heath]

i wasted a regal

gg bricked acc

time to reroll

[meager galleon]

yeah, thats about normal

[hard cypress]

Welcome to poe 2 crafting 🙂

[haughty niche]

not the end of the world. thats 10 rare item drops effectively

[trim turret]

You'll get plenty. Just make sure you're salvaging/disenchanting plenty of gear.

[tender heath]

wut

you can do that?

i was selling everything till now 💀

[meager galleon]

you get regal sharts from disenchanting rare items

[haughty niche]

and when you actually did want to use a regal in the future, its also completely gambling so chances are that would have been wasted regardless

[tender heath]

oh i see

[hard cypress]

This is not a terrible thing to do. I usually mix and match, sometimes sell sometimes disenchant. Depends on if I think I have decent money or no

[trim turret]

Salvage bench for gear with quality and/or sockets, disenchant or sell blues and yellows you aren't going to use.

[hard carbon]

I defeated the bog witch in act 3, I got the 30 more spirit. Now how can I get more? I see many builds on YouTube running 4 or 5 spirit skills, how can they get 120 spirit? I already know it's not from equip so definitely there is a way to get more permanent spirit

[trim turret]

Gold is good too, so sell some stuff as well. Depends what you need.

[tender heath]

alright

thx guys

[trim turret]

40 more from act 3 cruel and more on gear.

[hard cypress]

Items can have +spirit on them. Act 3 cruel optional boss also drops 40

[fringe obsidian]

you can also get spirit on items

body armour, amulets etc

[hard carbon]

Does it mean I need to make another character in cruel difficulty?

[hard cypress]

Story gives you 100 spirit in total

[fringe obsidian]

no. cruel happens after normal

[tender heath]

common items aren't worth picking up at all, right?

waste of inventory space

[hard cypress]

Cruel difiiculty is basically NG+ for the first 3 acts. They are placeholders till acts 4-6 is released.

[trim turret]

No, you replay acts 1-3 at higher levels until they release acts 4-6 instead.

[haughty niche]

They can be if its a good base

[fringe obsidian]

actually they can be if they're of a good i-level and base type

[hard carbon]

Ah ok it's like Ng+ run of campaign?

[trim turret]

And then go to endgame.

[fringe obsidian]

yes. the level is increased so you can keep gaining in power. and when you're done that you move on to maps

[trim turret]

Basically yeah as a placeholder for the remaining acts until they're released.

[haughty niche]

Like if its a new weapon base that just started dropping id consider picking up a common rarity one to roll and see if i hit anything useful

[trim turret]

I pick up anything with sockets to salvage them at the very least.

[tender heath]

so only pick up commons with sockets, got it

im not gonna go around picking up every common i find, having to recall every 10 seconds sucks

[fringe obsidian]

Let's say you've only been seeing basic crossbows on the ground, then suddenly in a new area you see a new type of crossbow drop that's common, and it's a higher item level. even though that's common, I'd pick it up, throw some crafting gear at it, and see what I get

all items in this game are modified (rolled) from base types. better base types drop as you progress through the game and get to higher level areas

[silver zealot]

its ok

[fringe obsidian]

so there are some common type items that you may want to pick up, throw an aug/transmute at, and move on

if the common item is the same BASE TYPE as what you have on / a lower base type. then ignore it

even unique items (the orange tier) are just modified versions of a certain base type

[trim turret]

I mean even checking vendors helps. In act 2 I found a white mace that was better than my rare just because the base type was so much better.

[silver zealot]

by base type you mean flat damage?

[fringe obsidian]

no it's the name of the thing.

[trim turret]

Base type is the white version of the item, with fixed stats that don't change.

[tender heath]

i see

[trim turret]

A spiked mace will always have the same base stats as another spiked mace.

[silver zealot]

Got it

So I imagine PoE2 is a lot about crafting

[trim turret]

Crafting (such as it is) and looting yeah.

[fringe obsidian]

so for instance if we look at body armours (strength type).

the first type of body armour you see will be
Fur plate
Then as you get to higher level areas you'll see
Rusted Cuirass

and as you progress you'll see newer base types drop all the way until the far end game. these base types will typically have better and better stats than the base types from lower levels. so it's worth picking up common ones to throw some crafting orbs at

[tender heath]

how do you salvage items?

[trim turret]

Bench at the back of the town. Can't remember what unlocks it.

[fringe obsidian]

right now crafting is a little, to be polite, thin compared to PoE 1

but it's probably going to end up getting more and more things added to it

[spare plank]

Yo guys whats the best class for solo players and starter?

[fringe obsidian]

starting I'd personally recomend a spellcaster of some type