2┃new-player-in-campaign-help

[lament stone]

no you cant

you cant continue the quest if you dont have the quest barya

so you literally cant unlock the trial of sekhemas zone

[spice pagoda]

Wait so that's a soft lock? Wild

[lament stone]

it just completely locks you out of doing the trial of sekhemas on that character

its still not a complete brick since you can do trial of chaos, but not being able to do trial of sekhemas locks you out of getting some items without trading like time lost jewels

[spice pagoda]

Huh. Thanks; I had no idea

[craggy gyro]

I respecced off my take leveling build to a spark one and do no damage and get 1 shorted

And I have most of the items i need

[hybrid star]

did you follow a build?

[lament stone]

are your gems a high enough level?

does all your gear have life + elemental resists?

and relevant damage mods on your weapon?

and can you post a link to the build guide?

because when you say spark i am a little bit concerned it might be an older build

int/mana stacking spark is completely dead

[trim turret]

Is the spark build an endgame build youre trying to follow early? What items do you have that it needs? If you dont have resistances and decent life pool you're going to take a lot of damage no matter the build..

[craggy gyro]

Yes I’m dumb for trying to follow it early

[craggy gyro]

Nah yeah my spells kill me so fast

I might just make a new character

[trim turret]

What do you mean, your spells? What did you take to make your spells cost life? Gear or your ascendancy?

[hybrid star]

bloodmage spark?

do you know how to export your character with pob? anything can be salvaged

[craggy gyro]

Yeah bloodmage spark

[craggy gyro]

Wym?

[craggy gyro]

Bloodmage

[hybrid star]

have you taken the life leech ascendancy skill?

[craggy gyro]

Nope

[lament stone]

thats necessary, or you wont survive with cast on crit

you need life leech ascendancy node and you need the instant life leech gloves

[craggy gyro]

Damn.

I thinking if I should just say freak it and start a sorcerer

Or a deadeye but I’m scared it’s gonna get nerfed

[hybrid star]

you are taking the crit nodes on your passive tree? if so you can switch to a crit spear build maybe

[hybrid star]

no nerfs until next league

[lament stone]

they try to avoid mid league nerfs, theyll only do it if its something thats like actually game breaking

[craggy gyro]

Yeah but how tho

No joke everything I tried does no damage only thing that did a little damage was the rake build

I’m in act 3 cruelty

[lament stone]

and whats the damage on your weapon like?

thats super important if you want to do any damage

[craggy gyro]

Can I send a screen shot?

[lament stone]

blood mage as an ascendancy isnt good until you get 4 nodes either

yea

[craggy gyro]

The wand is pretty bad but I have a pretty cracked one in my stash but i gotta be level 66

[lament stone]

yea that wands really bad

[azure lava]

I am astounded you haven't found a single +spell level weapon

[lament stone]

where is your life leech coming from?

i really hope you have life leech, because with that body armour you have 0 other life regen

and as a blood mage your skills cost life

[hybrid star]

maybe try the covenant body armor for 5% leech

[craggy gyro]

I don’t think I have any😭

This class is to hard man

[lament stone]

you just need to understand why a build takes what it does, what pieces are necessary for it to function and that doesnt just mean gear, it includes ascendancy nodes and even just nodes on the tree

you cant just blindly follow guides or you will get stuck

because that body armour and gloves you have are useless without the life leech node from your ascendancy

also this seems pretty unique heavy so youre probably struggling on resists

[craggy gyro]

Yeah

Ima just take all the stuff on this character and start a deadeye or a stormweaver

[hybrid star]

I see that you already bought the uniques I guess you have the currency to buy a 4th trial carry? This is prolly the easiest fix.

[craggy gyro]

How much is it?

Those uniques weren’t really expensive

[hybrid star]

wait it's 1 div now lol

I guess because of the loot buff

[craggy gyro]

What’s 1 div?

Oh the carry

[trim turret]

It's not the class, its the build. You tried to follow something without having everything you need and understanding why you need it.

[azure lava]

this could have happened with any ascendancy

[craggy gyro]

Yeah ima wait until I have everything before switching from now on I appreciate you guys

[arctic river]

Can someone please help solve this on going issue with the game

[desert sedge]

Don't ask to ask! Post your question here so that people actually know if they can help. It's also better to discuss your question publicly so more people can chime in or learn! That's why these channels are here!

[arctic river]

Poe 2 keeps pausing in game multiple times and makes the game unplayable

[azure lava]

pausing as in the menu shows up that normally appears when you press start?

[arctic river]

No it freezes the game and says game paused at bottom of screen

[azure lava]

what button normally does that on ps5?

[arctic river]

Options button but pressing pause would bring your menu up but it doesn’t do that it just says game paused at bottom of screen

[azure lava]

I'm not terribly familiar with the intended function of the menus on console, so bear with me; Are you saying that there is no button you can press to force poe2 into the "game paused" screen that keeps occurring randomly?

[arctic river]

There is but I’m not pressing anything relating to menu and the game keeps freezing and coming up with game paused randomly at the bottom of the screen

[azure lava]

If you set your controller down and don't touch it, does it still happen?

[arctic river]

Yeah I’m not the only one who it’s happening too it happens to one of my mates from wales as well

[azure lava]

if you shut off your internet to the ps5, does it pause the game the same way? I'm wondering if this is related to the DDOS attacks on EU servers

[arctic river]

Yeah still happens

[azure lava]

try connecting to the Washington DC server

or any non-EU server

[arctic river]

Okay I’ll try

[azure lava]

I'm wondering if the "game paused" screen is a safety precaution that occurs if the server doesn't hear from your client for X milliseconds

[arctic river]

Happens in battles as well

[azure lava]

idk if console has performance graphs, but I'd enable those if you can as well

[arctic river]

Exactly like this

[azure lava]

which server is that on?

[arctic river]

Washington DC

[azure lava]

does this happen if you unplug your controller?

or turn it off, etc

[arctic river]

Yeah I don’t even have to touch my controller of if I’m running around and in battles it does it

[azure lava]

no, specifically, does it happen with no controller connected at all?

not just no input from you

[arctic river]

Yeah it does

[azure lava]

do you only have one controller connected?

[arctic river]

Yes only mine

[languid snow]

@azure lava as hardcore player do u do rituals? Rituals be scary with those purple balls

[azure lava]

Yes, but the only ones I've done are the ones required for the freythorn. Haven't beaten the campaign yet in 0.2

barely played

osrs too good

[languid snow]

Oh 😦

[azure lava]

but the balls are easy to dodge

I did rituals on my 0.1 gemling that got to maps

but I only got to like t4s before I got bored and quit

[azure lava]

I'm unfortunately out of ideas, mate. Sorry. My only theory was a hardware issue and if it happens with no controller connected at all, that can't be it

[arctic river]

Yeah it happens to my mate in wales as as well I can’t figure it out

[azure lava]

does it unpause automatically?

[arctic river]

Yes it flickers

[azure lava]

are you running poe2 from an external drive or something?

[arctic river]

No console storage

[azure lava]

and does this happen in all areas of the game? towns, zones, hideout, etc?

[arctic river]

Everywhere

[azure lava]

yeah that's whack. is your mate also on a ps5?

[arctic river]

Yeah

I’m running 24tb and this is the only game that does this

[lament stone]

that happens if you have an unstable connection to the server

[arctic river]

I’m running 1400 mbps don’t understand how it’s possible

[opaque flare]

6 link in act 1 gg

[trim turret]

Wired?

[arctic river]

@trim turret yup

[frozen igloo]

if i beat act 3 without getting the spirit from the bog girl can i go back?

[lament stone]

you can

[frozen igloo]

oh ok my map shows everything again it only showed the last area last time thank you

[queen heath]

Where do you find those ??

[languid snow]

: (

[trim turret]

You get jewelers orbs and save them.

[ancient tiger]

How to get ascendancy points

[final geyser]

By completing one of the Trials, namely the Trial of the Sekhemas or the Trial of Chaos, when the token to enter says that completing the Trial would reward you with additional points. In Trial of the Sekhemas, you gain a set of points for every additional flood you successfully complete, with Trial of Chaos you gain points for completing the 4th, 7th and 10th room, as well as defeatin the boss that can be accessed after the 10th room.

[rough pier]

im leveling sooo slowly compared to poe 1. is that js me or…

[azure lava]

poe2 is a much slower game, so that's to be expected

but that's like saying "The rocket launcher in Team Fortress 2 feels a lot different than the one in Team Fortress Classic, anyone else feel that way?"

leveling might feel slower, but that's the new normal for poe2 from my experience

[vernal smelt]

Leveling like 60-90 is like a fever dream imo

The earlier levels especially the 20-30 feel slow.

[final geyser]

In my experience, those are the faster ones.

[vast ibex]

FREE EXP (NICK Baldwinnn)

[dusky burrow]

#2┃looking-for-group

[azure lava]

rakestomp makes the first 30 levels a cakewalk

[vast ibex]

thank u ❤️

[dire spindle]

went from 15-45 in 7 hours went from 65-75 in 12 hours

[wispy sand]

any advice on setting up keybinds for boneshatter warrior? just trying now and feeling a little overwhelmed trying to manage the different abilities and chains. only level 3 so im sure it'll get easier haha

[vernal smelt]

65-80 tool me 3 or 4 hours iirc. Act 2 just takes me forever.

[vernal smelt]

Keyboard or controller?

[wispy sand]

Controller

[vernal smelt]

XB or PS?

[wispy sand]

PS5

[vernal smelt]

I Like L1 R1 AND R2 to be my main skills I use the most. Then I normally use X For Movement than like Sqaure and triangle for the others.

Everything in my L2 set are all things I dont use often

[wispy sand]

Thanks a ton! I’ll give something like that a shot to see if I can use them one after the other. I may also be at The Devourer too early (level 3) I’m getting smoked and button mashing when I know you’re not really supposed to

[vernal smelt]

FYI. Warrior for me literally sucked so much until Level 30. I almost quit around level 15.

[wispy sand]

Yeah I’m gonna follow a leveling guide to get a feel for it

[teal lynx]

Can someone kill abomination for me? Act 2

[dusky burrow]

#2┃looking-for-group

[carmine minnow]

Any idea what this icon is?

[weary osprey]

open-heart surgery

[dusky burrow]

this channel is for serious questions and answers, otherwise i might have to give you the no-help-channels role...

[south sparrow]

Does Emergency Reload only Empower newly loaded bolts, or does it work on bolts already loaded?

[hybrid star]

huh

it works on the new clip loaded

[south sparrow]

Say you can load 50 bolts and you use emergency reload with 25 in the clip. Will those 25 already there get the buff?

Or are you suggesting that it just "replaces" any that are already there? So it would work even if the clip was full?

[hybrid star]

it would be... dumb to have it not empowering the old bolts right

[south sparrow]

I didn't know. I've been trying to remember to time it for when it starts to reload, but now that I know it will be much more useful 🙂

[hybrid star]

and define "reload", it could be loading new bolts, or it could be throwing away the old clip and load in new one

but yeah when I use emergency reload on a half clip the damage doesn't change for the whole clip, in my experience using shockburst

[south sparrow]

So it should work even if clip is full?

[hybrid star]

never tried at full tho

idk why should someone do that

[spice pagoda]

Emergency Reload functions on the entire new clip

Think of it like the old clip gets ejected whenever you reload

[south sparrow]

Because you might only get one full clip out before shock wears off

[hybrid star]

I can blast 4 clips in the shock duration

[hardy sun]

If shock is wearing off too fast, pickup some duration nodes. I ran into that problem when I was trying to make the build work too. Especially if you have that support gem that reduces duration for bigger magnitude. Definitely flows better with duration of more than 4 seconds.

[wild depot]

is there no more currency exchange or do I have to reach something in game to unlock it?

[real solstice]

Cruel

Act 4

You get to use currency exchange

Unless your ssf

[wild depot]

thanks, I am in act 2

[real solstice]

What’re you looking for to exchange?

[wild depot]

nothing atm, just was curious

[real solstice]

Okay!

[pine willow]

Does haste companion tech work anymore?

i got a hasted board but it doesnt seem to do anything for me

boar*

[spice pagoda]

You need haste aura

[real solstice]

Aura hastedta aura

Hasted aura*

Same for other, it needs to be aura for you te receive the buff

🙂

[pine willow]

ok thanks

[shut ore]

hey is there issues with ascent to power im trying to start it but zarka has nothing for me? any fixes?

been told it maybe broken atm

[hybrid star]

the quest you mean? if you already ascended then just ignore it ig

[maiden wasp]

In poe 2 im stuck with the obelisk quest

[vestal lichen]

ps5 de oynayan türk yok mu?

[azure lava]

What's the obelisk quest?

[maiden wasp]

Nvm i got past it its the quest in the red vale

You finish it to pass through

[hardy sun]

That's like the 2nd zone. It can be tricky to find all 3 spots. Sometimes they hide and you walk by and miss the thing, happened to me a couple times.

[sick drum]

Can we play MnK on console ?

[real solstice]

Not yet

[plain saddle]

Anyone knows what is the name of the armour on the left, and at what level it starts dropping? Not seeing it in any wiki.

[lament stone]

it doesnt exist

it shouldnt matter anyway since if youre going for str base armour youd just use the ones with the higher armour stats (as long as it also has good life and elemental resists) and eventually in the endgame theres a couple of body armour bases for each stat that have implicits

[weary osprey]

also pure armor (str) chestpieces have the worst movespeed penalty

[final geyser]

Might be an Act 4-6 item, we've not seen those base types ingame yet

[lament stone]

oh thats true

[weary osprey]

my opinion is fully articulated plate is hard to animate and the bevor adds a bunch of clipping issues yet so it's probably not prod ready

[final geyser]

Nah, we've seen some complex plate armours back in 2019, and we're still missing 3 acts of gear and then endgame stuff later down the line as well

[plain saddle]

Well hope it comes out because it looks pretty cool and I end up chasing fashion more than anything else most of the time

[final geyser]

If I had to guess, I'd place it in Act 5, so we should see it some time prior to the full release.

[trim turret]

That's a good way to end up being undergeared.

[lament stone]

your gear is super important, thats where most of your damage and survivability comes from

[vale kiln]

how do you get more strength?

[final geyser]

You can select it on the attribute nodes on the tree, notables that give Strength, get it from gear, or from runes that give Strength.

[vale kiln]

im playing huntress but dont see any is it just the +5 attribute skills?

[azure lava]

Yes, when you allocate one of those you can assign it to +5 str, int, or dex

[oak monolith]

hi guys im kinda in a situation

im in poe 2 act 2

and havent played in like over a month, maybe 2 months honestly no idea

when i spawned in i was at the trials of the sekhemas

but idk like what to do

and i have 2 inscribed ultimatums in my inventory

but like idk what to do rn cuz i forgot everything about this game

also have a blue mushroom and green mushroom in my inventory

[real solstice]

Mushrooms is a 3d act side quest item

Are*

[oak monolith]

so i can just throw them in my stash?

wait no i cant

[final geyser]

They're quest items, so you can't

[real solstice]

you can also throw them away. You can get them back

[final geyser]

You can just drop them, they only reward some flasks anyway

[oak monolith]

oooh wait i do have act 3 unloicked

i just was in act 3 the last time i was there

yea because i needed to get spirit some way i think i do that through the trials or sum right?

[real solstice]

You were trying to get ascension points, perchance

[oak monolith]

yewaa

thats sounds about right?

[real solstice]

You get spirit from a optional boss in act 3

Iirc it’s act 1 normal and act 3 cruel fora max of 100 spirit

[oak monolith]

yea but i need to get ascension points as well maybe?

where can i see how many i have or sum

i forgot what they were

[real solstice]

Those are good to get an advantage or make your toon stronger

[real solstice]

Passive tree

[oak monolith]

oh that thing in the center?

[real solstice]

Right side of the screen or just in the middle where your character avatar is located

Yes sir

[oak monolith]

i have 3 things unlocked there rn

and i started act 3 is that right?

[real solstice]

You can reset those points with the hanged man with some gold

Your first two points is from act 2 and your second set of points is on act 3

[oak monolith]

oh wait

[real solstice]

You maybe have 4/8 points unlocked

[oak monolith]

yea the first thing node doesnt cost doesnt cost a nything

so i have 2 points

[real solstice]

Alright

So you’ve done first one

🙂

[oak monolith]

and what about the inscribed ultimatums, what can i do with those? or like what am i supposed to do now 😭

[real solstice]

You do a trial on act 3

[oak monolith]

or just progress through act 3

okokok

[real solstice]

You find your way thru chimera land

[oak monolith]

alright ty :)

[real solstice]

No problem

Btw you may have the place unlocked already since mushrooms side quest is after chimera palce

[oak monolith]

ah alr

im at the black chambers rn

also i need to find a new build lol since my old one got messed up by the update

okay ill be gone for a bit ill try to figure this stuff out in a bit lol

[half vigil]

hello guys

can someone explain to me

what is dawn of the hunt?

[real solstice]

Leagues

[half vigil]

?

[real solstice]

Look at it as league 1 and league 2

Same game different economy

[half vigil]

what league

its been like 2 months since ive last played this game

[real solstice]

So with the update they created a new “server” that has nothing to do with “server” that the game launched

[half vigil]

whats the difference

[real solstice]

None tbh

Welp, economy

Items prices might be different

[half vigil]

ooh okay

and what new classes did they add

[real solstice]

Huntress

Just below ranger

[half vigil]

i thought theyre addint druid

[final geyser]

They may do in the next update, but this update was Huntress

[half vigil]

also do keep in my mind that the last time i played there was no new subclass or new classes

[final geyser]

Specifically, leagues in the future will have content exclusive to them, a special league mechanic that appears in every zone while you're in that league. After the league ends, that content may or may not be added into the core game with changes. As we're currently in Early Access, their first major update was focused on adding more core content instead of league mechanics, but future updates or the full game will have those extra mechanics.

[half vigil]

oh okay

also im dumbfounded what is a good support gem for flammability

[spare minnow]

can anyone help me with quest "the mad wold of ogham"

[half vigil]

i see they added burnt corpses when you kill somoene with fire

someone tell me why cant i salvage my gear?

[final geyser]

The Salvage Bench works specifically on gear that has either sockets, or quality. Are you attempting to use it on those items?

[half vigil]

also which one's would be better for a caster

[half vigil]

uhh i wanted to get those scraps that can turn into orbs when there's 10 of them

[final geyser]

For that, you go to a vendor that allows you to Disenchant, they let you break down Magic and Rare items into those shards.

[half vigil]

ooooh

okay

thanks

[half vigil]

and these?

[final geyser]

Well, Casters can technically want anything, depending on what build you're doing, but what I will say is that the Life on Hit with Attacks from the first set, and Accuracy Rating from the second, do literally nothing for Spells

[half vigil]

im aware

[final geyser]

So it'd down to the defensive values. The first has way more Life, which is good, but the second gives slightly more Resistances. I'd probably go for the first pair and just socket in a Rune to make up for the Resistance difference

[half vigil]

[rich shale]

In general for early game (A2), is it better to get 20% inc spell damage, or gain 8% as fire/light/cold?

[azure lava]

Depends on your build. Curses are pretty expensive so I tend to use inspiration if my mana sustain isn't up to snuff. Heightened curse for more magnitude is solid, the one that lowers activation delay is nice for usability. Then there's magnified effect and the other support that gives aoe specifically to curses

[rich shale]

I'm guessing inc spell is better because early on you have so few sources of it?

[azure lava]

Assuming you have no gain as extra, then 20% spell damage is better until you have a total of 150% inc spell damage from your weapon, passive tree, etc

@rich shale

[rich shale]

Interesting. Why would it matter if I already have gain as extra?

[azure lava]

Because gain as extra is additive with other gain as extra

So if you already had, say 30% gain as extra, then that 8% gain as extra would be a proportionally smaller boost

Using the spell damage as an example, if you have 0% increased spell damage, then 20% inc spell damage is effectively 20% more damage.

But If you have 150% inc spell damage, then 20% inc spell damage is only 8% more damage

[rich shale]

Ah, I see the math now. That makes sense.

[azure lava]

I should also clarify my original statement: it's not just 150% inc spell damage. It's 150% inc damage total (as long as it applies to the skill(s) you're comparing)

So if you have 50% inc lightning damage, 50% inc spell damage, and 50% inc projectile damage, then that sums to 150% inc damage for spark, a projectile lightning spell.

[rich shale]

On the tree it's easy to tell. I kind of wish I had the same skill tooltip for gear and runes.

[azure lava]

You can see your skill dps in the gem panel

And swap gear out to see

Runes, yeah, you gotta do math

Or use pob

[final geyser]

I believe there were plans for that UI to also be present with items, I suppose it didn't make it in for launch (and even the passive tree comparison UI broke in 0.2 at first and even now some values are displaying wrong units)

[rich shale]

Yeah, but for gear in vendor it's tricky.

Ultimately, I'm sitting on my couch and don't want to open PoB. 😛 understanding the math helps though.

[rich shale]

That's good to know. The dps display definitely isn't perfect, but, it's still nice as a guideline.

[half vigil]

can someone tell me

if i just killed that lady boss who was surrounded by guys with shields

how many bosses are left till the end of the game?

[final geyser]

Do you mean Asinia, in Act 1, because otherwise I'm not sure which boss you mean

[half vigil]

no act 3

she knocks out alva

[final geyser]

Oh, Napuatzi

Right, I forgot about the soldiers around her xd

If you mean until the end of the campaign, you get one more boss in Normal, then the campaign repeats in Cruel, so just double the number of bosses you've fought so far

[half vigil]

im in normal

also if i remember correctly in the campaign since the start of the game

||first i killed the evil lady who had her husband turn into a wolf in act1||

||in act2 she found a new zombie mummy husband which she also took that slimy thing with and i defeated him and got my kill stolen by the hot lady||

and i forgot what happened with her in act 3

[final geyser]

She isn't in Act 3, you went in different directions

[half vigil]

what the fuck am i doing here then

isnt my quest like

to stop that slime worm thing

[final geyser]

To quote the Hooded One,

[half vigil]

oh

thats why i went back in time

[final geyser]

More or less, yes

[half vigil]

based me

which one's better?

[real solstice]

Depends

[half vigil]

im a caster

[real solstice]

On your resistances

[lament stone]

tbh id just go with the rare

good life and resists

[lament stone]

yea id take the rare and socket in a couple of lightning res runes

[half vigil]

uhhh i wasnt paying attention to my game and i just stabbed a big heart on some kind of stone altar

what does it do

[final geyser]

Gives you 2 more weapon set passives

[half vigil]

oooh 2 skill points

[novel forum]

where can i find someone to do uber trial carry ? and i can go from 2 points to all 8 with that right?

[civic token]

Can someone help me with my minions? I currently have 1 archer, 65 spirit cost, and 2 free warriors from the focus weapon, but none of them won’t revive for some reason. I’ve tried restarting my game twice now and I def have them set along with the sufficient stats to utilize them with their support gems

[trim turret]

Wearing any unique items or taken any big nodes on the passive tree?

[formal vortex]

Keep going!

[karmic depot]

anybody want to sell blackheart iron ring? i looks through the website pending trade to everyone and none respond

[south sparrow]

I have 40% inc physical on my crossbow. How can I estimate DPS from a new crossbow assuming it has 40% inc?

[wintry tangle]

Uninstalled weeeee peace dudes

[dusky burrow]

[trim turret]

By looking at the damage at the top of the weapon and comparing it to your current, pr equipping and looking at your skills.

[hardy sun]

In game tooltip is helpful for most abilities. Larger numbers is generally the better choice. Lots of factors but not sure what you're after specifically. Generally, tooltip info is easy guideline to decide which weapon is better from your options

[south sparrow]

I was wanting to know what my skill DPS would be if I were to add runes to that crossbow. I'm messing with pob now. It seems I can copy that crossbow and add runes. So at least I can see what the pob skill dps says. The skill dps in pob is much much lower than that reported in game.

[spice pagoda]

PoB is more reliable but not perfect

Outside of weird edge cases I would trust it

[south sparrow]

pob says 524 for my shockburst rounds, but in-game it says 2630

[spice pagoda]

Make sure you have it configured right, but generally PoB will show higher DPS than ingame

But configuration can make a huuuuuge difference

[south sparrow]

Yeah, I'm probably not looking at the right dps. I'll have to mess with it to figure out how it works.

I wasn't looking at the pulse. Pulse is 15068, which is actually slightly lower than in-game (16956).

[hardy sun]

Pob setup is weird for certain abilities, especially when they can shotgun or get multiple hits somehow

[surreal frost]

Is this game pay for advantage?

[spice pagoda]

You can buy stash tabs, but that's it

[surreal frost]

Really, that's it? How much are the stash tabs and are they permanent?

[spice pagoda]

Depends on the type of tab and if there's a sale, but $5-15 I think

And they are permanent

[surreal frost]

How many can you buy? What's the total price?

[spice pagoda]

As many as you want

So, as much as you want to spend

Oh, and also all purchases work for both PoE 1 and PoE 2

(some cosmetics not implemented in PoE 2 yet)

[surreal frost]

So if someone wanted to be the best and most efficient, etc., would they want to buy many of them?

[spice pagoda]

I would say that spending $40 total and using that premium currency during a sale would make almost anyone happy for however long they want to play

[surreal frost]

Are there plans to add more pay for advantage stuff later?

[spice pagoda]

Never

There would be a riot

[surreal frost]

I know many games launch in a good state and then add lots of horrible pay for advantage stuff later, as a bait and switch.

[spice pagoda]

PoE has been out for a very long time now and the devs have been strongly anti-P2W the whole time

[surreal frost]

If it's just $40 for the stash tabs and then you're good, that's probably fine.

[spice pagoda]

You don't ever have to spend money, to be clear. But I would recommend buying a couple stash tabs to make inventory management easier, and especially a currency tab

[surreal frost]

Is it possible to use a controller to move your character, pick up items, and navigate through menus?

[spice pagoda]

Yep

[surreal frost]

Does the game encourage multiplayer? Some online games actually discourage it and make it better for character progression to solo, and that ruins the game for me.

Solo only online games shouldn't be a thing, but from the games I've played, sadly, they absolutely are.

[spice pagoda]

If you want to be strictly optimal, it's best to have a bunch of support characters all running buff auras for a carry. However, most people play solo because it's not that much better to run as a group

[surreal frost]

Is it at least about the same?

[spice pagoda]

And most groups are composed of several damaging characters

[surreal frost]

The games I've played would have big penalties for multiplayer, so solo ends up being better.

Ideally, everyone in the party benefits.

[dusky burrow]

there arent penalties but bonuses (at least for loot, monster life is increased)

[spice pagoda]

It's hard to say exactly what the balance is, because the devs don't release drop rates for items in this game. However, my estimate would be that in an optimal and highly-skilled group, you would see a bit more loot of significantly higher quality than in solo play

[dusky burrow]

the only issue is the implicit issue of multiplayer, which is that you have to divide the proceeds between the members of the group

[spice pagoda]

(and I'm saying that while accounting for the fact that the loot would be spread among more players)

(but it can still be a hassle to fairly divide the loot)

[surreal frost]

Don't you have individual item drops?

If I see a sword drop, it's only on my screen. No one else can take it.

[spice pagoda]

Many groups among friends do free-for-all loot and then work out payment later. But you can have your loot permanently or temporarily allocate only to you, and others can't pick it up while it's allocated

Item drops are always seen by everyone, though. No way to make them invisible

[surreal frost]

Is multiplayer a friend invite only sort of thing? Is there an easy public way to create and join parties?

[weary osprey]

anybody can create a party

any party can be made public

[surreal frost]

So there is a way in-game to view the open parties?

[weary osprey]

yeah it's one of the social panels

note that the list of parties that shows up depends on which act you're in

[surreal frost]

Thanks for answering my questions so far. I know almost nothing about these games and this is really helpful. So far, everything sounds pretty good.

[spice pagoda]

I've played nearly every ARPG on the market. PoE and PoE 2 are by far my favorites

[surreal frost]

Is there at least one class that is primarily a magic user? Like a black mage? Can I just use magic and avoid swords and guns and still be viable?

[dusky burrow]

you can use magic with any class

[spice pagoda]

Any class can use any ability

[dusky burrow]

*with that in mind, it will be easier and more straightforward to deal damage with spells as an int-focused class (as a result of the kind of passives you will see close to your starting position in the passive tree and in your ascendancy tree)

which would be primarily witch and sorceress, and monk to a lesser degree

[surreal frost]

So I can pick an intelligence class and only use magic and still be viable?

[spice pagoda]

For sure

[dusky burrow]

absolutely

you can pick any class and only use magic (spells) and still be viable, but it will be the most straighfoward as an int class

[surreal frost]

I come from games that had magic users but they made the magic useless, so the magic users were forced to use guns.

[spice pagoda]

The (debatably) most competitive build last season was all spells

[dusky burrow]

https://tenor.com/view/we-dont-do-that-here-black-panther-tchalla-bruce-gif-16558003

[spice pagoda]

This season, it's not, but that build is certainly still viable

In fact, almost any skill can be viable as a primary damaging ability if you build around it correctly

[surreal frost]

Witch and sorceress? Thanks!

Thanks for all of the answers. I will do more research but so far, it sounds like it could be a great game for me.

[dusky burrow]

fyi the game already costs $30 (early access price) and that gives 300 points ($30 worth of shop currency) and just that's enough to get enough tabs to store everything (for a good while at least, further tabs are cheap)

[surreal frost]

Oh. It's in early access? I didn't know that. I thought it came out a year or two ago or something.

Glad it won't cost like $200.

[dusky burrow]

it will come out in "a year or two" or something lol

[spice pagoda]

Note that the game will be free at that point, no buy-in required

But the game is also ""free"" now, in that you have to buy it but you get that amount of premium currency as part of the deal

[surreal frost]

If it will be free, then how will they make their money? The stash thing? There will also be cosmetics, I assume?

I guess if people have to spend around $40 for enough storage space, then that's a roundabout way of just charging $40 for the game, but I guess it lets people try before they buy.

[spice pagoda]

One of the head devs said it well: "First, make a good game. Then, hope people will be willing to support you." They sell cosmetics and stash tabs, and it seems to do well for them

[surreal frost]

Yeah. That can work. Having a genuinely good game and making it free to try could be a smart idea.

[dusky burrow]

yes, basically this

they also (at least did in poe1) release supporter packs with every league (major update every 3-4 months)

supporter packs are purely a bunch of cosmetics and points equal to the amount you spend (which can be used to buy more stash tab)

and are largely a way for you to, well, support the devs

its worked very well in poe1

[surreal frost]

Does the game support 21:9 ultrawide, at least 120 FPS? What about native HDR support?

[civic token]

I fixed it. For some reason I had to switch the scepter that had raise skeleton to my 2nd weapon slot instead of my 1st. Idk why but it worked

[final geyser]

Yes, yes, and yes.

I play in HDR, on an ultrawide with 21:9 at 120fps, all of those work well

[vale falcon]

microtransactions represent 70% (or more depending on your source) of digital game revenue generated globally. While these stats are taking all microtransactions from all games this is still significant

Even though not all of that 70% is cosmetic items just look at DOTA2. The entire tournament system is crowd funded via battle pass and cosmetic item purchases. We're talking over $800 million according to their latest revenue reports. The cosmetic marketing model doesn't work for all games but considering the number of visuals in POE2 I think they'll be fine ;)

[unreal scroll]

Hello i need help

I can't load Frozen bolt

I have all the attributes requirement ( Str and dex), i have a crossbow too

But the shortcut with X is grey, i can't use it

Do you know why?

I the menu i don't have any clue on what could be the probleme

Thanks in advance

[hardy sun]

Not sure what you're seeing. I know I've had a few glitches for abilities. Somehow that specific gem gets glitched, if it allows me to equip it to ability slots, it won't be able to go onto hotbar. Tooltip info gets blanked out, no data available for that ability. Making a new skill with a new uncut gem seems to work. But not sure of your specific thing

[unreal scroll]

I think you're right
I made a new ability gem and for that new gem i don't have the attribute requirement (i miss 5 Str)

When i make i new gem but lower lvl all is good

Maybe item glitch that make me think i can equip but not use

Anyway thanks for your help

[queen heath]

Do you guys know if an ingenuity belt will boost ALL affixes from your rings, or just certain affixes, like offensive ones ?

[final geyser]

All affixes

[queen heath]

Ok thank you. Isn't that broken ?

[final geyser]

It can be very powerful, but I wouldn't say it's broken

[lament stone]

it only affects your left and right ring (not 3rd ring from ritualist) and each slot has a separate roll from 20-30%

so its still good if you need to boost certain mods on your ring and theres no useful belt mods for your build, but its not just always bis like it was before 0.2

[dreamy flame]

How much health and energy shield should infernal witch have in Cruel?
I have 850 health and 100 energy shield and I get two shot on the regular.

[real solstice]

That’s kinda low

You should have at least 1000 - 1,500 shield

[lament stone]

you also need elemental resists

[dreamy flame]

that one is 75%

[dreamy flame]

yeah rip. bit of a glass cannon

[real solstice]

Most int based items bring a lot of ES

[dreamy flame]

probs a build issue yeah

[real solstice]

That’s the thing in the end you’ll be playing with all your build (taking out passive tree most of the time) to get good es/ev and resistances

You should also look into subfutage mask as something to annoit on your necklace/amulet later on

If you’re missing evasion

[lament stone]

that completely depends on what kind of build youre going for

if you cant get any % evasion nodes on the tree then its just not worth using evasion gear because youre not going to have a useful amount

[feral stratus]

is 1.0 the patch where poe2 will be free?

[final geyser]

Most likely yes, as that will be the full release of the game.

[polar night]

Hi 🙂 Why can't I remove a skill called "spear throw" out of my skillbar? I'm not using it and it gives me no option at all to remove it?

[final geyser]

It's from your Spear. When you say skill bar, do you mean the bar at the bottom, where you assign skills? It should just be possible to assign another skill to a given button, or remove it outright. If you mean the Skill panel, it's granted implicitly by Spears and can only be removed by not using a Spear - it doesn't take up any skill slots, so it's not really an issue to have it even if you don't use it.

[polar night]

Aah so I have to un-equip my spear first so it removes the skill, then fill the empty space up and then equip my spear again?

[final geyser]

No, if you want to assign a different skill to the button, you should just be able to do so at any point, and it's not occupying any space in the Skills panel, it's just free.

[polar night]

Gotcha, I just have to drag over the skill with another skill then. I'm so used to drag out and in that I dont know how it works for passive added things. Tysm!

[lament stone]

you can click on the skill on the skill bar and click the X to remove it

[polar night]

Aahh I thought it would consume a skill row spot thing, but that was not the case

Cant tell if its a long scrollbar next to it

I have a 1000 more questions, but guess I will just fail and ruin items to find out since it's beta anyways haha

[junior spindle]

Where is the block gage to say when my block will brake?

[lament stone]

above your flasks, its only for active block its for heavy stun build up, only active block contributes towards that, not passive block

[polar night]

Is this game bugged why can't I get more ascendency points? Im doing lvl 60+ almost lvl 70+ trials, chaos and I'm hard stuck at only 2 passive points?

[final geyser]

Only 2? That's definitely not right, are you actually going through them in full and clicking on the altar at the end to receive your points? For Trial of the Sekhemas, you need to complete additional floors to get the next set of points, for Trial of Chaos you need to progress through 7 and then 10 rooms, then fight the Trialmaster through the door at the end for the last set.

[polar night]

Yes I did multiple 7 trials and the altar stays grey all the time 😦

[lament stone]

only 2 total? did you not do sekhemas?

even then with a 7 round trial of chaos that should put you at least at 4 points

[polar night]

Yeah I did multiple times the upgraded versions of sekhemas and chaos still stuck at 2 points

My quest seems bugged because it says I need to speak to Zarka about ascending powers but she does nothing the quest stays there forever

[lament stone]

if youre talking about cruel act 2 thats not supposed to exist

[final geyser]

If that's in Normal, did you not pick up the quest version of the Barya dropped from Balbala, in the Traitor's Passage?

[lament stone]

it shouldnt affect your points

if that was in normal they wouldnt be able to access the trial of sekhemas zone at all

[polar night]

Ah yeah I get automaticly teleported to normal, but still

[lament stone]

you sure you only have 2 points and its not just that youve forgotten to allocate anything?

[polar flicker]

Can somebody join me and help with Boss from act 1

[polar night]

Idk I will just repeat it again I guess, but stuck for days at this point maybe I'm doing something wrong idk

[polar night]

Sure bro I will dm you

[polar flicker]

King

[hardy pine]

I just downloaded poe2 and am about to start… is it…?

[dusky burrow]

is what

[trim turret]

Is it what?

[twin terrace]

It's pain

[real solstice]

It’s making my life instilled in suffering and pain cuz of my terrible rng

Rngesus not with me today

Rngesus has forsaken me, second citadel in 10 mins

[twin terrace]

Is it just my skill issue or do melee classes feel weak compared to things like ranger and sorcerer got

I was getting my ass beat on both warrior and monk in campaign

Then played Ranger and it's night and day

[final geyser]

Not necessarily, especially in the campaign. My easiest runs of it (note that I don't use the common levelling tech of Rake Stomp, so I play 'on theme' most of the time) have been with Warrior/Mace, since it often just crushes stuff without too much issue

It can depend on how you play and what skills you choose, I'd imagine

[weary matrix]

Hi,
Total noob here, don't want to dive too deep into the passives etc. Just wanna turn of my brain and slay.
I want to try the huntress, what is the best leveling guide and/or best build atm for starters?

[naive oak]

Hello, I beat Xesht T4 for the first time with an expired timer, is this normal ?

[final geyser]

Wrong channel for endgame questions, but it is apparently possible to do so.

[naive oak]

Oups, thanks !

Maybe a bug because the timer is a bit useless otherwise

[final geyser]

It's probably a bug, yes.

[trim turret]

Best is subjective but you can find some on maxroll probably.

[hardy pine]

How do I check an items price it’s going for on tm? I know on PoE1 it was L3+Triangle

[lament stone]

i dont know if the ingame trade market exists for consoles in poe2 because of crossplay

[hardy pine]

Ohhh rip

[real solstice]

Not yet

[wispy sand]

is there a channel to submit bugs/feeback for POE2? Im sure maybe some of the ones I see have been reported by now but I just noticed a couple things

[spice pagoda]

Official forums have a bug reporting channel

[muted tide]

DM I will help you in game

[wispy sand]

Is boneshatter warrior still a usable build? Is there a best website for poe2 builds?

[wild depot]

what is leech based on in poe 2? Maximum life or damage dealt?

[final geyser]

Damage dealt

[final geyser]

It is, and many people recommend https://maxroll.gg/poe2

[timber sable]

Anyone speed-running through the campaigns atm?

[twin terrace]

Is anyone else getting random disconnects?

[real cypress]

act 3 cruel. i cant find this damn couldren in filth for the damn life of me!!!!!!

[final geyser]

It only gives you two flasks, so don't worry about missing it, you only need the boss.

[real cypress]

fair

[wild depot]

can you import char from game to pob or still not?

[dusky burrow]

yeah you can

go into pob and it will have a link account option

[wild depot]

thanks

[bronze stump]

if my socket bridges look like this and i place an active gem in the top left and a support gem in the bottom left, will the effects of the support gem apply?

[final geyser]

https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/509514642826199063

But also, yes, supports apply to all linked skill gems, otherwise a six link item would be no different from a three link.

[bronze stump]

awesome

[delicate nimbus]

Havent played in months - what builds/classes are kicking ass these days

[candid parrot]

Sorry wrong discord lmao

[thorn kindle]

Hey guys,
I want to play with a friend. He has a rtx 3060, and an i5 12400f. The frames seem to be locked at 20 when using DirectX 12. With DirectX 11 he gets more frames but they are incredebly inconsistent. It stutters a lot. Has anybody had the same problem?

[trim turret]

Enable the metrics with f1 and see where it's choking out. Or try vulkan.

[thorn kindle]

Vulkan is pretty much the same as dx12

[final geyser]

Seems like there's some kind of major GPU bottleneck, not sure it should be that bad though. Does this happen outside of town as well?

[ornate oxide]

In this campaign I no longer see a counter tracking tiers of maps completed. The only quest I see is Complete a tier 3+ corrupted Nexus. Is the framework to still clear each increasing map level?

[final geyser]

Sounds like a #2┃after-acts-help question

But also, no, the quest telling you to complete Corrupted Nexuses is how you get more points now.

[ornate oxide]

Thanks

[thorn kindle]

it happens outside of town as well.

[final geyser]

Strange. What kind of settings is your friend using? Maybe they've set Shadows and GI to Ultra or something, that is known to be incredibly heavy on GPU

[thorn kindle]

changing settings does not do anything to the framerate unfortunately. We tested everything.

It is really strange to me too

After a restart Dx 11 seems to work better, but it is still rather strange. with a 3060 you shouldn't get such bad results normally

[final geyser]

DX12 should be the better option for a 3060, but something is weird there

[thorn kindle]

it is so weird 😄

[final geyser]

Could you also ask them to press Alt+R to get the NVIDIA overlay for performance? It can show stuff like GPU clock speed and what not, maybe for whatever reason the GPU is just running at a minimum

[thorn kindle]

weird

[final geyser]

I think there's a way to enable more info, I forget where exactly. I think it's Alt+Z, then Statistics at the bottom (but I may have rebound some things, not too sure)

[thorn kindle]

yeah, just found it. He is not a computer expert. he has to take his time 😄

[wicked jay]

so when starting a explosion chain in an expedition etc., do the bonuses apply to the first monsters already or do you have to wait for the chain to explode for the bonuses to apply

[final geyser]

Given Expedition is only a thing in endgame at the moment, https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1308714975082053693

[thorn kindle]

Unfortunatly it is in german 😄 but maybe it could help anyway

[final geyser]

But also, it applies from that pack onwards, so the first explosion will only be affected by Remnants from there, not any of the subsequent explosions, assuming I'm not mistaken.

[wicked jay]

thanks, that sucks :S really boring to wait at the end for the chain to end

[final geyser]

Seems like it's running within the expected range, so it isn't that. How odd.

[cerulean zephyr]

there is no advantage to waiting. as Fairshadow mentioned the modifiers from subsequent remnants will never apply to monsters unearthed by previous explosions, even if you do wait.

[final geyser]

Good morning Viper! For some reason, I wasn't able to confirm it on the wiki, so I had to refer back to the Expedition announcement stream to double check xd

But anyway, not a campaign thing (yet, until Act 4 comes out possibly)

[tribal badge]

where to check current act 3 boss race ladder

[dusky burrow]

late but https://pathofexile2.com/ladder/Act 3 Boss Kill Race S2R1

[wild depot]

is that graphical lag? I lag when hit lands on me or enemy

[final geyser]

Press F1 and you can check what happens when it lags. Could be something on the GPU or CPU, could be a network issue somehow, hard to say without seeing the details.

[wild depot]

I switched to dlss and seems fine now, will see how it goes

according to F1 it seems like cpu getting lag spikes

[final geyser]

Could be shader compilation stuff, though that should go away after a while.

[wild depot]

only happens when moving to area that wasn't discovered on map, fighting is fine

[wild depot]

solved it, by turning off hyperthreading

[kind crest]

Stupid question about Raging Spirits. If it converts 70% of physical damage to fire. Why don't the build scale any physical damage?

[final geyser]

That should generally not be a good idea, what CPU are you using?

[final geyser]

For one, it's a Minion, so only things that affect Minion damage would have any effect. Second of all, damage only receives the increases that apply to its final damage type. Therefore, out of the 100% of initial Physical damage, only 30% would be affected by increases to Physical damage. Between (Minion) Physical and (Minion) Fire damage, increasing Fire damage would be more effective.

[kind crest]

I was just trying to figure out if I have 0% physical damage (witch with Sceptre) how they are converting 70% of 0 physical damage. reading the gem again, it seems like I am scaling everything off 0 damage to start.

[lament stone]

minions have their own base damage

[final geyser]

The base damage comes from the Minion skill itself, like Spells, they don't deal damage based on the weapon they're used with.

[kind crest]

thanks, I was wondering if that is why I wasn't killing as fast. I couldn't see anything saying that it does a base of xx - xx damage, and then that scaled.

[lament stone]

are you scaling minion damage?

[kind crest]

Yes, following the guide to the exact letter (or as well as I can with not finding all the gear in the camapign, or on trade side for less than 20+ exalts)

Just hit Act III in cruel, swapping gems now, tryign to get back to 75 elem resists also.
It isn't super slow kills, just not fast

[compact wraith]

Hi, I am starting very late to this PoE2 late, any fast builds with lazy gameplay you can recommend? thanks a lot!

[stable ginkgo]

Any lightning arrow or lightning spear build is really good for starting out

[nova spruce]

Second trial of sekhemas, do I need to complete the 3 trials to get the points ? Interacting here doesn't work (points 5-6)

I just killed the twin boss (second trial)

[final geyser]

Have you completed a Trial of Chaos before doing this one? If yes, then you'll need to complete the next floor to earn more, if not, then it should be giving you points here.

[nova spruce]

Yes I have 4 points atm, 2 from the first sekhemas and 2 from the first 4 floors of chaos. So third trial it is ~~

[final geyser]

If you check the tooltip for ascendancy points, it explains how those are broken down. The second (of four) set of points is rewarded by Floor 2 of Sekhemas and 4 rooms of Chaos, so if you've already received it, the other Trial won't give additional points, so third floor is where you need to reach for the next set.

[nova spruce]

I think I was hyped to see the glowing altar saying "interact for points", perhaps it shouldn't glow when we can't gain more points

[final geyser]

It is also available to swap your ascendancy around, though they could change the tooltip in those cases.

[fading radish]

Anyone doing ascendancy carries?

[final geyser]

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

[nova spruce]

What runes do you put into a scepter ? I can't find anything to put in. Also what does quality do to a scepter ?

[azure lava]

Quality on a scepter grants quality to its innate skill. Hold alt over the skill to see what quality does for it

And as for what runes, it depends on your build and what you want

[nova spruce]

I mean I can't seem to even move a rune from inventory to the scepter, any rune should work ?

[azure lava]

Does your scepter have a socket?

[nova spruce]

yes

[azure lava]

Idk if runes can go in scepters now that I think about it. Can you screenshot a rune?

[nova spruce]

For instance

scepter has socket

but I couldn't find something to put inside

[lament stone]

only talismans can be socketed into sceptres

not runes or soul cores (currently)

and basically all the talisman sceptre mods are for allies

[nova spruce]

huh thanks, so where do I find talismans though

oh

or I don't need to if it's only for allies

[lament stone]

from the enemies affected by spirits

there is one talisman mod that gives % increased spirit, but its very rare and as a result, very expensive

[nova spruce]

I still haven't seen any talisman despite following the spirits, was I blind

[lament stone]

theyre just rare to begin with

[fading radish]

How do you get ultimatums that give ascendancy points?

All the ones I have say they do not grant

[final geyser]

You need ones with more rooms, for that you just need to reach higher level zones until Ultimatums with enough rooms start dropping.

[azure lava]

Pic might be outdated in terms of levels, but that's the idea

[fading radish]

I’m literally at area lvl 65+ and the one that dropped said lvl 66 but it won’t give me points…

I’m doing t5 maps right now

[half vigil]

uhm guys which one's better?

[opaque flare]

guys if i buy all levelling gear how long would it take to do the campaign

i got like 5 div to use

[south sparrow]

I'm not sure why this game drains my cpu so bad. I'm way above the recommended min cpu. I have i7 6 core (12 logical) and when mobs spawn it's just super lag due to cpu maxed. I had all graphic settings at min too. What I finally did is used reduced resolution in windows mode and capped frame rate at 60. Now it's much better, but still happens with big mobs.

[wild depot]

It turned off hyper threading, graphic setting still at max, but getting cpu spikes periodically even if afking

[south sparrow]

hmm, I haven't tried turning off hyper, but that should make it worse not better. still I'll try it out.

[wild depot]

good luck

[final geyser]

It's certainly not recommended, especially on newer systems.

[wild depot]

I have i9-9900K, but heard amd cpus are even worse with this

[south sparrow]

well, my system is about 5 years old so I guess if you are having issues with i9 I should expect issues.

[wild depot]

also getting crashes sometimes, but thanks god game pauses and recovers in seconds

yes, my one is 5 years old, too

[south sparrow]

even starting the game it's ka,ka,ka,ka,ka

[wild depot]

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3606992 found this thread, they recommed to change global and trade channel to some less frequent one

going to check it out

[south sparrow]

I always have everything off except whispers and local

[wild depot]

yes, they said it does even if it's hidden

looks like my cpu no longer spikes, even turn HT on

[south sparrow]

so what exactly do you do besides turning off global?

[wild depot]

only changed chat channel to some like 100+

for trade and global chat

[wild depot]

only changed global and trade chat channel to random 100+ channel

[south sparrow]

what is 'random 100+ channel'?

[wild depot]

just pick number of channel that no one use

right click chat channel and change and enter number you like

[autumn ermine]

Could anyone tell me what the dawn of the hunt league is when creating a character. Does it have different content?

[final geyser]

Dawn of the Hunt and Standard have the same content, but Dawn of the Hunt is a fresh(er) economy that started with 0.2 and is more active than Standard as well. If you are planning on trading with other players, picking Dawn of the Hunt is highly recommended.

[autumn ermine]

oke thanks

but if I want to play with earlier characters I am in a different league or so

[frail geode]

There is only ever 1 active league, when the league ends, all the characters and items migrate to standard.

[autumn ermine]

ahh oke

[frail geode]

Standard will eventually be a dumping ground for all your characters and items.

[autumn ermine]

these leagues are just the way poe works I guess?

[frail geode]

Most people would strongly recommend playing new leagues as they come out since the economy is fresh and everyone gets to experience same content at the same time.

[frail geode]

Yep

[tame mesa]

Leeds and fresh starting is a pretty standard ARPG format and formula. You have the standard league where all of your collections and fines start to gather so you can always play around with them if you want to, but you also have people who enjoy the fresh start and playing around with all of the new aspects of a new league and mechanics.

[frail geode]

League = New content and patch, normaly it would last for about 3 months, but with release of PoE 2 its kinda chatoic right now.

[autumn ermine]

oke makes sense now

thanks

[tame mesa]

Since the standard League is where your stuff starts to pile up, sometimes it can be fun to do something experimental in the standard League as a test run before trying it in a new fresh league. At least I did that sometimes in the original POE

[frail geode]

Just to add, this only works if the skill/items you're using are not going to be nerfed with a new patch.

No point trying out a new build in standard for a new league if that skill is going to be nerfed by a lot.

[wispy sand]

does move speed/map traversal for Warrior ever get better? I just got to Act 2 so im obviously really early but im wondering if my time is better spent rerolling a different class to be able to move across the map a lot faster than what I can do now

[frail geode]

Problem with PoE, especially for new players is that it's not always super obvious how massive a nerf can be.

Often times it may even seem* like a buff due to increased damage on the gem, but some other core aspect may affect the skill even more and be nerfed.

[trim turret]

Move speed doesn't really have anything to do with class and you should always be looking for move speed on your boots if nothing else.

[trim turret]

No way to answer that. Depends how you play, what build youre doing, etc.

[wispy sand]

i saw the thing about move speed, got that. but i guess mean the abilities i have so far dont really help me move around the map faster, so im wondering if other classes have better map traversal and abilities to move around the map faster

[trim turret]

Well every class has access to all of the skills. Warrior/mace has shield charge and leap slam, and those can feel decent once you get some speed. But there aren't inherent movement skills that some classes have that others dont.

Nothing to stop you from trying different weapon and skill types in your second weapon set also.

Which is how we end up with things like a warrior incendiary shot crossbow build.

[wispy sand]

ok

[rancid bridge]

hello people. i played stormweaver last season before i took a break. whats fun and/or good this season, what should i try?

[trim turret]

No way of knowing what you find to be fun. There are a lot of builds out there.

[azure lava]

This game is in its infancy. Check out poeninja, YouTube, or even just the skill video descriptions ingame. Find something that looks interesting to you and go with it

[quaint relic]

Need help with act 1 boss IGN Vexor_

[dusky burrow]

#2┃looking-for-group

[lament lotus]

Anyone mind running me through act 2 normal

[azure lava]

#2┃looking-for-group

[hidden steppe]

hello friends. i dont have much time to play but really wanna play from lvl 0 to beating the final arbiter boss. whats the best build to create from scratch now that the seasons been going on for a bit?

[spice pagoda]

Lightning Spear is kinda an easy build to get going, but you should play what you think is most fun rather than chasing some meta that doesn't even really exist

[queen heath]

How much %rarity of items found is good, and how much is considered excellent? I mean as a sum for all your gear

[daring dragon]

Unless they changed things 150% is where you begin to get heavy diminishing returns so that's enough for the average player.

[feral stratus]

are all the new support gems, unique items, and balance changes also on the standard league?

[final geyser]

Yes

Dawn of the Hunt didn't come with a league mechanic, so all content is currently core content, meaning it's present in Standard and the current league.

[feral stratus]

does standard league ever get an economy reset or will prices always stay this expensive (or get worse)?

wait nvm its not too bad, i was looking at something different

[meager galleon]

standard never got an economy reset in poe1 since release

[final geyser]

Standard never gets economy resets, since the only way that could happen is with a wipe. The only time that will (sort of) occur is once the game exits Early Access, as the current Standard will be changed to an 'Early Access' league, and a new Standard will take its place.

[queen heath]

Alright, so if I'm at 180% without sacrificing DPS for now it's fine ? I'm still in campaign cruel

[crystal kestrel]

lol

rofl

gg

[final geyser]

Do you have any questions, or are you just sending random messages?

[lunar sparrow]

where do i find the relics in cruel act 2?

[craggy gyro]

in the dungeon

[azure lava]

What relics? The kabala and sun relics? Kabala is in keth, sun is in the bone pits

They're drops from random mobs

[worn grotto]

hello i can't stab runick spike because lewyn how can i helllpo

[remote sail]

Sorry if this isn't the right place, but not sure where else to put it: My shield charge bugs out a lot. When it's bugged, the ability shows as off cooldown, but pressing the associated hotkey does nothing. I have to unequip the skill gem and re-equip it to be able to use the ability again -- even changing the ability to another hotkey doesn't fix it. Any ideas on what could be causing this?

Mostly curious if this is user error or if the ability is bugged (haven't seen any other mention). If it matters, I'm playing a deadeye (str breakpoints for shield charge are met).

[azure lava]

Can you ask again in a more coherent fashion? Based on what I think you're asking, it sounds like you need to either get more runic pieces from the red vale, or go to town and talk to the blacksmith

[azure lava]

What supports are on shield charge?

Also if you cut a new shield charge does it give the same bug? Have you tried dropping it and picking it up again?

[remote sail]

No supports on charge
Haven't tried cutting a new one, wasn't sure if it would fix anything (if the ability was bugged) but I can try that.
Haven't tried dropping/picking up for the same reason, but will try.

[echo adder]

anyone willing to help me finish acts cruel. Im @ end of act 3 normal

[dusky burrow]

#2┃looking-for-group

[primal zinc]

hi friendos - can twister fork?

[trim turret]

I think so. Not 100% though.

[weary osprey]

it has 100% built-in pierce

you'll have to get it into more whirlwinds

for example, whirlwind lance split by a tornado shot

[versed chasm]

Hows the game looking now? better then when the big patch came out?

[dusky burrow]

yes

significantly better

[versed chasm]

I just installed D4 and then found out they have no SSF 😮 so I uninstalled and want to come back to POE 😄

[languid snow]

Any word on when the next giga patch is dropping

[dusky burrow]

"giga" like dawn of the hunt kind of size?

like 1.5 months for something like that at minimum

[languid snow]

naw i just mean like the big rarity change patch this season or somethin

[dusky burrow]

we're probably not getting some quite as significant as that until next league

but we will get a relatively sizeable patch next week

see https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3784835

[feral stratus]

whats the best merc asccendancy right now?

[trim turret]

Depends on the build. There isnt one that is blanket best.

[feral stratus]

alright ty

[nova moss]

Haha, PoE2.

[vestal lichen]

Türk var mı orb satan

[versed pine]

Hello world! Please tell me, when do level 2 support gems start dropping?

[lament stone]

end of act 2

[versed pine]

After Jamanra?

[lament stone]

after jamanra is act 3

oh, drop level is higher than i remember

35, so early act 3

[versed pine]

And where do level 7 skill gems drop?

Because I have a lot of levels 6 and 8, but not a single level of the seventh.

[lament stone]

around 22

[trim turret]

Why do you need a level 7 specifically?

[versed pine]

Detonate Dead To get this stone

[trim turret]

It can be higher than level 7 if that's the minimum level that is required. It doesn't have to be level 7 specifically.

[versed pine]

I don't have enough intelligence yet)

Level 8 requires 61

[trim turret]

Well that's a lot easier to fix than farming a specific level of skill gem. Change some of your attribute nodes to intelligence if you have to.

[versed pine]

Probably I will do so

[wild notch]

this is my monthly check-in to see if duelist/swoards have been announced yet. i don't think so right?

since hunt just came out like what, a few weeks back

[dire spindle]

nah waiting on shadow first

[wild notch]

ok cool thanks

[thin helm]

Hello. Going to do my 3 rd character. I want to speed run the champaign. Do i have to kill all the "rare bosses" that are highlighted on the map and that do not give anything like passives and are not for the mission?

[daring dragon]

Nope

[thin helm]

Ok. Thanks.

[unreal lichen]

HI, can someone help me to understand something ?
I'm invoker lvl63 I'm at act 3 cruel, and I still dont understand why I can almost stand still against main campaign bosses but dying in less than 1sec if there is 3/4 trash around me ...
I got 75 fire, 67 light/cold res but only 7 chao, but I dont think they are doing chao damage, and it was the same all along my leveling

And i'm a total noob to the game, first experience in poe ^^

[spice pagoda]

Campaign bosses are dangerous because they might 1-shot you. White mobs are dangerous because they can attack a whole bunch in a short amount of time if you're surrounded

So if your build is good against 1-shots but bad against a lot of smaller hits, that explains it

[unreal lichen]

I use the maxroll falling thunder build

t'es fr ? ^^

I've 1.2k life and only 82energy , maybe its very low for my lvl ?

[spice pagoda]

us but I understand French. I don't know that build so can't comment on what it's good against. 1.3k total hit pool is pretty low though yeah

[azure lava]

You're in act 3 cruel with only 1.2k life? That's probably why

Also make sure your boots have movement speed and your life flask has two beneficial mods and is up to date

Your life flask is one of your strongest defensive tools in the campaign

[unreal lichen]

got this, but yeah i've mostly focus on caping res atm ^^

[unreal lichen]

how can I get some stuff to improve my max life ? cause I rlly cant go any further, in the black chamber 2 mob and i'm done that's feel horrible ><

[dire spindle]

check out the trade market and look for things that have +life +the armour/es/ev you need and some res to them

like my items only give 1500 hp but i got 8k ES

[unreal lichen]

Yeah I'll check it, but i've only few hours on poe world actually, I dont think i've currency to buy stuff xD

I did my way to the final boss, about 15 times dead all the way, and easy 15sec first try bosse ><
still feel weird to get instant kill by trash and not by bosse

do there is a way to target farm special type of item ? like helm, armor ring ..

[south sparrow]

check venders and trade site

Every time you level up the venders update their stuff.

[azure lava]

There's a gearing guide in #1308715317375270952 you can check out. It's mostly just looking for gear with life on it

Also if you have extra dex or int you don't need, you can swap it to strength for more life

[unreal lichen]

Yeah i've swap some stuff, got less res 50% average but a bit more a life and shield

still a bit weak but I can easy destroy mobs, I can do some map now to try get some stuff ^^

at what lvl we drop jewel orb 5 ?

[unreal scroll]

Hello 🙂 have a problem. I came with a Friend for my ascendancy but when i try to pass the gâte the game load infinitly.
I closed the game and restart and it says: error, impossible to join an instance

Does somebody had that problem before and how to fix it?

Thank in advance

[spice pagoda]

Chaos or Sekhema?

[spice pagoda]

Perfect Jewelers? Almost any, they're just very very rare

[lament stone]

they have a drop level of 65

[royal nexus]

Is there any way to de-level a skill gem? I upgraded a gem and now it's more mana-intensive than I want

[trim turret]

Not currently.

[royal nexus]

Drat

OK thank you!

[south sparrow]

You can craft a new one at a lower level.

[royal nexus]

Yeah, but it doesn't have the extra support gem sockets

[frozen igloo]

do i need to kill the trial of sekhmas girl 2nd time around or just ignore her?

[hybrid star]

you can ignore

[feral stratus]

Other than economy reset, is there any difference between standard and the hunt rn?

[mystic shale]

Does anybody know what the megalomaniac droprate is for t3 simulacrum ?

[azure lava]

There is not

[daring dragon]

#2┃after-acts-help

[azure lava]

#2┃after-acts-help

[primal lodge]

Thos game is EXTREMELY boring to level up

[daring dragon]

For chit chat go to #2┃general

[narrow nebula]

Geonor 180 frost attack, I don't see a cue for when he's about to do it, or am I totally blind

[marble trench]

might be an audio cue

sometimes their voice lines with indicate an attack, if its deadly it usually is also accompanied with a red glowy pulse

[hybrid star]

the cue is 0.1 second before

[trim turret]

Get some cold res so even if you do get hit you have a better chance of surviving it.

[narrow nebula]

I've got a little bit, but i'll guess ill farm the candle guy some more

[trim turret]

Vendors also sell rings. And you can slap transmutes and augments on gear and hopefully get some life or resistances.

[narrow nebula]

Yea tried vendor nothing there useful

Ill level up to reset the vendor

Could be a build issue 1h +shield makes the fight pretty long

[feral stratus]

at what level can i take on the 7 level trial of chaos with relative ease? with gear worth 1-4 ex each

[hardy sun]

Proper builds or type of build matters too. There's no set rule. Sometimes, with strong builds you can be at the level or lower than and able to clear. With weak gear, may need extra 5 levels or more, lots of unknowns

Map level is decent guideline to what your build can handle. If you're clearing level xx maps easily or struggling, that let's you know what you can clear

[lament stone]

your level doesnt directly affect your damage or survivability

only what gear you can equip and how many skill points you have

[narrow nebula]

Stacked up cold to 26% much easier 🙂

[azure mauve]

He does after running while charging with his sword out. Its a blind charge and he wont hit you if you are not trying to get hit. When he stops his charge he turns around and slices. Thats the telegraph. hope this helps

[granite oasis]

Not entirely true. Your base evasion and life for example scale with your level.

[wise crag]

Hi! I started playing today and Im at about level 20 (act 2)
Ive been running into some mild issues and im not sure how to confront them. For context, my file is a witch and i use a skeleton summoning scepter + a chaos-attack wand. Whilst I did decent or outright broken (imo) damage in act 1, act 2 has been a bit of struggle!

Im not quite sure how I should confront it. I've tried increasing the amount of minions I have (from 2 skellies, to 5 skellies and 10 bone scorpions) but it doesnt seem to work well, and Im struggling badly
Any suggestions/advice would be appreciated (Also if you use any terminology or abbrevioations theres a 99% chance i wont know what it means so feel free to explain those)

[spice pagoda]

A2 is definitely a difficulty spike. Are your skill gems up to date in terms of level?

[hybrid star]

use essence drain/contagion skill gem to damage and minions for meat shield (the chaos attack from wand kinda ass)

take the spell damage passives near your starting area

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

[trim turret]

What are you investing in on your tree? Are you getting damage-oriented support gems on your skills? You usually dont want to split yourself up too much so you will end up wanting to focus on chaos spells or minions.

[azure lava]

What support gems are you using on your skills? Damage in poe comes mostly from your passive tree, your weapon, and your support gems.

If your scepter is old and/or has bad mods (mods that add flat damage to minions or grant +level of minion skills are very good), check the vendors in town for upgrades.

I'd also give the campaign gearing guide in #1308715317375270952 a read.

If you post a screenshot of your passive tree I might be able to help you save some points or optimize.

Also, a wand isn't really doing much for you. If you're going summons, I'd recommend a shield to go with your scepter.

If you're unsure about how your skills scale, keep in mind you can hold alt and click on any underlined keyword to read more about how it works.

A common pitfall I see new player stumble into is trying to do too many things at once. Witch is advertised as this class that can do chaos magic, minions, curses, etc. But trying to do everything isn't going to end well.

It sounds like you're more into minions, so if you have any skills like contagion, essence drain, etc, then I'd maybe take those out and focus in on the minion skills and looking for gems to supplement them

Also, did you complete the king in the mist quest in the Freythorn zone in act 1? It gives you +30 maximum spirit and a spirit gem

[hybrid star]

I would go against full minions at this level tho. They have high spirit cost and die too easily. Damage is also low, and the only thing that can do reasonable damage is their active skills, but that makes you a caster anyway.

[azure lava]

I mean, it's their first time playing. They have no reference point. Now is the best time for them to play a build like that imo

I'm fairly certain you can get through the campaign with 100% minions

We have way more variables to check before we jump to "don't play minions"

[hybrid star]

I meant this, not "don't play minions", then swap to full minions later.

Early on minions are just too weak, and you can't summon a lot of them (whoever makes spirit cost scale down with levels)

And when they are dead you are basically running around naked for a few seconds xd

[azure lava]

Well, they said it was working fine in act 1, so I imagine they'll be fine if they get their +30 spirit, solid supports, a decent scepter, and/or leveled gems

[wise crag]

I kind of prefer contaigon because its funny and it lags me less than spamming minions somehow - so any advise on running that would be fun
I can agree with Lotte minions on their own dont really do well - the reason i use them is mainly because I can stack contaigon on enemies and my funny skeletons will murder them for me (as my aim is terrible) and alongside that, they can clog doorways so I can safely shoot into a room and force a good majority of the opposition to sit patiently behind 5 bags of bones.

My wand is surprisingly my biggest damage output atm surprisngly - this is my skill tree
Theres a lot of minion boosts but even in spite of that they dont hit too hard - though I recently upgraded them to level 7 and they're doing a tad bit better, like actually killing things on their own now.

The tactic has worked for the most part except when it comes to bosses. Since my bone scorpions require nearby corpses, a lot of bosses evade m scorpions (no corpses nearby), and my skeletons just kinda sit there doing 1 damage per hit. It leaves me with my wand and a dream which isnt a great match up against the more undodgable opponents in act 2.

[lament stone]

you want to avoid loops in the tree where possible

and not take multiple paths from the start

the power you get from notables is much better than small nodes

with nodes in general being much stronger towards the outer edge of the tree

[trim turret]

Yeah your goal isn't to fill in the entire tree as you go. You want as few small nodes as possible and to just take the larger nodes that apply to the build you're trying to assemble.

[wise crag]

Im seeing, Im pondering
I wanna go mainly spell casting / Contaigon spam, I suppose the wand Ive been using isnt peak - what weapon (at this point in the game) would yall recommend?

(early act 2 for context)

[trim turret]

Still a wand, with mods that would affect contagion. Spell damage, chaos damage, +level to chaos/spell skills, faster casting.

Pretty sure there's a contagion and essence drain lich build on maxroll if you want to look at it or use it for inspiration. Just to get a feel for what a tree and gear EVENTUALLY looks like.

[lament stone]

it is a leaguestarter

[wise crag]

Sure! Though I dont know what a leaguestarter or maxroll is >_>

[trim turret]

Maxroll is a website. League starters are builds that dont require you to have items saved up already.

[wise crag]

🤔

[lament stone]

this is not a trading server

[pallid orchid]

Ok mb

[final geyser]

More importantly, even if we allowed trade, the campaign help channel wouldn't be the right place for it.

[wise crag]

Im having a tiny bit of a difficult time finding this myself - I did find one lich build but its got items ive never seen before - or at least yet

[trim turret]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/build-guides/essence-drain-lich-build-guide

It has passive trees and gem setups for various stages and tells you roughly what to look for in items. During the campaign that is basically just gear with life and resistances. And a weapon that benefits your main skills.

[wise crag]

tysm!

[azure lava]

You can remove all those red nodes and keep your tree intact

Idk if those are the ones you want, but they're unnecessary at the very least

[wise crag]

how do you get the intelligence points to equip things without it?

[trim turret]

Natural travel through the tree when moving to your next big nodes.

Sometimes on gear.

[wise crag]

Also! Probably one of the final few questions but what does the "Removes 15% of life recovered from mana" mean? my brain wont wrap around the concept/words well 😭

[final geyser]

It means that if it was to recover 100 Life, it would remove 15 Mana on use.

[wise crag]

hmmm not very epic...

i mean its fine at this point in the game but later on not so much

[final geyser]

The upside is that the Life recovered goes up quite a bit, so it's a question of whether you're able to handle the Mana costs. Some can, some go for Keystones like Blood Magic to not worry about Mana at all, at which point this becomes a free upside, and so on.

[wise crag]

Ohhh I see, i might look into that a bit later then, because right now its just a free buff (since i barely use any mana atm)

its my best flask i think?

[azure lava]

If you're just above level 23, then probably yes. That "66% increased life recovered" line is part of the same mod as "removes 15% of life recovered from mana"

[wise crag]

I assume the 25% increased charges only applies to the healing flask or does it apply to both flasks?

[azure lava]

Just that flask

That's why your flask states "10 of 93" charges near the top

The 93 in blue means it's being modified by an affix (aka mod) on the item

Same for the blue 564

[red lintel]

do any of the planners, sites or wikis let you sort a list of spells by cast time? atm i'm like.. hovering over every spell manually and it's kinda awful

[wise crag]

Im seeing, that helps a lot because i got so confused all the time

[azure lava]

Not that I know of. Are you looking for the longest or shortest one?

[red lintel]

shortest please
i saw marks at 0.5 and fusillade at 0.4, wondered if there was anything shorter/instant

[azure lava]

I don't know of any shorter than 0.4s off the top of my head.

[red lintel]

np, tks neway

[azure lava]

Lightning warp has 0.5s. Nifty. Didn't know that

Oh, incinerate has a cast time of 0.25s@red lintel

[red lintel]

ic ty

[azure lava]

Flameblast is 0.25s as well

Bonestorm is 0.12s

[red lintel]

channeling kinda awkward but maybe i can tap cast or something

[azure lava]

What are you trying to do, exactly?

[lament stone]

i wouldnt worry about the cast time of spells tbh, the ones with lower cast times are utility or channeling spells

[red lintel]

trying to find a spell that i can spam cast while moving, without impacting movement too much. it's probably fusillade? utility ok, dont care abt the damage. just needs to cost mana

[azure lava]

I mean, the spells are balanced with their cast time in mind so you're not going to do much if you're walking around and tapping a spell imo. Personally I'd recommend incinerate pathfinder. Just hold down the button and still move at a decent pace. Or just play pathfinder with anything. Pathfinder feels so good

[lament stone]

if you spam cast ember fusilade it wont actually fire off the projectiles

[red lintel]

yea

[lament stone]

the projectiles only fire after not casting for 1.3 seconds (with no less duration mods)

[red lintel]

sry ig this is more of a build q now, i was mostly just curious if there was a list cuz i was losing my mind lol.

but it's just for utility cuz whenever i spend mana, scold's pings me, n when i take dmg i get a charge. so i wanted to spam spells while moving to generate charges like how lclick vortex used to work in poe

[azure lava]

So it sounds like you're beyond #2┃new-player-in-campaign-help. I'd ask in #2┃build-planning or #2┃after-acts-help if your end goal is to utilize a scold's bridle

[craggy gyro]

Can someone help me, i am trying to use blasphemy on both weapon swaps. It will go active on weapon 2 but not weapon 1. both boxes are checked, when weapon 1 is equipped, it shows teh lil exclamation mark and says "missing socketed skill", i have 86 spirit in both weapon swaps. when it goes actove on the second, i can click the boxes for 1 and 2. but with weapon 1, it does not go active.

weapon 1 and 2 are both sceptres and shield. no addition spirit stuff. it just refuses to activate on weapon 1

[lament stone]

the socketed skill may be applying to only one weapon set

unsocket the skill from blasphemy and just put it in an empty slot to change the settings on the specific skill

idk what causes it

[craggy gyro]

When it IS active, i go and make sure both boxes are checked.....then weapon swap back, and it turns off, with teh lil exclamtion mark saying socketed skill is missing...

[craggy gyro]

will try that

my unique shield also stopped it animation the other day, when being raised. so i am doing a verify files check, almost done

[craggy gyro]

That worked! Thank you! Not sure why my shield animation no longer works....but least teh gems do

[gentle palm]

How do I socket a curse skill in blasphemy? I equip blasphemy then trying to place despair into it

[lament stone]

yes, you socket blasphemy in your skill menu then socket a curse into one of the sockets on blasphemy

[limpid wadi]

Hi is there a way to search for a specific fractured mod on the trade site? I can only see the pseudo

[half moon]

can you do sekhmas in group play?

[spice pagoda]

Yeah but it can be rough because anyone taking damage hits everyone's honor

[half moon]

Ho boy!

[lyric narwhal]

Ummm so I've been leveling a new char and I was in the past in act 3 cruel this morning, but now the stairs are flooded, the portal to the past is gone, and it says to enter the jungle ruins? Anybody know what's up with that?

I only played for like an hour this morning. The portal to the past was open last night and it seems like it reset the entire act 3

[zinc current]

hmm depends but i got hit by a server dc/reroll twice like 15 hours ago . could be that or something else

[lyric narwhal]

It's FOR SURE something else. Because two separate gaming sessions I had the portal to the past open

I was almost done

I beat viper, I sacrificed the heart. I still have all of the tree nodes I got

[unique escarp]

How do i fix the sudden drop in frame rate.. my pc specs can run 120+ fps but it suddenly drop to 14-18 is it server lag??

Gpu specs are 3060ti

[meager galleon]

poe is quite cpu intensive instead of gpu

you can press F1 ingame to open the performance metrics and see what is getting the most load

[unique escarp]

Got ut ill double check and come back here

Im having teouble with bosses due to sudden drops in frame rate

[unique escarp]

hii so i opened the in game menu apparently the network spikes from 13ms to 150+

[meager galleon]

try switching server on login

[meager galleon]

there have been some network issues since poe2 started, they talked about it in an recent interview, its cos they expanded to new datacenters and didnt quite smooth the networking out yet with ISPs

[unique escarp]

so regarding the issue on my suden frame rate drop during boss or mapping is not my pc fault right?

[meager galleon]

yeah, looks like its not fps drops but good old lag

[hybrid star]

there's some people mentioning global chat make their cpu and network spikes every time someone send a message

[pliant vigil]

So am I wasting my time playing on standard league?

I had a character that was low level from standard league but should I have deleted them and just played hunt? Is it better in some way?

[cedar oyster]

hunt economy is less inflated

everything on trade is cheaper

consequently makes building chars cheaper

[pliant vigil]

But if I normally play ssf is there any reason to do that?

Also there seems to be less people on standard and playing with people is one of the things I find fun. Guess I have to restart my witch for the 6th time.

[lament stone]

theres no exclusive league mechanics in hunt

so if you play ssf there is effectively no difference other than the layout of your atlas

[spring finch]

can someone please help me with temple of kopec act 6?

nvm

[dusty wind]

anyone want to help with 8 point for ascendancy standard

[final geyser]

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

[nimble fjord]

So I'm not a new player, I have 200h hours in POE2, but it's my first 0.2 character, and I'm getting wrecked. What happened?

I'm struggling so much on my warrior...

[dusk lily]

In maps or in acts?

Because I thought warrior has the easiest acts rn

[upbeat veldt]

Leveling a deadeye, is it a good idea to have both chain and fork on Lightning arrow?

[hybrid star]

I would say fork for clearing and chain for bossing (with rods)

[upbeat veldt]

isent it the other way around? chain get more aoe?

[nimble fjord]

acts, maybe I'm not speccing right, I just go boneshatter + herald of ashes primarily

[hybrid star]

chain reduces your damage by a half, you use chain to proc more rods
you need targets to fork, so it's better at clearing and useless for bossing

[trim turret]

How are your life and resists?

[azure lava]

I'd give the gearing guide in #1308715317375270952 a read.

There are a lot of factors. Movement speed on boots, how good your life flask is, how strong your weapon is, using proper support gems, getting enough life/resists on gear, using runes properly, pathing your tree efficiently, using synergistic skills, etc

Or you can skip all of that and use rake + stomping ground + brutality and win the first three acts (or more) with very little effort

[fringe rose]

what class should i pick for a good build (im thinking maybe summons)