📚┃off-topic

[astral slate]

but i don't think it's too late, i think it'll get to 150 within a year or 2, IF trump is able to pass his crypto legislation.

[hexed stream]

I think he can, dude's going to control both the gov and the congress, and JD Vance is also supportive of crypto

[astral slate]

my plan is to put half my xrp profits into DAG, a low-MC usa token that is used by the airforce once there are no tax penalties.

i think a ton of people will dump once they know they can take profit with no tax penalties.

so all this buildup just for that day.

it will keep building.

take out then, buy low and ride it all over.

[hexed stream]

my plan is a lil bit different, once the AI train runs its course, I'll take 75-80% profit out and into real estate, the remaining on usdt and wait for btc to retrace a bit to buy
idk, I feel that in a not far future, just owning 0.1 btc will really mean something

[astral slate]

why usdt? why not RLUSD? i hear usdt is being discontinued in the EU because they aren't fully backed, they don't have enough to cover if everyone pulls out.

but RLUSD just passed the new regulations so it means they're in much better standing.

[hexed stream]

still the biggest stablecoin though
or I can just directly swap from whatever alt to btc, coz I think when alts are at its peak for this season, alt vs btc ratio is decent

[astral slate]

alrighty, we all got our own ways

[hexed stream]

yeah, but all the best to us investors haha

[hexed stream]

correct amount

[astral slate]

ok boys this is getting kinda ridiculous

[narrow token]

I might be on board the poe2 hype train. I just hope I'm not too stupid to figure out this monster.

[cerulean sail]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/441293633963163668/1312862860128423986/December.mp4?ex=674e0a51&is=674cb8d1&hm=e8f1caa4f7104e1d7049f8f248d30021c4a704c27736a3d5c5d12aac415bc317&

[hexed stream]

why is ziggugat boss so hard, it's just katarina right?

[fierce moth]

I'm glad that all encounters in the end game GGG plan to add in poe 2 ea are what I have played so I don't have trouble to understand any gameplay. The only issue for me is how to create a right build of stormwaver to output powerful damage without losing any survivability.

I hope my experience on mage in le can help me boost up the speed to figure out what my build is in poe 2 ea of course

oh, this is a nice tip for me.

[viral galleon]

I haven't heard about claws returning, nice

[worn light]

can someone help me with lagon @ 200 corruption

stg i tried it 20+ times

[vagrant topaz]

@blissful token Hey! Quick question before I loose 200h doing this

[blissful token]

👀

[vagrant topaz]

I am very early in the game so maybe I havent unlocked it yet

Picture incoming

Do thoses bugs do smth ?

[blissful token]

Noh

[vagrant topaz]

Cool so I dont need to spend my times slaying them ^^

Or try to pick them up

[blissful token]

I dont think there is any achivement or some sort either

Purely ambient and background stuff

[vagrant topaz]

Cool thx ^^ You cant imagine how much time you saved me

[blissful token]

One thing i wanna know right off the bat but not sure if u reached it yet

Maybe i can ask another question prior to that

You dodger or parry in general?

You have to use both in this game, just curious about your preference in general

[hexed stream]

[vagrant topaz]

Blocker ^^
But to answer the question more of a dodge. Parrys timing is a thing I struggle a bit with

[blissful token]

Omegaclap

Cuz there is shield got blocker covered ^-^

Man i wish i can watch you play vladddd

Its a good game to show to kids too on a big TV hehe

[vagrant topaz]

I am about to walk the dog and have lunch but maybe I can stream it to you later if you would like?

[vagrant topaz]

I just got the Tower Shield (I believe), I think it's that one

Also I bumped the difficulty to 4/5, give me mercy I believe

[blissful token]

What a

[fierce moth]

!support

[devout ginkgo]

Need a hand? Just head on down to https://support.lastepoch.com/ for support articles or to reach out to us directly.

[distant raptor]

ngl if u held XRP for all these years u deserve some money, cause aint no way

[mental talon]

Ziz interview in an hour

[jade jackal]

Ziz and Jonathan?

Ive been trying not to think about PoE2, so time would not slow down

[mental talon]

Yep

[fierce moth]

Different famous streamers are trying to interview with Jonathan

The best way to get more reputations

The anniversary for his channel too... It's a wonderful day

[jade jackal]

I mean, this is Ziz

Jonathan giving those interviews is a smart thing

[ebon meadow]

yea ziz lives for PoE

[ebon meadow]

Probably the most person that gave the game downloads , guides and explanations than anyone out there

i play PoE thanks to him xdd and his old no life hours to xdd

a lot of drama going around , dont mind it unless u know the person that envolved with it

internet be internet

[stone arch]

dont forget Kripp

[hexed stream]

man, will I live to see xrp flipping eth

[fierce moth]

Oh nice, we can pre-downloading the client so we doesn't need to wait after ea is live

[hexed stream]

did they say when exactly? only 3.5 days left

[fierce moth]

Attached local time for us this time

[hexed stream]

100gb goes brrrr

[fierce moth]

😄 I'll be fine

🤭 Artwork showcase channel is available in poe's server. Ok it's a good news

[fierce moth]

🤭 I never know who's game director in GGG until he is active on different interviews of poe 2

[tawny sand]

if it's truly 100gb, my download will last longer than before the game launches lol

the download will go pass lol

[fierce moth]

Listen Ziz's interview is too boring for me... Sorry
Not play poe for a long time is the main reason

[desert jasper]

Hmm preload coming at 2am my time

[jade jackal]

So there is a preload? Interesting

Jonathan said they don't want dataminers destroying surprises

[desert jasper]

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3591631

Only for standalone client, sadly

[jade jackal]

Damn. Oh well

[hexed stream]

let me see, 100000/70 average /60min = 24min

[fierce moth]

...Zizran love poe so much exactly. 99% his videos relevant to poe

[ebon meadow]

U should see his pobs for build guides lol they are literally step by step walk through from level 1 plus additional info in notes

Plus the Poe university and compete play through

[hexed stream]

to be fair, in yesterday's interview, ziz was a bit too full of himself
talking and suggesting things that it seemed quite obvious only him and a few rare ones cared about, but spoke as if the whole community is as enthusiastic as him

[fierce moth]

🤷‍♀️ Yeah, you can do whatever you want to do when your reputation is strong enough

Just don't touch the law. Then they're free

Why he have to spend time to collect suggestions from the community when he can use his influence to just ask questions he interested in instead 🤔

[hexed stream]

not that one, the questions related to game knowledge were very helpful, but once he talked enthusiastically and fanatically about community race, I turned off the stream and went to sleep

it's fine to have a religion, but it's not find to make it sound like everyone who doesn't worship your religion is an inferior being

[tawny sand]

wdym, isn't the community race just a fun side thing they do sometimes. why does it seem it's being forced?

[hexed stream]

the way he spoke, his favorite community race held a higher importance and priority than caring for the rest of the playerbase

reminded me of how the fanatic christian preachers approaching me back in university time, boasting about how great god is and if you don't believe, you're a filthy person

[tawny sand]

i think he's just enthusiastic about doing community stuff like the gauntlets and what not

[hexed stream]

idk, it really gave me bad taste in the mouth, the way he was asking dev to spend time, attention, effort on something that doesn't concern 99% of the players

man, hopefully I can reach 36/40 before dec 6

[mental talon]

It's a question many people in the community have asked and have asked for years. We know the reason why it hasn't happened in recent years and was more prevalent in the early years of PoE. Part of the excitement of having a PoE 2 is the hope that we can have more Community Race events back and that's why the whole suggestion of paying for an extra battle pass tier to fund it, or have a paid entry happened in the first place (which is something I would personally pay into because the Races even the hourly events we had in the past were pure fun). Doesn't mean it's for everyone but that's the same mentality that can be applied to hardcore, SSF or any non-trade SC league in PoE (SC trade makes up like 80% of the playerbase roughly last time GGG talked about the numbers).

It's also something GGG clearly is interested in but the biggest hurdle (money) prevents it from being a thing in current PoE.

[hexed stream]

yeah it's cool for some, but to push a minority agenda on top of the majority, that's totally something else

[fierce moth]

@stark pier I don't know do you understand "泼天的富贵" , that's my first reaction for the poe 2 ea announcements.

Get 22,1k followers, 15.3K Viewers is in the waiting room still even the announcement trailer is released 11 days ago, get over 3M views by a one hour video, over 15 streamers who own over 10K followers on twitch have promoted this game by multiple ways includes taking interviews with game director, making reaction videos for different interviews, rewatching earlier playtest event videos, sharing own opinions with their fans etc. At the same time, 30 ea keys giveaway posted are posted on reddit, over 50k people joined in this giveaway party...

🤔 This game can become one of the most successful ARPG in history.

[stark pier]

This term is rarely used, my sister. I don't really care about PoE2; I've seen too many F2P games start like this

😅

[hexed stream]

you see, there's no single definition of success

[fierce moth]

Oh nice to know.

[sand wigeon]

Yeah. There’s also been some mismanagement and questionable decisions when it comes to this closed beta release.

Like how you can’t preload the game on Steam because they’re worried about “data mining,” but offer a standalone client preload and torrent (consoles will have preload)

Or how few weapons are in EA at the start

[viral galleon]

How is the weapon restriction controversial? The skills for those weapons aren't finished so if swords could drop they'd be trash drops because you'd just toss them

[sand wigeon]

Which is more indicative of the fact that higher-ups likely pushed for this before the dev team was really ready. But trust me, it is controversial, I’ve seen a lot of talk about it.

[hexed stream]

what is there to push about EA? this is not 1.0 version like d4

in EA it's completely fine to have half of the features missing

[sand wigeon]

This is a huge marketing release and is making them way more money than 1.0 release due to EA keys.

[hexed stream]

still doesn't change the fact that EA should be understood as EA, not as a full game

[sand wigeon]

The longer EA is, the more hype that can build and the more people that’ll buy into EA.

[sand wigeon]

Yes! But having… I think it’s five or six weapons? Is quite restrictive. Some just wish there were more options.

[hexed stream]

or you know, poe2 could be reworking the whole itemization to not be like poe1? and this perceived restrictiveness is intentional

[sand wigeon]

For example, the non-crossed off stuff is what someone I know thinks should’ve been in closed beta from the start, ignoring classes. Just the weapons.

[hexed stream]

coz it's not thematic without the respective classes present

[sand wigeon]

And that point is entirely permissible.

[sand wigeon]

Oh, does it need to be thematic? I thought this was EA! Isn’t the whole point to test things before release?

[hexed stream]

EA just means incomplete, it doesn't mean you can afford to overthrow all the thematic things

[sand wigeon]

You seem to have weirdly inconsistent opinions on this

[desert jasper]

Those will come in later in ea

[sand wigeon]

I think the time to break theme is EA

[sand wigeon]

Yes, that’s known

[hexed stream]

no, I'm very consistent, EA lasts 6-12 months, nobody says these final ascendancies will only be availble 1 day before 1.0

[sand wigeon]

Everything should be in at the end of the one year EA period

[hexed stream]

it will

there's no worry about that

[sand wigeon]

And nobody implied otherwise

[hexed stream]

then what is this?

what is inconsistent?

[sand wigeon]

Some people just wish there was a little more at the start

[hexed stream]

those some people need to learn expectation management

[sand wigeon]

“EA is for testing, it should be understood as EA, it doesn’t need to be the full game,” followed by “it wouldn’t be in-theme,” is all. I was just teasing.

[sand wigeon]

I think they have plenty. They just have an opinion.

[hexed stream]

and I don't see any inconsistency with this

[sand wigeon]

Now, does the weapon availability bother me? Not… particularly? I was going to go ranger and I’m still going to go ranger, so.

[sand wigeon]

Oh, well I do.

That explains it.

[desert jasper]

Merc for me
Grenades everywhere

[hexed stream]

not my problem, my statements have been super consistent everywhere

from the start

[desert jasper]

Though I'll probably swap like 5minutes before I start playing

[viral galleon]

Infernalist srs for me

[sand wigeon]

Whoops

[hexed stream]

MB for me hehe

[sand wigeon]

Like, I do think not having traps is sad. Animation work, like the rest. But still.

Which, it’s weird they’re not mentioned here

We know traps are weapons now

[desert jasper]

i didn't know that

[hexed stream]

wait, no trap or mine?

[sand wigeon]

They’re… weird. We don’t have a ton of info yet.

They’re going to go into the weapon slot, but the devs said the reason they’re not there is animation work.

Maybe I’m wrong?

That’s what I remember

[twilit mountain]

Correct. No trap or mine skills because traps and mines have a weapon type related to them now.

[hexed stream]

ah yeah, some skill gems need certain weapon types

[twilit mountain]

It's also kinda disingenuous IMHO to be showing a bunch of footage when talking about early access plans and then not having the weapons within said footage in the early access. Feels a bit bait and switchy.

It also means that a BUNCH of the passive tree basically doesn't work because related weapons straight up don't exist.

That's bad.

[sand wigeon]

Yeah. Again, feels very “drive up hype to sell as many EA keys as possible for the biggest profit” to me.

That’s my main issue

I don’t blame the devs, obviously. I think this is weird management stuff.

[twilit mountain]

There's also the pre-load inconsistency

[desert jasper]

I wish there was preload on steam
Would like to have the option to play the game if I happen to wake up way too early

[sand wigeon]

Yeah, initially they said “preload will be available” and later changed it to clarify Steam and Epic would not be counted.

[twilit mountain]

This was in their FAQ, the FAQ has been updated multiple times and yet they've deliberately made it so the edit time has NOT updated since the 21st.
And now we know there in fact will not be pre-load across the board and only the night before launch.

[hexed stream]

suddenly feeling the superiority haha

[sand wigeon]

Wdym?

[hexed stream]

I play direct client

[desert jasper]

Yeah, ofc I could just download the standalone client
but I'd rather actually be able to track the hours I spend in the game

[sand wigeon]

Okay

[sand wigeon]

The issue I have is that you can’t transfer files to Steam

The directories are vastly different

So you’d have to reinstall this 100gb game

[twilit mountain]

I'm probably gonna suck it up and download standalone anyway but it is very annoying because it's gonna cause weird login issues (I have already experienced this because I used to have to swap clients regularly)

[sand wigeon]

I’m personally just not preloading, but it’s questionable

And their reasoning for it is very poor

[twilit mountain]

Don't tell people there's gonna be pre-load if you're not gonna stick to it and let us pre-load. That's not cool.

[sand wigeon]

Like, the game is still going to be data mined the instant a public download is available, especially a torrent

[desert jasper]

I'm just gonna stay up until the load is available
start the download on steam and go to bed
and not be able to sleep at all because too excited

[sand wigeon]

it seems odd, as Steam has some of the better encryption capabilities

Still pretty easily crackable but you get my point

[sand wigeon]

It’s 2 PM my time so I’ll just be doing smth else while waiting

[desert jasper]

I was sure it'd be 10pm my time
but now that I look at it it's apparently 9pm
but yeah, I'm super sleepy by that point pretty much always

[sand wigeon]

i feel ya

i got to bed kinda late last night (midnight) and i’m feeling it now

[hexed stream]

agree, don't promise something you can't keep

and the excuse about datamining is stupid

like somehow they think you can't datamine from direct client files?

[twilit mountain]

It's hilarious because we know direct client has the LEAST encryption out of all them to boot

[tawny sand]

what do you mean by encryption? like encrypted files?

[twilit mountain]

Yeah. Consoles are relatively safe because it's harder to get anything out of them, Steam has its own built in encryption systems. Direct client still has some, but it's also the one that like, every dataminer uses so it seems a little stupid to have THAT be the one you push out if you're worried about datamining

[tawny sand]

oh i see

yeah idk, i wish it was earlier to preload i have bad internet

[desert jasper]

I just went and upgraded my internet today because the ISP happened to have a good deal

[tawny sand]

i need to look into options again, a while ago the only one other one we really had had data caps on all the plans except the most expensive

and my current one is really slow but it doesn't have a data cap

and i use the internet a lot so i figured no data cap is better

[twilit mountain]

My internet is fine I just prefer having it on Steam cuz it's easier and I don't need to care about login info. But it's also over 100gb to download, that's still a decent chunk of time so without pre-load I'm gonna end up downloading, uninstalling, and then setting it to install on Steam while I sleep

[desert jasper]

One ISP here tried "jokingly" suggest that they should put in data caps
They instantly lost like 40% of their customers and took them years to get them back

[sand wigeon]

I like having it on Steam because I like having everything tied to my Steam

Since I assign personality to it

Like, I enjoy up keeping my Steam profile

[hexed stream]

I like steam too, too bad poe is not fking available on steam in my country

[sand wigeon]

PAIN

[hexed stream]

won't talk about how steam regional pricing in my country is dirt cheap and I could have got the EA key for half the price

🥲

[sand wigeon]

I had a friend gift me one

[viral galleon]

I'd agree with you all if they specifically said on all platforms.

[twilit mountain]

Have you ever heard of the word "implication"?

[sand wigeon]

Yeah, I mean, when you don’t specify platforms it’s expected you mean all platforms

Especially because it is available on PC, just not Steam and Epic

[maiden widget]

i thought steam is even less protected as the files arent even in their arbitrary format ggpk

[sand wigeon]

(excuse hoarse voice)

[desert jasper]

good cats

[sand wigeon]

exceptionally good cats

[twilit mountain]

Those are my babies c:

[desert jasper]

This is the bugger I was taking care of for about a week

Got barely any sleep during the week and there was cat hair everywhere.
worth it

[ebon meadow]

What breed is that ? Looks like maine cun

Why is the second word censored lmao

Fave looks amazing like a Linx

[fierce moth]

My cat: 🥱

[mental talon]

Last week after I finished getting some more groceries before inviting my family and friends for Thanksgiving my cat decided to uhhh guard my groceries or something idk he's an Orange Cat.

[ebon meadow]

Garf

My two fkrs

Both of them including my Yorkie sleep belly up lol bunch of weirdos

[misty meteor]

Two little devils

[ebon meadow]

ohh the right one has British blue blood i can see by just the face

so cute

as for siamese lol i have more love to them than my own mother xd that was my first cat

[hexed stream]

cat owners, is it a lazy or hard job to own one?

[normal citrus]

listening to this while slaying monsters

https://youtu.be/P1Xh1zm9e7k?si=PqBNug-OkVYrs-78

[hexed stream]

so hmm, blood mage, the class I thought to have something to do with mageblood, is actually having something to do with progenesis instead

[twilit mountain]

Depends on the cat. Some are very solitary and some will basically need to be with you constantly.

[mental talon]

Mark is pretty upset lol

[hexed stream]

may as well have planner even before launch

[viral galleon]

if you mean mageblood as in the unique belt you're a bit outdated, mageblood won't exist as it does in poe 1 (if it does) because they changed flasks

[hexed stream]

I know this weeks ago, this is just a joke

[viral galleon]

ah

[hexed stream]

the ascendancy name has nothing to do with 1 flask, but another one

[desert jasper]

it is the maine cat indeed

[twilit mountain]

Hell yeah. Mine are part, but one obviously shows a lot more. Less than 6 months old and he's like 3/4 the size of our full grown 8 year old cat. Funny cuz we live in Maine.

[hexed stream]

3 more challenges, hopefully my 100d can buy them all

[fierce moth]

hhhhhhhh

[fierce moth]

So it's released or not?

I want to check out stormweaver's ascendence

[fierce moth]

I guess mine is an orange cat too, just white part over than orange part. DNA is mysterious

[fierce moth]

oh Nice, it's announced now

It mean my lowest resistance can get 20% more by this node?

if yeah, I guess 1 and 10 branch is for defence, 2-3 and 8-9 branch is for damage support, 4-5 and 6-7 is for damage type and playstyle (stormweaver)

I'm wonder why nothing relevant to fire damage on its ascendence 😅

[hexed stream]

2 more, just 2 more

[fierce moth]

I don't know how many ascendence points can I get in ea, but if I only can choose one of them from these parts, 8-9, 1 and 10 is what I'll spec

That's what GGG is released just now

[hexed stream]

8

should be the same as poe1

[fierce moth]

🤷‍♀️

I guess the game will give me three accesses, so I can pick 3 in 6 only

As same as poe on the logic

I guess the spoiler of ascendence can bring the last wave of discussion before ea is live. Enough for them to discuss all of them in last 2 days

what I'm confused the most is what's recoup

[mental talon]

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3592012/page/1#p25506129

[simple needle]

Is Skill Speed , Attack & Cast Speed

[mental talon]

Yes

[simple needle]

confirmed?

Blood Mage nerfed already

[hexed stream]

what do you mean 3 accesses? poe1 is 4

[fierce moth]

oh.... Yeah my fault. But then I have no idea how many available points it will give me per successful run and how many available points it will give me in total

[fierce moth]

Where are you know 8 points in total?

[hexed stream]

Coz poe1 gives you 8? I assume same in poe2

[fierce moth]

Oh... I see

Then first 2 and second 2 points you get is important

[fierce moth]

So I only pick 1 in 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10

[simple needle]

Demon form confirmed dogshit?

Rip my dream

[fierce moth]

Then I need to see which one I lack more after I complete the first tier of trial... I can't make a choice without knowing clearly for my build

But I suppose 8-9 branch will bonus me a lot?

[fierce moth]

@tawny sand Do you have any favoured points want to get in tier 1 and tier 2 trial?

[hexed stream]

who said that?

[simple needle]

no weapon in demonform

[hexed stream]

no weapon display or no weapon? different things

[simple needle]

no weapon at all

but demon form gives +4 Spell Skills

apparently its a "bug" so demonform will give more stats before its fixed

[fierce moth]

🤭 Maybe they'll hype to play spellblade one day... 🫂 (Checking the record of https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2308484281)

I had hyped by warlock before but I'm burn out to play any acolyte classes now

[hexed stream]

last one till portal, so hyped

[fierce moth]

what is that

[hexed stream]

36/40 will get portal mtx

then I can finally rest for quite a while till poe2

[fierce moth]

Ok no difference or I miss something?

[vagrant topaz]

The duration is missing

You need to compare to the in game tooltip

[fierce moth]

oh yeah launching my game

🤔 oh yeah it's very clear now

Well done, then players don't need to buff their minions manually always

I"ll say this action is the main trouble for me when I want to kill Aberroth by my wraithlord

[hexed stream]

lol, you rotate among games so fast

[hexed stream]

finally, I'm all done with poe1

[desert jasper]

Gg

[hexed stream]

the portal mtx doesn't look that nice tho

[desert jasper]

Yeah
I kinda wanted that
but decided that I can't be bothered doing 12 more challenges

Would've needed a lot of work from me

[hexed stream]

wonder if @fierce moth may want my 100d in that char haha

[tawny sand]

dunno, I guess either the shock chance stuff or arcane surge stuff would be nice for me. I plan to do an lightning sorc with archmage

[fierce moth]

Just see someone owns the artbook of poe 2... 🙏

[fierce moth]

did you check out passive trees in poe 2 and plan your builds?

[fierce moth]

100d?

[hexed stream]

Divine orbs

[tawny sand]

no

[hexed stream]

lol fk me, I tried so hard for portal mtx, yet when poe2 is live, for 2 weeks, I can claim 3 mtx including a portal one just by watching a streamer

feel like wasted effort

[tawny sand]

i get twitch drops by dropping the audio to 1% to keep it running while i play

i think twitch has a thing that if you mute you're not considered watching, but i don't remember

[hexed stream]

if you mute by twitch, you can't get drop, but if you mute by browser, you can

[ember lake]

This is adorable, and further proves that you could spend $$$ on cat toys/treats/beds etc, but they'll always prefer the cheapest and oddest thing ever xD

[sand wigeon]

Hey, they love their toys. The generally like “anything in the air that moves when they hit it”

[ember lake]

Feather on string, place in front of a fan that's moving left/right, sit back, enjoy 😁

[hexed stream]

time to plan out my 1st build for poe2

oh dear lord, finally I found it, witch is the class for spell totem atm

warrior is just for melee and support totem

[stark pier]

Please forgive my small brain capacity😂

I just searched for PoE2 on Twitch and was immediately overwhelmed

[fierce moth]

More sleepy after feel sleepy and take a nap on the bed

[hexed stream]

that's what happens when you oversleep your sleepiness

[fierce moth]

This famous streamer join the team of hyping for poe 2 ea too

[hexed stream]

asmongold when

man it's really hard to plan a build now, too much info missing

[fierce moth]

It's nice that someone always faster than your pace so you can follow their guides even it's a new game

Can't wait to see how these streamers to play stormweaver so I can get some inspiration

[hexed stream]

not that I will follow any guide for the EA, there's no point now

[fierce moth]

yeah you're planned nothing if you don't know how these enemies will attack you

[hexed stream]

not that, the info I was talking about are missing notable passives, and list of unique items

and even correct understanding about how the skills work

[fierce moth]

I just want to find the fastest way to make stormweaver run well in game so I can explore as more maps as possible in the shortest time

[hexed stream]

ball lightning archmage and all the mana stacking tech

[fierce moth]

🤭 Classic skill

[fierce moth]

Believe me, I have 1000 ways to screw up my build 🤭

[hexed stream]

no worry, everyone will be new to poe2

just that some are newer than the others

[tawny sand]

i'm just going in blind tbh, idk how much the respec will cost so i might end up bricking builds but nbd

[hexed stream]

well they promise that respec will be friendlier to new players

but they did break a lot of promises already, so I wonder

[desert jasper]

Tbh I was thinking about it today
and I kinda started leaning towards slam start instead of grenades
haven't actually looked at the ascendancies though

[fierce moth]

Which character ascendence you want to play?

[ebon meadow]

I m going monk at start new class new stuff new play stile not much can be datamined there

Also I haven't been on twitch for like 3 month or more so 0 spoilers to me

Define cluster fkd screen

[fierce moth]

Language blocker + new for poe let me immune their spoilers even I watched some

People who can do poe 2 plans must familiar with poe

Me: oh. What is it worth to be analysis or be hyped?

[ebon meadow]

theres people that played it at first glance aka first poe con

its ok i know people played it before even if it was a diferent version u still get the basic idea in brain and hands

best phrase i ever heard , if u dont want spoilers stay away from internet xd

i have seen some stuff i have read some stuff to but somehow i manage to still have a feeling that i m going blind since even movement change

just like LE on early acces launch lol completely blind

and there was already builds ready xdd

ohh the graphics though .... that was really bad lol but thankfully they managed to pull it out mechanicly and it was fun

[junior oyster]

There are beta players testing the game and leaking stuff lol

[viral galleon]

Yeah they posted the ascendencies because of all the spoilers

[lusty remnant]

can we remove this shit mecaanic from the game ....

[hexed stream]

too on topic, but I heard it will be removed from exiled mage only, boss still has it to prevent 1 shot by broken builds

now, time to take a seasonal flu shot

[blissful token]

Exiled mages, nemesus, and minibosses

[hexed stream]

who needs my 100d and 1700c? quitting poe1 to meditate for 1.5 days till poe2

[sand wigeon]

what type of meditation?

[hexed stream]

reading books and watching anime mostly 😅

[sand wigeon]

that’s

some atypical meditation

what’s your process?

[hexed stream]

currently into this book called Why Nations Failed

[sand wigeon]

that’s not really what i asked

i was asking about the meditation

[hexed stream]

feeling good and refreshed

staying away from games once in a while does feel awesome

especially after the past week when I didn't play for the fun, only for the mtx

[sand wigeon]

that’s

not meditation

like I’m generally very open to alternative forms of meditation, i practice them myself

but you just described being burned out and taking a break

that’s not really meditation

[hexed stream]

well, meditation is up to personal definition

as long as you get the same effect or result

different brains work differently, doing 1 thing maybe boring and taxing to 1, but calming and relaxing to another

[sand wigeon]

yes. meditation isn’t just doing something calming and relaxing, though.

doing something calming and relaxing is simply having a good time

[hexed stream]

like some people I know meditate by doing calculus

just focus on that 1 thing, no other care

[sand wigeon]

i mean you’ve

also only described one version of meditation there

many variants emphasize that just focusing on one thing is bad

and antithetical to the process of meditation, depending on what wisdoms that technique might spawn from

[hexed stream]

don't care what other say, I do what I think is good

[sand wigeon]

that explains a lot about you

[hexed stream]

yeah, maybe

but such claim even my mom won't dare to use about me, don't think anyone around me really understands me much

[sand wigeon]

yes, you have two wolves inside you

you’re very unique

[hexed stream]

isn't everyone?

[sand wigeon]

i think there’s a beauty in understanding that you aren’t.

that’s what brings people together

you won’t be understood if you decide everyone around you is different, perhaps too different to get you

i think the promotion of the idea that “everyone is unique” can be validating, but when it blindsides the promise that there are those out there who have shared in the same struggles, and they will understand you, it can be harmful

[hexed stream]

err, that's where you misunderstood what I mean
everyone, individually, as a whole, is unique
but there will be parts of you that is not unique

[sand wigeon]

no, i do not believe that.

i consider it better to not believe that.

i can be special to those i love and those who love me without being unique, which is what matters

so just consider my point with that taken into consideration, i mean

[hexed stream]

everyone believes different things
my point still stands, as a being, you are unique in all the things you have
but parts of that is the commonality with other people, helping you connect with them
say for example, you like reading books, I like reading books, that part we share, but then you think reading books is not meditation, but for me it is, then that makes us different
multiplies by all the things that make you who you are, then you always find commonality with someone else for the most parts of you

[sand wigeon]

i mean, we believe drastically different things so i don’t think we’ll ever agree on anything in this convo

additionally, i never did say reading books isn’t meditation for you

just that your explanation was a description of burnout, and not meditation

anyway, idk why i didn’t just concede that, it doesn’t matter

what’s the meditation process like for you?

[hexed stream]

wait, I read books as a form of meditation, to escape from the extensive gaming. I never deny that it was not a burnout
don't people meditate most of the time because they want to feel calm and focused after a burnout?

[hexed stream]

sorry how should I understand this question?

you mean the procedure?

[sand wigeon]

no, i just meditate everyday. i make sure not to get to the point that i’m burnt out

[sand wigeon]

yes. what do you do to put yourself into a meditative state? what’s the process? how do you get to that point of clarity, awareness and perception of your surroundings? how long does it last for you?

[sand wigeon]

(it’s part of my religious practices)

[hexed stream]

I'm not into any religion, so I just do it for a peace of mind
also I don't do it everyday, only once in a while when I think I need it, but maybe I need to consider doing it everyday to prevent burnout accumulation, that's a really good idea

[sand wigeon]

meditation isn’t going to just stop burnout

also again, what’s your process

i hate spam bots

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thanks mods!

[hexed stream]

ah so it's the procedure
so at night when I'm free, I retreat myself to my bedroom, close curtain, turn on auroma diffuser with peppermint essential oil, just enough light for reading, low volume jazz music coz I hate absolute silence
then open books, and try to only think about what's being discussed in the books, like critical thinking
can easily sink a few hours subconsciously
then even when I am aware again, close the book, I still only think about what I read, nothing else, all the way till I go to bed
work, life, relationship, all those can be damned haha

anime was an exaggeration though, that's just entertainment, no meditation

[sand wigeon]

okay but what state are you in

idc about your diffuser scent

like to me you just sound focused

[hexed stream]

extreme focus, maybe that's what describes the situation the best

[sand wigeon]

right

[hexed stream]

like, it really feels good before sleep when your brain only thinks about 1 thing instead of many things

[sand wigeon]

indeed it does

@hexed stream have you read chauser

[hexed stream]

no, what are the good works from this author you can recommend?

[sand wigeon]

lmao

the canterbury tales

[hexed stream]

ah ok, never heard of that, I don't think this author or his works are very well known in asia

[sand wigeon]

mm

[hexed stream]

most english authors I know are between victorian era and WW2 era, except shakespeare

surprisingly I haven't read any detective works by both conan doyle and agatha christie, although both are so god darn famous

[sand wigeon]

i mean i don't recommend doyle

dude was uh

not acceptable, to put it lightly

[hexed stream]

as a person, or his works?

[hexed stream]

omfg, history will remember today, the day bitcoin hits 6 figures

[fierce moth]

🤭 At least they don't spoiler any info about crafting yet

This is the core part for improving a build... 🤔

[hexed stream]

they kinda did, we know where anointment comes from

[fierce moth]

oh my god... Currency list is public too!? Then it's a boom

Spoilers are everywhere indeed

[sand wigeon]

both

[hexed stream]

no worry, at least the list of unique items are not out yet, not until all the datamining from the preloading tomorrow

brace yourself for more info

[fierce moth]

I'll wish GGG open the ea as soon as possible instead of giving us more spoilers.
It's disappointing that you're spoiled lots of things and you want to try all of them but the only thing you can do is wait ea day

All plans bases on current spoilers are no sense (纸上谈兵)

[hexed stream]

And half of passive nodes are still missing, lots of things to discover, no worry

[fierce moth]

My build is sucks in front of any physical damage... And bosses likes dealing physical damage a lot 🙃

Sigh. I should try trickster at first... I can't level occultist up more unfortunately

[desert jasper]

was thinking maybe going Titan
but honestly I might still my idea before I actually get to play

[hexed stream]

any blood mage fellow?

[desert jasper]

Just 36 hours left

[tough bear]

omg poe2 talk

nice

[desert jasper]

Yeah, there's been plenty of poe2 talk here in off-topic last week

[hexed stream]

10% spell leech + 20% instaleech, I'll be a walking goddess among men

[tough bear]

so do you plan playing purely the class fantasy and not something like bloodmage + melee

[hexed stream]

there's no room for melee with that ascendancy, everything is about spell, be it flat damage or dot

I play what I think is the most optimized

[tough bear]

that's cool don't you think

I mean they're making class identities now

[hexed stream]

kinda yeah

gonna play thru all the female classes first

[tough bear]

Im going sorc for my first char

[fierce moth]

https://pobb.in/izzpKdpufPIw
Alright, maybe this is the right build I should follow

[hexed stream]

wait, poe2 has pob already?

[desert jasper]

Sorc ascendancies don't look that tempting to me tbh

[desert jasper]

no

[hexed stream]

then what is she following?

[desert jasper]

forbidden rite build

[hexed stream]

poe1? I thought no one would play that game after Dec 6

[sand wigeon]

I’ll be going Ranger Pathfinder

[fierce moth]

And it's not Dec.7th yet so.... (Dec.6th is US time)

[hexed stream]

ah yes, for me it's Dec 7 too

[desert jasper]

might as well be on 7th here
because it starts at 21:00 and I'm sure the servers aren't gonna hold :^)

[sand wigeon]

I’d be surprised if they didn’t

Supposedly the servers could handle a strain of 1.6m players in testing

And it’s not hitting anywhere close to it

[hexed stream]

murphy's law doing the hard work

[sand wigeon]

Perhaps, but we’ll have to see

I think it’ll be fine

[fierce moth]

You're in US so you can tell us the latest news

[desert jasper]

but i'll be pretty much ready to sleep when it comes out so it doesn't matter

[sand wigeon]

This has been known a while

[hexed stream]

doubt you're awake for that

[sand wigeon]

They mentioned it a good bit ago

[sand wigeon]

Aye, sleep is more important

[fierce moth]

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Enlighten_Support
Why I can't find this gem from here?

[desert jasper]

Englighten is drop only

so is Empower and Enhance

[fierce moth]

...Drop-only. Alright... First time to know drop-only gem type

[tough bear]

So you just need to get them for some chaos orbs

[placid yarrow]

Yep and they're pretty expensive

Well enlighten aren't that bad

[fierce moth]

🤭 Even nobody sell that gem

[hexed stream]

if you want I give you all my fortune, 1700 chaos and around 100 div

[fierce moth]

Nobody sells void Battery Prophecy Wands too

[fierce moth]

I suppose orbs is no sense for me if I don't have a correct gem combo

[tough bear]

omg so nice of you

[hexed stream]

a lot are selling though

or I can buy in necro settlers for cheaper, then transfer char back to settlers, and give you

[hexed stream]

but I doubt she can hold that much currency, coz no currency tab

[fierce moth]

The most serious currency for me still is orb of regret 😅

?... Anything I miss on the search filter? Oh, item filter yeah

[hexed stream]

oh you have this tab? nice, I can give you everything

remember to buy void battery with max cast speed

don't just buy any

and need non-corrupted, coz you may need to use blessed orb on it

[hexed stream]

this is mine, ready to give away all and everything

[fierce moth]

lol I just buy a 13% cast speed one before see the message...

[hexed stream]

lol
how much?

btw do you have a fragment tab too?

may as well give away all my scarabs

[fierce moth]

20% cast speed one isn't available on the market

The max is 19%

[fierce moth]

90 chaos orbs

Ok double wands in my inventory now, 13% and 19% cast speed

[hexed stream]

the 19 one is ok

anyway, if you need the currency just tell me, I'll give

coz it's a waste if all those go untouched in standard anyway

[fierce moth]

Sorry it's the most ridiculous stream I had seen xd

[desert jasper]

Food prep is a good idea

I'm probably cooking enough for 2-3 days tomorrow tbh

[tawny sand]

i stocked up for release

i forgot the coffee though

lol

[desert jasper]

Ah yea
I did actually jus trun out of D vitamin supplements
we only get like 6hours of sun / a day currently so it's hard to get enough of it... and it's only gonna get lower amount

[tawny sand]

oh do you live in like northern canada or alaska or something?

[desert jasper]

Finland

[tawny sand]

oh i see i see

[desert jasper]

If I lived more north we'd get a few days where the sun doesn't even come up
can't imagine how hard that's for mental health tbh
but we also do get a few days where the sun doesn't set during summer. makes it a bit harder to sleep

[tawny sand]

i think in alaska when the sun doesn't set they have pub crawls lol

i feel like i saw a travel show about it

[desert jasper]

Tbh over here people drink a lot during winter too
every now and then during weekends I wake up when people start leaving the bars and are extremely loud lol

[tawny sand]

lol

[hexed stream]

if you find that ridiculous, I'm in the middle of writing a love letter lol

[fierce moth]

Write a love letter for what

[hexed stream]

to the girl I'm chasing after, can't be that weird dude randomly writing a love letter to nobody right? 😅

sounds old school, but even in this day and age, I still like the concept of a love letter

[fierce moth]

Oh... I see

[astral pawn]

Hi peeps, have a look at Michiru I have created it for the story "Lighters " the writer Fezzgator .
I hope you guy's like it 💜

[desert jasper]

But she's from anime "brand new animal" and the director is Yoh Yoshinari and script is from Kazuki Nakashima 🤔

[gilded elm]

I can't help but think of Minthara from BG3 whenever I hear Emma Gregory, but she does such amazing work in 40k audiobook narrations.

[ocean rivet]

Tree at work

[fierce moth]

It's super yummy, I can't eat too much in single time though 💯
(Tried real Salami for the first time)

[fierce moth]

I'd like to get more luminous light on the tree

[ocean rivet]

The lights were a bit shorter than I expected

Just missing like 50cm

[desert jasper]

Nice looking tree

[ember lake]

I love it!!

[hexed stream]

😂

[viral galleon]

Lol, can't wait to see how Rod "diablo-like" Fergusson reacts to the endgame

[fierce moth]

They said the latest game driver is for poe 2 ea but I even don't get the notification to update 😅

[junior oyster]

I screenshotted this at a very nice time

As in it was accidental

[viral galleon]

Soon, almost a day

[maiden widget]

works for me

[hexed stream]

On poe2 reddit someone already posted 1111

[junior oyster]

Probably taken from my post in the tft server

Obv it wasn't necessarily from me but there is a chance

Nvm it wasn't me

I captured more 1s though

[hexed stream]

lol

wait till you capture 0000

instead of being in the queue

[junior oyster]

Nah I'm gunna be sleeping or something then

Then again one day and one hour from now is 7pm here

[fierce moth]

Two more sleep for me :(

[exotic wave]

No, there are 7 more sleeps

Delayed a week because of reasons they can't say.

(it was because the server peeps all died from random lazer sharks)

[jade jackal]

Your plans to clear the servers won't succeed

[ebon meadow]

Xdd nice try

It's fine we l burn the servers down

[fierce moth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA0_blLXZlc
IGN: Why It’s a DAMN Good Time To Be an ARPG Fan

hhhhhhh Find something interesting from this video

[misty meteor]

I highly recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjVDwChiJdc . Full story of EHG and LE

[ebon meadow]

this year and last 2-3 was probably best arpg years since ever i think

so many stuff so many fails and succeses to

even if wolcen was bad even the magic arpg was bad ,torchlight etc etc the market was great and gave u someting to do

i still have titan quest edition sitting in steam that i havent even dowloaded xdd

tomorrow holiday for me i can actually rest from work and BPL before sitting in poe2 Q for hours lol , gonna be a good day without sleep i gues if the game can keep up with EU hours

[ebon meadow]

cant really spek of warhammer since i never played any versions of it

last seasson of d3 , new d4 i can still comprehend it beeing a good game for people that cant no life it as well , we are happy comunity and we have choices

not just d2 ç

[narrow token]

EHG and GGG seem to have very similar beginnings. This bodes well for the future of LE imo.

[ebon meadow]

yup . and EHG should is a hard word but consider to start putting out seassons or leagues the next year , grab new players keep ur community , at the end we just more new things to die from in game xd

its ok if they broken i play as lab rat

[exotic wave]

so when is the reload again?

[hexed stream]

[exotic wave]

lmao site is broken

[hexed stream]

2mil people wanting to download at the same time, even the priests can't bless the servers fast enough

[exotic wave]

well 3/4 of those need to just give up and play sunday

[sharp ember]

preload is up on steam

[hexed stream]

for real? so now direct client is the worst lol

ok, finallly can download

what's this shiit lol

[exotic wave]

lol

this is why we go to steam

[hexed stream]

I want, but I can't

direct client is the only option for me

I just realize, d2r season starts tomorrow lol
coincidence? I think not

[desert jasper]

Woo it takes about 2hours to download it for me
But now back to bed

[viral galleon]

preload is up on steam too

[hexed stream]

Steam? Coz direct client seems to be a mess now with everyone getting errors

[tribal belfry]

8 for me 🙂

[hexed stream]

hopefully no error

[astral slate]

where the hell is the poe2 EA windows preload?

[viral galleon]

lmao

here's to hoping minimal fires in the servers tomorrow

[vale onyx]

Preload is active on PS5

[exotic wave]

lol the one downside to steam I guess we can't launch it yet

[hexed stream]

70%, soon

oh damn, there's a hong kong server?

this is great, will test if hong kong or singapore gives better ping

[fierce moth]

let's start to pre-download it

[fierce moth]

I'll say I'm surprised people on queue is too less if it's real tomorrow

I suppose at least 5k people on queue 🤭

[hexed stream]

guys, don't forget to adjust your setting, so you don't have to do it tmr

I finished both my MK and WASD settings

[fierce moth]

🤭 one million ea keys are sold... Super crazy. As I said, 泼天的富贵

[fierce moth]

tmr? MK?

[hexed stream]

泼天 what's this word? I check chinese dictionary but can't find

[stark pier]

My sister, why isn't it '飛龍在天'? Is that a dialect from your place?

[elder dune]

Will anyone play LE once POE2 is released tommorrow?

[hexed stream]

no, nope, nah

[fierce moth]

Of course, many people don't interested in poe 2 too

[fierce moth]

Thanks, first time to hear this idiom 😅

[elder dune]

True.

[hexed stream]

agree, said people also are not interested in arpg

or another case is that they don't want to pay for poe2 so they play with whatever they have now

[elder dune]

@hexed stream Also true.

[fierce moth]

Ok I'm done

[stark pier]

You are the most interesting Chinese person I've ever met, not into martial arts genres👍

[hexed stream]

Will you play MK or WASD?

[fierce moth]

oh....Mouse and keyboard. I never play this type of game with WASD

...Anything is necessary to set? The default setting of both of wasd and mk is fine

[hexed stream]

Portal hotkey maybe? I always use T

also all the graphics, interface, game, sound settings

notification too

everything

[vapid junco]

dang this game is fun

[exotic wave]

well they hit 1 million EA redemptions

so gg servers I guess

[hexed stream]

I tried WASD in d4, was bad
but they say poe2 is different, you can do some trick with WASD, for example moving in 1 direction but cast spell in another direction

[junior oyster]

Didn't even know d4 had wasd lol

[hexed stream]

very few builds support that, you need a skill to be able to cast while moving for wasd to work

in poe2 there are many skills that you can cast while moving, that's why wasd may work here

[tawny sand]

in a preview they did the game player switched between wasd and mouse base on class

like wasd for merc

it was one of their presentations, can't find it now

either way, prob just down to preference

like i imagine it's pretty handy on merc cause of the way the crossbow works

[desert jasper]

Yeah
Remember also seeing some slower slams that could benefit from wasd movement

[hexed stream]

just try them out and see what fits you the best, everyone is different

[tawny sand]

i'm gonna try wasd on every thing at first

i'm prob gonna be late to launch, slow download speeds

so i'm waiting for the non-preload steam release so i don't have to unpack it

[junior oyster]

Yea but I didn't even know it had wasd at all

[tawny sand]

i think d4 added wasd after launch? i don't remember

i know it didn't have it at launch

[junior oyster]

You can pre-load on steam though?

[tawny sand]

yeah, i know. but by the time it downloads it'll be after launch anyway

it'll take me a day to download

[junior oyster]

Oh

[tawny sand]

so might as well not have to wait to unpack it

[junior oyster]

Fair enough

[tawny sand]

plus maybe i can skip the launch day server woes a bit

in the meantime i've just been playing the truck sim games

[sand wigeon]

the preload also isn't every file

there's 13 more gb, roughly

[hexed stream]

btw, poe2db already has the full passive tree, fully datamined

[desert jasper]

I'm gonna go in blind

[hexed stream]

same, but blind on content
I don't want to be blind on game knowledge

this is just viewing the passive tree a few hours earlier

not a pob

[exotic wave]

Huh, I downloaded it on steam, and now it seems to want me to download it again (on steam)?

[hexed stream]

that sounds messed up

lol direct client already has a 300mb update

[exotic wave]

that's what it was lol

[hexed stream]

ok, I at least have a rough idea of how to do passive tree for my blood mage, but man, I don't even know what skill to main yet

[sand wigeon]

not everything but most of it

[sand wigeon]

it's because there's more for steam to download but the rest isn't available yet

the other ~16 gb will become available upon release

it's technically not a finished download but it basically can't fetch the rest from steam's servers

so it's considered uncompleted

[hexed stream]

I like this skill, but the cast time is a bit weird err

[exotic wave]

bossing skill

[hexed stream]

is it? I thought this skill looks like the kind of cast on something skill, to constantly apply crit weakness

[exotic wave]

Depends on how long the scythe lasts

if it lasts a long enough time you just leave it there spinning

if it doesn't... then yeah it's a CoC skill

[hexed stream]

it says there, 1s duration, and 1.5s if 20%

coc is ok, I hope it procs often enough

[exotic wave]

that's the duration for the crit weakness

not the scythe

[hexed stream]

the scythe is just a 1 hit animation, nothing more

[exotic wave]

that said it says "across" so it's probably more a projectile yeah

which makes this... questionable

[hexed stream]

so you need to apply this skill every 1.5s

to maintain the debuff

[exotic wave]

I know there are things on the tree that extends duration

and then of course support gems

you could probably get it to 2-3 seconds

more if on gemling legionaire of course

[hexed stream]

hopefully, but if coc or other co, maybe no need

man, I'll see how it goes blood mage 88% life recoup

that's what I'm planning

plus progenesis

[exotic wave]

IIRC meta gems are a lot more limited in PoE 2 than they were in 1

I'm going to crash the servers!

+7 proctiles+x2 chances to multicast cluster bomb

with as much CDR as I can shove so I can do it as often as possible

(plus all the other grenades)

[hexed stream]

I still don't know how blood magic interacts with sigil of power

wonder if it's the same, but life instead of mana

[fierce moth]

@ancient vigil I guess you will stream poe 2 too but later?

oh only 30 mins left!? I thought it's 4:00...Alright

See you 8h later 👋

[ancient vigil]

Yes ssoonn

[desert jasper]

Steam started unpacking PoE2 now

[wanton flicker]

200,000 people already attempting log into Path Of Exile Two 🤯🤯

[junior oyster]

LE server issues all over again but with PoE2

[tawny sand]

i think poe2 will need to be down for a week for it to be comparable

[narrow token]

Difference is, you could play offline mode flawlessly with LE. At least I could.

[wind jolt]

not include console

[desert jasper]

or standalone client

[wind jolt]

my guess is there like 600k trying to log in

they cash out good on the early access keys, the hype really paid of.
and that good for me, i could play for free later XD

[desert jasper]

well
over 1 million early access keys were redeemed

[rough mirage]

Good day, travelers! PoE fanboy here. Thank you for that appreciation tweet, that's fantastic feeling when ARPG community is professional and feeling united

[hexed stream]

let's go boi

instant karma

[hexed stream]

ah this legendary meme

but to be fair, the queue is not that long, 18k queue on click and took 3min

let me in pls

servers not online lol

[wind jolt]

i see ppl on twich playing

[narrow token]

2 crashes. After the 3rd I'm just gonna go do something else until tomorrow.

[gilded elm]

There's something oddly satisfying about shooting Spark through Flame Wall

[hexed stream]

I was wrong, settlers portal mtx quite nice
btw, they say ember fussilage dopest leveling skill, 1 shot boss

[hexed stream]

Did poe2 just...kill my monitor? 🤯🤯

[gilded elm]

Someone at GGG did a really clever thing to make non-WASD feel good for keyboard/mouse users. The game will maintain the direction and partial velocity of your movement while simultaneously casting in the target direction. How far you travel while casting a spell or attacking is just dependent on where you last clicked to move.

So using click-to-move, if you want to automatically move backwards while casting/attacking, just click to move somewhere behind you and then start casting/attacking in front of you and you will slowly walk backwards while simultaneously casting/attacking in front. I thought it was a cool/neat solution for making click-to-move competitive with WASD.

[hexed stream]

Oh fk me, it's not the monitor, poe2 killed my gpu

[fierce moth]

👀 Good, everyone can play poe 2 now

Let me try to log in at first then I go to have my breakfast

[narrow token]

Wow that sucks. I had a game kill my gpu a couple years ago.

[hexed stream]

I don't know if it really kills mine. Still can force display thru windows basic monitor. Dxdiag says rtx 3070 error 43

[fierce moth]

Holy god, the passive tree is 2x bigger than poe

[hexed stream]

This game so cheap. Preorder $30. Day 1 price $600
😭

[fierce moth]

Your monitor is killed really?

[hexed stream]

no, even worse, my gpu

said good bye to my rtx 3070, just bought a new 4070

back to the game, with tears flowing like a river

[fierce moth]

Nice, poe 2 inspire you to upgrade your GPU hhhh

[hexed stream]

nah, if not for this I'll not upgrade my gpu till years later, I was more keen on upgrading cpu

[fierce moth]

You can use the latest GPU now, which it means performance will better

[tough shuttle]

you gonna try out that new 4070 out on POE 2 ??

[fierce moth]

hah be seriously... Classic contorl is hard to control my character in poe 2 to attack but I don't get used to WASD too... Both of them is hard

I want to switch it to 4070 too 🤭

I feel poe 2 is designed for controllers indeed... But I can't use controller to play then increase the difficulty a lot

[visual pulsar]

wasd is the way for poe2

takes a little bit to get used to

but it's so much better

[tough shuttle]

WASD is old school - best way - agreed

[fierce moth]

I still can struggle a bit with km
I'm slain immeditately with WASD

My fingers can't control WASD and skill blind button at the same time

[hexed stream]

doing it now

and yeah, wasd is the way

[fierce moth]

The ping is go up and down frequently

[visual pulsar]

Try another server

mine is pretty stable

[hexed stream]

pick hong kong instead

[fierce moth]

hah?

Ok entered. WASD and contoraller always can pick 1 in 2, and I select controller... Never use WASD to play a game so... 🙃

[blissful token]

time to die alot :o

[gilded elm]

Damn some of these fights are hard. Love it haha

[fierce moth]

I never see this page... Not poe 2 right?

[blissful token]

Nope, not poe2

[viral galleon]

just finished act 1 of poe2, really good game

[hexed stream]

this little cutie

[wind jolt]

mine will sure blow up if i will try play poe2

[fierce moth]

I guess I can't complete act 1 even I play it all night 🤭 Super bad at speedrunning, prefer to explore everywhere

[fierce moth]

Why?

[wind jolt]

laptop gpu

[fierce moth]

My laptop run it so well

[wind jolt]

its sturggle with poe 1 so 2 will be harder for it.
my pc is 2-3 years old i think...

[fierce moth]

hah?

......My laptop is purchased in 2021, run poe so well too

2021 or 2022... I forget

yeah 2021. October

le even occur more 3D space than poe 2, 99% usually

[hexed stream]

just finished act 1 too, damn boi, this is so doped

guess I'll take a short nap, already burnt out

[fierce moth]

😂 oh my god.... Almost be failed again (Boss combats are very tough)

I'm slain by this boss 2 times before this time

[sand wigeon]

Mine is older and runs PoE 2 fine

Anyway PoE2 has some serious flaws

As expected, it’s EA

Ranger is extremely weak though

Melee classes are just better then ranged classes

Uhhh

Item drops are weird, you often get runes before you can use them

The passive tree is not well done

It takes too long to get anything on the passive tree

(14 points in was my first damage buff)

[wind jolt]

maybe my prosessor to weak?
i dont have good knolage on pcs, could also be my internet sucks XD

[sand wigeon]

Oh and the mob collision is awful with the limited movement skill options. I think that could be fixed by just giving dodge phasing

Oh and dodge has issues on ranged characters, it’ll preserve firing slowdown unless you wait a solid bit after firing

[sand wigeon]

That should be more than good enough

[wind jolt]

its an EA for you, wonder if they will do any update to it

[sand wigeon]

They will

[sand wigeon]

How do you cool your laptop?

[wind jolt]

its own air fan

[sand wigeon]

You don’t elevate it?

Your issue is likely that it can’t properly cool. Get a wire mesh laptop stand, it’ll elevate it and allow it to cool

[hexed stream]

you sure about this? the whole reddit is raging over melee being the unwanted child in this game

[sand wigeon]

That should be step one. Driver’s should always be updated, too

[sand wigeon]

I am, yeah

Melee is a lot better than ranged rn

[wind jolt]

so its heat that staling the pc?

[sand wigeon]

Likely, yeah

[hexed stream]

also, dodge in poe2 makes game a bit too easy
the most forgiving dodge out of all arpg so far

[sand wigeon]

No?

[wind jolt]

so sould probaly open its botton to blast dust as well 🙈

[sand wigeon]

It has no iframes, nor phasing, and changes speed dependent on action speed

D4’s is way more forgiving

Either ranger or sorceress are the weakest rn

[hexed stream]

d4 is not forgiving, d4 has charges

poe is unlimited dodge, no cd, no stamina

[sand wigeon]

The charges are irrelevant

[hexed stream]

it is very relevant

[sand wigeon]

You get so many of them anyway

+4 dodge charge moment

[hexed stream]

not enough, I've more often than not used all of them in 0.5s

[sand wigeon]

Anyway, this isn’t useful when you can be trapped by enemy collision

It’s useful for repositioning but has the above issues with action speed

And the enemies are faster anyway

Ranger has some serious balance issues, though. It’s real bad.

[hexed stream]

which one? act 1 final boss I fought him only 1 time, got some hit in human form but in wolf form I don't even lose a single hp, dodge makes the fight too easy

[sand wigeon]

My guild has a solid mix of stuff

[sand wigeon]

Wdym which one

What’re you asking

[hexed stream]

enemy collision

[sand wigeon]

All enemies

All enemies have collision

[hexed stream]

isn't it obvious, phasing is a thing in poe

[sand wigeon]

Dude

Okay

It doesn’t matter if the phasing buff exists or not, that’s not the point

[hexed stream]

the point still stands, dodge is the most forgiving in poe2 compared to other arpg

[sand wigeon]

I’m saying that it’s incredibly easy to be trapped against walls by enemies, especially on classes that don’t have the damage to kill basic mobs very fast

[sand wigeon]

Agree to disagree

[hexed stream]

that has nothing to do with dodge

[sand wigeon]

No duh I’m not talking about the dodge

[fierce moth]

Do this boss mean the end of act 1?

[sand wigeon]

No

[hexed stream]

then maybe your reaction speed is just slow

[sand wigeon]

Okay buddy

[fierce moth]

Holy god how to kill that...

My movement speed is sucks

[hexed stream]

just a comparison of how easy poe2 dodge is, it's basically elden ring dodge, but without armor weight penalty and without stamina cost

[sand wigeon]

Anyway, I gotta sleep, goodnight

I’m sure you’ll get through it Kirra

[fierce moth]

10% movement speed VS a huge boss

[hexed stream]

get hit a few times and learn the pattern

they are always the same sets of animations
and need to take note of the voice acting too

[sand wigeon]

What’s your damage, minimap?

[hexed stream]

idk, playing my self cooked chaos build

[sand wigeon]

Mm

I’m poison ranger

It’s pretty useless

I’ll swap to gas cloud detonate build so I can use ele damage instead, once I gain access

Poison is VERY bad

Ranger’s lightning skills are also quite bad

[hexed stream]

my main skill is essence drain and contagion
before today I was planning on playing bonestorm as main, but oh boi, I tried it out and I immediately hated it

[sand wigeon]

Yeah, friend says contagion is good

[hexed stream]

x3 damage from 3rd spread, so the first 2 spreads, need to aim the right target

[sand wigeon]

Both lightning and poison ranger (especially poison) have around three seconds of setup before damage

[hexed stream]

well it's just 0.1.0, give them time

[sand wigeon]

And Ranger has four wheels of poison (that’s every poison wheel) which take around a total of 30-40points to get to

[hexed stream]

meanwhile chaos is quite easy to get, for witch

[sand wigeon]

chaos is too far so you can’t go for that either

all the chaos is up in witch

ALL of it

ranger has one skill that inflicts poison

all the other poison skills deal generic independent chaos dot, but benefit from you using the poison skills

[hexed stream]

I expect the game 3 months later will be unrecognizable from now

[sand wigeon]

i think my dps is about 30?

at the end of act 1

[sand wigeon]

with a three second ramp up to that point

[hexed stream]

you mean the sheet dps when you press G?

[sand wigeon]

no

i mean visual dps on enemies

like, hitting a boss and seeing how much damage i’m dealing through the damage numbers

that’s with all my skills working in conjunction

[hexed stream]

ah, the socalled dummy dps

[sand wigeon]

I’m hoping it’s not representative of an endgame experience for poison, but I’ll have to see

[narrow token]

Yeah I can't get past the wolf boss dude in the mansion. As melee that fight is a turd.

[sand wigeon]

It’s a bad fight overall

Other people I know are struggling bad with it

[hexed stream]

the phase with confined space is terrible indeed

[sand wigeon]

Getting hit usually freezes you, and it forces you into specific ranges

And it summons enemies

[narrow token]

I imagine it's a little easier as a caster. But I have to spend the majority of my time running away from him because he spams aoe attacks around him constantly.

[sand wigeon]

To clarify, though, ranged classes don’t actually play at a distance.

The enemies are fast enough to just catch up

[hexed stream]

this is true

[sand wigeon]

So the ranged classes are playing melee distance too

Ranger has no defensive options on tree if you’re using a bow

[hexed stream]

what's your hp and ene shield after act 1?

[sand wigeon]

The only things we get are flask generation nodes, which are not good

[sand wigeon]

180 + 30

HP + ES

[hexed stream]

darn, that's a bit too low

[sand wigeon]

We don’t have anything like life on tree in ranger area

I’m grabbing my poison nodes and heading to witch

[hexed stream]

mine is >400hp + around 60-70 es, from gears alone

[sand wigeon]

Since chaos damage is up there

[narrow token]

Decent gear just isn't dropping for me either.

[sand wigeon]

Yeah, gear drop rates are very low

I still don’t have an amulet

[hexed stream]

gamba is da way

many of them got unique

[narrow token]

Me neither.

[sand wigeon]

For example, a five point investment for +0.1 life flask charges per second

[sand wigeon]

I’m not dropping gold

Maybe 2 or 3 once in a while but that’s it

[hexed stream]

although to be fair I haven't gamba at all, and very little crafting
idk why but I was extremely lucky with my drop

[sand wigeon]

I’ve also been full clearing out of necessity

[narrow token]

Same.

Nothing drops though.

[sand wigeon]

The issue with this: that’s way too high an investment. It’s only one flask. And any generic flask buffs on tree aren’t necessarily defensive

For example, I’m going Pathfinder

Flask gen isn’t defense, it’ll be damage for concoction

[hexed stream]

this is my wand

[sand wigeon]

So there’s basically no defense or damage in ranger tree

[sand wigeon]

I think my weapon is better but my skills perform worse so it balances out

[hexed stream]

so from what I've learnt so far, best ways to get good gears are not from drops, but from 2 main things: gamba and reset vendor

[sand wigeon]

Aye

[hexed stream]

the vendor lady sometimes sells yellow items which are really doped

[sand wigeon]

I’ve been full clearing and can’t even afford an amulet, though

[hexed stream]

also if you play ranged build, wasd is a massive advantage over mouse keyboard

[sand wigeon]

Correct

WASD is just a nicer way to play

I’ve always preferred it

[fierce moth]

I'm slain by spirits every time 🙃 parallel one is fine but the other skill is he'll summon double spirits twisted to fly up suddenly

[sand wigeon]

Mm, he hurts

[fierce moth]

i never find one... You're lucky :(

[hexed stream]

other than practice makes perfect, the only other thing to do is to reset vendor often enough

to get good gears

don't focus too much on rare gears, magic with 2 correct affixes is ways better

@fierce moth

[sand wigeon]

Apparently the mob density in the trial was baaad though

As in, there were too many

One of my friends is going LA ranger and took nearly 200 honor damage in the first room because they didn’t have the dps to kill the amount of enemies

LA is rough

[hexed stream]

you know, the mobs using the skill that creates purples flowers that bloom on the ground, in a line, I almost thought I returned to affliction league

[sand wigeon]

Anyway goodnight

[hexed stream]

aye, good night

I'm gonna rest for half an hour too, burnt out

[wind jolt]

but man, poe2 campaign is longgg

saw a streamer that played for like 10+ hours and he just finished act 3

[fierce moth]

😵 JUST

I even zero progress... That boss is super deadly

... Alright damage issue. Play a new one is a better choice