📚┃off-topic

[hexed stream]

I'm at utzaal but travelling back in time, am I far away from being done with act 3?

[gilded elm]

Yes and no, I guess? ||2|| major boss fights left I think, if you just got there. ||Treasures of Utzaal|| is an optional quest FYI.

[hexed stream]

bug lol, boss stuck outside

[gilded elm]

She did go out of the arena for me too, but came back in lol

[fierce moth]

where this boss is? act 3 end boss?

My understanding for epic and enjoyable boss combats must increase a lot after I done the campaign one day 🤭

[hexed stream]

maybe near end boss

[gilded elm]

Damn, Trial of Chaos still kinda tough despite being overleveled lol

Then again, I haven't really upgraded much gear recently

[fierce moth]

Thanks for mighty silverfist, the big guy who hold a huge stone pillar

I know I must evade but I still no idea when it'll smash the ground or roll to another position. Build the resonance is a hard thing

Holy god, kill it after I died 314 times in poe 2 in total

[hexed stream]

that's why you die trying, it's path of dark souls dear girl

die enough until you don't

[fierce moth]

lol indeed. The first "SOUL-LIKE ACTION GAME" I play

Updated! OHHHHHHHH!

[tawny sand]

do you want my Earthbound staff? i already replaced it. Your wand might actually be better already though

[gilded elm]

lol lightning warp is fun

[tawny sand]

i didn't like lightning warp when i tried it out, but i just unlocked ball lightning and apparently you can teleport to the ball lightnings 🤔

[gilded elm]

Yeah, that's what I do

Also put Unleash on Lightning Warp to triple cast it

The cull is useful too for rare and boss fights

Good to see that cull still works on rares/uniques just like it did in PoE1

[tawny sand]

i gotta admit, poe2's story not as good as poe1's so far

i guess i'll have to see what the next 3 acts do tho

when they release i mean

[hexed stream]

I remember finishing poe1 campaign for the first time in around 2 days
but this, I'm not even end of act 3 yet and it's already almost 1 week since game released

whoever design map layouts is a real war criminal there
directly remind me of the old days of d4 nmd terrible layouts

and shit tons of backtracking

[junior oyster]

Yea maps are definitely too long but I reckon once I get movement speed then it should be a bit less of a problem

[gilded elm]

Lv3 Shield Charge gem too, alternate weapon set if you don't already use a shield

[tawny sand]

you can vaal skill gems?

[gilded elm]

You can in PoE1

[tawny sand]

it just gave me another socket

didn't know

[gilded elm]

Vaal Orbing a gem in PoE1 could give like overleveled or overquality'd gems if I remember, or just brick your gem

[tawny sand]

apparently this happens in poe2:
+/- 1 gem level, +/- 1 SOCKETS, +/- quality, or nothing at all happens.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1hbjt0y/psa_you_can_get_a_5_link_for_way_cheaper_than/

i just did it on a low level gem

you can still level them after too

[gilded elm]

Gonna guess you can still brick your gem in PoE2 because I assume you cannot modify a Corrupted gem

[tawny sand]

so now i have a 5l spark gem

oh maybe yeah

[gilded elm]

But can you actually increase your gem's quality now?

If it's corrupted, I assume not

[tawny sand]

ah, nope. just tried a prism on it

[gilded elm]

I assume you also won't be able to use the Exceptional Jeweler's Orb to make it a 6L

So yeah this is how you "brick" gems

[tawny sand]

makes sense, but it'll carry me for a bit so that's nice

i only had 5 quality on the other one so not a terrible loss i think

[gilded elm]

Vaaling is a gamble, but can pay off. Generally only do it on stuff you can afford to lose lol

[tawny sand]

i'll just swap later

yeh, i knew it could brick

there's also the free vaal in act 3 i think

[gilded elm]

Okay this actually seems pretty good because of Skill Speed, but I cannot afford that resistance loss right now lmao

[fierce moth]

😱 There's a wand better than it so you replaced it?

I'd like to own that

[muted parrot]

looks like flicker strike to me 😆

[tawny sand]

sure one sec

@fierce moth try this:

Open the inventory by pressing Options (Xbox) or the Touchpad (PlayStation).
Press LT (Xbox) or L2 (PlayStation) to open the chat window.
Hover over the item you want to link using the right stick.
Once your trade request is accepted, drop the item into the offer box.
Verify the attributes and hit 'accept' to complete the trade.

[fierce moth]

open the chat window to accept trade? hah...

[tawny sand]

yeah idk

[fierce moth]

Looks like it's for golds

[tawny sand]

hmm

can you accept with mouse and keyboard?

yeah i can't find anythign about how to trade on controller from googling

[fierce moth]

I'm confused both of controller UI and PC UI don't have trade button here

[tawny sand]

i right click your avatar on the left to do it

[fierce moth]

? I don't need staff

[tawny sand]

oh, i thought you wanted it?

[fierce moth]

Oh I want wand more

[tawny sand]

i misunderstood then lol

i thought this #📚┃off-topic message was you saying you wanted it

[fierce moth]

Oh... ohhhh I misread it too

Read too fast then I think it's a wand 😂

[tawny sand]

oh lol my bad, but yeah i'll help you with the boss too

[fierce moth]

oh then I maybe can try controller UI by that too

[tawny sand]

lmk when you switch back to controller and we can kill the boss

[fierce moth]

Yeah no trade button

[tawny sand]

oh i'm not in your instance

one sec

try now

[fierce moth]

🤔 @covert shoal thanks bro for willing to try le

[ocean rivet]

Today is my birthday so here's some cake

[blissful token]

Happy buffday! Erega

[ocean rivet]

Thank you, have a slice

[blissful token]

https://tenor.com/view/birthday-cake-happy-with-gif-22427596

[fierce moth]

Thanks, very yummy

[shut ferry]

I sold this for 15x wtf

[hexed stream]

mine is similar but only 1 ex

[shut ferry]

Mine has perfect rolls, so many guys DM me for buying

[desert jasper]

Happy birthday!

[hexed stream]

lol, cutting human body in half from top down, this is some messed up sh!t

[fierce moth]

?!? Poe have the same landscape?! This map is super familiar... Keth branch in act 2 of poe 2

[hexed stream]

slicing bodies in half with precision laser, so high tech

[twilit mountain]

Hmmm.

We def need more currency drops lol
57 hours and I finally saw a second annul

[hexed stream]

game freeze right when entering act 4 town, damn it

guess now I can turn off the sound and play the properway

lol wat da heck is this

now I'm done with content discovery, it's speed time

[twilit mountain]

Vendor 3 to 1 basically

[fierce moth]

Do I add you in poe 2?

[twilit mountain]

You haven't but you can if you want. Character is simply Deias.

[fierce moth]

emmm alright the friend system don't support nickname

[twilit mountain]

Nop but don't worry, I always put Deias in my name somewhere

[fierce moth]

You're lv.76 already?!?!

[twilit mountain]

Lol. Yeaaaah.

[fierce moth]

You're solana?

Impressive pace you have

[twilit mountain]

I be mappin. Went through campaign with a friend, had severe map bugs so we couldn't map together. They fixed them far as I can tell so we map together sometimes now.

[hexed stream]

No, solana is another one

Nah, I dread to rerun the 3 acts

Just that now I don't need to care about exploring every corner of middle eart anymore

Just speed to objectives

Hopefully tonight act 4 done

And need to save ex to buy the key unique gloves for the build

[gilded elm]

First thing I did when I entered Act 1 Cruel haha

For me the proper way is with audiobooks in the background

[hexed stream]

I did the way I do in poe1, change settings in poe folder to false

Hopefully less resource consumed

[hexed stream]

For me is either jazz or streamers

[ocean rivet]

Thank you my friend

[crisp onyx]

i have a feeling its an eastern egg for a certain old gif

[ember lake]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EREGA!!!!!!!!

[ocean rivet]

Thanks Ave you're the best

[ember lake]

https://tenor.com/view/reverse-uno-meme-oof-big-gif-8789740406551729907

[twilit mountain]

Hm. Hell of a map.

[hexed stream]

man, when will I reach map

[fierce moth]

Do break armor helpful for increasing spell damage or it's work on melee damage only?

[hexed stream]

only for physical damage

[fierce moth]

Fire damage wand i get always the best

[muted parrot]

time to respec to flamethrower 🤪

[fierce moth]

...The game is crashed after I enter the first room of trial of chaos

[muted parrot]

if you log back in, are you still in trial? 🤔

best rare I've ever found and it's perfect for my class

[fierce moth]

I'm the meat for enemies in trial of chaos. Too slow to slain them

[fervent hazel]

anyone who wants to level with my druid/shaman/priest in mists of pandaria private server? the server is decently played, like 500 active players rn and exp rate is like x5

the music and sound effects are insane

[gilded elm]

You only need to clear 4 floors of Temple of Chaos for Ascendency points, btw

[fierce moth]

How to deal with the river within the only way? I explored the whole area and south-west is the only path I don't go

Or the quest is I need to kill the boss in Jiquani's sanctum machinarium first?

[fierce moth]

I even can't go through the first floor 🙃

[muted parrot]

this is quest marker showing you the way 🤔

[hexed stream]

I learn to tweak minimap to look neater, too much texture and can't see anything on screen

mine is as simple and neat as this

[vapid junco]

this gives me the happy chems

[fierce moth]

Holy god, There's a boss I can kill that without any death finally

The boss in Jiquani's machinarium harder than Jiquani's sanctum's one a lot

[fierce moth]

....I want to showcase this map specially... HOLYYYYYYY God

I don't know how their level designers works... Speechless... Genius work...? The most twisted map? Perfect longth of branches? Spooky long path?...
🙏

They always can give me a bigger shock when i think current surprise is amazing enough

[muted parrot]

feels good to beat Act2 endboss on cruel first try, revengeeee for what he did to my witch!

[muted parrot]

wait until you see end of Act3 😅

found Wanderlust..but it's no more lvl 0 unique 😭

[twilit mountain]

So, this appears to be a bug afaik. A lot of low level uniques have gotten their levels upped if they drop as a higher tier base than normal. It's a bit frustrating. Lifesprig for example can drop at level 52 cuz uh... idk screwy mechanics behind the scenes.

[fierce moth]

I'm done today...Need a rest 😵
I suppose I still far away from the end of act 3

[muted parrot]

interesting

[muted parrot]

yeah, you got a few hours still if you explore everything^^

[fierce moth]

Ran four big maps is enough to run out my spirit

[twilit mountain]

I need to zoom more, I only have like 8 Atlas points

[hexed stream]

only caster weapon, coz there's an increase in weapon skill ranks

it's not a bug

[tawny sand]

idk why but i was doing fine, and then hit utzaal and now i'm facing a wall again

[fierce moth]

The most impressive maps so far:
On aesthetic - The buried shrine
On level design - The matlan waterways

[tawny sand]

the viper whatever boss is giving me a run for my money

[fierce moth]

who's Utzaal?

[desert jasper]

Utzaal is the area in act3

[fierce moth]

A boss who in one of the remain marked areas?

[tawny sand]

nah there's more than act 3 than that map

more to act 3

[fierce moth]

😮‍💨 Alright yeah i guess still a long journey in this chapter waiting me

Oh... Forget a thing. Let's see how many times I lay on the ground now 🤭
...
...
...
358 times, ok

[twilit mountain]

If it helps at all, I know someone who passed 500 deaths before act 3 lol

[tawny sand]

i have 111 now

[twilit mountain]

Idk what I have, I figure I'm close to 100 rn

[tawny sand]

by maps? pro tier gamer spotted

[twilit mountain]

I have a relatively safe build. LA electrocutes basically everything on screen before it can hit me if it doesn't straight up kill them in like 4 shots, MagSalv absolutely carpet bombs anything that survives.

Combined with the good coverage that is three LA projectiles, chill/freeze from occasional Freezing Salvo or whatever it's called, I'm not often threatened. I effectively stunlock bosses.

Also Electrocuting Arrow gets me out of crowds pretty consistently, that's super handy

(Also, also, I have 40% move speed like all the time cuz of boots + Tailwind)

[fierce moth]

Thanks for Fleshy help me reducing many of amount, my death must over than 400 if he don't carry me to act 2 end boss and the bog witch

[muted parrot]

I think the death counter doesn't count trial deaths 🤔

[twilit mountain]

It shouldn't count honor deaths, it should count health deaths inside of trials. If it isn't that might a bug.

[muted parrot]

proud but also confused with this number, also LA Deadeye 💪 I thought it's more :S

[tawny sand]

pro tier gamer spotted again

only 19 dang

[twilit mountain]

Good shit my dude

[muted parrot]

lvl 61 😋

[twilit mountain]

I played a lot in a party with my friend so I had a biiiit of extra difficulty

77 here. Wanted to get 78 before I logged off but my internet is being awful today so I can't play anymore lol

[tawny sand]

does mana regen not spawn on gear? I don't think i've seen any

[twilit mountain]

I ate two deaths to my ping bar going 📈 📉 📈 before I decided to close the game

[tawny sand]

i still can't take MoM cause i just lose all my mana

even with mana regen nodes

[twilit mountain]

Increased mana regeneration rate does, flat does not

Source: duo is an Archmage player who has mana + mana regen on almost every item

[hexed stream]

end of act 4 here we are

[muted parrot]

minimap might be dead 45 times, but overlay map? 🤔

[vagrant topaz]

I saw this in game so it got me thinking
Do Power Charge gives me smth ?

[hexed stream]

no, it's there only to be consumed, unless a specific unique item gives you something with charges

my current build for example depends entirely on power charge generation and consumption at the same time

[vagrant topaz]

I got confused by PoE 1

[hexed stream]

lol, I somehow died to act 4 boss after killing him

no loot at all, so sad

[fierce moth]

@tawny sand Do I need to spec back lightning resistance penetration and lightning explosion effect increased if I want to run this skill?
And do I need to increased crit chance to get more chance to trigger lightning explosion?

[muted parrot]

btw, did you guys know that STRG+click on hooded one makes your whole inventory instantly identified? 🧐
Works also on vendors to instantly go to shop/disenchant

[fierce moth]

I know ctrl+ left click the hooded one can do but I don't know how to do in conntroller UI

Use km VS Use controller to play it is different experience completely

[vagrant topaz]

Strg?

My keyboard says Ctrl

[tawny sand]

oh idk, i don't use lightning warp. @gilded elm does (hope it's alright to ping)

[muted parrot]

yep sorry forgot it's different in EN 😅

[fierce moth]

I remember Byte's character is Infernalist

[tawny sand]

oh i'm not sure, they posted a vid of them using lightnign warp yesterday

[fierce moth]

🤭 ......
DPS is super high yeah, but...it's lv.18

oh remind me of a question... What the sense of using unleash support gem for a spell? I have no idea its usage

I don't understand what the tooltip saying

[vagrant topaz]

When you don't cast the spell it gains stacks (2x the cast time of the spell for one stack)
When you cast it you consume the stacks and the spell repeat once per stack you consumed

[fierce moth]

So unleash can help me cast this skill two more time when I cast this spell once time?

[vagrant topaz]

If you haven't cast it yes

[fierce moth]

Or it expand the effect duration from supported skill? What cast time means?

[vagrant topaz]

The time you spend casting the spell

Hover your skill with the mouse it will tell you

[fierce moth]

Then unleash is useless if I cast skill twice times?

[viral galleon]

Unleash is for a spell that you occasionally want to cast multiple times.

[fierce moth]

oh then lightning warp is belong to this type indeed

[viral galleon]

I haven't seen lightning warp because I don't play a sorceress but yeah, if you want to cast it 2-3 times every 10 seconds then unleash is good

[muted parrot]

oh my god I'm so blind..I just noticed mod tiers are on the right side while holding ALT 🤯 I knew the left side but I never saw the other and was thinking they don't give this info yet so you gotta figure it out by yourself 🤣

[wind jolt]

man i just noticed, poe2 need 100GB and LE only 22GB
what you mainly think affect it?

[muted parrot]

graphics I guess

it's insane detailed with countless assets

[fierce moth]

You know why is it so big once you played these maps and bosses

The size of maps are incredibly big

[wind jolt]

maybe, my comp will probably run it smooth now

[fierce moth]

Must more smooth than mine

[ebon meadow]

There's no much point of using unleash if u using spell echo ,theoretically its a DPS speed thing not sure how unleash works in poe two or how many charges it can get exactly spell echo along it makes it cast an extra time after the charges were used

So if u proj It can be good or something like SRS

But SRS is a in build skill in to flame wall now so not an option anymore

Wait why is the wiki for Poe 2 pops under fextras ? they didn't actually made a wiki for game yet ?

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/124959917848264704/663598084529586177/zizSmashFinal.gif

We l have weird wikis again that not gonna be up to date

[wind jolt]

got the comp today, so its newwwww

[tawny sand]

https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Path_of_Exile_2_Wiki

[ebon meadow]

Ohh

Apparently I had a great Google search

[narrow token]

This game just made me want to play d4 or LE instead. RIP

[tawny sand]

i use bing so idk

[ebon meadow]

I mean that's fine the game is not for everyone but it's also in EA and they taking feedback as always

My issue is bad ISP once again and my networking is all over the place

[fierce moth]

My issue is bad action skill so super frustrating when I always slain by the boss but I don't know how to improve but I don't want to consume poor remain enthusiasm and curiosity for le so I don't want to play it

[ebon meadow]

Like we all do ,throw body's at it untill u know everything about the bosses skill

AoE ,damage ,animations etc etc

Not sure if u have played or seen lost ark before and the cycle of try and fails when new Bose's come out

[fierce moth]

I even don't own this game 🤭

[ebon meadow]

U do like designing stuff though ,I really recommend to check out Brelshaza raid

It is most amazing raid I have seen before

The arena is sick

[fierce moth]

Not available in Chinese region

[ebon meadow]

Ohh that's weird ,I didn't know the game was censored for u

Can think of few reasons though

[fierce moth]

It's published by happytuk is the reason I guess

[ebon meadow]

Don't know Ur cultural laws to much ,the Taiwan releases are censored for u guys ?

[fierce moth]

I think so because Taiwan is part of China, just the difference on traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese

But Taiwan people can use all international app without blocks, mainland people needs VPN

🤷‍♀️ So I'm jealous because of that

[ebon meadow]

Let's be fair we all had a point where we had to use VPN

For us LA was first release in Korea and we had to play russian version to before the game was released in west and east EU

Not an issue for me but for rest of EU

[fierce moth]

You don't need VPN to run twitter/instagram/thread/discord/youtube/google/facebook/twitch/reddit etc at least 👀

[ebon meadow]

well let me spoil u something then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23r8hNADRpM

even the freaking orchestra from that raid is famous and amazing

the only thing that comes above it is Gloria for us (in my opinion xd theres a lot of really good orchestras around )

stated by a person who listen to all Serj Tankian songs to

[fierce moth]

Oh... I forget a thing... Not only better GPU you can enjoy, but also AI assistant can help you do lots of things

[wind jolt]

does she fold the laundry?

[fierce moth]

All of current laptap ads I seen will promote this feature

No of course

[ebon meadow]

one of my mental PTSDs just kicked in if that AI can hang thongs after washing, for a men i am getting that speatially for publick blocks drying places

have u ever been embaresed and lost at same time ?

where do u put the clip ?¿¿¿

[tawny sand]

i finally made it to cruel, the bosses are easier than the mobs most of the time i swear

[ebon meadow]

thats a familiar feeling though XD

thats fine as long as u did the boses once u learn or u brain does auto doesnt matter

now mobs gettings mods and defences can be a party , give me a feedback after u face a rare pls

[muted parrot]

eyyyoooo let's gooo Mapping 🥳
well..tomorrow

[gilded elm]

Nope, am Stormweaver

Mostly using Spark/Ball Lightning/Lightning Warp/Conductivity/Orb of Storms combo

Switched to mostly using Lightning after I got a really nice +4 staff from vendor

I think I try building into Crit now. Seems easier to do earlier in your build than PoE1

[muted parrot]

witch has good access to crit. I'm going crit by myself now but there isn't much at Ranger start :/ still got a lot of lvl ups so I go north

[gilded elm]

not bad not bad, source of power charges, though it comes at a high cost

[hexed stream]

I'm currently using the other power charge chest, the on hit one

anyone knows what area level starts dropping level 14 skill gems? I'm cooking the final version of my build but need level a 14 skill

[viral galleon]

waiting for those patch notes

[hexed stream]

is there a patch note out soon?

[viral galleon]

yeah patch dropped but the website just says patch notes soon

[hexed stream]

I just downloaded a patch almost 900mb, not sure what that is

https://reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1hcb0hv/010d_patch_notes/

oh lol, char size 0 is only from this patch onwards? I thought since last patch

[viral galleon]

they said in the post that some of those changes went live then and some were coming soon

[hexed stream]

Trigger Gems and Energy Gain

Trigger gem energy gain was not in the right place and it was far too easy to use ailments to trigger spells. One problem with the previous system is that if we balanced it to make triggering happen in boss fights then the triggering would happen far too often during clearing. In order to address this we are now making "Monster Power" part of the calculation for energy gain. This means that it's far easier to trigger skills from Unique Monsters than it is from normal monsters, but you also hit many more normal monsters when fighting. Another issue was using low level skills with unconditional ailment applications such as Flame Wall to ignite enemies for triggering. In order to make the source of the ignite matter we are making the energy gain be dependent on the strength of the ignite. We have also rebalanced all energy gain across the board.

all those meta gem cucks

[viral galleon]

so people were taking level 1 flame wall and throwing it down so that mobs would all get ignited for like 0 damage but because it was causing tons of ignites it was triggering cast on ignite regularly?

[hexed stream]

that was nerfed in previous patch

this patch they nerf the meta gems directly

less energy gained with normal monsters, instead of all being the same

meaning that your bossing speed doesn't change but clear speed is hmm

[viral galleon]

as someone who hasn't played with meta gems i think its a good change in general, counting power, because then its easier to balance

[hexed stream]

yeah, same feeling, I think dev's vision is that the majority of your power should come from you doing the damage, not some triggering stuffs

[fierce moth]

oh it's nice hhhhh Just said no trade on console yesterday

Wait, I need to test what's trade website

Alright, I don't figure out

[hexed stream]

you play on console?

[fierce moth]

play on pc but use controller

[hexed stream]

this thing is only for consoles, not for pc players with controller

pc players just open trade site and that's it

[fierce moth]

I can't just click your avator on friend list and select trade

no trade button is available

[hexed stream]

no idea, I never use controller to play an arpg before in my life

did you try switching back to mouse keyboard or wasd and see if it works?

[fierce moth]

Available in PC UI but not available in controller UI

The announcement don't mention this thing too then

[hexed stream]

guess it's a bug

the only way is to change back to wasd I guess

[tawny sand]

i think they have to be in the same instance, i wasn't when you were trying earlier

but when i brought it up you didn't reply, so we just killed the boss lol

rip

useless now

[twilit mountain]

Yeah they really need to address this imo

[fierce moth]

hah so there's a orb for a skill with 3 support sockets?

[twilit mountain]

Yes and it's expensive. Then there's another one for skills with 4 sockets.

[fierce moth]

I want one :(
This type of orb is super rare...

[tawny sand]

is there a way to view what level support gems drop from which area? I want to go back and get a level 3 for enfeeble

i don't want to use a high tier one cause of the mana cost

er, i meant skill gems not support

[fierce moth]

Ball lightning is the skill i don't unlock yet... Which support gem you use for orb of storms? I don't know what i can do with that... That's a skill for shocking enemies only because its damage is very low?

[tawny sand]

when you cast a lightning spell in Orb of Storm's ring, it causes more arcs to shoot out

in my case i use the support gems Persistence for more duration, Overabundance to cast two, and Font of Mana for mana regen

and i just stand in them and cast

that said, i'm also fleeing a lot so i don't always get to stand in the orb of storms rings lol

[hexed stream]

I still don't understand, address what exactly?

[viral galleon]

Lifesprig is supposed to be a wand usable at level 1 but it's bugged where you can roll high level requirements because it will roll level 12 mana drain

[tawny sand]

it requires higher int than what you would have for an alt for it to be useful

[hexed stream]

The higher int is due to the skill rank, not the base item

So it's working as intended

Unless they change it later on to have the skill rank locked

Meaning it should just stay at level 1 mana drain, and won't increase with area level

[tawny sand]

i mean yeah

[hexed stream]

But again, idk how they can change it only for that weapon

Unless they make it so that all weapon skills should be min level (not always 1) and then you can use skill gems and jeweller orb to upgrade

[fierce moth]

Oh... understand how to trade by accident

[fierce moth]

Why this map is keep flashing...

I need to say physical damage from mobs in Utzaal is crazy... Restart the game and the flashing is coming again after I run this map for a while

[desert jasper]

They also do a lot of chaos dmg

[fierce moth]

oh ok time to wear chaos ring

🙃 My game can't go on because of consistent flashing and overpowered enemies

[hexed stream]

man, there's a massive uproar on all media right now regarding the nerfs earlier

not exactly because of the nerfs, but because there's no free respec as promised, people are in their 60-80, with no gold to respec, basically build got bricked

[fierce moth]

... Forget I had sell my chaos resistance ring before

[fierce moth]

I agree with that now plus i meet a consistent visual bug

hhhhhhhhh...

No thoughts, just want to laugh 😂

[vapid junco]

he can do that?
heorot just
dashed from me and forced me into the zone to which i died right away

[wind jolt]

Better suited for #❔┃ask-the-community .
But to answer you question its not that he force you, he have a "safe" zone around him, and he dash every now and then so the "safe" zone move with him

[fierce moth]

@zealous light Hi, I wonder do GGG find this visual bug. It influence my experience too bad... Hope it's fixed soon

[fierce moth]

How are you deal with the wall in utzaal successfully later?

[tawny sand]

what wall?

oh, i respecced some

grinded out apex of filth to get some loot

[twilit mountain]

I mean, same way they do it for Tabula have 6L all white at item level 1 in PoE1, make it specifically that item drops and is locked to specific stats always.

[hexed stream]

or see the one I proposed

[hexed stream]

.

[twilit mountain]

That'd work too

[fierce moth]

I think it's issue on my defense more this time 😅 physical damage is overwhelming there

[tawny sand]

yeah it was pretty rough for me, i didn't have any chaos resist at the time

[hexed stream]

behold my everythingisroughlythesame res

[tawny sand]

and i was just face tanking everything more or less, didn't even have mind over matter yet and no armour or evasion lmao

the end boss was easy though

[fierce moth]

Oh they deal chaos damage too when they melee attack?

[tawny sand]

but the mobs just was rough for me

i think in arrogat yeah

utzaal might be different idk

[twilit mountain]

Hits 73% evasion with Tailwind though

[tawny sand]

there's no death log so i really have no idea

[fierce moth]

So all of your gears are bonus Energy field only?
Mine is armor + energy field

[hexed stream]

shit tons of mobs vs detonate dead, guess who win

[tawny sand]

yeah somewhat i guess, i have 450 energy shield but no shield regen so i just take initial hits with it really

[fierce moth]

I wonder can you over 100 times even you hit lv 100 😂

[hexed stream]

today I played so carelessly, already 60 deaths

[twilit mountain]

Lol god no, I'll pass 100 deaths long before I hit 100

[hexed stream]

I think this one can sell for a lot

[fierce moth]

Deias is swimming in poe 2 freely without doubt

[twilit mountain]

+1 death I walked into DD rare like an idiot

[tawny sand]

i still haven't beaten ultimatum, and they made it easier apparently. I'm so bad lmao

[twilit mountain]

Haven't touched Ulti since the first one, won't touch it cus Sekhema is easier for me with the amount of crowd control I have

[tawny sand]

yeah i might just try to get the next 3 trial djinn barya

haven't found one yet though

i think 3 trials should be 2 more points

[twilit mountain]

I've got like 4 or 5 if you want one

[tawny sand]

ah nah it's okay, i'll probably need quite a few cause i don't expect to be it the first time. I'll just get it from drops

ty tho

[twilit mountain]

Okie dokie. Offer's on the table if you ever feel like taking it up.

[hexed stream]

anyone has level 7 skill gem? exactly level 7

[tawny sand]

i don't unfortunately

[twilit mountain]

Nope, lowest I have is 6, then it jumps to 10. And like 20 copies of level 14s

[hexed stream]

guess later I'll need to go back and farm, not even sure which act, which map

[tawny sand]

i'm not sure either, i guess act 2 somewhere?

1-4 drops in act 1 i think, i just had to farm level 3 ones

[muted parrot]

good morning travelers and exiles, is someone else having the issue with maps giving 'unexpected disconnect occured' which eats up the map? 😭

[twilit mountain]

I got that a lot when I opened maps from the Refuge.

[muted parrot]

got no hideout..wanted to target one first but my maps are being eaten by disconnects 😞

[twilit mountain]

Yeah that was my issue. I got lucky and had one pretty close to my start.

[muted parrot]

is it normal or just happened after most recent patch I wonder 🤔

[maiden widget]

did 20 maps still no hideout and the last town is laggy

[twilit mountain]

It was happening to me pre-patch

I refuse to be in the last town because the floor doesn't load

[muted parrot]

oof, no fun mapping then 😞

[twilit mountain]

I found that maps without any added mechanics loaded more often if that helps you at all

[muted parrot]

gotta go through two ritual maps to get to hideout unfortunately

[twilit mountain]

If you DC it'll remove the mechanics and you can try it then at least

[muted parrot]

also havent found a single map in 4 maps not doing full clear but more than I had to. I'm not playing the endgame if it eats my maps like candy :/

[twilit mountain]

Not an ideal situation AT ALL

Doryani sells maps, though they're a bit expensive.

[muted parrot]

yeah I saw that but if that's the temporary solution I think I just play something else until fixed 😞

[twilit mountain]

The drop rate goes up after the first few tiers, mostly from rare mobs. But yeah it's rough.

(Also you can 3 to 1 them with the reforging bench)

[muted parrot]

so the reforging bench eats maps too, I see 😅 /j

[maiden widget]

did you transmute and aug the maps?

[muted parrot]

yes

[maiden widget]

unlucky then, rip

[twilit mountain]

Yeah sometimes you just hit an unlucky streak. I hit one myself last night, I'm down to 1 T6 rn from 3 T9s 😔

[maiden widget]

i think ill just stop for now, not really enjoying my time in maps at all

[muted parrot]

they even rolled more magic and more rare monsters and had something like 100% increased chance to find maps 😑

[twilit mountain]

I'm far more happy with maps than I am the campaign

[muted parrot]

yeah same..unfortunately. Addiction ends abruptly 🫠

well, I might just level another class then..wasn't an issue in campaign :S

[hexed stream]

vendor power, check vendor regularly guys

[fierce moth]

Yeah it's damn good that maps doesn't need to complete by killing bosses

[twilit mountain]

Seriously though, anyone want some of these? They're all 3 floor/7 trial

[hexed stream]

does the 3 floor give you 3rd ascendancy points?

[twilit mountain]

This part doesn't matter to me actually. I think the campaign is poorly paced and has bad story/lore. It doesn't feel like Path of Exile 2, it feels completely unrelated and I'm upset about it.

[twilit mountain]

Yea

[hexed stream]

I'm level 57, wonder I can do those

[twilit mountain]

The lowest one of those is level 69, might be scary lol

[hexed stream]

lol, better not, too underleveled

[twilit mountain]

They're kinda late to find for some reason

Holy peak, extra mods

[maiden widget]

man i really wish we had any arpg not fumble this quarter, i could do with some new LE patch right now

[fierce moth]

？

[maiden widget]

no poe1 league in ages, nothing new for last epoch, d4 gets boring quickly - earliest anything besides poe2 arrives will probs be march

[junior oyster]

I'm still waiting on the grim dawn expansion lol

[maiden widget]

that too but i think that is end of next year now?

[junior oyster]

Probably I'm not sure

Not an arpg but I'm most hyped for slay the spire 2

[fierce moth]

😆 I still grinding gears in poe 2 and I need to complete the first fan art for that before this year ends so I'm busy

[fierce moth]

Would you like to play campaign again after you finished it for the first time and why?

Poe 2 ⬆️

[maiden widget]

It's way too long for me to do again right now - the progression is too slow for me to really enjoy my time there. In Poe1 i could play some resemblance of a build early on, in poe2 some things unlock only late in the campaign.

[fierce moth]

Something unlock in late campaign only isn't benefit for smooth experience with alt characters exactly 🤔...
Alt characters are supposed to speed up in the campaign with better gears collected before

[maiden widget]

sure, to a degree, but the areas are still huge to walk through so i am not sure how much time you can realistically cut

[fierce moth]

And the map is generated randomly per time you entered so hard to know the right direction 🤭
But what I'm annoyed the most is enemies respawn once you're resurrected

LE's maps... Oh well I just realized nothing I can complain 😅 Included campaign and end game

Dr3adful said he think maps in poe 2 is over big too

[hexed stream]

LE new cycle in jan? TQ2 release is anywhere in winter

[maiden widget]

LE new cycle is in april

[hexed stream]

delay again?

last time they said delayed till jan

[maiden widget]

yeah, tq is good news tho i thought i read december 2025

[maiden widget]

dely and different roadmap

https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/74516

[muted parrot]

so I did the Primalist way and verified my steam data and switched to a different server, so far no disconnect eating maps after four maps and I got my hideout 👍

[hexed stream]

oh they just released new blogpost, didn't pay attention

so now they finally call it season instead of cycle lol

[fierce moth]

No difference for me, I prefer cycle if I must choose one

Just read that post as EHG's meaning is they wish we play another ARPG more during the waiting duration because they want to polish the game harder is fine

Then our expectation will lower and can accept potential problems in new contents easier

Le just one more step to reach perfect game in my mind, that's new contents update

[gilded elm]

Delaying is okay, but the longer you delay, the higher expectations people will have. It's "you spent 6-8 months, this better be worth it" mentality.

[hexed stream]

Tonight I'll turn on turbo mode to see if I can reach maps

End of act 5 already

[hexed stream]

Or a more likely scenario is that you're forgotten

[gilded elm]

Yeah there is an opportunity cost absolutely. Players move on to different things and find new games to rotate through. The ARPG market is starting to get very competitive and especially with TQ2 launch on the horizon, EHG has got a tough time ahead of them.

[fierce moth]

Willing to try tq 2 the first month in next year, the last month in this year I want to explore poe 2 well

[muted parrot]

is this what I think it is? 😅

[gilded elm]

We're actually now, maybe for the first time ever, actually having to really choose which ARPGs we play. We can't realistically play all of them anymore, there's too many to split our time across.

[fierce moth]

No influence, I prefer grinding a game for a while until I learnt the basic completely

[hexed stream]

Learning is fine. But which way to learn is more important 🤔

Take poe1 for example, took me around 100h to learn what other would take 5000h if doing self exploration

[gilded elm]

In my head I'm still trying to figure out which ARPGs I have the time to play anymore... like I'm already thinking I probably won't even have much time to play D4 between PoE1 PoE2 TQ2 and maybe even LE

And I'm someone who has a lot of time to play games.

[fierce moth]

I wish tq 2 can purchase one time only

[hexed stream]

What do you mean?

It's an offline game, so of course 1 time payment is expected

Then when dlc comes, you pay for dlc separately

[gilded elm]

We can only hope that LE isn't drowned and forgotten by the overwhelming choice of ARPGs that exist and are about to exist with upcoming major titles like TQ2.

[fierce moth]

Oh interesting, perfect choice for a option to compare with LE's offline mode

[hexed stream]

I fear it's falling into the same route of inquisitor martyr, game is fine but completely forgotten coz season every 6-9 months

[fierce moth]

I'd like see some difference so I can experience more

[gilded elm]

Martyr doesn't even do seasons anymore because it's forgotten. They just have the same past seasons that you can select at character creation, it's effectively an offline game now.

[hexed stream]

People play TQ for more than arpg, its lore is awesome

[fierce moth]

Long way to go on proving I'm a fan of this game genre...

[gilded elm]

To be honest I'm surprised that Martyr still has an online component that's being operated by Neocore. I would've expected the online part of it to shutdown by now.

Like Wolcen did

[fierce moth]

I bet many Chinese want to murder their bosses because of this sentence

[gilded elm]

I've been very fortunate with my career hehe

[fierce moth]

April is over time than the first anniversary of le, I'm interested in anything they plan to do except possible thanks letter and sale

I bet many people will ask why le still no update even it's one year since the release

[hollow coral]

@vagrant topaz

[hexed stream]

same here, kinda, @fierce moth know my online time roughly

[fierce moth]

I'm annoyed by why I start too much stuff too late so my life is much difficult and worse than people under the same ago or even younger

[hexed stream]

mcdonald founded the same brand at the age of 70s, just saying
everyone in life has own pace

[ocean rivet]

@ember lake This is what arrived on my birthday yesterday (sorry for ping btw)

I do need to use a hairdryer for the wrinkles but everything else is fine

They're cosplay wings

[ember lake]

Don't apologise! They look amazing!

[gilded elm]

I noticed this guy respawns right next to checkpoint whenever I go Esc -> Respawn at Checkpoint. Been farming him and gotten some pretty good stuff lol

[vagrant topaz]

Do we loose res when we change act ?

[gilded elm]

-10% per act yeah

[vagrant topaz]

Oh...

That explains it

[gilded elm]

At least it seems like we don't lose Chaos res though

[vagrant topaz]

Also

Do I only get the Fire Res when the charm is used ?

[gilded elm]

That's how I would assume it to work yeah. These charms replace the flasks that were used instead in PoE1

Ruby Flask gave you similar Fire Res while active

[viral galleon]

Yeah, you take fire damage and this pops, giving you extra fire resist for 4 seconds

[vagrant topaz]

Not very clear from the tooltip
Thx

[gilded elm]

lol

The gift that keeps giving lol

[maiden widget]

martyr also has issues with super boring items and almost no progression at least the last time i played

[gilded elm]

Okay, he stopped respawning now. I wonder if that was a special case thing, or if there's some other mechanic at play that is bugged and letting rares respawn when they shouldn't? Not sure...

Maybe it has to do with Cull

[gilded elm]

I went into a new instance of the Lost City and the rare is there of course and he is respawning again whenever I kill him. I guess I test to see if it's Cull or not

It's not Cull

LOL I think it's Shatter

No body = respawn

I think

Arctic Armour = Freeze = Shatter on kill, I think?

[fierce moth]

@gilded elm @twilit mountain Do you have flash ground issue when you're played Utzaal for the first time?

[twilit mountain]

YES. OH MY GOD YES.

IT SUCKS

[hexed stream]

what boss is that?

[fierce moth]

ok so it's not the issue bring from today's update

that's a map's name

[gilded elm]

Not sure I have? tbh

So it looks like I actually have cold damage coming from somewhere, which is doing massive freeze buildup with my spells

[fierce moth]

#📚┃off-topic message

[torn dust]

which class?

im playing freeze monk

[gilded elm]

Aha

[hexed stream]

damn, the 29%

[torn dust]

freeze is massively overpowered

[gilded elm]

So this is why I'm able to do huge freeze

And whenever I shatter this rare mob's body, there's no corpse and somehow this is allowing it to respawn whenever I respawn at checkpoint.

This definitely seems like a bug.

[torn dust]

im playing a monk with ice-strike and cold infusion.... and it freezes everything... even bosses freeze in 3-8 hits

[torn dust]

yeah, that seems like a bug

[gilded elm]

Yeah maybe Freeze is a bit strong

But being able to respawn rares with Freeze is even more busted haha

[torn dust]

are you losing xp on respawn?

at some point xp loss starts on death.. but you can't lose levels

[gilded elm]

Doesn't seem like it, but I'm in Act 2 Cruel atm

Respawning at a checkpoint with a rare boss right next to it seems like a farming strat, but also not if it's actually a bug.

[torn dust]

i was doing something virtually the same just by making new instance in keth, where there is a rare in a known spot

[gilded elm]

This is basically a similar spot in Keth, always very close to the Lost City waypoint.

[torn dust]

do you know if we can change/repeat the bottle-reward?

from act 3

[fierce moth]

which support gems should lightning balls be attached in a ligthning stormweaver build?

[gilded elm]

Except if you can Freeze the enemy just prior to death, it will shatter them and you can simply respawn them without having to run all the way back there

[torn dust]

yeah, i read your whole convo from before byte

[gilded elm]

I just put Arcane Tempo and Deceleration. Lightning Warp is the skill that is strong, Ball Lightning itself isn't really strong.

[torn dust]

byte - which potion did you drink? I took stun resist, but i think it was a mistake.. i think i should have taken elemental affliction resist

[gilded elm]

This one?

[torn dust]

ohh.. mana.. ok

[gilded elm]

Yeah my sorc is thirsty as hell

She's chugging on mana flasks atm

[torn dust]

where are you that its showing that? i hit map and hovered and it doesn't show that

[gilded elm]

Strange, it's just in the map screen

I press U, I click Act 3, I hover over it and that's what I see

[torn dust]

weird

mine shows totally differently

[gilded elm]

Maybe it just doesn't show for that particular selection

[torn dust]

maybe when im out of act 3 it will change

[hexed stream]

a really good focus, except it doesn't have skill ranks

[gilded elm]

Sounds like it's worth 2 regal shards then

[torn dust]

i took stun resist, but i wish i took elemental affliction resist, because this whole zone is slowing my attacks to 1/3 of normal

though maybe it would do the same anyway

did you see that someone made a basic loot filter to colorize currencies and stuff?>

this is my best unique so far

[gilded elm]

NeverSink? Yeah a couple of days ago. He does the most popular filters for PoE1 as well

And also created and operates FilterBlade.xyz which is an item filter editor and syncing tool for PoE1/2

[torn dust]

ohh, im using someone elses that is like neversink colors but different

[hexed stream]

I took ele ailment resist, coz poe1 always need to get immune to ele cc first

[torn dust]

is filterblade updated for poe2??

[hexed stream]

no, just very barebone, can't hide stuffs

[gilded elm]

Don't think FilterBlade itself is updated, but it's being worked on 100%

[torn dust]

i guess there is an alpha out that hides stuff right now]

[gilded elm]

There's also Ben's filter https://pastebin.com/rL1DpQsW

[torn dust]

im using this one - https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3605018

[gilded elm]

rip, guess they didn't have a Divine Orb for the screenshot? lol

[torn dust]

lol

the colorization ahs been helpful

mostly for quality items

and of course the currency settings make currency more fun

do you know when belts with more charm slots start to drop?

[gilded elm]

Not me, haven't gotten to that point yet lol

[torn dust]

ok this is a pretty fat craft... though i didn't get movement speed

[gilded elm]

yeah can't live without MS

[torn dust]

sometimes i can and sometimes i cant

my build is a bit like flicker strike, so most of the time i'm just blinking to mobs

[fierce moth]

why ds lily is super famous as a game streamer?

[tawny sand]

ds lily is good at the game, and she's a fun streamer

[twilit mountain]

It's a mod on belts, not an implicit 🫠

[torn dust]

can enemies have more than one curse on them?

[gilded elm]

They can, but not by default.

[torn dust]

kk thanks

[twilit mountain]

I paid 25ex for this shit cus I got tired of being frozen

[tawny sand]

also i'm starting to get annoyed with the "one attack>roll>one attack>roll" gameplay. I need to stand still to really get spark doing stuff. i guess i'm doing something wrong though idk

[fierce moth]

what games she is good at?

[tawny sand]

path of exile

[gilded elm]

PoE, LE, D4, ARPGs in general.

She is a Hardcore SSF player

[fierce moth]

Lots of people good at poe 🤔 She is a fun streamer? How to review that?

[gilded elm]

Takes a lot of skill to play HC SSF in most of those games.

[gilded elm]

How many people do you know who are good at Hardcore PoE?

[torn dust]

HC is going to be hard in poe2

im going to try it after i reach the atlas

i always play ssf effectively... though im in normal league to play/trade with friends

i dont trade on the market

[fierce moth]

oh so another gifted player

[torn dust]

lol.. that's one way to look at it... the other way is that I don't like using things that make me play a game LESS

if I like a game, i want it to last LONGER

i know im going to get bored eventually.. happens with almost every pve game

[vagrant topaz]

The first trial is awful
When is the second one? Act 3?

[hexed stream]

not gifted, hc is more about knowledge and patience
most people lack either, or both

[twilit mountain]

Yeah. It's not much better.

[torn dust]

the first trial is easy!

[gilded elm]

Act 3, Trial of Chaos (it's Ultimatum from PoE1). You are gonna hate this one more if you hated Trial of Sekhema in Act 2. I waited until I finished Act 3 to even try it.

[vagrant topaz]

I hate Sanctum

[torn dust]

it took a few attempts to learn the different mechanics they give you, but the first santum is trivial

[twilit mountain]

Fellow Sanctum hater

[vagrant topaz]

I cant deal with the loss of Honor

[twilit mountain]

It being easy and disliking it are not mutually exclusive

[torn dust]

the honor thing is to make a trial that works in hardcore without killing you

i like sanctum, santum lover

[gilded elm]

Then again, you might prefer Ultimatum. The first set of Ascendency points from Trial of Chaos only requires that you complete 4 out of 10 floors.

[vagrant topaz]

I play safe ish and don't die, but I run out of Honor every time

[torn dust]

i mean, santum is maybe a little boring, but i like it better than old trial labrunth

[hexed stream]

sanctum is easier imo, mostly skill based
for ultimatum, if all 3 choices are bad, you're hard fked

[torn dust]

what class are you playing vlad?

[vagrant topaz]

Monk

[twilit mountain]

Like, I have played a lot of Sanctum. I vehemently despise it despite knowing what I'm doing in it. And so, I hate Sekhema too.

[torn dust]

vlad if you are having trouble with monk you have a bad build

[vagrant topaz]

Thx

[gilded elm]

git gud kiddo

[torn dust]

im using ice strike and freeze bonus and everything freezes in 3 hits

[gilded elm]

[torn dust]

only think in santum that even hits me is the boss

[vagrant topaz]

Oh no, I can't play lightning because there is a mandatory need for CC. I guess I am bad

[torn dust]

you can

[gilded elm]

I feel like this is GGG being mean to us for hating on Izaro.

[torn dust]

you have to use the electrocute skill

[vagrant topaz]

That I haven't unlocked yet

[torn dust]

hmm? what level are you

[vagrant topaz]

Maybe I am trying too early

20 ish

[torn dust]

on my monk, i admit i did the ascension a bit late... i had no need for it

[vagrant topaz]

I haven't seen any Electrocute related gems

[torn dust]

i should explain.. i played monk into act but it didn't feel right, so i restarted a new one with a different build and this one rips

[gilded elm]

I'm deeply disturbed by the absence of Goblin Troupe in towns.

[hexed stream]

idk why there's no space for those runes/soul cores

[torn dust]

you put a bow in your offhand and use that

the builds in this game are kind of in-between POE1 and a traditional class system like LE/D4....

you can play it class-based, but there are some particular combos that get way stronger if you flex outside your weapon type

like on this monk im playing a freeze/cold build... and for a long time I was using

this mage spell causes cold exposure, so i was using this to expose them, then my frost strike

you can also add mage Ember Fusillade to almost any build early for dps

or flame wall

i really want to try a blood mage quarterstaff build... but i need to get to atlas first

[hexed stream]

are quarterstaff skills considered spells?

[torn dust]

no

but spells have no weapon affinity

so you can have any weapon and use spells

[hexed stream]

yes, but why quarterstaff on blood mage? just for the theme?

[torn dust]

this is poe, there is no class/weapon affinity

i want to play blood mage melee because of the double health and the orb mechanism

[hexed stream]

do we have a spell melee gem already?

[torn dust]

i dont understand that question.... spells and melee are different categories

[hexed stream]

spell but close range

isn't that why you use quarterstaff?

[torn dust]

frost nova is short range

i am playing freeze monk right now

[hexed stream]

and where you get the +skill ranks from?

[torn dust]

and even on monk i used frost nova erarly

you get skill ranks from attributes, but you can take any attribute on the tree

so i would roll witch, take +dexterity and run a quarterstaff

[hexed stream]

I'm talking about skill ranks, not attributes

like +5 to spell skills

[torn dust]

skill ranks are tied to attributes

[hexed stream]

huh?

are we talking about the same game?

[torn dust]

when you have a skill gem, like quarterstaff frost-strike... each "level" of the gem is tied to an attreibute value

so you can't use level 10 quarterstaff ice strike, unless you have 85 dexterity

same is true of spells

you cant use level 10 frost nova unless you have something like 85 intelligence

unless you are a mercenary gemling, who can use any attribute to satisfy gem requirements

[hexed stream]

wait, so the spell you use is just to trigger something else, you don't main that skill

[torn dust]

lol no

what class are you playing?

[hexed stream]

blood mage

[torn dust]

open your gem panel and hover a gem

[hexed stream]

that's why I ask those questions

[torn dust]

it shows you the attribute requiremetns of the gem

[hexed stream]

again I still don't get your point, like at all

why quarterstaff on blood mage

[hexed stream]

that's why I ask the question about skill ranks

that's not what I'm concerned

[torn dust]

the reason I want to play quarterstaff blood mage, is that blood mage health orbs are OP

[hexed stream]

the thing I'm concerned is quarterstaff only gives + melee skill ranks

[torn dust]

bloodmage can have double their health using blood orbs

?

i would be using quartersfaff skills

i would be playing monk skills on a bloodmage ascendancy

[hexed stream]

so basically not spells?

[torn dust]

right

melee bloodmage

[hexed stream]

I was asking from the start, you said you would use spell gems on quarterstaff lol

[torn dust]

no

i said i use spells on every class

i am using spells on my monk right now

spells havbe no weapon affinity

[fierce moth]

...alright I know why my ligthning ball don't work. It need to target at a enemy accurately I'd better to keep using flaming wall

[hexed stream]

but the +rank spell skills have

[torn dust]

are you talking about how your scepter or wand can have + spell ranks as an affix?

[hexed stream]

yes, and that's massive damage multiplier, +5+7
so I can't see the point of playing a spell build and not using wand/staff

except thematic

[torn dust]

i underwstand your question now... the answer is, i wouldn't be using primary spells

i would be primary on melee skills

but also, you can equip secondary weapon and swap

but the point of my quarterstaff bloodmage is to use bloodmage ascendacy but use monk/quartersaff melee skills

[hexed stream]

I see, is the leech decent for monk builds?

[torn dust]

i hear the leech is bugged

i wouldn't be running that spell leech, because i wouldn't be casting many spells.. i would be picking up blood orbs

the first point int he blood mage ascendacy makes enemies drop blood orbs

and there is another point that turns your energy shield into health

so i would run dex/int evastion/ES gear, and turn all the ES into health, and the blood orbs can bring you to 2x health

so I could have a massive health pool

[hexed stream]

fixed already, today I'm feeling really good with leech

[torn dust]

ohh that's really goods

im glad they fixed it... anyway, i would not run the leech node, because it's spell leach, which would not affect quarterstaff melee attacks

[hexed stream]

I believe you want to spec crit damage, then progenesis node, then maybe infinite curse or ES on chest = max life

since you don't play spell, the spell leech and 15% base crit chance are out of the question already

just be warned though, life recovery from blood orb is quite pathetic

[torn dust]

hmm interesting

i wonder if you can buff it in the passive tree, because only blood orbs can get you to 2x health, not leech, i think

it says critting an enemy spawns a remnant, so maybe you just need very high crit, or maybe they are percentage health

i was thinking it would be nice to be in melee to pick them up quickly 🙂

anyhow.. its just an idea to try, it might not work out 🙂

this frost monk absolutely rips

[hexed stream]

finally act 6, time for even more turbo

[torn dust]

are you playing bloodmage ?

[hexed stream]

@fierce moth I can't believe I get better ping with hongkong server than singapore server

[viral galleon]

It's because blood orbs have that keyword. Uh.. overcharge? I don't remember what it's called

[hexed stream]

overheal or whatever it's called

but you can do the same thing with a unique chest (but it has -25% max life)

[viral galleon]

Yeah it was some oversomething keyword

[fierce moth]

@hexed stream do you still need lv.7 skill gem?

[hexed stream]

yes

[gilded elm]

lol

[fierce moth]

How many gems you need?

[hexed stream]

only 1, I need that skill to be min level and stay min forever

[fierce moth]

👀 I want a lv.13 skill gem, do you have one? We can trade

oh wait, lv 52 requires... Alright no sense for me even I have one

[hexed stream]

have too many of that

[fierce moth]

do you have lv 3 support gem?

I guess i can use that even lv 45 only

[gilded elm]

Lv3 support is like act 5

[fierce moth]

emmmmmmmmm what

It's disappointed

[hexed stream]

have too haha, not enough level to equip?

[fierce moth]

support gem don't require level right?

[gilded elm]

Looks like maybe support gems don't have level requirement, so yeah could work. Lv3 support gems start dropping around act 5 though

[fierce moth]

Nice

[fierce moth]

I need 2 lv3 support gems 🙏

[torn dust]

level 3 support gems? or 3-support gems on a skill?

[hexed stream]

invited

[fierce moth]

?

why it's cancelled? I pressed accept button

[fierce moth]

level 3

[tawny sand]

does sorc not have a way to apply electrocute?

[fierce moth]

I want 3 support sockets for a skill too, but that orb is very rare so i guess miniap don't has it

oh support gems in my inventory ok

[torn dust]

that was what i was asking 🙂

the uniques be droppin

[hexed stream]

you mean this?

[fierce moth]

yeah :( Super rare to see one

[hexed stream]

some will drop in act 3, then it drops quite often in act 4 onwards

[fierce moth]

I guess curse ground should very useful? Not sure how big the curse area is...\

[gilded elm]

Just what I wanted

[fierce moth]

where will start to drop orbs for unlocking 4th support gem socket?

[hexed stream]

act 2

[gilded elm]

Lesser Jeweler's Orbs? They start dropping in Act 2

They're just rare

[fierce moth]

No, that orb only can unlock 3nd support socket

[gilded elm]

Oh edited, I see. I don't know when Greater Jeweler's Orbs start to drop

[snow kestrel]

There are 2 spots to get guaranteed jewelers orbs in the campaign, one on each difficulty fyi

[fierce moth]

3 support gem sockets for a skill still pretty serious to be honest

[hexed stream]

medium she means, I think maybe act 6 or even in maps

[fierce moth]

Fine then it's super far away from me 😅

[gilded elm]

Yes, but that's why in PoE2 you have many more active skill slots each with 2 support slots by default.

You are expected to use multiple active skills until you can compensate with more support sockets.

[hexed stream]

lol wtf happened to snakepit ring, was 6 ex yesterday, today 16-17 ex

was intending to sell mine but maybe I'll keep in case I want to play a projectile build later on lol

[hexed stream]

I reserve my opinion about this comment lol

[fierce moth]

👀 items to touch for the first time +1

[viral galleon]

Quality on scepters increase the spirit they give?

[hexed stream]

it's for the weapon skill gem quality

so if you don't use weapon skill, don't waste currency on it

[fierce moth]

😱 😢 ...

So wand can have a socket really?

[hexed stream]

no you can't

[visual pulsar]

Yum

LOL

[torn dust]

wand and scepter are like bow and quiver... bow gets 2 sockets but you can still quip quiver

and quiver has no sockets

[hexed stream]

I regret not buying ms boots earlier, feel so nice to speed

[torn dust]

it does, i felt the same way

also makes many boss fights easier because youi can get out of the circles easiedr

[fierce moth]

is it possible to get a rune can bonus chaos resistance?

[tawny sand]

i would think so, probably rare though

[fierce moth]

Holy god, first time to failed at a boss combat because mana support isn't enough

This one is the most interesting boss combat I experienced so far

[hexed stream]

no, only soul cores have

[torn dust]

i love the forgemaster @fierce moth

so cool

[fierce moth]

I suppose the area mechanic is cooler

Ok how far you close to the edge is the best proof for how your damage is going 🤭

🎉 👏 The favourite boss combat is appeared

[hexed stream]

wait, I thought you already did this 2 days ago?

[fierce moth]

I killed this damn guy finally, in Jiquani's machinarium

[twilit mountain]

Floor 4 boss for Sekhema is cooked beyond reason
Enjoy fighting a boss with a 2500% health multiplier that hits almost 300k base health at level 75 and has built in obscene damage mitigation.
Thanks GGG 👍

[narrow token]

Sounds miserable.

[maiden widget]

just the way they like it :^)

[fierce moth]

You mean the 4th trial?

[twilit mountain]

Yup

[twilit mountain]

It is! I can two shot map bosses in T12+ but this boss, at level 75, was able to tank 12 massive overlaps and was down maybe 10%! It sucks! I don't think I'm gonna do that again!

[narrow token]

I think I stopped playing around level 44 in act 3 so I wouldn't know. A lot of the game was just beyond me.

[fierce moth]

🤭 lv 46 now

Going to do 2nd trial again to see can I beat the challenge

[narrow token]

I don't like how the "crafting" tech works. The RNG sucks all the fun out of it. Support gems (Or the ones I've seen) are kind of underwhelming/not transformative enough.

[junior oyster]

I'm in cruel right now and act 1 final boss was a cakewalk

On the other hand the first boss in a2 killed me multiple times lol

[narrow token]

Punishment simulator imo.

[junior oyster]

I don't mind it but I hate sanctum and dislike ultimatum lol

[gilded elm]

Yeah act 1 boss was easier for me in cruel than in normal

[narrow token]

Felt like the game was making a concerted effort to punch me in the throat at every turn.

[tawny sand]

i have an easier time with bosses than i do general mobs lol

[junior oyster]

It's in beta so it's understandable

[junior oyster]

Same except certain bosses lol

[gilded elm]

Trials could probably be tuned down a bit but overall been having a lot of fun. It's definitely a different kind of fun from PoE1, but fun nonetheless.

[junior oyster]

Like I hate the second final boss of a3

I died to her more than the final boss
||I didn't die to him at all lol||

[tawny sand]

viper something? the aztec woman with the spear?

she killed me a lot

[junior oyster]

Yea

Same

[narrow token]

I guess I didn't get that far.

[junior oyster]

Some mobs can be very dangerous too like leaving blood pools that you can barely see

[tawny sand]

i think the worst mob are the worms that burrow and then they end up being rare on top of it, so annoying

the act 2 ones were killign me constantly

[junior oyster]

I could help you if you want but only if you are in the EU region

[junior oyster]

I'd rather reset there lol

They didn't kill me but they gave me a very hard time

[tawny sand]

very annoying yeah

the mobs are still playing poe1 while i'm over here playing poe2

[junior oyster]

Reminds me of d3 when the worms used to go in hiding and you had to wait for them to pop out so you could clear the bounty

They be taking notes from d3 and d4 imo

It can be hard to tell a rare till you realise it's not dying or if it has some kind of aura

[tawny sand]

the cc mobs do aren't nearly as bad as it was on d4's thankfully, stunlock sucks but it's not like the snake ladies with the flashing green eyes

[tawny sand]

true, i have to look at the rolls under the health bar

but i'm so busy dodging attacks and shit i'm not looking at the health bars

[junior oyster]

Almost got ptsd from that lol

[tawny sand]

the cc on d4 launch was horrible, i hated it

[junior oyster]

Same

[tawny sand]

and you HAD to take cc reduction

[narrow token]

D4 should be more ambitious. It's a shame big studios are so risk averse. I get it, but it's quite disappointing.

[tawny sand]

yeah it sucks

i'm more likely going to play poe2 more now, i'm really enjoying it even if i'm bad at it

i think i have d4 uninstalled already, i was really disappointed with the expansion

[junior oyster]

I think D4 doesn't want to go the poe route because they want an easier game for their players but I think that's not true lol

Also I hate the lilith boss fight...

[narrow token]

Making a game with more potential skill interactions seems like pure fun to me. (They could steal the idea of support gems from PoE and put them in their runeword system so you can make something visibly crazy. Multi-bouncing fireballs or being able to make a melee sorc, etc...)

Blizzard's modus operandi used to be taking good ideas from other games to make theirs better. I don't know why they abandoned that. It's a great strategy.

[vagrant topaz]

Is there way to buy skill gem ?

A npc I mean

[maiden widget]

nope

[narrow token]

If only.

[tawny sand]

if ur needing to get low level ones, you have to either trade for them or go back to the story zones they'd drop in and farm for them unfortunately

[maiden widget]

my issue with poe2 is that it feels more constricted in terms of skill/passive gem availability at the moment. In Poe1 i'd have access to all gems halfway through the campaign - right now so many skills are locked behind 14+ gems

[tawny sand]

i had to go back to get level 3 ones

[gilded elm]

Name a triple A game that has truly innovated a genre in the last 5 years (only thing I can think of coming even remotely close is BG3 but I don't even know if they actually had a triple A budget) and then name me a triple A studio that either isn't publicly traded or risk averse.

[narrow token]

Larian afaik did have a AAA budget.

[vagrant topaz]

Donjt need specifically a low lvl one but thank for the info ❤️

[junior oyster]

Damn that Sifu episode got me the feels man

[gilded elm]

Even acknowledging that as true, they were celebrated for being the exception. So yeah, modern triple A is in the gutter right now.

[narrow token]

wtf is sifu?

[junior oyster]

Normal it's a game

[tawny sand]

video game, there's a short in it in secret level i think is what fane is talking about

[junior oyster]

But Amazon have done a series of one-shot episodes on certain games

[tawny sand]

sifu the game rocks, i haven't seen secret levelt ho

[junior oyster]

First two episodes were pretty great

I'm on the third one now

About 10-15 minutes per episode

[gilded elm]

Yeah was mentioning this yesterday I think #📚┃off-topic message

[narrow token]

Oh. Sad.

[gilded elm]

I'm mostly just interested in the WH40k and AC episodes

And maybe the Mega Man one too, maybe

[tawny sand]

i don't think i have prime video anymore, didn't they make you pay extra for it now?

[gilded elm]

A few extra dollars on top of your Prime for ad-free, I think

[narrow token]

I feel like I wouldn't get most of the episodes since the games they're featuring aren't ones I'd ever play.

[junior oyster]

I don't mind

[fierce moth]

... Can we own a marker for where the dragon fly to?
The arena is super big then I run around and find where is it all the time then hurt by flames a lot

First time to meet the boss

[narrow token]

Need a recap/combat log.

You have died
Me: "Okay, was it physical damage? Fire? What?"

[tawny sand]

one of last epoch's best features fr

sometimes it can be misleading though cause it only shows the last thing you were hit by i think? i haven't played LE in a while so not sure

but still i rather have it than not

[ebon meadow]

Yea that the issue with combat log it will only show the last hit that killed u

U could be drained to almost 1% and then pocked by basic attack and it will Tel u the basic killed u when in reality most damage came from lets say a dot pool

The sad thing it does exist in Poe1 just not in our version

https://youtube.com/shorts/6izFwEVgu6w?si=IUFOLuBZbRtxiJmXI m dieying lol I love internet some times

[fierce moth]

hah... I hate this gameplay from trial of chaos the most, too hard for carrying three fragments to the curresponding position

Can we skip trial of chaos to do 2rd and 3nd trial?

[narrow token]

How many asc points do you get for beating the 2nd trial?

The first one was 2 iirc.

[gilded elm]

4 sets of 2 points

[fierce moth]

2 per tier of trial

[gilded elm]

The next one is ilvl 60+ Trial of Sekhema coin

With 3 trials on the coin, I think

[viral galleon]

You're not interested in the concord episode?

[fierce moth]

So it mean I'll at the disadvantage side in later acts because I don't get 2 points from trial of chaos?

[gilded elm]

Hah, dunno how that's even a thing lol

[gilded elm]

Not really no.

It's not that big of a deal in the acts.

You will be able to do it quite easily once you're probably almost done with Act 1 Cruel

[viral galleon]

Because Sony paid them for it. I don't know if you're aware but Sony actually thought concord was gonna be this big ip to rival star wars.

[exotic wave]

yeah it's also just a matter of luck tbh

bad mods can be gg

[gilded elm]

Oh yeah, I know that's what they thought. Just don't know how they could have monumentally misprojected that.

[exotic wave]

and a bad boss is gg

meanwhile chimera is basically free

but takes you 30 minutes

(if the RNG is cruel)

STOP FLYING YOU PIECE OF GARBAGE

[fierce moth]

👌 Then I just skip it... Too disgusting

What's cruel?

[exotic wave]

it's the temporary replacement for acts 4-6

[gilded elm]

Act 4-6 are not in the game yet, so we do Act 1-3 again in a harder difficulty called Cruel

[viral galleon]

The funniest thing is the concord episode will focus on characters that weren't in the game yet

[exotic wave]

it's basically NG+

but the enemies are also stronger

[gilded elm]

Endgame starts after you finish Act 3 Cruel

[exotic wave]

^

so hope you got enough PTSD from end of act 1 the first time

...because by the second time you should hopefully have outscalled it

given by then you're probably rocking support 2s and maybe full 3 link

[gilded elm]

I didn't finish my first Trial of Chaos until I almost beat Act 1 Cruel

Either that's by design, or Trial of Chaos is massively overtuned.

I can't really see how people are expected to do it without failing an excessive number of times at level.

[exotic wave]

it's just overtuned

the real hilarity

is that both trials are based on the two most hated leagues

[gilded elm]

I mean I just assume that maybe it's one of those things maybe you're kind of meant to just do at a later point if it's too difficult simply because progressing through Act 1 Cruel without those 2 Ascendency points was not a problem at all

[exotic wave]

(the 3rd least favorite mechanic is in teh game too as breach and then the last is probably the original ascendancy trial)

[gilded elm]

Sanctum is one of the more popular leagues if I recall

Even if today a lot of people hate the mechanic

[exotic wave]

It's 100% a love it or hate thing

and most are firmly in teh latter

[viral galleon]

They did do a balance patch on ultimatum last night

[exotic wave]

it used to be a thing that you'd build your entire character around doing

[viral galleon]

I just don't understand all the hate for ultimatum as a mechanic I thought everyone was upset when it was removed from poe 1 and took several leagues to return