📚┃off-topic

[exotic wave]

nah most hated it

honestly it'd be fine

if it was like even 5 options instead of 3

but getting a run to just be bricked because "lol 3 awful options have fun"

doesn't help that everything is more dangerous already in 2

[junior oyster]

It was loved back in the ultimatum league because it used to give decent stuff. With the new changes to poe1 ultimatum it just became another boring content.

[viral galleon]

That's fair, I played to yellow maps every league and burnt out so I never really got too deep

[fierce moth]

hhhhhh what the hell.... hhhhhh I'm fighting then ||soldiers in the line shoot their poisoned spear suddenly||... I'm not prepared for that at all... Then be slain

Never imagine the second phase will become so crazy

[ebon meadow]

And that's why a lot of people hate sanctum ,because we used to no brain maps in speed time and that was mostly the whole mechanics in game untill masters got reworked

[ebon meadow]

Ohh u have never did Hydra in Poe 1 or any bossing lol sometimes there's mechanics that requires a bit more than just hands and good character

I freaking hate Sirius btw

[ebon meadow]

Me want to kill monsters me not want use brains when we play 10hrs plus and have to use it xdd

That's where the I can't read meme come from as well lol when u been doing maps for hours and hours u start skiping mods to read and end up dieying to reflect just like Ziz

Autopilot is a thing when u play games for long hours in one go

[fierce moth]

I want to check out the video about Jonathan showed poe 2 to 吉田修平 again... I remember Jonathan showed this boss

[ebon meadow]

there was a video with Shuhei ?

link me it to pls if u can i m interested to

[viral galleon]

Yeah I had to get a friend to do viper with because I couldn't handle the poison spears

[ebon meadow]

Frankly i dont know why isthe dot became so powerfull in last 6 years in games

truelly as a dps dot player i m really happy with it though

put dot on run around dodging things as dot makes the damage and not letting defences to regen simple play

[fierce moth]

https://youtu.be/Y_SZdCClZLc?si=CGx97aTD6ucBTroB

[ebon meadow]

Xiexie

[fierce moth]

Hhhhhhh

Buyongkeqi

[ebon meadow]

i just know how to use a traslator dont get me wrong XD

hahha the best for me yet in that video is we simplified how to use gems in poe2 ....yes ,very simple for people that play candy crush and Fortnite

i do geniunly think that poe1 gem system was easier for some reason

[vale onyx]

Love the flask setup, like poe1 vet

[exotic wave]

I eventually got her

Honestly I had more concern with her just leaving the arena more than a couple times than the fight itself

meanwhile the act 3 boss was a cakewalk

[viral galleon]

Lmao

[torn dust]

does anyone ever allocate the non-dmg nodes at the start of a character?

[viral galleon]

you mean like the defenses?

[torn dust]

yeah, does anyone start a character taking energy shield or whatnot?

i know one could start with dmg, and then respect those nodes to something else because you dont need those early dmg nodes anymore....

[viral galleon]

i haven't had much experience in poe2 with it but in poe1 i always did

[torn dust]

you always took the defensive nodes?

[viral galleon]

like when i started a marauder in poe 1 and had the hp/armor/eventually hp regen nodes over damage/attack speed?

yeah

[torn dust]

hmm

i guess 10% dmg is pretty small in the early game compared to flat +10 energy shield

[viral galleon]

poe 1 though has been a bit more "solved" than poe 2

[torn dust]

i always took the dmg nodes in poe1 also

that game is so easy i hardly ever die, so why would i take survivability?

even in hardcore i took the dmg nodes

[viral galleon]

at that level the damage increase isn't that noticeable so thats why i figured defense was better

in poe 2 that damage increase feels more noticeable because bosses are big

[torn dust]

ya, that's probably good thinking... though even just at level 8-10 the dmg nodes are better than flat defensees

first 5 points in the caster nodes are basically either 56% dmg or +20 ES +60% ES

[viral galleon]

well just to put this out there, in my planner it says i'm getting 211% increased evasion rating, and the nodes are giving me 8 at the start. so that will be like 25

[torn dust]

what class is this? warrior?

[viral galleon]

oh i'm a monk

the first 2 nodes give 8 evasion and 5 es

if i'm getting 211% increased from my planned tree that becomes 25

[exotic wave]

5 es is questionable yeah

10 ES start is amazing

especially if you don't have the not-coral amulet ready

[viral galleon]

i'm a monk so i'm pointed to go 50/50 evasion and es

[exotic wave]

it gives a very renewable life source

nah

go full glass

and die to the first hit

[torn dust]

when considering the first 5 points, to the first notable... monk can choose between (+16 evasion, +10ES, +24% evasion, +24%ES, +15% mana regen, +4% MS) ... OR ... (14% skill speed, 20% dmg)

hmm..

[exotic wave]

honestly it's more a question of which way you're going

like my chaos monk took skill speed... not for hte speed but because all my chaos nodes are above the start

[torn dust]

i see

[exotic wave]

except like one cluster

[torn dust]

my monk is ice-strike max freeze, and i started dmg nodes... but ill have to try starting the other side onetime

[exotic wave]

like unless you're going for the gemling legionaire's double stat effects nodes you probably don't want to get a lot of travel nodes

hilariously ice IS the build I'd go the other route for

[torn dust]

i really like your answer.... because honestly one can start either side and survive just fine

so i guess optimizing for where you are going next makes some sense

[viral galleon]

well on the right path you get to the node with % ms faster but who isn't taking that regardless?

[torn dust]

but my ice monk goes up the axial line at the center of both, so it doesn't matter

[exotic wave]

me lol

My monk gets a dash attack

so I don't need movement

just hit the target

[torn dust]

yeah, ice strike has a mini-flicker too

[viral galleon]

this is what my monk start looks like lol

[torn dust]

that is almost exactly what my start looks like

[viral galleon]

i'm wanting to do the wild strikes thing so i'm leaning into crit a little more

quarterstaves have 10% base crit is nutt

[torn dust]

yeah, i took that crit node also, though in act 3 i now use a block Qstaff, so go figure

[exotic wave]

my chaos monk goes to flow like water and this is like "SEE YA"

[torn dust]

i started on the top, and went for that attack dmg cluster lower right first, then grabbed the extra stuff and headed out

[exotic wave]

and never looks back

[torn dust]

how do you like chaos?

i find freeze really OP

[viral galleon]

i'

[torn dust]

i freeze and stun the bosses so hard

[viral galleon]

i'm playing lightning and i found this bad boy

[torn dust]

nice

[exotic wave]

he's like my 4th priority

[torn dust]

some bosses i stun for 1/3 of the fight

it's kinda dumb (in a good way)

[exotic wave]

it's my bolt tester (not impressed)>Minion Gemling>Power Charge Spammer>Chaos Monk

I think bolts/ammunition is kind of terrible tbh

[viral galleon]

can we at least agree that if you are a monk and you aren't using bell there's something wrong with you?

[exotic wave]

unless you have a spellcaster around to apply shock for you

doesn't use bell

Bell is for cowards

[torn dust]

on my ranger at low levels i was using a crossbow offhand with the armor piercing rounds... so I only had one type of rounds 🙂

[viral galleon]

heathen

bell is life

[exotic wave]

real men build charges and then just nuke the entire field

with +1k damage

(or rather 1k more)

[torn dust]

you dont use bell?

[exotic wave]

I don't really rapid hit

I'm falling thunder build

I'd get like 3 hits in

[torn dust]

ahh, falling thunder is hard to use with bell ebecause it doesn't build bell charges

[exotic wave]

right

[torn dust]

when i was using falling thunder i felt like bell was a waste

[exotic wave]

falling thunder just nukes with minimum double damage

(you rushed the quaterstaff node that gives you +1 power charges used at all times right?)

[viral galleon]

falling thunder was kinda meh for me i like rapid hitting bell

[exotic wave]

falling thunder is a build

[torn dust]

i dont have any spells that use power charges

[exotic wave]

bell is just generic nonsense

so falling thunder uses power charges

and it's... disgusting

[viral galleon]

i'm sad that they nerfed my bell build idea before i even got to play

[exotic wave]

at 3 it just outright deletes rooms

3 is super easy to get

especially once you get that node

as it's just 2 charges required to delete rooms

[viral galleon]

maybe its better now that i got some new charge building skills but i didn't like the cull palm

[exotic wave]

oh lol

cull palm is great

[torn dust]

which node?

[exotic wave]

there's a passive node

[torn dust]

one with storm?

[viral galleon]

far right side of the tree theres a quarterstaff cluster

[exotic wave]

that treats quarterstaff skills (and ONLY QS skills)

[torn dust]

you don't get to that cluster for a literal year

[exotic wave]

as having +1 power charge consumed

[viral galleon]

yeah one with the storm

[exotic wave]

I think I get it at like 30?

[torn dust]

yeah, i did a reroll and my freeze monk cleared to act 3 so fast

and thats barely where you would get that node

i cleared every boss on a single try

and the bosses were frozen half the fight

i didn't time it, but it was something like 2 hrs for act 1

[exotic wave]

lol not evne

I got it at >20<

[torn dust]

ok

[viral galleon]

how do you get more reliant shocks? i'm starting to realize maybe increased shock chance isn't helping lol

[torn dust]

20 is mid act 2

[exotic wave]

Like i get it not long after act 2 starts

[torn dust]

rachel - one thing to pay attention to is that shock and electrocute are two different things

[exotic wave]

level 20 is super early in act 2 lol

shock sucks

[torn dust]

electrute is the "lightning stun"

[exotic wave]

unless you are a spellcaster

it's just absurdly hard to land

they even stealth buffed the shock boosting gem

and it's still not great

[torn dust]

if you want to stun them with lightining, you need to get skills that electrocute

ranger has an arrow that will stick into an enemy and let you electrocute-stun them

[exotic wave]

greande electrocutes too

but I'm guessing they are just asking about shock

which is actually awful to land

[torn dust]

but shock is just a dot, no
?

[exotic wave]

no

it's 20% damage amp

[torn dust]

sure, i mean, it doesn't CC

[exotic wave]

(+any modifiers from tree)

...and?

it's 20% MORE damage

more is king in PoE

[torn dust]

ya, i get it....

[exotic wave]

(and if you take the node on stormweaver it's 40%)

[viral galleon]

mines 26% actually

[exotic wave]

and you can amp it evne higher yeah

30%+ is realistic for shock focused builds

[torn dust]

but what do you mean "land" shock?

[exotic wave]

...it's an ailment

[torn dust]

isn't it a % chance dot

[exotic wave]

nope

[torn dust]

i think of "land" as something that involves aiming

aka, you can miss because of something you did

is there some skill you have to aim to shock?

[exotic wave]

well I guess technically it's a % chance

"To land" to just means "to apply"

[torn dust]

ok, gotcha, i was confused by that word

well... land means you missed

[exotic wave]

...yeah

[torn dust]

because of something you did 🙂

[exotic wave]

look

shock attacks

[torn dust]

but i get it now

[exotic wave]

can hit over 100 times and not apply shock

[torn dust]

so do shock attacks have low chance?

[exotic wave]

especially the crossbow ones

[viral galleon]

i think by default you only shock on a crit?

[exotic wave]

nope

[viral galleon]

idk then

[exotic wave]

you have to do I think 4% HP?

in a single hit

it's based on damage you deal to the enemy with lightning damage

(and no, there is no super shock attack)

[torn dust]

OHH

i see

[exotic wave]

(hence why shock attackers struggle hard)

[torn dust]

shock has nothing to do with electrocute then

does shock have to be lightning dmg?

[exotic wave]

yes

and also kidn of cucking shock attackers?

most electric skills have super low damage%

[viral galleon]

thats why you need shock chance

[exotic wave]

and you need a TON of it

[viral galleon]

i just put the uh

[torn dust]

you probably have to run hand of chuluua with voltaic mark to shockl

[exotic wave]

I had 180%+Gem

[viral galleon]

i just put conduction on storm wave

[exotic wave]

and it wasn't working with galvanic shards nor stormblast rounds

we DO have plasma blast but I haven't tried it

because lol +2 seconds to attack

[torn dust]

ohh, i see, i can't screencap this thing .. but it says default is that you have to do 4% of their AILMENT THRESHOLD to shock them

[exotic wave]

Guess what ailment threshold is based on?

[torn dust]

yeah, it's based on thealth, though it's different for different mobs

[exotic wave]

Max Health yeah

[torn dust]

well, it's lower for bosses, because they have huge health

but ya, its still big thats interesting

and it's ONLY 1% chance to shock per 4% of the ailment threshold

[exotic wave]

yep

1%

guess what all the shock nodes on the tree are?

[torn dust]

so even if you do 40% of the ailment threshold, that's still only 10% chance to shock

i see.. so the only way to make shock work is to build around low attack speed and giant dmg hits

[viral galleon]

well i have 100% increased chance to shock

so thats 20%

[torn dust]

sure

[exotic wave]

nooope

well yes if you do 40% ailment threshold

which is... insane

[torn dust]

yeah,, that's a big hit

[exotic wave]

I think the only non-spell that can do that is Plasmabolt

which has a +2 second total attack time on it

(that skill also notably has a 30% more built in)

[torn dust]

sounds like this would be better for mapping mobs than bosses

im personally finding freeze with herald of ice explosions to be stupid huge

[exotic wave]

want to know the real kicker?

guess what one of the two ammunition/bolt pay off skills requires?

...shock or electrocute

[torn dust]

yer talking about mercenary?

[exotic wave]

just crossbows

anyone can use it

[torn dust]

ya, sorry, crossbow

[exotic wave]

and yeah

they have two payoff skills

one requires armor break (easy enough)

[torn dust]

there are ways to get electrocute a bit easier

[exotic wave]

...the other shock or electrocute

yeah you just use valtaxic grenade

and call it a day lol

but it's really quite messed up

[torn dust]

so if you are using falling thunder.. do you have any CC on bosses? or only stagger bar?

[exotic wave]

just stagger bar

[torn dust]

did you solo jamanra?

[exotic wave]

who?

[torn dust]

act 2 end boss

[exotic wave]

oh no

me and friend were duoing

[torn dust]

i soloed him with this freeze build, like easy

[exotic wave]

he died early IIRC however

So I just ran circles

(which is fair he carried me hard in more than a few fights)

[torn dust]

the whole reason I made this freeze build was because i was having so much trouble with that boss... and then i got into a group and someone just stunned jamanra half the fight

[exotic wave]

yeah

[torn dust]

and the fight was easy

[exotic wave]

like dedicated stun builds can do it crazy good

[torn dust]

yeah, i was on my ranger at the time, and i oculdn't figure out how to stun that hard on ranger, so I made a frost monk and this thing freezes most bosses in 4-8 hits

[exotic wave]

but weirdest thing happened to me btw

I went into Cruel and for some reason I can no longer sustain my mana

just like... nothing changed

[torn dust]

hmm

[exotic wave]

just suddenly all my skills consumed way more

[torn dust]

i wonder if there is a mana regen thing just like resistances

or maybe it's your skills leveling up?

[exotic wave]

no

it was literally kill boss>enter portal>Wtf why can't I sustain anymore?"

[torn dust]

if you move back to an old act those act-debuffs go away.. so you could look at your mana regen in the differnt acts

i honestly had something like that happen on my first monk in start of act 3, and i didn't know what did it

[exotic wave]

like I used to be able to attack without a care as long as it wasn't my grenade

suddenly just reloading is now like a fourth of mana bar?

which is... a problem

[torn dust]

yeah for sure

[exotic wave]

when I reload like 2-3 times per enemy

[torn dust]

could be just a bug

[exotic wave]

sometimes way more

idk it was weird

the wildest part?

[torn dust]

here is a question... is there any convenicce stuff on merc for shooting your alternate weapon with one button?

[exotic wave]

during a boss fight not a problem

[torn dust]

like can you keep your main weapon and alternate weapon loaded differently?

[exotic wave]

...yes?

everyone can

you can just set a skill to only work with one weapon

ie: weapon 2

like my armor pierce goes through the unique

because i fire like 30+ in a row

[torn dust]

how do you do this, the only way i've done it, i press a skill that requires my alt weapon and it just auto seitches

is there an explitic setting?

[exotic wave]

go into skills

open the full descriptor

down at the bottom they'll be a I and II

[torn dust]

ohh nice

[exotic wave]

unmark the one you want it to not fire with

[torn dust]

okay (i dont have a 2nd weapon so it doesn't show)

hey, there is an "always attack without moving" button there

that's cooll

but when i played with a crossbow.. there was one button to load and one button to fire

[exotic wave]

yep

[torn dust]

so how would you have two fire buttons

do you get a fire button for the other weapon?

[exotic wave]

yes

[torn dust]

ahh ok

that sounds really interesting, but also complicated

[exotic wave]

well you want a high speed weapon for armor piercing

and then a massive phys damage weapon for the payoff

[torn dust]

yeah, i didn't deal with any of this.. i just tossed a crossbow alt weapon on my ranger, and only had the fast armor break rounds

so i never had to switch ammo

[exotic wave]

and the inverse if going electroshock+payoff

a massive electric damage weapon for your galvanic grenade

[torn dust]

i mostly used my main bow, and i just had the "fire" button on the bar... didn't even use the round changing stuff

[exotic wave]

while for the payoff you want high attack speed

(since it can fire 15 rounds per clip)

(and you want to squeeze as many shots in per period as you can)

you'd also want to set up your weaponset skill point passives

so you can have one weapon focused on defense (your set up)

[torn dust]

ahh, didn't thinkm of that

[exotic wave]

and one hyperfocused on damage (payoff)

[torn dust]

iwas only doing it for a little while

[exotic wave]

like my armor piercing round has 13% more physical mitigation and around 5% more evasion

[torn dust]

huh... here is a funny tie in to our earlier conversation

[exotic wave]

over my high velocity round

[torn dust]

i wonder if we will ennd up with enough weapon set nodes to switch between those two start branches (defensive and offensive) with weapon sets 🙂

[exotic wave]

you get 22

IIIRC

might be less actually

[torn dust]

i JUST realized there is a boss in the first zone off the first camp that gives frost resist

[exotic wave]

24

you get 24 spec points

[torn dust]

i wish they would give us a separate ring/charm pouch.. so we could play the game of swapping it in and out without taking up inventory slots

[exotic wave]

witch hunter btw can take anotehr 24

but uh... why?

[torn dust]

wait... another 24? so 48 total??

[exotic wave]

yeah

[torn dust]

wow, that's really unique

not sure what i would use that for

[exotic wave]

same thing you already do?

[torn dust]

i found that phat unique that converts 50% of health into ES and ggives +100 ES.. but i loaned it to a friend who is strugglings 🙂

[exotic wave]

eh

ES doesn't do much against hte most dangerous damage type (chaos)

[torn dust]

true

unless you go chaos innoc

and if you do, that item is pretty phat

i guess it was kind of silly to make my second monk also invoker... i made him just to try a new build, but then he was rollin so much i just kept playing him.. and now i have two invoker monks in act 3 .. hmm

so what do you to do generate power charges?

at low levels i found staggering palm pretty annoying because mobs would go from above stagger range to dead so i could never get any charges

[exotic wave]

uh... if you go chaos innoc

that item does nothing

50% of 1 is 0

(because it rounds down to avoid killing you)

or maybe it doesn't and do in fact just kill you for equipping it (it won't, it probably is coded to do nothing if you have CI)

[viral galleon]

i've been going siphoning strike but i'm playing with shock

[exotic wave]

honestly you only REALLY need the node

to get the 125%

the other charges is mostly for AoE increase

oh btw

you don't have to cull with culling palm to get the charge

just have to kill with it period

with proper scaling that's beyond doable in fights with adds

[torn dust]

ohh.. hmm

ill have to look at how i could buff the dmg i guess

the only thing i use it for right now is staggering bosses or elites before the stagger bar is full

[exotic wave]

rings, gloves are the big easy ones

[hexed stream]

CI and bloodmage, easiest suicide

[torn dust]

did you see in the patch notes you can hold ctrl/alt when you click on a vendor to skip to the vendor screen

[exotic wave]

nope

easier suicide

CI+EB

1 hp

IIRC BM won't let you kill yourself with casting

in 2

[torn dust]

they also changed (buffed) dodge roll to try to stop that cluster of death where you get body blocked

you are now zero size when dodge rolling (instead of 1)

i dont know if i could give up bell, because the other nice big use of it is when i can't stay in melee, i can drop the bell and then hit it with a ranged ability (glacial cascade)

[exotic wave]

well yeah it's good

it's just when you are not attacking a ton of times per second it's less good

[hexed stream]

stash tab sale everyone

[torn dust]

phew, foremaster down!

[viral galleon]

just got to act 3

i really need to solve my flask problem

[torn dust]

what is your flask problem?

[tame dome]

No flasks? 😌

[hexed stream]

no used when charge reach full haha

[viral galleon]

flasks are fine i mean mostly my mana chugging problem

why is mana leech support gem phys only

[hexed stream]

isn't that the case with poe1 as well?

casters mostly rely on massive regen

[viral galleon]

there's mana leech on the tree in poe 1 that works on all attack damage not just phys

and i'm not a caster

[hexed stream]

no idea, maybe they'll add that in future changes

[viral galleon]

there's increased mana leech on the tree but no actual mana leech

3 notables in the monk area..

[hexed stream]

I guess the only good way for now is mana recoup

[viral galleon]

look away for a second to check this chat
die
divine orb stolen

[torn dust]

In poe2 there is mana leech on attack as a rune, and an affix

Hmm, maybe just phys though?

But there is always some physical dmg, no?

@viral galleon what skill is taking all your mana?

The only time ive had mana problems is when i had big multipliers on a costly skill, or had multipl costly skills in a rotation

[hexed stream]

this corpse-less dd build is fun

[viral galleon]

i had a staff that was pure lightning (no phys) and was adding +3 to levels of my melee skills

so i couldn't slap the mana leech rune on it, and the +3 levels was driving the mana costs up

i got a new staff that doesn't have either of those things so i was able to slap the mana leech rune and it fixed my problems

[torn dust]

ahh, i wonder if that is what is happening to one of my characters with +levels on something!

[fierce moth]

what's cof in poe 2? i heard it from complaint about this nerf

[hexed stream]

just bought gem tab, such a life changer

[hexed stream]

no worry, justifiable nerfs, just the bad thing is there's no free respec in return

[fierce moth]

Will the purchase in ea version immigrate to release version in the future?

[hexed stream]

yes, always

[torn dust]

haha... these act 3 bosses are lit

[hexed stream]

this thing is 3rd trial right?

is this 3rd trial too?

[junior oyster]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttVtllHkb4E

Holy moly

I'm a fan for sure lol

[fierce moth]

I don't know what that rotating purple flat effect is, it just looks ridiculous

[hexed stream]

trires max life, wonder how much I should sell this

[fierce moth]

aaaaaa just a bit more then I can pass the third phase to enter the last phase, but I still be slain by poisoned spears

Evade too much because I'm too serious

Damn just 1% boss health but I'm dead

Holy damn. Poisoned spears are sucks

[hexed stream]

probably the best designed item in game, I like this a lot

feel like a queen wearing this

[fierce moth]

yeah the only issue is i don't have one 🤭

[twilit mountain]

It's broken, don't worry about it

[hexed stream]

it's only 1 ex

and this, this is huge, 40% physical dr

[fierce moth]

Do cast on shock is on or not? if it's on, why I still have 60 spirits?

[vagrant topaz]

Is that any good for a Caster ?

[hexed stream]

forget all the cast on something, they're all dead

[fierce moth]

hhh make sense then

[hexed stream]

actually on crit is a bit better, but idk

[tawny sand]

man the monk part of the passive tree is kind of weird

i thought maybe i'd do cold but things are so far away, idk

[hexed stream]

guys, how do I do my 3rd trial? I have a 3 floor sanctum and 7 round ultimatum

[fierce moth]

Man can you help me pass that damn poisoned spears?... I died 30 times here and still keep dying 😭

Max all of stuff i can adjust but just make no sense because my reaction always earlier than her attack

[hexed stream]

I didn't even know how I passed her, prolly the hardest boss so far for me

[fierce moth]

.... Holy hard, I'm KILL HER!!!!!!!!!!

🎉

lET ME SEND A BIT EMOTE TO CONGRATULATIONS FOR THIS MOMENT...
👏

[vagrant topaz]

[hexed stream]

in poe, all the % damage dealt as extra damage to an element, they are all damage multiplier pre-mitigation right?

[fierce moth]

That's annoying that the game give me so many quest items to capture inventory's space 🙃 I still no idea where should i give all of them

[hexed stream]

sell them

the relic ones

the mushroom ones turn quest in'

[fierce moth]

... Idols are for golds only? Oh bad

And these idols don't give me golds actually

they're buggy

oh nevermind, i sell them for wrong npc

[torn dust]

does anyone know if this gem causes culling? or does it only proc if the supported skill already culls

[vagrant topaz]

Doesnt say it gives culling

[torn dust]

no it certainly does not

[hexed stream]

cast on culling

[fierce moth]

what's culling?

Ge, just fill my stomach

[hexed stream]

now it's my turn to fill the stomach

[torn dust]

culling is when something kills a target when it's very low life.. like culling strike that kills a normal target at ?20% health??

[hexed stream]

execute in LE

[vagrant topaz]

Kill Threshold

[hexed stream]

look at this long ass connection, wasted so many points being a physical blood mage

actually wait, I can anoint that break armor node

damn, why didn't I think of that

[sand wigeon]

Okami 2 announced! I cried!

[vagrant topaz]

They are the same thing exactly

[fervent hazel]

yea, this game is torture. feels like work

[fierce moth]

hhhhh tell everyone a shocking news:
I can run out all charges on life flask in the process of exploring black chambers...

Zero savepoints here

closer and closer to 500 times :)

Anyone can help me escape from black chambers?

I can understand boss combats supposes to be hard but don't know what the sense of adding difficulty on map exploring is...

[hexed stream]

such a nice number

[fierce moth]

ok daily crash is done

[hexed stream]

"rich" again

[fierce moth]

I guess it's not enough for respecing a passive point even

[hexed stream]

coz I just respec 30 points

got new idea, and new idea is always expensive

go hong kong again, fk singapore server at night

[ebon meadow]

Sometimes it's cheaper to reroll than respec lol

[hexed stream]

reroll?

you mean play new char?

[ebon meadow]

U do know that u can portal to town and refil right ?

[ebon meadow]

Yea

[twilit mountain]

Ah yes. Let me just reroll on the like 30 hour campaign.

[hexed stream]

nah, 100k gold is only 1-2h, 6 acts is many days

[ebon meadow]

I get the irony lol but sometimes that's the case speatially at league starts

[twilit mountain]

They didn't even give us the kindness of good leveling uniques 🫠

[ebon meadow]

At least u get to keep the gold avoiding respec and just Gamba buying items from trader on fresh char

That brings the question ,is gold character bound or league/ACC bound ?

[desert jasper]

it's not character bound

because I rolled another character to play with a friend and the gold is shared

[ebon meadow]

That's good

[hexed stream]

same as kaalgurs, gold is shared

[ebon meadow]

And about leveling uniques I did saw a screen shot of lifesprig I just don't remember what level was it

I think it was 34

[fierce moth]

would you like to kill the last boss of act 3 together?

[ebon meadow]

Not sure if there's any lvl 1-4 uniques tbf

[ebon meadow]

I m still in act 2 didn't have much time to play this week and was just randomly exploring zones

For boses ,Easter eggs etc etc

There's supposed to be secret zones I think with loot so want to find those to

[hexed stream]

lifesprig, if you get 1 at level 1

[ebon meadow]

First play thru is for exploring and learning every pixel every zone lol after that making the run thrugh acts faster

What I can skip to later and comeback overleveled

[ebon meadow]

That's good at least u can get uniques for leveling

[hexed stream]

a quick search on trade site with req level limit to 5 will show a lot of unique

[fierce moth]

Holy god... yeah i need to holy god again

wtf these rays appears

[ebon meadow]

I keep forgetting we can trade lol I always played self inflicted ssf

I usually buy like a 6 link early league and that's about it ,rest I farm my self

Maybe a unique like Maven boots if the build requires it and I don't really like bossing

Just want to explodes screens of mobs man

Switched to cold and shattering in my monk I think o did something wrong lol it feels really underpowered now even with level 7 gems

Lightning felt so much better

[fierce moth]

alright I'm slain again... But it's easier than the boss in Utzaal to deal at least

[hexed stream]

lol, play blood mage, spell costs only 22 mana = life, feel good

[ebon meadow]

First I need to echo get monk on leaderboard just because fun so I keep randomly making people to try it out

At least in to top 5 builds ,then I go to my beloved witch and do spells I know it always works and it's better

Logically casting spells from far and not getting hit will always be better than any melé

[hexed stream]

lol, now I come back to kill this viper boss in cruel in utzaal, how the table has turned, I was killed 10 times by her, now I do her in 10s

[ebon meadow]

Works for bows to I guess

[ebon meadow]

Yea we need to get that feel of power crip by leveling and gearing

As Poe 1 we l get to point where we can just blast through campaign

Knowing where to go ,what hits hardest the gear u need the required level and stuff it's just matter of try and fail first time

Rinse and repeat there's not much more of mechanic to play the game

@fierce moth I really enjoyed that interview u link me ,feels nice to see an old geezer like that intusiastic for an ARPG

The one with Shuhei

[fierce moth]

I'm insane on how to deal a big boss again

Deadly red ray from that huge reobot can't be avoided at all

It's become evade simulator again

[ebon meadow]

Yea lost ark hit west a lot on that ,Devs figured where to make game difficult for us

Coordination is not our strongest side

That reminded me of DPS from wow shorts and standing still

It's always healers fault btw just saying xdd

[hexed stream]

I underestimated the power of aoe, my clear speed literally x2

[ebon meadow]

I guessing u mentioning the range scale ? Can it cover the screen ?

[junior oyster]

I think having a clickable well in poe2 is pointless

In poe1 your flasks would autofill in town/hideout

[fierce moth]

can you help me kill act 3 last boss?

[junior oyster]

I can try but can't guarantee

[fierce moth]

How do you evade red rays from big robot?

[junior oyster]

Uh can't remember tbh lol

[fierce moth]

hah let's see your performance lol

your ign is?

[junior oyster]

Gimme a few mins

Just finishing an area

[fierce moth]

@twilit mountain do all areas in cruel acts share the same landscapes (maps) from act 1-3?

[junior oyster]

Yes

[fierce moth]

Ok then I'm done the poe 2 journey after complete act 3

[junior oyster]

Killed the boss? gg

[fierce moth]

No

I'm waiting you 😅

[ebon meadow]

Depending on ray mechanic if it's permanent u go close to boss since u can go behind him in couple of steps if it's targeted then there must be something like a column or rather u go out of range

There's a ray mechanic that u go further from it it breaks

[junior oyster]

Not sure I can change the difficulty tbh

Oh wait I can

Inv when you can

Apparently I might not be able to help you after all

Lemme check

[hexed stream]

the only word I can use here is instinct

the same way I killed act 1 boss deathless without any prior knowledge of boss mechanics

[junior oyster]

Yea doesn't look like I can help you Kirra

[fierce moth]

hah?

[junior oyster]

Hold on maybe I can now

[fierce moth]

You're playing different difficulty?

Ok let's go

[ebon meadow]

Would be dumb if u can't lower difficulty in party even if u stats are adjusted

Now how that works in EA is another thing

[junior oyster]

Nah for a while it was saying that we don't share the same quest line

Lol

[fierce moth]

Thanks, holy god another poor loots moment

[ebon meadow]

Ohh yea things can be scuffed

[junior oyster]

You get better loot in elite

Cruel*

[ebon meadow]

That staff base looks appealing

[junior oyster]

Also every time you level up check the shops

Sometimes they sell good stuff

[ebon meadow]

They refresh every level like old vendors ?

[junior oyster]

This?

[ebon meadow]

Yea

[hexed stream]

you can adjust that in option same as poe1

[ebon meadow]

I thought so to but things like that sometimes have flaws in early acces

And GGG don't have a lot of testers so things are miss done for party play

[junior oyster]

I strongly believe kirra could have killed boss lol

[ebon meadow]

She is just missing some experience in bossing on Poe

[hexed stream]

I grow more and more hateful of map load time

[ebon meadow]

We just face roll the mechanics after doing same map Bose's 10000 times

And that's just map Bose's not even end game and Ubers

[ebon meadow]

Just memeing but this was an issue with shader catches in Poe1

Might help if u delete the folders of an engine that u are not using

[hexed stream]

you don't have map load time at all?

[ebon meadow]

I get long screens to but that's on my end ,internet and stuff

No more that 30 sec tops with bad network

It can happen a lot when u loading the zone for first time

[hexed stream]

took me like 2-3s to load map, something unique to poe2

[fierce moth]

The biggest achievement so far: #📚┃off-topic message

[ebon meadow]

Yea than it's shader download issue then

[junior oyster]

Mine is my potato pc

[ebon meadow]

Maps share zones with acts and stuff but new areas can be a pain in the ass since u have to download the shaders for them first time entering

[junior oyster]

Any kirra gotta so good luck

[ebon meadow]

I m running the game on an HDD with 900 GB of data on it

[junior oyster]

Ooof

[ebon meadow]

that is my fault defenetly

[fierce moth]

good luck?

[junior oyster]

Gotta go*

[ebon meadow]

Download is not an issue it's writing down on that drive that slows down my pc

[fierce moth]

I hope so

[hexed stream]

wait, how do you solve it again?

I don't want to mess with my poe1 folder

[ebon meadow]

Go to game folder and delete the engines u are not using

Like dx11 or Vulcan if u running on dx12 for example

[hexed stream]

the game loads everything?

[fierce moth]

you can leave the party to do your things if you want. I'm not very want to play the same process again in higher difficulty now

[ebon meadow]

Sometimes it does as residual data yea

[hexed stream]

tbh I still don't know whether dx12 or vulkan is better for me, definitely not dx11

[ebon meadow]

The problem is when u switch them constantly

It takes like an hour of gameplay in Poe 1 to adjust after cleaning them

[hexed stream]

hang on, which folder? I can't see such folder in my installation location

[ebon meadow]

U on steam?

[hexed stream]

no, direct client

[fierce moth]

? How to understand "similar items"? Aren't they rings? 😅

[ebon meadow]

Go to game folder ,appdata and search for engine folders

It's a bit different for steam

[hexed stream]

no such folder

[ebon meadow]

Should be in one of those folders then

Rather logged or streamline

I don't think they could pull it out without separating shaders from one to another

That would be clusterfucked and a big mistake

[hexed stream]

none of them

[fierce moth]

and why act 3 is completed but these mushrooms still in my inventory...?

[hexed stream]

I suspect the shaders are inside that big ass 90gb file

[hexed stream]

it's a quest in a map where you see a big cauldron and a big fat woman

you put all 3 mushrooms into the cauldron

[junior oyster]

I think you shoud. The game truly starts in elite

Your build starts to come alive in that difficulty

[hexed stream]

people give up too early in arpg

[ebon meadow]

Fast googling ,they might be stored on Ur GPU

[junior oyster]

Feel free to add me to your friend list and I can help you later if you want

[fierce moth]

yeah in the friend list already

[ebon meadow]

If they actually didn't separated shaders in folder that is a very bad thing

There's no freaking CPU on market that can go though each engine as u load a zone

[junior oyster]

I was the same with grim dawn when I first tried it. I didn't even get halfway through act 1 before I quit. Later I got into when bliz put out their terrible necro and saw Crate's version of necro and that sold me lol

[ebon meadow]

They like 4gb to 12 of data to read instantly lol

[junior oyster]

Yea I think I got 2gb vram lol

[fierce moth]

I don't know which location... In act 3? Here's my quest log

[junior oyster]

The mushrooms are mostly useless you can throw them away if you want

[hexed stream]

the map after drowned land

that too, only give you 2 useless flasks anyway

let's kick doryani ass

[ebon meadow]

I l ask in another chat there's some rogue Devs there about shaders

[hexed stream]

ok, took 15s to finish act 6 boss

[fierce moth]

You mean untzaal and relevant locations? But I can't go back because I'll go to act 1 cruel instead

[hexed stream]

mapping time, roarrr

[fierce moth]

...Holy damn I have to go through riverbank again

I shouldn't go back act 3 after unlock cruel

[ebon meadow]

Yea so touch under own risk folder lol

[hexed stream]

nah, I don't dare to mess with that

[ebon meadow]

Yep ,and that's a bad thing as well

They should be in game folder and don't affect anything else apart from it

[hexed stream]

I saw some streamers having 3 sockets on chest and 2 on others, how the heck they do that

[ebon meadow]

Like if there's a bad update to engine and u have to delete it for any reason that can brick up Ur pc

[ebon meadow]

Probably an Ilvl threshold

[hexed stream]

lol I can't return to act 6 to check vendors?

[fierce moth]

emmm ok it worth my time now

[exotic wave]

was the chest corrupted?

vaal/corrupting an item can add sockets

[hexed stream]

seems like this is the case

[ebon meadow]

Meanwhile papi has been repairing his work machine for last two days ,I hate electricity and working on triphasic machine

[fierce moth]

You're brave

[hexed stream]

bought 2 jewels for 8ex, so ex-pensive

damn, I'm confused, what are the symbols on top of atlas maps?

[fierce moth]

Oh ok don't find chaos rune but find chaos charm

[hexed stream]

map monster density is kinda terrible, but judging the way they hit like a truck in campaign, better not adding too much

[shadow karma]

Pantheon rise of the fallen EA just went live for anybody looking for an awesome old school mmo.

[fierce moth]

Ok I'm done today, happy for today's progress and if I say plan for next step, that's spec my passive path to this place.

Need to manage inspirations I collected in game before

@junior oyster I can say my action skills improves a lot after some practice with bosses in act 1-3 indeed but my damage still... Sigh always poor and my combat time always last a long time

No idea when I can pick up the first unique item from random loots

[junior oyster]

Uniques are very situational imo

Unless it's needed for your build to properly function then you can do without uniques

[tawny sand]

yeah uniques aren't everything, some are build defining, some are just good for levelling a bit till your replace it with a strong rare, etc.

[fierce moth]

I need a good rest tonight...

Viper Napuatzi, this is a boss name worth to remember forever 🫡

[tawny sand]

i still struggle on rathbreaker, got to him again in cruel.

every other boss easy pz, rathbreaker's hyenas just make me so mad

[fierce moth]

no idea which boss is it without picture

[tawny sand]

so i'm playing ranger for a bit rn

[tawny sand]

beginning of act 2, the one that summons hyenas

[hexed stream]

finally have my 1st hideout, it's a milestone there

this is exactly what everyone is complaining about the passive tree, the 2 attribute nodes in the middle for example, can and should totally be removed, there are many instances of this redundance of attribute nodes

[fierce moth]

I don't want to play another characters before I can kill all bosses in game without struggling (never be slain by them)

[hexed stream]

what ascendancy you play again?

[exotic wave]

I think I'll stick to my 5 current ones

[fierce moth]

lightning stormweaver

[hexed stream]

1 or 2 builds still viable, but mostly gutted, the class is

[fierce moth]

🤭 I have no idea why flame wall + sparks combo still works the best in these elemental skills for this build

From lv.1 to lv.49 already

[tawny sand]

if you're still applying burn with the flame wall/spark combo, you could take the increased damage per ailments.

idk how good that would be though

[fierce moth]

Just plus a curse to reduce lightning resistance later within this progress

[fierce moth]

from support gem?

[tawny sand]

i got kind of annoyed cause i was looking for cc through lightning, but the only skill gem that applies electrocution by default is electrocuting arrow

[tawny sand]

nah, it's on the passive tree

idk how good it would be if you dont' apply all 3 ailments though (burn, shock, chill)

[exotic wave]

voltaic grenade

[vagrant topaz]

Yup, I am looking forward to get that

[tawny sand]

that has to be used with a crossbow

but yeah ur right, i forgot about that one

[vagrant topaz]

When do we start get Meta Gems? (I guess they are just lvl 8 Spirit Gems)

[exotic wave]

tbf electrocuting arrow has to be used with a regular one

yeah they're just regular spirit gems

you might have to click "show all"

[tawny sand]

i know, that's why i was annoyed

[exotic wave]

hey better than every other weapon

they lack it entirely

[fierce moth]

This one?

I think I can try

Hly god crazy ratio

[hexed stream]

out of hundreds of attribute nodes, I think there are at least 40-50 nodes that I would call: useless attribute nodes, which have these conditions: between 2 other attribute nodes, not in a junction/crossroad, not connected to any cluster of nodes

then there are around 20-30 cluster nodes without proper connections, idk how to call that

like you can see right in the middle, the disconnection makes it much harder to go to the other path, need redesign on this

[fierce moth]

Test the new passive path next day

[tawny sand]

hope it works, might not be good unless you do all three ailments but worth a try i guess

[fierce moth]

I feel energy field is useless because it always zero when I'm in combats

Armor or evasion is the key to survive

[tawny sand]

yeah idk, i figured you could have it regen constantly but there weren't a lot of nodes for it i saw?

[junior oyster]

I have 1.1k life and only 166 ES however the ES seems to help with certain situations

[hexed stream]

so in poe2 there's a snake boss called manassa, and it totally reminds me of majasa

[junior oyster]

Love not being able to tell an enemy's gas cloud from mine

[fierce moth]

poe 2 have a snake boss? I guess I never meet one

[junior oyster]

a2

[fierce moth]

no impression

[hexed stream]

not in campaign, in maps

[junior oyster]

There is one in campaign too though?

The one that gives you +2 skill points

[hexed stream]

I discover a very disturbing fact: passive node density in the bottom half of the map is considerably better than the top half

I suspect if divided by percentage, bottom half is like 60-65% of the nodes

[fierce moth]

hah? there's a boss give me 2 skill points?... I just remember double optional bosses in campaign give me weapon set points (passive tree points)

[tawny sand]

fane is saying like "passive skill points" i'm pretty sure

interchangeable wording

[fierce moth]

I just seen this type. Oh the whole name maybe weapon skill points

oh wait weapon skill... Then make sense. I never use weapon skill lol

[junior oyster]

Same I have no reason to swap

[muted parrot]

dunno if your question is already answered but you can look for map symbols at top left corner

[fierce moth]

Do this tab is for skill gems, spirit gems and support gems in poe 2?

[twilit mountain]

Yeah

[fierce moth]

Do I only need a premium tab then i can trade with people on the web?

I wonder if it's the biggest reason people buy premium tabs

🤔 175 points only, I wonder should I buy 6x stash tabs or a map tab because I only can pick 1 in 2

[tawny sand]

map tab isn't in poe2 yet if that matters

[fierce moth]

No idea how maps in poe 2 will going and I'm far away from end game

oh just see fragment tab in shop but... What's fragment in poe 2 🤔

Oh.. Maybe... yeah they're relevant to end game only. For summoning different encounters to get more rewards i guess

[tawny sand]

you should be able to see the in game mtx shop what tabs they have built so far

i don't think fragments is one

unless you're thinking essences?

[fierce moth]

I don't know where tab option is... Don't find it in shop... or I can't load shop lol

[tawny sand]

oh weird idk

[ebon meadow]

If u have the tabs in Poe 1 they should show in Poe 2

I actually haven't looked if I have specific ones I just saw the premium ones

Yea shop doesn't work most of times for me neither for some reason

@fierce moth get a quad and a premium stash for now just so u can list thing on trade

I am assuming u have the currency one already

[fierce moth]

I can say gem tab isn't be done yet

support gems mix with skill gems hah... I'm uncomfortable

[ebon meadow]

That's actually nice I might get one my self with the uncuts now

[ebon meadow]

U can filter them no ?

[fierce moth]

can you load shop?

Filiter... yeah that's the unfinish part.

[ebon meadow]

I forgot how bad discord is with images and high quality lol

It does look like it's not filtering though

Da hell is persistent buff ,spirit ones ?

[fierce moth]

these skill gems isn't lv 1 but all of them is lv 1

[fierce moth]

support gems and skill gems don't belong to uncut gems but they're in this sort

[fierce moth]

Do map tab available in poe 2 now? Can you load the shop in game?

I just know i can change tab colours manually 🤭

[twilit mountain]

There is no map tab in PoE2 rn, if there was I would see it in my stash

[ebon meadow]

I haven't actually checked witch tabs were transferred I saw them been reset for me I just grab two premiums to rename for stuff for current character and another one for things I wanna keep when I reroll

[fierce moth]

🤔 Then... I should buy 6x tabs?

[ebon meadow]

They on sale ?

[fierce moth]

Seems that you miss something
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-post/25618682

[ebon meadow]

I would really recommend at least one quad stash for dumping

Deli has a separate stash ???

That's new to me lmao

[fierce moth]

A question is I don't like the grid is too small so it's not the same size with another tabs and items looks smaller too

[twilit mountain]

Been around for a good few leagues now yeah

[ebon meadow]

When u map u end up learning how to do it effectively,do map grab good bases and things dump in quad open new map

[fierce moth]

I prefer more tabs than more grids

[ebon meadow]

U sort things when u get "free" time

When u eating u sort all that crap for example

When mapping u just put 10 maps in u inventory and u speed them open map ,do it ,dump the things u think u want to keep or they are good and u open Next map

If us spend 10 mints in hideout every map sorting what u picked up u l never level up or progress

But it's not a law at end it's just how to be efficient

[fierce moth]

😂 ......

As your words I had wasted a lot of time in sorting my loots in le

Such a pity that next update is live until April... I enjoy the time sorting my loots in le

[ebon meadow]

I still do same mistakes to lol I can play a lot better than I do I just like to hoard things

[fierce moth]

Just purchased a premium tab 👌

[ebon meadow]

This is also an issue keeping things what u think can be used on other build that u l never play lol

[ebon meadow]

Nice , now get ready to get spammed for buy when u list something underpriced

[fierce moth]

The most valuable time for stash is when I'm wiliing to store my loots to support myself playing different builds

[ebon meadow]

I was just feeling that getting X6 premiums was a waste for u at the moment keep the points and get something u like later

[fierce moth]

yeah it's the best idea i guess

[ebon meadow]

Ohhh so naive it's nice lol but think about if u going to play those builds outside cycle/league

[fierce moth]

I don't know will stash page have any change later

[ebon meadow]

What u mean ?

[fierce moth]

? you mean poe will clear tabs I purchased in the last league and I must purchase them again for current league?

I don't know how the future of poe 2's stash will going

[tawny sand]

yes i can

[ebon meadow]

No no the stashes stay permanently in every league

[fierce moth]

what shop is showing now?

[ebon meadow]

It's more of a thing like my issue that I hoard a lot of stuff that I think I can make a build around but I never do since I always play temporal leagues

The stashes stay the items in them get transferred to standard

And I only use standard as museum and for stuff I can test on weird builds

Like mjolner and arc for example who doesn't want to have a Thor build

[fierce moth]

😢 That's odd

[ebon meadow]

It does load I know ,it's an issue with ISP I have same problem

People closer to main server and with really good connection can load it no problem

I m not even sure now if Texas is main server once again

[fierce moth]

I connect the server again then it show zero point I own

[ebon meadow]

Wait ,the mtx store points ?

Check on the website if they there u ok

[fierce moth]

125 points left in balance, let's keep them for a while

I can use web to buy them only yeah

[ebon meadow]

They don't degrade so keep them for now u might see something u want like a skill effect or something so u have them there

[fierce moth]

The budget is for map tab mainly though

[ebon meadow]

Yea but we don't have it yet and if we get one

As long as u have currency ,a premium and frag tab u good to go for now

Bit it is nice to have maps sorted to I agree

Think of things that take up to much space in normal tab now rest can wait

[fierce moth]

All tabs i have:
5 premium tabs, 1 unique item tab, 1 divide card tab, 1 currency tab

[ebon meadow]

More than enough to play the game

Keep the points to feel pretty in game

It feels nice sometimes to buy some mtx for a build u hyped for

[fierce moth]

😂 ...
The question is all MTX need 300 points at least

[tawny sand]

some stuff goes on sale

[junior oyster]

Lol using a wall to defend myself against this guy

His aoe slam goes through but does no damage on the other side

[ebon meadow]

just a little tip even if i sound like a sell out but when u get a pack for the game u also get the points worth of that pack apart from the packs features so i hardly pay for points i just get a pack and then use the points to buy stuff

so u get the mtx from the pack and u have all the points to spend from it later

thats how i stack up on MTX

thats why i had no issue buying some EA keys for people just becouse i invested and things that i m gonna spend on later , i still get all the points from those pack for new stuff

make people happy and i can buy some things for me later or when ever i wanted its a decent deal

[tepid bolt]

what type of stash tabs are go to for beginners ?

[ebon meadow]

poe1 currency ,premium , maps, divination cards and frags

premium is probably the first one

just becouse u can still manage curency but u need premium to sell stuff

poe 2 defently premium and the currency rest for now is ur choice i guess i would recomend quad tab and essence for now

(defently not recomending trade chat in game for traiding unless u have some exp)

[tepid bolt]

ty !

[hexed stream]

no map tab, and all those runes/soul cores have nowhere to go, idk when will ggg makes room for those

how hard is the 3rd trial for those already did it?

[torn dust]

id say for beginners in POE2 ... currency > essence > gems > 1-3 quad tabs > flasks

i dont think beginnners should be trading early, the divination cards tab isn't even in POE2

[viral galleon]

pain

[torn dust]

booyah, solo doryani

junk loot

time for cruel

[hexed stream]

I'm no beginner but 1 quad tab is more than enough for me

Also fk my life, electricity cutoff for the next 3h at least

No game no life

[sand wigeon]

that’s not too bad, three hours is pretty chill

just light a candle or two or go dig out a battery powered lamp and read

[sand wigeon]

probs closer to 5 but still

just a chill day of reading

[viral galleon]

man that was a neat touch

when you defeat viper the legion monolith appears and takes her body

[hexed stream]

The issue is, I'm locked out of my home at the same time, electric rolling door

How bad can life be? Yes 😂

[viral galleon]

where do you live where you need electricity to open your door?

[hexed stream]

Kinda like shophouse

[sand wigeon]

the building doesn’t have an emergency generator despite that? weird

could call up the landlord and ask if they have a gasoline generator

[hexed stream]

No building, all are private houses

[sand wigeon]

tf?

[hexed stream]

In my country we don't like apartments

[sand wigeon]

who designed these houses

that’s a huge safety hazard

idk just go in through a window or smth then

[hexed stream]

It is, fire vs unopenable door

[sand wigeon]

yeah

that sucks though

any coffee shops or smth you can go wait at? not a good idea to be stuck outside, so

24/7 gym or diner or smth?

[hexed stream]

The rolling door should have spare battery, but who knows
Guess coffee time

[sand wigeon]

aye

[hexed stream]

Family cafe right next to my house so that's a plus

[sand wigeon]

yeah i’d think the doors would operate on a backup battery but ig it wasn’t planned well

[hexed stream]

Maybe landlord was cheap on that

And 27% battery left, this scares me much more than electricity cutoff lol

[sand wigeon]

ah you’ll be fine, you’re just next door

hope the coffee is good! i myself am heading back to bed

[hexed stream]

Just green tea actually, no electricity can't make coffee. Next door also has no generator

[viral galleon]

doryani refers to you and alva as the demon of atzoatl, neat

[fierce moth]

what?!

You even don't need to dodge deadly red rays from that robot because you kill it before it release red ray?!

[hexed stream]

Yup, dps will trivialize a lot of boss fights

I killed act 4 boss even before it can summon the frost storm phase for example

[desert jasper]

Yeaj
And stuns help a lot too
Stunned Viper when she started flying and then killed her so she didn't do her bs flying aoe or spear stuff

[hexed stream]

I'm back, after almost 6h locked out of home and 2h sitting alone staring into nothingness coz phone battery ran flat

[fierce moth]

The first unique item I get is...

@tawny sand The damage don't increase efficiently until I use this support gem. Quite helpful.

🤭 Let me try ice + fire + lightning skill combo

[hexed stream]

what does this mean tier 2?

[hexed stream]

best shield in the game, no question asked

[fierce moth]

What's freeze buildup?

[hexed stream]

buildup for a freeze to happen

[fierce moth]

oh to freeze a enemy, buildup need reach 100%?

😅 I only reach down 20%

[hexed stream]

I wish I could have these stats

[fierce moth]

...I'm confused how to increase freeze buildup now

😅 It's harder to do something deeper if I use three types of elements instead of one

[hexed stream]

just focus on 1

not enough passive in this game for you to play all 3, you will need 300 passive points to do that

[fierce moth]

Or you can say I want to play elemental converted like runemaster in le

[hexed stream]

then it's only 2 elements, 1 converted to another

there's a build for that, a strong one

[fierce moth]

lol but yeah I need to respec passive points again

[hexed stream]

I mean, why you even choose to spec all 3 elements in the first place

no arpg allows to do that and perform well

[fierce moth]

I understand why these streamers go to play cold damage now... Much more passive nodes for cold damage more than lightning damage

Cold damage can combo with fire damage too, lightning... Like a individual one

🤔 ... Or maybe I should boost fire damage instead of thinking add cold damage

[hexed stream]

that's not the main reason
the main reason is cc

while ggg wants you to play slower than poe1, the monsters are not slower, in fact they are fast and furious

[fierce moth]

...I just rezlize ligthning wrap is a skill for killing enemeies who life below a threshold more than a skill deal damage directly... Make sense on why I always can't tragger this skill

[fierce moth]

I don't have enough golds to respec again

I guess my damage still very poor in this period?

Anyways I have trouble to deal with spirits from this boss still

[narrow token]

How DO you convert damage type in this game?
ie turning quarterstaff freeze wave into fire wave. Just as an example.

[hexed stream]

some unique items do the job, need to search for that

[fierce moth]

Anyone have immune to chill charm? I want to trade one

[hexed stream]

hint: there are only 2 conversion unique items right now, 1 converts fire to cold, the other converts lightning to cold
cold is the king

[twilit mountain]

There's no immune to chill charm, I think? There's an immune to slows and immune to freeze

[twilit mountain]

You can also suffer Avatar of Fire.

[hexed stream]

there is a immune to chill/freeze unique

[fierce moth]

oh then i want a immune to freeze charm

[fierce moth]

I guess I always affected by freeze from spirits so my movement speed is slowed down

immune to stun and immune to slow don't work

[fierce moth]

Can't remember how am I kill that boss last time... 🙃

[desert jasper]

Got a nice upgrade
previous one had max of like... 150 phys dmg and 40 lightning dmg on it

[fierce moth]

Do you have extra immune to freeze charm?

[desert jasper]

Nope

[hexed stream]

Electricity is gone again, fk my life

[fierce moth]

Holy god, no idea why I can struggle with this combat for such a long time.
I still no idea how to deal huge damage in a moment so i don't have to reduce boss's health slowly by shock

I hate no lightning skill can do this thing as like as cold skills

The damage from ligthtning just depend on my intelligence + shock

Both of fire skills and lightning skills don't fun to play :(

Get more intelligence from my gears is the most quick way but this way is too rng... The most stable one is leveling up to get 5 intelligence per level but this way is too slow and I have more usage on passive points...

I suppose lightning builds depends on my luck from my gears the most

My balance for now hhhhh

Ok I get that

I wonder what's guard

[vagrant topaz]

Press alt and hover over

@fierce moth

[tawny sand]

She's on controller

[hexed stream]

Man, jewels do wonder
I bought myself 4 jewels with both double break armor and double phy damage

So now I have to do the math, if I can still reach 100% crit chance after giving up 120% on 4 crit jewels

[fierce moth]

I wonder isn't it the current way for me to take damage... energy field absorbs energy shield at first then cost my life

[vagrant topaz]

Oh! I am sure there is a way to do this as well

[tawny sand]

it takes it away from the Guard buff first, then ES, then Life (unless you have Mind over Matter, then it'd be Guard>ES>Mana>Life)

[vagrant topaz]

Is that the same thing as Ward in PoE 1 then ?

[tawny sand]

maybe idk, i don't remember poe1 well

reading the wiki it sounds similar tho yeah

[hexed stream]

Svalinn poe2 is so much more expensive than in poe1, like 10x more

[fierce moth]

...My patience reach the max limit.

Ok I can't share anything you should do, but I share everything you shouldn't do.

Don't play stormweaver who focus on lightning damage, never.

Lightning damage is driven by shock, this is an ailment which take 20% increased damage in 4 seconds, which mean it's dot.
Then it means you must cast lightning skills consistently to keep your damage increased. due to the rhythm in boss combats overall, that's a super hard thing to do.

None of lightning skills can deal big damage because this is a dot skill. which it means increased lightning damage is the main way to get bonus. Add xxx to xxx lightning damage to attacks and gain xxx% damage as extra lightning damage is another damage bonus available from gears but it's very RHG due to current craft ways.

Another way to increase lightning damage is link suitable support gems. The biggest damage bonus from support gem is lightning mastery, then is lightning penetration and rising tempest. Conduction grant your attack must shock enemies only, how much lightning damage you can deal is depend on... Intelligence.

There's a passive node call pure power, 2% increased lightning damage per intelligence. the mean way to bonus your intelligence is your gears. Due to current craft way is use different currency only, you maybe no luck on gain intelligence affix on the item you want to use or you're using. Any ways else? Yeah, exploit the elements, all natural, stormcharged, stormbreaker, echoing thunder. But all of them is relevant to elemental damage instead of lightning damage.

Let's see another elemental damage, fire and cold damage. fire damage have 36 nodes (increase fire damage[11] + increased ignite chance[11] + ignite duration[5] + fire resistance penetration[6]), cold damage have 35 nodes (increase cold damage[11] + increase freeze buildup[8] + increased cast speed with cold skills[2] + cold resistance penetration[6] + magnitude of chill[3] + cold skills level bonus[1]).

[ebon meadow]

Light skills is used mostly for shock so the enemy's take increase damage it was never a good element or ailment on its own its always to complement with some sort of bigger damage

That's why we used skitter bots on every single freaking build in poe1

[gilded elm]

• Shock is not a DoT. It's a non-damaging ailment that increases incoming damage from all sources. Shock itself isn't strong, it's the things you can do with Shock that are strong (Cast on Shock and Lightning Conduit, for example).
• "Add damage to attacks" does not increase your spell damage, spells and attacks are two different things.
• I play Lightning Stormweaver, it's strong, highly recommend.

[ebon meadow]

∆

That's why it's also the highest damage number per tier