📚┃off-topic

[junior oyster]

That last half only applies to the campaign in poe2

[radiant helm]

I don't know a single thing about POE2 story other then theres a venom like alien turning people into zombies and theres some sekema guy thats very very angry

[junior oyster]

Once you reach endgame you barely rely on your 'training'

And yea what poe2 story lol?

Something something alva is the key to something something

[radiant helm]

And don't forget the sekema

they bad or something

[junior oyster]

And Sin is now D3 tyrael

No longer as cool

[radiant helm]

the chapter 2 guy make sure you get that

[junior oyster]

I barely even remember sekema

Best part about poe2 for me was ultimatum

[radiant helm]

I don't either, but i remember the guy that keep screaming them

[junior oyster]

I know most people probably hated it but I liked it

[radiant helm]

i like the colors and all

but not a big fan of the tribal theme

Also another issue with poe2

can't go to the bathroom for a sec even after killing the enemies

cause a worm will come from hell

and murder you

[abstract karma]

We have pause button in 2

[junior oyster]

There is that ^

Pause doesn't work mainly in pinnacle iirc

[radiant helm]

do we?

huh

[junior oyster]

Esc

[fierce moth]

You reached the endgame?

[junior oyster]

Or w/e you use to get menu

[radiant helm]

not even close

lol

chapter 2

can't advance past that

[abstract karma]

and you stared ?

[radiant helm]

gotta wait for my buddy to wake up before killing the sekema guy together or else he will buzz me all night

[abstract karma]

I have like 8-9 hours and in act2 in midle of it

[radiant helm]

I'm at the end part of it

so i'm just doing secondary stuff i skipped

[maiden widget]

Pause is now also in poe1 and it's such a good feature

[fierce moth]

You enter the abyss? How to jump in?

[junior oyster]

Lol nice got another

Although low roll on atri is kinda oof

[abstract karma]

2 act have access to it

[radiant helm]

Some of the green thingies you kill

will make a hole in the ground

and you jump in

[radiant helm]

very much oof

[junior oyster]

Think I'm gunna dupe this

[junior oyster]

Normal abby dead

Wasn't as easy as last seasons pala though

[jade jackal]

i was very lucky to have 2LP on my first evolutions end

[junior oyster]

Almost feels like boss dropped everything lol

Too bad nihilis dropped with only +1 to skills

Actually scratch that practically the worst rolls ever

[jade jackal]

im currently using the RM Lightning Blast build, gotta say that im having lots of fun

i had to mute the monotone and terrible SFX, but its great

This is proper chain lightning endgame fantasy

[junior oyster]

Alright time to complete my quests

This is kinda bothering me

[jade jackal]

After 4 toons this season, gotta say

[junior oyster]

This is only my second

[jade jackal]

im beginning to really hate the mandatory aspect of completing campeign for power

[junior oyster]

Also my build isn't super op either

[jade jackal]

There's truly nothing fun or rewarding in doing this slog

[junior oyster]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QJdmpNbo

[candid crypt]

Beastmaster, Level 92

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Beneath Ancient Skies / 1.3

Class:

Primalist (25) / Beastmaster (68) / Druid (12)

General:

▸ Health: 2,140, Regen: 298.92/s
▸ Mana: 154.4, Regen: 8/s
▸ Ward Retention: 17%, Regen: 0/s
▸ Attributes: 116 Str / 29 Dex / 7 Int / 25 Att / 13 Vit
▸ Resistances: 92% / 249% / 88% / 86% / 102% / 85% / 116%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 52%, Threshold: 609
▸ Dodge Chance: 6% (162)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 67% (5,477)
▸ Block Chance: 8%, Mitigation: 19% (192)

Used skills:

Summon Frenzy Totem / Swipe / Fury Leap / Summon Wolf / Warcry

[junior oyster]

Like no crafts on my legendaries xD

[jade jackal]

where did you get the idol from

[junior oyster]

Prophecies

Dropped from a boss though iirc

Same with naals tooth

[junior oyster]

Ahhh the bug that makes my game freeze during loading screen is a real freaking pain

Just lost sanctum key and portal charm...

[fierce moth]

I have everything for playing abomination necromancer but... Let me play poe2's lich at first.

I can't wait to see how GGG craft act 4

[maiden widget]

i can now do 1000 corruption on my reflect guy but i'd need to learn uber abberroth to complet eit

[junior oyster]

Got it yay

[acoustic jungle]

I've never seen a better-looking game than PoE2. It's all-max and on an OLED, but I was honestly taken aback by it. Both by its style and its graphics. Usually hate this dark-all-the-time-and-somber bs, but PoE2 does it really well.

The game's still dogpoo tho. Loot pinata with absolutely no real goals.

And then you remember how they have their own custom engine, and how they're like ~200+ employees, and you think to yourself - what the HELL are Blizzard doing across all their IPs?

Programmer guy from GGG that types here - you guys are incredible. No idea what your pipelines look like or what tooling you have, but this is how a company should run.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrHHTQqmAaM hands down one of the best marketing material for PoE2. To think a technical talk would be so interesting.

[twilit mountain]

GGG is over 700 employees, mate.

[junior oyster]

There's a guy from ggg posting here? Interesting

[tawny sand]

i wish poe2 was a loot pinata

i think there's a programmer yeah

[desert jasper]

There are at least 2 GGG employees here

[abstract karma]

no wonder they need rush developing since they have no money to pay them

[desert jasper]

Also, I went back to trying out PoE2 after my earlier salt
I did finish act 1
Boss felt rough, rougher than I remember it being

[abstract karma]

f.. i want currency trade wanna buy runes i need >.>

[fierce moth]

yes! I kill act 2 final boss without death.

[junior oyster]

I hope whoever makes the costume MTX learns to reduce the amount of glitter on items

I would have bought this if not for the excessive 'light'

Also while I did buy this last season I absolutely hate the helm

Who thought starry eyes was a good idea lol

Near perf rolls

[fierce moth]

Interesting, I don't meet silverfist before I find the waypoint for the first time

[abstract karma]

even npc roast how gold are usefull in poe

[fierce moth]

I kill silverfist without death too

The arena don't have random mobs to bother me finally

[jolly wadi]

What do you mean? Tencent basically bought them out a while back.

They got potentially many billions of dollars at their disposal.

[jolly wadi]

The holy crotch compels you to buy it!

[junior oyster]

These devs love Slay the Spire 👀

[jolly wadi]

But yeah, I dunno what they were thinking with those identical looking light crosses on the arms, forearms, knees, crotch, chest and face. It'd prolly look fine if they weren't lit up.

[abstract karma]

they need pay back for what they were bought.. Common if you are owned by big corporate especially Asian one

[junior oyster]

Also love this visual bug

[fierce moth]

Ok...Today's task is done

[junior oyster]

Weee did it

You don't get a point for this right?

[maiden widget]

nope if you hover the trees bottom count it tells you which youre missing iirc

[junior oyster]

Ah lol thanks

Aside from levelling the tree I'm missing

[maiden widget]

havent gotten a single one of these

2 chars one 97 and 99

[junior oyster]

Honestly I don't care too much about uber abby so farming red rings feels dead to me

I was expecting to lose in fading brink thinking I'll need better gear

Also Masque is useless

Only sells trash maps

[vagrant topaz]

Same last season

I had to ask someone to open one for me

[junior oyster]

I'd help but then I found I don't have any more xD

[fierce moth]

🤣 🤣 ....It seems that boss combats later will be a gaint bone...

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 Glad to know I have the same reaction with Ziz.

[jade jackal]

I cant wait for the xmog system to come in

and let us have freedom with color and pieces of gear

including existing pieces we have collected so far

[desert jasper]

Hmm... So I can't land hits on Bala.. whateverhernameis with Perfect Strike
like I swear, enemy moves a little? it always misses
enemy is too close to you? it misses

[tawny sand]

more than one of those is a nightmare lol

just one isn't too bad though, the beam tracks pretty slow

[fierce moth]

Had great fun to watch double poe 2 0.3 clip videos from exile again, yes

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxerVHuxBc7gNig-hoJUWyO2_pI0ix33pN?si=BbHcTlmWYzrivDZm
2 bugs GhazzyTV had discovered looks the most funny. One is infinite minions, the other one is his reaction for ||flashing|| passive tree

Let me watch how Hawg review this league

[junior oyster]

More than anything I want to be able to hide gear so for example instead of a helmet being forced no matter what I can have just the face show

[jade jackal]

yeah

hiding helmet is important

hell, all slots should have a hide option

I really hope EHG is going to make a homerun with the xmog system

D4 should be the blueprint IMO

One of the only things they did right lol

[junior oyster]

I'm not sure I follow but I guess d3 did it before no?

[jade jackal]

D4's system is even a little more advanced

but ill buy D3's system for xmog, sure

they dont have a hide option, but they do have a dye system that includes a vanishing dye to hide stuff

i wanna see how EHG implements dyes

[junior oyster]

They do have hide though

Or d3 did

[jade jackal]

D3 had a vanishing dye that just "paints" stuff as none existant

[desert jasper]

I'd just run all my characters in underwear

[junior oyster]

I see it as the same thing

[jade jackal]

That just meant you had to re-dye

[junior oyster]

Also grim dawn has something like that too

[jade jackal]

D4's dye system is a little more advanced because dyes didnt just paint the whole item in a single color like it did on D3. It changed the color scheme according to shades a little more accurate

[blissful token]

I see a fellow warrior

[desert jasper]

I'm not sure where

[fierce moth]

I agree that after tested that for one night. Hawg talked its shortage accurately:

Sprint will let our character follow a U shape instead of turn direction immediately so knock on a wall/a mob/an object is quite common through we can adjust the direction.

Plus that dumb knockdown after sprinted for a distance... Quite easy to be slain when our character trying to stand up.

[desert jasper]

never been knocked down while sprinting
have you tried not running into enemies?

[fierce moth]

As current density of enemies... Not quite free space available to sprint exactly

Yes, I just watch my lich standing up from knockdown xd

[desert jasper]

I use it all the time
Just drop it when I see enemies

[fierce moth]

hah by the way sorry to know the tornado bird got zero changes.

So... I can predict my experience on 2nd ascendancy maybe is a chaos. It's a trial of chaos, yes

Even pro player like Ziz think this trial is a disaster.

[junior oyster]

Ziz is a whiner

[fierce moth]

Oh? I hope my journey in trial of chaos is as smooth as the chain combat in bloodline glade, of course.

Get these damn debuff away 🙏

This is a new way to do monetization for GGG... Just learnt mystery box they released, it's as equal as pay to gamble 🤔

[twilit mountain]

Not new, PoE1 has had them for... many years

[fierce moth]

I guess EHG will learn how to get money from mtx with the same way one day

[tawny sand]

yeah probably

[junior oyster]

Yes from final prophecy xD

[abstract karma]

where is LP X?

[junior oyster]

Got another

[jade jackal]

you get 1 you get 100

Bless how broken the weaver tree is

[jade jackal]

How going back to work tomorrow looks like right now

[gilded elm]

Pohx spittin' facts: https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1n4yoro/seeing_all_the_rage_and_fomo_posts_this_pohx_clip/

[acoustic jungle]

As you age (I'd say, uh, after 16), you realize the uselesness of these arguments. I don't know Pohx's intention here, and I am 10000000000% reading too deeply into it, but what he's suggesting people do is...uh...go against their nature. It sounds smart, and it absolutely is, if you treat it as merely an observation. But as advice? It's downright garbo. It's just who we are, ain't changing that.

Yes, I'm arguing just to argue 😄

[gilded elm]

I've turned "not comparing myself to others" into my nature through long years of conditioning. It's certainly in our nature to compare ourselves to others, but at 38 years old now I've stopped doing that in a way that puts myself down and enjoyed how to have fun my own way. I'm still in act 3, playing at my own pace and been having a lot of fun doing so compared to past leagues.

I can look at others who have crazy, efficient builds and not care, basically. It didn't come naturally, but it's a good life skill to pick up IMO.

[acoustic jungle]

Yes, tends to come with age, but usually due to admitting defeat. Assuming you're in the "happy" case - yes, it takes years upon years of conditioning to let go of this. And if you're not careful, you end up with issues up there, and then some more, because you end up with behaviors that create issues for you. Let's say you became "enlightened", yea? Your clothing, cars, etc. choices are no longer in line with your peers, and they might start seeing you as weird. It's very tough to navigate this conditioning.

[gilded elm]

There's definitely facets of life where this kind of conditioning can be detrimental, absolutely. For example, losing ambition and becoming complacent in your professional life to the extent that you never grow your career to a point where you have a financially secure future. It's tough to navigate, but you can navigate it and you can decide to stop letting others define what it means to have fun in a video game.

When it comes to your entertainment, you should definitely try not to let others influence (and thereby define) what the concept of "fun" means to you. This is separate from life in general and shouldn't always apply to everything, but as far as having fun in a video game goes, it's a good skill to have.

[gilded elm]

That said, there are glaring contradictions as well: such as Steam reviews where we are so strongly dependent on others to define their experience and tell us whether a game is worth playing. Though, this comes more from a place of pragmatism than anything else. There's just too many games competing for our attention and it's impractical otherwise to make a decision on what to play.

[acoustic jungle]

Yes. I felt that was self-understood. Reasonable self-sufficiency - take what's good, reject what's bad. You won't always be correct, but it's a good way to live life.

[desert jasper]

If the entertainment isn't fun
why partake?
the whole idea of is gone

[gilded elm]

Yeah for sure. The idea, though, is to arrive at the conclusion of "fun" vs "not fun" on your own and not by someone else's standards.

A lot of people struggle with that. They compare their experience to others' and allow external factors to pollute their own conclusion.

[desert jasper]

I do also compare
but it's like
yeah, sure that build looks fun enough to play but I'm having fun with my stuff

[gilded elm]

Comparison is 100% natural, it's basically hardwired into us as social creatures.

The hard part is not allowing that comparison to define your own genuine experience.

[desert jasper]

Aye

[gilded elm]

I'd definitely have a more miserable experience if I was perpetually tuned into Ben and comparing myself to him and his builds/accomplishments. Though now I know the difference, I don't let it bother me anymore.

[fierce moth]

I saw that last night too, I admit I still can't do that...

[desert jasper]

I still find it funny that there's a guy on poe forums who thinks he's the best poe player
and the only reason he doesn't take part in the races is that he doesn't have that kind of time to push

[gilded elm]

It's not easy, but when it comes to games, I think it's good to learn this skill.

[fierce moth]

I still waiting a chance to jump in an abyss

[blissful token]

/silently comparing how many Perfect Strike nub landed cuz i struggled with the nerf pepelaugh

[desert jasper]

I think I landed 0 against the balawhatever

And basically 0 against act 1 boss

[blissful token]

That assassin just blink blink like nobody's business. We warriors just suck it up copium

fun

[desert jasper]

I guess it'll be time to bust out the basic attack on her
Also I only got about 2hours of sleep
I've got work in 2 hours
I'm feeling great

[fierce moth]

💀 Go to hug with your pillow is better

[desert jasper]

Alarm went off 5 times during the night
that "your blood levels are dropping"
then I turn around a bit and it realizes that oh, nevermind. you just were in a weird position so it wasn't getting proper reading

[tawny sand]

some of these act 4 bosses are wild, idk how you'd do it without at least some movement speed. And I only have found one 20% boots so far lol

[fierce moth]

🤔 I can know what flashy mean tomorrow if my game can go well in act 3 too

[desert jasper]

Ah well
I'll just nap after work stuff

[gilded elm]

Finally beat Doryani. Gonna take a break before Act 4, but looking forward to it.

[blissful token]

So much progress. I have exam and i plan to restart my warrior

[desert jasper]

why restart the warrior?

... Though I've to say
I did too
but the first one was only lvl 5 or so

[blissful token]

Messed around with skills and passives too much and now i am dying to the smallest things in the way. Also wanna try using a shield, so wanna start a fresh experience

They added armor applies to elemental affix and also some of these clusters in the passive tree. I heard they are gud

[desert jasper]

Ah
Yea, this time around I've gone just 1h+shield
I saw a friend use only the shield skills after he got access to them
and his weapon? it was a wand with +% dmg as fire & cold

His shield wall was hitting real hard

[blissful token]

Wand and board

I saw some warrior playing with quarterstaff and they had fun

[desert jasper]

Then he died to some act4 boss ||dropping a house on him||

He was playing HC
he hasn't played it after that
it was on saturday afternoon

hmm... Guess I'll play some poe2 for now
maybe I'll whack that ghost assassin with basic attacks

nvm
i actually landed all perfect strikes this time

[blissful token]

♫ On a Saturday afternoon, || A house dropped on him || ♫

[blissful token]

The frontal cone is pretty far yea, but i prefer the old Perfect Strike pepecry

[desert jasper]

Yeah, I do miss the old one

[blissful token]

Did you use rapid attack (old - martial tempo) gem?

[desert jasper]

I've been kinda trying out window of opportunity + fire attunement
but it's kinda slow so now I'm trying rapid attack instead of fire attunement

[vagrant arch]

Me playing Last Epoch as primalist with my frog pet.

[fierce moth]

Charms have unique versions too

hah we end the day that search the whole bog to find the arena finally

[desert jasper]

Ofc there are unique charms

Aight
Time to go to work
I wanna sleep so badly

[fierce moth]

🥱 The level design of drowned city and Apex of Filth is as bad as before

TOO LARGE

[desert jasper]

Yeah, it is
at least you can skip large parts of it these days

It used to be way worse in 0.1

[fierce moth]

The time I spent on compeleting an act in poe 2 enough for me to go to chapter 9 in le

[blissful token]

Wot changed?

[fierce moth]

Apex of Filth and The Molten Vault used to on the same side of drowned city so I just need to keep walking to the east. Now they're split, molten vault on the west, apex of filth on the east. So I must acroess the whole map after I unlocked the waypoint of apex of filth.
The distance between checkpoints in apex of filth is too long so I must walk the long path I walked before and I must kill groups of white mobs again once I'm be slain.

Quite annoying.

[desert jasper]

Nah they didn't use to be on same side
Pure rng.

[desert jasper]

They made the pathing more easy
so you don't need to circle it all around multiple times

Gonna be so happy when I get home in a few hours

[junior stirrup]

I made it to Sanctum yesterday before hitting the sack.

Gonna be fun to see how the trials go with sprint.

[fierce moth]

Sanctum? Hit the sack?

[desert jasper]

Hit the sack means going to sleep

sanctum probably is the first ascendancy thing

[fierce moth]

😂... Interesting slang

[desert jasper]

Slang is usually interesting

Like I can't understand ppl 100km south from me
because their dialect and slang is so weird to me

Always makes it... interesting going there

[fierce moth]

Like chicken trying to chat with ducks hhhh

[desert jasper]

I guess you could say that

[blissful token]

As long as not bite the dust 👀

[desert jasper]

But dust is delicious
Wait
I'm getting a call from my lawyer saying that I should be careful with what i say

[junior stirrup]

"hit the sack" is a fun double meaning too, as it can both mean "go to sleep" (as in you go into a sleeping bag) or if you read it intentionally wrong, punching yourself in the male nethers 😄

And yeah, Sanctum is the Trial of the Sekhemas in Act 2.

(sounds like the etymology of "hit the sack" may be from historical matresses being not much more than sacks around hay)

I prefer my sleeping bag interpretation.

[desert jasper]

Yeah, seen a sketch of that
time to hit the sack
and then proceeded to punch his groin

[narrow token]

This kind of interface is what I wish PoB had. It's such a difficult program to read. Powerful, I'm sure. But the readability is horrific.

[fierce moth]

#🔪┃rogue message

hah... A puzzle is solved

[tawny sand]

the bad thing about playing poisonburst/toxic growth is that the abyssal stuff is also green lol

[blissful token]

positive positive = positive right

[desert jasper]

Oh I could use some of that positivity

[fierce moth]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/s/VOFQtI82OX

POV: you're a melee

[blissful token]

monk have wind blast for that

[fierce moth]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/s/5FhH90L2VD

Another drama.

Controller player win a point on this problem 😌

[tawny sand]

yay i sold something while i was offline

just a few alchs tho

async trading is nice

[fierce moth]

Do pro/con mean what's good/what's bad for a game?

I remember con but I'm not sure pro is right or wrong

[tawny sand]

yeah basically, pros mean things positive for the game, and cons are negative

[desert jasper]

Kinda wish you could access buying part of async trade without needing to go to act4
but nooo

[tawny sand]

yeah i feel that

wait, can you not buy? Don't you just choose the "instant buyout" option?

[desert jasper]

I tried it earlier

And it just told me that I'm not in the right part of quest

[blissful token]

i think there is a dedicated npc u have to use for that access

so thats why

not refering to the currency npc tho

first death of the new warrior, to the abyss :P

[desert jasper]

You'll get plenty more of those

[blissful token]

horoscope says i should avoid green

[desert jasper]

You should be blue
Live in a blue house with blue windows

[blissful token]

badabee badablu

bonk and board so much more tankier

gosh

[desert jasper]

Yeah
just don't use the shield... whatever it was where you smack the shield for too long
because you're actively blocking during that
meaning you'll get knocked down

[tawny sand]

man that sucks, they should at least allow you to buy if your rng is bad

[desert jasper]

Tbh I wouldn't be surprised if it's to fight RMT

... or maybe an oversight

[tawny sand]

maybe? my friend was able to do the old trading method and he's still in act 3

i'm pretty sure that's what he told me yesterday, cause he bought a bow

[desert jasper]

Yeah, the old trading method is still available

[indigo shadow]

Shuffling 3 Isometric ARPG going to be something.

4 at least.

D4, LE, POE 2, TQ2

[tawny sand]

you forgot grim dawn expansion

so 5

assuming you play gd i mean

[indigo shadow]

I don't have enough money to buy GD XP

[tawny sand]

🙁

also i saw a great bow for 1 alch, went to buy it and someone was already in the hideout doing the same thing lol

so still have to competition

[junior oyster]

For me I'll be switching between le and poe. In between maybe grim dawn but mostly slay the spire 2

[tawny sand]

i'm more or less done with le for now i think, the item chase isn't fun anymore

and i get bored with it in a few days usually

[desert jasper]

The end game just gets boring

[fierce moth]

How are you upgrade the tier of the same support gem in Poe 2?

[blissful token]

u dont

they are at higher uncut skill gem level

rapid attack on Perfect Strike is so gud

i just got it

[tawny sand]

i know it's early access, but poe2 has some major performance issues. For whatever reason in some situations my cpu just goes haywire and starts spiking and i start to stutter or freeze

it was like this in .1 as well so idk if it's on my end

unless it's just shaders, but i would think it'd have fixed itself by now

[blissful token]

k 1hr 40 mins to finish act 1

thats all for me today

gotta study lol

[desert jasper]

Good luck

[fierce moth]

I asked that question in poe 2 server but I still confused what are they saying after they explaint that for 10 mins

and... I can't find a tier 2 uncut support gem yet :(

Just be slain by an rare abyssal mob :(

These rare mobs are overpowered seriously. Overwhelming aoe flames it shoot to me, I'm in the sun temple so safety space is limited. But these flames are just everywhere...

[blissful token]

i dont think there is tier 2 uncut support gem

you just have to get higher level uncut support gem

[blissful token]

wow kirra is progressing fast

[fierce moth]

wait... How controller UI to check out the list of all support skills when I don't have any support gems...

I remember it's a old issue 😅

[blissful token]

i dont think u can

i asked vlad back in 0.1

[fierce moth]

I have no luck on uncut support gems yet, I just get uncut skill gems

[tawny sand]

the abyssals in the sun temple especially were rough, i just ran past them cause they'd be in the area where you take the damage from the light

[blissful token]

wouldn't be an issue if u are ranged right?

[fierce moth]

Mobs in utzaal just in the same crazy level with 0.1. Especially the mob who throw timer bombs. Rare one even can throw a line of timer bombs. I dodge them a few times but I'm be slain by one of them at last xd

I don't have any gears with cold resistance available so it just more tough. Hah...

Get that bomb guy's name. Vaal guard. Be careful.

Interesting... I kill Kiper, that snake lady without experiencing the period of her army shoot poison spears...

😅 Is that reasonable?

Anyways, I get this one so I can check out the list. Emmmm... Quite confusing indeed. Many of support gems still don't be available in tier 2.
For example. Rapid casting 2. How am I suppose to get that if tier 3 uncut support gems still don't support that?

[tawny sand]

it's a level 3 uncut gem (or III in roman numeral), so yoou need a level 4 (IV) for rapid casting 2

[fierce moth]

My Jesus... I need to get a tier 5 uncut support gem to use chaos mastery. That's a long journey...

[tawny sand]

yeah

you can't upgrade them, just gotta hope the uncut gems drop

[fierce moth]

Must pray for my luck god then

[tawny sand]

i don't think i've seen level 5 gems yet and i'm in act 4

[fierce moth]

This monster is the most hard rare abyssal to kill and it's not rewarding at all.

[tawny sand]

oof

[fierce moth]

Oof. Cool. The boss I meet in trial of chaos is what I dislike the most... Great luck I have xd

Tornado bird VS Lich, let's start...

...Need to restart because I died after I killed the tornado bird. What the hell

Quite drama it's...

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1n5tn8b/dear_ggg_what_have_i_done_wrongly/
This is the process of my drama.

Quite amazing.

[junior oyster]

Yea I do hate on death mechanics

If enemy dies it shouldn't be able to kill you

[ebon meadow]

Took em some times to rework volotile and corpse explosion in Poe 1 didn't think this would be an issue in new game but yea...

Also river hag is still the most horrible mob in game

[twilit mountain]

On death and "retaliation" mechanics are very lazy ways to punish players imho

[fierce moth]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15286302/
@blissful token You mean this nautilus?

[blissful token]

Nautilus from League of Legends

[fierce moth]

Oh so he's a lol player

I don't know what his profile is

[desert jasper]

Nautilus is a character in LoL
not a player

[fierce moth]

It's like an ancient creature with luminous eyes in distance. I mean Grepok is a lol player

[abstract karma]

Yikes..

That was brutal death effect 😄
But i've learned that in 0.1 with Sanctum boss, everytime in defeated of boss i use dodge backward from it..

[desert jasper]

A jewel I can use
fire dmg & mace dmg
don't care about the totem or bleed though

[fierce moth]

Wow This is the best rewards from an abyssal chest so far

....POG? What happened?...

[junior oyster]

You died

[fierce moth]

😅 😅 😅 .............

😅 ....That's a good joke, GGG.

[desert jasper]

Oh, jewelers orb
and the gem % quality orb too

Guess that means it's time to perfect strike it up

[fierce moth]

Who can tell me why ||this ship will be exploded?||

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1n5k3mb/interlude_boss_spoiler_ggg_are_you_kidding_meee/

What a cool combat is! The end is unexpecting.

The subreedit is quite fun to view...Full of dramas

[jade jackal]

i got home ran, damn

[mental talon]

XBow has me feeling like I am speed. Starting to figure out the crafting to make a pretty giga chest that I can reroll once I go CI later.

[hot crown]

WELCOME TO PATH OF DARK SOULS EXILE

[hot crown]

An easy 3-pointer slam dunk if I've ever seen one.

[desert jasper]

So uhh
is it intended that abyssal depths close if you die in there?
it still shows on my minimap

[ebon meadow]

My reaction was ,can I stay to see what happens lol ( I didn't I m a pussa I didn't wanted to die and rerun the zone )

[abstract karma]

lol

[fierce moth]

OoO

The new robe looks quite cool.

[desert jasper]

No, u look cool

[fierce moth]

Hah? greater and perfect... Why these orbs have tiers too

[desert jasper]

They have tiers so the higher tier ones give a minimum of "this tier affix"

[junior oyster]

Just make it so higher tier items always roll 'minimum' rolls for higher tier affix

[desert jasper]

Yeah
So no longer slamming 1-5 physical dmg

[fierce moth]

The 1st currency exchange :)

[twilit mountain]

Vision™

[junior oyster]

Also I get they aren't jewels (like in d2) but a visual difference would be nice

Since they wanna go tiered

[ebon meadow]

This is why I play like ssf lol this curency change from one game played so much to other that chances are so freaking rare is so weird for me

Why u shuffled currency effect I do not know it's confusing ,I don't like it XD

I m afraid to use regals and exalts early in game by default

[sand wigeon]

I think you just outed yourself as dumb.

[junior oyster]

Tiered currency makes ssf even worse imo

[junior oyster]

I don't see why not?

[sand wigeon]

Also, it’s not hard to comprehend currencies or crafting effects across games. Just read.

[junior oyster]

Loot is bad enough but you wanna stick to blue/white gear?

[sand wigeon]

It is usually self explanatory why one currency is rarer / more expensive than another based off the game’s mechanics.

[junior oyster]

I'd rather regal/exalt

[ebon meadow]

Same game slightly different mechanics ,but yea i m dumb hoarder always had this issue

Ty survival games

It is a personal issue ,my thought is always do I use it now or do it on better tier of gear it's personal issue yea

Reading has nothing to do here it's the feel of how oftenly u drop things/ rarity

For example scraping gear for quality and sockets

[sand wigeon]

I drop those things like acorns in Autumn.

They’re not very rare.

[ebon meadow]

What chance orbs ?

Good seed

[junior oyster]

Regals/ex

[sand wigeon]

Regals and exalts.

[junior oyster]

They drop often

[ebon meadow]

Ohh yea they drop fine

[sand wigeon]

You just said they’re rare to you

[ebon meadow]

I said the normal curency from Poe is rare for me like chance orbs

And yea u do drop regals and exalts but I still dismantle gear for it

Like why shuffle the stats of curency and what it does

Exalts = alteration is weird to me on drop level and what they do to the item

[fierce moth]

Damn. Be frozen by these little creatures here is quite annoying. I can kill the meraid boss if I immune to freeze :(

[ebon meadow]

The island with the first HO the little bugs with ice proj and pen

Who ever coded those ,who hurt him

I have never received so much damage in a boss fight faster than they

[fierce moth]

That little creature just shoot ice shards just as fast as the bleeding enemy in poe. I remember they always live with floating flags.

I can't find that charm can immune to freeze now :(

Alright. Just here today. Plan to done 2 islands but the 2nd island is about mermaids which mean cold damage is mainly... Cold resistance is the lowest one unfortunately

I like this new mage gear set anyways

[ebon meadow]

jump thru act ventors maybe u can buy freeze immune

[fierce moth]

No luck 🤷‍♀️

[sand wigeon]

I don’t even know what you’re talking about anymore TBH

Oh. Are you frustrated because PoE2 swapped around names and effects.

Because yeah, that’s cause PoE2 sucks.

[fierce moth]

I want to ask EHG for more wizard gears now xd

act 4 let me forget time to play poe 2 for the first time xd. Impressive especially... The sudden ||ship explosion||

(It's an odd and special way to let players be immersed and attracted but it works)

[junior oyster]

So close

[abstract karma]

isnt next season from EHG Sigils to skills ?

[abstract karma]

the hell ?

[muted parrot]

that was on the old roadmap so no guarantee. Unfortunately the ones managing roadmaps aren't making an up to date version (even Mike said we should've got one before s3)

[abstract karma]

now they got money so no excuses -- Joke (sort of 🤔 )

[jade jackal]

Development changed from "we will launch it when its ready" to "we have to launch something every 4 months" since

[narrow token]

Because consistency is more important apparently.

[twilit mountain]

I still think they just shouldn't have fully released the game yet.

[narrow token]

🤷 I do think they need to dodge poe2 by another week next time though. It's hurting them.

[twilit mountain]

Idk if it would matter much. Besides, GGG is the one who keeps setting the date too close. But yeah, right now people just.... get bored in like a week. There's good bones to the game but EHG time and again has fumbled on expanding on those bones. Every update has been "kill big guy to get special reward" really.

[gilded elm]

Now that GGG's league months are set in stone, EHG can navigate and avoid the dates being too close, at least.

Next PoE1 league is October. Next PoE2 league is December. EHG can work with that.

[narrow token]

I've noticed that. They're rubbing up against D4's "Powers every season" a little more than I would like.

[twilit mountain]

I somehow have less of an issue with D4's version but I think it's because I see it as a far, far more casual game

[tawny sand]

finished act 4, was fun. got a few nice upgrades finally to my equipment. Need new boots tho

who's the composer for poe 1 & 2? the music is really good

also i died on the last boss right after i killed him cause his spike things were still on the ground and i was trying to move to a safe spot

kind of tilted me cause a bunch of currency dropped 😭

[junior stirrup]

Please no, it already eats a ton of VRAM from the tree assets 😄

[junior stirrup]

Looks like your life hit zero.

[junior stirrup]

At least Kamil Orman-Janovski and Michael James Collier. Not sure if there's more of them.
They have youtube channels with some of the tracks.

[narrow token]

That's a lot? My firefox uses more.

[junior stirrup]

The current block-compressed assets use around 250 megs of VRAM, yeah.

That's 0.25 GB less for the game and other applications, multipled by the number of PoB builds you've got open.

Before we used block compression, that was a full gigabyte of VRAM per instance.

[narrow token]

Who tf has a million of these things open?
Psychopaths?

[gilded elm]

First Divine, nice. From Act 4

From a unique strongbox lol

[tawny sand]

i had a unique strongbox that rezzed a rare like 7 times and kept adding affixes to it

was a long fight lol

[gilded elm]

Yeah that's basically what I just had, 6 rez and I think on the second or third kill the monster dropped the divine

[tawny sand]

nice

i found a lineage gem

doesn't seem you can trade it in instant buyout though for some reason, only in-person trade

unless that's not intended

[gilded elm]

Weird, I assume anything you can trade in-person is intended to be tradeable with instant buyout too.

I mean, if you can list it for an in-person trade on the site.

[tawny sand]

yah i guess i'll report it soon

i assume it's a bug

[gilded elm]

Some of these act 4 monsters are downright terrifying lmao

Really cool act, like it so far

[narrow token]

Have any of you fought one of those wisp-empowered monsters that revives a bunch of times? It was like fighting Deadpool or smth

[vagrant arch]

100x better login screen

[mental talon]

Currency Exchange

I haven't had to message a single person all weekend, just find the thing I want in Instant Buyout, teleport yoink and keep moving. Can't wait for this in PoE 1 too man it's a revelation

[tawny sand]

oh sick ty, i didn't realize we traded lineage gems through currency exchange

[mental talon]

Np, pretty much everything is easier in Currency Exchange, or Instant Buyout with maybe 1 or 2 special cases of not being available from what I've experienced

[junior stirrup]

Merchant's tabs cannot hold any of the items that can be listed on the Currency Exchange.

[acoustic jungle]

What's up with composers and making crazy good songs for ARPGs? LE's End of Time (and others), and PoE 2's stuff. It feels like they're part of the "Cabal of the God-like Composers", but nobody knows, yet they put bangers like that out.

[acoustic jungle]

Well, it's easy to say whatever. Doesn't mean either company will respect it. However: #💬┃general message

GGG now clearly recognizes EHG as a serious competitor, and it's better to just steer clear of each other. I'm assuming they'll be talking, and we won't be seeing any overlaps anymore, even if one week or so is more than enough for LE to "shine".

[fierce moth]

#📚┃off-topic message
It seems it's what happened

||The ship is exploded|| after I opened an rare chest and checked out loots

[fierce moth]

Ben's lich have quite much damage. I can't do this level of damage through I'm lv 48 now

He's streaming "play a HCSSF lich"

[fierce moth]

I'm confused why nothing happended after it summoned a group of enemies and I cleared all

[blissful token]

Exam over and back to work

[fierce moth]

lol I find a bug suddenly... It's my fault of course.

I forget to active 2 ascendency points then I go on campaign...

That's why I'm quite weak in act 4

Kill that ||mermaid boss|| this time

[blissful token]

Wow spoiler 😂

[fierce moth]

Their drop rate of gears still issued. I still using this ring... And I still can't find a better withered wand with cast speed and chaos damage bonus, the same case with my facus to be honest. I can select 1 in 2 only, more chaos damage or more cold resistance.

This is negative side of updating gears by my luck only, yes

Plus: I'm lv 51 now
So these gears are pretty poor really

[fierce moth]

Another question I have is why abyssal always on the place that 1% available space to dodge only but enemies are overwhelming

Completely blocked by enemies and can't roll out.

[blissful token]

Am excited to start act 2 tonight

[fierce moth]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1n6c8r5/they_ran_out_money_to_build_wider_corridors_in/

Here we go! A vivid example is here.

I think someone must did embezzlement of money while this prison was building.

[fierce moth]

🫡 The ||abandoned prison|| just the top example of " how an extreme torturing dungeon suppose to be designed"

👏 GGG is win if we talk about this topic. The storytelling from environment can't match with the fun of gameplay at all unfortunately.

I'm in the deep of prison now so... Players whose played solitary confinement will know why I say that

This map drive me into insane greatly

Update: The same feeling with the prison boss

[fierce moth]

Remember to play prison at first when you reach act 4. Then you're powerful enough to deal with any future painful cases

that island will give you a big surprise/s

[blissful token]

U mean prison first because it offers smoother experience than other area

Or

Go to the hardest first (prison) and suffer so other area will be feel easier

Very different meaning and viewpoint, Kirra

[desert jasper]

Yes.

[desert jasper]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1n5q6f6/sprinting_straight_into_my_own_funeral/
@fierce moth

[blissful token]

This is gold

[fierce moth]

It's the hardest

[blissful token]

Wow kirra, i know i like to suffer but not like this

[desert jasper]

Suffering builds character

And Kirra likes to see you suffer

[junior stirrup]

Aah, I heard about that trap today 😄

[tawny sand]

this goes hard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-g4zWgUjUI

[fierce moth]

Trap?

Oh that's a trap I see

[desert jasper]

Zao, you can tell me when we get traps for players, right?
I promise you I'll not leak it forward

[junior stirrup]

Gregory looks so polite.

[tawny sand]

is that a hat or a barrel on gregory's head

[desert jasper]

a barrel hat

[tawny sand]

lol

[junior stirrup]

I bet it's full of grogory.

[fierce moth]

hhhhhhhh wait I want to show a passive node

[tawny sand]

is it unnatural resilience? that node made me laugh

[fierce moth]

Oh sad. GGG stop me to share.

No drama now, unfortunately

[desert jasper]

Man
I kinda hate the monsters in abyssal depths

[fierce moth]

That's a good topic to make jokes

Oh, can be applied on Nub's topic too. Abyssal's location full of drama definitely especially you're in act 4 lol

[desert jasper]

Like the loot isn't even worth it

[tawny sand]

when you jump into the abyss? i found a bunch of currency from it

abyss currency i mean

[fierce moth]

I never find any valuable loots in act 4 so far. The drop rate just go back to 0.1, very poor and common these loots are

[desert jasper]

I didn't find any
and some of the rare monsters are super rippy

[junior stirrup]

Ninja's datamine was a bit off, unfortunately.

[fierce moth]

I don't know how to jump into abyss yet

[tawny sand]

ah yeah i had some hard rares in there for sure, but both times i jumped in there was a bunch of chests for me. had to explore a bit tho

[junior stirrup]

Knowing exiles, they'd just sprint and trip over the edge 😉

[tawny sand]

lol

[fierce moth]

The abyss just closed every time, no way to jump in

[tawny sand]

also i'm talking about when instead of an abyssal trove it has a hole instead you jump in, not the jumping into the abyss from the trailer at the well of souls

[fierce moth]

The hole is closed, give me nothing or a trove is up, give me something. Never meet another cases

[junior stirrup]

I look forward to exploring this more, assuming it'll come naturally as I progress the campaign.

[tawny sand]

i think it's rare to get the hole sometimes, i've only seen it 3 times but only jumped twice (i died on the 3rd one so it reset everything)

but idk really

[junior stirrup]

Heck, might have to play beyond getting to maps this time around.

[tawny sand]

yeah the abyss is my favorite part of the patch i think

really fun mechanic

outside of the frame rates tho lol

[blissful token]

Not sprinting?

[tawny sand]

sprint is fine i guess, i only really use it when i'm between checkpoints. if i need to travel a bunch of map with no mobs i use it

[blissful token]

I sprint in between mob packs and i get struck to the knee with by an arrow

[tawny sand]

ah, i see you were an adventurer till you took an arrow to the knee

[desert jasper]

I still haven't been knocked down while sprinting

[tawny sand]

i haven't either

[blissful token]

I see you are all exiles and not adventurers

[desert jasper]

But I've racked quite a few deaths already

[blissful token]

I have 2 deaths yesterday playing the whole of act 1

[desert jasper]

Tbh I'm tempted to try something else than perfect strike

[tawny sand]

there's a guaranteed rare in act 4 that ripped me constantly, but i think i have like maybe 20 deaths in total? Maybe not even that much? i don't have the game open

[blissful token]

You should.. the hammer fissure is kinda stronk

But the throwing is kinda slow

Not sure if rapid attack improves it like it does to Perfect Strike

My new warrior still far away

[tawny sand]

maybe skill speed would? or projectile speed?

idk if the hammer is a projectile

[desert jasper]

Well i think i'm not high enough lvl for it

[blissful token]

It should count

[desert jasper]

And heading out soon

[blissful token]

I got at when i was near silverfist one first warrior

[desert jasper]

I'm still in act 2

[blissful token]

Oh right act 2 ends with jamanra, silverfist is near the early act 3

Since 0.1, my ascendancy is still titan all the way lol

[desert jasper]

I tried uhh... warbringer? this time around
since I'm probably not going slamming

maybe

You still can't respec it, right?

[tawny sand]

i believe i saw a streamer say you can if you do the last trial of ascendancy you cleared again, at the end you can respec?

i haven't tested it though

[desert jasper]

🤔

[tawny sand]

also, i saw a post saying if you lower your sound channel count you get better performance. Tested it out by changing to medium and in the act 2 and act 4 towns i was getting 40 fps before, now 85 fps

[desert jasper]

ooh, thanks
I'm kinda considering changing out from warbringer tbh

[tawny sand]

i also deleted my shadercache to be on the safe side, seems to work so far. Will have to see if it helped with abyssal stuff

[junior stirrup]

Not sure if it changed further since that patch, but that's the gist.

Warbringer in general or because the spirits are currently broken?

[desert jasper]

Eh it's like
I'm currently using perfect strike
so I don't have any use for armor shred
not using totems
so all I'd really get from there is the warcry ignoring cd + detonating corpses
and block stuff

If I were using the shield skills (more than just shield charge) it would probably be more useful for me

Just thought that I'd pick it because last warrior was Titan

[fierce moth]

https://youtu.be/mmHeD8-trTQ?si=a5fx5XfXptszz1ZH&t=1230
This streamer is quite lucky hhhhhh

4 abyssals on the same place. It break his game performance directly

https://youtu.be/3d7f40JaU9s?si=IXEeYJ9cYmA5wHog&t=140
lol that's the real insane level of that abyssal mob. Max.

GGG just put many unused skills designed for bosses to an rare mob I suppose.

lmaooooooooooo No way. This streamer is too lucky. Let me laugh for a while.

GGG is top at making funny moments in game

[gilded elm]

||Solitary Confinement|| in Act 4 is one of the coolest zones I've seen in an ARPG.

There is a "bug" though with the zone where you are clearly ||standing on elevated terrain (stairs), but still affected by slow movement speed from the incoming water||. Nonetheless, this is a cool use case for terrain in an ARPG.

Well done, GGG. This is top notch.

[fierce moth]

No man. I must say it's the dumbest mechanic to add difficulty. I burnt the most brain cells on this map to keep me don't be slain by the white mob.

[gilded elm]

I'm a squishy deadeye, no idea how you can die to a white mob in this place. I died to a yellow, but it was my mistake. White mobs can't kill me here unless I make some bad mistakes.

[fierce moth]

We know maps in poe 2 usually hallow, twisted and large already. But this map... It even reduce my movement speed a lot to add difficulty... I'm insane

[gilded elm]

There's a strategy to this map. ||"Don't get caught out of position"||

This zone ||forces you to think about your positioning based on the incoming tide||, I think that adds an interesting element of gameplay.

[blissful token]

zao, what is this?

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2556213313?filter=highlights&sort=time

[gilded elm]

Clearly, they didn't lower their audio channel count enough

In seriousness, it's crazy how lowering audio channel count affects performance so much lmao

Like how are the two things related?!

My frames skyrocketed when I lowered it

[desert jasper]

Sheesh that clip

[gilded elm]

So I think not having to do Acts 1-3 on Cruel changes my perspective on the campaign and its purpose in PoE2, quite a bit. Especially factoring in my Act 4 experience so far.

I know I say Grim Dawn is my favorite campaign experience, but PoE2 is shaping up to be a close #2. If GGG's goal is to make the PoE2 campaign a more meaningful part of the whole experience, I think they're on the right track.

My mentality is starting to shift from "I need to get to mapping ASAP" to "I want to run a new character through the campaign" because the campaign is starting to feel like the PoE2 experience.

[fierce moth]

I think this is a cool way to do storytelling but it's terrible as a mechanic in a map. Reduce my ms just too bad. It's reasonable, I just dislike that.

Ms of these mobs is faster than me a lot already, now it even nerf my ms... Hah that's very stupid

[gilded elm]

That's fine, I can understand that. Personally, I like the mechanic because it adds an interesting challenge where I have to be mindful of my timing and positioning in the zone.

[fierce moth]

I don't want to care about my positioning in the zone at all because it's what I must do in every map in the campaign, yes

It's too tiring

[desert jasper]

Positioning is important
who knew

[gilded elm]

Without spoiling anything specific, let's just say it's extra important in this case we're discussing! :)

[fierce moth]

Indeed

[gilded elm]

But like I said, even with my squishy character, I think GGG did a good job making it fair.

[desert jasper]

I haven't made it there yet indeed
but eh I don't really care about the spoilers too much

[fierce moth]

These white mobs can kill me easily in any maps so 2x the difficulty in a map is more boring and exhausting for me

[desert jasper]

Maybe you just have a very squisht character and get too close to the mobs

[gilded elm]

"White mobs can kill you easily" I think is probably a bigger issue on its own that needs to be addressed.

And not the fault of the map itself.

[desert jasper]

Like I remember you getting to melee range in poe1 when you were playing... mines? i think

[fierce moth]

Yes I'm forced to use a shield again to protect myself later in this map then it's fine but I still bothered by this stupid slow ms hhhh

[gilded elm]

Hm, strongboxes have been kinda worth doing for me. Good bit of currency... I need to remember to carry transmutes/augs because it might actually be worth using on strongboxes now.

Wish I could apply directly from stash, but oh well

[fierce moth]

I hope none of us will meet this case by the way.

[gilded elm]

See, that was easily worth the transmute + aug orbs.

Did that just now lmao

I think I struggled the most with the Abyssal Depths rare packs at the end. They are so ridiculously strong if you accidentally aggro all of them at the same time.

[blissful token]

that sounds soulslike 👀

[gilded elm]

If you're careful, you can definitely pull one at a time and it's way more manageable yeah.

[tawny sand]

i didn't really mind the solitary confinement either

[gilded elm]

I have 0% Movespeed boots too and I liked it lol

[tawny sand]

i think it overwrites the movement speed maybe, it felt really slow and i have 20%

but i wouldn't know

[gilded elm]

Yeah it might. ||Can't dodge|| either.

So they clearly wanted you to feel extremely punished ||standing in the water||.

[tawny sand]

if i couldn't kill stuff fast enough i feel like it would've sucked idk

there wasn't that many places not touched by water in my gen

have you gone to nganku island yet?

[gilded elm]

My only complaint so far about the zone is that the stairs ||were affected even though visually they were above water||.

[gilded elm]

Not yet I don't think. I was mostly going in order of monster level of the areas. Just finishing up Solitary Confinement now.

[tawny sand]

ah yeah i did the same

[fierce moth]

oh yes time to deal with the boss in solitary confinement

[tawny sand]

some of the act 4 bosses ended up hurting my wrist, i was dodging a lot

fun act tho

i still like act 1 the most just cause of the atmosphere

[gilded elm]

Geonor is definitely one of my favorite campaign fights.

[fierce moth]

I'm improved my action skills a lot!

[gilded elm]

I used all of my Life Flask charges before I realized this fight's mechanic (which is dumb of me because the game literally tells you ). Still got it on my first try though.

[gilded elm]

Good job, you may not realize it but there are absolutely people who have died way more than you in the campaign so far lol

[tawny sand]

i've died a few too, but .3 it doesn't feel as bad. I feel like im progressing better than i was in .1

[gilded elm]

Yeah I'm getting better too, this is not bad for me for a league starter campaign run.

[tawny sand]

i've died 37, but only cause of a few bosses and a dang rare that just wrecked me

[gilded elm]

Sometimes the monster type and a combination of rare affixes can be deadly. Especially with those unique strongboxes that revive X times. Seems like it's random what monster you'll get.

[tawny sand]

yeah

the rare that got me was guaranteed tho, i had to do it a few times

something about one attack would just destroy me

i think it was a combo wombo of low stun threshold and multiple attacks at once

[gilded elm]

rip

[fierce moth]

I still saving the first character I created to memorize the record I made

[gilded elm]

slams are what get me now, because I have 0 armor and basically no phys reduction

[tawny sand]

yeah those tend to hurt for me too

[gilded elm]

I need to see if I can get my Deflection higher, seems like a good alternative to phys reduction

For an evasion based character any way

[tawny sand]

gotcha

i've taken a few deflection nodes and i have noticed somewhat of a difference

also running wind dancer on top of it

[gilded elm]

Oh yeah, you're Ranger too so yeah you might wanna look into Deflection as well. I didn't do any number crunching or PoBing this league, but I think Deflection is the way to go unless you wanna stack Energy Shield

[tawny sand]

yeah i was gonna go ES but i think i might drop it for deflection, dunno yet

i'm not good at math so i haven't figured out what's better really

[gilded elm]

Same, I didn't even know Deflection was a thing before I started going for ES items. Now I think I might try to fully commit to Evasion + Deflection and see how far that gets me.

Previously, pure Evasion would've been a really stupid idea with how Evasion worked (and still works). But now with Deflection, it seems like pure Evasion might actually be viable.

[tawny sand]

gotcha

[fierce moth]

...????? What the hell... Isn't plunder's point...

[tawny sand]

but yeah fun patch so far, will see how maps are hopefully tomorrow though i don't think they made a lot of changes to it?

and i can't really comment on balance as i've only been playing pathfinder poisonburst / toxic growth

[gilded elm]

Not sure. I think it's still mostly the same, with towers and all that. I guess in addition to Breach and Delirium, there's also Abyssals to look forward to in mapping if you like that.

[tawny sand]

abyssal is my favorite part of the patch tbh

[gilded elm]

Yeah it's one of my favorites too. It checks a lot of boxes: challenge, reward, aesthetics.

[tawny sand]

if only some of the stuff was easier to see

i get hit by the like little green globs a lot

[gilded elm]

The kamehameha beams are cool too lol

Yeah the little exploding green globs suck, I agree those need better visual clarity.

[tawny sand]

hopefully changing my sound channels will help with performance, seems to so far

but i obviously haven't beent o maps yet

[fierce moth]

@junior stirrup There's an issue. How to ||place my bomb?|| No tooltip for doing this thing on controller.

[gilded elm]

How many poison stacks are you at on Pathfinder? I'm at 4 on my main skill with Deadeye.

[tawny sand]

i get up to 6 now, i think i can get another one from the passive tree somewhere

[gilded elm]

Yeah, crazy. I think you can basically double whatever I can get.

[tawny sand]

i'm also running escalating poison on poisonburst and toxic growth

[fierce moth]

How am I suppose to destroy the cover? I'm confused

[tawny sand]

use skills

just attack till it breaks

[fierce moth]

My skills don't work?...

[tawny sand]

idk then

[gilded elm]

These two, I think. There might be more, not sure.

[fierce moth]

What was going wrongly lol

[gilded elm]

I just did this part and my skills worked :P

Controller bug? I wonder

Try using an AoE skill that doesn't require a target

[tawny sand]

i have the first one, not the second one yet cause i was building duration for boss fights

i'll probably take it soon though

er, i have it opposite but yeah

[gilded elm]

There's this next to the +1 stack one, for duration.

[tawny sand]

yeah i already have it, it's probably fine now and i can take "building"

[gilded elm]

I like poison a lot I kinda wanna respec to Pathfinder now lol

[tawny sand]

lol

oh right i forgot pathfinder doubles poison count so it'd be a lot yeah

[gilded elm]

Yeah

Though, this is quite handy for me atm in Deadeye

[tawny sand]

i'm only running one arrow and it's been fine

[gilded elm]

Yeah multi-proj is mostly just for Poisonburst and Vine Arrow (because I have Overabundance)

But if you are mostly using Toxic Growth a lot, then the proj value drops off hard I think.

[tawny sand]

i'm running concentrated area on toxic growth yeah

with corrosion

i found spreading the area of toxic growth was worse, so i shrunk it's area size with concentrated area

[gilded elm]

I think in either case though, you probably do want to invest in Pierce for Poisonburst because it's a poison splatter on hit.

[tawny sand]

yeah i have pierce 3 on it

also don't seemingly need high accuracy it seems, cause it'll splatter on walls too lol

[gilded elm]

You using Plague Bearer spirit gem too? The fully charged 100% damage is nuts.

[tawny sand]

yep

i proc it over toxic growth

[gilded elm]

Good thing about multi-proj I guess is that I can quickly charge Plague Bearer from Poisonburst. 0% to 100% in one or two shots

[tawny sand]

i'm running wind dancer, plague bearer, and i got a chest with more spirit so i'm running herald of plague too

[gilded elm]

Same, though I'm not entirely sold on the usefulness of Herald of Plague.

I guess because I can't really see it doing stuff.

[tawny sand]

yeah

i feel like it's not as useful cause the toxic growth burst does so much

add plague bearer on top of it and you just explode packs

[gilded elm]

Yeah. Might swap that out, maybe look into using charges for Barrage or something else.

Not entirely sure whether Frenzy charges are at all useful for a poison bow build

[tawny sand]

i thought of running a curse, but despair is post-mitigation or something from how i understood how poison works and is pre-mitigation

so idk

[gilded elm]

I'm no expert, I only know that ailment is based on hit damage, not sure whether it's pre or post mitigation hit damage lol

[desert jasper]

you guys talking about poison kinda makes me want to roll a poison build

[tawny sand]

it's pretty stronk

i think acidic concoction might be garbo, but toxic growth, poisonburst, and plague bearer has been really fun

but i haven't taken acidic concoction yet

[gilded elm]

Specifically Poison Bow, a combination of Poisonburst + Toxic Growth + Plague Bearer for the most part. Not Acidic Concoction (haven't tried that myself yet).

[tawny sand]

yeah

i think i'm probably not gonna take acidic concoction

[gilded elm]

Fleshy is playing the same build as me, but as Pathfinder (which is probably a better ascendency for this) and I'm playing as Deadeye and even though my ascendency is probably suboptimal for it, it's still strong so far.

[desert jasper]

Yea I'd go with bow
honestly not a fan of the concoction skills

[gilded elm]

Even Poisonburst (the first skill you'd pick up) feels really good early game once you get Pierce on it.

[tawny sand]

idk what my next 4 ascendancy points will be either

i got a few options with pathfinder i think

[gilded elm]

Haha, I won't assume I'll even get my last 2 ascendency points. I am at 4/8 right now, I know I can get 6/8, but I'm gonna assume that 8/8 won't happen for a long time hahaha

[tawny sand]

oh wait, i have no reason to even take herald of plague

i literally have it already int he pathfinder tree

[gilded elm]

Nice, didn't know there's a poison spreading thing

[tawny sand]

i'm so bad at remembering stuff lol

yeah "contagious contamination"

[gilded elm]

Easy free spirit gem for something else

[tawny sand]

it's the node before the one that let's you double poison stacks

[fierce moth]

Hah... Get a better wand finally, spent 3 exalted orbs

[gilded elm]

That's a pog wand

[tawny sand]

what's the bow you're running byteflux?

[gilded elm]

This thing still, in kind of a desperate need of a replacement lol

Ideally I can get something with +2 proj levels, +flat phys and % phys and I'll be happy. Extra bonus if it's got life leech, and also if it's a dual string lol

[gilded elm]

Yup, exactly what I want lmao

That's really nice

[tawny sand]

i can't remember if i bought it or found it

[gilded elm]

I got currency, just need to find a good +2 proj magic base that I can try and craft from.

I might try gambling, haven't tried that in a while

[tawny sand]

are you running multishot on poisonburst as well?

or just the two arrow bow

[gilded elm]

No multishot, just +1 proj from Dualstring and +1 proj from Deadeye passive

[tawny sand]

gotcha

[gilded elm]

So the Poisonburst wall hits are especially deadly haha

I don't think you can shotgun in PoE2 (same as PoE1), but the burst from hits most certainly can "shotgun" I think

lmao

[junior stirrup]

It says on the right below the minimap that you need to bind the skill.

You people were chatty.

🛌

[gilded elm]

Kudos to whoever designed ||Solitary Confinement||, one of my favorite zones in Act 4 lol

[fierce moth]

I know where that famous meme maze come from now

stone maze in boss combat. I'm on that arena

Damn. The 1st try is failed because ||a sudden lightning beam he shot||

Done, I find ||sudden lightning beam|| is harder... Stone maze is a creative skill but that's all

[tawny sand]

i'm not sure what persistent buff i want now that i know i don't need herald of plague 🤔

if i go es more i could run ghost dance i guess

[gilded elm]

@tawny sand Are you using this as well for Plague Bearer?

[tawny sand]

no, I'm running magnified area ii, astral projection, and execute ii so far

i only have 3 gem slots for it

[gilded elm]

Ah

I just got my first Greater Jeweler's, I'm wondering whether I wanna use it for Plague Bearer

[tawny sand]

i wonder if the "using" means while it's actually used or as long as you have the buff activated

cause if it's only when you actually use the proc that's nothing

[gilded elm]

I assume (with confidence) that it's referring to the skill cast animation itself. Because in PoE2 you can move while casting/attacking at the same time.

So basically this is a free multiplicative 20% damage for a skill like plague bearer where you aren't really relying on your movement while casting

Also just got this, holy

[tawny sand]

whew that's spicy

[gilded elm]

My current amulet has +spirit on it so it wasn't a direct upgrade... so I decided to try my luck on an exalt, it had 1 open affix slot and what do ya know, it rolled +spirit lmao

[fierce moth]

🤔 Maybe I find my favourite part of act 4...

😂 😂 😂 😂 ...Well. Fine. I'm not fast enough.

lol ok I failed 2 times before I killed the monkey

This boss combat is interesting. Yes interesting.

Hah? That's it? That's all?... I can't enter ||trial of ancestors|| yet? What that giant arena/square for...

[tawny sand]

i think it's for an ascendency trial that's not implemented yet

there's supposed to be 4 at launch, but we only have 2 so far

[twilit mountain]

The fact they chose one of the most hated mechanics/leagues in PoE history to be an ascendancy trial is mindblowing

[desert jasper]

Good lord, tota being one of the ascendancy things?
Really going for the hated things

I bet the 4th one is just.. lab

[twilit mountain]

I wish

This is PoE2, we ignore the previous game here

[desert jasper]

Yeaa I'd rather run lab 40 times

[twilit mountain]

I like lab

[vagrant topaz]

No, we take the fun out of it and smash all the non fun mechanic into one game, and slow it down

[twilit mountain]

I didn't wanna be too depressing

[ivory nexus]

PoE2 may be the most unfun game ever

never seen someone enjoy it

[vagrant topaz]

Don't forget to trip and be hard cc for 3 whole seconds if you dare to use some movement speed ability

[ivory nexus]

PoE2 is really something

[ivory nexus]

I cant deny I had fun in my first playthrough but anything afterwards, especially the new seasons, sucked so hard I don't think I'll ever come back to it

[blissful token]

elders always say dont run at the corridor

[twilit mountain]

Silly Vlad. Be hard CCed just for using block. Or parry. Or sprint. Or getting hit by anything larger than a pebble.

[fierce moth]

Are they temporary acts which GGG mentioned?

[fierce moth]

Yes, that's a big pity... I enjoy that part of combats in eyes of Hinekora and halls of the dead the most. I know where that eye come from finally

[desert jasper]

Now to drive back home
1h

[fierce moth]

Oh I completed act 4...Yes. Ok... Not quite much feeling on completing that...

[tawny sand]

yes

[desert jasper]

Might start poison stuff when i'm home

[jade jackal]

throws computer in the trash

[desert jasper]

Should've got 6% on the cd recovery too

[jade jackal]

im trying to int stack here

[fierce moth]

Just feel good on combats because I upgrade repeat casting from tier 1 to tier 2 so cast speed is faster but... It's crazy to fight with mobs under a place where I can't see where these mobs are.

Died in this way consistently. The 3rd time.

I guess I can think I'm done in this league? Not fun to play the most annoying map in act 1 at all... Wheat fields are everywhere to block my view :(

No idea why GGG not select the burning village

Chaos caster lich is fun to play but the campaign not fun enough to play it all, unfortunately

Both necrotic caster warlock and chaos caster lich are interesting (the common is dot and curses)

Not enough sockets before, not enough uncut support gems now xd

[fierce moth]

Alright... I can experience the only part I missed finally

[desert jasper]

Alrighty
Guess it's time to start a ranger

[fierce moth]

The combat happened here just now is as epic as any boss combat but the enemy I'm dealing is... An rare enemy. Holy.

[blissful token]

whew finished act 2

[fierce moth]

Just know I missed somewhere in act 2. I must find the well of souls entrance in the mastadon badlands of act 2 if I want secreted items

Yes I confirm the difficulty in extra acts just insanely steep suddenly because the map just a giant arena which all types of enemies in corresponding acts are included and they hunting me infinitely.

Personal choice then. Can you control and have fun with this case?

[junior oyster]

Farming for a certain ring...

[blissful token]

remove the blue from the purple and you will get red

[junior oyster]

RIP to 100k favour

[fierce moth]

Are extra acts changed a way to repeat contents in act 1-3?

[sand wigeon]

Damn you live close to your work(?)

I live next door, I live less than five minutes away, but an hour is still great

[karmic nimbus]

No need to do acts twice anymore

[desert jasper]

Wasn't at work
I was out to visit my dad at the hospital
he had an accident at work yesterday

[sand wigeon]

Makes sense

It’s nice the hospital is so close though

[desert jasper]

Well
The actually close one is only like 30min of walking from me
but he was transfered to other city

Because they had neurosurgeon available there

[sand wigeon]

30 minutes of walking???

[desert jasper]

Yes..?

[sand wigeon]

Can you ACTUALLY walk there

Like it’s walkways and not forest

[desert jasper]

... yes, literal walkways

I'm not american

[sand wigeon]

Damn

TBF this isn’t necessarily an “American thing” with where I live

The city is an hour away by vehicle and anything that’s not a road is dense forest and hills

There aren’t walking paths because most of it is uninhabited

[desert jasper]

Not sure if I could actually walk to the other city that easily, the one that's about 1h of drive away
I mean, it is possible but it wouldn't be very direct way

[fierce moth]

I mean the art assets/bosses are the same with act 1-3 but different storytelling so these makes extra acts different from act 1-3?

[karmic nimbus]

Yes

[sand wigeon]

Mm, I just live in a place that is mostly uninhabited

[desert jasper]

Well I do live in the city centre

[fierce moth]

....Fine. It's still count as "repeat act 1-3" for me unfortunately. I want everything are new and different from act 1-4.

Go back to play chaos caster lich after GGG release all acts...Because it mean I still have to play act 1-3 again

I don't play the endgame until the campaign is done

[fierce moth]

I find the scale of enemies in le is much bigger than poe 2 after my eyes adapted to scales of enemies in poe 2 xd

[twilit mountain]

Guys my friend is tempting me to play PoE2 by sending me thorns builds, please help

[junior oyster]

Retaliate by sending melee builds

[fierce moth]

👀 Just play poe 2 then

And be slain with explosion from jade bombs together. It'll very fun!

🤭 The biggest enemy in poe 2: Various explosion is the rule I figured out recently

Any builds are relevant to chaos damage and curses to clear enemies like chaos caster lich in poe? Or no similar builds in poe because it's exclusive in poe 2?

Update:
Fine. None of them available so far.

[jade jackal]

#fixChampionAffixes

[junior oyster]

Yea survives fading brink. Dies to some champ

[jade jackal]

he was already dead at this point

and yeah i can facetank bosses at this difficulty, but god forbid Spark

[twilit mountain]

EHG flipped PoE2 0.1 against us out of respect for the mobs, obviously.

[desert jasper]

Okay
I feel dumb
how do I apply the Clam Stash mtx to my stash in hideout

[twilit mountain]

Step 1) get a fishing boat

[gilded elm]

I haven't tried, but I assume it's a stash variant that you can set from any stash object while in edit mode at your hideout.

Like with waypoints, map device etc.

[desert jasper]

I can't even find it in my mtx 🤔
ah well, I'll have a look again in the morning

[sand wigeon]

Okay what kind

Like, sailboat? Single cabin?

God I would give anything for a one cabin sailboat

Fish…

[tawny sand]

should be under the "edit" button > utilities while in hideout, it did take a bit for it to show up for me though. It didn't the first time I checked

[narrow token]

What would you guys pick? 🤔

[tawny sand]

i would pick life personally

[fierce moth]

It looks amazing

[blissful token]

• Forge Hammer no longer costs mana when used to recall the Hammer, and other skills such as Warcries cannot empower that use.

That is pogger

Imagine empowered recall for literally zero use lmao

So many boss attacks cannot be avoided in the upcoming patch 🤨

[fierce moth]

Wicked, why you play the campaign again? Which character are you played before warrior?

[blissful token]

Warrior still but i restarted because i wanted a fresh experience with a shield and passives

[junior stirrup]

@desert jasper For future reference, Twitch rewards are awarded in batches - it's possible to encourage them to happen by visiting your account page: https://www.pathofexile.com/my-account/twitch

[fierce moth]

......No flask options so unique flask can't place in unique page lol that's odd.

[junior stirrup]

What We're Working On post notes that there'll be a fix for 0.3.0 uniques not going into the unique tab.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-post/26320084

[fierce moth]

oh I meet a bug. Alright

[fierce moth]

Time for me to be a clown hhhhhh

Deal 2 abyssal at the same time is the max. I have to escape.

If that case spawn in a map of endgame... What I can do is... Accept the penalty of experience.

[fierce moth]

3 chaos whirlwinds + multiple chaos orbs + limited safety space + melee attack from the boss + multiple luminous beasts are rushing around.

What have I experienced in this boss combat...
The biggest insult for poe 2: The boss combat is too easy!

I missed her poison spear army now because it's more simple

[blissful token]

I like how you roll to all of them and draw aggro

Very

[fierce moth]

I guess it's why I met abyssal in this map of act 3 extra part 4 times and none of them I can alive.

But... Yes, it's a common and old issue for all maps in the campaign

Left act 2 extra part not done... I don't want to go on 👋

[blissful token]

I mean u CAN draw all aggro if you are stronk or have minions that CAN survive and kill them all

[fierce moth]

These maps took me 3h+ to complete

[blissful token]

Ooo i like that interface

GGG is really good at this

[fierce moth]

I see Byte is in endgame and take his hideout, bless him good luck

I can kill bosses in extra acts but it's too tired to kill all of them

[blissful token]

• Fixed a bug where you were unable to dodge roll past enemies when you were partially surrounded.

[fierce moth]

I have thought it's mentioned in what they working on

Burnt out to play loot-based ARPG after played le seven days + play poe 2 five days anyways 🫡

Both of them have pog moments when I trying new contents for sure but both of them have issues bothering me too

[blissful token]

Even playing minesweeper and pinball can bother players

[tawny sand]

i rage quit minesweeper 😠

[fierce moth]

I don't know how to play minesweeper unfortunately. I always click the mines

[blissful token]

My parent explained to me before how it works but i didnt bother to play

Solitaire is simpler lmao

[fierce moth]

:(
Downloaded microsoft minsweeper, it don't work. But microsoft solitaire work well

[blissful token]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1n6vcbx/i_tripped/

[tawny sand]

is there not an npc that identifies items in endgame/hideout?

i thought doriyani would but he doesn't have the option

[proper nymph]

Poe sometiems has wild mobs names rng

[fierce moth]

https://youtu.be/E4lyWUmPwFY?si=LQbckg9ezrjWME6D
My JESUS!!!!!!!! SOMEONE HAVE SHARD CONTENTS IN POE 2 ART BOOK LITERALLY!

Huge appreciation for that youtuber. Thank you so much!

[desert jasper]

Man
Jamanra is kinda rough on the poison pathfinder
feels like I do very little dmg on him
ran out of potions and only managed to get him to 1/4 hp

[tawny sand]

hmm, I think i died twice to jamanra in his second phase but other than that i didn't have issues

[blissful token]

nub fighting jamanra on a new character already?

[desert jasper]

yes?

Tbh if I just swapped pierce support to something else to boost the poison dmg I probably would've managed the kill on first try

[blissful token]

man i just got back and about to start act 3

[desert jasper]

Too bad I've very limited time for poe2 today
and can't play at all tomorrow evening

[fierce moth]

Hah... GGG release nothing about background in Aggorat even in the art book? Emmmmmm... I'm surprised the map I tried to revealed have zero info :(

That's all info about Aggorat :(

[twilit mountain]

Afaik poison is still pretty dogshit for leveling unless you just do the usual gas grenade stuff.

[desert jasper]

It's been fine, mostly
not the fastest boss kills though

[fierce moth]

I'm curious about why utzaal and Aggroat shared the same architectures, what the relationship between these maps and why Aggorat is the only map which still colourful under this level of heinous crime...

It is odd, it's not normal. Many secrets must hide in Aggorat.

I'm sad that art book can't answer all of my confusions

[vagrant arch]

Why don't all the maps look like the interlude map

That looks amazing

[fierce moth]

hah? No feelings because they're mini maps come from act 1-3

[fierce moth]

Do you mean the length of per act?

[vagrant arch]

No I like the maps drawn

[fierce moth]

I'm impressive with maps for introducing trial of ancestor in act 4 🤔

The soul judgement is the gameplay of poe 2 I like the most so far

||Chain combats with rewarding loots and a tatoo can bonus your attribute or another stuff|| Spoiler of what happened in halls of the dead

[blissful token]

phew got chimera as the trial boss

[fierce moth]

I know Jamanra, who's Chimera?

[blissful token]

the boss you fight before entering the jiquani machinarium

the lion head, snake tail boss

[fierce moth]

oh.

The art book have mentioned this boss

Hard to talk about bosses in poe 2 without pictures and videos. Because I can remember zero names of them.

Except...Viper and silverfist.

2 bosses whose have let me be insane with the difficulty

😱 🤯

Poe 2 will have a map inside ||a cathedral! || As similar as act 9 in poe but that map must more polished!!!!!

It'll in act 5? Hyped for that.

Oh? No spoilers for ||act 6|| even in artbook? 😭

Sorry to know 95% contents in artbook are about ||character design|| :(

I want to know more stories behind maps they design (environment art) but... poe 2's artbook ||have provided poor info||...

By the way... 68 artists in poe 2's art team... Holy. What a big team is...

The max amount of a class I have been in is less than 50 people. So it's 100% out of my box

[fierce moth]

Added a chat message notifying players who entered the zone if there’s a Mysterious or Torn Rift nearby.

All Primordial Uniques that could previously only be purchased can now also drop from Rift Beasts. This chance scales with the number of active Evolutions, and scales slightly with the number of materials that the Rift Beast would drop that are also in the Unique’s vendor cost. It’s also increased by Corruption and the Circle of Fortune rank bonus which increases the chance for bosses to drop their specific rewards.

Fixed an issue where Totems would not target spires in Online Mode.

Some Highlight from the latest patch 🤔

I don't want chat message notification though because it mean rift beast is an encounter as similar as nemesis, I need to explore the whole map to find that...
The new changes of the way to get primordial unique items bring a evolution.
Hah It mean my storm totem can work with all spires now?

[blissful token]

utzaal is still brutal for warrior

[fierce moth]

Utzaal just brutal for all characters I guess

[acoustic jungle]

ayo

[gilded elm]

I'll need to figure out something with my build, definitely not ideal for mapping lol. Probably just need to buy some gear.

[blissful token]

even viper herself is less annoying than the monsters in utzaal

[gilded elm]

Async trading is so good, though. Got a new weapon and it was painless, no whispering, just instant teleport and buy.

I don't think I struggle as much in Utzaal (it's mostly Chaos, right?). Black Chambers usually poses a bigger challenge for me since Phys Damage Reduction is usually what I'm lacking, so the cannon balls are always annoying lol

[blissful token]

oh my those too

i just havent reach there

[gilded elm]

Did they nerf Viper, though? That fight felt easier than I remember it being since 0.1