📚┃off-topic

[junior oyster]

I also have an issue with this

Dies once and you lose the entire map

I hate roguelike mechanics in non-roguelike games

[abstract karma]

So this is useless if your base of projectiles is one lol

[desert jasper]

got a new weapon

[abstract karma]

me too crafted from remained items 😄

[fierce moth]

I'm struggling with which one should I purchase...

Current focus is good on 90% mods, except spell damage is a bit low and es is too less

[mental talon]

You're ED right, I'd think your Current Focus is better since you're a Chaos Dam build

[fierce moth]

If I want more... 🤷‍♀️

[mental talon]

And if not you can always just put it into PoB to see

[fierce moth]

Items I want to update:

Focus with chaos + spell damage and +3 all spell skills
Amulet with life + 60 spirit + cast speed
Gloves with...Oh my gloves don't have 3 prefixes yet

The difficulty is out of my box lol

[twilit mountain]

@sand wigeon out here pulling the literal lowest ilevel max roll Lifesprig on market

[sand wigeon]

I’m just that good.

[desert jasper]

That's insane
hitting the +3 too

[junior oyster]

I know the feeling

Does anyone have a good atlas skill setup that I can take from?

Also while I understand the changes to prefix mods on maps I kinda wish they kept it as it was in 0.1

[desert jasper]

Tbh I rarely die on my warrior anymore
but strongboxes?
They're somehow very deadly

[junior oyster]

Not sure if deadeye should die but some bosses definitely wipe me too easy

[fierce moth]

lol I never die at boss combats since that time I tried the abyssal boss

[fierce moth]

Rare enemies are harder than bosses sometimes 🤭

[junior oyster]

Curses are kinda useless and maybe even the mana regen but not bad for crit chance and ES

[desert jasper]

tbh i don't like how curses work in poe2

[junior oyster]

I'm not doing curses so definitely a useless mod regardless

[desert jasper]

Feels awkward to use unless blasphemy or curses grounf

[warped wren]

They're kinda awful if you're using them, but they're much easier to deal with when the game is using them

[desert jasper]

Yeah, have to agree with that

[twilit mountain]

Me in the corner sadly covering my Despair gem's ears

Oh yeah. @warped wren made the crit swap last night/today. Bit expensive but worth it. Went into a Jade Isles and the poor boss didn't even get to finish monologuing at me lol

[warped wren]

Crit gas?

[twilit mountain]

Ye

[warped wren]

Critical Fart

[twilit mountain]

It is a little bit stupid how well that skill performs

[warped wren]

Man I should just start Warrior and then figure out what to do later

[junior oyster]

So glad I didn't attempt jade isles

Must be a hard encounter

[twilit mountain]

Abyss? The climb out the pit and die before they can move. Ritual? Dead on spawn. Expedition? Don't even get to see the mobs. Breach? Oh baby do we love prolif.

[junior oyster]

Nah for me

[twilit mountain]

Jade Isles is the act 4 boss but he hits harder than Arbiter if you're curious

[junior oyster]

Yea I had a feeling it'd be something like that

[twilit mountain]

They really took the guy with giga slams and went "yeah, let's feed him 30 pounds of protein powder and then have him snort some coke to top it off"

[desert jasper]

What build are you even playing atm, Deias?

[desert jasper]

Man, I don't wanna imagine the protein farts of that guy

[twilit mountain]

Crit Gas Grenade PF o7

[junior oyster]

Not gunna lie ggg did catch me off guard thinking the sirus like boss was the final boss of a4

[twilit mountain]

AKA "I cannot see a damn thing but luckily I don't have to"

Nowhere near the topend of the build either, I don't think I have the patience to truly finish it

[desert jasper]

You're making me kinda jealous with that tbh

[twilit mountain]

I'll be trying my luck on Uber Arbiter when I find the frags for it (only have one of the three rn)

[desert jasper]

I found a map with strong boss and I'd need to find them stones in nearby maps
but only found one
also unique map right next to it but I don't have a tier 11 map

[twilit mountain]

Thankfully the stones automatically pop up next to you when you clear the map it's in now

[junior oyster]

Does anyone know what the boss is for this map?

[twilit mountain]

I have I think 70 T15s if you wanna take some. Not really any lower though lol, my stash is almost exclusively T1s and T15s due to how I hit the progression curve

[twilit mountain]

Huh. Nope. Don't think I've seen that layout yet.

If I had to guess I'd say maybe the spirit lady?

[junior oyster]

I'm kinda scared if it's the interlude 2 final boss

I beat all bosses in campaign except that boss

Had to get help against him

[twilit mountain]

Yeah I think it's the spear lady with the spirits hanging around her from the village in interlude 3 just going off context clues

[desert jasper]

Yeah

[junior oyster]

Nah pretty sure I died to her in another map 😂

[junior oyster]

Oh wait you meant the poison one?

She might be a pain for sure

[twilit mountain]

Wiki is no help apparently lol

[junior oyster]

Yea I checked xD

[twilit mountain]

Anyway, gonna take a nap, been awake for 18 hours already

[junior oyster]

Yep it is her like you said

Time to find out how quick she kills me

Nvm I killed her

Uhh I think I might skip riverside for a while

Ooh nice

I think it's a little unfair that t3 trial doesn't give skill points but t3 barya does

[warped wren]

yeah it's a nonsense setup rn

I just hate ascension in this game, period

even if you're on a jacked out character, Sekhema is an enormous waste of time while Chaos is just "which vice do you wanna put your balls in"

[junior oyster]

Damn I almost killed silverfist but doesn't help I was so damn slow

Well it sucks either way cuz it was only a t5 map

[sand wigeon]

@twilit mountain Want to log into my computer and sell my Lifesprig for me

Never mind, she’s asleep

[warped wren]

just made a cool 5d off of Castaway

[fierce moth]

I feel Deias's sleep schedule is magical

[desert jasper]

I can't wait to see what bs they come up with in tota

[warped wren]

I was ambivalent about TOTA in PoE1

then again, I was ambivalent about Sanctum too

what do you wanna be in life, Bramble Sliver...

[desert jasper]

It's just confused
give it time

[desert jasper]

Yeah, TOTA in poe1 was... okayish
But I just feel that they'll shove it full of negative modifiers
and enemy teams getting like
+500% physical dmg and whatnot
"deal less damage to enemy totems" and so on

Like I'm fully expecting it to just be fully negative modifiers

[desert jasper]

I wouldn't hate sanctum as much as I do
if It actually was more likely to give you positive stuff

[warped wren]

at least Sekhema has boons

Chaos has nothing

[desert jasper]

Yeah, that's true

But sometimes you can just get blasted with negative stuff in Sekhema too

Last time I started 2nd floor?
Just pure negative stuff for first 3 rooms
and same went for floor 3

[fierce moth]

I think Sekhemas is bad because it need me to do multiple runs to gather relics so the time for the starting is quite long if I want to run this trial safely

[fierce moth]

Chaos isn't quite good but I can just place the token and start the run, no prepare work is need, which I think it's better

[junior oyster]

I can finish chaos faster than sekhema if it wasn't for the lengthy walks and chaos head guy freezing the game every floor...

Oh and ofc the keys required

[abstract karma]

why does "Vornas, the Fell Flame" from PoE 2 looks like miniature of Balrog from Lord of Rings movie lol ?

[twilit mountain]

I can finish chaos faster than Sekhema just because GNade just kinda... covers the whole arena

[sand wigeon]

Yeah well I one shot everything in the game. So.

[desert jasper]

You don't oneshot me

[twilit mountain]

Well PoE2 doesn't have PvP. Which is a good thing, PoE1's is terrible. And D4's. And D2's. And every other ARPG PvP.

[sand wigeon]

Wdym Tower of Kalemonvo has great PvP

[fierce moth]

99.5 + 78.8 + 267.3 + 8.7 + 42 = 496.3h.
Ok I played poe 2 close to 500h

Still no idea how are they play that 1000h+

[neon sigil]

[fierce moth]

I have 194 spirit before, but 3686 mana and 690 mana/s regen is quite poor, so it's make sense on I can't level up since lv 85 These gears come from past stormweaver

All gears with increasing max mana and mana regen are quite expensive in 0.1 too, plus with I'm newbie, know nothing about how to craft gears...

Poor action skills + poor poe knowledge + insane economy inflation + wrong choice on ascendency form of the disaster in 0.1

Well I'm back to lv 85 so I want to review my experience

[fierce moth]

You're done in 0.3?

alright be slain by abyssal octopus again. Meet 3 rare abyssal octopus at the same time and I'm on a plain...Unfortunately

[neon sigil]

Yeah got burned out on it.

[fierce moth]

lol Finally!

[fierce moth]

I'm not reach t15 yet so I still here

[warped wren]

I'm just saving for 2nd build now

Even though I have yet to find a citadel and fight Arbiter, but done much of the rest

[fierce moth]

I'm excited by which mods maybe I get by crafting this wand (First time to collect all materials I need)

Alright, no luck :(

[fierce moth]

@junior stirrup Any maps are relevant to the inside of...Wait, what the name of this architecture?

Alright, the game is freezing again

This case is happened more and more frequent after the update. Waystone -1.

[junior oyster]

Ok I hate this mod

Not sure which one it is but I hate it cuz for a while I could do 0 damage

[fierce moth]

I get the own easy money finally (Exchanged 2d at last. Cool)

[fierce moth]

Proximal Tangibility. I'm sure.

[junior oyster]

Nah I'm kinda sure it's either soul siphoner and/or minion damage first

[junior oyster]

<@&1161418687471956101>

I hate these guys

Sold my first item with the new trade for 5ex

Not much but hopefully it's a start

[abstract karma]

Finally with limited time the camp is done 😄
Yep i sucks

[abstract karma]

+1

[sudden anchor]

Is there an easy mode in poe2? And where to respec passive points? I wanna try out a few things.

[abstract karma]

Every area has some nps which refund passives for gold

[junior oyster]

No easy mode sadly

[sudden anchor]

😄 its a hard game, have to concentrate always to not die. But its fun, looking forward to try the chaosfiremage

[fierce moth]

I just saw Youyanshe posted an article about why loot-based ARPG become more popular recently, it mentioned le as...

I suppose it's a bit offense to be honest.

"An amateur project come from the community which developed by a group of diablo-like fans, last epoch, was spotlighted last year."

[blissful token]

not exactly wrong?

though amateur is abit of a strong word

[fierce moth]

It mentioned why actions and vfx of characters in Poe 2 look quite smooth too. Tencent help GGG to hire the top artists, not only in game industry but also in film industry

I can imagine how amazing skill levels of these artists in GGG are, yes

[blissful token]

oh opening ritual menu pauses the game?

<30fps at digsite feelsgoodman

[twilit mountain]

Opening anything that covers the center of your screen pauses

[blissful token]

why is it not a thing in LE

[twilit mountain]

Well you see, any major gameplay or QoL addition to LE is in the timeframe of about 4 to 5 years development time :)

[junior oyster]

Alright jumping into an abyss depth is annoying

[mental talon]

[junior oyster]

Like ok first time round I fall and slowly get up, fine no problem. But after that? Why.

[twilit mountain]

Comedic purposes

[fierce moth]

I dislike, even hate these hallow walkways. Be slain because of the block from these damn mods.

[blissful token]

kay i just went thru ghazzy's crafting video, i think i get the gist

but dem... getting those omens are costly

and i need the craft of exile to test

[fierce moth]

Why bosses are easier than white/magic/rare mods to deal? This is a serious issue.

[blissful token]

because you can get swarmed if not dealt quick enough

[junior oyster]

I don't die as often to whites/blue/yellow but then again I'm only at t8

[blissful token]

also environmental factor

[fierce moth]

I lost a lot...

[blissful token]

i just cleared t9 nexus just now and calling it a day

you're faz dud

[junior oyster]

I take it nexus are difficult

[blissful token]

i need to learn crafting to start fixing my gear

chaos dmg can 1 tap me now at t9

[junior oyster]

I'd learn if I could get curr

Probably same here lol

Although I do have some eva

[blissful token]

i have -2% lightning and 0% chaos lmao

[fierce moth]

what? -2%????

How are you make it negative 🤔

[blissful token]

by not having resist while every campaign act activates the penalty?

[twilit mountain]

Because you get -60% to all ele res from the- yeah that ^

[fierce moth]

.....It need to be treated seriously, indeed

[blissful token]

i can tank elemental

with armor

just not chaos

though temporal bubble + temporal chains are pain in the arse as a true melee

megacopium

[twilit mountain]

Skill gapped, just be immune to slows /s

[blissful token]

so the starting base of the item and item level is important to crafting

having existing "tags" are essential to your crafting

[junior oyster]

I also have next to nothing rarity

[fierce moth]

oh I forget my cold resistance is 69% only. Need to purchase an rare plate belt with armour, life, cold + lighting resistance

[blissful token]

rarity? whats that? you got slot for that if you are playing warrior?

[twilit mountain]

I have 0%, ain't havin any issues 👍

[junior oyster]

I hate that dots take away my ES so quickly lol

I only have 3k life including my es

[blissful token]

also ice ground patches on top of those 2 are like magnet to my waystone modifier.... fun

[blissful token]

i only have 2.4k life with 0 es

[fierce moth]

Spent 50e. Gears are quite expensive.

[blissful token]

technically, if you wanna self-craft, you focus on expedition (recomb) and ritual?

also essence from the normal atlas tree

[fierce moth]

I need to exchange 1d to e so I can have enough e to support me to juice maps... Endgame is exalted-consuming

[warped wren]

smol indie studio

please follow the build guide

[junior oyster]

Game crashes upon opening a breach 😂

Ty breach

[fierce moth]

One more step to craft a new excellent wand only... I need another omen of hom*genising but I don't want to pay so much 😵

[junior oyster]

Damn kirra crafting like crazy

[gilded elm]

She's learning!

[gilded elm]

Did that Ghazzy video help to better understand crafting?

[twilit mountain]

Explain this. The bottom green one was done and wouldn't let me go to the blue one before. I just did the top green one and it opened the now-blue one when it should have opened the one with the boss that's still locked.

[gilded elm]

hehe

These were not the original exchange prices, but eventually they gravitated there overnight

When I listed the Fracturing Orb order, the exchange rate was 3:1

There's 104 stock pending at the 5:1 exchange rate for Fracturing Orbs, so you'd be waiting a very long time to try to buy them for any cheaper than that.

I could probably get these Sinistral Crystallizations at an exchange rate of 8:1 or 9:1 if I was really patient.

The margins on these trades are insane.

If I had volume and frequency data on these trades, I could do some serious margin trading. I mean, I still can even without the data.

(This is how I made basically a quarter of a trillion ISK in EVE Online)

[twilit mountain]

I don't because it bores me xdd

[gilded elm]

This system is not like EVE Online because in PoE's exchange you can't adjust prices once you create the order (which means you aren't sitting there updating your orders every hour, which can be both good and bad) but you could still make a lot of currency just from overnight margin trading.

Especially if you are a crafting expert who understands which currencies/omens are in the highest demand. Someone like Alwheezy could make bank doing this.

[mental talon]

That's pretty much what I did in Settlers, Secrets and this league. Moved high volume and had buy'sells that were just pure profit.

[gilded elm]

Knew it lmao

[mental talon]

I've said it's easier than ever to make currency

Like turn your brain off easy when buy orders and sell orders anyone can do it

[gilded elm]

It's a lot easier in PoE because you can't really update the prices of existing orders, so there's less having to actively compete with other orders over time.

It's very much a "set and forget" trade mentality.

[mental talon]

There was a point in Merc League where I was making day 3-5 about 15-20 Div overnight just moving Bubblegum.

That's why I had a triple T1 Phys Axe, with T1 Attack Speed and perfect Conqueror slam by day 5

[mental talon]

Yeah I mean sirgog had a video about how easy it was back during I think Settlers?

and so many people were like "too complicated" and it's like fam you just set buy order<sell order

[gilded elm]

I guess nobody does Bubblegum:Div trades, is it mostly in exalts?

[mental talon]

At this point, it's Exalts

The Bubblegum Div trade was big money like week 1-2

[gilded elm]

It's exalts, but look like wide that margin is, holy crap.

[mental talon]

Yup

[gilded elm]

That's a big margin

[mental talon]

It's very much brain off lol

[gilded elm]

I could buy a bunch of baubles at 4.5:1 overnight and sell them back at 2:1

Passive income in PoE is so easy now lmao

[twilit mountain]

Yeah I'unno, I just don't like doing market flip type stuff for money. Like, Settlers I farmed in total like 3 mirrors worth via essences, scarabs, and raw chaos/divs. Sure that's lower than what marketing does but it just... feels better.

[gilded elm]

Like, ethically?

Flipping is just price normalization.

[twilit mountain]

No, like, I don't get dopamine out of sitting there flipping shit

[junior oyster]

I can't do either cuz that's how bad at the game I am

[gilded elm]

Ah, right

Yeah this is meant to be passive, overnight kind of thing

[twilit mountain]

I play the game to enjoy myself, not to simulate daytrading

[gilded elm]

So you do it in addition to whatever you're already doing, as supplemental income

Like before logging out and going to bed or whatever

[junior oyster]

I lose that joy when I die/don't get drops

I hate that having more mods on a map means less revives

And ofc exp penalty

[gilded elm]

Some people, a lot probably, do in fact actively flip and play the market as their primary income and it's probably more than doable. The good thing about this is that you can do it at your own pace and still make a good profit.

[junior oyster]

In my case I'd lose money

[gilded elm]

If you stick to the currency exchange, I think it'd be really hard to lose money

[junior oyster]

Also dislike flipping

It's more boring than crafting for me

[gilded elm]

Oh yeah, that's fair. Margin trading can be boring agreed.

The joy of it stems entirely from the results, not the process.

[junior oyster]

Ofc

[gilded elm]

It would be pretty hard to lose money on this trade, if you buy 6 Greater's for 1 Exalt, then sell back those 6 Greater's for 2 exalts, It's 1 Exalt profit.

This is a bad example item, but you get the idea.

[junior oyster]

Wait if you clear corruption node you lose all corruption? damn

[warped wren]

I think it's a fair concept but we need fewer bullshit ways to die

[fierce moth]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1ngzg38/spirits_just_proved_how_amazing_they_are/

My inventory is crashed. Too much loot, oh my Jesus. (Something I just experienced)

[junior oyster]

Oh wait cleansed is the replacement for corruption

[gilded elm]

Things like... nearly invisible on death Chaos cloud effects? lol

[warped wren]

Precisely

[junior oyster]

With how little gold I have I don't think I'd be flipping for long

[gilded elm]

Yeah gold becomes a barrier for high volume trades, for sure.

But I spend a few million gold gambling from Ange, so gold isn't that difficult to accumulate.

[twilit mountain]

I just hold mine til I find a ventor box lmao

[gilded elm]

That box robbed me blind last time and gave me nothing :(

[junior oyster]

300k gold here :P

[twilit mountain]

Yeah but it's fun :D

[gilded elm]

Can't argue that lmao

Cool animation too

[gilded elm]

Not running enough maps man

And/or not picking up vendor rares

[mental talon]

Ive got like 7 million Gold right now I think

[twilit mountain]

I'm down to like 500k, ran into two ventor boxes yesterday and had to do a solid respec

[gilded elm]

Out of curiosity, what's everyone's normal Atlas tree look like atm? Really not sure on what's good here

[warped wren]

I went spirits, boxes, mod effect and tablets

[twilit mountain]

shrug

I just do things

[gilded elm]

Spirits eh? That's one I didn't think people would invest into.

Okay so Deias went boxes too

[twilit mountain]

Spirits are really good when they hit

[twilit mountain]

They're basically free money

[gilded elm]

I see you went a little towards Rogue Exiles too?

[twilit mountain]

12 of my divs are box divs lol

[twilit mountain]

I didn't know what to do with my last three points

[junior oyster]

You guys got a link for your atlas tree?

[gilded elm]

Mine's probably not the best example, sounds like Strongboxes are really good and I'll want to swap some points to go for that

Okay, so Alwheezy went hard on the Explicit Mod Effect nodes too

I had the same idea

[mental talon]

Obv all of my currency is not dependent on Raw Divine drops

[gilded elm]

Any reason you didn't go for boxes?

Just time consuming?

[mental talon]

Im not wasting my time on boxes. If they pop up cool, if they dont cool. It's not like POE 1 where they're instant or w.e.

[gilded elm]

Yeah, I feel that. They spawn in like 2 waves and they don't always spawn right on top of the box

[fierce moth]

Dropped 50+ boots, but I just find 3 of them have potential to craft 😅

[twilit mountain]

I am probably biased on account of "hit the entire screen and kill nearly every mob instantly" build

[gilded elm]

Yeah, your build is screen clearing but I bet you'd still run into the annoyance sometimes with maps that have a lot of narrow corridors

So being blocked by walls and such

And mobs spawning outside of those walls in other corridors

[twilit mountain]

Nah, just click gas around the corner

[gilded elm]

[twilit mountain]

It bounces off walls 👍

[junior oyster]

I'm a build that says die if you get hit and you deal 0 damage apparently

It should be strong but clearly am not strong

[twilit mountain]

I stand in the middle of rituals and let the cloud do its thing

Well, really that's how all content goes

[gilded elm]

btw how many poison stacks is your PF up to? 6?

[twilit mountain]

Technically 8

[gilded elm]

+1 from gem?

Where's the others coming from lol

[twilit mountain]

Escalating Poison on one of my util skills, it's just to buff poisons from my main though

[gilded elm]

I'm confused how poison stacks work when you put the +1 stack support gem on your non-main skill

[junior oyster]

Why is silverfist in 2 map tiles...

[twilit mountain]

Get it up to 8 stacks -> gets overwritten by by main skill to go back down to 6 but with higher damage now

[gilded elm]

Is that something specific to your utility skill or is that just how it would work with any skill combination?

[twilit mountain]

Just that one really

[gilded elm]

So for a build that isn't using that skill combination, you'd want the Escalating Poison support on your main poison skill?

[twilit mountain]

You probably wouldn't want it at all, it's difficult to keep up the stack count if your duration goes lower than like 2.8s

[gilded elm]

Ah right, well assuming you could keep all those stacks up

[junior oyster]

Saw this drop so I was like yay big money but nope

[twilit mountain]

Then yeah, it's a decent support

[junior oyster]

Only 50ex

[twilit mountain]

GNade is just very good at applying consistently since we have this stupid support around

"Limit 6 poison clouds" yeah i don'tt think so, bud

[gilded elm]

So your gas grenades are a ground surface that deal poison damage directly? How often does that damage tick to apply a new stack?

[twilit mountain]

The cloud is a "ground surface"

And idk how often really, I just have not seen it go below 6 ever really

[gilded elm]

And there's probably overlapping clouds any way, so even if it was say "once per second" it would still be fast in overlapping clouds

[twilit mountain]

Yuuuup

[fierce moth]

): I'm failed.

[gilded elm]

That still looks kinda juicy lol

[fierce moth]

107e is gone...I want mana regen :(

[gilded elm]

Maybe you can use Orb of Annulment with some Omen to fix it

Or maybe Chaos Orb + Omen of Whittling?

[junior oyster]

Kinda debating buying this though I am 3 ex short

[twilit mountain]

Oh that's not bad

[junior oyster]

Also will lose crit chance

[gilded elm]

How much total Increased Crit Chance do you have? Maybe it's not that big of a loss

[junior oyster]

Taking amy off brings me to 39%

[gilded elm]

Significant, but also not that significant. Depends whether the spirit on that ammy will make up for the loss in one way or another, I guess?

[junior oyster]

Rhoa mount

[gilded elm]

Also the ammy gives increased crit damage bonus, so that partially makes up for the loss too

[fierce moth]

Oh wait. I always forget mana regen on gears don't work on my lich lol

[gilded elm]

In that case, sounds like a really good wand then?

[twilit mountain]

GGG please fix the bug with Kulemak fight where you get stuck in the pit in the middle...

[fierce moth]

Wait. How another players add one more skill bonus on the wand?

[gilded elm]

Rune?

[twilit mountain]

Sanctified probably

[twilit mountain]

Cool. +100ex.

[twilit mountain]

It's at the top, runes enchant

[desert jasper]

Oh nice, you found my belt

Shame I dropped it accidentally

[fierce moth]

Thanks

[twilit mountain]

150ex price just for you :) /s

[gilded elm]

Oh, you can actually get +5 Chaos Spell Skills according to PoE2 DB. It's just very rare?

[fierce moth]

1599e hhhhhhhhh

[gilded elm]

So this is probably what that is

Needs ilvl 81 wand base and a lot of luck

[junior oyster]

Ahhh not sure if it's worth it lol

Losing int or crit bonus could both be bad

[fierce moth]

So fun

[junior oyster]

Ilvl too high nvm lol

[gilded elm]

If you're having mana issues, I don't think getting more +skills is going to be beneficial to you right now any way until you solve the mana issues.

[warped wren]

GGG: introduces 100+ runes

they're all dogshit or dogshit rare

[fierce moth]

Oh yes, I need more life to solve mana issue

[gilded elm]

+Skills is just going to drain your mana even more

[twilit mountain]

Just drop the 13div movement speed one, it's that easy

[fierce moth]

But body armours better than mine will too expensive

I want that rune... I'm poor on d :(

[twilit mountain]

If only it were PoE1

[desert jasper]

Bold of you to assume I even have that much

[mental talon]

Worth

[fierce moth]

Do low level requirement is a bonus or a block for price?

🤔 I purchased that with 1d before

[warped wren]

Absolutely haram

[mental talon]

Im almost done with POE 2 so Im just sending it tbh.

[fierce moth]

?!?!!! (Checked out the mod list, alright another luck test here if I want more spirit)

[mental talon]

There's no way to guarantee spirit as it doesnt have any tags but from here you can Aug another mod + Essence into Rare, Desecrate and go for a Fracture and if you hit + to All Spells you can Chaos until you hit Spirit and deterministically craft the amulet into w.e. you want (it's easier to start with a Spirit Fracture than Spell Fracture because of H-genous Omen tho for reference.)

Another Rakiata's Flow just as I was worrying about my Currency.

[acoustic jungle]

GUYS STOP ENJOYING POE2 IT'S A BAD GAME AND IT NEEDS 50 MORE PATCHES FOR IT TO BE GOOD. STOP HAVING FUN. EVERY DAY IT'S BYTEFLUX POSTING HE'S HAVING FUN AND ALL I HAVE TO DO IS REVIEW WORK-RELATED STUFF 24/7 AND WAIT FOR SPICY DMS AND NOTHING TO PLAY LIKE WHY DO YOU GUYS GET TO HAVE FUN AND I DON'T HELLO

[gilded elm]

:(

[acoustic jungle]

cries in baby

[gilded elm]

I had fun blasting some maps today, making some currency, but swapped over to play some Borderlands 4 because that's also been quite fun

[tawny sand]

i'm still grinding 2XKO, but utilizing assists is weird for me so far. I've only played tag games a few times before, but it's been fun

Vi is a fun character

[warped wren]

How many Jade Isles did it take you on average to get one?

[mental talon]

I've dropped 2 so far out of like 23 attempts I think? (Used the retry Tablet a bunch

If I had to take a guess I think the drop rate is 5% tho

[warped wren]

Ugh

No wonder the damn thing is hitting 30d

[blissful token]

That will make stampede go zoom if it is a str boot

[mental talon]

I've still gotta make gear for a QStaff Hateforge Titan mans (or don't idk we'll see)

[blissful token]

This is essential my mace basic attack?

Means i should slot in support gem?

[desert jasper]

Yeah

[blissful token]

Hmm still using armour explosion and it scales 30% of my basic attack ehh

Maybe it is time to remove herald of ashe and use the spirit to slot in vitality 2 on my scavenged plating

That might help abit on survivability

[fierce moth]

🤔 hah need to learn how many e to exchange a fracture orb

More and more Chinese review videos come out since Chinese version of poe 2 is released, nice (poe 2 introduce more new players with this game genre at least)

[blissful token]

Maybe they can learn a thing or 2 about the game and crafting from Kirra

[fierce moth]

These new Chinese players divide into two factions, one is ask different questions about details of poe 2 (how this gear going, how to do xxx, how to increase damage), the other one is show endgame builds, teach how to finish the campaign, how to craft gears and how xxx build works

So many of them never play poe 2, many of them have played a long time and make videos based on info gap

But the common is both of Chinese community and English community don't interest in fan art made in 0.3

Maybe 0.4 will better. More players have learnt the game so they can know what someone mentioned faster + maybe act 5 is live in 0.4 so more contents are available to enjoy.

But I hope these normal/magic/rare enemies are easier to deal. They need a big nerf because of overwhelming explosions 🙃

[warped wren]

this is a uniquely PoE2 problem because GGG wanted to make individual enemies have "character" I guess. In PoE1, white mobs are trash no matter what they are.

[blissful token]

meaningfool combat

[fierce moth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM99fJn4o9M

This build is highlighted by GGG, which is build lich as a deadeye, it's an interesting angle.
But new build guides for players whose earned a lot and saved a lot in endgame only, anyways.

[mental talon]

2nd one in time for bed I wish I could post alkLFG

[junior oyster]

Meanwhile I only just dropped my first div

[fierce moth]

T?

[fierce moth]

Oh rtx 6090 news are everywhere. Ok I guess Nvidia will release 70 series when I'm 30 years old

[blissful token]

Maybe they call it ztx lul

[fierce moth]

Why

[blissful token]

Thats what they do

I wanna change a few things in skills to see if i can boss better

[fierce moth]

Do sticky rice cereal are popular in desserts and milk tea on Singapore?

It's quite common here and this trends last 2 years already, but it's not declined yet.

I bet it's exclusive Asian flavour.

[blissful token]

Sticky rice cereal?

[fierce moth]

No Chinese here so... Let me DM you a few words

Oh yes, mochi. But we can eat mochi when we're drinking milk tea here because they're mini

But Stick rice cereal is another type of mochi. It's a bit liquid so we can dip. Non-Newtonian fluids is the term used to describe that.

Japanese have similar snack, 🍡

I guess Europeans and Americans prefer hot chocolate or latte more because sticky rice isn't in daily recipe of them. Rice isn't their daily food

Chinese drink is the one of products which evoluted the most in sweet food... Includes milk tea, fruit tea and wild vegetables juices

My Jesus. Too beautiful...

I figured out what can I paint next by pigments 🫡

Oh. It's AI-generated. Make sense on it looks quite perfect.
Learn how to tell the story behind is more important ever...

[fierce moth]

Maybe I can replace it as blue flowers surround with golden (mental) tea set which fill with blood🤔

(It's inspired by the palette GGG used in interlude act 2 + the background story in vaal city)

[fierce moth]

Emmmmmmmm....

Sorry I don't know so many types of gold for pigments 😵 No idea which one should I purchase lol

Ok I purchased them. New wave of colour experiments is coming soon :)

[junior oyster]

T10 I believe it was

[abstract karma]

Ouch.... i started maps yesterday so i will have rough path of equip upgrade then

[junior oyster]

Buy some cheap gear

[fierce moth]

GGG should let Fane get a d in t1 map, t10 is too bad

5x time is needed 🙃

[junior oyster]

I only have like 30 rarity so that doesn't help much

[fierce moth]

It seems 0% rarity I have because I don't know where rarity is after checked out character panel and skill panel.

😅 ... It's a confusing mod to stack

yes. 0 rarity on my gears.

[acoustic jungle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mt9UhGNi60

@gilded elm basically all the point we (I, mostly LMAO) covered in our discussion back then. This video nailed every single point.

I'm so happy this video was made, but super sad it probably won't reach GGG's ears, but I'm hoping they'll just slowly realize what pile of crap this identity crisis is making the game to be.

I'm very sad that they'll most likely give up on the "meaty combat" aspect of it, but for however long swarming is 99% of your gameplay, it just cannot happen.

Swear I'd love to see a version of the combat changes we discussed where combos remove each other's animation-locks and so on, so that they feel good to press together, and you don't have to wait.

Like I can't believe, if GGG implements it internally, they won't say it feels good to have most skills/movement play into each other, and only somewhat lock you for a fraction of what it is now - you get the best of both worlds.

[fierce moth]

It's confusing of I can't interact with beast skin...I want to know what is it

Not as hard as mad wolf I will say. (The boss of expedition)

[blissful token]

Kirra stronk

[fierce moth]

How am I know the beacon in which map near deadly boss map?
I still confused about the mechanic of get access with deadly boss... I just know it require t6+ maps and no chance to challenge that again if I'm failed in the first time

🫠 🥴 🙂 ...I'm fine.

Just enemies from expedition are very good at ambush me. Sudden explosions with big range are too common

[warped wren]

fight him on t3, a lot of his moves become complete oneshots

I lost my first t3 attempt to some frisbee flying out of nowhere with no cue

[fierce moth]

This is the answer of this puzzle?...

It's confusing that I need to solve riddles in endgame of poe 2

[junior oyster]

Check your main skill info

[blissful token]

fruitful day today

[fierce moth]

....Still not the right answer

[fierce moth]

🙃 No luck for more spirit, yes

[mental talon]

That's to be expected

[fierce moth]

what is it mean

This amulet is required lv 61 🤔

The most hard survival I've done because my game think it's too hard too so it helped me by freezing the combat for a while

[junior oyster]

Damn Kirra level 88 already

Doubt I'll succeed but time to give trial a try

[mental talon]

Modifiers have a weighting the lower the number is the harder it is to get the modifier to appear. Spirit has a very low mod pool weighting meaning it's hard to hit, and on top of that it has no other tags meaning it can't be h-genized into it. So ideally you start with Spirit fractured, or another desirable mod fractured and Chaos your way into Spirit and craft out from there

[junior oyster]

Yea looks like chaos damage will probably kill me off before any bosses do

[fierce moth]

The most valuable unique support gem I got (7 unique support gems now)

[mental talon]

So the entire weighting pool for prefixes looks like this

[fierce moth]

the number in the red frame is bigger, rarer this mod is?

[mental talon]

As you can see Spirit has the 2nd lowest Weighting being beat out by % Mana and % life but both of those have tags meaning you can deterministically hit them

[fierce moth]

Oh no...Smaller

[mental talon]

The closer the total weighting is to 1 the harder it is to get the modifier to appear

So you ideally start from a Fracture Spirit, or Chaos your way into Spirit with another Fracture mod and craft outwards

[fierce moth]

I just get the 1st t15 map

[junior oyster]

Yeh I almost killed bahlak but it wasn't enough

Need more damage

[fierce moth]

The only amulet which have spirit I have

Wrong item base is a pity

[blissful token]

recomb?

[fierce moth]

d : e = 1 : 205 now

[fierce moth]

16.55% successful rate

[junior oyster]

Sigh trash drop

[fierce moth]

38 isn't enough too because mine is 38

[junior oyster]

Lol t1 thorns

And another

[fierce moth]

54e per try...hah...I maybe run out all e but still don't lock all skills mod :(

[gilded elm]

I just learned this is a thing this league, damn this changes things

[desert jasper]

No longer requiring a minute to swap weapons?
The vision is gone

[blissful token]

so we can swap between knife and AWP now?

[gilded elm]

I was avoiding any kind of weapon swap because I thought the animation time was still there, but this kinda changes things

[fierce moth]

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/IVjS7nphtM

Hhhhhhhhhh

[junior oyster]

Well hot trash

[gilded elm]

@twilit mountain Do you use the Fire/Detonate component of Gas Grenade at all?

[fierce moth]

I feel mapping in poe 2 is more and more boring after played that for a while, it's happened per time because these maps don't have so much profit if I don't find, active and insert tablets at first. The process of finding next tower is where the issue is.

Of course, repeat the same steps to juice waystones is in the same case. Augmentation, regal, exalted, vaal. Again and again and hope the targeted maps up a tier and don't appear temporal chains.

And...Sell items just too hard so profit come from trading can be ignored.

[junior oyster]

Yea I agree with you

Mapping is pretty damn boring

[twilit mountain]

Nope

I explicitly make it impossible for the gas to be ignited

[fierce moth]

The only fun is crafting but it's a work which needs lots of exalted orbs to support 🙃

I collected a bunch of gears, jewellries and weapons which have potential to go better but I just lack of enough currencies to craft them one by one

[gilded elm]

How so?

[ebon meadow]

Yea that's why chaos/fireballs witch is using shield charge ,I would like it to be slightly faster like less than one second

I don't know who had the freaking idea that u can't use shield charge with focus

@fierce moth did u manage to sell those ES chests ?

I m curious for how much if u did

[twilit mountain]

Prolonged Ground or whatever it's called. Completely prevents the gas from going away by any method until the duration runs out.

[twilit mountain]

This thing

[gilded elm]

Ah, thanks. I hadn't noticed that last line that specifies it can only be destroyed by expiration. That's cool

[twilit mountain]

Yeah it also completely disrespects the "limit 6 clouds" part of GNade itself. Just let them expand a bit and you can have like 12 at once lmao

[fierce moth]

if you mean body armour...

[twilit mountain]

Also yeah this happened and I'm like 99% sure weapon swap speed passives still exist

[gilded elm]

Bypassing the limit is surely unintended? Unless there's language in the support gem to suggest that's how it should work

[ebon meadow]

Yo had a better one just before weekend

[twilit mountain]

Cannot be destroyed except by expiring

[ebon meadow]

600 + es

[twilit mountain]

Limits destroy the previous

[fierce moth]

I want to sell that the most

[twilit mountain]

Unintended? Maybe, but not in a bug way more as a "we forgot how our shit functions" way

[gilded elm]

Oh you're right. Spawning in a new thing above the limit will despawn the previous. I guess the "despawn" could in fact be the same as "destroy"

The behavior of limit enforcement is entirely based on despawning the older instances, true.

[ebon meadow]

Hmm 2 divines thought I would buy that my self from u for my ed

[fierce moth]

Mine is 634 so far

Can't find a better one to craft yet

[ebon meadow]

Can u set a beep for trade in Poe 2 from website?

[fierce moth]

set a beep?

[ebon meadow]

Like a notification that will beep when u looking for something

[gilded elm]

The trade site is just PoE1's trade site, so it all uses the same system for Live Search

[ebon meadow]

Yea in poe1 u can set a notification that will go to Ur windows notification when u looking for something specific

[twilit mountain]

PoE1's site but worse*

[ebon meadow]

Ty Byte yes u can put in a search and when someone lists a thing it will notify you

[fierce moth]

do you buy it now or later?

[ebon meadow]

It's a same thing but instead of life search it notify you when an item with specific mods is listed on market

So people that play a lot or streamers have a search for something they want

So u look for basic mods that u need on specific items to craft it will warn you when it's listed

The completions is the bots so yea you have to be fast lol

[junior oyster]

Poison and bleed are so annoying I'm genuinely thinking of swapping to ci even with just 2k es

[ebon meadow]

I don't actually know the ratio for swap to ES in poe2 but I haven't seen people swapping before they get like 4/5 k es and recharge

And that going the lowest

[junior oyster]

Yea I'm aware

[twilit mountain]

The gigachad Pathfinder just taking "Immune to Poison" in her passives

[ebon meadow]

Normally it's at 11 freaking K lmao

[junior oyster]

Like dots are so freaking ridiculous I might as well not have es

Also my build is an evasion hybrid

[ebon meadow]

I genuinely don't know how LA or pathfinder meta has carried over this year

[junior oyster]

Even this sucks too

[ebon meadow]

Yea Eva under 75% sucks and even then one hit and u done

Same with armour. So back to days with onion layers or u die

[twilit mountain]

Bam, 10-15div

[gilded elm]

This is why I like Sekhema over Chaos, much more deterministic. I'm at the boss room on the 4th floor.

[mental talon]

Hell yeah

[junior oyster]

Knowing my luck I'd get all bad boons

In 0.1 I just barely beat t3

[gilded elm]

First time fighting him, and I beat him :D

With Sekhema, it's all about planning +1 room ahead. Making sure you don't corner yourself into a single bad choice. It's all about pathing your trial map such that you always have 2 or more choices

[twilit mountain]

Shit ass boss

Very not fun imo

[gilded elm]

Yeh boss sucked lol

[junior oyster]

Ofc I did also try chaos today but the nado bird got me

[mental talon]

Congrats

[fierce moth]

I don't think I can challenge any t4 bosses in poe 2

[junior oyster]

I'm not even sure if I can challenge t1 bosses :P

[twilit mountain]

99.99% positive Gas Grenade is getting taken out back next patch

[gilded elm]

Whee, just swapped to Pathfinder lol

[twilit mountain]

I mean 0.4, not like hotfix or whatever

[fierce moth]

.

[mental talon]

3.27 coming with Assassin rework Prayge

[twilit mountain]

SURELY

[mental talon]

My boy has paid for his poison sins for far too long

It's time

Elementalist and Gladiator got their moment. It's Assassin's time for the come back of the year

Also before I forget anyone last Ascendancy points

[junior oyster]

I would love to but if I did that I'd probably quit poe2 even faster

[torn zinc]

Hope you enjoy my new SPN illustration! This time I’ve drawn Death and Coraline in a romantic themed piece I had so much fun creating it! Let me know what you think, and if you have any other favorite SPN characters I’d love to hear about them ❤️

[mental talon]

I dont know what youre saying here champ.

[junior oyster]

Nvm

[abstract karma]

8ex power up not bad

[fierce moth]

emmmmmmmmm... This is my max dps. I need chain in maps.

[abstract karma]

ugh chain

[fierce moth]

The difference of dps from you and me just huge even my skills doesn't work with chain

I can pridict your damage must over than me a lot when your skill gems on this level

[abstract karma]

chaos is just build differently you have tons of additional dmg i have just "one hit" dmg

move over last pre vaal upgrade for ice shot build is multiple projectiles which decrease dmg 😄

like Arrow nova

[fierce moth]

remind me of I should upgrade levels

[fierce moth]

Looks better

[ebon meadow]

u are a caster the levels are you biggest scale lul

they are literal damage multipliers

[abstract karma]

my other skills are such joke 😄

[ebon meadow]

mele =weapon , jewelery /casters = gem levels and everything that has more damage on it

[abstract karma]

and ranged ?

[ebon meadow]

same as mele just more proj

faster travel , more proj etc

tbf range is probably more depended on base damage and atack speed

any flat and fast deploy

i dont really like bows or daggers with proj spells (also mines and traps that relative to hat )

pure spell caster always

even better when its a dot

[abstract karma]

probably but since i know rest of Bow gems i think depends on skill
Idk like for crossbow but these ussually have "shotgun" without any projectiles so they mostly increase flat dmg and multiplayer for it

[ebon meadow]

yea but the scale is not the same as spells and a bigger multiplier

i do actually need to check on that for poe 2

it is a EA so ... things get twisted

also crossbow ammo is a bit new to me

[mental talon]

Eh + levels is more important for every build in POE 2 and easily accessible for Martial Weapons with the new Essences that Guarantees +6 to all Attack Tags (not just Melee/Proj) or +4 for Bows or + levels to Spell

This is my level 20 Ice Strike vs my level 27 Ice Strike for example.

[ebon meadow]

holy...

dont make me roll a monk i swear lmfao

nah if i roll it would be pathfinder just for the memes and the curency in my stash

[mental talon]

and my Ice Strike goes up to level 30 currently so yeah + levels for everything is far stronger in POE 2 than 1, not just spells

[ebon meadow]

the thing is double handers like staffs are just easy to roll levels

+4/6 are not a rare drops

[mental talon]

Fam it's not about how hard or easy it is to roll there's a literal Essence that guarantees + levels

[ebon meadow]

hahhaa

yea like i said this is an EA

fkn hell

[mental talon]

It's a free DPS upgrade for just about anyone for 4 Ex for Casters and 40 Ex for non-Casters

[ebon meadow]

what level or tier is the sorceres one ?

i actually need that

4 ex ?

what

[mental talon]

I posted it right there.

[ebon meadow]

ok so i need to find a decent focus my ED

base wise

best thing is for now essence dont grant ilvl depends on the craft

poe1 is gated depending on the mod tier this ones u can make a level 1 wand with +3 if i m not mistaken

i m using springleaf for leveling with +3 for now and that is level 15

how do u get minion levels up not much i have seen for +1 for minions

[final crater]

let me know If you need anykind of custom artwork

[blissful token]

I had fun farming soul core yesterday, but i didnt progress my mapping at all

[blissful token]

Wonder if instilling Momentum is worth it after all i am wearing pure str armours

The preview shows an increase of 7% in movement speed modifier 🤔

Might be worth it..

[warped wren]

Armor secretly slowing you down is such a Jonathan move

[sand wigeon]

That's suich shit

[warped wren]

y'know what's even more shit, Stampede scales off of movement speed rather than attack speed

not that it would make much of a difference, since nearly every Warrior notable has minus attack speed on it

[blissful token]

Warrior's life

Atk speed only affects stampede at the start yea, it mainly scales on movespeed

Thus i am pondering if i wanna instill Momentum

[warped wren]

why is this mechanic so unbearably overtuned

[blissful token]

Evasive

[warped wren]

got kneecapped in the next wave, because Mark and Jonathan find it funny that Kosis and Omni always spawn simultaneously and immediately attack on spawn

[mental talon]

Armor's always had a speed penalty in POE 1 btw.

[warped wren]

yes but you barely feel it there

and there's a node to make it go away

well that's certainly a craft

(started with just rarity)

[twilit mountain]

It's in 2 as well. It just takes 4 god damn points to get it, not including travel points.

[fierce moth]

My yarn (a female cat) is 1000% pure meat lover. It scratched the plastic food bag which 6 chicken mini sausages are here and ate 2. The problem is these sausages are salty and spicy on the surface...

[desert jasper]

Yeah, cats tend to do that

[junior oyster]

I know it was only t10 and 3mod but I was able to kill azmeri prince in maps

I suffered greatly against him in the prelude

[blissful token]

Me still at t9 trying to earn currency and upgrade before continue mapping

But was fun doing chaos trial pretty much hassle-free and earning exalts

[fierce moth]

lol GGG figured out how to inspire players to give them money completely...

[twilit mountain]

That one is cringe, get pilfering ring for the ego

[fierce moth]

😂 👏 👏 👏 👏 🫡 Respect

pilfering ring is the reason why I opened their mtx shop just now

[blissful token]

If you blink blink, does that counts as 👣?

[desert jasper]

Pilfering ring is great

[fierce moth]

at first I need enough spirit :(

[hot crown]

Laptop underwent a little surgery a couple of hours ago. Now my storage capacity is doubled (from 500GB+1TB to 1TB+2TB NVMe), a fresh PTM7950 is applied to both processors, and I got myself a neato NVMe USB drive. :3

[blissful token]

I am so 2022 for having 1tb only copium

[vagrant topaz]

Yeah.... So 2022....

[blissful token]

Le wild impaler appeared 👀

[twilit mountain]

We should impale him

[fierce moth]

Your past is my current 🤔

Oh... 2TB not 1TB. Nevermind

The only shortage is it's still stay on rtx 3060 mobile and that's the most hard part to upgrade because it mean I need to purchase a new laptop

[hot crown]

I'm the same GPU-wise.

My laptop is HP Victus 16 (4H3L7EA#AKD).

So far I made two upgrades:
• RAM: stock 16GB → 32GB
• Storage: stock 500GB Micron → Samsung 980 Pro (1TB) + WD Black SN850X (2TB) combo

[fierce moth]

Hah I like this one

CPU is fine, resolution is too low (Mine is 2560*1440 165hz), RAM is fine (I can uprade that), rtx 4070 is quite juicy

Mine have 3 USB type-A only

[junior oyster]

I only have 1d so far. Mostly I used some ex to buy slightly better gear

[fierce moth]

https://poe2.qq.com/webplat/info/news_version3/61550/61917/61920/m22869/202509/975518.shtml
pog. Tencent start their performance. Quite a long list for banned accounts because of RMT

RMT is the biggest reason for lots of Chinese to play poe 2 indeed

[desert jasper]

Good
I wish all RMT ppl very good ban

[twilit mountain]

I ain't gonna lie, if it weren't a risk to my accounts I'd 1000% be a seller

[desert jasper]

Got my 2nd divine orb on alt during campaign

[twilit mountain]

🇼

[mental talon]

Ok

I made my Ring. It's beautiful

(yes I settled on the Int sue me)

[desert jasper]

that's pretty nice

I just bought this
Can't wear it yet but still

The lightning dmg could be something else and it'd be better
but eh

[desert jasper]

Uhh.. does poe2 not have a fragment stash page?
or is it different from poe1 frag page

[copper quail]

No, PoE2 still doesn't have Fragment stash tab

[fierce moth]

Ziz is paid to stream...Dragonkin. Just know it have a big update

Almost forget this game lol... I played that for the shortest time

[desert jasper]

rip

[fierce moth]

how are your experience in 0.3 of poe 2 going?

[copper quail]

I haven't played PoE2 recently

[fierce moth]

oh ok. Make sense too

le's mod = must focus on le

[copper quail]

I'm just a volunteer Discord mod. I play other stuff as well, just haven't been playing PoE2 recently

[fierce moth]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOeKN0yCGuo/?igsh=MzZlOGxnb2t0MzFs

Her patient for an artwork is impressive...

I never see such a big canvas, I never try to paint in this scale, I can't slow it down to focus on painting like this level.

[fierce moth]

I can say rogue exile is the favourite encounter for me now. Rings, amulets and es body armour are promised to drop, it's too wonderful

[sand wigeon]

Mmm… Bright colors.

[junior oyster]

Too bad they usually drop trash

Like everything else

[maiden widget]

got reminded how much i hate ascendancies in poe

you spend an hour in lab to get to the scorpion boss have 0 issues then get tapped by an autohit and a burrow kind of ability and die in 2s

enjoy repeating the same slog \o/

[junior oyster]

PoE1 asc is ok though I think

[fierce moth]

🤯 pog

[maiden widget]

true, forgot to say poe2*

sekhma scorpion invuln phase just killed me

[junior oyster]

Nado birb in chaos too

[desert jasper]

Yeah, the scorpion killed my attempt for 3rd points too earlier
Had no dmg boost for enemies etc
first I took random half my hp from enemy spell
and then the scorpion killed me in one hit
I am still salty about it

[junior oyster]

Killed killed or killed honour?

[desert jasper]

honour

[junior oyster]

Ahh yea that makes more sense

[desert jasper]

yeah, sorry. random half my honour
and then removed the last of honour

[junior oyster]

The bosses in sekh are weak (aside from final boss of which I know nothing about)

[desert jasper]

God I hate the entire honour system
"just grind the thing until you've enough honor + honour resistance relics"

[junior oyster]

Also a bit disappointed that it could have been a div but I'll take whatever money I can take

Oh well next map I got a div

[warped wren]

I hate it, I just fork out the currency for a carry

Sanity and fun >>>> currency

[maiden widget]

dont you have to still do the hour run

[vagrant arch]

I got banned on path of exile 2 and I don't know if it's because the mature joke or because I said a website name.

[ebon meadow]

Well if u mentioned a site that is a bit shady with things like adds it's probably that

Neither LE or Poe like irl purchases outside the company

Mature jokes are fine it's not a Peggy 13

[junior oyster]

It's always bahlak man

[copper quail]

You'd have to contact them about it https://www.pathofexile.com/support

[vagrant arch]

No it was an actresses site

[desert jasper]

Was it perhaps a 3rd party rmt site?

[vagrant arch]

Nope it was a joke about some one who had a website.

[desert jasper]

Anyway, this isn't the right place for this
And you'd be better off reaching their support

[ebon meadow]

Yea I would just wright the support and explain it was a joke and u didn't know it's was against ToS

I got banned ffrom Poe discord and that's my only ban few years ago ,because I was rude to annoying person

[desert jasper]

Remember, there's no official poe discord

[ebon meadow]

Well it's same as here you got community mods that manage it and you have Devs around to

But yea officially it's not a thing

Same as Reddit I guess ?

[desert jasper]

Well no
This is official last epoch discord
also Reddit doesn't allow the members of the company to run their discord either

So Last Epoch reddit? none of the EHG members are mods

I think on reddit's half it's so there's no "bias" so the guys don't just remove all negative feedback

[ebon meadow]

This is an official Poe discord by those rules then

[desert jasper]

not run by GGG

So not official

[ebon meadow]

Not the accounts that you know , it's still shared on oficial site

[warped wren]

no

I just got all 4 points from 1 carry

fully ascended lv 25 char

[ebon meadow]

It is just for a simple factor if things go sideways company understands that they have no say in a 3rd app

[vagrant arch]

I mean this is offtopic

[desert jasper]

Well yes
It is
But if you want to actually do something about it you should contact their support

[vagrant arch]

I did. Does me speaking with support prevent me from speaking to other people about it?

[desert jasper]

Ofc not

I'm just making sure you're contacting the right places here
Nothing more than that

Because too often I've seen people talk about it somewhere else but then not try to talk to support

Glad that you did actually reach out to them

[vagrant arch]

Yeah and I mean I get it, It was a bad distasteful joke and it is their place of business to deal with stuff and I think I forgot about that at some point

[desert jasper]

Fair enough

[fierce moth]

no d because I just played 2h mapping today

Oh that mysterious game which hired Bex as cm will be revealed tomorrow

[junior oyster]

So basically to craft decent items I need currency that I don't have. Got it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6rXUYS9oXw

[warped wren]

being real with you, the two most cost effective crafting currency are perfect transmutes and perfect augs

and if you make a top tier double t1 or t1/t2 mods on a proper base, you can make serious bank

[fierce moth]

yes, save more e at first is the condition to enjoy crafting

[junior oyster]

I see

Too bad I'm not aware of decent bases to craft on

Also not sure how much the perfs would cost

[warped wren]

they're reasonably common-ish in maps

[junior oyster]

I don't see them all that often

But I guess I could probably convert one of my two divs to perf aug/trans

[gilded elm]

Exceptional bases should be more common :peepoRiot:

[desert jasper]

I am an exceptional base

[twilit mountain]

True!

[blissful token]

I spent slightly more than 2 div worth of exalt to craft my mace copium

Luck is never at my side

[junior oyster]

I meant perf augs/trans but that too

[gilded elm]

Get rekt nerd

[junior oyster]

Is that helldivers 2?

Wait no sorry

Risk of rain 2

[fierce moth]

GGG promote poe 2 so hard. Of course, it's benefit by it's a game have on top seller ranking for 8 weeks and over 500k+ players have joined in ea.

Now, they going to Brasil...

[junior oyster]

I could care less

[fierce moth]

I want to experience their boss rush event once :(

[gilded elm]

Why? You don't seem to enjoy PoE 2 boss design lol

[junior oyster]

Ahhh I keep scratching my steamdeck

It's so annoying

[gilded elm]

No case? :O

[junior oyster]

Fingernails

Taking it out of the case

Even with trimmed nails I accidentally scratch it sometimes...

[gilded elm]

Do you mean the carrying case? I was talking about something like this, I use this one for my SteamDeck https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CBV598FJ

Along with a glass protection screen

[junior oyster]

Yea I don't plan on buying that stuff till new sd now xd

[gilded elm]

rip lol

[fierce moth]

I just need to experience once because it will tell me which bosses will coming soon, how to deal with these new bosses, plus interacting with GGG members and get their attached products

It's a value life experience

GGG have spent money to invite Chinese video creators to promote their game positively too. I don't know if GGG official side or Tencent side or just MCN agency, but they require this video creator to say

1. Their passive tree is scary is prohibited, it must be "it's a passive tree which quite impressive and shocking"
2. Trade system must be "in-game trade system"
3. "path of exile 2" must be the whole word, can't be simple as "poe 2"

lol

[sand wigeon]

That's Borderlands 4

[gilded elm]

I think he was joking lol

[fierce moth]

poe 2 will become a giant kingdom when 1.0 is released with this trend I suppose.

7 more leagues available for GGG to improve and polish

[gilded elm]

You mean because it's 0.3? lol

That's not how versions work, btw

0.9 -> 0.10 -> 0.11 -> 0.12

I've seen a few people make this mistake because they don't understand how software versioning works lol

[fierce moth]

which version is it after 0.19?

[gilded elm]

0.20

0.2 and 0.20 are different in software versions

You are thinking in plain numbers, but that's not what a version is

In math, 0.2 is the same as 0.20, but in version numbers, they are different

[fierce moth]

oh so I must wait GGG to release 0.99 before 1.0 come out

[gilded elm]

No, because the next version after could be 0.100

The version becomes 1.0 when GGG decides it.

Not because of math rules.

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Version_3.2.0
https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Version_3.20.0

[fierce moth]

Quite anti-intuitive...

[maiden widget]

Basically it's not a number it's multiple numbers combined to give a version

[gilded elm]

Actually, it's quite intuitive for versioning software.

[maiden widget]

It means exactly nothing unless you know you need a specific one

(for users)

[gilded elm]

Semantic Versioning is the most widely used versioning system in software development: https://semver.org/

[fierce moth]

I understand why EHG don't agree us to 1.x to mean a cycle suddenly

[gilded elm]

There are well-founded reasons for why it works that way.

[fierce moth]

Not because it's not represent how much contents they will update. The reason is... that's anti-intutive in maths rules

[gilded elm]

Have you ever wondered why games are in early access before 1.0?

[maiden widget]

Again it's not a number

[junior oyster]

Yep xd

[fierce moth]

Oh. GGG maybe release a version calls 1.0.0-ea

[gilded elm]

Well, it's EA right now, so there won't be a "1.0 EA" because "1.0" will mean "not EA"

And perhaps GGG is working on 1.0.0-alpha, but they won't release that because it's alpha.

[junior oyster]

Most games in ea never release 1.0 till they know the game needs to come out of ea

[fierce moth]

then I have no idea which version numbers will the last version before "not ea" is

[junior oyster]

It's same with slormancer, palworld etc

[gilded elm]

Nobody knows. Only GGG knows that

[junior oyster]

That's upto the devs

[gilded elm]

They decide when it's time for the game to become a new version.

[maiden widget]

I'd argue not even GGG knows

[junior oyster]

It could even go as far as 0.100

Wasn't there a game in ea for well over 10 years?

Star citizen or something?

[maiden widget]

Warframe was super long in ea

[gilded elm]

For all we know, there won't be a 0.4 and the next league will be 1.0. Very unlikely, but that is something that could happen under different circumstances.

[blissful token]

Articles stirring up saying borderland 4 dev tells players to refund if they hit performance issue

[gilded elm]

Game good, but I understand all the complaints with the performance/optimization issues. The Gearbox (game dev) CEO seems to be having an ego trip and needs to lay off Twitter or stop blaming customers lol

[junior oyster]

Btw you can also get small updates and big updates that change the version numbers too. Like poe1 went from 1.0 to 2.0 and currently on 3.0 I believe

But in between it has updates that has made it go upto 3.2 something 😂

[maiden widget]

Good old randy

I'll First Touch bl4 when I get the goty edition for 20€

[junior oyster]

I won't ever touch it

Never played the originals so it doesn't matter to me

[gilded elm]

You'd think with how much money they're asking for the game, they'd have it be better optimized than it is (which is to say, it's apparently almost as bad as Cyberpunk's performance at launch)

I'm using DLSS and Frame Gen, so I'm able to get a stable 120 FPS, but I don't like being required to use crutches for a baseline experience.

[maiden widget]

My experience with my 4070s in Linux makes me kinda want to sell the card and get amd... Or the easier path would be to just succumb and use win11...

[gilded elm]

Win 11 would be the more economic decision I guess if having to choose between that and a brand new AMD GPU, seeing as the 4070 (in all variations) is still quite a good card.

[maiden widget]

Yeah probably, I'd also need one that fits my case without having to remove lower front fan

Sounds like a lot of effort for now

[blissful token]

I forgot which big company do that also. Blizzard?

Something something WCReforge?

Also I never liked the artstyle of Borderland, never played any of the games

The thick hand-drawn lines put me off

Not sure if it is called cell-shaded. But the thick line with the cell-shading dont click with me

[gilded elm]

Cel-shading is a lighting technique, but yeah outlines in general are part of the cartoon art style

[blissful token]

Nintendo acquiring the patent to summon something to fight for you seems... oddly wrong

[gilded elm]

Indeed. Not a big fan of US patent law myself.

[blissful token]

Like.. wadahek

[gilded elm]

Patents are meant to encourage and reward invention and innovation, not kill it.

And yet, that's pretty much exactly what Nintendo and heaps of other companies are using patent law for.

[blissful token]

Imagine acquiring patent on the motion of swimming. EVERYONE is doing it the same way.. can you call that plagiarism?

[hot crown]

If the acquirer is Nintendo (or muheye, for that matter), then absolutely.

"Patent troll" is a thing, sadly.

[fierce moth]

Anyone know how to turn a normal strongbox into an unique strongbox in poe 2?

[desert jasper]

If orb of chance doesn't work then you can't.

[fierce moth]

Just +4 all skills is valuable but the item base is nice lol

Oh I get the 1st exceptional item just now

[gilded elm]

giga damage

[abstract karma]

Ouch you playing that overpriced lootershooter

[gilded elm]

Yup, it's been very fun so far

[blissful token]

sadge it didn't hit the desecrated mod i wanted

[desert jasper]

What a bad weapon
You should give it to me

[fierce moth]

Damn Wicked have +6 skill levels but I still using +4 skill levels

[desert jasper]

Don't think wands can even get +6

[lofty wren]

they only go to +5 yeah

[fierce moth]

max +5, sanctify wands maybe +1, so it can reach +6

[lofty wren]

+5 wand base is too expensive so I'm happy with my +4 wand rn

I melt pinnacles with lightning warp so not like I need the upgrade anyway

[desert jasper]

I still have the last interlude to finish on my alt

[junior oyster]

Annul the desecrate mod with omen and then try again?

[blissful token]

need omen of light

and thats 600ex

[junior oyster]

Ah yea super expensive

I myself only have 2d

And crafting is kinda expensive

[blissful token]

this mace is probably worth 2 div

but i think i spent more than 2div to craft it cuz.. unlucky

[lofty wren]

I only have currency because of a lucky rakiata drop, spent everything else on blood mage gear... hella expensive

[junior oyster]

I need that rakiata gem but yea I doubt I'll be dropping it lol

[fierce moth]

I have less than 200e and 1d only so it's not the right monument for crafting

[lofty wren]

got it on my second run haha, was very lucky

[acoustic jungle]

And I bet it's STILL in the top sellers, because like 90% of people don't even care about that, and largely don't see the difference between even 40 vs. 100 FPS.

[lofty wren]

I could spend 25d on a wand upgrade but idk, I might just fund another build

[fierce moth]

I don't think I can get 25d and it'll last for a long time...

Unless I get a mirror

[blissful token]

🪞 drop

[fierce moth]

Less poor than 0.1 for sure, but not be rich so much too, just enough for juicing maps and do basic crafting for gears

[desert jasper]

I'd buy that for 2div lul

[mental talon]

My old gear moved last night I wont complain. Might craft a new stick or just make some meme or go back to my backlog of games idk might be time to wait for 3.27 we'll see.

[fierce moth]

👀 mod is quite fast

[fierce moth]

how your 1st character going

I will break my record if I can level my lich up to lv 91. lv 89 now

Using t14 to find more t15 maps. Close to the status that run out maps

[desert jasper]

Well I deleted my first character that was a failure
but the poison lass is 70 something
haven't touched her since i started this warrior

[blissful token]

warrior

[junior oyster]

Pretty sure I'm level 84 or something

[warped wren]

I got to 93 on Tactician but keep getting killed now trying to juice maps

Usually off screened

[twilit mountain]

Well see there's your problem. You're not playing Deadeye. How do you expect to be able to kill the things off your screen if you're not playing Deadeye?

[warped wren]

Too true

Skill issue

[blissful token]

pogger

[sudden anchor]

buying a used google pixel 6a 5g. this should do for the next 5-7 years

sad for my samsung galaxy s6, but i need new security patches for the google developer console

they would give me 0,9 € for my phone. im keeping it haha

[maiden widget]

isnt that also EoL in a 2 years roughly?

[sudden anchor]

yes, security patches up to 2027 (android 15?) but should be good for a few more years for almost all apps i think

[maiden widget]

ah nice, ive upgraded due to a similar thing too and got a moto edge with ~7y of updates

[junior oyster]

I get killed offscreen on deadeye

Not sure what I'm doing wrong tbf

[twilit mountain]

Hit them harder

[junior oyster]

Time to try chaos again

[fierce moth]

Hi, which mod should I find on armour body armour? It seems that armour must super high to sell a good price, I'm not sure how much this value need

[junior oyster]

Not sure that armour is worth much

Why staves

[junior oyster]

Niiice

[blissful token]

free div there

[junior oyster]

Defeated bahlak for once

Even with 40% resist

In this league

[blissful token]

which one is bahlak?

[junior oyster]

Nado

Damn the fate frags are kinda expensive

Probably gunna die to trialmaster but gotta give it a try

Nope he dead

Felt good to get all asc on my own

[fierce moth]

I understand why 2 boss here in campaign now. 1 boss is too easy

ok, 10 t15 maps on my hand so far. I can start to grind t15 maps

[vagrant arch]

Oh I was unbanned from Poe they didn't say what caused the ban

[acoustic jungle]

You can get banned in PoE? Like, actually banned?

[twilit mountain]

Yeah? Why wouldn't you be able to be banned? There's a streamer that has been permanently IP banned for being horrifically toxic.

[vagrant arch]

Yeah I posted the website of an actress and made a joke based on item name for what she did in the videos and I don't know if it was because Link or the joke lol

It was a complete can't even login ban so I'm guessing becaus link

[acoustic jungle]

That's crazy. I meant bans for anything other than RMT/cheating ('cause that's like duh)

Don't they just silence you?

[vagrant arch]

I think I was auto banned for spam since I wasn't chat restricted

[junior oyster]

You mean poe discord server right?

[acoustic jungle]

Aha. I googled around, and this streamer "PathOfMath" comes up, and apparently GGG banned him for calling the devs slurs. The slur in question: "bald".

...that's...interesting.

[junior oyster]

Pathofmath somehow rings a bell

[acoustic jungle]

Apparently people do get banned for chat, not just that guy 🤷‍♀️

[twilit mountain]

He got banned for repeatedly calling Chris Wilson the R word lol

Not "bald"

[junior oyster]

Rabbid? Just kidding

[tawny sand]

i've seen forum posts of people complaining about being banned for saying stuff in chat

they never mention what they said tho curiously

[vagrant arch]

No game banned

[junior oyster]

Damn

[acoustic jungle]

YOOOOOOOOOOO I REMEMBER THIS GUY NOW

There's no way calling Cris bald is all he did, absolutely no way.

[tawny sand]

i've never heard of pathofmath till now

[twilit mountain]

He's kinda infamous for demeaning rants towards specific people at GGG instead of just the company and then just being a huge douche to people in the community in general

[acoustic jungle]

Yea, I just watched some videos, dude was turbo inflammatory, even if, on an unit-by-unit basis (fancy!), he didn't use big no-no words.

[junior oyster]

Ok nvm I don't know who he is

[vagrant arch]

I want onigaroshi

My favorite season starts was grinding it on beach

[acoustic jungle]

I still think that people shouldn't be banned for that, unless there's missing context. We've had way worse things said about us/directed, and so on. It's whatever, but people can say whatever they want, especially that it's a medium absolutely nobody is forced into, like his own stream.

Imma guess he just said some no-no things that we don't know of, for GGG to just hand him the identity ban like that.