📚┃off-topic

[fierce moth]

Completed ✅

[abstract karma]

become legend till new league to not let your position to taken ?

[desert jasper]

Doesn't sound fun enough
I'd change my character name to something funny and get sent to the void

Admittedly
I'm not a funny person so I probably couldn't come up with a good name for that

[ebon meadow]

I think it always says at position 1 when u void the character

Not sure if it's a meme or a bug

When u hit 100 in any trade it's mostly character done at that point ,SSF is different u might need a level 100 if still starving on perfect gear

[stone anvil]

ssf needs official speedrun

[sudden anchor]

Bought a water floss a week ago. Couldnt be happier with the results.

[junior oyster]

Yea and many just void their char on purpose when they wanna make a new toon or quit league

[fierce moth]

Such a pity that godfall doesn't support ps4 controller so I can't enjoy the game

[twilit mountain]

Every game that supports controllers can support PS4 controller if you just use some external software. I've told you this like 5 times.

[tawny sand]

steam has an option to enable steam input as well, it might appear as xbox buttons but it's perfectly playable

but i'm pretty sure i've said that before as well

[fierce moth]

Thanks for tips, no impression on reminders for this point but I will give it a try

[tawny sand]

if it's on steam, right click the game, go to properties, go to "controller", and there's a drop box that let's you enable steam input override

oh wait you said godfall instead of greedfall, i got the games confused. I forgot godfall existed tbh, i wouldn't know if it has controller support or not never played it

might have to use some other software

[fierce moth]

No, it worked after I enabled steam input! Good job

[tawny sand]

nice, it should work on any game that supports xbox controllers but not ps4/5. You'll get the xbox icons instead of playstation but yeah it works fine

[fierce moth]

The hanging pillar-shape ornaments -10 on the level of aesthetic even it applied black and golden palette

[hot crown]

I know for a fact that No Rest for the Wicked has a setting to change the icon layouts between xbox and ps.

[tawny sand]

some games do yes, monster hunter i think does as well

[fierce moth]

lol.......... Alright the figure of god here looks....... A bit ridiculous, I'm hard to accept this aesthetic a bit personally

The beginning in golden sanctuary is quite boring... Not a good beginning

[fierce moth]

hah Rocketman's truck heal my eyes

Their environment art is on the level but it's the only thing on the level

I understand why le/poe/poe 2 inspire players to unlock more skills in a quick speed after experienced a long "tutorial"

[fierce moth]

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/48PyJl (Why I said environment art looks pretty awsome)

There's more of course and I think just enjoy these beautiful artworks is a better choice

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/kDOzGK
hah I stay in the sanctum like that about 1h and I want to take a sleep (visual fatigue)

[maiden widget]

damn nice

[neon sigil]

one more update for today.

[stone anvil]

usually MC would saved this girl but yakumo by ninja gaiden

[twilit mountain]

NG4?

[stone anvil]

yes

this girl reminds me of 2B from nier auto

[twilit mountain]

How is it? I've not played any of the 3D games, but I've heard the rest of those ones are pretty good

[stone anvil]

I have not played the game, just seen the video but I am very tempted bcs I finished Devil May Cry5 and MC is the same actor from the other game

I love hack and slash though

just need to give some time

[twilit mountain]

Ahhh. Fair enough! If you end up playing any time within probably the next few months I'd love to hear your thoughts :)

[stone anvil]

I downloaded last of us2

I will play it for a while and later I might buy ng4

man

am I slow

I bet last of us will take at least 3 days for me

but no fomo feels good

[twilit mountain]

Hey 3 days ain't bad, I've taken longer on smaller games

[stone anvil]

which single player game you played recently you remember

I might look at it

[twilit mountain]

Admittedly haven't finished any in a while, but I've played a bit of Silksong and some Fire Emblem Engage. I struggle to motivate myself to finish them for some reason. Roomie's way more of a singleplayer person than I am, she's gone through a ton of big and small ones.

[stone anvil]

sheeeeet, I forgot silksong xD

played hollow knight but aww

I will add it into list

Fire Emblem Engage is switch game only?

is it playable on lite?

[twilit mountain]

Should be playable on lite. I wish FE was on more platforms. Though you can make do with things like Lost Eidolons or Dark Deity on PC if you just like the genre rather than the Fire Emblem name (which I do, I just don't have money)

[stone anvil]

it looks like a game with old pokemon game mechanics and maps and modern 3d visuals

I like animes but never seen this before, tysm ❤️

[twilit mountain]

Yeah no problem o7
FE is pretty solid, just that a lot of the great entries are pretty old now (like, GBA or even SNES era games lol)

[ebon meadow]

i might need to make an animated wallpaper now with my char xdd

who likes blue

[sand wigeon]

Play Silksong.

[sand wigeon]

Roadwarden is my favorite game of all time and it’s single player.

[stone anvil]

If you played disco elysium, would you rate roadwarden higher than disco elysium?

[sand wigeon]

Uhhh

No

Not on an objective level

But Roadwarden is a much smaller game

[stone anvil]

thx for being honest

[sand wigeon]

@twilit mountain weigh in help me explain

Like, Disco Elysium is possibly the best written piece of media I have EVER consumed.

Roadwarden is a game that felt deeply personal to me and inspired my own writing and want to create heavily.

I love Disco Elysium on every level, but it didn’t do that for me.

[stone anvil]

hmm watching some videos

the game is small like you said, yeah, 10-15 hours gameplay

and map also looks small

[sand wigeon]

It is a text adventure

[stone anvil]

looks like old rpgs

kinda nostalgic

[sand wigeon]

It… looks like a text adventure yeah

Text adventures are still very much a well produced genre lol

(I have played so many)

[stone anvil]

I think If I play this game right now, I will get confused and hate the genre because so much reading and my lack of attention but I am sure there will be a time where I wish to play slow-paced, relaxing game and I will check this game 😁

btw I read comments on youtube about it, it looks everyone likes the game which is good impression for me

[sand wigeon]

I mainly play slow paced, relaxing games

[stone anvil]

based and cool

[sand wigeon]

And then I play Apex

[mental talon]

Gambling pays off (dont actually gamble it's bad)

[neon sigil]

@vagrant topaz wdyt?

[vagrant topaz]

How are we going from Mages and goblins in a dungeon to trucks?

[desert jasper]

The trucks are how they mobilize the mages & goblins inside the dungeon

[fierce moth]

It's quite bad that technical problems must exist when I want to do 3d stuff even it's voxel...
I saw a project on artstation and the artist shared the whole logic so I checked it out and I stick on this picture because the first step blocked me :(

But I learnt something new too though I have no idea how to twist a pillar like that lol... Just in a different way

lol unlock the secret of modeling the Canton tower by accident.

I can confirm that shape can be done by special shader only... No idea which shader for blender can twist a pillar like that

oh I'm wrong. Found a tutorial for that finally

[desert jasper]

Ah sweet
Another div

[fierce moth]

🤔 ok, I reveal... About 80%. It's fine

[tawny sand]

twizzler

[fierce moth]

hhhhhhhh twizzler pillars in a cathedral... Ok it sound funny with "twizzler" concept

Oh just notice this pro mentioned he spent 10 months on this project... Make sense on why this project can reach this level of quality now

It's his wip video

Spent 1 month to figure out which vibe I want to achieve can drive me insane already...

This guy is quite good on patience

[desert jasper]

Got a new axe

[junior oyster]

Nice

[desert jasper]

Got it for 5 div

[junior oyster]

I need around 11d to properly make ag

Kingmaker and crown of the tyrant white soc

[fierce moth]

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nJ9d99
Ohhhh a few 2xko concept art is here

I like this bird... It looks much better than any mtx birds in le

[desert jasper]

Now
Do I slam the axe 🤔

It has 2 open suffixes

[tawny sand]

make the gamba

[desert jasper]

Eh it hit 45str
and 31% increased stun duration

[desert jasper]

Yeah that's most likely not MTX but a boss in Titan Quest 2

[junior oyster]

Ty eater

[fierce moth]

oh... you remind me of that

the first boss in tq 2

[junior oyster]

The colour scheme makes me think it is that boss

But ofc there are differences

[fierce moth]

Correct. Concept art for references only, they have lots of chances to edit the final model on shapes and colours before the final release.

[sudden anchor]

that looks like one of the first few bosses in le.

[junior oyster]

Probably another L oh well

[junior oyster]

Is it 2 bows or is it 2 6ls that make this craft?

[desert jasper]

2 items with same name

Usually mirrored

[junior oyster]

Ah

[junior oyster]

Why does that last mod have to exist...

[desert jasper]

Because you could still leech

[junior oyster]

It's still annoying af though because I can't get my completion this way

[desert jasper]

But yeah, it is still annoying

Ty shipment
That's 3rd div from ships today

[fierce moth]

Alright I will receive a new set of brushes soon, which 3x expensive than current one... I can't endure these soft hair on current line brush, they're too soft so hard to paint many fine lines. All I get is thick lines like that :(

Scales are out of controls too so it's a failed try

But good news is I have some free time to play Poe when I waiting the package

[sudden anchor]

@fervent hazel took me like 5 minutes of work. Cooking is way too easy. Given the lentils were leftovers tho.

Added a few hacked walnuts and olive oil today. The vegetablemix is italian instead of asian this time. Wildberries still carrying

[desert jasper]

Killed 2 of the memory bosses today for first time
Not sure what to think about them so far tbh

[fierce moth]

I viewed painting materials online (papers from different brands) then I discovered a fresh thing: paper for acrylic markers exclusively. It will not leave any traces of overlapping 🤔 The material is cotton

Ordered one to see what's going on

It's a 17cm x 17cm sketchbook

your dish remind me of a dish... Steamed Spare Ribs with Black Bean Sauce

but I think steamed dishes are tricky to make because Europeans and Americans don't have habits to steam anything

[sudden anchor]

Yep, the only thing ive steamed in my life are yeast dumplings. I would love to steam some meat one day

[fierce moth]

Steam dishes are too common for me so I always want to grill meats lol

Grill dishes are much more expensive because it's not traditional

There's a fancy Japanese beef grilling restaurant locate in the shopping mall I always walk through... The invocation style is black metal. A bar at the centre. I wish I can walk in and order something one day.

Wagyu, yes

I'm not interested in Reman and Sushi but I want to eat grilling Wagyu so much

[tawny sand]

i can't unsee a face

looks good tho

[fierce moth]

I can't unsee a face after Flashy can't unsee a face

[junior oyster]

Maybe it's just me but exalts and vaals not dropping like crazy is stupid

Like I never run out of vaal orbs but for the first time ever I've actually run out of them

[sand wigeon]

Easy breakfast for Deias and I

[twilit mountain]

I find them a mix of mid to awful

[desert jasper]

I'd eat that breakfast tbh

[fierce moth]

Damn I want to eat them all

[desert jasper]

Fair enough

[fierce moth]

It's more appreciated if you have salty cream cheese for sliced breads

I can afford single sausage per meal only so sausage is the first goal

apple is the last one

Any drinks for the breakfast?

[twilit mountain]

Coffee, but I also have iced tea

[fierce moth]

sounds good

I want a cup of iced HK milk tea with my breakfast per day

Better with boba

[desert jasper]

i should do something with my chaos orbs tbh

[twilit mountain]

Convert to div xdd

[abstract karma]

looks like typical England breakfast

[abstract karma]

i know i need reach T17 to have this

[desert jasper]

I've just been selling a lot of alva temples
and some ritual things that have been like
1.5 div but since you can't sell for 1.something on the async i've just listed them for chaos

Just sold 3 ritual boss keys

[twilit mountain]

Alva is pretty much always decent money yea

[vagrant topaz]

How do you sell alva temple ?

[desert jasper]

When you've finished it you can talk to her in your hideout and make it an item

[desert jasper]

A few seasons ago it was always like
1div for double corrupt room
Now it's only like 50c

Still decent constant income but

[sand wigeon]

I do live in New England

[twilit mountain]

Yeah you make money off of having multiple big rooms now

[fierce moth]

I wonder why Hallow move to NZ for 3s

[desert jasper]

... How do you even search these on the trade

[twilit mountain]

What

[twilit mountain]

Just type in "if you have the matching modifier on" it'll show up

[desert jasper]

Can't exactly put a value there

[twilit mountain]

Oh you're using in game

Yeah that shit sucks

[desert jasper]

Yeah, had to open the browser for that LUL

also got this
no idea what rolls ppl look for tbh

I was saying to myself that "it's the first time I don't die during the ball phase"
And then I died to it

[twilit mountain]

The only things that matter are the taken as modifiers and the block chance

[desert jasper]

I see, ty

[twilit mountain]

And it's near worthless if the taken as modifiers aren't all capped/clsoe to capped

[desert jasper]

Also that jewel was only like 25c on the trade
Ah well

[twilit mountain]

Totems aren't super popular this league

[sand wigeon]

What

[desert jasper]

Yeaa

[twilit mountain]

Pro-tip, if you need money, don't ID any of the boss jewels

[desert jasper]

I can't resist tbh
But I'm not hurting for currency right now
got 10div and like 200c

[twilit mountain]

Fair enough

I'm poor. My luck is BAD

[sand wigeon]

I'm poor, god nerfed me

[desert jasper]

You would be too powerful if you didn't get nerfed

[sand wigeon]

It's true

I'm already the hottest gal around after all

[fierce moth]

I read New England as New Zealand

[sand wigeon]

I see

[desert jasper]

Hmm.. I guess that's enough of PoE for today
12 divs today and 400c
kinda still tempted to check the ships when they come in at like midnight

[abstract karma]

yea because its broken from their side.. Not knowing if its knows bug or not but yea it wont work...

I also searched for similar unique jewel.. Better chances are just finding it in normal trade

[desert jasper]

Yes, I did look for it on the browser. Only 25c or so
probably isn't going to sell, really

[junior oyster]

Not poorer than me for sure xD

[abstract karma]

why is my needed stuff always so expensive 😄

[warped wren]

what, no

I have done literally 1 t17 to unlock my map device slot

it is incredibly easy to make currency in PoE these days

there's so many low effort, low investment strats rn

[twilit mountain]

I'm sending myself to blight prison again soon

[desert jasper]

I haven't done even a single t17
only witnessed one from global chat

[warped wren]

that is actually cheap for an Impossible Escape. The one I was using last league was worth 50d, I had to share it between two characters xdd

[twilit mountain]

Yeah they're either worthless or somewhere from 10-100d lul

[junior oyster]

Welcome to the club lol

Between kingmaker, amana gaze and crown of the tyrant white soc I need around 25d

That's just the uniques for AG/tree

I'm super squishy in even slightly juiced t15+ maps

[desert jasper]

Why would you do that to yourself

[twilit mountain]

Impending Doom is good at it and I don't really want to engage some of the other big strats of this league

[desert jasper]

Fair
Honestly I've no idea how to even roll impending doom

[twilit mountain]

Step 1) Vixen's Entrapment
Step 2) Foulborn Doedre's Scorn
Step 3) Put on items that help with chaos damage and pick hit based or poison
Step 4) Pick Elementalist or PF respectively
Step 5) Click at things

[desert jasper]

I did just find Vixen's Entrapment earlier today

[twilit mountain]

You put three curses in Vixen with Spell Cascade and one curse in Doedre also with Spell Cascade. Dealer's choice on what curse to put in Doedre really, I like Temp Chains myself.

[desert jasper]

🤔

I might need more of a guide for that realy

[twilit mountain]

I can throw you my setup soon if you're curious (laptop and shit is packed up, headed to my girlfriend's place in a bit)

[desert jasper]

Yeah, sure
Never done a build like that so it's foreign territory to me

[twilit mountain]

Note that mine is a little bit funky looking because I'm also on a funny damage taken setup so I have no fire/cold res. It is not necessary at all, I just wanted to play around with the concept.

[desert jasper]

Fair
I just kinda wanna have a look at it to grasp the idea

[sand wigeon]

You? A girlfriend? You could never

[twilit mountain]

xdd

[twilit mountain]

https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/klonktg-4698/character/DeiasPendingTransaction

Weapon is a placeholder. BIS is any one hand with DoT multi/Chaos DoT multi/cast speed, fill prefixes with whatever you want (the chaos damage + skill duration craft is probably best)

[vagrant topaz]

Can we respec atlas tree with gold ?

[twilit mountain]

Also no need to use a 6L, it's useless

[vagrant topaz]

Ah yes with kirac

[twilit mountain]

Offhand, body, and boots are all flexible on a different setup than my jank. Belt too if you don't wanna play PF stuff.

(The unique ring is technically not needed either but it's so comfy to have double ramping speed)

Throw in Frost Shield over Frostblink for some extra survival buffer on single target content. I legit just have it for lab runs to cross gaps.
And yeh I mean, that's pretty much it. Ele version you probably look into regen to sustain against RFoAD, I just click my flask on repeat because who wants to actually figure shit out

[desert jasper]

Hmm
It looks
interesting enough
I guess I might roll that tomorrow

Thanks

[twilit mountain]

Yeah no problem. To maximize damage you click kinda right in front of the big enemy on screen so you get overlaps. It doubles your damage. Literally. Eventually get awakened cascade to get like x3-x4 damage with enough AoE buffs.

That's expensive though

[desert jasper]

i will be back to complain how it sucks and I hate it and so on

and then play it for 2 weeks

Hmmh
2nd shipment that was taken over by pirates

[twilit mountain]

Me every league start when I play something I know I don't like and then do it anyway

[desert jasper]

Hmm.. now how to lvl that 🤔

[twilit mountain]

You level as PConc until 39 and then equip Scorn and Vixen's. And then you just figure out how to manage mana and go to town.

[desert jasper]

I guess that's fair

[vagrant topaz]

https://tenor.com/view/doom-gif-25164052

[neon sigil]

they're in sync! :0

[fierce moth]

I think it's a good chance for Deias 🤔

[sand wigeon]

HC SSF

She's not playing HC SSF

[twilit mountain]

Hell nah, HCSSF is like putting myself into a meat grinder

[warped wren]

good set of maps

[twilit mountain]

Bruh

[warped wren]

12 maps

[fierce moth]

My brunch, egg white omelette

It's harder than the whole egg to cook because egg white only let the omelette extreme soft... I break the edge when I want to flip that

These sausage cubes doesn't stick with egg white too... They're everywhere but they can stick on the surface easily when the whole egg is here

[fierce moth]

lol.... Xanax? The house of cards s2? Too interesting...

[fierce moth]

By the way... Magan is pretty beautiful my Jesus.

[warped wren]

dupe altar hit the divine drop

2d + 82 decks

[fierce moth]

Why this game can't comsume my es at first

Endless poisoned explosion and ground effects lets me hard to pass the toxic conduits

[abstract karma]

chaos dont consume shield

you would need skill note to be immune to chaos

Finally: getting somewhere

buffing vs one enemy:

poe tho saying without buffs its only 225k dps so

[warped wren]

Is this a self cook

[abstract karma]

half - there arent many ways to cook it yourself if you are doing atribute stacking.. all have common ways

[warped wren]

dex stacking.. cobra lash?

[abstract karma]

welp yes, you can read it from image 😄

[fierce moth]

Damn chaos damage... It shape me, but it hurt me too

[warped wren]

yeah needs a bit of a rebalance IMO

[fierce moth]

Base 44 is quite overwhelming on YouTube... Ad flooding everyday

[twilit mountain]

If you aren't running CI you best have like at least 40% chaos res. Ideally 75%. And a decent life pool. 1.8k is a bit low for a hybrid build.

[fierce moth]

40% chaos resistance is too expensive, adjust passive tree is the only option

[maiden widget]

Chaos Res on items should be quite cheap now

[abstract karma]

in moment you have enough dps you have enough currency for chaos and other res

[maiden widget]

The tree spits out extremely good stuff so buying ok items is basically free

[warped wren]

the tree absolutely shits out t1 chaos res gear

I have never been chaos res capped this easily

[neon sigil]

@vagrant topaz

[fierce moth]

It's my dream environment for working if I must go somewhere to do my works. Inside a modern building.

Lots of choices for lunch/dinner because it's near a few shopping malls.

[blissful token]

And usually the food near commercial buildings aren't cheap

[fierce moth]

I know 3 Michelin restaurants near here

But I think Vlad don't interested in that so much because he have worked in somewhere similar

Only people who works in offices of these buildings can afford them as daily breakfast

[fierce moth]

EA and BioWare's Anthem has suffered a lot over the past few years, with development officially ending on the title back in 2021, and now it's been announced that the game will be going offline forever on January 12th, 2026.

An "Anthem Game Update" on the official EA website confirms this, with the FAQ mentioning how there won't be an offline version as the game "was designed to be an online-only title".

...I know this title just now

[desert jasper]

Okay, the build Deias recommended is indeed pretty hilarious
But deer god the mana

[fierce moth]

😂 It's interesting that Chatgpt don't understand the definition of aesthetic and what I imagine in my mind at all

A bit better but still quite ugly

Doubao and yuanbao have the same issues

[twilit mountain]

Yeah it's why I went PF and use Replica Sorrow + perma life flask

[twilit mountain]

Anthem makes me sad, it was such a cool concept, and had fun combat and great ideas, but development hell and execs really screwed it over. They had a whole massive revamp planned and then they were forced to scrap it :(

[desert jasper]

Oh, I was actually wondering because I didn't actually check your flasks
did look "No Eldritch battery hmm"

[warped wren]

Same

🫂

That game had so much potential

[desert jasper]

Nice hideout

[tawny sand]

i need to watch more of spy family, it was pretty funny

[desert jasper]

What spectre do you use? 🤔

[twilit mountain]

I just use the self-revive guys. They're just aura fodder.

[desert jasper]

The uhh... marionette, was it?

[twilit mountain]

Yup

[desert jasper]

I had honestly forgotten they're a thing

[twilit mountain]

They're so nice

[desert jasper]

Still not realy used to the position needed for this thing tbh

[twilit mountain]

It's a bit odd, you'll start doing it automatically eventually

[sudden anchor]

is there an easier way (no effort) than virtual machines to have two separat mousecursors, each moving on its own inputs?

im playing cookie clicker and want to scroll discords meanwhile

usually i would watch a stream, but its not online yet.

for now i just use my phone for discord, works well

[desert jasper]

Just got 3 div orbs from vaal Flesh Merchant 👀

[twilit mountain]

Nice!

[mental talon]

Spell Double Dam Global Crit Multi Bases are too expensive, we settle on Spell Double Dam. Time to work

[desert jasper]

Almost doubled my divs today

[warped wren]

13d in 14 maps is pretty good, just from the decks. Got currency drops / king invites and other stuff as well

[desert jasper]

That's a few decks 👀

[warped wren]

It's a good strat, it's just kinda rippy

Eater altar maxxing vs ranged mobs with proxy shields

I can deal with the shields but I got sniped somewhat often by huge packs parked next to crit / turbo shrines or boosted by some rare

[junior oyster]

I always get sniped waay too easy lol

[desert jasper]

I had to spec out of the beyond nodes for a while on my new char
beyond in rituals + incursions was kinda rippy and don't really have the gear yet to take surprises like that

[junior oyster]

I'm doing abyss cuz I need gaze and belt

Along with poison chance

[twilit mountain]

What's a proxy shield?
- chaos corpse explosion enjoyer

[desert jasper]

I found one of those with 89% increased effect if you want that one

[junior oyster]

Would be nice but I think I'd like to try farming for one

[desert jasper]

Alright
Good luck

[fierce moth]

Ok it's a good beginning

I think one month will be spent on this project :)

Want to did dark blue marble last time but I'm failed because that was interior. Now I have a new chance

[junior oyster]

Decent chaos roll but no poison chance

[desert jasper]

Got 2 of these in a ritual
Are they worth something 🤔

[twilit mountain]

Not usually, Maloney is probably kinda cheap at this point of the league

[desert jasper]

rip

Ah well, still gonna defer them just to have them

[desert jasper]

Atlas complete finally
Well, still need to get maven's voidstone but got all the maps done

[warped wren]

took like 28d and a bunch of hair-ripping failures, but the beasts are done

[desert jasper]

Juicy

[fierce moth]

Just get the 1st map

[desert jasper]

Long ways to go

[warped wren]

time to return to stacked deck prison so I can recoup today's spending spree

[desert jasper]

I got 2 more divs from ships
and one of those runes of .. refraction?
which was big money in start of the league but now it's only like 5c

Also alva temples lost a lot of their value too
earlier could sell even just the gem room for like 40c and now it's like 2c in async too

[twilit mountain]

Grats! I'm still missing a few maps and a handful of unique ones :P

[desert jasper]

Still need to do the doryani for the challenge though
Also I just ended up buying the last few uniques I was missing
but for once I did actually get my vinktars by just finding the staves instead of having to buy the map

I guess I could just delve for a while and try finding the vaal boss
Just not now, cooking breakfast and have to head out in a bit

[fierce moth]

increase 50% damage but reduce 25% damage. emmm...

[twilit mountain]

It's for aurabots or AG setups

[desert jasper]

I guess you could wear it on a minion build while you're looking for something different

[warped wren]

it's like the first piece of gear minion builds like to get on a leaguestart

free damage, decent stats for day 1

[desert jasper]

Tbh I never get it as a drop early when I'm playing a minion build

But every time i'm not playing minion I always get it

[fierce moth]

😢 the life with CI is quite hard because I have 2401 es only

Like that :(

[desert jasper]

You have way too little ES to go CI...

What's like
2nd or 3rd lab?

[warped wren]

why are you even CI at that stage is the bigger question

[fierce moth]

getting 2nd asendency

[warped wren]

then why are you CI

you have no way of adequately leeching / recovering your ES at that level, and a single bleed will obliterate you

[fierce moth]

🫡 Upgraded my body armour btw

[desert jasper]

Good improvement

[junior oyster]

I want that kind of ui for pc

Without controller

Make the life node a long bar too and I'm happy

[junior oyster]

Btw if you want help with your ascendancies later I could help you if you want

In around 11 hours that is

[fierce moth]

I'm done, figuring how to complete act 8

[junior oyster]

Nothing to figure just do all quests

Lol

[desert jasper]

I do miss the free azurite you could get from maps earlier tbh

[fierce moth]

You know how big these maps are.

[desert jasper]

Not very big
Smaller than poe2

[warped wren]

delvers eating good this patch

[fierce moth]

lol that's why I never stop to complain the map size in poe 2. The same with poe... I'm forced to be a runner in their game

[desert jasper]

And so you had to run in TQ2 too

I forget how much I hate the books that spawn from these monsters
They always instakill me

It's free -40% exp loss

[warped wren]

Is this scarab even good

[desert jasper]

I've literally never had anything drop from them
but one of the challenges this league is using div scarabs

[warped wren]

Ah

[desert jasper]

Might just wait to scry a map tbh

[warped wren]

I just used a lot of Cloister scarabs so I got that I guess

Also challenge rewards this league are hot garbage unfortunately

[desert jasper]

I haven't found enough cloister scarabs for it
ofc I could just buy them I guess

And I think it looks alright for a "free" armor

I'm not gonna go for 36 challenges though

[warped wren]

Compared to Affliction? Or TOTA? Or even Mercenaries? No shot

Affliction challenge rewards were goated

[desert jasper]

Ah yea I don't think I've any of the affliction
and I only went until... 11? challenges last league
don't remember what TOTA looked

I kinda didn't like Tota as a mechanic so I didn't really play that much that league

And I despise the idea that they're going to make it the 3rd ascension thing in poe2

[warped wren]

TOTA was a weird leagie

The mechanic is.. when it was introduced, it appealed to a lot of casuals because it didn't really involve juicing and stuff and was free as hell

But the high end of it was just utter degeneracy

Stack idiotic amounts of damage avoidance, do no damage, just specialize in speed and crowd control

Zzzzz

I did that shit for a few days then sold all that gear + my earnings for something actually fun

[desert jasper]

Tutel was shit design
and then if you managed to kill it the totem would somehow be protected anyway

so it would just respawn

I think I played explosive arrow totems in TOTA league
And since I don't do a build just for 1 mechanic if it ends up not being good for the league mechanic it kinda feels... bad to play

Delve seems to drop a lot of gold 🤔

[warped wren]

Turtle ptsd is real

Those goliatha were even worse

Actually everything was nasty af at 2k+ rating

[desert jasper]

I'll take it
Paid 20c for it, had to just 6link it

3x the armor my old one had

[fierce moth]

😪 I played poe 4h+ but just passed one act and I need a nap urgently

[jade jackal]

Great fanart...

[desert jasper]

At least it's better than the spambots advertising "I did this as a commission"
And they all look the exact same

Like a friend of mine streams
and he gets those bots advertising their services and then he humors himself, they link the instagram

And it's all the exact same stuff

[jade jackal]

im guessing the commissions themselves are all AI generated?

[fierce moth]

Fake artists are flooding everywhere, real artists tortured by AI's power

[fierce moth]

Oh my sketchbook is earlier than brushes set to wait me to receive

[fossil stirrup]

and it's always better than just writing: great fanart.... 🙂

[fierce moth]

I think fan art channel is dead but EHG think it's still live.

It lack of details to the definition of what fan art is

But it seems I'm always the people think something too hard so that's it

[vagrant topaz]

Anything made by fans that related to last epoch
Carved pumpkins, cakes, drawnings, sculptures , even videos
Any kind of arts, just need to be LE related

If you want to make embroidered Last Epoch socks and post them there, go ahead that counts

[fierce moth]

How to define which stuff related to le

[desert jasper]

Any kind of art as long as it's safe for work, that is

[vagrant topaz]

..........

[desert jasper]

Which automatically makes so that I can't draw my stuff here

I'm just kidding, I don't draw

[tawny sand]

lol

[vagrant topaz]

👉 👈

UwU

[fierce moth]

...>.>?

[vagrant topaz]

How to define stuff related to LE ?
Thats a weird question

Does it represent smth from LE > Yes/No

There is nothing more to that

[tawny sand]

oh the sacred 2 remaster comes out in an hour 👀

[sand wigeon]

The fanart channel is where I put my Orobyss x Heorot fan fic

[desert jasper]

Ah, you too?

[fierce moth]

🤔 Yes, they can represent something from le only... They can't contain more. So they're cheap and low, can't compare with official game art at all

[desert jasper]

... They can contain more than that
You could have let's say the Sentinel meet character from another game that plays similar role

[sand wigeon]

By this logic your own art is worth less than any official art

[fierce moth]

I treat my fan art as a type of record which can prove I spent tons of time on this game

[sand wigeon]

What

Why does the amount of time matter

[fierce moth]

That's the truth. Because they're official, you doesn't

[desert jasper]

I know a guy who makes fanart of games and he isn't even a gamer

[sand wigeon]

I will be frank Kirra

I often care more about fanart than I do the official art

[vagrant topaz]

If you want to do a watercolor of Rayeh vs the searing exarch you are more than welcome to post it in #🎨┃fanart

[sand wigeon]

Especially with media that is lacking or does not HAVE that art

Or for pieces of media that are sadly dead and will never have more

[fierce moth]

hhhhhh I even no idea how to use watercolour...

[vagrant topaz]

You realise thats not the point I am trying to convey, right ?

[fierce moth]

The first step for making physical paintings is get familiar with relevant tools

[sand wigeon]

Look at Disco Elysium. That game is dead. The artist will not work on that game anymore, we will not have a true Disco Elysium 2, we will not have the wonderful portrait art and ethereal 3D rendering of the game world. There will be no more writing of Kim Kitsuragi, but fanart keeps the game alive, it reminds people of how much that game can mean in so many ways.

I have seen Disco Elysium fanart that has moved me more than much of the official art.

Artists are artists. Whether they’re “official,” hired or not, doesn’t matter. Especially with how many fantastic artists will never have an opportunity like that, or only do it as a hobby.

[tawny sand]

i used to write silent hill fan fic, not about the characters just about people going through the town.

it was fun.

[sand wigeon]

And that’s something the official art could never have put forth.

That’s inherently valuable simply because it’s more art for the people who want it.

IDK why you have this concept of unofficial artists being less valuable, Kirra.

Like, I write a book. I don’t do it for a publisher, it’s a hobby. Does that make my work less valuable? I’d hope not.

[desert jasper]

Because she wants to wark at EHG and make it official art

[sand wigeon]

Which is a very lofty and unrealistic pipe dream

Like, there are tons of people who like your art here Kirra

Just do that. Just make art

Lol

[desert jasper]

Indeed, it is unrealistic

[sand wigeon]

Also it’s just improper of an artist to put down other artists

[desert jasper]

That too

[sand wigeon]

Artistry is already so often born out of a disenfranchised populous with little access to resources or care

You never have any idea why someone might be creating

[desert jasper]

Last time I drew it was just because I liked the character from the game

[sand wigeon]

I’ll use Disco Elysium again, one of the artists for Disco Elysium, Rostok, was born in post-Soviet apocalypse. When they set out to learn art, inspired by impressionists and the lack of detail that, when turned into orderly chaos, exposes a vision, they learned it on stilts. They talk about how as a child their father would bind drawing notebooks himself, because they did not exist on the market thanks to the total economic collapse. They explain how they learned on stilted foundations, how all their technique is lacking and can lead to worse products because they didn’t have the opportunity to learn properly, and how those stilted foundations affect their art even now.

There are so many reasons someone might be creating. That’s why it’s valuable to never disenfranchise someone for that creation.

I myself create because it’s the only thing I can reasonably do, I create and I consume and I create because there is nothing for me without that.

[maiden widget]

<@&1161418687471956101> crypto scam

[junior oyster]

I kind of agree if it's fanfiction. Not the cheap and low part but just that I can't ever see myself enjoying fanfics as it isn't official lore.
However that said I still think it's cool to have fanfics and fanart as it shows that people have taken an interest in a certain game or anime or movie etc.
So yea I have to get back to that first point in that fanart is not low and cheap but it's pretty damn cool. And also fanart sometimes helps boosts the popularity of movies/games.

Me not enjoying fanfics also apply to modded games unless it's qol.
Like terraria. I'd only really play vanilla terraria and don't really enjoy stuff like calamity but anything qol is fine.

[sudden anchor]

Thats a rather limiting view, i imagine. Not doing something based on who made it, instead of other factors.

[junior oyster]

It is what it is

[sand wigeon]

I’ve seen fanfic better written than its source material and I don’t even read fanfic.

[junior oyster]

I tried slay the spire downfall and even with devs endorsement I didn't enjoy it

Same with terraria

[sand wigeon]

I cannot imagine

[junior oyster]

To each their own

[sand wigeon]

Well I create mods

Mods are so often either about fun wacky stuff or a player showing how much they understand the game

So much art goes into making mods

[junior oyster]

Yea I mean I do understand that

[sand wigeon]

Perhaps, I just don’t understand you

[junior oyster]

Which is fine tbf

[sand wigeon]

Actually no I am the binary everyone else must abide by

[desert jasper]

Finally got the breach boss fight item

Not gonna run it yet though

[fierce moth]

Oh... that's a deadly shortage for me and accurate description for me too...

😅 My question sounds a bit silly

[desert jasper]

You search the area you're currently in and speak to Kirak.

[sand wigeon]

Just keep looking to the north

[desert jasper]

Then you aren't searching properly

[fierce moth]

ohhhhh enter there. Thanks

hah... The real farming starts finally

[fierce moth]

.......... The map device appear on the location of current waypoint. I stick in the map device so I can't move. I can't delete the map device too.

Amazing!

[fierce moth]

😭 But I never meet gold issue in poe 2

[twilit mountain]

Need to run maps faster with more density. Or mechanics with a lot of chests, like blight or legion

[fierce moth]

Just be slain by blight in 1s 😅

They're too dense in a short time

[warped wren]

It's a bit of a clusterfuck but not particularly difficult IMO

[twilit mountain]

Yeah. I flopped over once because the area runs like shit for me, but the fight itself isn't hard at all

[mental talon]

Burned 95 Div crafting the past two days. Time to rebuild Sadge

(Because one of the items is still unfinished)

[fierce moth]

Are you close to be done with this league?

[mental talon]

Dunno

[fierce moth]

I hate these rush-type enemies. They always rush to me and stun me so I'm slain in 1s and no time to attack

[twilit mountain]

Do you have the pantheon so you can only be stunned once every few seconds?

If not

Get it

[desert jasper]

Man
I'm really starting to feel that I've been up since 1am
now it's 7pm
might sleep early tonight tbh

[twilit mountain]

Yeesh. Get some rest soon, dude

[fierce moth]

oh thanks for the reminder

[twilit mountain]

It can also give freeze immunity BTW. Very good to grab if you don't have another source

[desert jasper]

Oh I really shouldn't have rubbed my eyes after cutting chili

[twilit mountain]

Did you at least rinse your eyes?

[desert jasper]

I did go & do that yeah

[fierce moth]

..... The biggest issue for me is I even no idea how am I slain... they just spawn more and more with lots of ground vfx, I stick on a corner then I'm slain... How are they know which type of damage they need to be careful base on their appearance?

[junior oyster]

Welcome to poe lol

I'd recommend reading the map mods

[fierce moth]

I just stay in atlas 2h. Deaths +20

.... poe 2 is much more smooth after I enter the endgame I admit

🥴 No map mods info available...

[junior oyster]

PoE mobs are definitely more punishing than bosses

White map?

[fierce moth]

... I can't remember

[junior oyster]

Most likely

If you need/want help let me know I can boost you a bit

[fierce moth]

🤔 Just their controller UI don't support that. Come on... It's outdated

It's...physical damage + cold damage?

Their mobs just overwhelming in a small space so one shot is required. But my chaos dot don't reach this level yet

[junior oyster]

Uhh honestly not sure why you are dying

Do you have path of building?

Could be resistances (ele/chaos/phys)

[desert jasper]

Well back in settlers she walked to enemy melee range as a caster

[junior oyster]

I still do that with necro ngl

I just teleport and die

[fierce moth]

lol the silly thing... Maybe the same this time

blight of contagion occultist as similar as a melee caster because I must come close to them if I want my chaos gas touch them

[desert jasper]

It does have surprisingly large area

But yeah I don't think I'd go for channeled spells personally

[fierce moth]

yes... It's the limit of a channeling spell but it's the only build which close to chaos caster lich the most

[junior oyster]

Finally another div

[mental talon]

What do your defenses look like. What's your resistance/armor/evasion etc

[junior oyster]

Oooh

Heheh

[twilit mountain]

Amanamu??

[desert jasper]

I've no idea how to evaid the Esh AoE in the fight

Just hit the entire arena

[twilit mountain]

Survive xdd

[desert jasper]

Survive the thing that oneshots me.

okay

[twilit mountain]

I'm poking fun cuz idk either I just try to tank it

[desert jasper]

okay that's hwo

[junior oyster]

Yes!

Boss decided to give me both uniques lol

Not sure if I wanna drop abyss now but it seems to also give decent exp

And that's without the exp nodes on atlas

[desert jasper]

aand nevermind
i thought I dodged it once but then i got hit by it again when they're both in the field

I hate this fight already

[junior oyster]

I now have around 98% minion poison chance

[twilit mountain]

Huuuge. They're pretty expensive this league, smth like 12d last I knew

[junior oyster]

Yep

Same with belt

100% is around 10d iirc

I hit 99%

[twilit mountain]

Hell yeah, dude

[junior oyster]

I was hoping for minimum 80% lol

[desert jasper]

Also wtf no blood for reward

[junior oyster]

I think you should have waited for the patch

Apparently they are going to make changes so breach is more rewarding (aside from tree)

[desert jasper]

Maybe
I just kinda wanted to see what's happening

I think the fight would've been more enjoyable if it was 2 separate ones

[desert jasper]

Anyway
I think I'll try it again after the patch.

Also I notice that while I do hit decent single hits on my slayer I don't really have that high actual dps

Didn't get any of the challenge parts :^)

[junior oyster]

Yea fair

I've only done eater so far

[junior oyster]

You probably still do more than my srs

[desert jasper]

I do miss my srs tbh

so I might still roll one of those but it would be the 3rd poison build I do this league already

[junior oyster]

I only do srs but might try some other minion build someday

SrS is so cheap to start with that I don't even wanna make a new toon lol

[desert jasper]

yeah, it's ridiculous how cheap it is to start

[abstract karma]

and it got clasically in vibe of 2025 out - tons of bugs, optimalization to hell and many UI which ppl dont like 😄

according steam at least

[twilit mountain]

Other fairly cheap minion builds that start well:
Animate Guardian of Smiting
Animate Weapon (the ranged one)
Chains of Command (Paradoxica version)
Absolution (transfigured, forgot the name)
Holy Relic of Conviction

[junior oyster]

Any of these minions you get practically from the start?

By that I mean a1

[desert jasper]

Poor ||Ailith tbh. I also wonder if she's more monstrous under those clothes or if she's actually relatively close to human||
still don't trust Chaluppa though

[junior oyster]

Spoilers :P

Damn chisels kinda expensive

I only have 19

Guess I'll just alch and go then

[desert jasper]

I did set it in spoiler tags
Your own fault if you click that to reveal a spoiler

[junior oyster]

No the Chaluppa bit

[twilit mountain]

Base Holy Relic and Absolution I believe are available in A1

[desert jasper]

oh, I thought it was common knowledge that chaluppa is the dreamer

[junior oyster]

Nope I thought she was talking to me

[desert jasper]

He who dreamt

[junior oyster]

Oh I never pay attention to this stuff ngl

My fault

[desert jasper]

Oh nvm
His title was "Who Dreamt" not he who dreamt

[junior oyster]

Finally

Still so far though

[twilit mountain]

Yeah, the Breachlord titles don't ever use pronouns in them, not even "it"
The only ones of them who use any are the husks this league which are phrased "it that was"

Breach lore in general gets funky with what entities have a concept of self, and most of them end up using "it" since they're sort of... constructs more than anything

[desert jasper]

It that fled cries in standard

Alright
i guess I'll head to sleep
maybe hopefully actually get more than 2hours tonight

[desert jasper]

Oh and also I think... Vruun's head said that "It that was Vruun failed. It that will be Vruun will not"
or something like that
But it all sounds like they're pretty mad currently. maybe they manage to calm it a little in 20 years for poe2, who knows

[fierce moth]

let's check tags...
Sci-fi? no. Space? no. Survival? no. Shooter? no. FPS? no.

0% features in my radar 😆

I can afford that but I don't interest in gameplay

fps/shooter games is extreme popular though. I guess male players more than female players a lot on this genre

I like wands more than guns unfortunately

wow good job

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1159560/Ziggurat_2/ plenty of wands in this fps

[fierce moth]

lmaooooooo... Damn

I can't reject that this time... Genius idea...

Quite fun to see wands can be used like guns in a game

It support ps4 controller, nice

[sand wigeon]

This is only because it's so misogynistic

A lot of woman play FPS games lol

It's about a 50/50 split

Stating "game for males" only seeks to further divide people and builds onto social gender boundaries and sexism

[fierce moth]

I will try that after I get up

[sand wigeon]

Especially since "male" can include woman but we won't get into that

[fierce moth]

that's a quite interesting contrast that play shooter games in churches hhhhh

[sand wigeon]

That what

[junior oyster]

I have a strong dislike for shooters xd

[jade jackal]

You might be surprised to how close the relationship is between the birth of first person shooters and Satanic themes

[twilit mountain]

wot

[jade jackal]

Well, Satanic Cyber Aliens

Its complicated

[twilit mountain]

Are you referring to Doom?

[jade jackal]

[sand wigeon]

TBF Doom did not start the FPS genre

It popularized it amongst PC nerds, sure

But I’d say something like Goldeneye did far more for the genre

And FPS games weren’t even really smoothed out to what we know them as now until Bungie’s Marathon

I’d say Battlezone is what really started the genre

And Doom was only as impactful as it was because Quake was born from it

And Quake was really the frontier for early competitive PvP FPS

[fierce moth]

ohhhhh tq 2's price after adjustment is the same with le's prize now. So tq 2 will more expensive than le at last

As the time going, the man who decided the price in EHG become more and more wise

[desert jasper]

Yes, TQ2 did announce that they are increasing the price over time as they put in more content

So it's cheaper to buy early

[warped wren]

not sure if "wise" and "EHG employee" goes hand in hand, given what we've seen over the years

[fierce moth]

I'm boosted suddenly lol

I understand why I dislike roguelike games after played that. I just don't meet a fun roguelike game lol

[junior oyster]

I totally know what game you are playing /s

[fierce moth]

⬆️
Pretty enjoyable

[junior oyster]

Yet you said you dislike roguelikes?

[fierce moth]

It's a fantastic game which have solid fun if this game can change my mind about roguelikes. Maybe Ziggurat 2 is that one.

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Huge, provided magic shooties and got another roguelike enjoyer out of it

[sudden anchor]

@twilit mountain was thinking about you when reading this:
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Codedex is legit haha

[fierce moth]

The auto play on youtube is came back 🎉 No auto-list is quite good

[fierce moth]

New brush set is arrived.

2x bigger than the old one xd

[fierce moth]

House of cards S2 is done. S3!

[fossil stirrup]

its old ....

[fierce moth]

Yes, because I'm not a American

It will be the tv series which I can watch again and again.

Moments I want to stop and don't let them go in this tv series are too much... It's designed for me

[desert jasper]

<@&1161418687471956101> linking his live stream
Self promotion and all that

[fossil stirrup]

lol

funny

[fossil stirrup]

i hate cats 🙂

[sudden anchor]

Why mention that?

[desert jasper]

Because I have a cat profile picture and he thinks he can get under my skin by saying that

[sand wigeon]

I also hate cats but who cares

[sudden anchor]

Yea and does he want to be that person, that needs to be petty like this?

He made a mistake, you informed him of it and mentioned people responsible for rules. Why is he mad at you? I think this is interesting.

[fierce moth]

I watched the video and still no idea what happen

ohhhh. Personal attack, I see

[candid sage]

if you want to promote your channel, if its actually doing LE content, please use #🎥┃video-shoutout

[fossil stirrup]

no, they said to do it here. You can check there lol 🙂

[fierce moth]

Chicken always is the best thing to attract Yarn.

She come to my room, meow at me and smell the desk

[desert jasper]

Ngl
Someone offering me chicken would be a good way to lure me to a room

[twilit mountain]

Real

[junior oyster]

Chicken also attracts vampire survivors

[obtuse rune]

How is the chicken cooked? Is it cooked? Roasted? Grilled?

These are the important questions

[vagrant topaz]

Boiled 💀

Worse ... Microwaved ☠️

[obtuse rune]

Stop it, Vlad. 😭

[vagrant topaz]

Have you seen that video of someone trying to cook a chicken by slaping it ?

[obtuse rune]

Thank goodness I have not 😆

[vagrant topaz]

Its actually pretty good, they even build a robot and all

[twilit mountain]

I was gonna say, just ask I Did A Thing to make a machine to automatically slap a chicken for him

[obtuse rune]

wow hahaha

[vagrant topaz]

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

[fierce moth]

Damn I'm eating my chicken drum and the video Vlad shared almost let oil from the drum polluted my deskpad

my hands are dirsty... wait a while I want to watch that

[fierce moth]

None of them is right

[fierce moth]

hah envy at that because Yarn never allow me to pet her on my leg

[obtuse rune]

That's a cutie patootie~

[fierce moth]

Are you cooked your chicken today? Roasted? Grilled?

[desert jasper]

That's a cute cat
Would pet

[obtuse rune]

10/10 would pet...if it allowed

[obtuse rune]

Grilled!

[sand wigeon]

The Sumerian (is what I call her)

Her name is Sumia

[desert jasper]

Not boiled? smh

[obtuse rune]

Nope, not today.

[twilit mountain]

That's my cat! Thief!

[sand wigeon]

She’s just laid on my chest rn idk why

[obtuse rune]

Quite possibly because she sensed you had something to do. Cats have this UNCANNY ability to decide they need or want something as you have to move or leave...then they guilt trip you with the 🥹 face...

[sand wigeon]

I can’t believe you named her a royal Arabic name (“the one who listen”) and she came out egotistical and fancy

You did this, Deias

[desert jasper]

Oh yea
I started poison srs today morning
got 100% poison chance and the covenant equipped
Everything dies so fast

[fierce moth]

My chicken drum is snack only, which mean they're boiled in salty chicken soup then put in bags with vacuuming. One chicken ring not finish yet

Alright language barrier is existing I admit because Americans never see this way

[desert jasper]

Also found the... stun & block recovery unique jewel with 955%

[fierce moth]

Grilled chicken? Quite yummy. I ate one in Monday

[twilit mountain]

I stole her name from Fire Emblem xdd

[sand wigeon]

I know lol

[fierce moth]

Impossible. Yarn just meow and sensed me when she want some chicken (she's hungry).

[obtuse rune]

Cats are spoiled.

[fierce moth]

spoiled?

[obtuse rune]

Yep. All cats are spoiled, they get to sleep and eat all day. 😭

[sand wigeon]

hey that’s what i do and i’m not THAT spoiled

[fierce moth]

...What "spoiled" mean here

[sand wigeon]

they get more than they need and live too easily, causing them to be privileged and unaware of it

such as a child who gets anything they ask for throwing a tantrum if they don’t

[obtuse rune]

Exactly that

[desert jasper]

oh
I think my mouse is starting to break
Starting to give random double clicks

[tawny sand]

might have dirt stuck in it

speaking of tho my mouse is also giving out, the sensor keeps messing up and it occaisonally turns off

sadly for me as far as i could tell they don't make my mouse anymore (zowie fk2)

[desert jasper]

this is logitech g402

[fierce moth]

Found where my phone for 10mins... Mine is logitch g304

[fierce moth]

... No info about how much dpi Zowie fk2 available is surprised me because I get used to introduction of a mouse includes this point

[tawny sand]

it has a button that switches dpi settings, it goes through like five settings

the wireless version is this apparently:

400 / 800 / 1000 / 1200 / 1600 / 3200

you just click a button on the bottom and an led changes color to signify dpi changes

it seemed like they only make the wireless version now, which is 150 USD and i'm not spending that much on a mouse lol. Idk if that's cause of tariffs or just its price or not but yeah it's a bit much

i think i might try a cooler master one, i remember someone telling me they're decent

and they're not expensive afaik

[fierce moth]

🤔 I admit my mouse is more expensive than my keyboard... It's why I think keyboard on the laptop is more comfortable to use

[mental talon]

God damn. Finally hit after so many faield Fractures. Now Im broke again. back to farming then we craft this.

[desert jasper]

nice

[placid yarrow]

Depending on when it was made Logitech used to source their switches from some fairly unreliable manufacturers that were kinda hit and miss. Some would last years while others only a couple of months of normal use before they'd start double clicking, it was a whole thing a few years back

Afaik it's better nowadays

[fierce moth]

lol Derrick appeared in house of cards too

[twilit mountain]

I have done 150 destructive play maps now and haven't dropped a single awakened gem OR maven chisel

Kill me

[abstract karma]

how money money have you spend for game ? Are you streamer ? If not your rng luck is 0.00000001% - normal mortal player 😄

[twilit mountain]

Not taking the bait here

[mental talon]

What does that even mean lmao

[maiden widget]

sorry no killing but i'll bless the rng a bit \o/

[twilit mountain]

"Streamers get better loot because they make GGG money"

[maiden widget]

streamers make more money cos they pull the lever about 8-10x more than normal people

solved the mystery

[mental talon]

Oh. I guess I'm cheating since I make all these Mirrors each league and don't stream. Uh oh. I'm probably a wanted man.

[twilit mountain]

There's literally 4 or 5 people on my friends list who aren't streamers and make so much currency they make Fubgun look like a newbie lol

This guy picked up 250+ raw divines and bought 3 mirrors by day 3 lmao

[desert jasper]

I've found a mirror shard
back in harbinger league

[mental talon]

Do not ask me how much currency I've burned crafting this league 😭

[twilit mountain]

I haven't even bothered crafting because the tree exists, anything I could make something of value is outside my price range to begin with

[desert jasper]

And I remember giving that shard to a friend of mine because he asked
haven't seen that guy since then

[maiden widget]

i should level my necro but i kinda cba to do the campaign

[mental talon]

At least Uber Shaper was printing first weekend when I could sell Tides of Time for like 15-20 Divs.

[desert jasper]

Time to go pick my free divs from the ships

[mental talon]

I've got 2 Synth wands I've missed the Veiled Exalt (not Chaos mind you) 10 times total, PBrand Helmet I've missed 5 Dominance Orbs on and had to make another and settle on my current one, my Fractured Temple Mod Gloves that have gone from 30% Qual->29% Qual-> and finally won on 28% Qual, and my Misted Helicals and Focused I've failed on 10 times. I'm burning more currency than I feel comfortable checking my WealthyExile with xdd

[desert jasper]

nvm
no divines

🤔 How good is the necromancer node Unnatural str (Minions have Unholy Might) on a poison minion build

I imagine you'd still rather take Bone Barrier

[sand wigeon]

I need to continue leveling in PoE soon

[twilit mountain]

It can be okay. I don't think it's worth it, personally. Survival is usually your bottleneck

[stone anvil]

no divines?

[desert jasper]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too

[desert jasper]

Yeah, have to just take what I've in my stash already.

[stone anvil]

I was watching pohx

he lost so many divines for changing modifiers on body armor

it was funny

[warped wren]

ah yes, the average redditor IQ take

[desert jasper]

Anyway, I'm fine with these currently

[warped wren]

I am le baroque after my upgrades yesterday

gonna put that last div into conq rotas to start the bank up again

[desert jasper]

conq rotas?

ah right

[warped wren]

yeah sirus conquerors

but the good part is I have 28.5mil DoT DPS now, which is pretty comfortable for whatever I wanna do

conq rotas, later calci essences, maybe containment

just bop once and watch em melt

[desert jasper]

Yeah 28.5mil dot should be enough for pretty much whatever

[warped wren]

I was doing some t17 boss rushing last night and it was incredibly funny watching the abom boss HP bars disappear

I just need to fix 2 base jewels and my helmet prefixes, and then I can just begin the long slow road of saving for Progenesis: https://pobb.in/iiwiG1vbGz61

[mental talon]

You're not allowed to have that only streamers can. Sorry I don't make the rules

[warped wren]

I love that flask so much

immortality in a bottle

[mental talon]

I love it so much it was so silly how high it's drop rate was before compared to its power level LMAO

[warped wren]

it's even more insane that it gets affected by Tides of Time

[desert jasper]

Ended up buying one of these
took me way too long last time

[junior oyster]

Took me only 2 abyss depths lol

Got both belt 99% and gaze in the same run

[desert jasper]

I got a 89% belt
but then only got the boots

[fierce moth]

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/s/vliE0Gpa1T

Imagine Poe/Poe 2 support the tip

[rugged island]

Valve is releasing a console?!?!

[tawny sand]

it's just a small home pc it looks like, this is a quote off their page

Yes, Steam Machine is optimized for gaming, but it's still your PC. Install your own apps, or even another operating system. Who are we to tell you how to use your computer?

[desert jasper]

That's disgusting idea

[desert jasper]

Honestly sounds just like steam pc version2

[rugged island]

Except that in the video the woman is playing with the new controllers on big screen mode

sounds like a console 👀

[tawny sand]

i guess

[rugged island]

a console that's also a PC > even better

[tawny sand]

i can also do play on big picture mode with my controller now, is my pc a console chat

[desert jasper]

Yeah, big pic is also available on steam regularly
and the old steam pcs also had this available

[tawny sand]

it just seems like (hopefully affordable) pre-built to me

[desert jasper]

Essentially it just looks like they've finally decided to not make the Steam OS available for public and instead make their own "console" with it
because for a long time you had to have a very specific set of hardware for steam os

[tawny sand]

whiche is fine really

i imagine it has proton installed, but seems like you can install anything on it

which is neat

i guess on one hand xbox consoles died, and from its ashes the steam machine

[rugged island]

i'm gonna replace my xbox with this ngl

[tawny sand]

i feel like steam machines were rumored a long time ago, maybe i'm crazy

i guess those ended up being the original steam pcs tho

[tawny sand]

i want to say they'll still eventually release steamos, but idk

i'm hoping they do

[rugged island]

missed chance to call it the steam engine

at least steam machine rhymes

[tawny sand]

it's a reference to daft punk (i just like their song steam machine lol)

[maiden widget]

endeavour os and other things are very close to steam os while being better for a bit of desktop use so i dont mind them not releasing it yet

[sand wigeon]

steam machine in fact does not rhyme

[junior oyster]

Won't be buying steam vr or the console but definitely looking at that controller

If it turns out to be good I'ma snipe it

Having a good controller for my sd or pc (heck even phone) would be amazing

[abstract karma]

Yea this S.. word was very rude from you..

Like you are not able see colorful joke ?

[tawny sand]

i thought it was a joke too

[twilit mountain]

The joke has fallen way to Poe's Law long ago after swaths of people started genuinely believing in streamers getting favored

[tawny sand]

i don't really pay attention so idk

[abstract karma]

it's not so long ago it was like a few leagues ago where storm rised around streamer getting before normal players in queue and it did not raise from reddit

[twilit mountain]

It was in fact not a few leagues ago

It's over 4 years ago lol

[tawny sand]

i remember soemthing about streamers skipping queues in one league which chris wilson apologized for, but beyond that i don't really keep up with it

[junior oyster]

That was back in harvest or something?

Can't remember

[twilit mountain]

Ultimatum

[junior oyster]

No I skipped harvest so it wasn't that

[twilit mountain]

Which was in early 2021

And is the only time streamers have ever had any kind of benefit like that, and was purely because they had paid advertisement on some

[abstract karma]

time flies then i guess but i think it way fresher than that.. i think i saw it from some stream maybe before 0.1 of PoE 2

[warped wren]

people really need to get over that incident

it was so idiotically overblown that it lost all humor long ago

[twilit mountain]

People bring it up constantly ever since then as "evidence" for whatever dumb bullshit they're upset at GGG over. It is not relevant to anything and even then wasn't

[warped wren]

the actual issue that league wasn't even streamer queue, it was just how dogshit the performance was. Ultomatoe was probably one of the worst leagues performance wise

that and Blight

[abstract karma]

No wonder ? ppl are remained by it from other games which has any aspect of p2w - and its growing these predatory standards

it just raising supspicions in any kind of online service as time flies

[tawny sand]

they havent' done anything like it since then, at least not ggg. There's other predatory stuff to be upset about in other games i think

[warped wren]

anybody who genuinely believes streamers get tweaked RNG should just pass on the drugs so I can get a hit too

[abstract karma]

welp that migh be true but you know what sometimes somebody says (at least in mine country)
"You did once, you can do it again"

so when GGC was marked here or there somebody will point it out

[warped wren]

the false equivalency between priority queue and streamer RNG is killing me 😂

[junior oyster]

I believe in stremer luck. Why do streamers get winstreaks in Slay the Spire meanwhile I get losestreaks

[warped wren]

pull slot machine moar

[junior oyster]

Ngl in poe2 I must have had stremer luck when it released cuz I got a 98% adorned from chaos

Only thing is I didn't have stremer brains cuz if I held onto it I'd have sold it for 4-5x more than what I originally sold it for

[abstract karma]

too much pulls in machine = less chance to get..

Technically there is chance that start of league is just better for drops in overall which means, if you can runspeed as these 5ways maniacs
you could get better number on pull slot

[warped wren]

both of these statements are comically incorrect

I suggest you study the basics of probability

[abstract karma]

hmm think so ? You never heard of pseudo-generators then

if you think that algorithms actually does in suchs software pure random number seed

[warped wren]

yes and that is PRNG and unless you have access to GGG's codebase you are just pulling it out of your ass that they're using that

have fun and make sure to take off the tinfoil hat now and again to get some air, I'm off to do some work

[abstract karma]

find me programing language or actually more abstractily algorithm used for RNG which actually hasnt pseudo-generation and actually proof of it

[tawny sand]

why do people get so mad over video games

[warped wren]

I just get tired of conspiracy theorist nonsense

it's just baseless cope, usually from people who are either clueless about the subject or are just shit at the game and want to feel validated. And it makes the community a worse place by its mere existence.

[tawny sand]

i usually just ignore people

[abstract karma]

No wonder your N-word is reddit then..

You might sometimes find there interesting topics if you weren't so baised

[twilit mountain]

Brother, what?

[tawny sand]

i get what they're saying (i think) but that was sure a poor choice of wording

[twilit mountain]

I just know my luck is beyond dogshit, ain't gotta speculate anything on it xdd

[desert jasper]

And just like that
I'm out of divines again

[twilit mountain]

Remind me to send you a screenshot of my pilfering ring when I get home lmao

[warped wren]

I have 9 exalt drops and 4 div drops

GGG pls

stahp

[twilit mountain]

Pretty sure I'm at 10 and 3, and 1 of those divs doesn't count since it was a tree drop. All the exalts are raw.

[tawny sand]

i'm gonna start the league tonight i think, gonna have a friend help me and give me ideas for builds. put it off for a bit cause a bunch of other stuff came out

[warped wren]

tree gave you a div? damn

[twilit mountain]

I have less than 300c picked up

[twilit mountain]

Yes and also it has decided I need like 400 lesser eldritch orbs and I am mad. I keep hitting full stacks on those pieces of garbage.

[warped wren]

hey, 400 lessers = 50c, thas ok

[warped wren]

honestly that's pretty decent, at least you don't have exalts > divs

[twilit mountain]

When I got the div I also got a full stack of regrets BTW. Just so they could taunt me harder.

[desert jasper]

Also a full stack of fouldborn augs and some foulborn regals

[twilit mountain]

I'm debating sending myself to Dunes legion prison soon

[warped wren]

best currency I got from tree was 2 foulborn exalts

[twilit mountain]

Hey that's, what, 180c rn?

[warped wren]

they were uhh I think 50 or 60c a pop when I sold them

[twilit mountain]

Ah damn. They're somewhere in the 80-100c range last I looked

I wish I had currency, I bought a double foulborn HOWA just in case I thought up something funny

[warped wren]

I'm kinda sick of the mechanic so not actively doing it now that I have my dot multi + dot faster grafts

[twilit mountain]

Fair enough. I have cast speed and AoE grafts myself, higher proc rate + more overlap consistency is more important than getting slightly more multi for me

I just keep doing breaches cuz I just sit in the middle and hold right click

[desert jasper]

2 of these were very good for lvling minions tbh

[warped wren]

a lot of foulborn items are kinda cool at the very least

and some are gamebreaking

it's a nice system

hope it goes core to some degree

[desert jasper]

Oh I'm sure it'll go core
Just... nerfed, most likely

[warped wren]

double foulborn Berek's deserves it

illegal item

[twilit mountain]

True!

[warped wren]

51d is criminally cheap for its power level IMO

[twilit mountain]

Foulborn Doedre's Scorn my beloved (thank you EHG for making me not have to farm for a shitass Oshabi helm)

[desert jasper]

I remember a few years ago someone on the forums posted how there has been no player powercreep in yearswhile they keep on making the monsters stronger

this was... like after harvest? or something

[warped wren]

[twilit mountain]

Harvest? The most broken mechanic we have ever had bar none?

[desert jasper]

And then a friend mentioned how back "some" years ago having a 500dps axe was the end game you'd want

[warped wren]

lukewarm take but I think Sentinel, Crucible and Necro were all on the same tier, though Crucible and Necro were much more tedious

[twilit mountain]

1H? Yeah. 2H? Would be seen as weak even in like 2018

[warped wren]

and Sentinel more opaque

[desert jasper]

Yeah, 2h way back in the day
when that guy says "some" he could easily mean like
7-10 years ago LUL

[twilit mountain]

Sentinel was similar but I think Harvest beats it out with just how deliberate it got, you could do it lime by line whereas even with all the testing of recombs it still had a slight chance of failure

[warped wren]

that being said, I think they nailed the tree perfectly. Its early game power rivals OG Harvest, while for late game it becomes a source of fracture / recomb bases without letting you print GG gear

[twilit mountain]

Just get lucky xdd

[desert jasper]

Like remember when people were saying their dps is "shapers per second"
and now we have dot builds hitting the dot cap on ubers that have... what's their dmg reduction again?

[warped wren]

70%

[twilit mountain]

(Hi I popped out a EV/ES helm with T2 life, T1 rarity, T2 chaos res, T1 cold res, and T1 suppress 3 hours ago)

[twilit mountain]

Tbf, 1 shaper per second is still bonkers rn, that's still 72mil DPS

[desert jasper]

This was back before they boosted shaper hps from 20mil

[twilit mountain]

If we wanna get particular we had people hitting billions during Delirium. It was... a weird league.

[warped wren]

there's always people hitting billions for a while now

[twilit mountain]

Like, player power has scaled really hard yeah, but the spike looks way worse than it is if you include like, pre-3.0 PoE. I don't think anything before 3.0 should be even considered, even worse if you go further back and then look at when ascends came in

[desert jasper]

Oh man, next lvl I'll hit a massive power spike with getting envy aura

[warped wren]

it's okay, at least we also get incredibly hard content to do should we want to

[twilit mountain]

True. There was a time where "endgame" was farming Docks

People used to pay exalts for single maps. I would've probably uninstalled in an hour back then.

[warped wren]

deep delve, wisped titanic stuff, ubers, pilfering stupidity, all places where you can actually use billions of dps

[twilit mountain]

Deep delve scares me. Regular ass enemies hitting HP cap is just insanity to even conceptualize.

[desert jasper]

Yeah
I don't think my brain could calculate that even

[mental talon]

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3877494

[warped wren]

crazy patch

80 uniques and scarab changes both

might breathe new life into the league

[twilit mountain]

"Fixed a bug where you could use currency items from your map device rucksack on strongboxes and essences"

Rude

[mental talon]

I know right, running Essences with Vaal Orbs sitting in it was so comfy 🙁

[twilit mountain]

Just make that a feature, it makes sense

[desert jasper]

Yeah, that should've been a feature

I should've bought a gland before the patch tbh

Ah well
I will find another sooner or later

Gn

[mental talon]

@twilit mountain We're settling, Im broke fix later.

[twilit mountain]

"settling"

more valuable than my entire league

Help

[mental talon]

Oh hell nah

You on your own homie

[warped wren]

why are you not filtering out everything except currency / decks / scarab / maybe special gem

hell even decks is debatable since it now only gives 1

the rest are all omega garbage

[twilit mountain]

Because I'm too lazy to deal with my filter again. Same reason why I haven't fixed it not showing alts since last year.

[warped wren]

I would actually log off if I had to do Legions without a thoroughly optimized filter

it's RSI central

[twilit mountain]

The carpal tunnel is already there, what else is new

I died on the frame as I hit 96 xdd

[sand wigeon]

til my middle finger's muscles are also somewhat connected to my ring finger and pinky muscles (which are in of themselves linked)