📚┃off-topic

[fierce moth]

Damn :(

[twilit mountain]

I am of the opinion that they should have left it in and actually lowered the rarity of it

[fierce moth]

...Any alts for that omen?

[twilit mountain]

Nope. Suffer.

Get lucky as Jonny boy intended

[junior oyster]

I'm also of that opinion and heck it would make me more likely to play ssf (but not true ssf lol)

[fierce moth]

DAMN NO FUN ALLOW!!!!!

😔 Quite sad

[junior oyster]

Also some maps like hidden grotta really need to be deleted

[twilit mountain]

I don't mind that one

Seepage though

Ugh

[warped wren]

I would pay for a Terraforming Orb or something

So that I could just roll over dogwater layouts

[junior oyster]

I would pay for actual maps like in poe1

[warped wren]

I mean I'm alright with not running a single map 50 times, I don't mind. But at least let me avoid maps I hate.

[fierce moth]

The influence of abyssal league still up due to how bad this league is

[junior oyster]

I mean from a story point of view zana destroyed the atlas so it makes sense for it to be different I guess

[junior oyster]

Yea

[fierce moth]

That was the most fun league indeed... Rich loots and non-nerf omens

then it mean I don't need to farm ritual anymore...

[junior oyster]

I guess I found abyss a little fun but it wasn't that great lol

[warped wren]

Abyss had some truly abyssal performance

I'll say that much

[junior oyster]

Yea

[twilit mountain]

No better for me now, rituals have me playing at a cool 10 frames

[junior oyster]

Also always hate the 'enter abyss and lie down for a few secs'

[warped wren]

Feel the weight

Of your gear probably

[junior oyster]

Nah just we love to touch the grass so much

[desert jasper]

Aww
Dannig & the witch set up a date

[twilit mountain]

Ain't homie s'posed to be interested in the crazy lady from Heist

[junior oyster]

I still don't know whether I should use living lightning + wand with X damage converted to lightning or keep using trenchtimbre +2 minions

I honestly don't know if 7% more is stronger than +2 to minions

I imagine +2 minions is stronger

[warped wren]

+2 any day

[desert jasper]

Well
do we see Isla in poe2?

[twilit mountain]

A gem level is about 10-15% more damage on average, it's why +skills gear is so bullshit

[junior oyster]

Ok that makes more sense lol

[twilit mountain]

We don't see any of the rogues afaik

[junior oyster]

So it's better to use +2 minions then

[desert jasper]

Also the witch is kinda cute

[gilded elm]

Stop objectifying my waifu

[ebon meadow]

Xdd

[ebon meadow]

We will eventually have Kalgur mechanics in game ,the town is already there

And most of heist characters are from the islands we are now so yea probably end up seeing all of them

I was about to type hesit instead of heist ,BPL broke me

[desert jasper]

Well the kalgur mechanics are in the game already, expedition.
I don't want to see the actual kingsmarch mechanic again though

[gilded elm]

Too bad, it's part of the vision!

Get ready to boat out of your mind

[ebon meadow]

Yep

It's coming

[desert jasper]

Also,
Witch looks funny when she leaps in the air with Thunderous Leap

Did they actually confirm it's coming?

[gilded elm]

Don't think so, but I wouldn't be surprised.

[fierce moth]

Which thing attract Nub to try blood mage?

[ebon meadow]

We have the bay already ,so it's a 87% from me that it's eventually coming

I don't actually mind it

[desert jasper]

Yeah nah they're not gonna put it in

[ebon meadow]

It's a fun of side content I do when I don't want to play anything

[desert jasper]

Making a bleed build

[gilded elm]

The reason we have Settlers mechanic in PoE1 is because we're actually building what would become Kingsmarch proper as seen in PoE2.

There's no story reason for Settlers mechanics to exist in PoE2 as far as I know.

[ebon meadow]

This , it was first clues for Poe 2 in Poe 1

[gilded elm]

Basically I'm saying there's maybe a good chance we don't actually see Settlers mechanic in PoE2

[ebon meadow]

There is ,heist characters and the actual trading with the main world in poe1

So setlers

Poe 2 is the base of their existence and why they went to Oriath

[desert jasper]

Are you forgetting that poe2 is 20 years after poe1..?

[ebon meadow]

Hmm

[gilded elm]

Yeah, in PoE1 we built the Kingsmarch that we see in PoE2 lol

[ebon meadow]

Isn't it before ?

[gilded elm]

Nope.

[ebon meadow]

I not even joking

Look at atziri?

Look at the gods

[twilit mountain]

PoE2 is 20 years after PoE1, mate.

[desert jasper]

It's almost like there's time travel in poe2...

[junior oyster]

Would this work with fireball?

[ebon meadow]

They are in they human forms

[twilit mountain]

Brother

[gilded elm]

Utzaal was time travel

[junior oyster]

Or should I just put it on a skele warr

[twilit mountain]

We see Atziri in the past

[gilded elm]

It's kind of Alva's thing

[ebon meadow]

Fair

[twilit mountain]

And the only god we see in the present of PoE2 is Sin

[ebon meadow]

But still forward or backward there's still small gap in history

[junior oyster]

Getting there slowly

[ebon meadow]

No

[junior oyster]

I think once I hit 5k ES I'm going to switch to CI

[twilit mountain]

No Tangmazu doesn't count

[ebon meadow]

Literally the fist end of act boss is human form

When released

[twilit mountain]

Geonor is just a dude....

[desert jasper]

... he's not a god

[gilded elm]

Geonor is human

[ebon meadow]

I m talking about Doriani

[twilit mountain]

That one is a huge lore inconsistency because the only person who should be able to do the whole wolf thing in the first place is Rigwald but we're not gonna get into how much that shit ticked me off

[desert jasper]

Doryani isn't a god either

[gilded elm]

Not a god either

[ebon meadow]

No he isn't

[gilded elm]

Doryani is a Vaal scientist.

[ebon meadow]

But he didn't exist in Poe 1 he is from the past

[twilit mountain]

Doryani is just a very prominent Vaal "scientist" who created the basis behind purity gems

[gilded elm]

Yes, because we went to the past

[desert jasper]

Yeah because there's TIME TRAVEL

[twilit mountain]

We literally scooped the mfer up through a time portal, my man

[ebon meadow]

Yea yea I agree with time travel

[desert jasper]

It's not like PoE2 is suddenly 60000 years in the past

[gilded elm]

Just a portion of act 3 takes place in the past when we time travel to the old Utzaal

[junior oyster]

We should bring maven to the present

[abstract karma]

Plot of PoE 1 Beast = End of PoE 2 acts

[twilit mountain]

Shit even the section of Utzaal is like... 1800 years before PoE1, give or take

[desert jasper]

Yeah
I was just exaggerating for the sake of doing so

[ebon meadow]

And assuming that we not going to pull from traveling pass again and again ?

[twilit mountain]

Considering how this time travel portal is in one particular city that is notably not even in the same continent as Kingsmarch....

[gilded elm]

We might, probably will be a league mechanic if it isn't already... like incursions or something

[twilit mountain]

And it hooks to one specific point in time in one specific city

[gilded elm]

Actually, mapping is technically a form of time travel right? Or maybe it's time and space travel

In PoE 2, that is

[ebon meadow]

Time space

[twilit mountain]

PoE2 mapping is explained as just clearing corruption from the world

[sand wigeon]

Perhaps we should all agree that PoE2 is poorly written and none of it makes sense

[ebon meadow]

We visiting other dimensions and slaughtering

[abstract karma]

for now since we havent reach end of acts yet..

[ebon meadow]

It never did ,it's a bulk of small story's that gives Devs to play with content

[junior oyster]

I don't know the story of poe1 (for the most part) but I'd defo agree

[sand wigeon]

PoE1 has narrative consistency lol

[twilit mountain]

PoE1 lore is actually good. And consistent.

[sand wigeon]

It does in fact make sense

[gilded elm]

Yeah, but I thought it was through traveling to other realities or some shit

[twilit mountain]

PoE2 lore is dogshit nonsense

[twilit mountain]

Nah, same reality.

PoE1 mapping is more complicated, and dips into other realities in a sense

[gilded elm]

Ah, for some reason I thought it was some multiverse thing.

[twilit mountain]

They got real lazy with PoE2 explanations imho

[abstract karma]

Still dont know why Nightmare of PoE 1 and PoE 2 have so big difference of infinite power..

[twilit mountain]

With everything

[warped wren]

you could remove the last 2 words of this sentence and still be accurate

it'll take another year or two for things to actually iron out, I guess. At least I hope it doesn't take longer.

[twilit mountain]

Hey now, their art team is cooking, I won't say anything that could be against them

[jovial bane]

yeah, Trialmaster one shotting me is a sign I should redo my build and invest more in defensive nodes

x'D

[warped wren]

animators too I guess

[abstract karma]

State of Beast in PoE 1 is mere mountain corrupting which reaching whole Wraeclast till we just destroy hearth of it and let in "sleeping mode"
State of Beast in PoE 2 is that some crazy hag dig out this remains from act 9 and let it grow..

State of Beast from ancient Era shows that Beat can grow in infinite power and destoryed Vaal civilization..
So how the F we can slay it so easily in PoE 1 ?

[sand wigeon]

The whole basis of PoE2 is lazy

The Beast is stupid and nonsensical

[junior oyster]

Sin is an even worse version of D3 Tyrael imo

Like you know immediately oh hey Sin

[sand wigeon]

It’s such a character assassination of sin

[twilit mountain]

The Beast was thaumaturgical in origin in PoE1, why is it some vague, shitass pre-history weapon now 😭

[junior oyster]

I'll give poe2 credit for some stuff like the VA's lol

[sand wigeon]

All of the art is great

[junior oyster]

I love how they react to different kind of enemies

[sand wigeon]

The graphics, the VA’s, etc

[junior oyster]

Yea

[sand wigeon]

It’s just the writing and gameplay that suuuck

[twilit mountain]

I hate the Stormweaver VA I cannot lie. If I hear "By Garukhan!" one more time I am going to pop a blood vessel

[abstract karma]

Only way to writers to dig out from this beast nonsense is literally use weapon from some "thrid edict" and "weak the beast" in the "past" to events of PoE 1 made sense

[junior oyster]

Lol I feel you

Sorc be saying Garu a lot

[twilit mountain]

It doesn't even make sense! She's fkin DEAD, girlie!

[junior oyster]

Now Solarei on the other hand

I don't even know who Solarei is lol

But my mind wanders to grim dawn Solael xD

[twilit mountain]

Botched mention of Solaris? Idk

[desert jasper]

Wasn't Solarei the maraketh version of Solaris?

[twilit mountain]

Oh you spelled the name wrong lmao

Solerai

Yeah

Well

Sorta

[junior oyster]

Lol my bad

[twilit mountain]

Pre-godhood Solaris

[desert jasper]

And there was a 3rd one apparently

[ebon meadow]

Where do we fight Garkhul if I can freaking spell her name ?

[twilit mountain]

Viridi

We don't know much on her

But she shares a name with a real life mythological being so, cool ig?

[junior oyster]

I wouldn't put it past ggg to bring back kitava

Don't think they will

[desert jasper]

The beast evolves into kitava :^)

[junior oyster]

But wouldn't be surprised

[desert jasper]

or reanimates the bones

[ebon meadow]

I geniunly thought we will find Kitava in human form in Poe2 or at least similar size to other "gods"

[abstract karma]

PoE 2 shouldnt have even gods to slay because we purged them in PoE 1 thanks Sin..

[desert jasper]

Why would we?

Kitava is dead

[twilit mountain]

We decapitated Kitava and paraded his head around Oriath lmao

[ebon meadow]

I v seen the name but yea when playing I don't care anything about lore I only interested when I have some of time

[ebon meadow]

Yea but twice

Different reality's and she has crazy city's as shrine to her still

[desert jasper]

Then again Tukohama speaks in poe2

it's not a different reality.

[twilit mountain]

^

Same reality

[desert jasper]

and "she" ?

[ebon meadow]

Why she has a life followers in Poe 2 lul

[desert jasper]

kitava is a male

[ebon meadow]

Kitava always sounded like a female name to me

[twilit mountain]

PoE1 lore is not like, every league = new timeline. They just expand and rework the tail end of the story to fix it.

[ebon meadow]

She in my head

[twilit mountain]

They\

Explicitly call Kitava he

Like

Every time

[jade jackal]

lore schmore, gimme bosses to kill

[ebon meadow]

But it's an entity I think we still call Merveil she/child for some reason

[twilit mountain]

He's literally referred to as the king of hunger

Merveil is female. She was human once.

You're thinking of Maven

Who is also female

[ebon meadow]

Ohh yea sorry

maven

[twilit mountain]

And a child by eldritch standards

[ebon meadow]

My autocorrect on phone actually memorized Poe names lmao

[desert jasper]

You were spanish, right?
Or something like that
I guess it could explain why you'd think that name ending in A is a woman's name

[abstract karma]

I dont wanna see Maven in PoE 2 >.> 😄

[ebon meadow]

It's a beeing from the void that thing has no age or gender to me

[desert jasper]

We'll see Maven's baby in PoE2
triple the memory game

[ebon meadow]

Still more cute than hunger that's fine

Pls no pizzas

I despite that mechanic so much

[abstract karma]

😒

[ebon meadow]

Pretty much yea

[desert jasper]

I only know this because a friend of mine is called Juha
and he had a coworker from spain call him and that coworker thought that Juha would be a woman...
ended up just giggling extremely unprofessionally the whole call

[ebon meadow]

Now that my brain is moving nether in russian u don't get names that end with a or e i guess

[ebon meadow]

It happens for me a lot with NZ names and maybe Arabic but I can still figure out that Mustafa is a male name

[twilit mountain]

Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah game cheated me out my arbiter fragments by killing me with unrendered attacks raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[abstract karma]

Have Fun

[desert jasper]

Did this guy really just tell me skill issue

[ebon meadow]

hahha

yea at least we get same puns in the game

[abstract karma]

well somewhere frustation of developers must to go 😄

[ebon meadow]

i do enjoy the voyclenes sometimes , people actually worked on them and they great

shadow or witch in poe 1 are amazing

deli voyce have some cool ass lines

[fierce moth]

who's Xipocado? I must kill this boss again because of this sentence

oh that pre-boss in vaal temple. ok

[ebon meadow]

why the hell i cant find the voyce lines for deli league ???

https://www.poewiki.net/images/b/b0/DEL_176.ogg

got it , this is just .OHHHH

first i got my mirror from that league and second after Delve league was my favorite voyce lines in game

strange voyce hit hard

[twilit mountain]

Homie's name is Tangmazu. He's a jackass.

[desert jasper]

Oh yea
Was funny in poe1 when you call the trialmaster by his mortal name
he just goes "Where did you learn that? Never call me that again"

And then that dialogue option is no longer available after it

[twilit mountain]

I can't spell that one from memory LMAO

I love this economy

[ebon meadow]

what economy this is chaos

[abstract karma]

well exa changes to chaos and even with chaos you find then later most better things sold as divine or annuls

[ebon meadow]

yea i didnt meant as an orb i meant as where its placed at right now

xdd

[twilit mountain]

Nah, paying in annuls is self-scamming of the highest order, it's a price hike of like 30%

[desert jasper]

Every now and then I see things that are listed in annuls
then I scroll down to exalts and they're like 16 exalts
and ppl list 16annuls

[twilit mountain]

For reference, that thing I sold is selling for about 70-80 ex. At 3 annuls that is about 120ex. Lol.

[desert jasper]

Ah, I just realized it's almost 11pm and I should be sleeping already

[ebon meadow]

so anuls are prime ?

[desert jasper]

good night

[ebon meadow]

gn

[twilit mountain]

[ebon meadow]

actually fully leveled thats QoL

this little things are so nice

[ebon meadow]

ok i actually phased Chimera in acts xdd bear is dumb

and underleveled but by 1 i guess

[twilit mountain]

This game is so screwed lmao
How am I supposed to do multi-phase boss fights when half their attacks are rendering in 4 seconds after the damage ticks

[junior stirrup]

I keep getting assigned skill issues at work. It's funny every time 🙂

[warped wren]

Somebody at GGG unequivocally loathes mace players, there is no way this isn't a spiteful addition

[desert jasper]

Wouldn't be surprised

[jade jackal]

Mace hate is all across ARPGs, dont take it personally

[warped wren]

Idk I played a little bit of D4 and found maces just fine there. Even in LE maces aren't complete trash

[jade jackal]

well, in D4 maces being maces is quite meaningless lol

But generally, when treated as a mixed type or mixed damage type weapon, maces suffer

[desert jasper]

Maces are cool
They don't deserve the hate

[warped wren]

it's not maces, it's just GGG: https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1pt2o7n/almost_lost_a_controller_today/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[jade jackal]

Yeah, that's GGG's very famous sadistic game design

[fierce moth]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/vince-zampella-the-co-founder-of-infinity-ward-and-head-of-battlefield-dies-in-car-crash/

Such a big pity... Paradise must fill with his talent and he can make games in peace now 🕯️

[fierce moth]

Heard gta6 only

oh slay the spire 2 is coming... I'm sure it'll be the most popular indie game in 2026 if it's released as planned

[gilded elm]

Cool game

[fierce moth]

wtf hhhhhhhhh?????
Sigh. Hawg is know what can make me laugh so well

[fierce moth]

A brick set which worth ¥20237 (US$2879) and includes 90k+ bricks

Oh. Funny fact is 0 copy of this set is sold 🤣

[desert jasper]

Oh, apparently they nerfed the Shadewalker abyss mod

Honestly wouldn't be surprised if it just turned out it was too strong when player got it with headhunter

[desert jasper]

It's not necessarily worth that
it's just being sold at that price

Like I could decide I want to sell a ring at 1000€
Nothing special in the ring, just simple silver ring
Nobody would say it's worth that much money

Just like PoE market
I could put something for sale at multiple divines and people wouldn't buy it becaus eit's not actually worth that

[fierce moth]

That's more interesting

[desert jasper]

Instructions only for 250€?
Why would anybody want just the instructions

[maiden widget]

there must be a conversion error or they scalp a lot, can find that locally in germany for 3.8k

[desert jasper]

Woo
I onecycled the siren

[jovial bane]

Even worse when you consider it's not from Lego itself. Are those Lego bricks, or something the seller 3D prints ?

[fierce moth]

How are you save exalted orbs on what are you need 🤔

60e-200e if I want these affixes

Craft a focus by myself?

increase chaos damage without more levels is too poor so I want a upgrade

[abstract karma]

if you dont understand "dereministic gamble of poe crafting" i would focus more on simple crafts of good drops and focus on materials grinding to make currency buy of items

[fierce moth]

lol... Alright I think buy a final focus is better

[abstract karma]

that's even more expensive than rare items

it was told here once, if you dont know this or that dont buy blue items on craft

[fierce moth]

Quite funny, yes

[desert jasper]

Just 25 more lvls until I can equip my end game weapon

Not a bad ID scroll

And slammed 78 life on it

Ahh but I don't have the dexterity to use my skills if I equip that LUL

[abstract karma]

hmm noticed it now.. where f.. are tier showcase in market ?

it was previous league def.. there

[desert jasper]

It's bugged

It's very annoying

[maiden widget]

They're Lego copies normally and are also injection moulded

For the price it seems to be actually ok to decent but who has time and space for that thing

[fierce moth]

Which one should I buy? Not sure more spell damage or more cast speed

None of them better than mine on spell damage though... Not happy with that

[junior oyster]

Isn't +5 already better than your item?

+levels is more damage

[fierce moth]

the issue is which one give more bonus

[junior oyster]

If cast speed is important to you then I'd get that one

But I'm not sure it's worth buying at that price

I can say with almost certainty that both items are better than your wand. I'd probably go with the right one here but again I'm not sure it's worth buying for 100ex

[fierce moth]

Oh here's one that not fully crafted

[junior oyster]

Don't waste money on that lol

I mean up to in the end

[fierce moth]

the risk is maybe I get 57% increase spell damage only, at last

I'm successfully on gambling once time

yoooooo a uncut lv 20 skill gem appear on my ritual rewards suddenly

But I don't reach lv 90 yet :(

[desert jasper]

You should still take it out

[fierce moth]

wow!

[fierce moth]

yes in my stash

[fierce moth]

200e jump in my stash

[junior oyster]

gg

[maiden widget]

damn steam review commenters are malding about my thumbs down for tq2 due to only supporting my monitor in the menu but not ingame

funny

[jovial bane]

just steam community being steam community

your review, no matter the content will make someone mad

[junior oyster]

Lol can't click on the checkpoints xD

[maiden widget]

Yeah its just funny how annoyed people are

[junior oyster]

Oh I can after second click

[maiden widget]

as if its not a valid review to say it doesnt support my screen resolution hence refund

[jovial bane]

I swear some are genuinely ragebaiting for clown emoji farm

[maiden widget]

didnt even know clown emoji gives you exp so its kinda worth it to trigger people

i wish steam forced devs to say which screen ratios they support tho

[fierce moth]

house of cards s5 end at a...Disappointing case

Underwood is more and more cruel as his crime is risky to be reveal on public

Glad to hear his wife replace him to be the president

what? The beginning of s6 said Underwood is died? But All contents in s5 didn't mention how Underwood die...

[junior oyster]

Oh no now you gotta wait for the 'and now we return to the past' episode(s)

[twilit mountain]

Steam reviews are legitimately some of the worst things to go off of for anything because maybe 20% of them are actually helpful or complaining about a legitimate issue (such as yours), and then it's like 40% one sentence reviews, another 20% of memes, and the remaining 20% is split between ragebait, genuine stupidity, or culture war shit.

[junior oyster]

Honestly some maps are so much better than others for mob density

As dark as it I like the assembly map

Lol is this thing broken?

It's still showing corrupted items xD

[twilit mountain]

I simply do not use the in game one, it feels very inconsistent

[junior oyster]

This shitty game keeps turning off my minions lol

Keeps deciding that I have 0/15/37 spirit

[twilit mountain]

Might be a Disciple exclusive bug idk, I haven't had any issues like that myself

[junior oyster]

Or more likely minions in general

In the same map I had 15 spirit now I have 37 lol

[twilit mountain]

Also possible, I don't play minions lol

[twilit mountain]

YEEEEEEEEEEEAH

[desert jasper]

Just 12 lvls more until atziri spear

[twilit mountain]

Atziri spear?

Ohohoho man

[maiden widget]

Reminds me that I miss TB reviews his opinion matched mine so often it was amazing

[desert jasper]

That Shattering Spite witht he bloodstone lances on hit deals insane damage

[twilit mountain]

Ah. Funky looking.

Incredibly funny looking stash

[desert jasper]

Meanwhile I went from 200 some exalts to 39

[junior oyster]

I went from 1d to 39ex

[twilit mountain]

I'm not really spending much money rn

Upgrades are few and far between for me atm

Aight juicing time

[desert jasper]

lvl 69

[junior oyster]

Damn you levelling fast

[desert jasper]

The levels aren't going to level theirselves

[junior oyster]

I have no idea how to scale this any more aside from hoping to hit 90 fast lol

Oh and +2 amulet

[desert jasper]

Or I guess they could come by without me doing anything if I took part in something that old musky did

npc selling that

[twilit mountain]

"I'm the top player in HCSSF"

Elon's Maps

[desert jasper]

It was hilarious tbh

[twilit mountain]

The entire community agreeing to flame the shit out of him was beautiful

[desert jasper]

United, for once

[twilit mountain]

Juicing goin well

[desert jasper]

🤔
Not gonna run that with this character yet

Because I'm scared for my res

Not ideal for running maps tbh

[junior oyster]

What's the boss?

Azmeri?

[desert jasper]

I've no idea
but overrun by abyss when I've bad res

[junior oyster]

Damn I didn't know they nerfed my boy this hard lol

[desert jasper]

Wait, was that the ES one back in the day?

[junior oyster]

Yep

Honestly not a bad all res ring

[desert jasper]

Tbh it was way too good back in the day

[junior oyster]

Ofc

[twilit mountain]

Dual Vaal guys from the interlude

[junior oyster]

Oof

They are scary lol

[desert jasper]

Man
I kinda hate how you only get 2 path tiles / temple

[junior oyster]

Lol I haven't done any of that content aside from opening the chests

[twilit mountain]

Mana is a shame but the rest is quite good

[junior oyster]

I have relatively ok mana tbf

And don't need prefixes for the most part

[twilit mountain]

If I weren't in attribute hell I'd offer for that

[junior oyster]

Once I go CI I can take this ring off xD

Didn't realise it has a t1 lightning damage

Not sure if 12% chaos res makes a lot of difference though tbf

So might just remove it anyway

[twilit mountain]

Depends how much chaos res you have. Like 70%? Yeah that 12% is gonna be noticeable. 20%? Probably not doing a lot for you right now.

[junior oyster]

12%

I swapped out

I hate how they've designed the skill tree in such a way that you can't even take 'shortcuts' for the most part

It's so damn annoying

[twilit mountain]

Eye twitching in frustration at this shit

[junior oyster]

Yea lol

Or this

The shortcut should have been just one node to save a bunch of points but nope

[fierce moth]

I found 2 sealed vault before I reached t15, both of them are failed...

I agree with never go to sealed vault with abyssal. It just slain you

[stone anvil]

https://youtu.be/UiMg566PREA?si=tQJpr0HOcm_YAcib

[junior oyster]

Sealed vault can be done at t6 though?

[stone anvil]

they hyped me for avengers trailer but it is december 18. 2026

[junior oyster]

Why would you do it at a difficulty you aren't comfortable with

[stone anvil]

😭

[twilit mountain]

Skill/build issue, Kirra. I run them 6 mod T16 triple tablets no issues at all.

[desert jasper]

Just 8 more levels

But need to take a break soon
been playing mostly nonstop since 6hours ago

[junior oyster]

This exists? Lol

D3 gave up on this quick xD

[fierce moth]

I have been extreme poor before I reach t15 so not much I can do 🤷‍♀️

I own a few t15 waystones only even now

zero stash for t1-t14 waystones

[twilit mountain]

Yes and it scares me because I feel like traps/mines are gonna end up as "hazards" and be complete dogshit

[junior oyster]

It truly is a diablo like

[desert jasper]

I think trap/ mine dmg is scaled on monster dmg already 🤔
But wouldn't be surprised if it also did scale on hazard

[junior oyster]

For the bad reasons

I'm doing djinn build and I literally can't scale my minions more lol

[abstract karma]

well another class will be probably at 0.6 till then

[desert jasper]

It's gonna be assassin
We'll finally get traps
And they'll suck

[twilit mountain]

Jonathan you rat.

[junior oyster]

?

[twilit mountain]

It went down to T14 so I am blaming Jonathan to deal with my annoyance

[junior oyster]

Ah yea

That lovely ordeal

[abstract karma]

or will be broken like milions particiels per one trigger..

You can do it now with cast on critical or other elements..

[desert jasper]

I didn't even know they can go down on maps

[twilit mountain]

Ah well, dropped another div, annoyance alleviated

[twilit mountain]

Vaals do one of the following things to maps

Tier up or down
Reroll prefixes or suffixes
Add a prefix or suffix or both
Turns all prefixes or suffixes to the opposite
Nothing

And vaaling T15s is the only way to get T16s

[junior oyster]

Honestly not sure why I need this point for my build if I'm relying on minions

Think I'm gunna get rid of these two points

[twilit mountain]

I assume it's for AoE for some reason

[junior oyster]

Fireball

[twilit mountain]

Ah

[junior oyster]

But not sure if 5% makes a lot of difference

Oh and oops living bomb

[desert jasper]

Aight
Guess it's time for a cooking break
I think I might need to get some fresh air after that

[junior oyster]

Ok managed to get two levels out of untainted paradise

[twilit mountain]

Nice

[desert jasper]

Nice
I still have 1 untainted paradise visible on the field

[twilit mountain]

My beloved. 100k+ damage per pop and it automatically casts like 6 times per click.

[junior oyster]

Still not sure I need that area damage node though

For bosses probably not

Hmm

[twilit mountain]

Q: can talismans naturally have two sockets?

[desert jasper]

I think so?

I've one corrupted that has 3

[twilit mountain]

Gotcha. I was just unsure if somehow my ritual handed me an exceptional or if I just hadn't seen one with two sockets yet

[desert jasper]

But I'll check real fast

[junior oyster]

I know it's only 4k but I'm honestly tempted to switch to CI as soon as I get the points to reach it lol

[twilit mountain]

So. Seepage boss has a funny bug where it can teleport you to the opposite side of the map apparently.

[twilit mountain]

I was CI gaming with 3k, just play careful and you're fine

[desert jasper]

Really funny

[fierce moth]

I'm chilling with many jellies with non-dairy creamer and yarn

[junior oyster]

Gunna take quite a few levels to get there sadly

[desert jasper]

Yeah, just checked
Talisman can havce 2 sockets naturally

[junior oyster]

GGG has to make it hard to get those points lol

[twilit mountain]

Noted

(ty)

[desert jasper]

I guess they're treated as 2handed weapons for that
but their dmg rolls feel like they're 1h

[twilit mountain]

Watch it be a bug like xbows

[desert jasper]

God

[junior oyster]

Damn why did they have to make it current lol

Not even sure I want this node

[twilit mountain]

Hold on lemme find the image

[junior oyster]

Oh you have 0 ES? No armour for you lol

[fierce moth]

isn't it a good notable?

[junior oyster]

Keyword is current

Not maximum

Current

[desert jasper]

Tbh if it was maximum it would probably be a bit too strong on the higher ES builds

[twilit mountain]

^ that makes it dogshit

[twilit mountain]

Compared to what armor users can get? Nah

[fierce moth]

oh so you remain 40% es?

[junior oyster]

No

[twilit mountain]

No Kirra, it gives you armor based on hwo much ES you have at the moment. So as you take damage it gives you less armor.

[junior oyster]

60% of your current ES is added to your armour. So if you have 1000 ES you now have 600 armour I believe?

[twilit mountain]

Yep

[fierce moth]

oh... It not sound good

[junior oyster]

Ofc not

As I lose ES I lose armour 😂

[twilit mountain]

Like, the real min-max style folks have like 20k ES. In comparison, armor users have like 30k on a maybe 5-10d budget.

[junior oyster]

Honestly this is probably the only reason I even take it

[twilit mountain]

Me seeing people path to only these two bottom nodes and ignoring the rest for some reason

Like, hello? almost 40% ES and stun and ailment threshold and 70% increased ES from your helmet when helmets can have like 500+ ES on them? That's cracked? Take it?

[desert jasper]

"No"

[junior oyster]

Haha I only took the top two xD

Those other nodes will probably be for min-maxing

Idk

[twilit mountain]

I need two more levels so I can get even more CDR

[junior oyster]

I need 5 levels for CI lol

The struggle is real

[twilit mountain]

I have a bugged map on my atlas lmao

It says I failed it, I full cleared it

[junior oyster]

Back to t9s cuz I ran out of higher tier maps

[twilit mountain]

If map sustain wasn't a PITA I'd chuck you some

[junior oyster]

Nah I'm good

[twilit mountain]

But I have like. 12 spare maps.

[desert jasper]

I failed one of the towers
because I forgot to go and click the thing after killing the boss

[junior oyster]

I want to farm myself and besides I've only done t13 so far

[twilit mountain]

Don't forget to check Dory for maps

[junior oyster]

Ah yea

I also keep forgetting to qual my gems

[twilit mountain]

I think I only just hit max on all mine, I refused to buy them

[junior oyster]

I haven't bought any curr yet

Aside from converting my div to exalts

[desert jasper]

I'm so glad they made the qual thingys way more common

and gave 5% qual instead of literally never dropping

[junior oyster]

Oh the gemcutters?

Yea

Too bad armourers are more rare lol

[twilit mountain]

Also just a heads up, there is a bugged abyss passive

Second half works like a charm, first half is working exactly 0% of the time for me

[junior oyster]

Finally dropped another div

Hooray

[twilit mountain]

Hooray!

[junior oyster]

I can probably buy a +2 amulet now

+2 minion

[twilit mountain]

I'm stuck on my amulet for a very long time i think

It's got both flat and % ES, +3 spells, high res, rarity, and mana recoup

[junior oyster]

Lol I have 0% rarity

But having flat es on mine would be nice

It's also gotta have spirit

[twilit mountain]

It's the only rarity I have lol

[junior oyster]

At least you got some xD

Though I heard if it isn't 100% it might as well be non-existent

Do precursor tablets stack? I'm assuming no

The irriadation thing I mean

[twilit mountain]

Irradiated ones don't, also they're terrible

[junior oyster]

Using them to level up faster

[twilit mountain]

Ah fair

Yeah just don't use em as juice when you get to the point of trying to make profit

[junior oyster]

Assuming I don't die lol

Honestly not sure I'll be juicing anything

My build doesn't seem to be all that strong sadly

[sand wigeon]

average independent stalker

free sky stalkers when the gravitational anomaly eats them

[junior oyster]

Oof still 4 levels to go to CI

[twilit mountain]

easy money

[junior oyster]

That would be really nice for me if I didn't need +2 minions xD

Lol what is this trash

[desert jasper]

Ah, finally
Dinner has been had, helped granny next door carry some heavy stuff to the car, got some fresh air and now I'm ready to play more

[twilit mountain]

Yeeeeah the majority of socketables are bait imo

[junior oyster]

Btw do you know if works with fireball + living lightning?

Don't exactly wanna waste my money lol

[twilit mountain]

I don't think it works on LL but it does affect Fireball.

[junior oyster]

Probably not worth it then

[desert jasper]

Okay
Resistances have been fixed

[fierce moth]

https://news.cgtn.com/event/20241226/tang-architecture/index.html#/building-design

If someone want to learn a bit about architectures in tang dynasty (an interactable web with 100% English)

🤔 CGTN is a good web for learning about Chinese architectures. Just discovered that

[sudden anchor]

Art is communication

[fierce moth]

For example, I never know ziwei palace until I saw this video https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-04-14/Ziwei-Palace-The-celestial-heart-of-Tang-Dynasty-1CxVtQa6sO4/p.html

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1rN4y1n7Rg/?spm_id_from=333.337.search-card.all.click&vd_source=0672bf95e61c10ba90b85acc13036bee
Base on this key word, this video is appeared to show how ziwei palace supposed to look

Maybe some international people think "aren't they Japanese architectures"

[desert jasper]

I guess I should try the 3rd lab

And it's just going higher... sheesh

[twilit mountain]

Oh you're DCing lol

[desert jasper]

It... Didn't actually kick me out even

It went back to 35ms after hitting 20k something

[twilit mountain]

I love money

[desert jasper]

Idol of Sirus

[junior oyster]

I haven't had any of those drop so far

Only sekh

[desert jasper]

Yeah I've the sekh at lvl 60
I'm lvl 72
might be a bit overkill
but you know

[junior oyster]

Oh wait I read lab as ultimatum lol

I want ultimatum to drop

[twilit mountain]

Sold for over 3div worth of chaos btw

[maiden widget]

fun fact old TQ works with my resolution

[twilit mountain]

That's kinda wild

[maiden widget]

looks pretty cool too

i should probably run through it again and maybe buy the latest dlc i skipped so far

[gilded elm]

Is it the Anniversary Edition? I wonder if they added ultrawide support to it.

[maiden widget]

yep anniversary as i didnt know if my saves work for the older versions

[junior oyster]

3 more slooow levels to go

[maiden widget]

or if the older versions even work on new windows

[gilded elm]

What about Grim Dawn, does that also support ultrawide?

[twilit mountain]

Trust me I know the feeling, post-90 leveling is agonizing...

[gilded elm]

Wondering if they did a custom thing for the engine after GD broke off

[junior oyster]

I'm not even level 90 lol

Only 84 atm xD

[twilit mountain]

I'm 67% to 94 rn, I am in hell

[maiden widget]

didnt check but i imagine maybe not, ill download and check

nvm still have it installed

[gilded elm]

You don't have to if it's a hassle, I checked on Steam forums and people are saying ultrawide does work

[junior oyster]

At least unlocking the jewel socket will allow me to increase my es a bit more

[maiden widget]

depends on the ultrawide i think

normal ultrawide is a bit less than this, this is basically 2x 2560x1440 screens

[gilded elm]

So far seeing a lot of people with 3k wide saying it works, but yeah not sure on 5k wide

Basically a lot of 21:9

[twilit mountain]

True, jewels are craaaaazy, pulling almost 60% ES and like 45% shock magnitude off mine

[maiden widget]

thanks to PIP i dont even mind too much but if i buy a new game ideally i want it supported

this screen has either a 2 monitor 50:50 split or ultrawide + almost 1:1 PIP mode

[junior oyster]

I'll be honest this tells me nothing

Why is it a number and not a %

[twilit mountain]

Should I post the image again?

[junior oyster]

Granted I have practically none

[real kayak]

boss fight in interlude holten estate wouldn't start, got angry and had to reset instance. got a divine on the way back from a rare. I guess it's ok now.

[gilded elm]

Yeah, I don't personally have an ultrawide (yet, maybe some day) but it's such a common thing for support to get neglected and you always see people asking for it to be supported in every game. I haven't wanted an ultrawide since my Lost Ark days (it's actually an advantage in that game) but I imagine it's kinda like having a high refresh rate monitor, once you have it you never want to go back.

[maiden widget]

works, although i forgot about the mod 😄

[gilded elm]

Poggies

That looks cool

[twilit mountain]

That boss is buggy as shit, the map variant breaks like 80% of the time

[gilded elm]

Nice D2 mod lol

[maiden widget]

i got it like a month ago because i wanted oled anyway and this was almost the same price as 2560x1440 oled

[gilded elm]

Was confused there for a sec

[maiden widget]

so far the samsung g9 is super nice

[gilded elm]

Is that Reign of Terror mod?

[desert jasper]

Woo
Managed to beat the trial
eventually will need to do the 4th one

[maiden widget]

i think so, didnt play GD in ages so it was a bit surprising to see this starting position 😄

[gilded elm]

I was like... wtf this is the Rogue Encampment... with Grim Dawn UI lmao

[desert jasper]

ez +990 life from that ascendancy

[maiden widget]

many indie games also just support it - i dont even expect optimization

[gilded elm]

Are you using HDR?

[maiden widget]

if it is a bit funky i am fine with it but just adding black bars is shit if your menu even renders fully

yeah

[gilded elm]

Ah, I guess that explains why your screenshot is kinda bright.

[maiden widget]

windows has a function to compensate in screenshots but its weird and not working well

[gilded elm]

Yeah

Been an issue forever

Yours is actually mild compared to a lot of other HDR screenshots I see

[twilit mountain]

Gods essences are crazy money.

[maiden widget]

yeah without the compensation its almost unusable

this is ok but still pretty off

i wonder when the GD expansion finally hits, rejected a friend wanting to play early last year as i assumed the expansion would be soon™

[gilded elm]

In yours, it seems like the lighter colors are exaggerated

[maiden widget]

guess i shouldnt have

[gilded elm]

Crate didn't expect it to take this long either, tbf

But honestly I also appreciate how much content they're packing into FoA

It's a huge expansion

[junior oyster]

Honestly this stuff is so annoying

Shouldn't exist in maps

[maiden widget]

good to hear, i dont mind if the result is great

[gilded elm]

https://forums.crateentertainment.com/t/fangs-of-asterkarn-development-update-june-2025/146114

To put things in perspective, by our current estimations, Fangs of Asterkarn will cover approximately 3.55sq. km, which makes it roughly 110% as big as Ashes of Malmouth. Kurnhold, the de-facto capital of the Kurn and the new quest hub, spans 4 zones, compared to the 1.5 that the Covenant of the Three took up in Forgotten Gods.
That's just the world size itself, the post goes into specifics like quests, items etc (these numbers may have increased by now)

You should see the modding tools they have to use to create this stuff. It's all so outdated and cumbersome to actually use. It's kind of a miracle they're even able to create all of this in their world editor lol

[maiden widget]

isnt it like a bit of a modded tq engine? I toyed around in their world editor

its crazy what they put out so far already

[gilded elm]

Yeah it's a fork of the TQ engine after they were able to secure access to the engine from I think it was THQ who technically owns the copyright to it. I think a lot of the tooling itself was either heavily modified or created from scratch for GD, though.

To this day, you still can't actually load more than one custom mod into the game.

Loading multiple mods requires merging/combining the mods into a single mod (and resolving all of the conflicts yourself)

[maiden widget]

yeah its crazy that they didnt just start new

but i respect it

[gilded elm]

There's a good chance Crate wouldn't have been able to release anything at all or even as good as GD without leaning on the knowledge and expertise they had accumulated over the years making TQ and using that engine, so I understand for sure.

[maiden widget]

aw rip camera wont arrive tomorrow

[gilded elm]

RIP

Same for me, ordered a drawing tablet just for doodling with a stylus

[maiden widget]

[jade jackal]

Which one did you order

[maiden widget]

didnt even plan to get a new camera but they dropped a good deal on an olympus em10 IV with 2 lenses

should end up at ~400€ new

[jade jackal]

Which lenses?

[maiden widget]

the pancake zoom and the 45mm 1.8 - had the latter one once and it was pretty good

[jade jackal]

Yeah the M.Zuiko F1.8 primes are great

[maiden widget]

i have the 30mm 2.8 macro as well so should be super solid for now

my sony a7 II just is too big and heavy to pack all the time

[jade jackal]

There's a pancake 17mm F2.8 that's also great

super compact

[maiden widget]

nice, noted - what are you using?

[jade jackal]

I have a bunch of MFT gear, but also some FF Lumix stuff im using

depending on how heavy i wanna pack

[maiden widget]

neat, i basically only have a few primes for my sony, the rest is old analogue gear

so i just need to grab adapters and i can use them on the olympus too

[jade jackal]

Lord knows i shove money into glass and body furnaces

[maiden widget]

i still want to get a newer infrared converted cam but they are super rare and the conversions cost so much

so i am still rocking the old oly e-pm1 😄

[jade jackal]

For a compact carry i took a Lumix G100 that i was able to buy for around 300 dollars, i like it, its inoffensive

If i dont need a viewfinder, i do have a GF7

[maiden widget]

damn the g100 looks cool, didnt really follow cams for a while after my a7II

tried my luck finding something well priced used here but people want a lot of money for used stuff

[jade jackal]

I had my luck locally, but also from abroad

often times ordering equipment from as far as AliExpress

[maiden widget]

nice, i also saw that rollei sells some chinese lenses that review well now, when i was more active it was either expensive first party stuff or manual lenses from the 80s

[twilit mountain]

Welp time to find out if Arbiter still has revives allowed or not

[junior oyster]

He does on the normal difficulty I think?

But you get less revives the higher his tier unless they changed it

[twilit mountain]

Well he only has two tiers now

Normal and "uber"

[junior oyster]

Oh lol nvm then

I never even attempted arby last league

[maiden widget]

my last lens i got this year was finally another sonnar 85mm 2.8 - loved it once but had to sell it back then. Now i got it back and its still great. The colors pop so much compared to anything else i own.

[twilit mountain]

Awwwwwesome he's bugged as shit

[junior oyster]

Oh wait they made him have two tiers last league lol

[jade jackal]

These are cool, but beware of fungus traps

sellers tend to hide that stuff

[maiden widget]

yeah that was part of the issue - had that once but could get a refund then 😄

[jade jackal]

I sort of gave up on vintage glass, for many reasons

[twilit mountain]

Aight I might be locked out of Arbiter this league, none of his mechanics render

[jade jackal]

if i want something nice, i usually go contemporary

[sudden anchor]

Fungus trap? Do you mean a fungus farm?

[jade jackal]

by trap i meant consumer trap

[maiden widget]

makes sense - i saw some reviews for the newer 85mm 1.8 from china with AF and that costs only a tad bit more than the vintage zeiss

and performs similarly

[jade jackal]

Yeah lots of cheap stuff is great, tho MFT is left behind on new glass

its no longer trendy enough to get fresh AF glass, unfortunately

i have bought a 35mm F2 AF lens for my fullframe system for like 120 dollars

Its a cheap toy i can allow myself to get a few times a year

[maiden widget]

isnt MFT kinda dead?

Olympus got sold off, panasonic does their own Mount now with others

[jade jackal]

We dont say MFT is dead, we just let it fully die and then say it without people preaching us about how its actually dead

[maiden widget]

[jade jackal]

But yeah, glass and body innovation is not great on MFT

[maiden widget]

I still think most people would probs be happier with MFT over their full frame setup

the quality is pretty great in my experience

[jade jackal]

If you do some research yeah, plenty of good stuff to pick from

400 euros on an E-M10 IV with 2 lenses is not a bad deal by any means

especially when social media has royally screwed the values of compact cameras

with their virality

[maiden widget]

ideally i'd have gone with an lx100 II but those dont exist here

so i got the next best thing 😄

[jade jackal]

LX100 II is a unicorn

[maiden widget]

my dad wanted a camera years ago and i got him the lx100 I, its such a great cam

[twilit mountain]

So things I have learned. 1) Arbiter is still broken and will spawn one shot mechanics off of your screen. 2) his mechanics will not render 100% of the time if you're on low settings. 3) his phase shifting is broken and he will spawn multiple mechanics at once. Great work GGG, amazing fight.

Dogshit fight, never doing this again til next league I play.

[fierce moth]

lol something about what will I want my home looks if I can own one. 100% day dream but I've enjoyed them for a while.

Houses/Apartments which only upper class can own I suppose

[desert jasper]

heh

[junior oyster]

Oof

[twilit mountain]

I just had to get lucky enough to phase skip for the fight to be tolerable 👍

[junior oyster]

Oh so you done? Was it uber?

[twilit mountain]

Not uber, I refuse to do that with the ability to just die without it being obvious error on my end.

[junior oyster]

I'm honestly kinda regretting going djinn build

I might have it built wrong or something

But the scaling is abysmal

Like kelari deception does 70k with each casts

And then you have 3 casts before cooldown

[twilit mountain]

So, this is gonna sound weird probably, that's good damage

[junior oyster]

Not against bosses though

[twilit mountain]

The numbers in PoE2 are way lower

[junior oyster]

This isn't even scaled up bosses. Bosses are on tier 0 lol

[twilit mountain]

And anything over 1mil basically doesn't exist because bosses just DR their way through it

[maiden widget]

@jade jackal got any experience with the cheapo 40-150mm? saw that relatively cheap as well

[twilit mountain]

Like, I have 100k damage from Living Bomb, and it's level 27 lol

[jade jackal]

I do, its... its what it is. its a cheap telezoom

[maiden widget]

sounds like i probably want to spend a bit more then, wasnt too happy with them in the past

[twilit mountain]

That's so hot

[ebon meadow]

The carpintery work on those pictures is basically what I do , fabrication not installation lol

[junior oyster]

Isn't that huge damage though?

[twilit mountain]

I'm geared to the teeth

[sudden anchor]

nice! you could build a cozy ome yourself

[junior oyster]

Yea that's fair lol

[jade jackal]

im very biased towards heavier investments in that area. my MFT zooms are all F2.8 stabilized units with higher price tags

[twilit mountain]

My weapon is like 5-10d or more, my helmet is 5d, my off-hand is 2d, my gloves were 7d (down to 2.5d now), my boots are 3d, each of my jewels is like 3d, rings are somewhere from 2 to 5d each, my amulet is 10d+, etc etc, I am absolutely juiced right now

If I wasn't doing damage there'd be a huge issue

[maiden widget]

makes sense for teles, i found cheap primes usable but more tele lenses are a different beast

[junior oyster]

Damn I've spent less than 2d on my build so far xD

https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/13b17

[sudden anchor]

do offands not scale tat well? I imaine weapon ives te most increase, tats wy rare stuff is so expensive?

[twilit mountain]

Holy based, trenchtimbre

[junior oyster]

It's either that or a wand with gain lightning damage for 7% more damage

I'm too dumb to think of anything else to replace trench with xD

[twilit mountain]

Off-hand prices scale depending on what it is you need from them. For me I pay a premium because I need a specific sceptre base with high spirit on it.

[junior oyster]

Could go more defensive with a shield instead

So sceptre + shield

[twilit mountain]

You can't dual-sceptre can you?

[junior oyster]

I wish I could lol

But no

[twilit mountain]

Dogshit game smh

[junior oyster]

Imagine having +10 to minions just from sceptres xD

I do wish I could test out that one rune but once I make some money I'll buy and try it out

[twilit mountain]

Which one?

[junior oyster]

Uh the one that goes gain damage of all elements or something

[twilit mountain]

Ahh. Saqawal one. I like that one.

[junior oyster]

I don't think it'll work

[twilit mountain]

It's pretty funny on thorns builds

[junior oyster]

But if it does I get 7% more damage with living lightning joining the team

If it doesn't then money wasted 😂

[twilit mountain]

At least it's recoverable amount once you get to consistent farming

[junior oyster]

Probably but if I do t14/t15s I'm not going to 6 mods for sure

Probably 3 mods until I get CI and feel more comfortable

[jovial bane]

007 game got delayed to May

Guess I no longer have to choose between LE season and 007

[junior oyster]

Isn't LE in march?

[twilit mountain]

Yeah 6 mod maps are brutal until you're well geared

[jovial bane]

yep, and 007 was to be to relased in march as well

roughly same week as well

[twilit mountain]

Okay well, ring upgrade at least. Took a few gambles.

[jovial bane]

is remnants line relevant ?

[twilit mountain]

Yep

[jovial bane]

great then

[twilit mountain]

That's my source of mana recovery

Every mod on that ring is relevant for me

[cosmic bronze]

so this is what happens when you glitch trying to enter a rift

[junior oyster]

Slay the spire 2 releases in March xD

Depending on which game releases first I might not play LE for a while

[gilded elm]

007 looks like a flop

[jovial bane]

I don't think that's wrong

[twilit mountain]

It do be a game which I have negative interest in

[jovial bane]

But so do Hitman games tbh

IO games have that ... jank

Their strength is really the level design and freedom of approach to the goal

[gilded elm]

I don't play Hitman games, but they do have renown. I don't think this 007 game will reach those heights.

[desert jasper]

Pls
I need more path tiles

[jovial bane]

IDK, Hitman games are niche to begin with

I don't think 007 will have mainstream appeal, I kind of expect it to be "uglier" Indiana Jones

hopefully

[ebon meadow]

Pretty much ,I have plumber degree and I have worked on construction . Only electrical I don't want to touch lol I respect it to much and we don't go together well

[junior oyster]

Not done this mechanic at all so far

Is it profitable?

[gilded elm]

As a Steam Deck owner, I need this right meow. I already know this is going to be a great controller.

[junior oyster]

Me too but whether it's great or not is up for debate

I am hoping it does be great though

[gilded elm]

The Steam Deck's layout itself could use improvements, but overall I t hink they really nailed the hand-held experience. I have complete confidence that this controller represents the pinnacle of lessons they learned.

[ebon meadow]

Xbox shaped lah ,where did old DualShock 2 design went ? Was such a good shape controller

[gilded elm]

It was necessary for the trackpads, which btw are very important and useful.

[ebon meadow]

Did they get good ? PlayStation 4 they were Caine of bad and useless

[twilit mountain]

Sort of. It's a huge pain to do and very unclear on how everything works, and takes really long.

[gilded elm]

DualShock/DualSense trackpads are terrible.

[jade jackal]

The trackpads might convert me into actually using a controller

[gilded elm]

The technology is fine, the layout of the trackpad is awful for PS controllers.

[junior oyster]

I'm honestly lowkey annoyed chaos trials haven't dropped for me so far lol

[ebon meadow]

Hmm so they are good then

I always wanted a heavy duty joysticks for me I hammered them so much

[gilded elm]

The way the Steam Deck does trackpads is very good and this new Steam Controller follows a very similar approach to the Steam Deck layout.

[ebon meadow]

That's probably only thing I ask from controllers

[jovial bane]

I want it, I hope it won't be too expensive

[ebon meadow]

Probably defenetly over 65$

[gilded elm]

Based on how much they sell even the Steam Deck Docking Station for... I'm guessing this will be around $60-$80

[jovial bane]

140$ is the price that would make me go OOOF

[ebon meadow]

That's a decent price still

[jovial bane]

so I'd take 80 quite easily

[ebon meadow]

Yea something over 110 is just ...bro...

[gilded elm]

I think they will specifically not want to be breaking the $100 barrier.

For a controller

But at the same time, I could also see them going over $100 because of the cost of similar "elite" or "pro" controllers from competitors like Xbox and Sony who sell $150-$200 controllers.

[jovial bane]

I just want a decent controller, I have switch pro one and ... I'm not exactly happy with it

[maiden widget]

with 8bitdo and anbernic selling really good controllers at 18/35€ its kind of a hard sell to go way above now

[jovial bane]

it's not bad, just compatibility and not turning off I feel are my two gripes

[ebon meadow]

I want to get another controller for pc again some games I just like to chill from far in the chair or sofa

[twilit mountain]

I'm just planning to get a custom controller eventually.

[gilded elm]

Yeah but I do wonder on the quality of 8bitdo, like there's a pretty big gap in joystick longevity among controllers because the cost dictates quality heavily.

Also I think the new Steam Controller has haptics and gyro, same as the Steam Deck.

These are not cheap technologies

[junior oyster]

From ultimatum lol

[twilit mountain]

We take those Fane

[ebon meadow]

Tink

[junior oyster]

Hey I'm not one to complain

Back in s0 I dropped a 98% adorned from first trialmaster kill

[twilit mountain]

I still have perfects as a tink in my filter, they're like 60ex/15-20c (you can overcharge for some reason) a pop, money's money

xddBusiness

[junior oyster]

I need to open up a slot on srs but yea I'd sell em otherwise

[jovial bane]

Also TMR thumbsticks. I've skimmed a bit about the technology, and apparently it's a nms thin layer of isolator between the conductors. That sounds to me like technology requiring pretty high vacuum

[maiden widget]

they use the good ones, even anbernic does

[gilded elm]

High quality thumbsticks, very good haptics and gyro. Usually companies are cutting cost on one or more of these (like Xbox and PS controller haptics are not that great, PS is on the better end overall)

[jovial bane]

It will definitely be the premium controller compared to xbox/ps ones

[twilit mountain]

This shape would drive me crazy ngl

[gilded elm]

Ever used a Steam Deck? I imagine it would feel similar to that, generally.

[ebon meadow]

Pretty much yep ,way to bulky and I have decently big hands xdd

[fierce moth]

why 2 mini panels near sticks?

[ebon meadow]

Always get my thumb cramped after few hours

[gilded elm]

Trackpads, they're very good

[twilit mountain]

Nope, but I already have issues with Xbox controllers and this is just that but bulkier

[ebon meadow]

Basically a in build mouse

[twilit mountain]

Ah see

[gilded elm]

Yeah, bulkiness can do that. It's really a matter of how well you can grip it and hold it for long periods of time. The Steam Deck has nailed that design pretty well.

It has to feel good to hold, regardless of bulk.

[maiden widget]

requires medium-large to large hands to be comfy

its right on the edge of being too bulky for me too

but its fine

[gilded elm]

My only gripe with the Steam Deck layout is that L1 and R1 don't feel good in terms of position.

[twilit mountain]

I have long hands

[junior oyster]

Well rip

[gilded elm]

I often map L4 -> L1 and R4 -> R1 because it feels better.

[maiden widget]

had the first steam controller so not that convinced of the shape theyve shown

[jovial bane]

yeah, I never take that mod

[gilded elm]

Yeah, the first Steam Controller was basically just an experiment that would eventually lead Valve down the path to creating the Steam Deck itself.

[jovial bane]

it's afaik the worst you can possibly pick

[junior oyster]

Yea never again lol

[gilded elm]

The way I see the new Steam Controller is that it's the cultivation of all the lessons Valve learned from the Steam Deck.

[ebon meadow]

I have long fingers xdd

[junior oyster]

Boo

[ebon meadow]

And 360 controller was already to bulky for me

[junior oyster]

Tbf I don't think I'm ready for trial of chaos anyway

The bleed bird nearly killed me earlier too

[gilded elm]

On the topic of good L1/R1 design, I think the DualShock/DualSense controllers actually nailed this perfectly. Four fingers resting on the top buttons on a PS5 controller feels very good.

[twilit mountain]

Oh hey similar here. Mine look shorter than they are because I have a lot of... uh, webbing I guess is the best way I can explain it. That fleshy bits between your fingers. Makes my palms look considerably larger than they are.

[jovial bane]

I know I have to redo my build, because trialmaster 1HKO me from 100 to 0 with his spear throw

I have too much armor, me thinks

[twilit mountain]

Average phys hit in PoE2:

[jovial bane]

it's so stupid that the primary layer of physical defense in poe2 gets worse the more damage you take

[gilded elm]

But four fingers resting on the top buttons of a Steam Deck doesn't feel as good (maybe my hands are on the smaller side?) so I use the back buttons instead of L1/R1.

[twilit mountain]

I miss 100% phys taken as ele Transcendence gaming

[maiden widget]

resting 2 fingers per hand ontop always felt weird to me

gamecube was peak controller design for me

[gilded elm]

It's just the logical choice for peak efficiency

And on the PS5 controller it actually feels good to me to do so

Especially games that basically require simultaneous use of both sticks, it makes more sense

[maiden widget]

look at this badboy

[junior oyster]

Shit absolutely stomped bahlak

[gilded elm]

Nintendo had some funky controller ideas, I'll give them that lol

[maiden widget]

i still like the specific layout for buttons instead of just a cross

kinda felt cool that they tried to map auxiliary stuff to the smaller side buttons

[gilded elm]

GameCube, N64, Wii ... they did a lot of experimenting

Kinda miss those days

[ebon meadow]

I mean I remember Nintendo 64 controller and how I handled it and how it should be held and played were way different

Right held as a keyboard was weird to see when I seen pros playing

Sorry I mean the NES one lol

[junior oyster]

Damn it none of these are nice lol

[fierce moth]

1st annulment orb, cool

[jovial bane]

either chaos if you have lots of chaos res

or defenses

[junior oyster]

0 chaos res

And only 4k es

[jovial bane]

then defenses, the rest is worse

at least I think chaos is worse with no res, because the last one is one of the worst as well

[gilded elm]

Wasn't expecting to see that when I opened up Hacker News for the day lol

[junior oyster]

I'm done xD

[maiden widget]

saw ai bros reintroducing xml as "pml" yesterday that was enough tech news for me

[jade jackal]

deploy the chokeslams

[junior oyster]

Wth lol

And the other one is 62c

Damn

Was expecting like 20-30c each

[gilded elm]

Oh, Prompt Markup Language (or PromptML specifically). Looks like it's a programming language built as a DSL, so it does technically do a lot more than XML (and does things that XML can't).

It's technically code, not data.

[maiden widget]

meh

[jovial bane]

echh my helmet is good safe for the bad base

I guess I should just buy one :/

[twilit mountain]

People really hate running multiple times, and for some reason they're weighted so one of them is WAY more rare than the other two

[junior oyster]

Nah they all about the same price

Unless you argue one being about 6-7ex is a lot

Oh I thought you were talking about price lol

Yea victorious is a lot less common

Almost at 5k though once I take CI, I won't get the benefit of 5% life converted to ES xD

[twilit mountain]

Actually, you will

The conversion is applied before CI

[junior oyster]

I don't know how I do it but sometimes when I roll in the soulcore room I'm able to re-use the same soulcore

I'm aware of the bug

But I can't always figure it out xD

[ebon meadow]

Recorded it if u can then rewatch

And also report the bug "innocent"

[junior oyster]

It's a bug since poe2 released lol

[jovial bane]

luckily the helmet replacement was just 30 ex

[gilded elm]

Made me chuckle.

[junior oyster]

Ok you know what I can't wait to go CI so gunna remove minion crit chance and go CI 😂

[junior oyster]

Not sure I do tbqh

[twilit mountain]

Oh shit, maybe they nuked that

[junior oyster]

Yea probably lol

Unless somehow I'm making a blunder here but nothing else has changed

[twilit mountain]

Ah yeah they did

[junior oyster]

Only removed these nodes xD

[twilit mountain]

That's cringe, why'd they remove it :/

[junior oyster]

Cuz it's a bug and not a feature xD

[maiden widget]

cute thanks mr high heavens guy

[junior oyster]

Not a part of the vision

[twilit mountain]

Nah it wasn't a bug, they specifically called out as a change not a bug fix

Actual fun detected moment lmao

[junior oyster]

I know I'm joking

They delete builds that are fun/slightly op

Especially the showcased ones xD

[twilit mountain]

Real. Poor Dread gonna watch his build get deleted next league

[junior oyster]

Ok will see how good/bad I am with CI

[fierce moth]

yooooo I win the gamble again. Spent 1d to buy that, original amulet without es

[twilit mountain]

Why did you spend a divine on that without ES on it....

Someone else check me on this, Lich doesn't really need to care about their lfie total no??

@warped wren pinging you because I'm pretty sure you know more on Lich than I do still

[warped wren]

The only thing making it worth a div is the +2 spells, maybe

Life, mana regen, armor are useless

[fierce moth]

! hold on. Damn I forget I have zero mana regen regardless how much mana regen from my gears...

😅 ... Always forget the key

thanks Jesus I remember more life = more mana regen & es

[warped wren]

sort of do, but not on an amulet prefix that's for sure

[fierce moth]

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Fate of the Vaal/WvOMRgbzCm

It's fine, I'm not insane Amulet just expensive in general

1d is quite poor for the buget :(

I want +3 spell skills but I can't afford

[twilit mountain]

Untick maximum life.

You can get max life on almost any other piece of gear. You can't get ES on every other slot.

[warped wren]

Your ideal amulet wants %es + spirit OR flat ES + global defences mod from essence for prefixes

Life on amulet prefix is a total waste

[twilit mountain]

Mildly confused but shockingly high rolled ring anyone?

[junior oyster]

As a ci nerd that's not for me