📚┃off-topic

[vagrant topaz]

Thx team

[desert jasper]

Would've killed arakaali if she didn't have the phase change

[junior oyster]

Aww they get along. How sweet

[wanton sapphire]

Neow: I wana send endless hordes of people up the spire to beat up that nerd

NecroLady: I really really wana kill that nerd up there

Neow 🤝 NecroLady

[junior oyster]

And then there is the regent lol

[desert jasper]

Friend said he could buy sts2 for me
but turned him down
too busy with poe league

[placid yarrow]

Regent doesn't need to get along

[junior oyster]

Yea it's not like you are missing out on a mostly offline game

Btw I found out in mp you can pick anyone you want

Even if ends up being 4x silent or something

[desert jasper]

Hmmh
the wish on Varashta said "Regal Orbs"
it gave me 1 regal orb
that's not "regal orbs"

that's a regal orb

[maiden widget]

scammazled

[fierce moth]

good morning, new day is started :)

Sleep at 2:50+ but still wake up at this time. The power of sleeping schedule hhh

[gilded elm]

Played a couple hours of StS2 so far, it's fun.

433k concurrent right now is insane.

[gilded elm]

Not much on Twitch. Definitely reinforces how some games are enormously successful without having any significant Twitch footprint.

[gilded elm]

lol

Wow, very Disco Elysium-like

[fierce moth]

🤔 Time to take a visit in ShanXi museum & Taiyuan library

[gilded elm]

Digging the intro, especially ||the choices you have to make in the beginning before the opening scene||. Game is Esoteric Ebb, reminds me a lot of Disco Elysium.

[fierce moth]

Go on eating noodles 🍜

It worth ¥19, braised pork topping is 😋

(Think it's better to eat lunch before I go)

[fierce moth]

Very glad to visit ShanXi museum because I never see so many bronze vessels. The most common type is wine vessels, then is food containers, then is cooking tools. The least type is weapons. (They love wines so much)

The bird (picture 2) is one of core treasures which represent to this museum.

Ancient Chinese are quite good at different textures 🙏

[fierce moth]

Seems like I come to the commercial center of Taiyuan finally... This shopping malls is bigger than the last one I visited... WOW

Never see a supermarket in a shopping malls is open yet. I find one finally 😭

No monster energy and HK milk tea are available, but juices and wines are pretty various

So much food

Meat meat meat

[junior oyster]

I'll never have to watch the Avatar movies because of this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFE0L9slkoE

[jovial bane]

It's definitely influenced by it

But I think it's closer to Discworld the overall feeling wise, even writing wise

It's hard for me to describe, but it's not as sophisticated as Disco

[jovial bane]

dear lord, bronze wine vessel sounds like pain in the ass to move

it must be so heavy 😂

[desert jasper]

Nice, 2nd map

[fierce moth]

Cool, my xbox controller come back in my hands after waited 4 days

I can play a bit games tonight but I must go to bed early

It's what I need to do to complete the 1st time for taking high-speed rail alone tomorrow

Drink milk as water is a bit challenging for the capacity of my stomach tbh

[twilit mountain]

Ah dammit I still haven't gotten one for int

[fierce moth]

Bronze is the main material for ancient Chinese live in century 17-11 AC so...

Every bronze vessal I seen have slept under the soil for thousands of years

[jovial bane]

mmm, it must have been nicely preserved

makes sense, casting makes producing them very easy

even though bronze is expensive, and even back then it was hard to get

So probably part of it was showcasing the wealth ?

[fierce moth]

That was the golden era for bronze smelting and crafting so they're common

[jovial bane]

Where did they mine copper and tin ?
Probably all within China ? Or did they have to trade like Egypt/"Greek"/Hyttites ?

[fierce moth]

In the province I'm in now, ShanXi

It's ShanXi museum so it introduce the history of this province only

[desert jasper]

it was only 30c sadly

I swear if I lost my map to this dc

Didn't lose the map
But I did lose my mirage

[mental talon]

@junior oyster LOOK AT OUR BOY GO (I'm still playing POE right now)

[junior oyster]

I didn't think it'd still rise lol

[jovial bane]

sweet jesus

it beat Terraria , Schedule I, Helldivers 2 or Among Us at their peak

absolutely incredible for a roguelike

[junior oyster]

I think it helps because of the mp aspect?

But not sure how it beat hd2 though

Maybe the price?

I know poe has standalone client but damn

[junior oyster]

Btw where did you check that?

[jovial bane]

steamDB

Most played games, then sorted by all-time peak

[junior oyster]

Damn if it increases any furthur it's beating poe2

[twilit mountain]

The others are way cheaper afaik

[desert jasper]

Hmmh
Didn't expect that tbh
so many int supports that could be bad
already saw someone getting like
high impact mines on spectres

[twilit mountain]

Wha

How

It's only supposed to give you valid supports

[desert jasper]

Yeah

[pine summit]

i saw brutality on elemental hit

[desert jasper]

That's actually pretty hilarious

But I'd be mad if that happened to me

[twilit mountain]

Yeah, that happens

I'm just gonna chuck an int one at my Shock Nova and cry when it bricks

[desert jasper]

I'm hoping I'll hit melee splash on my holy strike eventually

And then I'll cry when I feel like I have to lvl a new one to try it again

[twilit mountain]

Real

I am in desperate need of moeny lmao

Also I hate the new atlas, I've decided on that

[desert jasper]

I managed to get a 30c trans gem in my merc lab
And yeah, I don't really like it myself either

[twilit mountain]

It just feels so tedious, right?

[desert jasper]

I've only ran like 5 or 6maps so far

But I hate having to find the unique maps on the atlas before being able to run them

[twilit mountain]

it isn't just unique maps

It's blighted maps, all fragment encounters, and every boss encounter as well

[desert jasper]

Yeah, seen a lot of people complain about invitations too

[twilit mountain]

Mmmmhm

[desert jasper]

But as I said, I'm only like 6 maps in
have to take a break now for cooking

[twilit mountain]

Oh I just got back from a like 3 hours break

[desert jasper]

Had a friend do surprise visit yesterday and dropped by with beer so I stayed up too late and played after she left

[twilit mountain]

Oh that's awesome, hope you had fun :D

[desert jasper]

Honeslty not a big fan of surprises
but I do like her company so it was okay
been friends for like... almost 20 years now?

[twilit mountain]

Gah damn

SOME MONEY!!!

[desert jasper]

Nice, what was on that thing?

[twilit mountain]

It was just some alright 5L arm/ES for a low level requirement

[desert jasper]

nice

[mental talon]

You know what. I aint complaining.

[twilit mountain]

Oh that's nice

[desert jasper]

Also found timeclasp and it instantly sold at 8c
I feel like I priced it too low tbh

[twilit mountain]

Timeclasp price varies on the rolls

I think it's high reduced duration = money?

[desert jasper]

Yeah

it was ... I think 13? reduced duration

[twilit mountain]

Hmmm... yeah Idk off the top of my head

[mental talon]

Woke up to some money, time to grab myself a Defiance of Destiny

[desert jasper]

I even checked the prices and there was one for cheaper and another at 77c for 16 hours

[twilit mountain]

I need like 7div :/

Just for two items

And uh, lemme tell ya, I really am not feeling those currency buffs much

Running red maps btw :/

[desert jasper]

I've got so many exalts already
and surprisingly much chaos
no divs though

[mental talon]

Soon™

[twilit mountain]

I deadass still feel like I'm playing 3.27

[desert jasper]

No free 6link 800 dps axes by lvl 70

[twilit mountain]

Ah good point, tree hasn't given me a damn thing

[desert jasper]

Yeah, only trash for me so far

Didn't even get a free stack of 20 divs from my only currency gift

[junior oyster]

Guess I gotta steal huh

[twilit mountain]

I'm going to kill

I can't use it

[abstract karma]

dang.. guy in guild got mageblood belt from seer >.> that luck 😄

[junior oyster]

Random bs go lol

Turns out stealing from merchant is quite good lol

I imagine it might get nerfed so you can only steal from your first merchant encounter

[desert jasper]

Wait
Even the itemized temple is behind atlas unlock? god
this really is the worst atlas

[twilit mountain]

Yeah. It's awful. I hate it so much.

5-ways? go find it. Temple? Go find it. Boss? Go find it. Unique map? Go find it. Blight map? Go find it lol

[desert jasper]

Too much poe2 influence

Ah well
I guess I should get back to grinding it out

And I really should read the map mods... insantly almost wiped myself to phys reflect

I guess i can just shove in phys to lightning support and do full lightning for a map

[warped wren]

This is actually crazy because I know people who had dropped more ex by white maps

[twilit mountain]

Don't worry! It's at 8ex now! (I got a gods damn eater shrine for it. It gave me 3.)

Exalts are worth less than 1c btw.

[warped wren]

ya both ex and chaos are quite common apparently

think I already got like 10c+ in campaign alone?

[twilit mountain]

T15s btw. 😭

[warped wren]

I'm just wondering what's gonna become the default low-value currency for trading. Because it won't be chaos at this rate

[ebon meadow]

Well me an my new companion witch is my neighbour and friend ,have come for a beet to local elders centre witch had a very good food and pub .freaking amazing here lol

[desert jasper]

tier 4 currently

[ebon meadow]

I have never been here before just all the local workers told me to come for food

[twilit mountain]

You can take off 15 of those because I got a map with double exarch chaos altar.

[desert jasper]

[warped wren]

time to buy my BIS weapon

[desert jasper]

what's your bis wpn?

[warped wren]

foulborn Uul Netol's Kiss

with the 500% inc warcry cdr

got a lucky Bloodnotch drop from a7 boss of all things

and it rolled 1 off max

xddbusiness

[twilit mountain]

I have had zero luck 😭

[maiden widget]

They somehow really made the atlas worse for me

Mechanic also kinda boring

[twilit mountain]

I HAAAAATE THIIIIIIS SHIIIIIIIIT

[maiden widget]

Left side somewhere

It's the only one I could do

I can't even open the shitty unique keys I think

Or it was bugged yesterday

[twilit mountain]

It's somewhere in that blank space there

[desert jasper]

Ah, I did find the temple of azloatl

Luckily it's very close to the start

[warped wren]

do bottom left quadrant -> top right quadrant -> top left quadrant -> bottom right quadrant

this is exarch/eater -> shaper/elder -> incarnations -> maven

[twilit mountain]

Ano, I know what it is and how it works. I just hate it.

[desert jasper]

Man
had a map with "Contains many totems"
felt like half of them were the unkillable aura totems

[twilit mountain]

I just want to put the fkin thing in the device and go do it without having to path my ass around the atlas to do it, it's annoying and takes too long

[desert jasper]

ah great.
Lost another mirage with juicy ritual to crash

nvm

[desert jasper]

Woops almost ran another reflect map

[desert jasper]

Wait... Are maven invitations also something you need to find?

[maiden widget]

No you talk to kirac

[desert jasper]

oh thank god

[warped wren]

that hasn't been a thing for a while now

[desert jasper]

Well
Temple also wasn't something you'd need to find on the atlas before

[warped wren]

touche

[desert jasper]

So honestly I wouldn't have been surprised if they changed that too

Though I guess it was in the patch notes that kirac offers them

[neon sigil]

I like the new chalice weapon.

How's everyone's league starts?

[warped wren]

fabulous

[desert jasper]

Good
Apart from all the crashes

[twilit mountain]

Miserably, my luck is beyond garbage this start and I loathe the new atlas.

[neon sigil]

about to start maps here. Liking the new holy strike.
:v got lucky and dropped 2 divs during campaign

sad about the atlas tho, i've heard a lot of bad things

[twilit mountain]

I am in reds. It's unreal how bad my drops are.

[desert jasper]

Ah, another holy strike enjoyer

[twilit mountain]

Oh c'mon GGG. Why is that hidden in here too?

Also in case anyone was wondering; I'm looking at 8div for my uniques, not including jewels as that brings it up to another 8div or so.

[desert jasper]

What uniques are those?

[twilit mountain]

Foible and Anathema, jewels are Unnatural Instinct and preferably a lightning damage LOM but mana works too

[desert jasper]

Ah, foible
always fun

[ebon meadow]

The effect looks sick

[desert jasper]

Not gonna go for pledge of hands and get like 20 repeats of the cast?

[ebon meadow]

I have things for mtx . My wallet agrees

[neon sigil]

thanks man, it looks horrible on literally any other weapon tho xD

[twilit mountain]

I'm basically at cast speed cap. Also that shit's 20d.

[ebon meadow]

Poison two hander ,one day

[desert jasper]

Just farm one yourself
saw someone in global say he ran 100 sets and didn't get one

[twilit mountain]

I don't even have one set, no thanks

Also like

Lol. Farming something with reflect on a build that covers the entire arena

[desert jasper]

Exactly!
It would be a fun experience for all involved

[desert jasper]

Ah right
Need to actually sleep earlier today because I promised to help my sister with moving tomorrow

Oh great, it's supposed to rain at that time

[warped wren]

got bannerman up and running

this is some jank, but it is some insanely rewarding jank bro

[twilit mountain]

Honestly I think I'm close to calling it a league. I can't get drops to fix my build issues, the Atlas is genuinely sucking the fun out of the game for me, and I'm just not happy with the patch in general

[warped wren]

yeah I mean no point playing if you're not enjoying yourself

[twilit mountain]

Also I hate mirage. Rewards are abysmal and it just extends the map time dramatically. "The juice is in the copied mechanics" that's great, why does the Vruun inside a mirage have 4 times the health?

[violet zenith]

New song and album released from the arsenics (french girls only metal band).
My girlfriend did all the costumes beside the one on the lead singer when she has the blues hairs.
Enjoy !

https://youtu.be/tV0UD0as6lE?is=XBIkmbpY69SAF8K9

[mental talon]

My league start has been great I'm like 30-40 Div away from grabbing Mageblood and the rest of my gear is more than enough. Not bad

[warped wren]

What'd you start with?

KF?

[mental talon]

Earthshatter Berserker baby my tried and true

[warped wren]

I went ES too but on Champ

[mental talon]

Yeah it's just so easy progression and I've literally done it more times than I can count, I got a Karui Chopper, spammed some Deafening Contempt until I hit T1 Attack Speed and Crafted Phys and just blasted. Still trying to figure out what I'm gonna swap too after finishing my last few maps now that I'm done with Voidstones but figure I'll at least grab Megablood and figure it out from there

@warped wren Were you playing Bannerman Champ?

Or I guess are you playing Bannerman Champ lol

[warped wren]

Yep

Even after the nerfs the skill is so strong

And on bannerman it's basically the best option

[mental talon]

Yeah I mean the nerf was kinda like w.e. since ES is so insanely mathematically it needs like a 50% nerf for me to even think "Hmm might stick with Sunder" yeah Bannerman looks so damn clean God you must be fast as heck

[warped wren]

Extremely

Just need to get into thw rhythm of banner plonking

But it's such an absurd amount of free power

200%+ MS, 250%+ all ele res, suppress cap, maxed out accuracy for PT, 110%+ more damage, 10.5% life regen all from 2 banners

If I put down the 3rd banner it 65/65 block caps me and gives life gain on block

There's also a new runegraft this league that gives fortification on banner so that's a link / implicit / corruption freed up

[mental talon]

Damn you're almost tempting me to do some Bannerman thing now LMAO God damn it

[warped wren]

You could do it on Zerker but it would be annoying

Because you'd be forced into Perfidy

[mental talon]

Hell nah I have very little sanity and I'm trying to keep what's left of it.

[warped wren]

[mental talon]

I'll figure out some Bannerman thing to do later

[warped wren]

Hopefully some 5head makes Bloodsoaked Banner work

That'd be cool

[mental talon]

The numbers look good

Hmmm

[warped wren]

Maybe there's a way to improve its application rate

[mental talon]

I'll look into it later

[warped wren]

The numbers are fine, the issue is the once per second application

[mental talon]

Yeah I'll take a look at it later

[twilit mountain]

Coulda been worse

[desert jasper]

Easily could've been worse

[fierce moth]

Daily worship for pro's artworks 🙏
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rlQJWG

I'd like to find allies like them to walk and explore if a city have some

[fierce moth]

Ok I sit on my seat now

This train is aged

[fierce moth]

😂 alright ¥10 per bottle of water on train.

It's the most expensive water I have purchased

(¥4.5 per bottle of this brand only if I purchased that in shops)

[fierce moth]

1c, sunny day, no snow

I'm here :)

Damn it's quite colddddd

:(

The tower don't available for climbing up

Only ground floor is opening, so it's the most luxurious thing I can do.

Touch walls & wooden pillars.

[fierce moth]

@quaint forge I get more textures from real ancient architectures :)

Textures on wooden pillars of this wooden tower are interesting

I know how to make a wooden pillar more realistic with tracks of the time now

It have 24 pillars to support the roof on the ground floor.

I touched all of them one by one hhh

[placid yarrow]

Have you made sure to touch some grass too?

[fierce moth]

No grass here, sorry

Just purchased a 3d wooden puzzle (it's the final appearance) as the memorial item for this journey.

I will bring it back to home to play :)

[stone anvil]

wow, this is actually best puzzle

[junior oyster]

Reminds me of avatar the last airbender for some reason

Uhh I think the fire temple?

[stone anvil]

it really looks like building in avatar

[fierce moth]

Many photos for this wooden tower I captured.

This wooden tower is famous as the earliest wooden architecture in China. The structure of the roof support is complicated but tourists can't take a closer look unfortunately.

At last, my lunch. Tried 2 exclusive dishes once time, daoxiao noodles & guoyou pork.

[desert jasper]

That's a cool looking 3d puzzle, I'd do it

Btw
What's up with the map layouts this poe league?
It feels like they decided to bring out all the worst layouts possible

[fierce moth]

I'm sleepy on the chair of local train station now 🥱

This wooden tower located in a small county town so nothing can do after visited only 2 locations

I miss toffee I got from supermarket last night so much...

Want many skewers too.

Of course, after the nap.

16:30 now

Waiting this train to send me back to Taiyuan

[desert jasper]

Tbh I'm kinda feeling like rerolling
maybe doing that shocknova thingy

But I also don't really feel like grinding the currency for that 🤔

[twilit mountain]

It's fun but if you want it to be better than other Archmage builds you're kinda screwed cuz you'll need to get the most expensive support gem in the game

[desert jasper]

What's that?

[twilit mountain]

Greater Spell Echo is currently more expensive than even Awakened Enlighten

[desert jasper]

ah.

Well I'll just get pledge of hands :^) Surely I'll get it on first kill of atziri

[twilit mountain]

It's about a 1 in 200 rate from her

So

Ouch

(Also Uber Atziri not normal, even more ouch, get reflect immune or die)

[desert jasper]

🤔 According to wiki it's on normal

But yeah it's probably wrong

[twilit mountain]

Oh shit you're right sorry, I forgot they shuffled drops a decent way back

[desert jasper]

First merc lab I tried for the shocknova

[twilit mountain]

Well then lmao

[desert jasper]

Got the transmute to same gem thingy

[twilit mountain]

Ah yeah that'll do it

Oh sorry GSE is not slightly less than AWEN, and Congregation is now the most expensive by a factor of 200+ divines

[desert jasper]

Hmm... do I feel like starting it without foible 🤔

Ah right, I should probably get my 10c from ritual first and finish the alva temple so I can sell the tier 3 gem room

[twilit mountain]

Please trust me, get the foible first. it is a MASSIVE boost in damage, survival, and QOL

[desert jasper]

But... I'd have to get 3 dongs

[twilit mountain]

Getting those 3 dongs will make up for the deaths you will have without it

[desert jasper]

It's true

You're right, obviously

[twilit mountain]

I just got mine xdd

[desert jasper]

Better leave some for me

Okay, 1div got

[twilit mountain]

I traded in potentially like 40div to get it so, y'know. (I dropped a Flame and sold it unID)

[desert jasper]

ouch

[twilit mountain]

Oh

[desert jasper]

Unethical

[twilit mountain]

Those are my first div drops of the league. I'm at 171k kills 😭

[desert jasper]

89k for me

[desert jasper]

Seriously
Did they intentionally pick the worst map layouts
so many corridors

[twilit mountain]

It's so bad right?

[desert jasper]

Like this has to be intentional
They knew people would hate the atlas change so they put in bad maps too
just so it'll feel way better next league

[twilit mountain]

What's sending me is that most people really like the atlas changes?

[twilit mountain]

I don't know how

This shit is like, several times more unnecessary busywork just to play the game

"Oh I can just run whatever map I want!" Yeah? You could always do that?

[desert jasper]

Yea but you don't need to get that specific map to drop anymore

[twilit mountain]

Just slap a map in all your favored slots, you'll never run out

[vagrant topaz]

What about before you unlock thoses?

[twilit mountain]

That's called atlas progression. Nothing changed there.

[desert jasper]

I'd be fine with the atlas if you didn't need to find every single thing out there

[twilit mountain]

Well

No something changed, you have to manually select everything now

Which is

Annoying

[desert jasper]

God, this cursed thing...

Also you know what's annoying?
Running a tier 7 map
And what do the enemies drop? tier 2 or tier 1 maps

[twilit mountain]

By the time you have all your boss encounters and such right now you'd already have like 10-12 favored slots open on the old system

[twilit mountain]

That stops once you get a voidstone in that quadrant. But uh. Yeah the process sucks ass? You have to do all the Shaper guardians to be able to fight Shaper. And in a specific order.

You can't just get your frags off market and go kill him

Wanna run a Cortex? Either do all the memory maps or kill Uber Elder first lol

[desert jasper]

wait, in specific order?

what the f

[twilit mountain]

Yeah

It's dogshit

Well technically only two guardians at minimum, but again, you HAVE to do in the order they are laid out or you CANT ACCESS THE BOSS

[desert jasper]

Who designed that shit
Jonathan?

[twilit mountain]

Not a clue, it's horrifically clunky though

[maiden widget]

the neat part is you dont even know the order

so if you chase a craft in the wrong quadrant enjoy getting delayed

[twilit mountain]

It's just bad, and I will not be accepting other opinions on it

Oh also the best atlas strat is still just boxes.

Except now it's boxes but DOUBLED!!!!

[maiden widget]

and a tiny fraction harder

big new content

[twilit mountain]

I'm sure they put a lot of time into all this shit but it feels so lackluster to me

[desert jasper]

I wish my 9 exalt drops had been divs instead
but alas

[twilit mountain]

Exalts got moved down in tier so no longer losing a 50/50 when you see one

[desert jasper]

Ah didn't realize that
Also I should probably get to cooking some actual food
eh I'll do it after this map

[maiden widget]

I think poe just grows into a direction that wont be for me in the future - sucks but it is what it is

[desert jasper]

Ah dang
thought I saw foible in the ritual but it was one of them talismans instead

[twilit mountain]

Ah yeah those items that have been in for like a decade and have been good in exactly two leagues

[desert jasper]

wtf is this... hourglass event thing in mirage?

It's been slowly spinning for like 2-3 minutes

With like 1 monster spawning every 20seconsd or so

[twilit mountain]

Uh, I think that's the Kingsmarch dust thing. Try to kill shit around it, sometimes they spawn weird

[desert jasper]

Oh, think it's just dust indeed

It just wasn't clear at all

[hot crown]

...well... life happens, I guess...

Another loss in the family...

[desert jasper]

I'm sorry to hear that

[hot crown]

Grandma passed away.

And I was wondering why my stupid brain was throwing me like a goddamn ragdoll all over the place with a horrible sense of guilt like, "I definitely forgot something, I definitely hasn't done something I should have..."...

Guess it was a premonition after all.

Stupidly enough, I feel calmer than I normally should.

Can't tell if I'm that much of an asshole or if I've already made peace with the loss in advance...

[desert jasper]

I mean
I wouldn't be surprised if you just were a bit numb to it at the moment, considering the situation?
Doesn't make you an asshole

[jovial bane]

Yeah, when tragedy happens sometimes we wish we weren't powerless. Sadly at times we are, don't be too harsh on yourself.

[hot crown]

That's the thing... It's not the first time for me.

It's the third.

Fourth if I count my late MIL.

Almost every single time it's been like a steel ball dropping onto the sand feels-wise for me.

At least at first.

Probably my "safe mode" kicking in, I guess...

[desert jasper]

I don't think it makes you an asshole

[fierce moth]

indeed

no idea what back 1h mean

4h time jet only after dst ends?

[desert jasper]

So instead of 4am it would be 3am

When we change to summer time they change to winter time

[fierce moth]

hah... Almost forget it's summer for them. Damn it's quite cozy for summer

🙃 They still can enjoy 20c- for min and 25c- for max

30c+ is pretty easy for Guangzhou in summer

yes, but I still no idea what will it change for time jet

[desert jasper]

Europe is put 1hour ahead.
so just +1h

[fierce moth]

14h time jet before I remembered, so... time jet -1h when dst start and +1h when dst ends?... But it's for Northern Hemisphere only

quite troublesome...

[desert jasper]

It's +1 when dst starts

[fierce moth]

Southern hemisphere is on the opposite oh. Time jet +1h when -1h for Northern

[desert jasper]

Correct

[fierce moth]

+1h for your time so -1h for time jet yes

[twilit mountain]

heh

[fierce moth]

Texas's weather is quite good too. Guangzhou is trying to melt everybody

[desert jasper]

funneh number

[fierce moth]

20c- for March is very cozy

I prefer the weather keep 5-15c all the year

[desert jasper]

Gonna take me a while to get the 2 divs I still need for a foible

[fierce moth]

😵 I feel bad once I think I have to go back to adapt the weather that keep 20c+ all year

[maiden widget]

5-18°c would be so nice all year

[fierce moth]

0-10c all year will better but it's too strict I think

[desert jasper]

Would be bad for the crops

Among other things

[desert jasper]

Alas. didn't get the staff

And managed to smack myself once to the dmg reflect because holy strike does hit surprisingly large area

[twilit mountain]

Maxrolled, trust

[desert jasper]

Surely this can't be bad

There were no map bosses...

[desert jasper]

both rolled 7%, 8% is the max

[twilit mountain]

Damn, so close

[twilit mountain]

I will not be accepting other opinions on it

[vagrant topaz]

😏😏😏

[twilit mountain]

I wasn't joking, I'm going full egotistical mode on this. This system sucks, and I wholeheartedly believe that anyone saying otherwise is wrong.

[maiden widget]

People just ignore the bad cos it's new and shiny

[desert jasper]

Aaaa game crash during incursion

and another one in the same map
wtf

[twilit mountain]

Do you happen to have breaches in it?

[desert jasper]

Nope

Ritual, alva & jun

[twilit mountain]

Damn idk then

I've heard breach causing issues a lot

(None here, other than Vruun showing up like 4 times a map)

[desert jasper]

If it crashes more next map I'm just taking a break for the evening tbh

[twilit mountain]

GSE is an Uber Atziri drop btw

[desert jasper]

GSE?

ah, spell echo

[twilit mountain]

Yea

[desert jasper]

Np I'll just oneshot myself on her

[twilit mountain]

Most real thing you've ever said tbh

I'm hoping GSE price keeps going down. It's like 20d rn

[desert jasper]

What is this, actually all positive ventor's?

[twilit mountain]

If only the lightning were negative

High neg lightning with positive everything else is usually money

[desert jasper]

Yeah
I mean, I could still see someone use that

[desert jasper]

and I sometimes have my moments.
very rarely, but you know

Last league these were pretty decent money
Too bad it doesn't seem to be this league

[obtuse rune]

@fierce moth if you wish to continue the convo, this is a place a little bit more suited for it lol

I'm no artist and have a personal rule to keep my LinkedIn connections limited to people I’ve directly worked with. However, I've noted your eagerness to learn more about art

[fierce moth]

ok, sorry to hear that

[twilit mountain]

The only thing of value really are a few omens (trash to treasure, 6L, one other I forgot) and LOM which is mega gamble

[sand wigeon]

damn girl are you concrete because that’s pretty based

[warped wren]

I would be kinda surprised if it did ngl

That gem is so cracked

They literally took awakened spell echo and buffed it

Insane

[twilit mountain]

Well it was 55d yesterday so, I think it will settle soonish at probably 15ish maybe a bit lower

[desert jasper]

I kinda wanna play more but headache

[twilit mountain]

Imma be back on soonish, I was out grabbing stuff from the store and then I made a pizza and now I'm resting a bit cuz my back/shoulders are not having it today

[desert jasper]

I could go for some pizza tbh

[warped wren]

hmm do you recall the avg price of woke spell echo from prev leagues?

it might end up being a slight bit more than that IMO

[twilit mountain]

A lot more than that.

Someone wanna lend me 20d to get one? /s

[junior oyster]

Damn patch notes go all the way back to feb 2023

[desert jasper]

Sure, I got 20d just for that purpose. Yup

[twilit mountain]

Sweet just put them in my mailbox xdd

[desert jasper]

I hope i'll actually get some div drops tomorrow

[warped wren]

I got one last night but just bing chilling blasting rn

I suppose I should try to craft a large cluster so I can ditch my mana flask xdd

[desert jasper]

I've been getting chaos consistently
so I could just hope I can farm enough of those before div go up in price

Maybe I'll go & get some fresh air and get some groceries while I'm at it
maybe it'll help with the headache

[desert jasper]

Oh yea
I did manage to go through all 10 rounds of ultimatum today in mirage
tbh would've failed it if it wasn't for the adrenaline

[twilit mountain]

Nice!

[desert jasper]

but sadly no good loot
no free divines

[desert jasper]

Imagine the day they make it so you can't get uber lab keys from anywhere else than trials

[warped wren]

I have 6m+ dps and only 2.9k health

I really should fix my defense

[sand wigeon]

my hands hurt

[fierce moth]

I never get up so early in a natural way for 4 years

😆 Go to travel alone is the best way to fix my sleep schedule, indeed...

Have been not want to sleep even it's 5:00 but now, I'm sleepy after 23:00 and I must go to bed after 0:00 because I'm too sleepy

[placid yarrow]

Say what now

[twilit mountain]

We got it

[warped wren]

[warped wren]

reaching new levels of broke

[fierce moth]

😅 what the hell...

[twilit mountain]

I'm down to 10c rn lmao

[fierce moth]

Tripo, are you serious?

[twilit mountain]

nvm, tree gave me a div

[fierce moth]

ok time to say goodbye to the hotel and Taiyuan, the city I lived for 4 days 👋

See you later, Taiyuan.

Next time I want to go to Datong, the other city in the same province 👀

[fierce moth]

Hi LinkedIn, I know I'm quiet this week...
Just spending a vocation.

I don't have contents to feed you if I can't feed myself

[fierce moth]

Start my 3h high-speed rail journey after 4 mins

This train is newer a lot :)

Oh I forget yesterday's train. Here we go

[stone anvil]

how was it

did you feel the speed

[fierce moth]

The only moment & 1st time to feel the speed is the night 3 days ago, when I taking a taxi to go back from Taiyuan ancient city

The train is 242km/h only, not fast enough

[fierce moth]

The train reached a station.
The 1st time:
a young man and a middle-aged man are left, replaced with the other young man and a young lady.

(I just want to see how people come and go. It's based on people who sit near me)

I walked around in different carriages just now, find a new thing, muted car.

I should purchased a ticket for that car instead of the normal car... So I can enjoy the peace.

Normal car can be noisy because people are allowed to chat or take calls or play videos by speakers.

[fierce moth]

The train reached a station again.
The 2nd time:
The young lady still here, young man is left. A seat is empty.

(I just want to see how people come and go. It's based on people who sit near me)

Time to eat my instant noodles as lunch too 🤔

[placid yarrow]

I want to do 5 tales captain again but I don't like the other factions as much and it's making me not want to commit. Sometimes I hate how much tunnel vision I have in games lol

I think icebloods will be fine

[gilded elm]

Dammit! I should never try actually gambling

[fierce moth]

The train reached a station again.
The 3rd time:
The young lady is left, a middle-aged man sit down. A seat is empty.

(I just want to see how people come and go. It's based on people who sit near me)

Good news is next station is my destination.
Xian, I'm coming.

[gilded elm]

Can't believe I never played the original game. Chill game with fun banter lol

Destroyed

[gilded elm]

lmao I love Strong Bad

[fierce moth]

Hah, huge difference on weather... 🥵

I want to jump in 13th immediately

Tomorrow is even more hot but my clothes are for 0-5c

[sand wigeon]

nah screw Poker Night at the Inventory hop on osu!

[stone anvil]

don't get burn

[desert jasper]

So apparently selling harbinger uniques to vendor gives you fracturing shards

They instantly went up in price

[fierce moth]

First impression for Xian: Much more people live in here than Taiyuan

First time to see a tap set like that

I never know I can know the water temperature when I'm taking a shower

The biggest complaint I have for this new hotel is the colour tempture of light in different areas are different + the light stripe just in front of me to I'm forced to see strong light

[fierce moth]

Just checked prices of tickets for locations in Xian, they're much more expensive than locations in Taiyuan

Wallet is bleeding 😅

Huaqing palace + Terracotta army museum = all locations I visited in Taiyuan

Tomorrow's plan:
Daming palace + drum & clock tower

[desert jasper]

Managed to get a foible for 1div

[fierce moth]

Go on be shocked by how big the size of bowl is

... No idea it's a big bowl of noodles before I ordered that

[jovial bane]

that's a big bowl

[fierce moth]

This meal 100% mean a carbohydrate bomb

That roujiamo is quite big too

I admit that noodles is more yummy than roujiamo because it's more juicy. Roujiamo is too dry

I'm too full. I need to take a long walk to disgust them

[desert jasper]

Man, I've been feeling weirdly dizzy the whole day

[twilit mountain]

Portal gem dealer here

[twilit mountain]

Make sure to drink water, move slow if you need to, don't be afraid to use wall/shelves/tables/etc as support if you need it (I have a lot of bouts of dizziness daily)

[desert jasper]

Yeah, I'm in the process of drinking water
moving around slowly feels worse than going at normal speed

First div drop of the league whoo

[twilit mountain]

Mm. That's fair, just take care of yourself mate.

[desert jasper]

Yeah, I'll do my best

Thank you

Also about to have some lunch too

[twilit mountain]

Lunch is good

Man I really need a MB, Brine King ain't doing shit

[desert jasper]

so close to greatness

[fierce moth]

Hhhhhhh just calculate how much money I need for a visit in huaqing palace, yes it can buy a 3a game

I want to watch a show so it'll a bit expensive in total

[twilit mountain]

I c urrently cover the entire Atziri arena

That's funny

[fierce moth]

Money that need for coming and backing is as expensive as that journey I had in wooden tower of Yingxuan

[fierce moth]

And I think 2 days I need for them

Alright, so time I can leave for Xian museum and small wild goose pagoda & big wild goose pagoda is poor

[desert jasper]

I'm surprised you're killing her, I guess you got reflect immunity

[twilit mountain]

I swapped a pantheon and one mastery. Took a small hit to damage for it but she's squishy so it's fine

[fierce moth]

I don't have enough time for walking on walls of the city :(

Poor time I can stay but too many locations I want to visit

😂 I find an interesting type of soda drink...

Sparkling lemonade? Ok, I'll grab one

375ml, I don't drink I can drink all tonight

[fierce moth]

The central of Xian is quite special

It's an iconic architecture represent to this city so... Lots of girls and boys are cosplaying and taking beautiful photos near here

It have been the capital of Tang dynasty so they're cosplaying citizens in that era

(this architecture calls clock tower)

⬆️ One of locations I'll visit tomorrow

Lots of photographers provide their services here too

I noticed cosplay services are high-end developed here too

[fierce moth]

I may be understand why Xian have a special nickname is a never-sleep city...

My Lord. Why night snacks are so overwhelming here... I hate I can eat nothing now 😭

Picture 1&2 show how passionate people for various night snacks. The video shows the passion of local food people have. They want to bring and share them with their families or friends.

[fierce moth]

quite tired. Back to hotel finally.

Tomorrow will be more tiring is what I'm sure because I know so many places waiting me to take a walk xd

[obtuse rune]

Get those steps in! Looked like a lot of fun

[junior oyster]

Invert bottle before opening😂

[fierce moth]

More fun come after 8h because I need to figure out which food I want to taste as my breakfast from zero 🫡

roujiamo is too full, too dry and too salty for my stomach so ❎

It's sleep time again...See you soon

[neon sigil]

my homebrew build has me hardstuck in t1 maps oof.

[vagrant topaz]

Oof

What skill are you playing ?

My objective for tonight is finishing A4 ^^

[junior oyster]

Finally got my win with necro

[desert jasper]

I've to say
circle with hands like that brings something very different to my mind...

[junior oyster]

Feels like a Terraria ref

[vagrant topaz]

I just crafted this in act4

Feels like it should be good for a while ^^

[junior oyster]

Self repair does things to a bot

[twilit mountain]

Gnarly leveling stick

[desert jasper]

What are you playing?

oh wait nvm I remember

I just kinda had a brainfart

[vagrant topaz]

Static Strike

Is that skill old ?

I am surprised there is no MTX for it

[desert jasper]

It is from 1.3
it's just not a very flashy skill, very little effect
Do you even get anything around your character when you've the buff?

[vagrant topaz]

My hands glow

[desert jasper]

Yeah
So they could do something like
Change that effect a little and maybe the beams

[vagrant topaz]

1.3 ????

That old ?

Jeez

[desert jasper]

And I've still never touched it

It's very hard to make good mtx for strike skills tbh
Mostly they just don't have that much effect going on

[vagrant topaz]

My main issue is the initial strike

The range is abysmal

But once you get it

Its really noice

[desert jasper]

I think Infernal Blow has nothing either and it's been in the game since 0.8.6

That one could have something like the explosion having an effect

Tbh I tried playing that one time
I think I made it to blood aqueducts and was so bored ot if that I just rolled something else instead
and it was my league start

[twilit mountain]

It has been very clunky and underpowered for a long time, it mostly is a trigger skill

[junior oyster]

Damn nearly a turn two kill

The claw is law

[warped wren]

Apparently people are actually using it this league

Due to the range and frequency buff I guess

[twilit mountain]

For non-transfigured it's just shockwave moment really

[warped wren]

ya

for free clear

I guess you just link it with shockwave, cull, and whatever other utility link (pcoc perhaps)

[neon sigil]

Holy strike.
Also found out why my dps was so low.

Holystrike only attacks when you attack but it is limited by minion attack speed. So you need to scale both

[neon sigil]

Lmk if you need any leveling gear vlad

[desert jasper]

The node that makes your attack speed scale on minion attackspeed is helpful

[ebon meadow]

I am still need to do my first lab to xdd I am taking it very very slow this league launch after seeing server issues and things

[twilit mountain]

Spiritual Command!

[ebon meadow]

Just take it chill god knows how long the league will last

[neon sigil]

Yeah, sad thing is regular attack speed on gear is still a dead stat with holy strike

[ebon meadow]

Most memes node on tree for ages ,spiritual command . " Am I a minion ,is Minion me ? "

[desert jasper]

They seem moslty fixed now.

[ebon meadow]

It wasn't an issue with the node it's people reading comprehension

[twilit mountain]

What?

[ebon meadow]

It's funny because now I see the same question with tottems this league

[twilit mountain]

I have never seen a single person who thought minions might be "them"

[junior oyster]

@mental talon thought I'd ping you to let you see my defect deck a bit up in the chat 🔥

[ebon meadow]

People reading and having an issue to understand what they are reading , it's kind of simple ...

[vagrant topaz]

Thx 😁

[ebon meadow]

U d be surprised

[twilit mountain]

Wait why am I speaking to you, you don't speak English

[ebon meadow]

Example is people asking if the minions hit do u get the benefits from they hit

[ebon meadow]

Nahh I am a troglodite

I don't speak I use my hands

[desert jasper]

That doesn't mean they thought they are the minion or that the minion is them

[ebon meadow]

Don't need to white cape anything it was an issue for almost 2 years and people not understanding how the passive node worked

[desert jasper]

Some games just straight up make it so your minions proc all the on hit stuff so they might just be used to different mechanics.

Literally never seen people think that. And I've played the game since 2013

I sometimes do see ppl asking about traps though
If they can leech life for you
but even that is only a few times / year

[vagrant topaz]

Does the aura get Added Chaos ?

[neon sigil]

The attack does the aura does not

[vagrant topaz]

Sadge

[vagrant topaz]

I feel like the dps meter is baiting me with Attack Speed

AS doesnt scale the frequency right ?

Does CDRS (if I can find some somewhere) scale beam frequency ?

[twilit mountain]

I wish I could help you but I don't know Static well enough, I'm sorry

[vagrant topaz]

Ah 😅

I was hoping you would know

^^

[twilit mountain]

I'll take a look around wikis to see if anything is there

It doesn't seem like it is affected by CDR but if you can get more quality that will help a little bit. And duration makes them last longer ofc.

[warped wren]

ingame tooltip is omega unreliable

[warped wren]

it does not

[vagrant topaz]

Anyone know where you get the keys for that ?

[warped wren]

no idea lol

never been there ever since they added them

[neon sigil]

new jewel tech

refracting fog + fracture lets you get cluster jewel mods from different cluster types

[twilit mountain]

Yep, this was a pretty big part of the reveal

[warped wren]

ya it's pretty cracked lol

[fierce moth]

Keep the ac 18c but after I took a sleep and checked it again, the tempture of my room is... 25c

As equal as I don't open ac and the room feels so hot

lol 27c after I open the curtain and the window

[desert jasper]

they're from random chests in the area
like those white small chests, not strongboxes

[fierce moth]

...No cool wind from AC because all AC in this hotel provide hot air only

Open windows is the only way to cool down

... Very northern, alright

[placid yarrow]

That sucks lol

For the longest time my parents had no ac in their house and my room is in such a crazy bad spot with windows in just the right places to make it as warm as possible that it once reached almost 50c

I just slept in the living room x)

Now even with the AC on and the rest of the house at a good temp my room will still get uncomfortably hot since the AC units are on the opposite side of the house. But at least it's liveable lmao

[desert jasper]

Yeah
Also not a good idea to open the curtains when sun is shining directly in there unless you want to warm it up

[vagrant topaz]

💀

Good news, I am in act 7

Bad news, its 2 am and I have to get up in 4h30

[proven hatch]

Good News for UK gamers at last.. class action against sony PlayStation store ,in the UK, by alex neill .... arguemnt is they have monopoly & charge excessive amounts (+30%) .."if" it wins roughly £2bn is split between all players, so roughly £160 each

[desert jasper]

Somebody in UK also sued valve for that same thing... and now your performing right society is also sueing valve for the games that have music in them...

Also 30% is the standard

[fierce moth]

Donkey cake, yes it's donkey meat. It's salty of course.

why breakfast in Xian remain noodles only... I'm afraid of overwhelming big bowls so I don't want to eat them until lunch

I want to find something watery to balance the dry and the wet but I can find nothing yet

I consider to drink milk tea in morning even...

[fierce moth]

Alright I find a street food restaurant sells watery breakfast after drunk about 200ml iced matcha milk

Hulatang is quite hard to find but dumplings, porridge, hot soy milk, different big bowl noodles are very common

I can start my today's visit 🫡

Drum tower + bell tower combo ticket, -50 RMB

Go to bell tower at first

[warped wren]

I know this is supposed to be off topic, but it's so dumb to glance at this channel and be treated to a personal lifestyle blog that no one asked for, no one participates in, and no one is interested in

[gilded elm]

Brutal, though I feel I'm guilty of this with gaming and sometimes other things too. That said, there's more than one reason I chose to /ignore and this was one of them, yeah.

[warped wren]

(and yes I've hit ignore now but it's just annoying as all hell and really shouldn't be a thing)

[gilded elm]

If it were me, I definitely don't want to be coddled. But I guess it also depends on who's actually speaking. In general though, I prefer the brutal honesty.

[warped wren]

idc bro I am only a parent to one child

definitely not to any adult

[gilded elm]

Almost read that as "(the) only parent" :P

[desert jasper]

yup

[gilded elm]

Ooh new Sseth video :D

[warped wren]

time to bank this while I collect funds for the next steps

[gilded elm]

Interesting, Dragonkin managed to get up to 85% recent positive, been avoiding buying it while it was in "Mixed" limbo. Might have to check it out soo.

[desert jasper]

[vagrant topaz]

Would that turn it off and on on stun?

[twilit mountain]

It would turn it on. You can't turn RF off. It turns off when you hit 1 life or you leave the area, or unsocket it.

[vagrant topaz]

Oh

That would have been funny 😅

Flickeous Fire nightclub edition

[desert jasper]

You can also disable the effect of RF with a flask that removes burning

It's funny every now and then on the forums someone wondering why his RF stopped working

Also manaman going at lvl 35 now, almost 1k mana already
but now I need to take a break

[vagrant topaz]

Oh you rerolled

Kinetic Fusillade Mana stacking ?

[desert jasper]

No
The new shock nova

[desert jasper]

While I do appreciate kinetic fusillade as a new skill
I don't realy enjoy any skill where you have to hit certain breakpoints for duration of skill

[twilit mountain]

Tips: AoE and cast speed are huge. Also, don't play crit, it's too expensive, just get Elemental Overload. Make sure to get an Eternal Blessing going; if you want damage pick Wrath or Zealotry, if you want survival pick Determination or Grace and grab bases that work with them. Eventually you will probably want to get about 50% block (both) and as much suppression as you can gather (use the keystone to make dex give suppress if you have to).

[desert jasper]

Got it
No auras, no survivability
Just get like a billion mana and laugh at their faces

[warped wren]

I know someone who's had 16 failed slams with imbue so far

[desert jasper]

Saw one kinetic fusillade get hit with increased duration

That has to feel so bad

[twilit mountain]

<@&1161418687471956101> Cyborg got phished

Proof

[desert jasper]

Yeah, I got the same and sent it to modmail

[vagrant topaz]

We are on it

[twilit mountain]

Preesh

[vagrant topaz]

Save our shatter Strike lord 🙏🙏🙏

[vagrant topaz]

"We"
Van is 😅
I am at work

[lean fiber]

We've got him taken care of until he secures his account

[twilit mountain]

Much appreciated, Derrick <3

[neon sigil]

I've been feeling kinda lonely in game this league. Tried joining a big guild but didn't really hit it off with anyone

[twilit mountain]

I'd offer to run some maps with ya but I'm on some boring shit lmao

[neon sigil]

it's all good man.
And damn that's a lot of essences. Cool rainbow tho

[desert jasper]

That's honestly very nice looking for so early in league

[twilit mountain]

we be essence farmin

[twilit mountain]

This is like... 20 maps

[desert jasper]

Tbh I haven't done any essence farming in ages

[twilit mountain]

I think it's actually closer 15 maps exactly (I go in batches of 20 and then liquidate)

[neon sigil]

anyone have the 5 socket bench craft by chance? trying to upgrade my 4link

[twilit mountain]

What bases are you using

[warped wren]

Can always join Ducks' discord

In game chat channel isn't super active but Discord is, so if you msg on Discord someone will help in game

Not a big server though, it's like maybe 20-30 active PoE players, of which ~10-15 are chatty

[neon sigil]

:v got it figured it out, and it was a unique base

[neon sigil]

that would be awesome, do you have a link?

[twilit mountain]

Ah damn. I have a pretty alright AR/ES 6L i was gonna offer you

[neon sigil]

oh I meant on my weapon, I could use an armour piece for sure.

:0 that would be awesome

[twilit mountain]

Pass the name homie

[neon sigil]

paperbaron

:D

let me finish this map rq

[warped wren]

Accept my friend request, will add you

[neon sigil]

added!

[sand wigeon]

uhhh i think my base is hidden king or smth idk

[twilit mountain]

20 maps. cant hold it all

About 1700c and 4d for the curious after full liquidation

[warped wren]

what are you running?

oh essences nvm

yeah essences are great fun

you doing Calci with Adaptation or without?

I have inevitably ended up doing a lot of calci for the last 3 leagues now

[twilit mountain]

I ignore Calci. Far faster to just do 3 essence, 1 adaptation, 1 ascent.

[warped wren]

hmmm

[twilit mountain]

Especially since I'm not juicing rare amount so I'd only get a handful off Calci for like 35c per scarab. The returns are bad, basically.

I just chucked extra points into boxes and scarab amount and some other stuff icr

[warped wren]

works for now

bangin' https://pobb.in/tAmd4bAYjAyP

I don't think I've ever played a build that's been this strong on this little investment

Mageblood tier speed to boot

🏃‍♂️‍➡️

[twilit mountain]

https://pobb.in/N7QUYRrpenb7
meanwhile, me and my 20ish divines in gems alone

[warped wren]

You can eat a bigger hit than me though

[twilit mountain]

You'd think so, you really would, but it's basically RNG on if Shaper nukes me from existence or not

My regen is broken in there, belt affixes don't get calced. Give it a custom 234% increased mana regen and 7.8% life per second

[warped wren]

You want a laugh?

Open my POB and untick "banner placed" in config

[twilit mountain]

LMAO

[warped wren]

This is why I need Warp runegraft asap

Another 30% protection from disaster

Because it affects the linger

[twilit mountain]

Oh it's only like... 8d

[warped wren]

only

I just need to level up so I can fit in Divine Flesh for more tonk

Damage is alright, just need some gem levels and quality and stuff

[twilit mountain]

I need to quality my gems, I'm missing almost 2mil DPS lol

[warped wren]

Ya none of mine are qualitied except ES

GCPs are bizarrely pricy

[twilit mountain]

They're kinda rare

And if you want to get quality without lab or releveling gems you need a lot of them

[warped wren]

My character is perfectly suited to labs but I'd rather eat sand than run multiple labs

[warped wren]

Also @lethal bane you should play this build, unironically

Since you're not allergic to clunk

[lethal bane]

Lmfao

[warped wren]

I've never played a build that rewards clunk more than this one

[lethal bane]

What makes it clunk?

[warped wren]

You have to keep putting down banners every couple seconds when mapping

Like, HAVE TO

And I do mean couple seconds quite literally, you can't go longer than once every 2s

[lethal bane]

Oh that's not so bad

You have a point, lol, I don't mind clunk

[warped wren]

It doesn't bother me because my mouse keys make it easy

But idk how it'd be on deck

But if you can manage it, it's the freeest character power imaginable

Like, +250% all ele res, 250%+ movespeed, 110% more damage, suppress cap, just from 2 banners

[desert jasper]

Finally playing Space Marine 2
It's been pretty good

[warped wren]

Add in the third and you get 65/65 block cap as well

[warped wren]

It's quite good, enjoy the show, visual treat of a game

[lethal bane]

Oh that's a ton

I might have to try this league

[desert jasper]

Yeah, so far it has also had very good performance
some annoying parts like the antenna stuff

[warped wren]

oh that mission

yeah that one was PAIN

it used to be even worse on launch, the bots COULD NOT manage

I think they improved a bit since

[desert jasper]

Yeah, friend said they've clearly improved stuff in the campaign

[gilded elm]

PoE? Not bad from my experience. There are definitely some builds that are cozier on the Deck, but in general for just blasting maps it's a decent experience, even if it's not as polished as PoE2's IMO.

[warped wren]

more the control scheme

like if you have a build that presses lots of buttons

[gilded elm]

Yeah, the lower the APM, the cozier the build is gonna feel on Deck. But button mapping is also very flexible on the Deck too and I actually find the back buttons really handy for those extra bindings too, but that's a very opinionated thing and I know those buttons aren't that used by most owners.

I love Steam Input

[junior oyster]

I don't play builds with lots of button presses on steamdeck

[gilded elm]

I don't play those builds even on PC

[junior oyster]

I'm glad Crate did autobuffs lol

I can somewhat play grim dawn with a controller now unless I go minions or piano build of sorts

[gilded elm]

You'd quickly run out of buttons if you tried to map every available slot in Grim Dawn, for sure

[junior oyster]

Damn got kinda lucky with the rare card I guess

Doesn't help that I bottom deck it lool

[gilded elm]

I got through act 1 and also managed to unlock the Regent. So, still super early lmao. It's a fun game though. I just gotta learn how to make good builds in games like these.

[junior oyster]

Hmm

[lethal bane]

What do you mean by bottom deck it?

Are you just getting unlucky with draws?

[junior oyster]

Combat 1 I bottom decked offering xD

[lethal bane]

I mean its the first combat, so that's usually fine enough if you play a bit conservatively to preserve HP

There's a lotta sick synergies going on

[junior oyster]

Oh yea I'm aware

Just found it funny

[jade jackal]

New D4 Armor looks surprisingly Last Epochy. Well, with a little more polish

[neon sigil]

oh? did d4 get an update?

[jade jackal]

Yeah, new season today

[neon sigil]

oh, shame I'm still playing poe

[jade jackal]

A very short 90 or so days bridge season into the next exp

[neon sigil]

huh so soul eater also scales the size of your holy strike minions

cool

[warped wren]

Lmao that's so funny

Makes sense though

Because it also works on stuff like Dom Blow sentinels

Or Bob

[twilit mountain]

Nother round of 20 done; 1700c, 3d. Investment; like 90c.

This is just off the essences, none of the extra stuff I have gotten

[neon sigil]

on the topic of funny, thanks to deias, I have 71% increased minion attack speed on my rings.
massive damage boost on holy strike.

just 4 more levels til I can use the dark monarch too

[warped wren]

Minions in demand this league

The last few leagues of qol changes + the new stuff this league really made them so much better

No more losing special spectres, no desecration pool shenanigans, no more AG loss

[neon sigil]

I just bought this for 1c

[warped wren]

Yeah not a lot of people use that

Giving up ammy slot is tough

[neon sigil]

true, I really want the max rolled ones. but they're going for like 80div

70 my bad

[twilit mountain]

That's hilarious, it is so easy to get those

[warped wren]

yeah that's not gonna sell lol

70d my hairy ass

[neon sigil]

yee, but everyone's pricing em like that lmao.
It may not sell but it's got sellers convinced.

[warped wren]

god why is Earthshatter such an obnoxiously good slam

nothing else comes close if you're hit based

even now, after all the nerfs

[neon sigil]

just hit 4 attacks per second with holy strike. woo.

[warped wren]

how big is the area those things hit in

[neon sigil]

pretty big, especially if you take that increased area node.

nothing like off-screen though

[twilit mountain]

I found a.... thing

[vagrant topaz]

To attacks against you ???

[twilit mountain]

Yeah, reflecting mist moment

[vagrant topaz]

Lol

Also

Thats a lot of Resists

[twilit mountain]

It's really funny.

Might be valuable I'm honestly not sure

[desert jasper]

Looks juicy

Also, holy sweep looks actually pretty fun

[sand wigeon]

103% cold res

the censored swear word

[neon sigil]

That's a lot of res, but also people go after - lightning res. I think you scored dude.

the added lightning damage tho hurts

[twilit mountain]

Armor stackers ain't gonna notice that at least

Or just full converters

[neon sigil]

👀 ye, but the people who use it use that one build where nearby enemies lightning res is equal to yours

[twilit mountain]

Yeah. The armor tackers.

[neon sigil]

oh yeah just looked it up. you're right

[twilit mountain]

I've done it on a low budget, it funny

[neon sigil]

btw, these new portals are getting kinda absurd

[jade jackal]

Visual noise is a GGG specialty

[exotic wave]

reminds me of those orbs from Jack and Daxter

[desert jasper]

That's just too much

[junior oyster]

Apokolips

Or however you spell darkseids' world lol

[neon sigil]

got my eight holy strike minions woo

[desert jasper]

Oh deer

I wish I was home and playing

[stone anvil]

@fierce moth do you have any photos from terracotta?

it's one of the most interesting historical discovery even they made a movie about it in The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon (old movie)

and they say every statues are indiviual and different, it's impressive work from back of time 🙂

[fierce moth]

Just met a Turkish and listened a bit free English comments for pit 1, the biggest one have found 😎
What an interesting experience is

[fierce moth]

Maybe videos + pictures are better

repaired warriors - video 1
Repairing warriors - video 2
Pit 2 - picture 3
Pit 3 - picture 4

[stone anvil]

and don't forget, they had colors back in the time and maybe they had armors and swords

or maybe holding flags, 2 swords, spears

horses too ❤️

[jovial bane]

so beautiful

[fierce moth]

Today will become the day that I spent the most money in Xian too

So I'm glad to know all locations I want to visit tomorrow are free

The cost as equal as purchased double 3a games in recent 2 days. Xian's local price as same as GuangZhou

[ebon meadow]

2_? Golden hands wilder I am going to hell for this

[fierce moth]

hah this is interesting because I drunk the lemonade one 2 night ago and think it's brwed drink I want to find

It's come back when I searching blood orange

[desert jasper]

Did Merc lab at lvl 62

[junior oyster]

Damn didn't think I'd see a DSPGaming and StS2 crossover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg2e0FV2gjU

[jovial bane]

their ginger beer is expensive, but very good

[gilded elm]

Our company deployed some huge cutting edge open weight models across our GPU infrastructure and we now have some kick ass models like GLM 5, MiniMax M2.5 and Kimi K2.5 on tap at work. This shit is actually so fun to toy around with at scale when you're not worried about paying out the ass lol

At this scale, with the things we have access to and at this cost, I'm becoming more and more convinced by the inevitability of LLMs augmenting tech workflows and quickly becoming a force multiplier among engineers who embrace it as a tool. It isn't really replacing engineers, but holy crap it sure as hell is amplifying productivity when used right.

The thing that I'm noticing is changing in the landscape wildly is that although the consumer market is suffering hard right now because of global hardware production shifting towards AI-driven incentives, the actual cost of inferencing at scale is going down rapidly. The cost of running these models is becoming very cheap very quickly which I think is going to drive faster adoption.

[silent steeple]

Pineapple and coconut is one interesting combination

[junior oyster]

One of my most liked flavours with one of my most disliked lol

[ebon meadow]

Crazy to think that there's same amount of HC characters compared to ssf HC lol HC players are different mind set

And I m guessing that this are numbers that are logged in or registered on poeninja

Poe 1 is a bit different currently

[silent steeple]

Damn theres another one

[desert jasper]

I still haven't played the first 2

Maybe eventually

[junior oyster]

I've never played any mh game

[ebon meadow]

Always heard good stuff about them never played my self neither

Should eventually try one now that I don't have my old pc and play everything Minecraft graphics XD

[silent steeple]

Its really fun with friends

But I dont understand why they're bringing out this game so quickly

Iirc the previous game just came out last year

[junior oyster]

Milking the franchise

[twilit mountain]

MHS2 was from 2021, mate

Stories and mainline series are entirely different games managed by different development teams.

[fierce moth]

Rob Pardo joined in GDC 2026 to share what he has learned about building games with the potential to last https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxvLyd4lKZM

The highlight is...lol it's the game team Bex in 🤔

GDC always appear on linkedin recently so it's time to learn anything new here

[desert jasper]

@twilit mountain How do you apply curses btw?
Not sure how many you're running but looking at Gorathas build he has 4 different ones and it seems manual cast?

[desert jasper]

First map with the manaman
Didn't read map mods
ofc it's ele reflect

[warped wren]

I figured out a way to make my char reflect immune

the only problem is I need to reroll with insanity essences

[desert jasper]

Yeah, I could be reflect immune with like mastery change + ring
or ring + pantheon?

But I'd rather not bother, you know?

Unless I wanna go & farm something like Atziri

[silent steeple]

Ah damn

I thought we could share links here

[hot crown]

...ok, my dreams have been rattling me lately...

[desert jasper]

I can't say I'm jealous of that
I've only had weird dreams but nothing spooky

[silent steeple]

Can u guys remember ur dreams?

I used to be able to remember my dreams vividly but not anymore

I wake up and only thing I can remember is going to bed previous night

[warped wren]

I'm mostly gonna be running 8mods so I'd rather just have it off my regex

[desert jasper]

I mostly remember them when they happen as I'm about to wake up

[desert jasper]

Yeah my mana man only got to maps earlier and I ran like 3 or 4 maps so far with him

[sharp crow]

A couple of my great friends and I are looking for one more player to round out our group... If you’re interested, send me a DM and I’ll happily tell you more about the campaigns we’ve prepared

[neon sigil]

it's pretty rare to remember them shortly after waking up for most people.
For me I'll have a good dream and I'll try to remember what it's about but the details quickly fade away

[hot crown]

I've written the latest one down...

[jovial bane]

sometimes I do, but at times I wish I did not lmao

[hot crown]

Apparently I was someone wearing a white robe with tiny orange specks, reviving someone whose heart flatlined by pressing my palm against the wall next to their supposed room. And someone else in the same attire next to me afterwards said that the person I saved is going to be alright now and I have a gift for doing what I did (as in healing people in such a manner).

No idea what that was supposed to mean...

[jovial bane]

no clue

my weirdest dream been, well

[hot crown]

But it does highlight my desire to have Healing Touch as a superpower...

[jovial bane]

I've been in a dream, I've realised I'm in a dream so I decided to mess around. Someone wasn't happy about that and tried to rein me in. So I've sabotaged those dreams on purpose

[fierce moth]

Quite interesting 🤔

Someone is catching up me or punishing me is the only theme of my dreams

[jovial bane]

I've tried Solasta 2 and I recommend skipping it for now

It's not bad, it has potential. But it feels like very early alpha

Game is in early access so that's kind of understandable, but on the other hand most games coming out in EA are in more advanced state usually

[ebon meadow]

And some games never leave EA for decades

I m still a bit angry that Rust is consideren a finished game

[jovial bane]

I don't think Solasta 2 will be stuck in EA hell, but that's a very fair assumption to make when purchasing EA game.

As in, judging the product by the current content and assuming it won't get meaningful content updates (but hoping it will)

[junior oyster]

523k players on sts2 currently

Damn was not expecting number going back up

[jovial bane]

I think it will for now, weekend is coming

But the numbers will likely fall down in ~2 weeks

[neon sigil]

I feel like that was solasta 1 for the entire dev cycle of solasta 1

[jovial bane]

I mean, not wrong depending on one's expectations x'D

Keep in mind I think it's alpha compared to Solasta 1, it's that undercooked

[abstract karma]

damn its me or steam gettings lately big bang from US and UK..

f.. corporates

[junior oyster]

On low ascensions who needs block

[twilit mountain]

I just use 3 and arcanist brand it

[desert jasper]

Ah yea that would make sense

Tbh I barely use my curse currently

Maybe I'll get around to fixing that stuff tomorrow

[gilded elm]

Guardsman Rates Jobs in Warhammer 40k: https://youtu.be/BS8hpUVeggc
I missed these videos lmao

[gilded elm]

@warped wren I was watching a Dr. K video where he mentions a fictional book called Shantaram from which he quotes "India is the only country with the 'honest bribe'" and I was wondering how true this is in India (despite the fictional classification of the book) https://youtu.be/bvVsnSku72s

Basically the idea that bribery isn't a moral failing, it's a social imperative

[warped wren]

Shantaram is an absolutely garbage portrayal of India in most scenarios, despite it's good writing, but in this instance it's fairly accurate

Institutional corruption is basically an accepted part of life

[gilded elm]

Jesus, so it's basically an institutional expectation, that's nuts

[warped wren]

ya it's the govt offloading responsibility to citizens, i.e. paying its employees a livable wage

recurring theme across much of the world tbh

[gilded elm]

It's like... tipping culture, but for the government lmao

[warped wren]

basically

except worse because now, if you don't tip, the worst you can expect isn't just saliva in your drink

it's a delayed visa, a lost passport, a denied driver's license

[gilded elm]

That's crazy. I know bribery is everywhere, but even in the US it's not nearly so blatant

[warped wren]

pretty insane yeah