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hidden heron
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But also just give jacked ladies easy as pie

fervent raptor
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afaik the stated reasons have mostly been around in game lore and voicing?

hidden heron
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the lore

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I mean I guess it's cute the Fighter has an adoptive father

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But outside that what character lore are we actually working with

clever widget
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Sorceress gets a lot of barks in Act 2 from being an exiled Maraketh

keen dagger
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I was really surprised by how few pieces of unique conversation the warrior got in a1

fervent raptor
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god I remember an interview about how they were planning on streamlining the campaign experience to make it less of a chore when you're playing it for the Nth time

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think about it a lot when I'm doing a whole bunch of pointless back-and-forth teleporting to talk to someone to advance the plot one space requiring me to talk to someone somewhere else

keen dagger
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I find it to be pretty smooth tbh

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lot of people you don't have to talk to

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they could make it more intuitive what you have to skip

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a2 definitely feels cumbersome though because of the caravan mechanic

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but I forgive it because that's one of the sickest hub areas in a game

clever widget
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I just find the A2 fetch quest to be a drag

fervent raptor
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mm, was actually thinking of the Hooded One routine in A1

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but also yeah A2 having to run to the map every time

keen dagger
fervent raptor
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run to the map to load this area to load into this area to run to a dude who tells you this is not the area you're looking for to run back to the caravan to run to the map to load a new area and finally load into a new area

keen dagger
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a3 is pretty smooth aside from the huge map sizes which they are fixing and holy shit PLEASE drop the sacrificial heart from Viper if you haven't found it yet oh my god

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I had to run Utzaal twice last time I did a3 to find it

fervent raptor
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A3 is nice except for trying to return to NPCs after portaling

clever widget
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My friend and I have also found A2 has a really weird issue where your connection starts stuttering until you get connection dropped

keen dagger
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oh yeah time travelling back is a pain

clever widget
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Happened a few times, including the defiler fight

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luckily Witch Hunter let me facetank that fight so the stuttering wasn't a problem

keen dagger
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the a2 defiler fight is a joke

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it has one dangerous move which is the fire breath and that's solved the way every other attack is solved by standing behind it

dapper tapir
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I wonder when Druid will be added

keen dagger
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sounds like it's next up

knotty glacier
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Well, now for hte painful thing

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Trying to replace all my gar with good starting 65 gear

keen dagger
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my advice is to drop a div

knotty glacier
knotty glacier
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There we go, resistances capped and most of my gear slots repalced/ugpraded

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havent touched my rings other htan to throw 2 exalts at one which slammed +11% resists and 16 strenght, so, lol

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that's actually useful

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and my amulet needs replacing, but i'll wait till i have more currency

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need faster booties too, only have 25% movespeed ones

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well, dont have chaos res capped, but otherwise

keen dagger
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bought this with block, damage, rage on hit, exalted rage on hit me

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pretty funny

knotty glacier
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Right now i'm just running sekehams to clear out a bunch of 2 asc barayas and get good relics so i can do mny 3rd asc

keen dagger
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i tried sekhema for 4th ascension and i dont think its even possible on this character unless i get crazy attack speed somehow

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melee & slow attacks does not work well when you're not supposed to get hit

knotty glacier
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Maybe, maybe not. I think there's ways to do it on warrior

keen dagger
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probably a real one handed build will have an easier time

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or if you're skipping the reduced attack speed damage nodes

knotty glacier
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Dunno, my last war build to do thigns was a magma block build

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so... It uh, blocked it's way through the tiral

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andm ade htings blow up

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Spearfield and Rake worked pretty wel to shred my way through

keen dagger
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yeah if you can keep your shield up the whole time that definitely works

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but I'm doing slams

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do you even use a mace for damage mainhand or do you use it as a stat stick

knotty glacier
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You dont actually keep your shield up all the time

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you parry with it

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And you're mostly using the mace asd a stat stick

fervent raptor
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it's very frustrating that the game is functionally unplayable for a good 10-15 minutes after starting it up

keen dagger
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You have an older PC?

fervent raptor
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I mean I guess you could say that - a 2080 and an overclocked 7700k running on an m.2

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by "functionally unplayable" I mean that both mobs and attack/effects are not consistently loading

keen dagger
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that's definitely better than what I have and I'm not having those issues for more than a second upon entering a map

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I do have gfx turned down to 0 though

keen dagger
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But like , it's cool that loading screens are shorter but it doesn't do much good if the stuff doesn't load in lol

hidden heron
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bwuh

keen dagger
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why do you bwuh?

slow jasper
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The .2 changes, I guess

hidden heron
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Barely parsing the changes and also a strange one to nerf, especially with it only working on so few abilities

fervent raptor
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So before you'd put it on some spell that sticks around a while and hits a million times for little to no damage

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Giving you free full Wither at all times

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This turns it more into a Chaos Ailment ala Shock

hidden heron
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I wanna say it was perfect for the totem but I guess it was too perfect, spamming Chaos Bolt to try and stack a debuff with such a short duration seems absolutely miserable

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Though it was also just a response to the way they word things, it's so very specific but also strange

knotty glacier
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Bleh. made it to endgame, i dont actualyl think i'm having fun with .2

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getting to endgame felt like a slog. Upgrading my gear and things feels like even more of a slog, sincei t's either g rind currecny, or... get lucky.

fervent raptor
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to compare it to Shock

hidden heron
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ooo Kay that's my bad 175% did seem like a lot

frigid kernel
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that withering touch looks super strong

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in poe1 it only works on attacks

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if i could withering touch a storm brand or somth that would pop OFF

hidden heron
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Chaos is just kind of in a weird spot? Like it's potent but the spell pool isn't awfully deep especially spells that cause 'hits' , but yeah it's on me for going off database nonsense

frigid kernel
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is there chance to poison/added chaos damage supports?

hidden heron
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Chaos Infusion patches that some, as do a few weird physical-mix talents

frigid kernel
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storm brand with this could be neat

hidden heron
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wait what's Storm Brand

keen dagger
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poe1 skill

fervent raptor
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Yeah for PoE2 you put Extraction Support on any spell to give it chaos damage

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But now they want the spell to hit for a reasonable amount to proc wither

hidden heron
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cursed game trying to make me pollute my witchery with other elements

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petition to make chaos infusion turn the spells purple

knotty glacier
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Patch also appears to be out

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YOu can see at a glacne what rarity sellers items are now!

keen dagger
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charm changes are big

knotty glacier
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game just feels slow and boggy on lightningazon

keen dagger
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my big hurdle right now is that holy shit why are greater jewelers so expensive

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3:1 div rn

slow jasper
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Probably because they're thr hardest to get, the one that matters the most, and the preceeding ones are redundant if you get one, iirc

keen dagger
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that's perfect

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greater is 4 slots. perfect is 5

knotty glacier
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I'm missing a huge amount of character power because I get don't have various gems to fill things out

fervent raptor
knotty glacier
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I meant bleedazon

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Just not very good clear, so it makes maps feel rpetty thick and rrisky

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It's not bad clear, but it's nto very fast either

fervent raptor
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I'd honestly be tempted to like, use Spiral Volley or something for clear?

knotty glacier
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But i dont want to play a bowazon, i wanna do stuff with spear and bleed. may be foolish or whatever, but like that's what i'm triyng ot do

fervent raptor
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I did mean for Bleed yeah

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Otherwise what, Whirlwind Lance is your only real projectile option?

knotty glacier
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Mm. Spearfield kidna sorta owrks

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and is acutally pretty potent

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but it's a whole thing

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tldr is i'm just not having fun, and it's a vicious feedback loop where icant eaisyl get the reosruces to try anotehr build

keen dagger
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idk I've been enjoying it

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it's definitely better than last time imo

knotty glacier
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It's worth listenign to the video, i think he's not mindnlessly bithcing, he's raising pretty good points

keen dagger
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you need to get 3 or 4 atlas points per corrupted area instead of just 2

keen dagger
knotty glacier
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That's totally fiar!

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I reallyt agree with his points about loot. For me it just feels bad at the moment, loot is low, which means repsecing is hard

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which chains into thigns feeling worse

keen dagger
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it was a fundamentally odd choice to take the opportunity of having less loot to make the amount of junk loot... exactly the same

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anakin padme meme
we're making poe2 to have a less overwhelming amount of loot.
so the loots gonna be better, right?

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...
right???

pine wedge
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Man, I love how good rogue leveling is in last epoch

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One of your earliest nodes is this

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I'm level 16 btw

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also

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Hello there

keen dagger
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fuck I need to decide what I'm gonna play

carmine rampart
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last epoch time 😌

keen dagger
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I think I'm just gonna do shape-shifting primalist

carmine rampart
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it do be the most interesting build in this game

pine wedge
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And into monos I go

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Playing Fire/Cold Heartseeker because it looks cool

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Also WASD is amazing

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makes stutter stepping so freaking easy

carmine rampart
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i'm excited to try wasd

keen dagger
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oh shit they stole wasd and the atlas?

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the fuck is poe2 gonna do

knotty glacier
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Improve, hopefully

cosmic owl
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I did a falconer last league

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But I got rapidly tired of the unceasing screech sound

knotty glacier
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I've started messing with this, but it's not grabbing me yet

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This being Last epoch

pine wedge
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what are you playing?

keen dagger
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tbh LE has a kinda slow start

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A1 is legitimately kinda meh

pine wedge
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First gamble of the cycle

knotty glacier
knotty glacier
pine wedge
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YESYESYESYES

keen dagger
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dont even read the text and i think the realm is restarting in 30 minutes

pine wedge
keen dagger
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acid flamsk πŸ™‚

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40 ex, almost enough to buy NOTHING

cosmic owl
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god rive feels good

keen dagger
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okay never mind i got it

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wait you can go above 85% maxres????

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i have become dummy thicc

pine wedge
keen dagger
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there is more work left to do...

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back 2 da forge

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i guess i can try taking off 5% regen on the chest and adding 5% max fire res

keen dagger
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alright 90% all ele res and the drain from berserk is sustainable

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wish list is now:

  • big jewelers orbs
  • quality up my gems
  • mana leech gloves or ring
  • moar chaos res
  • bigger hammer
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then this character is pretty much done

cosmic owl
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hnnnnrg

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t6 dot on a nemesis drop in chapter 3

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Then t6 + t7 inclass in chaper 5

keen dagger
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those are some hella drops for the campaign lmao

cosmic owl
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yea, the new nemesis system is pretty amazing

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Just empower them every time and the loot is insane

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I only just entered ch 8

cosmic owl
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wahaha

pine wedge
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Yeah the Nemesis are from last league and they're great

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I had a chest with a sealed T7 resist lol

pine wedge
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And into empowered monos we go!

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We are also crit immune and crit capped

keen dagger
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seems strong

pine wedge
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the build is feeling pretty good yeah!

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very softcore tho lol

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very easy to die if we get caught out without silver shroud/dusk shroud stacks

keen dagger
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tier 15 maps get

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still only have 10 atlas points lmao

keen dagger
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this build is feeling really solid into high maps. max block and 90% ele res just shrugs off so much especially when you have 4000 life for the rest of the damage to slam into

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the slow attack time is a bit of a pain but the clear is still reasonable and the bossing is amazing

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I can't really do temp chains maps but it's not like any build wants to do those

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I'm kinda annoyed they introduced cool mitigation layers on the smith and lich and took the mitigation away from the infernalists ouppy

hidden heron
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Soulless Form and all does hit the Lichiness pretty accurately but I did expect a bit more involvement with skeletons and the like, the rest of the tree seems a bit mishmash

keen dagger
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I think they were definitely trying with witch to make there no obvious "necromancer" ascendancy

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so most stuff in all the ascendancies affects both you and allies

hidden heron
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oh hey rupture soul does work with allies too i did not check that

keen dagger
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I wouldn't actually be surprised if a druid ascendancy ends up being the best minion ascendancy in the int region

hidden heron
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I think part of my problem with Infernal/Lich is that they kind of feel like

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They need all of the points y'can get

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before they start functioning as intended

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Blood Magic gets right in on it from the gate

keen dagger
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blood mage needs 4 points to function lol

hidden heron
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I was feeling pretty potent/durable with just the life orb business but endgame is probably a different space

keen dagger
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spells just cost so much mana it feels brutal to cast em without the lifeleech

hidden heron
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I only ran into that when I got to the curse/hexblast business, them things is expensive

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Bonestorm I couldn't physically cast fast enough to run out of health or mana, though, and all that crit means so much life return

keen dagger
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that's after you get life leech!!!

hidden heron
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I just mean Sanguimancy! The orbs themselves!

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not the 10% leech

pine wedge
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Got me a new relic

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I could have waited for T7 crit multi, but, well, CoF and all

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Kinda just needed to take the Ws when they're handed to me ya know?

keen dagger
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aren't you a fire build?

pine wedge
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yes, but Mourning Frost exists

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so every build with elemental damage is actually a cold build

keen dagger
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evil

pine wedge
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working on it

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The best part is they're really common boots lol

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IIRC 1 in 17

keen dagger
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oooh very lucky

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+5 level of melee skills brings my tooltip before rage + armour break from 8k to 10k

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oh it also makes my mana costs insane

keen dagger
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okay literally any mana leech solved that which i needed anyway nice

keen dagger
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If I can get 200 exalts I can use the omen which lets me get rid of life per enemy hit

keen dagger
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wait fuck the phys/acc is tier 1 shit

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I guess literally any other prefix aside from another tier 1 or straight accuracy is better

solar vigil
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So, are there set times when standard rotates in netrunner, or does nsg just do it when they feel like it’s necessary

knotty glacier
solar vigil
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Oh whoops sorry

fervent raptor
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I was so confused checking card-games and then clicking this channel

knotty glacier
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Honestly an arpg running itself like a card game wouldn't be the worst.

"We're banning temporalis. Because what the fuck were we thinking?"

dapper tapir
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What do people here think of grim dawn?

hollow geyser
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Grim Dawn is my go to ARPG after playing lots of Diablo and Path of Exile in the day because it comes with a pause button and it's a really smooth solo self found experience

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It doesn't have WASD like PoE2 but it does play real nice on a Xbox Controller

pine wedge
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Built different

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1/11728 drop chance

hidden heron
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Hogh, I'm getting sections where Totem doesn't seem to do enough damage to actually trigger the Wither debuff

keen dagger
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cool act 2 nemesis relic lmao

pine wedge
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niceeee

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We just hit 10/10 Harbingers

keen dagger
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say hi to aberrath for me

pine wedge
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we're not poking him for a bit

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we are

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well

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we have softcore rogue defenses

keen dagger
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imo just dont get hit

pine wedge
keen dagger
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that seems cracked

pine wedge
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it's super ncie

prime spruce
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I've been thinking of giving last epoch another try, what would people say are the most satisfying/impactful skills on either the rogue or acolyte? Melee, ranged, casting, doesn't matter to me as long as it's got some oomph on one of those two classes

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There's just always been something off with the feel of the combat for me, which sucks since the systems seem really interesting so I want to try to mitigate that feeling

keen dagger
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the falconry kit is great in rogue/falconer and definitely has oomph. chaos bolts / cthonic rift on occultist/warlock definitly has oomph as well

prime spruce
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I'll give them a look!

keen dagger
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I get what you're feeling and will say, the more recently the skill was designed, the better it will feel.

prime spruce
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Yeah that makes sense

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I'm hoping it clicks more for me so i can add it into rotation with poe and grim dawn

pine wedge
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Heartseeker is super fun. Just bounces around killing shit

carmine rampart
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wasd is also in as an experimental setting, if that helps your gamefeel

prime spruce
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Yeah I'll likely give wasd a try, but I don't mind click to move after thousands of hours of it in other arpgs lmao

pine wedge
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WASD is real nice

prime spruce
pine wedge
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makes stutter stepping really easy

prime spruce
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Yeah I've really enjoyed wasd in poe2

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I'll probably give both warlock and falconer/marksman a try. How fast is the campaign usually?

pine wedge
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takes me around 3/4 hours I think? I'm slow tho

carmine rampart
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you get your ascendancy at level 19ish, end of act 1

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it takes less than an hour for the ascendancy

pine wedge
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yeah

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and ascendancy is changable now

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expensive

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but changeable

carmine rampart
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the full thing is 8 acts, your mileage may vary at the final act (i remember getting walled by the boss)

pine wedge
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The snake?

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Or Lagon?

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Because Lagon is generally the wall

carmine rampart
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majasa, lagon is aight

prime spruce
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That's not too bad, i can usually get to poe1 maps in 10 hours on league start so it sounds a bit shorter then that

pine wedge
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It's definitely shorter than PoE campaing

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especially once you know what you're doing

carmine rampart
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it's definitely shorter than poe1

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i just did the campaign recently for that armor set

pine wedge
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fun fact: you can enter endgame "maps" at level 16

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I would not suggest doing this

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but you can

prime spruce
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Interesting, makes me think of the items that let you start ultimate in grim dawn at any level

pine wedge
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The lowest level mono is level 58

carmine rampart
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it's recommended to get through the campaign until you get the faction option

pine wedge
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and you are missing the vast majority of your idol slots and passive points

pine wedge
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you can hop off in Act 7

carmine rampart
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that way, your alts will have access to choose the faction when you start another

pine wedge
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farm up a bit and get a Sanctum key, then skip to Act 9

prime spruce
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Yeah I'm just gonna run the campaign for now

carmine rampart
pine wedge
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Act 8 is optional

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if you know what you're doing

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but first playthrough?

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just play the campaign

prime spruce
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Yeah that'll be the plan

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I'll be checking the game more out tomorrow for sure, but now I'm just getting that grim dawn itch again too

rustic grotto
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oh shit I need to hop on LE

keen dagger
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cold druid is going pretty good i permafroze the emperor boss fight lmao

keen dagger
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i like that all the physical spells can be invested in to become cold spells

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do we know when they're planning on finishing the campaign btw?

pine wedge
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soonish

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apparently the next act is in active development

keen dagger
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looks like they swapped 1.2 and 1.3

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(this is from last may)

pine wedge
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Yeah

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Hopefully 1.4 gets wrapped into it as well

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because I really want that system

carmine rampart
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same

keen dagger
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do we have more details on what that means?

keen dagger
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oh this is the updated one

keen dagger
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resists solved i guess

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nemesis so goated

keen dagger
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these ended up kinda phenomenal

glacial anvil
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yea those are nice for sure

keen dagger
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this is an insane void knight weapon holy moly

keen dagger
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got to monos with the ice druid. resists all capped except phys and poison, 1k hp, and capped crit avoid with pretty good damage. build feels good. only 50% crit right now but I've basically found no increased crit on items

keen dagger
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this guy looks really funny holding this lollipop and orb

keen dagger
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this node is really good

cosmic owl
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lets goooo

cosmic owl
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Abberoth down

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Judgement is kinda good, I only just noticed my belt is still yellow >_>;

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My ammy is t6 aoe size on a jade base lmao

keen dagger
keen dagger
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struggling to figure out what to do with my fourth skill specialization as ice druid. I have thorn totem, spriggan, spriggan form, and maelstrom which all have synergies with spriggan form which i stay in most of the time. the roots synergy takes up too many points and i dont really get much by swapping to stormblade. i wonder if its just fury leap for traversal or something

dapper tapir
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Ice Druid? What game is that?

keen dagger
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Last epoch

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I'm a druid that does cold damage

carmine rampart
keen dagger
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they do but I'd need to raise companion limit

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since I have 2 spriggans rn

carmine rampart
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ahh

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fury leap is probably best then

hazy dove
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My favorite bit from the LE season so far was getting a Dreamthorn off of a nemesis with a like T6 increased void damage, as a minion Forge Guard

Like a devious voice whispering, "You want to play Melee Void Knight again…"

keen dagger
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well respeccing masteries exists now so you could do it

hazy dove
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Nah I'm having fun with forge

I'll save that for an alt

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It's just incredibly funny to have a literal temptation of the void drop as a 2-affix legendary on sentinel

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It's pretty low level too, could come out swinging before the end of the ruined era

keen dagger
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woah this seems cracked

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I need to find this echo

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the fun part will be getting + levels of spriggan form on this

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(vale spirits add extra projectiles to spirit thorns which is my main damage skill basically)

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and since it can hit with multiple projectiles and starts with 3 projectiles, each spirit is like 33% increased (within count of spirits) dps *0.97 I have 60 attunement so this is kind of like 115% increased damage before I even add in that the spell crit maxes my crit chance

pine wedge
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Got a new pair of gloves

keen dagger
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gross

pine wedge
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1 in 928 chance of dropping

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so I just decided to drop 929 gloves

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uh

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what

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we have a drain life lich

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like

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this does excellent on her

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but

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what

keen dagger
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40 flat damage and perma frenzy on a belt is cool. I like that it gives you the offramp with potions too

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gl with your LP

knotty glacier
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I should really give le more if a shot

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I got to the first town and just wasn't grabbed

pine wedge
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And that's normal abby done

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I wanted the tank of those gloves first before I tried it

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I was playing Heartseeker with a pretty squish setup for a while

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so wanted plenty of tank

keen dagger
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what does void barrier do?

carmine rampart
knotty glacier
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It was with this patch and rogue actually

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The game just feels kinda weightless and floaty

carmine rampart
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ye that is an issue this game has unfortunately, the competition is much better about weightiness

pine wedge
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So

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basically

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I take way less damage

keen dagger
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that sounds broken

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do you have a way of reducing endurance threshold

pine wedge
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Well, I'm not sure you want to lower it

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The more it increases the earlier the barriers double and better chance they have of preventing you instantly dying

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And like, to be clear

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if shit hits the fan I'm going to be hitting multiple buttons that cleanse all status

keen dagger
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ah okay

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so you can nix mimic feast

pine wedge
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yep

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and I don't leech for sustain

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All my healing is on hit

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and I do a lot of hits

cosmic owl
cosmic owl
# pine wedge

This is BIS in judgement paladin; flat fire damage is incredible for it

pine wedge
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interesting

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wait

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it doesn't have a CoF tag

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fuck

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what are the rules for Merchants guild?

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even if it's can not be traded I can still list it right?

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as long as it isn't CoF?

cosmic owl
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No

pine wedge
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damn

cosmic owl
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The CoF mark simply means in addition to being unsellable, you also need to be a CoF member

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.... I think, it might have changed since beta

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Otherwise an LP 4 of a meta item in one of the best builds in the game would probably be in the high billions

pine wedge
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booo they don't let CoF check prices

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I wonder what my build currently is worth

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Anyways

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I need a new ring

cosmic owl
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Getting there

pine wedge
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hell yeah looking good

keen dagger
cosmic owl
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wooooooooooooooooooow first one I get is LP2

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Still no appropriate t7 to smash it with

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Lost about 20k dps, but hit 100% block rate, 55% block effect

keen dagger
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oracle amulet is just generally a really good base type right

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I'm using a pretty decent 20% rolled offering of the erased rn

cosmic owl
pine wedge
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Oh goddamn great find

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are you CoF or MG?

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goodbye to void resist

keen dagger
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im glad last epoch has added Evil Beer Level

pine wedge
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fun fact: the unique belt from that level renames all potions to "Beer" when equiped

keen dagger
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that's actually quite cute

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hit empowered monos. still only 76% spell crit sadcowboy haven't been able to find a usable +%crit dagger/catalyst or that damned seed

keen dagger
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the minions hit for like 600 damage a pop after mitigation which would be fine if they didnt have like 1 million health and tons of regen

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my only viable strategy seems to be to get 100x my dps or kite them around the pits forever

keen dagger
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how important is resist pen in this game? it's really hard to tell how much resist anything has

pine wedge
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nice pair of boots we found

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yes that is two T7 mods

pine wedge
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You can pen into the negatives

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so it's always useful and acts as a multiplier

pine wedge
keen dagger
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Im gonna try a couple more times

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my dps is like 150k which i figure is not enough

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gonna look for more pen

pine wedge
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how are you calcing DPS btw?

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because I want to peak at mine lol

keen dagger
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i look at the tooltip and multiply it by my number of projectiles Clueless

pine wedge
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ah

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yeah that's not going to work with me lol

keen dagger
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okay that took 10 minutes

pine wedge
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Nice!

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I'm still down to help out if you want some

keen dagger
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i'll shout if im struggling!

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lmao the zombies vs plants map

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cute

pine wedge
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btw, when you drop an Oedern's Watch don't use it immediately

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it seems to be way rarer than everything else

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And if you're playing an attribute stacker it's kind of important

keen dagger
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I'll keep that in mind. Woven echo?

pine wedge
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Yep

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It's the one that swaps attributes

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I've dropped more Uber Aberroth echoes than I have of it

keen dagger
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swaps attributes?

pine wedge
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Yep

keen dagger
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Like if you have exalted T7 strength that could be attunement?

pine wedge
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yep

keen dagger
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that's so "pogchamp"

pine wedge
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It's really good

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One caveat

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the item must have 1 forging potential

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as the swap costs 1 forging potential

keen dagger
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well luckily usually my exalted strength/int/dex items are sitting in my stash untouched

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look at all my friends :3

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it is time to start stacking attune

pine wedge
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friends!

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Current gear check up

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Need to replace one of the rings with a T7 Dex slam (had to give it to a Nemesis and the asshole put fire damage on it)

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Chest piece and quiver could also be better, but are plenty good at the moment

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and going to start occasionally farming a new amulet

keen dagger
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that pig amulet seems like it's generally quite solid

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I'm assuming you're not really using the curse text

pine wedge
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nah

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it's there as a stat stick with all attributes and all res

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I'm going to be stuck with if for a while because my next upgrade would be Nihilis or Omnis

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Both of which are not exactly easy to get good rolls on

keen dagger
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lmao there are two endgame necklaces named everything and nothing?

pine wedge
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Nihilis has huge roll ranges with most of them being in the negatives but is overall the better one if you get a good roll

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Omnis is much more reliable, but can certainly cause issues if the one resist you need is the dump stat

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also, if you want something other than resists you're SoL

keen dagger
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holy hotdog

pine wedge
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I was actually farming Nihilis earlier lol

keen dagger
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double ventors gamble

pine wedge
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All positive (except the movement speed angryEyes ) and a +2 but the numbers are all kind of low plus no LP

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Better rolls overall and 1 LP but that +1 to skills sucks

keen dagger
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stinky nemesis only put lightning resist on my cool seed

pine wedge
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ooof

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well

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at least it's a resist

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and not like crit chance on a DoT build or something

keen dagger
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it does mean when i find a ring with void resist and some good other stuff i can swap my current ring out

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since i dont need the 40% ele res

pine wedge
keen dagger
keen dagger
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well at least this is on theme lmao

keen dagger
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do i just keep scaling corruption and try to find some item rarity areas to stack those for the boss fight?

pine wedge
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Corruption yeah

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Also

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Don't forget there's a Woven Echo that lets you fight a Harbinger and get boss drops.

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You can stick that in your woven tree and get a bunch of free attempts

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It's how I farmed Throne of Ambition.

keen dagger
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oh that's sweet

clever widget
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So, wisps from the hunt league can infest rogue exiles
and jesus, they get spooky

keen dagger
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the ice arrow lady is a nightmare as a melee build

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she regains like 100% of her life when she uses that jump skill

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most fights are solved by tricking the AI into standing in Hammer of the Gods though (as god intended).

fervent raptor
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The few rogues I've come across have been actually kinda fun to fight? Certainly more interesting than they were in PoE1

keen dagger
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I have fun leading mobs into the hammer drop

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definitely more interesting than poe1 exiles

fervent raptor
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Tbf it's pretty hard to not be more interesting than a PoE1 mob

keen dagger
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lmao yeah

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it's odd playing LE cus the crafting system and the build options are so much more interesting but the moment to moment gameplay in poe2 has so much more going on

cosmic owl
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MG inflation is too fast for the amount I want to play

cosmic owl
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I'd also take the weaver tree nodes for bossess dropping additional uniques

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Got my sentinal to lvl 100, pushing into the 800s on corruption without too much issue.

LP2 Orian's waiting on a good enough exalt (using a LP1), LP3 engraver waiting for good enough exalt (again using LP2 atm), two LP2 uni rings waiting for exalts

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Gotta decide if I actually farm for those exalts then kill uber abberoth or if I call it done for the character and swap to the new torchlight league for a little

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I guess I could also try get a LP3 masaya, LP2 null portent, LP2 twisted heart.... but that honestly feels more like busywork

pine wedge
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Currently I'm target farming a second 1LP Red Ring

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after that I'm going to go after a new chest piece

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And maybe a new quiver

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Also farming out a Nihilis on the side when I get bored of monos and want to bully Abby for a bit

carmine rampart
cosmic owl
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But, its really fun if you do a little research beforehand, pick one character you want to play, and just ignore the gacha stuff

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The character designs are wild

carmine rampart
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tempting, very tempting

cosmic owl
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Its also very fast, and full of weird incomprehensible systems

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Good crafting though

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I would ntoe as a warning that bad builds feel very bad in it

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Luckily it has an ingame system where you can look at the builds of top players

keen dagger
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is this different from the torchlight trilogy?

cosmic owl
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Like, you can filter by hero and equipped skills to see a list of builds & dps rankings

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naw, same torchlight IP

keen dagger
carmine rampart
carmine rampart
keen dagger
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does poe.ninja for poe2 exist yet?

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I guess not since afaict you can't export builds

cosmic owl
cosmic owl
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Theres a looooot of work to be done before then, I assume

keen dagger
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I hope the work includes simply implementing those features and the trade website into the game Clueless

cosmic owl
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They've done some automated trade into the game

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Currency stuff

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They've also said that they don't want to automate too much more of trade, because its supposed to be a process that makes you interact with other players (and see their cool mtx)

keen dagger
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I know I'm so blessed

cosmic owl
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And honestly, I don't hate there being systems in multiplayer games that say "hey you, go interact"

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I like seeing people's cool hideouts, I like chattig with ranodm new people

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I don't like the incredible horniness of the anime art people make using white&black stones in the ground of their hideouts, but I can deifnitely appreciate theres some severe skill

keen dagger
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I dont think implementing the trade search into the game necessarily gets rid of that. though it would make sense to go all the way and include an auction house

cosmic owl
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Heres the problem: you automate the trading house and people will use it to automatically buy and sell

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Those people will be richer than you

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They will be online 24/7 snapping up all cheap items in given classes, based likely on automated analyses of top streamers, or any other relevant data source

slow jasper
#

I don't like messaging five guys to trade and fucking none of them reply to me

cosmic owl
#

thats fair, friction is annoying

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In the case of poe, I use the tft trade extension to see blacklisted traders

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Which means its extremely rare for me to not get responses, because all the bots listing stuff to effect price manipulations are ignored

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(I am well aware of the other issues regarding said site and systems, don't worry)

slow jasper
#

I'd prefer some method of throughput limited automated trade

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Like 10 buys per day or something

cosmic owl
#

I used to use the trade systems in guild wars two

slow jasper
#

so you can gear up, but you can't hoover the entire market up if you

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re rich

cosmic owl
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I had a list of ingredients I would buy each day at close US time, and relist at open EU time (and vise versa)

slow jasper
#

Or just let people build the affixes they want

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Like you were saying LE does

cosmic owl
#

The effect of that was basically I funded everything my main character did purely on arbitrage

cosmic owl
slow jasper
#

Yeah

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And let people build up affix tier by playing the game or something

cosmic owl
#

In LE you can consume forging potential to get up to t5 on affixes

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t6&t7 are drop only

slow jasper
#

Yeah

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Honestly I'll probably try out LE next paycheck

cosmic owl
#

Honestly you should, in my opinion its better than poe2 atm

keen dagger
#

It also has a built in system to even up "I dont want to trade for items"

slow jasper
#

Yeah

keen dagger
#

trading is still probably better but you dont feel like youre missing out by not interacting with it.

slow jasper
#

Ko has been psuedoevangelizing it at our regular game

cosmic owl
#

Its easier in that it rewards undirected farm

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But lets be honest, how long does it take to farm 40million gold to buy a solid lp2

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(its about 10 hours of farm, going off sanctum)

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Or, you could repeatedly run weaver;s tombs to find a GG idol with 2 good affixes to sell for 1/4 of the price

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At which point, instead of item farming for gold to buy items, just bias your item farm to the item you want, and you're good

carmine rampart
#

last epoch good game go buy (genuine)

pine wedge
#

it's SSF but somehow still feels even with trade

slow jasper
#

Hmm, LE is telling me I have a passive or spec, but I dooonn't seem to?

keen dagger
#

ooogh finally

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all the rolls are squarely in the middle but its lp 1 so im taking it

keen dagger
slow jasper
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Hmm, okay

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I was gonna do curse+Reap acolyte, but I ended up on marrow shards

keen dagger
#

respeccing is luckily super affordable especially later on so go nuts and try stuff that works with the items you found

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found a cool unique with + to a skill you've not tried yet? Just try the skill out

slow jasper
#

Also I'ma need to figure out what some of this language means

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IDK what attunement does, or wahat 'channeled cost' is

keen dagger
#

hold alt while mousing over something with that info

slow jasper
#

Mm, still getting used to the UI, don't know how to pin an object to mouse over stuff on it's window

carmine rampart
#

attunement is a stat, gives mana and specific skills scale with it

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for extra info tabs on items it should be ctrl, alt+ctrl, or alt by default

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specific skills are tagged as "channeled", so its channel cost is how much mana it drains per sec

keen dagger
#

every skill scaled off of at least one stat

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it's usually 4% damage per level amongst other things depending on the skill

#

holding alt while mousing over a skill will show what the scaling does

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I hope they touch of the hammer harbinger fights, the sword lady is 1000% more scary

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the hammer guy you just stand behind him and win

#

I'm now up to like 150k frostbite dps with 90% cold pen and 180k thorn dps with 40% pen. then there's totems amd vines added in. I can stack the frostbite closer to 400k against bosses and the like and it still feels low in 200 corruption

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I'm guessing you should be in the millions by this point?

slow jasper
#

I have a question about the crimson gluttony passive, and how the math maths out

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with blood pact

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Is it a matter of X%-Y%, or is it a matter of (X% / 1.Y)?

keen dagger
#

if you have 5 ranks in both you lose 5%*0.75=3.75% of your life per second

slow jasper
#

Mm, okay

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and is marrow shards counted as drain, or is it just subtraction?

keen dagger
#

That I'm not sure on. But I think crimson gluttony mainly applies to loss over time and not costs

slow jasper
#

okay

slow jasper
#

B-lined this and i quite like it so far:

slow jasper
#

Huh, so last epoch doesn't really have like, ilevel scaling?

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Kinda neat

cosmic owl
cosmic owl
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The scaling factor is forging potential

slow jasper
#

I'll need to have a look at the crafting, I'm mostly just making things explode with life drain RN

cosmic owl
#

Like, if any given staff/wand/sceptre/ring has an open prefix, just put + necrotic damage on it

#

Open suffix? +health, or +resists

#

All skills, if you hover over them, tell you every type of scaling they have fwiw

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Drain life for example has the nectrotic, spell, damage over time, area, channeled, and intelligence tags, so you know for sure any points in any of those, or any effect that mentions those keywords will improve it

slow jasper
#

Yeah, partially I'm just thinking about what bases i should be using

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What my options are etc

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1h+cata vs two hand, dodge vs armor, etc

cosmic owl
#

Wand + cata normally

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And always armour over dodge unless you're doing something specific

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As armour applies to non physical damage too (at reduced effectiveness)

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As an acolyte your primary defensive layer is probably ward anyway

slow jasper
#

so far my defensive layer has been leech and DPS, but that will hardly be reliable going forward

cosmic owl
#

What level are you?

slow jasper
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26

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Especially considering I am lighting my HP on fire for damage

cosmic owl
#

ahaha

slow jasper
#

But lich is a decent layer as well

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Er, reaper form

cosmic owl
#

yea, reaper form is nuts once you get it going

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lmk if you want any build advice of if you'd rather play through more blind

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I levelled an acolyte last league

slow jasper
#

I've done some light research but am mostly doing my own thing

cosmic owl
#

nice

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its a good game for that

slow jasper
#

Also ow, runes of removal take off a big chunk of craft potential

cosmic owl
#

you can use a rune of removal and a glyph of hope at the same time

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At lower levels I'd just shatter items if you want shards

slow jasper
#

I wanted to clear the fixes so I could put new ones on

cosmic owl
#

fair

slow jasper
#

Particularly as they had an implicit that reduced life cost for spells

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which I'm kinda focusing in on

cosmic owl
#

yea makes sense

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I'd have a look through the lacolyte spells, some of them let you proc other spells for "free"

#

I think I levelled using chaos bolts to cast rip blood

slow jasper
#

Atm I'm running drain life, the necrotic dot curse, wandering spirits and bone golem

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Bonw golem is mostly there to fill a slot, and I forget to press spirits a lot

dapper tapir
#

How is lost epoch? Seems interesting from what I’m hearing here

keen dagger
#

its good.

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it has shapeshifters and dark knights

hazy dove
# dapper tapir How is lost epoch? Seems interesting from what I’m hearing here

it's an excellent feel-good ARPG, in what I would say is a similar vein to Grim Dawn in terms of overarching design philosophy

buildcraft is fun, approachable, and reachable, though an extensive endgame to bust things up with your build is what is currently a bit lacking

it's no infinite grind max hours PoE1 but that tends to attract a different kind of ARPG player anyways

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essentially if the fun you find in ARPGs is more about putting together something cool and watching it shred things, but you don't have a PhD in PoE Math and playtime habits that resemble a 1900s factory worker's hours, LE is in your wheelhouse

dapper tapir
#

If so kudos for remembering because my memory is terrible

keen dagger
#

Yes.

#

We were talking about poe 2 druid iirc

hazy dove
#

Void Knight is just a great class tbh

A surprising amount of sentinel can be converted to void so options aren't slim

I do also like LE's druid, though things can get a little cookie cutter if you follow the synergy suggestions of the game a little too much

dapper tapir
#

The grim dawn berserker also seems super cool

slow jasper
#

I'm enjoying LE, though I'm basically ignoring most of the story/characters

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Which is pretty easy tbh

#

feels kinda light

keen dagger
#

The story as of now is unfinished and tbh it ends in a pretty shit place

hazy dove
carmine rampart
#

in LE, does the blast knife unique actually work well or is it just unusable? it wants to use detonating arrow as a melee attack but since it's marksman's mastery skill, it doesn't benefit from blademaster very much. i assume you just take marksman for the skill and then go down the blademaster tree?

keen dagger
#

In the desert, straight up "ma'jelkin it" and by it, I mean? haha
my blats kneif

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(I don't know but it seems to ask too much for very little payoff)

carmine rampart
#

lmfao

pine wedge
#

kind of fucking it over

carmine rampart
pine wedge
#

maybe I'm misremembering

cosmic owl
#

It used to be insanely powerful, but got nerfed (losing the double dip) as it was heavily outcompeting

carmine rampart
#

gotcha

keen dagger
#

my shaman got sandbagged around 200 corruption so I made a judgement aura paladin and holy shit this is so broken

#

feels like the numbers are way too high

carmine rampart
#

sentinel in general is busted

#

usually this is how it goes for LE though, the newer masteries/reworks tend to outperform the rest of the bunch

pine wedge
#

then they're then nerfed into reasonableness in the next patch

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(Warlock and Falconer are both the standouts from last patch that got nerfed and they're both strong)

carmine rampart
#

i need to try those again, i'm playing a sentinel and every build wants the new symbols of hope skill lol

keen dagger
#

symbols of hope are cracked

ashen lotus
#

Admittedly Sentinel is immensely fun

carmine rampart
#

finally. my beloved forge guard feels good (read: good with 2 pally skills)

keen dagger
#

it's amazing how much stuff pally gets for free

pine wedge
#

btw, can I just note I love how much shit you get on item implicits?

#

It not only makes initial gearing easier (here, have a free 40% cold resistence basically solving it on some boots) but it makes pursuing BiS that much more impactful because of just how important getting the right rolls on the right base matters

carmine rampart
#

its so good

keen dagger
#

this ugly ass shield is RUINING my knight drip

keen dagger
#

finally get a T7 block chance shield with T5 all res and reduced damage on block and its this dinky motherfucker

carmine rampart
#

transmog can't come soon enough

keen dagger
#

never didn't have it (until before now)

#

nearly a perfect roll too

#

time to go bully julra

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oh shit it needs to be t4

#

okay that wasnt so bad

keen dagger
#

this actually goes so hard wow

keen dagger
#

thats more like it

keen dagger
keen dagger
#

pog dropped my first omnis

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good rolls too

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harbinger did nothing with it but it's in my web

knotty glacier
#

Big loot changes in PoE2

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Patchj notes for patch

keen dagger
#

oh nice i was waiting for this

#

very good timing cus I just killed the 10th harby in LE and was wanting to go back to my hammer guy in poe2

knotty glacier
#

Patch is being redeployed tomorrow

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after today's deployment went wronk

keen dagger
#

I still have to kill abby

#

gonna do that tomorrow and then pick up poe2 again on the weekend

#

exciting stuff anyway

#

I'm glad I'm going to have like 35 atlas points instead of 7

clever widget
#

Petulant goobers on the forums. These look like great changes.

#

I was noticing how mediocre stuff felt at the end of cruel diff, hopefully this makes things more pleasant. I raised an eyebrow when a sekhma bronze chest dropped only white gear.

knotty glacier
#

Yeah, this is at least a solid starting point.

keen dagger
carmine rampart
#

curse of all arpg forums tbh

keen dagger
#

ayy got there on my 2nd try. its a pretty cool boss fight but it is a bit of a clusterfuck at the end

#

i did not understand how the void slam works so i died to the wall the first time

#

finished my paladin drip (but its a million times worse than wearing decayed skull and omnis/wall of nothing)

cosmic owl
clever widget
#

End of A3 cruel and the loot feels way better already

#

I'm actually finding Exalts again

keen dagger
# cosmic owl Oh hello judgement pally

you were raving about it so I figured I'd give it a try and yeah it's nuts. you're so free to manage dodging as long as you stay next to stuff. the healing and resilience with all the layers of damage avoidance is amazing

#

it was a bit shit before I got some extra aoe. I couldn't hit julra if she stood on her void beams lmao

#

I only died twice on that character. once to aberroth cus I'd never seen the mechanics and didn't understand how void wall works and once to a possessed champion at 300corr while picking up the last harbingers

#

can you guess which champion

cosmic owl
keen dagger
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ding ding ding

#

love extremely high poorly telegraphed damage with no wind down time

cosmic owl
#

I think I'm at 4 deaths; uber abberoth, abberoth the first time I fought him because I hadn't seen the bonk before, when literally afk, and to the 10 harbinger weaver node

#

The 10 harbinger node was rough, got to #10 before the dice rolled a 1 and my 99% block got pierced

#

Eventually just got a shite lp1 midnight with 3% block chance, instead of healing eff, to cap

keen dagger
#

the bonk telegraph is very confusing haha but at least it exists

cosmic owl
#

I just didn't know it hit like a truck

#

So went "yea, I can face tank that"

#

And I did, but like an idiot moved off my healing field to follow the boss' jump back, and died to the damage field

keen dagger
clever widget
#

5 exalts dropped from a researcher's SB on a tier 1 map and I was shookith

knotty glacier
#

I should clearly give me amazon a bit more of a go

keen dagger
#

holy shit exalts are now 1:175div

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worthless

#

at least you drop more chaos now

clever widget
#

Lets me slam the fuck outta bad kit to make it better as a SSF

#

I haven't upgraded my xbow since the beginning of act 3 Cruel and tier 2 maps is making it feel real lackin

keen dagger
#

yeah its nice that they arent worth as much so they are usable

cosmic owl
#

The new patch helped

keen dagger
#

whaaaaat

#

when i stopped to play LE they were like 130:1

grave bobcat
#

Fair to say that V Rising counts in the #1159883729070727189 channel, yes?

cosmic owl
#

yea, looks like it would

keen dagger
#

ineligible as it only has one globe at the bottom of the screen /s

keen dagger
#

lmao just died to the trial of chaos bird boss because its stun animation knocked it out of ranged of seismic cry so i only got 1 hammer drop instead of 2 and i didnt instakill it before it started doing moves

#

some of the monster stun animations are really annoying for melee characters

keen dagger
#

can you no longer corrupt t15s to make em t16s? I've corrupted dozens and haven't gotten a single t16 this league

clever widget
#

holy fuck I hate enemies of the hydra
insane health regen

keen dagger
#

just do more damage 4head

clever widget
#

it GOT WISPED

keen dagger
#

I guess I'm especially privileged not to deal with this bullshit since hammer of the gods deals inf damage

clever widget
#

I eventually burned it down after I went home for flask charges

#

Armored eshielded wisped antlion charger is a fuck

keen dagger
#

I just realized that you can overcap maxres to make the -maxres map mods do nothing

#

cus I'm only dropping to like 82% on -maxres maps

cosmic owl
#

Accidentally picked iris 2 instead of 1 on torchlight infinite for the season, and didn't notice until lvl 50 traits

#

Dropping it I guess, can't be fucked going through campaign again, and the changes to pacts make it pretty uninspiring to play

#

Still such a wild game to me; you get character designs like this:

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And then their 3d models are shit like this:

wild canyon
#

Damn wtf

knotty glacier
#

The top one is some serious hades vibes, to the point i susepct it's very much inspired by hade's art

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(whci his no bad thing)

#

The bottom is, well

wild canyon
#

I actually like the design thematic more than Hades art

#

But stylistically it's like Hades yeh

#

I feel they need to add cell lines and deeper shadows on the bottom

grave bobcat
#

"I'm just not one for resource hunting and base building"

(Cut to me breaking ground on my newest castle in V Rising. Giddy that I can make balconies.)

hazy dove
#

the game mostly gets annoying casually if you're actually playing on a multiplayer server where you're genuinely expected to wait hours to get high end refinement done

cosmic owl
#

The models are godawful, I'm not going to subject you to cutscene face

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But a good shader would make 905 of that invisible

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Your follower, in cutscene, cinematic, early campaign text, and the two least interesting versions of her character art

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Just a good line shader would do infinite work imo

keen dagger
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lmao

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this is so discordant

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this reminds me of how they have these painted cutscenes in last epoch and then you go to the last couple acts and it's in-engine cut scenes

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very jarring

pine wedge
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I desperately hope when they add in the next act they add in the painted cutscenes

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LE looks great from above

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not so much with those closeups

hazy dove
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It has "unity particle demo" energy

keen dagger
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it does have that

hazy dove
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the way the flame particles for the first attack just appear out of thin air. how the ice barrier is just a vaguely shaded volume that shatters with prebaked physics. how the entire cutscene takes place on the flattest, most undecorated piece of ground you've ever seen

it's high art

cosmic owl
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The last epoch story is super endearing

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Even though its way too vague and meandering

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One thing I will absolutely grant diablo 2: you felt the end of each act

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Whereas LE I legit forget what chapter I'm n half the time, because if its not 9, then I don't need resistances yet and eh whatever lets continue

pine wedge
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ehh, you don't need resistences except for physical which I typically cap by the end of like act 2 lol

cosmic owl
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Nothing else really matters

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Unless that fight got nerfed?

pine wedge
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tbh I just skip it now

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straight to monos until I get a Sanctum key then act 9 just long enough to get CoF

keen dagger
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bahaha

cosmic owl
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I tend to campaign until I have all talent nodes, then monos from ~50

keen dagger
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I'm a good boy and I play the whole campaign the first time through πŸ‘Ά

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2nd time thru I skip as much as possible and get my last idol slots from erectile dysfunction grandpa

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it's interesting how many different ways you can route a twinked character since there are more passive point opportunities than possible passive points

clever widget
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what have you learned?

clever widget
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So I've made it to tier 6 maps with my HVR poison witch hunter

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and while i'm made of glass because i refuse to give up my succulent 80% better item rarity, it's a ton of fun

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Elite and boss slaying is pretty heavily dependant on if I can land a really good poison proc with the heft support but the mob clear is insane

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my biggest challenge right now is finding a better xbow. I really, really want to find a +4 or +5 to projectile skills with damage comparable to this:

hollow geyser
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Cleaning out old stash tabs in a new season is the real spring cleaning in ARPGs

keen dagger
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+5 gem levels is insane dps increase

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also insane mana cost increase

clever widget
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I guess I'm being greedy because I found a +5 cold spells staff at like, level 50 on my cold sorc

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Skewed perspectives from being a lucky bastard with toon 1

keen dagger
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yeah staves go up to +7 x spell skill levels, projectile/melee only goes up to +5 iirc

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so you're looking for the maxroll on a rare mod

clever widget
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I have seen a couple 4's in maps
But getting them with phy mods worth anything is the challenge

cosmic owl
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Followed immediately by "but I do have legacy facebreakers"

grizzled hamlet
frigid kernel
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we have finally confirmed 11 month league

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can't wait for 3.27 in may 2026

keen dagger
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whaaaat

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I thought they were full of shit tbh

frigid kernel
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its very unfortunate

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if we had this expansion come out like 5 months ago there would be a lot of people trying poe1 for the first time after getting the first tastes of poe2

solar vigil
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sadly i dont think id be able to play since click to move mega screwed my hand up sadcowboy

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i cant go back to it

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and i think the chance is small for them adding wasd

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but

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cool!

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we finally get to continue the main endgame story

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maybe we will see maven's dad

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also it seems like zana is coming back

rustic grotto
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oh god finally no more settlers

frigid kernel
solar vigil
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huh

frigid kernel
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yeah you can set keybinds for all of your ability bar including the slots normally where mouse buttons go

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i rebound middle mouse's square to spacebar

grizzled hamlet
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HUGE

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whats next
poe 1 wasd (a girl can hope, but probably not)

hazy dove
hollow geyser
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New dev blog on the Grim Dawn expansion, new armor sets come with target farm options and beards:
https://forums.crateentertainment.com/t/grim-misadventure-192-settled/145760

grizzled hamlet
grizzled hamlet
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right click to unveil pog

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oh
you no longer need to unveil to unlock crafts

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theyve just been moved to maps

dapper tapir
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how's poe2 going?

knotty glacier
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though i havent felt like dipping my toes back in yet

solar vigil
frigid kernel
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right click to unveil is a really nice piece of qol

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i think unveil for crafts is probably bad for me

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unless i can also get the crafts from unveil

clever widget
# dapper tapir how's poe2 going?

I'm not to end game but loot feels pretty decent right now and they dropped monster health pretty significantly to make early and mid game less painful

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And they made some of the worst offender maps less tedious

grizzled hamlet
frigid kernel
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this is like that one time we had a dota patch for 10 months

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but worse

fervent raptor
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...huh?

grizzled hamlet
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Huge

grizzled hamlet
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we have the technology

frigid kernel
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yessss

pine wedge
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Dagger buff teaser

frigid kernel
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every league while playing i write down my big pain points and then when i stop playing the league i email it to them and this was one thing i did not like

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i think that was in my 3.24 pain points email

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specifically i wanted to click a button to corrupt my essences

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they probably still make many improvements if a random player doesn't email them about this, but it's good to see stuff I specifically complained about to them getting improved :)

grizzled hamlet
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Breach is finally fixed

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All shards drop at the end in one place

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We have the technology

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YOOO

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Search is now 250 characters

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This opens up more complex regexs

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We've been limited to 50 till now

frigid kernel
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splinters thing so good

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i might play an armorstacker in ssf now

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i wasnt gonna pick up all those splinters to farm my formless flames

cosmic owl
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I am so doing an expedition character

grizzled hamlet
grizzled hamlet
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This isn't secure comms
And you could've just asked normally :p

fervent raptor
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It's all fun and games until you try sanitising a search link

frigid kernel
grizzled hamlet
fervent raptor
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Holy shit we have the technology

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That's gonna save so many macros people thousands of clicks πŸ™

frigid kernel
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hopefully we also get an alch scour

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give me a giant alch scour queue with regex for the modifiers

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i'll pop a bunch of maps in the magazine and then click until it's bright

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please just let us script map rolling

frigid kernel
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WOAH mercenaries are kinda like an animate guardian that you can revive

fervent raptor
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I was just thinking it's a Build-a-Bob

frigid kernel
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whats really fucked up is you can stack this with AG

fervent raptor
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yo?

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Halo announcer voice

BETRAYAL

frigid kernel
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kingsmarch staying is not happy for me :(

fervent raptor
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but yeah it's so involved

frigid kernel
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very funny that he says "if you're a new player please just pretend betrayal doesn't exist"

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fragment tab buffed

fervent raptor
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holy shit

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panic clicking over

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man actually seems great to do

frigid kernel
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chaos dots buff PLEASE PLEASE

fervent raptor
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archetype buffs is hot

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notes now??

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fuck yes

frigid kernel
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you are like a minute ahead of me

pine wedge
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Bit weird to be annoucing that Ben gets 3 more item designs in the live stream but w/e

fervent raptor
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lmao

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right time to watch Dredd again

pine wedge
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that's the THIRD game with a Dredd reference wtf

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Darktide, Helldivers, now PoE?

fervent raptor
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holy that map device looks hot

frigid kernel
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anyone have patch notes link yet

fervent raptor
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be up after q&a apparently

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stream lagging to fuck for anyone else?

frigid kernel
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yea

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i went to fill my water bottle

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i might make a very funny armorstacker

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give my mercenary replica dreamfeathers

fervent raptor
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oh shit mercs are a new way of fishing for trans gems

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maybe? if you can select them as the reward