ARPGs

[fervent raptor]

mercs count as half a player for party play purposes

[frigid kernel]

you could select their mercenary special gems as a reward which seems really yucky

AG BUFF CONFIRMED

[fervent raptor]

YO

[frigid kernel]

ziggy is on point "hey you need to really make people not feel abandoned after eleven fucking months asshole"

hopefully ziggy will push mark future legues about wasd and learn that work has been done to get there

mark is saying only very good things

i think it's also good that he interrupted johnathon back when johnaton interruptes him. he's a LOT better at this PR talking kind of stuff

[fervent raptor]

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3787013

[frigid kernel]

Completing a non-Unique Map at a tier lower than it is naturally found no longer grants Map Bonus Objective completion. white kirac mission nerf

[fervent raptor]

Hierophant got a kick in the balls

Hierophant
The Sanctuary of Thought Ascendancy Passive Skill no longer provides 25% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency of Skills, or 50% less Mana Cost of Skills. It now provides Regenerate 1% of Mana per second.

Polymath nerfed

and Escape Artist

The Liege of the Primordial Ascendancy Passive Skill now grants +2 to Maximum number of Summoned Golems (previously +1), and grants Summoned Golems are Immune to Elemental Damage.

Golemancer login?

[frigid kernel]

Adjusted Banana to more closely match the size of the Kalguuran version. what does this mean

[fervent raptor]

The Elemancer Ascendancy Passive Skill has been replaced with a new Notable, Bringer of Ruin, which grants 66% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency of Herald Skills, and 66% increased Herald Skill Buff Effect. No longer requires Liege of the Primordial.

HERALD LOGIN??

[frigid kernel]

hear me out. corrupting fever bow golemelementalist

[fervent raptor]

The Elemental Mastery that caused Hits to have a chance to treat Enemy Monster Elemental Resistance values as inverted now has a chance of 15% (previously 25%).

The Leech Passive Mastery that previously provided 10% of Leech is Instant now has a value of 5%.

rough

The Ralakesh's Impatience Unique Boots now have one of either: Count as having maximum number of Endurance Charges, Count as having maximum number of Frenzy Charges, or Count as having maximum number of Power Charges. They now also have 15-25% increased Movement Speed, and Immune to Corrupted Blood.

[frigid kernel]

LOL

deserved

[fervent raptor]

Weapons and Armour with multiple Attribute Requirements now have a lower chance to roll Attribute modifiers.
Life and Mana Leech Modifiers on Equipment Items and Jewels now roll as Suffixes instead of Prefixes. This does not affect items with existing Prefix Leech Modifiers.
Sceptres, Staves, Rune Daggers and Wands now roll Attack Modifiers less often (Warstaves and Attack Daggers are unaffected by this change).

Resistance Modifiers can no longer roll or be crafted on Weapons.

[pine wedge]

oh that's the nice buff

[fervent raptor]

actually fire for weapons

wanders in shambles though

surely channeling is now viable, right?

this one support is all we needed

[fervent raptor]

wait did Shaper of Winter just invalidate Shaper of Storms??

The Shaper of Storms Ascendancy Passive Skill no longer has 25% more Effect of Lightning Ailments you inflict with Hits if the highest Damage Type is Lightning. It now has Shocks from your Hits always increase Damage taken by at least 25% (previously 15%).

The Shaper of Winter Ascendancy Passive Skill no longer has 50% more Effect of Cold Ailments you inflict with Hits for which the highest Damage Type is Cold, Chills from your Hits always reduce Action Speed by at least 15%, or Your Chills can reduce Action Speed by up to a maximum of 40%. Instead, it now causes Enemies Chilled by your Hits lessen their Damage dealt by half of Chill Effect, and Enemies Chilled by your Hits have Damage taken increased by Chill Effect.

take SoW and smack things with giga lightning hits - 50% shock and 30% chill for 80% increased damage taken

[grizzled hamlet]

Animate Guardian: Animated Guardians now retain their items when they die. However, if your Animated Guardian dies you cannot summon an Animated Guardian again in that area (unless that area is a hideout).

Based based based based

[frigid kernel]

its really nice

i think srs guardian will be pretty good this league

you scale damage by having a bunch of elemental relic auras and those will also make your mercenary stronger

[cosmic owl]

damn this patch looks sick

[solar vigil]

so

is the secrets of the atlas stuff with zana's brother just in the game as regular content now

is that not the league

[pine wedge]

yes

the actual league is the mercs

they're doing a small league to go with the bigger expansion for obvious reasons

[solar vigil]

I see

[fervent raptor]

So upon further thinking maybe manastack Hiero is where I'm going?

I used to use Sanctuary as a general goodstuff node but the change certainly specialises it

[pine wedge]

They did come after Hiero in the patch notes and the Frostbolt/Ice Nova build

[fervent raptor]

I'm so-so on that

Interested in the further changes to selfcast

[pine wedge]

Archmage itself was buffed IIRC

[fervent raptor]

Also I'd like to see the Focused Channeling gem properly

[pine wedge]

so like, it's hardly a dead build archetype

you just need to find a new way of doing it

[fervent raptor]

Oh sure

Divine Ire Archmage question mark

[fervent raptor]

Oh AM support actually ate a nerf lol

Down from 19% to 16% unreserved mana as lightning

[pine wedge]

buff nerf who's counting

but yeah oops sorry

still should be playable tho

[fervent raptor]

Oh yeah for sure

[frigid kernel]

i think i will just start toxic rain pathfinder

[solar vigil]

oh god these builds are looking so good

i miiiight try hopping back in, maybe playing on controller or some other control scheme

i get why wasd cant be a thing in poe1 and its sadge

well

i guess they can make it kinda like last epoch's wasd

but i get that its not really a high priority for them

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1l5nu08/wasd_in_path_of_exile_1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[fervent raptor]

Hexblast: Now has a 2 second Cooldown Time, with 3 Uses. Now has a base radius of 3.2 metres (previously 2.8), and the Spell's Cast Time is no longer added to its Cooldown if Triggered. Now has 150% more Damage with Hits if Enemy is Hexed (previously 100%), and 60% more Damage with Ailments if Enemy is Hexed (previously 40%).

Just bring back Doom

[solar vigil]

Yeah rip hexblast

[keen dagger]

bruh you already ruined it in 2

[fervent raptor]

This is not how you buff selfcast

[grizzled hamlet]

Was hexblast ever used to selfcast
Wasn't it a mine spam skill

[fervent raptor]

When Doom was a mechanic it was a fringe skill

Actually ideal PoE2 gameplay so I'm so surprised it doesn't exist in any form now

P sure it only became a mine skill after Doom was removed

[fervent raptor]

Oh, it also saw use as an ignite skill with Doom

[fervent raptor]

Oh lmao they've changed Shaper of Winter already

[frigid kernel]

technically they buffed the shit our of my most theoretical cooks

corrupted fever elementalist

previously i would take ele aegis, 2 golem nodes, and shock node

but now it can take aegis, golem, shock, ignire

and then it has much better defense

and the original idea was lightning arrow + ailment supports as the button you press the most to shock

and then you have rain of arrows manaforged arrows lifetap that procs every attack to apply the fever stacks

and then you put reap+exsang in a double 3link in asenath's mark to trigger those as well

but there are basically no good affixes on bow and quiver

[fervent raptor]

Minion damage% and then you pick up the "minion damage applies to you" notable top left of the tree

[solar vigil]

before i go breaking my hand, is there any way to quickly move maps out of map stash tabs?

[rugged venture]

autohotkey macro

i can post mine if u want

[solar vigil]

It’s fine

[keen dagger]

is that still against the tos

[hollow geyser]

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3787013#updates
There's been a couple additions to the POE patch notes in the past 2 days including tons of buffed uniques (1000% facebreakers are back) and new Witch nodes on the tree, it's in the collapsable "updates" parts of the notes

[pine wedge]

from my understanding Cold DoT Ele stonks are WAY up

[frigid kernel]

the nodes for dot are just general spell dot stonks super up

there was almost no good dot multiplier for chaos dots on tree last legue

it was like acrimony, that wheel between shadow and ranger near charisma, and the one next to lethe shade

[frigid kernel]

always remember

blademail radiance dagon on clock is 10000% good

[pine wedge]

https://youtu.be/S1a6ahjmjJE?si=yCtwjQHkIwynjnHJ

[fervent raptor]

Okay I kinda think there's something interesting here for mana stack Hiero, too

Can just keep popping blade blasts with this

[fervent raptor]

Focused Channelling unfortunately looks like a bit of a meme - scaling damage buff based on time spent channelling, and doesn't do anything to mitigate the "standing still" problem

[grizzled hamlet]

Think I'll do a very chill
Pohx chieftain rf into emiracles cws chieftain league start

[frigid kernel]

they buffed infused channeling

i think focused channeling specifically will be good with normal blight

[fervent raptor]

Barely

10% less hit damage taken to 14% less

[fervent raptor]

I'm sure you can "fix" channelling on a pure numbers buff to what already exists, but it'd be a real kludge versus actually addressing the issues

Like a neat mechanical thing is that instant skills (blinks) don't interrupt channelling, so you can reposition by Frostblinking around etc

But the cool down on blinks fucks you

[fervent raptor]

So how about channelling support on the tree with a mastery and/or support that gives increasing CDR on travel skills for every second youve channeled

[fervent raptor]

But yeah maybe I'll go Archmage blade casting (EK?) until I get a Trarthus Bladefall? Something weird like that

[frigid kernel]

i have finally figured out an excuse to play absurd amounts of blight in SSF

i'm gonna try to mythic orb a bricked 4x anoint stranglegrasp

so this means i need to obtain on average four stranglegrasps and also get enough oils to anoint each of them in order to actually hit the brick

[solar vigil]

What does that exactly do?

Oh so if you turn it into a regular onyx amulet with a Vaal orb, it keeps the 4 annointments, then you can turn it back into another unique onyx amulet with a tainted mythic orb?

Cool

[fervent raptor]

Yeah, it's a reasonably well known gamble - there are some really good hits you can make

[frigid kernel]

i would be aiming for a carnage heart to use on a phys flicker slayer

and then maybe if I hit that and have extras I'll make a funnier one

[fervent raptor]

Carnage is pretty low tier so more likely than other hits, yeah!

[frigid kernel]

carnage heart    2000    0.37243947858473
astramentis        55        0.0102420856610801
eye of chayula    315        0.058659217877095
replica dfang    315        0.058659217877095
brick            2685    0.5
total            5370    ```

[fervent raptor]

Oh only slightly more likely then

[hollow geyser]

It ain't PoE without krangled items

[fervent raptor]

Imagine hitting the quad anoint Astra for the perfect Omni piece 😫

[frigid kernel]

astra wouldnt even be very amazing with omni. it would just say +80-100 Omniscience

"all attributes" is the same as "strength" for that

[fervent raptor]

https://tenor.com/view/its-starting-its-beginning-dancing-skeleton-gif-3532405108267106419

Patch up on Standalone

[pine wedge]

[grizzled hamlet]

Have fun y'all
I'm gonna sleep and login once I'm up

[pine wedge]

For anyone that was curious

Yes he did

[keen dagger]

which hero is this?

[pine wedge]

the streamer is Mathil

[solar vigil]

LOGIN

[pine wedge]

queue is moving!

[solar vigil]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/98998034188222464/1276963986885050408/wmni7m.gif

[fervent raptor]

oh god I haven't pobbed

we raw dogging this tree

[fervent raptor]

I love this game

[keen dagger]

how

[fervent raptor]

huh, trying manabond for the first time

interesting skill

[solar vigil]

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/s/NARRPVL1Pn

[pine wedge]

acts finished

hanging up for the night because I don't have the energy to unfuck my gear rn lol

[fervent raptor]

Well hopefully the servers will be more stable by the time I finish work today haha

[fervent raptor]

Not a single Bladefall of Trarthus on trade yet

Bodes well

[rustic grotto]

oh right new league

uhhhhh wonder what build I should do

[fervent raptor]

you've got some time to work it out while they make the game actually playable

[rustic grotto]

Probably won't be able to do much this week

Might do CWS/RF Chieftain again maybe

[pine wedge]

https://youtu.be/d0n-b4LgKHk

[prime spruce]

the mercenaries are so fun

[prime spruce]

They've also been very kind to me, 2 divs from them so far (+1 div from merc lab)

[pine wedge]

no divs from mercs yet but I had two raw drops and made a div in chaos from various sources

[prime spruce]

nice nice

[pine wedge]

the big one was a ring I think I got from Betrayal?

[prime spruce]

yeah i made a decent amount yesterday selling a few VFoS gems for around 20c each

[pine wedge]

Yeah, I'm probably going to start burning through my money soon.

Feeling the need to cap spell supression

[prime spruce]

yeah, i'm going to need to pick up some clusters at some point. But that's something i also need to do

[pine wedge]

The big expense being the boots ofc

[prime spruce]

what build you running?

[pine wedge]

Lightning Conduit

[prime spruce]

nice

[pine wedge]

Is fun

[prime spruce]

I considered that, but ultimately decided VFoS for myself and it's been very smooth

[pine wedge]

It's way squishier than I would expect but that's likely due to the mentioned spell suppression.

Like, to be clear I'm at 5k HP with 79-80% ele res, 10% phys as cold, 25% of enemy damage converted to fire, 3 Endurance Charges and 20 Fort (Merc) and I'm still exploding

[prime spruce]

yeah, i got exploded by a merc earlier who one tapped me with a slam lmao

[pine wedge]

Also, ya know, Stone Golem of Safeguarding

I'm having issues even in like T16s tho not just mercs. I suspect my sustain is the issue.

[prime spruce]

ah fair

[pine wedge]

500 HP per second is like it

[fervent raptor]

oh awesome - with how long it took to hit trade I was worried BF of Trarthus would be more expensive

but it's like 1c

[fervent raptor]

okay having a bladecaster merc while I'm bladeblasting is very funny

[prime spruce]

Just ran into a crafting recipe inside of a tree, can't click it lmao https://i.imgur.com/tQ9aug4.png

but I've doubled my dps and EHP since yesterday, i'm around like 700k dps and 24k ehp. I need a 2nd 5 link and I'll probably get close to 1m dps

[prime spruce]

I've got a merc giving me determination and vitality right now, so that's helping shore up my phys max hit a bit

yeah i think my merc is getting me close to 50k EHP (though only a 14k phys max hit)

[pine wedge]

Current character without merc

Merc brings up phys hit to around 13k

[fervent raptor]

My game sounds a bit like a warzone with all the blade blasts

I've got like, 20 lingering blades per second I can detonate

Was somewhat disappointed that Trarthus BF can't be supported by basically anything useful though

[keen dagger]

they added mercs? like d2?

[fervent raptor]

it's the league mechanic

[keen dagger]

i love that they waited 15 years to do this

[fervent raptor]

each area has a merc you can fight to either hire, ban from appearing for 10 appearances or steal an item from

[keen dagger]

i remember people in open beta asking for mercs

[fervent raptor]

then mercs have set skill loadouts but you can change their gear

[prime spruce]

My character currently without a merc

about to reach red maps

i need to farm some merc labs and quality up all of my warcries

[pine wedge]

I was forgetting exposure in the config and that bumped my damage up to 1.9 mil

[prime spruce]

very nice

[prime spruce]

oh hey, neat https://i.imgur.com/Y01Jwqc.png

got it from a failed ultimatum, of all things

[hollow geyser]

Are the boots used for a billion flicker strikes or is it a discharge kinda deal

[prime spruce]

I'm not sure tbh, but the frenzy version goes for 9 divs

the endurance charge ones for 12, and the power charge for like 6

i'm seeing a lot of brand builds use them, so i think they're just good in general

[hollow geyser]

Yeah big speed is its own reward

[prime spruce]

Yeah, i don't need them for my build so i'm just gonna sell em, but it was crazy to see them on the ground after dying to an ultimatum lmao

and yeah, here's the top builds using ralakesh

[rugged venture]

all four voidstones done personally (no carries bought or anything)

actually a first for me i've usually had to buy a carry for maven or uber elder

[prime spruce]

nice!

they're all fun fights

[rugged venture]

yeah def

although ultimately its mostly build dependent, having 9k ES certainly made the fight a bit easier :D

[prime spruce]

oh definitely. I need to get around to doing them this league

[rustic grotto]

I still haven't decided on a build yet

[solar vigil]

is there an up to date list of what spectres are good in poe 1?

[fervent raptor]

Was sorta wondering how to scale my damage going forward (just at the end of acts) and then remembered my wands are dog shit and I have vanishingly low inc% haha

[fervent raptor]

Wonder if I could use Trarthus BF to get some decent shock values

And use it to set up Archmage LC

[fervent raptor]

...not sure why I didn't think of this before

[keen dagger]

a 3 link?

(what is that unique)

[fervent raptor]

Kitava's Thirst

[keen dagger]

I heard you liek bladefall so we

[fervent raptor]

haha

I've got trarthan bladefall at all times, so this is just more blades to blast

[fervent raptor]

and then my lab just gave me this

so that can be the remaining socket in Kitava's - all spells trigger at once

[keen dagger]

too bad you can't do this in poe2 yet

dio brando type shit

[fervent raptor]

so many blade blasts

[frigid kernel]

now imagine you're srs guardian and have the elemental relics giving your kineticist anger wrath hatred for free :)

and then she gives your raging spirits haste!!

[fervent raptor]

I don't know what extra content I want to do

[frigid kernel]

how far into maps are you?

[fervent raptor]

oh just started haha

[frigid kernel]

how much poe have you played?

[fervent raptor]

a lot

[frigid kernel]

do blight

+betrayal

the new betrayal bench with djinn vaal orb allows you to rarebrick stranglegasp with two vaal implicits and four anoints

and then you can use a tainted mythic orb on it to create absurdly strong amulet

[pine wedge]

Just did the first new boss. Face tanked literally the entire story mode fight lol

[pine wedge]

Damn near perfect roll

2 div easy

actually 3 divs it looks like

[prime spruce]

Very nice, where does it drop?

[pine wedge]

One of the new bosses

the fire dude

Also, his damage was as underwhelming as the first lol

At least, in story mode it was

[fervent raptor]

Starting with the elephant in the room, unfortunately primarily our European servers but also servers across the globe have been facing a barrage of DDOS attacks.

Huh

[fervent raptor]

sigh I suppose now isn't the best time to be playing then

Oh wait never mind it's just fucking Steam again

[prime spruce]

My first Forbidden Flame drop, and as far as i can tell this is a pretty good one? The cheapest one on the market goes for 16 divs https://i.imgur.com/kFWIlmI.png

[fervent raptor]

just a bit lmao

[frigid kernel]

i dropped this axe in a blight map and used some jagged fossils for fun and got 854 pdps axer

looks like im gonna reroll boneshatter or smth

[keen dagger]

yooooo nice

a divine orb could do work here

probably not worth the slam but idk if anything sub mirror is

[frigid kernel]

in ssf a divine is worth a meta craft or a Divine

So maybe I will

[keen dagger]

the beauty of ssf

[clever widget]

I've gotten my silly poison + HVR build to T10 maps and level 80
I'm still pretty squishy and I need better gear. I've picked up every Armor + Evasion node on the tree so its only via gear that I can get tougher

But I'm rocking SSF MF gear that raises me to about 100% rather than actual good kit so I think I have room to grow, and this build is real if not meta

[cosmic owl]

hmmm

Any way I can control crafting this further?

[pine wedge]

Suffixes cannot be changed is a prefix

What build are you?

[cosmic owl]

poison SRS

[pine wedge]

Lock Suffixes -> Reforge Fire has a chance at +1 Fire Gems

But it's not a high chance

Lock Suffixes -> Reforge Life will get a max life roll but luck determines the tier

[cosmic owl]

I'd rather just bench +life in that case

[pine wedge]

Essences, Veiled, and Influence mods aren't inspiring

[cosmic owl]

Realistically BIS is +life +ES

[pine wedge]

WAITR

FUCK

aishdjfkjlasndf

Thought that was an amulet for asecond

dumbass that we are

[cosmic owl]

haha

[pine wedge]

How much are you willing to spend on 5.3 mana regen?

And maybe 5 life

Personally I would do the lock suffix -> reforge life gamble

but if not then I would just craft life and exalt slam hoping for the best

and if you're desperate for 5 mana regen the play is
Lock Suffix -> Veiled Exalt -> Block duel Added Damage (your choice) -> unveil life + mana regen -> craft - cost of non-channeling skills

[cosmic owl]

I use eldritch battery so nothing

[pine wedge]

Then yeah, in terms of reasonable options I would just craft life exalt slam

[prime spruce]

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

Fangs of asterkarn by summer 2026 at latest by the looks of it

Very excited for it, but I'm content with letting them cook as much as they want

[hollow geyser]

That's a pretty reasonable situation - the upcoming 1.2.1.6 patch on playtest should jazz up itemization enough that a lot of lower performers get their time on the sun and that should be enough to really explore the existing content before FoA drops next year. It's been an interesting time just going back into the character roster and getting everybody up to spec to run Shattered Realm shard 32-34.

[cosmic owl]

2 rolls in and this lands

[hollow geyser]

That's a lotta poison

[cosmic owl]

Its a casual 3 div apparently

So presumably there exists a crafting pathway

[dapper tapir]

keeps getting pushed back huh

[frigid kernel]

amazing ssf cluster. a random magic monster in a lv 83 map dopped it from a random deli mirror. i used alt+aug and found t1 chaos and 35% effect very quickly and decided to settle (i wanted 35% effect and t1 dex) and then yolo regaled

[keen dagger]

very nice pickup

[fervent raptor]

Here's a fun one: Berserker's new ascendancy passive allows you to sustain flicker with no gear

You could feasibly league start ssf flicker from multistrike onwards

Probably want to run normal lab a couple times to quality up flicker, and then maybe the sword mastery for consistency

33% frenzy on hit, hitting 6 times

[rustic grotto]

I picked my build: lightning conduit elementalist

Click to orb, push button to orbital strike the screen

[fervent raptor]

Love how LC is basically the new old-Hexblast 🥹

[cosmic owl]

most armour I've ever seen on boots

[fervent raptor]

Okay slightly unhinged word salad build concept that I think might actually have some legs??

Flicker Strike of Power Cast on Crit Blade Blast of Dagger Detonation Assassin

[hollow geyser]

This kinda lingo is why showing Path of Exile reddit or other writing to folks that don't play is always a hoot

Flicker strike always owns

[fervent raptor]

Capping attack crit is trivially easy with alt-flicker - it gives an extra 50% crit chance per power charge for a total of 100% inc crit per charge

Daggers have a good base crit and attack speed so you don't need to lean too hard into the attack side of things

Dagger Blast then scales nicely with your good dagger and doesn't have an additional trigger cool down

[frigid kernel]

sword+mark mastery with quality on flicker and multistrike is basically it

[prime spruce]

Swapped to a penance brand of dissipation elementalist. The soul eater tech with the Coiling Whisper ring is insane, easy 250% cast speed is pretty fun

on top of all the golems, and i'm getting a ton of free stats for very little

[prime spruce]

going to try to get Doryani's prototype setup tomorrow on my merc, it should bring my dps from 3.5m to 20m-ish with very few other changes

[fervent raptor]

okay so the silly coc flicker does work fundamentally and feels good to play

I just need to work on scaling it

I TAKE IT BACK

This does not feel good

[fervent raptor]

Badge: 10c
Golden Oil: 150c (or something silly like that)
Pre-anointed Badge: 25c

[fervent raptor]

Thinking on it further though I think I should probably aim for Inner Conviction over Badge? Idk if there's a good unique amulet that lets me take but even a stat one would be good

Also BBofDD is kinda awkward to scale as it doesn't follow the normal +level gains

Dual Vulconus Xoph's Blood

[fervent raptor]

retiring BB for a better CoC spell

still with dual daggers though!

[hollow geyser]

Grim Dawn got its 1.2.1.6 update today with QOL and gearing updates to tide over folks waiting for Fangs of Asterkarn expansion down the line:
https://forums.crateentertainment.com/t/grim-dawn-version-v1-2-1-6/146187

[fervent raptor]

YOOOO

[grizzled hamlet]

[fervent raptor]

natural drop in a t10 legion??

[keen dagger]

nice! leather belt is a good base

[pine wedge]

hell yeah congrats!

nothing like the adrenalin rush from dropping a T0

[hidden heron]

That's some strange looking leather

[knotty glacier]

Congrats!

[knotty glacier]

It's uh, bone leather. Yes. Mhmm.

[fervent raptor]

Oh huh a Squire is only a divine??

[keen dagger]

Oooh nice new LE league August 21

[pine wedge]

and a Jurassic Park reference in the trailer

[keen dagger]

that was a little cringe I'll be honest

[fervent raptor]

Gonna try the hot new stuff with Starcaller

Cast Attack on Crit Cyclone Slayer

[fervent raptor]

https://youtu.be/2_9JJ98NbYs

[frigid kernel]

https://pobb.in/ep1mJpnHtzGv im about to make one of the worst builds of my life

[fervent raptor]

Eyy EK my beloved

Ooh abyss stacking too? That was a path for Starcaller but I decided against it

Also jolems are super hot rn

[frigid kernel]

golems for buffing

it's using lightpoacher to get pretty much all the damage

lightpoacher is giving me like 165% of phys as extra elemental damage

[fervent raptor]

Oh sure, I meant golems are super good for what they do yeah

I understand the lightpoacher interaction

Can you benefit from Gloomfang at all? Get some conversion chains in the mix

[frigid kernel]

i can

although i dont think i have it

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-stash/Theyflower%235833/b5d0a074/2

i don't have it

[fervent raptor]

Hmm, thinking on it I'm not sure it'd be worthwhile played straight as you could only really benefit from like, cold to fire without going double CotB

Man I don't really understand people's build choices sometimes

Just in the little details - the amount of people that do the accuracy mastery "Dex gives 3 acc per point instead of 2" and then have like, 200 dex

Please just pick the "500 -2xlevel" mastery I beg

[fervent raptor]

Just realised I'm leveling with a unique in every slot - no wonder my defenses feels miserable 🙃

lol

[keen dagger]

it's literally that easy

[fervent raptor]

okay build feels super smooth, just need the levels on it now

[fervent raptor]

fu quirk of my loot filter - it puts more emphasis on a single maraketh splinter dropping than a whole emblem

[fervent raptor]

So, been able to potter around a bit with Starcaller a bit more - gotten some nice optimisations for it and going a bit off piste compared to the typical ninja build

It's not stunningly good at bossing but it feels very smooth for mapping, and I think it could easily be a cheap build in future leagues assuming Starcaller isn't too expensive

Might record a map for it later

[fervent raptor]

single handedly decimating the NCO pool here

[rugged venture]

poe 2

wonder how many pages of nerfs the next patch will be

haven't touched it since the first week of initial launch, its only gotten worse from there

[slow jasper]

Please don't engage in drive-by dunking. This is meant to be a positive community space, and if you dont enjoy something you're welcome not to comment on it unless its constructive and topical.

[knotty glacier]

It's also just patently false. They've imrpoved a lot of things, esp post .2 - which was a messy arse launch, but htey pivoted and hard based on the feedback, and last i heard people were very happy

[knotty glacier]

I'm snikering so hard at "August" followed by "August 29th"

Guys. Guys, That's just september.

https://old.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1lw7n8e/spoiler_act_4_information_and_content_official/

[clever widget]

poe 2 has been pretty decent right now
after the loot buff and nerf to enemy HP in the early game things seem pretty fun to me

but i'm casul

[keen dagger]

only 99.99!

[solar vigil]

It counts!

I assume they’re trying to be flexible with the release date but this seems like a big update

I am fully in the “let them cook” camp

[knotty glacier]

Oh, same here
i wil lbe fully honest i did not have a lot of fun with .2

and that's okay!

i had a ton of fun with .1

and i'm quite willign to as said, elt them cook and cook hard

[sick grove]

i wish they were twice as aggressive with patches

i really want to enjoy the game but no swords/daggers/axes makes me sad

[clever widget]

I really, really want bladed weapons
The slam gameplay of maces is strange

[keen dagger]

i have liked it in general but there are certain aps breakpoints you have to hit to do some content which can be very frustrating because chilled ground or something applying an attack speed slow can effectively stun you

I don't think every mace skill needs to - attackspeed /increase attack time on already slow weapons to feel chunky

[frigid kernel]

big this. poe2 isn't a complete game

[knotty glacier]

For me, i just wish tehy were more willign to go hog wild with the balance during open beta stuff

[keen dagger]

I hope they release start of sept so i have more time for last epoch

right now they are a week away

[fervent raptor]

dropped my first Wurm's Molt

leveled 4 characters to 85+ before it happened

[fervent raptor]

huh, that's some spicy spell crit

[keen dagger]

also a 5 link. not bad

what are you aiming for the prefixes

[fervent raptor]

Oh I'm not

The plan was to go for More Spell Damage and Controlled Destruction Support on the prefixes and then maybe try and reforge into Faster Casting Support on suff

Just chucked this up for sale to see if anyone else would bite and save the prefixes, but I doubt it

[fervent raptor]

oh baby what a craft

hit the t2 cold in like, 5 essences

[keen dagger]

poe1 items are so fucking ridiculous

[pine wedge]

Someone I'm in a server with accidentally made this

Accidentally because if they intentionally did it it would be double influenced and 30% qual

(the closest shields you can find on trade that are this good are Mirror tier)

[clever widget]

Jesus Christ put a NSFW spoiler on that

[keen dagger]

split?

[pine wedge]

You can split items putting half the mods on one and half on the other

the base stays the same you just have two copies with a bunch of mods removed from both

All the split mod actually does it prevent you from splitting the item again

[pine wedge]

it actually originally had tier 4 int

then they used an unravel orb for the hell of it

[keen dagger]

so someone could divine that up even higher and give it a billion quality

[pine wedge]

you can't quality something over 20%

[keen dagger]

I thought there were ways

[pine wedge]

only from drops

hence why if this was intentional it would have been a 30% base

tbf, I don't want to think about how expensive a titanium shield with high amounts of memory strands and 30% quality is

[rugged venture]

all ways to increase an item's quality beyond 20% were removed in the last few leagues

not a fan of that change but it is what it is i guess

[fervent raptor]

latest craft on the block

shame it didn't get a higher tier hybrid but I'll survive I think

[fervent raptor]

okay wtf I've never noticed you can set fire to the grass in PoE

[fervent raptor]

I know you can harvest reroll them but like, cmon man

[keen dagger]

https://youtu.be/TnDnhPqC0BA

full le trailer is out

I think I'm lichin

[fervent raptor]

https://youtu.be/6ifu7OVVxYw

[prime spruce]

I can't believe that's a real video, amazing

[keen dagger]

lmao

[clever widget]

Goddammit

[fervent raptor]

another tick on the bucket list

[keen dagger]

the most embarassing weapon in the game

[fervent raptor]

so this is a fresh ssf run that I farmed Oni for

first lab offers V Fissure of Snaking and Smite of Divine

wtf

[grizzled hamlet]

https://youtu.be/G_HhNLP0l-I

this is a disgusting ring

[hollow geyser]

That's so much HP

[grizzled hamlet]

i have entire characters with less strength total than this ring

they have so much strength it breaks the strenght display loooool

[keen dagger]

ad&d ass looking strength score

ring got as much str as a leap year got days

[fervent raptor]

Now, will ES see a nerf in 3.27?

[fervent raptor]

60 divine jewel right there

[fervent raptor]

anyone here joining Gauntlet?

[fervent raptor]

maybe the highest quant I've ever run on a map

found 20 8-mod maps with singular focus on

[fervent raptor]

so Gauntlet has a Maven Witnessed Hillock

[grizzled hamlet]

LOL

[fervent raptor]

it's so hard to do with melee

and Hillock has his uber jump attack

[fervent raptor]

PoV you defeated Brutus and entered the Warden's Chamber

guess again, this time with hydra cannons

[keen dagger]

what the fuck

[fervent raptor]

goig templar to maybe brand it to focus on dodging??

[fervent raptor]

you don't get Stormbrand until after Brutus rip

Duelist start is Bleed Support, right? Maybe make a mule for a different Class 🤔

[fervent raptor]

this should help

[frigid kernel]

my chaos dots trickster from settles had less than 1/5 of that ring's strength i'm pretty sure wtf

[frigid kernel]

does he also get the summon zombies attack?

[fervent raptor]

that is the jump slam attack, yeah

they're not speedy though, thank god

I actually read the boss names and the first "Brutus" is actually Kole

and then Merveil summons like, every unique mob from Act 1 before you fight her, where she also summons big explodey spawns as well as her usual affair (which ripped me)

which I think might be the act boss theme? I saw Nick doing A10 Kitava and he had to go through every act boss in order before Kitava proper

[fervent raptor]

god a guy in my guild's group private league just hit nutso while crafting a chest

triple T1 defenses, fractured max T1 suppress and hit the tailoring in like, 5 tries

just gotta eldritch chaos the T1 Int now I think?

[keen dagger]

banned

[fervent raptor]

the amount of luck in this was nuts

had T1 Int, T1 Suppress

eld chaos prefixes into double T1 def and a junk mod

fractured the suppress, then "just in case" eld annuled and hit the junk mod

locked prefixes and augmented def, removing the int (rip) but adding the 3rd T1 prefix

[desert inlet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvTWqn9t45w @grizzled hamlet @zealous relic

[grizzled hamlet]

Oooh

[zealous relic]

oh god titan quest is twenty years old

[desert inlet]

titan quest 2025?!?!

https://tenor.com/view/nina-nina-iseri-gbc-girls-band-cry-gasper-gif-17217775848945603958

[grizzled hamlet]

Titan quest
At this time of day at this time of year
Localized entirely in this video

[desert inlet]

@open lynx @red stone

[fervent raptor]

personal goal, get

[fervent raptor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F56MPRoi0m4 👀

[keen dagger]

what

[fervent raptor]

just a casual (heavily PoE inspired) ARPG overhaul for Terraria

[keen dagger]

unhinged

[fervent raptor]

and so begin the PoE2 teasers

Recovered from a long buried library in the ruins of Oriath...

[dapper tapir]

Has Druid been added yet?

[fervent raptor]

there's a content update at the end of the month

we don't know what's in it yet

[fervent raptor]

Ulaman's title is the Sovereign of the Well, and the Uzaza rings from Delve talk about the First King founding a civilisation in a cold place

[keen dagger]

"quality alch" is stirring disturbing thoughts in my mind

[dapper tapir]

Any more news on fangs of asterkahn?

[hollow geyser]

The next Grim Misadventure is scheduled for Aug 11, so there should be a fun showcase on Monday; the 1.2.1.6 patch hit last month so it was a quiet month. The last Grim Misadventure from end of June talked about how blue items can awaken into purples:
https://forums.crateentertainment.com/t/grim-misadventure-193-wake-up/146333

[clever widget]

I finally did some sorting of my standard tabs in PoE1 and a stash from literally a decade ago had 780 chaos in it and I do not remember how the fuck that happened

[hollow geyser]

Here's the next Grim Dawn expansion news update with environment art and new shaders:
https://forums.crateentertainment.com/t/grim-misadventure-194-enter-asterkarn/147953

[fervent raptor]

this is possibly the most absurd lab run I've ever done

[keen dagger]

i love this kinda thing

[grizzled hamlet]

https://youtu.be/KiA_IFmidOQ?si=4MLN_DccdL-Q8JER

Wonder if this means we get another act

[keen dagger]

I think we're going to the archipelago

[keen dagger]

Dinosaur patch notes are out: https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/last-epoch-beneath-ancient-skies-patch-notes/78635
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO5Edh_xa-I

[grizzled hamlet]

https://youtu.be/UTPVg8sD-Lc?si=n59qQDZZVE6CTzQI

[keen dagger]

kulemak reveal?

[cosmic owl]

hmmmm

Really not sure what to play for this LE season

Minion builds seem like the obvious choice with the new buffs

[cosmic owl]

I'm gonna try abom necro I think

[keen dagger]

im playing melee lich

with TWO SCYTHES

[pine wedge]

We're still on the fence about things

We played Rogue last cycle so this should be our witch (can't spell her actual name lol) cycle, but thinking about playing Rogue still.

We could do the Heartseeker runback, but we also want to do Black Blade which is complicated by the fact we're SSF so doing a Black Blade build means killing abby

maybe we rock it old school and play multishot

[cosmic owl]

SSF abby isn't too hard, in my experience

[pine wedge]

Oh, I've killed Abby twice in SSF

[cosmic owl]

You can probably down him within 2 days on a judgement pally if you have to

[pine wedge]

the issue is "I want to cycle start a build that requires an Abby unique to function"

[cosmic owl]

Even with the numbers nerf

ooooooh, its that needed?

[pine wedge]

I killed Abby on release with a Torment Warlock on like day 3 or 4

If I want him dead he's fucking dead

[cosmic owl]

Hes a good difficulty level

Easily I think one of the better balanced "endgame" positions

[pine wedge]

I unfortunately didn't do uber abby last time tho

Spent too long farming red rings lol

[cosmic owl]

I probably should have last season, I had multiple LP3 BIS

But work got in the way, and LE I find is a game where a week or twos break means I drop it for the whole season

[pine wedge]

Black Blade of Chaos is core to Lethal Mirage builds yeah

[cosmic owl]

ah yup

I see it

[pine wedge]

Oh you can farm it from the ending the storm timeline

[pine wedge]

correction: killed on day 5

[cosmic owl]

Part of the reaosn I'm keen on necro abom is that you're literally just a critstick with monion scaling

[pine wedge]

lol yeah

the abom is the character you're just the cheerleader

[cosmic owl]

And the new level scaling means your initial weakpoint should be a lot smoother

[pine wedge]

Anyways, going to go Multishot I think

we're odd because we like to level with our ascendancy and ideally our core ability

So multishot is a good pick I think

[cosmic owl]

yea for sure

[cosmic owl]

For me it depends heavily; I'm happy levelling with different abilities if they're in-theme

[pine wedge]

entirely fair

I just don't like the whole "level to 70 with falconer then swap to your actual build" thing

[cosmic owl]

I played falconer in the beta

or season 1, whichever it came out in

and loved it, but the bird SFX drove me insane

So for that one specifically I totally feel ya

[pine wedge]

Oh, we have never even tried Falconer

we refuse to play two things: male characters and pet builds

this restricts us a bit as you'd imagine

[cosmic owl]

ahahahaha

yea I can see that

[fervent raptor]

PoE2 livestream starting in <t:1755720000:R> https://www.twitch.tv/pathofexile

[fervent raptor]

no new classes 😴

huh, free weekend though

[keen dagger]

str/int when

[keen dagger]

when?

[fervent raptor]

29th - 1st Sep

launch weekend, basically

[keen dagger]

👍 makes sense just can't watch stream and wanna double check

thank you

[fervent raptor]

np, I'll post interesting updates as and when I see them

Sprinting lets you run around, but you'll get knocked down if you're hit while sprinting

No restriction on using multiple copies of the same support

[solar vigil]

LOGIN

[fervent raptor]

the idea is to allow you to use more than one skill

up to 5 tiers of supports

some of them being upgrades to lower tier supports

sometimes they have a different playstyle

Endgame has "Lineage Support"

40 unique supports

lots of skill and class buffs

Cold skills reworked a bit to make it the most common Ranger element

Mirage Archer back

[keen dagger]

hold up

[fervent raptor]

yeah haven't got there yet

new mechanic for right side

to help pure evasion builds

(suppression back basically lmao)

[keen dagger]

so spell supp

yeah haha

[fervent raptor]

but against attacks, too!

now everything is blockable

for parry/block

[keen dagger]

magma barrier moment

[fervent raptor]

except a couple boss moves

Fire hammer skills added/reworked for Warrior

a lot of emphasis on skills feeling better to use

jfc there's a lot of fire going on

no cooldown on Shield Charge

[keen dagger]

Hopefully not every mace skill has 70% attack rate now

[fervent raptor]

charge gen buffed

accuracy buffs so Warriors require no investment to hit at close range

"Armour applies to Ele" available on items and tree

ailments are either easier to apply or last longer

ooh Witch minions don't need accuracy

zoomancing buffed

Spectres buffed, less spirit cost and better damage

new weapon type

Blood Mage gets Sanguimancy for free

Demon Form keeps weapons and offhand stats

Wind Skills buffed on Monk

Hollow Palm Techinque added

[keen dagger]

FINALLY

[solar vigil]

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOO

i hope its good

[fervent raptor]

keystone added to leech mana based on ele damage instead of phys

Chayula buff

Sorc buffs Sorc buffs

Flamm, Conductivity and Frostbite gone

all just Ele Weakness

weapon switch time removed

[solar vigil]

WEAPON SWITCH IS INSTANT

[fervent raptor]

ele infusions to change how skills work when you pick them up

basically trying to encourage people to use multiple ele types on Sorc

[solar vigil]

https://tenor.com/view/langley-thanos-gif-20432464

snap

[fervent raptor]

lots of stuff added to passive tree

Attribute reqs lowered by 25% across the board

right, league changes now

[solar vigil]

TRINITY SUPPORT

was that in the game before?

[fervent raptor]

I think so?

[solar vigil]

ah fair

[fervent raptor]

so abyssal pits affect nearby monsters and also spawn stuff based on what you kill

ooh there's a new crafting item to add abyss mods to an item

which is just unveiling

can be from the regular mod pool, can be unique mods

can craft them on waystones, too

Abyssal Depths back

you drop into an abyssal city

new socketables

Darkness Enthroned back

new atlas mechanics as a stepping stone to pinnacles

essence changes

Perfect ess functions as a chaos orb, probably a little different to lower tiers

new transmute tiers pog

and other orbs

new way of dropping base items - "Exceptional" drops that have up to 0% qual or an extra socket

for crafting on

Hinekora's Lock added

[knotty glacier]

right now trading details

[fervent raptor]

HUGE

[solar vigil]

faustus died of old age :(

[fervent raptor]

NPC lets you manage a shop

you list an item for X currency in a shop; players buy from that

oh wow people can browse your shop

[knotty glacier]

Very cool.

[solar vigil]

mmmmm

i feel like this can get exploited by bots

[knotty glacier]

Oh quite possibly, but it's not like it wasnt already

[fervent raptor]

you'll need Merchant tabs, but can convert premium tabs to them for free if you bought them before 0.3

also coming to PoE!!

[knotty glacier]

Well, that finisher is gross.

(Gory gross, not "...the fuck you doing, poe" gross)

Patch notes in a couple of hours

[fervent raptor]

after Q&A probably

[knotty glacier]

That's expclitly what they said

It's 9 am right now

[fervent raptor]

ah, I'd refreshed haha

[fervent raptor]

ooh, interludes can be done in any order

[solar vigil]

god i hope hollow palm technique is good

[prime spruce]

I kinda wonder if the interludes are a test for an alternate leveling route later on?

[fervent raptor]

maybe if they're popular, but pretty explicitly just to remove the Cruel Difficulty slog

Cast on Shock/Ignite/Freeze is gone

just Cast on Ailment now

[knotty glacier]

That's a big and nice deal.

(also neatly cuts out some abuse cases i think?)

[fervent raptor]

Ignites now build up "Flammability" on failed ignite

which makes ignites more likely(?) I think? Might just guarantee you an ignite once full

[knotty glacier]

It does garuntee when full, but increases lieklyhood too

they mentioned flamewall/ ground effects just b uild up the chance

[fervent raptor]

maybe eyeing doing some full ele sorc stuff then 👀

[knotty glacier]

I also got hte impression that all status efffects might have the build up?

[fervent raptor]

mana cost being hard reduced, especially for lvl 20+ skills

they're trying to reduce the power of +gem lvls across the board

[knotty glacier]

I'm just holding out for the patch notes

and thus

R A P I D F I R E

Trade system sounds lik ethey've thoguht of thei mmediate exploits

the bouncer hideout decroation is v. funny

[fervent raptor]

ENGINE CHANGES

PANIC

[knotty glacier]

...

2k to 1 divine? srsly? lol

(Current price, apprently)

[fervent raptor]

nice meta

[knotty glacier]

Lighting Spear is being sent to a farm upstate.

where it will frolic wild and free

[fervent raptor]

Lightning spear is going to be nerfed, and if you're surprised by that...come on

[keen dagger]

whomst

[fervent raptor]

hmm?

[keen dagger]

who said this

[fervent raptor]

oh, Jonathon

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3826682/page/1#p26283493

Patch notes up

Soft confirmation of Mercs going core??

[knotty glacier]

I don't understand this, sorry

[fervent raptor]

they were talking about making future changes to how Mercs function which implies they're going core in PoE1

[knotty glacier]

As in teh mercenary class will be back ported to poe 1?

[fervent raptor]

the Mercenary mechanic currently in PoE1

[knotty glacier]

Ooooh

The Arbiter of Ash Boss fight is now a static difficulty encounter with infinite portals (previously only infinite portals at difficulty 0). The rewards of this fight now match the previous difficulty 4 rewards.

The Hooded One can no longer be placed in your Hideout. You are still able to identify items from him in towns. Doryani will continue to serve as the source of identifying items in your Hideout once you've completed the campaign.

He aint surviving act 6.

(Or possibly act 4, but i;'m betting he goes out in act 5/6)

Fire Damage no longer inherently has a chance to Ignite. Instead it inflicts Flammability on the enemy based on the damage dealt. Flammability is a debuff that lasts for 4 seconds and grants all Fire Damage against the enemy (including the hit that applied Flammability) a chance to Ignite that enemy equal to their Flammability magnitude.

Tactican got some nice changes

Added a new Strategic Embankments Notable Passive Skill, which requires Cannons, Ready! This causes your Totems to grant Embankment Auras to players when placed, which grant a different effect depending on the variety of totem:
Ancestral Warrior Totem grants 40% increased Glory Generation.
Artillery Ballista grants 40% increased Immobilisation Buildup.
Dark Effigy grants 40% increased Damage over Time.
Mortar Cannon grants 15% of Damage Gained as extra Fire.
Siege Ballista grants 50% increased Damage against Immobilised Enemies.
Shockwave Totem grants 30% increased Area of Effect.

Rapid Shot: No longer has a delay before firing bolts, or 50% less reload speed. It now has 100 Maximum Ammunition at all Gem levels (previously 50-87) and 30-45 Maximum Heat at Gem levels 5-20 (previously 17-24). It now deals 37-94% of Attack Damage at Gem levels 5-20 (previously 21-47%). Quality now grants +0-15 Maximum Heat (previously +0-5). Heat no longer grants Rapid Shot Damage gained as Fire. Instead, reaching Maximum Heat prevents you from using the skill for 10 seconds. It now generates Heat once per attack instead of once per 0.25 seconds. Heat now begins decaying after 4 seconds without gaining Heat, at a rate of 10 Heat per second. Heat no longer grants grenade skills damage gained as fire. Instead, Explosive Grenade and Cluster Grenade consume 15 Heat to gain 50% of damage as fire damage, while Incendiary Shot consumes 30 Heat to gain 50% more ignite magnitude.

omg omg omg omg omg

look at this glorious rapid shot changes

so it's a skill where you manage your heat as the minigame, with heat empowring 2 types of grenades and incin shot

Incendiary Shot: Now has Ignites you Inflict with this Skill are 200% faster, and also now has 30% increased Ignite Duration for each Pellet that hits a Target. Now inflicts 300% more Flammability (previously 100%). Quality now provides 0-15% increased Ignite Duration for each Fragment that hits a Target, instead of 0-20% increased Ignite Magnitude.

And incin shot got big buffs.

That's gonna be very satisfying to quick load incin shots and go "hey, you, BOOM"

"Cluster Grenade: Primary Grenade Attack Damage is now 299-490% at Gem levels 13-20 (previously 199-327%). Mini Grenade Attack Damage is now 174-286% (from 137-225%). Now Fires exactly 18 Mini Grenades in a nova (previously 14), and Mini grenades are fired over a ~17% increased radius."

[fervent raptor]

OH Trinity used to be an attack-only gem

it now applies to all ele damage

oh it was also fucking weird

interesting changes overall

certainly interested to play the ol' multi-ele sorc

[slow jasper]

Oh neat they made arc not eat shock any more

[fervent raptor]

they also put a whole 6 entire second cooldown on Lightning Conduit

[slow jasper]

IDK about that

I was just doing something funny with arc and double shock patch before last that got killed by the previous rework to arc

[fervent raptor]

Stormweaver has just become Firestorm.build

[slow jasper]

I do not play high or hard enough to care about meta builds

[cosmic owl]

oh no

[fervent raptor]

Hrmmm?

[cosmic owl]

Some of my friends are going to fiend

[knotty glacier]

I'm def interested in playing around with Merc more.

Witchhunter should be fun, I def think the new rapid shot has potential as using it to prime really nasty grenades/incin blasts

[cosmic owl]

I'm pretty sad that LE 3.0 and PoE2 third edict are dropping within a week of eachother

[knotty glacier]

I swear that happened last time with le and Poe2 .2

[cosmic owl]

I think it did, just no-one cared about 2.2

they announced no server reset so people shrugged and ignored it

[keen dagger]

it is pretty annoying that their release schedules sync up

i probably wont play any endgame in poe until i finish my first le character

[pine wedge]

I have since made the decision to just not play PoE2 and just enjoy the LE cycle instead

[knotty glacier]

I tried LE but bounced off really hard

Turns out I really liked all the weight and impact stuff had in poe2

[grizzled hamlet]

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO
WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY

I'm so hype for this in Poe 2
And extremely hype for it to get to Poe 1 too

[keen dagger]

it only took 15 years 🥹

[keen dagger]

full video btw https://youtu.be/xIhIXv9b7Qo

[sick grove]

are there no new ascendencies?

[keen dagger]

Nah

New act and interstitial areas. Good trading. Lots of new support gems. More itemization and passive tree options.

[keen dagger]

it is a little brutal going from the beautiful aesthetics and weighty attacks of poe2 to LE which feels very floaty and tacky in comparison. but the qol and crafting and build craft in le is way better than poe2 atm

[clever widget]

High Velocity Rounds: No longer consumes Fully Broken Armour. Instead, hitting a Fully Armour Broken enemy will apply a Debuff to that enemy which causes your attack hits against that enemy to deal additional Physical damage equal to 5% of the Physical damage dealt by the High Velocity Round that applied the Debuff.

Unless it keeps the huge extra damage on hit my wacky poison build is cooked, RIP

[keen dagger]

it's basically a rework of the whole skill yeah

[clever widget]

Damn. I don't think I can retool that build, will need to respec utterly.

I don't enjoy crit builds because I SSF and don't play enough to obtain the gear you need to get it to feel good

[keen dagger]

well since they are adding a whole new act it's a good time to reroll

I'll be honest that sounds like a buff

amour piercing rounds to break -> HVR -> armour piercing rounds or grenade with a shitload of added damage

[knotty glacier]

Someone mentioned the idea of abusing rapid fire, since every hit should proc

And there's a new notable in the war/Merc part of the tree that makes armor break apply to fire damage

Which given rapid fire also wants you to throw big ass explosive grenades...

[keen dagger]

I'm assuming it's subject to added damage %ge

weapon swap change to instant is huge for mercbow

[cosmic owl]

hm

LE currently is unplayable for me

Stutters every second

In task manager, the process is switching between suspended and running each second

Well, on the plus side, at least its a findable error

[hollow geyser]

Are you windowed or full screen? I had stuttering in windowed Grim Dawn fixed by enabling Windows settings windowed optimizations in the graphics section and that error screen does sure look pretty authoritative

[cosmic owl]

yup, updating to a new visual studio redistributable fixed it

[fervent raptor]

right, take 3 on trying to gel with LE gogogo

I've seen some commentary that doing a first run as a caster is kinda miserable, so beeg weapons are going to be my play I think

[keen dagger]

i played two zones in LE and am getting client out of date errors with no update in site 😭

[keen dagger]

rip blood is a lot nicer to use now

[cosmic owl]

Pretty much every sentinal build is gas

[frigid kernel]

its so good now

before i was just using regular attack on acolyte until i got marrow shards

because it could hit more than one target

now it gets used an then abandoned a little later:)

[cosmic owl]

It gets procced by chaos bolt which gets procced by cthonic fissure later

[keen dagger]

hmm does flay use traversal cooldown

I hope not

[solar vigil]

does GGG release like, full data on everything before the patch or are we going to have to figure out stuff like the scaling for hollow palm technique on patch day

[keen dagger]

I mean they release patch notes but often new mechanics require testing anyway

[fervent raptor]

Probably finding out the Phys damage part on release, as it's per skill

Or maybe not per skill I guess? Just a flat base Phys damage multiplied by the skill's attack damage scalar

Anyway, we don't know it and probably won't find out from notes, but I'm sure it'll crop up soon enough on launch or be datamined on poe2db

[keen dagger]

decay aura is sicknasty now.

[keen dagger]

in game cutscene jumpscare every time

holy shit

bad roll but its better than the jank ruby amulet i was using

[hazy dove]

I hope they never update this cutscene or map lmao

It's just so… my_first_unity_project

[keen dagger]

act 10 spoilers: i like this guy

[frigid kernel]

its a veyr cool item

[grizzled hamlet]

free weekend for those that havent tried poe 2!

[keen dagger]

this patch also looks very good btw

fixes a lot of issues that were present in previous versions (you no longer play the campaign twice before endgame is a big one)

[grizzled hamlet]

did poe 2 only have normal and cruel
i skipped a season and honestly forgot

[keen dagger]

yeah

[grizzled hamlet]

oh thats extra hype

not having campaign repeats is real nice

[keen dagger]

for real. I'm very excited to see A4

no idea what to play really. I've done witch, merc, and warrior so I think I'll do Monk next?

huntress appealing as well

[knotty glacier]

I'm planning on going Merc again and experimenting with Raid shot more

Everyone and their mother seems convinced that Deadeye is going to be Uber strong again

[keen dagger]

I never really pay attention to the meta anymore I just try to make a build myself based on the ones I haven't don't yet.

using bows in poe has never felt exciting to me

[solar vigil]

I’m going monk and HOPING hollow palm is good

[sick grove]

another patch with no swords in my fantasy game 🚬

[keen dagger]

no swords axes or knives. poe 2 is a very dull game!

I don't expect we will have swords for quite a while since druid is the next class

although 2 classes in the next major patch wouldn't be a complete shock considering the size of this one

[fervent raptor]

DE did lose one of the best things it had going for it clear-wise

The accuracy penalty ignore

I do think it's hard to really talk about balance in that regard without seeing changes made to gems and supports

[knotty glacier]

There's been a bunch of implications that swords are closer to done than people think

[fervent raptor]

Plus the entire defense layer shakeup

[knotty glacier]

Yeah. Part of why I'm leaning Merc, even witchhunter, seems like that's gonna have real tank potential

[fervent raptor]

It's certainly making me a little cagey about my Sorc plans

But also Stormwesver got a neat sidegrade into MoM and also the mana cost reductions free up a huge amount of points for the tree, so...

Although I am still less than impressed that +levels is still going to be the ur-stat for spells

[keen dagger]

ITS YOKED!

[knotty glacier]

I'm really hoping the infusion system turns out practical, because summon the omnistorm (fully juiced firestorm) seems great

On the flipside, I wish they'd just disconnect spells from wands/scythes already. It seems so needlessly limitating

Like I'm fine with the idea of them acting like weapon skills style, that'd work, but the you must have this specific weapon thing is ugh

[fervent raptor]

wdym?

you're not required to be holding anything to cast

also I'm reserving judgement on infusions but imo there really needs to be support interaction with them

otherwise (from patch notes) there just aren't enough skills that really interact with infusions yet

[knotty glacier]

As in the various spells that can only be used if you're carrying the specific weapon that casts them

Fine for uniques, sucky for rares

[fervent raptor]

oh, eh

I'm not convinced anyone anywhere will use them seriously

[knotty glacier]

Well, yeah, because they're locked to weapons. It's a waste

[fervent raptor]

no, because they cost no mana

making them useable trivialises a major aspect of building a caster

[keen dagger]

aoe solved 😌

[knotty glacier]

I mean presumably if you disconnected them from weapons you'd reintroduce costs

[fervent raptor]

but then it's just a skill gem

and frankly none of them aren't particularly mechanically unique?

[knotty glacier]

Still seems wasteful to have them locked to weapons to me

[fervent raptor]

it's slightly more interesting than having "generic bolt auto attack" and is maybe relevant to some subset of builds, but can probably be safely ignored otherwise

[frigid kernel]

did you use a nemesis egg or just drop one with lp?

[keen dagger]

2nd one dropped with LP

and 2 skill levels, little worse resists, but better attributes + movespeed. overall huge upgrade

[fervent raptor]

fundamentally "I think there should be more skills in the game" is absolutely not something I'm going to argue with, but you don't need to remove extant (boring) content to get there

I'd rather have an interesting chaos projectile skill than turn Chaos Bolt into a skill because it's a really generic, boring single hit projectile

which is great as an auto attack!

[keen dagger]

yeah i think the implicit skills have a place

[knotty glacier]

My concern is that they're sticking more interesting skills like the new reap etc there.

I dunno, honestly, implicit skills that aren't like unique linked and properly fancy just make my brain itchy

[fervent raptor]

that Reap is pretty uninteresting/basic mechanically compared to poe1 Reap, and ultimately there's no reason we can't get a more interesting skill gem version of it (in the same way that Firebolt exists as an implicit vs Fireball)

and yeah, like I said I'd like to see more skills generally but also like

I'd also just like to see more classes/ascendancies/weapons

[sharp rapids]

Everyone and their mother has been telling me to hop on the Path of Exile 2 hype train, but I'm a little gunshy about early access titles. I'm happy to hear the devs are doing a free trial run next weekend.

But even if that doesn't pan out for me, I'll probably pick up the ARPG-flavored rogue-like Hell Clock. I loved what I played of HC's demo.

[fervent raptor]

well it absolutely needs more time to cook

if 0.3 goes well I'd probably be happy to recommend it ngl, because what's there atm is fun enough

[keen dagger]

it's a lot of fun, definitely give it a go next weekend

it has a lot of potential but it's not there yet. that said I still play a character to endgame every league so it's still very enjoyable

[fervent raptor]

it feels like an arpg version of the Destiny launch

the content of the game is/was lacking, but man GGG have the experience to make the core gameplay feel good

[cosmic owl]

hmmm, flay lich has been interesting

It doesn't feel bad, but not being able to kill t4 lightless is driving me mad

Theres just enough lag I can't dodge my way through the first phase

and too much of my survivability is in leech, so I get oneshot

[keen dagger]

I still haven't found a single traitors tongue lmao

I've been using flay for clear and harvest for bossing with bone curse, reaper form, and aura of decay as support

[keen dagger]

doing full phys conversion stuff and low life with the ward generation. I have endurance threshold almost at my capped 1/2 hp total so just trying to bring the %ge up to max rn

very weird defense layers. I think if I stop hitting mobs I will die to dots very quickly

having 2 health bars is nice for that though

[cosmic owl]

Quite similar to my build

But yea, stop hitting = death

I'm starting a new character (lmao) with the sole aim of using it to run t4 lightless to get core of the mountain

[cosmic owl]

shoutout nemesis

[keen dagger]

is that mainly for the easy access to endurance %/thresh on that item or does the damage immunity work the way you'd want it to with lich form?

[cosmic owl]

combined with grasp of the blood mage it should in theory render me functionally unkillable

endurance stack + half life + twisted heart ward generation + damage spread over time + second hit immunity + aoe chill

[keen dagger]

does flay count as directly casting a spell if you convert it to necrotic? I'm not sure how twisted heart works here

[keen dagger]

Cus I kinda saw that item a d disregarded it since flay is an attack

[prime spruce]

https://youtu.be/Q972GGaOMBM

[grizzled hamlet]

The full post!

Can I use my Merchant's Tabs in Path of Exile 1?
The asynchronous trade system won't be immediately available in Path of Exile 1, so you won't be able to use your Merchant's Tabs there when Path of Exile 2: The Third Edict Launches. When this system is added to Path of Exile 1, any Merchant's Tabs you have purchased will also be available to use there.

[prime spruce]

I did not expect an actual ingame browser for this honestly, i figured we'd continue using the website

[solar vigil]

THEY KEEP WINNING

hm

this might be able to fight bots?

[knotty glacier]

They said they wanted to have an in game one, just needed to sort ui issues

[fervent raptor]

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

jfc

they actually overflowed aura aoe

had to remove gear to reduce aoe for the aura to work

[keen dagger]

finally!

terrible roll but 10% and +3 skills is 10% and +3 skills

[keen dagger]

weavers item duplication stuff is so nuts. I now am drowning in these thinga

[keen dagger]

got a 65/12/2/2/15 one with 2 LP so now i need to find a double exalted attack speed + melee phys and pray

[cosmic owl]

The search for exalts is the killer

[keen dagger]

yeah there's no real easy way to do it is there?

just prophecy spam exalted daggers ig

[cosmic owl]

I have 4 LP2, 2/2/13 traitors and a LP3 2/2/10

And zero double exalts

[keen dagger]

hooogh

what are you using for your main hand slot?

[keen dagger]

oh yeah of course haha

i've been saving for that one for a while but its so fucking expensive

have only just done 2 harbys though

[cosmic owl]

Get the weaver's tree nodes

[keen dagger]

the beast ones? yeah im going into them

i got those four and i think a couple others in another part of the tree

[cosmic owl]

The one that makes random beasts spawn + beasts more common + beats spawn with dudes that drop bones

I'm not even at 200 corruption in empowered monoliths and I've purchased 8 of those daggers

[keen dagger]

oh nice

have not got those 4 yet

yeah i just have the first 4 rn

[knotty glacier]

They updated the notes for Poe2's patch

Big news: You can now lock a weapon to both weapon slots.

And swithcing is instnat.

Which is really gonna open up build space like crazy

AHAHAHA WHAT

Witchhunter

The Weapon Master Notable Passive Skill now grants 100 Passive Skill Points become Weapon Set Skill Points (previously 20). The preceding small Passive now grants 6% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate instead of Weapon Set Skill Points.

Witch hunter: All your skill points are weapon swap skill points.

[prime spruce]

Thats an interesting change, it'll probably be more worthwhile once swords and axes are implemented but i wonder what people will come up with

[cosmic owl]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My first red ring, and its a LP1, 17/20/20/20

[keen dagger]

oh baby

into the tree with that one

[keen dagger]

hell yeah