ARPGs

[grizzled hamlet]

firestorm, siege mtx

[fervent raptor]

Oh actually pelting is a shout

I have Celestial Firestorm

[grizzled hamlet]

oki, one hour till stream

im gonna go do some groceries i think

[rustic grotto]

I might actually return to PoE2 for swords

[keen dagger]

it would be extremely fucking funny if they made Daggers the str/dex weapon and duelist came out as a dagger guy

[fervent raptor]

Nvm it'll be meteors - I'll definitely hit the storm cap on pelting

10 casts/s with dual replica Nebulis for 1000+% inc damage

[grizzled hamlet]

its live

the first edict

WOMB TREE IN POE 2

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Kalgur league

pog

god im so fucking hype

this looks amazing

no duelist

ooh ezomyte crafting

[carmine rampart]

lol no swords gg ggg

(lighthearted, i'm not miffed)

[grizzled hamlet]

this is boat league all over again

sword league is the new boat league clearly

[carmine rampart]

excited for new monk ascendancy

[grizzled hamlet]

yeee

and the ranger one too

oh harbinger like encounters with the oath rune

neat

6 7

oh so this is kinda beast crafting?

wonder how it works in the endgame

makes sense, runes are very kalguuran themed in poe

oh ward

on any armor

oh

its different

its like a one shot protection kinda maybe?

kalguuran skills :O

ok so they effectively double the amount of uniques lol

daaaaamn

persistent metamods...

this fucking rules

ok so this is kinda expediton 2.0+

BOAT LEAGUE IS REAL

ocean expeditions...

[hidden heron]

I'll admit the keywords have me a bit '???' but linked examples are ooogh

I've been wanting to make a drood but <.< new monk..

[grizzled hamlet]

it is time

:O

fixed point of interest on the atlas

i like this
i did feel a bit lost in the end game

atlas tree ascendancy????

wild

oh and easy swaps between the masters

nice

god i love what im hearing

THE FUCKING VISUALS FOR DELIRIUM

this goes so hard wtf

i appreciate all time league mechanics gettins some kind of visible timer

ok so this is pretty much poe 1 breach

ported for poe 2 speifics

oh wombgifts are now item type specific?

as in amulet wombgift and belt wombgifts and so on

instead of "item/unique/currency"

ok so its
amulets/rings/belts/currency

60 breach rings...

loreweave??

chat is saying grasping mail

oh damn

ritual rewards are just uniques and omens

god this league will be so fucking cracked

my full respect to chris for starting GGG
but god damn are mark and jonathan just cooking so hard lately

oh league challenges are in poe 2 now!

nice

YOU CAN TAME UNIQUE BOSSES

WTF

(they need to be beasts but still)

ooooh

minion RF....

[grizzled hamlet]

1.0 sometime next year after exilecon

[keen dagger]

sad about no swords but this looks very exciting

[solar vigil]

IN GAME BUILD GUIDES

[fervent raptor]

This year or next year?

[grizzled hamlet]

im expecting it next year

exilecon is this year

1.0 next year

[fervent raptor]

Ah just had someone in another server say this year haha wasn't sure

I'll watch the stream catch-up later

[knotty glacier]

They were claiming this year

[grizzled hamlet]

i think they said both in the stream
so im not clear

[knotty glacier]

I'm very amused at the self own on swords

I mean yes community over hype, but come on, I'm sure you could see this coming

[fervent raptor]

I am pretty disappointed there are no new base classes

[grizzled hamlet]

Speaking of chris

https://youtu.be/M0PhEFcIkg4?is=kt-_2pE6XHcZsMVG

[grizzled hamlet]

oh

0.5.0 is the last one before 1.0

so 1.0 probably this year?

[fervent raptor]

Yeah, which is why I'm a tad disappointed about the classes haha

Gating over half the melee weapons behind full release

When one of the driving forces behind the development of the update-into-separate-release was making improvements to melee haha

[grizzled hamlet]

ill be honest
theres a chance 1.0 doesnt have all weapons and classes either

and you should be prepared for that

[fervent raptor]

sure but like, something right?

[grizzled hamlet]

we got a nearly full endgame rework
a new league
and 2 new ascendancies

[fervent raptor]

honestly I expect 1.0 to at least have all the base classes and associated weapons, but lacking a lot of skills and ascendancies

[keen dagger]

I expect the next release will have 1 more class and act 5 and we will get the final two classes as dlc

[grizzled hamlet]

theyre not gonna do dlc classes

it would be against their whole mtx philosophy

[keen dagger]

I realized after I posted that that that implies they would cost money lol

I meant to convey "in post-release patches" haha

[grizzled hamlet]

ye

[knotty glacier]

They've honestly all but stated that will be the case

It's not entirely an approach I agree with, but you know

[keen dagger]

finally got home and watched the announcement. you weren't kidding. Chris walked so mark and Jon could fly

[hollow geyser]

Chris gave us Brutal league and wow am I glad that's opt-in

[keen dagger]

https://youtu.be/vkCu3V81N74

full video btw

[keen dagger]

Q&A https://youtu.be/P2-BLJQCeWo

[solar vigil]

oh boy here i go running hollow palm AGAIN

(maybe, maybe not idk)

[keen dagger]

martial artist seems just generally good for melee monk

[solar vigil]

Yeah

It’s just that I’ve played monk a bunch

[solar vigil]

is that confirmed? I would expect a 0.6 before then?

since its 4 month leagues

[grizzled hamlet]

in the interview with chris he confirmed that 0.5 is the last update before 1.0

[solar vigil]

ah

yeah i doubt we're gonna have all the classes in before release

[grizzled hamlet]

probably not yeah
i expect a new story act and someone in the int/str slot

altho
isnt druid str int

[solar vigil]

we've already got druid

[grizzled hamlet]

ye true

we need a second class for
str/dex
str
str/int
int/dex

and a bunch of classes need one extra ascendancy each

what are we missing in terms of weapons?
Swords and what else?

[keen dagger]

swords axes flails daggers

[solar vigil]

it would just be druid and ranger missing thier third ascendancies after 0.5

[solar vigil]

and traps may be an actual weapon type

[grizzled hamlet]

ok
swords will be natural with a second str/dex class

daggers with a second int/dex class

[solar vigil]

and claws maybe?

[grizzled hamlet]

axes and flails with str and str/int

[keen dagger]

yup

[keen dagger]

claws are for the druid :3

[solar vigil]

as in, claws from poe 1

[keen dagger]

(staves took their place as a weapon type in dex/int)

[solar vigil]

proabably

[keen dagger]

I dont imagine they will be coming back in the same form as in 1

[solar vigil]

yeah

[grizzled hamlet]

ok based on skill gems, they could add more categories later but still
Axe/flail/sword/dagger

i do imagine with the animation framework in path 2 it will be easier to add new weapon classes

since afaik a big limiter in path 1 is that theres a ton of very legacy systems when it comes to player models and animation

[keen dagger]

yeah for sure

[solar vigil]

i havent played spells at all in poe 2 yet, leaning towards plants disciple tbh

[keen dagger]

water your plants :)

I think Jenny did blood mage witch plants build last league

[grizzled hamlet]

yeee

its really fun

might do it again

idk yet

[keen dagger]

I am probably doing huntress this league but not sure which ascendancy

might just zon since ive not done anything with Spears yet

[solar vigil]

i would bet theyre gonna do some event in a similar vein to phrecia or necro settlers in the interveneing time

since 6 months is a long time

[grizzled hamlet]

probably yeah

[solar vigil]

i WANNA do martial artist but i wanna save monk for 1.0 and tbh i wanna be on a proven build witht this endgame rework. it will also be my first time doing endgame in poe 2

i wanna eventually do a chonk build too but yeah

chonk isnt really solid yet

[keen dagger]

nah

you can chonk it up chunky style

[solar vigil]

would you reccomend anything in specific?

[keen dagger]

warrior and druid are great at getting real chunky

[solar vigil]

oh by chonk i mean acolyte of chayula

[keen dagger]

I uh. what

I have no recommendations for chayula

chonk means thicc

[solar vigil]

I’ve seen it used as a portmanteau of “chayula monk”

[keen dagger]

oh lmao

that would make sense but I refuse to recognize it

[rustic grotto]

I don't think I'm gonna jump on at league start but I'm more likely to hop on once I see how 0.5 looks after a couple of weeks or something

[knotty glacier]

They outright said that was the plan

I'm probably gonna roll with some kind of disciple or varshta this time

[solar vigil]

Oh I see

[knotty glacier]

https://old.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1t72y4x/ziggyd_qa_summary/

[grizzled hamlet]

????
wtf happened here

oh apparently it was an ai summary lol

theres a second one thats also ai

[knotty glacier]

Ugh, damnit

[keen dagger]

these seem fun

[knotty glacier]

https://old.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1ta8l2z/get_your_fragment_stash_tab_with_a_discount_for_05/

Someone remind me of this in 3 days

[carmine rampart]

o7

[solar vigil]

hey so uh i need some crafting help in poe 1

ive gotta craft a staff to swap to crit

these mods

[pine wedge]

are you in trade league?

because % Increased Physical Damage is insanely rare on a staff

well, ok looks like you can fake it with a veiled mod

[solar vigil]

yeah

i assume the answer is essences?

[pine wedge]

so, the easy way is buy a fractured base then essence

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Mirage/9zXVpYDOTK

150c

the hard way involves doing veiled slams and tbh that's probably more effort than it's worth

[solar vigil]

yeah but it needs to be a 6L

[pine wedge]

what's the price on an omen of connections?

[solar vigil]

i dont see any on the market

oh

currency exchange

duh

[solar vigil]

a div

[pine wedge]

so, lets call it 3 div to craft that staff. 1 div for the connections, 1 div for the base, 1 div for the essences

just buy it

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Mirage/rPw64QvzSQ

ok, maybe 1 div on essences might be a bit high

it's like .5 a div on essences

[solar vigil]

i ran outta gold

[pine wedge]

then fix that lol. You can't craft anything without gold either because you need it for the exchange.

[solar vigil]

yeah

[grizzled hamlet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86MS6GHBAOg

[grizzled hamlet]

you know

im not as certain about this one
but
im like 60-70% sure theyll add the build guide system to poe 1 next

the same way they tested trading in poe 2 first and then added it to poe 1

[rustic grotto]

Would be cool

[grizzled hamlet]

https://youtu.be/miL0Ms-VwGI

[rustic grotto]

Not quite what I was expecting from the word "streamlining"

[keen dagger]

yeah thats not what that means haha

[grizzled hamlet]

It's a very GGG streamlining that's for sure

[keen dagger]

there's a bit of streamlining i guess

[grizzled hamlet]

It'll take them a few more years to go "so yeah second character and forward for each league will have a shorter campaign" or something

[keen dagger]

that would be so awesome

[rustic grotto]

God fucking please

"we put yellow paint" just kinda strikes me as...idk, feels like missing the point

[eager coral]

I swear to god someone at GGG considers these map designs their baby

Jenny (she/her) ↩️

[Reply to:](#1159883729070727189 message) It's a very GGG streamlining that's for sure

[grizzled hamlet]

they also might be holding it back till all the story acts are properly out?

idk

another posibility is theyll shrink the acts somewhat when the next one comes out

[carmine rampart]

every arpg since diablo 3 wants to throw out the baby with the bathwater and not acknowledge that it had good mechanics like variable campaigns

poe especially needs a shorter campaign for alts lol

[rugged venture]

d3 is my 🐐

best arpg in my opinion

[rustic grotto]

D4 also has a campaign skip

[fervent raptor]

https://streamable.com/349h3e

[knotty glacier]

Pfft

[grizzled hamlet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MHQmQXcbTE

[carmine rampart]

@knotty glacier stash tab sale up

[knotty glacier]

Thanks! Grabbed it!

[grizzled hamlet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0UcprSk8V8

[hollow geyser]

For the Grim Dawn folks curious about new expansion news, new dev post dropped - 32% more game by volume, with a gameplay trailer due at end of month with release date for the expo
https://forums.crateentertainment.com/t/grim-misadventure-202-asterkarn-cartography/154605

[knotty glacier]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2QZNDtJhoM

New uniques

The gloves let you use mace skills without a weapon, and scale physical damage based on bosses you've killed on the world map

https://i.redd.it/oc9jt9rxpy1h1.jpeg

Also strength scaling on your unarmed attacks

Also also these are an ezoymyte unique, so... Synergies

[keen dagger]

the math on these seems very good

its tough to beat a 2h mace and a shield though for sure

[solar vigil]

how does poe 1 calculate "main hand chance to hit"/"chance to hit evasive monsters" while in my hideout

does it just go off of my level?

[keen dagger]

I believe it assumes a monster level based off of your level yes

[solar vigil]

im level 85 rn, and i know things only go up to 84, so should i not worry that this is 99%

should i go off of what pob tells me

[keen dagger]

pretty much always trust PoB over in-game stats

[pine wedge]

especially since there are ways to increase accuracy via debuffs you've applied

so there can be parts of the equation that you're missing via the player only stats

IIRC my LS character from Settlers had like a 90% chance to hit in game but was actually 100% in actuality when the conditional mods where accounted for

[solar vigil]

thats fair

[pine wedge]

and where this page is useful (campaign and low level maps where you're just throwing ground loot on to get your shit functional) you can ignore the evasive monsters line

[solar vigil]

ok

uh

if im in endgame should i have the evasive monsters line at 100?

[pine wedge]

nah

unless you need to hit every single attack. But most attack builds swing fast enough that missing every once and a while isn't a big issue for general mapping. Actual bosses can't get "evasive"

and if they do have a jacked evasion stat from a modifier to the point where it's causing issues

uh

regex that mod so you don't get it again

[grizzled hamlet]

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Accuracy

as for the evasion it assumes for a monster

[solar vigil]

so i assume that while in my hideout it uses my level, but if im in an area it uses the area level?

[grizzled hamlet]

if the % changes between hideout and an area, i assume so?

[grizzled hamlet]

it might use the hideout area level but no idea what that is

[fervent raptor]

It should tell you when you press tab like any other area, no?

[grizzled hamlet]

it does!

[solar vigil]

how much acc do you need for pinnacle bosses?

(not ubers)

[hollow geyser]

Path of Building will tell you good, you can set a Pinnacle as the target

[grizzled hamlet]

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

[keen dagger]

these fucking click bait titles istg

I like how they keep setting themselves up with more work with some of these ascendancies

[knotty glacier]

https://youtu.be/GJuipxNQtq4

Oh, this is just repeated information for the thingy by the looks of it

[strong sierra]

Is Chrono not going to suck now?

[fervent raptor]

TBC

[keen dagger]

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3932540

soup is ready

[knotty glacier]

Added 3 Fluxes which can be crafted from Remnants to transform the resistances on your items from one element to another.

"Some non-amulet Delirium Uniques now drop with the Raven-Touched modifier allowing them to be instilled."

[keen dagger]

sentences dreamed up by the utterly insane

[fervent raptor]

Oh hey it's one of the most useful parts of harvest

Arguably the most useful part of harvest

[knotty glacier]

Honestly bummed there's no changes to Rapid Shot

Added 21 Kalguuran Skills that can be crafted from Remnants: Animus Exchange, Animus Splinters, Bitter Dead, Conductive Runes, Detonate Living, Eternal March, Explosive Transmutation, Fragments of the Past, Frostflame Nova, Grim Pillars, Hollow Shell, Leylines, Powered by Verisium, Refutation, Remnants of Kalguur, Repulsion, Runic Reprieve, Skyfall, Triskelion Cascade, Verisium Manifestations, and Voltaic Barrier.

Sir!?

[keen dagger]

thats just a poe1 chest affix

[knotty glacier]

Still think i'm going disciple of varshata, but damn if i'm not tempted

[knotty glacier]

...Yeah, really, inceasingly tempted by monk

I like melee and i dont realyl lkike caster stuff as much, even though SUMMON DJINN is fun

[eager coral]

Hollow Focus Technique is literally "Fix Quarterstaff trigger issues" the ascension node. Like, you can actually trigger culling in most bosses with that.

[knotty glacier]

Feels like you grab Stonefist first, given how strong that is

[fervent raptor]

Hollow Palm Stonefist seems like it'll be spicy for acts

[knotty glacier]

Doh

Ignore that

I was getting stonefist and facebreaker confused

[knotty glacier]

Yeah, that's my thinking - it gives you a smooth run throug hte campaign itno early maps etc

and then you ahve the freedom to build a good weapon etc

Or if stonefist is good enough with hollow palm

[fervent raptor]

I can't see Hollow Palm being so good as to ignore quarterstaffs all the way through tbh, but it might depend on what cool Stonefist unique version there are

[knotty glacier]

Right, i think you would transtion out in mid/early maps

but that's fine

ggg did show a stonefist/hollow palm end game build, but who knows if that's viable

[fervent raptor]

It's entirely possible that it's fine

I just don't see it being optimal

[knotty glacier]

Oh, sure, i dont think it's likeyl to be otpimal at al;l

you loose so many stats

thoguh it's posisble there's osmething crazy crazy with stonefist and facebreaker or hte ilk

[fervent raptor]

Given the way the mods changed on the armour base they showed with Stonefist, there might be something interesting there

Equally it's probably an interaction they've balanced very specifically, so who knows

They did show the Giant's Blood gloves becoming Hollow Palm, and Thunderfist became better and cold focused, too

[knotty glacier]

Yeah, guess we'll find out

https://preview.redd.it/fyq6fokvbr2h1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=38c6d758f73b476440cac9bc55d81ec913ebe739 HOWA is certainly somewhat legit looking with stonefist.

[knotty glacier]

Okay, testing out sorc start in ssf for a better sense of leauge start condtions...

Sure

This is def how it'll go

[fervent raptor]

For those on the fence

[rustic grotto]

I am very intrigued by martial artist

[fervent raptor]

Do you have a key already, Alice?

[rustic grotto]

Oh yeah

I jumped on PoE2 back during 0.1 and burned out hard during Act 2

[fervent raptor]

Fair

[rustic grotto]

Enough time has passed for GGG to make changes that I'm willing to give it a shot again

Even if I do disagree with some of their design decisions

[grizzled hamlet]

im excited to try the endgame changes
i got to endgame last season and it was ok
but it did feel very unguided compared to poe 1

[knotty glacier]

Doing some early testing, Monk going glacial Cascade into hollow Palm + wind punch (I can't remember the actual name) & staggering Palm with Brink 1 (makes it so that wind punch thingy can't stun). With valuting impact is pretty good

Also funny because you just airbender faces off

[knotty glacier]

https://old.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1tmz3qy/updated_patch_notes_25526/

https://old.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1tn2mai/the_line_in_the_patch_notes_regarding_crafting/

[rustic grotto]

Seems like a lot of effort not to put a crafting bench in guys

[knotty glacier]

Honestly, I want a crafting bench that just... Shows me what could happen

It doesn't need to do a lot more than that, just help me understand what each action is doing

[grizzled hamlet]

https://youtu.be/EfUVN5o-NOE

[fervent raptor]

Smh not actually giving the reason but showing it on the thumbmail

https://youtube.com/shorts/viADkzIPvo4

[grizzled hamlet]

LOL

its not even "up the rate to match the temple"
its "changed it so comparisons arent valid"

excellent

[fervent raptor]

Yeah it's very much not going to match the temple rate

[knotty glacier]

https://old.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1tnx5he/now_available_for_the_path_of_exile_2_return_of/

[knotty glacier]

https://old.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1tnyl9a/big_w_thank_you_ggg/

Very big, very nice change

https://natwarth.github.io/poe2-skilltree/

Poe2 Skill tree for .5, you can toggle on what's new as well

Daaaamn

there are some really good elemental/armor nodes down in the Merc areea now

There's a cluster that each provide <stat> , 8% relevant resistance, 30% armor provides elemental damage res, and then a final one that's 20% chaos armor and 8% chaos res.

[keen dagger]

c beams is a very funny name for a space ship game

[desert inlet]

it's the BEST name

[grizzled hamlet]

https://youtu.be/RpE1t_-uAog

[knotty glacier]

Beat me to it!

[grizzled hamlet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55_wxcTCKyo

[grizzled hamlet]

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3933783/page/1#p26646554
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdnYDzZ6RJw

[knotty glacier]

https://old.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1tpose3/updated_patch_notes_for_28052026/

You no longer get offered Ritual Altar rewards after defeating the King in the Mists in Act 1 Freythorn.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[keen dagger]

big whup?

[knotty glacier]

I was hoping for garunteed early game unique ;.;

[keen dagger]

lol

[fervent raptor]

One day before PoE2 and a guy in our poe1 private league drops two Kalandra's Touch which I've been after all league

[keen dagger]

a good omen!

[fervent raptor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxlXL3NkjS0

right I now just need a certain cluster to hit this

[rustic grotto]

What the fuck

[grizzled hamlet]

[fervent raptor]

and that's without the easy trade synth rings, let alone the good ones

and a synth shield

[pine wedge]

HE'S BACK!

[grizzled hamlet]

https://pathofexile2.com/ancients

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xryx5s4QBbc

surely these endgame masters that give us quests and help us will never betray us

[fervent raptor]

Please Exile, go and kill this rare without damaging any of the mobs around it

[knotty glacier]

Doriani on permanent duty, given he gives irritated + a revive as options

[knotty glacier]

https://old.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1tq3gwj/my_girlfriend_prepared_me_a_bag_of_loot/

[keen dagger]

thats very cute

[knotty glacier]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqAO9oQSaCc

[fervent raptor]

My friend was looking at using Hollow Form with mace skills to do shenanigans, but stopped when he ended up getting attack times over like 3s lol

[fervent raptor]

Steam patch up!

[fervent raptor]

Standalone up!

[grizzled hamlet]

POG

QUEUE UP

[fervent raptor]

Still at work for 5 hours 🥹

I had to schedule a task to open PoE2 to patch in the meantime haha

[knotty glacier]

Okay, Jenny, there's 37k people in the que ahead of me. How do i... get rid of them.

Speed it up

[grizzled hamlet]

go into fubgun chat, and convince everyone that queue is bugged and that they should restart their game

[knotty glacier]

Murder? Orbital strike? Targeted emp?

[glacial anvil]

time for the old classic

did you know alt-f4 jumps you up the queue?

hit em with that

[grizzled hamlet]

[knotty glacier]

What ifi show them picutres of my cat if they leave the que?

[glacial anvil]

I'm at 32k

I'll leave queue for a cat picture

[knotty glacier]

(please dont actually leave que)

[glacial anvil]

caaaat

[knotty glacier]

Bonus: idiot other sibling.

(Yes, she has her head stuck in a coke can box)

[glacial anvil]

well if I can't leave queue as promised let me at least trade

[knotty glacier]

here she is being more normal

[glacial anvil]

awwww

[knotty glacier]

eg, a feral meanace to all fingles

(And yes, she has a bung eye - former street kitten)

[glacial anvil]

they're both very precious, thanks for cat pics!

[rustic grotto]

I'm eepy so if I'm gonna jump in it'll be tomorrow now

At least there will be no queue

[knotty glacier]

You're welcome. They're actually brother and sister, cat genetics are hilarious

And...here..we...go.

Que is thankfully moving fast

[grizzled hamlet]

rip my spot

my fps decided to be single digit for some reason???

[knotty glacier]

Oh nooo

fwiw, i'm arleady d own to 15k remaining folks

[grizzled hamlet]

ye poe queue moves quick

started at 32k

at 30k now

[knotty glacier]

just 2k p;eople left ahead of me now

also laughign my arse off, have a hardcore stream up

and just now "Player has died at level 2 at postion 25 on the ladder"

RIP bozo.

[glacial flume]

What builds are people starting with this league? I might try unarmed martial artist monk or bear druid this time around

[fervent raptor]

I'm probably going to hollow palm MA through acts

[knotty glacier]

Similar to what i'm doing. using Wind Blast as my main thing for now

I just got my first Kalguraan skill

COncussive Runes

my stunning palm is even more kaboomey

[carmine rampart]

i do NOT plan my build. i do NOT make league starters. i do NOT read guides. i do NOT wait for patches. I SAY "FUCK IT, WE BALL." and if my build is UNPLAYABLE in maps, i drop the game until next season

(bit if it wasn't obvious)

[glacial flume]

[fervent raptor]

so I got back home, ready to play the freshly patched PoE2, to see this 🥹

[keen dagger]

noooooo

[knotty glacier]

https://preview.redd.it/93n0yzaxl54h1.png?width=716&format=png&auto=webp&s=391127f8f0ed357bad0460dcc40d7901844405e0
https://preview.redd.it/jjeado9ql54h1.png?width=487&format=png&auto=webp&s=578b4210d895850e52e6f05bcee920b110f086c3

Facebreakers with fists of stone - switchs the strength scaling to int scaling, gives you a very powerful trigger skill that fires on heavy stuns

[fervent raptor]

New chase unique spoiler

[carmine rampart]

oh yeah stash tab sale still ongoing for 2 days

[solar vigil]

Cool way to do ||mageblood||

[fervent raptor]

||The Legacies are all the utility flask types in PoE1 and give a related bonus, like MS for Quicksilver or All Res for Bismuth etc||

[solar vigil]

yeah i saw

[solar vigil]

||wild that it's 4 buffs guaranteed||

[knotty glacier]

Fists of stone provides some pretty solid gains.

This is what they are normally

[keen dagger]

looking good

[rustic grotto]

Urgh I forgot how much I disliked the PoE2 early game
It's not exactly much better in PoE1 especially at league start but still

[knotty glacier]

@rustic grotto Whatcha playing? I found very, very early monk was rough here, but it pretty quickly smoothed out

[rustic grotto]

Monk, yeah

[fervent raptor]

Quarterstaff specifically sucks

[rustic grotto]

Should I use something else for early levels then?

[knotty glacier]

@rustic grotto it smooths out hte moment you get Wind Blast

but if you really can't stand glaical cascade/frozen locus as your intial combo

just use a spear nad buckler

Whirling Slash and Tornado will get you through to Wind Blast/Staggering Palm

once you have that,you can put Brink in Wind Blast and use Staggering palm to exploee things

But honestly, Glacial/Locus isnt that bad - Locus and a roll away, then fire a glaical back at it kills most stuff

just keep quaterstaff attack socketed to beat the shit out of uniques

(and still do this when you have Wind blast - evnetually you can add in Tempest Flurry/ICe Strike to replace mquaterstaff attack)

[knotty glacier]

Charged Staff with Hollow Palm is very funny

you just get lighting kataars

[knotty glacier]

https://old.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1trr0i9/so_this_is_what_ggg_meant_by_fixing_melee/

Mostly posting this because tghe video is v. funny

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3935437

[knotty glacier]

Woo, finally goty whirling assualt

thati s fun

[knotty glacier]

hahaha

this is so good

...also i really want Alith's chimes, just to reduce the number of buttons i have to press xd

[solar vigil]

Didn’t they say there was gonna be some kind of event later on in the league?

I’d assume like necro settlers/phrecia?

[knotty glacier]

IK have no idea what you do with this, but neat!

[knotty glacier]

Specially, they wnat to run some mini leauges in between now and launch, which will icnlude econiomy resets and balance changes etc

as i understand it, teh goal is going to be knocking the blaance into shape, so they'll have somethingb to get people back, redoing balance and getting that tested, etc

(Tehy've been pretty cl;ear in the interviews that balance has fallen behind, etc)

[solar vigil]

Perfect

Since I wanna do varashta plants this league but also wanna knock off a chonk build in the meantime

I’m saving martial artist for 1.0

The ||secret node for chonk|| looks inchresting

[knotty glacier]

My hope is they'll have Duelist in the game at 1.0, so i'll have a fun stabby swords guy to run

Or i can just pull out ye olde reliable: GRUMPY PANTS MCGEEE (merc)

[knotty glacier]

Is there any lore on what's up with the kalguraan's king and why theyt're all so DO NOT TALK ABOUT THIS SPOOKY MFer?

[fervent raptor]

lmao my gloves now have more ev/es than my body armour does

stonefist gloves are weeeeeird

[keen dagger]

vivid stampede is pretty great so far

tonne of shocked ground generation and lots of aoe clear damage

[solar vigil]

On a scale of one to gone, reduced to atoms how hard is martial artist gonna get nerfed

I wanna save it for 1.0 but I am very tempted to play it now

[fervent raptor]

I don't think it's doing anything so strong as to be nerfed

[solar vigil]

ok

hollow form whirling strike is blowing up the ENTIRE SCREEN though

[keen dagger]

thats kinda just what late game poe build do :P

[solar vigil]

thats fair

i assume way of the stonefist lochonial caress is gonna get nerfed tho, its automatic power charge generation

[keen dagger]

r u ur own ally in poe2

[solar vigil]

the clones from hollow form copy your gear

ok lore question

[keen dagger]

ah I see!

[solar vigil]

i assume chayula isnt EVIL evil but not exactly benevolent right

[keen dagger]

definitely not benevolent

[solar vigil]

yeah

[keen dagger]

in 1 it straight up destroys and recreates ailith at its whim

[knotty glacier]

If you do the new breach stuff, you should get to talk to it a chunk

[keen dagger]

ah yeah thats true

if so and you havent met it yet I dont want to spoil

[fervent raptor]

They have your stats but don't copy your gear like that

[knotty glacier]

So, if you're using something to trigger kalguran skills, tehy dont cost any runic ward

unsure if bug or very nice

makes Hand of chulya punching the reuplsuion curse onto things funny

[keen dagger]

oh nice, one of the plunder island runestones dropped a div

[fervent raptor]

If anything gets nerfed it's gonna be the Tamed Monkey

[keen dagger]

mr one shot from the jungle ruins?

[fervent raptor]

Ye

https://youtu.be/dkJR0ujbDTg

[knotty glacier]

I feel vaugely bummed that Hollow Form tehcnique seems to be incredibly dominant as the way to do things with Martial Artist

i dont really wanna wander around channeling things, but it does seem lkike it is bonkers strong

...gonna keep tryign to make DING DING DING DING DING DING work before i give up though

[keen dagger]

it does seem like at the very least silverfist should be brought down a bit in tamed power so that you have other options

the only thing I can think of that is close is tornado bird

or the ice version

[knotty glacier]

This is what we like to see.

[knotty glacier]

Holy shit

i beat my 3rd asc at level 60 without any honor res (Because i fucked up)

[eager coral]

I just grabbed the wetlands chimera and it is.... glorious. My girlfriend was expecting it to get smaller on taming. It did not. I'm still in campaign but that plus bear is silly. I now have an every element minion. it feels wrong to do this.

nik that was heizen ↩️

[Reply to:](#1159883729070727189 message) it does seem like at the very least silverfist should be brought down a bit in tamed power so that y…

[knotty glacier]

That is fantastic ❤️

[eager coral]

my other option is grab the count for pure frozen application for the fucked up multielement hybrid build I've janked together.

[knotty glacier]

Live your BIG FRIEND DREAMS

[eager coral]

Aww, the count isn't tameable. Damn it.

[knotty glacier]

Contiune to lowkey hate the stat requirements in this game =/

[knotty glacier]

Hmm

I think the real problem with EXTRA BELLS is it's actually hard to tell how much it's doin'

WTf.

[fervent raptor]

I want the Northwind for stonefist

It has the additional flat per level mod and +3-6% base unarmed crit chance

[knotty glacier]

Eeey, first divine.

[knotty glacier]

I have one! Muahahaha

(though i'm not using it >.>)

Oh, correction, it's North paw i have

[knotty glacier]

You mean these, right?

at least going by the in game stuff, they're a pretty serious dps loss currently for me

Compared to this solid weapon i'm using

[fervent raptor]

Oh yes, those

Sure, I do think Hollow Palm is generally an early to mid build without major investment

[knotty glacier]

Oh, yeah, i switched off early act 4 iirc?

possibly even late act 3

when i found a uater staff that gave me more deeps

Also, turns out it's opoissible to get a 4 rune combo that just gives you a divine orb

Okay, note to self: when they say armor above level 65 will get converted to having runic ward on it

they mean the vast majority of it will get converted >.<

You live and you elarn, lol

[knotty glacier]

oh, this is gonna get nerfed

you can put the repulsion curse into Blapshmepy, byupassing it's cost

and permantly and ocsntatly giving things it's effect

and then you just.. use anything that can hit rapidly

like i duno

Whirling.

[knotty glacier]

Hahah what the fuck

[keen dagger]

MORE defenses?

[fervent raptor]

Yeah it's nuts

The %inc mods on gloves become that

[keen dagger]

I guess that makes sense to buff the shit out of defenses on gloves since usually you do not want them at all

on an attack build

[fervent raptor]

Stonefists are also pretty interesting for casters

I wanted to look at the rest of the ascendancy to see if it was viable to do spells at all (and if it's actually worth it)

And the answer is no - 5/8 notables are specific to attacking

[grizzled hamlet]

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

monke

[keen dagger]

yoon was hella remorseful this run

the stellar amulet was good for me too but im taking the money lol

[knotty glacier]

It's more the "all damage for freeze and chill" bit. I put those on and it's actually a serious extra defensive layer. Map bosses aren't getting to play, they're either stunned or frozen

[knotty glacier]

So the Blashmey/Repulsion combo is very silly

and goes off from anything doing damage

....like thorns

[knotty glacier]

Deffo noting the new improved Divine drop rate

I'm up to 4 raw div drops (1 from a rune, the rest just found in the world)

[keen dagger]

this is the most currency I ever came into maps with lol

[knotty glacier]

Okay, apprently level 5 maps is where i start exploding, ahving basically refused to upgrade my gear until now (That wasnt my weapon)

lol

[keen dagger]

thats about when im planning to do my respec and upgrade stuff other than my spear haha

I got to level 64 and spent 10ex on a spear upgrade since I maxed resists in campaign and I'm hoping not to spend anything else until 75 or so

[knotty glacier]

I spent a div on a good weapon when i noticed my damage tanking, but i did the usual trick of searching for a weapon that wasn't qualitied and sockted

so i could buy up somehting much higher budget (The weapon isn ow worth like 2 div, from a price search)

[knotty glacier]

Got my first fancy amulet and crafted it into this throguh... random exalt slamming

so that's nice!

[knotty glacier]

...The economy in htis game is very confusing

Last season: Defiance of Destiny, crazy expensive

this season, a humble 18 exalts or so?

(I know this because my temple has one waiting for me to pick up)

[fervent raptor]

nice

[keen dagger]

path of exile finally has an MMRP!

[fervent raptor]

Huh, just looking at some of the combo supports: why would you use Culmination 2 over Combo Finisher 2?

Sure you can use the skill without getting to max combo on Culmination, but if you're doing that at 4 combo or less it's at most a 16% more support, and if you're using it at 5-9 combo it's just worse than Combo Finisher

(looking at MA combo stuff to buff Remnants of the Past, which is kinda nutty as a damage supplement)

[fervent raptor]

Huh, I wonder if you can use Mantra of Destruction to empower a weapon-agnostic skill

[grand valve]

playing POE2 again

decided to do witch over ranger

what can you do with witch and should i go blood mage lich or infernalist

[keen dagger]

poe2 is very much a game where you can get by until endgame just winging it

[knotty glacier]

Culmination let's you constantly spend combo for benefit

Bricking my whirling assault from using combo would be bad. Constantly feeding combo it would have a bunch of benefits

[fervent raptor]

I've discovered that the main answer is that Combo Finisher can only support Strikes, while Culmination can support any type of melee attack

Eh, I can't see Culmination being useful on any kind of skill that you might want to be able to spam

[grand valve]

yeah but i should go into it knowing what i want to do surely

I see people talking about essence drain and minions mostly for witch

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/ronarray-minion-lich?ws-ngf5-f7d82102-7e77-4a44-ad24-33b67e8ae7bf=activeVariantId%2C1#f7d82102-7e77-4a44-ad24-33b67e8ae7bf-build-variants-0 i just grabbed this one

[fervent raptor]

So the answer is I should be able to if the attack is done with a quarterstaff

Mantra of Destruction empowered Fragments of the Past 👀 70% damage as extra chaos and a stacking buff for every kill you get with it on an aoe duration skill is pretty tasty for packs or restricted area clearing (like ritual, exped remnants)

[keen dagger]

I generally just try out all the skills and then respec my build into something intelligent after some maps haha. Witch can also do a lot of different stuff so its a hard question to answer. Minion lich seems solid tho

[frigid kernel]

surely this is good for ignite/bleed

[fervent raptor]

Probably? I'm not au fait with dot supports in poe2

It's a tad awkward as you need to physically hit enemies with your weapon to build combo unless you're a Martial Artist, so maces are likely going to be too slow

Not sure about spear dots

(you also lose combo when you weapon swap)

[fervent raptor]

https://youtu.be/a1G8c1W8HSA

[keen dagger]

get this youtuber some lower case letters

[rustic grotto]

I burned out in act 2 again

[knotty glacier]

What were you playing?

[rustic grotto]

Monk

[knotty glacier]

Oh, yes, Monk is rough to level with.

If you're not familiar with poe2s systems and shenanigans

Why did you burn out, would you say? Fights taking too long, or ?

[rustic grotto]

Combination of things really
I don't think it's that fights take too long, it's more that I don't like how...idk slow? everything is, even the dodge roll feels like rolling through sludge most of the time
Also the areas are still way too big

I think there might just be too many bosses with big health bars too

[knotty glacier]

See, this ocnfuses me because most bosses on monk made some screaming noises and fell over for me

[fervent raptor]

It's very jarring to play coming from poe1

And quarterstaffs particularly rely too much on clunky combo gameplay in the first couple of acts

[rustic grotto]

I wouldn't say the bosses were difficult (aside from some visual clarity issues), but how the whole thing comes to a screeching halt because there's another circular arena in the area with a boss that I have to spend some time punching to death before getting back to finding PoIs (the bit that probably resulted in my ~4 hour act 1 completion time)

[glacial anvil]

my first 2 acts as monk (admittedly I am very new and bad at poes) were kind of a slog until I got ascendancy and finally got a good quarterstaff tbf, since i was feeling like the skills I had picked up didn't really help me in boss fights (starting lightning thing + palm strikes + bell)

[knotty glacier]

Yeah, i think i was really helped out b y running monk on SSF late last leauge to figure out whati was doing

so ik new to go Glacical Cascade + Frozen Lotus -> Staggering Strike + Wind Blast withbasic attack as myh boss killer -> basic attack replaced by Tempest Flurry, etc

[glacial anvil]

I'm still kinda going with those same 4 skills + I think the ice combo instead of the lightning combo, but the combination of the illusory martial artist bells and having an actually good weapon made it feel way better than before that

[fervent raptor]

I think QS definitely has an issue at the start with how exactly to fold all the skills together

[knotty glacier]

Yeah, from a game design perspective, i do not think the starter skills are well put together

[fervent raptor]

2 of the lvl 1 gems are functionally unusable as actual first skills (Killing Palm, Frozen Locus), Falling Thunder feels very bad as a main skill without power charges, and Glacial Cascade requires precise positioning to actually do damage (which does not play nice with basic enemies being quite mobile)

The idea is clearly to use KP for FT charges, but runs into the problem of getting enemies into cull range to begin with (and being bad for bosses); and using Frozen Locus to give Glacial Cascade a better damage zone, but it's still clunky with mobile enemies

Two of the level 3 gems are designed to work together in the same way (Wind Blast to set up stuns for Staggering Palm, which also isn't great for bosses), and then Tempest Bell which you can't generate combo for using skills unless you spam the Palms

So telling people they need to combo two skills for clear and then two different skills for bosses is not particularly appealing

Then you add act 1 being flask simulator so you're looking at 6 buttons for a build to feel good, so naturally people are going to bin off one of the skill pairs and just deal with the clunk

[fervent raptor]

it doesn't work

[knotty glacier]

Frozen locus and glacial cascade works togther, but it's not elegant

3 more div until i get Ailith's chimes

then i can actually work on upgrading my shitty armor

But first i think i am gonna go get my fourth asscendancy

I will say

i know this build is doing well

because after an epic fuckup, i still got my third ascenay in sekehemas

as am elee

with no honor res

[eager coral]

My girlfriend's entire monk starter essentially did not function until like, halfway through act 2. Basically did no damage during boss fights.

Meanwhile I just tossed together a few random huntress skills as a holdover and was doing generally fine

weirdfool ↩️

[Reply to:](#1159883729070727189 message) 2 of the lvl 1 gems are functionally unusable as actual first skills (Killing Palm, Frozen Locus), F…

[carmine rampart]

martial artist go brr

[eager coral]

It turns out there's a lot of parryable boss attacks you would not expect to be parryable

[fervent raptor]

honestly the best bossing skill with QS is uh

Basic Attack

[eager coral]

I was pulling at least one "RULES OF NATURE" per 10 seconds, which is fascinatingly more than I thought back when huntress first came out

Why can I parry a flamethrower? Don't know, too beyond mortal to care

[knotty glacier]

tbh, that's true for a lot of clases, basic attacks are legit

[carmine rampart]

ikr

i wanted to keep my buckler but i'm already juggling whirlwind tornadoes and shock procs with lightning spear + lance

i coooould make one of those consume parry instead of using disengage

[eager coral]

Honestly even if I get this build to graduate out of frenzy charges I think I'll still keep parry just for the interrupt capability, because some parried attacks cancel ALL further associated mechanics and not just what hit you

[carmine rampart]

yeah it's real nice

[eager coral]

Even if not, sometimes you just get wild stuff like parrying the ground explosion from the first sehkema trial boss.

[knotty glacier]

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/TheZombiePenguin-1291/runesofaldur/character/Penguion

Current character and tree if anyone's curious

[eager coral]

The funniest part is in the league where huntress released, I tried to do a melee-less throw build with no parrying, and basically trashed it before the end of act 1

This time? Parry good

[knotty glacier]

Hullo, yes, i would like: Jewel.

[glacial anvil]

my friend is confused about an interaction they're seeing in poe2, and I was wondering if anyone here would know what's going on

they have fireball and summon raging spirits

summon raging spirits says a fire projectile hitting an enemy will summon 1 spirit, and an area fire spell will summon a spirit based on its radius (1 spirit / 1.5 m, and their fireball is currently 1.7 m)

if they use fireball and hit a wall, they summon 1 spirit, which implies to them that the aoe part of fireball is summoning a spirit

but then if they use fireball and hit an enemy, it still summons 1 spirit, so it seems like the projectile part isn't summoning a spirit

any clue what's going on there?

[grizzled hamlet]

What happens if they hit a group of enemies

It might be the case that one single enemy can't get hit by both projectile and aoe

[glacial anvil]

still just one

[grizzled hamlet]

Probably just takes the max between projectile hit and aoe hit and spawns that per cast then?

[glacial anvil]

yea maybe

[knotty glacier]

Whoof.

beat the bloody arbiter of flame

that is not a fun fight as melee

[knotty glacier]

That embarssing moment when yo urealize a: Your herald of thunder isnt doing anyhting because you dont really shock that much

and b: you could be using repulsion still, whcih also increases your single target dps by a fair chunk

[fervent raptor]

Apparently fluxes can dupe mods

[hollow geyser]

Sure, 54 chaos res in one slot, I'll take it

[fervent raptor]

huh there's a hidden passive in the monk side of the tree

you need to allocate both the notables and it appears

[keen dagger]

huh!

[knotty glacier]

It's pretty nice!

You know

i'm sure there's better uses for the monk'sr rune slots

but just strapping an extra 300 hp to yourself is pretty frigging nice

[knotty glacier]

and aztiri down

got her boots, a divine, two archetiet orbs, a core destabilier and a siphoner

so not bad

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/TheZombiePenguin-1291/runesofaldur/character/Penguion

Current state of the character if anyone;'s curious

need to replace a ring, my helmet, amulet

I lucked into this ridiclous thing, so that was nice

[fervent raptor]

saw the prefixes, gasped, then saw the suffixes

just chaos orbed the T7 Int into... T8 Int

[knotty glacier]

Yay!

[fervent raptor]

mfw my toon insults me