Path of Exile

[tight kiln]

wait till you go maps :)

[pale atlas]

oh I know for a fact that I'm doing exactly that "haha I'm a genius" "oh no" meme

[tight kiln]

poe1 level of juicing

[spiral yew]

when does shop reset ?

people said after lvl up but i dont think my shop reset when i lvl up

[tight kiln]

idk

[blissful plume]

I think shop reset broke

[covert frigate]

aint no way lmao

[spiral yew]

lol

[gleaming palm]

holy shit just had a mana siphion rare that its siphon range was whole screen

i could see its area before sseeing the rare mob

[viscid fulcrum]

I think level up adds new items not refreshes but im not sure

Thats just what it feels like

[tight kiln]

man demon form is rough to build.

[pale atlas]

By the sounds of it, ggg intends to use mana as a wall to limit people going batshit crazy power scaling with builds?

[tight kiln]

nah

demon form has a scaling 0.5% life degen for each stack

so what they do is lower their life as low as possible and use ES instead as a scaling

[copper mortar]

yeah definitly, sorc is really mana intensive with it's builds

also it's funny that the current final boss of the acts is Vaal malachai

[spiral yew]

i always ran out of mana, and when it's boss fight i ran out of mana pot

[quiet wind]

cmon

im in a2 cruel

[copper mortar]

those stats with that ability

[quiet wind]

this is only the 2nd unique ive ever gotten

[tight oak]

NEED

85 ex but NEED

[toxic wing]

so is ex the main trading currency?

[gleaming palm]

yea

[toxic wing]

what about divines

are they less?

i have no clue what's valuable in this economy

[copper mortar]

divines are about the same

[tight oak]

divines are like 4 ex

they're actually worth dirt relative to poe 1

[copper mortar]

actually has anyone got a mirror yet?

[toxic wing]

haven't seen one yet

or atleast didn't see someone link one yet

i have seen some insane crafted weapons though

mainly through rog though

[copper mortar]

act 4 is karui, act 5 is probably eternal empire and act 6 is unknown

maybe act 5 boss is Emperor Izaro

[copper mortar]

just to remind you, we don't have a map tab

[toxic wing]

it's fine tbh it's still early acces

[civic grove]

wtf huge drop

[toxic wing]

could be nice for ice monk

[tight oak]

it's the build enabler for cast on shock+freeze stormweaver

[copper mortar]

it basically just allows you to use spark to trigger cast on freeze

[civic grove]

ye cold nodes are also straight up better than lightning it feels like

[toxic wing]

Fumbles playing as well

[quiet wind]

scratches an itch i didn't know i had

my only regret is that im playing it now instead of at full release

[heavy blaze]

iam follow chris idea if you find EX just slam it

base start was cold damage

[fluid timber]

was cruising till I hit Jamanra, and I don't do shit in damage to him

[covert frigate]

cruel?

[fluid timber]

normal

[covert frigate]

wait apparently there are 2 jamanras

which one?

or rather you fight him twice

[fluid timber]

doesn't help my main damage output is lightning and he's resistant to it

the act end one

[covert frigate]

oh fuck my main dmg is lightning too

gotta make sure to grab some lightning pen nodes then

[bronze dirge]

Wtf svalinn made it to PoE2
That looks busted, justified price I guess

[tight kiln]

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1hcb07w/010d_patch_notes/

[spiral yew]

360 block

[quiet wind]

magma barrier nerfed

[spiral yew]

Fixed a bug where NPCs were missing their name labels in Hideouts when using a controller.

wait ... hideout ?

we have that ?

[fluid timber]

the first trial mentions something about a hideout too

This includes monsters such as the Adorned Beetles in Keth.
that would have saved me a lot of deaths today

[quiet wind]

my trash clear is lightning damage going through keth sucks so hard especially with the boss beetle

[tight oak]

felled hideout in the atlas

oh cool they killed every build i wanted to make

and i don't have nearly the amount of gold to do any respeccing so 👍

[fluid timber]

yea the thread is pretty much all people like "well this is cool, my build is bricked and it would cost 500k to respec"

[covert frigate]

well good thing im not far enough into the game to have that problem

i also dont really know how to make hyper min maxxed builds either

[fluid timber]

yea that's usually why I don't get hit too heavily by things like what they did to flame wall. That said it's also why my build kinda crumbled a bit with finishing act2, because I had no good way to damage the boss. I'm hoping getting oil grenade to compliment explosive shot might solve the problem

568mb for that update

[blissful plume]

I guess no one can do ailments on white mobs anymore

ggg really treating this EA like poe1 with an established meta instead of a new game experience huh

[fluid timber]

Single skill/automated builds seem to be something they really don’t want to happen and they’ll bulldoze everything they can to prevent it if one gets discovered and popular

[covert frigate]

but they gave us a bunch of cast on [conditions] and lowered the amount of total skills we can have?

like in POE1, it was 8 skills and then hold shift for 8 more skills?

[blissful plume]

coc was also affected by the nerfs right?

they can't possibly have forgotten about it

[pale atlas]

lmao you got one too huh

[tight oak]

they specifically said they focused on nerfing ailment-based triggers

coc got touched but barely

so coc-based builds are basically unaffected

[blissful plume]

wtf is this shit

ultimatum is fucked with having to kill chaos right

[tight oak]

yeah ggg is trying too hard with poe 2

i imagine once the next league drops in poe 1 people are gonna go back and not look at poe 2 again until full release

instead of standard vs ruthless it's gonna be 1 vs 2

[blissful plume]

eventually it'll just be 2 since ggg doesn't have the resources to maintain 2 games

[spiral yew]

this make no sense

[tight kiln]

huh

[blissful plume]

Gratz on the guaranteed hh

[blissful plume]

Wonder how they're gonna do leagues on release, are they gonna stagger the leagues or are they gonna release leagues for both at the same time

And how much more pushback to player power will they introduce next poe1 league

[blissful plume]

https://www.twitch.tv/jungroan/clip/VivaciousHeartlessMuleGingerPower-8BG3GI9vRr9MthlX?tt_content=clip&tt_medium=mobile_web_share

Doesn't look barely touched

[tight oak]

ah

not sure what he was doing earlier with comet in sanctum

[bronze dirge]

Coc is not touched
Only ailment meta skills are

[spiral yew]

hope my noob build is safe, it probably is ngl

[blissful plume]

Jung isn't using coc in the clip?

[bronze dirge]

Isn't the skill icon on the top left is cast on critical?
Edit: but you're right, he ain't casting anything from the meta skill

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3621780

Got dumpstered too

We missed one! Cast on Critical Strike now also cares about the Damage of the hit when determining how much energy to gain to prevent the use of high-crit low level skills, this should mean using lower hit frequency skills that hit harder are also now much stronger for this.

[blissful plume]

I guess meta gems are dead on release

Or if they do release them, no one will use the new ones till release/season 1

So that those meta gems don't get nerfed immediately

And ggg can't hide behind the EA tag to justify the nuke

[bronze dirge]

I rather they gut the damage or increase cdr
Than whatever they have done to this

This is like doubling or tripling down of nerfs packaged as game balancing

[spiral yew]

wow

my cast on shock is so shit now

[bronze dirge]

Archmage time

[pale atlas]

i'm still good with my gas nades

for now

[bronze dirge]

Already got hit once so should be fine

[spiral yew]

i like crafting now

maximum life is really bad there but more resistance

[bronze dirge]

Still decent

[tight kiln]

meanwhile minions untouched

[civic grove]

man i need to fix my sorc passive tree now

[spiral yew]

uhhhh ....

what happen to my honour

[civic grove]

did you swap off shield or something

swapping gear and lowering life/es is bugged for trials

it'll delete your honour

[spiral yew]

oh ...

i forced to pick no er debuff

well i fail to run anyway

[tight kiln]

nvm CoC isnt dead

lmao

you're required to have higher level and harder hitting skills to proc your CoC now

https://files.catbox.moe/wco4sk.mp4

my friend has 50% crit. check the lightning procs

[bronze dirge]

Yea
Jungroans Ball lightning coc is so depressing to watch

[tight kiln]

you need a high level EoW now not just level 13 EoW and abuse the fuck out of it

[bronze dirge]

Also what is that screen colour

[tight kiln]

no clue what my friend is plying on

so its practically back to poe1 CoC where you need to heavily invested in mana leech, but instead here you need to focus on the damage output of your primary skill

[bronze dirge]

My first ever CoC build was this
https://youtu.be/m9TylXY3Sp4

[tight kiln]

throw back to crucible man

[gleaming palm]

man

was doing trial

then power outage...

[spiral yew]

i saw a Shade with haste, mana burn, magma armor yesterday, so bad

[spiral yew]

it has checkpoint anyway

unless you almost kill a boss

[gleaming palm]

phew

thanks

1 room before boss

[bronze dirge]

I crashed during ultimatum had to restart for me

[gleaming palm]

ultimatum just sux

[bronze dirge]

Which is ironic cos I loved that shit in PoE1

[spiral yew]

how tf do you even clear 10 stage ultimatum without meta build ?

[bronze dirge]

Uhh depends on how bad is your build is

Lol

[spiral yew]

i will just stick with the coin for 3rd ascension

i feel like i can do it, if i careful enough

[heavy blaze]

dw minion are next no class is safe

[copper mortar]

wait what the fuck does sorc even build now?

[bronze dirge]

Archmage spark is solid but you need es/mana gear

https://youtu.be/2xuQ-V4lA-M

[blissful plume]

Yeah just spend 500k ez to respec from cold to lightning

[blissful plume]

I thought you couldn't summon srs with firewall anymore?

[bronze dirge]

500k gold vs reroll
I'll take the reroll

I can read the layouts alot better now

[tight kiln]

its fine im farming gold tro reroll

[heavy blaze]

lets start the prenerf fun

[bronze dirge]

[blissful plume]

I think we just have to see what builds streamers are playing and just not play those

[tight kiln]

atlas update.

[gleaming palm]

wow

[tight kiln]

gonna add essence next since its just free rares

[copper mortar]

also they literally killed an entire acendency based around trigger skills

[tight kiln]

cast on crit isnt dead tho

[tight kiln]

better level fast bro

[tight oak]

The outcry about this thing wouldn't be so bad

If respeccing didn't cost an arm and a leg

[tight kiln]

yep

[tight oak]

Like

It's in the testing phase

Ofc heavyhanded changes are gonna happen

But alongside it, devs should also want their players to test a lot of things for more data

The super high respec costs make players want to find one viable build and run it forever

If they wanna make a new build they'll make a new character

Most people are also gonna want to have good twink gear though to blitz the acts and well

A not insignificant portion of them are gonna have a miserable time with that and be very upset

[pale atlas]

just one respec per major change would be good imo, and no stockpiling respecs

give it the feel that you're at least experiencing most of what the game would be on release, but not be so upsetting for people in EA

[tight kiln]

@blissful plume path of flames gemma 3

[tight oak]

Overall I think poe 2 will be good on release

But it will also be a game that follows a vision that I don't need or want

[pale atlas]

I'm looking forward to what they're cooking for act 4 5 6 etc

[blissful plume]

Gemma3 doesn't want to pump max hp

[tight oak]

I play poe for the immense depth

[blissful plume]

Warrior pof?

[tight oak]

If I wanted a simpler, more challenging game, I play d2 hc

[pale atlas]

act 3 black chambers was a wild ride

[blissful plume]

Can't get twink gear if the leveling uniques require lvl 52

[tight oak]

You can get some outrageously powerful low level gear

[pale atlas]

would be hilarious if, they just copy d2, and act 4 is literally in hell lmao

[tight oak]

Like tempest flurry + bell on monk shits out damage on even a ilvl 10 quarterstaff

Just with a few good mods

[blissful plume]

I mean how long will they let bell last as it is

[tight oak]

Wands+focus/staves can roll like total +3sk and spell/ele from a similar level

[blissful plume]

If 60 spirit meta skills are already doing too much in their eyes

[tight oak]

I mean

We're not gonna pretend cast on ailment wasn't overpowered

[blissful plume]

I'm not but like bricking a build though

[tight oak]

The nerfs were way too heavy, but that doesn't mean that shit wasn't breaking the game

[blissful plume]

They really gave it the ggg triple nerf try

[tight oak]

Yeah that I heavily dislike

[blissful plume]

People not following streamers and jus playing the class following the unlocks as intended got smashed hard by it

Like what's the point

[tight oak]

That's the part that really fucking sucks

Is that I was using it and trying to develop my own build

[pale atlas]

tfw I didn't follow any streamers

[blissful plume]

It's wasn't even a hidden mechanic, just play the game kind of build

[tight oak]

I was trying 2 things

Archmage cast on shock with ball lightning + conduit stormweaver

And seeing stars invoker with triple cast on ailments

Both now dead in the water

Also still ignoring the part where

Ignite builds seem to be doing a whole lot of nothing

But gotta nerf things first instead of fixing the bait

[blissful plume]

Imagine if they actually changed their philosophy and started mid league nerfs for poe2

[tight oak]

I don't understand the thought process

Like in my head the priorities make sense to be like

Bug fixes and improving the parts of the game that make it hard for players to enjoy

[copper mortar]

we already know that act 4 is karui

[blissful plume]

Also how many days has it been since poe2 launched?

Is it a week already?

[tight oak]

i.e. bad sections, bad rates, player agency, and weak skills

Yeah a week

And then move on to finetuning balance

[pale atlas]

hasn't launched yet tbf, still early access

but about a week

[blissful plume]

I mean early access

[copper mortar]

it's also the only thing ice spells did since everything else hits like a wet noodle

[tight kiln]

i wish they can buff some skills instead of just finding the next thing to nerf

fire spells are so underpowered its unreal

[tight oak]

I've been trying the molten blast skill on mace

Good god this skill feels like

[blissful plume]

-1 to molten strike incoming

[heavy blaze]

jungroan use cost on minion death but neck cost 80ex 💀

[tight oak]

The one ranged attack given to the melee classes in an MMO to make them feel like they're at least doing something when standing out of range

[tight kiln]

it doesnt work anymore

[tight oak]

It does so little and only accomplishes burning your mana for literally +1% dps

And atm mace doesn't really have any other skill that I could find was good for tri-ele

[heavy blaze]

https://www.twitch.tv/jungroan looks good to me

[tight oak]

Idt the trigger skills exclusive to gear were changed

[tight kiln]

oh

hes manually casting

[tight oak]

I don't have a Svalinn though so

[tight kiln]

ye

manual is ok

also

i dont think you need his amulet

just minion instability and infernal legion

[gleaming palm]

woot

got my 5th and 6th ascendancy points

[tight kiln]

grats

[gleaming palm]

thanks

[heavy blaze]

is easier with higher procc rate since they hit 1 time and died

[gleaming palm]

ok gonna rest awhile

that trial earlier was intense LOL

cause i was 1 hit away from losing it

[tight kiln]

yay 1st atlas point for bosses

[tight kiln]

2nd boss atlas point get

[bronze dirge]

Ngl it looks depressing compared my build to yours

[low ermine]

Just came home hyped because last night I just reached certain level so I could play my planned build... Aaaannd it got bricked with this patch

[tight kiln]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5nwcUQWzho

[low ermine]

The change is understandable since it's early access and all, but honestly wish they would give a free reset skill point

[tight kiln]

pain offeing is very balanced

its bound to be nerfed when 99% of spell casters are using cast on freeze

but ye there should be a respec on thjis

[low ermine]

Mine just lost a huge chunk of dps but still fine. My friend's build is completely unusable now and he said respec gonna take him at least 100k gold. But he can't farm gold because his build is unplayable

[pale atlas]

yeah, ultimately, it's not respecting players' time

especially knowing we paid into early access for love of the game

[tight kiln]

its.. early access

not a full game

i wouldnt be surprised minions get shit on tomorrow

[heavy blaze]

people need to chill EA is 6 month

just level new

i would understand when EA end in 1month

[tight kiln]

im just gonna EA until poe1 new league comes

[blissful plume]

Ya poe2 is just a placeholder to kill time

[tight kiln]

yeah

i think most people will drop EA when MHWilds come

might too

[blissful plume]

Imagine poe2 release that every skill is at the same level as the early trailers shown, low dmg high ttk and uber fast mobs

[toxic wing]

Watch them nerf the monk or the bell next. Maybe even the lightsaber skill

[low ermine]

im invoker, meta already got nerfed, pls dont the bell

[toxic wing]

If the bell goes away so does monk boss dmg for the most part

Or a big part atleat

[toxic wing]

Just kill it

you'll get some wisdom scrolls

[low ermine]

tho I do feel like the bell is OP, or at least the one build im using. After having 3 power charges, and then charged staff + bell + meta/triggered spell. Boss died in that 1 single burst

[toxic wing]

I mean they increased the down time for bosses to 12 seconds

That's 6 extra seconds of bell time

So we might see nerfs

[heavy blaze]

almost got baited playing minion.. man minion is ass in narrow maps with alot of door and no one told me when you zoom they despawn if you get out of range

so GAS it is. just gas

[pale atlas]

always gas

pedal to the metal

[tight kiln]

JUICE

just now 300% waystone, 2 drop

now 400%

see how many drops

[covert frigate]

Are herald gems missable?

[toxic wing]

Herald gems?

Like herald of thunder/ice ?

[covert frigate]

Yeh the gems that give spirit passives

[toxic wing]

They're from spirit skill gems

They drop as well

[covert frigate]

Oh spirit skill gems drop?

Around when they syart dropping?

[toxic wing]

Found a couple yesterday

Eh no clue

Global i think

I got some around act 1-2

and even in act 3 they drop

It's prob rng

[covert frigate]

Wait apparently if you put items into the disenchant menu and then click cancel, you just lose the items?

It doesnt go back to your inventory

[tight kiln]

man i cant get my t15 waystones to drop

[gleaming palm]

i just started doing t7 lol

u too good

i just need more Life >,<

and i am good

[hot kraken]

if i take the rewards and end trial

will it count as completed or i have to clear the whole 10 rounds

[fluid timber]

dodge roll change going well https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1hch6tb/found_a_glitch_because_of_player_size_is_now_set/

[gleaming palm]

the quest one u cant leave

meanwhile normal runs u can take and leave, but it doesnt count

[spiral yew]

i wish we have a mana version of this

[blissful plume]

Probably before release

[tight kiln]

one man and a dream

[blissful plume]

For ascend 4?

[tight kiln]

sad

-40% damage nerf +50% hp is too much

he went to like 11mil hp with that 50% buff

[hot kraken]

why do all the parties always have maximum players at 5

i thought it's 6

if i try to join a 5/6 party, it will say full

[tight kiln]

ye ascend 4

[blissful plume]

Isn't it bugged for both anyway

[tight kiln]

apparently people can ascend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiDlPbpIdt4

lightning arrow nerf next

[fluid timber]

yea these lightning arrow builds are gonna get a hammer lol

[blissful plume]

wonder what's next

[fluid timber]

this one specific frame

[tight kiln]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0QUUauMWUM

milky playing torchlight infinite in poe2

[fluid timber]

oh my god

[tight kiln]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmd7_5RGGcQ

holy fuck deadeye flicker strike

[stark knot]

unique drop! .... wat

[quiet wind]

nice flavor text

[stark knot]

seems decent for alts (found this earlier). Iron reflexes converts all your evasion rating to armor

[viscid fulcrum]

Has anyone found a unique that they actually used

[stark knot]

using this on my new warrior, though admittedly I got it with my ranger last weekend lol

having no level/stat req helps it a ton though, but it's only really decent for warrior

[fluid timber]

I found a unique chest piece early enough that I was able to use for a while

[stark knot]

not sure if the unique properties can roll on any armor base or if those horns for example are always on a rusted greathelm

if it could roll on higher level base items with higher modifier ranges, that'd be neat

[fluid timber]

the uniques are supposed to have unique (harhar) stats that can change up a build so I would think at least one mod would be specific but not sure

[covert frigate]

<- have not found a single unique

[stark knot]

been using this to get my warrior through act 1, basically just using the vanilla mace strike to bludgeon bosses to death

[covert frigate]

thats a unique? why is it gold instead of orange?

[stark knot]

put overpower for more stun buildup and martial tempo for attack speed and just bonk the bosses to death ignoring mechanics

nah it's a rare, not unique

[fluid timber]

yea you can really crank up rares to pretty wild stats

[stark knot]

that was a pure random rare drop, didn't put any crafting mats into it, just got lucky

[fluid timber]

I have a rare crossbow with minimum level 16 I'm still using because I got it so boosted that I still haven't found a new one at early 30s that even meets the phys damage of mine

[stark knot]

I'm really stingy with crafting currency, and am diablo-brained so I am used to just grinding for random drops

but I imagine rares are not... well common because they expect you to craft rares on solid magic/normal rarity bases

[tight oak]

gotta remember in poe that uniques are not legendaries

[fluid timber]

there's a few currencies I save but a lot of stuff if I get a drop that is comparable or better than what I have I throw some stuff into it to make it real good to use for a while

[stark knot]

I really should use transmutes/augments more at least, have a fat stack of those sitting around

[tight oak]

They'll give you something in a slot that normally can't or something that can't be replicated, but they're not going to be auto-equips

[stark knot]

and GGG upped the drop rates of augments/transmutes

[fluid timber]

they upped rares too. If you're hurting for gear just run the furthest boss you can clear because they're guaranteed one rare now

[covert frigate]

they upped the drop rate by a lot it seems, i got like 3 exalted orbs in less than an hr this morning

[quiet wind]

i have like 3 stacks of both transmutes and augments but i barely find the bases of what i want to roll

[tight oak]

Sounds about right

[covert frigate]

still waiting for a wand drop that gives lv for lightning spells

[fluid timber]

I'm definitely getting a currency tab this weekend when stashes are on sale because I'm drowning in em already lol

and I'm not mad enough to stop playing from the nerfs like apparently everyone on the message boards

[covert frigate]

nerfs dont effect me because i cant read

[quiet wind]

my build isnt crazy so i think im good

[tight oak]

Both my characters got bricked by the changes, and I don't feel like making a 3rd to farm gold to make the other 2 playable again

[covert frigate]

just make a new char, easy

[tight oak]

I will

But on poe 1 since I didn't get to experience settlers

[covert frigate]

i actually dont really understand what the nerfs do exactly that completely destroys people's builds

i havent even unlocked half the stuff mentioned in the nerfs

[tight oak]

The main one is the cast on ailments

Like cast on freeze was the big one

When freezing an enemy you gain energy, reach max energy and it will auto-cast the spells linked to it

People were abusing it to trigger comet like 5x a second

Now it's closer to a comet every 3, 4s or something

[covert frigate]

oh it builds up energy?

[tight oak]

Yeah and the energy gain got destroyed

[covert frigate]

does cast on shock and ignite also work like that?

[tight oak]

Yes

[covert frigate]

damn

[tight oak]

Cast on crit avoided the nerfs... For about an hour before it got hit too

It's just kinda wack cause those were literally the point of the Invoker ascendancy

[covert frigate]

does the energy required change depend on the skill linked?

[tight oak]

Energy required is based on the cast time

Slower spells need more energy

[covert frigate]

i see

so my planned build shouldnt have too much trouble

[tight oak]

You can also support multiple spells and it'll sum the cast time to energy

[covert frigate]

does cast time reduction stat reduce energy required then?

[tight oak]

Afaik no

[covert frigate]

damn

that kinda sucks

[tight oak]

If it did it'd be even more broken

[covert frigate]

itd be more interesting

[tight oak]

like I said b4, GGG wants POE 2 to be combo-centric and pianoing keys

[covert frigate]

not much room for piano and combos with the slow-ass cast time

[tight oak]

But if I wanted to play a game like that, there's plenty of MMOs out there doing it better

[fluid timber]

like my build is more in line with what they're expecting because it's built around using support grenades and then detonating (or not detonating) them with specific element bolts

[quiet wind]

merc too clunky for that to be possible with the reload mechanic

and i dont use grenades

[covert frigate]

also, sorc just straight up doesnt get enough synergy between spells for combos

[tight oak]

Like POE 2 isn't the first time an arpg has tried to avoid 1 button builds and combo synergies

[covert frigate]

like you have what? 4 choices of combos

[tight oak]

It's just that almost none of them do well in the long run

[fluid timber]

Diablo 4 tried to avoid that too and look where it is now

[covert frigate]

flame wall spark, lighting storm any lightning spells, frost bullet frost nova, and frost bullet cold snap?

theyre all 2 spells combos too

[fluid timber]

after how much people hated seasons 1 and 2 of it Blizz completely caved and went 'screw it, boost everything'

[covert frigate]

so not much room for piano

[tight oak]

In pd2, dark pact has always been a very good build

[covert frigate]

curse spells take a whole second to take effect

[tight oak]

But the players doing it have dropped more and more every season

Cause nobody wants to play a 4 button build

[fluid timber]

it's better for me since I took a lot of reduction to reload speed but yea if they want piano they really gotta tighten up the speed of things

[tight oak]

Tl;dr dark pact is a spell that detonates your curses in an aoe, you can get 3 curses 4 with a unique

[covert frigate]

want piano
design game like dark souls, a game where you press like 1 button every 5 seconds

real smart GGG

the design principles just clash

[fluid timber]

and it's real massive whiplash compared to D4 season 6 where my spiritborn spams Quill Volley at lightning speed and nukes pinnacle bosses in 2 seconds lol

[stark knot]

wearing all 3 of the uniques I linked earlier... lookin foolish

[tight oak]

I mean, GGG wanted to simplify poe 2 to be more beginner friendly

But also wanted it to be more punishing and more nuanced gameplay

That's a recipe for disaster

[fluid timber]

in some ways compared to POE1 it definitely is easier. skill gems just being character-based definitely helps in that regard

[covert frigate]

i think thats doable

[tight oak]

IMO, poe 1 became beginner friendly enough with community resources

[covert frigate]

like you can make i more beginner friendly in the sense that its easier to make a usable build, without crazy complex calculations, but also punishing gameplay by making the actual execution in combat more consequential

[tight oak]

But without the resources, POE in any form is going to be obscenely complex

[covert frigate]

yeh, but they can make new players end up with a playable build easily

[tight oak]

They could if they wanted to

[covert frigate]

which they did do a lot to help, like recommended skills and support

[tight oak]

But they focused on dumpstering the top end instead

[covert frigate]

and no more links on gear, no more vendor recipes

as a fairly new player, i think POE2 is a lot more beginniner friendly than POE1

[tight oak]

POE has a very long history of centering changes around the top 5% of the players, which end up hurting only the other 95%

[fluid timber]

I can understand dumpstering top end at this early of the game's life to get everything at a starting point you want and then creeping things up. If they completely hammering this hard nonstop after EA then there's gonna be problems

[tight oak]

Since the same 5% just find some other way to break the game

[covert frigate]

yeh i think they didnt need to drop these nerf tbh

[tight oak]

I think the reasoning for the nerfs are justified

[fluid timber]

though what will make me stop for a while is if I don't manage to take out Jamanra still this evening lol

[tight oak]

It was just too heavy handed

[covert frigate]

in fact, i dont even know why they introduce these auto cast skills if they want players to press more buttons

and then nerf it because players are auto casting TOO much

???

[tight oak]

And it was like

The skills in question weren't even like

Some super tech someone found that makes them absurd

People picked the ascendancy designed for triggers

Triggers happened

And good damage go brrrt

[covert frigate]

its literally just how the game was designed

[tight oak]

Literally just playing the game

[fluid timber]

I am definitely an advocate of making build experimentation more beginner friendly by reducing respec costs by like 90%

[tight oak]

You made a node that says meta skills gain 35% more energy

And then said meta skills were gaining too much energy

[covert frigate]

lmao

[fluid timber]

that...is very silly

like why even have that energy gain increase, and definitely that much

[viscid fulcrum]

They just didnt predict how much it was going to be overpowered

[covert frigate]

i dont see why they didnt, like this isnt an obscure interaction

its just... there

[fluid timber]

their internal playtesters just didn't even mess with meta gems apparently

[covert frigate]

also, with cast on trigger meta gems as a mechanic, i wonder how their planning on moving forward with the game

having auto casts in an ARPG is worrisome

[viscid fulcrum]

Playtester can only do so much and having released the game to more people theres gonna be combinations even they couldnt think of that would make it function the way it did

Its just a tuning issue i think

[covert frigate]

they completely changed calculation formula for this lmao

not really a tuning issue

[viscid fulcrum]

Can still be fine tuned to still be good but not broken

[copper mortar]

and most sorc builds use cast on ailment so even that is silly

[covert frigate]

took away all the interesting auras and mana reserves and gave us some boring autocasts and then nerf it smh

[tight oak]

I can't rationalize this statement

There is nothing obscure about putting on a trigger and inserting any spell

This isn't a "it only worked with cof comet" thing

Even CoS spark was decent

Playtesters would have even been incentivized to test it more than anything else given that there's an entire ascendancy devoted to it that was advertised

[viscid fulcrum]

Theyve stated that the people they had test the game was random people not even into playing games test the game out, not the top 1% of players trying to min max their builds. Even if it wasnt just random people play testing the game they have a history of having in game interactions that the devs themselves couldnt predict.

[fluid timber]

I can't imagine people not into games could get very far with some of those boss mechanics

[covert frigate]

inb4 they gave testers easier version of the game for testing

and thats why they couldnt get balancing data

[toxic wing]

They let ben do the testing

[covert frigate]

lmao

[fluid timber]

fun detected

Matara just saw the passive tree for the first time

she got a unique off the first boss lmao

[covert frigate]

wtf streamer luck lmao

[stark knot]

I need a compilation of VTubers reacting to the skill tree

[fluid timber]

I imagine somesone's gonna make that eventually

it's easy content

[stark knot]

anyone know why my ranger (Level 23 in act 2) would have a lightning resistance penalty? I checked my gear and skill gems but didn't see anything

wait nvm resistance info further down clarified, just did the math on my other resistances and pretty much all except chaos resist are down 10% for act 2

[fluid timber]

basically each act it goes down by 10% yea

and you are REALLY gonna want to get the lightning resistance up for the act2 boss

who despite having a better gameplan now the timing of his early attacks just mess up my combo timing with witchhunter so I'm still struggling to clear him

[covert frigate]

imagine needing combo

*spams spark with flame wall

[fluid timber]

this is a lie

[fluid timber]

well good, kill him for me 😛

[stark knot]

got to the first ascension trial boss and failed the vibe check, DPS is not nearly good enough

[covert frigate]

Bruh i can't even load into the game anymore, it keeps crashing when loading the map and i suspect its because i have around 10gb free left in my c drive

[stark knot]

feel like I'm missing something crucial to lightning ranger build, damage has been falling off hard in act 2

[fluid timber]

okay no. this act2 fight just gets stupid. I can now do some decent damage now but once he gets to 20% it becomes INFINITE BULLSHIT, GO!

[blissful plume]

They also had close betas and those testers voiced out the same things people in EA were already saying

[fluid timber]

I'm thinking of giving POE1 another go in the meantime because I'm hitting my patience on attempts with this boss

[pale atlas]

This can be overcome with just more dps, but yes it's hard

[blissful plume]

why does poe2 still have on death effects and super fast mobs when players are no longer as powerful as in poe1 anyway?

like wasn't the point of those 2 to combat player power but player power is harder to obtain in poe2 anyway

[fluid timber]

hilariously I actually almost did it after changing my build to focus more on grenades. And then on my last run when I got close, the server shat out and I froze for 10 seconds getting murdered when I had him around 10%

[tight kiln]

3rd atlas boss point get

[blissful plume]

wait its no longer a joke that AN will be on bosses anymore?

[tight kiln]

??

you want mods on bosses. every single mod is additional quant and rarity

why do you think i have 7 mods on my rares

My wife took one look at the patch notes and said to me, “Honey, isn’t this your build?”

My heart sank. I quickly logged in and entered a map. “It’s not working, I deal 0 damage.” Okay I prepared for this. I had a small savings account with gold in case of an emergency. I quickly respecced into CoC and looked at my wife nervously. “See? Everything’s alright honey, it was just a little hiccup”.

“There was another hotfix. CoC doesn’t work anymore either.” I tested again and she was right. 0 damage and my beautiful trigger comets were in shambles. She suddenly lost all emotion, at that point I knew everything was over. She couldn’t even look me in the eyes anymore. I had no gold, no damage, nothing. I was worthless. Our 13 skeleton kids were in the other room listening but I could tell they all had the same thought. I couldn’t even comfort them because at that point I was completely out of energy.

My wife finally spoke up, “I’m going to spend the night at my parent’s. They’re an older build but at least Gas Arrow still works. They have room for the kids, too” She left 3 hours ago. I tried to explain to her that her grandparent were already nerfed but she wouldn’t listen.

It’s been less than 24 hours and any help is appreciated. I can’t put gold on the table because my main source of income is gone. I don’t know where I’m going to be in 2 days but I can’t afford the hideout rent and Alva keeps asking me when I’ll pay. I think she just shut off the water because I can’t pay for utilities either. Please, help make this right.

[covert frigate]

Damn mob dmg output suddenly spike like crazy when i got to valley of titans

Ranged mobs completely destroy my es in 1 single normal attack

[blissful plume]

Your minion build is the same as ghazzy's?

[tight kiln]

pretty much

theres 2 ways to build

ghazzy's EB MoM or Kripparrian's str life stacker

once demon form is fixed im gonna swap out tho

[blissful plume]

Yeah giving up on sorc and I've not even finished act3

[tight kiln]

double corrupt is the way to go

[tight kiln]

4th

[gleaming palm]

guess this is a good ring with resist

[tight kiln]

atlas done

[gleaming palm]

damn

[spiral yew]

after going to maxroll and check out the passive tree, my can survive a bit better now

my dmg still suck tho

there should be a stash sale tmr right ?

oh it's on now

nvm

[tight oak]

Act 2 has very high lightning res on enemies across the board

It's doable though if you play patient

I did it with melee monk on lower level gems, a ilvl 10 quarterstaff

[spiral yew]

almost die because of these stupid leaf, why those brown leaf can block your chara ???

[blissful plume]

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/s/Og8NbEVbz6

[tight kiln]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyjM9ncDXhk

[heavy blaze]

oh tororo try poe2 hm

[tight kiln]

https://tenor.com/view/poe2-poe-path-of-exile-path-of-exile-2-shimoneta-gif-138194400575996377

[fluid timber]

me even when I'm mad at the game

[spiral yew]

i hate snake and their poison

literally just delete me if i dont pay attention

[tight kiln]

https://youtu.be/6sgI5KpIC5M?si=xiWP2dmQbC0dXNaM

https://www.youtube.com/live/eSJkoCsQ1Ow?si=uFWo2pFChTDY-_Ry

[spiral yew]

my first

[tight kiln]

[tight kiln]

18ex

[spiral yew]

if it's that expensive, i need to think carefully which skill to use on

[blissful plume]

Just use this https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/s/H0MWeznwK7

[tight kiln]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYGvfZL3alo

might be time to start a new character

[copper mortar]

apprantly the third acendency trial will be ||trial of the ancestors||

[tight kiln]

much better than these current 2 ass

[spiral yew]

what that trial gimick ?

[copper mortar]

idk i missed that league https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJNGeWTO5_s

[copper mortar]

moona just double ko'ed at the end of act 1

[covert frigate]

F

lots of lost loot

[fluid timber]

oh Silverfist is some hot bullshit I see. got charged out of nowhere and oneshot

[stark knot]

that top one is neat, not sure if it can be built around but taking rare mob buffs seems fun. The belt seems very good, seeing as most belts are just for flask effects and charm slots

[fluid timber]

thst belt seems good for boosting restistances on rings to help hit cap

[tight kiln]

https://youtu.be/nGorxywolsw?si=fYUZdZCBovmUR71h

[tight kiln]

its a staple in poe1

but in poe2 i dont think its that good at all.

in poe1 20 second is long because of the pack size of mobs and how fricking fast you fly in the maps

20s in poe2 is like 2 packs of mobs

[pale atlas]

lmao basically don't build anything jung is building

or else

[toxic wing]

Wait so to get 3 charm slots you need a suffix/prefix mod that is rare and takes up a slot?

[covert frigate]

Lmao idk how my Arc has better single target dps than ember fusillade

Like just spam arc on 1 target kills it faster than ember fusillade

This game's balance is wack

If i drop storm orb, ember fusillade stands no chance

[stark knot]

idk about the belt thing but every rare belt I'm seeing on the trade site only has 1 charm slot so you may be right

holy... I should've started using this trade site sooner, so many good bows for my ranger going for just 1 aug? Crazy

[covert frigate]

Maybe i should check that too

[fluid timber]

I heard act 3 zones were huge but I was still not prepared enough

[covert frigate]

Are trades manual in this game? You have to message, wait until theyre online and initiate trade?

[spiral yew]

for equip and stuff

currency has a system to automatic trade

[stark knot]

pretty sure yeah Void, trade site makes the initial messaging easier but you still need to party up and visit the seller's hideout/camp

[quiet wind]

its awful and doesnt get better save for maybe 2 spots

[stark knot]

they mentioned they were going to be adding the teleporting to checkpoints thing, so that should help

[tight kiln]

wasnt it already added

[stark knot]

if they did idk how it works lol

[fluid timber]

it isn't

chimer boss floor effects have some serious visibility issues

[covert frigate]

Bruh playing caster in this game is so bullshit, i need to be constantly casting to deal dmg but some miniboses just spam auto attacks and the attacks are faster then my char's cast recovery

So i literally have no room to attack

They did not test these bosses 100%

[fluid timber]

wait till you meet elites with health regen that's faster than you can attack

[covert frigate]

I need to get my cast speed up quick cause this game feels miserable

[spiral yew]

gotta kite them

[stark knot]

move speed on boots is a must-have for ranged classes

or that will be a constant problem

[spiral yew]

which require you to have 25% move spd

[covert frigate]

Bruh

[stark knot]

that is like my only non-negotiable on boots

[covert frigate]

Guess i gotta find fucking 25% mv spd boots

[spiral yew]

20% is good enough tbh

but if the elite has haste, wew

[stark knot]

I think the range is 10-25% I have 10% now on my level 25 ranger and it's been okay but ofc more is better

[spiral yew]

imagine, haste, mana burn, pot drain, magma armor

oh wait i just saw that yesterday

[stark knot]

my least fav rare mod so far is "proximate intangibility" which basically means you have to be standing next to them to hit them

feels like some straight up ranger hate, that stupid modifier

[spiral yew]

i saw people here post insane modify on elite in higher tier and im not looking forward to that

[stark knot]

this bow is nearly perfect for me but the guy selling has a korean name and I don't speak korean at all

[covert frigate]

Deepl

Hm vendor has boots with 15% move speed bonus

Worth buying?

[stark knot]

what else on it? if nothing else you might be able to craft it up with augs etc

[covert frigate]

7.8 life regen per sec

Thats the only thing else

Eh fuck it

Ill just buy it

Ill make do with this for now

Godamn it, just entered a vault full of money but died to a swarm of rare mobs cause i did not have enough movement speed to kite them around the tiny space

This game fucking hates casters so much

[fluid timber]

what is movement speed when spam grenade to everything dead

[covert frigate]

Does GGG has smth against casters or smth?

[fluid timber]

only if they use meta gems

[spiral yew]

wait until you see the atlas map where you spawn in a small room connect with 2 monster pack each side

and there're poison snek in the pack

[stark knot]

FYI if you portal out of the ascension trial area before claiming the reward for the section you're in, you miss out on that reward. RIP large fountain

[fluid timber]

I saw someone discover that in global yesterday

[covert frigate]

Even with 15% move spd it still makes no difference while casting

[stark knot]

hmm yeah idk most casters I've seen have been using minions to distract mob packs while they cast

[fluid timber]

oh shit a vaal orb

maaan if you're gonna siphon flasks, have the decency to give some charges back when I kill you

[covert frigate]

Lmao just tp back to town

[blissful plume]

the direct message option speaks korean for you

[spiral yew]

people need to do that more, to grind some gold too

[blissful plume]

bone prison helps block rushers

[fluid timber]

I actually do this, I fill up my bags and go back to sell regularly

[stark knot]

my loot goblin self grabs anything that's superior (+quality for the scraps), socketed (for the socketing currency), magical or rare

though lately I just sell magic items for gold unless they look like decent bases for a regal

[fluid timber]

D4 got me really on keeping on top of gold because it's such a damn chokepoint in that game

[covert frigate]

I do pick up anything magic or higher to sell

[fluid timber]

ah, I see why people are always asking for help on Blackjaw. hits like a truck and the tracking is overtuned

[spiral yew]

dont play range against him, stick close to him, roll behind him when he does big atk, get some distance and then run side way when he does ring of fire

he's not that hard

also if you fight him in story mode, the pillar can block his ring of fire atk, so hide behind it

[fluid timber]

yea he seems not too bad being in melee and circling him, I basically just barely lost last run since he threw a few new moves at the end I wasn't ready for

[spiral yew]

people either dont have enough hp\shield and get 1shot by his 3hit combo or panic and make mistake

[covert frigate]

Bruh why are the small beatle enemies in act 2 so tanky?

They can tank 3 arc hits

They come in dozens pack

And they run faster than your char

Overtuned as hell

[spiral yew]

they kill me like a dozen times in my first run

[covert frigate]

The big beatles can spawn them infinitely

They should not be that tanky

[fluid timber]

oh be glad that the dodge roll can push them now

they could EASILY trap and overwhelm you before

[covert frigate]

No they still can

Like i can't dodge out or push them at all

[spiral yew]

just be careful when exploring

[hot kraken]

does it mean this trial only contain 4 rounds if i open using it?

[gleaming palm]

yes if u fully do it

[fluid timber]

that's twice I died close to beating because my roll just got...caught on things

[covert frigate]

But it takes so long to kill them

this seems pretty good but i have no use for it

[fluid timber]

not sure if it's a lag issue but the pillar trick actually doesn't work for me

permanent fire resistance boost, worth the hassle

well this seems risky

[covert frigate]

nah youll be fine

energy shield is life anyway

[fluid timber]

Jurard downloaded and launched on stream POE1 instead of 2. Amazing.

[quiet wind]

do you need to finish a3c to start doing maps?

[spiral yew]

yes

2nd story run will be a bit faster than 1st run

[quiet wind]

im already at act 3 just needed to know since i got some maps dropped already

[spiral yew]

oh

[quiet wind]

i should probably work on my build though cause its slow as hell at killing anything above 50% health

[gleaming palm]

what class u using?

[quiet wind]

merc witchhunter

[gleaming palm]

have not get ur decimating strike yet?

[quiet wind]

i know nades are the go to but im a fan of shotgunning things

[gleaming palm]

i am using galv shard + high velo rounds

i am anti nades KEKW

just rmb to get HIGH base phys dmg xbow

u will hit hard

[tight kiln]

https://www.youtube.com/live/7SU4q6yjPLw?si=6qSQN_P39SsY5T2h

[quiet wind]

i need my 3rd ascendancy cause i goofed

[tight kiln]

jsut do sanctum

get honor resist relics

easy

[gleaming palm]

or just respec ur ascendancy KEKW

just cost alot KEKW

[quiet wind]

wait you can?

[gleaming palm]

yea

it just cost way way alot

[quiet wind]

dont mind the cost cause i sell blues rn anyways

[gleaming palm]

at lvl 80, its like almost 30k per ascendancy point

[quiet wind]

eh thats not too horrible

[tight kiln]

preparing for the minion nerf

[gleaming palm]

XD

full tree respec? XD

[tight kiln]

i will proably swap to another build that costs lesser and does about the same damage

[blissful plume]

Mao cosplay

[hot kraken]

wut do i do with this

Oswald didnt have any side Q need it

or i just sell it?

[tight oak]

sell it to oswald

for a piddling sum of gold

[hot kraken]

btw when will i be able to unlock currency exchaging from Alva

currently there's no such option from her

done act 3 normal

now im in act 1 cruel

[tight kiln]

i think you gotta finish acts first

[quiet wind]

you should be able to do it at finn right away in act 1 cruel

[tight kiln]

someone already did no hit sanctum

lmao

[gleaming palm]

damn

[tight kiln]

the item

if

is blink

https://www.twitch.tv/jungroan/clip/SparklyFragileReindeerChocolateRain-pfF3n12tWBGiIKPY

[gleaming palm]

wtf i didnt know u can hold shift to see

[tight kiln]

well ye

[bronze dirge]

My grenadier feels alot better in progression than my cold sorc
Blasting through the campaign with barely any deaths

Funny cos I gave up on it on day 1

Then only returned after CoF is dead

[tight kiln]

my level 2 ranger just gambled a widowhail

welp

thats my twink gear

lol

[blissful plume]

For your ranger?

[spiral yew]

if only that fire dmg turn into +3 lightning skill

[tight kiln]

yes

[toxic wing]

Pro ranger

Did you switch already to another character?

[copper mortar]

what ultimatum does to someone

[spiral yew]

beta run for a year confirmed

[tight kiln]

a

[tight kiln]

ye leveling a pathfinder now

[covert frigate]

Man why does ggg still not allow us to rotate items 90 degrees to fit into inventory

Smh

[blissful plume]

They need you to feel the weight of your actions

[spiral yew]

why

losing the map when die is starting to get annoying at high tier

[covert frigate]

Bruh kabala is such a shitty boss

This game's design is a mess

[spiral yew]

oh the snek

dps check the boss

[covert frigate]

I don't have a lot of single target dps

Its just spark and it does ok

[spiral yew]

i just skip that boss and come back later

[fluid timber]

my build has started to really come online in act3 and it's hilarious how I just explode everything on the screen

[blissful plume]

no orb of storms? firewall?

[covert frigate]

Orb of storm isnt good for boss fight cause bosses force you to move arounf

I do have firewall but it doesnt increase dmg by a ton

[pale atlas]

I usually think of having two set of skills ready, one for groups, and one for single target like bosses and rares

ideally, they work together

[heavy blaze]

why is thief so expensive?

[covert frigate]

I have realized energy shield recharge rate nodes are kinda useless

[spiral yew]

you need to stack lots of them + energy shield start time

[covert frigate]

Even then its not really worth it cause energy shield start time is 4 secs

[covert frigate]

Bruh why doesnt dreadnaught have any check points

The map sucks too, its so easy to just get surrounded and impossible to move

They really gotta give dodge roll phase cause the game is bullshit rn

[fluid timber]

They did in a way, but I think they silently rolled it back or something because you could escape the zones with it

[covert frigate]

Setting size to 0 is a weird implementation

Honestly idk why theyre trying so hard to copy dark souls

It just doesnt work

Theres too many thing on screen at the same time

And enemies swarm you

Things that just don't happen in dark souls

[fluid timber]

It isn’t innately a dark souls thing, a lot of modern arpgs are doing mechanics to make bosses not a facetank encounter

Last Epoch leans hard into it like POE2, and even Diablo 4 technically does (just the bosses tend to not live long enough lol)

In fact it was becoming more of a thing even before Dark Souls (and everybody started saying Dark Souls but X). WoW and FFXIV have been doing that kinda thing for a loooong time

I actually never understood it being so popularized by DS because frankly I always thought it did it the most obtusely

[covert frigate]

Im not talking about the boss fights, those are fine

Its the mobs that are the problem

And the reason i say dark souls specifically is because of how they are emphasize the dodge roll and attack animations so much

Its very clear theyre trying to copy dark souls combat into poe2

But they can't just copy wholesale these are 2 different genres

[fluid timber]

I really don’t think they did copy it entirely because I fucking hate Dark Souls and I’m enjoying this. Hell with regular mobs I’m hardly even dodging any more, especially since the times I was it was practically counterintuitive most the time instead of going “screw it” and killing my way through

The dodge rolling specifically is useful for doing animation cancels and sudden movement turns, and that extra dexterous edge avoiding boss attacks. Heavy use against mobs and it just gets you caught on everything and anything.

[covert frigate]

Well either way, i beat act 2 boss

Only took 2 tries

It would have been a cool fight if my game didn't freeze every 5 seconds

[tight oak]

if you get put in a situation where you have to dodge roll against mobs, you're probably going to die

[covert frigate]

Idk what GGG is doing over there but they gotta figure out the optimization of this game

[tight oak]

unless it's to buy time for life flask to regen you or ES

[fluid timber]

That boss is a massive gear and build check which is where I was falling apart for so long on it. My build was just…not working for that boss

[covert frigate]

I just kinda spammes
Spark

[tight oak]

what is your build

[covert frigate]

And is just kinda worked

[fluid timber]

Once I switched to the grenade build on maxroll it became ez

My focus previously was using grenades only for ailments and then using galvanic shot for clear and high velocity shot for boss and it was not working any more

[covert frigate]

Spark with pierce and acceleration is insane

[tight oak]

the only shit part of that fight is the ads spawn

everything else is avoidable

[covert frigate]

Yeh the ads deal so much dmg

And you just gotta stand and tank

[tight oak]

i didn't use acceleration that much on spark

it needs pierce and accel is good but i used tempo instead

[covert frigate]

I use tempo for arc

[tight oak]

fuck a arc

from what i've seen and played arc might be the worst lightning spell ngl

[covert frigate]

In fact, i put overabundance and unleash on storm orb so that it double synergizes with arc

[covert frigate]

Wtf its so good

Like the best lightning spell

[tight oak]

then again ball lightning just ate shit

arc does less damage than spark does even on small targets in an open area

[covert frigate]

No?

[tight oak]

and that's with damage gems

[covert frigate]

How is your arc
Doing that little dmg?

[tight oak]

are you trying to equate tooltip to actual damage

arc has a high tooltip but is inferior

[covert frigate]

No im talking in practice

My arc deals more dmg on single target than ember fusillade even

Did you put chain on arc or smth?

[tight oak]

believe it or not i'm not stupid

like i said with damage supports it's still worse

[covert frigate]

idk what youre doing then, but arc deals way better dmg than spark in open area

[tight oak]

that just means your spark is weak

[covert frigate]

bruh

[tight oak]

by end of acts my spark was dropping 100k hp in 1-2 seconds and 1 shotting packs on cast so

[copper mortar]

unless you're playing sorc where you must suffer since he's also lightning resist

[tight oak]

ggg making enemies double down on that too

lightning resist enemies also have high shock resist

lightning wraiths damn near impossible to shock without applying exposure/curses

[copper mortar]

pretty sure 80% of act 2 had lightning resist enemies

[tight oak]

but to apply lightning exposure you need to shock them

yeah most of act 2 has like 50% res

[covert frigate]

i grabbed some lightning pen nodes so i didnt have that much problem

[fluid timber]

He has fire resist too but you get a grenade that obliterates that so problem solved

[copper mortar]

deadeye gets around it because lightning rod + orb of storms is clearly broken

[tight oak]

i mean

turns out playing watered down poe 1 build in poe 2 is still broken cause it's a poe 1 build

[copper mortar]

no i mean it is literally broken, you proc rod every 0.1 second with it

[tight oak]

yeah makes sense

[copper mortar]

and you can put scattershot on lightning rod

[tight oak]

endless munitions reads as skills fire +1 proj or only attacks

cause if it's skills, ball lightning wouldn't be bad either

assuming that interaction works the same

[copper mortar]

and you can double cast orb to double the procs

[fluid timber]

I tried playing a different game tonight. Decided after a bit it wasn't Path of Exile 2 and launched that instead.

[covert frigate]

maybe ill play a different game tonight

been playing POE2 all day and im getting tired of the long loading screens and frame drops

[low ermine]

I neglected some of my gacha games thanks to PoE2

[covert frigate]

good

[low ermine]

just started mapping last night, didnt know it really gives you 1 chance per map. Not allowed to die

my playstyle usually just go straight to the mobs/boss and hitting the bell as monk. But now that scares me because I could die when trading dps, so I guess I'll just spam range attack for mapping

[toxic wing]

Could have been worse tbh if it released during gw or something

[low ermine]

yeah when all the big events happen

[toxic wing]

I miss pob though
i have no clue which stats to focus on or if a staff outdmgs another

I still have no clue if i want to focus on ice or shock monk either

[blissful plume]

don't you love the on-death effects in dark souls too?

or even fights immediately happening after killing a boss

[blissful plume]

https://youtu.be/2gVDTaShOko?si=lGe6_USYoTjsM9_B

[pale atlas]

I want to build a merc that pew pews the fastest

But rapid shot has been weirdly terrible to use

it breaks my brain that I need to somehow... charge it to start using it?

[fluid timber]

grenades just overshadow bolts so much currently. it kinda bums me but then I don't care as much when I make the entire screen explode

[fluid timber]

well that answers that question, the forgemaster has a time limit of sorts

[fluid timber]

you're alright sometimes global chat

[tight kiln]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1hefnue/shroud_rage_quits_while_explaining_how_chill_the/

[spiral yew]

i hate those chaos bomb

[hot kraken]

[civic grove]

welp got one shot by a river hag with 3k es

[spiral yew]

oh ... you can skip the reward in sekhemas trial

im so dumb and take all the reward include bad affliction

[hot kraken]

really dud

1 ex for 6% of fire res

[copper mortar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7heab8ToNe4

[spiral yew]

kinda funny to see all the vtuber check out poe2 and they all have some what similar reaction to the skill tree

[spiral yew]

a good gem at last

[gleaming palm]

oh yes, got my 3rd great jeweller ob

[spiral yew]

indeed

tbh seeing map drop make me happier

[low ermine]

is oasis map bugged? cant find the boss, already explored everything (and there should be boss icon as well but no)

[gleaming palm]

oh u got the bug

the 1 less rare mob spawned

especially for oasis maps

currently i avoid oasis and savannah maps

unless i cant

savannah sometimes after boss fight u cant go back to other areas of the map

[spiral yew]

3k ES only give 150 hp/s

not really that good i think ?

[gleaming palm]

oh wow got my 4th greater jeweller orb

[blissful plume]

No stat or resist jewels anymore

[blissful plume]

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

[tight kiln]

8th boss point get

[spiral yew]

meanwhile i boot up a tier 9 map and got my ass chase around the map by mob

it was fun though, got lots of map drop too

[tight kiln]

[fluid timber]

so that's what hell looks like in POE2

[heavy blaze]

@tight kiln got some juice minion stuff? my neck is so mid

[tight kiln]

nah i was leveling a pathfinder today then decided to farm at like 7pm lmao

mine's mid as well

but i need the attributes

so badly.

[heavy blaze]

true

[tight kiln]

im gonna push my minion build and swap to skeleton reavers

im sick of spamming flame wall and see fuck all

cant even adjust my resists properly

i got this for 15ex when the market is like 30ex+

oh shit im snagging this

[heavy blaze]

i got this one for 10 and sold that for 40ex

crafted this one and using it for the chaos resi but i regret sold the old one

[tight kiln]

you playing ES?

thats nuts

but good to have life rolls because of the reservation part

i gfot 400 spirit now

playing EB MoM

[heavy blaze]

with grim feast i can get to 12k ES on map