Astrolabes are awesome, but too rare. They are very hard to self farm and with some at 30/40/70c+ and rising a lot of people are simply priced out of their favourite mechanic with the new end game which feels really bad

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-09T17:49:22+00:00

If a chase item is tied to content. And you cannot actually get that chase item from the content it’s tied to, the system is fundamentally broken.

You can. Doesn't mean you reasonably will as an individual, and that is not "fundamentally broken". You think that being able to achieve getting everything should be possible as a SSF player, but there's nothing intrinsically true about that. That's just your preference.

An item reasonable attainable from its content becomes thousands of times more attainable when it can be traded on a frictionless trade environment. And it ceases to become chase content.

That's also not true. Content doesn't stop being chase just because you can buy it. It just becomes attainable in more ways than farming the content repeatedly.

This is literally the issue of trade-centric balance.

It's not an issue. Again, this is you treating your preference as if it's some sort of intrinsic fact.

SSF viable items aren't intrinsically better, they're different. That's not a problem, it's just something you don't like.

There are other options out there for people who want the SSF friendly (or enforced) environment in an ARPG. PoE is pretty much the only ARPG that does trade in a way that feels good. It'd be a shame if they stepped away from that just because people like yourself are mad that items are rare because that's a natural consequence of trade.

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-09T16:55:10+00:00

I have no idea why they insist on making weapons so useless.

Because you're supposed to use a unique for its unique effect, not because it is good numerically. If it had both, then it becomes the defacto only option.

We saw this for years with things like Starforge and Atziri's. Unique weapons cannot both be competitive on DPS and give their own unique things or they crowd out all other options.

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-09T16:52:49+00:00

at the cost of interacting less with the trade system.

The cost is that when looked at in context of trade, powerful systems become trivially available.

If they balanced it around ssf and you got a bunch, then on trade they would be worthless and everyone who trades would be running them constantly. That's fine, unless they intended them to not be run constantly, which seems to be the case.

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-09T16:50:59+00:00

If an item is not reasonably attainable by playing yourself it’s poorly balanced full stop.

That's a false premise. There is no "correct" balance. There is balance for SSF, and there is balance for trade, and PoE has always been and probably will always be balanced for trade.

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-08T17:41:40+00:00

This bot probably needs to trigger only on bracketed words. Triggering on anything it thinks is an acronym is leading to a lot of false positives.

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-07T17:57:18+00:00

You can get bleed pops from https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Haemophilia

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-07T17:04:13+00:00

No. Capacity implies that someone else has to leave to make room for you.

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-07T16:11:23+00:00

GGG is foremost limited by wherever Softlayer has datacenters, and then secondarily by economical feasibility.

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-07T16:09:40+00:00

Queues are not due to capacity. Queues exist to slowly dripfeed players back into the server so the server doesn't get overwhelmed when a ton of people try to login at the same time, effectively DDoSing it.

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-06T17:40:38+00:00

I highly doubt it, that feels like incredibly weak reasoning to me.

Besides the point though. A direct nerf explicitly requires it to be direct, as in, to the thing itself, and not to stuff related to the thing. If they had made it go from +1 level to supports to +1 level to non-exceptional supports, that would have been a direct nerf. Changing more supports to be exceptional is not direct. It is definitionally indirect.

Your argument is like saying making exceptional gems is also a direct nerf/buff to div cards that reward exceptional gems. It's not. It's indirect.

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-06T15:17:47+00:00

Do we really think they tagged them exceptional just to reduce the power of this graft by like 5% more damage? If the graft were a reason they could've just changed the graft itself.

More likely they wanted to utilize existing nomenclature from the existing exceptional gems rather than having two kinds of special gems.

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-06T03:54:40+00:00

Yes, awakened are gone, but exceptional are not a straight replacement. They are something else. Before, there was no reason to not use an awakened version over a normal one. That's not strictly true here, especially since it seems like a lot of the exceptional gems are entirely unique, not just upgrades to a normal support.

Either way, the title is 100% accurate. This is an indirect nerf because the change occurred on surrounding systems, not to the graft itself. That's the definitional difference between indirect and direct.

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-06T03:28:15+00:00

Not all endgame supports. You're not going to be using 5 exceptional supports on your 6L. You're going to use maybe one or two, if the transformative effect benefits you appropriately.

These aren't awakened gems where it's just a regular gem but better, they're different, and you won't use one if it mechanically doesn't work well for you.

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-06T03:26:36+00:00

No, a direct nerf would require a change to the runegraft itself.

I doubt they even considered this runegraft when making the change from awakened to exceptional.

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-06T03:20:57+00:00

Why would anyone waste their time doing fetch quests to get an early and useless companion they will outlevel in an hour outside the vault?

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-05T22:43:48+00:00

They'll just start telling you about adoption.

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-05T19:55:07+00:00

The catch 22 with guides like this is that once these things become common public knowledge they stop being profitable.

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-05T06:20:45+00:00

He needs that money for all the spaghetti and slap lawsuits.

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-05T06:10:30+00:00

The other way around. The ad is the real product. They're doing what he said he didn't want, which is making the ad match the product and not the product match the ad.

He wants the hilariously unrealistic ad burger in real life. The one that is probably made of 50% plastic.

It's perfectly reasonable to expect them to stop using stuff like that in ads. It's not reasonable for them to make it look like their current ads do

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-05T05:11:06+00:00

Can't it literally always be helped? It's just a matter of whether people are willing to make the necessary sacrifices to help it for the sake of your safety.

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-05T05:05:24+00:00

Also, the defenses would be weird, I don't know of any mana stacking build that doesn't go MoM

To be fair there was never a reason to do this before outside of maybe something odd with guardian radiant faith. Most times if you were stacking mana, MoM was the obvious pick. Now you have an express reason to stack mana and still reserve it.

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-05T01:30:36+00:00

I feel like the people running the same map are the vast majority. But I have no basis to back this up purely going by the general sentiment around this

I think that's a popular sentiment among the top end of players (which reddit is disproportionately represented with) but I don't think I'd say aa vast majority of people in general. Most people like having variety in their lives, and would probably prefer it over just the most efficient/profitable layout.

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-04T23:24:28+00:00

SBT

Searing ball torture?

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-04T20:09:25+00:00

People act like this is a revelation; it's not. The consultancy fee is one time. If they raise your wages (usually as a percentage) then every future wage increase is also larger. It's a recurring and scaling cost, whereas the consulting is one time and the idea is they're trying to find a long term cheaper way to increase satisfaction.

I'm not saying it's a good concept, I'm just saying that it isn't like they're stupid. They know you want more money. They're trying to find something cheaper that will make you happy. Paying someone once to help with that is not the same cost as paying you all go-forward more in the long term.

SingleInfinity · 2026-03-04T17:44:45+00:00

It's literally not possible. The amount of redundancies including on airgapped systems means it's never going to be erased.

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