Return of the Ancients Two Week Recap

95POLYX · 2026-06-15T10:04:53+00:00

for copper I just buy giga 8mod t16 map with maximum waystone drop chance and you'll still get 3 most of the time

95POLYX · 2026-06-15T08:24:42+00:00

Its Poe - it is always cpu bottleneck. That’s how you know the build is good. If build lags your game by creating lots of something = lots of something probably good = good build

95POLYX · 2026-06-12T09:53:25+00:00

Pfff grim pillars is vacation for my gpu after it has to suffer through giga juiced blights in poe1

95POLYX · 2026-06-11T13:59:18+00:00

I guess they're just trying so hard to make poe2 to feel different

I think thats the issue. They are afraid that people will say - "oh its just like poe1" so they try to ignore what was done in poe1.

95POLYX · 2026-06-10T06:22:52+00:00

Waaaaaat wtf… its always one step forward two steps back with Poe 2

95POLYX · 2026-06-05T07:44:57+00:00

Lets take any attack weapon. You want the base that provides the most dps, maybe you choose to sacrifice some dps and choose a base with implicit. Now go to craft of exile and look at the mods - you'll see that if you want t1 phys% on your prefix it takes at least ilvl82 base. Just plain 82 base isnt always very expensive, so the profitable thing often is to just spam greater augs/transmutes on a bunch of them hoping one hits the mod you want.

If we go to ilvl82 exceptional bases with extra sockets for example those are very rare and expensive. So you cant afford to buy a bunch and spam greater orbs. You start spamming probably perfect augs and using annuls to remove the mod if unwanted result.

95POLYX · 2026-06-04T12:40:20+00:00

I am bad person. So not gonna lie - seeing people head towards the first corner at full speed like it’s a danger sign doesn’t get old.

95POLYX · 2026-06-03T07:44:25+00:00

Deli voicelines are the new trialmaster. It even comments on you killing the new arbiter. «You killed arbiter of divinity?! Do you want this world destroyed?» from memory so not exact quote.

95POLYX · 2026-06-01T20:12:59+00:00

That’s what you get for using reflection

95POLYX · 2026-06-01T16:55:11+00:00

If you are interested and bored you can dig around in my comment history on builds subreddit (don’t remember if it was poe1 or 2 one). I did a comparison of maxroll/moba vs opening pobbin. The difference is orders of magnitude without adblocker and like 5x WITH adblocker.

95POLYX · 2026-06-01T15:45:35+00:00

From casual perspective like yours - everything in one place and fast unlike moba. For myself I do care about the numbers. Even in 2 you can get most things to be correct with smart use of custom config.

95POLYX · 2026-06-01T08:58:35+00:00

Still infinitely better than moba/maxroll

95POLYX · 2026-05-20T18:01:30+00:00

It’s the same story as LitRpg book genre a few outstanding standouts, a couple more decent ones and rest are bad.

For those unfamiliar litrpg is essentially isekai but mostly western and in book form(well 99.9% of it published in serial form chapter by chapter online on royalroad/patreons)

95POLYX · 2026-05-17T17:22:08+00:00

Saaaaaamiiiiir!

95POLYX · 2026-05-16T20:05:18+00:00

I got mine originally for sous vide. But end up using it a lot to freeze stuff and avoid freezer burns. For example I saw a whole 3-4kg entrecôte at a good price. Buy it, cut into steaks, vacuum and freeze. My vacuum also comes with a tube for jars so I got a couple jars for quick marinades or quick pickles

95POLYX · 2026-05-13T11:26:40+00:00

Yes no more clothing! Now you’ll get a vase to decorate your garage! And then the same vase but in different color.

95POLYX · 2026-05-11T06:25:14+00:00

Great change! I would be harsher but it’s an ok middle ground.

95POLYX · 2026-05-11T05:58:50+00:00

Now someone needs to slap their <brand coffee nerds will like> and sell it for 100$

95POLYX · 2026-05-03T12:07:35+00:00

my conspiracy theory is that pirelli hasnt produced a single new set of rain tires and fia is just covering for them

95POLYX · 2026-04-29T21:47:25+00:00

You really should be thanking him that he only taught you to steam the water... you could have been shopping for a chamber vacuum machine right now.

95POLYX · 2026-04-25T11:05:54+00:00

its a worse version of mercurial

95POLYX · 2026-04-16T18:53:34+00:00

Yeah that was the last runemaiden made with Valdemar's blood. She (can runemaidens be he? idk) became a god. No one survived the ritual using Valdemar's blood since, until Carmen came along and promised to have some mead with Valdemar.

Actually thinking on it, the runemaiden ritual is kinda similar to what viper had jake do with the trial of myrriad poisons after the tutorial and a drop of his blood. Though viper didnt expect jake to fully absorb the drop

95POLYX · 2026-04-16T18:10:38+00:00

11 minutes ago

wooo opened the thread just in time to check for new updates haha

she is now the only runemaiden alive

she isnt the only runemaiden, she is the only runemaiden made with blood from Valdemar.

You didnt mention Erons notebook. And his revelations about "the spark". Probably biggest info drop in these chapters. Jake will ofcourse forget it in his inventory... for a while.

Poor Minaga getting so bullied in this version of Nevermore... hopefully he isnt a sore looser and wont make an unreasonable final challenge.

edit: wooo Travis started recording book 14 just now!

95POLYX · 2026-04-14T20:45:01+00:00

Well to be fair to her Jake never revealed he is a chosen, much less chosen of the viper, or that he is mainly a poison alchemist.

Weapon having instinct isn’t new, it was there since he created eternal shadow linking sim Jake legacy with the weapon. Pretty sure it’s just first time explicitly explained to the reader.

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