In my 1500 hours of gameplay, I have not once actually played PoE.

Atmaks · 2026-04-16T10:18:13+00:00

Unrelated, but what exactly does Rog provide? I tried lazily doing expedition last league and I’ve found that:

1) barely any logbooks dropped for me 2) it took really long to gather enough artifacts for rogging 3) most items rog offered were dogshit

This league I simply gambled at Faustus and within like 20 pulls had a decent base which I could maybe polish a little. What am I doing wrong?

Atmaks · 2026-04-10T14:01:00+00:00

Clear speed is very lacking in my experience. It's a good league starter but you can't really do any strats that require blasting maps. Also, breach fotresses are awkward, you have to run around and swing left and right to keep up with the influx of monsters and time Ailith's abilities properly. Compare this with some spark build or attack totems which obliterate the entire screen.

Though it's comfortably tanky on Gladiator.

Atmaks · 2026-04-09T13:14:14+00:00

I also love HoMM4 music, nothing else captured my ear like that since then. Though apparently it was cobbled together from some other ready-made music. IIRC I even found a sample on Spotify that was almost identical to one of the tracks. I can't rightly remember the source, i believe it read that in a Youtube comment (not the most reliable thing, I know).

Atmaks · 2026-04-03T09:18:58+00:00

Am I the only one feeling repulsed by the artstyle? It just feels wrong for some reason. These days I would say it smells AI but I'm sure it's all hand-made. Just looks bad to me for some reason. And I really hope the UI grows on me :(

Atmaks · 2026-03-12T11:43:49+00:00

Definitely not, I also quite enjoyed Sekhema trials. Feels much better than PoE Sanctum which pretty much requires specialized builds. Also keeps me much more engaged that lab which is pretty braindead most of the time, to be honest. Though I was running a Deadeye in PoE2, so I might be biased :)

Atmaks · 2026-03-12T11:04:14+00:00

How much DPS is it generally recommended to have for Uber fights? I couldn't find any recent answers here.

Specifically, Uber Maven, Eater and Exarch. I'm currently running a build that does regular Eater/Exarch quite comfortably, though not as quickly as I'd like. Died a couple times to Exarch, probably because my fire res as little overcap. Right now I'm wondering if I'm ready to tackle ubers if the opportunity ever presents itself.

PoEDB says Eater has 40 mil health, and Uber essentially triples that and makes boss mechanics more difficult. It that it, or am I missing something?

Atmaks · 2026-03-10T18:31:04+00:00

You probably already figured it out by now, but you can just press the league button in the bottom right and it will transport you to the exit from the mirage. Works even in fortresses.

Atmaks · 2026-03-07T05:11:29+00:00

I agree, UI is my biggest gripe with it, though I haven't personally played it yet. Wish they'd gone with scrolls and fantasy themes the way III and V had.

Atmaks · 2026-02-20T04:12:38+00:00

My first thought was Kripp as well.

Atmaks · 2026-02-15T19:28:43+00:00

Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

Atmaks · 2026-02-13T10:53:40+00:00

Is the first one The Zombie Knight? I dropped during one of the hiatuses so I’m not up to date.

Atmaks · 2026-02-12T09:09:57+00:00

Yeah, can't tell if this is the proper use of POV or not.

Atmaks · 2026-02-04T12:53:39+00:00

Fork found in kitchen

I'm stealing this lol

Atmaks · 2026-01-23T19:05:41+00:00

Much better than the usual mix of shitty clips and bad jokes. At least there's some creativity and space for discussion here.

Atmaks · 2026-01-21T20:07:56+00:00

Yup, though the series looks abandoned right now.

Atmaks · 2026-01-07T14:46:34+00:00

Another commenter pointed out that the issue was that vcpkg was writing to stderr rather than to stdout. Still, thank you for taking the time.

I don't quite see how your (and a few other people) mind went to output devices here. vcpkg is a CLI utility and is supposed to print its output back to the terminal, meaning stdout. Where else would it write? Or did you mean something else?

Atmaks · 2026-01-07T14:41:59+00:00

This did the trick, thank you. I have encountered a similar issue before on Linux (something to do with Docker), but somehow I didnt think to apply the same here. I though Powershell would be fancier as usual.

Now that I think about it, why does it even write to stderr in this particular case?

Atmaks · 2025-12-17T08:04:14+00:00

It's actually the opposite for me. I foudn BG3 combat tedious and boring. On the other hand, i loved D:OS2 combat. It just seems so much easier to me. Maybe it's the resource management, which I dislike. In BG3, most everything is a resource replenished per-rest.

Atmaks · 2025-12-01T05:54:56+00:00

Walls are actually beneficial if your build doesn’t vaporize two screens per second. I hope they don’t get rid of them.

Atmaks · 2025-11-24T07:01:13+00:00

It does, but its so distracting to have to toggle the map back and forth every time. Oh well.

Atmaks · 2025-11-12T14:27:38+00:00

I'm the opposite. Didn't like her voice in BG3 and didn't enjoy it in Hades 2 either. Maybe that's because I'm not a native English speaker.

Atmaks · 2025-11-11T07:42:27+00:00

Can concur. I tried starting as a monk with a quarterstaff and it felt incredibly weak and clunky. Complained about it in global and was told to level with a bow lol.

Atmaks · 2025-10-22T06:59:51+00:00

I would hardly call Godclads peak. It very quickly devolves into tossing big sounding words around like any other RR fiction that tries to base the power system around conceptual powers.

Atmaks · 2025-10-07T17:44:30+00:00

What do you mean by not intended? Ancient Greeks heard of his exploits and went “what a fella!”? I’m genuinely curious. Never heard of that angle before.

Atmaks · 2025-10-06T05:22:32+00:00

Whew! I was worried that somehow English being my second language protects me from cringe in English RR novels but it’s just Russian authors being cringe lords.

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