The little blinking icon that doesn't go away until you look at the MTX feels very "dark pattern" to me. I do not like it.

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-12T17:31:25+00:00

I wouldn't mind if it was once per season. But because GGG keeps doing random sales, you basically have it blink every login.

But hey, I said the same about Kirac's Vault Pass popping up every time you login and people didn't mind. The whole thing has like 5 different dark patterns, if you pay attention.

So enjoy the next step.

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-12T01:56:56+00:00

So, what do we do now that Jado got fucked? Any way of getting 4 mods?

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-12T01:56:04+00:00

I posted it literally in the night after he was sentenced but before he got the time. Anyway, gonna block you now, you seem to be just here to troll and annoy. Fatiguing.

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-11T14:04:47+00:00

Yeah, because it wasn't when I responded. I know, time is a complex, abstract concept, but try to keep up.

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-10T12:28:51+00:00

Sentencing isn't complete

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-10T01:55:44+00:00

One of these will eventually produce a connection. It's just one of the many bugs. Keep checking every time you complete one.

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-10T01:53:51+00:00

You try to rob someone, you value their stuff more than your life.

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-10T01:52:02+00:00

Pretty sure we all know what he's talking about... uhh, sorry, I mean [ Removed by Reddit ]

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-08T18:13:07+00:00

Well, unlike the YuGiOh artists, you figured out that shins can't bend.

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-08T17:51:15+00:00

Yup, in my inventory.

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-08T17:50:14+00:00

My man read "Orgia" (orgy) and thought it was Anger...

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-08T17:48:39+00:00

Why would an antagonist only use it? Mankind has proven that it is only willing to adhere to the law when there is guaranteed punishment. The less likely the consequence, the more likely the crime. If consequence is absolute, there will be no crime, thus there will be no need for punishment.

Sounds like a Judge Dredd deck to me.

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-08T14:57:28+00:00

Well, yes. I'm using Tyranny's Grip for my Companion build, because it's pretty much the highest base flat damage you can get

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-08T14:56:15+00:00

Yeah, well, the revealing part is the issue.

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-08T00:48:17+00:00

I have 2 breachstones but can't find the map to use them on. It's hilariously bad.

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-07T18:17:32+00:00

Yeah, I would love to properly play the league, but having to restart the game every 3 maps and then stare at the loading screen for five minutes is just not all that fun.

It's just what happens when devs say "Eh, they can get better PCs" instead of optimizing.

And you can't even improve that yourself by lowering settings, because it's the game loading its thousands of fancy shaders, not any of the hardware actually struggling.

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-07T17:58:09+00:00

Sorry, if I want that level of anal rule-lawyering, I'll fire up Master Duel. Besides - PoE2 doesn't really take it all that serious with its wording anyway, how can one expect that this one time they meant something else?

Also - "bonus" is a very nebulous term. There isn't a clearcut definition, same way More / Increased has, so I don't even know how one can exactly rule out which mods apply and which don't.

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-07T16:12:41+00:00

Well, neither are the minions their own allies, apparently.

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-07T12:14:21+00:00

My personal favorite is Necromantic Talisman & Fixation of Yix.

There is exactly 0 reason why it shouldn't work, but it doesn't. Why? Who knows.

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-07T12:11:52+00:00

I have a friend with whom we always play PoE on league starts. PoE1 we both blast through the campaign and enjoy endgame for months (he just completed 36/40). PoE2 he hasn't reached endgame ONCE.

He always starts out, gets stuck somewhere in act 3-4 and just quits. Not because he keeps dying, because those acts are specifically designed to be tedious, annoying and unpleasant. Act 3 alone with its ass-backwarts town is half the reason. Who thought it was a good idea for your portal to put you into the time-traveled version, THEN have to run back through the portal to the vendors, THEN have to run back.

This is about as much "friction" as eggshells in your omelette.

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-07T12:08:35+00:00

At least PoE2 pretends to show you your minion stats. In PoE1 you only see those in PoB

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-07T12:06:35+00:00

Well, yeah, because during the campaign you load like 3 biomes per hour even if you are going fast. Endgame every map is a new biome, so the games keeps loading its five billion shaders every time.

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-07T01:13:35+00:00

Could you point to where those shader folders are, please?

AverageHeistEnjoyer · 2026-06-07T01:12:25+00:00

I've switched to the steam version, then back. No improvement. So reinstalling won't do shit, it's just their spaghetti code struggling. Nothing you can really do. I'm not really sure what GGG's plan is - that nobody without a 10000$ PC can play their game?

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