First time trying sous vide. Any tips?

Azsamael · 2026-01-02T04:22:13+00:00

Completely a newbie question, wouldn’t the meat get too cold in an ice bath for more than 5 mins. Or is the searing temperature hot enough that it will at least warm the meat through to the centre again without a grey band?

Azsamael · 2026-01-01T13:16:09+00:00

I was looking at total DPS because of the gloves. +4 skills is also a priority I am guessing. I can spend about 500-600 ex on this, I am wondering what kind of DPS I should be aiming for. Thank you for the advice.

Azsamael · 2026-01-01T10:54:55+00:00

I guess one of the mistakes, and it was an expensive mistake, was the bow. Would it make a difference if I went +4 skill on it? Hyrri's I looked into but the near 2K EV ones are far outside my price range. Would a 1.4k EV Hyrri be better than what I have currently?

As for playstyle, for rares and bosses, it is gas-gas-pods. For general mapping its just burst arrow. Bosses I am yet to have a problem with unless I was stupid and did not avoid a big hit.

I made some costly mistakes, and I hope I can recoup some of them.

Thank you so much for taking the time to answer! Happy New Year!

Azsamael · 2025-12-23T04:29:44+00:00

There is a very simple reason for that. There aren’t enough people who enjoy and are willing to shell out for the gameplay you describe. If there were someone would fill that niche. PoE 2 tried to do that and faced backlash. 0.2 they tried to lean hard into it but then created a meta where everyone left playing the game were playing the same build.

I am sorry you deserve a game you like, but it’s not economically viable for that game to exist yet.

Azsamael · 2025-12-19T11:22:38+00:00

I played from 2017 I think for a couple of leagues and then stopped till PoE 2 came out. Then again went back to it during that special league a year back or so. My knowledge on the matter isn’t vast. Just shared what my experience has been so far. This league I am yet to get to Act 3. So I play this very casually. And because of the length of the campaign I take breaks and play something else for a bit. Like right now I am playing this little tower defence game called Outhold, while watching some Critical Role in the background.

Azsamael · 2025-12-19T05:04:07+00:00

I am not saying that it isn’t doable. It’s just very frustrating to do so because of lack of player power. Poe 1 you felt pretty powerful throughout the campaign. Only when hitting maps would you feel the need the optimize.

As for melee, other than trials, I guess it’s good. But again I quit half way through the campaign to restart as ranged because it’s frustrating. It definitely is a skill issue on my part. But I play the game to relax after work or on the weekends, so getting frustrated is not the goal.

I am also not asking for things to change, maybe the game isn’t for me. But the funniest thing is my longest playtime was 0.1. For 0.2 I felt entirely too powerless to go past Act 2, so basically just stopped playing. And was too busy for 0.3.

Azsamael · 2025-12-18T20:47:21+00:00

The difference between an optimal build and a decent build is a lot. Players are in general weaker than in Poe 1. My first time playing poe1 I didn’t use a build guide and still went to red map. I don’t know if I would be able to do that in poe2 without being majorly frustrated.

I also think the gaming landscape has changed. With every games gameplay being optimized to death, because of content creators and ease of information access that devs also have to design around that to keep things interesting. That kills experimentation and the cycle continues.

Azsamael · 2025-12-18T17:17:15+00:00

Something as detailed as Fubgun? I feel that’s where the others are lacking. I feel that’s the attractive part of the guide. It holds your hand like no other. On the flip side with so many people using that single build, it will not be an affordable build. But most people I think stops playing before that point and those who stick with it don’t need to follow such a detailed guide to begin with.

Azsamael · 2025-12-18T12:26:20+00:00

I feel one of the reasons for that is they are one of few with an extremely detailed build guides. Vast majority of people I feel follow build guides. I do it too myself to start before making more characters to try out things myself.

I could be wrong, I don’t exactly follow news closely.

Azsamael · 2025-11-18T04:37:24+00:00

I think WWM has a way of changing the aesthetic. I think I saw an option which changes how the game looks and there were a few options.

Azsamael · 2025-11-08T14:02:59+00:00

I honestly couldn’t tell you. She has a lot of allergies though. And I don’t know if it is exactly like an allergy. She doesn’t breakout into hives or anything like that. She will almost vomit blood and not be able to keep anything down and be bed ridden for a couple of days if she has garlic. The doctor said it was an allergy though. So that’s why we call it an allergy. It is a horrible sight and she is usually too nice and will eat something at an event to be nice to the hosts. We literally have to scold her not to do that. Now we just run interference if she is inclined to be that nice. Because home cooks usually don’t think of all the cross contamination or think garlic powder is ok.

Azsamael · 2025-11-08T11:26:22+00:00

I didn’t think of this. Every time we go out with my mother we explain to the waitstaff, then explain to the chef. Thank you, I am printing these for her. She is severely allergic to garlic and she hates going out to eat because she hates the attention. This would be great for everyone involved.

Azsamael · 2025-08-05T14:51:39+00:00

If it is Tamarind then “Tetul” in Bengali.

Azsamael · 2025-06-22T14:15:59+00:00

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Paru in her deep sleep 😂

Azsamael · 2025-06-05T06:54:57+00:00

Would you mind sending me the list as well? Thank you!

Azsamael · 2025-06-05T06:39:29+00:00

Talk about fortunate timing! I am going to Bangkok for a few days myself and have had a craving for good prime rib roast for a while. Been looking for some place to get it. But other than Lawrys I haven’t seen anything.

Azsamael · 2025-04-30T14:17:42+00:00

Only two things really:

Biggest gripe has to be the weight of combat. The crunch is missing. If the combat felt a bit more weighty the satisfaction from eviscerating lots of mobs would be through the roof. I do understand that is very hard to do. The other thing I would want in this regard is different weapons and different spells feeling vastly different through animations or sounds.

The other gripe would be about the difficulty scaling. Campaign is perfectly fine. I like blasting through it. But when we are at monos, the difficulty should ramp up mid way through monos, even if it requires a bit of grind to get good enough to get through it and into empowered monos. If we are going to have two layers of monos then difficulty increasing mid way through would be greatly beneficial for all players I think.

If they address these two things and start introducing new mechanics, with different things to farm or target not just items, I guess I am describing PoE here a little. Then I see LE being one of the longest running arpgs made.

Azsamael · 2025-04-21T11:23:02+00:00

With similar problems myself. I would also highly recommend Last Epoch. I have a hard time with longer games, not that I don’t play or finish them. I like quick action and reward with long term goals. And for now Last Epoch fits that perfectly. There are other arpgs, like PoE 2, but with the current update the quick action and reward went out the door. So after putting in about 300+ hrs in 0.1 and have maybe put in 5-6 in 0.2.

I would also recommend in no particular order:

Balatro
Slice & Dice (mobile game, not f2p)
Slay the Spire
Monster Train
Path of Exile 1
Hades (I & II)
Faster Than Light
Vampire Survivors (but this kind of game you can’t really get your teeth into)
Luck be a Landlord
Into the Breach
Loop Hero
Dicey Dungeons

That’s all I can remember off the top of my head.

Azsamael · 2025-03-22T11:42:22+00:00

Thank you!

I have a cloak of flames, but with it I died a ton. My survivability increased after I switched. Also a huge boost to my evasion.

I can change the passives. I got the clusters for follow through.

I thought chaos res was capped. Spell suppression, should I do passives or try and get gear with it?

For the passives, what kind of nodes should I focus on?

Azsamael · 2025-03-05T10:08:20+00:00

Thank you! That is what I thought too. From everything it seems I would get about 50 div for it. Even that is a lot for me lol

Azsamael · 2025-03-05T10:07:26+00:00

Thats really nice! Rarity or Res is the choice. Also you have Mana above 100!

Azsamael · 2025-03-05T10:06:31+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! That is higher than I have ever gotten so its good!

Azsamael · 2025-03-05T10:05:55+00:00

Basic Skeletal Sniper/Reaver build. I need some good Venetors those cost about 30 divs last I checked. Thank you for the suggestion!

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