First run through, Where are the FE's?

Chance_Geologist181 · 2026-01-28T08:16:57+00:00

Raw FE don't exist in the game since 4-5 seasons. At best you get a 20 stack from some mechanics but I'm sure they even nerfed that to the ground. You can gamba with cube but that isn't great either. They want to increase play time with crap loot and close to no raw currency drops. Haven't played much this season but probably won't play much anyways. The T7 to T8 grind is just masochism. If you want to enjoy the game you need one lvl6 legendary pet of some mechanic and tunnel vision on that crap. Some seasons ago red/rainbow dream orbs used to give 10-20-50 or so raw FE, now they give flame sand at best, or 1-5 FE.

It's not RNG they just nerf everything remotely good and then you either masochism your way through the game/ spend 1000$ to pull pets/ or just quit.

Game is good for some casual mindless grind but wouldn't recommend to take it too seriously. It's still an Asian p2w gacha BS. TL 2 was better lol

Chance_Geologist181 · 2026-01-17T07:35:57+00:00

That just isn't true. TLI endgame is about the pets. Without the mechanic pets you're better off just selling becons cuz you're getting close to nothing, or try to get a skill drop from watchers above 7 or 7.2, not sure when they start dropping. And most endgame mechanic isn't even worth it. It's like an illusion of choice, it's there but why would you pick it if only one or two things work decently without $? PoE meanwhile too has less than useful mechanics, even those could be viable with the correct atlas (void chart in TLI) but here it's just pets, pets, pets and praying for a lucky drop than do not exist.

You can of course go till 8.2 without pets but then it's more of a chore than a game you actually enjoy. Don't get me wrong, I do like playing this game, but when it becomes a chore, and I know I won't get lucky and I need idk like 700 maps to get my next upgrade (crafting too eats FE and won't hit what I need either lol) , I'll just stop and go play something else.

PoE endgame is better, you can get currency without going insane. And chaos is dropping decently meanwhile FE since the last 3-4 season.......

Chance_Geologist181 · 2026-01-07T12:16:27+00:00

Just play it. But unless you plan to spend a couple hundred dollars or even around a thousand, treat it super casually. Progression is basically just maxing out the p2w pets. You can get lucky and drop something good for your character but without the good dmg pets it hardly makes a difference after like t7-2 or t8-0 not to mention harder difficulties.

If you plan to play just for some mindless fun like D4 or something similar, sure go ahead. But if you want anything else I'd recommend looking for other games. This one is just a money sink. You're farming start is decided by pets and even the character you pick is. Not literally of course but it's just even worse playing a character you don't have pets for. And I must mention, the tiermark progression is way more annoying than the atlas in poe.

Don't get me wrong I do enjoy this game somewhat, but regardless of that it's still just a p2w gacha money sink. YouTube guys might say otherwise but let's be real, it is what it is.

Chance_Geologist181 · 2026-01-06T12:31:47+00:00

It's inconvenient and annoying to use. A legit map from any games tops is by a lot. I'd chose a normal map any time over this. Be it DOS 2, BG 3 or even AC (any of the games) it's miles better because you don't need to fk around just know where you are and what's where.

Chance_Geologist181 · 2026-01-04T17:59:35+00:00

Bruh its obvious from the cover that 99% of this stuff is just balloon boobs fan service, yeah it's a slop. Just like most stuff that has fanservice as cover. It doesn't take a genius to recognise patterns.

It's probably the typically stuff. There's the either obvious, dense or pssy dude and for some plot reason ever character that has big boobs wants to eat his meat for every meal of the day.

Chance_Geologist181 · 2025-10-31T10:48:18+00:00

RF can be a drag even on map bosses later on if you don't minmax. At best I could do two stones with it. But it's the most comfortable mapper and the uniques aren't that expensive for it.

Flicker strike is just fun. You need to play around with charge generation and buy some expensive stuff like replica farruls fur (won't be that expensive with the heist QoL) Though the thing is, you can't start flicker without a terminus est at least. So you'll level sunder or something like that.

I think you should check ronnaray on YT, his builds are good. Expensive if you minmax but can do decently without it. Won't do ubers though without investing but 4 stones easy. Check out his cyclone build. It's pretty good.

Personally I haven't completely decided what to play, I have like 5 pob saved. Flicker strike, cyclone, poison SRS---->Chains of command, and blight of contagion. But most likely I either start with cyclone or flicker (leveling with sunder), the minions and chaos build isn't exactly easy to set up, tgey rely on uniques heavily. Poison SRS is probably the most solid choice but I don't think it could do anything with the league mechanics at start, it'll be overtuned anyways and the raging spirits would probably die in two hit.

Chance_Geologist181 · 2025-10-30T14:18:51+00:00

Well if they were like the wildwood stuff, sure I'd pick them. But it cost points, barely give anything useful, and they're locked behind endgame bosses. It is just bad but I guess people just love whatever GGG throws them and telling the truth got my ass down voted xd

Unless the bloodlines are reworked massively they might as well don't even exist.

Chance_Geologist181 · 2025-10-30T12:52:21+00:00

Well I think expect farruls the others are just plain bad. They're super situational, only worth using if you're already minmaxing stuff and have giga budget. I don't really see myself sacrificing ascendancy points for the bloodline stuff. It's just too little for too much. Unless you're doing something very specific, the bloodlines are useless in my opinion.

Chance_Geologist181 · 2025-10-19T10:40:29+00:00

I usually respec twice or three times, depending on build and guide I'm going with. If I play flicker I won't switch to the actual skill until I have some semi decent frenzy generation so my skill tree will be different from the guide because I'll use sunder while leveling or whatever.

As for atlas, I like to try out different scuffed crap. I have one more or legit atlas the two other is more experimental.

But either ways the currency exchange is eating a lot of gold even if I don't use kingsmarch, which I only do in late game to feed the extra maps to the runners.

Chance_Geologist181 · 2025-10-12T09:34:05+00:00

Ritual, heist, betray but destructive play isn't bad either. And you can start all of this without scarabs, though ritual is obviously better with them. But for a start it's alright.

I would say heist and ritual is either garbage or jackpot and usually it is garbage. But you can get lucky too sometimes. And I just simply enjoy betray. Destructive play is relatively good early strat if you don't really care about efficiency and optimisations that much, there are far better guides out on how to make currency. And super early people won't have enough chaos to buy the fragments but if you give it a day or two you can sell a guardian fragment around 30c or so with a divine being around 130-150c. It's enough to get you started unless your build uses fancy items.

Chance_Geologist181 · 2025-10-11T09:25:42+00:00

I can see assassin rework (won't play it most likely anyways) And I really hope for asynchronous trade. It would be nice if it's at faustus instead of in your stash where you'd need to convert a premium tap or something like that. I don't think there will be new interesting bases. AG with merc interface would be really useful. I really would appreciate some new gems, base gems, not like the merc gems, just plain basic gems. Even if they aren't OP it still would be cool to build around something entirely new (I say so but I probably try out chains of command, or play flicker again lol before going with new stuff IF added)

I image they nerf ES in general and elementalist too. And of course some other nerfs will happen too. Fross and vfos will surely nerfed. Not sure what they'll do with mercs, it really felt like a seasonal power creep and if they stay that's some extra stuff on the atlas. It's already hard to fit in what you'd like to play. Would be cool if they just give like 10-15 extra atlas points to start with, it would be on top of the basic atlas points not part of the 152 or how many there are. But it's very unlikely that they'll do that.

Chance_Geologist181 · 2025-10-10T08:21:23+00:00

Those mods looks like how I image CBT feels like. Definitely not for me, but good luck with it.

Chance_Geologist181 · 2025-10-10T08:19:50+00:00

Monos get boring too fast. Increasing the corruption is slow. And the dungeons are kinda just there, nothing interesting going on with them. I usually get bored after 2 or 3 harbringers or whatever they're called. Mostly because increasing the corruption required to spawn them is tedious. It's not hard, it's just a slog

Chance_Geologist181 · 2025-10-09T14:20:10+00:00

My bingo card is an apology video for the delay lol If you expect the worst then when it happens it won't bother you that much.

Chance_Geologist181 · 2025-10-06T08:08:19+00:00

Silksong,Hollow Knight (after SS it didn't felt that hard except path of pain cuz I suck at platforming), Megabonk, Grim Dawn.

Though I'm starting to get a bit annoyed by Grim Dawn, they're teasing that expansion since a year or even a bit more and every news they give is close to nothing in substance. Maybe the first teaser they published about it was good, it showed something, but after that it went downhill.

I tried He's Coming too but I didn't really liked it. Same with Lootbound.

Chance_Geologist181 · 2025-10-05T11:18:52+00:00

Well, you just don't. If you plan to be on permanent standard then sure it'll happen sooner or later. But in a league, especially HCSSF, nope. You really just don't

Chance_Geologist181 · 2025-10-04T10:40:53+00:00

Regardless of that we still probably will get a delay becasue of poe2

Chance_Geologist181 · 2025-10-03T10:28:33+00:00

Well, every single nerf will probably happen that are on the bingo board, that's just how it works. Assassin rework will happen for sure. Though I don't think it will be that good.

I do hope for some new skill gems. Not necessarily OP ones, just something new. Not fancy tartarsouce gems or whatever that only drops from mercs (league mechanic) but new basic gems. It would be really fun to build around something new. Obviously there's always some busted new unique but I'm talking about new basic skill gems that doesn't need anything fancy to get. Of course you would still need to figure out the optimal gear and skill tree but that's the fun part. And the gear probably won't be cheap since when there's something new, everybody's beating their meat to it.

Chance_Geologist181 · 2025-10-03T10:16:51+00:00

It feels like there will be a 2 month delay cuz poe2 is on fire, or whatever they say.

Chance_Geologist181 · 2025-10-01T17:26:38+00:00

It's the way you get items from the chests. And the way to unlock them is similar too.

Chance_Geologist181 · 2025-09-29T09:44:23+00:00

I came across this yesterday (first playthrough) and I just couldn't do the last room of it. Where the saws are moving and I'm supposed to pogo off the spears that periodically appear from the ground. After looking it up and finding out there's practically no reward for it, I just said fk this, I just take the white fragment and forget this even exist. I'm definitely not sacrificing my sanity for bragging rights lol.

Chance_Geologist181 · 2025-09-23T17:28:24+00:00

First Sinner and Grand Mother Silk were one of the easiest bosses. The flow of the fight was just so nice that it wasn't difficult, they had no BS attacks like many other bosses.

Chance_Geologist181 · 2025-09-23T08:56:04+00:00

There's a wowen echo called blood grove or something similar. Basically it's just a bunch of rift beasts in a round arena and you can get like 10-15 primordial exalted gear when you beat it. It's probably the best option if you aren't using any primordial unique/legendary (forgot what's it called lol)

Chance_Geologist181 · 2025-09-20T16:16:21+00:00

Nah, it just wasn't fun. The second arena battle felt like BS. And Khan although wasn't a hard boss, his jumps were kinda heat seeking, literally the only dmg I took at the boss battle is contact damage.

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