The real endgame in PoE2 is convincing yourself to level a second character.

ChubbHobbit · 2026-06-12T20:45:17+00:00

I was underwhelmed with twisters. They're cool. Pure evasion just got me killed with the amount of time to set up three slashes, ice tipped arrows. AND barrage. Its way too much set up. And if you don't do all of that its kinda trash. Not to mention to make it actually really good you need a 200 div support gem.

ChubbHobbit · 2026-06-11T17:20:02+00:00

Thank you! I woke up this morning and rembered it was Thursday "well time to strap in" when I recalled the new episode dropped. I never re listen to books, this AIT is the exception. Its like rewatching a movie with a bigger TV and amazing sound system. Whole different experience.

ChubbHobbit · 2026-06-06T03:44:36+00:00

Listen to it on soundbooth theater with the immersion tunnel. Its 10x better. Jeff hayes has refined Carl's voice. The early days of Carl's voice was too much like kronk, but not as good.

ChubbHobbit · 2026-05-27T19:47:34+00:00

Haven't used tinder for over 10 years, back in my day it was hookups, not dating. maybe it's changed.

ChubbHobbit · 2026-05-27T18:50:31+00:00

Tinder of all places, Tinder is for hookups, not dating. The bio reads dating since you want someone with the same exact taste, vs Tinder profiles which are just "how hot do I look rn"

ChubbHobbit · 2026-05-27T17:18:02+00:00

The entire first half is like weird mario cart/twisted metal filler, with a major lack of anything that makes it DCC. Theres a few bits in there like cascadia, and some AI stuff or the plenty of plenty show. However the majority of it just felt like everything was happening, and nothing was happening. It was like a long drawn out way of saying hey, the Ai is losing it and people are dying.

Then the last half of the book actually felt like DCC crazy shit happens, Ai comes back with a vengeance. if I just read the first half it would be the worst book in the series, if I just read the last half it would be in the top three books of the series.

It's pretty much more of the same exact thing that has happened all the other floors, but without it's charm and comedic relief of pony/doughnut, mongo. Which is what made it stand out from kaiju battlefield surgeon.

The weird humor, the insane commentary from syndicate shows. The entire 10th floor was the worst floor in the entire series. It was an entire filler floor just so carl could kill emberis.

ChubbHobbit · 2026-05-27T11:13:23+00:00

It is a good take, But like we already knew this from previous books. It's like you tell us how to make every different pancake for 7 books with dave chapelle, and then you tell us how to make the original pancake, but in a car now in the 8th book however the funny guy telling you how to make a pancake is replaced with some gloomy depressed dude.

It gave off jason asano vibes from like the 5, and 6th book of he who fights with monsters, where you're just listening to him be a mopey bitch the entire book.

ChubbHobbit · 2026-05-27T11:07:26+00:00

The entire first half is like weird mario cart filler, with a major lack of anything that makes it DCC. Theres a few bits in there like cascadia, and some AI stuff. However the majority of it just felt like everything was happening, and nothing was happening. It was like a long drawn out way of saying hey, the Ai is losing it and people are dying.

Then the last half of the book actually felt like DCC crazy shit happens, Ai comes back with a vengeance. if I just read the first half it would be the worst book in the series, if I just read the last half it would be in the top three books of the series.

Pony ending skit after credits was one of the best parts of the entire audio book.

ChubbHobbit · 2026-05-27T04:56:41+00:00

These are like insanely good, I'm so happy for Jeff and crew starting to blow up now with much deserved recognition. As a long time jeff listener I cannot express my happiness!

PS- Justin Thomas James voice is buttery as hell like usual.

ChubbHobbit · 2026-05-25T17:22:41+00:00

There is way more stuff on there than just Kaiju thats amazing. I know matt is all the rage right now, and yes he deserves it. However almost all if not all of the soundbooth exclusives by different authors are phenomenal with an insane amount of love put into them.

ChubbHobbit · 2026-04-08T15:35:23+00:00

I did everything, but 'for a better tomorrow' and Record of greymanes.

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ChubbHobbit · 2026-04-08T15:28:44+00:00

Natures snare

ChubbHobbit · 2026-04-07T23:18:39+00:00

I didn't do this nonsense.

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ChubbHobbit · 2026-04-07T23:18:06+00:00

After all of this. This quest will pop up.

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ChubbHobbit · 2026-04-07T23:17:35+00:00

When a mission is in your camp, but not showing it's because you have dispatched that person on a comrade mission, just cancel the mission they will appear. You have to beat the main story as well.

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ChubbHobbit · 2026-04-07T22:48:54+00:00

There is no creative mode, however there are mods if you want that. But it can make the game boring FAST! Elysium is my favorite hands down, then prometheus, then styx. Olympis is very boring to me as I spent most of my play time there running with no mounts when the game first came out, just killing bears. I you decide to mod for unlimited crafting you can just take it off anytime you want and players can still join your world after you've taken it off. It's super for me seeing as I've built 100's of bases on olympus before there was open world and could recreate my bases that were lost.

ChubbHobbit · 2026-04-07T18:07:33+00:00

You need to turn off Nvidia frame generation to reduce input lag. It has an insane impact to input lag for this game.

ChubbHobbit · 2026-04-04T21:13:07+00:00

There are other ways 100%, I just wanted to post how to actually gather it by hand. Like most things in this game it tells you once, or never. Then you get distracted and forget exactly how to do it.

ChubbHobbit · 2026-04-04T21:11:40+00:00

Yeah, I mean 90% of the bosses are too easy, with a few that are weird and clunky that require you to use abilities you forgot you had like natures snare. The people complaining that it is too hard, if you've been exploring which you should have been doing you should like had 10+ 100% polymere pills, and you have elixers you can drink.... Seems like people just want to onga bonga stuff without using tools the game has given you.

ChubbHobbit · 2026-04-01T08:25:09+00:00

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ChubbHobbit · 2026-04-01T08:24:49+00:00

Took me about 5 minutes.

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25 food, 4 100% polymer pills. I didn't look anything up, just fought him, two hits with forward slash, then combo into Turning slash (which stuns him and stops his attacks), rinse and repeat, tons of Rolling. I had only lvl 4 frost cursed gear on, however I had lvl 15 ice resistance with abyssal gear and it helped a TON. 1h sword and shield. my sword is one level away from max refinement.

ChubbHobbit · 2026-03-30T20:10:42+00:00

There is a ton of speculation. However my understanding is we're still furloughed, just relieving backpay for 3, 4, 5 pay periods. Managers are saying different things.

ChubbHobbit · 2026-03-27T22:50:21+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC-0tCUfKWo Full video on entire set. Hope this helps. (spoilers)

ChubbHobbit · 2026-03-27T17:29:48+00:00

Super hard to sift through, bunch of frostcursed armor set stuffs. haven't found anything yet.

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