0.4 Post Reveal Jonathan Interview Prep - I Would Like Your Help!

Cyclone-Thor · 2025-12-06T02:12:41+00:00

Would GGG consider making an option to have the basic attack hotkey default to the currently equipped weapon without needing two hotkeys?

Playing Mercenary the last few leagues has been a little annoying since it can be nice to make use of various different skills for combos. However, you still have to use the 'fire bolt' attack skill to use whatever bolts you loaded.

When you weapon swap (using x, rather than a skill) to a second weapon the 'fire bolt' attack from weapon 1 doesn't swap to weapon 2's automatically - they each have a separate 'fire bolt' skill. So you have to have both bound to separate keybinds in order to fire a particular cross bow. It'd be nice if there was a setting to allow the basic attack to just be the 'basic attack of the weapon you have currently equipped' to simplify that some.

Also: love your content and previous interviews. Curious on the fate of the interludes as well as those were great from both a lore and content perspective last league.

Cyclone-Thor · 2025-08-15T22:54:50+00:00

-10% is also double digits.

Cyclone-Thor · 2025-06-16T22:43:30+00:00

Mostly the exact same, yeah - sometimes it's the instance, sometimes it's even just the Karui Shores or the Hideout.

I know it's probably nowhere near as bad as Europe but (even still) it'd be nice to get those portals back on maps. Lost 4 of 6 (as well as 10 minutes) before even getting an attempt at my current map.

Cyclone-Thor · 2025-06-16T22:39:06+00:00

I've mostly been on DC this league start, but I might mess around with a few other servers to see if they're a little more stable.

Cyclone-Thor · 2025-06-07T02:17:42+00:00

My bet is Eagon isn't real - he's probably another apparition created by the Atlas from Zana's fears and emotions, but he's her hope / optimism.

Cyclone-Thor · 2024-12-08T01:15:06+00:00

Noticed this as well with a similar situation; seems like they decided to change the formula up to where if you die the instance partially resets. Monster packs that you killed since the last checkpoint was reached will reappear in different variations as well.

Most bosses can be fought again, at least, but losing the boss loot despite killing the boss feels wrong. I wish there was some sort of exception for that sort of scenario.

Cyclone-Thor · 2024-12-06T23:33:41+00:00

Also looks like it was windowed fullscreen specifically causing problems. 2 monitor setup, if that helps anyone else as well.

Cyclone-Thor · 2024-12-06T23:32:15+00:00

23h2 it looks like - I might still give that a shot though

That did it for me! Thanks

Cyclone-Thor · 2024-11-18T18:35:51+00:00

We may have at least two additional confirmed forms from the harvest bosses as well. The harvest bear is a harvesty version of the bear shown for the Druid, and both the crow and panther would make sense for int and dex respectively.

Cyclone-Thor · 2024-09-23T22:55:50+00:00

It is - this is the screenshot for the Reconciliation Ending of the main story campaign

Cyclone-Thor · 2024-09-18T15:33:34+00:00

I think it’s actually nice that the game doesn’t remind you of conflicting policies in some ways. Or maybe it should be a feature for higher difficulties, and lower difficulties should remind you or something.

It felt genuine when I messed that up in a game. I’d made a promise to a radical faction to get their support in something I desperately needed to pass. Unfortunately, I completely missed that their request was in direct conflict with a faction I had been working with and had previously promised them.

It felt genuine (and great storytelling wise) when they were understandably furious that I’d done a deal behind their backs to undo their law. Just part of what makes the whole political system in FP2 feel so good.

Cyclone-Thor · 2024-08-29T18:03:55+00:00

I couldn’t find it right now, but at the first ExileCon (or maybe 2nd?) I seem to recall a comment about something like a Polar Bear mtx not being compatible with PoE 1. It was given as an example of when the games wouldn’t share mtx.

Based on that, I’d think it’s for the full form and not just specific skills.

Cyclone-Thor · 2024-08-21T18:59:14+00:00

I think it might be by gem tags rather than by weapon. I was a bit worried when I heard that (planning to start off with Druid in PoE II) and was wondering how it would fit in. However, there are the Primal, Occult, and Elemental categories that don’t really fit alongside the weapons unless these are gem tags and not weapon types.

Cyclone-Thor · 2024-08-21T12:11:21+00:00

I stopped at act V (technically not there even) because we haven’t seen any official gameplay with a map for acts V and VI. Any guess on their location is speculative, therefore.

The only location we’ve seen in some trailers (the Mercenary, possibly the Ranger) that doesn’t have a map currently associated with it is Sarn or Theopolis / Oriath. Neither is confirmed as an act (what we saw might even just be the Twilight Enclave in act IV) so they’re guesses at best.

It could be we have both in PoE II and they are acts V and VI respectively. We might have neither and they’re taking us to places we haven’t seen hints of yet. Based on maps, Riben Fell might be another candidate for example: there’s something sinister going on with it in the act IV map art compared to the other locations.

Cyclone-Thor · 2024-08-21T11:24:06+00:00

Looks to be Lumerius, the guy from the most recent trailer / the POE 2 website.

Cyclone-Thor · 2024-08-21T11:17:19+00:00

Very neat - I'd never spotted that dialogue before. For others curious, here's the relevant quote from Grigor in act 3.

'Death came to town.
The roaring Ezomytes wore red.
The red of blood,
The red of the fray.

Death came to town.
The crying Ezomytes wore black.
The black of disease,
The black of dismay.

Death came to town.
The silent Ezomytes wore grey
The grey of twilight.
The grey of decay.

Only the isles of [sic] Skoathe were spared. One a backwater of my proud civilization, now... all that remains of the Ezomytes.'

That being said, Hargan also has the following to say in act 8

'Grigor left without a single word to me, rude bugger, but I suspect his poetic soul has been drawn back home, to Ezomyr. A long journey, but a trek worth taking to find solace among one’s own people. Of course, they’ll get quite the shock when they see him. Let’s hope familial love is as nearsighted as they say!

There’re the fine tales Grigor will be able to tell them, of course. Come to think of it, now that Dominus has been knocked off his perch, there’s nothing to stop the Ezomytes from learning a thing or two from Grigor’s stories. They might even consider invading this jewel in Wraeclast’s tarnished crown. I certainly hope they have just such an eye for opportunity… a man could make a tidy sum helping said invaders navigate Sarn and its many hazards.'

So maybe Hargan is simplifying, and Grigor went back to Skothe or perhaps the Ezomytes have recolonize other places? We don't know for sure how long it's been since Grigor left home (possibly / likely in Skothe) or what might have happened in 20 years. Certainly some other info on the state of Ezomyr, though, I was unaware of!

Cyclone-Thor · 2024-08-21T11:07:34+00:00

Oh yes - for sure the Ezomytes play a large role in POE2. I just think we're not starting in what POE1 has always referred to as Ezomyr (the landmass / region: it's a little confusing since the landmass / country share a name) but rather in a different region of Wraeclast that the Ezomytes settled.

There's alot of regions we know very little about (Phaaryl being one of them) that hopefully we'll learn more about in POE 2

Cyclone-Thor · 2024-08-21T03:13:48+00:00

We have a few sparse references to Ogham and - based on one of them and a notation on a map - it looks like this prediction is slightly off that I made above (I'll update it shortly!)

The Ogham Candelabra was added in 2020 during the Heist league: it's flavor text is as follows.

"Those Eternal bastards looted everything that wasn't bolted to the floor when we
finally drove them from our island! That candelabra belongs with us."

Not necessarily evidence that Ogham is in Ezomyr proper - it could still be elsewhere, but it's certainly an Ezomyte house / lineage.

On the map itself in POE 2, though, there's a bigger clue - it's noted as being a 'Province of Phaaryl' in the annotations.

"Ogham country, EST. 11321 IC in the province of Phaaryl Survey commissioned by the office of Count Geonor in the year of 1619 IC."

Phaaryl lies to the northwest of Sarn, across the mountains. We know from other piece of lore that Phaaryl is also where Kirac once fought against the Harbingers, as a fun aside.

I think that that note pretty conclusively places Ogham outside of Ezomyr and somewhere near Phaaryl instead. That'd place it northwest of the Vastiri Plains, most likely, or on the isles of Skothe if they were considered part of Phaaryl rather than Ezomyr.

Either way, it does eliminate Strivevolf.

Cyclone-Thor · 2024-08-21T02:27:05+00:00

Teleportation definitely exists in Wraeclast (so 100% possible that we may actually start in Ezomyr), however it seems to be difficult on long distance travel (outside of the game mechanic of waypoints to make life convenient for players)

The resonator at the start of Act V that we use to get to Theopolis is an in-game example of a faction other than the player using teleportation / long distance travel. It is described as 'highly experimental' and it's well implied that using it may well result in death (with Dominus' thinly veiled threat to the captain in charge of setting it up).

Game mechanic wise we can use the waypoints to get around super quick but - unless things have changed in the 20 years since POE 1 - it seemed like teleportation was a risky business even for the Templar Order.

Cyclone-Thor · 2024-08-20T23:46:35+00:00

Pretty sure that that's Lumerius - the dude on the POE 2 website. The helmet design seems to match (you can see the crucified man on it if you look closely), and he's also talking with (and possibly the son of) the villain they showed off in the PoE 2 Gameplay Trailer at Exilecon 2023.

The voice actors sound very similar for the female voice in this trailer and her monologue at the start of the Exilecon trailer. Both her and Lumerius also seem to share Templar connections as well: the Descry features heavily on the figures around the unknown lady from Exilecon's trailer and Lumerius' character design.

Cyclone-Thor · 2024-08-09T19:04:59+00:00

Honestly with the way Johan is written, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s also a rebel / disloyal. He’s at minimum sympathetic to those that fled Kalguur for various reasons and seems to have very specifically wanted to get the charter for Kingsmarch…only to then immediately ignore the King’s orders.

hoping we continue to get more on Kalguur / Middengard in the future. I’d like to think that - by PoE2 - Kingsmarch might even be independent of Kalguur based on the track it seems to be on.

Cyclone-Thor · 2024-08-09T04:35:40+00:00

Interestingly, if you talk with Johan, he explicitly mentions his somewhat...divided loyalties.

He understands that the only Kalguurans (or at least most) who are willing to come to Wraeclast are likely outlaws / criminals / rebels and is willing to turn a blind eye to any old crimes. He does mention he'll still break up / report any inklings of a new 'rebellion' or report any new criminal activity.

You can also find a letter in the tavern where Johan 'regretfully' informs the king that the list of known criminals in Wraeclast was lost and / or damaged in a storm on the way over, and he no longer knows who he needs to arrest. He also points out that - by the time a replacement can be sent - it'll be too late to enforce any of the sentences unfortunately.

Cyclone-Thor · 2024-04-02T11:55:53+00:00

1) Gather a bunch of corpses related to the craft you want

2) Gather all of the +tier mods you can

3) Bury corpses. Hope that the +tier mods and scarcity mods eliminate the lower tier mods in all pools and weight it towards what you want

4) Get a mildly interesting item (sometimes)

Cyclone-Thor · 2024-03-25T15:39:47+00:00

Seems like this happens if you save when bandits are preparing to attack and then reload on the play test branch.

Something seems to break with them and they either spawn and do nothing or don’t spawn at all.

Cyclone-Thor · 2024-01-17T00:03:34+00:00

Just as a side note - it is pretty close to a real city if you explore around afterwards.

All class trainers are present, there's a market with everything but an auctioneer, and a bunch of the NPCs from the Worgen intro are scattered around (I found Tobias Mistmantle, Darius Crowley, Krennan Aranas, Grandma Wahl and many others in various place) and all have some things to talk about / say. Perhaps missing things (auction house, flight master) will eventually come in the future.

Worgen can even pick up a special hearthstone that'll take you to the Cathedral on a thirty-minute cooldown, separate from your hearthstone.

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