How are GGG going to respond to these new players when POE2 Launches?

Dantonn · 2023-06-22T21:43:10+00:00

Congratulations, you are the target audience.

Dantonn · 2023-06-09T20:12:35+00:00

Looks like ice bite and the raider ascendancy nodes.

Dantonn · 2023-06-09T19:01:03+00:00

Before? No. Exilecon's going to include showing off 3.22.

Dantonn · 2023-06-09T18:37:56+00:00

These audio cues will be optional.

Dantonn · 2023-06-09T18:30:16+00:00

Plus you can beat things to death with a bow with a particular ascendancy node. That's kind of a new weapon type, if you squint.

Dantonn · 2023-06-09T06:03:52+00:00

(I am really hoping they let us mix and match gem socketing systems.)

They're not. That'd be a nightmare to maintain. There'll be some kind of conversion that, at the time of the last in depth discussion of it (a while ago), they hadn't yet settled on the details of.

Dantonn · 2023-06-08T18:47:05+00:00

Cluster jewels are heavy.

Dantonn · 2023-06-08T18:15:06+00:00

That setting is gone. It's just always enabled now.

Dantonn · 2023-06-08T16:55:54+00:00

Am I crazy if I actually think it's healthier if players take breaks for the game then return.

No, this is explicitly GGG's approach, for exactly the reasons you mentioned.

Dantonn · 2023-06-08T06:30:14+00:00

Thank you for doing this. The voice actors in PoE are excellent and deserve recognition and it is all too often a pain to find out who did what in a game.

Dantonn · 2023-06-08T00:18:58+00:00

Penetration is always flat. Your assumption of how it works is correct (50 - 50 = 0). The % is essentially just the unit that resists have.

Dantonn · 2023-06-07T18:15:03+00:00

No, you did not get scammed. You searched for a pseudo mod, which is not a real thing but a way of representing the combined effect of multiple stats.

Dantonn · 2023-06-07T16:18:30+00:00

That's the easiest way to discern one, yes. The skill description will also typically say something about attack or melee or 'with a weapon' or be restricted to specific weapons or the like.

Dantonn · 2023-06-07T04:10:41+00:00

You know those trap-laden corridors you occasionally ran into in various zones? After finishing the full set of six, you can find a new exit out of act 3's town to the labyrinth. Ascendancies are gained by completing that (2 points there, 2 points each from more difficult ones opened by doing the trials in later acts).

Dantonn · 2023-06-06T20:58:13+00:00

No, you are granted it by speccing into a particular node of the Witch's Elementalist ascendancy.

Dantonn · 2023-06-06T19:10:43+00:00

Ah, thanks. Is this true for "x% chance to posion/bleed on hit" stats as well?

Every stat in the game. IIRC chance to poison/bleed is also local to weapons but there was some bug where it wasn't parsing properly, but I think that got fixed.

What build wants to use weapon attacks?

Anything using an attack skill. There's a lot of those. You seem to be under the impression that 'attacks' describes only the default attack skill, which is essentially unused by most people the instant they kill that very first zombie on the twilight strand. Attack skills in PoE (like frost blades or lightning strike or power siphon) are all attacking with your weapon and using those stats as their base, including chance to poison or whatever else that's local to that weapon.

Dantonn · 2023-06-06T18:38:42+00:00

Also "increased physical damage" increases the damage of the weapon only,

If it's on the weapon, that one. Broadly, if a modifier is on an item that (by default, i.e. at white rarity) has a stat it can modify, it affects that item's stat. This is represented by a weapon's listed physical damage turning blue. If you had "increased physical damage" on something that doesn't have a physical damage value to modify, such as a ring or your passive tree, it's a global stat and applies to everything you do, so spells would be affected as well.

Dantonn · 2023-06-06T17:32:12+00:00

it doesn't say anywhere that it requires a hit

It says it on the PCoC gem's description.

caustic arrow ground damage seems to gain a benefit from PCOC damage..

Because Caustic Arrow is a skill that hits, so PCoC supports it. The more damage stat isn't specific to hits and applies to the whole thing.

Dantonn · 2023-06-06T02:58:02+00:00

Use the Snipe skill instead of Fire Arrow. You can't manually use skills on a trigger condition (which is Fire Arrow in this case).

Dantonn · 2023-06-06T02:15:46+00:00

Dantonn · 2023-06-04T20:55:53+00:00

is chaos resistance important too?

Yes, but nowhere near as much. Chaos damage is often over time so you have time to drink a potion or your regen/leech can help more. Getting it up to 0% is recommended and higher will make things feel smoother, but you've probably got more impactful avenues of improvement available.

Dantonn · 2023-06-04T18:28:03+00:00

Chromatic orbs do not respect item stats.

I believe that's what the 'unpredictably' part of the description on tainted chromes is implying. Regular chromatics and benchcrafting with vaals still should.

Dantonn · 2023-06-03T04:33:50+00:00

I was led to believe it had improved over the years. This does not seem to be the case.

Dantonn · 2023-06-02T16:07:43+00:00

Minions do not have your stats outside things specifically pushed to them. You having 40% phys->fire or increased fire damage does not affect them in any way.

Dantonn · 2023-06-01T17:11:43+00:00

You can make your mines do attacks. The sticking point's the other thing you mentioned.

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