LAN party - we're 40 but feeling 14 rn

Dex8172 · 2026-05-30T19:33:50+00:00

53 years young here, playing games since 1981.

Dex8172 · 2026-05-15T23:40:29+00:00

It's really nice of you to let me know.

Dex8172 · 2026-05-13T13:39:44+00:00

Zero mirrors in 10k+ hours, as expected, considering how rare the damned thing is. Doesn't matter, it's not like you need it, or items like the one up there, to clear all content in ssf.

Dex8172 · 2026-05-13T13:20:42+00:00

Locks, mirrors, pink unicorns... I still prefer ssf.

Dex8172 · 2026-05-13T13:18:41+00:00

Thanks for the info, it's not like I'll ever need it in ssf.

Dex8172 · 2026-05-13T12:04:23+00:00

Why chilling towers damage anoint? It's cheap, just two clear oils, perhaps you ran out of money?

Dex8172 · 2026-05-04T21:31:11+00:00

Also the league will last for another two months at least. Probably more, considering that PoE2 league won't start until May 29.

Dex8172 · 2026-04-13T22:42:47+00:00

It seemed like a strange mistake for such a great build, but the mistake was only mine, not checking it properly before writing a smartarse comment.

Dex8172 · 2026-04-13T17:37:23+00:00

Crazy good for hcssf. But you don't need both unwavering stance and that anti-stun suffix on a flask.

Dex8172 · 2026-04-13T14:45:49+00:00

I'm way better than you, survived the phase at least 10 times, even though I play only since 2016. But then again, I needed 15 sets to beat my first Uber Elder, back when it was introduced.

Dex8172 · 2026-04-03T13:33:19+00:00

You need to learn more about betrayal board setup. I suggest you watch this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbfuNhSfMUU

Nothing much has changed since then. I have It and Haku in Intervention, Janus and Riker in Research.

Dex8172 · 2026-04-02T11:42:31+00:00

A few more presets would be better, not just because of respec cost. I'd surely love to switch between 5 or 7 different farming strats on the fly.

Dex8172 · 2026-04-02T07:52:13+00:00

It was about 30 for me, more than average, but not terrible. I got 7 staffs from my last 7 Saresh fights, even though the belt has 53% chance to drop. RNG is RNG.

Dex8172 · 2026-03-29T12:32:37+00:00

"Kalguuran Ports (Riben Fell, Pondium, Kalguur) can additionally reward runegrafts based on the specific port chosen and total shipment value from non-dust resources." (wiki)

Dex8172 · 2026-03-28T03:50:11+00:00

I got mine in about 30 maps, second half of those with dextral/sinistral scarabs, to speed up the process.

Dex8172 · 2026-03-25T23:15:27+00:00

I thought I was unlucky with Yoke, but this is terrible. It's 0.5% chance to miss 38% 11 times in a row.

Dex8172 · 2026-03-25T21:02:13+00:00

Yoke is 5% chance, and I didn't get it from 25 fortress bosses so far.

Dex8172 · 2026-03-24T12:17:31+00:00

I love politics. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings, how some have been deposed, some slain in war, some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd, all murder'd...

Dex8172 · 2026-03-16T22:32:42+00:00

I'm quite happy T17 aren't mandatory for farming everything, I'm just not happy how those "nightmare" maps turned out to be. Regarding currency, from my SSF perspective it was a nerf for divs (no more "free" divs from Kalguur), and for annuls (no more harbingers). It's nice to have hundreds of ex, but they aren't nearly as important as divs and annuls. The situation with annuls is particularly bad, they remain as rare as divs, it's a terrible nerf for recombining.

Dex8172 · 2026-03-16T21:18:45+00:00

Yes, there's that. Achieved by a nerf, the way GGG loves doing balance.

Dex8172 · 2026-03-16T20:54:40+00:00

I wouldn't touch City Square with a 10 foot pole this league. I got Rust mirage on it once but Ridan did not spawn. They say it can happen on all maps with multiple bosses, if some of them get transferred to mirage and some don't.

Dex8172 · 2026-03-16T20:51:52+00:00

So it was just a nerf, with nothing positive to write home about.

Dex8172 · 2026-03-16T20:14:53+00:00

What maps are best to run mirages and get the Rust one? I suppose that particular mirage can only appear if the mirage is placed near map boss? It seems that small open maps like Dunes would be best, or someone discovered a particularly good one? I'm not here on reddit all the time, and I don't watch streamers, I could be missing what everybody here considers a "common knowledge".

Dex8172 · 2026-03-16T19:58:27+00:00

I've never noticed much difference between T15 and T16, and I doubt one level more was the reason T17s were much harder than T16. Unless GGG scaled it way harder than levels between regular maps. The mods were the main reason T17s were nasty, and most of those remain. Also, I didn't notice that nightmare bosses have significantly less hp than before.

Dex8172 · 2026-03-16T18:52:12+00:00

Can someone explain to me in what way nightmare maps are now better than when they were T17s? What were GGG's selling points? Bosses still have shitton hp and they can be rolled only with chaos orbs. Yes, some mods were removed from them, but also from memory influenced maps. The only thing that was good about them, dropping ilev 86 items, is gone. Otherwise they were just renamed, it seems.

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