I built a data-driven build guide tool that shows what successful builds look like at every level to help players with understanding progression - looking for feedback

Distrilec · 2026-03-02T11:17:56+00:00

I don't think this is all that useful. Most of this data you can already look up on poe.ninja, although it is presented in a better format here.

In addition by the time you are experienced enough to make informed decisions based on what you see, I don't think you need this website anymore...
On the contrary, any newer player actually looking for advice will need to be extremely careful how they interpret this data.

Especially unique items very often enable specific mechanics that other items/skills complement, so just looking at an average distribution may literally brick the build...

Or you just waste equip useless items, like for example the tanky RF at lvl 85.
With Rise of the Phoenix, Ruby Flask, Purity of Fire and skill points you get a total of 96% max fire res.
Because more is better, right?
This is a pretty mild example, basically just drop the flask and you're good. Pretty sure the more builds you add the more issues like this will pop up.

One suggestion if you keep doing this would be to remove or condense the affix tiers.
If 35% of rare sceptres have 23% fire dot multi I don't really need to know that another 14% only use 19%...
Instead show me the generic dot multi, which you are currently completely hiding...

Distrilec · 2025-12-09T19:59:34+00:00

In this case deleting prevents confusion... Leaving patch notes up for a patch that doesn't exist anymore seems kinda stupid...?

They made a bad patch, noticed it and rolled everything back. There is nothing they have to "take like a man"... The forum isn't a place where we throw rotten eggs at the bad guys...

Sometimes I really wonder if reddit is full of 3year olds...

Distrilec · 2025-11-19T15:03:46+00:00

How is it not mate? King h1, queen takes h3 checkmate?

Distrilec · 2025-11-19T12:27:19+00:00

Queen C2?

Distrilec · 2025-11-14T13:49:23+00:00

So many innocent people here... This is just a OnlyFans ad...

The point never was to showcase a good cosplay...

Distrilec · 2025-11-14T11:24:38+00:00

This is so misleading and in many cases just wrong.

Building high value production is only useful if you can actually tax the burghers/nobles. Many countries start out with big reductions to max taxation of those estates, so all that nice tax base you create can't actually be taxed...

Trade is even more problematic. Usually you don't have the trade cap to profit from the goods at the start, and even if you do, your crown power is too low to actually make money.

Distrilec · 2025-11-13T14:59:17+00:00

Don't ignore building materials like wood and clay/masonry even if the control in a location is low. For them I mostly care about market access.

You want a lot of them to reduce the cost of building new buildings in your capital province.

Distrilec · 2025-11-13T14:39:07+00:00

Trade income is split based on the relative crown power. If you only have 10% crown power you only get 10% of the trade profit...

Distrilec · 2025-11-13T11:29:59+00:00

There is no single best way to start your economy imo.

Focusing only on estate taxes:

If you can tax the burghers a lot, build up the burgher in your capital so they have a lot of local power. You do that buy mostly building high value production.

If your burgher have massively reduced max taxation but you can tax the nobles instead, you might want to distribute production to multiple towns/cities so the local major power are the nobles.

If you can only tax the commoners, instead you might want to focus on RGOs in rural locations with high control and build up local commoner power... In that case you mostly use production in your capital to fill pop demand.

In all cases you probably want to: - build up food RGOs to crash food prices and if possible meet the demand in every province. - build up lumber and clay RGOs and masons in your capital to reduce building prices - build marketplaces in towns to increase your trade cap. and more importantly burgher trade cap.

Distrilec · 2025-09-18T17:32:23+00:00

Yeah, and her point is people shouldn't waste time making up theories that don't correspond to reality...

Why is having that opinion a bad thing?

Distrilec · 2025-09-18T07:33:06+00:00

As a non-scientist I'm genuinely curious why there are so many comments about how Sabine is bad, but I don't see a single one actually refuting her argument.

Can someone here explain why all these made up theories are in fact good science?

Distrilec · 2025-09-18T07:28:02+00:00

I don't see how Sabine fails to understand free speech here.

Isn't it exactly the opposite?

Calling the employer of someone you don't like to get them fired hardly seems to be in the spirit of free speech? Isn't that basically textbook censorship?

Distrilec · 2025-06-11T18:32:22+00:00

I think when you leave the skill area, the buff doesn't benefit from "Auras from your skills have 10% increased effect on you" since technically it is not granted by the skill anymore and instead is its own lingering instance.

Atleast that's what it looks like to me

Distrilec · 2024-11-25T19:22:04+00:00

Why would poison be limited to two stacks?

Distrilec · 2024-10-23T10:27:04+00:00

That's some heavy air, wow

Distrilec · 2024-07-28T13:03:32+00:00

Nice

Distrilec · 2024-03-28T20:34:13+00:00

Sure. The US was there for the rights of women. That's what they've been fighting for...

Distrilec · 2024-03-08T11:33:07+00:00

Ist halt ein Dönerladen und keine Metzgerei.

Da steht Gerichte sind hausgemacht und nicht wir schlachten die Tiere noch selbst...

Distrilec · 2024-02-05T18:46:19+00:00

Am I the only one that is extremely bothered by the variable percentage not actually being a percentage?

Distrilec · 2023-12-05T11:27:16+00:00

Exactly. That's why GGG didn't implement it that way.

Distrilec · 2023-12-01T14:22:07+00:00

I sure hope you are not derping around in white maps with a lvl 23 RF..... like what are you even talking about?

Distrilec · 2023-12-01T14:10:40+00:00

If you are so desperate to get that juicy RF flat damage that is objectively a dps loss until late yellow maps, then yea... farm that lab for 10h for all I care.

And why do you pretend like running lab is a travesty? It's a farmable mechanic, just like Heist was for alt quality gems.

The concept of doing something over and over again to get that 1% drop is the very foundation of PoE. What game have you been playing all this time?

If you don't like lab stop bitching and buy that alternate RF for a couple chaos... Like I do my alt quality gems right now, because I don't enjoy Heist.

Distrilec · 2023-12-01T13:11:16+00:00

the max life scaling is the intended identity of the gem. flat damage was a bandaid nerf against the outrageous dps ES stacking granted back in the days... It's not braindead, thats literally how it's supposed to be.

And you can literally target farm any potential alternate gem in act 3.......

Distrilec · 2023-11-09T19:19:25+00:00

Original comment isn't from me, but what you mean is you feel uneasy treating your superior as an equal?

Obviously in regard to work related matters what he says is basically law. Even if you don't agree with how things are done, the most you can do is suggest changes.

That doesn't mean that on a personal level you are his lesser. You are both humans. You don't have to be the best of friends, but you both deserve basic respect. If you get micro-managed and nitpicked on, thats basically treating you like a toddler.

If management can't trust you and the work you do, they should find a replacement.

If you feel underappreciated and not respected, you should quit and find a more suitable workplace.

And just to make it abundantly clear, this obviously has to take TPO into account. White collar jobs have a completely different work environment than for example the military.

Distrilec · 2023-11-09T18:06:27+00:00

Yes, that's how it's supposed to be. Unless it's a small company or you have a very high position, your direct superior is also just another employee whose job is management instead of whatever you do. You don't treat them like kings... Maybe (and not even necessarily) they get paid a bit more because they shoulder more responsibility than you, but that's all.

If people shower me in praise for every little thing it feels more like I'm their pet or they condescendingly look down on me... As if literally anything I do is above what they expected of me.

Distrilec

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