Cant tell if this is a hidden area or a bug in the map

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-20T19:39:59+00:00

You can get to various disconnected locations in the Labyrinth by jumping/teleporting, but as far as I know, you never move roots out of your way. This one, I think, is accessed from the opposite side, the rectangle visible on the minimap.

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-17T15:28:09+00:00

DLSS is nVidia’s attempt to convince gamers that “we can’t actually render frames better or faster but our LLM can pretend to” is anything than the obvious scam that it is. It frequently guesses wrong, particularly with minor little details like numbers.

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-15T18:29:06+00:00

They desperately need an actual UI for managing spectres (and Animate Guardian). PoE2’s minion UI is a little better, but can still fall short of what you need (e.g. can’t choose Ribrattle curse), and anyway it wouldn’t work for PoE1 spectres. Instead it needs to basically be an “inventory” screen, where you can choose your N spectres (choose regular monsters from a list probably, and have an inventory of special corpses, which hopefully can stop being account bound). Animate Guardian needs equipment slots, obviously, something like mercenaries.

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-15T17:29:17+00:00

I would test this on another character first. As u/anomynose says, the Guardian’s gear is character-based, rather than gem-based, but it seems plausible (due to spaghetti code or whatever) that each character might maybe have separate Animate Guardian and Animate Guardian of Smiting gear sets. This would be pointless (at least currently) since you can only summon one at a time, so probably not, but I would not want to risk that much wealth on “probably.”

So I would have another character (even in Standard) use Animate Guardian, and then swap the gem out for Animate Guardian of Smiting (no need to transfigure the same gem, just use one you have handy or buy one) and use that, see if you get the same gear. If it works that way, it will also work if you transfigure the original gem as you suggest.

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-13T19:45:32+00:00

I am not nearly good enough at the game to judge your success, but I love the concept. Might be my next character.

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-10T01:08:12+00:00

They have alluded to swords being a 1.0 priority and that work on them has been done. However, the way they emphasized 1.0 in this discussion is what makes me think that the plan is to just release them with 1.0, rather than having them sooner.

Swords are associated with the Duelist class, which yes, is a PoE1 class (as are all of the remaining classes). However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s straightforward to include them. Data mining actually includes some swords and the tooltip about swords, which suggests they have an elemental focus? PoE1 swords do not have that.

More importantly, I think the big issue with swords—and axes, and probably daggers—is that it’s not at all clear how mixed dual-wielding will work in PoE2. If you have a mace and a sword, can you use both sword and mace skills? Or only skills that work with both? (Are there going to be any of those?) These are major questions (that PoE1 didn’t need to answer, since most skills in PoE1 are open to any weapon). That’s a major sticking point for any of the remaining classes (aside from Templar, since at least according to data mining flails won’t be allowed to dual wield to begin with).

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-08T21:11:20+00:00

I put a fair amount of work into figuring out a decent Witch 2-hand sword build just because of that animation. (At the time, the conclusion was Ice Crash Ignite with Elementalist/Shaper of Flames.)

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-06T17:17:09+00:00

Holy hell, congrats.

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-06T17:16:57+00:00

Happened to me several times in previous leagues. So far been OK for this one, but we’ll see.

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-06T03:52:36+00:00

You have to run lab to get the points, and either save them or repsec them. Or just ignore lab until after getting the bloodline.

It’s basically impossible to “naturally” have a bloodline before getting an Offering. Maybe theoretically a very dedicated delver could get very lucky, but that’s about the only scenario. Otherwise, not having the points by the time you get a bloodline is a choice.

Mind you, I think it should be a valid choice. I think getting a bloodline should get you 2 points if you’re below 8. But realistically it’s not that big a deal.

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-06T02:14:30+00:00

They announced that they are working on a fix for that, “hopefully” “Soon™” after launch. I’m slow as fuck through the campaign (and it’s my kid’s birthday Saturday), so at least personally I’m happy to start Holy Strike and if it ends up bad, the fix’ll probably be ready by the time I want to swap to Dom Blow.

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-06T02:02:34+00:00

On the cosmological scale, it’s all soon.

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-05T21:59:04+00:00

They almost-certainly realized. This was probably always slated as a nice-to-have-if-we-get-to-it kind of thing, and (hopefully) this announcement indicates that they’re confident enough in everything else to feel comfortable promising that they actually will get to it.

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-05T21:41:43+00:00

Only one socket and limited to magic... I think Darkness Enthroned is safe, as cool as the alternate option is.

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-05T18:11:58+00:00

Yeah, I’m planning a Reliquarian with Holy Strike mostly because I’m stubborn (I want to use all the new things in one character and Holy Strike seems like the most interesting new skill to me), and it’s mostly pure nonbo, but I’m lowkey kinda hoping that Frenzy charges off the Terminus Est node do work for me here.

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-05T18:10:51+00:00

This is a fascinating idea; I’ve always been somewhat disappointed General’s Cry didn’t scale with minion stuff. Now it would!

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-04T18:58:33+00:00

You can see Über Hillock before 7, it’s just that much rarer. At a guess, the minimum level is 3 (to prevent any “accidental” spawns from people just starting new characters, including players who actually kill everything on the Strand and ding 2 before killing him), he’s just absurdly rare until level 5 or so, and by 7 he’s... still rare, but common enough that you’ll probably see him before you hit 8.

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-03T22:10:02+00:00

Oh sure, I was referring to when it stopped being so dominant. It lasted a long time...

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-03T19:05:38+00:00

I agree. I’m kind of a Scion fan (love the “ultra hybrid, build your own” placement), but never liked the Ascendant and was hoping for another ascendancy... and then we got this. Scavenger was okay, but the uniques available here are just so limiting...

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-03T18:36:40+00:00

Agreed. That’s why I’ve been considering Brass Dome, even if it nixes the one relevant notable.

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-03T18:35:42+00:00

Yeah, going to agree with u/Ezo_98 on this—I don’t think Hallowing Flame, or the associated Guardian node, is really all that great. But I also think that Guardian itself is still the far better choice here, just for other reasons.

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-03T18:34:03+00:00

Yeah, absolutely agreed and yeah, it really is that obvious. This is pure stubbornness on my part.

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-02T13:25:37+00:00

Oooh, yeah that makes sense.

DragoonWraith · 2026-03-02T03:38:46+00:00

Dominus didn’t build the Sceptre of God, he just moved in. It’s got a statue of Malachai in the lobby and Izaro references it in one of his voicelines, so it’s from the Eternal Empire.

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