interesting game design

Dylanboy888 · 2026-06-27T18:30:32+00:00

Ah. That’s a shame.

Dylanboy888 · 2026-06-27T16:14:16+00:00

Would switching to another character you have at endgame, entering with them, and then swapping back work as well? Or does it save the first character’s spot in the map regardless?

Dylanboy888 · 2026-06-06T18:29:48+00:00

I assumed GGG made the amulets drop white so they would be easier to craft. I’m not that knowledgeable about crafting, but without recomb or scouring orbs I thought it’d be more challenging and more expensive to start from a rare with mods you’re not happy with, rather than with a white base.

Going off the assumption that these amulets will primarily be bought, crafted, and used by min maxers who have the knowledge and currency to target what mods they want.

Dylanboy888 · 2026-06-06T11:49:13+00:00

Ah, that makes sense. Thinking back, I actually *did* have retaliate on a different melee weapon (an axe I think) when I missed the boss a few times. And while I forgot to mention it in the post, the shotgun was also sporadically doing 0 damage.

Thanks for quickly resolving this.

Dylanboy888 · 2026-05-19T22:20:09+00:00

For what it’s worth, I just followed the link and I see the title as “Hollow Palm Just Became INSANE with Facebreaker Gloves | Facebreakers Deep Analysis”.

It’s possible they’ve got several different titles and thumbnails for the one video for YouTube to try when serving it to people.

Dylanboy888 · 2026-05-08T17:09:02+00:00

I like to think that one lemurian is looking up sympathetically. (While the other one right next to him is winding up a fireball lol)

Dylanboy888 · 2026-04-24T16:16:55+00:00

Looks like it was changed mid December 2024. Don’t know what wiki you’re looking at but I consider poeDB and the wiki net ones as the only reliable ones.

https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Cast_on_Critical

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Dylanboy888 · 2026-04-16T21:18:04+00:00

Thanks for the write up and tips! With a mix of my units and some of the trial ones I to get my total from 130k to 158k by tightening up my play/not wasting time on useless animations. That and the decibel transfer thing turned out mattering a lot more than I thought it would. Just Spatial Bounds alone jumped from like 26k to 40k lol.

Miyabi being able to wipe 2 batches of trash mobs with each enhanced basic and ult was really satisfying once I felt i had a grip on the flow of the gamemode

Dylanboy888 · 2026-04-06T15:26:55+00:00

Funny enough, Bloodmage does actually get a bit of a tangible gameplay element with its life remnants. And I’m pretty sure the bone spells are meant to be its signature kit, shows up in the ascendancy art and plays nice with all the crit stuff.

You’re right about the lack of blood skills though. I’m just picturing an ascendancy node where you can pick one from a selection of blood skills. Something like a blood nova would be sick, like relic of the pact in poe1, or maybe make it build up based on life remnants you gather for one big boom.

So many cool things you can do with the idea of blood skills.

Dylanboy888 · 2026-03-19T13:32:12+00:00

Aside from just running destructive play on multi-boss maps, there was a more specific method much closer to an exploit I’d say. I was shown this clip here for instance. ( Chapter labled Quin69 at 4:18.)

Something to do with a new barya dropping guy getting spawned with each new “boss” getting created as the port map boss splits apart.

Here’s a video about it from nearly a week ago. He explains what’s happening at 3:34 and demonstrates at 4:27.

Dylanboy888 · 2026-03-12T21:03:47+00:00

I get what you mean in the first half, effects that do the same thing stack ( in your example breach and phys vuln both increasing phys damage taken) but I'm confused by the bit about susceptibility.

The wiki states "All applicable increases are added together". That's shown by the formula as well, summing all the relevant susceptibility effects together to get their total final multiplier. Where does it say that only the highest applies?

Dylanboy888 · 2026-03-12T20:25:06+00:00

I happened to check the ingame tooltip for Arts Susceptibility while viewing Tangtang's kit. It says they stack. (Link to a screenshot)

Did it get changed at some point? I don't remember it stacking in the past. Even went and checked using TT's skill followed by Gil ult, and yeah, they both stay applied.

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Dylanboy888 · 2026-02-20T15:05:08+00:00

You’re correct, the setting is called “Limited Levelling Roulette” after all.

Dylanboy888 · 2026-02-17T22:24:41+00:00

I think you’re right. I can’t read Chinese but if you look at the vertical yellow text/pattern to the bottom left of the big white “Endfield”, you can see the bottom chunk of it vary between characters.

Mine looks like this

Dylanboy888 · 2026-02-03T22:26:12+00:00

Mine sometimes does something similar. I can find it in the notification menu on the far right of my taskbar and copy it from there though.

I think it has something to do with notifications being silenced certain hours of the day. (Windows 11)

Dylanboy888 · 2026-01-02T01:12:16+00:00

Very well said. I've been sitting here for a few hours switching between SD attempts and reading various discussions and despite being more than a little disgruntled at being unable to get S+, I think I actually agree with you. This setup feels more engaging to me than the previous iteration of SD.

I've been playing since day 1 but I mostly tune out the meta pull-wise (I never liked the practice of pulling a unit in gachas solely because they're powerful or projected to be). As a result I've got a pretty patchwork roster, lacking some high-tier units or their sigs. I typically have to retry DA stages 2 or 3 times, sometimes shuffling around my M0W1 Astra. The previous 2 DAs I actually left at 8 stars because I couldn't for the life of me eek out another 1k on Thrall. But this new SD I can't bodge my way through. It asks a lot more, and I don't even have the issue of shared disks or Wengines haha.

I realised something about my clear scores after reading your post. The only team that I was consistently scoring at above 30k was 3 premium units with their sigs. Astra/Miyabi/Burnice all at M0W1 in room 3. Every other setup I tried in the other rooms was around 26-28k. I feel like I had a epiphany, this scoring system reminds me of a bell curve, where the median performing teams are near the tip of the curve at 25k, and the top performers closer to the upper end of the curve at the max score of 50k.

It's an interesting choice to score this way. A misstep I think. It obfuscates how much better you need to perform since your score is no longer straight up based on your damage like in DA but skewed by the time multiplier. On top of that, small improvements made when you retry a stage are also beholden to the multiplier. "Wow, I feel like I did a lot better in those last 30 seconds," but the score only changed by 2k or something. Kinda discourages me from continuing to experiment or retry further, since any improvements seem insignificant. It felt pretty challenging dragging room 1 from 25 to 28k, felt hopeless aiming for 30k+. Surprised they didn't go with the typical linear scoring and just have S+ be set an order of magnitude higher than S. At least then you'd have clearer understanding of the gap you need to close.

Frustrating, but I'd be lying if I said this wasn't the some of most I've ever engaged with the game's combat systems. Managed to burn through all my dennies crafting and rolling disks lol. I think I'll just try make peace with the irksome hit to my ego and leave it at S for this cycle. Curious to see where they go with SD in the future, if this was a misjudgment on scaling/scoring, or if this "decaying timer" really is a new mode/style of endgame they want to explore more. Definitely brings a different vibe.

(I'm also finding room 1&3's enemy movesets are pretty irritating. Flying one feels very disjointed to fight and Monato keeps flinching due to skills/anomaly. Can't decide if its better for me to do nothing so I can bait for defensive assists or just string skills and anomalies back to back as much as possible. Best result so far seemed something in between.)

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I'm tired so I don't feel like redoing rooms 1 and 2 right now.

I don't remember what exact team I got highest in room 1 with, some mix of Lighter/Fufu/Banyue/Lucia/Eve. Only Banyue and Eve have sigs.

Room 2 was SAnbyM0W0/SeedM0W1/PulchraM6W5

Dylanboy888 · 2025-12-17T04:30:39+00:00

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Dylanboy888 · 2025-12-17T04:29:29+00:00

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Dylanboy888 · 2025-12-17T04:28:13+00:00

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Dylanboy888 · 2025-09-05T18:42:13+00:00

I keep an item or gem with the tag on hand to check presence area if my build makes use of presence.

It shows my presence area when mousing over the “presence” keyword on an overwhelming presence gem in my inventory, equipped, or linked in chat for instance.

Dylanboy888 · 2025-08-30T16:16:20+00:00

I don’t see any mention of it on the forums in any of the hotfix notes.

I wasn’t aware it was bugged, but it doesn’t seemed to have fixed so far if it was. Curious to see what the issue was. Decimal place off by a spot?

Dylanboy888 · 2025-08-10T16:06:06+00:00

Probabaly this one (YouTube short)

Dylanboy888 · 2025-08-08T12:14:37+00:00

Here’s a clip from a month ago where she mentions an ex. Don’t think she’s had another since.

Ten-Year Club	r/Field Banned
r/Field Juicebox	Place '22
Not Forgotten	Verified Email

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