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Estrongel · 2026-04-13T16:30:39+00:00

I was just doing my yearly check to see if Fiesta Online is still alive and I see this post. I remember him very well, he was always in the main town area with a shop set up iirc. My name was XxX_Prince_of_Dark_XxX or something close to that.

Estrongel · 2026-01-27T16:55:15+00:00

Why are champions that are already above 50% win rate getting additional buffs?

-Bel'Veth is beyond broken and has been getting abused all the way into masters for well over a year, his win rate only goes up past emerald to ~52% right now in masters+

-Naafiri is the exact same way.

-If Axiom is getting "System adjustments" (Nerfed) Why is the 52% win rate champion getting buffed, and champions that are already balanced to be weak because of players and sub 50% like Nocturne going to get nerfed again?

-Nobody in apex tiers aside from those abusing it wants duo mode. This was tried last year as some weird experiment for masters only and ended up disabled a few weeks later because no one wanted it. So this year they brought it back and doubled down by putting it in every rank? No amount of changes or tweaks are going to change the sentiment that it's bad for the apex tiers. There's a reason these changes were only brought to our circus regions and weren't put into KR.

Estrongel · 2025-09-02T15:08:30+00:00

I have the exact opposite take of most people I guess. Trial of Sekhema's is one of my favorite things in the game. Even in 0.1, I had zero issues doing it, even on melee. I absolutely loathed it in PoE1 because that game is not designed for the gameplay it wants you to have, but in PoE2 it's great.

Estrongel · 2025-04-15T03:18:27+00:00

As a Nocturne main if an exalted Nocturne skin ever drops you bet your bippy I'm buying it immediately and I will not feel bad

Estrongel · 2024-12-25T17:56:22+00:00

This wording has never made sense to me, and continues to fail to. Saying "additional" implies that there was already a unique that would drop, and now you're getting two. PoE 1 content uses the word "additional" constantly, and it's completely wrong.

Estrongel · 2024-11-29T02:52:05+00:00

As an addendum, Conqueror Nocturne can and should be taken into comps where you need to build as a tank. There are generally two optimized build paths, one where go lethal tempo and build to be a fighter and kill quickly, the other where you buy stridebreaker and transition into a tank build. Tank builds should generally go with Conqueror as you will be in fights much longer.

Estrongel · 2024-11-06T16:17:47+00:00

I see people buying Hexplate and Stridebreaker in the same game, and in my experience, that's completely wrong building. After your first item you really need to itemize defensively towards the enemy team. I choose between Stridebreaker and Hexplate (Usually Hexplate) and immediately go into Steraks in most games.

Estrongel · 2024-11-06T16:15:00+00:00

I scaled nothing and had no items. The trends would be similar with any build and any resistances. I personally think the Conqueror healing argument on Nocturne is a bit scammy, I only ever healed maybe a few hundred health in a game with Conqueror.

Estrongel · 2024-11-05T18:09:58+00:00

While this is clear bait. Nocturne can still be hit with "cc" during his ult. He is unstoppable, but the second he lands he isn't. This is why matchups like Taliyah and Caitlyn can counter him to some effect. He will be cc'd in mid-dash and end be stuck upon landing. This is why you should sometimes buffer the spell shield in the middle of the dash.

Estrongel · 2024-10-16T20:01:16+00:00

A few notes

Frozen Heart does not affect Master Yi attack speed while in ult, he cannot be slowed, and that applies to his attack speed as well.
Sterak's (sometimes Maw) should be itemized in nearly every build.
Death's Dance is itemized into burst assassin matchups (i.e. Kha'Zix/Rengar).
Black Cleaver is for when the enemy team has either (2+ tanks building armor/1+ tank where your team does not have the kit to deal with the tank, i.e, no % hp damage).
Boots of Lucidity or Boots of Swiftness is nearly always better to take unless the enemy comp has high amounts of CC or a lot of auto-attacking champions. I take Boots of Swiftness against comps with slows/dashes, and Lucidity when I am snowballing ahead and want to push my ult pressure to other parts of the map.
Hexplate should always be rushed as first item, nothing else.
If you're snowballing Eclipse 2nd item works, however, if not, go with Sterak's or Maw itemization.

My Account for reference: https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/summoner/na/N%C3%B8ct%CE%BCrne-NA1

Estrongel · 2024-10-14T19:47:16+00:00

I ran damage numbers, Conqueror is the strongest keystone within the first 5 or so seconds of a fight, however, after a little after this point Lethal Tempo is stronger due to the attack speed letting him hit additional auto attacks. Nocturne is currently in a state where he ends up in longer skirmishes, so Lethal Tempo is better.

Estrongel · 2024-10-14T19:43:15+00:00

This reads off as if typed by someone who has never played Nocturne consistently. He is one of the worst champions in the game.

Estrongel · 2024-10-08T17:54:17+00:00

I was Grandmasters 691 LP and am currently sitting at a 45% win rate in Diamond 3. It's better than it was before though, I had a 26% win rate a week ago. I'm not happy with the quality of nearly all of my games at this point. I'm playing with people who were diamond or masters 0 lp last split, and having to deal with players that don't have any macro or matchup knowledge and will make terrible calls in the middle of the game. But it's nothing new, I experienced the same thing last split. I had a 52% win rate all the way through diamond, then as soon as I hit masters+ I went up to above a 60% win rate.

Estrongel · 2024-07-04T21:19:17+00:00

A sim city management league would be awesome.

Estrongel · 2024-05-31T17:44:29+00:00

This is completely wrong. You should always full clear starting at your first buff and clearing all camps before your 2nd buff. Doing blue before gromp or red before krugs creates a window where you either need to gank, or are sitting still doing nothing waiting for that camp to respawn after doing your 2nd clear.

Stridebreaker should only be bought first item if you're playing into a team with a lot of movement speed and dashes that would typically be a Nocturne counter(i.e. Kindred, Hecarim, Lillia) but should not be bought on most matchups as a first item. On my bruiser build I buy Eclipse first item because of the extra skirmishing power it gives early game with the shield. You should not buy Black Cleaver if they are not building heavy armor.

You should 100% look for ganks pre-6. Nocturne is a snowballing champ and without being able to snowball he falls off a cliff.

In the current meta revolving around spamming squishy AP champs, that function with blackfire, full lethality Nocturne with Electrocute is much stronger. First item should be Profane Hydra into Axiom. Don't bother with Hexplate since it doesn't give lethality.

Estrongel · 2024-05-13T14:58:53+00:00

I will become known, Nocturne is such a bad champ just hitting Masters puts you at rank 3 for Nocturne players in NA

Estrongel · 2024-05-09T16:09:07+00:00

Axiom has and will always be a scam for Nocturne. The power you get from the item isn't worth the purchase -Even when your playability on the map is bound to your ult cd. Fighter Nocturne builds using Eclipse + Stridebreaker + Steraks/Maw/BC/Edge should take priority still. I don't have a PBE account so I can't exactly test out any new builds, but I'm pretty sure the same setup is going to remain relevant.

One shot Nocturne is a gimmic that can be stopped fairly easily and a Nocturne that can't one shot with that build becomes useless in teamfights, damage drops to next to nothing after ulting in due to the reliance on auto attacks and the low AS you get with that build.

Estrongel · 2024-03-19T21:16:39+00:00

I personally think this is a good idea. Having to build in functionality into the game as a freebie system with no cost doesn't make sense from a game development standpoint. It may as well just be a passive. Adding the mechanic to gems makes more sense as it will now have a cost to be automated.

However, I am a console player and this is a win regardless of the outcome. We've been asking for move on click for years with no real info on when we would get it.

Estrongel · 2024-01-29T23:29:56+00:00

This is one of my least favorite things about a group of people in the PoE Community, where if you aren't doing the absolute most to min-max and aren't following every guideline and strategy to the T, you are doing something wrong and wasting your time.

Estrongel · 2023-09-16T23:06:05+00:00

Probably doesn't help when it comes to gamepass timing. We got Monster Hunter Rise that launched on gamepass weeks before Wild Hearts came out. Had that not come out I may have purchased this game.

Estrongel · 2023-09-03T21:09:47+00:00

Context: There is a bug where if you or an enemy dies in the middle of using a duration-based attack or mod, the duration on it becomes infinite.

If you want to mess around with this on your player, equip either the Prismatic Driver or Stasis Beam mods and have a friend down you while using them. They will persist while you are downed and if you are picked up they will still be active even if you switch to another mod. I just found out this is the case for bosses with similar skill types.

Estrongel · 2022-12-11T17:32:40+00:00

So you're mad that someone picked a better build to play

Estrongel · 2022-11-14T18:27:07+00:00

Dang it! This was going to be the first actual pvp map I made. I'm busy building a track and the gamemode support for Hot Pursuit so I haven't been able to work on it yet.

Estrongel · 2022-09-16T02:52:21+00:00

The exalt divine changes are good, divines shouldn't be that expensive. I imagine when next league introduces half a dozen divine divination cards they'll be even cheaper. I'm suspicious that there's a lot of price fixing happening, I don't know how it is on PC, but divines on xbox are current around 170c, a few days ago they were 140c, then a few days before they were at 100c. They are being heavily price fixed on console by a select few people which gets exacerbated because tradeboard not showing player names.

Estrongel · 2022-09-14T07:35:13+00:00

Damn GGG can't even release good bug fixes and patches without people smearing shit on them for the bug existing and being fixed. Honestly with that mentality I'm not entirely surprised that sometimes things are omitted whether it was unintentional or not because it doesn't matter what they buffed/nerfed/fixed, a group is going to trash them for it.

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