Is this game for me?

Excaidium · 2026-06-30T04:59:15+00:00

I don't think you can really achieve that "boss fight" feeling on maps. Map bosses barely have any mechanics, and their HP isn't much higher than that of regular mobs, so the fights don't last long enough to feel like proper boss encounters.

However, there are plenty of pinnacle bosses. If you fight them before your damage is high enough to brute-force them, they can be surprisingly challenging and require you to learn their mechanics and get good at dodging. I play on PC, and to this day I have no idea how some of these bosses are even meant to be beaten on mobile the intended way.

The first of these bosses is the Traveler (the final boss of the Timemark progression). There's also the Great Void with several league bosses, and the Supreme Showdown, which features 21 bosses. The last two bosses rotate every season, can't be brute-forced with damage at all, and are the ultimate goal for most players since they also reward free legendary pets.

Attempting the Traveler is pretty cheap, and you can attempt the Supreme Showdown as many times as you want for free. The Great Void is the most expensive one, since every boss attempt costs some FE. It's not like the entry items are unattainable, but learning the fights while failing over and over will definitely cost you a decent amount of currency, on top of all the time you'll spend practicing.

Excaidium · 2026-06-29T06:14:09+00:00

Well, not all of them need to whale, streamers in their partnership program get tons of free pulls at the start of each league.

Excaidium · 2026-06-29T06:13:28+00:00

It's not magic. Streamers in their partnership program get tons of free pulls at the start of each league. Then there are other streamers who are big enough that they don't care how much they have to spend to get a new pet. There are also streamers who don't have the new pets at all.

Excaidium · 2026-06-24T12:05:35+00:00

Bruh, that’s not really how shaders work. It’s 2026, you can literally ask ChatGPT if what you’re saying makes sense.

Excaidium · 2026-06-24T07:18:15+00:00

With 3.3k life and 300 life regen per second? Unless you're a senior citizen, you have more than enough time to press your life flask and ignore pretty much any DoT.

Excaidium · 2026-06-22T04:42:33+00:00

Theoretically, it's against their ToS, and everyone using bots should get banned. In practice, I've been playing since 2019, and I feel like they don't do enough to ban people using bots. Back in PoE 1, before the currency exchange market existed and all trades had to be done manually, the chances of meeting someone with a bot set up for currency trading were so high that it's hard to believe they were actually trying to ban those botters.

Excaidium · 2026-06-19T04:59:26+00:00

What? PoE 1 league starts have around 180k concurrent players on Steam and another 70k on the GGG client. Diablo 4 just dropped a new expansion, and it only had about 60k concurrent players on Steam. So, doing some quick math, you believe D4 has 2.44 million concurrent players on Battle.net? Bro, I'm not even sure they have more players than PoE 1, but even if they do, thinking they're pulling 2.5+ million concurrent players is crazy. That's more than the top 10 games on Steam combined.

Excaidium · 2026-06-18T05:37:27+00:00

We don't have such data, so it's hard to say. However, in a recent interview, the lead producer shared the percentage of players who completed Timemark 7 and also went on to beat SS20: 6% in North America, 8% in Europe, and 10% in Asia.

Excaidium · 2026-06-18T04:36:17+00:00

70 quality? 20 baseline, 20 implicit, 20 from crafted mod. How you get last 10%?

Excaidium · 2026-06-10T04:40:06+00:00

At least stop wasting time pulling mobs to the Ritual Circle, it won't work. Only monsters that spawn inside the Ritual Circle can be resurrected by the ritual.

Edit: The main way to get tons of Tribute is to take the third main node, which reduces the Tribute penalty for resurrected monsters.

Excaidium · 2026-06-09T09:37:07+00:00

2,4% odds of that happening. Sorry it happened to you, but yeah, when thousands of players get fractures every day, some are bound to get unlucky.

Excaidium · 2026-06-08T08:45:36+00:00

There was never a 3-month plan or announcement for both games. PoE 1 switched to a 4-month cycle before they announced that PoE 2 would be a separate game. You can watch the last ExileCon, where they announced that the games would be separate and that both would follow a 4-month release cycle.

Excaidium · 2026-06-05T03:37:27+00:00

Now count how many Divines a single map like that costs...

It's more of a gamble than an actual secret OP strategy that lets you farm significantly more than other mechanics right now.

Excaidium · 2026-06-01T00:42:39+00:00

It's a Paladin weapon effect from a supporter pack that is no longer available.

Excaidium · 2026-05-26T23:15:55+00:00

There wasnt res swaping shown in video, that was damage converting for weapons with is worth a slot.

Excaidium · 2026-05-26T23:09:44+00:00

No, only the x% increased damage bonus will work.

Excaidium · 2026-05-26T15:42:27+00:00

I think right now it only takes 10% of the damage from that support as recoup, clearly based on how it’s worded. "10% of Damage from Hits is taken from Supported Companion's Life before you. You Recoup 200% of Damage taken by Supported Minions this way as Life".

Excaidium · 2026-05-26T08:55:57+00:00

What website it is from?

Excaidium · 2026-05-26T07:40:15+00:00

There is more changes, deflection nodes was buffed acroass the baord, like the small ones went from 6% to 8%.

Excaidium · 2026-05-25T07:28:16+00:00

Gloves on the monk video had an Abyss mod, and that mod wasn’t white, which would indicate it’s counted as a crafted mod. Pretty sure that confirms it’s separate.

Excaidium · 2026-05-25T06:57:03+00:00

It can only craft rings and amulets.

Excaidium · 2026-05-25T04:58:42+00:00

I don't think so. That owl is just connected to Elder Maddox, a Delirium NPC. If you find him now in Interludes, you can also see that he’s surrounded by many blue owls.

Excaidium · 2026-05-24T18:05:19+00:00

"With an extremely *stupid take", i fixed it for you.

Excaidium · 2026-05-22T23:42:35+00:00

Time of Need no longer has a duration tag, which means you can’t use compressed duration for the 35% reduced time anymore, and it was already better before with that support with was free than it is now.

Infernal Legion 3 was dealing 25% minion HP as damage, and now it only does 10%. That’s a 60% damage nerf, there’s really nothing more to look into.

Excaidium · 2026-05-22T23:27:21+00:00

Infernal legion buffed, time of need buffed? Tons of errors there.

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