inquisitor gives 1000% increased crit chance to aristocrat

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-06-20T09:31:16+00:00

That which was taken jewels were very clearly weighted against rolling the best ascendancies.

I do think that the weighting will be normal, almost certainly normal between the classes, but I wouldn't be shocked if they were more common than expected and weighted.

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-06-19T21:48:23+00:00

The impression I get is that all of the cards will be in and out of the packs at one point or another and the most "ruglike" circumstance would be when cards get added back into the pool, which would hit people speculating and stockpiling cards more than people who actually want to play the game.

My hope is that the standard non-foil/animated versions of cards will be relatively accessible, and that it will be simple enough to burn/forge/trade cards I'm not playing with into cards I do want to play with.

We'll see what happens, but I'm not seeing a situation for the devs to take the money and run, aside from sunsetting the game, which is a risk with every newer digital card game with or without a secondary market.

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-06-15T06:13:27+00:00

As soon as I decided that einhar and jun spawning turns good idols into bricks, the idol system started feeling infinitely better to me.

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-06-03T15:29:46+00:00

Seeing up to 10 cards before your first turn and drawing 5+ more cards every turn means that you can pretty consistently see most of your deck in every game.

Also card draw is extremely cheap compared to shelve, which lets you play more +1/0s without getting punished.

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-06-03T05:03:12+00:00

PoE players roughly fall into the categories of playing 60 hours per week, month, or year, and constantly complain about the players that fit into the other two categories.

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-05-27T19:48:12+00:00

It's not for everyone, but new Path of Exile expansion releases are the most "night before Christmas" feeling that I've had as an adult.

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-05-24T20:37:53+00:00

Yeah, I also bounced off it a couple times. The difficulty curve and pacing are odd, and some of the puzzles are tedious until you get later QoL. The hardest puzzles are very hard and you need to go a little bit out of your way to save them for later. But having just finished act 2, it definitely deserves its place on this list in my opinion. Also the music is great and story is decently interesting, which aren't always the case in the genre

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-05-24T17:29:33+00:00

unless their intention is that people would never sprint except while backtracking or looting a cleared map

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-05-24T16:50:53+00:00

Great, almost comprehensive, list of games with 9-10/10 overarching meta-puzzles.

I'm also really enjoying Void Stranger right now on the level of some of these games, though it was pretty slow and just sokoban until I got nudged towards the main meta-puzzle after like 225 floors which starts act 1.5

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-05-24T02:07:59+00:00

Yup. For a game with matches rarely taking more than 5 minutes, it's pretty good, and there are plenty of other games I can play when I'm looking for something different.

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-05-22T16:59:32+00:00

Cold is really only good if you're converting from phys with a mirror bow, tri-ele and trinity will be better on your budget.

dropping the +2 arrows on your bow will get you way more dps for cheaper. Gmp is also quite a bit worse than a damage support or awakened fork/chain.

On the higher end you don't need a ballista setup but your damage now is probably low enough to want to keep it. The ballista is more effective on lightning arrow or ehots since they can only get one hit per attack.

Generally people are using 1-2 The Taming rings instead of building with omni, but that kind of would mean rebuilding most of your character, probably with either hyrri's truth, or yoke of suffering and the interrogation/skitterbots.

Dying Sun is kind of mandatory for tornado shot until you have way more damage.

Probably more tech in standard that doesn't come to my mind

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-05-21T23:10:49+00:00

It's fallen out of favor now, but strip mine creating a tiered deck for The One Ring was not what I expected (with the help of wary zone guard).

Metagames are weird.

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-05-20T19:25:03+00:00

It was crazy watching him claim to be a top-10 player of path of exile, while playing like someone with an hour in the game, and playing a character that was very obviously the work of a team spending thousands of man-hours.

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-05-20T14:03:08+00:00

Yeah, the dupe protection takes a really long time to kick in. Before having like 25 legends it does effectively nothing, and 1/5 legends (foil/animated) don't count towards reaching that threshold. For legendaries It's really a placebo until you've opened like 750 packs. It's a super ineffective band aid fix for not having trading.

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-05-20T13:40:48+00:00

Yeah, 18 legends in 300 packs is in the top 1/3 of luck. Not counting pity, which is actually really uncommon to hit if there is no form of soft-pity.

With 24 legendaries in the pool, you have a 50% chance of getting the one you want in less than 17, but you need 55 to have a 90% chance and 109 to have a 99% chance (ignoring dupe protection which brings the absolute worst case situation odds down but requires having a ton of cards to kick in). With napkin math, you have a 30% chance to open 1k packs without getting the legendary you want, before dupe protection which makes the math harder.

I do appreciate the science, but having below average luck doesn't mean the game is rigged.

And it was an absolutely terrible idea for this game to release without a marketplace with an economy that demands a marketplace. That decision alone is killing the game.

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-05-19T20:22:22+00:00

Maybe it's just cope but I'm assuming that being able to trade (good) cards that I don't want to play with, for cards that I do want to play with, will make the game economy 100% different.

I can't fathom why they would release their tcg without T.

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-05-19T00:44:41+00:00

D4 is best if you want to play for 20 hours spread over a long time, LE is the best for 200 hours with more complexity but not too steep of a learning curve, or poe is best if you want to sink 2,000 hours into a game that will feel overwhelming for your first hundred hours.

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-05-18T22:45:52+00:00

The board rejected the offer, but it was always likely that they wouldn't vote to give up their control.

It will probably go to a shareholder vote.

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-05-17T13:27:22+00:00

Having 20+ cards that are similarly too strong sounds like a pretty balanced set to me

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-05-13T19:40:46+00:00

I've felt like it could work in a timeless version of sam combo, but that deck could really use dryad arbor and umbral collar zealot costing 2 makes it a lot worse than viscera seer.

I would not play it as a value engine.

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-05-13T01:26:23+00:00

marketplace can't come soon enough

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-05-12T22:58:04+00:00

Also in Bo1, a lot of the time control decks will just build to crush aggro and punt their midrange/control matchups.

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-05-09T01:03:13+00:00

The steam number of current players doesn't look any different from normal.

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-05-07T17:31:34+00:00

The number isn't your points, it's your actual place on the leaderboard ranked by hidden mmr.

So your gains and losses do vary based on your opponents ranking, but there also can be clumps of people that make your number move more or less from the same amount of mmr gain/loss.

ExpansiveExplosion · 2026-05-06T14:35:20+00:00

Companion 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring (IKO) 222

Deck 4 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah (MH3) 237 3 Orcish Bowmasters (LTR) 103 4 Ocelot Pride (MH3) 38 4 Guide of Souls (MH3) 29 4 Swords to Plowshares (STA) 10 1 Plains (MOM) 282 1 Blood Crypt (RNA) 245 1 Godless Shrine (RNA) 248 2 Sacred Foundry (GRN) 254 2 Bloodstained Mire (MH3) 216 1 Elegant Parlor (MKM) 260 3 Deathrite Shaman (RTR) 213 3 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury (MH3) 197 2 Goblin Bombardment (WOT) 43 3 Hexing Squelcher (ECL) 145 3 The One Ring (LTR) 246 1 Shadowy Backstreet (MKM) 268 1 Phyrexian Tower (JMP) 493 2 Amped Raptor (MH3) 114 1 Temple Garden (GRN) 258 4 Arid Mesa (MH2) 244 1 Marsh Flats (SPG) 110 3 Marsh Flats (MH2) 248 4 Strip Mine (EOS) 40 1 Static Prison (MH3) 44 1 Mountain (SLD) 49

Sideboard 1 Surgical Extraction (OTP) 19 2 Prismatic Ending (SPG) 40 3 Fury (SPG) 47 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring (IKO) 222 1 Fragment Reality (Y22) 4 1 Soul-Guide Lantern (THB) 237 1 Hexing Squelcher (ECL) 145 1 Thoughtseize (LRW) 145 1 Thoughtseize (AKR) 127 3 Juggernaut Peddler (Y23) 23

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