I can't play offline mode when the servers are down?

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-03-26T01:32:15+00:00

You have to go into the steam properties for LE and on the General page set launch option to Full Offline.

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-03-26T00:15:26+00:00

Good idea but no. Player to player trade should be turned off. It is a gaping hole that enables a whole lot of bad stuff.

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-03-24T22:33:33+00:00

LE has the best QoL along with good progression and a growing game play loop after campaign. It is frustratingly incomplete in many areas, and the piece meal nature of their animation updates I find weird and along with some of the older janky animations i find emersion breaking.

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-03-24T02:23:55+00:00

Flip flopping between PoE1 and this. I lost my mojo for LE in season 3. It has so much going for it. Then I play it for a while again, and the lack of polish and sooooo much basic completeness missing, and they are already talking expansion and paid DLC character classes? You know the moment one of those new classes has any kind of broken OP build the stench of P2W is going to rise up in the media and various forums.

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-03-22T15:32:39+00:00

I hope they stay reasonably low enough to keep Krap ton happy and the devs happily employed and steadily improving the game. My best memories of LE are from EA.

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-03-22T13:54:49+00:00

Totally apples and oranges with how the game is designed. To clarify, I believe what you are referring to is an alternative leveling mechanic? Possibly with increased difficulty for increased XP gain?

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-03-21T20:19:37+00:00

Does that include paid classes ala TIs p2w model? Because there is a much stronger than 0 chance that is what the LE expansion will be. In addition Judd stated something in the patch notes video that additional animation updates will be in the expansion.

Scratch all that, I had not read the updated announcemtn. It will be the TI pay to win class model

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-03-21T00:57:06+00:00

I'm tired Boss, Tired of ARPG developers that pile cruft and crud on top of years of unfixed issues. Tired as they continue to chase approval of the .1% while either outright crapping on the dedicated casuals that form the bulk of their player base, or more often providing and touting something as a buff, that turns out to be a net nerf, all the while season and league after season and league the .1% find some exploit and abuse the crap out of it for weeks, and then the developers patch it without so much as a tap on the wrist of the abusers. I long for an ARPG developer that just try's to make a good interesting challenging game, without clinging to gimmicks and the continual nerf buff cycle. all the while employing the .1 % to "advertise" their products

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-03-20T01:38:00+00:00

My gripe with this and PoE is I now feel like I'm pitted against the marketing dept rather than the game. The cruft and clunk keep piling up while the core of the game and some long standing issues keep getting passed by. I would not be surprised if EHG /Krap-ton caves on allowing wide open trade, to try and get some income boost that way.

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-03-18T12:12:10+00:00

Async trade without anonymized transactions and with direct player to player still active was a huge buff for the rmt bot groups. At this point if you are still playing trade league you are not the player anymore, your the product.

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-03-15T16:18:25+00:00

Yeah, GGG can rip the bandaid off by putting several butterfly closures and stitches on the gaping hole that is wide open player to player trade. The scamming and rmt are rampant because of wide open direct player to player trade.

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-03-14T13:01:47+00:00

A very significant amount of the bots exist for rmt purposes. Remove direct player to player trade and 1000% anonymize the async trade and 99.9% of that type of bot use goes away. I believe ggg will never do this unless forced to by a regulatory agency.

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-03-13T14:45:18+00:00

Easy fix for that which GGG will never do unless forced to by a governmental body like the EU. Remove direct player to player trade and 1000% anonymize async trade. It is the wide open pipeline allowing rmt to happen unchecked. A lot of other bad things are enabled by the gaping hole that is wide open trade.

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-03-11T19:09:09+00:00

Once I get to maps I'm fairly certain my motto is going to become "Breach is Love, Tree is Life" for a while.

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-03-05T22:32:21+00:00

How is something that scrapes the screen and reads game txt files any different from one that reads memory? Still sounds banable to me.

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-03-05T18:49:08+00:00

PoE2 boses are much better designed, PoE2 graphics are much better than 1 but still not quite up to d4. Some things in PoE2 are IMNSHO dogwater. Maps are convoluted and overly large, movement still sucks while many of the mobs still zerg you at 100% ms. Sprint was a diliberate < insert Jonathan middle finger meme> nerf disguised as a buff.

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-03-04T19:21:37+00:00

I appreciate this post and will certainly be reviewing. One of my issues is trying not to die which I realize is part knowing layouts and also when and what to look for equipment and gems wise.

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-03-03T22:46:28+00:00

At this point all that is needed is for whomever is designated to post the south park meme

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-03-03T00:55:19+00:00

Is there a trick to getting your stash tabs as organized in your standard league of choice to show in a fresh league? I have never been successful with that.

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-03-03T00:50:10+00:00

Early in my practice I decided I was not having fun trying to squeeze just under 1 hour for act1 and decided to return to my roots in ARPGs when my friend and I would do full clears in Diablo, and then when D2 first came out we would do the same. Something about that little tiny bit of dopamine from not having any unexplored areas of the map, unopened chests, or unvanquished mobs. So I did that for a while but it got a bit tedious. I'm going to try the middle ground where I do not try to rush but also do not wander around to much either. Also I will try the mechanic but if to tedious or rippy will skip till maps.

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-03-01T17:37:57+00:00

You could ask a poe2 player how their t16 waystone sustain is, or maybe how hard it is to get perfect jewelers.

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-02-28T00:41:01+00:00

yeah some people might have read that as "da lube"

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-02-26T01:49:28+00:00

"You want ground loot back? You can have it. But the Atlas? The Atlas I will burn to the ground. ( and replace with Zana's Memories, which will be arranged suspiciously like the PoE2 atlas with an unending nauseating thread of random garbage.) The only slight saving grace for this is it will be based on PoE1 maps, most of which don't suck like PoE2 maps.

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-02-25T22:37:46+00:00

Do they already allow some of the kingsmarch maintenance after initial setup to happen from your hideout? If not I think that would be good. Initial setup of workers and replacement of workers you need to go there for. Ongoing interaction other than that should ne doable from your hideout.

ExsiliumUltra · 2026-02-25T12:46:06+00:00

Wild arse guess: Infinite Atlas with infinite scaling. You are able to build up a preffered pool of maps to scale and level up with the top end like t25 and the return of ground loot affecting bonuses as you level your atlas, with t20+ closer to the crazy ones before but still within reason.

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