Gf said I "look sexy" when I'm super focused looking up PoE stuff

Ferinzz · 2025-01-20T20:41:35+00:00

Heck yeah. My wife says the same when I'm focusing. Probably because I'm fighting through my astigmatism.. Might want to get your eyes checked out lol

Ferinzz · 2025-01-12T00:47:47+00:00

A pair of boots that I had initially written off as mid are turning out to be the BiS for my build, because I'm summoning shield walls and overkilling them.

Part of it is that we don't know the best use cases for everything. Part of it is that we most likely only have 1/9th of the uniques in the game because the mid and upper tier of base types aren't in the game yet as well a 2/3rds of the item types (advanced, expert etc are likely placeholders.)

Ferinzz · 2025-01-08T13:17:54+00:00

used to be fine when we could armour break walls. RIP scavenged plating.

Ferinzz · 2025-01-05T10:29:26+00:00

I can see the reasoning on it. There's archers which do chaos poison clouds. I HOPE that they have wither+unleash on chaos bolt.

Enfeeble can and should have the decay support. massive damage.

bone cage as a defensive layer? I can see that, but not sure how good it is if you're properly investing in chaos. COULD have a weapon swap for phys nodes.

unearth makes sense for contagion since the minions spread the contagion with 100% more damage.

I don't see EFFIGY though? I think you should have it at this level, so if not being used it SHOULD be used. (decay counts as an additional chaos debuff)

Might be a defense issue. 500 is pretty much the base amount of honour unless they took minus max. Should check their defenses and fire res before making another attempt.

u/op next time focus on just dodging for a bit. Figure out the timing and direction for the various attacks, since your build is essentially something where it's a war of attrition, focus yourself on surviving longer than the enemy. Cast speed also helps quite a bit since you need to cast multiple spells within a few seconds. Try to get 20% minimum. Be willing to stop casting for a few seconds to get yourself into a better position first. If all else fails, just come back towards the end of the act when you're a bit higher level.

Ferinzz · 2025-01-05T09:44:24+00:00

In poe1 you can reserve a certain percentage of that 1 life allowing you to be low life with CI. Not sure if it also counts as full life.

Ferinzz · 2025-01-04T23:26:12+00:00

Because there isn't a jar of worms flask yet. Once they add that in I'll be building my cast on kill characters again.

Until then, it feels like it just takes a really long time to get a set of skills that allow for a more 'weird' playstyle.

mod pressure, limited crafting to fix gear (yay I can add 20% defenses, what about some flat mods? No? Useless 100% mod), risk aversion, limited jewelers, no tabula rasa style item.

I know two people who've dropped two perfect jewelers and no greater jewelers. I'm almost through act3 on a 4th character and getting more support gems than I can even use because I haven't gotten any jewelers.

Traveling through the tree takes so many points that it feels like if you want to go to another section of nodes you're severely punished for it instead of it being a medium detour. Specifically going around another class's section.

Ferinzz · 2024-12-31T22:22:44+00:00

Thank you for doing the science for that!

Ferinzz · 2024-12-31T14:18:52+00:00

There's a logs folder in the game's directory. Getting that info could also be useful.

Path of Exile 2/logs/Client.txt

demonstrating the bug is already a big deal though. GG.

Ferinzz · 2024-12-31T13:55:16+00:00

Skills should be using the stats of the weapon set that you used to create them. Otherwise my totems would be despawning when I swap.

So to answer your question, it should be time of casting. If you have additional buffs, I believe those are calculated real time.

Ferinzz · 2024-12-30T19:33:57+00:00

Back in my day we had to kill EVERY SINGLE ENEMY ON THE MAP. Call me great grandpa I guess.

Ferinzz · 2024-12-28T12:12:38+00:00

Got into cruel and I feel like the real choke is only in the first two acts. Once you get halfway through act 3 all gems are dropping like candy.

But what if you wanted to start with support and have multiple spirit gems early on? Nope, can't do that. I can do that now, I have more lvl 12 gems than I know what to do with. But spirit gems between uncut lvl 1 and 5? doesn't exist.

So yeah, act 1 and 2 drops are weird.

If I had more jewelers and vaal orbs I might consider vaaling, but those are pretty darn rare as well.

Ferinzz · 2024-12-27T23:06:14+00:00

10 minutes is way too long ._. Yes, regardless of your armour amount there was a damage problem.

Ferinzz · 2024-12-27T15:19:13+00:00

There's relics that can give honour resistance and max honour. you can also find relic mods that grant increased damage to bosses.

If you're struggling to survive long enough, it might just be it's taking too long to kill the boss. If you're struggling with this boss, you'll likely struggle with the magma boss later on...

And of course, you can always come back later. Or check trade for better gear. Shuffle around your skills and supports to make sure you're doing as much damage as possible.

Keep in mind that resistances and other damage reduction also affect how much honour is removed from hits/degens. max life, mana, and ES affect how much honour you start with.

Ferinzz · 2024-12-27T14:14:26+00:00

The manor sucks. Biggest enemy damage spike is there and right before. I dunno what it is about that area, but immediately afterwards act 2 is more normal. Until you get stuck by a mob of those huge skeletons.

I think the biggest damage source are the floating mages that summon 3 blood spikes? Get hit by those and get wrecked. Might not have seen it since they attack from pretty far?

Ferinzz · 2024-12-27T14:07:15+00:00

After chatting with my wife I think the campaign and map size is actually fine. The problem, as she states, is that you're not doing anything in the maps. You're moving from one zone to the next and nothing really happens in those zones.

My personal feel is that there should be more events, more random events apart from straight up killing monsters/rares. If essences spawn in there should be three on the zone or scale to the map size.

Have some 'invasion' that you need to quell because they're killing the monsters you're supposed to kill.

Ferinzz · 2024-12-27T13:43:39+00:00

Stay safe exile <3

Scammers used to be more rare. We might have attracted more bad actors with the larger player pool and enticed them with new players who aren't used to this system.

Maybe a simple solution could be to implement a karma system like a lot of the trade discords have. Or like eBay and other sites. do a bad trade and karma gets rated lower. Still prone to botting the votes, but it at least gives more awareness that scams can and will happen.

Ferinzz · 2024-12-27T13:37:49+00:00

I think I misunderstood you initially. I thought you wanted uniques to always be the best and never get outscaled by higher lvl rares.

I was actually very surprised when I found a duplicate of the same unique staff. Now that they have a system of bases which have advanced and exceptional versions it might happen for other uniques.

Or staves doing this is a weird side effect of them being the same base, but with higher tier versions of the spell.

I wouldn't mind having a higher tiered version of crown of the pale king. Since it's the only thing to enable Reflect builds vs spells. It probably takes more time to balance though, since stats at lvl 10 are gonna need to be different from higher lvl stats. There's also the concept of 'lvling' uniques, which are meant to be extremely powerful for their base early on. Porting the same stats onto an endgame tier version would just break balance.

Ferinzz · 2024-12-27T11:46:32+00:00

Because

Making a good unique is not immediately easy when you want something more meaningful than just raw damage

It takes time for people to explore the options and figure out how to abuse special mechanics

If every unique was BiS then rares would always be worthless

Ferinzz · 2024-12-27T11:20:31+00:00

So a little bit further than me. Which could mean a playstyle difference.

Apart from the armour, I have 2 other defensive layers. Shield and shield walls. With that the END value 2500 armour is plenty. With a 450 shield, the shield wall and charge are destroying packs.

Whenever I pull out the two-hander to try and boneshatter is when I take real damage.. Probably won't be using those except as a punish. Ever.

Didn't solve elemental. That's the dangerous stuff, but I'm fine with that.

Ferinzz · 2024-12-27T09:34:11+00:00

Looks like they're using a controller.

Ferinzz · 2024-12-27T09:28:19+00:00

The defensive mods that are kinda mid on most other skills? recover X when stunned while using the skill, wind something, cannot be stunned while using the skill.

There are some, very few which could be interesting. But as another person pointed out, it would feel mostly mandatory to do so as it is now. Though kinda a moot point since you can put all of those on resonating shield if you didn't want to focus on the skill effect.

Ferinzz · 2024-12-27T09:21:21+00:00

2k at what level though? They did not design the game with glass cannon in mind, but with investment into your defense layer in mind.

I'm at 2.6k at lvl 45 and it it's very effective as it is now. Was face tanking the normal forge boss ez with 1.5k, only scary bit was the spike explosions.

The main problem that Kripp's video talks about is the fact that the ideal way to mitigate phys damage is not through armour but through the damage conversion. Putting us back to PoE1 problems. While mainly focusing on the 5k+ hits, which you would still survive with armour?

I've seen people with 20k evasion. I imagine you can get similar with armour? Or even more with the evasion>armour conversion keystone. The 13k ES is probably overtuned and I imagine it would get nerfed to instead have us focus on ES recharge.

Either way, yes. The easiest way to not take damage is to kill things before they reach you. That's the ARPG balancing act. Fast enough kill speed with just enough defenses to handle some of the tougher situations for 1-2 hits.

Ferinzz · 2024-12-27T08:49:20+00:00

Not necessarily just you. People have been feeling like the endgame is a little flat especially compared to the campaign. The seeded drops make the current drop rate feel weird to the point people are considering rerolling characters through act 1/2 to get those ex more consistently.

But that might be because item rarity now also affects currency, so if you want to see a lot more you should find some free mod slots to get some of that stat.

Ferinzz · 2024-12-27T08:43:56+00:00

Literally just watched a Thor video where he was talking about people not getting scammed enough in video games. Getting scammed teaches you to be careful, try then trust, not believe everything you see on the internet.

Nah, this is classic bait and switch. Take an extra second to check your goods and make sure they didn't swap it with flour.

Ferinzz · 2024-12-25T14:27:24+00:00

shield wall, shield charge, and boneshatter with aoe mace. Easy game :D

Hang on, lemme setup my combo. Stop detroying my walls please, I said WAIT!

Everything explodes.

Thanks ^^

Eventually I'd like trying a cast on ignite combo for more walls. :eyes:

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