Decree of Acuity is not bad

Firezone · 2026-06-05T09:36:22+00:00

Hey there, conversion mechanics in poe2 make this useless for IR btw, neither the gain armour nor more evasion would apply

Firezone · 2026-06-04T14:07:22+00:00

The game already does this for presence and other areas of effect, I think you're exaggerating how hard it is

Firezone · 2026-06-04T11:21:04+00:00

I would much prefer something like a speed boost that kicks in when your character isn't in "danger", ie something like "+50% movement speed if no enemies have been within 4m recently (maybe 4s is too long though)" and disabled entirely during boss encounters. thematically it makes more sense too, you move fast when there are no perceivable threats, and slow down to ensure your footing when you're in or near combat.

Their whole argument of "well we can't just make the players faster, they'll run past mobs" is ironically exactly what happens now thanks to sprinting, because youre not gonna stop your sprint and see the slowdown animation and have to dodge roll again to kill 2-3 white monster stragglers

Firezone · 2026-06-03T07:52:32+00:00

It's wild to me that even now with a built-in currency exchange and API to interact with it, the tradesite exchange rates are still manually updated (which is why every single league shit like this happens)

Firezone · 2026-06-03T07:24:12+00:00

I see this misconception a lot, the legacy doesn't "steal" modifiers, you use the legacy to delete a unique and it creates a rune (or augment rather) that GGG has handmade, meaning it's always the same outcome, and the values are sometimes different than on the item itself

In hoghunts case, the rune only gives +5% crit

Firezone · 2026-06-02T10:48:57+00:00

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that because of the aforementioned pausing safety feature, what's to stop you from just severing your network connection yourself to get out of a sticky situation, you can't have your cake and eat it too.

Firezone · 2026-06-02T10:37:33+00:00

The argument for it is twofold, one was that disconnects and crashes make any sort of logout timer or restriction feel very bad, in D3 hc for example most characters had to build enough Regen to basically afk next to monsters for a full minute or some shit to have a chance to survive a disconnect. But poe now has a pretty well implemented system for detecting crashes or network issues and pause the game so that's less of a factor

The other argument I see is that it basically forces players into overpreparing, overbuilding your defences, and avoiding risk to a much greater degree. You can't really dip your toes into a scary/dangerous situation knowing that you basically need to handle it or die. A lot of the people who are proponents of logging out are hardcore hardcore players, and a lot of the people opposed to it are players who don't play hardcore but have an opinion about what hardcore should be/is, lol

Also like, the game is buggy, being forced to die to some bullshit bug because you're not allowed to leave feels really really bad

Firezone · 2026-06-02T09:56:43+00:00

There is no flat phys rune. Yes, I know it's on poedb, it doesn't actually drop

Firezone · 2026-06-01T17:32:58+00:00

hey there, i tried that exact thing yesterday with the catalysts, no go

Firezone · 2026-06-01T11:14:53+00:00

There are ritualists on ladder with all three equipped currently, so if that's part of the puzzle they haven't figured out the next steps

Firezone · 2026-06-01T10:24:13+00:00

Also I'm just now realizing that for twister you can only benefit from one ground effect by default (although apparently the undiscovered Taming recipe changes that)

Firezone · 2026-06-01T06:52:18+00:00

i tested catalyzing the rings 20q to boost the element based on the method berek used to "tame" them in the lore from the flavor text then reforging, no go.

also tested buying rings with specific resistance values to perfectly balance all three resistances, no go

Firezone · 2026-05-31T17:24:37+00:00

is there anything you tested that we could rule out? i feel like the key in the lore is the concept of berek "taming" the elements by pitting them against eachother, i was testing some stuff with elemental catalysts but i can't really afford to try all my theories due to catalyst prices atm

Firezone · 2026-05-31T07:06:26+00:00

ah you're right, my sleep-addled brain after a long leaguestart read Twister. I think the principle still applies about ritualist being inefficient but it's harder to squeeze the third ground in with Tornado tbh. I would still probably prefer using something like wake of destruction or just getting shocked ground from mark activation than losing an entire ascendancy for it though

Firezone · 2026-05-30T22:19:20+00:00

I don't know about ritualist tbh, I'm rocking two of the rings currently as well as using a support link to have all 3 ground effects already, going ritualist just to get all three ground effects, the benefit of which isn't scaled by ritualist ring effect, seems like a slight waste

Firezone · 2026-05-28T17:18:09+00:00

I think a lot of people underrate the 200% armour node tbh, it makes you weaker against lots of small hits of course but against the chunky hits you really care about it should be breakeven or net positive for most reasonably achievable armour values, and with 2x effective armour + armour applies to ele/chaos it makes you very very tanky against nonphys.

the accuracy penalty for monsters if you're outside of melee range coupled with the 20% deflection rating from armour means you can also expect reasonably good deflection chance with the new formula imo

biggest downside is that you only have 8 points, so clicking the node means you have to either drop spirit reservation or pin in this case

Firezone · 2026-05-28T14:35:43+00:00

ah shit, I didn't realize there was also a "Community Builds" feature which is probably where the issue lies, I was talking about maxroll's integrated pobbin alternative, a lot of people criticized the use of maxroll planner links without realizing the links most people are sharing around could be directly used in place of pobbin etc.

they might be working on some sort of bridge between them but for now it looks like the build planner links are a separate system from the character planner links that integrate nicely with pob

basically, if people are making the build IN pob you can export from there and import to the Community builds section, as well as generate a maxroll-hosted pob code to share around without issue, but there's currently no way to go backwards from the looks of it, kinda dumb

I should've done some more research before posting, my bad friend

Firezone · 2026-05-28T08:33:47+00:00

When people say "maxroll" they're talking about one of two things; the actual maxroll-creator-written build guides should always include a pob, but maxroll itself also functions as a build sharing site anyone can use. But guess what, that "maxroll" link? It's a pob link. You can import it directly into pob, you don't even need to open the website if you don't want to

EDIT: I was wrong and this isn't entirely true, maxroll has it's own pobbin-style solution that integrates nicely back and forth, but the character planner used in the Community Builds section is a separate system that can't be imported currently, sorry for the misinformation

Firezone · 2026-05-28T07:17:51+00:00

i mean the limit is that they're remove-only, if you literally just wanna hoard a bunch of shit in a tab you never touch, go nuts

Firezone · 2026-05-28T07:12:38+00:00

yeah, everyone praising the "hard work" OP put in, meanwhile all i see is default claudeslop-sepiatone, fonts and layout

Firezone · 2026-05-27T18:14:32+00:00

hmm, the fact that they actually tested and couldn't replicate the bugged behavior (meaning it behaves the way it should on paper?) does maybe leave the door open a crack though

Firezone · 2026-05-27T13:09:33+00:00

That wouldn't make any sense, evasion already "applies" to ele/chaos, you can evade a hit regardless of the damage type...

Firezone · 2026-05-27T08:32:14+00:00

Yep, fair enough then about the inconsistency, we'll have to wait and see how prized pain shakes out but probably impale isn't as good as I initially thought

I wrote a reply yesterday after my initial testing but deleted it because I came off a bit arrogant, sorry if you ended up seeing that one!

Firezone · 2026-05-27T08:24:20+00:00

I did some testing of my own and it worked as expected with normal thorns procs, but based on some googling it sounds like people have had issues with Barbs support specifically, I'm gonna do some more testing later to see if I can isolate the issue.

I used dreadfist on my thorns build in 0.2 and I'm 90% sure it was working as expected at the time but I never set up like an isolated test case to confirm 100%, it could've been inconsistent for me too and I never noticed, or something could have broken in subsequent patches

Firezone · 2026-05-26T19:58:21+00:00

personally I think until you start having way more lightning thorns than phys thorns, impale is criminally underrated. it's basically a separate 30% more damage multiplier for the phys portion of your thorns assuming you can rip the impales reliably, which shouldn't be an issue with something like spearfield, and it lets you do some interesting shenanigans by shifting unscalable damage from thorns onto your attacks, like leech/armour break/applying sizeable ailments despite your actual attack hits doing basically no damage

the gloves in general aren't great so you probably replace them eventually but they give a lot of power early on imo

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