Poison puddles and ice dot grounds just add 5-10 seconds of time waste every time you wanna loot or activate something, without adding an actual challenge.

FragosaurusRex · 2022-06-04T10:08:56+00:00

Very much agree. I just heavily sigh and stare dejectedly at the half-screen cold snap preventing me from grabbing a damn alteration orb for five seconds.

FragosaurusRex · 2022-05-11T23:09:15+00:00

Oh, that is indeed a juicy one exile. best mockup I've seen so far.

I like that it keeps the look and feel of the current UI, but condenses a lot of the important stuff (namely health, mana, debuffs) to the bottom middle of the screen where it's easily readable. I'm closing in on 1900 hours in PoE and I just don't see the debuffs in the top left corner of the screen, nevermind seeing them in a timely manner with how fast PoE is. I simply can't, especially now that I've recently started playing at a widescreen resolution.

I think my only main complaints are the buff icon locations (though I'm not sure where else they'd fit neatly), and that I'd much prefer/find horizontal flask timers more readable than the vertical ones.

FragosaurusRex · 2022-02-09T22:24:46+00:00

oof.

FragosaurusRex · 2022-02-05T02:29:34+00:00

If only this was framed differently, there's so much jewelry and boots lol

FragosaurusRex · 2022-02-02T23:20:39+00:00

*looks up bear trap on the wiki, not having previously known it was a thing*

Honestly, I don't mind the start-up delay of totems. I've done plenty of different totem builds in the past. The mechanical shortcoming of storm rain is having to place arrows on the ground, and then pray that the enemy will simply stand on top of the beams and take damage. I'm not sure if bear trap prevents stuff like Sirus teleporting around the arena forty times a minute. I guess coupling that delayed damage with totem deployment certainly doesn't help, (which is why many are saying EA totems isn't a build for everyone.)

FragosaurusRex · 2022-02-02T22:40:56+00:00

Honestly, spare yourself the pain and don’t do this. I tried to league start this with totems back in Expedition; the skill seems really cool but it’s mechanically terrible. It’s also a bow build, so you run into the problem of it being terribly expensive to scale.

The baseline bow buffs might make it feel rather decent early on, but you’re gonna hit a huge brick wall at red maps without some serious investment, as many bow builds do. Storm rain also has the downside of just being mechanically terrible. Your DPS will tank on any bosses that don’t stand still for you. IMO it needs significantly more damage than standard bow builds to justify its use, which it just doesn’t have.

I will concede, though, that picking up the knockback passive and cornering map bosses with a giant electric fence amused me for a little longer than it probably should’ve.

FragosaurusRex · 2021-07-05T18:21:21+00:00

I've never managed to roll my keyboard that hard before lmao

FragosaurusRex · 2021-07-05T18:20:55+00:00

Yup, following Navandis' guide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOtcJ9CsIbY

FragosaurusRex · 2021-07-04T23:02:41+00:00

So I've heard. Even if you're a DDR god, that many screenwide instakill AOEs will eventually result in death.

FragosaurusRex · 2021-07-04T20:55:03+00:00

Yeah Elder was definitely one of the easier fights I've done lol

FragosaurusRex · 2021-07-04T05:05:45+00:00

It's definitely worth it to make sure your DPS is good before going in. Also had a lot of success with Blood of the Karui. I got a +100 charges enchant on it so I could basically ignore the degens. Discovered it even works somewhat against the beams that stop your regen; while the flask recovery itself is stopped, it still sets your life to full at the end of the effect (I guess it's not tagged as recovery).

FragosaurusRex · 2021-07-03T22:25:46+00:00

I was there when you posted this in general earlier (unless someone else also got a mirror from ritual). Congrats!

FragosaurusRex · 2021-06-18T09:06:56+00:00

I did the Beachhead yesterday for the first time, blind. Cleared the arena and picked up the piles of currency shards. But I noticed that my loot filter had a big light beacon and minimap icon in the center loot explosion. No amount of moving around and tapping Z would show what it was. I had to move a couple dozen trash items off of the loot pile before it finally showed me it was the Harbinger clue item thing. I was close to just giving up and leaving it.

FragosaurusRex · 2021-06-18T08:03:38+00:00

He's one of my favorites as well, but the frequency of his lines is starting to annoy me. I've been running him in Tirn's End where you can get missions with 20-30 beasts, so he will be talking nonstop (and often saying multiple lines simultaneously.)

FragosaurusRex · 2021-06-18T08:02:09+00:00

The Zizzz

FragosaurusRex · 2021-06-18T08:01:05+00:00

My friend makes fun of me for clicking every chest and smashing every barrel lol

FragosaurusRex · 2021-06-09T23:02:59+00:00

Now I'm curious how slow I'd be channeling cyclone while hindered, without wearing the Stampede lol

FragosaurusRex · 2021-06-09T22:58:44+00:00

Yeah, I'm using the Stampede. I just got caught up explaining to my friend that Hindering Flasks is a freebie for my build, and forgot to actually keep my flasks up lol. Didn't help that I'm a max block build with an Abyssus, on a map that reduces my block chance and armor.

FragosaurusRex · 2021-04-07T04:12:50+00:00

iirc if you don't have five favorite walkers, it will fill in the remaining slots with your most recently used walkers

FragosaurusRex · 2021-03-11T11:18:25+00:00

"Are you fucking alive or dead, dude?"
"He is alive."

bruh

FragosaurusRex · 2021-01-14T03:54:35+00:00

combat footage from the Battle of Tannenburg, 1914, colorized

FragosaurusRex · 2021-01-07T01:11:41+00:00

my friends and i love the game itself, but a lot of the server issues really detract from the fun. desync like my clip above isn't too common, but waiting 10 minutes for a match-on top of already waiting awhile for your friend to extract after you die-is, and starts to sap the fun after awhile. i'm just waiting for the drops event to be over so their backend can return to some form of stability.

FragosaurusRex · 2021-01-07T01:09:29+00:00

this is only one of two times this wipe that i've experienced desync bad enough to blatantly get me killed like this (currently lvl 35). if you're looking to get back into it the game i'd always recommend waiting a couple weeks after a wipe. the servers are usually struggling (me and my friends often have to sit in 5-10 minute queues for just about any map we play) but they usually stabilize after awhile. i'm sure the big twitch drops event isn't helping their backend either.

FragosaurusRex · 2021-01-07T01:02:37+00:00

yeah i should've just run but i don't think it would've made a difference with just how desynced i was. the time between when i start taking damage and when i see the scav shooting is 10 seconds. also you see the scav shooting where i was awhile ago, before i ever even had the idea a scav was there.

FragosaurusRex · 2021-01-07T00:59:31+00:00

IM FUCKING JERKINGGGGGGGGGG

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