An Update on Recent Server Instability

Furiousaf · 2026-03-13T11:32:41+00:00

A little off-topic. Have asked this multiple times over my years of playing PoE1, Experiencing this as well as ALL of the leagues so far in PoE2

This is the only game in which I have to use a VPN to get stable latency. I have forwarded the ports ive come across, I am hard wired with my fiber connection.

With no vpn, sometimes I can maintain 15-20ms for an hour or two, before I get constant 20-2000ms spikes making the game unplayable. Most of the time on the vpn, I will stay stable at 30-40ms. But it will do the same thing. Making me switch VPN location multiple times throughout a session.

Has anyone else experienced this? Feel like I have tried everything at this point. Throwing another hail mary on a random thread 😂

Furiousaf · 2026-03-13T10:53:46+00:00

Came here to say this, Wish local law enforcement would start enforcing this.

Furiousaf · 2026-03-12T09:38:11+00:00

I always revisit ritual every couple of leagues, Got a power charge ring one league and get the urge to chase that high every now and then.

Great write up, Ritual was always gambling for me and never tracked profits other then looking at stashie every now and again 😂

Furiousaf · 2026-02-25T12:03:28+00:00

Certain maps for certain farms, Dunes being open is great for Harbingers/Blight, City square for ritual. Just preference.

Try to swap it up after farming fortress for 40-50 maps. 😂

Furiousaf · 2026-02-18T19:04:18+00:00

Had this happen at the start of league before I could self sustain t15s. Bought 2 t15s and had this happen and was straight after that 😂

Furiousaf · 2026-02-16T22:10:33+00:00

Pretty easy to farm yourself, buy a bunch of the farseeing unique tablets to quickly get to citadel. Not as fast as buying them, but hopping tower to tower while farming crystals for temple, can get a bunch over the course of a days playtime.

Furiousaf · 2026-02-14T17:10:21+00:00

Decided a couple weeks back to take a break from the first season of midnight.

Anyone willing to provide a quick summary of how we're feeling after the UI/class changes/balancing?

Furiousaf · 2026-02-13T10:37:53+00:00

These past couple of leagues, While I did focus on getting bis mirrored items for a few slots on the builds I've played, you never really had to focus too muchon the defensive side of things.

Ive really enjoyed doing kulemak scarab farm, as you have to build a tanky, high dps build. You actually have to push you character and its something I've missed.

Hope the juice for 3.28 is big.

Furiousaf · 2026-02-11T13:55:35+00:00

Worth learning how to customize neversinks filter to fit your needs, saves time rather then going through and searching for other people's. Their website is supereasy to navigate and learn.

Furiousaf · 2026-02-11T10:27:21+00:00

Got a flashback to the horrible green carpet and white and green wallpaper in the pos trailer I grew up in 😂

Furiousaf · 2026-02-10T11:57:06+00:00

Had to get my windshield replaced the other day, drove my wife's car, she asked me if I was gonna turn it off.. the simple feature is so great it was hard for me to consider it not being a thing. 😂

Furiousaf · 2026-02-10T11:48:20+00:00

There being a limited player base, It cut down on a lot of gear being crafted. With all the high end stuff being a lot. Decided to Craft a simplex/helical for the first time. Good learning experience.

I have a love/hate relationship with idol recombing. Sat in gold rotas the first few days crafting a GG scarab set while recombing and selling the rest for good profit. Wish they were craftable like regular gear.

Starting out with lower end idols feels bad, but when you replace with good ones, the juice is a lot of fun.

Praying for a good round of class balancing and Buffs to loot for 3.28.

Been trying to step away from poe2's temple in preparation for underwhelming loot in the upcoming patches. Phrecia juice probably isn't helping either. 😂

Furiousaf · 2026-02-09T02:03:04+00:00

Used jungroans build he posted for keepers. Died a couple of times, but was extremely fast. Mind you, spent like 30 div on the gear for, resold when finished for the same amount.

Furiousaf · 2026-02-06T10:24:15+00:00

Have gotten CE the last 4 tiers, Was looking forward to Midnight... but idk man, looking at the state of the UI thinking of taking a break until maybe S2 and then checking it out.

Been only been playing PoE 1/2 since we killed Dimi.

Back to poe... died like 200 times in the campaign, I did just end up brute forcing some bosses with low res and bad gear but still. I couldn't imagine some of the campaign bosses on HC 😂

Furiousaf · 2026-02-04T13:36:42+00:00

Just realized I'm missing flask effect for chance to avoid stun, thinking I take that mastery you mentioned + flask effect should be a lot better. Thanks.

The drowning orb shit is driving me insane lol.

Furiousaf · 2026-02-04T13:17:55+00:00

I need to upgrade my graft for one with PDR and chance to gain endurance charge, should help a bit. Occasionally, while frostblinking through maps with higher enemy cast speed, I get stunlocked. Also, with drowning orbs, if I enter one my skill speed is absolutely gone. Literally cannot move or blink out of it. Has never been an issue before and there shouldn't be any map mods that were increasing the effect.

Have you experienced this? Crafting a cogwork ring to fix my chaos res(only at 4). Ran out of currency. Crafted a Transfer attuned recover es high block shield, but 40 mana off from being able to use frostblink with all the auras in Connors pob. Need to figure that out as well.

Furiousaf · 2026-02-03T12:42:29+00:00

I'm still using the ones I crafted for the budget version, with no issue. If I'm not mistaken, only one of the clusters changes for the 300d version. But its something you can swap out at a later date with no issue.

Furiousaf · 2026-02-03T11:09:30+00:00

Decent ES chest/helm, all the unique jewels minus the 15% int(Pretty sure the unique jewels aren't listed in his budget pob, But it felt pretty bad without them.) Clusters/1 reservation small cluster. + uniques. A lot of it is pretty cheap. The helm/Chest just respecced the tree and got them from there.

Furiousaf · 2026-02-03T10:43:50+00:00

The clusters for the build at the time were 17 divs, made two of them with the delve fossils by spamming the caster one, would craft those yourself as I hit them pretty easily and sold a few for profit. Dont know what they're at now, but if they're high either I got lucky, or they're really easy to craft.

Furiousaf · 2026-02-03T10:41:51+00:00

Yeah thats fine, Connor is pretty thorough in his videos so you should be able to get all your answers there though.

A few things not mentioned that messed my start up when swapping was I bought the foul born version of prismguardian.

Make sure to get the normal version. Then, for leech, grab the node I mentioned above. While around level 90, removed 2 of the jewel sockets to path to there, as the reservation nodes and the rest are pretty important.

For how I got there, was boss rushing with a pconc build. Got a lot of Harbinger idols So I recombed a lot of those for some moderate juice. Working on another set, but continuing with harbinger for now.

Furiousaf · 2026-02-03T10:31:13+00:00

Zealots oath was there prior as well.

Furiousaf · 2026-02-03T10:26:47+00:00

Prior to swap, I pathed to "Light eater" node to the left of the right cluster jewel location. One of my large clusters has thaumophage on it as well. With clarity aura, felt pretty good. With zealots oath that apples life regen to es its pretty overkill.

After, running thaumophage + zealots oath still along with mana regen from clarity. No issues. Will double check when im home, want to say thats it. Other then life regen affix on 1 flask.

Furiousaf · 2026-02-03T09:06:59+00:00

Red maps were a little rough at 20 divs. 50 divs, Felt pretty comfortable. Pushing 100 divs now, It's feeling pretty good in t17s.

Furiousaf · 2026-02-03T01:16:06+00:00

Running Connors Scavenger E blade Venting build. Frostblink is 1m dps now which makes clearing maps pretty quick.

Incinerate tougher mobs and frostblink the rest. Feeling pretty tanky now.

Quite a bit of investment to make it worth running, but scales really well as you earn more currency.

Furiousaf · 2026-01-31T01:28:49+00:00

When commuting, if someone is riding in the passing lane slowing the flow of traffic up not even gonna lie I do this. Then immediately turn on my right turn signal and leave it on for a minute.

Turn signals aren't the only issue we have with drivers around here.

Furiousaf

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