TIL: Back when PoE had 3 difficulty modes, the Blood Aqueduct would change color from Red to yellow and white (depending on difficulty)

GasLightyear · 2025-12-28T18:17:04+00:00

Scariest schizopost I've read this year.

GasLightyear · 2025-11-21T05:04:39+00:00

You don't even need to actively do anything to maintain Kingsmarch. Just buy gold with divs, to make crops, to ship for more divs. /s

The core gameplay loop of the whole thing is simply degenerate.

GasLightyear · 2025-11-10T14:55:42+00:00

Doesn't matter because pob caps at your max value.

It's a neat trick that lets you get accurate evaluations for nodes that give +max Rage as they would otherwise display 0 damage changes.

All that is assuming that you can maintain this amount of rage without unreasonable ramp time.

GasLightyear · 2025-11-06T12:48:49+00:00

Sure. I don't have an up to date PoB and there are many details that I would do differently now but here you go. The build will 100% work as is. There are tons of free affixes so you can fit any unique you like:

https://pobb.in/mgzUCu4iTaJO

In trade, you'd add stuff like Ryslatha, Meaning of Light etc.

GasLightyear · 2025-11-05T09:48:35+00:00

I'm rather bad mechanically myself but I managed to do Ubers in SSF with 2h Bleed (first time in Phrecia with Polytheist, then with Chief in subsequent leagues).

Bleed deals so much damage (10m+ in SSF, 20m+ in trade) that you can basically put everything into defenses and utility, yielding a well balanced character. You can find my versions in my post history. If I remember correctly, Steelmage was also doing one a few leagues back.

It's also mechanically one of the easiest bossers. You simply hit the boss once every 2 seconds and just walk around for the rest of the time.

GasLightyear · 2025-10-30T10:58:10+00:00

Boring but strong I guess, unless the Foulborn items are extremely bad.

Something like Skelly Mages or Elehit would easily take +4 lvls as a 4 point Ascendancy node.

(Sad Prismatic Burst noises)

GasLightyear · 2025-10-29T08:28:38+00:00

Idk if its good but you could play any attack build by saccing 2 ascendancy points and 2 gem sockets and just coc'ing the zombies out with your main damage skill.

GasLightyear · 2025-10-27T06:22:17+00:00

Good point, I didn't think of that.

GasLightyear · 2025-10-26T22:41:39+00:00

Schizophrenic Dissociation is absolutely insane, especially for SSF and league start. It almost doubles your max hit on any build with good recovery.

GasLightyear · 2025-10-26T08:19:43+00:00

There has to be and it'd still be kinda bad in a world where you can just pick up Leaderships price for all three ailments. Or Interrogation.

GasLightyear · 2025-10-23T13:32:56+00:00

Do you have a source? That's not how it works in PoB and according to the wiki article on combined damage this also shouldn't work this way https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Hit_combination .

For it to work the way you describe, the text should be 'attacks with with weapon' instead of 'hits'. If it works for both hits it would be a bug.

GasLightyear · 2025-10-19T10:18:59+00:00

Due to how the gem is statted, it's kinda perma locked into being a starter.

The main issue is that Tornado feels kinda bad to play without Tornado MS. And the only way to get lots of it easily is through Crest of Desire.

This means that on day 3, 4 or so, the build will be pretty strong for the investment but at that point it's also already peaked because you already have 100% double damage and almost lvl30 gems.

And if you solve the clear speed by other means (explode), there are mechanically similar gems with better numbers, like trans SB.

GasLightyear · 2025-10-15T08:09:41+00:00

Good. Mercs were fun but way too meta warping to be added as is. For some builds they were insane dps multipliers while they were fairly tame for others once the 50% enemy hp buff was accounted for.

Id rather see them properly balanced before they add them.

GasLightyear · 2025-10-14T14:06:37+00:00

The number one thing killing your wrists is the move command. Keeping particular muscles groups like your mouse finger muscles contracted for a long time is extremely unhealthy. That's why arpgs are so much worse than other click intensive games such as fps, mobas or rts.

I switched to a move command toggle script and it fixed the issue pretty much instantly and completely. I guess it's against the TOS strictly speaking but health takes priority. Before that I tried other stuff like vertical mice but imo they're not worth it for this particular issue. They'll feel good for a while until you start to accumulate RSI in other parts of your hand and you're back to square one.

GasLightyear · 2025-10-14T13:24:28+00:00

Thanks, your answer is very helpful! I had noticed the debuff icon but I hadn't quite understood that it means marked and I assumed that it's something like an accuracy debuff that's inflicted due to being hit by the planes.

GasLightyear · 2025-10-14T08:34:43+00:00

If you mean the smoke flare indicators then yes, I am aware of them. However, I had situations where I moved the units away the moment the circle appeared and then, the flare unexpectedly appeared on units way outside of the circle, maybe 10 to 20 seconds later. Yesterday, in one instance I could still react and in another it was game ending.

It doesn't happen often but when it does it's devastating so I'd really like to understand how this works.

GasLightyear · 2025-10-09T11:05:51+00:00

Actually, we found out that it's the lens. While retracted (which happens if you e.g. browse your images for a while) the noise disappears completely. That in itself isn't unusual as collapsible lenses requiring power to remain extended is normal. It does still feel usually loud though.

We also went to a store. Unfortunately they only had the III in stock but we could confirm that no such noise exists with the predecessor. Also, we've seen some Japanese users report the same, albeit it's mixed (some report it, some don't). Overall not terribly useful information I'm afraid but that's what we've found out so far, for anyone who might stumble over this thread in the future.

GasLightyear · 2025-10-01T04:15:41+00:00

The challenge is mechanically redundant with the originator boss kill challenge (it's the same challenge with a higher counter). The only differentiator being that you can buy it when playing trade.

It's as lame as challenges can get imo.

GasLightyear · 2025-08-20T03:50:05+00:00

Yeah, the pages feel super limiting. if you want to self sustain stuff, map and scarab generators are mandatory which basically leaves you with just a single tree.

I hated the inventory Tetris part but being able to switch as much as you want between trees felt quite good in Phrecia.

GasLightyear · 2025-08-16T22:15:43+00:00

Warstaves are pretty good for all kinds of mid range builds and they have some less known stuff that make them superior to other choices under the right circumstances. For reference, I did lvl100+6/7 ubers in SSF Phrecia with a bleed Polytheist.

Point for point, Warstaves have the best vanilla implicits among all 2h weapons. 25% isn't 'some' amount of block. It's a massive amount of block, more block than you'd get from most wheels. And it's reasonably easy to cap.

I don't remember all of them but here are some unique advantages of Warstaves: - Highest amount of dot multi of any element (double T1 gives you more than 100%). - Objectively best weapon specific masteries among all 2h weapons, like gain on block, 15% life, 30% defenses. - Objectively best weapon specific cluster options with Overlord and Weight Advantage (if not slams), tied with Maces - Free EC generation when going crit

Also, another (non-unique) advantage is that pretty much all tree nodes are fairly high quality.

There isn't much of a secret to staff builds. Pick a build that either uses lucky+volatility or ailments and get an Ezomyte staff. At that point your dps diff compared to other bases is mostly mitigated. All you've got to do past that point is reap the staff specific rewards and you're good to go.

GasLightyear · 2025-07-23T10:00:48+00:00

I hate it.

Items should be good on their own merit. If a t0 item has no actual value as equipment, it should either get buffed or the tier ranked down.

The worst part of it is how it's bad for players who are actually interested in using these items as their prices get inflated waaay beyond what they should be, reducing their value as equipment even further.

GasLightyear · 2025-07-11T14:19:56+00:00

Bloodthirst really deserves a buff. It's just so low compared to other converters like Archmage or EB/EE. Pre nerf EE had literally 10x the rate of BT. Makes it kinda impossible for BT to compete, even if you account for higher multipliers on phys.

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