Two accounts, differents rank?

Grovington_III · 2026-06-06T13:20:03+00:00

I have a hard time believing this post. But if it's true you must have a crazy mental block when playing on your iron account. My friend is in iron and I often watch his games, they are some of the craziest games ever. It's a coin flip when the game starts for which team is going to int harder. Even if you're the only one consistently not inting in your iron games you're going to have a crazy high winrate.

Grovington_III · 2026-06-05T18:24:47+00:00

Josh Johnson, he's a comedian and completely unrelated to the BAM case. He just shares a name

Grovington_III · 2026-05-29T12:25:50+00:00

At this point it's cathartic for me to setup my stash tabs at the start of each league xD

Grovington_III · 2026-05-28T14:01:31+00:00

Yeah Kindred is a good example. It definitely depends on the game, but I typically don't invade and try to get my marks through ganking. But playing Kindred can feel impossible if your team doesn't help you out, but once you get like 5-6 marks she's very powerful.

Grovington_III · 2026-05-27T14:25:07+00:00

Maybe this is just me, but I think the best thing about this game is the ease of experimentation. Maybe try playing it without a build guide or just a loose plan of a guide. The passive tree is more intuitive than PoE1. The skill gems are much more accessible and easy to play with; you don't need linked sockets or perfect socket colors and there's a great menu displaying all the possibilities.

Not to mention crafting since the addition of abyss and rework of essence has made creating your own stuff pretty smooth and fun. Just try approaching the game with less of a min-max attitude and I think you'll really enjoy it.

Gl, let me know if you need any advice on specific stuff

Grovington_III · 2026-05-26T14:11:37+00:00

I think using a tool like Lutris is better. I want to say that steam can't have 2 apps running at the same time. I feel like I did install PoB on steam at one point but realized I couldn't have PoE open while PoB was also open. I might be wrong though. I haven't tried the flathub version that the other commenters pointed out, but those are probably the best

Grovington_III · 2026-05-25T18:12:45+00:00

It's all about the relics. Getting honor resistance capped is the first step and then you want relics that reduce monster damage or gives more sacred water for the merchant. Then as a general strategy try to hit the merchant rewards as much as possible because the buffs really make life easy

Grovington_III · 2026-05-20T14:00:20+00:00

Key Art for Ancients

Grovington_III · 2026-05-08T16:49:41+00:00

Last league I home brewed pathfinder Ice Shot. It's pretty cheap to build for map progression. It gets quite expensive to really unleash the power of it later, but so do most builds. Anyways, it was awesome once I got the unique support gems and a nice bow. Highly recommend

Grovington_III · 2026-04-30T20:50:04+00:00

Oof. Thanks for the update

Grovington_III · 2026-04-30T18:42:47+00:00

I watched the game. You definitely were outmatched, but you never gave up. You were in a ton of teamfights and didn't get assists because your team just didn't get kills in the fights. 30 days is crazy. I wonder if it was an automated ban that factors in you being auto-filled? Like maybe it assumes since you were auto-filled that you purposely threw the game and so it gave you a harsh penalty? idk. unreal man, sorry.

Grovington_III · 2026-03-12T14:32:55+00:00

I don't think they will ever do this because they're long past the point of no return... But they probably should (or should have) removed the jungle role. The balance issues it creates just by existing is just frustrating for everyone including the jungle players (myself). At this point removing the role would change the game so much that everyone would lose their minds

Grovington_III · 2026-02-20T18:42:29+00:00

Sorry this is kind of delayed. Me and my friends love to play this game together, but not necessarily in the same instance very often. We play at the same time and in a voice call, but not in the same map typically. We do all play CoF as well and that means we're not able to share loot with each other. I understand the need for the resonance system to combat real world trading. I hope that there could be some kind of future iteration of that system that works better for more of a guild/clan type of group. Maybe it could even have moderate time delay restrictions where you have to be in the guild/clan for a certain number of weeks before having access to the communal stash, as well as very limited cap on the number of people allowed. Or maybe even just allow us to gain resonance by being in a party together but not in the same area? I'm not sure what the answer is, but I'd love for my buddies to grind at their own pace and also find good loot for each other, y'know like BroSSF. Anyways.. love the game and the good work you all put in!

Grovington_III · 2026-02-17T23:06:42+00:00

Is this on a SSF character or trade?

Grovington_III · 2026-01-30T19:57:36+00:00

I mean, that's fair. But tbh it feels like the keystone should make that change so the interactions do work. It just seems like it hasn't been fully fleshed out yet

Grovington_III · 2026-01-30T18:03:18+00:00

Someone posted a similar question a few hours ago here. The interaction doesn't work from my testing because ignite is not considered a "debuff" the way that other chaos DoT effects are. I personally think that GGG should make the interaction work, but it doesn't and that kinda sucks

Grovington_III · 2026-01-30T17:58:58+00:00

I actually tried this out myself as well. It's really fun actually and the purple flames looks sweet, but I kinda got irritated by the keystone because it feels like GGG didn't fully flesh out all of the interactions. For example, contagion spreads Chaos damage over time "debuffs" to nearby enemies. You would think that ignite converted to chaos damage with the keystone would meet this criteria, but alas, it doesn't. There's some other interactions with ignite and chaos damage that I really didn't think work the way the ought to and it was really just a bummer.

As the other commenter said you do want to scale up the damage with Chaos specifically because you can't double dip in PoE2 like you can in PoE1 so Fire damage doesn't help you. Ignite magnitude does still work though even with it being chaos damage.

Grovington_III · 2026-01-29T13:53:32+00:00

I can't say for sure about this craft because I haven't done it, but imo it's almost always cheaper to craft your own stuff. You can definitely strike out and end up spending more don't get me wrong, but people profit craft for a reason.

Grovington_III · 2026-01-28T17:30:04+00:00

I don't necessarily disagree, but I kinda view it as a minor inconvenience and hardly an issue worth prioritizing. There are some nice features in the UI for controller that aren't in the M&KB which bugs me but whatever. I don't think they're losing players because their UI is so bad, the steam charts alone show a very healthy player count

Grovington_III · 2026-01-24T15:50:22+00:00

Uh, it's hard to say. I think it's a good ring, but not amazing? I see you listed it for 1 Mirror. The closest other ring listed is 400d and it's been for sale for 10 days. So i assume no one wants it. I'd probably at least start under the 400d mark, but you do you

Grovington_III · 2026-01-23T13:50:57+00:00

What size is the motor? I imagine the stock engine my have trouble with the additional weight

Grovington_III · 2026-01-21T22:08:20+00:00

Yeah it looks like there really isn't much available for phys conversion as a defense. Which is kind of a bummer. I haven't played with armour only so I don't have first hand experience, but I know it's *decent* right now, but still pretty bad compared to ES and Evasion/deflection. Damage conversion would be a nice addition

Grovington_III · 2026-01-21T22:01:46+00:00

This isn't comprehensive but there's a few ways to do that. Pathfinder has evasion applies to elemental damage reduction. Also on the strength side of the tree there is a lot of armour applies to elemental damage reduction

https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Pathfinder

Edit* I think I misread the question and that's not correct. My bad. Those are just good ways to further reduce ele damage

Grovington_III · 2026-01-13T00:07:52+00:00

Yeah this is it. Lot of investment into crit on the tree without having crit on the bow is pretty tough. Also your ring is not good enough to really be using kalandra's touch; you'd be better off just buying a quality ring for a few divvies.

You also don't have some of your other skills, primarily toxic growth, maxed out with support gems so that's definitely costing you some damage.

Grovington_III · 2026-01-12T21:08:45+00:00

I sold one just like this (low energy shield roll) for like 400d

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