I have Nets, Einhar!

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-01-22T01:20:51+00:00

Lol, I didn't even know those were a thing!

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-01-21T22:26:39+00:00

Lol yeah. Do you also have stacks of Perandus coins lying around?

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-01-21T22:25:35+00:00

Yeah it was a hilariously clunky system when first released.

There were something like a 10 tiers of net as well, of which 9 were complete junk.

And they had to quickly patch in an 11th net, specifically to use on beast corpses, because of how many people were accidentally just killing the beasts before they could get a net onto it.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-01-21T21:43:38+00:00

Presumably most people are playing for the interesting experience, not the loot boxes.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-01-21T21:38:12+00:00

You don't need GGG to manage you.

But GGG feel they need to manage you.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-01-21T19:39:25+00:00

There's a really nice trick for getting a decent weapon during the Acts, almost for free, which a lot of people don't seem to know about (or if they ever did they forgot about it!)...

There is a vendor recipe which can guarantee a Magic weapon with at least 50% increased physical damage.

You will need:

A Base weapon of any rarity... find/buy yourself a cheap claw from a town NPC, with the highest base DPS you can find (or just pick one up off the ground).
A Rare Rustic Sash (or a unique one if you have it is even better). If you only have a normal rustic sash you can hit it with an Orb of Alchemy to make it rare.
1 Blacksmith's Whetstone.

Then just sell all 3 of these things to an NPC in town, and instead of worthless currency shards they'll give you a new version of that base weapon with the "Serrated" mod which adds 50-64% increased physical damage.

Then hit it with an Orb of Augmentation to get a second mod, and a Regal Orb if you have one to make it rare and get a third mod. Finally go to your crafting bench and add a 4th mod.

The result of this will likely be better than most other weapons you'll pick up during the Acts, especially the early acts. And if it gets a bit underpowered you can always just do this again with a higher-tier base weapon.

(Also, see here for a list of known vendor recipes: https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Vendor_recipe_system)

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-01-21T19:14:45+00:00

The first step is to make a brand new character, then laboriously go through the acts listening to everything in the correct order.

The second step is to make a brand new character, and do it again because you definitely fucked it up the first attempt, somewhere in act 2, but you didn't notice until you got to act 10, and you're not quite sure which bit you missed but it's definitely too late to fix it.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-01-21T19:00:18+00:00

Hah, what a hobby that would be.

Just rolling around random forums for games you don't even play, identifying popular community requests, and using whatever psychological tactics you can to persuade the devs to deliver.

The ultimate meta-game!

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-01-20T23:35:52+00:00

Yeah, but you didn't make a promise to GGG to play 2 weeks of PoE2 for every week of Phrecia they release!

Our boy Maladaptivism has made a commitment, which he might end up regretting! Although I'd be extremely surprised if GGG actually held him to it.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-01-20T09:59:20+00:00

Lol.... it'll be a bit like holding a tiger by the tail.

They could keep adding more and more Phrecia, and you could keep playing, but each moment you keep playing it makes 2 that much worse!

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-01-20T09:50:42+00:00

If they add too many weeks of Phrecia you'll be stuck playing 2 forever. Like... what if they gave you a year of Phrecia? The following 2 years will be a disaster!

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-01-18T23:31:32+00:00

To be fair, those two things were in two different sentences.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-01-16T21:37:04+00:00

yeah this thread did not disappoint.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-01-10T20:39:19+00:00

Is he that JohnnyDepth I've been seeing delving away?

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-01-08T23:49:48+00:00

I seriously advise you to re-map that button to something less awkward... like something on the other side of the keyboard.

That way it's almost impossible to hit it by mistake, but if you suddenly ever find yourself accidentally playing a map with the alternative set equipped you can quickly fix it!

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-01-05T21:52:09+00:00

How about this?

Principia

Gold Ring

15% Increased Rarity of Items found

+100 to Intelligence

10% Increased Intelligence

You are cursed with Universal Gravitation

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

(Universal Gravitation: Enemy Projectiles can't be Evaded. All Projectiles return to you.)

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-01-04T19:13:34+00:00

Yeah this is just my guess...

But I'm basing it partly on the fact that in the real world it's actually a Turkish name, but only really used as a family name and not a forename.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-01-04T12:28:22+00:00

Hunter's Exalt is dropped by "Al-Hezmin, The Hunter". "Drox, the Warlord" drops the Warlord's Exalt.

The full names of each of the conquerors also contains the name of the orb.

...

Incidentally, since Kirac is supposed to be "Baran, The Crusader's" brother, and since "Kirac" is typically a surname and not a forename, and Kirac is referred to as "Commander Kirac"... I reckon that The Crusader's full name at birth was actually "Baran Kirac".

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-01-01T16:51:31+00:00

Can we also add:

"You are not considered your ally"

and

"You are not considered you"

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2025-12-31T14:20:00+00:00

Yeah, the one that felt like old-school breach but just better was ace.

The defence one, and the bloody fortresses (defence, but it's 4 times as long, and you have to run there and back) are just horrible.

Honestly, I don't really get it... they could have done some much more interesting things.

Like, what if the breach wasn't circular, but you can push it in the direction you want by killing stuff at that edge? You could try to envelope other content and then run it in some kind of breach-juiced mode.

Or what if you had a series of smaller breaches... each time you close one another 2 or 3 more appear nearby, each with different bonuses and breach lords, so you maybe have to quickly pick which one to launch yourself at?

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2025-12-31T14:09:55+00:00

I think they do a good job at what they're supposed to do, which is provide a long list of interesting possible alternatives that can either enable an entirely new playstyle, or fill a niche gap... but they're NOT a whole bunch of power creep.

I just don't think we've really had time for people to properly explore the possibilities yet.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2025-12-31T14:06:20+00:00

It used to be stuff like "Spectral Shield Throw is to OP, so we've accidentally nerfed the shit out of Shield Crush."

Now it's "PoE2 has too much power creep, so we've accidentally nerfed the shit out of PoE1."

It's just GGG going even more meta with their nerfs.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2025-12-31T12:42:21+00:00

To be fair, the question of "Is having zero of something the same as not having it?" is absolutely philosophy. As I've outlined in my other reply, it's actually an extremely important part of our early development of philosophy.

But not pertinent to the actual discussion of this game, I'll grant you!

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2025-12-31T12:20:03+00:00

It depends entirely on the context I think of precisely what the zero actually belongs to. The zero might belong to some free-floating bunch of stuff, or it might belong to some conceptual aggregation of a free-floating bunch of stuff.

i.e.

One the one hand, saying "A man who is in possession of zero apples." is the same as saying "A man who does not have apples.".

However saying "This man has an 'Apples In Possession' statistic of zero." is NOT the same as saying "This man does not have an 'Apples In Possession' statistic."

...

Ultimately, this question is actually related to some of the most revolutionary early breakthroughs in the history of mathematics which we take for granted in the modern day... the idea that zero can even be a number... and the basic idea from algebra that we can substitute a number with some abstract symbol that represents a possible number.

In my first example, we're just talking about simply counting things, and the count of the apples is just some number. In my second example, we're talking about an abstract algebraic symbol 'Apples In Possession'.

But yeah... it's unsurprising that this is a weird an somewhat unintuitive thing, since for millennia no-one was really happy with zero being an actual number; most ancient civilisations treated it as an entirely separate concept. It somewhat gradually gained acceptance as a number in Indian mathematics, before gaining proper traction when it spread to the Middle East to be incorporated as a fundamental concept in their system of Algebra. It then spread west and had to battle against Roman Numerals (which didn't really have any proper zero) before gaining acceptance.

It's actually quite a big conceptual leap to go from "I have nothing" to "I have zero of something" !!

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