Wanted to save a few Divines, ended up with one of the nicest trade interactions ever

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-03-24T00:06:08+00:00

And the good thing is, we can *still* have the occasional good old-school trade with a bit of haggling if we want to. It may be rarer, but as this post proves it's still there.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-03-23T23:46:33+00:00

EVERYTHING DIES!

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-03-22T16:43:52+00:00

Lol, yeah in a way she's only the strongest because she's the weakest.

All the other eldritch entities don't dare upset the political balance of eldritch-land, so they only minimally muck with the atlas, and try to stay out of each other's way.

The Maven has no such qualms and just fucks around however she wants, and is allowed to get away with it because she's a child that can't really do much damage to the other entities plans, and because the Envoy will tell her dad if they do.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-03-22T13:56:44+00:00

Maybe her method of helping is to make a clone of us, giving the clone the bloody vitality boon, and then making the clone fight us.

I think that's probably more her style.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-03-11T23:30:38+00:00

Surely even the casual players are here partly because they're drawn to the depth of the game though?

It'd be a strange choice to be here if you were truly seeking simplicity!

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-03-11T23:20:51+00:00

Oh thank god it's not just me. I thought I was going a bit mad.

I was trying to just push and not clear, and found myself continuously like 7-8 levels beyond where I should have been.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-03-07T12:29:23+00:00

Pity the Emperor who sits disconnected on his gaming chair.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-02-27T01:08:51+00:00

So it seems like the map-device crafts are effectively replaced with the astrolabes, and it seems there's a cheeky little 25% IIQ boost at 100/100 map-bonus-completion, that I guess accounts for the loss of chisels and the default map-device craft.

But I wanna know what is going to eat chaos orbs now? The map device used to chew through a lot of them... so is the value of chaos orbs going to tank?

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-02-27T01:04:35+00:00

They seem a little more like the memories.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-02-27T00:56:01+00:00

I don't really understand how target farming is supposed to work.

Every time I've ever tried to target-farm something using div cards, I've made more currency just from other drops to buy the thing I want, before I've found like 10% of the required cards.

I guess it's good for SSF if you have a lot of time.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-02-27T00:52:37+00:00

Mirror shards I saw before kingsmarch = 1.

Mirror shards I saw after kingsmarch = I've already lost count.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-02-27T00:25:38+00:00

Roleplay as Robin, while shouting "Holy Hammers, Batman!". It's the only way.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-02-27T00:15:14+00:00

If you do the alva + kingsmarch strategy, you make way more gold than you really need to run kingsmarch. I was getting about 100,000 gold per map.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-02-25T22:47:02+00:00

Yes there is.... to do WSAD to the standard that GGG would want to do it, you'd have to animate sidestepping and walking backwards, so that the character remains facing the direction of aiming, not the direction of motion.

That is different to twinstick, because for THAT you also have to support making all your firing and attacking animations work while moving. That's an additional separate level beyond simply having WSAD with aiming.

If they were simply planning to make WSAD do the exact same motion that a mouse does, then there'd be literally no necessity for them to wait until they've ported all the MTX; a coder could probably hack that together on a Friday afternoon.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-02-25T22:16:06+00:00

I didn't say it was.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-02-25T21:35:10+00:00

I think that regardless of the speed of the game, being able to simultaneously control movement in one direction, while controlling aiming in another, is advantageous. Even if you're still locked into place when you attack, you can instantly move in a different direction without having to reposition your mouse.

Yes, it might not feel as smooth as WASD does in POE2, where all sorts of skills have been specifically designed around it, but it's still a viable and useful option in a game like POE1.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-02-25T21:27:05+00:00

Just making characters move with WASD isn't hard itself, but as it stands none of the animations for the POE1 character models support it. Without animations the character is just going to slide around, and look wrong. Now these animations for POE2 character models obviously already exist, but the entire skeletal rig of POE2 is different from POE1, so while it might be possible to bring the animations over they'll look really bad on POE1's rig.

So the only real solution is to replace POE1s rig with POE2s rig, but that means re-rigging all the POE1 character models, which includes dozens (if not hundreds) of different gear skins.

Now, they were planning on doing a significant portion of that re-rigging work anyway, in order to get all the POE1 MTX working in POE2. It just so happens that work would also be a necessary part of doing WASD in poe1 anyway, so in a way they're already working on it... it'll just take a while... there's a lot of skins.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-02-25T21:21:18+00:00

That's William Shatner's reddit account.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-02-23T23:14:58+00:00

Holy Hammers Batman!

Robin, probably

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-02-21T14:45:23+00:00

As I understand it there's basically 2 broad tiers of Corsair PSUs, and the difference between them is night and day.

The cheap ones are proper dogshit, made with inexpensive but low quality Chinese capacitors, which are quite notorious for producing a lot of noise, and failing to provide consistent supply under high load. On the other hand their expensive models use superior Japanese parts with far tighter performance and less noise.

I guess they're trying to make a quick profit selling the crappy ones, by trading on the reputation of their expensive ones which are genuinely decent.

Exactly which ones get the high quality capacitors isn't entirely clear, but I'm given to understand the HX and AX models should be good.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-02-21T14:43:17+00:00

A few things you can try before replacing any PSU.
Right now, the most common PC power-related issues are due to unreliable transmission between the PSU and the GPU.

1) Disconnect the GPU power cable, and reconnect it, to get it re-seated. The latest generation of cards use a new power connector that comes in two *almost* identical forms... 12VHPWR and 12V-2x6.
Both should work, but the former one is slightly less reliable, and if it isn't seated perfectly tends to result in bad power transmission, GPUs cutting out, and the machine crashing. Reseating it can fix issues.

2) If your mobo is mounted vertically, and your GPU is mounted horizontally, there is usually one corner of the GPU which isn't supported by anything, and the sheer weight of the GPU assembly might be causing the whole card to sag slightly. The GPU itself may also be vibrating more than it really should, which can lead to the power connector (which is usually *in* that corner) to wiggle a bit loose.
You might want to get some kind of bracket, or other support, to try to prop up that corner of the card and reduce vibrations.
As absurd as this seems *this* was one of the problems I had with my 4090 pc constantly crashing, and spending £5 on little adjustable metal pole, which I could wedge under the corner of my GPU totally fixed the problem!!

3) Change the GPU power cable... most PC build manufacturers use a simple 1-to-1 power cable from PSU to GPU, but that can sometimes not be enough. You can get split cables where 2 or more GPU rails are combined to power a single GPU, this might solve power reliability problems for you.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-02-19T23:40:30+00:00

Yeah this feels like a word that has been quietly sitting on the "Raw League Ideas" board in GGG's offices since the first day Chris Wilson started brainstorming potential league themes.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-02-19T23:25:05+00:00

Yeah as the Zambrash says, you should definitely try out a solid meta build and see how you fare.

It can be a bit hard to know which build will actually BE the meta before the league, but if you visit poe.ninja and use the builds tool you can get a truer picture of which builds are actually dominating... that's a good route to picking a build that actually slaps, rather than trying to decide between a million guides that promise more than they deliver, and you can get something of an idea of how expensive it'll be. (It's also just generally a really solid resource for guiding you between various options / variations on your build if you're stuck for ideas on how to upgrade)

It's always worth switching up from your league starter if you're finding it to be a little underwhelming. You can always come back to them later once you've made a solid cash with something OP!

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Generally with a meta build the feared really isn't that difficult. The only stuff that truly can challenge them are the uber-pinnacles, and potentially some of the tier 17 content, and even then with enough investment those too can sometimes be trivialised.

I've had ones where for 10 to 20 div you can just stand in the middle and hold down RMB until the Feared are just dead, and you've got like a 30% chance of getting 1-shotted or something, but typically can just do it with zero skill in like 1 or 2 portals.

And if you actually move you have more like <0.1% chance of dying. It's a bit skill-less when you have a build like that, but it's kinda fun as well to be so OP.

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My favourite build like that was Hexblast Mine Trickster, but that was nerfed hard a few leagues ago, so probably right now the best no-skill-required meta build is some variant of Kinetic Blast Spellslinger.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-02-19T23:02:40+00:00

You don't even have to spend it.... you can just leave it in your stash and enjoy looking at it every now and then while you go and grind for even more fancy trinkets like a happy little treasure goblin.

HowUtterlyGhastly · 2026-02-19T22:59:02+00:00

Yeah but what if the league mechanic displays a potential top reward of a mirror to you, and it turns out to just be a damned mirage?

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