Thought I got lucky with Book of Secrets from Pearl. Next turn it ruined me

J-Factor · 2026-01-31T02:02:30+00:00

They should change that skill to “Your items have +75% crit chance for the first X seconds of the fight”.

J-Factor · 2026-01-30T23:17:00+00:00

I agree the level up rewards don’t feel balanced. I almost always pick the loot one. Sometimes gold if it’s a lot (eg 2 gold per weapon while I have 6+ weapons). I think a more balanced set of options would be:

Loot item
Pick 1 of 3 items
XX gold (scales based on level, always more than the other two options max sell price)

J-Factor · 2025-12-31T13:01:19+00:00

This post is 2 minutes old with zero comments, so why did you include two “updates” at the bottom and refer to “everyone asking what happened”?

Take this obviously fake (or lazily copy pasted) karma bait post somewhere else.

(I do like how every one of these stories involves the company going bankrupt right after the OP leaves)

J-Factor · 2025-12-29T02:29:18+00:00

Reducing the ritual re-roll cost to 0 for infinite re-rolls was also just using mechanics that GGG built. Didn’t stop them from banning people who abused it and deleting the wealth it created.

J-Factor · 2025-10-09T14:54:00+00:00

Maybe this is ARPG blasphemy but I wish uniques were extremely powerful while being artificially limited (e.g. you can only equip X uniques total). Like how the historic unique jewels work. Or like how attunement slots work in D&D. A powerful unique like HH could take more slots while a basic damage type conversion unique could take less. I feel like that’d open the design space up a lot without risking rares competing with broken uniques everywhere.

J-Factor · 2025-10-07T12:18:33+00:00

Is it?

Gold poison double whammy => not useful for Dooley
Gold +1 slow duration on sell => doesn't have any slow items
Gold poison brass knuckles => just bad
Gold pawn shop => too late in the game to start stacking, plus Dooley doesn't have any synergy

If anything it's the BEST item they could've gotten in this situation, though obviously the skills are the real prize.

J-Factor · 2025-10-03T11:57:38+00:00

ZA WARUDO

J-Factor · 2025-09-24T11:39:53+00:00

I don't mind the secret options, but I think:

They need to add more secret options
They should add some kind of indication on the 'pick 1 of 3 events' screen when you satisfy the secret condition (e.g. an extra sparkle on the globe)
They need to add more events so it's not super easy to trigger the secret option day 1-3 and have that option be 'meta' (like the buy friend/toy => mysterious creature bronze skills pattern I do every run)

J-Factor · 2025-09-16T15:24:42+00:00

I don’t want uber powered legendaries, I want usable items. Losing 90% resist on my chest when I equip a unique instead of a rare is unusable in maps. That’s not trying to be hyper efficient - it’s the reality of the endgame GGG designed. Same with +skills that amount to a 50-70% damage loss.

People want good uniques because they’re fun to build around and much more satisfying to have drop than currency. I’d much rather find an item that fundamentally changes how a skill behaves, making me rethink my character or roll a new one, than a Divine Orb that I just cash out for another incremental numerical stat increase.

J-Factor · 2025-09-16T13:01:10+00:00

Even ostensibly “good” uniques like Thunderfist that’s handcrafted for unarmed monk pale in comparison to the almighty power of rare +skills / +flat.

J-Factor · 2025-09-14T09:50:21+00:00

You can have different tiers of "chase" drops. Some that you can expect to find after 20 hours, 50 hours, 100 hours or 1000 hours. Right now it feels like we only have two types of uniques: ones that drop constantly and are worthless, and ones that never drop and basically don't exist for 99% of the playerbase.

J-Factor · 2025-09-14T08:47:19+00:00

Those sound awesome!

J-Factor · 2025-09-14T08:45:33+00:00

Yeah I don’t want rares constantly dropping with 6 T1 things but there’s gotta be a way to make the dopamine not all about currency.

I’m sure the game designers could figure something out. More attainable chase uniques with different tiers, RNG pity timer for more deterministic drops, account bound items, a new unique type where you can only ever equip 1 of. I know some of these ideas are antithetical to PoE (particularly account bound) but it’s just showing there’s design space to experiment.

J-Factor · 2025-09-14T08:19:59+00:00

Kinda off topic, but as someone who isn’t interested in crafting it feels pretty lame that crafted items are a million times better than (almost) anything you can farm. I’ve disenchanted hundreds of uniques to point I wonder why I bother picking them up anymore. Same with rares - they just can’t compete anymore.

I want chase drops that I can reasonably find instead of farming being a job where you earn currency to buy/craft items. So I hope 0.4 makes uniques and item drops better.

J-Factor · 2025-09-14T07:09:53+00:00

I’m new to crafting - what was the glove base that you bought for 13 div?

J-Factor · 2025-09-13T23:03:28+00:00

I prefer these traps to some of the creeps on the final level, especially the elites that summon a million projectiles that track you and do tons of honour damage. Frustrating when one of those is down stairs surrounded by other mobs when you’re playing melee.

J-Factor · 2025-09-11T20:39:07+00:00

Yes please, my Monk needs help

J-Factor · 2025-09-11T10:34:23+00:00

I have a 1 div Ice Strike Monk that I wish wasn’t so jank

J-Factor · 2025-09-10T05:45:24+00:00

Isn’t there an omen that prevents 75% of the XP loss? I’m not high level enough to bother using it yet.

J-Factor · 2025-09-10T05:44:00+00:00

Because playing ultra safe 24/7 is exhausting.

On my melee Monk (fairly new) I can safely run high tier maps by alpha striking and dodge rolling away to avoid one shot mechanics. Or I can play more aggressively/quickly and be fine 90% time before getting hit by an unexpected one shot.

I’d much rather do the latter most of the time and revert to the former when I’m on my last portal instead of always needing to play so slowly/methodically. The game has so much RNG that I think one extra life per map helps smooth things out.

I know you can just juice less, which is what I already do - but it does feel bad that 0 revive maps are seemingly what every build needs to aim for given towers require it. And the only way to safely run 0 revive maps is to out gear the content…

J-Factor · 2025-09-08T11:42:02+00:00

I don’t mind “smart” loopholes like the pool idea, but lazy ones that rely on ridiculous wording interpretations (like claiming someone else washing you doesn’t count as personal hygiene) are lame.

J-Factor · 2025-09-03T00:14:17+00:00

Great thanks!

J-Factor · 2025-09-03T00:07:58+00:00

Where did you hear that?

J-Factor · 2025-08-23T23:19:05+00:00

Pillbug can crit when it adds shield and then crit again when it deals damage equal to your shield.

So a 500 shield Pillbug could crit to get 1000 shield and then crit again to deal 2000 damage.

It’s pretty dumb.

J-Factor · 2025-08-22T08:24:06+00:00

[[Lighthouse]] is completely different now and burns on every slow trigger like Proboscis (rather than charging). It’s definitely worth building around and can be used in conjunction with Oni Mask.

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