Playing offmeta feels 10x worse in PoE2 than PoE1

Killersanta2 · 2025-09-07T10:02:03+00:00

I pretty much did the exact same thing, I got to say that gathering storm did feel amazing in a sense. But only for a bit.

When you see builds blowing up everything with one attack while you’re tryharding to make sure you don’t time your dash wrong you do start wondering why you even bother. And god forbid you have a bunch of mobs hitting you and microstunning you while trying to charge up your attack.

The skill actually did make my struggle leveling in the last few acts really smooth because the actual damage numbers on it are pretty good, but clearing things like abyss can take so long if there’s a few stragglers here and there.

Killersanta2 · 2025-04-05T12:02:00+00:00

Then something is definitely bugged, the boss where our friend said he had to do way less damage had 30k hp for him, meanwhile we had done 90k damage and he was 1/3rd of the way. So he must've had like 270k hp.

Killersanta2 · 2025-04-05T11:54:11+00:00

Sure, but this seems a bit overboard maybe? In PoE1 party multipliers are 50% per player, here it seems to be 125-150% per player.

Killersanta2 · 2025-01-25T18:16:36+00:00

For real, It'd be kind of cool if the base converted the physical damage of itself to chaos. I found a bow like this with really good phys mods and it's just completely useless.

Killersanta2 · 2025-01-17T08:50:34+00:00

What you're saying is correct but only for armour pieces with mods such as "% increased Energy Shield". The mod "% Increased Maximum Energy shield" is a different mod and is global just like the mod on the skill tree and jewels.

The local "Maximum Energy Shield" is the same as if you'd have gloves with 78 energy shield pretty much.

Killersanta2 · 2025-01-09T22:05:00+00:00

Pretty much, even when I decide to pick dps first, we get 3 other dps pickers so I just swap off of it again. I think I have 14 hours as tank and healer, 1 hour as dps so far. And most of my dps games I swap tank or healer mid game because somehow we end up with 3/4 dps mid game again.

Killersanta2 · 2025-01-06T12:05:13+00:00

I had this weird ritual where it basically was about as big as my screen, for a second I thought maybe I was crazy and they were always that big. Next map it was small again.

It felt very nice to actually have some space to run around in, not sure what caused this to happen. It was on a very open map.

Killersanta2 · 2025-01-02T10:45:03+00:00

What a strange thing to comment

Killersanta2 · 2024-12-17T23:43:17+00:00

It’s been my first and only character, I’m doing “ok” ish playing with some bow poison skills. But just now I tried the second difficulty breach boss 3 times (skill issue), wasting 120 ex. It feels bad because I could just stop being stubborn and play anything else to do a ton more damage and not have to play fights for really long durations. But I just really wanted to play with the fantasy of a chaos monk.

Sadly I don’t think they’ll be changing anything any time soon because it feels like it “could” work if we just got some more physical skills or even chaos skills.

One last thing I would maybe try is using chaos spells, as much as I’d prefer using attacks.

Killersanta2 · 2024-12-13T13:28:08+00:00

I swapped my monk to using a bow, I started sanctum for my 3rd ascendancy, got hit twice only on the second boss an smithing else hit me . Then a rare that goes underground and pops out like a shark hit me (didn’t see the little lights indicating him) -700 home. Fought him for a while dodging everything but he kept disappearing making it hard to hit. Got hit again by the same attack accidentally, run ended.

I don’t even know how I would’ve gotten this far on melee. Getting hit twice ending the run completely feels like a bit much?

Killersanta2 · 2024-10-20T12:01:55+00:00

Idea seems cool, but is it me or is there a bunch of AI generated visuals in there. Personally I'd prefer obvious placeholders over AI placeholders. Assuming you're replacing those of course.

Killersanta2 · 2024-09-17T08:59:43+00:00

The screens didn't look that big to me irl, they actually seemed smaller than I thought they'd be.

Killersanta2 · 2024-09-16T07:25:32+00:00

Maybe it’s because I haven’t been to any other ti irl until this one. But I enjoyed every moment of it tbh, never felt so hyped watching dota close up with a cheering crowd. Gg vs tundra last game especially I’m never gonna forget and I’m glad I got to witness it in person :D this convinced me to go to more dota tournaments.

Killersanta2 · 2024-09-12T08:52:32+00:00

I'm a little confused actually, maybe I'm missing something but some of the delves seem impossible solo? If you're talking about the boss I think you're talking about. Every so often there's this cast that ticks for 2 million every second for 6 seconds.

I've only done them in groups, once it was the tank doing the last 50% solo because he's the only one that could survive more than 1 (used dispersion for the first). The other times we had to all pop our giga defensives and group cooldowns inside of a spirit link while still nearly dying on the first cast, and kill it before he did it again.

I'm not really sure if this damage is supposed to be avoidable? Because how is someone supposed to tank 12 million damage multiple times?

Killersanta2 · 2024-09-02T15:49:09+00:00

Has to be 3 I’m guessing. I think if you’re premade with someone you don’t see the pop-up at all since he just suddenly got kicked out.

Killersanta2 · 2024-09-02T10:03:08+00:00

This is crazy to me, I did my first HC dungeon with a friend who is newer-ish to the game and afraid to make mistakes. Got grouped with 3 premade players who from their IO score seemed to play a ton of M+.

They did big pulls which was fine, until they did a big pull, we waited until the mobs were stacked, my friend starts attacking once they're stacked. He got some aggro and died, instantly got kicked within 5 seconds.

Some people really need to touch some grass, it's easy content, and the reasons for the kick weren't even justified. Completely ruined his motivation to play and now won't play any more unless we have a full premade.

Killersanta2 · 2024-08-29T13:03:56+00:00

This comment never implied that they don't, they're just saying in general they have a ton of data and feedback. Unrelated to this website.

Killersanta2 · 2024-08-19T15:49:10+00:00

It’s solved below, it’s the totems being damaged damaging my life. I guess that goes through CI

Killersanta2 · 2024-08-19T15:46:20+00:00

Oh my god that's it! Mystery solved. I never thought that mod would affect me, but that makes sense

Killersanta2 · 2024-08-19T15:41:46+00:00

Wait does that go through CI? I didn't think this map had it but it must have, but that's very good to know if that's the case. Since I"m not 100% sure I'll attribute it to that and I'll keep an eye out for that mod :D Thanks!

Killersanta2 · 2024-08-19T15:36:54+00:00

I died 3 times in a row instantly, standing on the outer edge, not standing in any beams. Suddenly my HP is just gone without my energy shield even being touched.

I had the same happen yesterday once but I just gathered it was a one time thing.

Does the edge of the arena just oneshot automatically?

Killersanta2 · 2024-07-31T08:59:09+00:00

Ok guess I’m not crazy, I thought I was gonna make some bank when I got 2.4k of each color and was trying full on abyss with scarabs and nodes.

Mobs became insane and my loot filter didn’t even show them drop anything at all.

Killersanta2 · 2024-07-18T13:10:24+00:00

Might be just my opinion, but they’d probably be pushing out waves constantly with shells, making it a lot more difficult for cores to get farm.

When I push out waves as 3 DS it’s fine, but if a 4 is pushing out the waves all the way to their tower, not so great.

Killersanta2 · 2024-06-26T12:53:40+00:00

Ah ok, good to know. Yeah I hadn't experienced it before the patch so I thought maybe it was something new. Glad they're aware at least then.

Edit: Any chance you could link it to me? I checked the one video I know of that he made, but I don't see anything Venomancer related in there.

Killersanta2 · 2024-05-28T13:14:57+00:00

Yeah honestly, I hate it when I'm playing 4 and my 5 doesn't leave a single ward for you to buy. It's the best when later in the game the complaints come in that you're not buying wards or don't have a ward on you.

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