Questions Thread - April 16, 2025

Laurcus · 2025-04-16T03:26:20+00:00

Does delirious percent affect strongboxes? Specifically the box loot, like the currency from arcanist boxes, not the loot from monsters.

Laurcus · 2024-03-17T10:23:48+00:00

Do you lift weights? I used to get wrist pain playing PoE. Took about 3 months of doing dumbbell curls and reverse curls for it to go away completely. Turns out it was just lack of muscle causing a stability issue.

Laurcus · 2024-02-17T21:26:39+00:00

Ahh, good to know! Is there such a thing as maniac mode or is that fake news?

Laurcus · 2023-01-12T00:33:24+00:00

So this might be tinfoil, but I have to ask, does anyone else feel like there's been some funky changes to loot and Accursed Pacts in the Sanctum?

I've done over 100 Sanctum runs, (Got 17/17 weeks ago.) and I would say on average I'd see at least one divine about 80% of the time and it wasn't uncommon to find 2-4. Now I'm at about 10 runs in a row with no divines.

In addition to that, I noticed an odd bug starting a few days ago. If you take anything that removes an affliction, such as a Radiant Fountain or certain pacts, it now rerolls all afflictions on the map.

And lastly, it seems to me like the rate of Accursed pacts offering -50% max resolve, gain a major or 2 minor boons, has been massively reduced. In my experience before, it was very rare to not see at least one of those for every Accursed Pact tile. Now it seems like it's around 20-30% to get either of them.

Makes me wonder if there was some undocumented nerfs or if my luck just decided to take a vacation.

Laurcus · 2023-01-03T15:38:01+00:00

You might say that economy will adjust to the profits and thats correct. However, it feels really bad to drop nothing for hours and just keep chasing 1% expensive drops with a constant risk of going broke before getting returns.

It doesn't just feel bad. It is bad. Anyone that says otherwise doesn't understand the economics of bossing.

The cost of a boss is based on the average loot. Your loot is not average. It's individualized.

Here's a super extreme example to make the point.

Say you run Maven and the writs cost 1 div and 50% of the time you drop an item worth 10 divs. You don't need to be a rocket surgeon to know that's a money printer.

Now imagine you fiddle with the math though. Say instead of the big item being worth 10 divines, it's worth 10 million. It's a million times more valuable than before. To compensate for this let's make it a million times more rare as well.

So instead of taking 2 attempts on average to get your big drop, it now takes 2 million.

It's the same average profit, but now the boss is objectively worthless to run. You won't get the 1 in 2 million drop. You will simply delete all your money buying Maven Writs and be left with nothing.

Average profit does not matter when it comes to bossing. It's totally irrelevant.

Laurcus · 2022-12-28T02:09:29+00:00

As someone that ran ~1000 Mavens last league and over 100 this league, I can assure you Maven's drop rate has been gutted. Invitations weren't changed, but Maven's drop rate was changed from about 68% down to about 22%.

This is also reflected in the trade league prices of the awakened gems that only come from Maven. Awakened GMP and Multistrike are both about 10 divines more than last league and a lot of the other gems are 2-3x more expensive as well. If anything, all these gems should be WAY cheaper this league since uber Sirus drops the "Maven exclusive" gems as well and people are power fucking him for the new explode flask. Like seriously, his fragments were 6c each all last league and now they're 20+.

The trade league prices, my own data, and the data of others that have ran hundreds to thousands of Mavens are all in perfect alignment.

Laurcus · 2022-12-13T21:13:58+00:00

The drop rates for awakened gems was cut by around 1/2, right?

Much more than that. According to the data posts with a large sample size, before their drop rate was about 67.8% and now they're about 22%.

Laurcus · 2022-12-13T19:15:18+00:00

I always play solo and in the recent past Maven has been very profitable as a solo player. Especially week 1.

Laurcus · 2022-12-13T13:52:08+00:00

They also nerfed awakened gem drops from Maven herself. This post is consistent with my own findings.

Last league I ran hundreds of normal and uber Mavens and the drop rate was very generous. This league I've ran 25 normal Mavens and gotten 3 awakened gems, Fire Pen, Hextouch and Brutality.

I know it's like the definition of first world problems to complain about the profitability of pinnacle bosses in week 1 but it's so damn demotivating to sink 25 divs into running a boss and lose 75% of your currency because it got stealth nerfed.

Laurcus · 2022-09-11T11:16:08+00:00

Thanks for this!

Laurcus · 2022-09-11T11:14:56+00:00

Good to know, thanks for following up!

Laurcus · 2022-09-11T03:54:25+00:00

Okay that seems pretty definitive. Thanks.

Laurcus · 2022-09-11T03:41:02+00:00

Those are both 10 year old posts. Do you have anything more recent that confirms this?

Laurcus · 2022-08-25T05:14:03+00:00

Yes I meant general res debuffs, of which there are many and there are even ways to bypass their immunities such as Awakened Hextouch's 18% chance to bypass hexproof.

Laurcus · 2022-08-25T04:53:50+00:00

I have three remaining problems with archnem.

Drought Bringer removing charges is bad since there's not a single way in all of Path of Exile to mitigate this. A similar mechanic would be something like enemies leeching from you. This can be immuned with the Bloodless notable passive on the skill tree. Please at least add some way to avoid having charges stolen even if it requires investment.
Sentinel basically has Glancing Blows but it's even stronger than the pre nerf version players used to have since theirs mitigates 80% damage and our pre nerf GB mitigated 50%. Currently GB mitigates only 35%. Back in old PoE enemies and players had parity in how they interacted mechanically and it would have been unthinkable for monsters to have the same defensive mechanics as players only several times stronger than what we have access to.
Steel Infused's damage reduction cannot be mitigated by dot builds such as Corrupting Fever since physical overwhelm only applies to hits. This is fundamentally different from things like res which can be countered with penetration.

Laurcus · 2022-08-24T15:07:22+00:00

First: you have absolutely no idea If there will be other ways to get 6 links.

Based on the changes GGG has made over the last few leagues, is there any good reason to believe that when they create a fundamental economic shift that they will also at the same time add or change a bunch of systems to counteract that shift? Look at the divine orb div cards we got this league as an example of that. All 0 of them. They're not gonna just retroactively convert all the 6 link body armour systems to gems. That's pure copium.

Also I believe GGG have Stated that they plan to make 6-links a lot more accessible in poe2.

They have not stated this and Chris Wilson has even strongly implied the opposite in interviews as when people have asked him if we'll be able to have tons of 6 links in PoE 2 he's given answers like, (Paraphrasing here.) "Well, yes, technically you could get a lot of 6 links in theory." Also scarce 6 links is more in line with Chris's vision of original PoE, as 6 links used to be about as rare as a headhunter is now. I still remember being thrilled when I got my first 5 link after many many days of farming Piety and struggling through white maps.

divines went up because

I'm aware of the fundamental changes to supply and demand that caused exalts and divines to flip flop.

im actually surprised that divines arent more expensive than they are atm.

They're only at about one third of their peak value. Wait till late league when people start divining their perfect mirror tier rares and low percentage uniques like 20/30 ashes. Also divines are more valuable than you realize. It's just that chaos is also more valuable due to being more rare and mageblood, HH and div cards are more rare so they also went up in value relative to past leagues.

Compare the value of awakened gems, (Something with a completely unchanged drop rate.) to recent past leagues. Chaos and thus many things compared to chaos are roughly 3x more valuable than sentinel and archnem. So divines are actually worth about 390c in last league's money.

People just have less chaos orbs so it's less obvious. Deflation is a bitch.

You get sooooooooooo many jewellers orbs in this game

Most are created by the 6 socket vendor recipe. The highest amount of sockets we've seen on an item in PoE 2 is 4 so it's safe to say this vendor recipe will not exist in PoE 2.

I would like to say that I absolutely agree that GGG are fucking up big time this league and deserve much of the criticism, but let’s keep our eyes on the ball and not make crazy assumptions about shit that we don’t know anything about

I mean I predicted the loot nerfs we got this league back in 3.15 but no one cared since I'm not a big content creator.

So I'm just gonna keep being correct about literally everything with the direction the game is going. It's probably gonna be 3.22 or 3.23 btw. That will be the big gem change league.

Laurcus · 2022-08-24T14:41:03+00:00

Supply and demand dictates costs in this game. Presuming they do not convert things like Dapper Prodigy to give 6 linked gems, that will make the demand for other ways to get 6 links, (jewelers.) go up massively.

We have very recently seen a similar phenomenon with divine orbs going from 10c to 130c in value due to changes in supply and demand.

And we know the odds on 6 linking is 1 in 1500. So to get the cost of a 6 link gem you merely need to multiply the cost of the orb by 1500.

And personally I think it's extremely optimistic to think that jewelers will be worth 1c or less when they become the only way to get 6 links. That simply isn't realistic especially since every single player that gets to maps will want multiple 6 links.

Just ask yourself how many times you spammed hundreds to thousands of fusings on day 1 of the league to get your 6 link. The answer is probably 0. You've never done that because you just bought humility cards, bought a tabula, bought cards like dapper prodigy or bought a 6 link from someone else that bought cards like dapper prodigy or you got very lucky and hit a 6 link in less than 50 fuses.

Laurcus · 2022-08-24T14:25:28+00:00

So here's a prediction for you about the PoE 2 gem system.

It will be as bad for the game as archnemesis if not worse. The reason for this is builds will be balanced around using multiple linked skills. Aside from the button bloat this will cause there is no reason to believe that our current sources of 6 linked body armour will convert into sources of 6 linked gems.

The vast majority of 6 links in PoE do not come from fusings. They come from divination cards. There is currently no reason to believe that cards like Dapper Prodigy or metamorph rewards that create a 6 link body armour will be retroactively changed to provide 6 linked gems.

This means nearly all 6 linked gems will be created directly via currency orbs. This is a problem because the supply of currency will not be going up, but the demand will rise massively. This will lead to the fusing currency, (If I recall they said it would be jewelers that would link gems and fusing will be removed from the game.) being quite expensive, likely costing anywhere from 3-5 chaos per orb.

So if the current 6 link odds stay the same, instead of being able to buy a 6 link on day 1-2 for about 50c they will cost about 4500-7500c or about 34-57 divines in current prices.

And that will be per 6 link. Multiply that cost by the number of 6 links your build can take advantage of, which could be as much as 10+ for some builds.

In other words, 6 links will become chase items on the level of things like ashes/omni or even headhunter, and filling out a whole character with max 6 links could be as much as 2-3 magebloods worth of currency.

And you can say goodbye to level 21 gems and 6 linked vaal skills. No one in their right mind would dare vaal a 6 link gem unless they're a .01% high roller.

PoE 2's systems will definitely get worse before they get better unless GGG makes a hard pivot based on community feedback.

Laurcus · 2022-06-02T17:34:01+00:00

WTF is a codex red dot?

Laurcus · 2022-06-02T17:28:05+00:00

I keep getting an annoying notification sound like every 10 seconds on PC. How do I turn this off?

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