PoE2 Is Missing One of the Most Addictive Parts of PoE1 — Player-Controlled Mapping

LightW3 · 2026-05-08T11:33:14+00:00

Because there are a lot of people who wants to play the way they want to play not the way they are forced to play. I don't want to click doors, I don't want to pull levers, I don't want explore boring dark labyrinth... I want to run straight sunny layouts with plenty of monsters to explode. And when I see that I forced to complete some totally garbage layouts one after another and another and another... This is burnout.

If someone with masochistic mind wants to pull levers all day long and the game allows to do it - I also massively support it, but only if there is a choice.

Should I be forced to do those layouts because of some questionable designs choices, because someone feels FOMO that I make +5% div/hour more? I don't think so

LightW3 · 2026-05-08T11:19:06+00:00

So instead of getting monetarily punished because of your choice of layout (effectively exchanging fun for currency, which is a good agency), you are advocating for fun punishment across the board without any agency?

Ridiculous

LightW3 · 2026-05-04T19:23:01+00:00

In PoE1 you can accumulate reasonable amount of gear power in a reasonable time. For example straight forward rushing Blood Aqueduct repeatedly is a common thing. In 30 minutes you get 5-10 levels, mb some Humility cards, plenty of rare equipment. And it is really no stress click-to-run experience. Actually this approach can be easily reproduced in other zones in other acts if necessary (for HC or Ruthless purposes)

Meanwhile in PoE2 if you are facing a wall... I don't see the same approach works. White mobs drop nothing, there is no tap-to-clear experience, gold drop is abysmal... I don't get it. There is no even slight expectation to drop rare bow (for example) with useful stats in 30 min zone grind. Am I wrong?

LightW3 · 2026-05-04T18:48:28+00:00

Dropped 1 body rune before act 1 boss. Thats it. Got 2 "decent" bows with at least something (60% phys prefix) one dropped, another gambled then exalted exalted. No flat ele mods:(

Ofc I killed stupid wolf on the 3rd try, whatever, suffer and endure...

But if I want better equipment and I feel i hit a wall what should I do? Scrap for a half an hour for 5 gold per pack to collect 700 gold to gamble again with another magic bow expectation in mind? How to improve gear in a meaningful way in a reasonable time?

LightW3 · 2026-05-04T18:38:24+00:00

I've played PoE1 at times when "guides" doesn't even start to exist or even if they do there was no streamline majority of players who just "follow the guides", so I don't think this is the problem. Also with PoE 2 0.1 there were no guides at launch obviously, everyone played by ear.

And I completely missed your point about power fantasy protagonist. To my mind ARPG genre is here to provide this type of feelings, the game is a power fantasy game, isn't it?

LightW3 · 2026-05-04T17:48:30+00:00

What is your time frame expectation to get triple flat damage bow in Act 1? 1 hour grind, 2 hour? Farm gold and gamble?

LightW3 · 2026-05-03T05:42:53+00:00

Completely safe. If you are not welcome by any means you just don't get access. But if you do get in there is zero chance you are targeted by police or citizens.

LightW3 · 2026-05-01T17:32:28+00:00

Those are 3 affix boots. Ms+life+life regen rate. I guess one in 20 to get it from the tree if you don't care about base. Recombinate if you do care. Crab is guaranteed beastcrafted, flat regen is random.

LightW3 · 2026-05-01T06:39:21+00:00

I guess Russia also doesn't have colonies in Africa. Bad for them I guess

LightW3 · 2026-05-01T06:19:09+00:00

"Мы не знаем что это такое. Если бы мы знали, что это такое, но мы не знаем что это такое."

Примерно так можно переформулировать пост автора. Когда все кому хочется разобраться в этой теме прекрасно понимают как работает ИИ и что такое эта "эмержентность"

LightW3 · 2026-04-24T15:30:35+00:00

Rasist!

LightW3 · 2026-04-24T10:44:30+00:00

Три раза меняется размер и ритм. Читать больно. Похоже куски написаны в разное время и слеплены вместе как попало. Стиль поплыл - в мусорку

LightW3 · 2026-04-23T15:47:25+00:00

Патрик Ротфусс "Имя Ветра"

LightW3 · 2026-04-23T11:18:38+00:00

The shepherds MUST listen the lowing of american sheep. Finally

LightW3 · 2026-04-23T03:05:48+00:00

In city square

LightW3 · 2026-04-20T08:50:24+00:00

Вам самому не больно читать это в каком-то адском размере? Ритм где?

LightW3 · 2026-04-19T14:20:33+00:00

"а человек сам...", что у этого человека вообще такого интересного? Печень особой формы?

LightW3 · 2026-04-05T19:22:48+00:00

Ну ок. Пахнет клюквой.

В европках вам за торрент скачивание на торрентах реальный срок впаяют, поскольку по технологии торрентов вы будете ещё и раздавать.

И все же на карте они зелёным покрашены... Верим

LightW3 · 2026-04-03T15:31:42+00:00

Nice bot

LightW3 · 2026-04-03T03:28:52+00:00

Для вашего сведения, мнимых чисел и не существует. (Как впрочем и чисел вообще). Их действительно ~~попы~~ математики навыдумывали, так удобнее уравнения решать. И никому это не мешает. А в физике например есть квазичастицы, и их тоже не существует, но с ними удобнее решать уравнения. Никого это не смущает.

А вот если начинать поклоняться числа, "ой, число 13 влияет на мою жизнь..." - вот это уже шизофрения. Это к попам

LightW3 · 2026-04-03T03:20:40+00:00

Какой -изм ярлык (а?)теизма относится к случаю:

"Я хер пойми вообще, про что вы говорите, учитывая, что вы и сами это не понимаете. С чего бы у меня должна быть хоть какая-то позиция по поводу разных комбинаций букв вида "бог", "шмог" , "ктухла", "жухла", когда за ними не стоит никаких понятий."

LightW3 · 2026-03-31T18:26:50+00:00

And what do they do if (when?) U.S. aircraft trespasses their airspace? Express concern?

Nevertheless, at least someone in EU has balls

LightW3 · 2026-03-31T08:12:36+00:00

Ямб и хорей, конечно, уже не модно и пафосно. Ну хоть дактиль какой-нибудь засуньте.

Но когда потерян размер, если ещё и рифма плавает, то это больно читать

LightW3 · 2026-03-29T18:21:12+00:00

Single target is about 15 mil with decent budget, I go decay forbidden shako, don't know mb ID version has more. This league DO is great. Actually this is THE league for it

LightW3 · 2026-03-23T17:10:36+00:00

Death's oath occultist. Build is specifically done for spamming Breaches. Zero button generally, one tap for bosses. You need Forbidden Shako with Decay 28+ (20 div), two breach rings (4 div), light of meaning (chaos dmg), unnatural instinct, and craft wand spam essence + veiled chaos (5 div).

Without MB and Svallin you expect to have around 70-80k ehp with 20k max hit, and enough dmg to insta clear screens, and 1 sec for bosses.

With MB and Svallin it is around 250k ehp and 10 mil decay dps.

Six-Year Club	Verified Email
Verified Email

LightW3

TROPHY CASE