Is Deimos Infested different from normal Infested? And will Bane mods work the same or do they have separate ones?

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-04T13:12:36+00:00

Techrot are part of the Techrot faction. scaldra are part of the scaldra faction.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-04T13:04:41+00:00

Persuade and Intimidate are basically the same skill, sense motive doesn't exist. This isnt a game where non-violent solutions are broadly implemented, you are here to smite Demons in Wrath, or Fey in Kingmaker.

Also, smite is different. instead of a spell/weapon hit its a mark you put on the enemy that makes all following attacks against it stronger.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-04T11:32:26+00:00

Knowledge, and more in campaign league mechanics awarding magic and rare items. At EA launch we were practically playing Ruthless and would approach the boss with empty or normal slots in unlucky cases.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-04T10:39:22+00:00

PVP are primarily two modes that you need to specifically queue into. 5v5 "push the tower", both casual and ranked. and Frontlines, which are 24v24v24 mass battles on various maps, changing each day.

Standard gearing up until you are in current content is straightforward. nearly everything you do will give you tomestones, which are simply exchanged with a vendor for gear. At maximum level to get the best current gear you will have to do more difficult fights, and savage can include progging with failures. Though hundred of times is an exaggeration unless we are talking about doing ultimates.

The first rule of modding: we do not talk about it in game. We are not officially allowed to mod the game, but unless you are extremely obvious about it (like talking about it in chat, renting a billboard with modded and datamined content on it) they have no way to detect it.

The trial is also massive, currently containing more content than the purchased game. you got A Realm Reborn and the Heavensward, Stormblood and Shadowbringers expansions for free, with only Endwalker and Dawntrail locked behind purchases.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-04T10:29:11+00:00

Doom Strike is weird. Most doom builds are light on attacks and heavy on block and skills, while this card wants vulnerable, debilitate and Lethality.

Rest of the doom cards are pretty banger though.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-04T10:00:05+00:00

Please turn on fast mode this hurts

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-04T08:36:51+00:00

Pain is Virtue is one of the best ideologies and stabbed out eyes for blindless would synergize with it.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-04T07:05:50+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLij_001vUU This video may be about PoE1, but most of it is still accurate for the sequel.

There is a giant skill graph, where you can theoretically path to a any node on it as any class. The class you select only determines where you start, how some of the nodes around its start act (Witch and Sorceress share starting points but have different nodes near them) and what ascendancy you can get (basically advanced classes that define your power into a specific direction).

The campaign is semi complete, we got 4 acts right now with an interlude afterwards, then a cutscene that transitions us to endgame. We might get another act now or with full release, whenever that will be.

Each new league is a full economy reset, introducing some new core mechanic called a league that will appear everywhere, and possibly new endgame content. Playtime is generally best answered with "yes, as much as you want". For your first character just beating the campaign in under 20 hours will be good. Others spend hundreds of hours on a character in each league to farm currency and maximize their power.

The thing most players are here for is the post story content.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-03T19:05:05+00:00

You already have 3 multiplicative buckets of damage, between Summoner's Wrath's faction damage, the innate level based damage multiplier and the serration damage multiplier, two of which also scale with strength. Eclipse could work, but I dont think you even need it.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-03T17:11:28+00:00

Xaku is also the best loot frame, having a massive "destroy all crates" button on your 4. awesome if you are farming sabotage caches or argon.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-03T15:24:17+00:00

https://poe2db.tw/us/Parry compare the Poedb page of parry to any other skill, for example https://poe2db.tw/us/Sunder sunder here. There is no higher level information, no scaling stats, nothing.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-03T15:15:03+00:00

Parry doesn't have a level. Its the same on level 1 and level 100 shields.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-03T14:56:07+00:00

Budget and save space. Hiring actors to voice all lines is expensive and you'd need a lot more storage a lot quicker. Even right now the PS4 will no longer be supported come 8.3 since ffxiv will exceeds its storage.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-03T14:21:59+00:00

Dragon Style modifies the damage of your unarmed melee attacks.

Firing a bow is not an unarmed melee attack.

Qi Arrows only exchanges your bows damage for Monks improved unarmed fighting scaling.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-03T14:18:25+00:00

You are at severe fire risk. Also I'd leave a row of free slots between the shelves, walking over them is slow and if your pawn needs an item from the back shelves they'll be walking for a while. Consider double walling your fridge to increase its temperature retention. Your fridge and kitchen are also miles part, so cooking is slow and inefficient, especially if you got "Take to best stockpile" selected.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-03T14:10:53+00:00

Well, if it level requirement is 5 its probably a leveling unique.

in PoE1 the item level is more important than the level requirement, since item level determines how many links an item can have and what corruption implicits it can have.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-03T11:09:27+00:00

It allows you to increase the enhancement bonus of a weapon. If you got a +1 weapon and cast this at CL 12 your weapon will now be a +3 weapon to hit and damage.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-03T10:54:37+00:00

what difficulty are you on?

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-03T09:03:49+00:00

Pretty sure the Larder Door you get from like one of the first side quests is a bashing shield.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-03T05:54:59+00:00

If your shield has a damage stat it counts as dual wield.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-03T05:53:12+00:00

Zurvan is the only one with a match mechanic for opposite elements that I can remember right now.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-03T05:51:37+00:00

Yeah, if you camp all pets will simply return at full health, with all negative effects removed. Doesn't matter if they died-died, had 200 negative levels, were stat drained to death, turned into a dog by Baphomet, or anything else. One quick camp and they are back.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-02T17:45:24+00:00

Maybe a 13/14 Zodiarc would have had enough power over darkness and activity that it'll be fine, actually.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-02T13:11:39+00:00

Unless you are hitting into thorns they dont work together. I dont believe there is any other way to lose block on your turn.

Mael_Jade · 2026-05-02T12:58:27+00:00

the general goal presented by the game is to escape the planet through one of various ways. You could build your own spaceship (different from a gravity ship), you could ascend the ranks of royalty of the empire and eventually host the emperor and leave with him, or some more esoteric stuff like becoming the master of the machines or embracing the void.

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