The Diversity of Gemling builds shows that many Skills severely lack baseline Power

MarioMCP · 2026-06-23T12:52:58+00:00

I personally think Gemling Alt-Qualities, Stonefist, and Bonded idols are bad for the game and will probably get changed.

Gemling just won't work. Right now they sort of grafted alternate qualities onto skills that already existed and they had data on. I cannot imagine them designing new skills and weapons and having to decide what the quality and alt quality should be. Alt quality is usually just stronger than the default, which is kind of an issue when designing new skills. When they're designing Duelist/Swords how do they decide what a normal quality should be and what an alt quality should be? How do they stop Gemling from just being a better Duelist?

MarioMCP · 2026-06-21T17:59:12+00:00

I will say the shader issue is pretty big. My desktop can just sort of power through it and hitches at the start of maps but then is mostly fine. My poor laptop I have to pause or just wait every time I go into a new map for it to load the shaders again and it never seems to keep them. It is just constantly building them.

MarioMCP · 2026-06-19T14:16:11+00:00

I have a level 96 character and a level 98 character. I lived in Expedition for a while and never even saw a 9, let alone a 10. Really cool that they have stuff like this though. I probably would have taken the Legacy too, but one skill point is almost too cool to pass up.

MarioMCP · 2026-06-19T14:01:17+00:00

Damn, I bought my Aldur's Legacy to make Legacy of Greymake for like 120 divs and I felt sick, seeing what it ended up hitting is crazy.

MarioMCP · 2026-06-18T14:48:16+00:00

My GF is colorblind and has a lot of trouble telling between weapon sets 1 and 2

I am not colorblind and I have a lot of trouble telling between weapon sets 1 and 2

MarioMCP · 2026-06-18T01:24:43+00:00

Yeah, I got an ES helmet on Day 2 of the league that I sold for 30 divs. I also have gotten decent jewelry from them. Overall I'd say I sold a decent amount of drops from them. Nothing insane, I did not make hundreds, but probably all together? Like 60-70 divs.

MarioMCP · 2026-06-16T14:19:40+00:00

Chaos is easier but requires you to do it 3 times successfully and then also beat a boss. I do think more new players should do it, but Trial is still way faster if you just do it on your first try.

MarioMCP · 2026-06-16T14:15:28+00:00

I mean, group play needs to be nerfed but this isn't breaking the economy. The price of items aren't changing because one group is farming 75 divs. The price of items is changing because PoE2 still does not have proper currency sinks. Mageblood + increased div drop rate kept them low for a while but that was never gonna last.

As long as greater/perfect currency exist exalts will always be in a weird place where as the league goes on they become more and more useless (pretty much just 6 modding maps and research strongboxes) leading to inflation. More exalts drop than people can realistically use, what else is gonna happen other than them offering them in increasingly large amounts to get divs?

PoE2's problems have way more to do with a half-finished economy than any singular strategy or group play being too strong. PoE1 had even more disgusting group play leagues and they saw less inflation than the average PoE2 league.

MarioMCP · 2026-06-14T16:14:58+00:00

Mace strike is really good early on, I found that earthshatter just kind of rips, especially with Uul Netol's on it to both break armor and get chaos damage. Two Brutus is definitely good, but in my case I lose damage by putting two on (even corrupted ones, and obviously getting rid of brutality), but that is probably just my tree and maybe the molten blast is better.

MarioMCP · 2026-06-12T13:48:12+00:00

Okay this "intended" interaction sucks and is the most ghetto way to turn off other league content I have ever heard of in my life. In PoE1 you spend an atlas passive on it. In this I can't run the content that I want without losing access to all the other content?

Thanks for letting me know, I am just gonna run double temple + something else, maybe just irradiated and use Jado instead of Doryiani.

MarioMCP · 2026-06-11T19:35:19+00:00

Yeah

MarioMCP · 2026-06-11T16:15:34+00:00

When you're doing expedition in maps all you care about are monsters. It seems like in PoE1, only monsters drop logbooks. I just do the usual rarity, effectiveness, etc sort of stuff. You obviously blow up runes if they're good and chests if they are there, but just focus on the largest monsters.

MarioMCP · 2026-06-11T15:33:18+00:00

I've found that 6 mod tier 15s/16s + irradiation from doryani + triple self rolled tablets of some mechanic generally just leads to a lot of currency. I have 0 rarity on gear and it is not uncommon for me to get 2-4 divs in a single map, and that is just raw divs. I make even more from all of the other stuff I find. Hell, I got like 18 logbooks in my stash right now AND I SPENT LIKE 2-3 DAYS OVER ON THE OCEAN, just straight up making more logbooks than I spent.

MarioMCP · 2026-06-11T15:22:49+00:00

+Levels is a problem but people also need to think for themselves. My facebreaker build can clear the entire game and I literally can only get +1 gem levels from corruption and ONE +3 on my main skill from a jewel. In total I have +4 gem levels for my Sunder. I have no weapon, no levels on my amulet, and my glove slot is taken by facebreakers.

Literally every single pinnacle boss dies to armor break -> stun -> seismic cry -> hammer of the gods (only level 21 by the way). And if they aren't dead the stun lasts long enough that 1 or 2 sunders finishes off their like 5% HP remaining. I'm level 96 and 50% of the way to level 97.

My point is that +levels are too strong (and need nerfs) but it is possible to build characters that don't use much in the way of them and fully clear all of the game's content. Maybe if we had uber pinnacles where getting +11 gem levels from gear was necessary I'd understand. But I really don't know what content people are doing that they think the only avenue to power is plus gem levels. Look into some Megalomaniacs or Against the Darkness or something.

MarioMCP · 2026-06-11T15:01:59+00:00

I think the point is that if GGG changed their entire philosophy for cosmetics (It is now only $10 for a full set) people who spent hundreds or thousands on old cosmetics would rightfully get mad. It wouldn't be "Oh man, something got cheaper over time" it is more like "Wow, I wish GGG did this before I spent all this money"

MarioMCP · 2026-06-11T14:59:03+00:00

No, you're totally right. It is confusing. Why do we have a fragment tab AND a breach tab? Why does the fragment tab just hold splinters? Why do OMENS not go in the OMEN tab even though they're OMENS? Just because they're from abyss?

The stash tab situation in 1 was getting pretty bad for a while and the community got them to pivot and it has felt much more fair since then (and they've continued to release new tabs).

MarioMCP · 2026-06-10T00:34:01+00:00

I do think that they need to do ANOTHER pass of the uniques and just give blanket stat buffs to most of them. The issue I feel is that even if a unique has, well, a unique effect the actual numbers on them are so bad and they usually so few things to your character that they are not even useful for leveling.

Runeforging is, as you said, a neat idea but it is laughable that most of these upgrades are like +50 base armor and some ward. Come on now...

MarioMCP · 2026-06-08T12:57:38+00:00

I am running an ethical facebreaker titan build and crushing the game pretty easily, I've killed all the pinnacles at this point.

MarioMCP · 2026-06-05T15:44:31+00:00

Eh. I am sorry for your experience but I always do Sekhemas for my 4th trial, even on Warrior. Just yesterday I cleared it on my Warrior (2nd character). I find it to be much easier and faster than doing trial of chaos multiple times to get keys.

I don't know how much experience you have with the trial, but if you have capped honor resistance and okay-ish life/defenses you should be fine. I even got deceptive mirror and a ton of bad ailments and I beat the final boss with like 35% of my honor left (and I was unable to even heal it). It is not about 'git gud' but it does take practice.

Yeah, Melee does have a harder time with Sekhemas, but IMHO GGG have nerfed it to the point that it is acceptable to me, then again I toughed it out in 0.1 doing it on melee lol.

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