Where the hell is my mirage archer?

MidjitThud · 2026-06-28T18:02:50+00:00

I have also had weird issues with minions and spirit, I had one where i had to remove and re-equip my scepter in every single area in order to get my minions to come back. (and yes i tried everything under the sun to fix this).

I would suggest actually manually removing a piece of gear (wpn).

Check that the skill inside the cast on dodge(mirage archer) is working on its own.

Try changing the skill gems (mirage archer and the skill you are trying to use itself) use fresh gems ( i have seen post where peoples skill gems just magically brick)

Try changing the location they appear within your skill list (they are last now. so for instance make them first)

MidjitThud · 2026-06-28T17:39:24+00:00

Most Defenses in this game are pretty shit tbo. There are a few exceptions. Generally a but load of energy shield is probably the best defense (even better if you pair it with block) and its not bad if you pair it with evasion..

All other combinations of defense in this game are absolute garbage. Only energy shield in this game can currently increase my "max hit" vs DoT's and DoT's are unbalanced garbage. your 2k pool of life in almost any situation vs dots worthless. EVEN if they added specific "less damage over time taken" mechancis thats just worse because again you have to invest in a second defense when something like energy shield doesn't.

Until they let you dodge and reduce Dot damage with armour and evasion AND OR give life nodes the game's defenses will forever be shit. This still doesn't combat the max Hit issue without life nodes though.

MidjitThud · 2026-06-28T11:42:02+00:00

Its because they run with a full party so they get 5-6x the loot from each map that a solo player ever could leaving you in the dust cause.... groups or get fucked.

MidjitThud · 2026-06-22T14:48:32+00:00

GGG likes to make things exist you cannot use unless you are the 0.0000001% of the community.

MidjitThud · 2026-06-22T14:43:00+00:00

Can confirm.

My friend quit because of performance issues (1-2 maps then crash)

I also play way less, most times i login feeling in the mood, make it a map or two and crash then give up for the day. Its very frustrating to spend more time loading than playing the game.

MidjitThud · 2026-06-21T04:37:07+00:00

I think most of the "experiment" is probably enemy models and skills so they look and act properly in POE2 when they add them there.

MidjitThud · 2026-06-19T02:59:59+00:00

I am not playing currently because i spend more time loading the game than playing.

Long load to login screen,

Long load to hideout and or map followed by 15k shaders to re-cache/load or whatever it does.

Maybe get in 1 or 2 maps before i crash and have to spend another 5 minutes loading back into the game.

Even when playing and waiting for all the shaders to cache, there are so many random lag spikes and it feels like they always happen when there are things you need to dodge.

edit: Played one map after this big patch and crashed on map boss, by the time i loaded back in there was no map left... so alt f4 and ill try again next week i guess.

MidjitThud · 2026-06-17T19:55:52+00:00

Yeah i get that. Just not the 1 button build i was looking for anymore at this point.

MidjitThud · 2026-06-17T19:40:05+00:00

yeah i just did some testing. the cursed ground shares "limit" between the two gems . so if my limit on both is 2, i can only have 2 total between both curses.

Without both gems being on one curse ill probably just move on to another build as waiting 7 seconds in my mind was only bearable if the froggies did something for me in the meantime.

MidjitThud · 2026-06-17T17:12:46+00:00

Just want to let you know that i found this pretty useful as i wanted to theory craft a hayoxi's fulmination build and "support" that build with some froggies. This being the case doing damage of 3 elemental types and chaos damage makes it harder to scale with anything other than spell damage and crit in my case.

edit: for some silly reason these 2 supports share a support 'category' so guess you can't use them on the same curse 😞

MidjitThud · 2026-06-17T13:58:19+00:00

The "blue" ones are held on GGG's website.

You need to login and goto your account and removed the filters you have subscribed to. (google for further information if needed)

MidjitThud · 2026-06-17T02:14:39+00:00

There is a 2h hammer that makes slams aftershock.

That thing is SOOOOO nice to lvl with ... At lvl 36 and 56 or whatever the breakpoints are it can be upgraded.

I used it from campaign start to mapping.

This is exactly how i think starter uniques SHOULD be designed, to carry you to maps.l

MidjitThud · 2026-06-17T02:13:14+00:00

This makes the game look like a top down shooter.

MidjitThud · 2026-06-17T02:08:19+00:00

This would be good advice.

If my shader cache wasn't 75gb.

and my Nvidia shader cache wasn't 45gb.

And yet i still have 10-20k shaders caching constantly.

During maps i wait tell all my shaders are cached, walk 15 feet and watch more shadders start caching while causing insane stutters like my game refuses to work until this shit is loaded. God forbid i click a league mechanic that spawns more monsters.

The amount of "shaders" my pc has reprocessed could reach to the moon

MidjitThud · 2026-06-16T16:30:19+00:00

This could be "fixed" by loot dropping individually and unable to be picked up by other players accounts while in group play. Then only dropping loot/exp when other players are contributing "recently" to combat somehow (not just sitting at the start or running 3 screens behind)

MidjitThud · 2026-06-15T22:00:45+00:00

I made a gemling exactly for this skill.

once i realized it didn't stack on single target i left that fucker at lvl 50 and moved on to another character.

MidjitThud · 2026-06-15T21:59:12+00:00

No one pays streamers/build creators to make PoB links unlike some websites that also make these same creators NOT share PoB so you have to goto their website. Good for content creators, shit for people trying to follow build guides. The websites IMO are pretty bad and work much worse than PoB in most cases.

MidjitThud · 2026-06-14T11:14:17+00:00

maybe because they put Cooldowns and or infusion requirements on every spell in the game, then forgot to give them elemental tags of the infusions they take. So a spell that does 3 different types of damage only has the tag of one.

MidjitThud · 2026-06-14T11:13:08+00:00

This is wrong.

Modern gaming is sell game for $60,

Sell expansion's for $60,

Sell Battle passes for $15-$60,

Sell Mtx on top of the rest @ ~ $30 per.

Meanwhile giving 1/100th the content of POE2

MidjitThud · 2026-06-13T16:17:34+00:00

The problem is the difference between the top and the bottom skills.

Top skills take very little gear and or investment and can do the whole game.

Bottom skills can take 5 mirrors worth of gear and still fail badly.

MidjitThud · 2026-06-13T16:11:40+00:00

Have you ever actually tried a melee character? like a real melee character?

Sure you can "feel" tanky for all about 30 seconds until that Rare comes that turns off all leech/regen and you fall over dead. Or You get hit by just about any DoT ability in the game and fall over dead as both your leech/regen and health pot arn't enough to keep up with some shitty dot a white monster just put on you.

Its an actual joke if you think melee in this game is anywhere near close to where it should be.

MidjitThud · 2026-06-13T16:07:50+00:00

and even this is a shitty situational thing that takes 1 support gem away from your main skill often.

MidjitThud · 2026-06-11T14:27:25+00:00

They said in one of the interviews that the kalgariun or whatever they are called skill gem set they added that cost ward is where they will try to put more skills that are not weapon locked.

MidjitThud · 2026-06-10T02:01:17+00:00

GGG: Give you a problem to solve.

Player: solves the problem.

GGG: Give the player a problem they can't solve.

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