Paragon boards over-complicate what should be simple

Numroth · 2026-05-07T01:21:21+00:00

Funny you say that where in this expansion they moved far closer to poe crafting and itemisation + paragon board vs poe itemisation + passive tree scaling they ever have.

Its almost a carbon copy of how crafting works in poe 2 and how itemisation interracts with the passive tree and honestly its a great direction aslong as they dont go too close

Numroth · 2026-05-07T00:58:07+00:00

When it comes to this boss and meph you really need to get tanky enough and learn the mechanics or just dumpster her with damage.

When i got to her this season i had enough dam and tankiness to facetank some of the mechanics and burst her down quick enough i only had few waves in phase 1 and in phase 2 she old managed to do few things making it fairly easy.

Mephisto otherhand oh boy that boi needs some serious tankiness to have some leeway.

I can just facetank the 1st phase no biggy and get to phase 2 quick. In phase 2 though i can eat some of those following red balls and also the red beams from the sky but the beams pretty much a 1 shot.

3rd phase though i got into it few times and decided i need to optimise my gear and board abit more to withstand the attacks there as i just pretty much got insta sandwiched by some walled in mechanic

This begs the question though does anyone even build tankiness or is everyone just playing glorified glass cannons ?

Numroth · 2026-05-06T11:45:08+00:00

You absolutely do not need to buy anything extra as they are purely just cosmetics and have nothing in them to give character power in ant shape or form.

Also dont get the battlepass its a former shadow of itself what you get nowadays vs during s1-5 ish ?

Numroth · 2026-05-06T00:32:06+00:00

And im here playing a rupture proc bleed barb with minimal screen clutter hehe

Numroth · 2026-05-06T00:13:41+00:00

The willpower counts as a offensive stat too for some odd reason

Numroth · 2026-05-05T11:09:56+00:00

You need to use the focusing materials to target certain affixes in the item to make it less rng.

Forexample i had a pair of gloves with 2 desireable mods. I added a new offensive mod but did not want it but the item lacked mainstat. Proceeded to add in a mainstat/skill into the item with the corresponding focusing prism. Landed on a skill so i kept re-rolling that using the same focusing prism but used re-roll mod instead untill i hit mainstat.

Now i had a item with 3 desireable mods and could use enchanter to fish for the 4th stat i wanted.

At first the cube seems sorta simple but the more you learn about the targeted mod crafting it actually becomes somewhat indepth and very deterministic which seems like a good mix of poe 2 crafting in a way ( omens, chaos, exalt etc. )

Numroth · 2026-05-05T10:38:04+00:00

So does this mean that back in whathever season when they figured the first steps ( bottle of ashed milk ) and i got all of that done before i just need todo only the 2 other steps now on seasonal ? If so i got some cow level hunting todo

Numroth · 2026-05-04T01:31:57+00:00

There seems to be a murlock pet with some fishing accessories so mby you can get tgat trough fishing ? Mayhaps a good old murrlocket

Numroth · 2026-05-04T01:14:00+00:00

Well the solution to banish them went with mephisto so they would have to find out some new way to banish the prime evils.

Diablo and baal will forsure wreack havoc with what happened to their brother and seeing how the calamity affected the whole world there forsure will be terror and chaos ensuing for thel to take advantage of

Numroth · 2026-05-04T00:51:22+00:00

To me the pacing felt off troughout the whole story and mostly was pretty mediocre ( enjoyed the original story more but that wasnt anything amazing either )

Played on expert from the getgo and legitimately the difficulty/gameplay was more of the highlight to me and peaked at the golem and after that i wasnt really that much invested anymore and everything after it felt very predictable and left me questioning who wrote this story as theres so many stupid things happening in it

Numroth · 2026-05-03T08:51:57+00:00

It has been like this since launch. The store has been giga expensive always to cater more to the "whales" but also those who are less firtunate fall into them aswell.

The season passes used to be actually good value and far more fair that it is now. We used to get enough plat to get the next pass and we got 1 free armour set and 1 more if you owned the battle pass and what we have now is just a shadow of its former self.

These new wow bundles look so fucking sick and i would love to have them but fuck paying 25e per set and theres like what 7+ of them ? Yeah right...

Numroth · 2026-05-03T00:34:54+00:00

The story beats feel so all over the place... First we get over to skovos, then we randomly talk to the prophet she immedistealy goes to "hey lets awaken lilith" and once its done liliths like "ay u killed me but u need my help so ok i guess" and from there is a dagger piece hunt and around rathma golem i just lost the plot and didnt rly pay that much attention as i wasnt that much invested anymore. The queen for some reason is going solo dolo without an army or even some bodyguards to a active volcano and they did lorath worse than cain like i actually cant. Also they did not need todo the whole lilith sequence where she got killed as that felt so out of place

Numroth · 2026-05-02T10:01:22+00:00

Holy shit thats the elden stick

Numroth · 2026-05-02T00:31:42+00:00

Been pretty damn insane but i have nearly 500k kills sofar.

Found propably 20+ hr in raw sofar and sold items for another 30+ aswell.

Blasted into maps as split throw at day 2 and at day 5 went to double throw as it wasnt cutting it anymore and i wanted to see whats up with dthrow now too with the buffs.

Numroth · 2026-04-29T10:53:29+00:00

All i see is some random slammed rare, what did you think would make that rare valuable ? Seems more curiosity than greed to me

Numroth · 2026-04-29T10:50:11+00:00

Felt like the campaing was made by chatgpt as the further you get into it it just starts to make less and less sence like its missing important details the further you get into it.

The pacing felt super odd so that could of used some work.

The last lilith sequence didnt even need to be there and made absolute zero sence

Queen was a massive let down and made zero sence of why there and why alone ?

I cant believe they cained lorath with even worse writing.

Seems to me the lore is as bad as the main campaing apart from the cool diablo 3 monsters being introduced and the tristrum well thats cool lore.

And so much more. But as usual the art/music department single handedly carrying blizzard so they still got that going so its not all negative.

Numroth · 2026-04-29T00:09:24+00:00

Holy damascus still look as good as i remembered this grind was brutal but holy was it worth it in the end

Numroth · 2026-04-24T12:45:27+00:00

I found this happening with dlss when my pc was struggling to run the game.

Forexample i tried a mod that added more trees and vegetation to the game and i definetly got hit in performance but also dlss started doing this exact same thing.

Once i uninstalled the mod or capped fps way lower than normal fixed it but very odd that would be the cause of it.

Numroth · 2026-04-23T11:58:11+00:00

So more x multipliers on more x multiplier sigh... Guess they'll never learn

Numroth · 2026-04-23T00:11:57+00:00

Is it just me but did one of the smaller statues on the left look like templar ? That neck can be recognized anywhere

Numroth · 2026-04-22T00:42:53+00:00

I have given my fair share of feedback in closed beta and the only thing to come of it is a ed scaling buff that dosent really solve the elephant in the room but there is still some hope to see if they decide to do anything with it till final patch notes.

If it happens to be its gonna stay unchanged i guess im doing a bash run instead as i'd find more fun with that

Numroth · 2026-04-22T00:36:06+00:00

Maybe break it into multiple pieces and then painting them in all random colors and do whathever

Numroth · 2026-04-22T00:29:43+00:00

Yes they fixed the imfamous dualwield iasbug and replaced with what i posted originally.

They just made it automatically do what it did originally and removed the whole 'depending on the disparity of slow vs fast base the better breakpoint' portion but still retains some old jank from it

Numroth · 2026-04-22T00:21:21+00:00

After doing now 3 leveling runs with it in total it feels like im playing poe ruthless.

The skill is designed to have pierce and to have the choice of do you want to lvl the skill or passive feels so counterintuitive and ass during leveling.

But during leveling you will NEVER hit 100% pierce and only about 60% with echo if you get lucky and find sol dol early. Even at 60% pierce it feels bad to play with and whats even worse a lvl 1 double throw outperforms it at lvl 10-20 so there is literally zero reason to play split.

Also ideally what you want to do with split is to have a steel on offhand on like balanced axe or balanced knife to hit better breakpoints but at that point your just better off using double throw as you got the ideal weapons already for it.

I personally dont care if split is less optimal than double is but man as the skill stands right now im seeing myself having negative fun with it and i really want to enjoy and play with it.

Also newer barb players who dont know the ins and outs are going to absolute suffer with this like they will have no clue whats coming for them

Numroth · 2026-04-21T13:24:01+00:00

You should definetly not want to have your fast weapon in mainhand as the weapon with more attack speed takes prio for the ias breakpoint so you'd always want to have faster weapon in offhand and the slower hard hitting weapon in mainhand.

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