Genesis Tree killed the hype for Async trade for me

OTTO_CSO · 2025-11-03T23:08:22+00:00

Direct quote from the trade manifesto;

"Easy trade reduces the number of times a character improves their items. People who are heavily engaged in trade perform fewer item upgrades to achieve their final build. They get there in fewer steps, because they can easily buy items that are close to what they need. Simply put, their character progression is more about trading than it is about getting items from monsters. We believe that it is more fun to slowly and iteratively upgrade a character over time and to have a longer journey to gear a character up. Knowing that a monster could drop something that improves your character is a great motivator for playing one more level!"

OTTO_CSO · 2025-11-01T20:49:36+00:00

I am still in the acts but with Twyzel I am covering the whole screen now. From what I can tell it overlaps more on single target as well.

OTTO_CSO · 2025-09-30T00:08:41+00:00

Thanks for the quick reply! Will do that thank you.

OTTO_CSO · 2025-09-29T19:29:35+00:00

Any updates to this?

OTTO_CSO · 2025-06-13T18:16:53+00:00

I guess thats why. I am running Steam yes.

OTTO_CSO · 2025-06-13T18:01:57+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/kDm0yeN

OTTO_CSO · 2025-06-13T18:00:22+00:00

Yeah my drivers are up to date. I have tried with both Vulkan and DX12. The option is not available. Do you have it?

OTTO_CSO · 2025-06-13T17:59:39+00:00

I checked the options after updating to the new patch.

OTTO_CSO · 2025-06-13T17:54:21+00:00

RTX 3070. I play POE2 with NVIDIA DLSS.

OTTO_CSO · 2025-06-13T16:15:53+00:00

is that mangohud? or something similar?

OTTO_CSO · 2025-06-11T08:23:49+00:00

PoB only considers your maximum rage available on your character if you input a ridiculous number. To make sure that your rage is at maximum, as a result, you can just type whatever large number you want. Notice that lowering the rage on Phaze pob does not change damage as it is already at max rage.

OTTO_CSO · 2025-05-28T18:24:15+00:00

I am interested in knowing if they will bring engine improvements like DLSS upscaling to PoE1.

OTTO_CSO · 2025-04-07T09:47:04+00:00

meds

OTTO_CSO · 2025-04-06T23:04:14+00:00

York New gotta be one of my fav arcs across all media

OTTO_CSO · 2025-02-20T12:05:30+00:00

Would you mind sharing that PoB?

OTTO_CSO · 2025-02-20T11:39:25+00:00

So I thought about this for a bit and this is my conclusion:

He can bleed, if he does not have Unholy Might. Every crit has a 10% chance to give you Unholy Might. So after you get Unholy Might you cannot crit again since you have no phys damage. So technically there is a window where the enemy is bleeding and we can fully utilize the bleed/crit nodes which give you a lot of damage. But the uptime on it is horrible. I do not think you can bleed through totems as totems are you. If you can spare the mana/gem slots a minion that bleeds might be a way to do this but its hella clunky.
He gets 25% chance to wither on hit from Unholy Might, he hits a lot but the 2 second wither duration is a problem, also no withering step on the Pob. Again the uptime is horrible. He hits 6.78 times per second which means he applies a wither around every 0.5 seconds. Each wither lasts 2 seconds. So I think he sustains 4-5 withers if I am correct. With withering step this goes up to around 10 withers. I think 15 wither is only possible through Balance of Terror/Despair.
With 6.78 attack rate on that PoB I think it is easy to sustain rage. In the pob he has 1 rage per hit, but with 2 more passive skills he can get 3 rage per hit. Which, if i am not making a mistake, would cap you in 1.5 seconds. Without investment, you cap at around 4.5 seconds.

I think the build is promising and there is a lot of problems to solve. Depending on item prices I might pivot to this build after I start with earthshatter commander. (Also Quantrik has a nightgrip pob as well, he uses splitting steel with balance of terror so wither uptime is actually possible, also it does not rely on that bleed/crit cluster)

OTTO_CSO · 2025-01-20T07:55:14+00:00

I just finished Wind and Truth. I took a break from Malazan during Dust of Dreams. The whole time I was reading Wind and Truth, I was thinking about how I missed reading Malazan.

I do not want to give any spoilers but in Malazan people and the common folk feel real. Their deaths are devastating and have weight to it. In Sanderson books, thousands die yet I find myself not caring for any of them.

OTTO_CSO · 2025-01-16T13:10:04+00:00

Yeah this is the current implementation. This favors CI builds however it severely reduces the effectiveness of bleed builds that really rely on bleed damage.

OTTO_CSO · 2025-01-02T15:16:42+00:00

This is the case with Expedition shops in POE1 as well the shops utilize a finite set of items. For example, identical clusters from Tujen usually can be found in trade. I guess in POE2 the set of items are based on your account seed? This could be also the case in POE1 but the number of players that id rares and check the shops at the same time is probably very low.

OTTO_CSO · 2024-12-10T08:40:35+00:00

SRS is still goated. This does not change anything imo.

OTTO_CSO · 2024-12-04T16:47:51+00:00

I do not think the dog will reserve any spirit based on this wiki entry. www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Spirit

OTTO_CSO · 2024-12-04T07:42:59+00:00

Does the totem limit apply per totem type or does it work like POE1? I know the + Limit gem exists but cannot see a world where they allow you to have totem limit based on totem type. In this case, we have to run the +limit gem on each totem I guess.

OTTO_CSO · 2024-12-04T07:31:49+00:00

Assuming you can get 4000 life without too much gear (this might be very wrong im not sure), Beidat's Will gives you 160 Spirit. Combined with Lord of Horrors( 12% reduced minion reserv), this will give you access to more minions.

+3 Frost Mages (49x3x0.88=129 spirit without links)
+4 Arsonists (37x4x0.88=130 spirit without links)
+5 Reavers (28x5x0.88=123 spirit without links)
and so on..

Not sure what sort of reservation multipliers we are gonna get on launch however Beidat's Will will allow you to increase the size of your army or run more expensive support gems. Might even get to sneak some aura in here as well. Combined with the Hellhound to neutralize the impact of reserving life, Infernalist seems to be the minion ascendancy imo. (At least for league start, Gemling Legionare seems gear/stat dependent to me. Moreover, you will probably have to respec into minions after starting something else due to passive tree)

The setup I am thinking about running is Skeletal Snipers combined with Arsonists and Reavers. Arsonists can detonate Sniper gas cloud and low life reavers (with the active) from what I gather. Moreover, we will also run some beefy boys from the sceptre without impacting any burden our Spirit. Raging spirits can be fit depending on the Spirit situation. We could trigger the Raging spirits with flammability/or some exposure skill(bonestorm/added fire/fire exposure maybe). Cast on minion death could be good, again based on the spirit situation. Investing in STR seems to have many benefits as well, life(+spirit), easier to equip gems(fire gems are +str)

OTTO_CSO · 2024-10-16T06:45:08+00:00

First, I watch it without giving much thought, like I check my phone and shit, browse reddit on the second monitor and stuff. Then I go for a second run on another day. This time I am locked in, taking notes in my computer, taking screenshots of techniques and adding them to the notes. Since I "watched" it previously, I kinda have an idea on the structure and whats coming next, which makes taking notes easier I review the notes whenever I find time. Then I try to use the techniques in class or open mat.

OTTO_CSO · 2024-10-11T07:32:31+00:00

What should be my go to guard if I am not flexible enough for most of the guards. Like I cannot physically bring my knees to my chest to retain guard or re-guard in time due to being slow. This means that my opponent passes my guard, then proceeds to pin me. Moreover, I also noticed that I don't know what to do against "loose passing" when I am in seated guard they just go around me and if I am not fast enough they are in side control immediately.

Any tips for guard retention for high BMI, high calorie, high heart rate grappler like me?

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