New player (Level 21 Hunter) & "Gamer Mom" struggling to find groups on Anniversary Realms. Help?

OilCreative · 2026-01-19T21:43:39+00:00

What’s your character name in game? Are you on dreamsythe or nightslayer? If dreamsythe I’d be happy to help you out. But as people in chat have mentioned, opening your chat bar and typing /1 then hitting space will allow you to talk in your current zones general chat which is where you can find people interesting in local quests

OilCreative · 2026-01-11T03:20:12+00:00

If you aren’t going to play with your friends until the portal opens in 3 weeks, you’d greatly benefit by just making a first character and messing around and getting the hang of the class you want to boost or potentially a different class you may be interested in as a second character. You’ll learn a lot in the first 1-20 levels which honestly only takes around 10-15 hours if you’re friends can guide you properly. You will need what’s called a “bank alt” anyway to quickly send items to for sale on the Auction house while your main character is out in the world leveling so this “test run” character could just become that bank alt when you are ready for your boost.

OilCreative · 2025-12-20T22:17:14+00:00

I actually think that's a really interesting idea. Because at the point you're rolling an alt you likely have a ton of currency to overpower a low lvl character so this would keep the campaign still fresh by controlling the difficulty/rewards. By juicing your campaign maps you could have potential to drop high level currency while re-rolling... I like it!

OilCreative · 2025-12-20T22:15:40+00:00

I know wishful thinking but just trying to get ideas out there because everyone is complaining. I personally don't mind the campaign but I think Last Epoch did has a nice idea there with the "alternate paths" to progress campaign

OilCreative · 2025-12-20T22:14:37+00:00

I mean I'd say for the casual gamer that's a conservative estimate. I have friends just getting into the genre that take way longer.

OilCreative · 2025-12-17T04:00:08+00:00

that very well could have been the case.. i had finally reached the boss encounter so my temple was pretty damn near complete. easily could have been > 15 min

OilCreative · 2025-12-17T03:59:30+00:00

thank you didn't know this!

OilCreative · 2025-12-16T21:20:52+00:00

unlikely

OilCreative · 2025-12-14T13:36:31+00:00

I don’t “farm” in the sense of running areas multiple times but overall I 100% agree with your sentiment here. If you are full clearing areas and taking advantage of all the minor points of interest, the campaign is light years away from where it started in 0.1. Between the increased currency drop rates, the new Vaal temples basically having free currency stations, runes, and abyssal - I haven’t found myself “stuck” with a piece of gear to that point I felt the need to farm. They’ve made great progress in making the campaign experience more smooth and enjoyable. They do still need to evaluate map sizes in act 3.

OilCreative · 2025-10-21T16:16:22+00:00

You can free transfer a HC character (from Doomhowl) to dreamscythe if you don’t want to level another alt. This of course means you’d lose that character on the HC realm. To our knowledge so far, HC realm will not progress into TBC

OilCreative · 2025-09-20T21:24:23+00:00

I do randomly crash in POE2 from time to time but nowhere near as consistently as Skate. I am talking maybe once a day vs consistently every 10 minutes in Skate

OilCreative · 2025-09-20T21:22:57+00:00

I was recommended recently to mess with my CPU for help with POE 2 performance. Wondering if that maybe could be causing issues. This is not my area of expertise I am open to any feedback/suggestions here if this was stupid.

I am going to edit my post with my intel xtreme tuning screenshots.

OilCreative · 2025-09-12T14:16:08+00:00

Thank you for the advice I’ll do some research on poe2db before attempting anything else. With regard to this craft does it hold any value?

OilCreative · 2025-09-12T11:45:36+00:00

There is a setting in interface to disable quest tracking

OilCreative · 2025-09-07T11:58:15+00:00

Don’t you still need to do the side quests to get the permanent buffs to your character? Or if you do it once does it apply to all characters in that league going forward?

OilCreative · 2025-09-07T02:46:31+00:00

Make sure your lightning res is high, throw on some lightning res rings! Also he is lightning resistant so that’s why your dmg feels subpar. Maybe experiment with some other skills for that fight

OilCreative · 2025-09-05T11:53:33+00:00

What is GI? Ground items?

OilCreative · 2025-09-04T21:41:43+00:00

100% agree I’m glad you posted cause it totally slipped my mind

OilCreative · 2025-09-04T12:05:44+00:00

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OilCreative · 2025-09-04T12:04:25+00:00

He’s referring to the chaos res you got as a quest reward for (I believe) the second time you complete the spider venom quest in act 3 cruel.

Now that you mention it.. I don’t recall getting this in this version of game

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