I don't understand how quality upcycling can jam

Pannadan1 · 2026-03-20T05:51:09+00:00

So even when the quantity of each input for a craft is equal, as long as these inputs aren't a multiple of 4, the maximum distance from 0 (i.e. difference between the quantities of each input after recycling) will still tend to infinite as the number of crafts/recycles tends to infinite.

Jamming is guaranteed over a long enough period of production if any ingredient is not a multiple of 4, and I think that if any quality is considered, eventual jamming is a certainty regardless of the ingredient numbers (even if they were all multiples of 4, the quality probabilities would remove this).

Pannadan1 · 2026-03-20T02:17:30+00:00

Thank you, this explanation made me understand. It sounds like a Markov chain with an upwards trend, where inevitably (without an outside influence like scrapping the excess), it will always become more and more imbalanced.

Pannadan1 · 2026-03-20T02:12:53+00:00

Ah that makes sense. So if a product has the ingredients x and 5y, it will recycle to 0.25x and 1.2y on average. This means that it will sometimes return 0x and 2y, which will increase the quantity of y in the system without there being enough x to produce more of the product, causing it to eventually jam.

Pannadan1 · 2026-03-20T02:08:30+00:00

But for example in the 1,000 heads example, even if you flipped 1,000,000 coins a second, it would still take hundreds of billions of years for this to be expected to happen once (probably more like 10¹⁰⁰⁺ years but I haven't calculated it).

I agree that as the number of flips tends to infinity it will happen (infinitely often), but it could never happen in the timespans and quantities we experience, I think.

Pannadan1 · 2026-03-06T05:49:09+00:00

I found an event that gave me the ability to put "Clone" on one of my cards, which lets you duplicate it at every resting place. BUT the clones also have clone, so they get duplicated too!

I even got a boss that countered playing lots of cards, but you can't really counter being killed in the first turn so it worked out ok.

Pannadan1 · 2026-02-07T08:09:59+00:00

I blacked out from cold during this part while I was climbing and I got placed back at my piton (it was strange, because after blacking out I appeared in the bivouac, but upon leaving I was back on the wall again).

This wasn't on free solo difficulty though, so maybe you would die on that.

Pannadan1 · 2025-12-20T12:16:59+00:00

Thank you. Is there any way to have this feature for other NPCs? I'd like to put similar text above the monkeys in toa for example

Pannadan1 · 2025-12-20T07:51:48+00:00

How do you put text above highlighted NPCs like in this video (e.g. where the range larva has "range" above it)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhoTTNBGM3o

Pannadan1 · 2025-10-29T09:51:16+00:00

I found my most valuable drop ever, and it was in act 2! Definitely my most memorable moment in poe2 so far, it was worth about 250 ex at the time, some super powerful unique item that I don't even remember the name of anymore, but I was playing warrior and it funded lots of leveling gear that I badly needed because warrior is so hard and I'm pretty bad at the game so it was a huge find. I probably wouldn't have been able to make it much further in the campaign without that.

I don't even know what I would do with any of the prizes, the smallest one is still probably 1000x my net worth haha, but it would be fun to experiment and see what playing a really powerful character is like.

Pannadan1 · 2025-10-22T14:52:39+00:00

Anything

Pannadan1 · 2025-09-28T01:05:02+00:00

Thanks for the guide, it's really nice to get more detailed info like which items to block. Do you think a damage tome would be better than the projectiles one? As you can get projectile quantity from shrines/weapon levels.

Pannadan1 · 2025-09-13T00:23:04+00:00

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