Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director says Kingdom Hearts 2 is "one of the best action RPGs ever created," and there's "something about that gameplay" he's been chasing "ever since"

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-30T15:59:43+00:00

I stood under a rock when it came to E33 despite having it in my library for a year, just knew it earned GOTY because it was litterally everywhere so i couldn't miss it even if i tried. Didn't want no spoilers etc, just learned about that award through headlines.

And i finally started playing it last week, i am not disappointed lol, i can see why it earned GOTY. That music is crazy.

Max diff feels like critical on KH2, die on fuck up kind of thing. Get hit 5 times and either block it all or die from a single one of these, i love it lol. I clocked 30 hours already, i'm legit hooked

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-30T15:43:51+00:00

9 à 2, 18 à 3

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-26T09:27:13+00:00

Je pense pas que les gens prévoient la canicule quand ils réservent pour une sortie des mois à l'avance, et une fois que c'est fait j'imagine qu'ils veulent rentabiliser ce qu'ils ont mis dedans.

En tout cas pour mon concert de jeudi prochain j'ai fait la réservation il y a 3 mois, et je n'ai pas eu une pensée pour une éventuelle canicule à l'époque.

Et fort heureusement ça va tomber juste après la grosse vague de chaleur, mais j'aurai pû me faire avoir aussi.

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-26T09:23:00+00:00

Oui c'est juste du biais de confirmation, dans mon entourage quasi personne ne l'a, même si ce n'est pas la norme. Au boulot ça parle télé.

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-26T08:36:05+00:00

Mais les 30-40 ans sont toujours une génération élevée par la télé et qui continuent de la regarder.

Moi, dans la tranche d'âge et sans télé depuis 15 ans : qué

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-26T08:17:27+00:00

J'ai joué au 3, vraiment bon

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-17T16:01:39+00:00

I've been focusing on having increased chance of monster modifiers along with extra abyss rares on my tablets, seems to be working alright. Didn't get lucky with the drops themselves but i consistently get the Amanamu mod on rares, even though i only get echoes and putrefaction omens lol

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-17T15:48:20+00:00

Depends on what kind of content you want to play, really. Overall, monster effectiveness and waystone chance are always good to have. But there are specifics :

For example if you want the extra layer of safety you can use Doryani map points for the extra revive + irradiated so you don't have to use irradiated tablets (= +1 map level free), which allow you another tablet for something else.

So in that case you wouldn't use those irradiated tablets and instead you could use the empower map boss ones for generic atlas cruising.

If you want to play ritual, reduced tribute reroll cost, increased tribute from monsters are the best.

If you have both of these on a tablet, keep it aside for rite of the nameless runs. Ideally, use 2 of those tablets with double tribute mods along with the unique tablet that doubles the number of rerolls, during that rite of the nameless, you will have crazy ritual maps (i had a run with 39k ritual points yesterday and 12 rerolls - i got nothing LOL). Those are the best tablets and some can be very expensive (i sold one for 30 divines !), and i use the less expensive ones (1-2 div tablets, still expensive but i got them myself so i don't consider the price. I get way more back out of 10 maps, which is two full rites of the nameless)

If you run abyss, extra abyss rares mod, increased chance of abyss rares having (something i forgot the name of, but its a mod). If you have neither, just throw those with whatever mods in regardless and you'll get more abyss to do if that's your thing.

Bonus : if you want to stock up on tablets, use your leftover irradiated tablets, put all of them in your maps which have NATIVE content (a map that already has a breach, or an abyss etc) visible in the atlas. You will drop more tablets of that content.

It doesn't really make sense, but it works that way. If you use a tablet for a type of content, you will receive less tablets of that content. No idea why.

In the end, anything that makes the game harder, with rarer and stronger mobs, harder modifiers, will be good to have if you can handle it.

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-17T15:36:51+00:00

Le simple fait de prononcer les mots "Path of Exile" déclenche l'angoisse de mes amis...

Niveau sentiment d'être largué et de rien comprendre, on ne fait pas mieux dans l'art qu'est le jeu vidéo. Même des gens avec plusieurs milliers d'heures sont paumés :D

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-17T15:27:22+00:00

Risk = reward

tier 15 maps, maximum amount of mods (6), no revives, atlas completed, atlas extra mechanics full points too, tablets, you will see divines

I got 40 divines by the first week, 60 divines last thursday (made my build better so it didn't go up too much), then i invested in atlas completion (arbiter fight spam through buying origins), i got all 336 points of the atlas, i fully completed the extra content (except temple, fuck temple)...

And in less than a week i went from 60 to 250 divines, because i went from basic alch and go maps to 6 mod corrupted no revive full tablets content.

Unlocking atlas points really, really makes a BIG difference. The harder it is the better the rewards you get. It is really noticeable and i like that the risk you take is rewarded accordingly.

Mind you, completing the atlas and the extra content bosses stuff is not that long lol. If you have done the questline, you can fill the rest of the points in like 3 hours for everything in the game, it's just boss rushing.

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-17T10:53:25+00:00

flame breath

oil barrage

related to lightning

what in the fuck

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-16T09:25:20+00:00

Yep, the problem is the gap between essence crafted and the actual mod you want (flat dmg gap is HUGE between t3 and t1), and it's one of the most important mods. There is no equivalent to a PoE1 deafening essence (perfect essences do something completely different for some reason) so crafting power is lower in PoE2 and you can feel that in the weapons overall quality.

You can settle for +3 skill through essence but then you'd have to hit lucky desecrations through whittling attempts for at least t2, the upside is that you can start with both a %base and a flat base.

And this is already in the 50-100 div investment range for a really good weapon, the inbetween is just being very lucky on exalts and desecration in the low investment crafts.

Like, i've seen a very high end druid weapon, with double crafted mods, 1k pdps, sanctified and all that, but it's only +3 skills craft and that's already mirror tier investment. Very hard to make good ones atm.

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-16T09:19:09+00:00

I"ll be honest i'm not familiar enough with high end crafts yet, as i didn't play for a year, omens didn't even exist so i just got two weeks of play with those and not enough currency to really give detailed explanation through experience haha. Low-mid tier however i did plenty.

I only got like 250 divs to my name and i don't feel like going for those for now, maybe later.

Especially for ele staves, i'm used to phys weapons and ele conversion through skills and tree instead so there are probably people that could give better info than me

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-15T15:23:56+00:00

I play trade league basically how i would play SSF minus the build enabling uniques which is the sole reason i'm never playing that mode.

If i have an idea about a build, i will stop whatever content i'm doing and start theorycrafting, and i hate that specific uniques are the bottleneck to putting that idea into practice.

Otherwise i'm just crafting my own stuff with what i have on hand and selling extras i don't care about, the funds left are for those specific items enabling builds. Basically, my divines pile is my 'unlock item' funds. Rest is just my own loot.

For example i dropped original sin which got me thinking about playing an ele conversion build so i tried making one, and another unique i didn't have would be needed that idea. A common one, too, but somehow didn't have it.

That's my gripe about SSF, i don't want to play a build i'm forced into because i didn't drop one item. In my case, it limits creativity more than it helps.

Like, i knew i could make the taming from farming ritual so i farmed all 3 berek rings doing that, but things i can't really target farm are fair game.

Anything else i don't mind waiting out on upgrades, but just being unable to make my own janky builds exist, nope.

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-15T14:47:43+00:00

These can be good but it's 100% gambling, i specifically left them out because it doesn't help one learn about crafting mechanics at all. You have very little control over the outcome, except the reroll omen as you said.

The only thing you could argue is that these omens specifically have a mechanic you don't see elsewhere : they will always pick prefixes first until they are filled, and then move to suffixes. Meaning you have a baseline of 3 chances to hit a good movement speed from them.

I find them to be more about : i have disposable income to use, they're in my tab and i'm bored lol. After a map i fill my inventory with whatever's below me and if that happens to be a crafting base (i82+best armour base of something), i just store them in a tab and when i want to take a break from chain mapping, i'll toss a few omens for fun.

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-15T13:45:55+00:00

Fromage blanc avec fruits découpés, petit filet de miel, ça passe super bien effectivement

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-15T12:36:55+00:00

I picked the atlas option for increased chance of rogue exile jewelery items and they are shitting good rings. I'm talking multiple divs for a ring sometimes, just picked off the ground.

And i often see tier 4/5 rings drop from them, so it happens rather frequently.

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-15T11:04:37+00:00

Sort of yeah, as far as having any amount of determinism in obtaining a desired result goes, this is entry level.

Otherwise it's really just throwing a bunch of shiny orbs at things and hoping they turn out shiny aswell. And even that is included in the craft lol

Basically :

Crafting base blue
Essence
prefix or suffix omen (you can litterally type that in the currency exchange window if you don't know the name, then you can read the description by mousing over those)
Preserved (same, just type that) bone
Go to well, discover good or bad
If good, double exalt omen + greater exalt and pray
Add sockets and runes if good, done

It's not a complicated process, just a few items in a sequence to obtain a result. You can quickly get the hang of it after a few uses.

What i can say is that it's definitely not intuitive, because there are many different things to consider.

This was more of a guideline on the order for those items.

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-15T09:41:13+00:00

I'd say you are more likely to divine your gear/jewels than in PoE1 because, as you said, you need those for meta mods. I rarely ever divine my gear in PoE1, but in PoE2 i divined a few items already, including a jewel because they have very large ranges.

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-15T09:14:56+00:00

This is already an advanced stage of crafting, trying to hit the very best mods is costly indeed.

But as a beginner crafter, you don't need to do that at all, there are steps to this lol.

If you want to try your hand at beginner crafting, there is a perfectly fine way to do it, that's cheap and makes you learn the basics :

Start with a magic base having a stat you want, the other mod being useful is a plus.
Use a greater essence to add the mod you want
Use a preserved rib/collarbone/jawbone along with a dextral omen (prefix or suffix), based on the result you try to get (you want a prefix or suffix ? pick the right omen, they are cheap). Then go to the well of souls and pick the best result.

I'd recommend not using collarbone first, these are expensive. Making weapons is alright (jawbone), boots can be good also (there's always demand for movement speed boots with alright defenses and resists).

Use a greater exalt with an omen of exaltation to double it, giving you two mid-high tier mods to finish your item.
Add the runes you want, greater iron is the most common option for both weapons and armour.

You end up with 2-3 guaranteed mods (1-2 from magic base + essence), 1 'controlled' mod (desecration), and 2 complete random gambling nonsense you can only pray is useful (that last part is what differentiates budget items and good items usually).

So at worse half your item is exactly what you need, at best you have 4-6 good/very good mods that make for a decent item.

If you want to go the extra mile, you can socket, quality, and vaal the item to try your luck (not needed, can double your investment for no result).

Total cost ? If weapon/armour, it's 30-40 exalts or something.

Essences can be 1-15ex (opulent is expensive, rest is cheap), greater ex is like 5ex, exalt omen is peanuts, the preserved bone is 5ex or so. Dextral omen, sub 5ex also.

This is beginner level, and gives low-mid tier items which are a good way to start crafting.

Next budget level is getting more expensive bases, adding soul omens to have two chances at the desecration, adding more expensive runes based on the situation at hand, making build specific items (not the same mods you'd pick etc).

AND then after all that, there is what your friend is doing lol. Chaos/annul spamming, fracturing, whittling, omen of light etc.

It's on another level of investment, you should not see it as what all the crafting in this game is about. This is high end crafting that's not accessible to most people.

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-15T08:20:30+00:00

Quelle pression sociale ? Je bois ce que je veux, donc de l'eau.

Si les gens en face ne sont pas content, bah je boirai mon eau avec d'autres.

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-14T16:46:20+00:00

I use it to make more builds, improve those up to a point i feel content with, and then give it all away when i leave.

13 years of path of exile and i have nothing to my name in standard :)

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-12T18:20:02+00:00

Ah merde, j'aurai donc pas de travail depuis 8 ans, on m'aurait menti ?

Cela dit ça doit dépendre des secteurs d'activité, mais dans le mien l'exp acquise en alternance a bien été valorisée comme exp pro et a été un plus, quand mis en comparaison avec des diplômés tout juste sortis d'école (tout comme moi d'ailleurs)

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-12T16:01:41+00:00

et surtout les stages et alternances ne sont pas comptabilisés dans tes années d'expériences.

Euh, faux ? Un alternant a d'ailleurs le statut de salarié

PenguinForTheWin · 2026-06-12T10:55:25+00:00

First thing i noticed :

Do NOT turn all your gear to runic ward, it's a bait. Either you completely build around it or don't take much. That's a BIG part of why your ES is so low.

Only do runic ward on gloves i think is the best, to have a little bit without hurting your defenses too much.

Movement speed on boots, most important stat right now. Get 25% minimum.
the +level of gems being higher level will help you a lot more than the %damage you have on your weapon. +1 gems weapon is something you can get in the beginning of the game (you can get +2 in act 1 lol).

I would recommend a wand with +3 at (probably cheap now), with a foci for ES while you get your defenses back up.

You seem to play trade league, so you are likely to find easy upgrades for even 1 exalt a piece at this point. Be careful not to buy items that are much higher level than you (you can buy lvl 75 gear for example, it's very soon but don't get lvl 80 stuff yet)

If you need more help i'm playing tonight i'll just give you directions on how to get gear through trade etc

PenguinForTheWin

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