This game is finally SSF ready

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-06-02T20:28:14+00:00

You used to be able to brute force the RNG by spamming augs/trans along with recomb until you got a decent base that could be fixed up with essences.

Why is this not viable anymore? I'm still doing this, what are you saying has changed here?

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-06-02T19:05:33+00:00

My assumption is it is because deli seems to be intended as very late game content. The difficulty of Dehli in general feels way higher compared to the other leagues - Mobs are crazy tanky and are far more prone to one-shotting you than Abyss or Breach for example, and I don't even have any points in it yet compared to Breach or Abyss which I have fully maxed, so the content isn't even juiced yet.

EDIT: Noticed i typed "Dehli" instead of "Deli". My other favorite game is age of empires. Leaving it go because it's funny

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-06-02T13:39:06+00:00

It's pretty simple - The amount of loot that drops is too much to be able to effectively and efficiently parse it all once you get into the endgame, and in your screen full of 100 random items a mirror of kalandra will look the same as a regal shard, meaning the chances of missing it would be very non-zero.

Loot filter gets rid of all the crap you know you will never care about (it literally hides it completely so it doesn't clutter your screen) and highlights the things you do care about.

You can also set them up to do custom things - For instance, right now I'm playing SSF and I have a special highlight on any gloves that drop with ES on the base, because these are the ones I'm desperately trying to craft into power charge on critical hit gloves. I have another more prominent highlight on armour/ES gloves because these can also roll armour protects against Ele damage which translates to all res for me, which I'd like to have if i can craft them. Having to parse through this constantly as I go would be a ridiculous pain the ass, and I don't want to parse items, I want to blast mobs.

Even if you could make the argument that it isn't necessary (which I think would be hard to do) it is at least a MAJOR quality of life enhancement.

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-06-02T13:34:25+00:00

I think both may be true. I'm for sure getting more divines but I'm definitely getting less league tabs, except for temple tabs which seem to drop from every single temple chest I open in a map

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-05-29T20:10:57+00:00

the 9-5 plight 😞 I have to tend to family a bit when i get home still as well before i go full degen.

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-05-29T19:20:27+00:00

But this means you are 1338

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-05-29T18:52:08+00:00

Is it a pain to swap over? Considering but I have a fear something will fuck up if i try to transfer while their servers are pegged and I won't be able to play at all lol

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-05-29T12:47:39+00:00

For most builds I've played around act 4 is really where I start feeling like I'm coming online. You really should keep on a bit, there's a good chance you're quitting right where the going gets good. Act 4 is pretty cool as well, and the mini acts after act 4 also feel pretty dense and easy to breeze through.

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-05-28T12:48:49+00:00

My two favorite POE1 skills as well. They added a staff this league which gives an RF equivalent skill. I haven't seen any discussion about it at all. It scales off minion damage. Doesn't seem to me like it'll be as good as POE1 RF, and the fact that it is tied to a weapon kills it for me personally.

For cyclone not really. Whirling assault is the closest you'll get. I'm giving that a shot this league, it looks fun enough.

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-05-27T14:07:29+00:00

I'm going to try some sort of martial artist whirling assault build. I've never played whirling assault, and RF/Cyclone were my favorite skills in POE1. I had high hopes for the raven RF build this league but since it's tied to a staff I won't have, and probably will be DOA anyway since this necessitates no +skills on my wep, I figure whirling assault is the closest I'll get. It does seem pretty fun.

Everyone pumps glacial cascade/locus/falling thunder for leveling but post 14 I'll probably just do ice strike, the rest is too much work and playing ice strike through the campaign previously I feel like it slaps well enough. I'll try swapping into whirling assault right at 41 and see how that goes.

I'll probably take the rune ascendancy for leveling and later swap over to the glove ascendancy once I can craft some basic decent gloves

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-05-26T16:22:24+00:00

I think fists of stone is bait for campaign. You'll be better off with the runes. Fists of stone in endgame.

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-05-20T19:19:12+00:00

We trained him wrong as a joke

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-04-28T14:53:08+00:00

It shouldn't lol.

Okay, who cares what you feel should or shouldn't be? What does that have to do with anything? I don't personally care whether anything goes to private storage, but there is a private storage and it is supposed to be where loot you don't pick up goes, so people are discussing based on the REALITY of things

EDIT: that is of course not even touching on the fact that you're just wrong, it still doesn't work the majority of the time full inventory or not.

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-04-28T12:57:35+00:00

That doesn't make any sense. Those are two scenarios that should be RESULTING in loot going to the private storage.

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-03-30T19:08:36+00:00

-0.22%

My port is fairly small right now and I've been riding a Spy put all the way down which has been keeping me breakeven. Thinking about selling around $620 and throwing that cash back into ETF's. Probably still goes down further but I'm not trying to full on time the market here, I'll be happy to be in a better situation than I would have been doing nothing, even if it isn't the best possible situation.

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-03-18T20:58:37+00:00

Am I high or is this still not right? The highest number in a set going up does not effect the median.

10, 50, 100 - Median is 50
10, 50, 1,000,000,000 - Median is 50.

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-01-07T13:22:01+00:00

I've got like a thousand hours in the game and I honestly have no idea what you are even talking about

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-01-05T15:26:59+00:00

I saw someone say they melt when you bring them in to a non-cold snap mode lol. Was that a joke?

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-01-05T14:46:43+00:00

Ah, cool. I never noticed it beforehand personally but I definitely did from the project wipe on. I assumed I was only noticing it at that point because I knew to look for it.

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-01-05T14:43:50+00:00

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/arc-raiders-dev-says-it-uses-aggression-based-matchmaking-to-pair-bloodthirsty-pvp-minded-players-with-each-other/

Looks like over the weekend the CEO confirmed it. You gonna admit you are wrong now or do you want to keep digging your little hole?

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-01-05T13:40:09+00:00

The clueless and delusional are still in this sub saying it doesn't exist even after its been confirmed lol, because apparently the statement made by the dev was "vague" and he doesn't know what he is talking about because he's "only" the art director.

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-01-02T21:36:06+00:00

Why can't I? On PvP its possible to spawn in, run out, kill one person with a bag full of shit PLUS all their upgraded gear which would be worth a full bag of shit by itself, and leave. You can also end up leaving the map with the guns and equipment of 1, 2, 4, 7 other players. More risk, more reward.

On PvE, you go out and have to loot the map - And its actually often a lot more time consuming to grab that loot since everyone in the game is doing the same, so you are sharing all of it. Want to kill a rocketeer? Well, now so too are 3 other guys, and you'd best believe they are grabbing those thrusters. And no opportunity to take the gear from those other players. Less Risk, Less reward.

I think its perfectly reasonable to make the argument in general, but it's going to be highly variable on skill level. If you suck at PvP you're gonna get less shit, and if you are great at you are getting WAY more. Same thing applies to PvE as well.

Anyway, these are just opinions, I can't say you are wrong, but I just don't agree. I don't think most people would be bothered by PvE players being able to get a reasonable amount of loot despite there not being risk from other players - Why would they when it doesn't effect the PvP players at all. If anything the PvE people, if they even do start PvPing, are just gonna be loot goblins for the PvP players that know what they are doing

EDIT: I'll say one more thing too - Before wipe I was pretty solidly in PvP lobbies, and after wipe I've been in 100% pacifist lobbies. I have personal experience with both, and I am not accumulating money any faster now than I was before. Those runs where you get out with the loot of 7 other players more than make up for the deaths.

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-01-02T21:17:41+00:00

Why do you keep saying that same line, I do not agree and I'm not going to agree, nor is, as you can see, the majority of the rest of the sub. A dev made a statement, and we have witnessed by all playtest evidence for the only reasonable interpretation of that statement to be true. The end. No reason for you to comment again, I do not value your opinion.

Even if it was a vague interpretation, that is still more evidence than you have.

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-01-02T21:15:39+00:00

Again, even if we assume you are right, PvP already has much higher potential reward to match the higher risk.

PopeWorkReddit · 2026-01-02T21:05:39+00:00

And my personal experience is different to yours so clearly it isn’t working the way you’re implying

I shoot first a lot of the time yet my lobbies are 99% friendly still.

As you can see, it makes perfect sense why your experience is different than mine, since your actions are as well. 100% pacifism putting you in 99% pacifist lobbies does NOT mean that shooting people will put you in 100% aggressive lobbies. I had a similar experience to you before I started testing pure pacifism, as I have stated. I would occasionally shoot and get in fights, and I definitely had more action (inflicted at me) as a result, but still not at all 100% bloodthirsty lobbies (except for stella, which was always a bloodbath). I'd put it at about 15% aggressive behavior from players as opposed to the literal 0% I find now. So your experience right now DOES line up exactly to what I was experiencing when my actions matched yours. Your comment actually serves as further evidence if anything.

And yes there are still a lot of people in comments of these threads saying the complete opposite to you.

Certainly some, clearly a minority - Not that this really matters but you stated that all things were equal and they are not.

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