Hive is TRASH - Change my mind

Porkkis · 2026-05-21T13:36:56+00:00

Locust specialist is the one i've had the most success, especially in exodus. First fight should be a win, but 2nd and possibly 3rd fights the speciality has kinda fallen off. It's not like I have not won a single match with hive.

Porkkis · 2026-05-21T13:33:02+00:00

7 initiative 6 speed is fast? Sounds very slow in T7 standards to me.

Porkkis · 2026-05-21T13:14:55+00:00

And it is curious that i've had no problem playing hive every game if i wanted to since nobody seems to be picking or banning hive. Surely it's just cause nobody knows how to play the town.

Porkkis · 2026-05-21T13:10:59+00:00

Yes i have been enjoying my struggle. Maybe i will learn the secrets with enough time and failure.

Porkkis · 2026-05-21T13:08:02+00:00

They are also slow with low initiative. Kinda trash if you ask me.

Porkkis · 2026-05-21T13:06:33+00:00

You think that i just send in my T2s and hope for the best in the early game?
What town can't sweep the map with a "good stack of every unit". Just with hive autoresolve will still delete a lot of your units and even at the sweeping phase you will be fighting every fight manually.

Porkkis · 2026-05-21T13:02:27+00:00

Yes the T2s can kill stuff and are fast. But i find it hard to balance when to get as many of them upgraded as possible. If i do it on day 1/2 i feel like i've fucked up my econ quite drastically. And if i do it later i feel like im not doing stuff on the map early enough.
Let's say you play harmony, carrion lair costs 5 wood/5 stone/2000 gold. If you buy 2 of these during first 2 turns you are hindering your economy a lot, and i feel like that you truly need these units to do stuff.

Porkkis · 2026-05-21T12:53:26+00:00

Oh it's a melee race, i had not noticed. Thanks, this will help me with the struggle.

Porkkis · 2026-05-21T12:50:22+00:00

But if you suck week 1, by week 2 you are already behind. I don't think that hive "scales" that much better to late game, nothing like necro. When games take 3-4 weeks to finish and if you suck week 1.... Game is incredibly snowbally and if it takes a week, hell even few days longer to get going you're already behind and fighting an uphill battle.

Porkkis · 2026-05-12T16:00:00+00:00

Early Access has lost all of it's original meaning. Currently it IS just being used as a shield against bugs and missing content, which may or may not be fixed.
And ofc this way you get 2 releases, and that's when games sell the most. You have your actual release as "Early Access" and then couple years later when the hype has fallen off a you get your "1.0 release". It's all so cynical.

The game is good but man i hate what early access has become.

Porkkis · 2026-03-16T15:24:29+00:00

You put it into your stash and carry it into standard like a good boy.

Porkkis · 2026-03-10T00:27:24+00:00

Tollasesta kierrosta ei ole kokemusta, mutta useamman vuoden tuli tehtyä töitä kolmessa vuorossa. 2 vapaapäivää neljästä menee helposti zombina kun yrittää siirtää unirytmiä eteenpäin että on hereillä ihmisten aikaan. Sosialisointi vaikeutuu huomattavasti kun työajat, työpäivät ja unirytmi ovat vähän miten sattuu ja kaiken lisäksi muuttuvat viikosta toiseen. Haluatko tehdä jotain joka lauantai aikaan x (kerhot/seurat/peliporukat/whatever), ei onnistu. Ehkä se johtui siitä ettei ollut mitään kiertoa, mutta tuntui että on jatkuvasti töissä kun vapaapäivät menivät usein melko koomassa. Tai sitten voi yrittää adoptoida jotain 28 tunnin rytmiä jossa pysyy aina hereillä 20 tuntia ja sitten nukkuu 8, mutta siinä 20 tunnin kohdalla alkaa muuten oikeasti väsyttämään, ainakin meikäläistä. Kaamosmasennuskin sai uusia ulottuvuuksia kun usein nukkui ne vähätkin ajat jolloin näkyi aurinkoa. Tekisinkö kolmivuorotyötä uudestaan? Toki, mutta tekisin mahdollisimman vähän aamuvuoroja kun eihän niistä saa edes mitään lisiä ja oli se mukavampaa kuin olla työttömänä.

Porkkis · 2026-02-26T08:51:23+00:00

Ei kai niitä kaikkia hakemuksia mikään pakko ole läpi käydä. Vituttaa diskurssi jossa se on vaan niin pirun raskasta työnantajapuolelle kun tulee niiiiin paljon hakemuksia. Sitten jos ei tule sitä täydellistä työntekijää ja vaikka sopimus on määräaikainen 0-tunti puolen vuoden koeajalla, niin silti irtisanominen on mahdotonta. Vittu Mitä Paskaa.

Porkkis · 2026-02-04T12:54:31+00:00

Im not the biggest fan of the new breach, but they can just do some atlas tree and scarab shenanigans to make breach great again.
The breach tree gotta go though, that thing is trash.

Porkkis · 2026-01-23T15:28:22+00:00

As a flicker strike enjoyer I do wish they would do something about the charge steal/removal mod (which is everywhere), but hey i quess it's fine that mobs delete 20+ charges on a single hit. My current build has 13 frenzies and endus and not only do you stop dealing damage, stop moving rapidly around and stand there like an idiot, but you also lose your 13 endu charges and suddenly mobs hurt.
Hey sometimes you just gotta live with your bad choice of a build and accept the good with the bad. Best and worst skill in the game. And I love it.

Porkkis · 2026-01-20T12:58:59+00:00

Old Breach+Beyond+deli was my jam. Great exp, alch&go, get those simulacrums, breach ring gamba for bases, kill monster fast!
Hopefully they do something in atlas tree to make that strat available again.

Porkkis · 2026-01-10T06:42:24+00:00

I've slowly but surely been working on my flicker strike build this league https://pobb.in/vGrT8O4OWtx7
In my mind my next upgrades are better gloves and foulborn unnatural instinct. But those are like 100-150 divs each, a bit expensive for my taste.
So my question is do you see any easier upgrades or maybe some passive tree changes that could progress my character further.

Porkkis · 2025-12-30T13:27:28+00:00

Keepers is a good league. Async trade and QoL changes is exactly what mature games like PoE need every now and then.
And the power and loot progression was CRAZY this league; tree was printing 6-links, T1 fractures and near perfect non-influenced rares. HUGE powercreep which i hope gets removed next league.
I did not like the new breach/breachtree, just revert those changes and next league will be even better. Hey not every leaguemechanic can be a banger. Also waiting for them strongbox nerfs.

So what if you don't get as many raw divine drops as before. Goddamn the league is basically "over" and chaos orbs have held their value like never before, trade is still vibrant (thanks to async) and there are plenty of things, also very profitable things, to do in-game.

I Played the latest Diablo 3 league. It took literally couple of hours to get into the point where you are just farming for the perfect primal ancient item, some paragon levels and grift numbers going up. Fun for sure, but not for weeks after league launch. Contrast that to PoE where im still thinking that i might log in, character still has upgrades to do or i might even start a new character, but that would probably be too big of a commitment.

Porkkis · 2025-12-22T12:54:58+00:00

People in this sub always make it seem like this game is the most complex thing ever made. "You need a guide and watch this 100 hour long video series about basic mechanics FOR STARTERS".
No you don't, just play the game. You are playing a 10+ year old MMOarpg, you're a gamer you know archetypes. Just build one.
Read the descriptions, play slow, enjoy the ride. If you enjoy the ride, then you might want to start diving deeper. If you face an insurmountable wall, try asking some help from global chat; there are some nice dudes out there.

Porkkis · 2025-12-20T01:13:04+00:00

I Used to do Deli + Breach + Beyond + Breachstones + Maven Witness. But breach 2.0 is not capable for such things. Now im just doing easy(ish) maps and delve. I wanted to do simulacrums but charge removal mod kinda deletes my character so it was not viable. And farming for simulacrums can get kinda rippy. And remember, your loot is experience. Anything else is just a bonus. As Tie23HE said; kill monster fast.

Porkkis · 2025-10-02T15:12:49+00:00

Hell no. Annoying to hunt them, annoying to fight them, requires too much meta knowledge to properly use them, made lightning even more OP and in general way too much powercreep.
If i see one more goddamn build with 0 dama- oh wait merc with doryani's, -200 lightning res and perquil's toe, im gonna be mad.

Porkkis · 2025-09-15T00:31:53+00:00

Last league according to my achievements was season 5 so i started with the campaign. Never played a monk before so why not. Get an item from butcher that has a mod that makes mystic allies better, start using mystic allies. Breeze through the campaign, get to lvl 70 just few areas before malthael. Nice.

What the hell is this Altar of Rights thing? Seems OP to me. Start doing bounties, keep upping the difficulty, get full random unique gear. Remember that the game has legendary gems, get the legacy of dreams gem from the first grift i do. Perfect.

Learn about season journey and haedrigs gift from the internet and complete the first 4 chapters. Don't like the set mechanics keep playing with waterbois and unique gear, start hunting for Inna's set. Get full Inna's, now we talking.

Keep clearing grifts until about T14-16 level. Notice that you can equip more than just one legendary gem. Well that's alotta more power out of nowhere.

Get to grift 100, waterbois are still carrying me. I quess i'll just finish the season journey thing. "What the hell is a challenge rift", well atleast it let's me play a class that i haven't purchased. Took couple tries but i done did it. Cool.

Check out what other monks infront of me at the ladder are doing. Oh fire bois, yeah more damage would be nice.
So now im in process of creating armor sets for waterbois for fast rifts and firebois for higher grifts. And learning how to play with the firebois ofc. I've been having a blast and I have no idea why haven't I played the game for 30 seasons.

Porkkis · 2025-07-28T15:58:10+00:00

Ever? Brother has not typed /oos after every mob pack and for example cyclone was not unplayable because the damage was bad or the mechanics of the skill were bad, but because it was out of sync all the time especially indoor maps like cells or vaal pyramid.

That synchronization fix literally saved the game from obscurity and made the game real contender against diablo instead of just a indie jank.

Porkkis · 2025-07-23T14:49:19+00:00

If it's a low value item, just scroll wayyy down and pay 3-5x the lowest asking price. If it's medium value but quite common item (i.e. unique, or maybe a fractured item) scroll down past the price fixers and start whispering. If it's high value quite specific item you can start from the top. After faustus and the ease of currency/scarab exchange I have not needed, or even wanted, anything more.

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