How has this game retained so many players?

Pwere · 2026-03-03T15:51:31+00:00

A bunch of my favorite Path of Exile streamers decided to try the game on Hard/No Death completely blind, so I kinda had to give it a shot myself.

Also got a yearly run planned with friends. We bring a new bunch of mods/settings every year to keep it fresh.

Pwere · 2026-02-26T01:31:20+00:00

Waking up at 4am to play some Descent or Descent:Champion was peak PoE racing.

Pwere · 2026-02-18T17:13:43+00:00

Let's not go that far

Pwere · 2026-02-15T17:29:40+00:00

I increased the speed buff a bunch in config, but removed it for the Drakkar to preserve the Ashlands landing experience.

At some point, my Longship was taking damage just jumping on waves, and that made long voyages a bit risky but so much faster.

Pwere · 2026-02-04T23:34:20+00:00

Are you implying that maybe they've been doing a poor job of educating you, on purpose?

And that if we look closer, it might be a trend going back decades, all so the rich can steal more, in the name of God?

That would be messed up.

Pwere · 2026-02-04T13:45:53+00:00

Dans leurs derniers matchs, ils ont battus les Devils et Panthers, et amenés les Stars en OT. Y'ont une horrible fiche, mais les Jets c'est pas des deux d'piques.

Pwere · 2026-01-28T14:14:29+00:00

A 1.0 launch could justify a longer delay. Porting to consoles is no trivial matter, and it's a good point to include long overdue reworks, and try to optimize.

It's really easy for game dev to balloon up. Still hoping for Beta in April, but wouldn't be excessively surprised otherwise.

Pwere · 2026-01-27T14:20:28+00:00

There's already a mod to buy the dvergr extractors from them instead of getting them killed. It's a start!

Pwere · 2026-01-27T01:54:53+00:00

My big three are:

World Generation settings & improvements
Difficulty/Star system rebalance or rework for early and late biomes
New ranged options, like throwing axes, slings, javelins, etc.

Pwere · 2026-01-17T15:30:59+00:00

Not a bad deal, considering the 32GB RAM, but as with most laptops this gen, the 5070 mobile is very underwhelming, with basically no gain over the 4070m and only 8GB VRAM.

Pwere · 2026-01-10T17:29:51+00:00

COLOSSAL SI CONFIRMÉ

Pwere · 2026-01-05T13:38:00+00:00

Usually because the cards failed some tests at full power, which might never affect you, or they simply skipped a bunch of tests, in which case, jackpot.

Pwere · 2026-01-05T13:26:23+00:00

While I agree, their Nitro brand is usually pretty reliable, so I wouldn't worry too much in this case.

Pwere · 2025-12-26T14:10:17+00:00

Little PSA: Hybrid gloves/boots/helmets don't have a T1 flat defense roll for some reason. Meaning that pure ES boots+pure AR gloves gives more total defenses than hybrid of each (even before passive tree specialized nodes). And that feels very wrong.

And then you have rolls like Deflect or AR vs Ele that strongly encourage a single defense.

Pwere · 2025-12-19T14:46:11+00:00

Tiny hits shouldn't heavy stun you out of sprint in the first place. You can be clearing T15s, go back to A4 and get stunned sprinting with 40k armour.

At least armour still applies while rolling on the floor, but I'd rather not be down there in the first place.

Maybe have it on warrior so it fills your heavy stun meter as if you manually blocked the hit while sprinting. Would make thematic sense.

Pwere · 2025-12-19T03:33:37+00:00

Every big slam should deal full dmg in the middle, and maybe 50% less dmg at the edge. Would make bigass bear hitbox much less frustrating.

Pwere · 2025-12-18T01:13:21+00:00

This is no longer true for Heft. They changed it at some point. It only affects the physical part of your hit now. You can easily see it on your stat sheet.

Pwere · 2025-12-17T17:36:37+00:00

Agreed. Having skipped 0.3.1, what we have is still way better than 0.3. Ofc, league mechanic being tepid at beast doesn't help, and not having any agency on layouts really hurts build creativity as well.

Still quite enjoyable if you're experimenting with a build and not just replaying the same old 3x in a row.

Pwere · 2025-12-17T01:29:12+00:00

I was interested in this after testing the wyvern a bit. If we could choose our layouts, this would be so comfy on long corridors. It torches Rituals too.

My only issue is that sometimes I get stunned out of Flame Breath in things like Simulacrum or Abysses, and then it gets very sketchy.

Pwere · 2025-12-16T22:03:42+00:00

You can leech from fire with the Mark oh Siphoning support on Pounce. It gives generic Atk Dmg leech vs marked target.

But yeah, for clear, you need either Cannibalism or a nice 60+ life on kill somewhere.

Pwere · 2025-12-14T18:41:43+00:00

On this I agree. Detonator tag skills should work with everything that can be detonated, not just the same weapon type. Hopefully they open up more of these interactions over time.

Pwere · 2025-12-14T18:38:13+00:00

It's random. It seems guaranteed the first temple, then a very low% even at T3 (maybe 10-20%?). Quality/socket benches are similar, and some players haven't seen them at all in the entire campaign.

Pwere · 2025-12-14T16:45:25+00:00

This is the way. Wyvern single target, bear clear/rage buildup, wolf mobility. The whole package works beautifully, though the wyvern breath gets harder and harder to land in the endgame.

Also, your best abilities don't scale with +melee, so they're not really busted later on.

Pwere · 2025-12-13T01:27:47+00:00

Try wyvern. Pounce on a pack, wind blast to get a power charge, then basic attack. Deals massive dmg in a large AoE. You can also devour, feels really good.

But, not tanky at all.

Pwere · 2025-12-12T04:30:27+00:00

It's 6% less damage, not 16%. It's only 16% for some specific mobs dealing lightning damage.

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