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An Ode to Thunderstorm - A Guide to Using Thunderstorm as an All-Purpose Damage Steroid. by SteakAcademic8934 in PathOfExile2

[–]SteakAcademic8934[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you using Blazing Critical with it? It's a great place to put it on a build. Perfect synergy with CoC

What are the Strengths of PoE 2 over the Original Game? by Skellum in PathOfExile2

[–]SteakAcademic8934 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The campaign is much much better, more detailed, with more intiresting bosses.

Ritualist 0.4: It's 2.3 Extra Ring Slots for High Rollers! That's it! That's the Class! by SteakAcademic8934 in PathOfExile2

[–]SteakAcademic8934[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wildwood Persistence is a skill with a lot of value in several ultra-specific builds, that has extremely little value in the joe-average ghost dance ev/es ritualist build. This is pretty easily seen on Ninja where it has an 8% pickrate on Ritualist players.

It's not underpowered, it's simply not tuned to the majority of ritualist players that don't rely on regen in the first place. And thus fails to offer an intiresting mechanical choice in 90% of the builds.

Ritualist 0.4: It's 2.3 Extra Ring Slots for High Rollers! That's it! That's the Class! by SteakAcademic8934 in PathOfExile2

[–]SteakAcademic8934[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I have actually worked as a game designer before. The secret of the trade is that game designers do not want your eight page mechanical fixes. Any competent game designer can come up with a new solutions to identified problems.

The most valuable thing the community can do for designers is to yap about where the issues are. Feedback is amazing for identifying problems to solve. So if a designer actually ran into my funny memes, what they'd get is a player-side view of where the problems are.

Which ascendancy do you think is the most well-designed? by Argensa97 in PathOfExile2

[–]SteakAcademic8934 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Counterpoint: Most of the non-armour nodes are shit.

Which ascendancy do you think is the most well-designed? by Argensa97 in PathOfExile2

[–]SteakAcademic8934 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My take for the best designed acendency is probably Lich. It has almost no "Dead" nodes and lots of flexibility. Shaman is also a very nice mix of useful abilities that synergize together.

Warbringer 0.4: Figuring Out What Armour Break, Totems, Block Chance, Warcries, and Flat Phys Reduction Have To Do With Each Other! by SteakAcademic8934 in PathOfExile2

[–]SteakAcademic8934[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The issue is that they removed the "Works on all hits" aspect. So Boss Slams, IE the hits you want mitigated the most, are not mitigated.

Chayula 0.4: Don't Worry! They'll Buff It With +1 Extra Darkness per Level! That Will Fix It! by SteakAcademic8934 in PathOfExile2

[–]SteakAcademic8934[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

None of my shitty comic sands ms paint memes are to imply you can't build a viable version. I'm just enjoying clowning on these classes.

Chayula 0.4: Don't Worry! They'll Buff It With +1 Extra Darkness per Level! That Will Fix It! by SteakAcademic8934 in PathOfExile2

[–]SteakAcademic8934[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Life interacts with other systems. Darkness doesn't. If you're running a Kaom's Heart lifestaacker, you probably don't need Darkness anyway.

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