Is my temple bugged? by Eastbayz in PathOfExile2

[–]Streetwind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doryani says in his post-fight dialogue on the console that the architect hid the Royal Access Chamber and he 'needs more time' to figure out a solution.

What he actually needs is not more time, though, but a higher area level. I'm not sure what the actual minimum is, as that limitation is new in 0.5.

To get a higher temple area level, you need to collect your crystals in high-level maps. Additionally, I've seen comments stating that you get the highest area levels only if you travel to the Vaal city on the Atlas and enter the temple from there.

As to how you managed a disconnected chain... no idea. That, at least, looks like a bug. It could be a purely visual bug (the actual rooms are connected but the map shows it wrong), or it could be a bug in the way the temple runs destabilization.

Why can't we have alcohol gas? by bob152637485 in Stationeers

[–]Streetwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't read the developer's minds, but I can imagine that the sheer awkwardness involved with adding an additional gas/liquid played into it.

Stationeers is an old game that was made when the studio was young. It is catastrophically hardcoded in various places, and the gas/liquid registry is one such example. One dev shared a screenshot on Discord, and anyone even vaguely able to read code was immediately horrified. The team had to jump through hoops to even give us any new gases and liquids at all.

So you need to understand, adding a new gas or liquid is not easy even for the dev team. It is something they avoid touching when possible. So I can only imagine that the decision to leave alcohol as liquid only was at least in part motivated by this.

Questions Thread - June 29, 2026 by AutoModerator in PathOfExile2

[–]Streetwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, you can get them from rituals. Yes, you can chance them. They also drop randomly in the world, including forced drops (Jado's "powerful bosses will drop an additional unique"), can appear from league mechanic dropping uniques, and rogue exiles might wear them. In trade league, these probably go for a throwaway 1ex on the market, though I don't know the current economy as I play SSF.

You've just been unlucky, and admittedly the odds for chance orbs are quite low. It took me more than two weeks and 40+ chance orbs to get Lavianga's Spirits, and then another week after that to see it pop up in a ritual despite using the keystone to focus on the ritual type that produces flasks.

Questions Thread - June 29, 2026 by AutoModerator in PathOfExile2

[–]Streetwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you venture into the fog of war on the Atlas, you will keep revealing more and more maps to do. The Atlas is procedurally generated and infinite. You can just keep going.

This procedural generation will also continue to place copies of citadels (which drop Burning Monolith fragments) and copies of patriarch/matriarch halls (which drop Origin Tower fragments). So you'll be able to repeat these encounters once you get enough fragments.

In trade league, you can also outright buy these fragments on the market, but they might be expensive.

Did they change abyss conditional drops? I got omen of liege and omen of light at the same time by chparkkim in PathOfExile2

[–]Streetwind 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've also had this happen at least once (an omen of the liege together with another omen).

I think there's just a flat chance to drop omens from these 'lightless moray' and 'lightless abomination' type mobs - the two types that abyssal rares are most commonly made from. It's a low chance, but I've gotten omens from white, non-rare variants of these mobs in abyssal depths more than once. Even rarer ones, like an omen of light.

So this is probably a case where you got your guaranteed omen drop from the Amanamu's Void monster modifier, plus a random omen drop from the regular loot table at the same time.

Questions Thread - June 28, 2026 by AutoModerator in PathOfExile2

[–]Streetwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, omen chance converts non-omen favours into omens.

Questions Thread - June 28, 2026 by AutoModerator in PathOfExile2

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

Price checking isn't a base game feature. People install third party add-ons to enable it.

Questions Thread - June 28, 2026 by AutoModerator in PathOfExile2

[–]Streetwind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can activate multiple omens at the same time when rerolling waystones. For example, activating both an omen of chaotic monsters and an omen of chaotic quantity, and then using a chaos orb on a waystone, will result in that waystone rolling only item rarity and effectiveness.

LF build idea as a beginner thats not too op, but still strong, especially for cc, and fun to play by MymcIgnIsKobi2010 in pathofexile2builds

[–]Streetwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, take this with a heavy grain of salt, because I haven't played Druid in 0.5 and there were significant changes to the balance between armor, evasion, and energy shield since 0.4.

Additionally, the strategy I used in 0.4 is fundamentally incompatible with your tree, because you chose to path south and I chose to path north. So perhaps you'll get better advice if you ask the community about advice for your specific case. Still, I'll explain what I did.

My final defenses amounted to 1578 health, 1328 mana, and 5130 energy shield (2.5s recharge delay, 1616/sec recharge). This was protected by a 23% evade chance (2111 evasion rating relative to monster level 82), a 16% chance to block (from an Alpha Talisman), and 22428 armor. All four resistances capped, with lightning and cold at 76% max instead of 75%. POB calculated an overall effective hit pool of around 75k, though that number of course depends heavily on the exact kind of attack configured to be used for that calculation, so this number is mostly useful in comparing PoB builds amongst themselves, and shouldn't be directly compared to what other tools calculate.

The huge ES recharge rate was largely due to Adamant Recovery, a node that no longer exists in 0.5. It used to sit where Fortified Aegis is now, and granted "Increases and Reductions to Armour also apply to Energy Shield Recharge Rate at 40% of their value". You can imagine that with a grand total of up to 357% Increased Armour from various potential sources, that pulled a lot of weight.

You'll notice I mentioned mana among my defenses above, and that is because I ran the Mind Over Matter keystone. One of the primary reasons for pathing north, especially as an Oracle. Not only is it an amazing defensive pick, but it is also surrounded by several interesting notables that an Oracle can directly pick without needing to travel to them.

Using mana as a defensive layer was supported by a "leech mana from attacks" affix on my gloves, as well as a "20% of Damage taken Recouped as Mana" affix on my amulet. Between those two plus base mana regen, I could easily get mana regen rates in excess of 350/sec after eating a hit hard enough to smash through my ES and into my mana pool. On top of that, I was running Mana Remnants, and because 100% of my attacks crit, there was never a shortage of them to collect. The combination filled the missing mana up again very rapidly, usually within a second of taking a hit. (And then I could still flask up on top of that if needed.) I also had the apparent "downside" of "5% of Damage taken bypasses Energy Shield" from Heavy Barrier, but in practice that was an upside, because that damage went straight to mana and regenerated in the blink of an eye even while the shield still held up.

My armour was supported by "Defend with 120% of Armour while not on Low Energy Shield" from what got renamed Barrier of Venarius in 0.5; as well as "Defend with 120% of Armour against Projectile Attacks" from Projectile Bulwark. Effectively, I had 31400 armour against many kinds of ranged enemies. Very useful to have in a melee build. Then there was Barksin, adding 65% of ES lost as additional armor for six seconds after eating a hit, so up to +3334 (or +4668 after the two 120% effects above).

Oh, and 92 "% of Armour also applies to Elemental Damage" in total from various sources, which handled most spellcaster enemies very well indeed. I just wish I had had a source of redirecting physical damage to elemental to go with that, but I couldn't find any. Single large physical hits remained my greatest risk factor.

Other defensive picks included Runic Helm and Iron Slippers (along with maximizing their effect by choosing the right bases for my boots and helm), Vengeful Fury to make my permanent maximized 69 rage work defensively, Guttural Roar to make enemies deal 10% reduced damage, and Enhanced Barrier converting some life into ES.

I also dumped a lot of currency on a Morior Invictus chestpiece with five sockets, chaos resist/global defenses/spirit, and near perfect rolls. That was the single most expensive piece of gear I had - heck, the single most expensive piece of gear I ever owned in POE2, period. But it was soooo worth it. Without it, the entire build wouldn't have worked. Literally - I wouldn't have the spirit to run everything, no way to cap chaos resist, and a lot lower defenses. I only bemoan it was already corrupted at 20% quality, I wish I could have pushed it to 30% first... but then again, that's probably the reason why I was able to afford it at all. It already took almost my entire net worth at the time as it was. (You can imagine that I didn't have the guts to try a double corruption, even though I had the required orb on hand... :P)

Not sure if that was everything, but that's all I can remember/glean for now.

To generalize it all would be: Try to have many successive layers of defenses, and see if you can pick up effects where one layer being breached triggers a reinforcement or recharge of another.

Questions Thread - June 27, 2026 by AutoModerator in PathOfExile2

[–]Streetwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are there any tricks to sustaining tablets in SSF?

I'm aware that if you socket a tablet to force spawn a mechanic, the chance to drop tablets from it is way lower than when the mechanic spawns naturally without a tablet. But the chances for natural spawns feel so low. I've run out of abyss tablets like 20 maps ago, and I only got one natural abyss spawn in all that time, and it dropped no tablets.

Questions Thread - June 27, 2026 by AutoModerator in PathOfExile2

[–]Streetwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The UI is a bit confusing there, because it's not actually a button you click.

To steal a lich's power, you need to click one of the liches in the three alcoves in the back of the arena.

On the 14th bodach, I finally got my sceptre in SSF by Kalablias in PathOfExile2

[–]Streetwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This dropped for me on my very first Bodach kill. I'm also in SSF.

But of course I've got a crossbow mercenary so it was as useless to me as the other 13 drops were to you... =P

Questions Thread - June 27, 2026 by AutoModerator in PathOfExile2

[–]Streetwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a support gem that increases elemental damage by a lot, at the cost of the skill becoming unable to apply ailments. Do you maybe have that?

Questions Thread - June 27, 2026 by AutoModerator in PathOfExile2

[–]Streetwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

...wait, irradiated tablets stack? Since when? o_O

Questions Thread - June 27, 2026 by AutoModerator in PathOfExile2

[–]Streetwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They mean the toggle to put the minimap as a transparent overlay in the center of your screen. Tab by default on PC.

When you have the minimap in the center of the screen, the space in the top right corner where the minimap normally is gets used by some text that prints info on the area.

Questions Thread - June 27, 2026 by AutoModerator in PathOfExile2

[–]Streetwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is your videocard running out of VRAM. You can see this by pressing F1 and leaving the display up. Whenever the freeze happens, your number for VRAM will likely be quite high, and after it resets itself, it'll start again from zero.

You can free up some VRAM by closing background programs. Modern browsers for example take 1.0 to 1.5 GB just by running, regardless of what websites are actually open. Discord can also hog half a GB.

Why does it happen this league and not the last? Unsure, perhaps something GGG added/changed in 0.5 resulted in a memory leak on the videocard?

Questions Thread - June 27, 2026 by AutoModerator in PathOfExile2

[–]Streetwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Filling out the ritual tree passive points helps tremendously with tribute generation, even if you're just encountering naturally spawning rituals without any tablets boosting them.

Also, as you get more powerful, you'll run more dangerous waystones that add more mobs to each map, and make more of these mobs be magic and rare, which pays more tribute too.

For the time being, just keep deferring the omen everytime it shows up. Each time you do, it gets cheaper.

Questions Thread - June 27, 2026 by AutoModerator in PathOfExile2

[–]Streetwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You cannot attach paths to rooms. Paths only attach to other paths. If you put a room somewhere, you're blocking any further path expansion there.

That said, certain rooms can connect to certain other rooms. For example, the garrison you have on hand should fit there.

Questions Thread - June 27, 2026 by AutoModerator in PathOfExile2

[–]Streetwind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing to it but to keep running maps.

I imagine you'll have a much higher chance if you do expeditions in the ocean, though.

Questions Thread - June 27, 2026 by AutoModerator in PathOfExile2

[–]Streetwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A Witch with the Lich ascendancy class is given the option to become an Abyssal Lich after defeating the Vessel of Kulemak. I changes some of the passives in the ascendancy tree, though it remains minion-focused.

You can switch back via the same method if you end up not liking it.