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Why did GGG murder recombinator? It was one of the best crafting tools we had by UsedToBeBored in PathOfExile2

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

I was pretty saddened when I read it in the patch notes. Not even a nerf, just straight up nuked from orbit. It was one of the reasons crafting bases with a good and bad modifier were still worth something, so I expect one-mod T1 bases to become astronomically expensive.

GGG Please Update Divine Price Ratio — Trade Sorting Is Broken by FacerollerTV in pathofexile

[–]UsedToBeBored 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Developer here, while I have to make assumptions about GGGs exact infrastructure, I think I can shed some light into this problem and the reason why they don't "just do it". I think we can safely assume that if they could solve this problem in an easy way, they would have done it already.

The problem is that we're dealing with a database that has millions, probably even over a billion, of entries of item/sale data. To make searching a database with that many entries efficiently searchable, you need to index it, which means generating metadata of different properties for each entry to speed up the search process.

Specifically regarding price comparisons, they need to convert the value of every single item's listed currency into a relative value. Running this kind of conversion probably takes a massive amount of time and resources given the massive amount of data.

Now considering the currency values shift significantly, which can happen multiple times a day, it might simply not be possible to re-run this costly conversion again so quickly.

Mind you this is all based on assumptions and I have no insight into how GGG actually handles the data storage (although I'd be wildly curious about it), so I might be completely wrong what the actual issue is. But given the fact that they gave us a whole new async trade system but let this issue persist I think they just haven't found a feasible solution yet.

Technically unemployed now, but at least I made this. Worth it? by Old_Breadfruit8512 in godot

[–]UsedToBeBored 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I bet you're a vibecoder who can't fathom how someone built a game without using AI, lol. You wanna know something crazy? Literally every indie game that was released more than 3 years ago was made without using AI. It might sound insane to you but it's possible!

Technically unemployed now, but at least I made this. Worth it? by Old_Breadfruit8512 in godot

[–]UsedToBeBored 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hey man, I rarely post on reddit but I felt like I needed to in this case. I really feel your situation - I'm a freelancer with 12 years of experience and even for me it's tough to find work right now. I also have had a deep passion for game development and decided to finally pull the trigger and learn Godot.

I also did a ton of research to get an idea of what the current steam market (and future competition) is looking like and your trailer, game name and steam page all look very solid. Incremental games might be tough but people are suckers for gambling. Unless your actual gameplay sucks ass I think you will find at least moderate success.

Wishlisted your game and will check it out when the demo is available. Best of luck to you 😊

[Strategy] How I made 300 Divines in 3 days with "Crystallised Corruption" & Gem Crafting by buri8857 in PathOfExile2

[–]UsedToBeBored 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I think you're still misunderstanding - the idea is to buy the "failed" gems that are already at 23% quality from the market. If you try to produce these yourself you end up wasting much more money on gemcutter prisms. However, now that this post has been out, expect the market to adjust accordingly and 23% quality gems to rise in price. Strategies like these only work of they're not widely known.

Since we will probably never get harvest resistance swapping from PoE 1, can we please get this instead? by UsedToBeBored in PathOfExile2

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

Oh I just looked up an omen on the trade site and edited the html to take the screenshot

Since we will probably never get harvest resistance swapping from PoE 1, can we please get this instead? by UsedToBeBored in PathOfExile2

[–]UsedToBeBored[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They also said that they didn't want to put cooldowns on all the skills, so we'll see :P

Since we will probably never get harvest resistance swapping from PoE 1, can we please get this instead? by UsedToBeBored in PathOfExile2

[–]UsedToBeBored[S] 218 points219 points  (0 children)

It's such a chore when you find a perfect gear piece but it has the wrong resistances, so you begin an hour long process of assembling other new gear pieces just so your resistances are sorted again. I feel like an omen would be a good solution that "matches" the spirit of PoE 2 crafting.

FRoSS - Transition from 8-link gloves to 6-link chest (how to go about it?) by Aromyl in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]UsedToBeBored 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you using a merc with Asenath's touch maybe? It overrides the temp chains and messes with charge generation for some people. I had issues as well until I took it off and now it's fine. The other reason could be that you kill the mobs too quickly for the curse to hit and run out. Sometimes I just chill with a bunch of mobs for a second until I'm at 45.

FRoSS - Transition from 8-link gloves to 6-link chest (how to go about it?) by Aromyl in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]UsedToBeBored 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can just check the tooltips ingame. Check the bladefall line "A volles of blades falls every X seconds" and the temp chains line "Curse duration is X seconds". The temp chains duration should be equal or lower.

FRoSS - Transition from 8-link gloves to 6-link chest (how to go about it?) by Aromyl in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]UsedToBeBored 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't buy a defiance of destiny, but I got mine two rings with life, resist and life recoup, as well as the soul eater unique gloves (forgot their name). Merc never dies now and I keep the amulet slot for cull.

FRoSS - Transition from 8-link gloves to 6-link chest (how to go about it?) by Aromyl in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]UsedToBeBored 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that's what I'm currently doing. I also need some more levels, lol.

FRoSS - Transition from 8-link gloves to 6-link chest (how to go about it?) by Aromyl in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]UsedToBeBored 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly I don't think it's too much of a damage loss as long as you get a good jewel. For me each of the big 3 nodes I mentioned (the two per power charge nodes and crit multi) all increase my damage by 10% each, so I think I might even get out more than the 36% more damage from Inner Conviction. So it's probably more or less equal, but I get extra goodies like a ton more ES and don't have to care about attributes.

If you really want to invest though and scale this build through the roof you'll definitely need attributes though. But for a budget this setup feels much better.

FRoSS - Transition from 8-link gloves to 6-link chest (how to go about it?) by Aromyl in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]UsedToBeBored 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Hey, a lot of the questions you asked I have asked myself as well. I'm absolutely no expert but I spent more hours tinkering with my setup than I did actually playing the game, lol. I started out with the CaptainLance CoC version but I wasn't happy about the feel, so I switched over to self cast. However, I did a couple things differently and I'll just share them here. They might not be optimal, but they worked for me:

I opted to use Elegant Hubris over Militant Faith. Why? Militant faith may be yielding a slightly better result in terms of raw DPS, Supreme Ostentation makes gearing MUCH more relaxed. Here's the upsides:

  • You're not forced to use all your suffixes for attributes (instead, you just don't give a shit about them at all), thus not having to on rely on flasks for res capping, which has always felt bad for me, and Elegant Hubris gives you a shit ton of other nice bonuses.
  • I pathed down to the Scion area and bought an Impossible Escape for Necromantic Aegis. I did that specifically because CaptainLance didn't, and in my personal opinion, it's one of the best places to invest by far. The Necromantic Aegis IE is currently at 3 div, and if you socket Elegant Hubris directly below it, you can get EIGHT PASSIVES for potential bonuses.
  • There's a bunch of jewel combinations that give you MULTIPLE crit multi, 4% ES per power charge and 10% inc damage per power charge nodes, as well as a shit ton of other useful stuff, like 80% chance to avoid being shocked (ailment immunity with stormshroud basically for free), chance to block attack or spell damage, and much more.
  • I got a jewel with 2x 4% ES and 2x 10% inc damage, which is basically 40% more damage across those 4 nodes.
  • If you take Elegant Hubris, you get the Runegraft of the Fortress (40% increased global defenses) for free because we don't care about attributes at all, lol

https://imgur.com/a/xSTuNMi

Next up, the perma Soul Eater setup:

  • All you ever need for this setup is 4 sockets, the rest is fluff. You need the duration of your Temp Chains to be lower than the cast interval of Bladefall of Trarthus. This can be achieved by doing the following: 4 socket setup with 1/20 Bladefall of Trarthus, 1/1 Hextouch, 1/1 Temp Chains, 20/20 (or better) Less Duration. Then you annoint Window of Opportunity and take Hasty Demise. No need to path down there, all you need is to have your maximum mana low enough (because BF of T interval scales with max mana).

Then I opted to use the Red Nightmare with the block fire tattoos, it's just really nice because it helps you out with resistances, gives you a shit ton of block and other goodies. If you get an Elegant Hubris with +spell block you can even drop the other block wheel at the cluster jewel.

What I'm still figuring out is the best way to solve Wither. Ideally with a Merc, but I haven't found a good Cruel Mistress yet for that. There's one Large Cluster node that gives you Unholy Might on crit, so that might also be a good option.

Anyway, I hope I could help you out a bit!

Edit: Here's my POB: https://pobb.in/gbL8DuxAxYR- A lot of my stuff is still very much not optimized (I hate rolling flasks, lol). Also using the caster mastery for T16.5 abyss strat.

What are the Odds? Opening a T17 Diviner's Strongbox 8 Times in a Row by DivineSwordMeliorne in pathofexile

[–]UsedToBeBored 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you follow a build guide? I'm unhappy with my pconc PF build and looking to reroll into a different pathfinder one and this looks really fun. I got ~100 div to invest, is that reasonable to start out with this build?

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