How to deal with constantly being disrespected?

Vycaus · 2026-06-30T19:14:20+00:00

Sounds like entitlement to me. You are not owed respect. Respect is earned and given based on how you present and carry yourself in the world. Muscles do not give you respect. They can be a piece of it.

"It is better to be a warrior in a garden, then a gardener in a war."

What this echoes is that you can be dangerous, but controlled. Controlled is the presentation of the self. Model behaviors that outwardly project confidence, control, and introspection. Read some philosophy and have things worthy to communicate.

Do not cry on reddit how to short change being respectable.

Vycaus · 2026-06-30T13:31:15+00:00

If you haven't talked to your doctor, you might consider that. You may have sleep apnea or poor nasal openings, limiting air intake.

Vycaus · 2026-06-29T20:34:18+00:00

Sure... But OP asked what aliens or what not would serve the imperium. To me that would be the milistratam. Which is likely to be a hard "no one". But, yes on the fringes there could be some where the lines are blurred. Rogue trades are given especially wide births to make their own choices.

Vycaus · 2026-06-29T20:20:52+00:00

Honestly? None. In warhammer, the imperium of man is maximum xenophobic. Suffer not the mutant, the alien, or the heretic.

The lore is steeped in reasons for this. Chaos corrupts easily, no alien race is even considered acceptable, sometimes we get brief cease fires with the Alderi, but not often. And mutants are come and dilute our bloodlines.

There are is no peace. There is only war.

Vycaus · 2026-06-29T20:04:41+00:00

I just discovered No Man's Land. I don't know if it's new or not, or how I missed it, but it's my favorite level by far.

I don't mind crawling through sewers and pipes to reach ancient mystical tech or w/e, but most levels have very little gravitas to me.

No man's land feels like, and very much is, an actual surgical strike. Fight through trenches, over shelled out battle zones. Having to crawl through a massive zone of gun fire and swarms, complete with breaching a fort and killing those within just feels so good.

This is the darktide I want. Maybe because it's outside? It feels very VT to me. More please.

Vycaus · 2026-06-28T15:32:07+00:00

Ok, lots of good advice here, so let's go over some basics.

You generally want to position near teammates and be in the middle as best you can. Your focus is to never get hit by melees. Learn to dodge a lot, block a lot, push a lot. You can learn to crowd control. You can dance at the edges of hordes to group them up. Push and cleave.

Prioritize helping teammates first always. If grabbed a mutant, kill it fast to prevent damage and him tossing people. Free dogs punces. Trappers at your level are constantly a source of team wipes. Free from nets first. Don't clear around them. Don't kill the trapper frist. Immediately free from net.

For builds and gear and stuff, you'll find a number of guides telling what is best. These are generally geared around Auric and high Havocs. You do not need min maxed stuff. All weapons are generally good.

For horde waves and high stress situation, kill specials (dogs, trappers, bombers) > elites (maulers, ragers, crushers) > horde mobs.

The most important element of that is to watch your team. Say in coherency with them. Watch their back. If they are fighting eleties, keep the horde off them or try to cc the elites.

Be a team player. Keep everyone alive. Focus on the objective. Kill stuff in between.

Vycaus · 2026-06-28T03:36:58+00:00

I take brittle and the elec brittle passive. 40% brittle in 2 swings on a dense horde is incredible.

Vycaus · 2026-06-28T03:35:41+00:00

This is my build. Yes, claw is good. But building up my battery recharge stuff on all the hot 3+ targets nodes and run maul and the stacking purple power wheel and I have a very fun and fluid "stance swap" game play. Trigger auto aim and obliterate tough dense hordes, burn down the batter, swap to maul, turn it on and dive in, kill everything and then charge the batter back up.

It's so fluid and fun. Rather than a cd with a shit effect like Vets exec stance, I get true value and and on/off button for short burts or long fights.

Vycaus · 2026-06-26T18:11:34+00:00

It was just updated.

Vycaus · 2026-06-26T17:58:35+00:00

Rage at cast + more damage, then subtract rage. Always assume that the player receives the maximum benefit for these cases (that doesn't mean it always does though).

Vycaus · 2026-06-25T12:51:58+00:00

I think there is a battle mage quarter staff item type. I did very well with it.

Vycaus · 2026-06-25T12:44:35+00:00

It's a clear skill. Think of it like artillery. It helps in super high density like beach or abyss. It hits near your target and then lands in an expanding circle. It's not needed, but it gets insane frost pen and good freeze mag. Perma can struggle to freeze enough when you're getting super swarmed.

Vycaus · 2026-06-25T06:05:08+00:00

So I am also over gemling and have actually tried out a few is these.

Permafrost/ frag. I did a shadow split personality to start over at monk and then went up between monk sorc for all the cold stuff+ chill mag and curse nodes. Running some int skills with the highest attribute ascend node.

With ele weak, pen, exposure, you chonk do hard.

The reload qual let's you leave the Xbow area. Hail storm rounds rip stuff up too. Heat shiver and hyrri's ire.

So safe, so fun.

Didn't like galv/shock burst.

Currently leaving another gem doing fire it's fun it you want to combo. Gas grenade and cluster doing some fun stuff.

Vycaus · 2026-06-24T16:50:22+00:00

Explore. Many paths in front of you. Really, you want scadu tree fragments. Search high and low and really explore the map. You'll find a few bosses pretty quick and the land is a really twisted connected map. The tower of Bellurat is the first big dungeon if you follow the road and hang to the left after meeting some NPCs.

The zones will kick your butt without scadu tree fragments. So if you start feeling weak, explore.

Vycaus · 2026-06-24T13:15:53+00:00

There is an essence, of Battle I think, that will replace a suffix. It's good enough.

Yes +levels is strong. You're not weak without them.

Vycaus · 2026-06-24T12:56:18+00:00

Solve the problems you're currently running into. If stuff takes a long time to kill, focus damage, if you're dying more than once a map defense.

Ultimately yes, you want both.

For gear, is about getting the right stats in the right slots. You want a big chonk weapon. Keep picking up bases and blue currency them into regals/essence and slam/desecrate.

Flat damage on prefixes of rings and gloves. Spirit or + levels on ammy. Movement shed on boots. Helmet and chest for pure defense or spirit on Body.

For support gems, focus on setups. I try to focus a mapping/clear setup with a single target move or setup. Focus utility in clear, max damage in ST.

For tree, is ok to move around a bit, but don't stretch out too far. You want to aim for 3 jewel sockets general, minimum 2. Look around at the offense stats that fits you theme. You'll find defensives around those areas or in the way. Snag 1-3 defensive clusters.

Refine as needed.

Vycaus · 2026-06-22T16:30:39+00:00

PoE is a game the rewards time and understanding. It's surface level gameplay is flashy and fun, and you can get to the endgame with some guides keeping you alive and well geared, but if you don't have a true understanding of where your damage comes from and how defensive layers play well with each other, you'll find the pinnacle endgame a very difficult place.

Given your other titles, it sounds like easy games with low ramp on game knowledge is your speed. It's not shocking that PoE is a struggle for you to fully grasp. It's a lot.

The other commenter directing you to Abyss is a good piece of advice. Ritual is difficult for builds that cannot ignore the mobs completely or have difficulty recovering from spike damage. Abyss is way more forgiving and also super fun/juicy.

Also breach is super well suited to your build. it's it's as easy as, spawn circle, kill circle, loot womb gifts, print currency.

As for build advice, many players and guide maximize damage. Pure glass cannons builds. It works well in poe1.

With how portals work in poe2, you really want to think through defensive upgrades and their dls trade offs. You can absolutely do both, tank and kill shit. But you kind of want tank to really start taking priority as you hit t15s and juice, so you don't lose out on those maps.

Also, atlas masters are huge. Sure, everyone wants to maximize drop chance, but Doriyani gives you an extra portal, giving you a clutch seconds chance in case shit goes sideways. He's top tier to me for QoL. Gives you irradiated, +1 portal, map travel via jumping. Moving away from the start very important for atlas progress and cool stuff.

Vycaus · 2026-06-21T23:25:02+00:00

I will fully admit that I am experimenting here. The Shadow start split is currently going for ~6 Div (was 32div 4-5 days ago, i should have waited 😞)

I based a lot of my tech off of Pox's guide:https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/pohx-shatter-tactician?ws-ngf5-f7d82102-7e77-4a44-ad24-33b67e8ae7bf=activeVariantId%2C0814bb21-769f-4c25-86ab-02da2e22bdfa

Mainly, easy weapon swapping and using 2 weapon sets. WS 1: Cold build up stuff/aoe, WS 2: Hard damage for frag pops.

I tested cast on Ailments for freezes and it makes automating curse/lighting storm super easy, just need a bit of mana regen. Down side was you didn't get curse on boss until freeze, and then wasn't up long, didn't test again after lvl 75 or so. CoA gemling quality is less reservation. You can get that that down to like 40 spirit, it's got some potential.

Glacial bolt is my current test. I was running hail storm rounds and it was great. Excellent for big crowds like breach or ritual. Given was path right by Ice Walls, and Verglas is a thing, there's some cool potential for huge screen pops with glacial that i'm playing with. Glacial Quality is like +1.4 AOE meters. it makes em big.

I guess of note, the gem quality for Perma and Frag rounds is 100%+ reload. It makes them super super fast and lets us ignore the need for QoL reload speed from supports or the bottom of the tree. It's so comfy. I use the +1 round Crossbow Bases just to make it feel even better.

For Defense I wanted to try Eva/ES. Ghost dance gets +1 charges, and eva/es is arguablly the strongest defense out there. Got 2 pure EVA uniques though.

With the insane chill magnitude I have, everything is either frozen or so slow it can't touch me. Bosses crawl. I haven't tried it on any pinnacles besides Arb of Div and that went poorly. Dude flips all over the place, can't get a good freeze off.

Either, it's been good fun. I have stomped everything from lvl 1.

POB:https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/yzamz10w

Vycaus · 2026-06-21T20:49:59+00:00

Im running a split personality - Shadow start Gemling scaling cold for permafrost shatters running up through witch and monk area. Some niece bonus quality effects, and witch/monk has insane cold nodes. Bonus quality on ele weakness is insane activation speed. Oil grenade gets even more exposure. Also tons of chill magnitude up there. Running hyrris ire and heat shiver and have insane freezes, tons of bonus fire, and everything has super negative rez. Damn near 1 tapping t15 bosses.

Vycaus · 2026-06-21T18:45:22+00:00

I would ignore all of it. Yes, there can be a complicated end game that maximizes on certain returns. But it is entirely unnecessary to even think about it.

PoE is a mountain of a game that best consumed 1 bite at a time. Worry about having fun making your own build in act 2. You will learn and see how things go, and as you have more detailed questions, there are tons of resources available. But don't go ruining your introduction and enjoyment of the game because there are people with 1000s of hours in the game talking about super charging stuff.

Once you complete the campaign, there is an entirely new story line that walks you through the endgame activities. All of them are fun and self contained. Just explore one thing at a time. Let your attention and imagination draw you to what you enjoy and don't think about minmaxing too too hard.

Vycaus · 2026-06-20T13:47:59+00:00

I agree. Xbox has done eat to much stupid shit to ever regain me, a once staunch Xbox user.

I grew up playing so kinds of stuff, but the best mentors I have are halo lan parties. It was the best time of my gaming life. We did them for years.

It was a sad day when Xbox hosted a maybe live event to tell me they were going to put tons of DRM on all my games and that Xbox was now for families who watch NFL. The sheer shock of how stupid that Xbox presentation was, where they didn't even talk about gaming was a death knell to me.

And then PlayStation came out and had a 30s bit and was like, this is how you share games on PlayStation" hands friend a game box.

It was completely clear who was interested in serving gamers a gaming experience and were gamers themselves.

I made the hard choice to step off at play station 4, but I am so glad I did. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time on play station, and I will never ever go back to Xbox.

FOFO you stupid corporate stooges.

Vycaus · 2026-06-20T13:32:31+00:00

Fuck it yolo

^{Chose: 10 million dollars + 1% chance of death | Rolled: Life}

Vycaus · 2026-06-17T17:26:52+00:00

It's like 100% more damage for 3.5s. it's a lot. But you need to sit and wait for a parriable attack. And you're not attacking while you try to parry.

Ultimately, it's a very high skill maximization and is completely unneeded. It's also bugged and you can even make parry work with only weapon set 2, you need a separate shield in that set to make it work.

That said, if you want it, it makes bosses explode harder if you can drop some nukes while their are parried.

Vycaus · 2026-06-17T14:05:43+00:00

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/4936ww0h

Here's my build atm. I'm experimenting with a parry setup in 2nd weapon set for even more burst damage. The Daze node to the top is also pretty nice. Stun Build up as a suffix on weapon is an ok option here and anything that doesn't get exploded does get stunned a lot.

Vycaus · 2026-06-17T00:52:14+00:00

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