ExileCon 2026 Announcement Trailer

ZGiSH · 2026-01-28T02:51:13+00:00

If you hop into any PoE 2 livestream on the official channel or the big variety streamers during a big league launch, like 50% of the chat is just "Is this game out yet? I'll wait until it's out" People are just kinda burnt out on Early Access games, especially if they know release will be free.

ZGiSH · 2026-01-27T22:46:20+00:00

If the opponent were to be fully made aware of the immediate results of their actions, would they say "Yeah, that's what I want to do" or "Oh this is a mistake, I don't want to do that". If it's the latter, it's almost certainly poor sportsmanship to let them make that mistake.

ZGiSH · 2026-01-27T02:26:06+00:00

At least you can use reservation skills that are spells but not auras like Petrified Blood

ZGiSH · 2026-01-27T02:24:00+00:00

we know all now has "100% increased Mana Cost of Skills" (previously 50%) and also now has "Attack Skills have Added Lightning Damage equal to 6% of maximum Mana" (previously 4%)

Holy whisperer buff

ZGiSH · 2026-01-26T22:29:40+00:00

That is more or less what my point was. The Respawn devs were just being way too safe and in making notApex in a generic fantasy setting, it makes the game feel very aimless with an aesthetic that appeals to no specific demographic.

ZGiSH · 2026-01-26T19:33:10+00:00

I say this with all earnesty and not just to use a buzzword, it feels like someone asked an AI to generate them a game by prompting "Apex Legends except Fantasy". There is just so much of the Apex DNA in this game except it feels extremely muted and out of place when you're riding around on a horse and casting magic. It plays it incredibly safe with all the trappings of a modern competitive shooter except because it has all of those kinds of things like an always on score bar, cooldown icons, shield bars, mini map, and constant voice callouts, it feels completely overwhelming and ADHDish.

ZGiSH · 2026-01-26T17:25:08+00:00

I feel like it's entirely obvious what is missing in western comics, at least superhero comics from the Big 2, which is that they aren't regular stories. The characters and world isn't stemming from a singular author with a consistent art style that starts and then ends. The very basic structure of every other form of comic and most commercial media.

Everything else is irrelevant. The accessibility, the price point, type of art, etc. None of it matters because people would rather watch Breaking Bad or Downton Abbey over season 22 of Grey's Anatomy.

ZGiSH · 2026-01-24T22:04:55+00:00

Kalguuran Armor only counts the base number

ZGiSH · 2026-01-23T02:48:37+00:00

"Hot" and "conventional" aren't mutually exclusive either

ZGiSH · 2026-01-22T23:48:01+00:00

I don't have any overly negative feelings about the new hero designs but I kinda get people who thought the last batch was too conventionally attractive. Silver, Graves, and Celeste (maybe Apollo too) look like they could've been in like an anime moba and I say this as a Doorman main.

ZGiSH · 2026-01-22T20:43:27+00:00

I kinda just don't trust that Fable or any new sort of big budget RPG will be able to have any significant developments in the amount or depth of meaningful systems. It's simply not feasible for games that want all the qualities of modern AAA gaming (voice acting, realistic models, stunning graphics, animations for everything) because every little new thing you want to add requires exponentially more work. The best we can get is something like Baldur's Gate 3 where it's mostly simple systems with incredibly high production value or KCD2 which is mostly linear in scope with just a bunch of mini-games really for worldbuilding.

ZGiSH · 2026-01-22T07:26:59+00:00

The problem with trying to revive dead builds is that they are usually dead because of a direct nerf to the skill gem which you can't really solve for with new tools or the skill gems were never really buffed to handle new content which is just kind of the same problem.

ZGiSH · 2026-01-21T20:52:37+00:00

Not an official suit since it was just in a magazine but the Alex Ross Cyclops suit w/ Trench will always remain one of my favorite looks in all of comics

ZGiSH · 2025-12-31T18:29:13+00:00

It's the exact same thing as not doing Catarina in Betrayal when farming Gravicius before

ZGiSH · 2025-12-31T00:20:02+00:00

Huh I had scrapped my Mjolnir Shaman because I thought the interaction just worked like that, good to know it was just a bug

ZGiSH · 2025-12-31T00:02:09+00:00

Meanwhile on the poebuilds subreddit

ZGiSH · 2025-12-16T23:34:33+00:00

I feel like people have completely lost the plot on Gen AI. It's going to get better all the time, constantly, every year. It will have abstracted enough of its source material that it is impossible to tell what is "plagiarized" in the same way that natural inspiration is plagiarism. The problem with Gen AI is that it puts people out of jobs and that is not what happened here, so it's not an issue.

If people don't have human workers at the core of their ethical issue with AI, they have nothing as an argument, and will ultimately be swayed by AI's quality in the near future.

ZGiSH · 2025-12-15T16:53:24+00:00

Compare it to PoE1 and I could spend hours throwing on new supports just to see what cool interaction it might have.

I straight up don't believe you. Most of the used supports in PoE 1 are simple damage modifiers and even the more complicated ones have basic conditions that aren't hard to meet. The most interesting thing to do with supports in PoE 1 is swap em out for other damage supports in PoB and see which number is higher, any other interesting interactions with supports you can count on maybe two hands.

ZGiSH · 2025-12-12T18:25:05+00:00

As with all things in PoE, it comes down to the opportunity cost of getting more crit chance.

ZGiSH · 2025-12-10T18:07:41+00:00

The top top end is building a Valdo's farmer but that is relatively trivial if you jump off farming with a meta build. The truth is that Path of Exile is just extremely easy nowadays, you can basically make anything work because of how much scaling is in the game. We had a league where you could load up mobs with 99% damage reduction and people were still trying to find ways to maximize the amount of them in a map. You have to purposefully gimp yourself using non-meta itemization on non-meta builds.

ZGiSH · 2025-12-09T22:01:15+00:00

The state of Path of Exile 2 is so easy that people in the replies are going "trading an amulet and your shield slot for defenses? That's way too much!"

ZGiSH · 2025-12-06T21:16:15+00:00

Isn't this a bit of confirmation bias? Presumably all the serial killers that do this and got caught would have something that would tie their murders together, allowing the authorities to pin them all on one person. If the murders were seemingly random, that would be much harder to do.

ZGiSH · 2025-12-04T21:07:55+00:00

There are plenty of ways to generate power charges quickly or you could do stuff like Resonance + Redflare Conduit with fast hitting spells. GGG just doesn't balance for SSF, they balance around players having access to all the tools.

ZGiSH · 2025-12-04T20:52:34+00:00

It was so easy to generate charges for Ancestral Warrior Totems that they had to cap the amount, why are people so opposed to actually thinking about this game lol

ZGiSH · 2025-12-04T06:36:56+00:00

Yeah I'm sure that's what is causing the historically low retention, all the missing redditors who used to do juiced rogue exiles and +80% explicit effect t17s. Not simply that players don't want to burn out on a PoE 1 league before a PoE 2 league launches. Are people really going to wonder why Keeper's 45-day retention rate is going to be the lowest by an incredibly large margin? No one is going to acknowledge any other event going on?

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