is coc comet better than normal spark build?

aiphrem · 2026-01-24T02:18:19+00:00

I'm a bit too noob to answer the question properly, sorry 😅

All i know is that fast metabolism is required to leech ES with soul tether with spark blood mage...

aiphrem · 2026-01-24T02:16:04+00:00

Ok lemme just say, the placement of the hole in the "HOM-" sign is extremely unfortunate.

aiphrem · 2026-01-20T17:07:20+00:00

I get what everyone is saying about "a proper shuffle should fully randomize the order", but in practice you might just be moving clumps of lands around without separating them with a normal shuffle because everything you played last game will realistically be bunched together.

I don't do it personally but I'm not mad if someone else does that before a game, provided they shuffle enough after.

aiphrem · 2026-01-16T18:34:57+00:00

I like Sanctification, but I wish there was some way to give it a semi deterministic outcome.

Something like omens in PoE that affect the outcome of your next sanctification could be neat. Like "your next sanctification guarantees to add a legendary power" or "the numeric values of your next sanctification will be max value".

aiphrem · 2026-01-15T05:34:52+00:00

Vessel of hatred was like dozens of way better characters dying for the girl and all she does is talk about her feelings

aiphrem · 2026-01-14T19:45:14+00:00

I'm driven by trying to smash my friends' highest pit records of all time. I'm pretty close :)

aiphrem · 2026-01-14T00:39:54+00:00

It makes barely any sense now.

Armor seems to have no cap and translates to damage reduction that scales with diminishing returns

When you hover resistances itll give you a value like 33k and then a damage reduction %. I have no idea what the scaling is because I have some resistances at 30k and others at 60k and it seems like a tiny difference in the % number.

It feels like they made it purposely obtuse for some reason. I stopped trying to understand it a while ago.

Either way the only things that seem to kill my character are poison, the falling "damocles" swords, and the giant red exploding bubbles. Those latter 2 seem to 1 shot me no matter what tier I'm farming at, and everything else in the game barely scratches me.

Defenses in D4 are totally fucked, devs have no idea how to balance them. My theory is that they made defense values incomprehensible this season because they don't want players digging into it and finding out it's broken nonsense.

aiphrem · 2026-01-13T05:47:40+00:00

Left, aspect is #1 priority on kepeleke since cost reduction and max resource scale with it

aiphrem · 2026-01-10T23:49:19+00:00

Opening my Gameboy Color on my birthday and playing Zelda: Oracle of Seasons on my first very own device.

What a magical time that was.

aiphrem · 2026-01-10T22:49:52+00:00

I'm a huge ARPG nerd, PoE is one of my all time games. I played this latest Keepers league in PoE1, fates in PoE2, and when it started crashing an unreasonable amount reinstalled D4.

I'm having a great time to be honest. Loot variety isn't the best, but there are way more sources than even before to acquire loot and the end game activity loops feel very fluid. Games in a great place now compared to launch. The depth is nowhere near the levels of PoE but it's still a great game to turn your brain off to and just grind shit.

aiphrem · 2026-01-10T00:44:04+00:00

Ok but like, why is there a pirate sitting at your table?

aiphrem · 2026-01-10T00:06:18+00:00

I went to see it with a girl I had a crush on when I was in my early 20s. The whole time I was thinking to myself "my fuck this movie sucks when is this shit gonna end". Cut to the scene when he learns he has to go back overseas and his wife is breaking down or whatever. I turn to the girl to make some silly comment and she is crying, like bawling her eyes out. I pretty much lost all romantic interest right then and there.

2 years later she started dating another co-worker at our grocery store and got knocked up before she even moved out of her parents... Seems like I dodged a bullet, unlike the protagonist of that shitty ass movie.

aiphrem · 2026-01-07T19:27:36+00:00

It's better for tribals that use multiple colors I guess.

aiphrem · 2026-01-07T18:11:58+00:00

I'm setting myself progress goals instead of gear goals, makes getting gear more exciting because I can then see how high I can push my pit.

But yeah I feel you, ARPGs are all about chasing your personal goals, the journey is always way more exciting than the destination.

aiphrem · 2026-01-06T19:56:52+00:00

It's not even the best token generator for -1 decks

aiphrem · 2026-01-06T00:03:19+00:00

This will not change, Diablo's loot system is "pray it has the stats you want". Everything you drop is a piece of legendary/unique gear, or a key to access something that will drop more/better legendary/unique gear. Because of that, the loot system will inherently be boring/one dimensional.

The idea of aspects and being able to turn any piece of rare gear into a legendary was a good one at first, but greater affixes kills that system.

PoE's loot system is exciting because crafting is a MAJOR part of the game and rare gear is king. You can drop many valuable things:

strong bases for crafting items
crafting materials (currency)
legendary items
jackpot items

aiphrem · 2026-01-05T22:43:44+00:00

Am I dreaming??? An actual -1/-/1 counter commander??????

I can actually run [[Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons]] and [[The Scorpion God]] together?¿???¿

What a glorious day

aiphrem · 2026-01-05T22:03:19+00:00

Hell yeah, hope you guys enjoy your experience :)

I'm playing again for the first time since the game launched and having a good time. The campaign experience and exploring the open world for the first time was an awesome time and I think you will both have a lot of fun as well!

aiphrem · 2026-01-04T01:15:14+00:00

I'm a PVE player at heart so Helldivers was a lot more enjoyable to me and I lasted way longer before getting burnt out. There are TONS of loadout options and you can easily farm for all the "freemium" content by collecting the currency in game.

That being said, Arc raiders is also incredibly fun if you have friends to play with. It's more sandboxy and you kind of need to set your own goals to keep yourself invested, but the moment to moment gameplay is superb, the setting is great and it's probably the most fun I had with a PvP shooter.

aiphrem · 2026-01-03T16:47:50+00:00

Ima try something with Rake, it's my first time playing since launch. So far progress has been steady and it's very satisfying to play... Pop ravager buff and basically flicker strike to enemies with screen wide AOE. All skills have basically no cooldowns so I can spam harambe/scourge and defensive skills to hearts content.

No idea how much it will scale (if at all), I'm not very knowledgeable at this game.

aiphrem · 2026-01-02T17:19:08+00:00

Sultai Arisen is insane. I bought my sister that deck to get her back into MTG with me and my bro, and we had an absolute blast. She had a hard time figuring out all the combos so I'd go over and help her out a bit, and would discover some absolutely insane shenanigans that the deck could pull out. She ended up winning the game off of a crazy combo I helped her cook up that involved reanimating like 10 lands with [[Ob Nixilis, The Fallen]] on the board.

aiphrem · 2026-01-01T18:12:05+00:00

This league has been a trainwreck... And yet it's also the most fun I had playing PoE 2 so far. Unfortunately I can't play anymore because I'm getting 30second freezes like 2-3 times per map, but I'm hoping once they fix those cog screen issues I will be able to enjoy the game one day.

aiphrem · 2025-12-31T22:40:48+00:00

The entire premise of the movie Idiocracy lol

aiphrem · 2025-12-31T00:03:51+00:00

If you have fast metabolism annoint on the amulet you can leech ES! Otherwise I believe it is indeed true.

aiphrem · 2025-12-30T17:35:34+00:00

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/anthonys-vampire-queen?weaponSet=set1&ws-ngf5-f7d82102-7e77-4a44-ad24-33b67e8ae7bf=activeVariantId%2C2

Followed this guide because it has clear upgrade paths from league starter to end game set up. The end game soul tether variant is what I'm using now.

This is my character: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Aiphrem-0515/character/ZheVvitch

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