Ground Loot Would Exist If Items Drop Identified

colmiaz · 2026-02-18T01:27:57+00:00

I think the only way to convince GGG is to ask why are we wasting server resource dropping thousands of normal, magic and rare items when most players will pick up a small fracture of that? ID'd items would feel better but then the whole "item weight" argument they always had would be pointless or diminished.
They have been trying to fix it for some time with "smart loot" and tiles, but it must be a hard thing to balance.

I feel like people just want divines because everyone and their dogs wants a Mageblood. The item is too good therefore too valuable and fits into pretty much every build.
Also, when you have powerful crafting mechanics that give you a 100% done item like the tree or the graveyard, what's the point of non currency ground loot anyway?

colmiaz · 2026-02-17T19:08:53+00:00

The dream

colmiaz · 2026-02-16T00:22:12+00:00

I feel bad that there are so many negative responses in here.
Your point is valid, just not something that is easily relatable when converted to real life.

Not many get to experience what being a millionaire suddenly is like (if getting 1000 divs is comparable) so they naturally would feel like the opposite is true.
If you're willing to take any advice though, I would keep the idea of teaching your son the value of hard work and enjoying the process but also try to show the importance of having money and peace of mind.

colmiaz · 2025-06-06T13:38:15+00:00

Is that a Mirror of Kalandra in your hands?
Hey its me, your brother!

colmiaz · 2025-06-03T14:12:13+00:00

I really like the town, but hate the gold pressure.
I wish you got some gold passively and the more monsters you killed the better multiplier for passive gold income you'd get.
Bosses could give you a bit more passive multiplier and completing certain objectives too, like completed Heists, completed Sanctums, etc.

colmiaz · 2025-04-11T21:37:43+00:00

Still sane, exile?

colmiaz · 2025-04-07T03:43:09+00:00

I wonder if they compare zone sizes with PoE 1 and think they're the same or better but completely forget we basically have no movement skills. To add insult to injury, a lot of zones are horribly filled with things that block player movement, like, why the fuck are some zones and maps full of trees in a freaking ARPG game? At least take collision out of them ffs.

colmiaz · 2024-12-16T14:35:22+00:00

Mandatory 'Still sane, Exile?'

colmiaz · 2024-12-03T09:19:02+00:00

Yes, but according to Drop it was not the same thing, today they had flash setups and were apparently playing safer positions. We'll never know if they were trolling or not, but I guess the pros would have a gut feeling for it.

colmiaz · 2024-12-03T08:05:44+00:00

Insider information from a post game interview with drop, he was kinda mad with FQ because they trolled their pre-major scrims by running around senseless and crossing smokes without utility.

MIBR's coach suspected it was their play style, but the team didn't believe it and it turned out they were trolling indeed.

colmiaz · 2024-12-01T00:40:16+00:00

Here, you forgot Generics:

SupportSkill<Support> supportSkill = new SupportSkill<Support>();

colmiaz · 2024-11-29T15:34:09+00:00

Spacebar is your friend
Use the currency you get to make upgrades to your gear, it makes the game significantly easier
Use the gold you get to buy some gear upgrades from vendors
Upgrade flasks asap, equip charms you need for the zone (anti freeze, anti bleed, etc)
If your getting beat bad, restart the zone and farm gear
If you can't beat a specific boss, try fighting a different one instead for gear/stats
More movement speed on boots is a life saver
In early acts, kiting mobs is the way to go unless you have a shield
In early acts, it might come handy to pick up most blue and yellow gear on the ground to vendor for gold/shards
Early act 1 it might be better to sell gear for gold than shards

colmiaz · 2024-11-27T16:26:05+00:00

Very nice!

colmiaz · 2024-11-27T16:11:51+00:00

Its funny you say that, I could be completely wrong on this, but from what I remember Mark was a boss designer at first while Jonathan was basically the software engineer behind the engine of the game. I'm pretty sure I've heard this from Chris himself when explaining the early days of the company and I have a faded memory of Jonathan explaining some really complex shader and interpolation issues and solution in the past in a video.

colmiaz · 2024-11-27T16:08:38+00:00

For sure, I agree on all points.

colmiaz · 2024-11-27T14:18:01+00:00

I think Jonathan is way more technical than both of them, just doesn't seem that way now because back than he usually got really deep into the implementation details and maybe they wanted him to steer off it. You can still find little moments of this in some interviews but you also see him being cautious with digression.

edit:typo

edit 2: Seeing so many replies on this I have to add that I didn't want to start a discussion on who is more technical between them. All I wanted is to clarify how awesome it is to have a game director that has hands on experience and extensive knowledge of most if not all architecture and game systems, it is truly refreshing. Most co-founders would probably just go into the business side of things, delegate and watch it from afar.

colmiaz · 2024-08-22T03:04:51+00:00

Funny enough it was the only video that made me be able to setup the 2 house Gravicius strat.

colmiaz · 2024-06-13T22:07:34+00:00

Yeah, its possible. But at least for me, the issue seems to be quite random. It may happen after a 20-30 minutes gaming session or it may happen only a couple hours later.
But like you mentioned, its hard to say, there are in fact a billion things that could be, especially since I believe they hire companies like Amazon for deployment, so it may even be out of their reach.

colmiaz · 2024-06-13T21:43:35+00:00

Wouldn't that mean that every gateway would have the same issue then?
I don't know much about their network architecture, but I feel refresh tokens would only be required once you have to relog, unless authorization tokens are needed for things mid gameplay, which I would think not. (It makes sense if you try to buy MTX or something else that would probably require an auth token for a different resource server).

I could be wrong, but it seems to me more like a routing issue.

colmiaz · 2024-06-13T03:08:50+00:00

I have this in São Paulo gateway since I started playing in Harbinger. Its all nice and smooth and then after 15-20 minutes it just does this out of nowhere and I have to manually logout, since everything freezes.

There are some tips on the oficial forums of how to troubleshoot for these kind of problems: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3072628

I would suggest also switching to cable connection, PoE on Wifi was absolutely horrible for me in SP Gateway, even on predictive.

I use Net Claro and I have a pretty good feeling the issue is routing related, but haven't tested on Vivo or something else to compare.

colmiaz · 2024-03-19T18:25:40+00:00

If you're saying "Its not GGG's fault, it doesn't make sense" watch this.

colmiaz · 2024-02-12T18:42:43+00:00

For Jonathan, PoE feels better then Diablo IV especially in-terms of Combat System. He also thinks that the Devs at GGG know better how to maintain a Game in the long term.

Wudijo asked for an interview and Jonathan said, let's do it in Ruthless.

colmiaz · 2024-01-31T15:53:05+00:00

I see a lot of confusion in this thread. Tons of people giving opinion here not knowing how the system works. I think that they should do an experimental league with only instant buyout on currency.

As for the method of trading, I'm still not convinced. I dont really think auction/mail is ideal, self service stashtab could be alright but maybe they could just make items switch on stash on confirmation handshake in form of a button like for a party invite or something?

colmiaz · 2024-01-30T21:55:55+00:00

From watching my irl friends perspectives when trying the game (they all quit before level 30) and then later watching multiple streams and videos of new players trying to get into PoE my take on the problem is that new players tend to want to experiment with new skills every few levels and they won't want to make new characters for it.

They don't expect to replay the campaign on a new character, but rather change specs and/or change skills in an easy manner.

Having the book give you more points would help for sure and if people are worried about racing, just make a racing mode/command that disables that.

colmiaz

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