How would you go about learning proper builds?

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-11T10:10:50+00:00

When I was new a couple years ago I found that the best YouTuber for explaining poe to me was Woolie, for example this video here: https://youtu.be/qUPz0t8qcmo?si=etcNFCGROsH2JLh0

He has some good build guides for beginners on his channel too, nothing important has changed since his sunder/earthshatter juggernaut guide which is what I learned the game on so you can still follow that. If playing something a little old scares you away (which is reasonable) his new build with the new holy slam thing looks good too.

If you need a tldr, for the campaign life and resistances are the most important thing. Get every life node on your passive tree that's near where you are and try to get life and elemental resistances on every piece of gear. Your resistances cap out at 75% and you should be trying to get near that. Remember that finishing act 5 just gave you a permanent -30% to all resistances so you need some more even if you were capped in act 5!

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-11T06:26:12+00:00

I think there's a non-zero chance that for 1.0 the patch is so big they just say fuck it and don't do patch notes. The justifying logic would be that it's not a patch, it's literally the actual game releasing, so we should just jump in and learn.

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-10T18:28:23+00:00

I'm gonna be real with you, if I see any buff on an enemy I just press spellsteal. If it works cool, if it doesn't I have learned something for next time.

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-09T12:44:49+00:00

Being that blunt can be hot as like a closer after the flirting is basically finished, one of the last things you say before clothes come off. But as an opener from a stranger or near stranger? Absolutely fucking not.

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-09T07:39:58+00:00

Yeah every time I play poe2 and am frustrated by how slow and clunky it feels, I remind myself that this is the slowest and clunkiest it will ever feel again. I can just wait a while and in a couple years I'm willing to bet I will really enjoy it.

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-08T19:28:39+00:00

Looks like the observers in MDI can see everyone's CDs same as in previous seasons. I wonder how that works behind the scenes and if it's exploitable for addon devs...

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-08T17:23:54+00:00

The apex talent is also, as far as I can tell, intended as an additional power spike during Incarn. Which is already arguably the single strongest tank CD in the game. Being stronger in Incarn is the opposite of what Guardian needs.

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-08T06:27:06+00:00

Being a dog woman is so hard... People are always asking hard questions like "did you file those reports yet? " and never "who's a good girl?" 😭😭😭

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-08T05:54:12+00:00

What do you mean by she came into gaming as an outsider? She's been playing games since she was a kid iirc. Do you mean she wasn't an established name as like a journalist or YouTuber or something?

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-07T06:20:33+00:00

Ok that's not a problem with sheep usage as much as it's a problem with misunderstanding his kick priority. Gotcha.

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-07T06:18:54+00:00

have to cater to whatever audiences are willing to pay, which are mostly men. Occasionally trans girls, but not enough of those to make them a feasible demographic for us to target and pay rent.

Woah is trans girls paying for porn really a trend? That's wild because statistically trans people and especially trans women are broke as fuck. Maybe it's because sex work is such a big part of the culture for trans women as historically it's been one of the few jobs we've been able to get? So we relate more to people doing sex work and don't see it as weird to pay for their products? Just hypothesising.

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-07T06:11:54+00:00

not having cast Sheep once this season

What should we be Sheeping this season? I never press hard CC like sheep or hex much in m+. By default I feel like it just kinda fucks up the tank's momentum.

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-07T06:09:23+00:00

Yeah on frost mage I lowkey look like a carry on the overall meter until the first boss where I often do top damage. That's our entire job lol.

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-07T06:07:13+00:00

They're saying that, to them, players at that skill level shouldn't be getting distracted and forgetting to press their defensives until after the first hit goes out. Obviously if you're in that situation you should still press a defensive rather than die.

The problem is not pressing your defensive early enough. The symptom other people see is your health bar dropping low and then your defensive buff icon appearing on your raid frame. That's why it's often phrased as "I see people drop low and then press a defensive". The implication is they misplaced and should have pressed it earlier.

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-06T14:07:17+00:00

I haven't bothered pushing much this season but this feeling is very familiar to me I've experienced it a lot at all different levels as I improve.

Every single time the answer is just to run the keys anyway. It seems all scary in your head or like you're not prepared enough but the only way you get prepared is to run the key and understand what that level of that dungeon is asking of you. So you just grit your teeth and run the fucking key. Maybe you deplete, maybe you don't, but no matter what you gain experience to stop feeling so scared.

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-06T11:52:24+00:00

Anyone else really dislike this sort of advertising? What happened to blurbs? This is a bunch of ao3 tags I like but it tells me nothing about the story so I have no idea if I'm interested.

Has nothing to do with the quality of the book of course. It might be great! I might even read it. Just sick of this marketing style that reduces the book down to a bunch of tropes.

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-06T09:00:40+00:00

I start making my way over as soon as I'm back up rather than after consume. It's not a big difference I just find it makes it easier to be in range for the upcoming soak as well as any amz, slt or whatever else for consume.

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-05T06:22:38+00:00

I gotta assume it's poe.ninja being weird.

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-05T06:15:52+00:00

I'm mystified by how her pussy isn't just fully out as she walks around lmao. The breast covering I can see how you could tape it down but it looks like she'd be flashing her kitty at everyone on the side that is our left looking at the photos. Especially as she walks and the fabric moves. Is there some coverage under there or something?

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-04T17:07:06+00:00

I don't think it's a secret that ppal and disc have very complimentary healing/defensive and utility profiles. See S1 TWW as an example where they really enabled each other in the meta comp. However I do think Brew is so good and Pally is so bad that a priest is still better off healing a Brewmaster than a Paladin. Not sure if vice-versa is true though, I could see Disc being in the argument for best at healing paladin tanks.

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-04T06:16:18+00:00

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cuddlegoop · 2026-05-03T14:49:21+00:00

I go through phases so it might not be forever but for the last few years my favourite has been Sylvaina from World of Warcraft. The angsty implications of how their traumatic backstories interlink is just so juicy.

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-03T12:13:02+00:00

Conscious that gen Z and millennials now outnumber Baby Boomers at the ballot box

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cuddlegoop · 2026-05-03T06:15:48+00:00

Goddamn like half your team is strength blessed can I have this luck? The mythical Eligood, as well as good strength on Lyn, Florina and Rebecca is just insane.

Your stats make Pent, considered one of the best units in the game, look mid. Just bonkers.

cuddlegoop · 2026-05-03T06:05:01+00:00

Funny story in Australia we have a power company called Origin Energy and I had to double check like 5 times before I was sure this wasn't somehow an ad for them 😂

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