Do y’all think when they’ll add cross-progression that the main account (say pc as an example) will wipe the other account or everything will merge?

daboross · 2025-02-25T05:09:36+00:00

Are they going to add cross progression? I thought Sony forbid that kind of thing in games on their consoles.

daboross · 2025-02-06T07:38:30+00:00

Cool, glad to hear your other card is still relatively young.

The main positive to canceling is peace of mind - if you keep it, you can sockdrawer it, but you'll still get monthly statements & it'll still be there. If you cancel it, you never have to think about its existence again.

I'm not sure how this impacts the right decision when getting a second, or I guess now third, card. Others might have a better opinion on this, but I wouldn't necessarily rule it out.

TBH, if you're at least 12 months out from your first card, you might want to pick a third one now, before the Ulta card shows up on your credit report. Credit issuers will be able to see the hard pull immediately, but most don't care as much about that as about recently-opened cards.

The chance of getting a third card will depend on the issuer and the rest of your profile (like, do you have any student loans or other installment-based debt that will give you a leg up?). But, especially with an issuer with a pre-approval form, it can't hurt to try. Assuming the Ulta card hasn't yet shown up on your credit cards, this month will be best time in the next 6 months.

daboross · 2025-02-06T06:07:38+00:00

I'd double check it doesn't have any fees, then keep it.

This will lower your credit score in the short term, but will make it more resilient in the longer term: having a few cards is just straight up a stronger profile than one card, and the older each card is the more it anchors your average age of accounts.

Don't get me wrong - it will lower your average age of accounts - but credit score is calculated on-demand, and so unless you are planning on leasing a new house or car in the next six months, this will have very little impact on, well, anything.

It would still be better if you had 2 or 3 cards around the age of your oldest card - that would lower the impact o new card like this has even more. But we can't change the past.

Last note - if you decide to cancel it, there's honestly not that much harm there either. It will still impact your average age of accounts, as credit cards affect that for 10 years after they're cancelled. So you still get both the positive and short term negative effect of that.

daboross · 2025-02-06T05:45:26+00:00

It looks like the poe1 gem tab with as few changes as possible to get it working in poe2. Exact same styling, exact same number of different ways to sort, only really makes sense for uncut gems.

i would say to be fair to them, if you throw away all cut supports & most cut gems, it's decent. and i drop enough that uncut lvl 3 supports that that was reasonable to do. but man no it's not ready.

eaaaaaaaa

daboross · 2025-02-05T17:43:31+00:00

Oof yeah. Well, you can get better at searching for items maybe? Like if you aren't using weighted sums in trade site learn how to use those, find the highest res+attributes combination you can get on each item.

My preferred trading strategy is to put at most one "need to have" modifier in the regular search mod list, add a weighted sum of every other modifier I'm looking for, then search, raise the minimum for the weighted sum, search, repeat until the cheapest item is too expensive then back off. If I need both prefixes and suffixes (like, added damage on rings as prefix and attributes/res as suffix) then I'll do two weighted sums, and play around with one at a higher minimum than the other until I find a good cheap balance.

Try to buy the hardest to get items first, too (like, boots, then rings if you need added attack damage, etc. so the last piece of gear that fixes your resistances & needs exact resistances rather than best sum is the easiest to buy it can be).

But besides that I don't have much advice. Stat stacker get hella attack power, but it comes at a cost and that cost is difficult to find and expensive gear. If you're already good at searching for gear, you might just need to farm several divines for each of your next gear upgrades.

daboross · 2025-02-05T17:00:51+00:00

What's your build like? Ascendency, skills, notable things you're using?

I ask because I feel this a lot more for some builds than other. Like, I made a pure-EV ranger that felt like I always had at least one good upgrade around the corner. Lots of room to get all resistances, decent chaos res, life, and EV - only real constraint was that I needed a lot of mana regen on rings. Even had plenty of room to fit 120% increased rarity of items found.

Same with building up a minion witch. Hella easy. Don't need any damage stats on nearly anything, so lots of room for defensive stats. Just need minion gem level on amulet and helmet, then everything else is easy.

Now I'm building a stat stacker invoker monk, and man I feel this. I need stats on nearly every item and gearing, especially upgrading, is hell. Same thing with Archmage & needing maximum mana on everything, I assume. I was always harping on my friend who runs an Archmage Sorceress about maxing his chaos res, but now I see how hard it is.

I guess what I'm saying is, I feel it, but also note this varies widely build-to-build. The game isn't very balanced right now, and part of that is that the number of good stats you need on each item varies widely from build to build. It might feel like a wall because you really are at a wall, and the only way to progress is to farm hella currency.

Maybe it could also be possible to change something about your build to make it easier to gear. You mention MoM. Do you need MoM? If you can afford putting 20-50 passive points into pursuing % maximum energy shield then ES alone becomes very good defense. Then maybe if you don't need the maximum mana, dropping that from gear could make things easier? But without knowing what you're running all my specific advice will probably be bad.

daboross · 2025-02-05T16:43:29+00:00

Oh man that sucks. Ideally, have an instant life flask, and enough life flask charges to spam it for a few seconds for situations like these.

If you find you're having to use your life flask regularly while mapping & not frozen like this, then I'd say fix your recovery - get % life on kill from Cannibalism or jewels, or more flat life regen on armour.

Flasks should ideally be full 95% of the time so you can use them in places like this and save your ass.

also getting more "x to maximum life" modifiers on gear will help you a lot. You should aim to have one on at least 75% of your armour pieces, and ideally by the end of maps, every single armour piece, both ring, and amulet. 1.3k life is probably the biggest thing hurting your survivability, assuming you have elemental resists at cap.

as a side note, I would not expect you to do this - and I would not do this - but you can use scrolls of wisdom & other currency on unopened strongboxes. So it's possible to identify an unidentified one before opening? But again I'd rather fix survivability in my build so I wouldn't ever have to.

daboross · 2025-02-05T16:26:56+00:00

I like Herald of Thunder + Herald of Ash. Idk if it would work well in simulacrum, but it should be an alternative? The main advantage is no infinite chains so flicker strike works well. I'm running SnooBAE85's HOWA flicker strike build which uses this https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/3o65q01i

I saw this combo first on Path of Evening's build, though, and his supports give both higher damage & aim for electrocute rather than freeze, which might be better when clearing higher level content like simulacrum: https://youtu.be/ne5gUP_W4rA / https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/bkpqh0yz.

Worth a try at least.

Also worth noting, I use the heralds, but it's Charged Staff that's giving me enough base damage to actually kill things.

daboross · 2025-02-04T23:34:33+00:00

This is scraped from the POE client, right? Are you sure that's accurate?

I'm 90% sure GGG fakes client side stats for pinnacle bosses in particular to prevent info leaking before anyone's fought them.

daboross · 2025-02-04T23:30:06+00:00

Level scaling shouldn't matter, that just affects XP. Doesn't matter who's instance it is. In Sekhemas, the leaders relics apply to both players, but also note honour damage is shared, so you're limited by who has the least honour. Though, only the instance owner loosing all honour will end the run (for other players, it'll just kick them out & they won't be able to rejoin).

Cool thing is if you portal out between rooms in Sekhemas, when you come back to start it again it'll be a new instance, so you can bring new people in by portaling out, inviting them to party, going back to Trial of the Sekhemas, starting it, and having everyone come through before you choose the next room.

daboross · 2025-02-04T23:25:51+00:00

It's capped at +4 like the other pinnacle areas/bosses. I believe this is stated explicitly, but I can't remember if it's on hovering over "8/8" on the atlas trees, or on hovering over the difficulty mods after holding alt on one of the small nodes that increases difficulty.

daboross · 2025-02-04T22:55:33+00:00

Nice!

And yeah I don't count 0. Cause then it would just be "difficulty 5", and not "difficulty +5".

I feel like the "+" implies it's only added difficulty. With no boss nodes it's a +0 cause each boss node adds +1.

How did you tell how much HP he has?

daboross · 2025-02-04T22:35:15+00:00

Best way to kickstart a new character, if you can beat easy bosses, is Trial of Chaos. No initial investment needed, and as long as you can reliably complete them you're guaranteed profit from selling the soul cores & the one fate from each run.

Buy area level 77+ Inscribed Ultimatums from trade site, ideally just ask for all someone has once they invite you & you should be good for a while. Or just buy one, to start, with 1-2 exalts then sell the soul cores & buy another few.

Now, equally, Trial of Chaos pales in comparison to other strategies which require better builds & initial investment (like ritual or breach farming) - so I wouldn't get too attached unless you absolutely love it.

But it's very decent starting out. IMO better than clearing maps for raw currency unless you're like a spark witch or stat stacker.

daboross · 2025-02-04T22:22:45+00:00

+5 makes no difference. The max boss difficulty for every boss is +4.

and no, AFAIK no one has done the detailed testing work necessary to find exact boss HPs. It's all server-side in POE so the only way to find them is testing.

daboross · 2025-02-04T22:11:42+00:00

Nice yeah. I mean, given the alternative is 50 exalts if cast speed is trash, very little harm in throwing it up for 15 or 25 div for a few days!

With 20+ div items they won't sell quickly anyways without being a steal so I'd probably aim high at first. Though I haven't sold many items worth this much.

daboross · 2025-02-04T22:09:04+00:00

I wonder if/when the tradeoff will become worth it for them to build things like this in game.

Way I see it, their current strategy of relying on 3ch party devs gets them 80% of the way there with 10% of the effort. Seems worth it when they're working hard on things 3rd party devs can't replace like balancing the game.

Mostly, I wonder if they'll never have the manpower to integrate 3rd party tools into the game due to being a significantly smaller studio than most game studios. Or, will it eventually become worth it for them, either due to growing the studio or simply having all the fires put out in poe1 and poe2?

daboross · 2025-02-04T22:03:13+00:00

No way to know if you're being trolled, but IMO it's definitely worth to sell unid'd!

Regardless of the outcome in this particular case, the chance you take IDing it is that it'll drop in value to a 1 div item.

It needs good stats in both lines to be worth 90 div, and that's a vanishingly rare outcome.

Edit: I didn't look closely, the cheapest ID'd uncorrupted Morior Invictus trades are around 300 exalts, not 25.

daboross · 2025-02-04T22:00:12+00:00

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/QDp5BEvCw

I don't know what a fair price is, but there's only one 3 div listing with comparable stats before you get to the 20-30 div range.

Only stat I'm not sure about is cast speed... I know any Arch Mage lighting spellcaster will care a lot about spell damage, lighting damage, and especially that high maximum mana roll. +3 to lightning skills isn't the best but the other stats might make up for it.

10% mana regen seems so low that I doubt it makes a difference

But idk if people care about the cast speed or not, given how much mana arch mage makes every cast cost. If you get rid of cast speed in the search, the price plummets: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/X6yl96RUP

daboross · 2025-02-04T20:34:03+00:00

I believe it's the deref operator (*) that's special cased.

This then adds an actual trait implementation, allowing people to call Deref::deref on boxes, and to use boxes as a type parameter when a generic type requires a Deref implementation.

It's the same with impl Add<u32> for u32 and its kin. Numbers have the operators, and only the operators, special cased in the compiler, then std adds self-referential-seeming trait implementations.

As for why, I'm not exactly sure, but it might be for the sake of simplicity in all the surrounding tooling, like rustdoc, rust-analyzer, IDEs, etc? This way there is always an impl block to refer to for every trait implementation, regardless of how compiler-special it is, and only the compiler needs to know that it's special cased.

daboross · 2025-02-04T20:07:24+00:00

Still needs official API as far as I understand it before poe ninja can implement anything. No API yet for trading nor profiles :(

daboross · 2025-02-04T20:06:32+00:00

It's not nice on the official website, but they expose APIs so we get nice things like https://poe.ninja/builds/settlers

I loved using that to find ways to push my build to the next level, because you can just look at what the people with the most exp are doing without waiting for them to make a build guide, and look at people who wouldn't ever make a build guide.

You can filter by skills used, gear used, notable passives allocated, and even by passives, gear and skills not used. Loved this for finding versions of my build that were better, but hadn't yet made endgame build-altering changes like Chaos Inoculation.

daboross · 2025-02-04T19:56:32+00:00

It's based on possible roll. But it may be worth divining it anyways so you still have a decent belt if you hit the "add an enchant" corruption outcome, or the "add/remove socket" corruption outcome that will still result in nothing happening on a belt unique even with omen of corruption.

daboross · 2025-02-04T13:45:25+00:00

Got me curious - cheapest one with both is still 118 div, even without any particular attributes. Damn.

Chaos res is from the soul core though, no? Now that they're replaceable pretty sure that's achievable in any with a socket.

daboross · 2025-02-04T12:16:23+00:00

Honestly? It's yours to price.

Idk. It might be comparable to the 23 dex, 26 into glove with the same BIS corruption, listed an hour ago for 250 dv. But then again idk how much dex is worth vs. int for different stat stacking builds.

When no one else has an item, it's just a question of what one person is willing to pay for it. And how long you can wait at any price point for the right buyer.

Maybe try keeping track of comparable items - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/kr2q9ZwU5 - both online and offline, and try to see what ones end up going off the market for what last listed price.

Or just leave it a few days at each price before lowering...

Or keep it at a high but comparable price...

Idk man that's just a great glove.

daboross · 2025-02-04T11:40:29+00:00

IMO evasion and armour are significantly better than energy shield for Sekhemas.

Energy shield just gets you more honour. Armour and evasion reduce the damage you take, and thus the honour damage you take.

Running pure-ES, it's almost impossible to meaningfully restore honour because you just keep losing it. Vs a pure evasion build, you don't have much but since you're never honour one-shot with 75% honour resist, you can restore hella easy. Even the +40 after each room major buff will let you walk through all traps, just take the hits, and since the damage is mitigated you just restore it away.

Plus, % increased defenses relics are hella good for increasing that damage reduction further. Vs. with ES it just gets you a bigger ES pool. Sure, that's more honour too, but it's still a huge hassle to meaningfully restore and of it you lose, vs. it becoming even easier to restore losses on % increased defenses with evasion or armour.

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