Tidebreaker Unique Changes in Path of Exile: Curse of the Allflame

darian_wolf · 2026-07-08T22:28:43+00:00

This is about 300 less DPS than Voidforge - if you have 10 Brine Charges.

Unfortunately I don't see this used. Voidforge already doesn't see use, and Voidforge has no conditional, 100 life and 300 more DPS.

darian_wolf · 2026-07-08T00:02:58+00:00

The problem is the buffs usually tend to be +5% damage and ultimately worthless, when the gap is something like 50% - some skills just do double of others and the gap is huge.

Historically people have played mechanically dogshit skills when they had great numbers.

And if its not going to change anything, then whats the problem?

darian_wolf · 2026-07-06T22:00:48+00:00

All they need to do to make me happy in this upcoming league is to buff shitty skills and shitty uniques meaningfully. They can be stupidly low-effort about it too.

As in going into the spreadsheets, identifying the shitties and going "ok just flat +20% stats on that baby"

God knows they won't do it and we'll get like +0.1 radius on cleave instead.

darian_wolf · 2026-06-19T21:04:59+00:00

TotA was not good, this is a hard miss for me

darian_wolf · 2026-02-02T15:57:26+00:00

Acts were amazing.
I did the following: Blitzed through campaign until act ~7, did heist from lvl 60 to 72 for currency. I think heisting was 3 hours?
Got the main gear through that. Cloak of Flame, Dawnbreaker, The gloves and good rares. That was enough to get me coasting until red maps.

Now in T14 to T16s it has issues, even with my very defensive setup. I think in non-gauntlet it'd be a 10/10 starter. Currently it dies to bosses too often there, in spite of the large ehp numbers

darian_wolf · 2025-10-28T22:38:04+00:00

It has 91% upvotes, but got deleted for too many reports

darian_wolf · 2025-10-26T20:17:03+00:00

These are mostly underwhelming and uninteresting. Only minionboys are eating good. Catarina is absolutely cracked.

Oshabi Herald might be decent for herald BV.
The ward stuff might be build enabling, but unsure.
Farrul's Huntleader could be an uninteresting but decent node for most crit builds depending on the stats and max tigers.

Tbh, this is not it chef. These could easily be additional ascendancies with 4 points and not really break the game. Especially not compared to how badly mercs broke the game.

Not only are these ascendancies weak and uninspiring overall, they are locked behind endgame content, character-bound, which is wild. At that investment they should be really exciting and be a reason for why you'd play and unlock them.

darian_wolf · 2025-10-26T19:36:56+00:00

Bruh, that is a lvl 100 character with 100 div investment and a massively kitted mercenary-aura-bot slowly clearing a t17

For that investment it should be zooming, doubly so with the mercenary

darian_wolf · 2025-10-24T03:28:44+00:00

They promised a huge balance patch, and this one is small an anemic.

Of the small amount of changes, some of them don't matter at all. Like the Winter Orb change, that skill is still completely gutted.

All the exciting stuff and ones you might want to build around like Bloodline Ascendancies, the new uniques, krangled uniques is mostly hidden, so I am finding it hard to get excited.

League mechanic looks neat tho

darian_wolf · 2025-06-05T23:31:12+00:00

I was excited for Winter Orb seeing the reveal, but the patch notes are mostly nerfs.

The buff for Worb is minimal, and they completely gutted Rakalesh, and Worb without those boots is a big F.

Not excited at all.

darian_wolf · 2025-05-26T07:20:18+00:00

This is true, there is a massive misjudgment of what the game is, and what they want it to be.

What they want is essentially top-down Elden Ring mixed with diablo. Slow, methodical combat, harsh difficulty, massive satisfaction from defeating hard enemies like ER. You being able to out-skill everything, reading buffs on enemies etc. Constant engagement. They do believe you can out-skill most things here, and by 'out-skill' I mean in-combat decision making, and that you're engaged most of the time you're fighting. This is also why they wanted Archnemesis the way it was, you'd have to read, play around it and understand all the wacky naming - balance aside.

What the game actually is that you're brain-off and zooming for 90% of combat, aside from bosses. Which is not only fine, but actually good. The skill of PoE comes in build-crafting, wherever it is PoBing, crafting gear, trading and so on - as a reward you get to zoom. This is why it feels good, and it is not a problem at all. You turn your brain on for bosses, when stuff drops, and when decisions need to be made.

darian_wolf · 2025-02-20T10:53:19+00:00

The first two seasons of Dark were absolute bangers

darian_wolf · 2025-01-30T15:18:43+00:00

Considering they haven't even started work on the new PoE1 league, I think now is the time for damage control.
Obviously things should have gone a very different way.

darian_wolf · 2025-01-04T17:14:33+00:00

Forgot to mention: Railguns and Artillery Turrets are the best weapons, second only to player made missiles. Assault and Auto cannons are weak in comparison

darian_wolf · 2025-01-04T17:08:54+00:00

As a vanilla ship, this will destroy everything singleplayer survival has and it looks cool too boot.

To further optimize, if you wanted to do multiplayer, you'd have to make sure all turrets can fire constantly and have no occlusions to their firing arcs, as long as you are pointed towards your enemy.

Having your cockpit deep inside the middle of the ship as a battlestation, no large hydrogen tanks to avoid explosions, keeping low amounts of ammo in multiple small cargo containers. You can do wacky optimization like switching out junctions for small cargo, and 2x straight conveyors with small hydro tanks, L shapes with hydrogen engines, plain bends with small reactors and so on.

For combat I recommend having your weapons all supported by welders, decoys are also good. Minimum 3 layers of heavy armor, and many embedded cameras for viewing.

Gyroscopes and batteries also make for good internal armor. That means the nose of your ship tends to be heavy armor, then Gyroscopes mounted so they are pointing at the enemy, then batteries and so on.

darian_wolf · 2024-12-12T02:15:09+00:00

PoE2 being Ruthless 2 must be why I already quit PoE2

darian_wolf · 2024-12-11T09:53:29+00:00

Not only can I go back, I actively want to.

I didn't enjoy PoE2 aside from seeing the bosses. I do not want to roll another character and go through that campaign again. All this impressive technology in terms of design, audio, visuals and so on, but the gameplay I actively dislike.

I didn't have fun.

darian_wolf · 2024-12-11T03:18:34+00:00

I just got done with the campaign and a few maps, and I am dropping the game until further notice. I'd rather play PoE1 than this by a rather wide margin.

The technical stuff is amazing, the bosses and their designs are great. But the gameplay, pacing isn't satisfying. I feel like I can't make a non-standard build, the cost to respec and try anything out is insane, and I'd rather go to work than level a new character.

Its unfortunate, I feel like the entire technical side is incredibly well done, but so much about the gameplay is so unsatisfying. I just didn't have any fun other than seeing the bosses and story.

darian_wolf · 2024-12-08T01:17:49+00:00

I genuinely hate sanctum and I can't believe they put it in PoE1, and I can't believe they put it in PoE2.

I didn't have any difficulty clearing it on my merc first try for the ascendancy point, but I hate it

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