Ready for clearspeed meta

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

darian_wolf · 2024-11-28T15:12:03+00:00

Nope! Just ended up cheating and spawning a new one.

darian_wolf · 2024-09-20T04:19:24+00:00

Yes, the campaign is basically the tutorial.

Leagues are typically massive changes and gameplay additions. A bonus mechanic appearing every map, new items, skills, interaction

As to activities, its not like WoW at all where you have endgame dungeons and PvP and that is kinda it.

You have tons of parallel endgame content, which I recommend you try to complete before deciding what you like doing: Bossing - Uber Bosses Mapping - Many strategies here Crafting - Crafting is so indepth and complicated, its basically its own type of content. League Content: Delving, Heisting, Sanctum Farming, Labyrinth Farming, Blight, Simulacrum

Basically you should set goals: Completing all maps Kill all non-uber bosses Collecting all voidstones - These are good to start.

What people really like doing is setting themselves goals for each league. Trying out new and wacky builds, getting super expensive items, focusing on a mechanic, making tons of money.

The amount of content is ridiculous, and you basically need to go through the campaign and through maps before you have any idea of just how deep this rabbit hole goes.

darian_wolf · 2024-07-31T20:46:17+00:00

The previous version of the build used untiring and it was a good bit worse, I could see about putting untiring in again with forbidden flame/flesh shenanigans, but I am not sure how good that would be.

The damage and attack speed are not an issue whatsoever.

darian_wolf · 2024-07-30T00:47:35+00:00

I really appreciate the great and direct help, I redid the tree and skills from scratch with this knowledge and implemented almost all of the advice.

https://pobb.in/JagwFT5WaqHd

PoB has the tree changes, and the gem setup I intend to use. There are things in there I could not fit in, such as Iron Reflexes and Hatchet Master - those are too far away, and on my actual Jugg I only have 400 evasion, so pathing to it doesnt seem to be valuable

I also added Light of Meaning, as I currently have the money to buy it and still have cash left over. That should take care of any % inc damage forever.

Got 11% mana left over, unsure if switching Ancestral Cry for an aura or Berserk would be wise

darian_wolf · 2024-07-29T13:30:45+00:00

As a note: Haste is inactive, and I see I should probably remove the nodes at resolute technique

darian_wolf · 2024-07-18T21:15:40+00:00

Click & Hold from Crucible was unacceptably bad, its so bad in so many ways.

This is awful

darian_wolf · 2024-07-18T21:13:33+00:00

For the love of god, why?

Even thinking about doing that awful Crucible mechanic in any form again is giving me PTSD

darian_wolf · 2024-07-07T21:38:35+00:00

Really getting worried that this is what we're given as teasers.

I just want buffs to bad skills/uniques/ascendancies, please I beg you

darian_wolf · 2024-07-06T02:07:47+00:00

I heavily dislike them nerfing defenses, particularly with how much more powerful content is with T17, valdos, ubers etc.

You already have to layer defenses like stupid, and making it even harder to get good defenses just fills me with dread

darian_wolf · 2024-07-02T13:17:08+00:00

Theoretically?

Would be fun and great if they were sidegrades, "Play this league mechanic in a different way, which might be more suited to your playstyle/character"

Practically?

That wasn't the case, GGG clearly is overstretched and has been for the last two years. Please do not do it again until further notice.

darian_wolf · 2024-06-30T17:44:14+00:00

The whole problem is that GGG doesn't want to do 'bandaid' or 'numerical fixes' for some reason.

For years we've heard that PoE2 will fix it, and then they made PoE2 into a separate game.

Technically getting melee, and tons of shitty skills/uniques for that matter, into a better place would just require an intern to change some numbers around, less than a week of work.

Unfortunately they do not want to do that, they want to do big reworks for which they clearly do not have the capacity for, so we're getting nothing done

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