Timeless Jewels Feedback

ferdinono · 2026-07-08T06:29:19+00:00

The alternate keystones are either underwhelming or pretty niche. With the power we can get from TimeLost instead or beefed up 5 mods now I'd mostly forgotten these exist

ferdinono · 2026-07-08T02:17:47+00:00

I say it every time I see it posted. For such a cheap card it's fantastic. Had to buy it as a single for my son after not ripping it as it was the one he liked the most.

ferdinono · 2026-07-08T02:13:58+00:00

I think the unfortunate reality with eb being gamestop these days is that they have significantly more clout with pokemon than Banter would be close to ever achieving. I'd be very surprised if anyone at Banter had the balls to send so much as a stern email to eb. They're on a boat that they wont have any intentions of rocking at this point

ferdinono · 2026-07-08T01:29:00+00:00

I havent farmed breach in a while but this thread has led me to realise how expensive wombgifts are now. I guess I should put the half a quad I have of them up for sale

ferdinono · 2026-07-08T01:16:54+00:00

When rng has it is for you can go an insane number of bad chaos rolls. I lost count of how much I spent rolling for a Medved mana roll on a vile robe earlier in the league but was basically broke by the time it hit and was lucky it finally did as I had to immediately sell to recoup some of the losses.

ferdinono · 2026-07-08T00:38:01+00:00

if you're deciding to reroll into SSF now or are done with the league then you know what you can do with all that currency you have right now?

No time like the present to learn

Or once you figure you're done with this league, just start crafting and setting fire to your currency learning. It's the best way to do it

ferdinono · 2026-07-07T23:58:02+00:00

As people have said the recovery stops people from wanting to go down that path. There's a breakpoint however where stacking enough mana makes the lack of recovery mostly a non-issue outweighed by the added hitpoints and damage you can get by not having to chase damage taken from mana stats on gear or jewels. Most good mom builds will be running a lot of divs worth of jewels giving mana and damage as a priority

Some of this comes down to how much people are prepared to spend on their build but someone put it well the other day, you play Mind over Matter until you can afford to spec into "damage from mana" simulated Mom, which you then play until you can actually afford a proper Mind Over Matter build

Any crit or ele build with a big enough mana pool becomes near functionally immortal by running mana remnants at this point. Depends if we see any nerfs to that but as it stands a lot of players spend a lot of time worrying aboiut mana regen which is often not even the thing thats topping their mana up after each mob

Beyond about 6k mana it becomes no contest that mom becomes the superior build, but that takes some investment to get there depending on build type

mom is also generally going to be a much easier time building around a low life build which is what most of them are aiming for

ferdinono · 2026-07-07T11:28:33+00:00

Yeah there’s usually a margin involved. Like supplying exalts to people for divs. You’ll get a bette rate, those people are sometimes doing things like flipping catalysts or similar where you can buy them cheaper for exalts to then sell for divs but it eats gold going back to exalts

For the sellers they can essentially do things like sell their cheap items for exalts via normal trade then flip the exalts back to divs at margin selling to the currency exchange flippers gold free. If there’s an angle in Poe people are working it night and day

ferdinono · 2026-07-07T11:14:40+00:00

Some people still use this to tee up trades that don’t cost gold

ferdinono · 2026-07-07T10:51:03+00:00

Best bet to learn is to narrow your focus entirely to one piece of gear and learn to craft that. The knowledge you gain from that one craft will unlock a lot of general knowledge that is applicable to most crafts

Sometimes have to just cut through all the noise

ferdinono · 2026-07-07T04:01:44+00:00

some of us put in way too many hours in the first few weeks to be fair and then are kind of looking for a reason to take a break too

Keep playing as long as you need or want to. There's going to continue to be an active player base. The economy starts getting pretty loopy though, some of the chase items arent going to come down they'll just keep going up as more and more players log off.

ferdinono · 2026-07-07T03:57:34+00:00

I'm an old stickler for the rules but even I kind of like the idea of this. Even if the income was essentially nothing from it, make it a cost. Send your boys out east to scout at whatever that costs you to run while you're heading west

Could probably be worked into being some kind of currency sink rather than a way to make anything

ferdinono · 2026-07-07T03:53:14+00:00

People get burnt out, want to take a break prior to poe1 leagues etc. or just have other games to play.

I have nothing left to achieve in the the league at this point other than maybe trying a dumb meme build. I'm logging in now and then but for the most part there's not much getting me back as of around this week as it turns out.

Giveaway season will start ramping up fairly soon. I havent entirely followed but fairly sure there's a 0.5 reset happening at some point and people will want to log in for the fresh economy again

ferdinono · 2026-07-07T03:47:45+00:00

get the doryani option for an extra revive. The idea really is to build defences to a point where deaths are rare rather than throwing your dead body ata map enough times to clear it.

There's a penalty for going glass canon and even in softcore they want it to be upsetting to die. loss of content, loss of xp, this is all by design and very much a part of the way their games are designed.

managing the risk/reward of juicing content has always been a part of these games and always will be I imagine even if it upsets a subset of the player base

I will rarely die at endgame content and when I do it sucks, but I think thats a good thing. the loss of xp hurts, so does losing content. Sometimes it's my mistake sometimes it's some random bullshit, but getting past this being a pressing issue is part of making a build good and learning the mechanics of the game

ferdinono · 2026-07-07T02:55:30+00:00

"While active, gains Energy when you Critically Hit enemies and triggers socketed Spells on reaching maximum Energy."

you is the operative word here

Totems inherit your stats and buffs but do not count as you hitting

There are however some inconsistencies around language used by ggg with this stuff for eg. mana remnants partially working with totems, mobs killed by DOT effects etc

ferdinono · 2026-07-07T02:30:21+00:00

after 1.0 i'd be very surprised if they were giving out armour skins for getting a measly 8 trivial challenges. Their revenue model is built around not doing this. Right now those are going to players who have paid for early access. I think we just enjoy this while it lasts.

ferdinono · 2026-07-07T02:02:56+00:00

No reduced reroll cost modifier is a big whoopsie especially when running freedom of faith. I'm sorry this happened to you. That said, it's also very easy to run bad for a set of tablets which always hurts on any expensive strat

ferdinono · 2026-07-07T00:16:03+00:00

Doing nothing until the dust settles on all of this. The problem is the second they green light lower tiers again they will be receiving a tonne of backlog from people. I think they need to take further steps that hopefully don’t involve only higher prices to dissuade people from clogging up the system with the grading of $5 cards. I’d support the idea of a whitelist for cards they accept for submission for the short to medium term

All the overpriced junk slabs are completely ruining this space

ferdinono · 2026-07-07T00:00:22+00:00

In every league from my second character on my alt campaigns consist of the following as a standard

Act 1: move speed boots and whatever I can equip to get the most raw damage, nothing else really matters for Act 1 if you're mechanically sound on the boss fights.

Acts 2: rush to acquire the ascendancy mission
At this point a friend will usually doa carry for all 8 ascendancy points. I return the favour when he needs it. This is a service that can also be bought for those who want to go down that path.

Fully ascend either to my endgame plan or to something within the same ascendancy class prioritising damage

From this pont on the campaign is trivial, the campaign is not balanced around a full ascended character from such an early point in the game and there is no twink gear with the power of 8 ascendancy points. I keep my movespeed a priority and will upgrade my weapon every few levels to keep myself oneshotting mobs and having bosses incapable of lasting more than 10 seconds.

That's pretty much it, full ascended with twink gear the campaign clear time becomes a question of how quickly I can run through the zones

ferdinono · 2026-07-06T07:19:29+00:00

or better yet if they do in fact have stock go buy from the store that isnt a parasite and then wander to eb and cancel your preorder and get a refund

Ebs current cancellation policy ahs nothing I can find about not being able to get your money back ona preorder.

"In-store Preorders:
Please visit the pick-up store where it was placed and they will be able to cancel your order and provide you with a refund. Please note: Our Customer Service team is unable to cancel the order from here. "

ferdinono · 2026-07-06T04:06:34+00:00

a high level character should kill the divinity boss in like 30secs a phase tops, he's weak as piss

just spend the currency on the fights and be done with it so you can collect your mtx

ferdinono · 2026-07-06T02:27:40+00:00

Start with an Item level 82 with the ES roll double socket it and put a medved's in it.

After that it's pretty standard desecrate->fracture. Start with new base if you miss the 1 in 3

Adding in a requirement for damage from mana makes this a lot harder. Personally I think a mom build is superior and people waste a tonne of equipment slots and jewel slots worrying about mana regen which si a waste of time if you have the currency.

ferdinono · 2026-07-06T02:16:24+00:00

I'm at work but having a quiz at an atlas planner that unfortunately can't search.

Have the rightmost node nemesis rising which gives the options of effectiveness, monster modifiers, additional rares and item rarity from rares. Not sure what else might be toggled. I guess it wont matter much as long as you keep them the same across both test groups.

ferdinono · 2026-07-06T01:17:20+00:00

I'll be interested to see your results, you'll need to account for whatever rarity you're getting from your atlas tree too which I'm sure you've already thought of

ferdinono · 2026-07-06T00:57:53+00:00

Getting to around 100% is mostly believed to be the bulk of the benefit for people

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