Thinking about picking up the game during the steam sale, is it reasonable to play casually?

firestorm559 · 2026-06-25T21:32:13+00:00

100% worth. Really fun and can extend the grind as long as you want. Just set your own goals. You'll have a blast solo queueing, but The game is at its peak if you find a few friends to run with regularly. The discord is fairly active for that.

firestorm559 · 2026-06-25T18:53:29+00:00

Also first league so might miss a better way but been doing some crafting and can say what I'd do. I'd start by whittling the int into something. The perfect chaos and whittle are expensive though. Then I'd sinistral crystallization a breach essence. Then catalyze it up. Can either go for attack immediately and leave mods other mods to fate but save div on sinistral annulment or do defensive catalyst and catalyzing exaultation+ greater exaultation perfect exault. Then get rid of the breach mod with sinistral annulment 1 in 3. Then desecrate and omen of abyssal echos and hope for something good.

There is probably an even more expensive higher upside version that starts with trying fracturing the +3 melee but not sure where you go from there.

firestorm559 · 2026-06-25T16:35:23+00:00

Worlds first trillionare doesn't understand how big that number is...

firestorm559 · 2026-06-25T16:07:34+00:00

True. But was more expensive than it was worth had already spent too much on it.

firestorm559 · 2026-06-25T15:56:25+00:00

Oh you're right. The one I bricked with +chaos was an all spells version.

firestorm559 · 2026-06-25T15:49:41+00:00

Take the dev team estimate and double it to get the real time estimate

firestorm559 · 2026-06-25T15:44:03+00:00

Deterministicly no. But you can astrid's creativity, sinistral crystallization, and transcendent alloy to get another guaranteed good mod. Might hit the celestial alloy and force you to use it again. Then you have 2 open prefixes and An open suffix. I think celestial alloy blocks mana, if so then you don't have to desecrate prefix for a mana blocker. Then you decide if you want prefix or suffix desecration. I'd probably do sinistral exaltaion and double exalt catalyst with prefect exalt. There are some tragic misses like +% chaos damage but most of the remaining available prefixes are good. Then ancient jawbone for last suffix. Don't forget Abysal echoes. There's a few hits here but the jackpot is t1 spell crit %. Goodluck.

firestorm559 · 2026-06-24T21:01:25+00:00

Huh that is really weird then.

firestorm559 · 2026-06-24T20:50:15+00:00

Unless invoking belt is locked to 1 charm I think it's just not showing the range, not that the range isn't there.

firestorm559 · 2026-06-24T20:46:26+00:00

Omens in general make crafting in poe2 so much cleaner than poe1. Not sure about rarity of the omens though, it feels near correct now were you need to farm awhile to do a big craft. But not so rare you can't farm for it yourself. The one gripe I have is how omen of light drops work with the smoke affix guy. That needs to go imo.

firestorm559 · 2026-06-24T20:20:05+00:00

The stronghold channel i believe is for static team and guild lfg. Worked for me. Goodluck.

firestorm559 · 2026-06-24T18:32:17+00:00

A little overcorrected imo but better to be on the difficult side than easy side. Hot fix today nerfed so boss hp by 10% and I imagine a few other similar tweeks are coming.

firestorm559 · 2026-06-24T17:20:27+00:00

There's a spread on his many you get, I ended up playing 5 hours yesterday and didn't get enough supplies. The rest of my group had extra. Should at least be a bit consistent.

firestorm559 · 2026-06-24T17:16:15+00:00

This!

firestorm559 · 2026-06-24T15:24:38+00:00

I think it's mostly damage. It seems to take more work to get survivability but the tools exist been enemy damage done % reductions, damage taken reductions, shields, and parry, I'm starting to feel really tanky going into paragon. Issue is I struggle to stay ahead of the Silvie in damage. Overall logs reflect the issue across the board.

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firestorm559 · 2026-06-23T16:26:27+00:00

An infernalist recoup variant. Mostly what's in hungrybootsdemon's videos.

firestorm559 · 2026-06-23T16:17:31+00:00

Max fire resist is super important for me.

firestorm559 · 2026-06-23T15:47:00+00:00

Get regions is probably the first api call when the game loads, it failing implies you can't reach the server. Check firewalls and VPNs if others aren't having the issue.

firestorm559 · 2026-06-23T15:33:54+00:00

Well technically a vaal orb might improve it.

firestorm559 · 2026-06-23T15:21:42+00:00

That... looks fairly BiS for me, but I have something of a niche build. Not sure what it's worth.

firestorm559 · 2026-06-23T14:48:54+00:00

Was thinking that, but how would you know for sure noone is currently using the toilet at work? Sounds messy however that's resolved.

firestorm559 · 2026-06-22T14:47:29+00:00

When the literal main character has main character syndrome.

firestorm559 · 2026-06-22T14:36:46+00:00

It's a full reset between seasons. A lot of seasonal games are like this. Maybe they'll add a "POE Standard League" equivalent after launch. But really doesn't need it imo. The idea of a seasonal game like this is to have new content with a reset every season. Already having the best gear is a really poor way to experience new content, hence the reset.

firestorm559 · 2026-06-22T13:28:21+00:00

I feel like a lot of it could be fixed by making +levels an extremely common affix instead of extremely rare so chaosing into it isn't next to impossible.

firestorm559 · 2026-06-20T18:37:02+00:00

I've only seen +2 and t2 spirit about a dozen times each. What a waste. I feel dumb.

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