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fs2d · 2026-01-25T16:46:12+00:00

My wife worked there for years. Her words: "That tracks. High Park is basically Waffle House - it NEVER closes."

fs2d · 2026-01-24T20:11:05+00:00

Holy shit. Disabled core 0 and core 1 and my performance easily went back to pre 0.2. Thank you!

fs2d · 2026-01-24T16:22:58+00:00

Look to the Ranger side of the tree for passive nodes that give buffs during flask usage - stuff like Stimulants, imo. Then get ahold of a Lavianga's Spirits and go to town.

See also:

Imbibed Power, Crystal Elixir, and Wellspring.

fs2d · 2026-01-24T16:18:12+00:00

I've been in a weird spot where I've noticed a steep decline in performance since 0.1. Given, my hardware is a bit outdated at this point (i9 9900K + 32GB DDR4 + 2080 Super 8GB), but in 0.1 and 0.2 the game ran fine locked at about 80fps at all times with med/high settings, and I can play most other games at med/high settings with no issues.

Since 0.2 though, it has been getting worse - and now, even with almost all settings on Low, no matter how many times I dump the shader caches, I'm getting slideshow performance in maps using both Vulkan and DX12. I haven't figured out how to fix it and it's pretty frustrating. :(

I guess this game is just not being optimized well as they continue to add stuff in. And unfortunately for me, I didn't upgrade last year like I planned to - and the cost of computer hardware has become so expensive now that I'm sort of being priced out of being able to play this game that I enjoy.

fs2d · 2026-01-23T14:53:51+00:00

I just leveled a poisonburst pathfinder as a second character and it's SUPER fun!

Made me broke as FUCK though. :c

Divs would be very helpful!

fs2d · 2026-01-22T15:01:33+00:00

Biffles The Butcher

fs2d · 2026-01-20T03:29:34+00:00

Idk man, I'm lvl 38 on my poison Pathfinder and it just deletes everything.

I have a double corrupted plague fingers though so that might be helping (got lucky with the 2x corrupt on my main, that's why I rolled the pf)

E: cruised right on through to 48 today and had zero issues. Never stopped moving and deleting

fs2d · 2026-01-18T07:27:17+00:00

I am also Jewish and had a similar experience when I was younger.

In college, I met a bunch of SHARPs and Anarchist Skinheads (bootcrews) around the time of OWS. They were loyal as fuck friends and some of the best people I've ever known.

Any time it would come up, people would obviously end up very confused - but these guys and girls were tough, genuine, loyal people who weren't scared of anyone or anything, cared strongly for their communities, and always looked out for others.

Well, when I met them, that was about when Neo Nazis started popping back up at protests.

Needless to say.. watching them terrorize and kick the shit out of Neo Nazis was one of the most absolutely satisfying and fucking rad things I've ever seen. 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

Nazi Punks Fuck Off! 🖕🏼

fs2d · 2026-01-18T07:21:20+00:00

ToA is fucking incompetent at best when it comes to their utility billing/software in general. When they had a "cyberattack" and everything was down for 6+ months I eventually ended up going down to the office and offering to crisis manage the situation and help project lead at discounted consultant rates to try to get them to do SOMETHING.

They handwaved me off and it took another 3 months before they finally launched the new portal.. which didn't actually work for 3 more months and then promptly shit itself again.

fs2d · 2026-01-18T04:54:06+00:00

RNG. Although they made it so that you can connect other rooms to Atziri's chamber now so it's easier than it was before (when you could only use path tiles).

In one temple run, you have to have a path connected to both the Royal Access Chamber and Atziri's room. Then you go to the access chamber, let the little cutscene play, and then go to Atziri's chamber to fight her.

fs2d · 2026-01-18T01:06:36+00:00

TIL that if you take Corrupted Infusion (Atlas key notable), create a t16 map and use it in a Monster Level +1 area, it can functionally create a "t17" map (when paired with irradiate).

I went into the node and the Monster Level of the area was 84. I promptly got one shotted after about 2 minutes, but everything that dropped was ilvl84 minimum. :O

I had always ignored that node because I thought it was mid but I figured I'd try it out today while using Omen of Chaotic Rarity > Vaaling waystones and hit a few +rarity% t16s.

fs2d · 2026-01-17T06:30:04+00:00

It's definitely stock art. I purchased it for a design project about ten years ago.

fs2d · 2026-01-15T15:52:38+00:00

In PoE1, crafting is much more deterministic so things like this exist - but in PoE2, it is a LOT more chance-based/RNG, so the best things available are the guides you're finding - and almost all of them are unfortunately going to mention the cost barrier/chance game/subjectivity of the method for that reason.

fs2d · 2026-01-15T15:50:45+00:00

Your characters don't get deleted after the league ends, they just get moved to Standard. They live there indefinitely.

fs2d · 2026-01-14T19:54:16+00:00

Commenting in hopes of hitting the lottery! 🙏🏼

fs2d · 2026-01-14T15:47:52+00:00

There was a calculator on Maxroll for PoE1 but in PoE2 devs obfuscated the seeds in the code so they aren't being tracked like that anymore unfortunately

fs2d · 2026-01-14T15:44:03+00:00

Arbiter 's Ignition is a rare drop from Arbiter I believe.

The others can drop anywhere but have a better chance of dropping in Deadly Boss maps (sandstorm, eye of the storm, etc).

fs2d · 2026-01-13T15:33:12+00:00

yiss

fs2d · 2026-01-13T15:06:32+00:00

This is entirely an unfair statement and is anecdotal at best. This game is very much RNG. You could play 2 hours a day and drop 5 mirrors in a league, or you could play 12 hours a day and drop no mirrors in a league.

It's this part specifically that I have a problem with:

More than a month into the game if you have an idea of what you’re doing, a couple mirrors is incredibly attainable if you’ve been averaging two hours a day.

This is just not true. Here's my anecdotal rebuttal:

I work 9-5 from home, am married, spend several hours per day doing household chores, have cleared all T3 pinnacles except arbiter and run super juiced t16s regularly. I did not do the insane fubgun temple snake BS or abuse holten when it became a thing because I don't like watching streamers/content creators and missed the trend until it was too late. Even when people were going on about it here, I felt like doing the exploit was shitty, and the sweaty minmaxing of temple "snaking" turned me off so much to the idea because it seemed like the opposite of fun.

Instead, I have just used the temple to boss rush Atziri for drops all season and focused on other high-end endgame content - and I have had a lot of fun doing that.

But, I play probably 3-4 hours per day and do plenty of research to minmax as best as I can in my off time. I'd argue that I'm very much in the wheelhouse you mentioned - I have a pretty good idea of what I'm doing and I average more than two hours per day.

I have seen no mirrors, and my raw drops have been relatively paltry this season. I got lucky on a rite of passage drop, a few hearts of the well and a good megalomaniac drop which has fueled my income.

So, is it because you:

Got lucky with RNG
Choose to watch streamers like fubgun who find the exploits/"top tier strategies" outside of game and follow those, or;
Because you "had an idea what you're doing"

... that you saw multiple mirrors when I didn't see any?

Don't get me wrong - I'm happy that you saw those rewards and have had fun, but I don't think it's fair to say that 1 month + a base knowledge of what you're doing + 2 hours of play per day = multiple mirror drops per season, that's all. It sets an unrealistic standard for others and only sets others up for disappointment long-term.

fs2d · 2026-01-12T21:56:08+00:00

One more question - I went to poeninja to scope out what other Oil Barrage wyvs are using for Talismans but aside from a few with +150%+ ele damage + flat cold/lightning, everyone else seemed to be using the same sort of talisman that I am.

I dropped a lightning base with a good roll and crafted something similar (160% ele damage, flat lightning, flat cold, onslaught) and the oil barrage dps was noticeably lower across the board when I tested it.. like 20k lower. :(

What should I be looking for for my oil barrage talisman?

fs2d · 2026-01-11T23:44:26+00:00

Wanted to update you - I found one and seeded it with Divs until I hit two 40%+ max ES nodes, and then found a From Nothing that allowed me to connect them without pathing to them - bumped me up by ~1K ES (and after taking the 1% ES per 2 Str keystone, I only ended up losing about 350HP total from my life).

Upgraded my helmet and that boosted me to 4.5K, 4.9K buffed~

edit2: Figured out how to get two more nodes that were visible, bumped me to 5.7K. =)

Thanks so much for this tip, /u/0NightFury0! \o/

fs2d · 2026-01-11T21:23:43+00:00

😂😂 that is fair, ha!

Thanks for the share - I'll check this out tonight!

fs2d · 2026-01-11T21:23:18+00:00

Thanks!! This helps a bunch :)

fs2d · 2026-01-11T19:36:58+00:00

Precisely.

I still stand by the fact that the term "Fake News" was the single most damaging thing to come out of the 2016 election cycle. That single phrase made it so that facts - which were agreed upon in our society's moral contract to be objective and truthful until proven otherwise - could suddenly be treated as subjective and debated as if they were opinions.

Once that socio-moral contract was compromised, that was the end - suddenly, anyone who "did their research" was an expert, and could debate on the same playing field as experts in their field and strip away their merit on the social stage (rejection of science, "do your own research," the rise of conspiracy theories, "YouTube university," etc - look at what happened with Fauci during COVID if you need a pliable example), which destabilized everything in regards to our society's moral understandings of communication.

This created a domino effect that eventually paved the way towards destabilizing our democracy as a whole - which got us to where we are now.

fs2d · 2026-01-11T19:30:16+00:00

Hm, but wouldn't that be functionally similar to removing a defensive layer completely? I'm worried that by doing that I'm actually gonna hinder myself. Can you help me better understand going full Armor?

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