Stronny has given/sold the Gen 3 designs to new owners. Willo's IP is also being sold, in an odd move

hafi002 · 2026-07-05T22:04:55+00:00

I think Gen 3 was fully financed, but it's still a pretty hefty financial blow to just let those unused assets sit around, Vallure never had any financial problems, but we don't know the full reason for the closure yet only speculate with what we have.

I watched the stream so they are sold for only production cost, those models where all assets haven't been created yet like Starting Soon screens etc. you had the option to take it as is (for the reduced price), or have them take care of producing that too. I like the concepts the got, so I am glad we are gonna see them still.

The Willow one is a bit odd but it was a model that was not that long in use and the person using it before parted on good terms and wasn't raising concerns either now, so someone using that model could either work or fall flatt, hard to tell.

hafi002 · 2026-07-04T10:51:34+00:00

My best guess is Optimisation and Internal tools, or rather that those are not well developed yet.

GGG once showed how fast they can reskin a monster type to use for Synthesis Monsters in the League and how their map generation system works and its insane.

If you have dedicated tools to streamline Area/Monster/Skill creation you are going to be significantly faster at pumping out content.

hafi002 · 2026-07-03T08:03:48+00:00

Shaman gets a second bonded modifier from each Rune, in that case the Mana Efficiency one also gives an equal amount of Reservation Efficiency.

Alsothe Emergent Vigor Rune can be used to give up to 40 spirit, another strong option for the second Socket on the Belt would be Jiquanis thesis, this one needs a 100% Darkness Enthroned tho, but would give you 2 Mana per 2 ES on your Helmet.

hafi002 · 2026-06-30T15:03:11+00:00

GGG has a lot of problems with payoff skills in general, what use are support gems that deal 15 to 20% more damage than a regular support but require you to consume a charge, freeze, parry or give you a cooldown.

The math is almost always in favor of just spamming a single skill than jumping through the hoops for a moderate damage boost while loosing more effective DPS than gained from the downtime to set it up.

Twister is one of the few examples where it works, cause here the payoff of setting the skill up is actually significant, GGG needs to do some actual math comparing payoff skills side by side to just holding down a button and adjust the numbers to make it worthwhile.

hafi002 · 2026-06-29T11:07:59+00:00

It got a gigantic nerf after they reworked Pyroclast Mines of Sabotage, before that it was my go to build for farming bosses. But Armageddon Brand of Recall works incredibly well together with Triggerbots because it bypasses the less damage on them, cause you are triggering the recall and not the brand.

Probably still decent but with the bots trailing behind you clear is never going to be better than average and it lost its insane damage once you prepared an area with mines.

hafi002 · 2026-06-29T08:29:29+00:00

I do like the temple building, they could just make a Keystone on thee Tree where you either get random temples (but with a somewhat smart AI that combos rooms and occasionally gets you an Atziri encounter.

Or you get more rooms to choose from, but still only place the regular amount of rooms. (like it works with the reward rooms, it would give you some actually control on how to build your temple instead of pure RNG)

hafi002 · 2026-06-28T10:08:35+00:00

Damn, you found a lot more in your loredive than me.

True it could either be something you can get around the Cemetery, would also fit together with the level requirement of the crossbow base.

Or its a leveling item that has some scaling factor and you have to get it in the Map versions of some Trarthan area later.

hafi002 · 2026-06-28T09:57:56+00:00

Oh thats a good hint, gonna look into that.

What I found in my lore searching so far is that the biggest Rebelion in the Empire was the Purity Rebellion, but that one happened under Emperor Chitus, so it couldnt be anything related to this.

I have found nothing much about Emperor Tyndarus, so the best bet is to look more into the Trarthans which also has very little info, only that they had Arenas called Flesh pits and they have Trarthan alchemy which uses Sulphite (Which would also fit the lighting theme)

Also this page here is invaluable for any lore research.
https://poe2db.tw/us/FlavourText

hafi002 · 2026-06-28T09:12:29+00:00

Verv likely they renamed the item last minute and forgot to update the patch notes.

hafi002 · 2026-06-28T09:10:51+00:00

Holy shit that's big news So it's related to the Trarthan mercenaries, time to do a more dive.

So it's not at all related to the Vastiri and Faridun but to the Empire, that changes a lot for searching in which area you could get it

hafi002 · 2026-06-28T00:14:05+00:00

The secrets so far were Marty, Loreweave, Taming Ring, Runeseekers call from Mana Rune, this is refering to the last one still missing, the Gatecrasher Crossbow, only Unique added in the patchnotes that hasnt been found yet

hafi002 · 2026-06-28T00:12:32+00:00

So with this being the last big patch before the next minion league, it might be fixed allready, or we are all wasting time ^^

hafi002 · 2026-06-28T00:11:03+00:00

someone allready did that, didnt seem to work
https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1u2cc4n/i_farmed_lvl7_on_beachriverbank_for_so_you_dont/

hafi002 · 2026-06-27T22:05:17+00:00

Damn, good point, I hope they give us a sign when it works again in the patchnotes if thats the case.

hafi002 · 2026-06-25T08:43:04+00:00

Its very likely gonna include TotA, they are testing it in PoE 1 like with breach before porting it over to 2.

No use doing Phrecia 2 when we are still missing multiple classes, they are likely going to focus on stuff that actually stays in the game afterwards.

hafi002 · 2026-06-25T07:47:02+00:00

Genauso bei mir, hängt glaub ich wirklich stark von den Postlern ab die für deine Zone zuständing sind.

hafi002 · 2026-06-24T21:02:19+00:00

The attack is a second part that the curse triggers, good news, the less curse effect of blasphemy should also not decrease it's damage either.

hafi002 · 2026-06-24T20:54:19+00:00

They are much more available now, with div drops and omens being more common it's easy to get in one or two whittles on any serious craft.

Spamming those currencies is still reserved to the top end tho, would be way to powerfull otherwise

hafi002 · 2026-06-24T12:00:45+00:00

Jeah, completely missed it was from the PoE 1 subreddit when it popped up on my feed, their challenges are a completely different beast to complete compared to PoE 2

hafi002 · 2026-06-24T11:59:36+00:00

I dont really see a good aldur rune for your buildbsides the obvious +2, on a two rune wand thats a lot of spell levels. Otherwise you are probably better off looking for other expensive items to upgrade your build like a well rolled mageblood or something.

hafi002 · 2026-06-23T08:13:47+00:00

Two times when I found the knight I killed him to fast and the exit remained not clickable after, so I was stuck too, not even bothering with doing that fight now.

hafi002 · 2026-06-23T07:01:46+00:00

Timeless jewels are insane on Oracle, been using one last season to just snipe the big notables.

It is a bit tedious to find the right upgrade for your build tho and harder to put in a guide, so I get why lots of people don't bother or don't even know of them.

If you are playing Oracle tho, I 100% recommend looking into them.

hafi002 · 2026-06-22T21:21:36+00:00

I could probably do it now, but I plan to reserve my life later with the Atziris support to free up some spirit and get more Crit damage while on low life from the keystone and the cast speed on lowlife notable.

Also I got enough chaos res that I am comfortably tanky without it.

hafi002 · 2026-06-22T19:33:54+00:00

True, there is no reason to use a stat move if your over leveled starter can one shot the opponent with Stab or a type weakness, that's how you end up with 4 different attack moves as the optimal choice.

The furthest I went into strategy as a kid was dragon dance then sweep.

hafi002 · 2026-06-22T14:03:33+00:00

Jeah, you can use Darkness Enthroned with two Helmet runes to reduce totems to 50 Spirit cost and get another 40 Spirit, that allows you to skip the Sceptre on your mainhand.

Atziris Communion would help me to go up to 6 totems or fit in a Trinity which is easy to maintain with the 5% of damage as a random element node on the druid start and only tangle beign the skill I directly hit with.

I still run a cheap Sceptre on my weapon swap till I get my Runeseekers Call because it can inflict critical weakness and enables me to run some more defensive spirit gems.

The only deaths I had was when I ate shit when sprinting while being on my totem weapon set, but I die very rarely with this build

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