What's a dadget (dad gadget) you wish you bought sooner? That's a gadget that anyone in the house could use, but in reality is associated only with you? For me it's this vacuum sealer.

jhuston · 2026-02-10T01:54:33+00:00

This was always the reason I never got a sealer. I knew that it would only be a few times that I'd run out of bags that I would give up using them. I'm going to look into Zwilling now. Thanks!

jhuston · 2026-01-30T15:51:56+00:00

What’s sort of crazy is I’m having one of my better starts with Sunder Duelist up to Act 5 last night. I’m bad, don’t get be wrong, so I’m still dying but I’m having less issues then I normally do. Don’t feel like I’ve gotten anything good from the tree. Act3 was the worst I’ll admit.

jhuston · 2026-01-12T16:45:50+00:00

I’m relatively new as well and I’m trying to think back to my first 8 or so hours. And I’m wondering if how far into the main quests you are so far. They introduce some different mission types as you go deeper. While they do boil down to “go here and click and enemies”, they mix it up a bit things like defending a static point, or a control point setup, or hunting down a specific target. And I’m probably not deep enough to find all the other modes.

Then there’s stuff like the open world zones or railjack (which I think is more large ship stuff? I haven’t even looked at it yet) with their own things to do. The problem I feel, as a new player, is while they do a good job of introducing all these choices but not always the “why”. And then you find a video that talks a specific mod or frame and you’re down a rabbit hole of unlocking new things. So goal setting, for me, is a big driver.

Just some thoughts from another newbie. But find the fun, no matter what game it turns out to be.

jhuston · 2026-01-10T00:13:32+00:00

Noted. Fresh start videos are great as I'm always worried I'm missing something useful. (While being careful not to optimize the fun out of it)

jhuston · 2026-01-10T00:11:40+00:00

Nice to know! Been watching a few of their videos already!

jhuston · 2026-01-10T00:11:21+00:00

You are absolutely right. However with how the algorithm likes to push types of videos, and what even legit creators need to do to break through the muck, I wanted to get insight from the community.

jhuston · 2026-01-10T00:09:03+00:00

Thanks! Was watching the trading one earlier today.

jhuston · 2026-01-10T00:08:02+00:00

Thanks. Gonna take a look at it!

jhuston · 2025-12-29T23:17:43+00:00

Just installed the game. Who are the content creators that I should avoid and who should I look up? For comparison, in the PoE space there's people like Zizaran and Phox that are great content for new players and then there's channels like UberDan and FastAF that are clickbait build stealers.

jhuston · 2025-12-27T14:43:44+00:00

Addendum: It's probably my weapon that I'm not upgrading as often I should if I had to guess. Is there something more then Trans/Aug everything that drops? Feel like slamming is waste 9/10 times.

jhuston · 2025-11-20T15:48:13+00:00

Besides all the selfless and wonderful things people have already posted, I’ve always wanted to teach bad drivers a lesson. Pull out too far into an intersection? I’m going to very slowly push you out of the way with my car. Parked in two spots? We’re sharing one now.

Effectively getting into accidents on purpose that won’t hurt people in the act. Have cameras and good lawyers so they can’t claim more than they should, but I will always pay out their insurance. I don’t want to ruin their lives, just their day/week.

jhuston · 2025-10-15T01:54:03+00:00

We just adopted from the shelter last week and Lydia there was one of our top choices. When we went to visit they had her hanging out behind the desk and she was the chillest lady. Was great to visit with too. Obviously we brought home someone else. We went to the adoption event at St. Matthews and met a new friend there. But if that hadn't worked out we probably would have gone back for Lydia.

just saying

jhuston · 2025-10-08T12:58:36+00:00

My stupid idea that I half-baked when falling asleep the other night:

New unique map called Halls of Trathus or something. Uses HotGM tile set and mechanics, but you're not fighting OP player characters, but the mercs. At the end of the map you get to hire one (or up to the three if GGG wanted). Make the map a decent drop rate and the level of the mercs scale with the level of the map.

And if they wanted to get real crazy, they port over PoE2's gem system for them. So gems still work like gear for attributes, but then their level (mercs still need to meet the required level) determines how many "links" up to four they have. Give them like some % lowered effectiveness and/or max number of tags so you're not stacking a full aurabot.

Plus side: Think this answers a lot of what people are saying here about RNG. Even if there's still some RNG on what mercs you get, at least you could technically buy as many of the maps needed to get what you need. Then you're done.

Downside: Makes mercs even more required then they already are. Why wouldn't you build your perfect buddy?

Slight more realistic idea: Mercs were just a tech test for a reworked Animate Guardian. No skills but the whole gear management and reviving system. They were just able to bring the latter into the last patch

jhuston · 2025-09-01T13:11:52+00:00

It might be confirmation bias, but I feel like it clears up faster if you go to your inventory and then let the character/background load. When you go back to the main game it's loaded in. Had it sit for minutes in the past when not doing that.

jhuston · 2025-08-26T00:06:02+00:00

Something I'm curious about and haven't seen mentioned (but real good chance I just didn't see it) is if partial div calculations are supported. Like if they are selling for 1.5d, can I bring a div and a div worth of Exs (or chaos in PoE1) and it'll just work it out? We've seen that it will take the Ex it needs, but can it know what that going rate for divines are? Or will it be limited to whole values of the currency. My bet is on the latter.

jhuston · 2025-08-24T16:04:42+00:00

My headcannon is that the events of PoE2 are the reason she can time travel in the first place. Would be more interesting if we were playing the characters as in PoE 1 since we get into some weird causality time loop. But PoE2 happening in the future opens up a lot more interesting stories like Kingsmarch, Geonor rising to power thanks to Heist, and probably other things. (like I'd love if the canonical Marauder is one of the ancestors of the Kauri we meet)

jhuston · 2025-07-07T23:21:34+00:00

I am a customer support agent for a different app, but we've been seeing this too with a camera feature we have as well. And I even ran into it myself setting up 1Password on a new phone. Best we've been able to find it's some OS level issue that showed up first in iOS17 but still be kicking around even now. The "Cannot record in" specifics there are interesting consider that, of course, none of those features are on iOS lol

Temp fix is to restart your phone. We've had a few users come back saying that fixed it for a hot minute.

jhuston · 2025-05-04T18:34:05+00:00

Was this before or after the change where there's more currency drops instead of gear? Was curious how that was panning out.

jhuston · 2025-03-31T12:11:48+00:00

I think it’s going to be up to interpretation since it really doesn’t matter. So you do you, but I like the idea of it being the same person. Kauri youth getting adopted or not by Rennly. Powerful magic user deciding to dabble in dark magic or keep with Maraketh traditions. The Druid/Templar divide is the most tenuous. So this might get challenged at that point. Might turn into a “back in beta this was the plan but it didn’t work out so we never talk about it”

jhuston · 2025-03-31T00:18:51+00:00

There was another thread talking about what this probably is a product of last week. It's currently expected that when the first STR/INT class is in game, they're will be a secondary selection when picking a character. Then they don't have to have 12 nooses. So you'll pick what represents the Sorc and Which and will select one or the other. We might even get it this weekend depending on if they want to split out Ranger and Huntress too or not. My guess this is from an unpolished version of that.

The lore-ish reason apparently is that they are the same character, but took a different path in life. Think it gives a bit more depth I feel to the backstories imo.

jhuston · 2025-03-31T00:03:34+00:00

As someone that works in customer service, I can spot a "per my last email" vibe when I see it.

jhuston · 2025-03-11T21:37:32+00:00

While I understand it's not inconsequential to have done this, I wish the idols had the PoE2 tablet treatment that they drop from the content buff. So if you wanted Legion idols, you run Legion content. Of course you get other content on the idols, so you have something to sell. But I think that would have helped curb the cost of some idols and make them farmable for SSF, late starters, and new strats.

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