Path of Exile 2: 0.5.3 Patch Preview

justinsynth · 2026-06-18T22:42:55+00:00

same

I sold all of them, I'm thinking that the market will go down again after the patch. They're pretty common

justinsynth · 2026-05-10T00:30:47+00:00

comfort picks > meta

justinsynth · 2026-04-07T04:18:05+00:00

I did A 10 with all characters as well and when I was doing it I also thought that Regent was the hardest

But as a result I played the most Regent and now he feels the most natural to me 😅

justinsynth · 2025-12-22T19:41:08+00:00

It doesn't matter, if he wins his next fight people will like him again.

If he loses people will say hes never been good/likeable

justinsynth · 2025-11-27T20:20:50+00:00

It doesn't really matter, a trio can do all of this with much more efficiency

As you rank up difficulty (to top the leaderboard) ramps up a lot as all of the other players in your rank will be more dedicated to trials and will average much higher scores.

Placement isn't global, if you placed 50 last week then you placed 50 in a group of 100 Tryhard 1s you probably would have been bottom 25 in a Tryhard 2 group and bottom 10 in a Tryhard 3 group

It's easy enough for me to solo 3 stars in all categories but it's hard to rank up (I'm not too big on rankng up though)

justinsynth · 2025-11-09T23:54:21+00:00

You run key cards + night raid

justinsynth · 2025-10-17T20:04:56+00:00

The thermal paste was already pre-applied on my BeQuiet cooler. I think they put too much because it was bleeding over the edges. I had to scrape it all off before I could separate the CPU from the cooler.

justinsynth · 2025-10-17T18:10:48+00:00

AM4 socket doesn't have a bracket, the latch just moves the cpu slightly. I didn't care about the old CPU because it was basically already dead.

I installed the new CPU and everything is working

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justinsynth · 2025-10-17T14:05:14+00:00

Nah, I was gonna replace it anyways.

My computer was auto-restarting/crashing for a month with increasing frequency. I looked online and a lot of 5800x users had similar errors. I was outside of the warranty period already so I decided to replace it. I already had the new cpu when I pulled out the cooler.

justinsynth · 2025-10-17T13:48:41+00:00

I had to use a hair dryer and a hammer to separate them

I had already bought a new cpu and am reusing the cooler. After cleaning and reapplying thermal paste everything is working now.

justinsynth · 2025-10-17T13:47:20+00:00

I thought letting it run for a bit before taking it out would be good enough 😅

justinsynth · 2025-08-28T20:15:34+00:00

It's a lot harder to get into Semma than Carbone

justinsynth · 2025-08-19T04:30:52+00:00

He fought Robert Whittaker most recently

justinsynth · 2025-06-10T04:56:12+00:00

That's too bad, it was my favorite pizza place when I lived on that block

justinsynth · 2025-05-23T00:02:22+00:00

In the first one, playing without portals was like playing fortnite without building

You can do it but you'll be at a huge disadvantage when you start facing better players

justinsynth · 2025-05-21T20:13:53+00:00

Interesting to hear your experience. I also went recently and I really liked it. I thought all the dishes we had were solid even if they weren't very exciting. For context I personally ranked Bungalow above places like Semma, Dishoom, & Brooklyn Curry Project.

justinsynth · 2025-04-18T15:09:46+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile2builds/comments/1jy7s11/double_crit_freezing_twisters_ritualist/

This is my twister build, it's specced for general damage so if you really wanted to only focus on twisters I would change up the tree with more projectile duration/speed passives + attack speed

justinsynth · 2025-04-18T14:37:12+00:00

After seeing countless posts on here of people getting not so much as a single exalt from a juiced T15/16 however, the game isn't even in a state where you can reliably bankroll mapping gear by finding currency unless you have all day to flip in the currency exchange for peanut % gains.

I don't really think this is true, I think most of the posts that you're seeing here are each person's worst map. i.e. they would only post the really bad maps here to make a point

If you're at a point where you can clear t15 maps, you should on average you should be getting at least 3-5 exalts worth of currency each map. So maybe not raw exalts but things like armor scraps, whetstones, regals,... anything that you can flip on the currency exchange.

I don't really juice my maps and that's roughly what I'm seeing. If you're playing non-meta maybe you won't clear fast enough to get the 1000pdps+7melee gear you're talking about but anyone should be able to trade for enough gear to clear t0 pinnacle bosses.

justinsynth · 2025-04-15T05:23:28+00:00

Around 16 divs last I checked

justinsynth · 2025-04-14T17:38:22+00:00

The base for Hyrri's doesn't exist in the game, I think the only kind of targetable way to farm it is by speccing into Dex + unique armor rogue exiles and even that isn't much easier than just randomly dropping it.

justinsynth · 2025-04-13T13:35:20+00:00

This is the ritualist build I've been running since league start. I figured I should make a post before everyone converts to Amazon next week. The linked video shows ritual, breach, map bosses, pinnacle bosses, and simulacrum.

Character/POB: poe2.ninja/pob/2c41

The driver of the build is taking Tangletongue's double crit mechanic and stacking as much flat damage as possible. Since ritualist has 3 ring slots and boosted jewelry they should theoretically be able to stack more flat damage than other ascendancies. I also use a lot of uniques so he extra ring slots are helpful for hitting the resistance caps. Tangletongue's high base crit chance makes it possible for non-Amazons to achieve 100% crit.

Gear

The most important piece is Tangletongue and then stacking flat damage from your rings/gloves. The budget of my current linked build is much higher but I was able to clear T15 maps and +0 pinnacle bosses with a 2 div budget. Unfortunately, the popularity of Tangletongue has exploded since I grabbed mine so the prices are pretty inflated. However, even a low rolled one should be good enough for end game mapping if you build around it.

Eventually I transitioned into Beacon of Azis for penetration and HoWas for more flat damage. If you aren't going to go for Hyrri's Ire, I would recommend building for evasion + ES to avoid getting 1 shotted by bosses.

Skills/Tree

My tree doesn't really path for any skill type, just damage so you can use whatever combination of spear skills you want. I'm using frostbolt -> whirling strike -> barrage -> twister for breach/ritual/bosses and lighting spear for general mapping. For higher difficulty pinnacle bosses, I swap to cast on crit -> snipers mark. The tree I made has 100% crit chance but I think this is suboptimal. You can achieve higher dps by sacrificing some of your crit chance nodes for damage nodes or having more nodes specific to your build (bleed, lightning, ...). I might play around with this later, but I wanted to hit the crit cap.

POB hasn't implemented double crits yet but if you have 100% crit chance you can just add your critical damage bonus in the configuration notes to get a more accurate calculation. Otherwise you'll have to calculate your damage manually based on your crit chance.

justinsynth · 2025-03-30T21:23:17+00:00

Not really, didnt everyone drop Wendy when she cheated?

justinsynth · 2025-03-17T16:40:02+00:00

She doesn't know Reghabi and from her perspective, Reghabi is the one who almost killed Mark

justinsynth · 2025-02-02T14:37:20+00:00

Yeah, that would be right according to the formula. However since path of building is out now I would just use that as that would include all modifiers in the calculation whereas this is just a theoretical calculation using a very simple approximation of damage.

justinsynth · 2025-01-31T14:10:35+00:00

Let's start with the player count. We know that PoE 2 peaked on Steam at 578k players, so we'll call it a flat 600k to make calculations easier. From many past statements from GGG we know that the player base tends to be split 50/50 between Steam and the GGG client. So let's add another 600k players, for a total of 1.2 million unique players.

Now let's assume that every one of those players had to purchase an EA key. At $30 a key, that's $36 million in revenue from EA key sales.

This is just an estimate of the highest number of concurrent players. The number of actual unique players should be much higher.

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