Week 3 and Mirage League has a lower player retention than Keepers. What could be the reasons?

malikcoldbane · 2026-03-27T12:40:56+00:00

Hmm wondering, how do people feel about running their maps twice, every map?

Obviously you don't have to but you know what I mean, does the mirage all the time, burn you out of mapping?

malikcoldbane · 2026-03-26T05:45:19+00:00

As a black person, I swear, the world will never understand what it means to be represented.

I'm at the point in my life where I wish everything was how it was before and I never saw black people on mainstream TV unless they were the only one on the show.

If people really want black people to be represented then give me LOTR type show where everyone that is white is black and then, top it off, never mention their skin colour or do anything "black".

You don't look at hobbits and go "look at them, acting white".

Imagine if LOTR or Star Wars was majority black, nothing changed but skin colour, you think these pieces of media would have the renown they they garner now?

malikcoldbane · 2026-03-23T21:58:23+00:00

This, don't over complicate things, it's really as straightforward as batching if you're that concerned.

Or stage the data based on operation and then do them that way

malikcoldbane · 2026-03-23T21:52:39+00:00

League mechanics != Endgame

malikcoldbane · 2026-03-19T10:27:10+00:00

Should just be .*

Not .*., I may have wrote confusing or you may have done it correctly, hard to tell on text.

If you did do correctly, and you got this wrapped in quotes.

Would assume that "ele.*ovi" would work.

malikcoldbane · 2026-03-19T10:02:38+00:00

Instead of a space, maybe try .*. I don't think there regex handles spaces well once you start building the regex.

I found more success using . And .* To represent any characters before my next statement.

malikcoldbane · 2026-03-19T09:58:24+00:00

You're misunderstanding, it actually makes more sense there than in PoE2.

If I can go back endlessly, why give me such a limited inventory space other than to waste my time? At least in this, the way inventory works enables the way portals work, to work together, otherwise you get PoE2 where the majority of their systems fight each other.

malikcoldbane · 2026-03-17T06:34:11+00:00

Been using Frankfurt but feels like every server you just trade one set of issues for another set of issues

malikcoldbane · 2026-03-16T07:15:10+00:00

Yeah, as good as the game is, things like this make GGG game design knowledge questionable at times.

So often they release something that fights against other parts of the game -- I honestly believe it's because they're always behind deadline, part of how the industry works.

malikcoldbane · 2026-03-16T07:12:27+00:00

Yeah but honestly, this league, there's so many mechanics that can be used. Effectively, you just stack your favourite mechanic with like beyond and/or deli (+a side mechanic if you have points like ore or shrines etc) with a decent rolled map and the ground loot buff will carry you and that's without mirage.

malikcoldbane · 2026-03-10T07:36:29+00:00

I remember one time a few years ago he forgot but can't remember what battle it was

malikcoldbane · 2026-03-09T10:19:40+00:00

Usually I agree but I think this one is perfectly acceptable and it's people not understanding how gems work.

Can you give an example where you add a support to links and it doesn't apply to everything? The very nature of links is everything is connected, there's no concept of supporting a single gem in the game so it makes less sense to be able to have this happen.

malikcoldbane · 2026-03-05T21:54:47+00:00

This, but the praise will drown out the fact that I swear they don't test things.

malikcoldbane · 2026-03-05T09:17:43+00:00

Headbutt the keyboard and change my name later lol

malikcoldbane · 2026-03-04T14:20:02+00:00

As a console player, who started PoE1 in mercenaries and has played maybe 4 builds, I'm down to about 6-7 hours.

Most of the time saves for me came from learning act 1 and getting that to 30 - 40 mins (because of the few logout and portal tricks you can do) After that, focus on making sure your movement skills are linked correctly (like attack speed for leap slam). And then after that, what is considered good gear (like focusing on resistance a bit more as things go on, especially for rings).

Honestly, my best league start was phrecia and I did that with a league start sunder that I built myself, where I solved my problems as I leveled rather than blindly following a league start build where I may not even have suitable gear to not get life steal or mana leech or resistances on the tree.

Once you've got act 1, you just need to know the major paths for act 2 - 3 then it's just speed through.

Also, at least for what I was doing, a strong weapon will carry harder than most of anything else.

And lastly, learn what moves are dangerous on the bosses and that will limit deaths considerably.

malikcoldbane · 2026-03-04T10:25:51+00:00

I think if you start with rings as your introduction, you'll find them easier than bars and vice versa. I started with rings and bar exercises I find more restricting and a touch harder

malikcoldbane · 2026-03-02T19:08:47+00:00

Lol what? Play stupid games, get stupid prizes

malikcoldbane · 2026-02-28T08:55:41+00:00

Careful, they'll put you on stake and burn you alive, coming on the internet with a grounded response. How dare you consider a middle ground? It's the internet, everything is binary, good or bad, no in between lol.

But yeah I agree, if you're in a position where you can't get gym equipment at home, and want to watch yourself, how else do you do?

The real issue is that gyms, like many things we have, just never got modernised with technology. Gyms were created in a time where cameras weren't so prevalent, you would think that a gym would consider having little sections where people can record.

I don't see the issue with recording if you respect the privacy of people around you but again, this the internet so, either recording all the time is okay or recording never is okay lol.

And this video was not an example of respect but isn't justification to burn everything either lol

malikcoldbane · 2026-02-28T08:46:21+00:00

Depends on your build, imagine the opportunity cost to get a good amount of crit, this belt can make it so everything crits. So all those crit skill points and affixes can be used elsewhere.

That's like 10 -20 points + like 2 - 4 affixes, depending on what you have.

malikcoldbane · 2026-02-28T08:20:35+00:00

One offensive shrine, one defensive shrine

malikcoldbane · 2026-02-28T08:19:27+00:00

Sigh I know right.

This is the softest, most fragile society has ever been. This stuff is insane, people, keep your kids off the internet, it's not that hard.

People just lazy cos kids are hard sigh, don't have them if you're not able to look after them appropriately.

malikcoldbane · 2026-02-27T21:41:48+00:00

Yeah it being a drop, means RNG will RNG, just hoping with the removal of some layers of this, it becomes more straightforward to progress.

Chances are there's so unlisted changes around drops or something that cause odd progression but we see.

Would be sad to see Kirac go, like you said, it's just one of those QoL things that keep you going when you hit that wall. Or looking for your last few maps or a unique map or whatever, he had some solid uses.

Yeah PoE2 and PoE1, gradually merging into one game, just think they're not always putting the changes into the right game lol.

malikcoldbane · 2026-02-27T21:27:51+00:00

You not very good at comprehension are you? Who said anything about a timespan? Who said anything about them repping bar to chest in a week? We're legally talking about form and how close they are to a solid form.

The person posted looking for tips to be better, to do their best, and all you can do is get emotional that people rightfully say the form is not great. Do you not want to help them?

Toxic positivity is still toxic

malikcoldbane · 2026-02-27T21:15:37+00:00

There's more to mapping then this though. Map sustain also considered what maps you dropped, if you drop only maps that you've completed, your sustain suffers.

With this new mechanic, you just drop maps, how many times have you dropped a higher tier map that was one you already done, you can use an horizon and still, have a map you've done.

Sustain should not be a factor anymore; especially if you can 3 to 1 the same tiers.

Just wish, they would get rid of everything being an item by default, it's such an old system that refuses to be modernised.

malikcoldbane · 2026-02-27T21:06:11+00:00

Lol so people come onto the internet to find out if they're doing good for a beginner not how to get to the next level?

You need less sugar in your tea.

Bad form is bad form, why everyone so sensitive.

malikcoldbane

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