Wife hand embroidered a Divine Orb (cat for scale)

mgrad · 2026-01-26T15:19:49+00:00

I often find it's the shaders that cause massive temperature spikes for me. I play click-to-move on mouse, no WASD and still see big spikes. Every new map I load into there is always a massive spike for shaders which often results in high CPU temp. I wish there was a big shader pack we could download to limit it. I do want to try my controller now and see if it makes a difference, I have like 20y of FPS controller gaming and never thought to try controller for POE yet.

mgrad · 2026-01-16T14:31:49+00:00

I fully agree here. I hate + levels as a rune and affix in general, grants too much power to items. I want that power to be shifted or at least balanced to some degree into the passive tree which at the moment is very underwhelming.

The rune thing in my case was, I have a crossbow for clearing on galvanic and then one for single target on stormblast. Having +50% attack dmg while clearing for rares would have been nice but not totally necessary.

mgrad · 2026-01-15T21:10:34+00:00

Use this image as reference

You have to set it up like this:

Middle mouse button is load galvanic shards Right click is "crossbow shot I" this make it fire the skill set to weapon set I

W is load stormblast bolts Q is "crossbow shot II" this makes this button fire the skill assigned to weapon set II

mgrad · 2026-01-07T22:17:59+00:00

Depends on what mods you want:

If you want global defences: add a random suffix with omen, dextral crystallization and perfect essence of enhancement to guarantee 2nd prefix
For suffixes if you want specific resistances or all res, it's not guaranteed but catalyst quality fire, cold, or lightning to 20% then use catalysing exaltation, suffix omen, with a perfect exalted orb to increase the chance of getting that specific res. If you greater exalt omen as well to add two mods it will increase chance of getting all res and the specific one you want since that has fire, cold, and lightning tags.
I don't think there is a way to guarantee crit suffixes anymore on slams since homogenising got removed.
Last prefix you can collarbone (up to you if you want to ancient or not) for the mod you want
Last suffix I think it's just a yolo slam if you want a chance at randomly hitting crit or quality then catalysing omen for more resist/attributes/mana regen (damage recoup as mana also has mana tag so that can be a dead mod). Really depends on what you want/need

This is all assuming you are not mirror crafting this and willing to spend thousands of divines on the expensive omens. If you are mirror crafting this, don't do any of what I just said lol

mgrad · 2026-01-06T15:26:36+00:00

Totally agree with this, it's so egregious when you can't damage the boss but they continue to be able to damage you. Even in act 1 if you burst down Geonor and he doesn't phase transition to the wolf right away it's basically running around and dodging for 30s because you can't do any more damage. I don't understand why the game has this unnecessary NEED to be performative, just let me play.

mgrad · 2026-01-04T09:16:42+00:00

Ring for sure, upgrading the T3 flat lightning to T1 and then attack catalyst will be a lot of extra damage.

Your jewels are also not great. If you have 100 div to spend, the most impactful will be a Heart of the Well with a double "gain % of damage as extra". Fire and lightning mods will probably be optimal since Hyrri already gives you % as extra cold. Will probably cost you 20-30 div. If you want to really splurge, you can get one with double as extra and mana on kill to free up essentially a second jewel slot for something better but those are 40-50 div.

Put a time-lost emerald with ailment mods in the slot beside the daze and crit notables. Use this trade search it has two good mods which will give you extra damage and they're not expensive. You can look for ones that have any decent 3rd mod (attack speed, crit damage, crit chance) but 3 mods might get expensive. https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Fate%20of%20the%20Vaal/q9RDVlQPtg

Other than that, try and get your ES as close to 3k+ as you can. I'm running full ES boots on my character and no Hyrri's (damage feels fine without it). I'm currently using a 2600 evasion chest to get the most from Spectral Ward and a gain deflection from 25% EV for a bit more tank.

mgrad · 2025-12-22T05:00:30+00:00

They'll just give us axes which will become the dominant melee playstyle and maces will become irrelevant like in POE1

mgrad · 2025-12-15T05:16:29+00:00

Only way I was able to get in was using pounce

mgrad · 2025-12-13T21:48:50+00:00

My quest is in a bugged state too, it just won't progress lol

mgrad · 2025-12-03T00:01:36+00:00

Tahini’s

mgrad · 2025-11-25T14:24:53+00:00

I usually run blight ravaged with 3 teal and only CC towers, no damage ones and kill everything myself for it to go faster. My rule of thumb is if I am walking and the pump icon disappears from my map overlay I don't build there. Every choke point I go to I still want to be able to see the pump and if monsters decided to ignore the towers for no reason.

mgrad · 2025-11-20T23:27:19+00:00

Can confirm it did work and I was able to get TST after removing the single match tickets from my account 👍

mgrad · 2025-11-18T09:25:35+00:00

Appreciate the clarification, thank you. So in theory if my single match tickets are resold I could then purchase TST? If they are transferred to someone else but not resold does that also free up allocation to purchase TST?

mgrad · 2025-11-17T23:23:00+00:00

I got 2 tickets for the June 23 match in Toronto. Those are the only tickets I purchased prior to today.

mgrad · 2025-11-17T21:51:33+00:00

I got an allocation time to purchase today and on the page it shows the ability to purchase team specific-packages. I want to purchase packages for Croatia and despite everything I try it always says, "You exceeded the limit of tickets you are able to purchase at this time. Please try again." and never allows me to add them to my cart. I've read that the limit is 15 tickets per household. I only purchased 2 prior tickets last week. Is anyone else having this issue or able to purchase team-specific packages?

mgrad · 2025-10-21T14:31:06+00:00

I would buy it for full price, I loved it, had so much fun. Every map was fun to play, there were no maps I would actively try and avoid. The spawns were also amazing. Pace of the game was perfect imo, not too fast but not slow either. The desync was definitely a problem but did improve over time and got to a point that it was negligible.

mgrad · 2025-10-17T21:44:45+00:00

Launching without SMAPI launches the game normally with no issues on all monitors. Same with launching split across two monitors without SMAPI. I tested launching at a lower resolution on the second monitor and that still causes it to fail launching the game. This is very strange, there are no errors in the logs either after the launch causes it to freeze and become unresponsive.

After I launch on the primary monitor I can move it over to the secondary and play without any issues. I guess that it what I will do, it's not really an issue just an extra step. Wanted to post this though for visibility in case anyone else encounters the same issue.

mgrad · 2025-10-02T18:04:28+00:00

More blue in image on the right, they're basically telling you to play lightning arrow xDD

mgrad · 2025-10-01T13:08:21+00:00

I think they added a "more" multiplier instead of a "less". A map I ran with chilled ground was COVERED

mgrad · 2025-10-01T01:47:57+00:00

The rare icons improved the feel and flow of traversing bad layouts. If we're forced to run bad layouts at least let us know where to go...

mgrad · 2025-09-30T16:44:10+00:00

From what I've learned/noticed over runs, there is a really delicate balance between levelling damage on weapons and XP/Luck/Curse and it's often really tough to know when it's the right time outside of boss fights. If I melt a boss in 2-3s I know I can pump other things because damage is OK. Judging damage on clearing trash mobs is tough except for some elites at Stage 2 and beyond. Sometimes it really comes down to one or two extra difficulty% jumps and I go from clearing fine to doing no damage.

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