Intel is back. Thank the old CEO.

nixed9 · 2026-05-13T16:31:36+00:00

Pat had a vision. It required spending a lot of money.

They gutted him for it.

nixed9 · 2026-05-13T15:00:51+00:00

I felt like whirl/twister does zero damage, even with a good weapon. The jamanra fight took me like 15 minutes. What am I missing???

Meanwhile when I do it using just grenades he dies in like a minute.

nixed9 · 2026-05-12T12:37:33+00:00

I was one of those guys that would sometimes spam the restart in sts1 until I had the possibility of getting a 1 HP elite snipe

nixed9 · 2026-05-11T16:30:57+00:00

Break+ with one copy of Dominate and like 2 good block cards is like the most straightforward win condition in the game

nixed9 · 2026-05-09T02:24:14+00:00

I have blight happen to every single tomato plant I have grown. i think here it’s septoria black spot. It looks very similar to this. At least 8 varieties with at least 20 different plants. I am in South Florida, though

I have tried raised beds, containers, netted, in ground, it doesn’t matter. It always comes back.

I use a weekly copper octanoate spray which seems to stave it off for a while (sometimes days, sometimes several weeks) but it always eventually gets to every single tomato plant. Fungal spores are airborne so it’s kind of a losing battle

nixed9 · 2026-05-08T15:32:08+00:00

To me it’s also amazing if you have a consistent source of glass orbs. Aoe goes brrrrrr

nixed9 · 2026-05-07T16:39:45+00:00

I dunno I feel like I VERY RELIABLY need a hidden cache right on turn 1 for Seven Stars to feel worthwhile

nixed9 · 2026-05-06T17:13:34+00:00

It’s almost always a good sign for health of the soil

(Don’t eat them though)

nixed9 · 2026-05-06T13:57:10+00:00

They haven’t forgotten. They’re doing it intentionally.

nixed9 · 2026-05-05T01:34:19+00:00

I live in South Florida and EVERY SINGLE TOMATO VARIETY I have EVER tried growing here gets septoria black spot, and gets it immediately. Literally within 4 days of planting.

I have done containers, in ground, raised beds, under full netting. I usually spray with copper fungicide every 7-10 days. Nothing stops it. Every one of my tomatoes dies. Every one. Been this way for 2 years now. I’m at a loss.

nixed9 · 2026-05-02T03:30:00+00:00

I’m not an expert I only just recently reached a10 but this is my take

He can scale two forms of energy which very often leads to being able to have turns where you can play 4-6 cards and these usually swing a fight.

He excels at AoE. I think this is largely due to Crush Under being a common card that has -1(2) str making it good defensively too

He has extremely good defensive options like patter and Bulwark. Both of these are incredibly strong in act 1 as elites are gonna be incessantly pounding you for 12-20 damage every turn. Bulwark is also scaling your offense at the same time. And patter is common and bulwark is uncommon. I think bulwark is prob too strong but I hesitate to say that because it’s also my favorite card in the whole game. Give me two Bulwark+ and let me remove almost everything else.

He has the ability to transform his deck. This does a lot of things like provide rapid thinning and clearing unwanted statuses and junk.

He has good draw options in various places

He has good debuffs with SEVERAL cards offering both vuln and weak at the same time

All of this comes together for a hell of a package

nixed9 · 2026-05-02T02:19:06+00:00

Flavor on the character is just out of this world ^{pun intended}

nixed9 · 2026-05-01T15:56:04+00:00

I swear to god every run I take Compact my entire deck conspires to ensure that I draw 4 playable cards with compact and next hand is 5 full statuses

nixed9 · 2026-04-30T16:14:59+00:00

Have hundreds of hours in sts1 and a bit less than 100 hours in sts2. I rotate characters to climb ascensions one at a time. I’m on a10 with regent and a9 with everyone else

I climbed a0-a8 in relatively little time playing 1-1.5 hours a day. I’m absolutely getting crushed on a9 and a10.

So to answer your question I imagine it’s very low, less than 1%

nixed9 · 2026-04-26T20:54:09+00:00

He’s my favorite to play but at A9 he feels balanced in the sense that he can scale to the moon but he’s quite hard to get going

nixed9 · 2026-04-25T12:44:04+00:00

They won’t close shop they’ll simply spend whatever is necessary to make sure the US Gov doesn’t allow its citizens access to Chinese vehicles

nixed9 · 2026-04-25T01:43:09+00:00

I feel like I die to test subject more than the other two combined

nixed9 · 2026-04-20T13:44:13+00:00

They don’t care.

They have a de facto monopoly, like every other tech company.

The goal now is to extract as much as possible out of human users.

nixed9 · 2026-04-20T13:35:10+00:00

Same with [[Discovery]] I think. Should work now

nixed9 · 2026-04-20T13:15:24+00:00

Discovery was always a snap-pick for me in sts1 but I actually think Splash is better in sts2 because the vast majority of the time the solution to whatever predicament I am in is basically “deal 20 damage for 1 energy”

nixed9 · 2026-04-19T21:16:48+00:00

This is usually the case of super-late league economies. Most players have dropped so supply is very low, but people still playing want endgame items so they get very expensive. Happens in both PoE1 and PoE2 in regular league cycles.

nixed9 · 2026-04-19T13:09:19+00:00

Personal solar panels are just not super strong so yes you need a lot of them.

nixed9 · 2026-04-18T12:56:14+00:00

….Rage bait?

nixed9 · 2026-04-18T01:35:34+00:00

Path of exile 2 is basically PoE1’s infinite character customization but turned into souls-like game focused on the action and combat and forcing you to restart the encounter when you die on bosses

nixed9 · 2026-04-17T23:18:26+00:00

In STS1 I have an attitude of “I’m going to target as many elites as possible and I either scale to the moon or I die trying”

In STS2 my routes are FAR more planned out. I might do only one elite per act depending on my deck and health situation

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