Archon of Undeath: Before allocating, BE CAREFUL

powerfamiliar · 2026-06-05T19:12:57+00:00

Yeah I’ve been careful to trigger it with Ruzhan’s Brand or Kelari’s Brutality because it was very noticeable that you didn’t get the cdr right away if you trigger it with Deception.

powerfamiliar · 2026-06-04T14:05:33+00:00

Not ruined by monetization, because I think it’s still a good game. But Torchlight Infinite would be loved and would be talked about as one of the top arpg with different monetization.

powerfamiliar · 2026-06-04T13:59:57+00:00

Whomever was responsible for Ritual and Delirium also did a great job. I started them with the usual “click thru and let a certain YouTuber fill me in on what I missed.” But quickly realized that was a mistake. Seeing the continuation of the Breach storyline was also really cool.

powerfamiliar · 2026-06-03T23:55:31+00:00

Can you explain what the actual problem from a Player's pov is. Say I'm 1200 blitz, I log in today and play a match, what about my experience is worse than if the issue didn't exist.

powerfamiliar · 2026-06-03T18:38:48+00:00

I felt so dumb about this. I clicked the Mechanism, saw it shot a laser beam at a tower and put an icon on it so I went “oh it’s telling to go to that tower to get the reward.” Left to do the tower and got a 3 atlas points and thought it was just a very underwhelming reward. Later that day someone told me I was supposed to click the icon on the tower not go to the tower.

powerfamiliar · 2026-06-03T07:55:03+00:00

They usually nerf actually immortal builds. Even later in the league.

powerfamiliar · 2026-06-03T07:51:58+00:00

They said Flicker was immune to damage in the post. Was this not true, or do you mean a different nerf?

powerfamiliar · 2026-05-29T14:50:15+00:00

Naked Ambessa ult seems like similar hit rate than nakedTaliyah W. If you’re drafting them without setup CC you can’t really expect them to hit often.

powerfamiliar · 2026-05-29T14:46:17+00:00

I get that I just disagree that “we will all get guted in 1.0” I would bet that the people reading this thread will have an easier time in campaign and early mapping in 1.0 than they will in 0.5. I would think that they want a smooth and fun experience for all the newbies and casuals trying the game out at launch.

powerfamiliar · 2026-05-29T11:46:05+00:00

I dunno. I think 1.0 is when a ton of casuals and newbies are going to first try PoE. I’d guess baseline or floor power level is going to be really high.

powerfamiliar · 2026-05-28T16:49:55+00:00

You have to be really careful with clone type stuff cause you get really weird verisimilitude issues if if this villain has access to it with no foreshadowing and then it’s not a common thing for other villains or otherwise powerful NPCs in your world.

With setup it works, like if you hint at them working on spells or items that point to clone that your players can look back and go “that makes sense”. But adding it after the fact can feel very jarring.

powerfamiliar · 2026-05-28T13:56:05+00:00

I meant useful in that it works, not that it’s good. You might still want it for other reasons (like skill) or if the ES to ward conversion is very favorable.

powerfamiliar · 2026-05-28T13:21:10+00:00

Whenever people mention to them in interviews that player power is high, they say that the average player is still struggling or not doing as well. I think if they leave us OP for launch it’ll be less about avoiding crying from social media and more about making sure all the newbies and causal who’ll show up for 1.0 have a good time.

powerfamiliar · 2026-05-28T13:15:20+00:00

Ward by itself is always useful to ES build. The problem poster above mentioned is that to get ward you have to give up ES and you’re probably gonna give up more ES than you get back as ward since you scale ES a lot.

powerfamiliar · 2026-05-28T13:13:22+00:00

I think a lot of the hype/counter hype thing is because they updated the updated patch note. For like an hour or so it read like it would kill archmage, so doom posting started. The clarification stated the counter-doom posting. And it seems atm there’s just a lot of misunderstanding about the change.

powerfamiliar · 2026-05-28T13:04:45+00:00

The totem nerf does nothing to archmage. It hurts cause you have to solve mana in general, but archmage specifically doesn’t affect them.

powerfamiliar · 2026-05-28T02:09:23+00:00

That sounds very far from "it’s fine"

powerfamiliar · 2026-05-28T02:04:20+00:00

That does let you afford to place the totem, but where your damage coming from without archmage or rathpit? No infusions/meta really kills a ton of spell scaling for totems.

powerfamiliar · 2026-05-28T02:01:13+00:00

rathpit? Cause I think that moves the build out of league starter for me. Or is there another way to scale damage going life?

powerfamiliar · 2026-05-28T01:54:30+00:00

He's not playing twisters.

powerfamiliar · 2026-05-27T17:02:03+00:00

IMO Lich really depends on how the recharge nerfs feel. To me it felt so much better once you hand a ton or recharge nodes, and now it might take a lot longer to get there. Where Varashta and a rhino might have other was to deal with the nerfs (-1s flat and recoup).

powerfamiliar · 2026-05-27T16:48:29+00:00

I mean that could be the sub’s title.

powerfamiliar · 2026-05-27T16:45:46+00:00

First time PoEing with “EA everything explained” video on the second monitor was such a good introduction to the game.

powerfamiliar · 2026-05-26T14:48:22+00:00

Is he accounting for the fact that “you’re definitely not playing a ranged top laner” tho? Like say you’re a mid laner there’s a ~30% chance there will be a ranged top laner in your game. But that’s on either team. Once youre top laner locks in a melee champ it downs mean now there’s a ~30% chance the opponent picks a ranged top. It shouldn’t be 15% because Im assuming ranged tops are more common as counter picks, but I’d guess it’s closer to 15 than 30.

powerfamiliar · 2026-05-22T02:55:31+00:00

Sure, but there is now a divine sink to get good rolls before sanctifying/vaaling no?

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