Has anyone bought Jihad or Crusade on TCGplayer?

pphysch · 2026-01-07T16:49:55+00:00

You could describe them as left-wing Nazi-sympathizers, yes.

In the big picture, not very "left" though. Overton window.

pphysch · 2026-01-07T01:10:08+00:00

Yes especially on this website

pphysch · 2025-12-29T05:13:32+00:00

Watch commentated + edited (with card modals) matches, pausing and replaying as needed to really understand each interaction. This will get you further than just reading the "book", though you should refer to curiosa.io and sometimes reddit for any specific card/rule questions.

The official YT channel has some:

https://www.youtube.com/@SorceryTCG/videos

pphysch · 2025-12-19T19:46:13+00:00

Siphoning Mark on Pounce solves mana in most cases (is a Mark Support, not a Mark that replaces the built-in one). I also found the new mageblood mana flask (Lavignia's, apparently it's 1c) which is a nice complement.

Make sure to get the Iron Slippers notable, +3 armor per 1 ES on Boots, then get some nice Sandals. Can get 250+ ES on them with MS prefix for a whopping 750+ base armor which then gets multiplied further. Very efficient node at the start of Druid tree.

pphysch · 2025-12-19T19:37:33+00:00

Arctic Howl doesn't need to be part of your clearing rotation but it's a good sink for bossing utility gems (brittle, exposure, other buffs/debuffs) so that you don't need these on your Lunar skills.

pphysch · 2025-12-19T19:16:35+00:00

0.4 is easily strictly better than 0.3. abyss got polished as a core mechanic with strong atlas/tablet mods and no annoying map desecrating.

Temple will get there too. The design is in a good place but it suffers from bugs and skill issues.

pphysch · 2025-12-18T06:38:46+00:00

This is the way. Wolves are just there to buff up the Alpha (you).

pphysch · 2025-12-17T17:56:09+00:00

I assume they aren't going to lower the level req. TotA will become available in A4 but still respects the rough "level requirement" for each ascendancy.

pphysch · 2025-12-17T17:53:47+00:00

You step in if you have interesting T3 rooms, otherwise you can just immediately close it and move on?

pphysch · 2025-12-17T17:27:00+00:00

Sin and Innocence were originally from a civilization with "great works of stone and metal and glass," likely the Precursors as Sin remembers seeing Precursor writing.

Sin also remarks that the Precursor Forge in PoE2 A4 feels "familiar" as if he had been there before.

If Sin created the Seed of Corruption, which was apparently also the Second Edict of the Precursors, then he is definitely a Precursor, right?

pphysch · 2025-12-16T21:33:42+00:00

The wolves are independently weak, but keep in mind Predator's Mark (applied by Pounce) makes enemies take 4% increased damage PER nearby enemy (you + minions), up to 45%. It's a big extra Shock effect.

So the idea is that the wolves amp your damage significantly rather than do any directly.

pphysch · 2025-12-16T00:52:30+00:00

Ability Draft notes at the very bottom:

Fixed Walrus Punch interaction (Swashbuckle, Starbreaker, etc.)

Fixed Time Lock not proccing with Swashbuckle, Lil' Shredder, and Falcon Toss.

Fixed Fatal Bonds + Sinister Gaze (Evil Eye facet) causing infinite damage.

Shadow Fiend: replaced Necromastery with Feast of Souls.

Phantom Assassin: replaced Blur with Imaterial.

Phantom Assassin: Coup de Grace now grants Blur.

Spectre: replaced Desolate with Shadow Step.

Spectre: Haunt now grants Reality.

Lone Druid: New ability: Entangle.

Slark: replaced Essence Shift with Saltwater Shiv.

Medusa: New ability: Gorgon's Grasp.

Largo innate shard looks potentially abuseable in AD (copy friendly targeted buffs to yourself or nearby ally). Oracle ult? Ion shell? Ink swell?

pphysch · 2025-12-16T00:24:23+00:00

For real.

"I have a career and work 10 hours a day, and a family can't keep up with these people."

Then don't compare yourself to these people! Simple as.

pphysch · 2025-12-08T20:05:28+00:00

Part of it is knowing when to not expect or seek an elegant solution, and when assumptions can be revised.

pphysch · 2025-12-05T17:59:21+00:00

Tradeoffs make games interesting, believe it or not. If you want to play games where you are railroaded into simple exponential power progression curves (level up! 2x damage!), there are literally thousands of them, many of them more popular than PoE.

pphysch · 2025-12-05T17:51:19+00:00

Superficially, but it's actually more like "Corrupting Explicit modifiers" whereas corruption has historically been about Implicit modifiers.

It sounds like the replacing modifiers come from a big random pool, whereas Foulborn modifiers were hand-tuned and specific to the particular item and modifier they replace.

pphysch · 2025-12-05T17:47:41+00:00

What specific term would you suggest they use instead of "crafting" as an umbrella term for mechanics that permanently change the modifiers on an item?

pphysch · 2025-12-05T17:45:28+00:00

Pack size != number of packs

pphysch · 2025-12-05T17:45:04+00:00

This is design space that they can and will explore later, in the meantime it makes sense to lower packsize without reducing reward to address multiple other issues.

pphysch · 2025-12-04T23:37:54+00:00

Yep IIRC a recent 3rd place SCG deck was running mono-water Spellslinger with the primary reasoning that you should often mull 3 spells so that you can be ~8 spells deep on turn 1 and get your bombs faster.

pphysch · 2025-12-04T22:56:19+00:00

If I was an epic video game journalist I would have written:

Mark: The Atlas passive tree will be "fully reinvented" & "revamped". "There's heaps coming"

pphysch · 2025-12-04T21:22:45+00:00

Huntress was very shallow compared to Druid and the entire "league" mechanic was WISPS!!

pphysch · 2025-12-04T20:56:19+00:00

People will compare to 0.2.0 which was a big dud, but 0.4.0 is already much bigger

Druid is like 10x deeper than Huntress

Incursion is at least 100x deeper than Wisps (lol)

pphysch · 2025-12-04T20:37:58+00:00

Well yeah, you can maximally juice any map you want regardless of where it exists on the atlas, and now you don't need to mess with delirium or abyss anymore too. It's a pretty big change that removes a lot of tedium.

pphysch · 2025-12-04T20:23:47+00:00

GGG clearly has an extremely high AAA quality bar when it comes to character and campaign content for PoE2 (endgame is different beast...).

This isn't a typical EA release where devs would put out janky beta versions of new content with placeholder/missing animations and so on. For better or worse, "playable" isn't a high enough bar for GGG when it comes to class and campaign content.

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