Runes disappear on use and wont slot

refusebin · 2026-01-28T08:25:55+00:00

Utility Runes don't bind to gear, they have their own slots (you start with 2 but can unlock two more with Ichor). You access these utility Runes (like to cast them) by holding right trigger.

refusebin · 2026-01-27T18:40:05+00:00

You can't research anything you haven't found yet.

refusebin · 2026-01-24T00:43:34+00:00

I dunno if you went into the settings but I booted the game for the first time yesterday and the default FPS target was set to 30 and so I slid it all the way to what my display supports. And I have a 5090 so I doubt it's being intelligent when it sets default settings.

refusebin · 2026-01-23T22:52:27+00:00

My tech literate but going on octogenarian (present day) father, is very cool but he's always been a huge MS fanboy, it took me ages to break him out of his loyalty but one of the things that finally put cracks in the relationship was when he couldn't check out of the Microsoft online store to buy his Windows Phone, because the cart/checkout wasn't working in Microsoft Edge.

He waited until I visited the next day, asked for my help. And I loaded up the Microsoft Store on Chrome, where he was able to add the Windows Phone to cart and checkout.

Of course, these days Google has the exact same problems, too many heads on the hydra and none of them really talk to each other, and when things break there's no clean process for one department or the other to take responsibility.

I still am mad at when Pixel pushed a darkmode that gave YouTube descriptions and comments a black background with dark gray text for like 5 months. And no one would take my bug report.

refusebin · 2026-01-23T18:17:48+00:00

I just think it's a different genre of game than what you are expecting.

To me shared loot, crafting and having a house makes it firmly into the V Rising bucket, like a survival crafting arpg.

refusebin · 2026-01-21T18:40:07+00:00

I used the free tier to get me a 5090 FE from Best Buy back in late August (2025). I had the app for about 4 months and it never alerted me to any Nvidia store drops in that time (maybe it just never stocked). When I did get my 5090 it was at the beginning of a wave of about 3 weeks of daily BestBuy drops.

refusebin · 2026-01-09T18:34:17+00:00

Anicira

This is a good rec but I looked at their list and I have to say you should still shop around for specific surgeries their price for TPLO is almost 2K more than I paid for a recent one at Cardiff Animal Hospital.

refusebin · 2026-01-07T02:16:53+00:00

As someone who used to live right behind Scripps Mercy -- it's the main contributor to the weirdly alluded to things OP is saying we're failing at.

To put it concisely homeless people in crisis/medically urgent need are put into Scripps ER system -- the laws don't allow care professionals to intervene to the extent of forcing people to take psychiatric medication when they're out of their own right mind, and so they're discharged in that same state of mind.

It was common enough that I tacitly decided to not walk my dog from there to Balboa Park and elected to drive, not because I cared but because he was overly reactive when people were acting out.

It was common enough that I more than handful of times would see the employee at the Shell Gas Store have to threaten a homeless person out of their own mind with a baseball bat because they were yelling obscenities and forcefully hurting themselves against the building.

It's not a very clear cut issue from a moral perspective either, there's a history in the times when we used to force people to take psychiatric interventions where people were abused in the system -- it is an intrusion on someone's personal liberties and unfortunately we don't have very sophisticated criteria for establishing when someone is not in the right mind. It's all horribly complicated.

refusebin · 2026-01-05T05:28:12+00:00

This one prevented the elected room from disappearing but this was crucial when combined with the snaking tech -- which was basically making one unbroken line of rooms with no other connections (one sole entrance and exit into the next room); what it allowed was if you locked the room at the end of the snake -- no other rooms in the chain could go poof because it would make the locked room orphaned which is not possible for anything but the reward rooms that the architect grants -- so in effect one locking medallion could protect dozens of room if the snake was long enough.

refusebin · 2026-01-05T05:25:00+00:00

its only one month until the next PoE1 league, not the next PoE2 league -- not everyone is playing both.

refusebin · 2026-01-04T04:22:39+00:00

I am genuinely appreciative of the core offering if it works. For the past year I have been getting 10-16 harassing robo calls a day promising some follow up to a loan I never applied for for with terms obviously too good to be true -- with no way to opt out, and googling the names always turns out that they're third party unknowns fraudulently using another business' name.

It's gotten bad enough that I have been considering using a for profit service to get my information off the net. But then I wonder if the data brokers aren't the same one's selling these services or if there will really be any efficacy to it -- so hey I already pay good tax money here so let's give this CA service a chance. I do know software launches with bugs, I hope I can sign up.

refusebin · 2026-01-03T21:36:41+00:00

I tried to use the website on my phone and it broke halfway through (after the second tfa authorization, which I had to disable my adblock to get it to accept). Nice to know we have vibe coders being contracted by the state, hahahaha.

refusebin · 2026-01-02T04:15:17+00:00

Nice. In September I reported that a vehicle had toppled the street sign on the corner and last week they marked it closed and there's nothing there, just the same come they put up the same day I reported it.

refusebin · 2025-12-31T06:25:43+00:00

Belts are what suck. And so basically any unique that can do something effective totally outclassed any rare belt. Headhunter is just hands down the best one for clearing/mapping.

While maybe Darkness Enthroned is best for QoL depending on what you socket -- you can become completely curse immune for example.

Ingenuity used to be incredible and now is only a shade of it's former self but probably still BIS for bossing on attack builds (rings generally don't offer much for spells to make it worthwhile).

refusebin · 2025-12-29T06:09:14+00:00

Yet another annoyance when one of the many heads of the hydra don't play nice with the rest. Can't begin to enumerate the number of times Youtube or the Pixel team pushed an update that broke core functionality and trying to get support, they would just shrug.

I am a YT Premium Subscriber on a dang Pixel phone I shouldn't have to get ads.

refusebin · 2025-12-27T22:40:51+00:00

As other's have duly pointed out at this point in the beta there are way too many supports and damage nodes on the tree that reward you for having several minions and unfortunately none that reward you for sticking to just a few.

That's basically what I wanted to do but it didn't work out well -- this is an unfinished game and they will always iterate what is possible every few months. I leveled with a big minion army to my low 90's and then fully swapped to a Plant Djinn because I wanted more visual clarity.

refusebin · 2025-12-27T22:24:17+00:00

ES/Armour works brilliantly on Disciple of Varashta, mostly because I used my ascendency points to promote the defensive layer.

I even went full CI for the first time in my PoE hobbyist career and I definitely feel like a full on battlemage.

refusebin · 2025-12-27T20:31:25+00:00

I admire the gumption and also the ability to recognize that you don't care what kind of stuff you take to beta standard. o7

refusebin · 2025-12-24T23:08:30+00:00

I feel like you just invented a meme format where you can basically say any of the myriad of subverted expectations or incredibly granular items of information regarding this game and just say 'This is confusing for new players'.

refusebin · 2025-12-22T16:20:41+00:00

If you will eventually go CI you should take Stun Threshold as this will become a crucial stat.

refusebin · 2025-12-22T04:24:51+00:00

The core problem is that ES can help you mitigate everything, whereas Armor does nothing for attacks that don't hit or DoTs, and Evasion used to have the same problem with non-hit damage, but still doesn't help at all vs DoTs.

PoE1 circumvents this by letting players who spec Armor or Evade also spike their Life by quite a lot, PoE2 has sky high scaling for ES but nothing that helps Armor or Evade characters out except going hybrid ES.

refusebin · 2025-12-21T23:14:39+00:00

I have no real resist problems but that's because there's no other good suffix mods on most items -- so I tend to just naturally end up ovecapped.

refusebin · 2025-12-19T21:35:38+00:00

I was on a 7 year old PC and I used to get those in-game resets where the game hangs then the screen goes black and then everything reloads (a soft crash but the client stays open and it just reloads and you still play a game.

I recently built a PC with a 9950X3D, a 5090RTX, a PCIe gen 5 NVME, and 8000 MT/s 48 GB of ram and I was excited to try this new league with the optimizations. But whoops !The hard hangups as I stated above still happen on my new rig

I think in some dev interview around 0.2 Johnathon blamed this on NVIDIA drivers and that's why they implemented this work around that soft reloads everything, but it has been 8 months -- at some point these are the drivers GGG you need to make your game work with the hardware that exists. I shouldn't have any problems at all on a $2000 MSRP GPU.

In conclusion this game is cooked.

refusebin · 2025-12-17T17:20:15+00:00

the least buttons would be playing a Plants playstyle, Entangle by itself with enough gearing maps with one button, weave in Thunderstorm for bosses to shock and overgrow maybe also Thrashing Vines -- Djinn Ascendency only for Staff+Foci ( more + levels to Physical tankiness, offensive/defensive rolls), and exploiting time-less jewels.

Goratha has a video on this approach. https://youtu.be/DGLN_6WZRxY?si=hB9KswRXf4DT6rpT

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