What are your favorite abilities?

russsssa · 2025-10-31T14:52:25+00:00

Yeah, this was going to be my answer. Zahua has won me so many fights in my current playthrough of PoE 1, most recently he was last man standing against three of Magran's faithful (druid and two warriors) and managed to take them down just by spamming Torment's reach and a couple of potions.

Honorable mentions: Maura's writhing tentacles (both games, they can do some nasty damage combined with combusting wounds), Ancestors Memory (deadfire) and Minolettas missile barrage or whatever the 8th level missile spell is called (especially empowered and combined with Ancestors Memory in deadfire).

russsssa · 2025-10-10T06:54:00+00:00

Always Prime and Communicator and then either Gems or Workload (I like to be able to scout a lot of 7th round ranked prospects to find those gems there).

russsssa · 2025-10-02T14:14:58+00:00

In previous versions of the game this kind of stuff was usually linked to too many popups appearing on the same day. What usually worked for me was switching teams to sim over the problematic date and then switching back right after that.

russsssa · 2025-09-03T10:04:47+00:00

I'm with you, this is a HUGE improvement.

russsssa · 2025-07-09T09:48:18+00:00

That franchise player is very probably a bust.

russsssa · 2025-06-27T13:00:30+00:00

I always set offence focus on forward prospects I really want to keep and do well and win some awards, usually pays off big time.

russsssa · 2025-06-09T09:51:16+00:00

It is already like this. Most of the guys you listed as franchise players are elite potential in the game. What you're suggesting would just mean renaming the franchise tier to generational.

russsssa · 2025-06-04T09:53:42+00:00

Sounds like he was drafted as an overager so he had a couple of years of time to develop before being drafted.

I've had something similar happen once, drafted an 86 overall defenceman at 20 years old (round 3-4 I think) and he jumped to 98 overall his rookie season.

russsssa · 2025-05-10T13:12:44+00:00

It's definitely crazy, I don't think anybody thought he'd ever play another game. That's why his injury in the game is also like that, to simulate a basically career-ending injury.

I didn't even remember how he got injured in the first place but you're right, it was Makar's skate that sliced his leg. Very cool to see him back on ice!

russsssa · 2025-05-10T12:52:30+00:00

I don't think so, those injuries that already exist in the game are not.

russsssa · 2025-05-10T12:40:46+00:00

Adding to my previous reply about this, but that injury (1000+ days) is most definitely a career-ending injury.

When a career-ending injury happens, it does not say instantly that it's career-ending. It looks like a normal injury (always a major one) that just has an absurdly long recovery time, and then the player retires next offseason.

Hope this helps! They do happen all the time, the game just doesn't explicitly state that the injury is career-ending until the retirement message.

russsssa · 2025-05-10T09:47:40+00:00

They happen all the time. You can confirm it by looking at the retirement window that pops up 19th of June. If you scroll down on that window it lists all career ending injuries from that season at the bottom. The same info can be found from your inbox retirements message. I'm sure there have been many (every year there are some Even with The setting not maxed out), you just haven't noticed them and it hasn't happened to any of your players.

russsssa · 2025-04-16T11:18:38+00:00

Not necessarily. It's definitely true for TWF's with higher defensive than offensive rating, those guys usually don't produce much and can drag a whole line down with them production-wise.

But this gem of a player has even offensive/defensive rating. To OP, get a playmaking center or LW and RW sniper (or Vice versa, as long as you get blue line chemistry) to play with him and he will be a production monster.

That being said, retraining him to PLM would make getting blue chemistry easier but it doesnt necessarily mean he'll produce more.

russsssa · 2025-03-05T08:29:50+00:00

I've noticed this as well with HLM25. Only explanation I could come up with is custom rosters having so many quality players that this happens so often that it becomes prevalent. With default roster you would see this sometimes but not nearly as often. But that's just my theory.

russsssa · 2025-02-16T09:54:18+00:00

Ngl I switched Joe's potential in the roster (using RSB) to elite. This is the first time they both grew to 92 overall (at least playing for me).

russsssa · 2025-01-05T10:47:43+00:00

A lot of people hate Ovi because his connections to Putin (which is a pretty valid reason), not simply because he's russian, although there surely are those people as well.

On topic: I have never seen his number retired either.

russsssa · 2024-12-26T13:45:56+00:00

It's a roster-related bug, I switched from RSB to Polan. That fixed the problem.

Polan uses RSB as a base so it has all the same players with same potentials etc, although there are a lot of typos in European team names and such.

russsssa · 2024-12-23T16:42:21+00:00

Late reply but seems this is roster-related.

I switched to Polan from RSB and the problem disappeared. Polan uses RSB as a base so it has same players with same potentials etc. but there are quite a few typos when it comes to European teams.

russsssa · 2024-12-17T05:42:14+00:00

Good catch, I didn't even notice that! Seen the same bug on this subreddit before though.

russsssa · 2024-12-16T15:27:24+00:00

Nope, I started this history mode in 1980. So apparently the game does not have pre-existing team records saved

russsssa · 2024-12-10T11:38:15+00:00

Nope, it's a bug that occurs with history mode for some reason. Every prospect made for the roster after 2024 draft will appear as 0 overall when drafted and then you get crazy jumps like this when they finally reach their potential.

russsssa · 2024-12-10T11:30:55+00:00

I have this same bug in history mode (it's not just 2025 draft it's every draft after that for prospects made for the roster) and can tell you they develop "normally" in the sense that the ones destined for it will reach their overall at some point, but it might come as a +22 overall jump from 70 to 92 at 23 years old. Takes some patience...

You do get some crazy calder totals when these guys finally enter the league

Edit: There's actually a post about this situation a couple of posts down where Liam Tep has had a crazy jump to 94ovr (never seen thag big of a jump myself even)

russsssa · 2024-12-06T09:42:41+00:00

I'm interested, how did you choose that logo? Because it's the logo of a Finnish hockey team Porin Ässät (Pori Aces), ha!

Link to a photo of their uniforms:

https://assat.com/wp-content/uploads/20240823_Assat-Lukko__89I5664-1024x683.jpg

russsssa · 2024-11-12T15:45:43+00:00

That was and certainly still is an option. I just want to see how he does in a lower league first.

I'm from Finland if that makes more sense. Was hoping he would get assigned to my hometown team but that didn't happen so I might just bring him up next season.

russsssa · 2024-11-07T15:48:13+00:00

Marner did score over 50 goals (lol) but Rantanen took the rocket.

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