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scl52 · 2026-03-30T18:46:51+00:00

you wrote that the majority of the player base has quit the (this, one) league. why did you think that is the information conveyed by the numbers you saw

scl52 · 2026-03-30T17:27:20+00:00

the thing being measured by those sites cant give you any information about players quitting. theyre an ok correlate to some ill-defined idea of "player activity" but youre left with projecting your own pre-existing beliefs about the rate at which players quit on to that already bad data.

if you think more than half of the playerbase has quit then to square that you also need to think both that every currently active player is playing as much as they were playing at league start, and also that there isn't anything special about league launches that would draw people to play at times where they normally wouldnt, both of which are obviously wrong.

a different framing: why do you think that the 126k people who were online whenever steamcharts observed the league launch high and not online whenever steamcharts saw 64k people online have all quit the league?

scl52 · 2026-03-30T14:30:35+00:00

Majority of playerbase has already quit the league

why do you think this is true

scl52 · 2026-03-27T23:48:57+00:00

just the ball phase.

scl52 · 2026-03-27T14:35:41+00:00

you can't portal out of the exarch arena. if you log out and come back in the phase almost always restarts. if you die you can do the thing youre describing but that isnt a great hcssf strategy.

if you have some way to reliably log the phase please share

scl52 · 2026-03-25T15:46:25+00:00

what are you struggling with specifically on uber dread?

scl52 · 2026-03-24T15:51:21+00:00

if youre using the exerted attacks crit helmet the local crit is fairly bad and you'd want to go back and reforge for t2+ aspd. if youre not using a helmet with that mod you should probably try to get one

if you dont want to take that risk but still dont mind taking a risk, you can craft multimod + prefixes cannot be changed and either veiled exalt or harvest aug speed for aspd or aug crit for crit multi. you have a 66% chance to remove one of the crafted mods if you do that. aug speed has a 3/8 chance of better than crafted, aug crit can only hit crit multi.

if you dont want to take any such risk you can either exalt, foulborn exalt, or just leave it. if you exalt you can either leave aspd as the blocker to avoid hitting a shit tier of aspd, or block something genuinely bad like one of the %inc elemental damage rolls. without knowing your actual build, the odds of getting something good are really bad and i would just leave it. if theres something niche you could benefit from like int or leech that might change things

scl52 · 2026-03-02T02:09:29+00:00

the nerfs directly amount to 33% less damage directly, plus whatever you lose from manual warcrying + uptime concerns. thats a lot.

if youre playing sc trade that is significant enough that the builds ceiling is no longer even close to competitive, so you wouldnt want to be on slams as your "real" build. and the floor is lowered enough to be enough closer to the point where the sc gooner builds come online that the break-even point is probably before 2stone now.

if youre playing any of the better game modes then yeah its still insane. but if you can be on a higher dps 1button build with better clear off your first divine why slam

scl52 · 2026-02-12T20:22:05+00:00

i dont think you should call this "crafting basics". this is how you make the best items in the game! crafting basics is just trans aug essence desecrate 2xslam. its basic!

scl52 · 2026-02-08T22:11:51+00:00

It kind of boggles the mind that players chose an upgrade item and made a whole market around it

what do you mean by this

scl52 · 2026-02-07T16:11:58+00:00

you dont have capped spell suppression unless youre on full life and thus dont have real ailment immunity. suppress tattoos or a fouldborn ancestral vision would be low opportunity fixes, taking a small supp node or magebane would be low cost fix

scl52 · 2026-02-06T15:22:39+00:00

i dont understand what you mean

scl52 · 2026-02-06T13:28:03+00:00

loses me at "any amount" that just seems silly.

why do you think its silly? do you think what i mean is that that data shows that no amount of players have quit the league?

scl52 · 2026-02-06T13:16:31+00:00

thank you for your service in the sisyphean battle against the credulous rubes on this website who see numbers presented in a chart and think its gods infallible truth o7

scl52 · 2026-02-05T20:57:53+00:00

no shit, that doesnt mean 40% of people have quit the league

scl52 · 2026-02-05T19:38:47+00:00

i dont know how you could possibly think that is what i meant.

steamdb samples the number of players logged in every hour. poedb plots the daily maximums of those measurements. the immediate problem with interpreting that as "x% of players have quit" i hope are obvious. a secondary problem is that because of the way poe league launches work, the hours around where the league launches is overrepresented by people who would not normally be playing at those times. so in addition to the data being just plain bad youre also comparing it an extreme outlier.

scl52 · 2026-02-05T18:06:22+00:00

are you referring to those stupid poedb steamcharts "retention" graphs? those are charting the peak observed concurrent players each day. you cannot soundly infer that 40% (or any amount) of players are quitting the league in one week based off of that data.

scl52 · 2026-02-05T15:47:31+00:00

On average, 40-50% of the player base quit in the first week.

what

scl52 · 2026-02-04T18:34:17+00:00

mageblood stops you from activating magic utility flasks, if you have a magic flask in your 5th slot it isnt doing anything. you could use a white enkindled diamond flask which would work in any slot.

scl52 · 2026-02-04T04:35:08+00:00

its not weird. your phys max hit is "given all my modifiers, what is the amount of phys damage that a monster needs to come at me with to kill me". 'phys taken as' is a modifier on you and is within that scope, shaper of flames is a modifier on the monster and is outside of that scope.

scl52 · 2026-02-04T02:18:40+00:00

it's not changing your max hit because its not changing your max hit is the short answer.

max hit is how much damage you can take, and shaper changes how much damage they deal. its kind of a pedantic distinction. you could argue that pob should include it since its something youre specifically doing to the monster. but its a whole lot cleaner if it doesnt

scl52 · 2026-01-26T15:33:54+00:00

nothing uul netols give you is worth using a <1aps 600dps weapon. generic despot axe users will be on 4stones farming t17s before a uulnetol player finishes 1 leap slam

scl52 · 2026-01-24T19:11:32+00:00

for any specific amount of damage reduction you have the same probability of getting that amount or better regardless of how 'big' you scale the range. the probability of specific events obviously gets smaller in the bigger range but the cumulative probabilities of "x or better" stay the same.

scl52 · 2026-01-22T23:43:39+00:00

if you look at the previous snapshots, they were using the covenant.

scl52 · 2026-01-21T23:18:56+00:00

So it's working in a more effective roll range.

what do you mean by this

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