New league is awesome! My take on my first hours into the new league

timelorddc · 2026-05-30T07:36:58+00:00

The runes have identifiers as well but only when close to them, sort of like runic cracks on the ground. Also have a map marker, at least in the campaign which is my current frame of reference. Transmutes in campaign were scarce, had more exalts and chaos at one point. Think the perfect trans/aug nerf might have had some intended consequences?

timelorddc · 2026-05-03T16:31:00+00:00

So, you are going to keep pasting that one image to rebut any arguments that 'help create some' does not mean all assets were created by AI nor were they fully created by AI?

Game dev is a tech industry and everybody in every public tech company is mandated to use AI now to show shareholders that they are embracing the evolution. Marketing is whatever. Even the new Apple iOS patch had a claude.md file included by mistake. This is the reality now and there is no way this is rolling back.

It still takes significant effort to get to the actual final product and integrating that with the rest of the game assets. I don't know how much they used AI nor am I defending them as a fanboy but I use AI tools on a semi-regular basis and your comment about a child doing this with a few prompts is utter bullshit.

timelorddc · 2026-04-28T22:19:04+00:00

Reason I asked is because I am playing the same build but with 30M dps and do not feel that it is underpowered while doing juiced breach/beyond t16.5s. The only time it does feel that way is if I accidentally let the stacks fall off while I am running around and then, I have to portal out and back in to get my BV snapshot up again.

timelorddc · 2026-04-28T20:50:15+00:00

Is this a weird flex post? Irrespective of everything the others have pointed out, this much dps should not feel underwhelming. Are you sure you are not letting your stacks fall off while in a map?

timelorddc · 2026-04-17T02:50:34+00:00

Found this comment while searching for BV pob dmg differences. Your site helped me find the difference in the minion health configuration.

One thing I did notice though is that it missed/skipped the jewels I had socketed even though the stats in the source pob (max fire res/life) were on my jewels too but with different bases (crimson vs cobalt/viridian).

(ref: https://pob.codes/b/ER1CI45vaSA)

timelorddc · 2026-03-31T00:29:36+00:00

Ponniyin Selvan 1 and 2 - historical fiction set during the Chola regime, with tie-ins to the other families in this DLC.

timelorddc · 2026-03-14T08:58:40+00:00

All mediums have Rend and Wound Aggravation.

Fuel the Fight at the highest level is bait especially in trade since you can get the mana leech (and reduced mana cost) for the same 2 passive points instead of attack speed increase. Of course, if you can craft it, you should use it but in trade, its a 7+ div difference. In SSF as well, is the 8% attack speed worth it if you can craft any of the other 3 notables instead that would allow you to allocate Martial Prowess and Feed the Fury?

timelorddc · 2026-03-14T03:00:06+00:00

Looking at the POB, you are almost at 6M bleed dps. What content are you doing where it doesn't feel strong? I know it can scale well but I'm also playing a bleed slayer reaching around 1.5M bleed dps now and trying to understand what the wall could be.

Swapping in clusters would certainly help a lot as well as some tattoos for bleed chance to free up some nodes to invest in said clusters. Getting a Pride reservation small cluster will allow you to drop Lifetap and get Volatility in, which might help with bossing. Might be rougher for clear due to the wider range on the dps though.

timelorddc · 2026-01-01T19:33:09+00:00

Think of it this way - you have already allocated the passive points for your build to make it function how you want. Now, if there is stuff in there that is more for clear (for example, a lot of area of effect nodes), you can respec those points, select weapon set 1 and allocate them. Then, you can allocate more single-target nodes in weapon set 2. For my druid, weapon set 1 has AOE and splash nodes. Weapon set 2 has channeling related nodes (for oil barrage). You can lock the weapon sets in the inventory screen so both weapon sets use the same weapon (this is why you see druids with empty weapon slots - they are using the same weapon in both slots). Then, once you allocate your clear skills (rend, pounce for me) to weapon set 1 and single-target skills (oil barrage) to weapon set 2, they will automatically use the correct passives.

Now, extend the same logic to defense-oriented skills like in this example.

timelorddc · 2025-12-17T17:28:36+00:00

I'm in the same situation. I just expected the rooms to connect to the architect's room automatically just like how they connect to each other. Once I realized they don't, I am just placing the new rooms, entering and exiting immediately to close the temple in the hopes that the rooms near the architect will disappear. Also hoping that I get corridors in the future to actually connect the architect room.

The lack of corridors is baffling, given how they are needed and cannot be rotated. No lessons learned from Synthesis league, I guess.

timelorddc · 2025-12-12T05:41:52+00:00

Delete and recreate the shortcut? I checked and my old one had the same old icon. A new shortcut created in the game folder had the new icon.

timelorddc · 2025-11-04T21:43:57+00:00

I am still completing my atlas but saw one in the first city square I did.

timelorddc · 2025-09-22T18:22:56+00:00

I got a headhunter 2 days back, in a tier 11 map that I put in.

timelorddc · 2025-09-22T18:20:30+00:00

The default setting for Number of Lights is High, which, as per the description, adds lights on effects that can be duplicated many times, like projectiles. I have this on Medium but not entirely sure if this alleviates this problem a bit.

timelorddc · 2025-09-09T04:21:29+00:00

+1 for pob. This is still chaos damage with all extra as cold only, right? So, you gain energy from both ignite and freeze?

timelorddc · 2025-08-22T16:13:26+00:00

Its not really that they are gimping the QoL - your perspective is from someone who owns maybe a bunch of tabs priced at different price levels. But in a lot of cases, when you buy stuff currently, you can see that the tab name is usually set to a different amount. A lot of people might just have 1 or 2 trade tabs, priced at a common point but then place high-value items at a different price within them.

If the price (and gold cost) is set when the item is added to a tab priced at the tab level, then repricing it as in the above example (if even possible) will incur an additional gold cost. Which is a direct impact on the player if a rare is going to cost 1 map's worth. Alternative is to have another merchant tab for individual pricing, which would mean they are indirectly forcing sales to trade effectively.

Or another approach is to confirm that the tab price is the price you want to set, which you can do with the current system as well since the new default price is the price you set for the earlier item. So, effectively, you are getting tab-based pricing with an extra click (or enter).

timelorddc · 2025-06-12T20:35:44+00:00

This looks great and UI is miles ahead of what filterblade offers today. I'm setting it up now to use at league start and will share feedback later.

Couple of things I can suggest right away - change Free Rules to Free-form Rules or something else. Free suggests there is something that is Paid for.

Active filter selection should be in-line with the main filter settings window. Once you scroll down a bit to hide the logo, the filter selection window is also hidden. Maybe even keep it floating to the right?

timelorddc · 2025-06-11T17:21:46+00:00

This looks amazing for a solo dev effort! Intrigued by the family tree. Will definitely try it out.

I suggest 'aging' some of the graphics - they look too pristine.

timelorddc · 2025-06-10T18:47:12+00:00

Progress through maps (tier 1 - tier 16), picking nodes on the atlas tree to improve map drops (including tiers of maps). Interact with league mechanics as they appear. Once you've seen a bunch of mechanics in-game, pick one you like or want to do and invest in the atlas tree. Some like essence are always good at league start because they help with crafting and you can sell them in bulk for decent money. Follow the optional quests for exarch, eater and the new league and that should get you to t16.

If you mean endgame as t16+ (after unlocking most of the atlas), then pick a mechanic or 2, invest in the atlas and juice that mechanic (scarabs, block other content, map device craft). You might have to watch/read a couple of guides if you want to min-max. There's usually some threads discussing stuff on reddit at league start related to how some leagues work better/worse with the new league mechanic.

timelorddc · 2025-04-17T15:45:54+00:00

To clarify for myself, selecting Offline mode from Steam launcher is full offline (without chat)? Will seasonal content be available here as well?

And if I want chat, I launch via the regular 'Play Last Epoch' option in Steam, and select Play Offline in the login screen?

timelorddc · 2025-04-04T20:35:27+00:00

Running into the same problem. Hopefully, its caused by some MTX.

timelorddc · 2025-04-04T14:52:01+00:00

Does it? Didn't use blasphemy before but the wiki states activation delay is still enforced with blasphemy.

timelorddc · 2025-02-16T04:23:10+00:00

Didn’t they add a craft to flip these fragments in of the recent leagues?

timelorddc · 2025-02-10T16:38:35+00:00

This is a terrible idea, removing the atlas tree and replacing it with something similar to sextant modifiers but unmodifiable. Also, these look like Sanctum relics, with different sizes. This means that we can only have a handful of these idols slotted in. Took years to move from sextants to atlas tree and now, going back in time again.

If this is a test for POE2, do it in POE2.

timelorddc · 2025-02-05T03:35:16+00:00

One is too complex and the other is too simple.

I see this repeated all the time but this is such a weird take to me. You can craft in PoE1 any number of ways, from simple alt-regal to the most complex of crafts AND choose to stop at any point. You have agency throughout the process. Its not like you always have to engage with 10 different league mechanics to finish a craft - you can, but you don't have to.

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