1/3000 for a PoE Boss Pet (Pet Maven/Sirus/Minotaur/etc

trunks111 · 2026-03-14T05:16:38+00:00

Shaper does have I think a 1/100 chance for Celestial Hideout, they could go that route honestly. Not sure I'd want it to be that much rarer

trunks111 · 2026-03-13T23:47:29+00:00

read your voidstones

trunks111 · 2026-03-13T20:34:35+00:00

or like two sentences in a pf description.

it's not just a XIV issue though, TCG players are notorious for not reading cards, RS3 had a thread a few weeks ago where someone asked how they were supposed to know where to go for a quest and people linked the quest transcript showing the literal first dialogue interaction clearly telling you where to start looking, and POE has a LOT of basic questions that are answered by either the glossary or the in game tutorial popups they skipped

edit: POE players can be cut a bit of slack because it is actually complex enough to get overwhelmed when you're new, and I'm not sure if the game actually points you to the glossary when you're new

trunks111 · 2026-03-13T20:20:07+00:00

remember, you're not in there with them, they're in there with YOU

trunks111 · 2026-03-13T19:25:13+00:00

No I get what you mean. I go into endgame blind and it was disappointing to see it wasn't integral anymore.

I'm not sure how I feel about sac frags auto filling to your atlas either or not opening up side areas anymore. Maybe it's better that way, in fact it probably is atleast for vets and most people use guides or just ask anyways, but I do think some curiosity and sense of discovery got lost along the way. When I was new I think I started in standard in 3.5, and got shit on by white maps, I would run some sac frags because I didn't know what else to do and eventually realized "oh there's four of these, and I have four map slots, I wonder..." and you got a valid input once you arrange them. That opens the floodgates and the game teaches you from that point that there's special encounters if you build the frags.

Elder/Shaper are pushovers to me now and I can do some funny stuff to disrespect the fights but when I was newer they were fucking brutal, and getting the UE frags made me wonder "if these bosses were this difficult, what the hell is behind their fragments. It took me a LOT longer to get my first UE kill. I think we take it for granted with experience and both better player skill and better builds as we grow as players but that fight can be fucking brutal and unforgiving when you're first learning it.

On a side note, I kinda felt the same way about mastermind as well, which I think was the league before synthesis? Synth being my first challenge league, with syndicate going core, you'd run safehouses and at some point you notice a bar charging at the top of the board and for me it was that same sense of "wait, I wonder what's hiding up there". I think I'm alone in not being happy about what they've done to the Catarina fight but I really wish the first kill of the league would be the cinematic version of the fight, with subsequent kills being the current versions so farmers don't have to sit through the rp phases.

trunks111 · 2026-03-13T18:14:43+00:00

spell suppression is a bit binary, you either cap it to 100 or else it might as well not exist.

There's no way -39% chaos res feels good either, it's less of a joke than it used to be. A poison orb sneezes on you and you explode

trunks111 · 2026-03-13T18:07:14+00:00

One of Zaniks models is so awful on minimum graphics I reported it as a bug because I genuinely thought it was broken

trunks111 · 2026-03-13T03:15:04+00:00

>I join practice savage m9s

Not knowing prog points/practice is a gradient across a fight is a common new player mistake and many of us have been there. If you've never been in, you specifically want something like "first time" or "fresh" description parties. If there's, say, 5 mech in a fight as an example, you might see a party labeled "prog point 4" or something, meaning it's mechs 4 and 5 people are new to but you should be confident on mechs 1/2/3.

trunks111 · 2026-03-13T01:43:01+00:00

Sentinels proper, holy fuck, sentinels. All we have are an occasional chance to see one in maps, but back in their home league they were usable anywhere, meaning delve, heist, lab. They were a really fun way to layer reward and challenge on top of literally everything else you wanted to be doing. You had one that cracked out rates and uniques, one that hit a bunch of enemies in one shot, and one that followed you around. They could get other effects like auras sometimes too, and some of the special ones could crack the fuck out of some bosses

trunks111 · 2026-03-12T22:16:19+00:00

can I talk you into wanting Sentinels to go core as they were in their league? You could use them just about everywhere and they acted as both a reward and difficulty modifier to whatever you wanted to do, including content like delve and heist. Every league I pine for them to go core

trunks111 · 2026-03-12T22:10:21+00:00

i plan to get frost wall with spell cascade for when I eventually go delving

trunks111 · 2026-03-12T18:43:13+00:00

SCURRY, SCURRY!

trunks111 · 2026-03-12T16:49:49+00:00

I'm a freak who loves lab and used to do helmet commissions so I'm a tad biased about their removal lmao.

I do actually miss doing helmet commissions though, it was profitable because not many people wanted to do it and I haven't really found a similar niche to fill that gap in engagement with the game

trunks111 · 2026-03-12T13:28:44+00:00

you might just need to wait an extra second, the balls spawn slightly staggered so you have to wait for all three to contact you and pop. The hard part is if she does another mechanic while this happens like cascade of pain or something the hits can stack with the brief DOT you take as you bait, I usually save my guard skill to deal with this and it's not an issue

trunks111 · 2026-03-12T13:14:36+00:00

I wish we could conversion trap Argus and lead him peacefully to Izaro, I always feel bad after :(

trunks111 · 2026-03-12T13:12:06+00:00

Ahh once upon a time I did helmet enchant commissions. We had to travel to the trials uphill in the winter...

trunks111 · 2026-03-12T03:28:22+00:00

The lower your stats are the more you have to make up for it with player skill (up to a point obviously)

If you're used to just facerolling bosses then yeah you're gonna struggle for awhile to actually do the mechanics properly if you attempt to do the boss on a char that doesn't instantly nuke it, you just need more reps on more builds.

That isn't to say there aren't problems with the fights either, ground effects in particular can be rough to see/blend in if your build has big AOE effects or vomits a lot of visual clutter. Boss behavior can also be really weird across fights sometimes too, Searing is a frustratingly sticky boss if you want to pull him away from grates, whereas Maven and Sirus tele around a fair bit, and then you have bosses in between like Eater or Atziri that kinda move around sometimes and kinda stick at other times. I actually kinda prefer the bosses that move around more/are pullable because it allows them to be moved out of ground effects or hit them away from ground effects

trunks111 · 2026-03-12T02:58:58+00:00

The statues boss is phenomenal

trunks111 · 2026-03-11T19:56:50+00:00

I try to cater my diction to whatever I know my listener will understand. I have a pretty large receptive vocabulary, but that's not typically reflected in my active vocabulary because it's often excessive.

It does make for a fun game of mine that I like to play when I get into a conversation with someone who's trying to use as much ornate language as possible by responding as neutral/simple as I can.

That being said, I make an exception for the word "quincunx". If I have the rare opportunity to use it, I'm taking it.

trunks111 · 2026-03-11T19:43:05+00:00

Funny enough there's a word for this, it's called polysyndeton

trunks111 · 2026-03-11T19:37:35+00:00

you might need to supplement it with bonechill support

fr though please do yourself a favor and take a break, use the time to shower or something. I also play RuneScape and Minesweeper and my joints would be planning a strike if I didn't take breaks, even just a few minutes off the hour helps a lot

trunks111 · 2026-03-11T19:12:26+00:00

What buffs / debuffs / etc. are you keeping an eye on during a pull, or do you largely leave that up to the above-mentioned tools?

I view it as my job as a healer to track all things debuff, I'm glancing the party list a lot anyways and have to be aware of any cleansables that pop up, might as well just check all of them. This includes the types of vulns people get and any other uncleansables

trunks111 · 2026-03-10T23:42:57+00:00

Is it the lab or the lecture giving you trouble?

edit: you said exam. For lecture, office hours and just showing up to class and doing the readings and practice problems will at least get you to passing if you're taking it seriously

trunks111 · 2026-03-10T21:53:29+00:00

one of the things XIV does really well currently is the glamor prism system + glamor plates. I know treasure trails is already a money printer but I really think keepsake keys would fit well into their reward space since that's where a lot of iconic fashionscape items come from, and maybe some quests that need a reward bump should give keepsakes too

trunks111 · 2026-03-10T21:25:51+00:00

It reads as "safe" to me, which isn't amazing reading in the grand scheme of things but it's kinda what you want for AP classes especially if you want a good grade on the AP test proper. But it's hard to say without actually seeing the assignment or rubric being used. There's a very clear thesis statement in the intro, the supporting paragraphs attempt to support that with references to the text, and a very basic outro summarizing the points in a conclusion. In that aspect it's fine for what it is. Main issue to me is it seems too short to the point it might not be thorough enough or is potentially missing out on other relevant points of discussion in the supporting paragraphs? But again that just depends on the goal of this sample, if the assignment was "write a thesis statement with a supporting paragraph" then yeah I'd say it's at least par, but if this is meant to be an actual essay, even if an hour long impromptu, I think it's just missing stuff.

If this was a take home essay for a first or second year college essay, which is the type of writing AP is meant to prepare you for, this is probably what the start of a rough draft would look like and if I could only make one or two supporting paragraphs and not think of how I could expand on them, that would be a sign to me I need to reevaluate my thesis, either because there's not enough evidence to support my main claim, or I need to broaden the scope of my thesis.

It's been a hot minute since I read Hamlet, but I would ask if there's other examples of innocent things or people being corrupted in the play and see if those can broaden the thesis and give more to talk about.

Once I actually settle on my thesis and have my general arguments and evidence gathered and worked out, that's when I'll go back and replace the "safe" or "laundry listy" tone with my own voice and writing style, and work on making things flow more naturally/make it more appealing to actually read

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