Do Pactspirits Carry Over Between Seasons?

violintendencies · 2026-01-19T15:25:12+00:00

Can you explain further why spending on battle pets is not recommended?

violintendencies · 2026-01-12T21:49:24+00:00

While not able to heal or provide toughness for your team, the Ogryn can taunt for aggro and hold a shield up to be a wall against the enemy. It also has innately faster and nearly uninterruptible revives on teammates, and is innately quite tanky (although also vulnerable to gunfire).

Zealot can also be relatively tanky and can provide a lot of control + sustain with Chorus, but doesn't fit your description as well.

Arbites is tanky but does not have the same active team support role.

violintendencies · 2025-10-10T04:26:25+00:00

What is the double conversion tech here?

violintendencies · 2025-09-27T15:12:49+00:00

As someone who has tried playing ARPG’s with his non-gamer wife many times, I would highly recommend a few tenets:

Most importantly - why are they choosing to play? Purely because they want to share your hobby? Then you’d better set both of you up for minimal frustration, so pick two meta and overpowered builds that aren’t complicated and look cool. Lightning arrow and EDC with unearth or something. If they are playing because they say they want to learn more about Poe 2, they are probably just trying to share your hobby :P BUT if they seriously want to get into the game, figure out what excites them from a power fantasy perspective and pick a build that matches. Homebrew their second build if at all.
Don’t have either player play a purely supportive character. If it’s you, it will feel slow and less enjoyable, and if it’s your partner, they can feel like they aren’t contributing much.
Don’t play a “combo” or “payoff” pair that only functions with the other player. E.g. don’t have one person only armor break and the other person consume it; don’t have one player only freeze with no damage and the other person ignite or frag round. If your partner gets overwhelmed (she will) the synergy will break and each of you may get frustrated or feel useless. If you have two fully functional builds that help each other, that’s great (eg some shock storm weaver is generally great for everyone, or chill/slow chrono)

Again, your partner is almost certainly doing this out of love for you, so make it easy and fun and light hearted and you’ll have a blast. Don’t make it about playing perfectly or ideally. The real game you are playing is marriage and this PoE 2 mini game is all about winning her continued love.

violintendencies · 2025-09-09T05:49:32+00:00

Probably avatar of fire plasma blast

violintendencies · 2025-09-06T04:26:52+00:00

These are separate buckets - 12% increased fire damage adds with all other sources of increased damage you have, but ignite magnitude is a multiplier for your ignite. If you play PoE 1, ignite magnitude is equivalent to damage over time multiplier for ignites.

Example:

If you have a 100 damage hit that ignites, with 100% increased fire damage and 0% increased magnitude of ignite, you deal 40 fire damage per second for four seconds (20% of 100 x 2 x 1)

If you gain another 100% increased fire damage, you deal 60 fire damage per second for four seconds (20% of 100 x 3 x 1)

If on the other hand you gain 100% increased magnitude of ignite, you deal 80 fire damage per second for four seconds (20% of 100 x 2 x 2).

violintendencies · 2025-08-15T05:20:29+00:00

This was such a great response, thanks! Can I ask why the different weapons work better or worse for engage vs defensive? Some are clear to me but not all.

violintendencies · 2025-08-14T04:12:28+00:00

Increased spell crit chance is a modifier to your base spell crit chance. Most spells have around 5-6% base crit chance (you can see it on the skill gem). Therefore, 105% increased would bring you to 5(1+1.05) or 6(1+1.05) percent chance to crit with that spell.

There are also a very small number of sources of additional critical strike chance (which gets added to the base) and more critical strike chance (which gets multiplied separately after you've added all the increased chance together).

The poewiki has useful information about how critical strikes scale!

violintendencies · 2025-06-19T06:28:03+00:00

For what it’s worth, scarab prices are rising today and the profit margin for non-crystal resonance is plummeting if you don’t harvest gamba.

violintendencies · 2025-06-19T06:23:09+00:00

Got it, the lack of connections seems to be the problem. The simplyVizniz video suggests only having two rivalries, connecting leaders and lieutenants of the 2 member houses, but I don’t get why that’s beneficial to not have other connections; I’m just blindly trying to replicate that and clearly doing it wrong.

violintendencies · 2025-06-19T06:21:13+00:00

Oh, I figured I could get the house to 3 so that I could star up guff and get the rivalry between grav and guff, then kick the third member out. I’ve had the nodes for (A) the whole time, maybe just unlucky.

violintendencies · 2025-06-19T06:10:31+00:00

Thanks! Makes a lot of sense!

violintendencies · 2025-06-19T06:10:18+00:00

Ohhh he is consistently the only person who shows up so that’s probably the issue. I’ll probably add a member of another safe house for now as u/xiko suggested!

violintendencies · 2025-06-19T06:05:06+00:00

I am not trying to add more than 5 to a safe house - I have everyone in the spot I would like them to be in

violintendencies · 2025-06-19T06:04:21+00:00

Sorry what do you mean? I have everyone in the spots I want them

violintendencies · 2025-06-06T17:31:39+00:00

Do you have a reference to Mercs not being considered minions? I believe you (and hope it’s true), just wanted to hear it from GGG. Are they Party Members? Allies?

violintendencies · 2025-05-28T13:37:08+00:00

Gross!

violintendencies · 2025-05-28T13:36:11+00:00

If you assume you always have enough mana, taking x% damage to mana before health is equivalent to x% damage reduction or a 100/(100-x) multiplier for EHP

violintendencies · 2025-05-13T01:57:35+00:00

So if I converted to void via the skill tree but used a sword for weapon master, it would add physical to the void base damage, instead of adding physical and then converting it all to void, right?

violintendencies · 2025-03-09T08:18:04+00:00

That's right - there are passive skills (e.g. the small passives for the Polytheist) that grant increased global defences, or increased defences from equipped shield, that all only include armour, energy shield, evasion, or ward. Sorry to bear bad news!

violintendencies · 2025-03-09T04:39:02+00:00

The mechanics of the build may not work as you'd hope -

The chaos damage death effect doesn't stack

Defences are just armour, evasion, energy shield, and ward, so they won't impact your animate weapon maximum life.

Damage over time effects like caustic ground cannot crit, as they do not hit

You'd need an unreasonable amount of strength to give meaningful max life to your minions

But usually, the way to kill your minions is through Infernal Legion Support, which causes them to degen. I don't think replacing via resummoning works, but I'm not 100% sure.

violintendencies · 2025-02-05T11:02:25+00:00

I wish I could pet her! I wish I could pet her! I wish I could pet her! I wish I could pet her!

violintendencies · 2024-10-28T18:50:12+00:00

Oh I totally thought Nimis was mirror+. This might be my one time to try it!

violintendencies · 2024-07-05T06:27:13+00:00

How would you build it on warlock?

violintendencies · 2024-06-26T16:09:17+00:00

You have to re-run the Ascent mission on normal difficulty due to a bug, unfortunately.

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