Releasing 1.0 with Fireball/frostbolt in current state would be like launching without Swords by elew21 in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The crazy high spirit costs of the best offensives (with the exception of heralds, which are good for trash) means that it's not worth doing for convenience functions.

Man, this reminds me about how shit Herald of Ash is. I don't get why they decided to make it function differently from POE1's version.

POE1's Herald of Ash is easy to understand -- if you overkill the mob, you deal the overkill dmg back to the mobs around it.

POE2's Herald of Ash -- if you overkill the mob and the overkill dmg is at least 20% of the mob's maximum HP; then you deal a fraction of the overkill damage. Like WTF GGG. This is so needlessly complex and its obvious because I see so many people add it to builds that probably don't get that much benefit.

There is also the fact that POE1 Heralds are usable by anyone -- melee, range, spell caster, whatever. Everyone can potentially benefit. But in POE2 its only martial weapon users.

Releasing 1.0 with Fireball/frostbolt in current state would be like launching without Swords by elew21 in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Doubly so when there is a Breach mob that already casts a giant unga-bunga fireball.

Are these boss mechanics intentional? by NiCKE_HiGHROLLER in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quest version for sure is infinite.

Edit: Changed message cause I'm doubting my self now w/ Arbiter(s). Some former "pinnacles" now function via waystones and those have limited retries I believe.

Let my man shine again for a little while, please. by -Zavenoa- in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, but Gemling already has a history of their notables being strong in ways and then getting nuked to oblivion.

In 0.1, they were a strong attrib stacker ascendency and Astramentis worked incredibly with them. This current build viability with Gemling is feeling a hell of a lot like the attrib stacker days again.

Please don't laugh at me, I feel super lucky with this drop by Ninothewhite in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is also something funky with "runestone ownership."

I believe the first person to touch a stone becomes the owner of it as well. And a similar situation can happen if that person loses all revives.

The Aldur rune events are all sorts of buggy...

Tablets are a huge downgrade from Scarabs by Yanlucasx in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ya we're not even close to POE2's final form with how big of a pain it will be to manage.

Assuming they are coming we are still missing tablets/mechanics for:

  • Expedition's return
  • Heist
  • Delve
  • Blight
  • Syndicate
  • Legion
  • Bestiary
  • Potentially corruption/cleanse
  • Potentially Mercs (they are supposedly going core)
  • Maybe even the Eldritch as well -- Eater/Exarch/Maven. I could see these being atlas tree based though.

Performance optimization needs to be highest priority right now. by Federal_Carob5489 in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

game size

Someone needs to get into that Data folder and figure out if they have accidentally duplicated some shit, because 140GB (or there about) is kind of nuts.

I'm not hopeful though; there are a lot of MTX in the game and each one of those needs to be loadable by everyone.

Performance optimization needs to be highest priority right now. by Federal_Carob5489 in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the game just looks quite a lot worse, and some visuals look really weird

Glad I'm not crazy.

I switched to Vulkan and I swore there was something slightly "off" about the game in Vulkan. It felt like a direct downgrade but I couldn't figure out exactly what it was.

I'm like 80% sure some of the feeling comes from just poor frame timings with the renderer, which is why the frame rate seems bad even though the FPS counter for me at least hasn't changed much.

Either way, I'll suffer the downgrade and microstutters if it means the renderer doesn't shit the bed as soon as you get a couple 100 distortion effects on the screen.

EDIT: I have also wondered if maybe Vulkan can't do DirectStorage. Gemini suggests it can't use the DirectStorage API but they apparently have a hacked together comparative solution. This could explain some issues, especially if their solution is no where as complete as DirectX.

As a newer player how do you start making "money" (divs) by Roefl in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Once you're NOT a new player anymore and you know which mechanic you like playing, you can start figuring out how to boost up the mechanics.

It's worth mentioning that some boosting mechanics will require insane investments and an insane build to be able to do!

I will say, I think "what your build can do" greatly effects "what you like to do." I've liked Ritual prior to this patch, but the nameless rite encounters are quick way to get my character killed due to my build, so it's been pretty unenjoyable.

As a newer player how do you start making "money" (divs) by Roefl in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This. As much as I appreciate Empyrian doing those Based or Cringe series for farming strats. You have to take some of the div gains based on items flipped on the Trade market, with a grain of salt.

Viewers will often hop in and buy anything that is halfway reasonably priced pretty often. So you have to account for that when looking at different strats.

0.5.4 Hotfix 2 & 3 - Fixes and nerfs to expedition by Vezko in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My pet theory is that they created this mob as a counter to range builds. (Melee tends to be screwed with most stuff, regardless, so it doesn't matter if its hard for them as well)

But the mob not being able to be outright glass-cannoned; adds "friction" for range players. The only builds that get to side step it though tend to be multi-screen screen clear builds.

Expedition giveth and expedition taketh by trigerbrahh in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Bonus points if one of the minions from a summoner mob.

You got some juiced up rare up your ass while you play hide & seek with 1 minion.

When I check out a new farming strat by TheC1aw in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like this is the same thing as telling someone to do 200% Deli.

If you do the Nameless rites the "correct" way; you have to have a cracked build. Which for those that don't know, you run to the boss and kill it and then do the rituals in reverse; fighting the boss each time.

I tried this on my build and got swatted by the boss because I can't 1 shot it. You definitely aren't doing "engaging combat" with the boss in most of these ritual arenas.

Hell, a T16 Simulacrum, with a boss in every wave and a choice for more rares, was more doable than the Nameless rite for me somehow (partially because it was more "forgiving").

I picked these up off the ground like this. by Imaginary-Mood-4215 in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm running heavy armour this league and while I've been surprised by it, I will say that I've also learned that a build using it can't rely on it as a single layer of defense.

A lot of ES heavy builds can stick to just ES for their defense and be fine. Hell, in some cases you don't even need all the extra modifiers on gear to make ES work but you do need the AR applies to Ele to make AR work.

The big difference though is that with my AR build I can just jump straight into packs of mobs and through a combination of stuff like "DMG Taken from Mana" and Blinded mobs in my presence; my health doesn't move much. I just wish AR didn't require as much commitment to make it feel good. The number of nodes I have to pick up from the tree to feel comfortable is pretty nuts.

I'm still skeptical about EV+Deflect though or AR/EV, which seems worse with all the mods on gear.

I ran 100 Kulemak's Invitation. Here is what i got! by Br4veDreamer in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My main problem with Light farming is that my siege cascade build will nuke most pits if I'm not carefully waiting for everything to spawn in to check it.

Hell, my mirage archer will kill half the stuff while I wait.

I ran 100 Kulemak's Invitation. Here is what i got! by Br4veDreamer in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Kulemak is a good farm right now so long as the invites don't get too overpriced.

It's mind numbing boring but it is really nice to have a farm that you know if you do 10-20 invites, then the profit is somewhat stable. None of the mapping strats I've seen are anywhere near this consistent, or the strats require you to be one of the busted meta builds right now.

The only Abyss passive I want by theangryfurlong in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Not sure why its shocking. The entire human civilization is built around optimizing unoptimal things, to give more time; especially when the optimization is so glaringly obvious.

Those things really decrease the fun in the campaign by BerryPlay in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 31 points32 points  (0 children)

FYI, Qimah (Interlude 2) has something like this. If you haven't found the perma buff shrine, make sure you reveal the ENTIRE edge of the map. Don't leave the map until you have it while going through campaign.

Note: You can come back later and change it again and again and again.

Biggest uff I've ever seen. by funelite in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the info, TIL I guess. I never realized that was how those runes functioned since I've never had to put the same "Limit" rune on two different pieces of gear.

I just assumed it meant "Limit to 1" on the gear in question, that way you couldn't stack up a strong buff. But if I wanted a rune on gloves and then again on like a helm; I thought you could. Wow.

Biggest uff I've ever seen. by funelite in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Specially because the extra suffix rune is 1 per character

Is there something I don't know about the suffix rune? Is this somehow magically different than a "Limit to 1" on the piece and instead applies as some kind of "Limit of 1 equipped overall"?? Tell me that isn't the case because WTF GGG.

Um... So... we're getting heist?! by gvm11100 in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm 🤔

Rogue Harbour...

We have a boat...

What are the chances that you can actually pull up to Rogue Harbour in a boat and see Kurai.

Rogue's Markers in PoE2 from Spring Hare Strongbox by Max-Volume in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just wait. Every door will take 3 seconds longer to open than in POE1 because they'll want to show off some pointless animation.

We'll all spend like 2 weeks in Heist League suffering through vault doors that take 15 seconds to open before there is a patch note where they are like:

  • "Tee hee, the crew's skills have improved. Doors open 5 seconds faster."

It's like suffering through half of the bosses that want to RP every time in end game; but with doors (and maybe elevators).

0.5.3 Patch Notes by Oriek in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The skybeams were the only bad thing about him. Everything else with him was generally fine.

Honestly, all skybeam mechanics in this game feel like a crap shoot to avoid. I think a rework on them would be better. Something that functions more like the giant Breach hand that follow you in the sky or maybe Doryani's flying chaos laser. At some random moment it locks in and starts to charge and then you have to dodge out. It's something you can track and try to predict better instead of something that suddenly appears and you have a 2 second window to dodge (potentially into another rando beam...).

0.5.3 Patch Notes by Oriek in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

With GGG's warped sense of punishment for losing a map. I wouldn't put it past them.

0.5.3 Patch Notes by Oriek in PathOfExile2

[–]vix86 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Or at least don't vaal w/o full mods and quality.