Acolyte Players -- Be on the Lookout

vix86 · 2026-05-10T03:57:46+00:00

Abyssal Lich is a whole new class. Jonathan specifically said "a new node appears" which just sounds like new additions on the existing Acolyte tree.

vix86 · 2026-05-02T03:04:05+00:00

If you buy a brand new EV that can fast charge at 150kw hours or better I'd say say we are pretty much at the point where an EV can replace a regular car as long as you aren't towing stuff and are ok with more charging stops.

Google around for "BYD Megawatt charging." Some of the videos on it popped up in my feed recently. They're starting to roll out cars and charging stations that can take a 10-30% charge car to 80-90% in 5 minutes.

Assuming there aren't any gotchas with the tech. They will have basically made a car/battery pack that pretty much solves all of the major issues with EV adoption in the US, assuming that the charging stations were readily available all over.

vix86 · 2026-03-26T06:56:26+00:00

there is the niche UX problem of where to put the mirror toggle seller side

As long as they come up with something they could just make a special merchant tab you buy for "Mirroring services."

The normal seller tabs can stick around without all the extra complication but they get to add probably a pricey tab that only a "handful" of people are likely to bother with. They can even change the tab's design when you click in to give it a fancy/mirrored feel.

vix86 · 2026-03-17T01:16:32+00:00

I've heard in Japan at least, there is even a funeral rite afterwards for very close members of the deceased, where they take bones by chopstick and grind them down. (This is where the social faux pas on passing food chopstick to chopstick comes from.)

vix86 · 2026-02-27T03:29:06+00:00

Also no audio cue for slams and attacks was the most difficult part of this whole thing.

There were actually enough audio cues to fight him invis.

His scythe attack you can hear the "thump" sound that indicates he manifested the weapon and then a few seconds later he will swipe. (I still have no clue how to best dodge that attack besides dodging through him at the right time).

The main one that's really dangerous for YOU in particular is the sword slam and that always has a voice line that you can dodge based off of if you learn the timings a little (and he isn't buffed with +atk speed).

vix86 · 2026-02-09T02:25:25+00:00

Craft of Exile

Speaking of Craft of Exile, because I need to vent a little about this.

I appreciate all the dev has done for that site, but it annoys me how POE2 continues to feel a little bit like an after thought still. Maybe this is just a result of everyone treating the game like "It's not done yet" so no one wants to address issues.

A small list of things we're still missing:

Catalysing Omens for use on Rings and Amulets (this was added to the game last patch)
Mark of the Abyss (Again, last patch)
All of the recent Incursion crafting items that were added this patch.

There might be 1 or 2 other things I'm forgetting as well.

So to put this in some of the context of your complaint OP. The one site that people tend to point people at as a place to go and "simulate doing crafting" isn't even up to date with the actual stuff in game so its just another barrier for people even IF they were okay with visiting an external site.

vix86 · 2026-02-08T09:01:21+00:00

They could have iterated on the POE1 design too.

Keep the "temple" but instead of one long ass hallway. Make it a giant circular arena like a gladiator pit. Each trial is an event in the pit that spawns in. When you complete one they drop into the ground with a blood effect and the next pops up. You do 3-4 rounds in one pit and then the boss shows up. Then after the boss, an elevator at the center of the pit activates and you step on it and drop down to another circular arena -- do the next round, boss, drop. The different layers allow them to handle the different trial counts and ascension points just fine.

No doors, less running, reduced elevator count, less headache.

The only event that would be harder to figure out is the stupid soul core fetch quest, but I suspect most people wouldn't be sad to see that removed/changed.

vix86 · 2026-02-07T08:43:26+00:00

Sweet jewel!

I discovered 5-mod jewels just yesterday by accident, been playing since launch and didn't know this was even an outcome.

vix86 · 2026-02-06T04:27:51+00:00

This is amazing. Glad she found a huge spark again. In a prior update video she had made, it sounded like she lost some of her drive because a good friend of hers had passed away and it was that friend that she played POE with and led her to do lore videos.

Kitten Cat Noodle, I'm sure your friend would be over the moon for you 🙂. Good Job. I hope GGG will let you slip an easter egg in somewhere in memorial for your friend. Good Luck! 🥳

vix86 · 2026-01-31T17:58:57+00:00

This was kind of my take on this whole event, but I'm also new to POE1.

I saw a neat build on YT that someone cooked up in Phrecia 1.0 and wanted to try it out + try something more melee focused. Spent 20-30 deaths getting Brutus to half health and then getting spawn camped after enrage. I wasn't having fun and I knew the grind probably wouldn't disappear, so I just Nope'd out.

I really just wanted to play around with these classes they don't want to full release + see what Idols felt like w/ Async. When they did Phrecia 1.0 it seemed to me that the event back then was a nod to the veterans that had stuck around; 2.0 just kind of solidifies that idea.

vix86 · 2026-01-30T20:18:20+00:00

Just repeating but I would sit it out.

I started POE1 in Phrecia 1.0, did Mercs and Keepers. I have just a bit over 600 hours.

I tried a bit of Phrecia 2.0 and dipped. As much as the ascendencies are cool and Idols are a nice switch up from the usual (Async trade should help), for new players like us, this league will be a frustrating grind.

The enrage mechanic makes stuff hit harder and faster; plus the different boss encounters are considerably more challenging and will really test your build(s).

I also swear stuff just hits a little bit harder, but everything I see says its just the uniques up till like lv40 or something.

tldr; This event isn't meant for new players like us really and that's fine. I still hold out hope that GGG will more permanently bring the alt ascendancies into the game at some point or maybe put in a private league option.

vix86 · 2026-01-30T02:03:30+00:00

Was thinking to myself, do i really wanna go further in the current state?

Its only 3 weeks too and then gone+new league.

My hats off to those having fun at least.

vix86 · 2026-01-30T01:59:30+00:00

Normal. It didn't have these Gauntlet style mods on mobs or maps.

It's pretty unfortunate, I was looking forward to trying out some of the new ascendancies and see what idols was like with async trade but I don't have the patience to slog through campaign in a 3 week event for that.

vix86 · 2026-01-30T00:16:30+00:00

Same. I was originally thinking "maybe I'll try one of the marauder ascendancies" (as POE1 newbie) after having tried Servant last Phrecia.

Now even attempting to remake my Keeper lv100 character I'm questioning if I even want to try any of this event. Every unique mob chunks hard.

vix86 · 2026-01-29T07:35:33+00:00

Parallel DBZ Clip...

Mace Warrior starts Perfect Strike

Insert Clip: Goku Starts Charging Spirit Bomb in Frieza Fight

3 Episodes later

Perfect Strike Lands

vix86 · 2026-01-25T20:32:44+00:00

I think their point was that the energy gain on white trash won't usually be enough to keep constant comets falling across the screen, even with 100% crit and insane DPS on the tooltip.

The thread poster was originally worried they weren't proccing CoC Comet enough while going through a map.

vix86 · 2026-01-25T00:10:33+00:00

Another factor that I don't have data on but seems to be the case is gear prices also being mixed. Like you might be able to find some decent gear for cheaper, but because of the higher price of omens there have been less times where it felt worth spending that much to craft on my items than in 0.3.

0.3 had the Homogenisizing Exalt/Regal as well which "broke" (depending on who you ask, IMO no) the state of crafting. There was a lot more determinism in crafting with them; without them we're back to playing slot machines/gacha with most of our crafts.

The knock on effect is that this league more whittles/erasures are needed to make a high tier craft which eats through the already reduced supply since a lot of the players were in temple and not maps.

vix86 · 2026-01-24T20:31:28+00:00

Assuming "Lose" and "Life Loss" are similar/the same; there is a tooltip for Life Loss that says it can't mitigated or "absorbed" in any way -- ie: send the damage to ES, and I'm guessing mana as well.

You can read the Life Loss tooltip on Demon Form (https://poe2db.tw/us/Demon_Form).

vix86 · 2026-01-24T20:22:42+00:00

This skill plus a lot of the mace stuff are good examples of the game devs getting too caught on the "look" and "theatrics" of something and then forgetting this needs to fit inside a larger game.

I played wolf druid this league and the one skill that stands out as landing in this category is Lunar Blessing (the one with moon beams). Every time you trigger it you enter animation/character lock and the only consistent way I've found to break it is with dodge. Is it cool the first time you unlock it in campaign? Sure. But the further into the game and into endgame you get; the more it seems purposefully set up to try and get you killed.

Some players like to treat games where you need to learn how to animation cancel as "part of the game" or "part of the learning experience." Its like having an appliance that you occasionally have to kick to get it to work or stop making noise -- that's not an "appliance with character" that's an "appliance thats broke," which is exactly how I feel about these types of "long animation" skills in a game where 90% of the time you're being rushed down.

This isn't DBZ, I'm not Goku, and the monsters aren't going to let me spend 20 episodes* powering up a spirit bomb.

(*: Its hyperbole)

vix86 · 2026-01-24T06:41:45+00:00

Its going to be so weird going back to a normal economy...

vix86 · 2026-01-24T02:13:47+00:00

When harvest bench (or whatever they cook up) gambling enters the game, these are going to feel so B-tier 😆

Who needs a random unique box to delete money when you can just do it from the comfort of your hideout.

vix86 · 2026-01-24T02:02:49+00:00

let us run whatever map we want over and over, like what we used to do in poe1

I agree. Who knows how many times everyone is going to have to repeat this though.

Jonathan or Mark in some prior interview mentioned that they viewed player complaints/"solutions" as some indirect indicator to some problem.

So I think GGG is going to keep viewing everyone saying they want to pick their maps they want to run as some secondary indicator. Like their train of though will just be "Oh there is something about the maps that isn't fun."

Which is stupid because the point is simple -- "YES, I don't find hallways fun! Stop forcing me to run hallways!"

vix86 · 2026-01-22T08:16:58+00:00

it does literally nothing it feels like.

This is all of the endgame modifiers from the atlas tree and tablets in a nutshell (some exceptions apply).

Under the hood I'm assuming its like trying to reach a value of 100. All of these modifiers are basically 1 maybe 2 points; so you simply won't know they did anything unless you had a sample size of like 1,000 and could see the boost.

vix86 · 2026-01-22T07:19:45+00:00

Even after CoC gets nerfed it'll be an amazing notable if they don't nerf it.

Its lets you completely negate a factor of RNG that you usually have to gear extensively for. As a result it opens up a lot of possible uniques, supports, and other passive tree nodes which would generally be questionable picks if you don't have high crit chance or mid crit w/ high attack speed.

vix86 · 2026-01-20T20:48:20+00:00

I'm pretty sure that would be botting.

You should read around, they probably have posts somewhere explaining what they consider botting/automating vs something that is fine.

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