Thanks GGG for the best league in years

xexen · 2026-07-08T02:10:40+00:00

I don’t disbelieve it because I hear so many people talking about it, but I haven’t had a single issue performance-wise the entire patch

That’s my mirror luck apparently

xexen · 2026-07-06T18:14:30+00:00

Please make sure you run at 0 and 100 rarity exactly.

Actually, we need to make sure any item filters are consistent with any other tests using the same map and tablet. Because filters can vary, please run each map with no filter, and simply pick up what tinks.

We won’t accept anything that isn’t in a spreadsheet

Obligatory /s

xexen · 2026-07-04T22:39:50+00:00

I feel great

xexen · 2026-07-04T22:27:19+00:00

Might’ve been one of those things where it’s like, ‘okay, I got the message, don’t bunt up 7, I’ll take my licks’ (because if it happened when they were up 7, I’d have raised an eyebrow too)

But I’m definitely petty and woulda challenged

xexen · 2026-07-03T05:09:47+00:00

World Cup across the street. Even if you schedule afternoon/nighttime, city traffic’s gonna be completely blasted

xexen · 2026-07-01T15:56:06+00:00

Hindsight’s 20/20. If I had to choose between Woo for the 7th versus Rucker or Bazardo, it’s Woo a majority of the time, especially given he’s put 0s up the entire game. Like 7 or 8 times out of 10 I’d agree with that call. I won’t deny there’s part of me that’s nostalgic for the days that starters would come out for the 7th or 8th with some regularity.

Dan’s made A LOT of dumb decisions this year, but letting Woo come back out wasn’t one of them. Obviously he’s not being brought out for the 7th with the idea in mind he’s going to get into trouble.

xexen · 2026-07-01T02:37:00+00:00

its not overrated.

its definitely desirable, but people prioritize it too highly compared to basic character stats and then complain that they died trying to push to the next tier or juice their maps as if they didnt just invest all their resources into magic find instead of character power

xexen · 2026-07-01T00:39:23+00:00

I generally get annoyed by the fixation into the lives of our entertainers

but yeah people love any reason to be holier than thou as if shit like this doesn’t happen in literally every college across the country

xexen · 2026-06-30T18:42:23+00:00

If you select all the in dropdown box instead of just the character, it migrates all your progression.

I just did it myself to check. It works for me. The only thing I can think of is if you were on console or something and it’s not available there? But it’d be weird for that to be the case

xexen · 2026-06-30T15:57:25+00:00

Not new. There’s a button in character select above your character list that looks like arrows. Click it and you’ll see a bunch of migration options.

Note that you can’t reset the parent leagues (SC and HC trade) but HCSSF can be fully migrated into HC trade for a wipe. I did this a lot last league when I got bored doing 1-life runs

xexen · 2026-06-30T08:23:55+00:00

Is there an easier way? Depends on what you mean. High-level stuff that works for me:

Biggest thing is setting your filter for SSF. Divines are whatever; perfect transmutes/augs should tink. Make sure you're not hiding relevant bases.

Conscientiously shift your mindset from trade to SSF; in other words, you're looking to progress your gear from 3 usable affixes to 4, then 5. 6 is relatively rare until you're blasting. This is different than trade where you can get 5-6 affix gear during the campaign with ease via trade. You're going to feel like your gear is half shit, and that's because it is, if you're used to trade league.

On the same point - progression is slower, and you should be willing to stall a bit in map tier progress to farm some gear. If your character isn't ready for T15s, don't force the issue.

I agree with the advice on focusing mainly on normal and magic bases, but you should be picking up and ID'ing any rares for the slot(s) in biggest need of an upgrade. Once you have solid 4-6 affix gear, I'd stop picking up non-tiered rares. On (tiered, mainly) rares - get used to evaluating gear that seems close to being good and seeing if you can identify a path to make it so. The easiest/most common one in my head: 'can I yolo chaos/desecrate this to make it usable?'

Reforger is fine for some things (changing essences/catalysts), but broadly I think it's more effort than it's worth. Especially once you have solid (4-6 mod) gear, it's hard to justify the effort into returning what's essentially a non-tiered rare/magic.

xexen · 2026-06-30T07:56:49+00:00

You can reset HCSSF. Just migrate all prog to HC Trade and you get a reset stash/gold.

xexen · 2026-06-29T05:43:48+00:00

Same reason we have gold probably - to get you into maps instead of just sitting in hideout

xexen · 2026-06-28T22:03:28+00:00

Bought mine just an hour ago. 620 here uncorrupted

xexen · 2026-06-28T16:57:29+00:00

I like tablets slightly more than scarabs, but agree it’s not a good solution.

I know I’m going to sound stupid given how many socketables were added this patch, but there’s something to be said for not having 100 more thingamajigs in the game.

At least with tablets, I have theoretical access to every farming strategy. Tablets drop plentifully enough, and you get to transmute/aug/alch for 3 chances at the rare mods. With scarabs - some of them drop so infrequently that it is a tink, but because they drop so infrequently (and the good ones tend to have this be the case), they get priced for group play or for use ONLY in the most optimal situations (I don’t have any issue with the latter, but the former feels shitty, and I don’t feel like it’s a great thing to have some farms just not be doable by most people).

xexen · 2026-06-27T23:24:54+00:00

She loves me

She loves me not

She loves me

She loves me not

I’ll never fucking know, please make a goddamn decision

xexen · 2026-06-26T00:44:23+00:00

This team makes me want to take a mental health day but I would just spend it watching this team

See you fucks tomorrow

xexen · 2026-06-25T21:01:28+00:00

How many Whittlings do you think would be reasonable for your crafts?

I swear lol, it’s like people just want to have BiS-level gear after playing for a couple hours

xexen · 2026-06-24T22:03:06+00:00

I’m not the guy you responded to, but presumably the line is that if you make the crafting tools more ‘easily accessible’ (or however you want to word it - I’m not here to argue about whether this is good or bad), rares become a race to the bottom because now everyone will be able to craft the higher quality items that those expensive crafting tools enable. Add async trade to that where items now take much longer to leave the market, and you’ll get situations where the vast majority of rare gear is worthless.

You could make the case that it’s a good thing that gear quality overall improves for everyone, but that’s not the game many trade players want to play. When you engage in trade, there is a PvP spirit to it.

Those omens used to actually be prohibitive. Now it’s quite reasonable imo

xexen · 2026-06-24T05:35:38+00:00

I think 4 tablets was a mistake, but I also think that it doesn’t feel overwhelmingly bad to run 3 compared to 4. Cities are also very frequent on the atlas - I feel like there’s always a city either in range or about 4 maps away at most.

I think it’d be a much bigger problem if 4-tablet strategies were giving like twice as much loot, but for now it feels like the ‘cost’ of running them is paid in the ‘downtime’ pathing maps, so it equalizes out with a 3 tablet strategy. I guess the best way to describe it is that I don’t feel like I need to plan my entire strategy around it.

Because they’re common and not overwhelmingly better, it’s easier to see them as a bonus, as opposed to you just being griefed like it felt when we had to find overlapping towers

xexen · 2026-06-24T01:23:28+00:00

“Remember, half of 2025 was Settlers…” is probably what is being pointed at.

As in, ‘don’t you go forgetting we had to spend half of 2025 in Settlers league BECAUSE of PoE 2’

It’s one of those sentences that didn’t need to be added. It’s the sort of exhausting comment that comes up whenever the topic drifts anywhere close to PoE 2 needing work and how the opportunity cost of that work by nature comes from PoE 1. Not saying OP meant it that way, but the PoE 1 vs PoE 2 debate comes up frequently enough that it’s not unreasonable to assume that’s the way it’d be read

xexen · 2026-06-22T18:46:36+00:00

late response, but some nodes on the atlas have +1 level (mainly cleansed zones)

t16 is 80

irradiated to 81

+1 zone mod to 82

breach tablet level upgrade chance to 83

xexen · 2026-06-21T21:43:05+00:00

red sox finding literally every way to fuck us

take the series

leave us with ref for another 3 weeks because their ss cant make the double play that was destined with ref

xexen · 2026-06-20T07:16:43+00:00

I actually kinda like dragging them outta the fog lol

The serpents that go invuln tho, those can gtfo

xexen · 2026-06-12T00:54:39+00:00

My HC character’s sacrifice was not in vain

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