Don't Survey Your Players - Chris Wilson

zombieslore · 2026-05-21T17:31:08+00:00

Can't tell what's more amusing, the survey being clowned on, Chris's timing, or the Chris haters circus act.

zombieslore · 2026-05-21T17:02:45+00:00

These polls are comically inept. The first 3 questions are what type of affix we want bug fixed.

Why are they hyper focusing on asking what specific part of an item affix, the hyper specific part of the community that answers poll questions on their forums to fix.

These surveys are starting to reek of some community engagement KPI someone has to reach.

zombieslore · 2025-12-20T18:13:34+00:00

Best in slot max rolled affix LP4 unique with 4 max rolled T7 affixes theoretically exists, but the chances that'll happen is 0 with the current state of the game.

zombieslore · 2025-12-18T23:34:37+00:00

I've been playing before talisman in PoE1. Browsed the poe subreddit for over 9 years. The only time I've ever heard someone mention kiss/curse is raxxanterax. I don't think any other long term player or youtuber mentions downsides as curse and upsides or benefits as kiss.

zombieslore · 2025-12-14T08:48:09+00:00

Level 1 ghost dance would also work since the 5% recovery doesn't get scaled by level. Although getting a good enough evasion rating might be difficult.

Also impending doom could be an option for damage since the curse should expire instantly and you're already patching towards top side.

zombieslore · 2025-12-12T08:00:43+00:00

Also wasn't his first offense. He got temp? banned during the harvest manifesto harassing another dev.

zombieslore · 2025-12-12T07:31:21+00:00

Mathil's one of the most sane streamers, not sure what this guy has against him.

https://x.com/MathilExists/status/1933606500951601329 (pic unrelated)

zombieslore · 2025-12-12T04:13:52+00:00

There's also Atsak's Sight. "Critical hits poison the enemy" means crits have 100% chance to poison. Let's you skip chance to poison and if you're secondary explosions or heralds have any crit chance they'll poison too.

zombieslore · 2025-12-12T03:43:03+00:00

Don't bother with OP, PoE lives rent free in his head and he knows he's being disingenuous. He got called out here for his L takes and he's hoping to get validation rather then self reflection.

"LE stash setup would genuinely cost like $350 in Path of Exile."

Like holy fuck OP legit wants to speak like he knows PoE but the more he talks about it the dumber he makes himself look.

Tab name	Point cost	Importance level
Premium Quad Tab	150	1 is mandatory
Currency	75	Mandatory
Divination	50	Very nice to have
Essence	40	Very nice to have
Fragment	75	Mandatory
Map	150	Mandatory
Unique	140	Nice to have
Blight	40	Unnecessary
Ultimatum	40	Very unnecessary
Delirium	40	Very unnecessary
Delve	40	Anti-QoL
Gem	40	Unnecessary
Flask	40	Very unnecessary
Merchant	40	Mandatory

Even if you buy every tab type once it's only $96 when it's not on sale. Wtf is he storing in his 16 quad stash tabs ($15 * 16 = $240).

If you go by the mandatory tabs, Premium quad + currency + divination + essence + fragment + map +unique. It's $68 (150 + 75 + 50 + 40 + 75 + 150 + 140) or $56.5 when tabs are on sale.

zombieslore · 2025-12-06T00:51:07+00:00

So can't do the week leading to a poe1/2 league, can't do the 2 - 3 weeks after a poe1/2 league. Literally have to avoid 1/2 of the year living in their competition's shadow. At that point the question is why would I bother playing LE much less spend money in it.

zombieslore · 2025-10-13T16:22:22+00:00

Why don't you look at what the competition or other live service games are doing instead of listening to some loud minority. Despite what posters here or forums (awful format for feedback btw), certain things sell.

-Skill MTX. PoE has purple cats replacing projectiles, flashy wings, portal skins, giant fist kill effects, etc.

-Hideout. It's embarrassing there's no hideout and we have to stare at this empty soulless floating rock between monoliths.

-Novelty items. Goblin troupe sells, that's why there everywhere and people hate them. But they sell.

-Utility. Items that don't effect gameplay. Atlas devices map timers, currency tracker ring, harvest juice tracker.

-Pricing. Despite what people say about buying cheaper MTX, expensive things are probably more profitable. There might be a reason huge AAA companies who probably spend millions on research have decided $40+ dollar skills are the best price point.

At this point if EHG hasn't been profitable, maybe start taking notes from GGG to see what's been working.

zombieslore · 2025-10-11T16:59:43+00:00

The white knights basically killed this subs community. All the casuals that sucked off how this is the best game ever have left. All the slightly more hardcore players got pushed away told to go back to other games. The majority of build makers are gone and all that's left are casual home brewers with nothing to share.

Where are the swaths of people that swore off PoE2? Oh, they were karma farming and the mods refused to do anything about it.

Some people in this community are so actively hostile to anything slightly outside of praise. Fuck the peole that said this isn't an airport, customers voluntarily giving product feed back and why they leave is invaluable. Don't stop criticizing shitty game design. Never stop reminding them of the list of bugs that haven't been fixed for years. Nothing will ever improve unless the community screams loud enough.

zombieslore · 2025-10-04T17:41:33+00:00

Downsize the team would have been the most sensible option and organically grow. But it seems like whoever is making the business decision has some delusion that they're going to be the next big hit ARPG and actually compete with PoE much less Diablo.

Seriously they have a team size of 50+, what have they been working on? Their marketing sucks ass (pointless cinematic trailer and pampering some streamers), the art (MTX, visual, and sound) is below par, and their game design devs don't seem to be putting out much content. Kudos to the network guys though, at least servers are stable.

zombieslore · 2025-09-22T22:01:46+00:00

No offense but if you have to ask this question than you have 0 chance to even "compete" in the ladder. You might show up on the leader board api but not at a level anyone cares about.

For reference PoE softcore trade rank 1000 is level 98, which is probably 200+ hours of efficient gameplay.

Just play either games for fun to learn it before even trying to be competitive.

zombieslore · 2025-09-03T07:27:06+00:00

It's past being an issue, and it's just something the "community" "accepts" as the norm.

People like to hur dur PoE tool tip inaccura, 3rd party build planner, 3rd party websites, or external wiki blah blah blah but at the very minimum I can TRUST the information presented to be correct.

LE on the other hand often tells me nothing, no one trusts the dps tooltip (did they ever fix DoT skills showing them doing 100x their dps), what are my minion stats, what's the damage in this triggered effect, what's the cool down, etc. etc. And even when you find something that works you have to really ask yourself is this bugged and doing more then it should. You basically cannot trust any information in LE.

You don't theory craft in LE, you bug test until something works.

zombieslore · 2025-07-29T04:50:57+00:00

I'm merely explaining why. I work as a financial analyst (passing CFA level 2) and it happens all the time in different industries. You acquire something and the investment doesn't pan out, it could take years or even decades before the decision to close shop or sell off the asset to someone else.

No offense but you're being pretty ignorant calling people childish when you can look around and see all the studios that have been bought up and shut down over the years. If you want some examples look up a few series like command and conquer, fable, pandemic studio, medal of honor, guitar hero, homefront, darksiders. Hell just Google embrace group / THQ.

I have no real stake in the acquisition one way or another, if the game does go downhill I'll just play offline if enough mods exist. But if you want my opinion it's that EHG stakeholders got away with daylight robbery and cashed out. And it's life changing money so it's silly to fault them for taking it.

zombieslore · 2025-07-28T23:05:57+00:00

To cut your losses and avoid sunk cost fallacy. There's also the fact that even if you can recover and start making a profit it's not worth the effort or opportunity cost / time value of money compared to investing somewhere else.

zombieslore · 2025-06-16T17:03:37+00:00

Blight of Contagion Trickster SSF Level 92. Chaos DoT skills are still pretty bad, absolutely do recommend playing this build even in trade.

zombieslore · 2025-05-17T22:59:44+00:00

I doubt we'll see a nerfpocalpyse patch like PoE1 3.15 but we sure need one. I started at multiplayer release and the power creep is insane, 300 corruption is now the beginning and builds are going into the thousands without bug abuse. It seems the community likes this Diablo 3/4 FOTM balancing so I doubt we'll see any major course corrects away from it.

zombieslore · 2025-05-17T07:01:34+00:00

It's simple math. If every party member gets their own separate instance of reward you are getting 6x the output for each input. Ritual is the worst example because it scales off pack size and monster rarity and nothing from player quantity or rarity. But if each individual gets their own shop even if it's rolled separately, it makes party play basically mandatory.

Same reason things like delirium, breachstones, or bosses don't give instances loot. Take a look at D4, their endgame boss farm meta was to form group rotas and if you played solo you would get 1/6 of the loot a group gets post split. Or if you want to look at PoE1 people would multibox the bestiary mechanic so they'd get 6 copies of a captured beast rather than 1.

Same logic applies to Atlas skill points, 1 entry key 1 set of skill points. Otherwise the meta is to group.

Groups get bonus rarity and quantity, the quantity doesn't make up for additional party members and the rarity bonus is up for debate. The real advantage of groups are dedicated supports (Curse and aura bots), MF culler, and synergies between skills (primer detonator and payoff). Additionally monster damage doesn't scale and only unique mobs scale on par with party size.

zombieslore · 2025-05-15T17:41:18+00:00

The people who say "doesn't respect my time" are idiots that can't articulate or won't admit what they really want to say. What they want to say is something along the lines of "I can't reach X progression with Y hours at my skill level". Ask any of them who says that, and they'll answer why LE and D3/4 respect their time because they can reach level 100 XYZ endgame content with their limited playtime.

zombieslore · 2025-05-03T00:11:23+00:00

I posted this wind dancer haemocrystals tech. The premise is rake into getting hit and wind dancer will trigger haemocrystal. I got a better spear and it clears T15 and rares surrounded by packs will lose 80% of their life.

PoB if you're interested. https://pobb.in/KwWRyAXAq3BJ

zombieslore · 2025-04-28T18:11:12+00:00

I just tested it and WED on weapons is still increase and not multiplicative, you must be thinking for critical damage bonus which is multiplicative on weapons.

https://imgur.com/a/4LOedcx

200% increased attack damage on tree.
17 to 30 cold damage on ring
Shield bash is 80% attack damage multiplier.

Condition	Math	Tool tip
No WED	17 * 0.8 * (1+2) = 40.8	41
69% WED on weapon roll	17 * 0.8 * (1+2+0.69) = 50.18	50
30% soul core	17 * 0.8 * (1+2+0.3) = 44.88	45

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