Path of Exile Questions Thread - March 24, 2019

Questions Thread - March 24, 2019
A group race to level 100 should have mandatory breaks. Watching sleep deprived racers grinding for 30 hours, then sleep 4 hours just to go another 30 hours is not what I would call E-Sports!
I hope synthesis is not going core
The ascendancy in a chest.
Heads-up. Multiple people are price fixing 6L's and putting in 4/2 links to trade window.
White Ornate Quiver
Items can disappear in Memory
Card went underneath the table and can't pick it up. Can we have pick up radius beyond T-Rex arms please?
Einhar delivers on the random 10 stack of currency.
[Item Showcase] The most successful axe in the world
Mathil's wisdom RNG is contagious, been spamming 50+ the void and 28 of them are wisdoms!!! T_T
Janus with an interesting Betray option choice
[Math] Ran 300 T11 Shaped Lair, here are the map sustain results
Completed 36 Challenges, spawned 54 bosses myself and did not see 1 Cortex and completed 75k Map quant challenge while doing so. Had to pay 4 Ex to get a Cortex kill.
[Item Showcase][SSFBTW] Fully expected the altar to steal this bad boy from me.
My friend just got this
Items from Memory Fragments are not showing up after exiting the the encounter, again. I didn't even "flip" them.
PoE tags on Twitch
Quin RIP
Steelmage202 RIP - Method Race to 100
Delve is cool.
Synthesis crafting is pretty good!
+gems +frenzy implicit bow
Maim + Crit Astral Plate
"It bodes well for me that speed impresses you" - Chandler Bing
What's a god to a nonbeliever?

Questions Thread - March 24, 2019

Posted: 23 Mar 2019 05:07 PM PDT

Questions Thread - March 24, 2019

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A group race to level 100 should have mandatory breaks. Watching sleep deprived racers grinding for 30 hours, then sleep 4 hours just to go another 30 hours is not what I would call E-Sports!

Posted: 23 Mar 2019 10:09 PM PDT

Currently there is a group solo found race to level 100 going on sponsored by Method. You can watch many of the teams on twitch. While its super interesting to see the strategies of the teams and how they play together, it is also concerning to see them pushing themselves to play up to 30 hours without breaks or sleep. Because thats what they have to do if they want to win.
You can see the negativ effects of sleep deprivation when you watch their streams. They start to talk nonsense, stop responding, run against walls and look like zombies.
Being awake as long as possible is not skill, that is just stupid.
If they really want PoE E-Sports then they need sponsors who found future events. But who is going to sponsor such an unhealthy competition?
Its a private league so why not make mandatory breaks? For example, they play for 14hours, then a mandatory break of 10hours and so on. That way we can actually see skilled racing and not braindead people and it would be a much better representation of E-Sports in PoE.

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I hope synthesis is not going core

Posted: 24 Mar 2019 05:06 AM PDT

As much as I do like the nexus (by now, not in its initial state), the whole fractured/synthesized items is so much micromanagement it is not fun anymore.

you have basically two choices:

ignore fractured items as a whole and treat them like normal rares without giving attention to either the fractured mods or the rolls specifically, making the whole synthesis mechanic technically nonexistant
Engage with the mechanic, but then even with neversinks very strict filter you get shit on with bazillions of shit rares.

I really, really tried it, but when in last league clearing my quad dump tab after a session of maps took maybe 10 minutes, in this league I regularily find myself taking almost half an hour for it. sorting them in my fractured tab(s), checking all the stats if there is a T1 or T2 roll, of not I can directly vendor it, but if there is I might want to sell them in trade, or I might wanna keep it if I feel lucky myself which never happens anyways.

so...

if I actually want to do #2, not that I am only rarely mapping anymore because there is so much side content which is "not mapping" (not actually counting the nexus because this at least feels like mapping), after I am done with a round of mapping and not-mapping content, I have a stash tab full of 99% shit fractured rares even with a super strict filter which I have to comb though which takes ages.

If I actually want to do #1, there is no way of hiding fractured items in the lootfilter other than making them "almost" invisible, so even if I want to ignore them I am not allowed to and it clutters my screen like only a few other things. And even if I make it almost invisible, I still risk of looting them by accident.

I see the work that was put into synthesis, the nexus and the voice acting especially and everything, it kinda would've been a "waste" to invest all of that into the league but... well, the only way I could "accept" synthesis going core would be ... without the fractured/synthesis mechanic. only the memories and the nexus. maybe keep the unique items from the bosses... because uniques, but disable rare fractured (and with that, synthesized) items alltogether. The loot (micro)management is just too much this league for me.

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The ascendancy in a chest.

Posted: 24 Mar 2019 12:32 PM PDT

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Heads-up. Multiple people are price fixing 6L's and putting in 4/2 links to trade window.

Posted: 24 Mar 2019 08:51 AM PDT

I've been noticing the same few people - will not name name's - been putting up 6L's for almost 1-2 ex below everyone else. Anytime anyone get's close to it they relist for even lower almost immediately.

I decided to try something. I listed my carcass for 5 ex at the time, immediately the only other 5 ex went to 4.5 ex. So I relisted to 4.5 ex and immediately he went down to 3 ex. I thought... okay if he's really selling for 3 ex I'll buy it and flip it, so I trade him and he puts in a 2link/4link carcass.

I checked Eternity shroud, Inpulsa, calamity and others, same guy.

Be aware people.

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White Ornate Quiver

Posted: 24 Mar 2019 07:03 AM PDT

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Items can disappear in Memory

Posted: 24 Mar 2019 09:57 AM PDT

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Card went underneath the table and can't pick it up. Can we have pick up radius beyond T-Rex arms please?

Posted: 24 Mar 2019 10:06 AM PDT

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Einhar delivers on the random 10 stack of currency.

Posted: 24 Mar 2019 06:42 AM PDT

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[Item Showcase] The most successful axe in the world

Posted: 24 Mar 2019 02:46 AM PDT

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Mathil's wisdom RNG is contagious, been spamming 50+ the void and 28 of them are wisdoms!!! T_T

Posted: 24 Mar 2019 08:59 AM PDT

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Janus with an interesting Betray option choice

Posted: 24 Mar 2019 07:50 AM PDT

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[Math] Ran 300 T11 Shaped Lair, here are the map sustain results

Posted: 24 Mar 2019 06:00 AM PDT

First, proof i ran some maps. Tinfoil hats off.

https://i.imgur.com/iG52BOA.png

Atlas status: Only T11 is shaped Lair, T12 empty and T13 crimson temple, rest of t13 empty and other tiers completed for the juicy map bonus.

Only noted the T11 drops per map, had 3 batch of runs. Lower maps are traded for chisels/alch and higher ones for chaos to reroll

First batch: 100 runs with alch and go.

Second batch: 100 runs with alch, reroll for 80+quant and elder/shaper influence

Third: Previous +4 sextants and 1-2 frags per run

Made a graphic to better represent the overall feeling in the runs, here it is.

https://i.imgur.com/Q7cxYlH.png

The graph represents my total map pool of T11 shaped lairs (regarding what I started with), if it's below 0 means I had to buy maps to keep playing.

With the alch&go I had to buy maps 3-4 times, with rerolling for quant & influence only had to buy maps once, and with sextants/frags never had to.

There were several times where I had 0 red maps drop, and others where i dropped 3-4+, the variance is quite big in my humble oppinion and punishes players that can't invest a lot of hours per day into mapping.

It's not a big sample but I think it reflects the current state of the game and lets you pick the better strategy time/currency wise to sustain maps.

Might do something similar in the future with T16 Elder Lair if I get enough currency to set it.

Hope you find it useful, exiles.

edit: formatting.

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Completed 36 Challenges, spawned 54 bosses myself and did not see 1 Cortex and completed 75k Map quant challenge while doing so. Had to pay 4 Ex to get a Cortex kill.

Posted: 24 Mar 2019 04:23 AM PDT