Path of Exile Questions Thread - March 22, 2021 |
- Questions Thread - March 22, 2021
- Path of Exile is an Abusive Game - Perspectives from a Seasoned Player
- For science. Item sells for much more to vendors overwrites Bitterdream recipe.
- It blows my mind there is still no Color Blind support in this game.
- PoE meme. Harvest vs GGG
- GGG 2020 Financial statements have been released - Same $50m profit as in 2019.
- Friends Speechless After the Head he Gave Me
- Pain, just pain
- I haven't been keeping up with the goings-on with this game, but I am starting to become concerned. What is going on over there, guys?
- Found off the same mob
- Since Juggernaut is the least played Ascendancy in the game right now, what changes would you personally like/see in its passive tree? Or what would make playing a Juggernaut desireable?
- Never thought I would have completed these 2 HC achievements in Gauntlet event!
- To me, this creature is worse than Maven, Sirus, Ubers, etc.
- how every harvest discussion goes
- How deadly are monster critical strikes?
- Perfection
- Spent 120 ex upgrading my Essence Worm for insane gains for my Archmage BL character
- Darkee - The Feared - Gauntlet
- New to the game and very intimidated
- Shaper be like...
- I'm wondering if more people play the game like I do, do YOU!?
- Looking for some friends to play with
- For Science: Casually Farming End Game: How to Obtain a Mirror by Casually Farming Stuff
- I learned a LOT Watching Lightee - What else might I be missing?
- 1990 GGG Exalt slam dunk champion
- Cestarix - Gauntlet A8 7FPS bounty
| Questions Thread - March 22, 2021 Posted: 21 Mar 2021 05:00 PM PDT Questions Thread This is a general question thread on. You can find the previous question threads here. Remember to check the wiki first. You can also ask questions in any of the questions channels under the "help" category in our official Discord. The idea is for anyone to be able to ask anything related to PoE:
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| Path of Exile is an Abusive Game - Perspectives from a Seasoned Player Posted: 21 Mar 2021 05:32 AM PDT Background: I have played PoE since Betrayal, with over 1800 hours logged on steam. I have played D3 for about 600 hours. Every league I hit at least red maps and I have killed Sirus at least a couple times each league. I am not a 1% player but I do consider myself 'decent' at PoE. I was compelled to purchase Last Epoch as a direct result of Chris' comments about Chaos and Exalt crafting. That decision was a massive eye opener for me and the comparisons that I draw here will be based on those two games, but they can of course be more broadly applied. - THIS POST WILL NOT DISCUSS HARVEST OR CRAFTING - GGG, I love you guys and I love your game but hear me now. One day, probably sooner rather than later, a different ARPG is going to come along and eat your lunch. I mean every word of what I said in the title. Your game, wondrously complex and engaging as it is, is abusive to players' time, computers, health, and sanity. After spending about a day (in game) playing LE I opened up PoE again. I closed the game after half of a juicy harbinger map, thought about why the hell I did it that, and then sat down to write this post. 1) Quality of Life: I had no idea how much I missed the ability to walk over gold and pick it up automatically, or one click grab all of the crafting materials on screen, until I went back, opened up a breach, and had to pick up about 25 individuals splinters of Tul. This functionality does nothing to 'simplify' or 'baby' the game, but it sure as hell keeps me in the gameplay loop longer and is easier on my wrist and fingers. Last Epoch has the ability to sort your inventory, aka the computer plays inventory tetris for you, leaving you more time to actually play the game. These are just a couple examples of mechanics that don't 'hold your hand', but still make you feel like the game respects your time and your desire not to get carpal tunnel. There are plenty more someone could point to and everyone will have things that they don't mind or frustrate them to no end. But I think we can all agree that PoE needs to be brought into at least the 2000's, if not the 2010's with regards to QoL. 2) Itemization: I missed picking up loot, comparing it to my current gear, and finding something better more often than once every 5 years of playtime. PoE is an economy based ARPG. It is not a loot based ARPG. I'm truly disheartened that GGG doesn't realize this. Animate weapon has been so bad for so long they can't even use that excuse anymore. 3) Performance: There is a reason I am not calling this 'optimization'. I am tired of tagging a delirium mirror and having my PC, which can run Horizon: Zero Dawn at 60FPS on high settings, crash. I am tired of dying due to flame dash desync. I am tired of 5 FPS (and maybe a death or two because I can't even see my character) when I find a Valdo Harbinger with reinforcements and my screen becomes a blue blur. I am tired of random crashes on my way out of a Heist. The state of performance in PoE is unacceptable, full stop. 4) Gameplay: I consider the $40 I spent on LE worth it because of the minimap and zoom alone. PoE conditioned me to have the minimap overlaid on top of my screen at all times so hard that I was almost shocked to play a game where I could actually see where I was going or, on rare occasions, need to reference the minimap for a quick second before putting it away and looking at my character again. I will never understand why we cannot zoom further out in PoE. Being able to understand what killed me and how I could have avoided it is a breath of fresh air. Knowing that each boss fight is not just a brainless DPS or eHP check, and can actually vary its outcome depending on how well I manage my positioning, skills, and cooldowns is fantastic. This fact makes me want to see just how ridiculous of a build I can put together in LE, knowing that I will be able to compensate for lack of 'meta' by knowledge or player skill. Without 'the system that shall not be named', this isn't possible in PoE. 5) Bloat versus Complexity: PoE is still the most complex and deep ARPG out there, no question, but I found myself happy to accept a reduction in complexity for a massive decrease in bloat. I don't miss passive tree points that give +10 to str/dex/int (in LE, just as an example, every skill node that increases your base stats also increases or changes some other stat). I don't miss 99% of strongboxes. I don't miss tormented spirits. I don't miss talismans. I don't miss my screen being literally covered in items, all of which are dumpster tier. I don't miss 80% of all skill and support gems being useless (made doubly prominent by the massive increase from Heist and subsequent nerfs to alternate quality auras). There is a middle ground between D3, aka baby's first ARPG, and PoE. I think PoE has gone off the deep end and needs to cull content. Conclusion: I could go on longer but I think I've made my point. I'm sure many of you will point to one or more of the things I've said and argue that these mechanics either add to PoE or are something that isn't a big deal. I respect that, but the sheer number of mechanics you can point to and say 'this is a real problem' when looking at PoE is just too great to ignore. I, and many other seasoned players (Diablo 2 was my first ARPG), have been conditioned to accept the current state of affairs because there is no alternative. That state of existence will not persist forever. I am hopeful that much of this will be alleviated in PoE2, but I fear that the 'free to play' nature of the game will just lead us down the same path of poor performance, bloated content, and an emphasis on creating a game that people play for longer as opposed to a game people enjoy playing. Logging in, opening a map, and willingly quitting back to desktop in the span of 5 minutes was one of the most depressing experiences I've ever had playing this game. If you've read this far, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk and consider that supporting alternatives to Path of Exile might be the best way to generate real change in this game we all love. Edit: Inbox is RIP so probably won't reply much past this point. For those of you who replied with something compelling, thanks for the debate. I know this is a contentious topic. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| For science. Item sells for much more to vendors overwrites Bitterdream recipe. Posted: 21 Mar 2021 05:20 AM PDT
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| It blows my mind there is still no Color Blind support in this game. Posted: 21 Mar 2021 09:36 AM PDT A nightmare to play for somebody with standard common red/green color blindness. Especially with gem color. Even a simple designation of gem color within the gigantic description would be game changing. I really do love this game other than that. I have to have my son help me sort them If I want to play. Please GGG I can't be the only one. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| GGG 2020 Financial statements have been released - Same $50m profit as in 2019. Posted: 21 Mar 2021 01:27 PM PDT These were released 3 weeks ago, but I don't check that often. As always this is public information anyone can find on the NZ register Edit: I've been informed by someone more informed about these documents that the main point of interest is actually the increase in cash flow from customer receipts (basically mtx sales). This has gone up from $77m in the March 2019 statement, to $108m in the Sept 2020 statement, a 40% increase in sales. I'm no expert but from the data it looks like POE hasn't grown one cent from 2019 until now in net profits, but revenue and expenses have gone up 10% or so, and taxes have gone up but I don't know much about that. Honestly not much growth at all but I guess that's expected in 2020 (although this was before the cyberpunk delays). Here is the old statement release on august 2019, there was no statement since then until March 02 of this year, which includes march-september of 2019, and september 2019 to september 2020 due to a statement date change. The main info is on page 5 but if you have any numbers background the rest is probably interesting too. 2019 March statement: https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/service/services/documents/99185B9B06CD7AF83623EBDE8ED5902F 2019 Sept statement: https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/service/services/documents/A23178E0C67CE83ACBE2FCC3485368F7 2020 Sept statement: https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/service/services/documents/C1C22EAA76EA616D25B68F1B1B8A385E [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Friends Speechless After the Head he Gave Me Posted: 21 Mar 2021 03:58 PM PDT
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| Posted: 21 Mar 2021 11:03 AM PDT I personally would like if they just fuse unyielding & unrelenting and add maybe one additional branch (4 pointer) or two 2 pointers [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Never thought I would have completed these 2 HC achievements in Gauntlet event! Posted: 21 Mar 2021 07:38 AM PDT
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| To me, this creature is worse than Maven, Sirus, Ubers, etc. Posted: 20 Mar 2021 05:23 PM PDT
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| how every harvest discussion goes Posted: 21 Mar 2021 10:22 AM PDT
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| How deadly are monster critical strikes? Posted: 21 Mar 2021 04:24 PM PDT I am thinking of crafting " You take (21–30)% reduced Extra Damage from Critical Strikes" on my belt... but firstly wanted to know how useful it is? Are monster critical strikes that deadly? When we get "one-shot" in this game is this sometimes due to monster critical strikes? And will this mod help with that? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Spent 120 ex upgrading my Essence Worm for insane gains for my Archmage BL character Posted: 21 Mar 2021 03:10 AM PDT
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| Darkee - The Feared - Gauntlet Posted: 21 Mar 2021 01:34 AM PDT
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| New to the game and very intimidated Posted: 21 Mar 2021 03:04 PM PDT So I come from Diablo, I've been playing this game for about 15 hours now and just finished Act 4. I'm following a bleed bow gladiator guide and it seems that I can't get any good bows and items to make my links and skills better, and I'm low on currency such as colorize orbs, jeweler orbs, etc so I can't afford to gamble. I've been trying to do what guides say, sticking to 2 levels below next map level so exp is efficient. I've died a couple times but now I have no idea if my passive tree is for the early game or end game as I follow the build guide tree line. It's frustrating to not know if you're doing something wrong or right. My split arrows seems to do fine but I'm still rocking with a common bow 4L at level 41... what did you do to overcome the initial intimidation of the game when you started? Any tips would help. This is my first ever character btw. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| I'm wondering if more people play the game like I do, do YOU!? Posted: 21 Mar 2021 05:43 PM PDT Before a league starts, I pick a league starter build that can do all content with a bit of investment and looks fun to play. Then, my goals are in order: Reach maps, defeat every end game boss, complete 36 challenges. I only go for challenges if I care about the rewards for that league, otherwise I'm done after defeating every map boss. I rarely make a second character, and depending on how hard I nolife I can be done halfway the league. When I have reached my goals, currency and other items lose all value in my eyes. I keep my gear, in case I would want to try the toon out in standard in the future. But I like to give my currency away or do weird things with it. My dream is to find a mirror and either ''accidentally'' trade it away while buying a low cost item from trade, or film myself destroying the mirror. tldr, does anyone play like this: Just curious! [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Looking for some friends to play with Posted: 21 Mar 2021 08:13 AM PDT Hey does anyone else lay this game casually? I'm not really trying to make the best build or whatever just want some friends to play through the story and missions with [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| For Science: Casually Farming End Game: How to Obtain a Mirror by Casually Farming Stuff Posted: 21 Mar 2021 08:45 AM PDT I am your typical hideout farmer guy where I do content by just dreaming of doing them. However, this league I took a different approach to finish the league. Instead of focusing to get 36 challenges, I've decided to run 10 different end game farming projects with minimal investment plan to start with. I normally don't like repeating farming strats since it gets pretty boring quite easily (e.g. Valdo farm) so this was perfect balance of farming but not burning out of it. I also decided to record gains/losses along the way to get to a mirror (or how much % of a mirror). Of course, I had to find a fancy name to make it not a chore but appealing and there I call it: Qosmoz Casually Farming End Game Projects
Farms are done with my own builds (pretty meta): Low life Coc Ice Nova Assassin for Farming Maps and Chainbreaker Low Life BL Miner Sabo for Bossing. Runs and Boss runs are quite smooth, I have invested 50-60ex per char at this point of the league. LL CoC Ice Nova Assassin Build Guide Chainbreaker LL BL Miner Sabo Build Guide It's quite fun to complete this project until the end of the league. Currently sitting about 100ex raw currency after all valuables and medium valuable stuff selling. Here is the detailed spreadsheet I keep tracking of all data. Qosmoz Casually Farming End Game Projects I have a hectic schedule but I try my best to stream all this progress. If you are interested, please join me on my twitch channel. I stream mostly on Mon/Wed/Thur/Sat evenings (CET) until midnight. My content typically is about boss killing, helping other people to learn fight, enjoying good drops for people. It's pretty chill and fun. Here is my channel: twitch.tv/Qosmoz I plan to make some explanations and details about entire thing in a small YouTube series, it might bring some inspiration for some casual players like me for the next league. Hit me any question if you have in game: qosmoz_miner or qosmoz_coc are two of my characters I am mostly on. I will keep this post updated with my gains until the end of the league. Wish me luck. Cheers! Qosmoz [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I learned a LOT Watching Lightee - What else might I be missing? Posted: 20 Mar 2021 03:02 PM PDT Here are some of the things I never really fully knew while watching Lightee. He doesn't speak too much on his streams but when he does it's informative and insightful. I specifically watched the first two days of his race and his first day of the reroll after the death. I'm a long time PoE player but I don't really read up much outside of looking at build outlines and I don't really watching PoE streams. A lot of this stuff might be obvious to some since they're likely shown on stream a lot but, here we go:
Here are some things I personally found out while playing in the SSFHC Zizaran Gauntlet:
Basically I just learned a lot about efficiency and I also realized that I don't want to be any more efficient than I am. I'm a fast player and I could definitely go faster but it'd be at the cost of enjoyment. There's a ton more mechanical stuff I learned while watching but I can't think of many more. Hope this helped someone =) Would love to hear any more 'obvious' tips. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1990 GGG Exalt slam dunk champion Posted: 20 Mar 2021 06:05 AM PDT
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| Cestarix - Gauntlet A8 7FPS bounty Posted: 20 Mar 2021 06:55 PM PDT
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