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Gear swapping for leveling boss fights is gayer than gem swapping in PoE1.

Are you guys just dry firing Lightning Spear and ignoring the frenzy mechanic completely? Depending on Volt support instead? What about single target? I agree Jamanra could use a nerf. He does too much unavoidable damage. I went back and looked at my 0.1 characters and they all relied upon...

Last Gasp + 50% fast revival means they're only down for ~1s. Bummer about that node not working though, didn't know that.

TJT tried to start an underground boxing ring and is just passing it off as "old soap".

I find theorycrafting in LE to be fun. It's certainly less in-depth than PoE1, but there's enough to keep you interested. For reference, PoE2 has potential for that as well. The passive tree is severely underpowered, too much power is vested in gear, loot is far too stingy, and many problems...

Bit surprised Frost Claw only got a slight mana increase.

Glad they are responding to feedback. Not so glad they can't make some of these changes otherwise. Also worth pointing out that a lot of said feedback was given in a less riotous manner in 0.1.0. I agree that PoE1 devs likely still cannibalized for the foreseeable future.

My bad, I didn't think to check steam charts. I was inferring it from comparing it to PoE2's 0.1.0 launch. I've had to block so many tourist content creators from my youtube feed. I didn't have to do that at all for LE's release. It gave me the impression that nobody was playing it.

I think you're overestimating LE's potential. EHG doesn't have the marketing budget to pull casuals away from PoE2. Those people don't even know LE exists.

So, wtf were they doing for the past 4 months?

The downside of marketing to a larger audience is that you're more susceptible to bandwagoning. Very little sympathy.

Which Doom are they inspired by? The good one or the complexity for complexity's sake one?

Humans can't do this correctly, there's no hope for AI.

Are you accounting for curse duration? Hexblast requires at least 50% curse expiration before it can blow the curse up.

JR has to be full clearing every zone, opening every chest, to be decked out in socketed rares and good weapons. And even then, I don't think that's enough. There's some disconnect where he's doing something out of habit without even noticing. Like farming a zone repeatedly for drops and mats.

Pop quiz assholes. Can you intuit what "Forks Critical Hits" means? https://poe2db.tw/Tangletongue There's obviously bigger, more fundamental issues with the game. But this feels emblematic that no one went "wait, we're already using that word for a completely different thing".

Frostblink Ignite has a very polarizing reputation and I think only part of it is due to Subtractem.

Hateforge VLS will turn your computer into a slideshow. Note that there are ways to get big shocks to 100% that almost no one plays. It's a good node, but nothing mind blowing.

The retaliate skill gems don't say enemy hit. You can't block most self damage, but I think that fire amulet can be. Nevermind, wiki says I'm dumb. Don't see how these skills won't be clunky.

Thanks for the reminder on marionettes. Wonder how expensive those are going to be. Might be time to write a AHK macro for those since they seem to be sticking around. I'm doing the HoP version on the bleed slam build.

CWDT - Stone Golem - Maim! It's free damage!

This feels weird. I slapped together a league starter PoB for Bleed Slam and Lightning Strike and I have at least 4 gem sockets free on both. And this isn't because I'm picky/lazy, I have everything automated on the slam build, and just press Vaal Smite on the Lightning Strike. If this is...

Not going to stack projectile speed high enough to get a projectile to return for a non-instant leech instance, too much trouble(for frostblades). Smite and static strike are 100% melee damage, they will be completely affected by vaal pact.

Very nice, hadn't thought of that. Is there a skill that abuses this better than Lightning Strike? As in, one that still clears acceptably(so, not MS) but doesn't have a disagreeable positioning requirement?

Forbidden Flame and Flesh. Lucky block, Masterful Form, and maybe Jagged Technique are going to be really expensive. Like Jugg's accuracy node, or Berserker's Aspect of Carnage.

That's asinine.

Largely, I agree, not worth the hassle. But, does it really work this way? Bleed #1 is 50% Bleed #2 is 51% and procs aggravated You're saying the active bleed will always be bleed #2 because its "base" damage is 51%, even though bleed #1 was made effectively 150%?

Slow hitting build is what lets you fish for Fist of War and Ruthless procs. By saying Jagged Technique is bait because you can massage it with attack speed likely means you're giving up the nearly 100% from Fist of War and maybe also Ruthless. There's also some noninsignificant exertion...

Huh? I'm being serious, fishing for aggravated bleeds while trying to line up fist of war and ruthless is going to be annoying.

How much do you hate yourself?

Are you really doing your job if you aren't making your neurotic security "expert" anxious about not applying updates?

Assuming reliable aggravation is the real bait.

I've yet to see a build from that guy without offensive levels of clunk. Respect the mechanics abuse, his builds a super interesting to theorycraft, but he smooths out a lot with a mageblood.

The only issue is that the comparable(to sunder or eq) ground slam gem is trans and requires a 2H. I really want to try the block nodes so I can experience first hand how many times I still go splat out of seemingly nowhere.

Sunder is what I'm planning.

Have you been able to figure out why Ruthless, in PoB, isn't 98% more bleed dps when you set it to max hit?

I thought you knew this ;) Crit bleed with a fast skill and crimson dance might work.

I plan on doing HoP + Guardian's Blessing + Pride. See how shit the uptime is. Don't care about double damage for ailments. Seismic's buff also gives you more armor fwiw.

You're fine. Being offline while this shit happened is a good thing.