Path of Exile 2

The irony of Bubbles, of all people, asking for others to be shawed.

Izo said:

Is this true?

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It's true.

Also this: Manessa the "Serpent" Queen

I said this many times about PoE1 and it's a big part of why I no longer even consider playing new leagues there, but GGG really needs to do something about delirium. It's essentially required to be on every map you do, whether on the atlas or the waystone itself, but playing in the fog and washed out palette just ruins the game. I hated it in PoE and it's even worse here because it absolutely destroys performance giving you the option of running at 20-30 fps or letting the game use dynamic resolution which ends up looking like 720p or worse as soon as combat starts. And even then the framerate is still never more than about 50 fps.

Without delirium the game runs perfectly fine for me in all situations and I rarely notice the dynamic resolution kick in (in no small part because dynamic res + full screen volumetric fog = massive artifacting). Even Abyss event maps aren't bad now since the patch changed their layout and removed that motion blur effect that was causing most of the issues.

Also, still using FSR 2.0 in 2025 is absolutely ridiculous. From what I've read their XeSS is equally outdated and even DLSS is stuck on an older version of DLSS 3. Considering the performance issues that repeatedly pop up with PoE2, keeping their upscalers using the absolute latest version should be one of their top priorities.

There's a few different mechanics that could use a checkbox in the graphics settings. Shit like "minimal blight tower effects" or "barely do anything for delirium."

Razed fields might be the best example I've ever seen of having artists, who don't play videogames, design a map. The entire thing takes place in a flaming fucking cornfield, you can't see shit.

I had a razing fields that was an abyssal map. Couldn't see any ground effects. Died like 4 times to various bullshit, finally got to the boss arena, it was blocked off by a magic barrier. Checked and it was being hotfixed an hour later to fix that bug. Great map. Good stuff.

The layout is good, but the wheat shit literally hides entire enemies and nearly every ground effect.

I may have to stop playing. Twice now the game has froze entire PC. Just a black screen. I can still hear my music going, but can't tab to anything else, cant ctrl+alt+del or alt+f4. Have to basically power down by the power button.

I've been getting the random pauses with the gears spinning popping up, then suddenly it re-syncs and i am usually about to die. Not sure what is causing it, but swapping audio to low and switching to vulkan didn't seem to help.

Overall things have been running pretty well......but this shit is getting annoying fast.

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I've been getting the de-sync ever since launch. It got better like a few days in but after the patch it got worse again. I look at my graphs and the network is going bonkers 20ms to like 250ms back and forth. Not sure what is causing it but it's not my internet. I read in a reddit thread to try typing /clear. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Other than that it's been smooth. Solid 150+ fps x3d 9800 and a amd 9070 xt.

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It's their servers and it's been plaguing me and some others I play with as well. It causes what seems like frame dips but it's just some kind of server lag.

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the WASD walking backwards, the afk microtransactions in town. hitting M for map, and getting microtransactions instead. yeah.

SO i have my 50 breach splinters for the first step on the breach quest in the maps. I'm doing tier 11 maps without much problem. should i go ahead and do the 50 splinter thing? or do i need to be a higher tier?

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SO i have my 50 breach splinters for the first step on the breach quest in the maps. I'm doing tier 11 maps without much problem. should i go ahead and do the 50 splinter thing? or do i need to be a higher tier?

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The first one is very easy and I believe it's unlimited retries. All of the boss mechanics are really obvious too.

Cool. i'll give it a go when i don't have a tiny savage hounding me about if i can make friends with every rotting wolf i walk by

Hekotat said:

It's their servers and it's been plaguing me and some others I play with as well. It causes what seems like frame dips but it's just some kind of server lag.

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100% server stress tests. I'm on PS5 and same weird short term lag spikes

Last ascendancy down......not a huge fan of Sekhema, but would rather not have to do the choas trials 3+ times to have a chance at the boss for the last points.

Fucked up and didn't see one of the clock icons in the top left corner so I tried to exit out, only to remember it doesn't kill you anymore so I had to start over with 500 less honor.

Was pretty easy though as I got super lucky with sacred water and barely getting any afflictions. Still wish you could just do one floor each for ascendancy but at least it's done.

Went an Vaaled my +2 minion helmet for a second socket. It's socketed with a Ralakesh Core for minion reservation (paid 1 div but now they are 7). Thought the Vaal did not do anything.

Noticed now it had removed the +2 minion.... How to delete 9 Divine....

But my build is pretty much done now, the next step is 37 Div for 2 gems. Like yea fuck that.

Springbok said:

Saw crack ants were back, played a few maps and feels basically the same. Out of boredom, made a LA deadeye and am up through end of Act 4. Rofl. Can see why 70% of all over 80 players are this spec. It shits all over minions, and felt op as fuck even in act 2/3. Took a while for minion to even feel good, then a lot of investment to feel great. I've invested nothing but upgrading bow every break even, and the scaling feels crazy. Wish there was an op melee class to play, but will probably get this char to maps and wait another 6 months.

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Hollow palm monk is crazy good