Path of Exile 2

rhinohelix

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Currency inflation because of the Temple is CRAZY. Trying to buy a +2 spell skills staff for my level 15-20 plant druid? Mine you, this is to upgrade one I already have, I crafted myself Starts out at 55-200Ex, quickly scales to a 1Div plus. I played my 85 Titan to T15 and 16 maps last league, I have never had more than a couple of Div. With the Temple people are printing them 200+ a run, it's fucked everything all the way down. I was buying good/not best in class gear for my Titan last league for a couple Ex a couple of weeks in; now it almost makes the full league SSF, seemingly from my perspective if you weren't/aren't in the Temple Printing Currency business. I never got this kind of good loot from it even on my 80 Bear Shaman: 2 Div and 25 Chaos is still my top end currency achievement.
 

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Currency inflation because of the Temple is CRAZY. Trying to buy a +2 spell skills staff for my level 15-20 plant druid? Mine you, this is to upgrade one I already have, I crafted myself Starts out at 55-200Ex, quickly scales to a 1Div plus. I played my 85 Titan to T15 and 16 maps last league, I have never had more than a couple of Div. With the Temple people are printing them 200+ a run, it's fucked everything all the way down. I was buying good/not best in class gear for my Titan last league for a couple Ex a couple of weeks in; now it almost makes the full league SSF, seemingly from my perspective if you weren't/aren't in the Temple Printing Currency business. I never got this kind of good loot from it even on my 80 Bear Shaman: 2 Div and 25 Chaos is still my top end currency achievement.

You've been promoted to SSF this league.

Congratulations.
 
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Kirun

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This is what you get when a league is rushed out because the game director designed it over the weekend after he got his pickle tickled about a roguelite, deck-building, autobattler and needed something shippable before everyone disappeared for the holidays.
 
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rhinohelix

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This is what you get when a league is rushed out because the game director designed it over the weekend after he got his pickle tickled about a roguelite, deck-building, autobattler and needed something shippable before everyone disappeared for the holidays.
And its not the people at the top, or even the middle crushed; its the casual people who relied on the market, or dabbled. I know people with high end temples still making 40+ Div/11+ Perfect Div? (is that even a thing? I have no idea) a run, with 1000+ Div of gear and 800+ Div in their stash. This Weimar-like hyperinflation doesn't affect them at all. Jeff Bezos (or Elon or Alex Soros, choose your billionaire) doesn't care how much things cost: It's only whether they can get them. My friend with this level of Div-ness is saving for a Mirror, because that's what the weapon he wants costs: approx 2000 Div for the Mirror, and thus the weapon.

No real-life billionaire care what fast food or eggs costs, either but it behooves the economy to make them affordable. Too much currency and not enough items is the exact opposite of the New World Inflation issues: Too many items and not enough currency or need for for them. New World needs Eve-like destructibility to bring it back into balance and remove so much of its excess items from the economy, make crafters and gatherer necessary, etc.

The broad fix for the Temple is to only have currency be available at 1/10th its current rate, have items drop in its stead, and/or charges for crafting tables that are in town areas or in players Hideouts, rather than the crafting items that are used as currency (which will of course become new currency but I am spitballing here, work with me). Maybe just full stop after items drop.

It seems like the POE vets understand the course this is actually going to take: No one is going to do a damn thing and this league is just going to flounder around for two more months. How will it be going forward is really what I am thinking about. The Abyss didn't go away; hopefully they will dramatically rethink the underlying effects the Temple has on the economy as well before .5 .
 

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Currency inflation because of the Temple is CRAZY. Trying to buy a +2 spell skills staff for my level 15-20 plant druid? Mine you, this is to upgrade one I already have, I crafted myself Starts out at 55-200Ex, quickly scales to a 1Div plus. I played my 85 Titan to T15 and 16 maps last league, I have never had more than a couple of Div. With the Temple people are printing them 200+ a run, it's fucked everything all the way down. I was buying good/not best in class gear for my Titan last league for a couple Ex a couple of weeks in; now it almost makes the full league SSF, seemingly from my perspective if you weren't/aren't in the Temple Printing Currency business. I never got this kind of good loot from it even on my 80 Bear Shaman: 2 Div and 25 Chaos is still my top end currency achievement.
This can be understandably demotivating. If you played 3.23, you'd know to farm parts of the economy the temple can't touch. As you're coming out of the campaign, that's not much. Got any low level uncut spirit gems? They usually sell for quite a bit.
 
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Caliane

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abyss tablets sell for 20ex, and drop constantly.

I had to infuse pliable flesh for my recoup chrono. requires a conc liquid isolation. none were on the buyout market. as well as the ones to merge into it. which tells me they all sell out fast.
so farming simularcrums and selling high end emotions is probably profitable. since, they barely drop from delirum, and you HAVE to do the simularcrums to get the good ones. they are more rare.

Obviously abyss itself just is about 30x better then every other league mechanic. free "abyss overgrows" into other maps. abysses are not timed bullshit that interferes with any other league mechanic. in fact, abysses EXTEND delirum duration, and even loot I think.
 
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Fyff

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As I'm hitting level 94 and shit is starting to slog I've been thinking about doing hardcore or hardcore SSF. What are people's favorite HC builds?
 

ronne

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As I'm hitting level 94 and shit is starting to slog I've been thinking about doing hardcore or hardcore SSF. What are people's favorite HC builds?

HC is not really playable in this game. I don't think any of the HC brand PoE streamers play HC in PoE2.

If you really must slam your dick in that particular door you play CI and fill in the damage however you want to.
 
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Sinzar

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Am I crazy or is a lot of the problem the fact that you can preserve the entire temple due to the "snake" layout and a single medallion preserving the head, thus negating the entire temple collapse after a run mechanic.

My armchair dev fix would be to let rooms collapse if the layout allows it, or if they can't collapse due to pathing (aka the snake trick), instead have the rooms just convert to a blank roadway instead of remaining special rooms. This stops being able to preserve a 40 room temple with 1 medallion, without breaking pathing.

I've already walked away from the league due to broken economy. I'm now just watching the trash fire from the sidelines. From how up in arms the community seems to be, you would think there would be a sort of Developer Talk video or something where they address concerns and outline a long term solution. Even if it's something basic like "This league is fucked, we're sorry. We're redesigning the temple from the ground up for 0.5 to insure this doesn't happen again". Instead we have the classic radio silence (other than some hotfix patchnotes).
 
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1987

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Pissed off for the first time this league. Managed to spawn an abyss on top of a boss (the first act 2 guy with the hyenas looking at him) in a corrupted map....all of it triggered, including coalesced spawns. I killed the boss, and all the adds except for the final rare from the abyss...

Map boss dropped a div. I got one shotted by that fucking abyss monster three times trying to grab the div. Map locked, xp gone. No idea wtf mods it had, but insta-kill 1987

Edit: I play on a PS5 pro and I never have any graphical lag, but occasionally I get audio weirdness where the game just makes a weird noise when it's trying to do too much at once. No idea whether it's game, console, or tv related. Anyone else had this?
 
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