Path of Exile 2

mkopec

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The second stone I linked says that. I just ran it and nothing, lol. WTF am I missing here I dont get it.

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yea that should work. you fight the rock monster, then the twin golems, then the scorpion. then in the room after the scorpion there should be a big statue you click on to get your third ascendancy.
 

Aazrael

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I did Ultimatum this time for my 3rd and 4th Trial. But my build was kinda busted so it was easy.

Even so I fucking hate Sekhema, I get stressed from the Afflictions and Honour system.
 
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i learned a lot about gaming sekema. basically get your 75 percente honour resistance then stack as much merchant price reduction as you can. often coupling it with "bosses deal less damage" "rares take more damage" or "more honour total". then take every choice you can that gives no penalties > water fountains > merchants. and the merchant purchases snowball out of control.

you can get bad runs but that's how i generally do it a nd i find it easier than than the chaos trial.
 
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Xevy

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The second stone I linked says that. I just ran it and nothing, lol. WTF am I missing here I dont get it.

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Did you touch the Ascension stone after you beat the Scorpion boss at the end? The invitation is lit up which means it'll grant your 3rd ascendancy so either you forgot to touch the stone or it's completely bugged.
 

Aazrael

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Trying out GeForce Now on the deck at work. People keep interrupting me though, like wtf leave me alone so I can game in my closet.

Works pretty nice, but using 5g sharing on the phone which is not the best.

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Deathwing

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Scorpions are arachnids.

Dumb, inaccurate joke aside, are there any builds that look worth trying out this league? Something new, I've done LA/LR to death.
 

Aazrael

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Need to clear 3 floors then click the altar at the end of floor 3 for points. I found doing 10 room Ultimatum easier. But they might be higher level than Sekhema. I just hate that trial.
 
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Hekotat

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Trying out GeForce Now on the deck at work. People keep interrupting me though, like wtf leave me alone so I can game in my closet.

Works pretty nice, but using 5g sharing on the phone which is not the best.

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are the frame drops better now? I was giving it a shot but I haven't had much time to mess with it on the deck. I'd love to be able to play with a controller from the couch (I got a steam dock and shit).

I saw lowering your sound channels helps with frame dips as well (Maybe I saw it here, I don't remember).
 

Aazrael

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are the frame drops better now? I was giving it a shot but I haven't had much time to mess with it on the deck. I'd love to be able to play with a controller from the couch (I got a steam dock and shit).

I saw lowering your sound channels helps with frame dips as well (Maybe I saw it here, I don't remember).
With Streaming it on GeForce now with the premium I had 60fps, I think you get a 4080 in that tier. Running it native on the Deck is probably hopeless.
 

Hekotat

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With Streaming it on GeForce now with the premium I had 60fps, I think you get a 4080 in that tier. Running it native on the Deck is probably hopeless.

I ran better than I expected previously and it seems to be running better now but I was messing around with low level areas without a lot of mobs. In higher level areas there were occasional stutters, just enough to deter me from playing on it. They'd be retarded to not have a steam deck setting for this game.
 
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Aazrael

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I ran better than I expected previously and it seems to be running better now but I was messing around with low level areas without a lot of mobs. In higher level areas there were occasional stutters, just enough to deter me from playing on it. They'd be retarded to not have a steam deck setting for this game.
D4 being as bad as it is ran really well when I played it during expansion. Wish PoE2 ran as good, but as I said earlier my 3080 bogs down to 30fps in this game, badly optimized.
 

Needless

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i cant imagine a single person enjoys the sekhas trials bullshit, its actually such garbage lmao
 
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Kirun

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Yeah, I didn't think GGG could make a worse path to ascendancy than Labyrinth. But...here we are.
 
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Aazrael

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I can pretty much just run through the Sekhema now with 22k honour and my minions trash the place. Still I was bored out of my mind by floor 3. Just did it once to have the boss killed.
 

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I like sekema better than chaos just because you have some control over how the run would go, but it's entirely too drawn out, and some times you just get fucked. it's kind of gay because the 'goal' is to not engage with any of the cute little randomizers they made. if you accept "get a random boon, for a random badthing" you will get something like "10 percent more sacred water" in exchange for "lol, no defense". it's better than it used to be but it's still very harsh when you accept any risk at all.
 
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