Path of Exile 2

Yea performance is really crap this patch. But the game is fun. Endgame needs more shit for sure but it's getting there.

Ran the campaign two times this patch, and once you get to act 4 it kinda speeds up.

The Stampede Warrior build is fun as hell. Only thing is how to get like 500+ str for dual wielding the best weapon base... Im using Astramentis and at like 380str right now. Need to figure out where Kingkongor gets his +str

I just hit the maps on my LA deadeye and the game is miles from 0.1 in terms of accessibility, smoothness of leveling and overall experience. The Act 4 and the interludes are very nice.
My first maps were ok, but i still despise the overall "atlas".
To be perfect, the campaign should give at least twice a weapon as a quest reward.
They did wake up eventually.

I started doing some crafting with all the new omens and not having to whisper and wait is a fucking godsend. I needed 14 different rings for recombining and had them as fast as it took to just port to everyones hide out. I never really crafted before and old trade was one of the reasons.

Deathwing said:

I use rotating dump tabs in PoE1 in part to catch items that are worth more than they currently priced. I was anticipating continuing to do that but instead, just pulling the item out of regular tabs and pricing it properly in an async tab.

It seems almost no one uses the regular trading system anymore, so that system has fallen apart. So, what's the solution now? Continue using dump tabs, just have your "entry" tab much higher priced?

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My problem is I bought a fucking ton of quad tabs and they can’t be made into the asynchronous tabs, they need to fix that.

mkopec said:

Why would you play this over a Deadeye anyway? Its worse in every way than a Deadeye if bows or xbows is your thing.

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Deadeye is expensive, great for league starter to get to maps make some money get some twink gear and go from there. I have 95 LA Deadeye, switched to Hollow palm monk, used the gear from the deadeye once I got to maps.

I love deadeye, it’s to expensive but the witch build looks fun and if it’s not expensive I’ll probably try it out once I’m bored of this monk.

Also just something I’ve noticed and plan on doing in the future, play the OP build as league starter and switch to a character that will be cheaper but also is on the same side of the tree and wears similar gear and save gear while leveling up the league starter build, I’m new to poe poe1 people probably been doing that for a decade.

mkopec said:

I mean maybe? But I doubt it since its like 3/4 less effort to level up a new dude in POE1 vs POE2. If you know the campaign in POE1 its like 7-8 hours to get through it. speed runners do it in like 4. In this game it would take an average person like 20 hours and thats knowing the campaign pretty well.

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I can do the whole campaign in poe2 on 2nd character in that time, mind you I’m going to have a plan, level 5 uncut support gems, bare minimum 5 link gems 6 if they are cheap, one of my favorite new character levelers is the same set up and it will get you through act 1 in 20 minutes.

Tabula chest, widowhail, cold unique quiver, dodge roll amulet, luminous boots, painters gloves. I could go on. Twink the fuck out of a character and it’s easy as shit to just fly through the campaign, the campaign is only tough when you can’t spend your way through it because the league is brand new, just my experience I am retarded.

mkopec said:

Its not really about the character you choose but the weapon you choose. Well, its true to a certain point. Like monk and ranger are basically interchangeable in that respect where you can take the bow and use the ranger skills to level up a monk with. Monk starts with a shit weapon that is like 100% harder in the early levels than a bow. So take that info into next league. Even a warrior can be leveled with a bow until you get access to a skill that actually clears shit decently. Not really sure about casters/magic users since Ive never played one.

And thats my biggest problem in this game in the early levels. Some characters get stuck with shit weapons (that pertain to their class) and shit skills that make the starting experience way worse than others. I think they need to balance this out a bit further. Maybe the addition of the missing weapons and their respective skills with further balance this?

But take a warrior for example. It’s not until like act 3 that he starts to feel good with clubs. Monk is shit with staves in the beginning...etc...

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League starting you can certainly play monk, huntress as a ranger, not sure about the casters but you can certainly do witch and sorceress with the widowhail cold quiver through act 3 and it fly. It’s a seriously good tactic for every class and worth the I dunno, outside the Tabula 1 exalt for everything, hell the low level runes are more expensive than the gear lol.

mkopec said:

Why would you play this over a Deadeye anyway? Its worse in every way than a Deadeye if bows or xbows is your thing.

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It's far tankier and can do all content easily for just a couple of div as entry with one button game play. You'll be spending far more to get to the same level of power on deadeye.

At unlimited budget deadeye will edge out on MS, but that is it as damage numbers don't matter by that point as everything was being one tapped long before then.

Chimney said:

It's far tankier and can do all content easily for just a couple of div as entry with one button game play. You'll be spending far more to get to the same level of power on deadeye.

At unlimited budget deadeye will edge out on MS, but that is it as damage numbers don't matter by that point as everything was being one tapped long before then.

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Yeah, that's basically the problem I ran into with my Deadeye. I got in early and prices weren't too horrible, plus I was able to craft a lot of the rares before the currency market got trashed. Switching over to crit and getting even a fraction of the move speed that fubgun has is just impossible though. I'd have to replace practically every single item I have and that's just not at all feasible with the economy what it is now.

The budget for this is pretty crazy now too though. Trade is full of every type of POE degenerate from annul-scammers to faggots who put elemental runes in it to fool people who sort by total dps instead of just phys into buying their shit. Level 18 Requiem starts at 2 div now for the absolute worst possible rolls. L17 starts at 4-5 div which is insane since it only gets you the xbow one level earlier and then you're stuck with a gimped weapon.

Only way I was able beat the system since I foolishly didn't buy both my xbows as soon as I started leveling the build on Friday was to buy one of those "absolute worst possible roll" ones for 2 div and gamble with my own divine since it wasn't like it could get any worse. Worked out quite well actually:


777.4 dps after one div, which basically saved me about a div, maybe a bit more since it's still not corrupted. Hopefully it'll be an easy resell once I get to 84 and have to do it again.

Even bigger mistake was not grabbing a Constricting Command. I saw -5 ones for like 2-3 div on Friday; they start at 7 now. Death Articulated gloves are even more ridiculous... couldn't afford them at 60 div on Friday, and now they are 95+. I know they're supposed to be optional, but a +50% more damage modifier is a hell of a lot. It'd be like playing a build without Rakiata's Flow after you've gotten used to having it.