Path of Exile 2

Penance

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The quest parts of the trials (first 2 points) are great ways to introduce players to those "league" mechanics and ascend their character. The 3rd and 4th is bullshit. They're way too long and most new characters slime out. I hope they eventually have 2 new unique mechanics for 3rd and 4th points.
 
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Xevy

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Trials CAN be fun when you get decent relics for 75% resist and max honor. Even then you can get absolutely fucked if you can't see enough rooms ahead and brick your whole run. If you're not going for a no-hit it's pretty trivial with good movement speed/shield block. I ran a few for fun last league and it was cool getting time-lost jewels, but my 4th ascendancy run this league I got something like 11 silver keys and 0 gold and that fucking sucked.

Shield Raise is a big cheat for 90% of traps though for those struggling. You can just raise shield and walk through most all traps unaffected.
 

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The vaal shit is too time consuming to build up for those juicy rewards. Youre talking about RNG and 30-60 hrs to build a temple that will produce currency or will it after the nerf?
i'm not super experienced at the game. but i 'finished hte temple'. killed queen Four-tits and all. got my 6 points and folded up the temple. then from there. i did 2 temple runs (one to spawn the architect. my temple wouldn't allow it otherwise) and a second to get into her treasure room. doing that room yielded 3 divines and like 15 other assorted exalt/chaos. that seemed worth it, but i was also running 2 vaal lighbulb pad tablets to make juicing it up back to back.

though that may not be the currency fountain you meant by that. i haven't done an ultra optomized vaal temple yet.
 

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I really should sort more relics into my sekema and do runs of that some time. i'm a bit shy about charging folks since i haven't done payed runs before, but i effortlessly did the 4th trial the other day (prior to getting like 8 levels and a lot of gear optimization). being able to kill the final boss before he can move makes it not so bad. though i may have had a 'lucky' run where i minimized penalties and got 3 rando merchants who i emptied out. I'll have to run it f or some RL homies and test before i go offering it to errybody.
 

Yaamean

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Started doing the delirium quest and man that shit is time consuming. Got to the point where I would skip the mirror, get the boss checkpoint, and then warp back to activate.

Also using lower tiered maps just to make it faster/safer. The reflection boss was crazy though, fought the ice / fire combo boss x2 and the whole arena was chaotic......was super glad I used a T8 map for that one. Now apparently I have to do the Grand Mirror BS until I can finally fight the main boss?
 

zombiewizardhawk

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Ran probably 20ish t8 alch maps and didn't get any t9 drops so I said screw it and bought a pair of corrupted t15s at 1ex per so I could start doing harder maps (and this third abyss wing wanted t11+ anyways). Am a little squishy in t15s but not terrible, I just gotta actually be a little careful. My dps could use a slight bump too for some of the rares, but I gotta figure out what my best cheap upgrade for that would be or if I want to use the 3divs I have on getting tailwind from 4th ascendancy carry.
 
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Pyros

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Started doing the delirium quest and man that shit is time consuming. Got to the point where I would skip the mirror, get the boss checkpoint, and then warp back to activate.

Also using lower tiered maps just to make it faster/safer. The reflection boss was crazy though, fought the ice / fire combo boss x2 and the whole arena was chaotic......was super glad I used a T8 map for that one. Now apparently I have to do the Grand Mirror BS until I can finally fight the main boss?
Iirc the questline is like, do a Grand Mirror which is what you did already with the 2bosses and then you get the thing from the big crystal? Then do a Simulacrum at 100% delirium(the area % goes up with every clear only takes like 3-4maps to get 100%) and then do the boss(easy for my build but no idea for others).

But yeah if I wasn't playing a strong build I think it'd be the worst questline in difficulty, along with Rituals. Rituals get crazy too cause you just fight multiple bosses at the same time, if you can't delete them quickly it just gets super messy.
 

Yaamean

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Iirc the questline is like, do a Grand Mirror which is what you did already with the 2bosses and then you get the thing from the big crystal? Then do a Simulacrum at 100% delirium(the area % goes up with every clear only takes like 3-4maps to get 100%) and then do the boss(easy for my build but no idea for others).

But yeah if I wasn't playing a strong build I think it'd be the worst questline in difficulty, along with Rituals. Rituals get crazy too cause you just fight multiple bosses at the same time, if you can't delete them quickly it just gets super messy.
I finished the delirium questline but got to the Patriarch map and OMFG that boss is cheesy as fuck. Only tried once on a generic T15 map but everytime the little circles spawned in phase 2 I ended up frozen and unable to make it to the next area. (I had a freeze charm too)

That boss is gay as fuck and I'll do it tomorrow and hopefully never fight it again until I am at 200k dps, lol. Seriously, that shit was horrible. <-- edit, I did smoke a lil but it felt unfair as fuck....probably need to get more life / energy shield.
 

Vorph

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Ok, this is getting really irritating. I'm doing T15 maps, usually irradiated and/or corrupted, but for whatever reason my temple refuses to go above 74 which means no royal architect spawns so that I can get the royal access chamber. What the hell do I have to do to get it to finally increase in level?
 

Kirun

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Ok, this is getting really irritating. I'm doing T15 maps, usually irradiated and/or corrupted, but for whatever reason my temple refuses to go above 74 which means no royal architect spawns so that I can get the royal access chamber. What the hell do I have to do to get it to finally increase in level?
I'm doing T11s-13s and it's always 75+. Are you running your temples every 6 or are you just stockpiling?
 

Vorph

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I've been running them every 6. Does that matter? I hated temple league so I'm just trying to get the required stuff done so I can ignore it.

Also, can someone explain the delirium bar? This is the map I just ran:
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I cleared the whole map while the fog was active but for whatever reason I didn't get the last little bit of progress to trigger the final reward. I know the diamond is showing the distance from the initial mirror but I don't quite get how the purple/grey bar works.

Edit: according to reddit the mirrors spawn near you when you reach that distance from the start, and the final one is supposed to be clearing the map boss in fog... I did that though.
Edit2: nm, it seems like that map's delirium was just bugged. The next few I ran all worked exactly like the reddit post described. I'm still not exactly clear what the final mirror icon is for though. I guess it's just the boss fight, and there's no actual mirror to break for a potential reward like the others?
 
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Pyros

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I've been running them every 6. Does that matter? I hated temple league so I'm just trying to get the required stuff done so I can ignore it.

Also, can someone explain the delirium bar? This is the map I just ran:
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I cleared the whole map while the fog was active but for whatever reason I didn't get the last little bit of progress to trigger the final reward. I know the diamond is showing the distance from the initial mirror but I don't quite get how the purple/grey bar works.

Edit: according to reddit the mirrors spawn near you when you reach that distance from the start, and the final one is supposed to be clearing the map boss in fog... I did that though.
It just doesn't work sometimes, especially on maps with looping layouts and is 100% broken on any map with stairs(like the interlude mansion one or the sun temple triangle one). The last crystal is supposed to be the map boss, but on some maps it just won't work. I've had it fuck up on one of these vaal maps with the viper boss, the map was basically a square and the bar never went past 50% anywhere on the map.

Just have to move on, you still get a bunch of rewards but I probably wouldn't use delirium tablets currently, it doesn't feel it's worth the added difficulty. I did get some good emotions just from random mirrors though, including an isolation, so I always do the free shit but I don't pay much attention to it.
 

Kirun

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I've been running them every 6. Does that matter? I hated temple league so I'm just trying to get the required stuff done so I can ignore it.
If you stack them up, it can sometimes "lock" your first run into a lower level, if that's what you did to unlock your first 6, next 6, etc. I always use mine after 6 and haven't had any issues.

But, this league has had a fuckload of bugs, so who knows. I have the lovely bug where my anoint on Well of Power doesn't work, so my entire mana regen plan is just ultra fucked.
 

Vorph

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If you stack them up, it can sometimes "lock" your first run into a lower level, if that's what you did to unlock your first 6, next 6, etc. I always use mine after 6 and haven't had any issues.

But, this league has had a fuckload of bugs, so who knows. I have the lovely bug where my anoint on Well of Power doesn't work, so my entire mana regen plan is just ultra fucked.
Yeah, I don't know what the problem was, but I did another set of 6 and all of a sudden it bumped all the way up to 79.

Just have to move on, you still get a bunch of rewards but I probably wouldn't use delirium tablets currently, it doesn't feel it's worth the added difficulty. I did get some good emotions just from random mirrors though, including an isolation, so I always do the free shit but I don't pay much attention to it.
My first tablet dropped an isolation from one of the gold mirror minibosses so I'm clinging to the idea that I'm going to get a contempt next. Playing a djinn sorc with 12k ES so there's no real difficulty anywhere. At this point I don't even bother to look at the affixes that roll on my maps. Just need more dps now, and all I have left are the really expensive upgrades.
 

Vorph

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Finally hit +2 minion skills on a focus desecrate. Hell of a lot cheaper to buy 1 div worth of focus + abyssal echoes and gamble until one of them hits than buy a +2 straight up.

That's about the extent of my current crafting knowledge though. Is there anything else I can do with these items to push them towards what I want (mana/ES/resist/int stuff)? I'm assuming since they removed homogenization that there's nothing left to do besides just slam them, but figured I'd check before making a huge mistake if I'm wrong. (Edit: I know I need to desecrate the amulet, just not sure whether I want to choose for prefix or suffix yet... leaning towards prefix since there's a chance for spirit or flat ES)

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Pyros

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Yeah, I don't know what the problem was, but I did another set of 6 and all of a sudden it bumped all the way up to 79.


My first tablet dropped an isolation from one of the gold mirror minibosses so I'm clinging to the idea that I'm going to get a contempt next. Playing a djinn sorc with 12k ES so there's no real difficulty anywhere. At this point I don't even bother to look at the affixes that roll on my maps. Just need more dps now, and all I have left are the really expensive upgrades.
Yeah I've never looked at affixes once, just revives when I put in a map for a deadly boss or other quest related shit(and just to avoid 0 revive in case of). I've died 33 times total this league, and about 25 of these were during leveling especially early leveling(1-20) where I got boxed by a bunch of wolves and ED/contagion didn't kill them quick enough or whatever. I one shot every single quest boss and I can't tell what any of them does because I didn't see more than 1 or 2 moves each. Also killed 4 divinity arbiters for the atlas stuff so the "harder" one, but still don't know what he does cause I improved my gear inbetween so the kills were just as fast as my initial one.

Disciple of Varashta is absurd easy in its current state, ES is still pretty broken and the class makes it better, and the damage is absurdly high with almost 0 investment since you don't need much/any spirit or any damage stat on gear, don't need to perfect jewel or lvl 20 your skills so the only requirements are like an expensive annoint(and it was perfectly playable before the annoint too, just more annoying when you got to a boss and archon just ran out then you had to wait 10secs).

I'm done with the league I think, I cleared every questline and unlocked all the masters stuff and got every challenge so not much else to do than grind and I usually just bail once I reach that point. Was fun though and don't regret picking Varashta as a starter, although in retrospect Spiritwalker would have been perfectly fine too(but it looked really awkward before launch so I went for a safer pick).
 

Springbok

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Temple is probably, by some distance, still my least favorite end game loop. Much rather go ritual or breach, delirium. For materials, expedition seems a little over tuned.
 

zombiewizardhawk

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I dunno if everyone's atlas is kinda the same or if it's all 'random' type stuff, but my freakin ritual quest area is like 50+ maps from the start, in the opposite direction of basically anything else, and it's very stupid. At least they still let you stuff their stupid ass undroppable green quest items into storage benches so i'm not actually stuck with this audience with the king wasting an inventory slot for 50 maps, but still...