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Slaanesh69

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Squishy to what? A trickster or elemralist maybe buy I swear Sneks can pretty much scale to do t17s any mod.
You are right, I was thinking along the lines of never dying while trying to level. I reached 97 and said eff it and started harder content and I die from time to time but not that often, and mostly in content that I ALWAYS die on, like Sirus. And he's definitely not optimized at all.
 
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Penance

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You are right, I was thinking along the lines of never dying while trying to level. I reached 97 and said eff it and started harder content and I die from time to time but not that often, and mostly in content that I ALWAYS die on, like Sirus. And he's definitely not optimized at all.
Yea POE gonna POE. Leveling to 100 takes a concious effort of looking at your mods, knowing what mobs you run into in the maps and other things like that. Its why I'm still frustrated that GGG hasn't put some QoL in rolling and crafting maps outside of regex. Like I want to be able to color affixes on items/maps like I color drops in the maps. I want to be able to mass roll shit and see things at a glance. Doing things in batches in this game really brings out the tedium.
 
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You are right, I was thinking along the lines of never dying while trying to level. I reached 97 and said eff it and started harder content and I die from time to time but not that often, and mostly in content that I ALWAYS die on, like Sirus. And he's definitely not optimized at all.

On the plus side now

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if you're trying to level you can still do many bosses, die and not lose experience.

edit - if you've got an Omen of Amelioration I think they still get eaten so make sure to bank it before you go and fail a Maven memory game
 
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Done with the league. Did majority of 40/40 on CoC FRoSS, Whispers of Infinity is likely getting nerfed.

Endgame expansion is half baked at best. I never want more buttons to press. The inconsistency of what petal skills you get was frustrating and almost all of them made you pause flow of combat, which is really dangerous. If I could consistently farm open area maps like in Sentinel league, that might have worked better.

Expanding usage of T17 mods is really gay. I commented on this during 3.26 patch notes, but I'm almost certain the expansion of the regex character limit is because of how many affixes have to be filtered out of T16.5 and T17 maps. I've never been a fan of "your build can't do this map" affixes, but they were a nuisance at best, maybe worse when you would vaal your only copy of a map into something you can't run.

Mercs grew on me. They're obviously too powerful to go core, but as another gearing dimension, they're quite interesting. PoB support needs to be there, depending on the game's long term support of them. 3 slots isn't nearly enough. And there isn't enough ways to target farm even a *DECENT* merc. Doing the 40/40 on my FRoSS, the best Cruel Mistress had 2 wasted skill slots and only 1 useful support on its soulrend.

Really sad pausing killed my flask macro. Anyone know of an AHK macro that works on detection? As in, the macro I wrote is a simple duration, you just tune it to your life flask's duration. A more flexible macro would be able to detect if your life flask was active and enable if not. I tried using pixel color for the yellow duration bar, but it was spotty, especially during full screen effects like Delirium that seems to change the pixel color slightly.
 
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Khane

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Really sad pausing killed my flask macro. Anyone know of an AHK macro that works on detection? As in, the macro I wrote is a simple duration, you just tune it to your life flask's duration. A more flexible macro would be able to detect if your life flask was active and enable if not. I tried using pixel color for the yellow duration bar, but it was spotty, especially during full screen effects like Delirium that seems to change the pixel color slightly.

You can probably accomplish this by using Lailloken UI to put the flask buff in a permanent spot somewhere on your screen and then just track those pixels
 
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Deathwing

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You can probably accomplish this by using Lailloken UI to put the flask buff in a permanent spot somewhere on your screen and then just track those pixels
Are you saying Lailloken has some way of representing the active life flask buff aside from the yellow duration bar?
 
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Khane

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Are you saying Lailloken has some way of representing the active life flask buff aside from the yellow duration bar?

Yes, it has functions that are basically like weak auras for PoE

I haven't actually tried to do anything other than just using it to create a hud for things I want to track but since it can do that, it should be able to make things more traceable for AHK.

Though I gotta say man, your infatuation with that subpar ascendancy node coupled with your unwillingness to just press the button is the stuff of stubborn nerd legend
 
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Deathwing

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Yes, it has functions that are basically like weak auras for PoE

I haven't actually tried to do anything other than just using it to create a hud for things I want to track but since it can do that, it should be able to make things more traceable for AHK.

Though I gotta say man, your infatuation with that subpar ascendancy node coupled with your unwillingness to just press the button is the stuff of stubborn nerd legend
I'm simply not going to remember to press it every ~6s. In some cases, losing 90% of your recovery means going splat. It's annoying, unfun "gameplay". I'd rather it be removed tbh, but I doubt it would be replaced by something equivalent as I'm not sure how much clunk factors into the power level.

There are a lot of builds that are made much more viable at cheaper levels with Master Surgeon. I think subpar is unfair, I think it has its place just like some of Guardian's passives. You should check what type of builds allocate Master Surgeon and CI.
 
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I gotta say. I've enjoyed this season the most in years. I think it's 99% due to having a merc. Like it allowed me as a filthy casual to try so many more different things for my build. I really really hope mercy go core. I mean they won't in their current state I'm sure. But I'm really going to miss them.
 
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Im still playing and having a blast after taking a few years off. I think the endgame is amazing, between the atlas passives and scarabs there are dozens of different strats to match your playstyle. If I fire up POE2 next league its going to feel like ass.
 
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Arbitrary

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I held off on using a Doryani's merc for as long as possible but when it came time to finish up the challenges it was too much power to leave on the table. It was the difference between needing to hit up PoB and blowing a bunch of currency on carefully selected upgrades versus pushing the "hire" button and stomping on everything that needed stomping with no pause. I felt early on that mercs were broken in so many ways that even if they nerfed Doryani's to be unequippable the next best thing would still be insane and even if that got nerfed the thing after would also be insane. I still feel that way. Even your most basic shit is too good. While on the road to 100 I had a Manyshot with Grace, some cold skills and a bunch of cold/chill oriented uniques. You know, day one basic bitch stuff. She froze everything all the time.

The addition of 16.5s is nice. You get to run some of those uglier mods with better rewards (more scarabs, more currency, more maps, etc) but on maps you actually like. The memory thread stuff based on the previous atlas memory system, the capstone maps (theater of lies, chambers of impurity, courtyard of wasting) along with the Incarnation bosses themselves are all pretty halfbaked. Young Zana going "aaaaa!" as Valdo swats at her or dialogue like "BUT LATER NEVER CAME" get goofier and goofier each time you run those encounters. The Incarnation of Dread does that stupid shit where after you do enough damage he becomes invul and slowly walks to where he needs to be to start the next phase. This includes walking around you, minions, totems and mercs. The Black Knight does similar shit where if your damage is high enough he just kinda strokes out as you wait around for the fight to advance.

New and quirky skills are always fine by me even if the new Trarthus gems don't impress. "Spectral Helix but a trap" is not going to have a big crew of adopters but for the people that like that sort of thing that's the sort of thing those people like.

If I had started the league on a character that had a hard time fighting mercs I might have felt differently about the whole thing but overall I'd put this league in the above average category.
 

Arbitrary

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Mercs are definitely OP but they are fun to build around and use

Crazy shit in a league is okie dokie with me but at the same time I do roll my eyes a bit each time I adjust the enemy lightning res to negative 200 in PoB. Oh right, he also comes with Zealotry and a hat that reserves 10% of enemy health and drops brittle ground etc etc etc.

They're fun. I had fun. I'm still having fun. I don't want them to go core. It's just too much. This cake is all frosting.

 

Pasteton

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There’s gotta be a kb enjoyer in here? I’ve always wanted to try it but just keep getting sidetracked with some other fotm. But I predict it’s probably gonna go thru a ‘nerfed but still op but now it’s cheap because everyone is whining that it’s nerfed’ phase next patch. So am really motivated to try it. Problem is that I always run into is i can’t tell how to gage damage accurately as I feel like pob isn’t correct, so am wondering how do I make sure this I’m doing it right if I try it. Just int stack till I’m broke? Is aoe scaling more important? What are the priorities ?
 

Deathwing

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Which KB? You can definitely model them and last I checked, PoB won't do it for you. There's not much point besides the mental exercise as the answer will almost always be "not enough". It's one of those skills you have smooth over its single target with lots of currency.