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Big Mad Drongo posted:This is coward talk. You can move Brutus as much as you like. Only if his approach fades in the Hallowed Ground music every time
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Jul 30, 2021 09:23
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:Further, the idea that Weak Auras somehow plays the game for you is equally dumb - it's moving information that is already available from a less accessible point to a more accessible point, and that's pretty wholly what it does for 99% of it's userbase. Yes, making an ability light up whenever you meet a resource threshold and have a buff up is "moving information that is already available" in maybe the most pedantic, technically correct way possible
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Jul 30, 2021 09:28
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boredsatellite posted:Man how did i tolerate killing malachai over and over back then before getting to maps It's why I get pissed when GGG wants me to play the campaign more lol. Probably 80% of my time in the game total was spent in the freaking 1-3 and 1-4 three times years and it's burned into my brain.
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Jul 30, 2021 09:28
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boredsatellite posted:Man how did i tolerate killing malachai over and over back then before getting to maps Novelty. The campaign is fine, although I agree that it could be cut down in length at this point, but we've done it to death already. I remember hearing similar grumblings for a while before they added acts 6-10. Edit: 3.0 was almost four years ago, holy poo poo Arzachel fucked around with this message at 09:38 on Jul 30, 2021 |
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Jul 30, 2021 09:33
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Awww saw my favorite build creator updated with a new video today and: Shame. I hope someone finds a decent use for this thing. Info: He manages well against Shaper and Uber Elder but dies to Uber Atziri's reflect and bosses that teleport too much, like Maven and Sirus, just don't get full hits. When he was first revealed I had a feeling he wouldn't be able to keep up with the moving bosses. Considering he's not a mapping gem, if he can't manage bossing either, I wonder what GGG will try to do to bolster him up, if anything. Clockwerk posted:Echoing what others have said, it’s fine to do the campaign once or twice a league, I guess. But it really is just looking for the next door 90% of the time, whereas in maps I’m there to kill all the monsters and do a dozen varying league mechanics DaveKap fucked around with this message at 11:11 on Jul 30, 2021 |
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Jul 30, 2021 11:03
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I leveled with Reaper and skeletons from 30 through low white maps before giving up on it. It's just not good enough for the huge opportunity cost of running it-- you're giving up the huge clear potential of spectres AND reaper requires heavy micromanagement to keep it at full output, pressing the special attack every 4 seconds forever and constantly directing it towards the densest packs because its AoE is not great. Typically in games you expect kits that require extra mental energy to end up clearly more powerful than the more "automatic" options, but in this case Reaper struggles to even meet par.
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Jul 30, 2021 11:09
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DaveKap posted:Awww saw my favorite build creator updated with a new video today and: Kay def does not seem to be having fun this league honestly. She's super sad reaper sucks rear end. Also thanks to the person that suggested going to channel 6666 for getting SO specs. Got there and the channel is nice for getting necro tips
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Jul 30, 2021 13:05
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Arzachel posted:Yes, making an ability light up whenever you meet a resource threshold and have a buff up is "moving information that is already available" in maybe the most pedantic, technically correct way possible If anything, the real negative of something like Weak Auras is that it exposes how shallow the gameplay is over time---you are pressing X, then Y, then Z. Maybe A if two conditions are met and you want to receive your pellet from the nice box. It also wouldn't really be necessary in PoE 99% of the time where your build is "1 button to move 1-2 buttons to deal damage, probably in the same sequence every time," and where in the course of making your build you've already confronted, and embraced, how few buttons you'll press and when. Now a WA that actually tells you all the poo poo going on in this game, like "hey you have corrupted blood on you, use that flask" would be nice, but given that this is the very same league where they added a flask automation modifier, it might not be necessary. One could argue the game already offered to dumb itself down past where you were going to take it!
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Jul 30, 2021 13:32
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I'm so bored with my Raider already that I might make another character. It's hard though. A lot of the build ideas I thought would work good but needed a little more refinement got kneecapped. But probably Slam Occultist is even better than it used to be, although weaker than 3.14, cuz of the lowlife stuff. On the other hand they keep nerfing curses for some reason (to reign in curse bots, maybe?) and the best chaos dot/curse leveling strategies got annihilated between Bane losing the curse tag and Spellslinger. I'll probably just play other games instead and hope 3.16 is better. I'm getting pretty tired of beta testing poe2 without any of the upsides of poe2 like new gem systems or smart rolling.
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Jul 30, 2021 13:32
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boredsatellite posted:Man how did i tolerate killing malachai over and over back then before getting to maps
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Jul 30, 2021 13:51
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DaveKap posted:Absolutely nailing exactly why the campaign is so boring compared to maps. I'd rather have fun trying to kill everything and having league mechanics act as surprise gameplay to deal with than just yawn my way through Where's Waldo's Door. Yeah, every time you go through the campaign it's taking the exact same route you took every other run and any variance or optional content you come across is just hurting your run because any reward will be usually trash and it's just making you take longer to reach maps and your reward is just outleveling the challenge of the areas you are in if you engage with more then 20% of the stuff in the area. It's just running to the next load screen that you have a good idea which direction to go to find it, maps at least have variance and you actively want to engage with the random events that show up to ring more value out of your map.
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Jul 30, 2021 14:12
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One campaign clear per league would be okay. A toggle to skip to maps for subsequent characters would be so much better. As it is now every time I think about starting a new league I just meh out of it because I've done the dumb campaign so many times.
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Jul 30, 2021 14:18
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It really shouldn't be difficult to program tier 1 maps to scale in levels up to a point if they really want people to go through the leveling experience but not go through the story acts. I know I would rather stick my rear end in my hideout and run beaches to 68 than suffer through a vaal temple areas of the game.
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Jul 30, 2021 14:21
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Cao Ni Ma posted:It really shouldn't be difficult to program tier 1 maps to scale in levels up to a point if they really want people to go through the leveling experience but not go through the story acts. I know I would rather stick my rear end in my hideout and run beaches to 68 than suffer through a vaal temple areas of the game. Or be killing all the mobs you see from level 1-60 because it advances you towards maps, rather than just killing a handful of magic/rare packs to keep up with the zone level, while just sprinting through the zones because you get your real progress from walking.
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Jul 30, 2021 14:25
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Cao Ni Ma posted:It really shouldn't be difficult to program tier 1 maps to scale in levels up to a point if they really want people to go through the leveling experience but not go through the story acts. I know I would rather stick my rear end in my hideout and run beaches to 68 than suffer through a vaal temple areas of the game. I don't even mind leveling itself I just hate that its boring. If I had all the same league mechanics as t1 maps, even if it was only in-map stuff and not extras like heist or delve or whatever I'd be happy. If you're lucky in the campaign you get some early Einhar pops, which as much as he pwns, is one of the more boring mechanics. Especially because in the campaign its just like 'oh, look, a rare that's even harder to kill than normal, except its not worth using because the ilevel will be so low if i do'. At least the essence monsters give me poo poo I end up using sometimes. The base game, as in just plain mobs, is pretty boring, and I don't think they'll ever fix it by making bosses do more stuff.
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Jul 30, 2021 14:25
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Good news they are making a whole new campaign
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Jul 30, 2021 14:30
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God just shut the gently caress up dude.
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Jul 30, 2021 14:31
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euphronius posted:Good news they are making a whole new campaign Problem solved for the next 2-3 leagues
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Jul 30, 2021 14:31
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euphronius posted:Good news they are making a whole new campaign Can't wait to play it in 2038.
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Jul 30, 2021 14:32
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Devor posted:Problem solved for the next 2-3 leagues sorry, did you mean the first 2-3 days after its released?
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Jul 30, 2021 14:33
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BREAKING: POE 2 is now a VR exclusive. "Now I can make them *actually pick up all the items*", Chris was heard to say in between fits of maniacal laughter.
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Jul 30, 2021 14:34
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Im sure the new campaign is going to have poo poo zones like prisons and vaal temples because someone at GGG (Chris) thinks that there has to be truly poo poo maps so that the good ones stand out.
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Jul 30, 2021 14:35
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Vaal temple can be lovely yeah That’s the only one that stands out to me
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Jul 30, 2021 14:39
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I know nobody really cares about PoE 1's campaign plot anymore (it is kinda bland and shows its disjointed development) but I do like GGG's writing of late and I probably will take my time for the first playthrough of 2. It's me, I'm the weirdo who looks forward to getting new fragments translated by Dannig.
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Jul 30, 2021 14:49
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Here is a good thread from Reddit on getting ailment immune https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/oui91s/70_elemental_ailment_avoidance_in_this_part_of/
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Jul 30, 2021 14:53
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GGG's writing owns, because it's a super grimdark setting where you more or less bring about the apocalypse, but instead of going "You fool, you absolute dingus, you have made this lovely world even shittier" the game basically goes "Hey, the gods have bodies, right? I wonder if they bleed?" and it turns out they do so you murder the world into a better place. More dark fantasy settings need to lean into the idea that yea, the world is an awful place, but that applies to the assholes ruling it too.
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Jul 30, 2021 14:57
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dyzzy posted:I know nobody really cares about PoE 1's campaign plot anymore (it is kinda bland and shows its disjointed development) but I do like GGG's writing of late and I probably will take my time for the first playthrough of 2. It's me, I'm the weirdo who looks forward to getting new fragments translated by Dannig. Honestly their voice acting is very good, pretty consistently. It's clear they take a lot of time and effort on the story. I almost wish it was available to you in other ways than sitting in town, which is obviously lava.
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Jul 30, 2021 15:02
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Big Mad Drongo posted:GGG's writing owns, because it's a super grimdark setting where you more or less bring about the apocalypse, but instead of going "You fool, you absolute dingus, you have made this lovely world even shittier" the game basically goes "Hey, the gods have bodies, right? I wonder if they bleed?" and it turns out they do so you murder the world into a better place. Murdering the gods just makes it worse though! Sirus blows up the city you saved in A10 during his fight!
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Jul 30, 2021 15:25
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Fried Watermelon posted:Murdering the gods just makes it worse though! Oh wow lol I'm super casual and never make it to Sirius. I thought you left this world a decent place and hosed off to other, more nightmarish planes of existence with better loot.
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Jul 30, 2021 15:32
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Fried Watermelon posted:Murdering the gods just makes it worse though! Well that's hardly my...okay it is totally my fault.
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Jul 30, 2021 15:33
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Fried Watermelon posted:Murdering the gods just makes it worse though! See! Even the lore says the best move is to not play the game!
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Jul 30, 2021 15:37
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"You want the Atlas? Take it. It's yours. But Oriath? Oriath I will burn to the ground." whoa wait buddy no I don't even want the atlas!
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Jul 30, 2021 15:40
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MMF Freeway posted:"You want the Atlas? Take it. It's yours. But Oriath? Oriath I will burn to the ground." Between this and "How boring and small" I'm convinced that Sirus is just someone who played the campaign about twenty times too often.
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Jul 30, 2021 15:42
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docbeard posted:Between this and "How boring and small" I'm convinced that Sirus is just someone who played the campaign about twenty times too often. It's canon that he had to map for multiple centuries while carrying a printer for Zana
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Jul 30, 2021 15:45
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MMF Freeway posted:"You want the Atlas? Take it. It's yours. But Oriath? Oriath I will burn to the ground." The atlas is all we want, the campaign must die! they ALL must die! we do not even want the atlas!
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Jul 30, 2021 15:46
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To him we are just another rogue exile there to be killed and looted. I like rogue exiles and there should be more of them. Maybe they could send you whispers to ask to trade for poo poo to lure you into traps.
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Jul 30, 2021 15:54
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Big Mad Drongo posted:Oh wow lol I'm super casual and never make it to Sirius. I thought you left this world a decent place and hosed off to other, more nightmarish planes of existence with better loot. Theres actually a different town hub after you defeat him with all the surviving NPCs being very sad too lol
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Jul 30, 2021 15:55
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It also triggers this dialogue with Zana: lady, there are at least three more awakening levels to go
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Jul 30, 2021 15:58
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Flavahbeast posted:It also triggers this dialogue with Zana: Narrator: He did not leave the atlas alone
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Jul 30, 2021 16:20
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Has anyone ever seen a bug where you import a build into PoE and the medium cluster jewels just... don't branch out into anything? Is there a fix for that on the PoB fork?External Organs posted:To him we are just another rogue exile there to be killed and looted. Rogue Exiles should have a Dark Souls style thing where it can surprise-summons a volunteer player via PVP into your instance to gank you. If they kill you on Hardcore it doesn't count as dying, but if they indirectly cause your death through screen spam, it does.
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Jul 30, 2021 16:21
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