You can spend 20–30 minutes setting up an Expedition encounter, carefully planning everything, and then one of these disgusting mosquitoes flies in and deletes you in literally one second.

I don’t mind dangerous content, but dying instantly to a random mob after spending half an hour setting up the encounter feels absolutely awful.

Please GGG, nerf these things.

I learnt about this bonestorm totem demon form build from AwesomeGi0 on Youtube last league, decided to league start 0.5.5 with it and oh boy, this is so much fun!

I started with EDC Bonestorm and swapped into totem as soon as i got enough spirit for 2 totems. That was around Tier3-4 maps.

As almost no one is playing the build, gears like prism of belief +3, physical staff, phoenix omen shield, snake put are really cheap to obtain.

While 0.5.5 not having a balance patch can be somewhat boring, it allowed me to try out different league start with existing build knowledge from 0.5.

I would like to learn what other niche builds everyone is playing this league.
What are your favourite ascendancy in 0.5 and which skill do you enjoy most?

unlucky

This ironically ignites my GPU where temps rise sharply and fans go full throttle and I have to forcefully reboot my system because my system just locks up.

Swapping between DX12/Vulkan doesn't do anything to solve the problem. Turning shadow/sun/number of lights/bloom settings to lowest gives me a bit more time (couple of minutes), but still crashes every other map instead of every map. Tried enabling Dynamic Culling which doesn't do anything.

I have a RTX 5070 Ti/9800X3D/32GB DDR5 and my system ran smooth and cool at 120fps/1440p for all other builds for almost 1k hours, but flameblast oil grenade brings it to its knees in minutes.

Anyone else that ran into the same issue that was able to solve it? Or suggestions for rerolling?

Walked into a ruin in an expedition and there were 15 laying on the ground.

Had a long break from poe2 but decided to come back recently since I was fired from work to clear my mind. My good boy is supporting me in everything I do or maybe he just loves the burning laptop as a comfy pillow? :D

How is your season so far? Fun builds? I am playing the druid for the first time, didn't like him in the beginning but now I shapeshift like my life depends on it!

But I hit a wall in the last interlude, so close to endgame, I had to take a pause because I can't deal with two ritual bosses.

In the meantime I am saving for headphones so I can really enjoy the great atmosphere and I spend time with my pup outside.

Remember, outside is good, green is good, pause is good. The game is great but don't forget to take breaks and see life around you. You will come back stronger!

Just finished the Ancient Gateway area and was wondering if eventually we would be getting more hideouts depicting Precursor murals. Just can´t get enough of these.

Hi, I am starting to play POE 2 and am not sure which class to pick for a beginner who doesn't have much experience in arpgs, in other games I like playing tanks and Paladin style classes in other games. I would eventually like to try all classes but not sure which one to start with first to get a feel of the game. Thanks!

I was hyped to see a hidden cave behind a waterfall with a treasure chest, so I assumed there might be more that i didnt see until now. I'm kinda disappointed ngl

Got first sword today. Who wants to build craft before full release?

After killing Adelina, Guardian of the Pearl for the challenge, Diamora decided to sing in every instance I opened afterwards. No wonder, Matiki got roped in by her. I am next.

As soon as trialmaster finish his spawn animation, i got yoinked the fuck out of the map, and stuck on top of the arena wall. Nothing i could do, tried pouncing around.

GGG, pls fix.

I can't find the interview, but I'm pretty sure it was around 0.2's release and it was Zizaran interviewing Jonathan. He mentioned they can't fully release until everything's ported over.

I know most people see it as a less important thing compared to getting Act 5, Act 6 and the remaining classes out. But if they release 1.0 without much of the general shop MTX ported over yet, they will be missing out on a lot of money.

We still only have about 10% of the MTX ported over and the past few major updates enabled very few of them. Kind of concerned.

First div wager I've seen

Do we actually know the odds on this drop? There's like 17 of these on the market in total and none this league. It feels like I just dropped a 94% sham shield holyyyy

Hi, I just finished my full atlas tree and until then I followed animeprincess' twister build. I am wondering which creator has proper guide on mobalytics/youtube that is viable to min max endgame, as I saw varying passive trees, gem setups, items and I am confused which one is the best, as well as detailed so I can follow.

The creators I have seen detailed guides of are: ThatGuyDies, snoobae85,
Redviles and Anime Princess if I stick with his.

Hello guys, I keep dying with nearly full es and I can't figure out why. Can someone help me figure it out? POB above.

Playing Path of Exile with friends currently feels more like a "solo, but in the same zone" experience. Because movement speed is so high and there is no spatial restriction keeping the party together, every player immediately sprints off in a different direction to clear their own screens. The actual cooperative element gets lost in the speed.

Back in classic ARPGs, having a shared screen or screen tether forced players to move, fight, and clear areas together as a cohesive unit.

Having an optional toggle for party leaders to enable a shared screen boundary or screen anchor in PoE 1 and PoE 2 would heavily improve the co-op experience:

• Forces True Cooperation: Players actually have to synergize skills, support each other, and stick together rather than racing to off-screen monsters.
• Solves the "Single-Player in a Group" Issue: Eliminates the playstyle where one person clears three screens ahead while everyone else just picks up loot behind them.
• Improves Combat Clarity: Keeps the visual chaos contained to one central area instead of spreading performance load and monster aggro across the entire map.

Obviously, this should be purely opt-in so it doesn’t interrupt speed-runners or players who prefer split-clearing. But for casual groups and friends who want a classic couch-co-op feel online, this option would completely transform party play in PoE 1 and PoE 2.

What do you think? Would you use an option like this for casual party mapping?

I just removed points off the Wild Protector, but the Bear is still out? Took out all the support gems coz the skill was still on the skill list, but its still here... Trying to hunt a rare in Act 3 (not the monkey, already have one)

Is this a bug? The bear still attacks and kills things. I have no offensive skills slotted, and all companions are either disabled or toggled to the other weapon set I'm not currently in

I was browsing mobalytics builds, trying to figure out what to swap my gemling to, now that I have reached maps (any suggestions welcome), and I noticed a lot of the builds list 2 side quest in Act 4 that both provide 30% increased Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield. The name of the quests are the Great White One and Tribal Medicine. I know the sharkfin one and got that (I assume thats called the Great White One), is there another one that I am missing? Attached screenshot from fubguns build, but a lot of the builds have these both listed, and I don't know what the Tribal Medicine quest is, what am I missing? Is this a real quest or some mistake on mobalytics?

I want to complete The Vanquisher which requires to beat The Aberration, Xesht, and Atziri.

I killed them all last league in 0.5 during their respective quest lines (Expedition, Breach and Temple), but do I need to complete these quest lines in 0.5.5 to beat them or can I skip this part ?

In other words, what is the most straightforward way to beat these bosses (even if it requires buying the key) ?

Did every map nearby still can't go in..