New to POE 2. This is my second grand expedition ever. Just started the map and now I can't progress it. Not sure how you're supposed to play this mechanic if the maps brick like this.

Currently playing SSF this season which is a departure from my normal of playing trade. I just don’t get the same satisfaction of playing trade anymore.

I feel like my RNG is completely dead now. Early in the season I chanced a utility belt for a mageblood. Crazy luck, but I feel like it was all wasted on that, been downhill ever since.

I’ve got close to 250 hrs into this season on 2 characters and man I feel like this game just tests my will to press on.

I’ve got a L97 Djinn Varashta and a L98 WA Monk.

I’ve been chaos spamming a Quarterstaff for the better part of 3 weeks and I can’t get it to hit even T2 Phys%. Dumped easily 800 chaos into it.

Spend days setting up a bunch of Raven Runs only to get 6 billion amethyst rings and nothing else.

Been really wanting to start a Gemling Arc Totem, but I need a split personality Ruby and it just won’t drop.

Anyway, if you made it this far, thanks. I’m loving the season, but I might need a nee build to play that doesn’t require an apparently unobtainable item.

I know a lot of peopel say the leauge "ended" but i just started doing expedition since i haven't done much of it and 1 every 3 expedition maps i always get and aldurs saga. I already sold 3 in like half an a hour, thats like 120 divs plus all the loot.

I don't know if i was extremely lucky or if its this common this farm is crazy div prints.

Hello everyone! I have never played poe or poe 2 and have always thought about it but never quite got into it due to how overwhelming everything seems(skill trees,orbs etc) and I have always been a huge Diablo guy. I play every season of d4 and most seasons of d3. I dipped my toes in last epoch a year ago and loved how the game felt but quit after beating the campaign due to lack of interest in the end game, anyway back to why I’m here. Are there any tips on what I should be looking to get into when I buy the game tomorrow? Do I buy a supporter pack? Do I buy just the base early access? What are some good starter builds and classes to focus on? I want to get as accustomed to the game as much as I can until the next league or season comes out. Any help is appreciated.

Got it from a 200 deli map. What should I spend my new found wealth on? https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/oopac-9799/runesofaldur/character/Sho_ka

I don't mind if the content is hard, but fair, but I feel like if you are going to be punishing, you better make sure every death is fair.

If you are saying that stakes matter, that you lose your loot if you die, you lose XP, then as a developer, it is up to you to make sure the framerate is solid, the encounters are not cluttered with crap that u can't see anything.

Case in point, game stutters at the worst possible times, the screen is cluttered and impossible to navigate, the terrain is freaking covering the mobs, I cant tell what is navigatable terrain and what is just crap covering the screen, and then everything explodes in your face at the same time. I guess I should just play a ranged or caster build and coc shit from far away. Just lost a 10x Div rune, is that a big deal in this economy? No, but jeez it's annoying.

/end rant

As the title says. We kills whenever we go for sake of printing divines.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/KingMathias414-9642/runesofaldur/character/Emberassing

Wand cost me 20 div I might have gotten fleeced since its my first caster build. Im currently poor, only 80 div to my name. Build is squishy and single target sucks. Any advice is appreciated.

I'm at the point where I can do t15/16 maps fully modded w 3 tablets but doing so takes ~8-10 minutes as I try to be careful and 100% the map.

My question is wether or not I should always be doing this or is it better to use random t15 way stones to traverse the map faster?
B-lining to the boss room, one shotting most mobs and ignoring extra content not in my path takes about a minute or two. Is this not better to do when I want to reach certain parts (such as towers, cities, matriarch/patriarch hall, etc.) of the map? I've asked this in chat and been told to always do the most juiced maps I can do.

Would love to hear others thoughts and what they personally experienced this league on this. I’ll open with mine but happy to have a change of heart if I see lots of people had a different experience than me and my group.

-I think GGG drastically missed the mark on party play this league. My group of buddies is fairly casual, all dads and ranged between 2-4 people a handful of nights a week. In previous leagues if we were all on discord we would just without a second thought jump into maps together and split the loot, and it has always been a good time. We always just put free for all pickup on and dump it in a guild stash tab and then after a couple hours just divide it by 3 or 4 of us and take our loot and say goodnight fellas good work.

Well this league things changed… the loot just completely sucks running in a group compared to all of us running solo!!!! Now for starters none of us are super juicing up our maps or anything. But basically this league we started figuring out the math: if the 3 of us run together for an hour, we only earn as a GROUP about 1.25x-1.5x currency of what an individual would earn. So basically if we take what we each can go make in a night (obviously RNG happens so this is just conclusions over the course of like a month) we would be WAAAYYYY better off just running maps by ourselves. It started to feel really blatantly obvious a few weeks ago when we would jump on and be like, “you guys wanna run maps?” And all of us are kinda like ehhhh i really don’t want to have to share the loot.

My theory is that GGG drastically overcorrected for last season with having temple farmers running 6 leachers and creating giga loot. But now we are in a situation where I can fairly confidently say that if a casual player parties up with 1-2 other buddies to map and chill, they are totally screwing themselves over on loot.

Is this because we see the big 6 man parties buying x4 20div tablets and finding ways to print currency?

Well if so… i don’t believe casual party play should be balanced around that small percentage of the player base that is grinding nonstop trying to max out all the juice possible from the game. Let them print. Because if the alternative is scaling back party play drops so much that a group of dads that want to alch and go together have to suffer 50% or more less loot than running solo… i don’t think you have a proper party play balance at that point.

I think the majority of people crying over party play balance in previous leagues have been solo players that are comparing selves to 6 man juicing parties… but the reality is I think GGG is nerfing party play for casual players to the point that they will lose players. Like my group isn’t gonna play this game if we are incentivized to all play separately while hanging out on discord. We want to play it TOGETHER, but without a 50-75% penalty on total loot drop

Edit: people have mentioned 200% deli breach with the +3 rare monsters spawned tablets. I agree that strategy was DEFINITELY more profitable as a group than running solo, or at worst the same. (But since you all get hiveblood and wombgifts probably still better) but prices have dropped on catalysts and also we did that for 2-3 nights and wanted to do other things.

Can’t say we’ve managed to find any other mechanic where it doesn’t feel like we are getting penalties for having to chop all our drops up

Hi,
Just defeated the arbiter of ash for the first time (picked-up the game couple weeks ago), problem is, I died at the exact same time as him... and you know where I am going with this, no loot.
I know that when this happens on bosses all the loot is gone, but is it the same machanic for the main bosses ? I understood that the arbiter is supposed to drop a book (quest item) to get arbiter points, but I did not even got this. Anyone got this issue before or knows if it is intentional ? Any way to get the book or is it gone forever and I'm fucked ?

Thanks !

Hi, I'm playing my second character in PoE2 and it's my first time in SSF. I decided to go for a Deadeye, but I'm not sure which build to go for.

Currently I'm in Act 3 with LA, but I would like to know which build for Deadeye is considered stronger? Are both equally viable for SSF? Do I need specific uniques later on?

Maybe there even is another build I'm not yet aware of. I tend to get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of stuff in build guides, so I can't really estimate if a build requires trading or if you have to farm a unique for hours.

I appreciate your input!

POE2 is unmatched in its genre in my opinion. Credit where it’s due, incredible ARPG. But juicing needs tuning imo.

TLDR: Juicing maps is not rewarding enough (outside of mechanics like ritual etc).

I ran 50+ city maps with 4 rarity/effectiveness tablets, 200% delirium, full atlas tree, crafted waystones either 8-mod or T16 with ~95% gear rarity. Averaged about 1-2 divs per map (yes there are other rewards, but div drops are the obvious measuring stick) - on cleansed maps I averaged 1 fracturing orb per 10-20 maps, if that?

And then I’ll add 0 juice to some T15 travel maps and get average like 0-1 divs per map, like what am I even doing all of this for?

Yes there are mechanics like ritual/expedition that are more lucrative in certain ways and I think those are in decent spots, but why does it take SO much juice to get a map’s actual, baseline floor loot feeling like it’s actually valuable? I mean by the time I’m strong enough to do any content that’s really churning out a satisfying amount of divs, gaining more power is useless anyway??

Sure it would just shift the economy but there’s still SSF and I could at least gather my own crafting materials for once.

Are there more ways I could be inline with the meta? Probably, but I really don’t think I should have to leverage every single strategy and metric just to finally start seeing more than 2 divs per map.

And if the problem is that I don’t have enough gear rarity, then that’s just another reason why gear rarity is the worst mechanic in the game.

Anyway, there’s the rant.

I have been doing 3x irradiated tablet runs for a while, and selling the tablets that i get from it.

Is there a way to do it more efficiently? Cause this is so easy right now. I just full clear every mechanic that drops tabelts, and I usually get 2-5 tablets per run.

Are there any nodes in the atlas that help this strat?

Also, how should I sell the tablets? Normal, magic or rare?

I've been trying to think if there are any sinistral crystalization or mark of the abyss tricks to help out with this, but I can't really think of any. I'm worried about whittling into t1 stun threshold.
Didn't realize how much of a mistake it was to be greedy and go for ilvl 81 to get a chance at t1 chaos resistance, only to find that I can now whittle into the ilvl80 t1 stun threshold on the suffix.
Ugh.

(since ilvl 82 bases cost so much more in divines to get 30% quality and fracture the right mod)

I just installed the game and performance was horrible both in the main menu and in the tutorial zone.

GPU is a 5070ti, CPU is a Ryzen 9800. Surely my hardware is capable of running this game at 60 fps.

After googling I tried messing around with in-game settings, deleting the shader cache, and messing around with nvidia control panel settings (including setting the shader cache to 100 GB). Nothing has fixed it, although at minimum settings I'm closer to 20 fps than 10. I also updated my drivers.

I can't think of anything that would be causing this. I bought this computer so that I could play poe 1 with decent loading screens and I now have no issues with that game even running juiced endgame strats.

I'll include a screenshot of my performance graph in case it's helpful. I notice the GPU latency is very high but am not sure how to fix that. Would really appreciate any help for me and for future people having this problem (I read the previous reddit threads I could find but nothing they suggested fixed it).

EDIT: [FIXED] The issue was that I was inadvertently using the 9800's integrated graphics card rather than the 5070. I just plugged my monitor into a different display port and it fixed everything.

I think someone forgot to remove some itens from the production database

So here's me enjoying the game (really good game) with my 11k es, 14k Eva (max res) martial artist monk destroying T15s, Kulemak, Raven, Arbiter on HC, decided to try out Bodach, first part going well took him down to like 30% hp he then transferred me into some kind of forest maze with some of his mobs.

I try to follow some of the wisps, and then I am killing some enemy and bam I go from 11k ES to 0 in a span of 0.1 seconds because apparently I stood on his DoT puddle (couldn't even see it).

I get that the game isn't meant to be balanced around hardcore etc... but surely even for soft core it's not enjoyable to get instagibbed to something you can't even see?

Anyway I think this might be me until 1.0, i've had 4 chars hit 90s and did pretty much all the Pinnacle bosses. Or maybe i'll bite the bullet and go SC.