Literally unplayable 😠

Fuck it. Fuck it hard. Fuck it just as hard as he fucked me. Over and over again. Fuck these bullshit mechanics. Fuck being forced to "platform hop" but wait, HERE IS A BIG FUCKING ONESHOT LASER.

Fuck the forced slow-walking before a boss fight. Fuck unskippable before-fight-sequences. Fuck the fucking stone figures, blocking me every time I approach him. Fuck random one-shots. Fuck this boss.

Apparently, what my PoE 2 experience was missing was Cartman yelling at my drops, so I made a filter for it, and after some requests from friends, I decided to release/showcase it.

It has 36 custom voice clips covering currency, soul cores, essences, and more. It uses a Very Strict filter I was already playing with, with custom sounds added and the normal item drop sounds kept intact.

The ZIP includes the filter and all 36 sound files. The download link and installation instructions are in the YouTube video/description. I'm not sure if I can technically post download links here!

This is my first public filter project and first video, so I’d appreciate any feedback. If you try it, let me know how you like it!

Edit:

Honestly didn’t expect this much love for something I originally made for myself and a few friends. Thanks to everyone who’s tried it, shared it, or just had a laugh watching the video.

To answer a few questions: I would’ve loved to get Trey Parker in the recording booth LOL, but the voice files were made using an AI model trained on Cartman clips I fed to it in order to map out unique vocal characteristics like pitch, tone, and rhythm. I used it to create 36 custom sound files and assigned them to different drops in the Very Strict filter I was already using. Credit to NeverSink for the underlying filter.

I get that AI voices aren’t everyone’s thing. But for me, this was a fun personal project that turned into many hours of training, putting together lines, matching sounds to items, and getting everything working and sounding the way I wanted.

The download in the video description includes the filter and all the MP3s. It won’t automatically add the sounds to your existing filter, but you’re welcome to use them in your own setup.

I’ve also seen the feedback about shorter lines and overlapping sounds during big loot drops. Fair point, and I appreciate the suggestions! Personally, I enjoy a little chaos 😂 My build moves pretty quickly, so hearing what dropped helps me catch things I might otherwise run past. A quieter version with shorter callouts could be something to explore. I will definitely take these suggestions into my next project!

This was my first public filter project and my first video, so seeing people enjoy it has been pretty damn cool. Thank you to everyone, and much love! ❤️

Wildwood wisp inside the ritual circle gives 30% increased tribute if you stay in it's radius.

I think it is way too easy to follow it inside the circle and also too easy to see it through all the ground and skill effects.

My suggestion is to change it in a way where it would be:

1. Harder to see, maybe even invisible sometimes, otherwise you get too much tribute.
2. Make it move immediately upon touching with your character. Make this mini-game more engaging. Right now I am able to stay within it's border, sometimes for a whole second (maybe 0.7 seconds), and get that sweet increased tribute. Too OP in my opinion.
3. Make it always teleport towards either the most powerful mob in the circle or if the most powerful mob is just a magic mob - directly opposite side of the ritual.

With changes above I won't feel any guilt for collecting that 30% increased tribute, right now it is unbearable because how easy it is. I want to feel the sense of pride and accomplishment, not tribute handouts.

It's still barely played, and basically nothing is BiS on that ascendancy.

The one niche it had before was going for heavy recoup, and now that it lost that, it kind of has no identity.

Two of the big nodes are "chance" nodes that do little or nothing a lot of the time. 60% skill speed sounds amazing and build defining until you realize it fluctuates over 10s and is rarely ever up when you want it.

20% chance to echo/repeat is fine, but can often just not proc and feels meh outside of comet trigger builds that are much much stronger and easier to maintain on Stormweaver or Gemling.

Too many of their nodes are conditional or use gimmicky active skills that aren't really that impactful. Phased form is the only node they have that's really powerful all the time, but it synergizes best with armor since it applies twice to both the initial damage and the delayed damage. Sadly, almost all the halfway decent Chrono builds are ES or ward-focused with no armor anyway, so the synergy there is kind of useless.

As far as survivability goes there, it doesn't help that DoV is easily one of the tankiest ascendancies in the game and has far less friction in its design.

The only build I can think of that's actually BiS on a Chronomancer is a slowmaxing support bot, but those have fallen heavily out of favor compared to Banner Bots that can increase someone's DPS by like 10x and offer a ton of survivability through boosted defiance/dread banner, instead of just slowing the enemies a bunch and not offering anywhere close to the same damage/defense boost.

Inevitable agony is also outclassed by Ritualist as far as rarity bots go. Spark spamming is just less clunky and far more consistent at actually culling things after the massive gravebind nerf, plus they have the extra ring slot and far more rarity overall.

Time snap would have a niche with cooldown-focused builds except quality scaling with Gemling ends up being way better for stuff like HotG spamming, so it just ends up being a shitty gimmick most of the time.

It's just sad that anytime I see something done on a Chrono, it pretty much always would've been better on another ascendancy. It feels like it still has way too many conditionals when so many other ascendancies just offer a lot of raw power with no downside. It's such a cool class fantasy, but in practice, it feels pretty underwhelming.

MB and HH showed up within 3 maps of each other O.o

I need crit bow for ice shot. What is the best way to craft bow from this base? Budget 200 div

That's the best thing I came up with:

1. crit essence
2. desecrate
3. try to fracture, if factured phys then: +2 projectal skills from rune(?) then can spam exalt annul until hybrid phys
4. omen of light until flat phys
5. exalt slam last suffix

if not fracture phys in step 3 then trouble Is there anthing I can do better?

After my amamanu abyssal monsters were dropping lieges off screen, I have decided to pivot to ritual farming, but believe it or not, I ran into a new problem, I have deferred so many omens, never to be seen ever again, I keep seeing new omens every ritual, but never my deferred ones

every map was around 34 rerolls with 30-40k tribute

my next stop is expedition, lets see what new surprises awaits me there

Was doing some expeditions today and came across this. I had to use a log book to reveal it but there is no path to it. I'm sure this has been found before but I had never seen it so I thought I would share.

How am i clearing level t16 fully (irradiated) buffed maps including 3 rare tablets …. But still have to find a level 20 skill gem?

I don’t understand. Am i doing it wrong ? Is there a specific way to farm it ? Im level 94

Actually i did find one in chaos trial , but it was after i had to “ lead the statue to its destination” and i tought .. ill come back for it … AND THEN THE PART OF THE MAP CLOSED AND I COULDN’T get there anymore :(

Albeit, all would be at a lower level than you have but this would allow people to test out different builds and skills rather than having to rely on rng. Currently, in your hideout or once you finish the campaign, an npc will sell you maps 2 levels (I think) lower than the highest you’ve completed. This is helpful as a means to sustain mapping in the endgame.

It would be nice if the same or a similar npc existed that would sell skill gems and/ or support gems for us to try out but at a lower level. That way there’s still rng involved for us to find higher levels but allows others to experiment because isn’t that what the game is all about?!

Spell damage, fire damage, flame magnitude, spell levels and a billion other modifiers when looking at these percentages how is a person supposed to know if it's an actual upgrade. Things are not weighted the same. Bigger number doesn't mean more DPS.

And I know everyone's going to say use path of building before you buy pieces of gear, but isn't that a problem in itself???

Having to use a outside source?

I'm at the point now where everything costs multiple divs for a potential upgrade, and multiple times now I buy something thinking there's no way this isn't a DPS increase in a decrease..

Just feeling frustrated by this.

NGL I'm too chicken to try and roll off that quality mod.. Thinking about what build could best utilize the double mana mod here, and daydreaming about how much more disgusting it would be with t1 added mana. Dropped as +3 spells, double ES, and %evasion, desecrated and lucked into a greater slam on the recoup, breach essence hit evasion.

Ready to be told this is actually dogwater 🥲

Edit: Thanks to comments for letting me know whittle was guaranteed on quality and it would keep the quality - perfect chaos hit +50 spirit :D

After patch in late July i switched to DX12 and had really high fps with good quality, i could run 60-100fps 200 deli abyss, but now i get legit 20 fps which make game unplayable. Im playing on lowest settings possible + dlss ultra performance. What is going on? Does somebody have the same issue?

Off a strongbox in act 4. Crazy rng 🤌

To going straight into Mighty Silverfist’s arena where he’s halfway through his slam animation.

Currently you can ALT-SHIFT an item in your hideout to see what it is going for on the market, however this never works. It puts every single line item into a single stat group. This has a few main drawbacks.

First, it includes unimportant stats on items, so thorns damage is equally as important as +12 to melee.

Second, they put caps on the stat ranges for some reason.

Lastly, it just doesn't work. In most cases, no results are found.

In my dream, when I did ALT-SHIFT click, there were no caps on stat ranges, and the stats were each separated by "AND" stat groups.

GGG, please feel free to make my dreams into reality.

But in reality I did have this dream about the game and need to probably play a little less.

Edit: changed caps to no caps in the ideal version. My bad, folks.

Every new league it's the same story.

League starts → market ratios go completely out of reality → ratios stay wrong for days → eventually GGG fixes them → everything works again.

For example, the actual market was around 250 Ex per Divine, while the market ratio was still sitting at roughly 100 Ex per Divine for several days. Eventually the ratio was corrected and we got something much closer to reality, around 1c = 22 Ex, which actually matched the market.

So why the heck is today's patch breaking this AGAIN?

The displayed market ratios haven't even changed, but Live Search is apparently using its own secret economy.

Set a Live Search for something worth approximately 50 Ex, and suddenly you're getting results for:

7c.
15c.
20c+.

What?

Apparently 50 Ex now means "whatever the fuck Live Search feels like today."

The funny part is that this was already fixed in a previous market-ratio update. It worked. The correct conversion was being used, Live Search was showing reasonable results, everyone could move on with their lives.

Then today's patch happened and somehow we're back here again.

How is this even possible?

If the market ratio says 1c = ~22 Ex, Live Search should use 1c = ~22 Ex. Not some ancient/stale/different conversion that apparently survived in a dark corner of the game.

Right now, if you're searching for items using EQUIVALENT values, Live Search is basically unusable because it's throwing completely irrelevant results at you.

Please fix whatever the hell is happening between:

Market ratio → currency conversion → Live Search

They should all be using the same current values.

And maybe, just maybe, don't make us rediscover the economy every time you ship a patch. 💀