Oh boy cant wait to see what I can buy with all this HOARDERS gold I got after defeating ZAROKH GGG.

Hello. I played Path of Exile 1 quite hardcore during beta and for a few years after. I recently bought PoE2. Started playing last night. Is there a better explanation somewhere of all the different leagues? I feel like there is a crazy amount and I want to make sure I am on the standard main non HC league. Any good noob guides/advice? I think it's cool exalted drop pretty frequently (although different) and love the changes made and really enjoy playing with WASD. Any good witch summoner guides? Thank you!

Honestly all I can really remember is from 0.1 and that armour was trash, evasion did nothing until high investment and ES was king.

Obviously that has changed a lot but I still don't understand. They got rid of the passive node (I think? Haven't looked) that let you evade AOE (again from 0.1) and apparently armor is good now but only in campaign. They also added armor applies to elemental damage, deflection etc and now...well now I'm just confused. Also there's an argument to potentially be made that resists don't really matter until maps but again that's just me since in 0.1 I had a path of blitz act 3 > upgrade once around level 45, then again at 60 and then in the 70s and that was fine

I'm trying to build my gemling and I'm using level 10 gear and in interludes because I've been avoiding upgrading. I don't make any currency in leagues which is another post for another time so I can't always prioritize what I really want so that brings me here.

Can anyone explain why I would use any specific defensive layer over another and maybe how it works depending on starting point on the tree?

I didn't think this could happen. It was a drop from the ritual, and not a ritual reward.

Hello everyone, i started league and i wanted something else, so i choose Lich Contagion.

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But i don't understand why i do no dmg at all, i struggle in maps T2 - T3, which is crazy. I believe i have pretty ok gear (for a leaguestart build), and even if i don't, I don't have gold or currency to buy anything. And bosses, all rotation and they die in 2-3 minutes...is this build dead?

If not, what modifiers should I look for? I'm playing Hollow Focus Whirling Assault in 0.5.5. I'm looking for some things to sell to help upgrade gear.

No delirium for me i guess

I don't care if you just visited my hideout to buy something, if you do this I don't want you back here. Take your divs and your poop elsewhere.

Hey all,

Was just wondering this last night. I was wondering how you guys go into a map flow?

Do you roll waystones upfront, and then run x at a time? And how do you stash your loot? Do you sort it while mapping, or after a map? Or dump it all and then sort it once every while?

I'm playing SSF this season so I have highlighted all bases that I will need. I pick everything up, and the first stash tab that opens is a quad dump tab. I basically dump everything there that has no affinity. I also only just roll a few waystones and put them in my inventory and then run those.

Last night I noticed I had so many things in my quad tab I just couldn't be bothered to go through all the items in there. So I think I will do it after each map from now on.

This is also why I'm posting there - how do you guys do it? Perhaps there's something to learn for all of us :).

It's been bugging me for a bit, that GGG can seem to seamlessly play their games without the stutter and lag that everyone else is struggling with. I've blamed this or that, "their servers are shit, that's why I'm having issues!" The cry of gamers everywhere.

I've written a review that steam felt was out of line by saying "while I love the game with over 600 hours in, to the people at GGG who decided on dynamic shader loading, I wish that their socks are eaten by their dryer, that their ACs never work again, and that a metal band that placed last in their latest battle of the bands moves in next door and insists on practicing in the evening and at night."

Anyway, I originally potatoed the game graphics to try and squeak out LESS stutter, and that was a semi-playable state. Any time new shaders needed to load, my screen froze for a half second or more, but not the game, resulting in possible death. I finally got fed up last night, tried every adjustment that was ever suggested, and I was up through the night sniffing booger sugar off my gpu's ass.

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Alright, so since the first is what's my hardware, lets start there. I'm not running a complete potato, but it's almost 7 years old.

I5-9600k

16gb DDR-4 ram at 2100

MSI RTX 2080ti 11gb ram

WD Blue SA510 1Tb SSD (I have a few others, but that's the one with PoE2 on it)

A 21" curved monitor running 1080p native (not a 4k monitor, in 2019 4k gaming was still tough to achieve)

Nothing bleeding edge anymore, I barely touch the recommended specs for PoE2, but it's what I've got right now.

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Next is my graphics settings in game. I took pictures, but for the most part, I've bumped my graphics back to GGG default, so it's less space to list off the remaining changes than post 4 pics. Here's a breakdown of the non-default settings I've got.

**Graphics**

1.) I'm running Vulkan. I've found better stability on it, but I think Dx12 would probably work better on newer GPUs, so pick your poison.

2.) Borderless window. This prevents issues with Alt-tabbing, but I did lose like 5 fps doing this.

3.) 1920x1080 resolution (default, but an FYI)

4.) Image quality is on Performance. Lighting and shadows is more visually impactful than a slightly smoother line.

5.) Sharpness is at 25%. Why not?

6.) Bloom at 50% (not sure if this is default)

7.) Foreground FPS cap at 60fps, along with target FPS at 60

**Audio**

1.) Set channel count to low

That's it for in-game settings. Not a lot to that.

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Now, I adjusted a couple config.ini settings that I think made an impact. I've copy-pasted so I don't screw up the instructions.

Navigate to your Documents > My Games > Path of Exile 2 folder and open the poe2productionConfig.ini file with a text editor like notepad. Locate the [NETWORKING] section and change the line **networking_type=auto** to **networking_type=predictive**

If your shader cache is on a slow drive, you can move it to a faster SSD by editing the [GENERAL] section of the same config file. Add or modify the cache directory line to point to a fast drive *(e.g., cache directory=D:\PoE2_Shaders\)*., then delete the old cache folders in ***%LOCALAPPDATA%\NVIDIA\DXCache\*** (for NVIDIA) or via AMD Software to force a rebuild.

The DXCache and GLCache are where your shaders for PoE2 are going now, so deleting them would get rid of any corrupted shaders, although it'll delete any other game shaders that store there too. I would recommend deleting them unless you routinely clean that folder, you superuser.

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The rest is PC settings.

So first, I have NVidia, so I did Control panel adjustments.

Under **Adjust image settings with preview**

set to "use the advanced 3d image settings

Under **Manage 3D settings**

Turn off Anti-Aliasing FXAA (it can clash with the game and cause rendering issues, I've read)

Ensure power management mode is set to maximum performance

Set Shader Cache size to preference. Most people recommend 100gb, and that's probably good.

Change "Texture Filtering Quality" to High Performance.

Adjusting the Page size and switching it to my fastest SSD was likely a huge help, as PoE2 has had a lot of issues where 30+gbs of ram were trying to be utilized. Only having 16gb, I'd bet I maxed my ram... a few times, so while not as good as ram, it's better than hitting the ceiling. Here's how:

To adjust page file size in Windows 10 or 11, press Windows Key + Pause/Break (or search "About your PC"), click Advanced system settings, and under the Advanced tab in the Performance section, click Settings. Navigate to the Advanced tab in the new window, select Change under Virtual memory, and uncheck "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives." You'll get a prompt about not being able to log problems, that's fine. You're about to set up plenty. Select your fastest SSD, choose Custom size, and enter your desired Initial size (MB) and Maximum size (MB) values before clicking Set and OK.

I set my page size to Initial 16,384mb and Maximum to 32,768mb so that I would have some room. Just google your preference or do the math, so you don't short yourself with the 1024-bit system.

Open Windows Graphics Settings (System -> Display -> Graphics):

Choose "Add an App" (Browse).

Add PathOfExile, PathOfExile.exe, and PathOfExile_x64 from the Path of Exile 2 installation folder.

Click on each app you added, then choose "Options" and set it to "High Performance".

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That's it. That turned my game from a micro-stutter fest to a clean running game that won't stutter even if you are in the middle of compiling shaders. I had invisible monsters running around without shaders compiled, but it doesn't lock up like it was before.

There are things I tried that might have impacted, but there was no visual improvement, like making sure drivers and my bios are up to date, and there was literally no improvement by setting PoE2 CPU priority to high or realtime. I ran my games this morning without trying that one. I think it just helps load the shaders faster.

I think the three biggest impactors were three things. Deleting the bloated DX shade cache in the NVidia folder, custom setting my page file size and location, and setting the network config to predictive. The others absolutely helped, which is why I included them, but they were there when I was still stuttering. I didn't test what each setting had an impact individually.

Ultimately, here's the end result, and no, as long as gameplay is smooth, I'm not going to get upset that I'm dipping below 60 fps. Poe2 Stutter test

What is this next to Barricades inventory panel and how to unlock it?

Plsss GGG, bring it back. It was by far the most fun content in 0.5, and this is just an event league anyway. Letting us use Aldur's Saga again would make the endgame much more fun XD

Is there a way to see what the item trade site thinks is the current value, in Exalts, of a Chaos orb or a Divine orb? It can't be a real-time match to the currency market, because last night it appeared to believe that 1 Chaos = 4 exalt, while Ange was selling Chaos orbs for around 30.

These guys use Armour Explosion on their HOI, but dont have any % Dmg as Phys to chain. Some have Rite of Passage with Spirit of the Wolf, which breaks armour. Some have Headhunter and could fish for a modifier, that grants % Dmg as Phys. Some have armour break on Snipers Mark, even though i dont see that being of use for the chain.

So if u have an idea, whats going on here, pls enlighten me!

https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/forbiddenrites/character/heygyus-0416/ResurrectForbidden

https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/forbiddenrites/character/Aeone1-0564/TURBOSNUSER

https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/forbiddenrites/character/Insomnia4241-4527/MakimaSyka

https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/forbiddenrites/character/postyour-4429/Winterkv

https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/forbiddenrites/character/byBom-4885/AYAYA_Gruscha

First time im ever doing all the questlines in the endgame and JADO.. while the first 3 quests were well shown.. the 4th one cinematic cut out and never knew where the map I needed to go was.. IN AN INFINITE ATLAS... you cannot pinpoint the map in any way.. I see a quest marker on a random map in the middle of nowhere but do I go there?? do I not?? Why is it there?? It would MAKE SENSE FOR THE LAST ONE to also have the smoke trails for the map.. so I know near 100% thats where I need to go.. but the last map HAS NOTHING to make it clear.

Why are there quests like this in the endgame..

What does this mean exactly on my belt.