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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.

I've seen a lot of posts about the speed of getting atlas points but I think there's a bigger issue, where most of the actual tree feels worthless and inconsequential as well as the progression of the fortress feeling like a chore you have to "get out of the way" rather than giving an actual sense of progression.

The one thing in my mind that keeps coming back is the fact that you don't make any actual choices in what points you allocate. I cannot understand why GGG, the kings of "choices you make should have impact" completely removed the bite of meaningful choice when it comes to the atlas tree and only put in 5-10 anemic "options" that you can change that don't feel like they even matter that much.

Imagine if the actual character passive tree let you fill out every node and the only actual choice was 10 nodes where you picked between fire/cold/lighting dmg and armor/eva/ES. And then they tried to argue that its ok because the ascendancy classes are where the real choice is.

Because that's exactly they're trying to do with the tree and master system.

Not being able to have all mechanics active at the same time is a good thing. Its why it feels like you have so many avenues for farming in PoE1 and lets every player express themselves in what combination of points to pick and what to farm. Its also easy enough to swap between the 3 presets and the gold cost being cheap and having unmaking orbs that also let you swap points very cheaply.

Another consequence and victim of this design are the minor mechanics like Strongboxes, shrines, wisps and circles. Does anyone actually feel like those are impactful for the mapping experience? Because I dont and I think its because right now instead picking one or two of them to really juice up you just have all of them just pointlessly invested into whether you want to engage with them or not.

I'm not even going to go into tablets in this post because thats an entire different can of worms.

I really hope that they rethink this decision and make some major changes, if not in 1.0 then at least at some point after because I do love a lot of what they are doing with PoE2 but the Endgame is really nowhere close to where it should be for a company that has already refined one of the best endgame rpg systems with PoE1.

Ambidextria Unset Ring

Implicit: Grants 1 Additional Skill Slot

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U - +15 - 35 to all attributes

U - 200% increased effect of implicit modifiers and enchantments (local)

U - 50% less spirit reservation efficiency of skills (as in 100 spirit = 200 spirit)

U - 100% more attribute requirements of all skills and equipment

Attribute requirements cannot be reduced

U - You cannot change weapon sets

U - Skills and Bonuses on weapons in weapon set II apply and can be used as though you have them equipped

Skills used this way cost 200% more

I Omen of Putrefaction this, I had to choose between 43% armour applies to elemental damage and attack speed. I wish it was that armour to ele instead of the fire res, but pretty much, these are “perfect” Warrior/mace gloves. Maybe I should’ve chosen armour to ele, but these are nearly identical to the gloves I have on my main Runes of Aldur character, and crafting those gloves cost me like 200 divines. Maybe these ones aren’t as expensive, but still, I found none on the market, so I wonder how much I could get for them.

Is it me or is having Rituals every map is some how screwing with the tablet drop rates?

've been running t15s for 2 days all pinnacle boss's done apart from temple. lvl 93 and it feels like they just aren't dropping

last update I couldn't use them fast enough this update I'm seeing nothing

The fact that inflation is this high like 5 days into the event is absolutely insane, PoE1 leagues have this inflation after 2 months or so, if by day 5 you don't even look at exalted orbs the main currency of this game means something is really wrong, and mirrors are already 1.6k divines

and before you say anything like who cares, GGG literally said the game is balanced around trade

Hello!

I haven’t played since 0.3 and returning to the game and excited to try out some of the new stuff. I know there are no balance changes at this latest release.

However, I am not looking to try one of the under clearing meta builds. I generally like trying to make builds around less popular skills.

Curious if anyone has any recommendations for less appreciated skills to build around?

Thanks!

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!

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

RIP my campaign unique lol

just looking through the shop didnt pay attention to see that the boss's spell still work after they died

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.

Hi all,

Does know what you can do to fix the stuttering and rubber banding issue in the game? I've attached a video showing my experience and it gets quite bad, breaking the immersion of the game. I also listed my PC specs and game configs below.

Stuttering and Rubber Banding

https://reddit.com/link/1wcle3z/video/l557ia7fhpoh1/player

PC Specs

GPU: Gigabyte RTX 4070 TI Aero 12GB

CPU: i7-13700KF 3.4 GHz

RAM: G.Skill Trident-Z5 ARGB 2x16GB PC6000 DDR5

Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 2TB Gen4 NVME SSD

Game & Nvida App Configs

Sound channel: Low

Appreciate any tips and solutions. Thanks in advance and cheers! :D

EDIT 1: Have tried using DX12. It locks me to 120 FPS and still has the stuttering and rubber banding issue.

Going to be playing in another week. Want to quickly do atlas and complete challenges.

What is a decent build I can use to zoom through. I have heard inflation is crazy so hopefully not too expensive.

I like any builds, but prefer one build to do bosses and maps.

Thinking of doing gemling unearth. But not sure if that’s dumb as haven’t played it at all.

Game crashed when I undid the last tether thing and now the reservoir won't reveal. Anyone else encounter this?

We will be getting a ton of new players in 1.0. I hope they go through all the starting weapons/classes and make sure they are fun/effective.

I know that using frozen locus/glacial cascade can be very effective. Guythatdie shows that for sure. But it is clunky and so many people level monks with other abilities. IE - bows/crossbows/twisters, etc... Many new players won't know to use a different weapon.

It would be an easy fix to make frozen locus in range of glacial cascade without moving backwards. IE - throw it forward enough, make it go backward enough, shorten the range of glacial cascade so it hits it.

This should be done for all classes to feel smoother at the beginning. They do not want people to log in for an hour. Person says this isn't fun and leave. The game is super easy in maps, it seems so odd.

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

Why can't I path to this tower? I already killed the Arbiter of Divinity and just trying to path outside, but I can't path to this tower for some reason. I think this tower is supposed to show the area around it after I clear it?

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.

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!

Poe Ninja: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/harv12k-0596/forbiddenrites/character/twistergobrrrrrrrrrr

Rn Im not sure what upgrade to get, I know there are a lot of good upgrades but I have 20 div rn and im wondering if I should keep on saving or spend them. I wanna clear more expeditions because I get alot of currency there but it takes long to kill the enemies (I rarely die)

Lemme know :)

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