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Path of Exile 2 Early Access |OT| An Exile like ARPG.

Doomtrain

Gold Member
Man, drops are so discouraging. I have 85% magic find on my gear, put a tablet on a tower that improved rarity by 14% (I think?), got a waystone with 100% increased rarity, and did a T7 boss node. Total haul: 1 exalt and a bunch of salvage.
 

Arsic

Loves his juicy stink trail scent
This looks fun too


I’m at the point where I’ve hit a wall for content.

I have my atlas to currently have uncovered 4 copper citadels… 0 iron. Everytime I go to grass/forest fog areas I get boned and it turns into desert or mountains. The iron is supposed to be in forest/grass areas looking for wooden houses.

Still unable to complete 4th ascendancy.

Can map t15+ no issues at level 89. Capped all resistances. Following a meta build.

If I complete those 4 copper citadels I can sell the fragments for 1-2 divs each. I assume though if I fail the ash boss I would need all 3 fragments again to try.

Nah. Nope. Hell no.

That’s why I’m now thinking of playing a new character up to end game that can boss stomp. Are any warrior builds amazing?

I’m considering:

-Warrior biild
-Finish ice strike monk
-arch mage sorc
-respec my level 70 some pathfinder for concs

Grinding my infernalist isn’t it unless I can somehow get to a massive spike for bossing. Considering going back to arsonist with storm mage OG build and ditching storm skeleton build.
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
Man, drops are so discouraging. I have 85% magic find on my gear, put a tablet on a tower that improved rarity by 14% (I think?), got a waystone with 100% increased rarity, and did a T7 boss node. Total haul: 1 exalt and a bunch of salvage.

What does your atlas passive tree look like? Fortunate Path and Unstable Energies are important nodes to get to first to maximize quality of waystone drops.
 

Arsic

Loves his juicy stink trail scent

Will watch this when I get back home.

Is it a boss blaster? I want to 2-4 shot bosses before they can do jack shit. I’ve seen archmage do that and I think dead eye 1-2 shot.

I’m gonna farm up the 4 citadels today and make 4-8 div. Put me to around 10 div 50 some ex and a Tom of everything else. So whatever I speed run to end game can get to level 80+ within a day or two of play.
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
Is it a boss blaster? I want to 2-4 shot bosses before they can do jack shit. I’ve seen archmage do that and I think dead eye 1-2 shot.

Well, all classes can do that, depending on how you build it out. The ones that really require specific ascendancy points to be completely degenerate would be Deadeye, Pathfinder, Stormweaver, Bloodmage, Invoker, and Gemling.
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
I just did some spring cleaning on the guild stash again and I split our Level 50-60 Gear Library into 51-55, and 56-60 since it was getting very crowded.

I also put some decent rares in that I had in my 1ex public selling stash tab that weren't getting any hits.
 

Doomtrain

Gold Member
Finally looking at the trade thing on the website. So you just search for the other person then friend and meet and then trade then unfriend them?
You don't need to friend them. The buyer whispers to the seller (you can do this automatically by clicking the button on the site), then if the seller is interested, they'll invite the buyer to their party. The buyer warps to the seller, the seller initiates the trade, and then they disband the party.

What does your atlas passive tree look like? Fortunate Path and Unstable Energies are important nodes to get to first to maximize quality of waystone drops.
I don't have either of those yet, but I've been speccing into the north tree to get more waystone drops. It's the only way I've been able to sustain doing maps.
 
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You don't need to friend them. The buyer whispers to the seller (you can do this automatically by clicking the button on the site), then if the seller is interested, they'll invite the buyer to their party. The buyer warps to the seller, the seller initiates the trade, and then they disband the party.
I've never partied with anyone before/ The way stone give you an option to warp to them?
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
I don't have either of those yet, but I've been speccing into the north tree to get more waystone drops. It's the only way I've been able to sustain doing maps.

Those two are the best bang for your buck for the early tree, IMO. Higher rarity waystones are important to get the waystone drop modifier up, and Unstable Energies makes every waystone you have even more potent. And to get there you need Constant Crossroads anyway.

There's lots of extra waystones in the guild stash. Use those too.
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
I've never partied with anyone before/ The way stone give you an option to warp to them?

No, waystones are something unrelated.

This is how you trade

1) Find item you want from trade website
2) Click "direct whisper"
3) Wait for the seller to send you a party invite
4) Accept invite and click on the little portal icon thingie in their portrait on the left to teleport to them
5) Ideally have the items (typically exalt orbs) ready in your inventory and accept the trade request they send you
6) Put items in trade window and get your dopamine hit
 

Hot5pur

Member
I anticipate there will be A LOT of tweaks to trade, ascendancy, crafting and drops in the next month. Too many people complaining and personally I also felt those aspects are half baked and will cause a lot of people to give up once they wrap up the campaign.

Instead I am planning on playing through the other classes, given how different each class plays it feels like a much better use of time. Also helps learn the passive tree and various gems.
 
Have the devs made any tweaks to the movement speed of our character or increased the amount of enemies at all? I found myself getting so bored in dungeons especially because of how long it takes to traverse and explore, while simultaneously not having enough enemies to fight to keep it engaging. It was painfully slow.
 
Have the devs made any tweaks to the movement speed of our character or increased the amount of enemies at all? I found myself getting so bored in dungeons especially because of how long it takes to traverse and explore, while simultaneously not having enough enemies to fight to keep it engaging. It was painfully slow.
yup, I need to have 20% on my boots
 

Facism

Member
Got my 3rd set of ascendency points, to celebrate, I donated my 160 spirit rattling sceptre to the guild stash, sitting in the level 45-50 tab.

Honestly hate how ascendency is done. Trials are super boring and samey, takes an hour to push through the three floors, you can get bricked easily by afflictions, I've taken honour damage from shit because of janky af hitboxes.
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I'm having a weird problem on PS5, I'm wondering if anyone else has had this happen...

So I'm trying to play through the Trials of Sekhemas in Act II. I go into the first chamber, there is a little hourglass thing that says I have to fight monsters for 60 seconds... and when the timer reaches zero, nothing happens. Monsters keep spawning everywhere, and it keeps going until I die (or run out of honor) - I even made it about 10 minutes, but still nothing. Also, when I die the game basically crashes. It just has the "you failed the trail on room one" thing, with no option to resurrect or start over. Have to go to the PS5 dashboard and manually close the game.

I tried this four times in total, and had the same result every time. Is this section just bugged?
 

Northeastmonk

Gold Member
I'm having a weird problem on PS5, I'm wondering if anyone else has had this happen...

So I'm trying to play through the Trials of Sekhemas in Act II. I go into the first chamber, there is a little hourglass thing that says I have to fight monsters for 60 seconds... and when the timer reaches zero, nothing happens. Monsters keep spawning everywhere, and it keeps going until I die (or run out of honor) - I even made it about 10 minutes, but still nothing. Also, when I die the game basically crashes. It just has the "you failed the trail on room one" thing, with no option to resurrect or start over. Have to go to the PS5 dashboard and manually close the game.

I tried this four times in total, and had the same result every time. Is this section just bugged?
I had that death thing happen to me too. I had to quit out of the game and reload twice. It was only when I died during the trial or ran out of honor. I didn’t experience the other problem you had with the spawning creatures. I did experience my summon coming out, getting wiped, and process never ended.
 
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Some skills are way underperforming. They have to be. Changed my Ranger from Lightning Arrow to the Gas Arrow/Firewall explodey build and it's chalk and cheese. One works and one doesn't.

Playing on PS5 Pro and the screen tearing is abysmal. Played in a party for the first time yesterday as well and with 4 players it was a slideshow. Hope they put some serious work into performance and optimisation because it's piss poor at the moment.
 
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