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Cake day: September 1st, 2023

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  • I think I prefer POE 2 tbh. Which shouldn’t be a surprise to me I guess, my favorite build in poe 1 was a slow facebreakers earthquake build so I was more or less playing path 2 in path 1 lol. Poe 2 still needs some work, the tree is kind of boring in comparison and there’s not as much shenanigans to put into builds, but I prefer the slower play style a lot more and I LOVE path 2’s campaign. It’s something that actually is fun to play, rather than something to skip through as fast as possible to get to maps.


  • So basically, flasks in path of exile are a major power boost. You fill them by killing enemies and can provide huge defensive and offensive bonuses. Like, over doubling your dps for some builds. In general, you’re killing stuff fast enough that you never run out of charges, so you’re activating your flasks pretty constantly, like every 5-10 seconds. You have 5 of them, so really you’re just constantly hitting 1-5, which can be pretty annoying/tedious. People started using macros to activate them on a timer, or so that pressing one button to use all of them. The devs (grinding gear games, or ggg) classified them as cheating. Someone asked “If I taped a popsicle stick to my keyboard so that pressing it pressed 1-5, would that be cheating?”, and ggg said yep, don’t do it. Lol. They did relatively shortly after add functionality to flasks for auto activation of utility flasks on certain conditions, so you could set them to be used when they stopped being active or when an adjacent flask is used or when you’re affected by different status effects, or instead you can have your flasks get a big boost to duration or effect, so they got rid of the problem people were solving by “cheating”.












  • I, uh, have kinda given up on progressing for the foreseeable future. I’m bad at platforming, and after struggling for probably around half an hour to get through one aection that was particularly difficult for me, I was met with a surprise boss fight. Nearest bench before that section. It’s brutal. It takes me about 5ish minutes to do that section now, but fuck I wish I were exaggerating. None of the other fights have anywhere near as nasty a runback and it honestly feels like they forgot a bench.

    The game is hard and that’s fine, but that instance I feel ok bitching about and don’t feel like I’m a qhiny pathetic fuck for doing so, which is incredibly telling given how easy it is to make me feel like a whiny pathetic fuck.