There are many bugs and quirks that are undoubtedly being ironed out but this is a design choice that's lasted several patches and has never been mentioned as something that will be tweaked or resolved.

When a player completes a secondary objective and then dies with respawns available, the players respawns into the empty map with objectives reset. The game tells the player to complete the objective that disappeared again. The game tells the player that they have attempts remaining to complete the encounter, but it cannot be completed and must instead be fully reset.

This is the biggest indicator, to me, of whether the game has been polished for full release. If I set up an encounter with three lives to complete it, do I have 3 or do I really have 1? This should have been fixed as urgently as a fighting game ending a 3-stock round after 1 stock.

I’m a big fan of D3, D2R, and PD2. I’ve also played Last Epoch, Undecember, Dragonkin, D4, and PoE, but I eventually got bored of all of them before reaching 1,000 hours in each and went back to my three favorites.
I’ll give PoE 2 a try this December, and I hope it hooks me just as much as my three little gems that I never abandon. I just alternate between them depending on the season.
I’d like to start with a summoner build to learn the campaign acts, crafting materials, game mechanics, and everything else. Once I get more familiar with the game, I’ll try out other builds.
I’ve seen quite a lot of build diversity discussed on the forums, so I’d love to hear your recommendations for a summoner build that’s viable in the endgame and has fast clear speed. What would you recommend?

Jokes aside I thought it was pretty funny running into a game on the playstore with blatant asset rips from poe2.

Wanted to share the funny discovery before reporting it to the playstore for stealing poe2 assets.

If you play PoE2 on PC, there’s a file in your game’s logs folder called Client.txt that records things like area changes, level-ups and deaths.

You can use those records to work out which campaign zone you died in most, or how much time you spend inside each endgame map. I made a short video showing how to use an AI prompt to analyze it for your character.

Did you know about this file and all the info it hides?

Here’s my walkthrough and prompt on TikTok.

in C minor

🎵 Zolin, Zolin, Zolin, Zolin

I'm beggin' of you please don't take my Ange. 🎶

I was wondering where the heck my last ritual altar was, but I looked all along the edge of the map, and the only two spots even close to connecting are just blocked off. And I know that area is supposed to be accessible, because after killing the boss, all the remaining rare/content icons popped up over there.

I was just curious if anyone else has had this happen. In 1000+ hours, with more than half that spent in the end game, this is the first I've seen it. At least afaik. If it's ever happened before, there was no remaining content in the disconnected area.

Just curious if any long-hour working exiles play with their family. Do you find it enjoyable even though the game is very “solo” and teaming isn’t really much of a thing for the normal experience.

I’m tapped and done with this league, but obviously a younger crowd could probably grind and play for days and days more than myself.

idk about you guys but i hate the kiss-curse design especially on supports, i will go out of my way to not use supports with downsides even if i know they are better than more generic ones

maybe because the downsides are so egregious and thats why i hate them but if they were more interesting instead of ( (lol now you cant move if you use the ability or oh you wanted more proj here goes 75% of the ability's dps ) i would like this design a bit more

hope ggg rethinks or straight up remove this type of design in 1.0

Started late this league. Just 10-15 days ago. Currently following Ky's arc totem build guide (great work by the way and a deserved twitch sub). Not fully there yet, but already at 6 totems, 6k mana, 1.8k life, kurgal's gaze, c. 30% quality on skills, etc...

Damage is insane. I personally enjoy the totem playstyle a lot. The build works greats in maps ... but juiced GEs are hit or miss: Well, rather than misses, GE often end up with me dying to one shots or effects that insta delete my mana+life .... the build has no other defense layers .. in order to survive I need to play with a dark souls type of focus, which is not what I look for in POE2.

I have seen some people talk about resorting to mageblood for tankiness: I believe that a granite + basalt MB (duplicate legacies) would only drive armour up to approx. 50%, which is not that much. I think Ky's guide uses MB, at very high levels, but for speed/crit purposes rather that for tankiness. He refers to kurgal's gaze -plus gemling motes- as the key driver of tankiness, but for me, with less than 2k life, the impact of kurgals gaze on extra mana regeneration is not too significant or noticeable.

Is there any way to make this incredible build tanky and comfy enough for juiced GEs or is it a lost cause for someone -like me- not too skilled and highly reliant on build strength? If MB is the key to make the build tankier, which configuration? Any other way?

In 0.5, I ran spirit walker zoo and it was so good and unkillable in GEs!

Getting a bit tired of tablet/stone flipping, considering starting to do simulacrim etc

There are certain valuable lineage gems, jewels etc, but I haven't found some overview about what to farm.

And, for simulacrum, is it best to add more apes predators or the extra modifiers?

Thank you :)

Honestly, one of my best leagues so far! 🔥 Crafting, rerolling and gambling have been insanely profitable.
At this point, I don’t even know what to do with all these Divines anymore 😂💎

He only has 3 ascendancy nodes, which can be used by ranged characters - gloves, additional runes and way of the mountain. Everything else is clued to melee or quarterstaff. U technically can generate combo with any weapon, but cant spend it without stick in your hands. I didnt expect restrictions like this from game with path of exile in its name.

I have a Spark witch with CoC comet that's really strong rn, and most upgrades I could do are worth from 1k divs to one mirror right now (like a From Nothing jewel with Coinduit). So it's really a min maxing, and I don't have time (or want to) do that, to me that build is done.

Having said that, I still want to play and was debating if it's still worth it to start a new character this late in the league where most things have become extremely expensive. I have about 700 divs to use (I have spent close to 2k on the witch, that's why I have so little to use).

I'm not there biggest fan of doing the campaing considering I have 2 hours a day to play, so it takes me 3 days to finish it, so I didn't want to waste time just to realize I can't afford another build.

What are your guys thoughts? Too late?

P.S.: I could farm for more divs, but as stated above, I don't have much time to play, so realistically, 700 divs is pretty much what I have.

Actually my second one this league. Will be selecting Olroth's Boon to bring me to Level 100. Never had level 100 in POE2 and only once in POE1

Edit: Turns out the boon doesn’t give you a level, thanks for comments for informing me of this. Still took Olroths Boon.



Was after about 5 runs, just casually trying get some good relic quantity relics myself. Had 117% with 30% boon increase during this run.

I just wanted to remind everyone in the community that increased monster resistances on a waystone is actually a damage multiplier if you’re using Rakiata’s Flow. That increase will improve the inverted effect of the support gem and increase your damage overall.

(Yes, there can be caveats if monsters have negative resists to your element of choice, but overall it’s more damage.)

Until next time!

Current issue I'm seeing every league is:

1. Grind Generic atlas for base IIR/IIQ/Random content ASAP
2. Build specific league tree ASAP (if SC, the one with the best econ/trade potential)
3. Find cities + rng craft/trade tablets and juice

If you play 'casually' (without the current league 2x boss skip) 1 and 2 will take you around 1-3 weeks, 3. depends on econ and how much you craft/trade/luck exp you've had so optimally round week 4 you're smooth sailing.

The main issue imo is until you have finished 4. You get barebones. less generic loot, even less valuable generic loot, specific leaguecontent is even less until you max out the specific trees, if you want more than 2-3 leagues you gonna need even more time and even more grinding before you can actually start building up your farming strat.

My Idea/Proposition:

Generic atlas scales/buffs only generic loot and forces it into every specific leaguecontent <> specific leaguecontent scales itself but it's added towards the loottable and doesn't replace it. And Leaguetablet mod amount are controlled by leaguetrees

How would that look in practical terms?

• Let's say you have a maxed out atlas and just started ritual. My rituals should show less valuable omens and with a higher chance lots of greater exalts/chaos/regals etc with a variable chance for perfects. I also have only 2 mods on my ritual tablets

• Counter example you have finished your abyss and are halfway through your generic atlas, Your abyss drops a good amount of valuable omens and a handful of ancient desecrated currency, but this time you don't drop perfect generic currency, bare greater and mostly regular ones. My abyss tablets have 4 mods cause my tree controls it.

I think this way you don't feel like it's a slogfest and it's way easier to target farm something and feel good cause even small progression is immediately noticeable and flexible to your preference.

I should also add it makes tablet/trade a lot more accessible because someone who farmed ritual and someone else who farmed abyss can both exchange/trade 4 mod tablets and start with a better juice floor. Tablet trade gets more open and valuable.

So I’m new to the game and some cool guy first traded with me either some Chaos Orbs, Divine Orbs, or Exalted orbs (I forgot which one he traded first), said that the item they gave was the “best currency in the game that’s worth like 7000 exalts” and then gave me the other two types of orbs listed.

Now I was going to sell these items to Finn but it doesn’t look like I’d reach 7000 exalts at all with what he gave, so I’m just curious if there’s a specific place that I’m meant to sell these things or he over exaggerated the sell price of the items?

Either way, I’m happy I was given some amazing looking stuff! The game’s been pretty fun rn! Playing as witch and hoping to become a Lich cuz I feel like being evil and stuff. Hoping to play with my friends soon too!

Obligatory: what should I do with it now?

I’m not sure if it’s just me - but in my stash as an SSF player, I have quite literally 5-6x amount of Djinn Barya than Inscribed Ultimatums.

Add on the fact that you need 3 DIFFERENT types of Ultimatums to even have a chance to earn your last ascendancy points, and you quickly have literally 1 chance to do it at level 90. (I’m level 89, have gotten the 3 types only 1 time and failed 8 seconds into the TrialMaster fight.

I don’t mind doing Sekhamas, and I’ve actually gotten quite good at them, but I’ve had 5x the chances to earn my points via Sekhamas than Chaos Trials.

It’s a shame because I like the Chaos trials better now, but I hope they rework them a bit for SSF players and make each key “universal” and you just need to do the 3 trials.

// EDIT

I’m dumb as hell - didn’t realize you could just keep going with the one and still get the TrialMaster.

Title asks my name question. For whatever idiosyncratic reason, last season and this season, I’ve been motivated to try to accumulate mirrors in our eternal realm so I can put them in a trophy case for my hideout.

Today I realized that it’s possible that all the Early Access items will be unavailable for trophy cases once 1.0 comes out since it will be a separate space compared to standard. Does anyone know whether this will work? Because if it doesn’t, it may be time to quit the season. Thanks in advance for any relevant input.

One winner gets the entire gear set, jewels and gems including rakiatas and garukans.

To win the giveaway answer this:

What has gotten you through hard times in your life?

Wether it be something as simple as a saying or even meditation or yoga.

Or even something much much deeper than that.

How did you weather the storm?

Picking the winner 11:30PM GMT-4

For reference it is just past 9:30PM here now.

Good luck everybody I would love to hear what you have to say.

A winner has been selected!

Everybody's comments were thoughtful and I appreciate all of you as a community if you didn't win your answer wasn't "wrong" somebody else's answer just resonated better with me.

At the end of the day we all need something to strive for and a reason to keep on going.

Until maybe next season exiles!

Hi guys; anyone got or can make a transparent .png of the original PoE2 skillarea in 1440p or 1080p ? I mean kinna like that (it's for PoE1 though); but just original without the follower, sub and donation fields seen in this PoE1 example ?

I just finished clearing the western Enigma Chamber, and before the loot appeared I missclicked the portal and it wouldn't let me go back.

Now I have no spark and the map says complete. Am I fucked? Do I need to leave the citadel and roam around looking for another enigma chamber? :(

edit: I meant fragment, not spark.