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Great stuff as always mate. I I love how you explain things fully and never talk down to your audience. I sometimes draw different conclusions to you, but I always learn something, or think about the issues from a more rounded perspective after your input. I appreciate you for all you provide. Your help, without recourse to an ego, is always helpful.
Couple of things to add: At the 14 minute mark, when looking at the gear details, notice the T# on the far right of the stat lines. That's the tier of the stat line. T1 means small numbers. T7+, much bigger numbers. So good gear will have higher tier numbers. For an Energy Shield character, it is important to balance the size of your shield, the recharge rate, and how quickly the recharge starts. The longer the shield takes to start recharging, the more likely something will hit you again, and you're back at the start of cool down. But you also need the shield to be big enough to keep you alive, and to have it recharge as much as possible in the time between hits. Certain nodes will do things like provide a big boost to the max size of your shield, but then penalize your start time. So that creates a situation where you may want to adjust your build, swapping an earlier node or two from max to start. Also, make sure you always disassemble any "superior" gear you see laying around, to get the armor upgrade pieces, as well as the martial ones. Boosting the quality means bigger defenses for the armor, and for the weapons more damage.
I agree. The wise man plays the game for fun. Or maybe not-maybe there is something to be gained from neglecting real life to play a broken build in endgame. 😅
You taught me to love games again. I played BG3 thanks to you, and I loved every single minute of it, not trying to min max, just having fun. Before this I played like 5 hours a year, and now I can easily spend 5 hours on a weekend - and I'm having a blast! Now POE2 is here and I feel like a D2 kid again. Thank you man!
Dude this was such a good video. I was almost to the point of going online to redo my entire build to follow a meta build but this convinced me to look at my build and fine tune it to strengthen the way I've been playing
Its the same trading site for console you just link your console gamertag when you get to the site. You can browse on your phone and click whisper and it will send the in game purchase request whisper.
I found a staff with double the physical damage of the one in this video for 1 exalted orband I have to tell you you are 100% right about it solving 90%of the problem or I'd say closer to 80%. Defense is so important in this game. Still getting all my resistances up. I was fortunate enough to get one before the inflation ran rampant. I hope the devs find a way to get that under control. The trouble is going to be for the people trying to get from maps level 7or so on through. You are not getting enough currency to buy the now way over priced gear and it's hard to get through the higher tier maps that get you the currency with out said gear.
I beat campaign with almost 0 resistance, fire was even in minus, 0 dodge, block...no one told me there is a trade site where I can buy gear that I would actually want to use. Its kinda silly how overpowered trading is tbh. Also the game doesn't teach you anything, and it is VERY hard to understand at what level should your gear be, what amount of stats you should have, especially defensive stats...so I ignored it completely lol and just went brute force to see how far I can go. Still, I managed to beat the campaign in 26 hours, every hit was me almost dying...but I managed to do it so I am kinda proud of myself :) For now tho I am done with the game, I overall like it. I hope they WILL change some things that are my pain points, and I will gladly play it again when it is fully released. Ofc, now armed with the knowledge. Thank you!
Exactly. You pay for a tab for a service not in game. Then go off game, find the item, and message said person. If they're online and not busy, you then party up then trade. At what point did any of that sound like a good idea? They literally already made an auction house lol... but paying for something not in the game is bad. Advertising "everything is tradable" feels like a lie.
I’m facepalming right now bc I didn’t realize my elemental damage scales off my physical damage as a monk. No wonder I’ve hit a brick wall in the 3rd Act
Was very confused by this as well. I had a crackling staff that looked like it had insane stats but my dps would go way down when I equipped it. Crackling staffs suck just so ya know you get an insane amount higher damage just scaling a physical staff
I REALLY loved the game at first but now that I’m in the endgame I can safely say I legit HATE it 😢 It’s BEYOND a slog. Losing exp is BS, takes WAAY too long to level up, sifting and leveling gear is straight up worse than D4 when you had to sift through all the yellow items, on top of that legendary items are SO underpowered and lackluster- once again worse than D4 ever was, the loot drop rates are NON EXISTENT and if you play SSF and don’t engage in the cancerous RMT then good luck. The cadence and attacks of enemies are RELENTLESS and overturned, not to mention the stun cancer in the game. There are times when the enemies are attacking from all sides and the screen looks like it’s D4. The thing is up until then the game wants you to watch attack patterns and deliberately dodge to survive. They don’t give you the tools to deal with the insane amount of attacks that will fill the tiny corridors of some areas. It’s not so bad in the open but once again, what kind of game are you wanting us to play GGG?? One where we deliberately have to dodge and carefully strategize or one where we can spam and steamroll and tank a screen full of enemies and attacks….?? The monk has several bugs that outright prevent you from being as effective as you should be….. I legit can go on and on and I will state once again that I LOVED the game at first. I understand it’s early access and the cracks are REALLY showing. When you play these games you begin to realize that the devs themselves have NEVER actually played the game. Which kind of makes sense when you think about the fact they work on said game ALL day. They tend to engage with the game and its players through data and I’m sure all of this stuff looked really good on paper….. But in practice it seriously just STOPPED being fun almost COMPLETELY 😢 The only reason I’m still slogging through is because I chose this for Christmas, I don’t value my time and I don’t really appreciate/love myself the way I probably should. Otherwise, the sane and rational thing to do would be to put this game down until they address the PLETHORA of issues it’s facing Straight up too, I would MUCH rather outright pay a premium price for a game instead of having to deal with “free-to-play mechanics”. These games are the epitome of not respecting the players time and GGG has made one of the WORST examples of this phenomenon, imo. I don’t like comparing it to D4 cuz I just feel they are too different. But at this point I can truly say that D4 is just a more polished and respectful game to its player base. You think I want to give Blizzard the W!?? On top of everything the MTX prices in both games are BEYOND egregious GREED HAS RUINED MY FAVORITE VIDEO GAME GENRE 😢
I’m stuck jamanra in act 2. Using mercenary. I love the game until I get stuck on a stupid boss. I suck at this game. Gonna try again today to beat his ass.
Just take your time. The bosses make you play their game until you get rally powerful. Shoot whatever you have at the boss while focusing on not getting hit.
I’ll give you a tip for the guys that can also shoot ranged at you. If you’re a ranger character it’s easier to pull off. If they’re doing those ranged aoe attacks get right up on his body and spam attack when he starts to aggro for close range attacks you dodge roll out to ranged position and do that until he goes for his ranged attacks again and just repeat that until he dies. I had trouble with him too as a ranger until figured out how he attacks.
Worst case scenario usually the actual act bosses. The zone leading up to boss drops the next level of uncut gems so you can farm em to up your chosen skill levels
Too many cheap death in mapping. You doing your thing then from outside the screen, 3 or 4 enemies jump straight on you, dead. Or a horde appear then run at you at 100 miles an hour and smack you into oblivion with no amount of rolling or running being of any use. Maps are already rare, no clue why we are so limited in enjoying the endgame but I completed 7 blue maps level 6 and 7 without finding a single map. All I have left are level 4 maps now, just ridiculus.
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Great stuff as always mate. I I love how you explain things fully and never talk down to your audience. I sometimes draw different conclusions to you, but I always learn something, or think about the issues from a more rounded perspective after your input. I appreciate you for all you provide. Your help, without recourse to an ego, is always helpful.
I love that. I like that we have different schools of thought but this just helps the info become approachable. Thanks so much for watching brother
Couple of things to add:
At the 14 minute mark, when looking at the gear details, notice the T# on the far right of the stat lines. That's the tier of the stat line. T1 means small numbers. T7+, much bigger numbers. So good gear will have higher tier numbers.
For an Energy Shield character, it is important to balance the size of your shield, the recharge rate, and how quickly the recharge starts. The longer the shield takes to start recharging, the more likely something will hit you again, and you're back at the start of cool down. But you also need the shield to be big enough to keep you alive, and to have it recharge as much as possible in the time between hits. Certain nodes will do things like provide a big boost to the max size of your shield, but then penalize your start time. So that creates a situation where you may want to adjust your build, swapping an earlier node or two from max to start.
Also, make sure you always disassemble any "superior" gear you see laying around, to get the armor upgrade pieces, as well as the martial ones. Boosting the quality means bigger defenses for the armor, and for the weapons more damage.
Hands down one of my favorite RUclipsrs to get tips from!
Thank you brother!
absolutely love the approach of your videos. you're not just giving out info, you are empowering us to apply the info to our own end. keep it up!
Absolutely man. I want people to play their way!
I agree. The wise man plays the game for fun. Or maybe not-maybe there is something to be gained from neglecting real life to play a broken build in endgame. 😅
You taught me to love games again. I played BG3 thanks to you, and I loved every single minute of it, not trying to min max, just having fun. Before this I played like 5 hours a year, and now I can easily spend 5 hours on a weekend - and I'm having a blast! Now POE2 is here and I feel like a D2 kid again. Thank you man!
The picture for this thumbnail is priceless. Keep rocking it 🤘
It's a good one right!? That's the Templar!
Dude this was such a good video. I was almost to the point of going online to redo my entire build to follow a meta build but this convinced me to look at my build and fine tune it to strengthen the way I've been playing
Favorite part of the video 25:36 - Keystone as a reference to a really shitty beer. 😂
I've had way too much in my life hahahaha
Keystone Lights and Four Lokos FTW
This is very helpful, did not realize you can sort the POE 2 store to find the best
Its the same trading site for console you just link your console gamertag when you get to the site. You can browse on your phone and click whisper and it will send the in game purchase request whisper.
Thanks so much dude!!! Didn't know this
I found a staff with double the physical damage of the one in this video for 1 exalted orband I have to tell you you are 100% right about it solving 90%of the problem or I'd say closer to 80%. Defense is so important in this game. Still getting all my resistances up. I was fortunate enough to get one before the inflation ran rampant. I hope the devs find a way to get that under control. The trouble is going to be for the people trying to get from maps level 7or so on through. You are not getting enough currency to buy the now way over priced gear and it's hard to get through the higher tier maps that get you the currency with out said gear.
As a totally new PoE player this was a great guide!
Thank you so much for this video! The trading site was exactly the tip I needed.
I beat campaign with almost 0 resistance, fire was even in minus, 0 dodge, block...no one told me there is a trade site where I can buy gear that I would actually want to use. Its kinda silly how overpowered trading is tbh. Also the game doesn't teach you anything, and it is VERY hard to understand at what level should your gear be, what amount of stats you should have, especially defensive stats...so I ignored it completely lol and just went brute force to see how far I can go.
Still, I managed to beat the campaign in 26 hours, every hit was me almost dying...but I managed to do it so I am kinda proud of myself :)
For now tho I am done with the game, I overall like it. I hope they WILL change some things that are my pain points, and I will gladly play it again when it is fully released. Ofc, now armed with the knowledge. Thank you!
This is just a horrible trade system. Why do I have to rely on someone answering a whisper? Just make a damn auction house, FFS
Exactly. You pay for a tab for a service not in game. Then go off game, find the item, and message said person. If they're online and not busy, you then party up then trade. At what point did any of that sound like a good idea? They literally already made an auction house lol... but paying for something not in the game is bad. Advertising "everything is tradable" feels like a lie.
Awesome, thank you so much. When will you do a mercenary build?
Im so frustrated with ascendant trials and maps im bout to tap out
thx for explaining mechanics watch all those videos of yours ... good job.
My pleasure brother!
When in doubt, darksouls roll.
Hahaha too true
Can we get the trade site link please
Pinned comment and description! :)
Don't forget to link your POE account with the one you play.
I’m facepalming right now bc I didn’t realize my elemental damage scales off my physical damage as a monk. No wonder I’ve hit a brick wall in the 3rd Act
Was very confused by this as well. I had a crackling staff that looked like it had insane stats but my dps would go way down when I equipped it. Crackling staffs suck just so ya know you get an insane amount higher damage just scaling a physical staff
Kinda shit crafting isnt in a better state, now its just better to buy something if thats an option
I raged quit and uninstalled instead
LOL I just started calling it Path of Roadblocks just last week.
why does everyone always cater to the ppl who use/abuse the in-game market and RMT 😢
I REALLY loved the game at first but now that I’m in the endgame I can safely say I legit HATE it 😢
It’s BEYOND a slog. Losing exp is BS, takes WAAY too long to level up, sifting and leveling gear is straight up worse than D4 when you had to sift through all the yellow items, on top of that legendary items are SO underpowered and lackluster- once again worse than D4 ever was, the loot drop rates are NON EXISTENT and if you play SSF and don’t engage in the cancerous RMT then good luck.
The cadence and attacks of enemies are RELENTLESS and overturned, not to mention the stun cancer in the game. There are times when the enemies are attacking from all sides and the screen looks like it’s D4. The thing is up until then the game wants you to watch attack patterns and deliberately dodge to survive. They don’t give you the tools to deal with the insane amount of attacks that will fill the tiny corridors of some areas. It’s not so bad in the open but once again, what kind of game are you wanting us to play GGG?? One where we deliberately have to dodge and carefully strategize or one where we can spam and steamroll and tank a screen full of enemies and attacks….?? The monk has several bugs that outright prevent you from being as effective as you should be…..
I legit can go on and on and I will state once again that I LOVED the game at first. I understand it’s early access and the cracks are REALLY showing. When you play these games you begin to realize that the devs themselves have NEVER actually played the game. Which kind of makes sense when you think about the fact they work on said game ALL day. They tend to engage with the game and its players through data and I’m sure all of this stuff looked really good on paper…..
But in practice it seriously just STOPPED being fun almost COMPLETELY 😢 The only reason I’m still slogging through is because I chose this for Christmas, I don’t value my time and I don’t really appreciate/love myself the way I probably should. Otherwise, the sane and rational thing to do would be to put this game down until they address the PLETHORA of issues it’s facing
Straight up too, I would MUCH rather outright pay a premium price for a game instead of having to deal with “free-to-play mechanics”. These games are the epitome of not respecting the players time and GGG has made one of the WORST examples of this phenomenon, imo.
I don’t like comparing it to D4 cuz I just feel they are too different. But at this point I can truly say that D4 is just a more polished and respectful game to its player base. You think I want to give Blizzard the W!?? On top of everything the MTX prices in both games are BEYOND egregious
GREED HAS RUINED MY FAVORITE VIDEO GAME GENRE 😢
It is possible to not enjoy every game. Play what you like! Enjoy and happy gaming in 2025!
I’m stuck jamanra in act 2. Using mercenary. I love the game until I get stuck on a stupid boss. I suck at this game. Gonna try again today to beat his ass.
Hopefully this video helped brother!!
Just take your time. The bosses make you play their game until you get rally powerful. Shoot whatever you have at the boss while focusing on not getting hit.
I’ll give you a tip for the guys that can also shoot ranged at you. If you’re a ranger character it’s easier to pull off. If they’re doing those ranged aoe attacks get right up on his body and spam attack when he starts to aggro for close range attacks you dodge roll out to ranged position and do that until he goes for his ranged attacks again and just repeat that until he dies. I had trouble with him too as a ranger until figured out how he attacks.
Find a build video and try to follow what they do and that will help alot. I started following a build and i took my merc to end game pretty quick.
Worst case scenario usually the actual act bosses. The zone leading up to boss drops the next level of uncut gems so you can farm em to up your chosen skill levels
Too many cheap death in mapping. You doing your thing then from outside the screen, 3 or 4 enemies jump straight on you, dead. Or a horde appear then run at you at 100 miles an hour and smack you into oblivion with no amount of rolling or running being of any use.
Maps are already rare, no clue why we are so limited in enjoying the endgame but I completed 7 blue maps level 6 and 7 without finding a single map. All I have left are level 4 maps now, just ridiculus.
The trade system in this game is dated and ridiculous.