Path of Exile 2

Syla5 said:
POE 2 is my first experience of any ARPG game and im loving it so far, im not sure on if you are supposed to die as much as i am but im having a blast.



I one shot this boss and then got totally b-slapped by the snake boss in keth about 10 times! (1 of those was my dumb cat laying on my keyboard...honest)
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I finally took out the mine boss, and did a couple of other bosses without too much issues. Snake lady in Keth I did first time, just dodge rolling and shock/lightning with my Ranger build.

Anything that moves fast and out of my lightning rods is a pain to keep hitting
 
Currency tab, gems tab, a premium stash tab for listing sale items is probably the best. Next will be the maps or way point tab if it exists and quad tab.

The above is what ill buy during sale if I didnt have already
 
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Varys said:
Stash tabs are on sale this weekend until Tuesday. I'd be grateful as to which I should buy with my 300 points as I'm not familiar.
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As above, Currency is the biggest QOL, Gems is somewhat useful and allows you organize a bit better.

Flask tab isn't really needed, Essence and Delirium are only worth it if you are blasting endgame and have large quantities of currencies related to them.

Unique tab saves you some space, but again not essential as the drop rates are quite low at this point in the game.

Premium tabs allow you to list items for trade, again it becomes more useful in endgame when you are a bit more experienced, having a few is usually the best approach. Quad tabs are just massive premium tabs, useful for trading or just dumping items in when you are farming to organise later.

Just a handy tip for those who are playing for the first time, you can right click on the number banners at the top of the stash and re-name them, colour code them, make them viewable to public (This lists items for trade and you're able set prices), or you can enable stash affinities. This way you can ctrl + click items in your inventory when the stash is open and they will automatically deposit in the marked tabs without you having to navigate to them.
 
Varys said:
Stash tabs are on sale this weekend until Tuesday. I'd be grateful as to which I should buy with my 300 points as I'm not familiar.
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These are the only tabs that have been ported over so far

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As well as the premiums and quads.

I honestly wouldn't bother with any of them bar Currency and Gems if you're looking to minimise expenditure
 
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My crashing gets worse with every patch they release despite being fully stable for the first 4 days. Almost unplayable now. I now get 45 minutes tops before a hard comp lock up
 
Varys said:
My crashing gets worse with every patch they release despite being fully stable for the first 4 days. Almost unplayable now. I now get 45 minutes tops before a hard comp lock up
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Yep, I love the game. I can handle and fully expect the tweaking and changes that need to happen in an early access, imo there is nothing that will ruin the game forever in there. However these crashes are doing my head in :(
 
Varys said:
My crashing gets worse with every patch they release despite being fully stable for the first 4 days. Almost unplayable now. I now get 45 minutes tops before a hard comp lock up
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dirtybeatfreak said:
Yep, I love the game. I can handle and fully expect the tweaking and changes that need to happen in an early access, imo there is nothing that will ruin the game forever in there. However these crashes are doing my head in :(
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You guys tried limiting your CPU a bit? Go to your power plans in Windows, click on the one you're using, click "change advanced power settings", go into "Processor power management", then expand "Maximum processor state", and set it to about 90%. See if that helps, if it does, you could up that number a bit as it's throttling your system. The main freeze people are getting on loading screens is on Windows 24H2, and especially if you have an AMD CPU. There's other options around also like using BES CPU Limiter or Process Lasso to throttle Path of Exile specifically rather than the system. Just remember to set the power plan back to 100% when you're done.

If that doesn't work, try turning off multithreading in game. It'll tank your CPU potential, but it may stop the freezing.

The issue has been around since early 2024 when 24H2 was rolled out to the developer channel as it affects PoE1 also and it's been the bane of my life.
 
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pacegod said:
And yet, you're on a forum whining yourself. Also, wtf has Trump got to do with PoE2?
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Give it some thought champ, maybe one day you'll figure the difference out. And Trump has nothing to do with POE2. I guess my writing didn't make my point. My bad.

To the other guy, no I haven't seen the endgame raids yet. But it seemed like people in act 1 doing the complaining. Asmongold was in a2 when he went off on it.
 
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Urgh. It was all going swimmingly until Vallley of the Titans. Getting slapped all the time even from normal mobs.

Yep, there's definitely a leap in difficulty for the Ranger here. I'm level 29, areas is 25-26 iirc and the boss is a nightmare. Think I'll take a break for tonight.
 
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Varys said:
My crashing gets worse with every patch they release despite being fully stable for the first 4 days. Almost unplayable now. I now get 45 minutes tops before a hard comp lock up
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Four people reply to you with advice on packs and this is your response. :rolleyes:
 
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They badly need to overhaul the passive tree before 1.0. It is absolute hot garbage.

Making groups of nodes look like what they are for (like clusters of nodes for bow skills look like a bow, and a cluster of flask nodes looks like a bottle) has introduced unnecessary and redundant nodes all over the place. They've forgot to add diversity and complexity in their attempt to make it look like a pretty star chart.
 
Gazanimal said:
Urgh. It was all going swimmingly until Vallley of the Titans. Getting slapped all the time even from normal mobs.

Yep, there's definitely a leap in difficulty for the Ranger here. I'm level 29, areas is 25-26 iirc and the boss is a nightmare. Think I'll take a break for tonight.
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Seems that different classes / builds struggle with certain areas. For example, my lightning sorc was getting mullered at the start of act 2, but my monk has no problem at all. I think the main issue is a lack of adequate defensive skills and/or crowd control abilities. As I've said before, freeze is by far the best ... the "shock" from lightning skills is almost worthless, in my opinion. Same can be said for the "ignite" ailment induced by fire skills.
 
Teaf said:
They badly need to overhaul the passive tree before 1.0. It is absolute hot garbage.

Making groups of nodes look like what they are for (like clusters of nodes for bow skills look like a bow, and a cluster of flask nodes looks like a bottle) has introduced unnecessary and redundant nodes all over the place. They've forgot to add diversity and complexity in their attempt to make it look like a pretty star chart.
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I think "shaping" the nodes to provide a visual clue for their design intent is quite a cool idea. But ... the passive skill tree isn't very complex and doesn't promote diversity with builds. It really does feel like each class is being shoehorned into a specific segment of the tree. As you say, too many boring nodes which just give a flat marginal stat boost. They've simplified it too much.
 
xaldub said:
Seems that different classes / builds struggle with certain areas. For example, my lightning sorc was getting mullered at the start of act 2, but my monk has no problem at all. I think the main issue is a lack of adequate defensive skills and/or crowd control abilities. As I've said before, freeze is by far the best ... the "shock" from lightning skills is almost worthless, in my opinion. Same can be said for the "ignite" ailment induced by fire skills.
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ignite yes, the dot is garbo out of the box.
shock is useful, it's 20% more. problem is shocking reliably.
 
Teaf said:
You guys tried limiting your CPU a bit? Go to your power plans in Windows, click on the one you're using, click "change advanced power settings", go into "Processor power management", then expand "Maximum processor state", and set it to about 90%. See if that helps, if it does, you could up that number a bit as it's throttling your system. The main freeze people are getting on loading screens is on Windows 24H2, and especially if you have an AMD CPU. There's other options around also like using BES CPU Limiter or Process Lasso to throttle Path of Exile specifically rather than the system. Just remember to set the power plan back to 100% when you're done.

If that doesn't work, try turning off multithreading in game. It'll tank your CPU potential, but it may stop the freezing.

The issue has been around since early 2024 when 24H2 was rolled out to the developer channel as it affects PoE1 also and it's been the bane of my life.
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Thanks but seems a bit of a faff! Think I've fixed the hard crashing/lock up issue following a suggestion on the GG forums, by disabling 2 cpu cores in Task Manager affinity. Also a faff to do this every time I boot up the game. Hope this works for others.

D3K said:
Four people reply to you with advice on packs and this is your response. :rolleyes:
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I didn't look at your advice because I wasn't going to spend my coins while the game was in an unplayable state due to crashing, but now it's fixed I have just bought the stash tabs and thank you for your advice. A medal is in the post.:rolleyes:
 
Varys said:
Thanks but seems a bit of a faff! Think I've fixed the hard crashing/lock up issue following a suggestion on the GG forums, by disabling 2 cpu cores in Task Manager affinity. Also a faff to do this every time I boot up the game. Hope this works for others.
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Nice one, glad the affinity changes sorted the lock ups; hopefully GGG fixes it soon for good. I ended up going back to 23H2 for now (I needed to reformat anyway, it's been years since I've done it) and that sorted it for me.
 
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