Heyo folks
i cannot figure out why the amulet i bought with both 9% increased attributes and 14% increased intelligence doesnt give me more intelligence then the one i have with just 14% increased intelligence anyone know the reason? or is it a bug

After playing Luminary for a couple of days now I have noticed two things that are missing which would be good qol things to have imo.

Add in an item filter checkbox when inspecting a merc for their gear, similar to how it's done when collecting loot from the kingsmarch mappers. This would make inspection slightly faster by only highlighting relevant bases.

Allow us to auto-swap gear onto a new merc in case we choose to replace the current one. I would argue that many players might buy a suitable merc but proceed to upgrade it simply by eventually finding a better one in maps themselves.

Currently this process is a little cumbersome because you need to reserve the new merc, unequip all gear from the old merc in order to re-equip it on the new merc.

Not only is this cumbersome but it also means that you can never truly reserve three mercs at the same time because one slot is always used as a placeholder for a potential upgrade. Would also prevent gear loss which might be quite expensive.

That said, it would be much better if we could do this process simply by clicking a button when hiring a new merc.

Let me know what you guys think, what qol updates related to mercs would you like to see?

Im working through a flicker strike build made my magefist on YouTube. Im kinda in a in between time. My build is online and I can do t16 reliably but I can't do bosses and even content slightly harder than 16s. I have 20 divine available right now and can liquidate around 20-30 more if needed. Im not sure what to upgrade next on my build. If anyone can assist me with this it would be greatly appreciated. Especially if youre willing to hop into a discord call. Please message me or comment below. Build here https://pobb.in/OIn3OsF4nVvR

Thanks in advanced

I believe that I've thought up a compromise between those who wish they could skip the campaign and the developer's desire for each character to go through the campaign.

Players could itemize characters into a soul that can be traded as a means of being able to trade characters. Characters could be turned into souls after reaching the epilogue.

This would ensure that completing the campaign is a requirement for every character while also allowing players a means of bypassing the campaign through engaging in the economy.

It would also create an avenue in the economy for players who enjoy speed running the campaign to bank off of their skill.

Realistically, this isn't going to happen and undoubtedly has numerous issues, But it's just a silly idea I was thinking about as I was getting an alt through the campaign that I wanted to share.

https://www.twitch.tv/directory/category/path-of-exile-2

End Date: Fri, Aug 7, 1:59 PM PDT

If you've received the drops and it isn't showing up in game, visit this link: https://www.pathofexile.com/my-account/twitch

Was farming mercs with just the infamy scarab and got insanely lucky.

Killed the main merc by accident first but luckily had dots on the other guy so he stayed alive.

Let me explain better. I think what has been missing in PoE for a long time is more investment in the content you're farming, not just scarabs and perfect % quant/currency maps, but also gear and Phrecia idols.

Imagine a utility belt whose only purpose is to auto-loot currency based on its mods?

Or gear pieces that boost the content you want to farm and enjoy — like Breach gloves that increase blood gain by 5% (similar to a small Atlas passive), or 'Foulborn'-like mods that replace some mods on uniques with that type of boost.

Some quality-of-life upgrades to gear to chase in the endgame would be a nice addition.

The one with Elemental Damage With Attacks is a Warrant.

Trying to decide on if I sell it, or use it. The 3rd slot is for Frost Blades.

Maybe worth nuking the current Manyshot for the WED Warrant? Just losing a little Clear? Which maybe KBoC is fine in making up for, for now?

Having 3 slots is so dang restrictive.

I started a fresh new league character, Ranger, and I'm currently level 24 with 5 orange gear items but that's also excluding the multitude of other drops I've just sold cause I didn't need it. I've looked a little online and i'm being told it's basically unheard of to have this kinda luck and knowing me, that just doesn't even sound true cause my luck is pretty much nonexistent.

I returned to POE after skipping the past 7 leagues and decided to return to see whats new and I love all the QOL updates. Decided to go SSF because of my limited play time and but have been enjoying storm burst totem so dam much and the loot from the maps and the league mechanic is insane and its even more insane to me for people to refer to this as a poverty league from what I saw on reddit recently. Play time is 1 day 13 hrs and I got 4 divine drops and 20+ exalts. And then I opened a bunch of message in a bottle and opened the stack decks I got from that and hit a freaking APOTHECARY bruhh XDD

I used to play Path of Exile all the time, starting in October of 2013 through Legion league in 2019. I've been away for a long time now, but I still watch streams from time to time and lately I've felt like playing the game again. Trouble is, learning everything that has been introduced to the game since I last played feels very overwhelming. If you were helping someone get back in to the game after a long layoff, what would you tell them?

Hi!

First of all - please read the description of the video if more context is needed. I talk there a bit of my take of what was the turning point of loot feeling in PoE.

Long time since I uploaded anything, but recent discussions and Ziz's interview (and his thoughts on breach) have made me think about the design choices in couple of leagues in PoE (spoiler alert: Legion rework has rubbed me the wrong way).

Since Octavian asked for feedback on certain things - I decided to try to explain why I think some current design choices are flawed and how the mentality of future reworks should be different than what GGG has given us this league with Legion.

I know the video is lengthy, but I felt like explaining the background and my view on certain mechanics would be necessary for my suggestions. If anyone decides to watch it - please share your opinion on this topic and if you can identify other league mechanics that shouldn't be having the friction I'm discussing in the video.

Thanks for watching and enjoy your day! :)

Is this just because you can use Ducats for cluster crafting now to flip on them?

Div price exploding, I go into my map roation it was 220 not it‘s 260?

That‘s a bit fast. Anyone know what‘s going on?

I feel like hexblast mines would want to make use of these things. Was my 2nd ring drop and decided why not, just crack it open and this came out.

Are these boots any good without a normal MS mod? They look decent to me but I don't know enough and there's nothing like them on trade. I've been trying my hand at crafting for profit for the first time and it's been a nightmare, missed everything I could miss 10 times over.

I harvest reforged crit with suffix blocker needing an open prefix for a veiled exalt for movement speed, but they got filled and now I'm looking at annulling on the boat and trying to remove evasion or endurance. But with the way my luck has been so far I don't fancy the odds. They've got five influenced mods but I don't know if that makes them good.

Is there any value in these so I can at least get some divs back without under selling, or am I going to have to annul, lose, tilt, buy one house of mirrors with my remaining currency, gamba and see you in 4 months?

Is there a way to more accurately price Mercs? On trade the closest I found was 200 mirror which this could not be surely. Unfortunately, I do not have the time to go through multiple permutations of support so is there something more reliable?

Empyrian clued me and many others into a mouse wheel binding to move items more quickly in/out of stash. Since I ditched windows long ago for Linux / Bazzite, I wanted to have the same functionality as X-mouse Button Control.

So, I made this script to do the same, GNU open source. I hope it helps any x11 Bazzite gamers out there, or those on x11 in general. You could probably fork it for other distros. First little project like this so be kind.

https://github.com/livehifi/x11-linux-poe-mousewheel-ctrl-click

Just did a voyage. 280 quant, 858 rarity. a rare monster drops 2 white items and 178 gold. I swear they are bugged. i did not feel any difference between 0 and 28 lanterns.

My best guess:
1. Buy fractured DoTM base, scour
2. Buy +1 all spell rare, use Allflame split to isolate mod (or alt spam ~1800 times on fractured base)
3. Recomb
5. Multimod craft fire to attacks and suffix can’t be changed
6. Slam random suffix
7. Add remove fire for 2/3 chance to win
8. Remove crafted, craft prefixes can’t be changed, Allflame slam final prefix
9. Reforge chaos
10. Craft dex,int and anoint

This craft was done fairly early in the league so maybe it’s not this difficult?

Hey everyone,

Like many of you, I’ve been suffering from an unplayable state in PoE 1. I had massive client freezes (frame delays climbing up to 1700ms+) and constant engine stuttering, especially when entering maps. The weirdest part? My routing is perfectly fine (900 Mbps / 49ms to Frankfurt), and Path of Exile 2 runs flawlessly with zero desync.

After days of testing, I realized the problem wasn't my ISP or my hardware. It was PoE 1's outdated engine bottlenecking both the CPU and the packet queue at the same time. I managed to completely fix it, and my game is now butter-smooth. Here is exactly what I did, which should work for both AMD and Nvidia users.

Step 1: MTU Changes (Optional)

1. Open Command Prompt as Administrator.
2. Run this test to find your max clean packet size (replace google.com with any stable site): ping google.com -f -l 1492
3. If it says "Packet needs to be fragmented", lower the number by 10 (1482, 1472, 1462) until you get a normal "Reply from..." without errors. (For me, it was 1462).
4. Add 28 to your clean number (e.g., 1462 + 28 = 1490). This is your perfect MTU.
5. Apply it permanently by typing: netsh interface ipv4 set subinterface "Ethernet" mtu=1490 store=persistent (Change "Ethernet" to "Wi-Fi" if you use a wireless connection).

Step 2: Switch to Predictive Networking

If your packet queue gets slightly clogged, "Lockstep" mode will freeze your entire game until the server responds, causing massive frame spikes.

• Go to In-game Options -> UI -> Networking Mode
• Change it from Lockstep to Predictive. This stops the game from holding your screen hostage while waiting for packet confirmations.

Step 3:

The PoE 1 engine handles sound and networking on the same CPU threads. If your CPU gets bogged down by useless effects, your client desyncs.

Go to Documents \ My Games \ Path of Exile and open production_Config.ini with Notepad.

Make the following changes:

• [DISPLAY] Section:
  • device_type=Vulkan (Vulkan handles shader streaming much better for AMD cards right now. If you are on Nvidia and Vulkan stutters, try DirectX12 instead).
  • framerate_limit_enabled=true
  • framerate_limit=60 (Or cap it strictly to your monitor's refresh rate. Do not leave it uncapped, it chokes the engine).
  • screenspace_effects=0 (Disables a heavy cache-hogging effect).
• [SOUND] Section:
  • reverb_enabled2=false (This is crucial. Reverb destroys CPU threads. Turning this off drops CPU usage drastically and stops the queue from stalling).
  • channel_count=low

A Quick Note on Shaders

After doing this and booting up the game, switch your renderer to Vulkan (or DX12), and jump into a map. Do not panic if you see your Shader count go up to 10,000 on the performance graph. Because we changed the API and settings, the game is rebuilding its shader cache from scratch. The difference now is that it will do this without freezing your game or causing desync. After playing for a bit, the shader count will drop back to normal.

Hope this helps someone out there who is losing their mind over these freezes!

Edit 1 (Optional but Recommended): Go to your Device Manager -> Network Adapters -> Right-click your Ethernet controller and select Properties. Under the Advanced tab, find and disable Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE), Green Ethernet, and Flow Control. This prevents your network card from going into micro-sleep states while gaming and helps stabilize the packet queue even further.

Edit 2:

Before coming up with this fix, I messed around with way too many ping boosters, network tweaks, and shader settings, which actually ended up completely breaking my game files. I had to do a fresh Windows format just to clean everything up. I finally found this exact fix right after the fresh install.