Zana - "We need to talk, but it isn't safe here. Follow me through this portal."

Jesus Chris who has sacrificed his hair for salvation of the game we love today - Path of Exile.

Just a random thought that striked me today, new players joining in the last months might not even know that there are temporary leagues, just standard and standard with boats... I don't know I just wanted to share.

Try to stay sane exiles.

I am depressed. I want my game back, the first "season" was so great man. I am really thinking about. but its so much to learn. is it to late to learn the game?

Hi, PoE1 SSF enjoyer here.

Today was a PG layout in Merc Lab, so very ideal to farm GS Jewel.
I ran 500 Merc Lab, got 9 jewels :

The first 100 labs gave me absolutely nothing, then I started droping some GS :

Run 105 --> Minion
Run 126 --> Crit chance
Run 149 --> Frenzy
Run 196 --> Minion
Run 307 --> Frenzy
Run 333 --> Crit chance
Run 393 --> Crit chance
Run 423 --> Minion
Run 458 --> Resistances
Run 458 to 500 --> nothing

People told me that the odds are 1 GS in 30 chests, and that the odds are the same for Uber and Merc Labs.
I've previously run 500 Uber Lab when there was a same-ish layout, and I was between 1 GS for 35 chests, so definitely close to the 1/30.
Here, on Merc, I'm at 1 in 55.55.

I was wondering if any players had the same merc lab results as me. I have the impression that the percentage in merc lab is lower than in uber, which make sense to me don't get me wrong. Maybe it's just bad luck ?

Looking forward to your answers !
(If anyone's wondering, it was absolutely atrocious to run 500 labs, 0 fun at all)

Never realised this until finally zooming in, maybe other people find this funny too

The ability to farm/recombine/trade idols acts like both as investment and an endgame goal. Sextants sucked because you had to manually apply them and trading them often required third party apps like discord etc.

The only thing missing right now is loadouts for different types of idol configurations, kinda like how Atlas Tree has it.

I just started yesterday (loving it BTW) and I know the boots aren't that brilliant or anything, but I wanted to add the movement speed buff on to them...

If I do, will it lose the other modifiers?

Again, sorry, I know this is a noob question but couldn't find anything when I googled it.

There's loads more things I need to work out, which I won't bore you with.. This game is pretty daunting and overwhelming for someone who has just started, and every guide seems to be for end game or reads like you already have proper knowledge of it, so decided to go it alone, but I needed to ask this...

Thanks in advance for any help.

Tell me how much time you need to do it well, to treat your employees like persons and to get a great league

The disaster lunch of 0.2 makes me think that june will give us a very mediocre league

I will never buy another supporter pack. I have consistently purchased at least one pack per season and was happy to do it. I knew my money was going to consistent work and it deserved payment.

If 3.26 is delayed, I will just outright stop buying the packs. I'm not funding poe2 with my purchases, I want to support poe1. We 100% were lied to originally when told poe2 wouldn't affect poe1 development, and I bought into it willingly. "GGG wouldn't lie, they have been so good and responsive for so long they would never do that to us."

I really don't want it to come to that, I like supporting quality content and the effort but I can't let them put what should be funding for the game I want go to something that I just don't enjoy.

Chris Wilson was an absolute treasure and I, at least, miss the hell out of him. This whole PoE2 disaster has me really nostalgic for ritual league and I honestly just can't understand why their idea of a good game is just downright unfun. This never would have happened before he left. It feels very much like the release version of Diablo 3, the old "Well we took numbers that we thought would feel good and DOUBLED them!", except instead Marc and Jon just took damage numbers that felt good and cut them in half instead, and I just can't imagine this doesn't torpedo the 3.26 timeline the same way 0.1.0 did.

I dunno, feels bad man. Chris Wilson appreciation post, I guess.

Y'all been getting so much hate lately and I see all the sides. Imo PoE 2 just not for me. I might try it out in a few years when 1.0 releases, but I don't have the time I used to have to be able to play games I'm interested in. I get that y'all have responsibilities to Tencent and to "the vision" or whatever but I just wanna say that y'all still be cookin'.

Ive been playing since tempest and warbands, only skipped a small handfull of leagues since I started, but I think phrecia is the most fun I've ever had with Poe.

I get that trading for idols sucks. Event start, getting an idol setup sucks. But once you're able to invest in a proper idol strategy it just opens up the game so much in a completely new way.

The idea of idols going core but when you run a map you select atlas or idols would be cool. When running idols, idols don't drop so idol farmers would be atlas runners. I think would be a really cool way to implement it.

The new subclasses add so much variety that we haven't seen since ascendancies were introduced. Being able to use my fishing rods in combat as well as the minigame is cool,. Flicker strike being usable during the acts is all I have ever dreamed of and scavenger being able to get unique affixes introduces some sick build design challenges.

If phrecia was really just some half baked, grab what you can and put it where it can go, 2 guys chinnin in a hot tub event, it makes me feel there's still sauce at GGG. People can still get down with PoE and they know what the player base wants.

I hope.

Hey everyone, new PoE1 player here. I picked up PoE 2 for my Steam Deck, but the performance was so bad that I switched to PoE 1 instead. Started playing about 4 days ago, and I’m currently in Act 3—really enjoying it so far! Sorry if this sounds like a noob question, but I’m running a Toxic Rain build right now. What happens if I slot Toxic Rain gems into both my bow and my body armor? Will the damage double up, or does it not work like that? Thanks for any help!

This is a heartfelt request from a previous PoE no-lifer who now gets maybe a few hours a week to play...

I don't like Poe2, and I miss PoE1 getting content at least semi-regularly.

I used to spend ~$500/year on PoE 1 and in the last 2 years I've spent almost nothing. You are losing revenue.

GIVE US WHAT WE WANT. WE CREATED YOU.

I cannot standby and watch the cycle of PoE2 release, self immolation, and delay of a PoE1 league again. Under the inspiration of the great Izaro meme, I believe we need to have a very frank discussion given the past announcement (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF4rqnPoo80&ab_channel=PathofExile) and history repeating itself.

I'm half joking 10 hours before lazy sunday officially starts. I know its not as easy as them adding the graphics over from one game to the other; I don't even know if they run on the same engine or whatever. But its obvious they are stumbling here and they need to make some executive decisions to expand their teams or cut their ambition. As a >10 year poe enjoyer/supporter, I hope GGG recovers from this well.