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Mummelmann on 17 January 2025
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SvennoJ said:

We got 'stuck' on PoE2, repeatedly dying in the end game by one hit deaths. So we tried a ranger witch combo for a night, start over, see if that's enjoyable. While it's fun to see the minions on screen helping, it kinda takes the action and thus the fun away. Standing back with a pew pew shooter lol. Just the sound alone was very disappointing after warrior/monk combo. And the same problems as first time, bosses are ridiculous difficulty spikes in the first round (better on cruel). Sure we could've beefed up our new characters with money, materials and old gear from the shared stash but that takes half the progression fun away and makes loot totally pointless.

Anyway standing back isn't fun for us, so I set out to rebuild my wife's warrior. Rerouted a bunch of passives, support gems and skills. Now with time of need and overwhelming presence, another aoe attack and most importantly replaced half her gear. By buying random gear items from the merchant until finally some piece with over 100 health on it came up, then build that up. In the end I got her over 500 more hp, 2159 now, as well as better resistances.

It worked she can tank now at the easy levels at least. And now I'm the liability lol. I keep dying attempting a tier 2 map, one hit deaths in all the chaos. My wife managed to go on and finish the entire tier 2 zone by herself so her warrior at least works now. I guess now I have to fix my gear, resistances and hp. Kinda annoying the game relies so heavily on gear stats.

The patch dropped yesterday which changed stuff around for the endgame. Waystones seem to drop a bit more frequently now, however only t1. We, or rather my wife manged to complete the second t2 map, but since then we've only got more t1 waystones. There are now checkpoints in the endgame map, only good for warping and topping up flasks the first time you find them. Death is still permanent, glitches are still there. My wife could finish one zone without me but in another it bugged out again when she got too far from my corpse, screen locked, blindly portal out, can't get back in. Even with her logged in by herself it wouldn't allow her to go back claiming she died and wasn't allowed back in...

It was great fun running into an acceleration shrine. My monk is already very fast, 1.88 attacks per second quarterstaff, lot of speed enhancements, shrine on top and it was hard to follow what was happening on the screen lol.

They boosted Armor in the patch as well, it's still not terribly strong, but it's a lot more viable. Warrior should be an easier time overall with these latest changes. I rolled a new one just to try it, it's quite fun! I have three characters on the 70s now, the Witch is close to 80, but the leveling is slow overall. Currently doing Tier 9 maps with the Infernalist Witch, the mobs aren't all that bad but on-ground effects usually kill me. "Burning Ground" affix is the bane of my existence in this game, the damage needs some serious tweaking. I've also failed my third Ascendancy with the Witch three times in a row, leaving me with tokens that can only make it worse (higher level and even harder). Some of the mechanics in the Trials of Sekhema are just pure BS.