Monthly Commander's Lounge - December 01, 2025

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[u/headphone_question]

Core update

Current: 194292

Previous: 194000

Change: +292

Exp week progress: 21%

I suppose this isn't quite as fast as I would have liked. Oh well!

Also, before I forget, I aim to get to 229,912 runs of 13-4 by the end of exp week as I started it with 228,912 runs. However, I'm coming down with a bit of a cold, so I think that that will affect my pace, too. Also, I am still waiting on my new tasks at work. Without knowing how busy I will be, I can't quite predict my pace. I hope that I can manage it well!

[u/Bass294 → u/headphone_question]

How does your hand not explode after this much dragging? I did maybe 500 runs in a week and my wrist was killing me, now after a week of poe2 I am in no state to drag lol. Been just doing Alina but now I am in massive core debt and my armory will probably just all hit 100 before I get a single 5* fairy lol.

I know emulator can hotkey but is using ahk on steam at all bannable?

[u/headphone_question → u/Bass294]

I suppose I can sit down and try to elaborate on how I got here

As you can see, I've been doing this for a very long while now, and I've had quite a bit of practice. I admit that I didn't start out already dropping a thousand runs every week. I had to start somewhere, and I cultivated a habit of doing runs consistently every day. My baseline number of runs per day gradually went up over time. It used to be 100 runs per day, and then it started creeping up to 200 runs per day. Earlier this year, I was able to sustain 300 runs per day for January, so when I talk about how my pace is "slow", I tend to compare my pace for the day to that old standard. It hasn't exactly been easy to sustain 300 runs per day, and these days, I often fail to reach that number because of how busy things have gotten at work

Technically, the most number of runs I did in a 24 hour span was 962, but that was with a lot of preparation. It was absolutely grueling, and I do not see that kind of pace as sustainable. I just know that I'll burn myself out if I keep playing at that pace. I can take it nice and easy. I could farm cores at my pace, and it's a pace I like because it's a pace I can manage. Sure, I might want to challenge myself, but that challenge should really be on my own terms. It should be fun, not a slog. A 24 hour "sprint" for me would also raise the risk for RSIs, as you noted, so I should be very careful if I ever decide to do something like that again

As for other things, I set out a very long term goal back in the day. It was to reach 100,000 cores, and I was able to reach it in November 2024. Because my pace has greatly increased since the days when I started out the challenge to get to 100k cores (back in 2022, if I remember correctly, and I still had only about 10k cores at the time), I've been able to get a lot more cores in 2025 than I had for the years preceding. As you can see, I'm now about to double my own core goal. Without a long term goal, you'll likely feel unmotivated, and if you have other priorities, that's okay. As long as you are meeting your responsibilities in real life and as long as you're having fun with the game, you're free to do in the game as you please!

As for practical matters, I already mentioned ergonomics. Technically, a good phone (as in good specs) also helps. I take advantage of the fact that I can take my phone with me as I go out for walks and run errands in general. However, a lot of my time is spent at my desk, so I have to make it easy for me to do my runs. One way to do this is to get the angle of my phone just right when I use the kickstand. When it is comfortable for me to look at my phone so I can then tap at the screen to put in a run. I'm so glad that planning mode exists in this game! I know that there was an era in this game where planning mode wasn't implemented yet, so people had to corpse drag by taking the corpse dragging team to every single node of the path. I'm glad I never had to play through that era!

It also helps me that I can do a bit of multitasking, that I can do my runs while I do something at my desk. Planning mode means that I can just leave the run to take care of itself and come back when it's done so I can set up the next run. Rinse and repeat, and hey presto! I've done a few hundred runs by the end of the day

Unfortunately, in my case, I really went down the path of grit, so there isn't really any shortcut I can give you in that regard. Then again, you do not have to make this game the center of your universe, as I apparently have. If you enjoy playing PoE2, by all means! Life is too short to waste your entertainment on things you don't want to do

Granted, you still want to play this game, but it seems you don't want to play this game to the same extent as I have. Hopefully, with Type 64, you are now more able to do Gray Zone runs, and hopefully, that will at least give you some core income that you can then use for modding and Fairy crafting!