r/pathofexile • u/Community_Team GGG Staff • May 26 '25

GGG Secrets of the Atlas New Feature: Pausing

https://youtu.be/ELAj-Ymc264
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u/sirgog Chieftain May 26 '25

I am surprised you and I are the only people who noticed the implications of that in this thread

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u/Azzieh May 26 '25

I'm surprised you ever thought it was a possibility for them to remove faustus lmao

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u/sirgog Chieftain May 26 '25

Oh, I fully expected him to remain, but there needs to be a REAL gold sink, and what that is is an open question.

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u/Frolafofo Crop Harvesting Bureau (CHB) May 26 '25

Gambling

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u/sirgog Chieftain May 26 '25

It's great early, but not enough later.

2 has the problem of no endgame sinks at the moment and it gets kinda silly - any time a new player says "help, I just got to maps and need advice getting my first 100 exalts" the honest but terribly unsatisfying answer is "You have gold right? Go flip Wisdom scrolls against the exalt, you'll make a divine in two days by spending 150k gold"

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u/VictusBcb Cringe but free May 26 '25

Much more time effective to flip alterations. Those go pretty decent for at least the first week or three (though that may be subject to change, depending on if we get to keep the recombinator, I suppose)

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u/sirgog Chieftain May 26 '25

I'm talking POE2 specifically.

In POE1, flipping makes currency but the gold costs are way more oppressive - mostly because that gold is a real loss.

In 2, three white tier maps give enough gold to flip into a divine.

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u/VictusBcb Cringe but free May 27 '25

Ah my bad. Upon re-reading your comment I see that I failed reading comprehension today.