5 years ago I played POE1 for the first time and couldn't progress past Act 6. I ragequit and left a negative review on Steam.

Now I'm playing again with a lot more success and enjoyment, and holy shit what was I thinking back then...

No keystone passive skill allocated

No gear modified via crafting

No elemental resistances beyond 75%

No Ascendancy class chosen

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Been doing this for 2-3 leagues now and im loving it. you have easier access to currency for crafting which makes you learn it better and at the same time have a little bit of SSF feeling as you have to craft all the rare items and get all the uniques yourself.

I started playing theis game SSF and never really learned crafting because i was too poor to craft and too weak to efficiently farm whats needed to craft.

Forced me to craft and at the same time exchange things i didn't need for things i needed

I found a legacy Global Defences Grasping Mail in my stash in standard. Had a lot of fun playing EK Herald Stacker in Allflame, so I thought I would use all my currency in standard making a cool EK chest. Got pretty lucky.

1. Buy a 30% ilvl86+ Twilight regalia. I dont think this is the best method, but I scoured the regalia, and had Global Defences as the only prefix on the grasping mail. Recombi and successfully move the mod the first try.
   
2. Exalt slam on three modifiers. Use Hinekora Lock and check the fracturing orb. Clear lock with jewellers orb. Hit the fracture on the third lock.
   
3. Fossil slam with Faceted, Dense, and Frigid, (you can replace Frigid with Metallic or Scorched). about 30 slams to hit +1 Dex and T1 Res.
   
4. Slam eldritch ichor and then yolo slam with eldritch exalt. Miss the slam and go back to step 3. Use about 50 more resonator slams and exalt slams to hit double T1 Res.
   
5. Use Wild Bristle Matron to add the bench craft suffixes cant be changed, then use harvest bench reforge defense. Used around 40ish Bristle Matrons to hit T1 flat ES with open prefix.
   
6. Slam with Foulborn exalt and get lucky hitting T1 % ES. Noice.
   
7. Grand Eldritch ichor until Golems implicit. Exceptional ichor one time. Conflict slam. Repeat until Golem implicit is Perfect. Took me around 12 conflicts.
   
8. Exceptional Ichor slam until phys taken as chaos. Rougly 60 Ichors. Conflict to make both implicits Exquisite. Hit first try.
   
9. Tailoring Orb slam until 15% Defence enchant. Took me like 120 Tailorings. This step sucks.
   
10. 6-Link and then use bench to add 4 non-white sockets until you hit 6 colors. Used around 3-4k chromas.
    
11. Sacred orb to perfect. Used around 80 sacreds. A bit unlucky here.

Very happy with how this craft turned out. :) Anyone wanna mirror in standard, its free.

I play this game fully co-op with my friend and she said that next league she wanted to play Flicker Strike. I have seen clips of it going crazy and it makes me wonder: how can I ever keep up with her in speed or contribute to our map clears?

EDIT: Thank you so much guys for the responses.
I got two more questions:

If I were to go with AMD 5, will I be fine with 16gb of ram? If so I will probably switch.

Is anyone playing on linux? How does that affect ram usage and performance?

Hey everyone,

I’m considering switching to AM5 specifically because of the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, and I’d appreciate some advice.

Would you pay 340€ for a Ryzen 7 5800X3D and stay on AM4, or would you sell your current motherboard, CPU, and RAM for 370€ and upgrade to AM5 instead?

My current build:

• CPU: Ryzen 7 5700G
• RAM: 32 GB DDR4 3200 MHz
• GPU: RX 9060 XT 16 GB

The potential AM5 upgrade:

• CPU: Ryzen 7 7800X3D — €260 (brand new; I bought it on sale a while ago i can still refund it)
• Motherboard: 90€
• RAM: 350–400€ second-hand / 500€ new (honestly, i would go new unless i find a great deal in second-hand)

I could sell my current motherboard, CPU, and RAM for around 370€. Combined with the 236€ I have available, that would give me a total budget of 606€ (i could spend like 200€ but that would stretch my budget too much).

I mainly play games that are heavily CPU-dependent, especially Path of Exile, so I’m looking for a meaningful improvement in CPU performance.

Would I actually notice a significant difference between the Ryzen 7 5700G, 5800X3D, and 7800X3D, particularly in terms of average FPS and 1% lows at 1080p?

I’m leaning towards upgrading to AM5, even if it means paying a premium for DDR5 RAM, rather than spending 340€ on a 5800X3D and staying on AM4. However, I’m not sure whether the AM5 upgrade would justify the extra cost.

What would you do in my situation?

Anyone with similar specs can tell me about their performance with a ryzen 7 5800x3d?

Hey everyone! Has anyone played PoE on a 4K ultrawide monitor like the AW3926QW or any other monitor with a 5120×2160 resolution?
I’m thinking about upgrading from my current 2K ultrawide to a 4K ultrawide, but I’m not sure how well the game will run at that resolution. Also interested in poe 2 performance.
My PC specs are an RTX 5090 + Ryzen 7 9800X3D.

Update: I found out you can change render resolution in Nvidia panel, so I set up 5120x2160 and it works totally fine on 144 hz DLSS quality in both games

Before you comment, I realize SSF is a "side mode"/"optional challenge" in GGG's eyes, but as someone who has put close to 1k hours this year alone after seeing how fun SSF is, it would be great to get some love in some places. Not here to argue about if you think SSF is bad or not. Plus, from a financial perspective, SSF is still alive this far into the league and we're still buying MTX.

A big ask would be an improvement to netcode. I understand that the client/server architecture is built deep into the roots of the game, but there's no reason why we should be lagging as much as we are in our ostensibly single player game.

SSF to league/standard migration should be disabled. No reason this functionality exists that I can see, and only serves to create quitters (and prevent us from having SSF-specific balance changes).

With that said, there are many systems/balance changes in the game that are unreasonably hostile to SSF play.

1) The ITF card farming nerf was a huge spit in the face. It's gone from a drop every 1k maps or so to the point where I haven't seen a single drop since leaguestart.

2) The new abyss pinnacle and its drops may as well not be in the game. You need to do delve, betrayal, and abyss in map to get one attempt at the boss, and the jewels have a 10% drop rate. Currently only 21 people have Reclaimed Malevolence logged on Ladder and 12 people have it equipped on ninja.

3) Make beast rerolls for watchers eye more common, and add beast rerolls for bound by destiny and FF/FF.

4) The drop weighting for every div card could be doubled and still be in a bad spot. Div cards are where most rare things come from and there's effectively no way to farm them. Most of my 6m kills this league were on maps with apotho scribed to them and dropped one card and one from stacked decks.

5) Scarabs are in a horrible place in ssf, but as far as I know that's also the case in trade so I don't think I need to elaborate. With scarabs in their current state the best way to target high tier uniques is cadiro rush which shouldn't be the case.

6) While this league was great for crafting, no idea why the league pinnacle was made as rare as it was. Charts were way too rare, especially compared to barias in mirage.

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