u/5himmel5

Lately I've seen posts like this that mention something like

>I'm finding that items i go and farm, end up being 10-15 items above me? So takes me ages before i can use them.

This sums up the problem really well. E.g. say my build is not strong enough, and I need to farm new weapons, and I'm at level 74, the MI Weapon I need will drop at item level 82 - dear crate, do you know how long it takes with no exp potion when you are struggeling to get from 74 to 82? That's insane. during leveling, I always should be able to farm for upgrades that I can use NOW. it makes no sense to farm for things I will be able to use in a few hours.

Edit: haha what is this. I tried to farm lvl 82 weapons, in the meantime I leveled to 83 before getting a good one. now one droped - required level 94. what is this??

Most builds don't use any abyss jewels because numerically normal jewels are often much better (mostly because they roll dot multiplier or multiple ways to get crit multi). The numerical buffs to abyss added damage were not enough, they are still worse (and harder to roll?). Even if you get one with five modifiers, they are still worse.

It would be cool if they had an additional theme to them. like adding implicits that you can reroll with special abyss currency (think bones) that get stronger the more abyss jewels you stack.

I stopped playing at around patch 1.1.9.6 or so. must be like 3 years ago. I was quite good at theory crafting, making builds, I had a few lvl100s and lots and lots of gear farmed up.

somehow I forgot everything. Any tips on how to get back into the game? i know patches 1.2.x added a bunch of stuff, whats the important tl:dr to know about any QoL stuff? I remember it was best to farm cruicible for a few levels to get some devotion points before running through campaign; i have this red-cloaked set farmed up that was good for leveling, what was it called? I have these scolls that boost your favor to the factions to get them leveled quicker, I have the potions to get more exp, do these things still matter? has leveling changed? are my old builds still good? how do I even play this game?

I am struggling to get to Awareness level 35. My starting character is level 50, some skills are maxed out, I spent hours of time mining, raiding camps, smelting (its already at 60/60) but it feels like it takes forever to progress; No enemy from bronze age is of any challenge to me or my tribe.

The highest dungeon I fought was the ancient ruins dungeon - am I supposed to kill the frog boss before going to iron age? Is the grind any better later on, or when I fight more enemies on my level?

So I am mentally preparing to have a long drought concerning poe1 stuff, since poe2 expansion is delayed to end of may. But my dreams told me otherwise:

I was watching a GGG live stream where Chris Wilson returned! He announced that there will be no poe1 drought, and instead we will get a race event ! The event will have coins that we can collect and you can spend it before you encounter some RNG, be it killing monsters that drop loot or using orbs to craft. the coins will literally double your odds for a few seconds when you use them ! In addition, we will be able to earn MTX worth 60$ if we participate.

After that, I suddenly found myself in Niko's encampment, with a minecraft pickaxe I was trying to dig down and found the first mtx! It was a giant portal MTX looking like it was made by protoss in starcraft, but with a red skin instead!

Now I am awake again. please tell me this is true, please tell me Chris is still at GGG

Oh, I just saw the new expansion in poe2 is about a dreamer. tell me more ...