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▲ 6 r/pathofexile

Who named the notable and Keystone passive skills?

(It's a question, but also kind of a discussion, sorry if I flaired it wrong.)

There are hundreds of passive skills in PoE, each with their own unique name, and I just wonder who named all of them?

I've never made a game, but from my clueless assumption, the process would be :

The director gives direction - the devs try to make it meet the direction, the designer shape it to make it more of a game than a code

Then when the devs made new notables/Keystones, they send them as a code to the designer, then the designers came up with unique names for all of them? Do they have a 'naming' role inside the designer team?

This seems like a hard work because unlike unique items, the name need to has a direct link with the abilities, and it also has to be generic enough, but can't be the same with other nodes that have similar abilities.

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u/BlackPandar — 8 days ago
▲ 28 r/pathofexile

I'm trying to craft a shield for my totem build, and after lots of recomb I finally got a decent shield, but I want to make it as good as possible before Shaper slamming (pun intended) it for +1 totem.

There are actually quite a lot of good mods for shield prefix, but the mods that I think would be best are tier 1 life or spell block, are there any good way to get that without spending too much? Right now I have around 40 divs to spare.

The methods that I can think of :

  1. Just benchcraft some cool prefix like +2 support or extra chaos, or just 70 life, but it will affect my defense a lot.

  2. Make another 1p/3s shield and recombine again, with 30% chance to brick the shield (6 choose 3 is 70% success, so 30% it will get 2 suffixes) and 23% (33% chance for 2 choose 2, so 0.7*0.33) to get 5 t1 mods shield. Extremely time and sanity consuming, but seems like the cheapest way?

  3. Slam Foulborn Exalt, if shit, suffix can't be changed annul, if remove block, scour, craft mana and keep slamming two times, if shit, suffix can't be changed and scour. This method is unbrickable but I assume it would be extremely pricey.

  4. Harvest add remove life, 50% chance it will remove block, if suffix can't be changed is removed and get shit life, craft scbc again and scour, do it till tier 1 life, then foulborn exalt and pray, if shit just repeat. Also unbrickable, but would also be very expensive, maybe even more than 3.

Maybe there are better ways? I'm not a good crafter so I'm not sure.

Thanks in advance!

u/BlackPandar — 25 days ago