9 out of 10 bloodline ascendancy have been revealed.

https://poedb.tw/us/Bloodline_Ascendancy_class

BAMA build is killed

Pyroclast mines is killed. This is a big nerf to aurabots.

PConc is nerfed.

Volcanic Snaking is nerfed.

Golem Elementalist is nerfed.

EE trickster probably sucks without a merc.

Assassin class reworked.

Voltaxic burst is buffed. This seems promising with eblade/spellblade. it converts your lightning damage to chaos damage.

New wand skills look very strong. Especially kinetic rain. Fubgun is doing wands, so that will probably be the most popular build of the league.

New bow skills look cool.

I think it’s still too early for me to decide a build. I’m waiting them to reveal the other 7 bloodline ascendancies.

I played self cast eblade in 3.26 and I did reach my goal of having over 1 billion dps, however I wasn’t very satisfied with the map clear speed with flameblast or incinerate.

The bloodline ascendancies require you to sacrifice points from your main ascendancy, so I’ve been thinking about which class has the most unnecessary 4th large node. Maybe pathfinder or hierophant.

If there are any bloodline ascendancies with massive damage boosts, it could make jugg and trickster the top ascendancies again because of the “Unstoppable” and “One Step Ahead” nodes which prevent you from being slowed.

Scion also could have a lot of potential with the bloodline ascendancies because the 4th notable only gives you 3 additional passive skill points.

The Chess buttplug meme was Hans Niemann.

Here’s a video where a twitch viewer payed GM Naroditsky to do the anime Chika dance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuNYGH-9XPs

Debian has a package called popcon (Popularity Contest) which tracks package usage.

https://popcon.debian.org/

You can search a package name. I made an example graph showing web browser usage. This may not be fully accurate because it isn’t showing proprietary browser such as Chrome or Brave.

https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=firefox-esr%2Cchromium%2Ckonqueror%2Cepiphany-browser%2Csurf%2Cw3m%2Clynx&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=2019-01-01&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1

The problem with reporting on the DPRK is that information is extremely limited on what is actually going on there.

There are news website hosted in DPRK which are accessible internationally. The main 3 are KCNA, Rodong Sinmun, and Minju Joson. KCNA is the main news agency. Rodong Sinmun is the newspaper of the Worker’s Party of DPRK. There are a few others. DPRK controls the .kp TLD, so every website that ends in .kp is hosted in DPRK.

These websites post a lot of articles about building project in DPRK. Today KCNA announced a new hospital opening. Yesterday KCNA showcased one of their new warships. DPRK has been increasing trade with Russia, so there’s a lot of articles about partnering with Russia.

Although these website have English versions, the Korean version of Rodong Sinmun has additional articles. I use a translator to read the Korean version. The Korean version of Rodong Sinmun has many articles on international news. I’ve seen Rodong Sinmun do reporting on the ongoing ICE raids in the US, the genocide in Gaza, etc. Just this past week, KCNA mentioned the US not releasing the Epstein files in an opinion article.

http://kcna.kp/en/

http://www.rodong.rep.kp/en/

http://www.minju.rep.kp/home/index/first/0/en

http://www.dprkportal.kp/guide (dprk website list)

There’s also a DPRK television channel which can be viewed internationally, KCTV. There’s a live stream of KCTV at the link below. KCNAWATCH (owned by NKNews) is a US company which is anti-DPRK.

https://kcnawatch.org/korea-central-tv-livestream/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm-0L-A7Glg

This is the song from the concert video.

You can convert existing premium tab to merchant only before the patch 0.3 launch (August 29). The conversion page says that it removes the existing premium tabs from your POE 1 stash. Mark said that the merchant will be added to POE 1 in the future but does not say when. If you convert your premium tab to a merchant tab, then you have 1 less tab in POE 1 for the remainder of Patch 3.26. Mark did not confirm whether 3.27 will have the merchant in POE 1. Also I’m betting there will be a mini-league like Phrecia before 3.27. With all of that being said, if you choose to do a tab conversion, it will mean that you have less storage space in POE 1 for an indefinite amount of time.

The trailer mentions zero new ascendancy classes. People were expecting there to be 4-5 new ascendancy classes added in this patch. Poe 2 currently has 17 of a promised 36 promised character classes. There is still 0 of 6 ascendancy classes of the str/int stat type (no druid, no templar). There is still no sword or flail weapon base in the game.

I don’t really care about the campaign. The campaign is the tutorial and the POE 2 campaign is more boring and longer than the POE 1 campaign. Chris Wilson (Creator of POE 1) famously said that once you finish the campaign, then we own your soul. This is meant to mean that the campaign is a right of passage, but the real game begins after the campaign is completed.

The trailer doesn’t at all mention changing the tower system which everyone hates.

Many of the fixes in the trailer are just reversions to poe 1 game design. Weapon swap has been made instant as it was in POE 1, POE 2 had previously made weapon swapping have a cast time. POE 2 removed the crafting bench, now they’re adding veiled mods (from poe 1) as a substitute function of the crafting bench.

They’re making support gems to be more like poe 1, where poe 1 support gems had 20 levels, poe 2 support gems now have 3 levels of each gem, previously only 1 level of each support gem type. They’ve also reverted the change to POE 2 which said that you could only use 1 of each type of support gem in all links.

POE 2 had an awful waystone mod system where prefixes made the map more rewarding and suffixes made the map more difficult. This gave people the incentive to only run maps with 3 prefixes and 0 suffixes. Now they say they are reverting the waystone mod system to be like poe 1 where each mod makes both more difficult and rewarding.

The sprinting system looks awful. It allows you to move fast but it also punishes you for moving fast. This is symbolic of the bad design of POE 2. POE 1 was a game for being fast and rewarded people for being fast. POE 2 punishes people for being fast. It could be an advantage for minion classes, as maybe they could sprint while the minions attack. The need for other character types to constantly alternate between fighting and sprinting will feel tedious.

The tier system that they are adding to the BASIC currency looks like an incredibly bad idea. It’s called BASIC currency for the reason that it is simple. On the official GGG-owned POE 2 wiki, basic currency is called “basic currency”. In the trailer, Mark Roberts refers to “basic currency” as “core currency”, acknowledging that a fundamental change is being made. Now they are creating 3 tiers of every basic currency: Chaos orb, Greater Chaos Orb, and Perfect Chaos Orb. This will have making trading more confusing or overwhelming by multiplying the number of basic currency by 3. Basic currency is used as currency to buy gear items from other players.

They are adding Hinekora’s Lock orb. Most players will never interact with this, so not really much to say. It could be good for mirror crafting.

The sanctified omen for making sanctified items will probably also be used for mirror crafting. It’s kind of a bad game design to add a new “unmodifiable” item type. Corrupted was the original name for an item that is unmodifiable. So we must ask. how is sanctified different from corrupted? The most obvious answer would be that corrupted items can’t be duplicated with Mirror of Kalandra, which would imply that sanctified items can be mirrored. So then we ask, why is a sanctified item unmodifiable? With the addition of the hinekora’s lock, a player will be able to test multiple possible sanctified outcomes. This means that the value of a hinekora’s lock will always be more than the value of a sanctified omen because the hinekora’s lock allows the player to test multiple sanctified outcomes while the sanctified omen locks the item after 1 use.

The auction house costs real money per tab. To sell on the auction house, you have to buy auction slots basically, one time lifetime purchase. The trailer seems to imply that auction tabs will cost the same as premium stash tabs, which would be $4 per auction tab, with 12x12 items slots. This is kind of a cash grab on the old player base.

Minor detail, at 31 minutes into the trailer, you can see that a map boss has been added to Augury. Augury has been considered to be the worst map layout in the game and did not have a map boss. I guess this would be a slight improvement. The layout of Augury is still pretty based where it is a small confined square and you have to activate 4 switches which have a long activation time.

Overall, the improvements made to POE 2 are generally reverting to how things were in POE 1. POE 2 is just bad in general. A lot of the streamers say that they won’t play it. Many of them quit Patch 0.2 early to play Last Epoch.

GGG also announced that the first 3 days of Patch 0.3, the game will be free for anyone to be play. Usually on game launch, the servers are bad, this means that the servers are going to be EXTRA bad for the first 3 days.

Also the “new” mechanic is abyss. In poe 1, abyss monsters have high amounts of physical damage which is hard to mitigate. In POE 1, some of the abyss monsters are extremely fast and become untargettable (ghosted, you can’t hit them) until after they hit you and then they become targettable for a brief period of time. This means you will likely be expected to take large physical damage hits to survive the mechanic. If you die or take too long to kill the monsters, the abyss chain can end prematurely. In poe 1, this is easily overcome by being fast and having high amounts of damage, which is less attainable in poe 2.

https://plagueofcarcosa.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-dreamless-deep

It’s a good game. Epic launcher probably sucks though.

you can try the demo here, in your browser.

https://thejaspel.itch.io/backpack-hero

He’s going to be the mayor and in his free time he plays a city management game. This is like the pilots who go home and play flight simulator.

https://www.dexerto.com/twitch/what-is-stop-killing-games-pirate-software-drama-explained-3218791/

The devs have said that all of the poe 2 engine code is being backported to poe 1. They may have already backported much of it. There is no “I can only play poe 2 because poe 1 code is bad”. It’s the same code.

Both games run on mostly the same code. POE2’s game engine is based on POE1’s code. There’s even examples where POE1 features have accidentally been left in POE2, example: the POE2 anointment window prompted you to use tainted oil, an item which doesn’t exist in POE2.

For performance issues, update your graphics driver, delete the game graphics cache files.

Try POE 1. Follow the pohx guide for new players. The next poe2 expansion is probably August.

https://pohx.net/

redact dot dev is owned by a guy named Dan Saltman. Dan Saltman is the cohost to liberal youtuber Destiny (Steven Bonnell). Dan Saltman is openly Zionist and has tried to have all anti-Zionists banned from streaming websites, such as twitch. I would avoid using redactdev. I don’t trust them to securely delete things.

I avoid DoT builds because of DoT damage is capped at 30 mil dps. This league looks like it will be bossing oriented, with the addition of new bosses, the atlas thread system which compounds maps modifiers in the chain, and the mercenary dueling system.

Conner (OneManaLeft) has been predicting for months that this league would buff self-cast spell builds and it seems that he was proven to be correct in the patch notes. There’s huge buffs to arcane surge and cast speed. I’ll probably look into doing something with energy blade + spellblade + self cast.

In phrecia, I had a 5 mirror build (manaforged arrows whisperer) with over a billion dps. In settlers, I had a 10 mirror build (zenith juggernaut, I’m not sure what the dps was but it could do all map mods on t17 without any problems.

I’m really enticed by energy blade + self cast because you can swap in any spell you want. Also the buffs to cast speed will greatly improve transfigured frostblink (frostblink of wintry blast). Trans frostblink basically feels like you have Enigma is Diablo 2.