Path of Exile 2 introduces significant changes to the Chronomancer and Gemling Legionnaire ascendancy classes, with the Chronomancer receiving a powerful new defensive node (Phase Form) that provides 30% damage reduction for 4 seconds after being hit, while the Gemling Legionnaire gains an additional quality socket for every skill gem, fundamentally altering how skills are built and what effects they can provide.
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All right. So, it looks like uh over here Cyclone is going to be heading into Zalmarath the Colossus, which we all know is going to be very, very annoying. Is a very, very annoying boss to fight. So, right now, Cyclone making quick work of it, though. Luckily, crossbows or grenades, I think, are pretty good for clearing this boss, but there are definitely some builds that really struggle against this guy. So, it looks like um Cyclone does get out of that area uh relatively quickly and it looks like Stew is now starting with um the Valley of the Titans right now. Once again, Cyclone has not done his trial of Seovas yet because he could not because he skipped Balbala.
Um so, he does not have the Baria yet.
he is going to be going and grabbing the guaranteed baria over at Dashar and um will not be able to do the trial of until then.
Will there be a VOD later? Uh I mean it'll be on Twitch. I don't know if I'll upload on YouTube. Maybe if you guys want it, we we can upload it.
All right. Looks like um Subet is making his way through the Valley of the Titans. He is opting to not do the uh abyss at all. So he is skipping that and he is heading into once again he is putting in his relics and he has both relics once again. He got very lucky those relics did not run into bad luck um and is going to be trying to make his way through the valley of titans.
Meanwhile, um, Cyclone is going to be starting his way in to the in Dashar, which here is where he is going to be getting the guaranteed baria. Um, so he can go and do his trial ascendencies later.
Both players progressing down through their respective areas. Once again, I feel like Stu is still in the lead, but it's really really hard to say. They're definitely still very close to one another. I would not say that one is pulled way far ahead of the other. All right, so it looks like um as you can see right now over here, we're going to zoom over into Cyclone. He is killing these two vultures because these two vultures are where he gets that guaranteed baria to be able to do his um trial of um that he skipped out on with the um skipping out on Bala. So, as you can see, he killed that way faster than what it took would have taken him to kill Balbala because one, Balbala is a boss, so has a lot more HP. She moves around a lot and as a result crossbows and grenades are pretty bad against her. So doing this was way faster than doing Bala. So definitely a very smart decision over on the side of Cyclone for this one in order to make sure he is moving as fast as possible.
All right, looks like Cyclone does find the corpse for the final letter to get his two passive weapon points right there. Um, and heading straight into the path of mourning.
Meanwhile, Subet is now in the Titans Grotto and oh, he is in a little bit of a sticky situation right now. That pounce really glitched him in the air in that little corner and he couldn't even throw any twisters which uh got him stuck for a little bit, but he did make it out fairly smooth. Now, looks like Cyclone is doing the league mechanic in the P uh in Desar, which gives a guaranteed lesser rune. So, looks it's like he got a lesser desert rune. So maybe if he does feel like he is lacking a little bit of that fire res, he could put that onto his gear. Um, looks like Snoop is taking a little bit of a tumble over there over on the uh in the Titans Grotto, but making it out completely fine, pretty much unscathed.
Um, now Cyclone is in the path of morning heading towards the next zone.
Interesting thing, interesting little tidbit for you guys who want to make the campaign a little bit faster. Um, if you press the map button, the U button on your keyboard, I don't know what it is for controller, but the the overworld that shows you all the areas and you can like, you know, that's where you that's the little screen you get when you open up the waypoint. the relative direction of where the little areas are are basically the the directions that you actually need to head towards in your map. So if for example relative to where you are let's say M path of warning is on the bottom left compared to the spar which is on the top right that means that you're going to be heading towards the right top right side to be able to get to that next area. Interesting little tidbit for anybody who wants to make their campaign a little bit smoother. But looks like Stu is heading into the Zerath fight right now. And as I mentioned, this fight, it can be a little bit annoying for certain characters. Um, you know, we had Stu killing a lot of the other bosses very quickly. But this Zrath fight is, as we've seen, Cyclone take it down way faster than Stu did. though. It's not like Stu took it down very slowly, but definitely a lot faster on the side of Cyclone for this fight, even though Stu is a little bit higher level compared to Cyclone in this situation.
But Stu does finish up with that and is going to be heading straight into Dishar right on after his little shopping trip.
He's got a little bit of extra lightning damage and some strength to be able to go and wear his chest armor again. Uh, so he is able to get that bonus once again. I don't know if he's potentially thinking about replacing his chest armor at this point, but he's kind of eyeing it. Um, heading in to grab the reward from Zarka, getting a nice level two support gem right there and potentially going to be putting it into looks like he might be upgrading his elemental armament to level two. All right, putting that into ice tip arrows. Once again, I arrows a huge part of Oh, as I was talking about this, the cyclone does take a fall and sends him right back into the beginning of the map. Oh my god. Do you see how much area he has gone and progressed? Oh, and he dies once again. Oh my goodness. Whoa. No.
Taking two deaths in a row like that.
That is really tough. Once again, the crossbow player does like the grenades player does struggle a little bit on these enemies that do tend to be a little bit faster and surrounds him very quickly because it does take a little bit for the grenades to actually explode. And as a result, you don't just have like a get off me button unlike other classes. Now, Snoo does need to on his twisters charge up his twisters to he'll do max damage, but whirling assault does do a little bit of damage.
That does offer a little bit of a get off of me um type of move. But I would say that you can let off the twisters a little bit earlier just to clear the enemies in front of you. Um so you don't get surrounded. So that is one of the big downsides of playing a skill like grenades as opposed to some of these other builds which you know even with saying like warrior with shield wall, right? That comes down way faster than the likes of crossbow which takes a significant amount of time to go and explode and detonate.
But Stuait now heading through the spire in through Dishar right now. Meanwhile, it looks like Cyclone has found the boss to in the Spires of Ashar. Looks like he is going to opt to wait to kill the boss until later because he is going to be going to look for the sisters of Gauan to go and get that 20% lightning resistance. Um, now Sub does find the corpse for the his uh two skill points and he is now going to be heading towards the uh the Spires or the Char himself.
Now he takes a little bit of fall. Uh Cyclone is once again looking for the Sisters of Garacon. Still wondering where that is. Uh unable to find it at the moment. Interesting to see if he opts to proc it first or if he decides to go back. I feel he's going to proc it right now and just quickly head over to the boss from the checkpoint right afterwards. Not dealing with any of the minions that do spawn as a result of that. Um, he is getting the guaranteed gem cutters prism from this area. Once again, he does have two GCPs, which in my opinion aren't that big of a deal, but do help out a little bit when it comes to how fast you're going to be clearing the campaign. A little bit more is always be better, right? Looks like Subet is going to be heading to the Path of Morning and then heading into the Spires of Jar afterwards. Um, once again, for anybody who tuned in a little bit later, uh, Stu is going to be a, uh, he already did do his Trials of Ascendency, which is why you're seeing this little bit of a difference. So, the race is a lot closer than you expect with I at this point, I can't I don't even really know who's further ahead or not. I would probably guess that Snoo is a little bit further ahead, but you know, they are definitely very much neck and neck still in the um grand scheme of things.
All right, Sub went back to go in a little bit of shopping trip, but now back into the path of morning heading towards the Spires of Dishar. Um and meanwhile, Cyclone, he is not killing the boss yet. I wonder if he is trying to gain what I'm not entirely sure what is he doing. I guess maybe he I I didn't catch it, but did he not find the sisters of Garacon yet? Cuz if he did, man, that is a huge setback to his time.
He had to Yeah, he did not find the sisters of Garacon yet. If he did, those stone little statues would be activated.
He is running into a lot of dead ends right now and that is not good considering the fact he is already a little bit of behind on this run and not being find able to find sister Garacon two of his attempts and every time he resets the checkpoint. Remember he is he all the monsters do end up respawning on his way to it and oh sister Gar was so close to the entrance and he ended up missing it two times around but finally he does end up finding the sister Garon and he is going to go into his boss fight now um and he's does a little bit of inventory management while uh Mr. Jaman and Ra is doing his little monologue and the bones of the boss are coming on together. These bosses once again are really annoying in my opinion, very janky, but crossbows luckily do deal with them very quickly. Um, it is not that bad for crossbows and grenades, but this is a boss is called Togle the Defiler. Damage wise right now, I feel like really feel like Cyclone might be lacking on the damage front. Of course, I have not caught any of Cyclone's weapons. I think the last one that I saw was he did get triple flats on his weapon, but no like plus projectiles or anything, but despite his weapon being, you know, his damage being a little bit lower compared to Stu, still makes quick work of this boss. And the boss is about to die. Gets picks up a level eight skill gem and is on his merry way.
Subie, however, is going to be still a little behind in this area. Um, catching up to him in the Spires of Zar.
Meanwhile, it looks like Cyclone is done. I wonder if when Cyclone decides he wants to go and do his trial of ascendancy, whether he goes now or he waits until later. I would think that he goes now before he starts heading into the dreadnot. Yep, he does go and do his second list right now. So, this is um I would say that at this point, unless Cyclone is able to absolutely run and gun speed through his trial of Sekchas, Stu is actually quite a bit ahead right now. Now, let's see if Subet does struggle with finding the Sisters of Garacon. And he does not struggle whatsoever. Finds that really quickly and now heads off onto the boss. Now, let's see if he has any trouble finding the boss on the other hand, which could definitely happen if he is not um you know familiar with these layouts, but um he is going to opt to grab the Sisters of Garacon first and dealing with the mobs as he goes. Now, one of the thing the advantages of grabbing Sisters of Garacon this early is that you do get the extra mobs to spawn, which is a I guess for some people might be advantage or some people might be a disadvantage because the Sisters of Garacan's little uh little statues popping out do provide extra exp, but they it is a lot of more mobs that do extra damage. So, you are doing kind of a taking a small risk by activating that early before going to the boss fight. But Snoo does make it to the boss fight very smoothly and is uh able to avoid any sort of death or punishment. So heading into this boss fight is Snoo and he is going to be may hopefully making quick work of this boss. Um dropping down his batter to do a little bit of extra damage. And man, look at those twisters. Absolutely just shred through this boss. Oh my goodness.
Twisters. I I mean, Stu does have a really good weapon, but man, those twisters are doing a lot of damage. All right, Stu opting to go back and I guess he is looking for is he looking for the league mechanic for the gem cutters prism because he is not teleporting out of here in the spir unless he is trying to farm some exp. That might also be another thing that he's doing. Um, looks like he does get the level right there.
He is now level 26, which is something that we were trying to pay attention to earlier. I'm not entirely sure what level uh Cyclone is at right now, but level 26 is Snoob. And I don't expect Cyclone to be that much further behind, especially because he did suffer a couple of those deaths, which required him to re or uh redo a lot of the map.
And he also did have to reset that map a lot too, right? So that really the sisters of garacon not being able to find that really set him back by quite a bit but probably helped him out with his exp there. Once again both players will have to reach level 36 by the end of this campaign by the end by the time that they kill Doriani to be truly done with this race and call themselves the winner.
Sub doing a little bit of shopping here and there trying to get a little bit of some upgrades. Um, as far as I can see, it doesn't look like he's gonna be getting that much out of it. Looks like his regex does not pick up the armors, which Stu, you gotta work on your regax, man. You got to work on your regax. Why is your regex not picking up the armor?
H, he chooses to go and buy the armor piece and replace that right now really quickly. Getting a little bit more life and some strength on that armor to give him some more survivability.
All right, looks like Cyclone tried to jump through those spikes. Did not make it through with pounce. Um, but heading off through his trial of Sekchas and heading halfway through at this point. Sub meanwhile starting on the dreadnot um and heading to the Jaman Raw fight which I don't expect him to really run into too many issues there or anywhere here. Honestly, he is taking quite a little bit bit of damage from the enemies around him, but I don't think that anything Oh, and he gets a unique spear. He has a unique spear. Now, the question is, does he is that spear better than his current spear? It is a level 21 spear, the war spear with it gives attack speed and it also gives physical damage and it does give you increased uh projectile damage if you did hit with a melee recently which for twisters you will have to use melee attacks and he does opt to Oh, is he is he just testing it out? Oh, he is sitting here pondering. He is not moving. What is going on? Mr. Stupid, you are running out of you you're time's ticking, sir. Time's ticking. he decides that it is not worth his time. He decides that it's probably not more damage. Now, the reason why it's a little bit hard to tell is because there is that part where he does get the 30 something% increased damage. Um, if you hit with a melee attack recently on his projectile skills, that does not show up on the tool tip. So, you can't necessarily just compare the tool tip damage there to really say whether or not one is better or not. You got to do a little bit of mental math there to be able to truly be able to tell. Yes, the unique did indeed cost him quite a bit of time. Now again, Stu, he has gotten really lucky. OH MY GOD. AND he gets the wake of destruction boots on. What is going on? Snoo out here.
Absolutely getting some crazy RNG with his run. Oh my god. I h I I don't even know what to say about that. Stu, what is going on this? He's getting some crazy spears. He's getting uniques. He's getting the wake of destruction, which is probably the best in slot boot for Twisters. You can look at this. You can see the smile on his face. He is so happy about this situation that he has found himself in. Meanwhile, we're going to go and head over into Cyclone, who is going to be doing his uh rattle cage fight right now. Taking quite a bit longer than Subet, of course. once again. Uh but looks like he is going to be doing that with very very ease. A lot of ease. Very easy. Doesn't even look at the drops. Goes and grabs the royal the the golden cash. The royal cash. Oo, some exalted orbs right there. Not bad.
But man, all of these drops that Cyclone is getting, they are they do not compare. They do not compare at all to what Snoo is getting. Now, the crazy thing, right, about the wake of destruction boots, if for anybody who doesn't know, is that the wake of destruction boots drops a trail of lightning wherever you are walking, right? So, not only does it allow you to give your uh twisters lightning enhancements, right, allows your twisters to have lightning imbued onto them. It also shocks the enemies around you. So, you can drop shocked ground and get that juicy juicy increased damage on all the enemies that you're walking around. And of course, your cyclones now have a lot of flat lightning. They have a lot of lightning damage added to them.
So, they also shock enemies as well.
This is absolutely insane. Stu potentially, I don't know, guys. Do you think that Stu is using all his luck on this race and just destroying his luck on his league start? Cuz man, look at that. Holy. And also adds lightning damage to his attacks. Flat lightning damage to his Oh my god. Absolutely. I would say probably the best unique drop you can get on twisters. And honestly on most builds on most attacking builds that is probably the best drop you can get. Looks uh but Stuate heading into the Jaman Raw fight while um while Cyclone is just heading into Dread Dot.
And oh my god, look at the sheer amount of damage that this build is doing right now. Snoo, are you sure you're not playing a twink character? Cuz that damage is unethical.
Oh my goodness.
I I mean I think at this point it's going to be very hard for Cyclone to catch back up, man. It is going to be very hard. Cyclone is doing his best, but the RNG gods are saying that Steu deserves to win this one man.
What is going on here?
All right, it looks like Sub heading into the second phase of the Jaman Raw fight. Once again, should not be that difficult with his current setup. Runs around Jamar, drops the shock to ground to make it do a little bit of extra damage. Instantly freezes the boss. And look at that. He is just dead. The boss is just dead, guys. What I mean, all we can hope for at this point, right? I think Cyclone what is he is hoping for is that somehow somewhere in this world the monkey goes and drives his pole his ginormous pull up Snoo's rear end when he is doing that part of act three cuz at this point man it is going to be hard for Snoo to lose. It is really his race to win at this point.
And uh I it is really his race to lose at this point if he does not um play it very safe and carefully.
He can't stop smiling, dude. I mean, if I were him, I would also be very happy.
Now, one thing though, all right, one thing. Snoo cannot get complacent, right? Because there is, and this is something I'm guilty of. I'm very guilty of this. Whenever I'm doing really well, I start getting sloppy. Whenever I'm getting good drops, I start playing sloppy. I'm like, ah, you know, I'm probably really far ahead. Like, this is going to be fine. If anything happens, I could catch up really quickly, right? So that is something that Snoo needs to not do because that will get him in a lot of trouble because of course Cyclone is a very very strong competitor over here that could just take advantage of any form of weakness that Stu is showing. So Stu needs to make sure he is on his toes despite the great RNG that he is getting right now.
now. All right. So, it looks like Subet is heading into the sandlit marsh. He is going heading right in onto act three.
Um, and leaving Cyclone behind in act two.
Now, act three in this first zone, there are quite a few things that you want to get, right? So from the boss in this area as Stu is lagging around with his five frames per second. Um in this in this area the boss gives you a level 9 skill gem which is the next tier skill gem which is very nice. And also there is a camp right before the ziggurat encampment which is the next town which will give you a guaranteed lesser jeweler orb. This at this point is going to be the second guaranteed lesser jeweler orb in the campaign. So it is going to be giving you quite a bit of damage. Now I'm expecting Stu to put that jeweler orb on to his ice tipped arrows um if he hasn't already.
Interestingly enough, the the build that Snoo gave me um says that he actually puts the jeweler's orbs on ice tip arrows, whirling slash, and barrage, but from what I saw earlier, he put it on twisters. So, I'm interested to see if he's deviating off of the skill guide that he gave me or he just gave me a old skilled guide that build guide that is not actually the build guide he's using.
But, all right, Snub is heading off. I don't think he went and fought the boss.
Um he is looks like he is opting to head straight into the zig. Oh no. He's doing doing a quick big circle back. He finds the um he finds the checkpoint and he goes back. He's going to be doing the leave mechanic which um in this place it gives him an uncut level three support gem. Your first level three support gem that you get in the campaign. And I'm wondering if Subie opts to go and instantly pop it, which he does. What is he going to be getting here? Looks like he is going to be getting projectile acceleration. No, he's going to be getting the in what is that? Uh uh um what is that? Prolong duration. There it is. Prolong duration. He's getting prolonged duration too. So prolonged duration 2 is very good for twisters because well prolong duration in general is very good because the longer your twisters are out on the field the more opportunity they get to bounce around and hit the enemies more especially when it comes to bossing if you're in an arena situation the more that they bounce around the more times they hit the boss the more damage that you're doing. Um what boots did Snoo drop? He dropped the wake of destruction boots.
The probably the best boots for him to get in the game. probably the best unique for him to drop in the campaign for the most part. I can't on the top of my mind think of a better unique for him to drop. But all right, Snoo is going to be heading off into the Our Campfire, which again, if you open the basket, you will get a guaranteed lesser jeweler orbs, which Snoo does grab and he takes.
Meanwhile, Cyclone is going to be over at Jaman Raw and he is over on the second phase right now. Uh once again, uh Cyclone is an Amazon and he does use the wing blast technique to go and use Ren to grab that little bit of extra damage. So he's going to be burning Jaman Rod down relatively quickly. Once again, Twisters for some reason just does some crazy damage. Well, of course did have some crazy gear going into this. So it's not so surprise that um Cyclone is doing a little bit less damage, but my goodness, is he going to prime him for another stun? He is. uses Ren again to grab the extra damage and finishes off Jaman and Raw there.
Finishing himself at 1 hour 54 minutes for that act two. I didn't quite catch what Snub finished at. I apologize, but I think Snub's probably around a good three minutes ahead at least compared to Cyclone, which he is very far ahead, guys. Ooh, interesting. Cycling does get a chaos orb, which is not very useful, I would say, in these um races, but does get uh I think he also got a Rico orb in that situation, too, which can be useful for upgrading his gear.
All right, so it looks like Subie is heading into the monkey as I said. Uh oh, dodges the first sling. Uh, Cyclone is probably hoping to dear God that Subie does get a big old pull up his rectum, but that is not going to happen because Subie does freeze the monkey and instantly dies. The monkey just gets shredded and he gets his two skill points as his reward.
Looks like now um, Cyclone is going to be heading straight into the act three right now. um quite a little bit behind Subuay. So hopefully Cyclone can catch up and I believe he can still catch up if he plays his cards right and maybe RNG goes his way um a little bit better getting him some better gear, get better weapons and maybe a death or two here from Stu could also help out, but it is looking pretty dang rough. Looks like Stu is going to be doing the um league mechanic here in the infested baronss which will guarantee him an exalted orb.
Um, once again to remind everybody, this is an race to the end of act three and the players will have to do and have been doing, they have to get every single one of the permanent upgrades.
But in act three, they do not have to grab venom crypts because the RNG in that area has been deemed to be too high. The variance is too high. Oh, and Snoo, as I was saying, he wasn't going to die. He does get taken out by one of those Dire Tus Bores which Oh, he did he not get the checkpoint over at that camp or is there no checkpoint there? I'm pretty sure there's a checkpoint there, but it causes him to get set back pretty dang far. But the Direas boar is very very dangerous as you have all probably seen in the campaign. High amount of physical damage, moves very very quickly and does a large amount of bleed. So, a little bit of misstep there causes Subuay to die and send him back a little bit far. Um, Subie does opt to go into the Larva hollow to defeat this rare down here, which is not very uh unusual for the twister players because this boss, the rare basically instantly dies as you saw right there. You literally didn't even see the rare pop up.
Um, looks like Snub is heading himself into the Chimero Wetlands or at least getting the checkpoint for that. And then quickly after, we're going to be heading into the Azac bog to go and grab his spirit from that area.
Yep. Heading into the green area for uh if you guys are looking for kind of the tells for the Azac bog and the chimera weapon lands, they are both in the foresty areas of this map. So not in the desert area. If you find yourself heading through the desert, um, usually the forest on the other side, but sometimes you might head into an area that is just walls and no forest, and you know that you're probably heading in the wrong direction. Uh, looks like Stu is heading through the Azac bog, which is for many players one of the most annoying layouts ever. Um, Stu right now hugging the right side of the map, which is usually the right way to go. Um, that is how I progress through the Azac bog. And he is doing the same as well. It's usually on the boss is usually on the opposite side of the entrance. And oh my god, Su taking a lot of damage. While Su's damage himself that he does is very high. It looks like his survivability is a little bit lacking at the moment. So he could very well get taken out by some hits. But of course, once again, he is fairly far ahead of Cyclone. So he can take quite a few deaths, I would say, at this point, but again, he cannot get complacent because Cyclone is slowly but surely getting closer to the end.
Let's see how long it takes to get to the boss right here. Um, looks like he is still proceeding through. Oh, potentially coming into a little bit of an annoying layout. this layout. Either it's the annoying layout or maybe he already missed the boss because he is doing a little bit of a wraparound which off of my knowledge which is very limited compared to a lot of professional speedrunners. That is once he hits this little uh choke point right here that does wrap him around that I would say is yeah and he is recognized that that's not the way either. So okay he backs up and he does end up finding the boss for this area. Turbo Granny is gonna be the fight for this area. And look, Twisters is also very good at taking out Turbo Granny. Let's be real.
He just throws it out like this. Turbo Granny is out there zooming around. But normally, most builds would not be able to hit her while she is zooming like that. But Twister is one of the builds where it's like, well, I'm going to send these projectiles out. And a lot of them are probably going to hit her. And she was half health before she stopped moving at that point. Sub getting another unique getting the ice tube male vestment which unfortunately probably won't be helping him all that much though his armor is pretty weak so maybe decides to put it on but it looks like he does decide to not. Meanwhile over here Saikon is over at the monkey and he just used his um wing blast to stun him.
Grabs the extra lightning damage. makes quick work of the monkey and kills him immediately.
Looks like he is looking for a potential upgrade for his weapon right now. It has been a while since he has got an upgrade. Looks like that crossbow does potentially look better than the one he has right now cuz it does have increased damage, increased elemental uh weapon elemental damage. It's physical lightning. It's pretty dang good. Only thing really missing there is going to be his um his projectile skills levels, but I would say pretty good upgrade.
He's probably going to upgrade to that as soon as he gets the levels for it.
Sub making his way through the Chimera Westlands right now. Meanwhile, um it looks like Cyclone is in the infested barren still. Still has not found the Azac bog yet. Still behind there. But honestly, I would say at this point still probably around 3 minutes behind Snoop.
Snoop levels up to level 30. At this point, I'd say he is pretty dang well on his way to the level 36 requirement um for the campaign to in order to actually win this speedrun. Both players do need to be at level 60 uh 36. Subet does find the um entrance to the trial of chaos. Players are not required to do the trial of chaos, however. So, I doubt Snoo will be taking that on, though. I didn't really catch it if he went in to grab the checkpoint or not. It looks like he actually went that direction. I wonder if he decides he wants to take it on or not. I would assume not because that is a lot of time taken away from his campaign run, but we'll have to see there. Looks like um looks like Cyclone found the Azac bog, but he is opting to not go into that fight yet, and he is going to be proceeding to look for the Chimero Wetlands instead. I wonder if he decides that he wants to go clear the Chimera Wetlands first and then do the Azac bog or if um he's doing something else. But looks like Stu now is over at the Chimera. Oh my god. Taking a ton of damage once again. Subet is a glass cannon, but he does end up freezing the Chimera. And uh Oh, the Chimera does fly into the air. I think Sub was probably hoping that he wouldn't fly into the air because this is going to be a little bit of extra time added to the run, but once again, he is a very, very far ahead. So, this shouldn't set him back too much.
But after the Chimera falls down off the pillar, he should be able to make quick work off it when probably one barrage.
Yep, exactly. One barrage right there.
Chimera dies. Meanwhile, uh now it looks like um Cyclone did end up going back to the Azac bog immediately after he found the Chimera Wetlands uh portal. So, he is going to be proceeding his way through there. He is currently doing the Azac bog which uh the league mech here will guarantee you a rune. Uh hopefully he gets lucky and maybe he gets an iron rune. Nope, he gets a glacial rune. So he's going to get that glacial rune, picks that up and proceeds on his way to the turbo granny. Meanwhile, um Stu is already in Jakan's mechanium and he is looking for that first soul core to be able to activate the gates. Oh, Cyclone unfortunately falling to the ground once again, hitting the dirt, hitting the dust unfortunately. But luckily, he wasn't that far ahead. He wasn't that much through the area yet. So, he did not have to backtrack all that much. But once again, the crossbows struggle a ton in these areas where the monsters are very fast moving. And there are a lot of very fast moving monsters in this area.
Looks like um Cyclone opting to kill monsters and respawning a checkpoint here. I feel like he's potentially trying to farm up some exp.
either that or maybe he's looking for I think I'm not sure if the essence respawn checkpoint uh trick still works but maybe he's looking to grab some exp here since it is a quick respawn with a lot of monsters nearby to try and get and catch up on exp however is going to be going to continue on his way through the duan's macinarium while the cyclone is going to be farming up some monsters here for potentially some exp to maybe he thinks that he needs it to be able to wear his next crossbow so that his next boss fight is just a lot smoother.
Oh, Stu does hit the ground right there, but he does grab that checkpoint. So, oh, okay. Okay, okay, okay. I thought for a second the door was not going to open because he died right there, but luckily it does open and um allow him to go through. Uh, what causes the shock round? So Sub has the wake of destruction boots which are a unique pair of boots that allow him to have a drop shocked ground whenever he takes a step. So probably one of the best if not the best unique for Stu to find on his build. It is quite insane.
Yes, quick exp farm. That is what I assumed as well. Looks like um looks like he has potentially stopped doing the exp farm at this point and is moving on to go and try to find the boss in this area, Miss Turbo Granny. Um and it looks like he found her quite quickly, which is good. So, he does make up some time here by not getting lost at all. Sub did get a little bit lost in this area. Not like that lost, but definitely a little bit lost. um and as a result got into this area with a little bit uh of a delay. Now looks like Cyclone heads back to try and get that level to hit the level 31 mark. So Cyclone, it looks like he is now 31 and I think Subet is also 31 at this point.
Subet does take a quick fall right there. Unfortunately, I'm curious to see um what he is going to be do doing with that lesser jeweler orb. He just put it on there and did not put any support gems into it. Curious enough. I don't know if he had no support gems or not.
That's what was my assumption is. But looks like once again, um Cyclone is going to be doing the Azac bog, which is another fight that is unfortunately not that great for the crossbow character.
Now, something that I've am thinking about is that normally when you're doing an any% race, you do not have to do something like this area. You also don't have to do fraghthorn. There's a lot of areas where there are these like very mobile bosses that you don't have to do potentially giving crossbow a little bit more of an upper hand compared to some of these other classes. But because these bosses are a little bit mobile, it can take them a while to take down. But it looks like Mr. Cyclone does take her down pretty dang fast. Now, he does have to clear up some inventory space for these items. Um, he has not had the he does have quite a bit of items in his inventory, but he is able to do that and able to make his merry way down past the Azac bog. Now, he still has to get through the Chimera wetland. Still has to kill the Chimera itself. Still has to go and kill the boss in the Jacone mechanium. So, still quite a ways behind Snoo.
I really, you know, for the sake of competition and for the sake of everything, I am rooting for Cyclone to find some way to get back into this game because right now, Stu is absolutely running away with it with his superior gear and superior RNG right now.
Oo, Stu finds his first soul core very quickly as well. Really, the gods are smiling on him today because he is absolutely killing it. He found the soul for very quickly in act two. He found the relics very quickly pretty much in one of his first couple packs. Man, Snoop, are you sure you're not using up all your league star RNG? And the question is, is he okay with using his league star RNG to win this little bit of a race? Once again, this is not like a super competitive race. This is just a kind of like a build showcase between these players. Of course, they are both trying to play as fast as they can, but of course, this is not like an official competitive thing. So, they are more here to showcase their builds more than anything. But Stu finds another one of those soul cores without having to backtrack or anything. So, he is going through this with the blessing of Ron Jesus. Real real blessings right there.
Meanwhile, over here on Cyclone, he is working out some of his upgrades for his skills, upgrading his explosive grenade and his gas grenade, which is going to be the main combo for the grenades player, opting to also go and do the league mechanic in this area, which again for the Chimero Wetlands, you do get a guaranteed uncut level 9 skill jam. Stu now finishing up with both of the soul cores and heading into the fight with the boss in this powered core area. Once again, uh, one thing for you guys to note is that if you're not playing on hardcore, you can go and reset a checkpoint, which normally if you don't reset a checkpoint in this for this boss fight, you will have to wait for that power to travel to the boss before you can actually fight him. So if you want to skip that, you can go and just press reset at a checkpoint and it will skip that entire animation. And while I was monologuing about that, Subuet has already gone and killed the boss because why not, right?
Twister's OP, right? And also his gear kind of crazy. But all right, Subet does get a uh uncut gem right there. Gets a ringed buckler. Interesting that he picks that up. Um and presto's merry way. Now, it looks like Stu is heading back into the rest of the map. Um, the Jakani Sanctum does not offer that much for the league mechanic itself. It offers an exalted orb. So, I'm curious as to why he's heading back into this map. Is he looking for like that's the only thing that I could think about why he's reexploring this area to go and find that lead mechanic for the exalted orb.
Um, to me, I don't know if that's actually worth it for him to spend all this time. But I mean, I guess he's thinking that he's far ahead enough to be able to look for it for vibes potentially, but right now he to me it feels a little bit of a waste of time. Yep. And he doesn't take the corrupted u the corruption uh as expected. Um, yeah, it really does look like he's just looking for it. Well, you know what? Hey, I'm sure Cyclone appreciates this because that means that he is getting some time to catch up while Snoo is bumbling around for this. Why is he grabbing this medium soul core?
Is there some tech that I'm not aware of that grabbing an extra soul core will give him something? Cuz as far as I know, you shouldn't need that soul core for anything.
Oh, wow. He So, okay. So, he is going to go Oh, he's corrupting his boots is what he did. And it looks like, let's see here. It did not I don't know if it changed that much to be honest. I couldn't quite catch the before and afterwards. He definitely didn't crangle it to be positive. There is a slight smile on Steu's face to potentially uh you know potentially signaling to me that he did get an upgrade, but I am not sure.
I I'm not sure if I agree with that corrupt though. that did take him I feel like it knocked off some time off of his run that didn't really bring him any reward. Like maybe he's just thinking, "Hey, I'm far enough ahead." Oh, he said it lost damage. That is unfortunate. But yeah, like that's the reason like I don't really see that many outcomes to where that really benefits him all that much to where it's worth him going there, taking the time to corrupt it, and then also taking the risk at losing damage for a potential gain that I don't even think would be that impactful.
Uh Chat is waiting till he's trolling.
I mean, look, Stu, understandably, but all I can say is don't sleep. Try not to sleep on him because you never know. Cyclone is a very formidable racer and he could just go and overtake you just like that. Now, Cyclone. Okay, so he did grab he did grab this. Who's winning? Stu is winning by quite a bit. by quite a large margin.
I'd say at this point it might even be a like five minute difference. It's pretty ins it's a it's like a five to 10 minute difference. I feel it's pretty dang insane.
No more risk brother. Just take us to the finish line.
All right, now we are through into the Matland Water Snoop. And of course we do have Cyclon over here taking on Blackjaw. makes quick work of him, grabs the extra fire resistance from him, and heads on his merry way to the rest of the map. Um, now it looks like the Stu is heading through matine waterways, all of our fa absolute favorite maps. My they um GG did say they are doing significant reworks to a lot of the campaign maps. So I am hoping to dear God that they go and fix this map because it is quite unbearable.
They have already reduced the size of this map since 0.1. So 0.1 it was even worse than it is right now.
But it is still absolutely unbearable in my opinion. Oh, stupid taking some damage u to go through this area. You have to such a long area to pull all these levers and something you do need to be careful about. I'm sure Stubet does not have any problem with this since he's probably just going to kill everything real quickly. But this area is a little bit deadly sometimes because there are monsters that do cast detonate dead on the corpses. So you could be in one of those checkpoints, kill some monsters, walk up the little pathway, and just get exploded from all the damage and just die. And in this map, there are quite a few like there are not that many checkpoints. You go for very long distances without checkpoints. So, you could just die very close to checkpoint and not make it there and have to do a bunch of backtracking after your death.
The levers should be a button. I agree.
But honestly, that is not even enough to fix this map. I really hope that they make it shorter. They get rid of the levers. They just do a ton of stuff.
Did I say minle 33 or 36? 36.
Can somebody Can somebody uh type to cyclone 36?
Actually, I'll just type it. 36.
But all right. Uh looks like Stubet is heading on his merry way through the Matland waterway. is absolutely waling through it. Skip, doing a hop, skip, and a jump. Looks like in the Matland waterways, if you do the league mechanic, you do get a level 10 uncut spirit gem. I would say not very important for speedr runninging, but okay, it looks like Subie is going to completely skip it because he does get a boss spawn. Something that you guys might not know is that in these situations, you can opt to go and reset at checkpoint to go and redo that le mechanic. so that you don't get a boss spawn because maybe you might be like getting a very important um drop from that mechanic and you absolutely want to get it but do not want to affect your clear times that much. You can definitely go and respawn at checkpoint and be able to get that reset to potentially not get a boss. Looks like the cyclone is at the ziko uh fight right now and going to be making some very very quick and easy work out of it. definitely doing quite a bit of damage. I think his crossbow that he Oh, he actually has not gotten the crossbow upgrade yet. Interesting. I guess I don't even know what level requirement that crossbow is. Might be like level 33, but he has not gotten that yet, but still is doing some pretty decent damage there to be able to clear the boss quickly. Like I said, he is catching up, guys. He is catching up if you guys notice. Now granted the Matland waterways is a very long map but we are now at a situation where Snoo Bay and Cyclone are both in the Matland waterways. Now Subet is quite a bit further in the matland waterways than uh Subet is but once again they are now in the same map which earlier Stu was about you know three or so maps ahead and Cyclone is quickly picking up pace. So, we cannot count the man out just yet.
Zub cannot get complacent. He cannot put uh take the foot off the pedal. He needs to go in full acceleration mode to hopefully still comp maintain his lead because that league has quickly is quickly starting to shrink right now.
Now, of course, you know, Subet in in the spirit of competition, maybe like like earlier, right, he didn't want it to be too bad a big of a difference. So, he did some funny shenanigans there with corrupting his boots. But once again, right, if he wants to go for the win, he better be careful.
He better be careful.
All right. Uh, Cyclone is going to be making quick work through the Matan waterways. Halfway through at this point, I believe he's over at the witch, which Snoo once again, he did opt to kill earlier, which did take some time.
Once again, it is not a requirement of this whatsoever. So, um, yep, good, good on Cyclone to grab that checkpoint so that in case he does die, which again, this area can be quite deadly. monsters here are relatively quick and also do a lot of physical damage. Oh, he is jumping INTO OH. OH. OH, that was a close one right there. Cyclone almost falling down to his death. And in that situation, it would have been very good that he did get that checkpoint, but he didn't die. Luckily, once again, he did not have to use that lifeline. Sub now heading into the drowned city. Um, and progre progressing through once again with his five frames a second on his screen, uh, totally completely fine. But in the Drown City, if Snoo does choose to do the league mechanic here, he will be able to get the, um, uh, a level three uncut support gem. Now, Stu looks like he is going to take the path less traveled right now because personally, when I do this, I usually stick to the main path. Of course, I am not a seasoned speedrunner, so potentially Snoo knows something that I don't. But normally, I stick to the path. And Snoo looks like he is going to be Yeah, he's going back. He's heading backwards. He's backtracking right now. Potentially, maybe Snoo taking things a little bit too easily. Or he potentially, I don't know. I feel like I feel like at this point a player of Subway's level should know that you should just take follow the path.
But all right, Stu back on track right now. Meanwhile, um Cyclone is continue to go through the Matland waterways. Stu is going to be trying to keep up his lead and head into the apex of filth, which our queen, our lady, the lovely queen of filth, resides in the apex of filth. Now, if only the huntress class, the spirit walker class could take the queen of filth as a companion.
Unfortunately, she is not a beast. I mean, she might many of you guys might think she was a beast, and I'm sure she is a beast under the sheets, but the game does not consider her a beast. So, sadly, we cannot take her. Once again, Snoop is going to be going off the beaten path. He's going off to the side and not going through the main road. I'm not sure why. Maybe he's trying to keep up his exp because once again, you will need to get to level 36 to be able to finish this race and be considered a winner. But taking a lot of detours here. Taking a lot of detours right now.
All right, heading into the apex of filth is Snoo. Meanwhile, uh Cycl is still in Matland waterways, but he is right at the end going to be pulling on that lever. So once again going to be uh going definitely catching up to Stu. I'd say definitely closing the gap. Still a considerable gap between the two, but definitely slowly but surely making up for some of that difference that Stu had with the huge fine on his boots and also the huge weapon that he got in act uh I believe it was act two. Yes, act two.
Is Moliva mandatory? No, it is not mandatory.
Actually, you know, I'm not entirely sure now that I'm thinking about it. I I was not the one who was organized this race. I apologize if I don't have that answer. I I don't think it's mandatory, but you know, it might be. It might actually be. We'll have to see. Cyclone is the one Cyclone and Snoo were the ones who uh organized this. I was asked to cast kind of like yesterday last minute. So, there are some details that I'm not entirely sure about. Not mandatory. Okay.
All right. So, it looks like they are going Ze is going to grab the level three support gem from the uh actually no, he's going to grab the V orb from the Apex of Filth right there. And um I mean another reason why maybe you shouldn't have done the v uh the vault at the um earlier in the jakani's macinarium area.
Yep. The level is 36. The level requirement is level 36 to be able to consider to be winner in this race.
ball the spear or riot. Okay, looks like uh Subet has made himself over to the queen of filth in the apex of filth waiting for her to come out. Our lady, she's now going to sl grab her left tit and squeeze whatever fluids are in there and then do a quick old slap on her belly like an old man coming out of the shower.
All right, Stu going to be doing some quick work to the Queen of Filth.
Absolutely destroying this woman.
Absolutely dominating her. Are we sure Queen of Filth is the beast or is Snoo the bigger beast in this situation? But either way, Queen of Filth going down with the quickest of ease without much of a fight whatsoever.
All right, looks like um Cyclone still making his way through the um through the Drowned City. And again, I don't know what is up with these players taking all these like side routes. I think most people know and players of this level should know that the be the way that you're supposed to progress through the mat waterways is just by following the path. Maybe again he's trying to get some exp making sure he hits that level 36 by the end of the run, but I feel like that you know that should not be required at this point.
But all right, once again, um, as I mentioned, he is going to be making his way through this area and he's going to backtrack, which leads me to believe that Molten Vault is required.
Um, which Snoo did not do. Now once again I I did not confirm this like as far as I know if we are going with the rules right of being completing everything I guess molten vault would be required so that yeah it's not required but unlocks reforging um I don't know I I want I wish I could get in contact with um with Cyclone at this point because he is deafened in Discord. So I don't know if it's required or not. Um but looks like uh he is going through molten vault whereas did completely skip the molen vault. Uh going to be heading up to the temple of copek right now and taking on the boss here. Um should be pretty quick work.
The boss is fairly mobile though, but Stu will probably freeze the boss very quickly and probably just take it out within the volley of the within the time that it's frozen. Yep.
All right.
And there we go. Holy damage. Yes, the man is doing giga damage at this point.
I mean probably right I'm assuming that Cyclone in his mind probably thinks that Molen Ball is required so I feel like we'll have to I don't know what the ruling is at this If it ends up being that Stu does not get molten ball done and Cyclone does get it done at the end, I think there is a chance that Stu can just go back to Men Walt and still win the whole thing.
But um yeah, I I really don't know.
Yeah, I think Moliva probably is required if now that I'm thinking about it like correctly, right? Because when I was talking with um Cyclone earlier, I asked what whether like what things weren't required. He mentioned lightless passage and he also mentioned um venom crypts. He did not mention molten vault as something that was not required. So off of that a off of that I feel like molten vault is going to be required.
Is does Snube uh can can somebody why is Light Bastion not required?
Um they just deemed it not to be required. It doesn't give you like a It gives you a permanent upgrade in the sense that you get like a campaign map, but your character doesn't get any upgrades.
So, it looks like Subub is going back to do Molten Vault right now. He is uh heading back to the Drown City to take care of that. Honestly, should be pretty quick. Uh, ooh, he is heading in I think he might be heading in the wrong direction at this point, but we'll see.
Um, I think certain seeds it can spawn over here, but other seeds it can't.
Yep, looks like it is not going to spawn here. New, you are heading in the wrong direction, my guy. Okay, good. He's going to respawn a checkpoint and go back the other direction. Um, head back to the beginning and then head down that way. Yep, perfect. All right, Zubet does make it back here to do Molten Vault without losing much time to be honest.
And he is still quite a bit ahead of Cyclone. Like honestly, he did not lose any time by skipping Molten Vault earlier, right? He is just basically coming back, especially because the map itself stayed the same. He did not lose the instance. He did not lose any time by going through Molten uh by skipping Molten Vault.
So, Subet now making his way through Molten Vault. We're Meanwhile, Cyclone is going up to the apex of filth. Now, the interesting thing is um and I don't think um Cyclone took advantage of this, but the Molten Vault does also have another guaranteed unique. Molten Vault also has another guaranteed unique from the League mechanic. So, if Stu decides that he wants to go for that guaranteed unique, I wonder if his luck will continue carrying him because he could potentially just roll into something crazy big. He has not upgraded his weapon in a while now. His weapon was really crazy, but at this point might start, you know, falling off a little bit more. So potentially could be uh could be something that he could do to maybe get an upgrade for his weapon.
Uh that would be a nice little thing to get. And of course, you know, the world is your oyster at this point. Looks like he did find the league mechanic. And uh looks like he is going to be doing it.
So interesting to see what unique he gets here. Meanwhile, Cyclone is over at the Queen of Filth. Uh he gets Oh, not very great boots. Okay, but let's go over to the Cyclone. He is doing his fight with the queen of filth at this point. Making really quick work of her.
Absolutely chunking her health. Oh my god. I think at this point Cyclone is probably doing more damage than Snoo.
Cyclone did get a significant upgrade on his weapon in act three. Meanwhile, I don't think Snoo has gotten an upgrade on his weapons in act two. So, I think at this point, Cyclone is actually stronger than the Twisters. Uh, and once again, the the the race is closer than we expect. The race is probably closer than we think at this point.
It is absolutely insane. Stu opting to get the combat frenzy to go and get some frenzy charges for free for his barrageed twisters. Uh, combat frenzy, for those who don't know, is a skill that allows you to get frenzy charges whenever you electrocute or freeze an enemy. And um, electrocuting is pretty hard to do. You kind of do need quite a bit of setup for that, like extra items and stuff, but freeze is something that Tub does very, very often. So, you we should be expecting him to get a good amount of frenzy charges throughout the map. And oh my god, that did a lot of damage. And also here, as you can see, he froze the boss right there and was able to quickly get an some extra uh psych some extra twisters because of that frenzy charge with barrage. Um, looks like he is going to be killing the boss right here, making quick work, and going to be heading on over to Utsol, I believe, is the area that he is going next. So, he is going to be in the Viper Napazuli area. Looks like uh Cyclone is going to be fighting with Kzulli. Uh the high priest uh Kenzolei is not doing any of his shenanigans that makes him run fly around and zip and zap around. So, it looks like Crimson did make some quick work of him, but there definitely was a situation there where he could have done some really annoying patterns for the crossbow grenades player.
All right. So now Stu is in UTL and also once again it looks like right so right after the temple of cop uh the the sun temple it looks like we are having both players at UTL. Now once again this is why I said Snoo cannot get complacent because of this. right now Stew's character is weaker than um Cyclones character and they are not that far off from one another. So this race went from potentially having a 3 to five minute difference between the two players is now pretty much back at neck and neck with Cyclone having the stronger character going into these areas. Now, Viper is a pretty another pretty annoying boss for grenades, unfortunately. So, that could be in the detriment for Cyclone. But once again, Snoo is going to be the weaker player at weaker character at this point. His uh his uh what is it called? His his attacks are going to be better suited for this area given that there are such a uh small little corridors.
So, there's going to be a lot of bouncing going on and uh the Twisters are just going to be having naturally better terrain. There it is. Like I said, right, Twisters having those nice little small quarters, nice little small areas are going to be making it so that it is a much easier fight for him. So, good for him. He is still ahead, but once again, not as ahead as you would expect. So, going to be needing to go and go move quickly. Oh, and Zuba getting surrounded. getting surrounded and dying, falling to the ground.
Luckily, there is no rigger mortise at this point. Luckily, there is no rigger mortise at this point. And uh as a result, he is going to be able to hop back in to the fight very very quickly.
Sub going off once again. Going off on the beaten path. Going on the beaten path. Off on the beaten path. He is not following the path.
Uh looks like he is going to be going down this way to potentially find the next area. Okay, perfect. He did take a nice little shortcut there by not following the path, but the earlier one, he did take the wrong turn. Now, we are going to go and focus our attention over on to Cyclone, who is going to be taking on Viper right now. And uh once again going to be exploding her with his grenades. Much slower fight than Snoopy of course. Once again very much she is moving around quite a bit but oh he is now exploding her really really quickly.
But ooh, goes into the shield phase and he gets stabbed with a bunch of poison spears, taking a lot of damage, but luckily not dying at this point. For anybody who is curious about this fight, Viper, if when she is in that phase where she is shooting the little uh little poison things at the shield warriors, you can actually just dodge every single time the spears poke out.
You don't actually need to dodge out of the way. As long as you are dodging, you will take no damage from the poison spears. So, as long as you have the timing down, you actually don't even you could just close your eyes and you will be able to avoid every single attack in that phase. Um, but all right, now it looks like Snoo is over at Agarat.
Meanwhile, um, Cyclone has finished the fight with Viper and is zooming down trying to make in quick pace through this area. Now, one thing again, these guys do have to full clear. So, they do need to find the sacri the the the heart. I think it's called the sacrificial heart, right? In order to move on to the next area. He does need to get the heart.
So, I as far I I might have missed it. I don't know if Stu got the heart yet, but definitely they do need to get the heart in order to pass this area.
I do not know. Oh, I I Oh, there he goes. Snoo does get the heart and he is now able to make it on to the next area.
I don't believe Cyclone has gotten the heart yet. So, he will need to go and find the heart in this area. Um, unless I'm mistaken, which because the the reason why I'm thinking I maybe I'm mistaken is because he's not killing these monsters. He's just zooming. So, maybe he's already gotten the heart yet.
I don't know if anybody in the chat had did caught him getting the heart or not, but if he does not get this heart, it will be a situation where he will need to go back to find it. He will need to go and find that heart um before he can move on.
But Snoo once again, count his lucky stars because he just got a ton of nice free time back from finding those hearts.
uh finding that heart and he does find the sacrificial dagger very quickly. So, he is going to go and grab that.
As far as I know, I don't think Cyclone has found the heart yet because I think if he found the heart, it should pop up on his quest log and I do not see that quest. Ooh, and he takes a tumble having to do the quick log out macro right there. And Stu is now heading straight for Doriani right on after. I think at this point it is probably once again Steu's race to lose because uh he is pretty dang far ahead with his RNG.
Cyclone did not get as lucky slash he also opted to skip a lot of monsters on his way to this area. So potentially some of those monsters that he did skip could have dropped a heart and he did not get Oh also falling to the ground hitting the deck right now and as a result has to backtrack in the map. Oh my god it is getting close boys. It is absolutely getting close. Now of course Sub is quite a bit ahead. I would say that it is still pretty safe for him. He could probably take a couple deaths and he would still be fine. But again, Stu cannot get complacent because the um because Cyclone did close the gap by a lot. Uh once again, unfortunately, Cyclone is not getting the heart right now and that could lead to his downfall.
Oh, finally getting the heart. Oh, I don't know, guys. Stu's luck today has been insane. But considering the fact that Stu has had such good luck so far, and it is still this close goes to show how good of a racer Cyclone is in right now. Stuate does end up finding the black chambers to do his final fight with Doriani. Now, Stu is level 38, so he does satisfy the level requirement to be able to make this through. Now, again, if Stu does end up dying here, the race could be closer than you expect. And you know, right now, Stuate, as you can see, his damage is it's okay.
It's not bad, but he's not just completely melting the boss. So, you never know what could happen. Looks like Doriani is going to be starting to shoot his lasers. And again, Zubet is fairly squishy at this point. I mean, it looks like Cyclone is also very squishy, but both players are fairly squishy. And one bad hit could mean the death of both either of her players. So, looks like Doriani is starting to phase potentially. He's doing his monologue.
He's doing his role playing. And he is getting now to the middle. Now, we do have to watch out. The butt lasers from Doriani are quite deadly. So hopefully Snoo is aware of that. And oh my god, Cyclone is at Doriani as well, boys. It is closer THAN YOU THINK. CYCLONE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? It's close. It's close.
It's close. And uh Snoo does freeze the boss. And uh the boss does end up dying right here at 2 hours 43 minutes and 18 seconds. 2 hours 43 minutes and 18 seconds is going to be the clear time for Snoo.
And Cyclone, congrats to Snoo, guys.
Give him a big old clappy on the W.
Cyclone putting up a really, really close fight. And he didn't even have to do the monologue. He skipped the monologue.
Absolutely nailbiter.
At some point it really felt like Snubet was going to run completely away with the competition, but Cyclone did such a good job of catching back up to that where we are literally like what is it?
It's going to be like a maybe like half a minute to a minute difference. It's it's not that bad, guys. Considering the fact that Cyclone was behind by a good three to five minutes at one point, this is crazy. Cyclone ends up winning or ends up finishing at about 2 hours 44 and 20 seconds. All right, about a minute behind. But honestly, again, with the amount of RNG and luck that Snoo had the entire race through, he did really, really well. Clappies in the chat for Snoo. Clappies in the chat for Cyclone.
They did absolutely amazing. Good job, guys. That was huge. You guys both did amazing.
How how are you feeling, Mr. Cyclone?
How was your RNG? How did you feel about your RNG during that run?
>> I would say it's a mixed run.
>> I had uh >> I mean, I don't know when you saw my early crossbow.
>> Was your early crossbow really good or really bad?
>> I had I got a random three mod rare crossbow at the end of act one that made super easy for early act one. Uh-huh.
>> Then my act two crossbow was a little bit weaker, but I still had the strong act one, so that was fine. And then I was missing the regal to finish the bombard crossbow, but this one was also pretty good. The other one was actually also good. I didn't notice it had elemental damage with attacks.
>> I had a decent armor, decent resistances. We ignore this lightning r.
Okay.
>> Mhm.
>> Yeah. Overall, I would say it was a good run.
>> Okay. Okay. I mean, Snoo, I don't know what you I don't know if you know what Snoo got, Cyclone, but I do not know.
>> This man got the absolute craziest RNG, especially in act two. It was insane. At some point, I think Sub was about like 3 to 5 minutes ahead of you, but you absolutely pulled that back so much that you were only about a minute behind at the end, which is insane. Sub, how how do you feel about your RNG?
>> Yeah. Well, I wish I could have taken one of those two awesome drops and given it to myself the last race I did. It would have made things a little smoother.
>> Oh, 100%. 100%. Cuz man, that was insane cuz you got what? The unique spear and then a couple minutes later you got the unique boots for the uh what what the destruction. Now the spear you didn't end up using.
>> Yeah, he got the weight of destruction.
Yeah.
>> Okay.
>> Pretty insane.
>> I think I lost my time in act one.
>> Um >> uh my time in act one was 48 minutes.
>> Yeah. Okay.
>> It was pretty It was It was relatively close. I think you did. You were behind by a little bit in act one, but um yeah, both of you got I think both of you guys got sub 50 minutes if I remember correctly. Don't I don't don't quote me on that one. But it both of you guys were pretty close. Relatively close.
>> But once again, new base ONG just insane.
>> Yeah, I know this what people be talking about. I can't I can't legitimately win, I guess.
>> No, >> it was your race.
>> I was going to equip them. I I literally wasn't going to equip them. I was like, I can't, guys. Come on. This is ridiculous. I can't I can't equip those boots. But then my chat was like, "No, you have to."
>> Yeah. No, I mean, you should. It's It's Hey, it's part of the game, right? Like, if you were doing an actual race, if you drop those boots, you would definitely equip those. So, >> yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and and the interesting thing is for those boots in the world of like uh what we're doing with like Frost Nexus tech with ice tipped arrows, they're not anywhere near as strong >> as they used to be as they used to be.
Right. Actually, the flat damage, which was a 1 to 33 lightning damage, is arguably even stronger than what they're doing because we're already shocking on hit with twister and then we're already like getting all the elemental grounds immediately. So, a little bit. I mean, obviously they're really good for bosses because you instantly do crazy damage on bosses. And people who were watching my run were probably like, "What in the world?" But the boss, >> it looked like a twink character. It actually looked like a twink character.
It was crazy. Yeah, that that's a combination of Twister being very strong combined with a couple of twink items.
Yeah, >> indeed. Indeed. Well, did you how how do you guys feel about the race? Like, do you did you guys have fun? Did you have a good time?
>> I I think I had a good run. I wasn't looking at chat outside when I asked if it was 33 or 36.
>> I reached my level. I >> I mean, >> yeah. Know >> what level were you at? Well, as soon I reached 36 at the end, 36 and a half.
>> Okay. The reason you caught up then most of all, I'm I'm into level 38. So, that's a big reason why you caught up probably. I didn't realize when you said you had to be level 36 that the zone was like 10 levels higher than that or something. In my mind, I was thinking, okay, the zone's probably like five levels higher than that. And so, that's how I was kind of playing it. So, I mean, that's my fault for not researching that, right? But that was like a super easy bar to hit. I felt >> 36.
>> To be fair, twisters, I noticed has an absolute breeze with staying on XP and zone.
>> Like when I did a twister, I had no issues with leveling. With grenades, you actively need to seek out to kill the correct amount of mods, the correct white packs, the correct blue packs to stay on XP without losing time.
>> Yeah. I mean, okay. So, honestly, I would say like where you lost the most time, right? The one the two areas that I in my mind that clearly were like wow this is really rough is one of them is the heart the sacrificial heartbe found his sacrificial heart basically as he was heading towards the sacrificial dagger and you had to run around searching for that. The other one where you lost big time was the sisters of Gukan. You lost some unfortunate big time there cyclone. I do think that it was still necessary because I also hit my level 26 there. Otherwise, I would have had to spend the time leveling in the next zone. So, I don't think that was a major time loss because I did also want XP in that zone.
>> Mhm.
>> It was still [ __ ] at the end that I had to clear both zones, but that's RNG.
I do also think that I went into this run assuming that Snoo is going to pull ahead of me in act one and I need to have an insane act two and a super smooth act three to pull ahead at the end again cuz he has done way more practicing for the early parts.
>> Mhm.
>> How much uh how much ahead was I in act two? I felt like I had an unusually good act two, but yeah, you probably pulled ahead mostly in act three out of Matrix.
>> Yeah, I think like in act two you really he you were by the time you beat Jam on Raw. I think uh was around the middle of the dreadnot. So not even into the the map before Jaman Raw yet or Jaman Ra's map yet.
>> Okay. I mean that's not that far behind.
>> It's not that far. But >> it was kind of neck and neck. He was chasing me the whole time then.
>> Yeah, it was very neck and neck. I mean, the the the >> I would say it was really the unique items where things started to really snowball out of control and then he brought it back. He brought it back um in the end of act three. Of course, you know, you did a little bit of fooling around with like the the corrupting your boots and stuff like that, but >> you know, still he Cyclone really brought it back when So the area where I would say like I was like, "Wow, this is actually closer than I expected was Matland waterways cuz I mean granted Mattland waterways is a very long map, right? But Cyclone and you were both in Matland waterways at the same time."
>> Oh, okay. Nice. So, we were still at the same place before uh the level difference happened.
>> Mhm. Yeah. Now, granted, Snoo was almost out of Matt Land Waterways before, right when you got into it. So, you were you were in the same map, but like definitely far apart.
>> Still like 3 minutes behind though. The >> Did you do any resets? No.
you were able to stay on XP was out.
>> I leveled the only place I deliberately like kind of did that on was uh the what's after path of morning spires of Dashar. You know that area cuz I I found the the sisters really quick there and I real I was like six levels below still and so I was like okay I'm going to get I think I just got like >> I only got like half a level of XP or something.
>> Fair enough.
>> Yeah. Um, >> props to you. Yeah, >> definitely a deserved win.
>> Thank you. Thank you. Yeah.
>> One thing I did have a question before we kind of wrap this up though is uh something I noticed is that you guys like when you were at the uh what is it called? The what's the area called where those like water hags are at?
>> Water hags.
>> The the >> uh you mean drone city?
>> Yeah, drown city. So you guys when you were there, you took both of you took some side routes away from the main route and I was wondering if that was because of levels. You guys didn't think you had enough levels.
>> I just misread the zone. So I learned the zone >> and I assumed that we were in the middle exit because of the edge at the sink. So I went to the side instead of following the road.
>> Yeah.
>> I just thought I had a zone read and I misread the zone. And so you're like, "Well, in this specific like this specific layout, there should be a shortcut here that allows me to go yes, >> you know, to the right path instead of just following it." Because I'm like, "Well, usually when I do, I just follow the path." But maybe there's some like special like shortcut that you can do there, which both of you guys end up going off the main path, but I both you guys end up having to go back on the main path to find your way back to the, you know, back your way.
>> Real quick, if that is a middle exit, what happens is the path goes as following. You have the road here. You go down here. You have this and then it takes you up all the way up here and then takes a turn and go to the middle exit. If it's right, you get a direct path. But the middle one takes this Uturn.
>> So when I saw that I had a break here and here and I had a long B, I thought this is a middle exit also because point D was a wall. I just misread the B distance. Otherwise, I would have known it as a left exit. But regardless, that was what caused me to think that we had a mid exit and I tried to take the shortcut. Otherwise, I would have followed the path all the way up and back down. And I had XP. I was decent on XP at that moment. I tried to be fast.
>> Okay, got it. Awesome. Well, man, I that was a lot of fun. It was a fun casting.
Uh hope you guys had a good time with that race. And uh hopefully Snoo your RNG doesn't get destroyed for 0.5 after that.
>> Uh I don't think it is over.
>> Yeah, Cyclone or Yeah, Cyclone definitive. Thank you for uh the invite on the race. You were the one who kind of freaked out first. So Miso, thank you for doing the little casting. I I'll watch some of it back. Some of the chat were saying Miso had a was very talented at this and then they were saying some weird things but in the middle there but other than that they were saying he's pretty talented at it.
>> I don't know I don't know what weird things you could be referring to.
>> I'll be sure to go back and see whatever that was.
>> I'm also going to watch the mod on this.
>> Yeah, I I'll I'll try I'll try to upload it on YouTube at some uh tomorrow or something like that. I don't know. I don't know if people would be interested in like the VOD, but >> I think people are.
>> But yeah, >> maybe not tomorrow after patch notes, but they were up to to today.
>> Yeah, maybe I'll upload it on like Sunday or something like that. I don't know. I feel like if I upload it tomorrow, people are just going to be like distracted with patch notes.
>> Yeah.
>> Yep.
>> For sure.
>> Thanks for the invite. I'm glad that I was able to cast it. It was a lot of fun. And hopefully you too um thought so as well. And uh I guess uh hope the patchels are good tomorrow, right?
>> Oh yeah. Can't wait.
>> All righties, boys.
>> GG's.
>> One last very quick question. Is any of you continuing streaming from this?
Because I need to go uh help my grandparents with stuff. So I would write either one of you if you continue to stream.
>> Yeah, I'm going to continue stream. I think you're probably going to continue to stream, too, right?
>> Uh actually, no. I'm going to probably head out real soon because I got some more work I want to do on the build.
you know, getting ready for patch notes and stuff. So, just kind of came on to do the race.
>> I'm going to be uh talking about the ascendancy stuff. I have not talked about that yet. So, we're going to go and head into that for my stream.
>> Sounds good. Thanks for watching whoever everyone that was looking in my stream.
Sorry that I wasn't reading chat. Hope Miso did a good job with casting. I will check up on that and have a lovely day everyone.
>> All right. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
>> Yep. Yep. I guess all I'll say is uh looks like twisters is better than grenades, folks.
>> Nerf twisters get [ __ ] >> Nerf twisters.
>> No, no way. All right, guys. Thank you very much. I'll see you around. And to any of the people in my chat, um yeah, sorry I'm not sticking around, but we'll be on to get the patch notes thing. I'll be on after the fact because I'll be sleeping exactly when they get released, I think. But yeah, we'll be back. We'll go over them together.
All righty.
And thanks for the raid, Cycl.
>> Thanks for hosting or thanks for casting.
>> Yep. Yep. Yep. All right. Peace. Peace.
Peace.
Allrighty, boys. That was a lot of fun.
That was my first time doing any sort of casting, so hopefully I did an all right job. I basically had almost no preparation going into it, but it uh hopefully it worked out. Uh I'm still streaming. Yeah, I'm still streaming.
I'm still streaming.
Uh yeah, we're going to be uh talking about at this point. Well, I'm probably going to go to the bathroom, take a little break, and yo, Mr. Stub, thank you for the raid as well. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. GG's GG's. GG's.
Um let's see here.
Uh, what is this? W. Yeah, congrats again on the win, sir. Congrats again.
>> Such stuff.
>> What of me saying that minion players should be killed?
>> What the heck?
>> What? Do you want me to end up on Exiled again with like another good clip in which I'm extremely based? Like what do you what do you think I'm afraid of?
>> Um, for any of you guys who are wondering, uh, what is it called? A this was Cyclone's build right here.
And this was Snoo's build.
So, if you guys are curious about either of their builds, that was what they were playing.
Huntress Amazon twisters and um dead eye huntress Amazon grenades and the dead eyee twisters.
All right. Uh, I need to go and go to the bathroom. But of course, once again, um, after we are I am done going to the bathroom and getting some water, we needs to go and, uh, what is it called?
Let's go here. Path of Exile 2. We need to go and talk about the new ascendancies, right? because there is some really cool stuff going on here with the Ascendencies. But we got paid for the cast. I mean, it was just a volunteer thing. I I don't think I should get paid for the cast of anything. I mean, one, I'm just an amateur, but two, like, yeah, I'm just an amateur. I was just doing it for fun.
Doing it for friends. Yeah. I'm going to go to the bathroom real quick. Give me a second, guys.
And uh I guess I'm also going to get some more water cuz that casting, man, my throat's parched.
Alrighty.
Water straight up pours vodka. Dude, it's too early for that.
Care speed spin run. Yo, so lang. Yeah, hopefully you guys uh again hopefully you guys enjoyed the cast. Um, it was my first time doing it, so I'm hoping that it was all right. It's definitely not going to be Crimson Casts, but I tried to do my best at um being informative, fun, and entertaining.
Um, the thing is that I can provide that Crimson does not is I'm sure he would not have talked about uh the Queen of Filth like I did.
He's a little more He is a little more classy than I am when it comes to that aspect.
If I was a paid gig, you would have been fine. We have feel safe. What do you mean?
What time the passion was alive? We do not know at this point. We do not know.
Uh okay. Um, as I said, I want to go over some of the stuff with the ascendencies. I don't know how many of you guys have seen the ascendies or not, but I want to go over it cuz there's some really cool stuff going on here with the Gemling Legionnaire. Um, I also think the Chronommancer changes are they're interesting. There's a really really good buff that the chronancers are getting, but at the same time, I'm still very questionable about the ascendancy in general, but we can go back into that in a little bit. Um, but let's start off just by watching the video, right? And then we'll talk about as we go.
And yo, Mr. XD with the six months in advance tier one. What the heck? Oh, I need to turn back on the uh the what is it called? The alerts. Sir, thank you.
Thank you. Thank you for the six months, man. I appreciate that. Holy >> mister XDay, that is a very generous.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um I do need to turn back on my uh streamer bot so we can get the uh the the the channel boards channel points back. also the 20 25 skill points. Yeah, that is also a thing that we could discuss. Um but all right here, Turn of the Ancients, we're making several much anticipated balance changes to the Chronommancer and Gemling Legionnaire ascendy classes. Let's take a closer look at some of them.
Starting with the gemling legionnaire, we've expanded on how the gemling interacts with quality on his gems.
Every socketable skill in the game now has an additional quality option available through the advanced Thorma ascendancy skill.
>> Dude, that is crazy.
>> Once simply hold alt while hovering your skill gems to preview an additional bonus granted by gem quality.
>> Like that is insane though. Like gem linking. Like look at how much gem quality this guy has. He has goddamn uh Oh, no. He has he has 23 quality, right?
He has 22%. Wait, how much quality does he have? 5% from support and 22 from global modifiers. 23 quality. I don't think this is necessarily saying he has 50 something quality, right? I don't think that's the case because if you go onto your character right now, it doesn't that's not how it works.
That's so much work for him. Yeah, it's literally so at the baseline, right?
What it is is just like every single gem from now on forward will have a special thing for gambling. That's crazy, right?
To think about that. It's one of those another one of those things like they got to manually do everything at that point. But it's insane because that means gemling will have a six socket skill for every single skill. And they they get one extra socket compared to every single class. And I guarantee you there will be some skills that you probably like some builds you probably will need to be gambling to do, which is absolutely crazy. But let let's see, right? So uh oh. Oh wow. Okay. So that is how it works. Okay. So those skills have tw have what? 55% quality.
Those skills have 55% quality. Like right here you get 22 from global modifiers and 5% from the support. And so that is insane.
Um, obviously gem quality on rings.
There's definitely gem quality on other places. Of course, the gemling class itself does get gem quality, but at least at the moment, right? Well, let's let's see what you get for what he has on the tree right now. So, if we're going off of what we have right now for GM, you have let's see here, there is 2% 4%, right? 2% 4% quality. And I don't think these give quality, right? Yeah, these will give quality. So 2% 4% plus 10%. So that is 14% just off of that.
Um and I think he also has this one too.
So 16%. So 16% quality just off of that.
So he has another like 6% from other things. It might be the tree, right? It could be the tree because I think tree does provide quality.
You have this one right here, right? 5% all quality of all skills with cutting fox. So maybe has a little bit more than that, but I don't think the gemling quality did get buffed. I don't think it got buffed.
So, but he does have a lot of quality on this thing. But as I was mentioning earlier, every single skill becomes a six socket skill. And I guarant basically wild shards, right? This is basically as though you socket wild shards into your skill. So it's like I'm sure there will be some builds that are like only possible with gem linking depending on what that extra quality uh socket is. Like the quality line is it.
It's pretty insane.
>> I just wanted to say a big warm thank you W. Absolutely amazing. Comment on the path of xy wee two ways. Oh my god, you made the hype so biggy wiggy and kept us all so excited. The wow time.
You are such a talented caster. Miso senpai.
>> Thank you Mr. Woody for the bits. I appreciate it. But oh my god, what the hell was that message?
What the heck was that message?
But yes, um, so what so how what I mean by the fact that GM gets six sockets, right? Again, think about it this way.
So we go to PO2DB.
We look at the skill wild shards, right?
Wild shard support. So wild shards, look at this. Supported skills have a 25% chance to fire eight projectiles in a circle. What is this? 25% chance to fire eight projectiles in a circle.
So, this skill essentially has six sockets.
And that is going to be the case for every single skill, which is pretty dang insane. Now, of course, right, we can't guarantee that the extra quality is going to be super super useful. Like, it might not always be something that you're like really like looking for, but I'm sure there's some stuff there that is going to be like this is like really premium and then you're just going to get six absolutely premium support gems on that item. Like, yeah, like what what you're saying, right? Flicker not consuming charges might make a comeback and that could also be absolutely insane. There were probably gonna be some builds that are going to be like only possible on Gemling is a weird way to say it, but okay. I mean, I don't know why I would like how else I would say it because that's literally just an extra support gem, right? That's literally an extra support gem.
Hopefully affects Calhur skills, too.
I'm sure it will, but we'll see.
Going to be nuts. We'll see cuz like we don't know what the actual extra quality thing is going to be, right? We just don't know. Some of them might be good, some not might not be good.
You know what the patchels are coming out? No. Nobody knows, unfortunately.
Would you recommend starting gemling?
I probably still wouldn't to be completely honest, but I think like when it comes to like midmaxing, gambling is going to be pretty good for like some builds cuz like we just don't know how good the other quality stuff are for Gambling, right? Like it could have the potential to be really good, but like in in reality like Wild Shards isn't all that great in my opinion. Like most people use like what? Scion's temper.
Uh Scion's Temper, right? Instead of Wild Shards.
So, it's like it's okay, but it's not like the best I feel like. But I do wonder if you can like stack it, right?
Can you put this and Scion's Temper?
Because Scion's Temper is an additional projectiles category. So, you can't stack this in wild shards, for example.
But if that stacks with silence temper, which I don't see why it wouldn't, that would be pretty insane.
Not just extra support gem. It's a unique design specifically for each skill. Yeah, I mean it's in some cases it's going to be better. In some cases going to be worse.
Science Wild Charge quality season projectiles.
Uh yeah, that's my chair. My chair is creaking.
Uh let's see. This this effective fire a projectile circle projector twisters.
I'm hoping I'm praying for. We'll see.
We'll see.
But yeah, this is going to be pretty good. This is going to be pretty strong in my opinion.
You're going to see some amazing >> It's going to make or break some builds.
>> An example is fireball. Instead of firing only two additional projectiles, why not fire up to 10 in a circle?
Combined with consuming a fire infusion, you can fire a devastating ring of explosive projectiles that then each explode into another ring of smaller firebolts.
Another example of an added quality that may also add quality to your life is explosive shot. Instead of having to reload after every shot, you can gain two more rounds in your magazine for a burst of deadly impact.
With the gemling legionaire's mastery of gems, he is also able to conjure a powerful barrier from his socketed skill gems.
>> So, this one is interesting, right?
So, virtuous barrier for essence of virtual.
This skill right here, what it does is it g it's there's a lot in the skill, but it's like essentially if you break it down, it just basically grants you increases of these things um up to like a certain I I'd say like because I don't think you're getting hit all that often to where you're going to lose these. For the most part, it's just like you're going to get a certain amount of life, certain amount of armor, certain amount of whatever based off of your skill gems now, depending on what build you're playing is going to have like different attributes, right? So, to give it I guess maybe I'll explain how this works. So, basically, while active conjures a glittering barrier that accumulates protective gemstones, moes of each attribute type over time, but lose a random moat when you're hit. gains a random moat every two seconds. All right, so you get these things called moes, right? You can basically think of them as like kind of like charges. I I don't know. Um but they're basically like these kind of charges that you get.
They're like permanent charges. And each charge does a certain thing. Now the maximum amount of charges that you have for these moes is three. So three base plus numbers of skills that you which require that attribute. So if you're going for a strength mode, right, depending on the number of skills that you have that require strength, you may get more or less of those modes as max.
Single attributes skills, however, grant twice as many maximum modes. So for example, if let's say right now your skills, you have 18 skill sockets, right? All of those skill sockets are only strength. So they don't require any other attribute. Then you will get 18 time 2 which is 36 plus three which is 39. So you have 39 moes maximum for strength which means that if you're not getting hit for enough time you can get up to 39% increase maximum life for strength which is absolutely insane.
But of course, you only get one every 2 seconds, and you're not guaranteed the strength mode every time. Even though, let's say, you're only using strength gems, you can still generate these other moes, you can still generate the other moes, which is kind of unfortunate.
So, it's going to be like a little bit, I guess, RNG whether or not like how much you can stack up. But technically, if you're not getting hit long enough, you could essentially stack up to all of them, right? Max of all of them. Cuz if you looked at the what is it the game play, you see that this person has like it's not like a terrible amount. Oh my god, he just lost a lot of votes right there. Holy crap. So maybe you're I don't know. Maybe you're not stacking up as many as I thought you would cuz that that guy just literally just lost all of them right there. What did he even get hit by? Oh, did he get hit by an ignite?
Oh my god. So if you get hit by a dot, they just [ __ ] disappear.
Yeah, I don't know. These moes don't seem all that powerful.
If you could get hit by the dot and it just all goes away like that.
Now granted, right, this could help you with like this is the best one in my opinion, maximum life, cuz maximum life is so hard to get. So like if you're able to get a ton of maximum life, it could help you prevent from like a one shot because getting hit once, you'll only get lose one moat. But accumulating that many moes is pretty rough.
No, it definitely energy shield doesn't save it. It's whenever you get hit.
Maybe it's a choice. No, there's no choice. It's just random. Yeah, I don't know. I feel like this is kind of not great.
Like there's potential if like you can stack this high enough and your character to maybe like if you play evasion, right? cuz technically you're playing evasion character, you're not getting hit as much. So if you're running like evasion strength gems and I think that's kind of where maybe this would like uh synergize the most. You're running evasion strength, you you're running more like a lot of strength evasion stuff, then you can get a good amount of maximum life to help you actually get that life required to not get one shot most of the time. But if you're running evasion, then you're not getting hit all that much, right? So that could be a way to build this to where it's like actually kind of useful, but it's you're still not solving for the do damage over time problem.
So if I've presented you with a mode, if I get hit, doesn't the HP get taken into account when calculating a hit? The I don't know how it's going to work, right? Let's say you have nine strength modes modes, you get hit. Does it deduct the moat before it deducts the damage?
Or does it deduct the damage first and then the moat goes away? Because if it deducts the damage first, then the moat goes away, then you're essentially healing kind of like mitigating, let's just say, right? That's the best way to put it. You're mitigating that amount of damage, that amount of life that that one moat gave.
I'm pretty sure the damage first. Yeah, that's that would be my assumption. So, that would be like the better scenario.
It would deduct the moat first. I don't know. We'll see. We'll have to see. But there's some use cases for this. I think it'll be for the most part kind of not great because like again, you you literally saw it right here where the guy had like a ton of moes and he lost it all in like a second. He didn't even get that hit that much. Like look at his health. Look at his health, right?
It barely got hit and he lost all his moes just like that. And you need two seconds per moat. So that means that like if in an average map, right? Let's say if you're a blaster, you're you're clearing a map in like three to five minutes, right? How much time does it take to get these modes? It takes 12 seconds plus 6 seconds. So that's uh 18 seconds. Uh plus four, that's like 22 seconds, right? I mean, that's a fairly significant amount of time compared to how much time it's going to take you to clear a map. So, doesn't look great.
You can get the reduced duration for it.
Um, no, there's no duration. There's no duration tag on this. There's no duration tag. It's just a buff, a spell, and persistent.
Oh, the passive tree. No known. No.
Oh, apparently he's wearing Fireflower and losing both self hit every time he ignites. I mean, that might be a big part of it, too. That might be why he loses it so much.
>> Yeah, that's that's probably why he lo so much. Legion's mastery of gems. He is also able to conjure a powerful barrier from his socketed skill gems, named the virtuous barrier.
Each socketed skill gem empowers the barrier, making its effects stronger depending on the gem's required attributes. With the virtuous barrier skill providing some much needed defenses and the additional qualities of over 200 different skill gems, it's more than meets the eye. And we look forward to seeing what you can come up with for your builds.
>> Yeah. I mean, I know the skill is level one, but still it >> like in reality like what what do we think that this is going to give for like higher levels?
I feel like it might increase like these numbers, but I don't think it really changes like how the moes themselves work, which is kind of rough.
>> We'll see. We'll see, right? We'll see.
>> Each socketed skill gem empowers the barrier, making its effects stronger depending on the gem's required attributes. With the virtual much needed defenses and the additional qualities of over 200 different skill gems, it's more than meets the decrease come up with for your builds.
>> So, where is the part where they talk about where they show the uh the weapon set stuff? I don't think it's in the gem section, right? Yeah, it doesn't look like it. Oh, wait. But yeah, I'd say like this, right? The gem quality stuff has so much potential, >> but the moat thing looks mid coming out the gate. Looks mid coming out the gate.
Are the patrols out yet? No.
You can maybe generate what emote every.5 to 751 seconds. Maybe. We'll see. I mean, I think there's potential.
There's definitely potential in this note. That's why I'm not like writing it off. But like, it's definitely not straight up just like you look at this and you're like, "Wow, this is amazing." Right? Cuz this the gem the gem quality, you look at it and you're like, "Wow, this is amazing."
This one you're looking at, it's like, "All right, it there's some potential.
It could be decent. I'm not going to write it off.
Each socketed skill gem empowers the barrier, making its effects stronger depending on the gem's required attributes. With the virtuous barrier skill providing some much needed defenses and the additional gem whirlwind, >> it's more than meets the eye and we look forward to seeing what you can come up with for your builds.
Onwards to the chronommancer.
First off, let's start with one of its new notable skills, phased form.
>> Okay, phased form. Now, if you guys watched my Rasher video, I definitely und down undersold this this this uh this note right cuz I was like so so focused on like talking about other stuff. I didn't really talk about this the actual node too much now. Take 30% less damage is ridiculously strong.
That is an insane amount of godamn mitigation. It is probably one of the best defensive nodes, if not the best defensive node in the game. Being able to mitigate 30 like 30% less, it's not even 30% reduced, 30% less damage is pretty dang insane.
Now the um 4 second and this is like doesn't matter what you're wearing. Does you could be wearing evasion, you could be doing armor, you could be doing uh energy shield. Doesn't matter. Just off the top 30% less damage. Now energy shield it's a little bit less strong, right? Because energy shield, your energy shield pool is so big that it doesn't really matter all that much.
You're rarely going to die anyways for the most part. You're rarely going to get one shot. You're really going to die. It's going to be it's going to be helpful, right? It's be really good.
It's still really, really good. Um, but it's pretty insane. Now, life builds. This is going to make life builds a lot stronger because life builds, one of the biggest problems is that they have such a low life pool, which makes it so that they're very easily one shot. And like armor does jack [ __ ] against defending against big damage, big hits. So, this is going to be huge for life. Now, this part right here, 4 seconds after being damaged by an enemy hit, take damage equal to 30% of that hit damage. So, I'm so 30% of that hit.
I'm trying to figure out like what the the the the damage. So, cuz like the the part that I'm getting stuck on, right, is like 30% of that hits damage.
Is it pre-mititigation or is it post mitigation?
Cuz it's post mitigation. That's better than premitigation, right?
Is it post mitigation? Is that uh is that confirmed? Okay. Post mitigation.
That's that's that's that's good.
premmitigation doesn't make sense. Well, there's a lot of stuff that works off of premitigation in this game. Like, for example, ailments all work premmitigation, right?
There are stuff that works premigration in this game. Quite a bit of it. So, I'm not entirely sure. I I don't I don't think there's any confirmation anywhere that says pre or posted.
But you take the hit already. It's like most likely the goals. I mean, again, I I don't know. We I don't think we can make assumptions right now. They could always like make things different, right? We just don't know. We don't know. And I don't I don't think we can make the assumption.
>> Yeah, I know it's whirlwind. They're not adding whirlwind anytime soon.
>> What was that?
Legendary. Appreciate it. Pre-mitigation makes sense. The hits damage not calculated. I I don't know which one it is. Either way, it's still good, right?
Whether it's pre or post. Of course, it's post is even better. Pre it's a little bit worse. But it's really good because it is 30% damage off the top end. And that is one of the biggest reasons why a lot of characters die is because they get one shot, right? So, this is really, really good. Now, the thing that I focused on a lot on the video, which I kind of regret doing that, but of course, it was a first like I it was a react video, right? It was my first time reacting to it. It's going to happen. But I focused a lot on this idea of like it's going to be really funny when this situation happens and people just die.
Like their hardcore characters just die because of it. You take damage, right?
Let's say you take a hit and it takes you down to like almost dead, but then like you're like, "Oh, okay. Uh, I'm still fine. I'm not dead. Right? And then you wait 4 seconds. You get hit by a couple of other hits. You're like, "Oh, I'm taking some hits here and there, or maybe I get like a dot damage or something like that." You forget that you're going to take 30% of that damage again afterwards. And you just [ __ ] die. Like, that is going to be happening. That is going to be happening for sure. It's It's I can't wait until I see like those hardcore highlights of people playing Chronommancer and just like dying because they get hit by this extra 30% and then they're just like, "Wait, how would I die? How would I [ __ ] die?"
I could definitely see it happening. But that's like the part that I kind of like focus on a little bit too much, I'd say, on the video. Like overall, this is like insane, right? This is absolutely insane. This this this skill is really this this this note is really really good. But for those couple of moments where you like slip up and then you get hit with a dot or you get hit with some small hits and you don't realize you're going to take more damage after a couple seconds, you just [ __ ] die.
What? What hit me? What hit me? Exactly.
That's going to happen so much.
Now, the thing is some people are playing saying like, "Oh, you just recoup it, right?" Which is fine, right?
But not everybody's going be playing a recoup build, you know? Not everybody's going to be playing a recoup build. Uh there's going to be some people playing recoup, some people playing uh not not playing recoup, right? So it it it's a good node. It's a good node, right? And also there was some confusion about uh what is it called? There was some confusion about the damage over time on this. A lot of people thought that this node makes you immune to damage over time, and that is just complete false.
That is not true at all. You listen to what Mark says.
>> With phase form allocated and due to your mastery over time, you are able to take less damage, causing a portion of that damage to be taken after a delay.
This serves as a pretty strong defensive node, especially as the delay >> first of all, right? Look at this.
>> This serves as a pretty >> literally shows the character on damage over time and his health is ticking down. delay damage.
>> Okay, so he is not immune to damage over time just by that. But listen to Mark's words, too. All right, >> this serves as a pretty strong defensive node, especially as the delayed damage only applies to hits.
>> The delayed damage only applies to hits.
So the damage that you take after like that 4se secondond delay only applies to hits.
>> So you just straight up mitigate any damage overtime effects. So you straight up just mitigate any damage overtime effects. This means the way that he's saying it right there means that for the delayed hit part only applies to hits.
When you are taking damage over time, you don't take the delayed damage. So it is straight up just 30% less damage.
That is what he's saying. He's not saying you are immune to damage over time. He's not saying you it mitigates damage over time completely. He's saying that you do not take the delayed damage because that's the thing with this node, right? It's not just like you're getting a free 30% damage less damage to all your hits. You're going to take that damage later. It's just like you're not taking it now. But this situation when you get hit by a dot, it means that you're not taking that damage later.
You're just getting a straight up 30% less damage taken from damage over times. That's what he's saying.
Should 30% bleed 30% less dot. No.
Damage over time does not work that way.
Damage over time is premitigation.
Damage over time is all premitigation.
So just because you take 30% less damage from a hit does not mean that you take damage less damage over time. All damage over time is pre-mititigation.
So if you look at let's say bleed, right? uh bleeding.
Uh let's see here. Does it does it tell you right here? Right. So, right here.
Uh the base magnitude of bleed is physical damage per second equal to 15% of the pre- mitigation physical damage of the hit. So, the node does not reduce. It's not a double dip.
Basically, you will not get the pre like just because you take 30% like normally I think a lot of people are thinking like oh I'll take 35% uh less damage from the initial hit which means the dot does 35% less damage and on top of that I'm 30 reducing it by another 35%.
Because it's going to reduce dots that is not how damage overtime ailments work. That is not how damaging ailments works. All damaging ailments in the Path of Exalt 2 are pre-mitigation.
Explain why these are so freaking painful sometimes. Yeah.
Uh for 1k you'll take 700. Yeah.
Whatever the math earns ends out to be that that is basically it.
Burning is premitt. Every damage over time from a hit is premittage only applies to hits. So you just straight up mitigate any damage overtime effects. What makes this really cool though is that by taking temporal rift, the delayed damage from phase form can entirely be negated.
>> Now this one, I mean, I don't know. I I don't play Chronommancer, so I don't know how many people take Temporal Rift, but if people didn't take Temporal Rift before, I don't think they're taking it just to mitigate that damage.
I don't think they're doing it just to take that that damage. But I I don't know how many people take the temporal rift to be completely honest. Like if if it's a regularly taken one, then yeah, you know, it's it's it's great. But if it's not, then I don't know. I mean, I guess we could answer that question, right? If we go to uh po ninja or ninja uh we could kind of take a look at this and see like how many Kronos actually take that. Well, also first of all because they changing how the nodes go.
So temporal rift. Oh, you need to take it for time freeze. Okay, so obviously everybody's taking temporal rift.
Obviously everybody's taking temporal rift. But like, are you taking it because you need time freeze or are you taking it because you actually want temporal rift? I would argue that most people aren't taking this because they want temporal rift. I'd say most people are taking it because they want the time freeze. And if you don't and and they're changing it so that time freeze is over here instead of over here. So I I I think that people uh I don't know.
Again, I don't play I don't play it. So maybe it is a very very good one. Maybe I'm just completely uh misunderstanding it and it is something people use very regularly. Even like if you didn't have even if uh and again keep in mind this is a four this is on the fourth. All right you of course I think everybody's going to be taking this so it doesn't really matter. So technically it's kind of like a two but in reality it is a four point node.
It's best for Sekchas. uh good for mana spam as resets mana like maybe because right we're losing leech maybe leech being like not as powerful anymore means that temporal rift is going to be or not uh temporal rift is going to be like used a lot more I'm completely sure but just off of what I can see on a regular character I don't know how often people are taking how often people are using Um, but yeah, that that that is my commentary on it, right? I don't think people are going to be taking it because it removes the the freaking phase form damage. People would be taking this if like they were going to take it for their build already. This addition doesn't do anything.
If you take a big hit, then use temporal rift. Not only does your life recover back to what it was, but the delayed damage is just eradicated.
Now, some changes to existing ascendancy skills. Starting with inevitable agony.
This has received new visual and gameplay effects such as displaying your stored damage to bosses on static life bars.
Also, now when the stored damage reaches a lethal level, the effect will trigger immediately to wipe your enemy out. Now, this one's just tough to really read because like you're it's definitely not a thing you're going to do be doing when you're mapping. It's definitely a single target based thing, right? Cuz nobody's going to manually cast a [ __ ] curse while they're mapping. Um, unless maybe play like a minion build or something like that. Like nobody's going to manually cast a curse like that. So I don't because I don't really hear anybody talk about this skill to be honest. Like they got it gets a little bit of quality of life. So you can see the effect and then now it does automatically kill. So it's basically kind of like a coing effect in a way.
Uh, could you automate curs? No, this is a because this is not a skill gem. This is a class skill which means that you cannot put it into a meta gem. You cannot put it on blast me. You cannot put it on cast on crit. You cannot put it on cast on elemental element. It has to be manually casted.
So I it's not I don't think it's being used much right now. Again, I'm not a chronom expert and there's not that many chronommancers out there. Let's be real, right? So, I don't know exactly how many people use it, but what is it?
Inevitable Agony. It is used by 16%.
So, literally the least second least used one. So, it doesn't seem very good right now. People don't really want it.
People aren't using it. Um, and I don't know if this change would make you use it more because I think it looks cool. I think it the the Q is nice, but I don't think this skill is very good.
>> Lethal level trigger immediately to wipe your enemy out.
>> The rapid river passive skill, which made recoup occur much faster, has been removed, but a lot more recoup speed investment has been added to the core passive tree, allowing a lot more builds to gain access to this power.
Additionally, a highly requested change has finally come. So the the whole recoup thing, right, getting removed, I think it's totally fine. Originally, I was like, I don't really like how this is because it kind of like that was one of the main things that like a big thing that people picked pronouns for was for the recoup, right? Or this right here for the recoup effects instead uh occur over 4 seconds. But like I wonder if that's made up by the fact that we do have uh the damage mitigation node, right? This right here, phase form. I wonder if like at because phase four means you're taking less 30% less damage. It means that your recoup is that much stronger. So that doesn't really hurt it all that much.
It's a huge buff for Infernalist giving recoup of the tree instead of sentency.
Yeah, true, true.
Why is that big for Infernalist? Because Infernalist a lot of how you sustain your infinite uh what is it called? your infinite demon form is by recoup, right?
So, if you get more recoil on the tree, that means it's in better, easier to sustain and sustaining it for longer.
Chrono made recoup obsolete for everyone else. Feels like a worse to stack it on uh you know, the double effect. Well, I wouldn't even say that because I think like for example, Lich is really good for uh recoup because Krono you're required to get mana recoup in the past.
So, you have to do mana and life recoup.
But lich, you didn't have to get mana recoup. Um, which was really nice cuz you don't ever take damage to your life. So, you never needed the mana recoup that by the delayed damage is just eradicated.
Now, some changes to exist.
>> Can you convert to recoup? Yes. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Uh it's this what most people do. It's they use the uh the recoup chest. Uh it's called what what is it called again? I'm trying to remember. Uh recoup.
Sacro sanctum. Sacro sanctum. It allows you to recoup both as life and energy shield.
Yep. This is what basically every recoup build uses. They all use sacro sanctum.
isting ascendancy skills starting with inevitable agony.
>> Did we want to have a big margin?
Actually, no, he didn't visual damage to bosses on static.
>> It's not as big as it was supposed to be. I feel the rapid river passive skill which made recoup occur much faster has been removed but a lot more recoup speed investment has been added to the core passive tree allowing a lot more builds to gain access to this power.
Additionally, a highly requested change has finally come. Time snap and time freeze. I would say this is one of the bigger buffs as well. Again, I think that this is really good, right? This is probably the biggest buff, the uh the the phase four or whatever. And then this is probably the second biggest. I mean, I think they're both just as big, maybe. They're both huge. The fact that you don't have to take the fact that you can take time snap and also time freeze is like pretty dang insane. But I don't think it's like anything. It's not like I I wouldn't say it's like gamebreaking.
It's fine. It's okay. It's decent, but it it's a it is a big buff relatively >> can now both be allocated without requiring all eight ascendency points.
Finally, now and again has been changed to cause your spell casts to have a chance to alter time itself and both echo and repeat. Now, that node, right, this node, I mentioned it on my video reaction as well, but I feel like maybe it's just that I don't like this like what they're doing with Krono. So, that's why I think like they're they kind of don't know what to do with Chrono, but like I feel like Krono as an ascendency, one of the reason why I think it's just not great is because of like uh what is it? Like Sands of Time for example, right? That's the thing that makes you gain cast speed and it cycles. It goes from like 10% all the way to 60% or something like that, right? Um, let's see. Sands of time. Um, it goes from the 1% all the way up to 60%. for um cast speed and area of effect which like to me and I think many people will probably disagree with this like rabbit I think he think finds this node to be really powerful. I just like maybe it's powerful but I feel like it feels really bad to play the class because of this. Like when you're at 60% you feel like you're on the top of the world but when you're at 1% you feel like complete ass. You feel like complete booty cheeks. So like that to me is like one of the problems with Chronommancer. It's not consistent. Like same with this, right? 20% chance to echo, 20% chance to repeat. And like it's another situation where it's like maybe I'll get lucky and I'll repeat a ton and I'll do a ton of damage. Maybe I won't get lucky and I'll never repeat.
Right? So again, the consistency of the class is just like really low. If you look at like the other ascendies, none of them really operate this way. All right. Guaranteed spirit. This is a uh guaranteed damage reduction.
Meditate. Guaranteed es guaranteed reservation efficiency. Guaranteed more energy. Guaranteed damage. Guarant, you know, you know what I mean, right?
Guaranteed, you know, leech, guaranteed this. Like everything for the most part is like giving you very tangible guaranteed things. Like this one's guaranteed additional projectile, right?
Why is it that Crotomancer has all these like chance to get this or like I don't get all I don't always get a 100% effectiveness of it. It just feels a little bit bad when that happens to me.
So it's like even if it's good, I feel like if I wanted to play Crotomancer, I feel like it's going to feel really bad.
Um that's just to me what it is, right? It feels bad when that happens. When I'm at 1% it feels garbage. When I'm at 60% it feels insane, right? And that's maybe it's just my preference, right? I don't like that feeling. I don't like the feeling of just like inconsistency.
So that's why I don't really like this note that much. Maybe it ends up being good, right? It might it probably ends up being good, but just the feeling of like being inconsistent is not something I like.
>> To have a chance to alter time itself and both echo and repeat. Both roles are independent of each other, allowing you to unleash a powerful burst of spells all at once. Try out these changes. The >> problem is that it doesn't affect attack builds. Yeah, that's also another thing, right?
You think a prodial lich survives patch notes? I mean, I think twisters are probably just going to get nerfed, so probably not. I mean, it probably survived in the sense that it'll still be usable, but will it be like nearly as strong? Probably not.
The patch not on 13 hours, 6 minutes. I don't think they've ever confirmed the time, right?
I mean, I know that usually they upload in the past they did upload at 3:00 Pacific, but I don't know if it's like I don't think they confirmed it, right?
Why the heck does it do that to me?
Why does it make me sign in?
Yeah. So, there's nothing in here that confirms it. Of course, people you said PO2 DB.
I mean, PO2B says it. I mean, I don't know.
I given how PO2 DB is uncannily accurate sometimes maybe I tr I feel like I'll probably try to trust PO2 DB I'll trust PO2 DB like somehow they predicted May 29th with no reason it'll be like the teasers. Well, the teasers they kind of have varying times, too. It's usually between like 2 to 2:30 Pacific.
Not PTV versus Visa again. PTV's got an inside manure. Yeah, I think PTV has definitely got an insider. They've definitely got an insider. So, if PTV said it's coming out in 14 hours and four minutes, I'll believe them.
I'll believe them.
OB is definitely ran by Chris and he adjusted the time since yesterday. Yeah, like I'll I'll believe them. He probably got some insider information that we don't know. So, let's just all expect that we'll probably get the patch notes around this time in 14 hours and 3 minutes.
So, that's what like 5 5:00 p p.m.
Pacific. Uh that's going to be where we're going to expect this.
It's a weird time. It is a weird time.
Like I'm not saying it's not a weird time, but because in the past it was always 3 pm Pacific, right? So, but this was at 5:00 p p.m. Pacific. But again, I'm going to trust PO2 DB. I think they got an insider.
What is No, I mean, that's what I was saying. I think it might be given PO2DB's track record at this point. I think they got an insider.
I think they got an insider. It's midday New Zealand.
I swear it said 10 p.m. yesterday for me. I think they changed it. Somebody said, right, it I think somebody said that they changed it since yesterday.
Kelly Eagles pob.
My guess is they forgot to write down the patch shows and are doing it right now. Just like they said in the past, they've done a lot of things last minute. I mean, I'm sure they're working on the patch shows until the last minute.
Monk Syny showcase when? I think it'll probably come next week. I I think it'll probably come next week. I I I still think there is plenty like I think there is going to be teasers leading up to the launch. Maybe not as often, but I think there still will be. Probably think there still will be. I'm copiuming that there still will be and we'll get uh monk teasers in the upcoming week. We need patch notes now.
They patch notes. Yep. I'd say it. Well, right now it says 14 hours, right? That is our guesstimation for when the patch shows will come out in 14 hours and 1 minute and 45 seconds.
What are those emotes?
>> You got it set to M for mini when it should be set to W for wombo.
>> Will I still be streaming in 14 hours?
No, I will not be streaming in 14 hours.
I will probably I mean I'm so the thing is right by the time I get on stream I'll probably have reviewed the patch notes and I will have had like some time to process it. I probably won't have like all the analysis done right but I'll at least have some of the my like thoughts about it like that is not just like initial thoughts. That way I can come to you guys and talk about it in more of an intelligent manner.
Poor racks. Why poor racks?
Do you think other settings get changes?
I'm sure there'll be slight stop at five or six doors.
Just one.
>> We have the notes all oiled up. I mean, I'll try to oil them up as much as I can, man. I'll try to oil them as much as I can.
I'll I'll ask 11 all the notes before I get to get it to you guys, you know.
That way I'll it'll be very very much like nice and well done. All right.
I'll ask 11 all over it.
If they don't touch twisters, I'll buy you dinner.
Did we finish the Nerf bingo yet? Uh yeah. I mean, we ended up with uh I I'd say we ended up with a pretty good list yesterday. If in case any of you guys who weren't there yesterday, right? Um this is what we kind of spent our time doing last night. And we this was our kind of balance patch predictions, right? We had trigger skills, comet, leech, blood mage, oracle, mystical rage, play style, time of need, vertex, skill levels, twisters, snipe, infernal legion, chatter. I mean, the list goes on and on, right? There we thinking that um this is what's going to get nerfed.
So, me, Rabbit, Prada came together and we pulled our predictions together. We pulled our ginormous craniums together, especially Prada's ginormous cranium, right? and came up with this list.
And it's not necessarily saying that they're all going to get nerfed and all going to get buffed. And it's not necessarily saying these are the only things getting nerfed and only things getting buffed, right? But these are the things that we think are likely to get touched in some way, shape, or form.
Is there a C gem freezes ignited enemies? Any information gem? In other words, I don't think so. I think it's whatever they showed us on the on the thing.
Please get brought on the post patch notes stream, please.
I mean, I think post patch notes. We're having Lance on. We're having Lance on next week.
>> This isn't biased at all. Oh, what do you mean?
This is just what we're thinking.
There's no bias going into it. It's just like what we think will get nerfed or buffed. It's not like what we want to get nerfed. It's not what we want to get buffed. It's what we think GGG will do.
If we put ourselves in the mind of Mr. Mark, right?
If we put our minds inside of Mark into his head, what is he thinking about nerfing and buffing? And these are the things that we think are in his mind.
You're under NDA. Don't break it. I I don't have it. I'm not under NDA. I have no information. I have no inside information.
These are I even play base skill. Yes, I play base every single league.
I do. I do hardcore soul selfhound mace runs every single league.
See Mark with a long sword slashing 0.4 bills in half.
I mean this is already this already happened. These two already happened. We already saw these two. We know that for now that liberty from here >> and I mean they they kind of confirmed on the streams too, right? But these two these two already happened. We have that.
>> Um, I mean, I I made a video about it if you want to go to my YouTube, but I think it's really good for hollow palm.
>> I for maze skills, I don't think it's going to be as good.
>> But Palon thinks otherwise. He thinks for mace skills be good, but he thinks for hollow palm is not be great.
>> They give you epsilonly the point rewards.
They use this [ __ ] on Twisters Heart especially with uh >> and wait flub guns and they're not now calling for nerfs to M for mini when it should be set to W for >> run is over. Are we going to watch a G video now? Uh we already watched it. We already went over it. I mean honestly there wasn't all that much to go over.
We kind of like there's only a couple things, right? And we kind of went over all of it already together. Again, overall thoughts. Gemling I think got is like potentially like huge buff, right?
It's just like this node itself. This node itself has so much potential to just make the class really really strong. So huge W here. Um this node right here is uh what is it? The the stupid little gem armor [ __ ] potentially not that great.
has potential, but on the surface looking like it's going to be kind of mid. Um, chronommancer huge W on the mitigation side of things phase four.
So, but kind of the other stuff is kind of meh in my opinion.
is nice. Yeah, it's nice. It's a nice Q.
It's nice that you don't have to take the other side anymore.
They swap time snap and time freeze.
Yeah, they're not going to do that. Time freeze is so powerful. They're not going to make it a two point two point node.
Gentling might bring back zero do flicker. Yeah, there's a there's a huge chance. There's a chance. I don't know about huge chance, but there's a chance.
Isn't that like 30% or even more HP if you played maces? Um, yes. But it just depends on like how you lose stuff, right? Cuz like we were watching the game play and like you could lose the [ __ ] real quick. Like look at this, right?
every shot.
>> Look how fast this dude just lost all.
>> Granted, this guy was playing Fireflower, so he was also hurting himself, but like the moment you get hit by a dot, it looks like all of your [ __ ] just disappears.
Like, look at that. That was so much moat just gone instantly.
So, like I don't know if you're ever going to be allowed to stack all that much. And I I mentioned earlier that there might be a world where evasion, you can get evasion and like do an evasion strength build and then be able to stack life that way.
015 up. No.
Uh, I think it depends on who's going to break things if built, right? Um, if you could stack 30 deck skills. Well, you can't stack 30 deck skills. You could only stack 18, right? Um, it'll be 150 armor, 150 evasion, viper cap, grab god tier nodes. Yeah, you can't stack 30. I think you only have 18 skill slots and then you get plus two from sockets if you're playing un uh unset rings is 05 standard league going to have the recoup changes yes the standard league itself the only thing that's going to be missing is the league mechanic and any new items skill tree is going to be the same any new any new items I think any skills, I think. Um, and any the the new league mechanic, though, I would I don't know actually. I feel like it would be so hard to get the like how is that going to work?
Maybe they won't get the reworks in standard for new league mechanics cuz like I can't imagine not having runes of Aldur but also having the expedition rework.
So, I feel like in that logic, Stanner might not get the new leagues or might not get the new league reworks. But then how will that work with the skill the Atlas tree? I don't know. We'll have to see. I standard's a little bit of a tossup for me right now.
It might be like 01 where you had old and new breach at the same time. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. But the thing is PO one also didn't get to rework the Atlas.
That's the part where I'm just like I don't know if they can get the new Atlas and also not get the reworked uh league stuff. So, it's like maybe standard just doesn't have anything. It doesn't have the new Atlas. It doesn't have the new It doesn't have the reworked league mechanics. Like, that'll be so shitty.
I'm overflowing with knowledge. Slow down.
Can I send a game link for stall here?
What do you mean by a game link? I mean, you can send it, but I don't know what you mean by game link.
Oh, like a like a link to a game.
Oh, it sounds like a one of those friends slop games. I mean, friend slop is like just like a general term. It might not be bad, but it's just like one of those type of games. You think I have friends to play with, sir? Think I have friends to play games with?
Like I don't mean it in like a disroerogatory way. I just don't know what else to call it.
What's up?
Uh best one in best of the genre.
Interesting.
An exploration game play uh reanimal with my friend. Scary as [ __ ] Friends, what's that? Yeah, exactly.
All right, but um yeah, it looks like uh we'll have to see what ends up happening here, but I for sure Ging is going to have some crazy [ __ ] happening. There's no way Gling doesn't have something crazy going on with it. Like I feel like well I mean I I guess I say that but like witch hunters I also said that I was like there's no way they don't come out with something broken with like the weapon swap and like the the the bajillion weapon swap skill points and uh nothing really broken came out of that. So like maybe they they're like very uh what is it called? Reserved when coming out with these effects. Who knows?
I'm surprised if Zer's Infinity doesn't make it to the nerf tree. Uh I agree actually like Zory's Infamy definitely would get nerfed in the sense that I think it's currently a bug that Zory's infamy can be linked to something like Hammer of the Gods, right?
Uh, infamy.
Infamy or infamy?
How do I [ __ ] spell it? Zuries.
Infami. Infami. Okay, I was on the right track. I was on the right track.
Saw forgot I saw unique. Those are going to be big.
Cocked on a nurse and knows right here.
Trigger skills. Trigger skills, brother.
What are your favorite thematic classes you wish had the more love? Uh, I mean, when it comes to themes, it's hard to say cuz I just don't really care too much about the ascendancies to be honest. I like I care about skills more than I care about ascendencies.
But I guess like to me, I still think Verasha is like one of the coolest ascendancies out there. I think Verash or like maybe Chaula. I feel like I feel like a connection with Chaula. I don't know why. Maybe Chaula is like a representation of me my whole life.
Just, you know, lots of investment poured into it to like, you know, keep reworking it, keep trying to make it better, but it still ends up like not being that.
I feel a connection with you.
Does Dialis Desire work with Gemling? I mean, it works with Gemling. Yeah. I saw somebody say that Diala's Desire got nerfed cuz what is it? Diala's Desire. It's 5% quality from support right now and Dialas is like what? 10, right?
Yeah, 10.
Are conchs good like in pew one? No.
Conchs are currently not great.
Oh yeah, the other thing uh what is it called? Somebody mentioned Oh, right here. Right. This is going to be interesting. So, I wonder if this actually ends up going through the weapon set. 25 points. Like I wonder if this was like a like a internal version kind of like you know how like act five they had that [ __ ] is not going to come out or if it's like when they come out with act five act six they will add another weapon set point. I'm just not sure because like you could be like, "Oh, they're going to add it when they add act five, act six because those acts are missing." But technically, we get stuff in Interlude, right? We get we get the skill the skill points in Interlude.
So, this would have to be like a straight up just like them being thinking like, "Oh, I think we need more weapon set points."
Yeah, exactly. We already get m weapon set points in interview loot. So, it's like it's not just because like, oh, we're missing these axe. No, because like we actually get them in interludes.
So I this has to just be a straight up like, hey, maybe 24 isn't enough. Maybe we're going to give you 25 now.
What is this piece of trash pogy?
That last point did the trick.
Blade. Just watch out, man. This build is going to be meta. This build is be meta. Just watch out, man.
I only play hardcore. The 30% damage reduction is going to be insane. Well, I was saying Raphs earlier that you better be careful because you take that 30%.
You don't notice it. You get hit by a couple dots. You get hit by a couple hits. Your health dips down to a point where you're not dead yet, but then the 4 seconds pass and you get hit with a delayed damage and you don't remember it. You don't realize it. You didn't register in your head. You're going to be about to get it take like a kind of like a a little bit of a nuke and you just get deleted from the game.
That could definitely [ __ ] happen.
So, I feel like it's actually worse for hardcore than softcore because in hardcore you could actually just get deleted out of nowhere if you add phase form with heavy buffer passes. Oh, I wonder I wonder if you add phase form with heavy buffer and you're playing a hybrid if it just hits your life and you just die.
30% is a trap. I don't think it's a trap. I think the 30% is so good. It's actually like really good, but it's just that this little negative part that you need to be careful about because you can just like randomly get deleted. You do that.
Isn't the echo and recast note interesting? I mean, yeah. I mean, yes, but I don't like it because I don't like how random it is.
I don't know for me it was like recoup the 30% it will come later I never forget about it. I mean you say that now but it like mental stack is a thing right? Mental stack is a thing where you might be in like a situation where you're like you got a lot of [ __ ] coming at you and you just forget about it.
It it definitely happens like you you might be put in that situation. I'm not saying it will happen but there will be people put in that situation.
There will be people put in that situation and it will happen.
you're playing a regen build or recoup build you die. Yeah, I mean for a specific build like that, but not everybody playing Kronos would have play re uh recoup especially now that Chrono gets no inherent advantages from recoup, right? Especially now that Chrono gets no inherent damage. The thing is right also you got to think about it this way for recoup builds um what is it called uh at Zer's disdain.
This is it's not as strong but it's free if you play lich.
If you if you play lich this is just free and that that that also helps with recoup too. I usually, for me, I think Lich is a better better uh what is it called? Recoup character because you don't have to build mana recoup. In uh when you're playing Chrono, you got to play man recoup. But for lich, you don't got to play mana recoup.
Go a shinigami.
30% uh reduction is a real thing for me.
Guess he gives you more time to react. I mean, yeah, it's it's it's good. I'm not saying it's not good, right? But I know there will be people out there that are going to die from it. There will be people that will die from it, whether they're playing software or hardcore.
How would you react to passion if gear had no more plus levels to skills?
I mean, I get good riddance, I guess.
Good riddance.
Uh, will it count as a hit? Um, I'm not sure. I mean, I think it does cuz if you look at the animation for it, right?
Um, you see that right there?
So, you get You see that? You It hits you, right? You see the little animation for the hit right there and then right there. So, it should be a hit.
Does it count as an enemy hitting you though? Uh, I don't know. That's hard to say.
All I want is a rarity to go away. I don't think they're going to nerf it.
They don't they're not going to change it this patch. At least based off of the Q&A. Now, since the Q&A happened, right, it has been basically it's going to be a month, right? Almost since the Q&A and the 1.0 release. So, there is definitely a chance that maybe at that point they said that they don't know what to do with Rarity, but then now they figured out what to do with Rarity and are implementing it. That's always a possibility.
They said that they didn't know what to do with it at that time, but maybe at now they do. Who knows?
They'll double down and nerf ES and Vasha.
And I I I that is one thing that we didn't talk about last night that I think I should have talked about. Like I said, there were things on here that I think I should have talked about that I didn't talk about. And one of those is Verashta because Verashta is not OP in softcore.
But in hardcore, Verasha is absolutely busted.
Like Verasha is so strong in hardcore boys. You get uber defensives. It's uber tanky with not much investment.
watch if you don't want to die. It's true. Yeah. So, it's like I I don't know because like in general they don't really I don't think they really care about hardcore in the sense like I don't think they balance around hardcore unless something is like crazy egregious. I don't know. And I don't know if Arasha enters that car ter territory kind of it helps against heavy hits. Uh what the uh the recoup the the the chrono thing. Oh yeah, 100%. It's very good. It's a very good node. Very good node.
Very good. Very very good. Probably the best node in this entire uh on this entire tree.
Probably the best defensive node in the game.
Low life tech still exists. Uh what do you mean by that? Like where did that come from?
Better than sorcery word. Uh probably probably because sorcery lord doesn't protect against like dots or anything like that. So you can still kind of just get popped by that.
Sorcery Lord is pretty dang strong though. It's definitely definitely pretty dang strong. It's hard to say at that point. is really hard to say.
What is your take on the fact they said during the Q&A they all did almost no balance change and then corrected a sub?
I don't remember what the actual phrasing was. I know that they said it was going to be a balance light patch, but well, I don't remember what the the actual phrase was. Uh, let's go to Ziggy D, right? Ziggy DD.
Uh Let me see here. Maybe this part >> just because we want to be able to we still don't want to do midleague nerfs.
And so to be able to do all the balance changes we want to do because there's a huge amount of balance still to do. Um you know in order to do all that stuff you still need to have like an economy reset >> on a little bit more polish in the econom as So, um yeah, I mean we plan to have um some more leagues, but they won't be like content like mega expansion type leagues. Like it's more like kind of like the one month event type things that we've done. Um and that's really just because we want to be able to we still don't want to do mid-league nerfs. And so to be able to do all the balance changes we want to do cuz there's a huge amount of balance still to do. Um you know, in order to do all that stuff, you still need to have an like an economy reset.
>> That's not that's not the part. How do you get the trans? You just open this up. It says transript right here. You just open the open the description up.
Go down. It says show show crown trip.
Um, let's see here. Let's let's let's ask a clanker, right? Let's ask a clanker.
In this interview, I believe they talk about how this this update won't have all that many balance changes. Can you help me find where that is?
Section in the middle. This is going to be kind of like mega kind of craziness.
We still don't want to do midleague nerfs. all bounce. We didn't do as much of the bounce fix up uh to a lot of the stuff we just usually want to do here.
Uh I wouldn't say we got to do as much of the bounce fix up the patch already had.
Uh fix up like this this league in particular. I remember we started it and we were like here's all the things that we've discussed we need to fix. we need to do all this and then it was like oh and here's the like 8,000 other balance runes and crafting systems and everything we want to do and new classes and it was like ah new versus existing having a bit of a conflict and we were so I wouldn't say we got to do as much of the balance fix up to a lot of the stuff we've discussed previous that we wanted to do here um but as you >> I mean I don't think they ever said that there's gonna be no balance changes right I don't think that even the clanker didn't say anything like that right maybe the clanker missed But from what I hear there, it's like, yeah, it's going to be a smaller it's going to be less balanced since than usual and like off their list of things that they really wanted to balance it, they they had they balanced less. But I don't think it's going to be a balanced list patch. It's definitely not going to be it's just going to be hitting the most egregious stuff. Again, I think out of all these, right, I think what's going to happen is in reality, like these are all things that are possible to balance, but if it comes down to brass tax, like what I think will get balanced for sure, I think it's we're taking that.
Uh they said they have to do this. Um I think they're probably going to do this.
This um maybe this and that is like and they've confirmed this as well, right? So that's like and maybe this. So that's what I'd say is like for sure going in.
At the minimum, that's what's going to happen in my opinion.
Oh, yeah. Oil grenade, too. Oil grenade.
Yep. That that at the minimum is what's going to get fixed.
Pounds nerve. Uh I don't know. Maybe for a 0.5.1 or something like that.
I mean, I still think they're going to do some like uh I mean, indirect nerf because of leech technically, but I think they might do like this if anything. But I think at the very minimum they're going to do this.
I wish to buff Conso's favorite face play style. I agree. I love Cons.
I love Conch.
I think they said ES recharge and tree nerf. Yes.
Let him nerf things. to the ground, a forest of new stuff will regrow. Now, that is a very unpopular take. I mean, I agree with it to an extent because I do think that they need they uh they need to nerf things. Like, there's a lot of people in this game and that are like never nerf anything, which you just can't do. You have to nerf things. You can't not nerf things.
I don't know about nerfing everything to the ground, but you definitely need to nerf a lot of things like or they definitely need to nerf things.
Oh, there's colors aesthetics.
I miss the old combat frenzy. So do I.
But you need to buff things are garbage.
Oh yeah, it's both. You you nerf the bottom end, you nerf the or you buff the bottom end, you nerf the top end, right?
That's that that is that is uh what you do. Nerf the bottom end, buff the top uh buff the top end, nerf ah nerf the top end, buff the bottom end. Sorry, the the casting uh it took a lot out of me, guys. The ca casting today took a lot out of me.
Murf, the buff top, the bottom end. Yes, exactly.
I like the idea of nerf apocalypses and they build them up slowly over time.
Nerf the end and top the bottom.
Exactly.
Do you need to hire Rax to TLDDR the patch nodes?
I mean, I pro I feel like Arax probably makes more money doing that than like doing what he's doing than anything GG would be willing to pay for him to do.
Warriors nerve again. No, no, definitely not. What the heck?
Now, Mage Blood though, I mean, I still don't know exactly what Mage Blood is going to do, but I have my guesses, right? I have my guesses.
I mean, we all I think we all agree that Mage Blood is probably going to work with charms. We all think mage blood is going to be like a charm thing and mage blood is probably going to I think there's a potential that mage blood because they've said in the past that there's supposed to be like five or six charms maximum at some point. So I think mage blood might increase the charm limit and then also like do something with charms like always being active or something like that. They're going to keep the spirit of the of the item.
But they also said that nage blood is going to be insane. basically basically implied it's going to be insane. So like maybe and the other thing right I'm predicting that they are going to be adding in new charms new base charms like not like unique charms but charms like the thawing charm charms like the silver charm right those base level charms I think they're going to be adding uh in new ones.
Do you think maybe will work with non-magic charms? I I feel like it probably would be too insane slash like expensive to make it work with unique charms.
Three charms being active all time OP as hell, but one being per active 800 plus div items sounds a bit more reasonable.
Right now charms are pretty underwhelming though. Yeah, that's why I'm saying that I think they're going to add more charms and add more base charms because right now essentially the charms are just like very boring. It's like, oh, you get more resistance, you get, you know, you don't get slow, you you don't get freeze, frozen, you know, it's kind of boring, right? It doesn't really do anything. Like, it's not to a point like even if I had like all like a six charms active at all times right now, I don't even think I don't think it would be that crazy.
I don't think you'll be that busted.
Power charm six flickerville blood mage.
Well, they add Joe Nathan screeching anal charm. What the [ __ ] Cuz like we look at the charms, right?
Let's look at the charms.
There's nothing that crazy for the normal charms, right? Like I said, thawing charm, you you you get immunity freeze, staunching charm, immunity, bleeding, this stuff. Like, it's all Qish, but it's not like great Q, right?
All that stuff. And after that, it's just resistances.
Now, gold charm is like, all right, cool. That's good. That's pretty good, but like still kind of boring. Like I wouldn't be like, "Wow, I'd use this over a head hunter." Like it's a way more fun and insane and broken compared to head hunter. Like sure, you know, and also they're thinking about getting rid of like Well, actually, I don't know.
Even if they get rid of rarity and gear, I feel like gold charms might still exist. So, I I feel like gold charms are probably here to stay.
It works on unique charms. We're popping off. It would be very hard for it to work on unique charms because unique charms do some stuff like they'd have to change up how unique charms work for it to work on unique charms, right? Because imagine you always just get frenzy charges.
Just like always just get this active, right? And ready. What? It's like this one. Recover life equal to 15 to 20% of your mana flask recovery and your life flask, right? Always. Every single second you get this. That would be insane. They would have to change up how the charms work in order for that to actually happen if you wanted the unique charms. Yep, guy. How's it going?
Do we know when the patch notes actually come out? Well, PO2DB has this. And I have a very strong feeling PO2B has a goddamn insider. All right. I think PoDB, he's got a connection to some mole out there that is feeding him information through a goddamn like one of those cups with like the little uh little strings attached to them, right? He like he just like has that [ __ ] just linked up to GG headquarter or something. Just like, "Hey, when's the patch notes?" And he like puts it in his [ __ ] ear. It's like, "It's coming out in 14 hours." And then like Yeah. Exa. Exactly.
Kelly DB. He's just that good, dude.
There's no way he's that good. All right. Th this whole [ __ ] debacle about the delay. There's no way he would have known the specifics of this. Like, if he didn't have a [ __ ] insider. All right. He put that [ __ ] on like what, June 10th, and he changed it June 5th.
Then he put it on May 29th and he did not explain any reason why he made those changes. He is like he kept the same reasoning that he had before.
He's the G in the GG.
He's got to have dirt on some way before for sure. I don't know, man. Maybe he's like, you know, maybe he's got Joe Nathan on speed dial. I mean, I always say I got Joe Nathan on speed dial, but I mean, I'm just joking about that.
Maybe that dude actually has Joe Nathan on speed dial.
I mean, at that point, I'm also really jealous, you know? I'm also really jealous.
I just saw this tweet.
Look at this tweet. This This is pretty funny. Uh, hold up. Uh, profile profile. This tweet right here. Mage Fist, please. GG G.
Please. GG. And I need to move my camera.
Uh, 20% chance to not remove charges on use.
Additional effects from quality. Please GG please.
I agree. I agree. Please G G bring that to us. Let us have this po DB pull out. GG when because at this point all our death information is from PO2DB.
the comrade nation praise.
All right, I didn't read the tweets from from our uh tweet replies from our thing today. So, let's go read the replies, right? Um I wrote out the gently changes quality look absolutely insanely powerful, especially given every single skill and extra socket. As long as these new quality effects are good, gently might be crazy strong. Caster though, I feel like GG doesn't know quite know what to do with the class. Again, that's more of my comment about like all the uh they keep adding these like temporary buffs, like the stuff that doesn't give you stuff permanent, the inconsistent stuff, right?
Uh I think it's weird that the time control class can only slow stuff down.
Why can't we speed it up? True. True. I mean, Chrome Master should be like DJ of Time controlling the Temple of Combat. I feel like the fantasy is not as intang.
Well, I mean, they kind of have that with like the increased attack speed, like the increased cast speed, right?
But still, that's just like not really I wouldn't say that's like increase like making time go faster, but yeah, I I do agree that they need to do more on the increase rather than the decrease, which I think they're just afraid of it. Honestly, they're probably afraid Like just let me make [ __ ] faster, you know? Let me make [ __ ] faster. Why would you want to speed up time to make yourself move faster? Obviously, like imagine if Chronommancer had a thing that like increase their time so it could like increase action speed, for example, right? Uh kind of like uh reverse chill, right? Reverse chill increases action speed. It literally makes everything faster, right? Imagine you do that and like just be like, "Yeah, I'm speeding up time. That's why everything I do is faster. That could be really cool, right? That could be cool.
Is that they reach out to some content creator to make builds for the patch and some people have access to the patch notes? I don't know. I didn't hear about that. Where where do you see that?
Master the only class get reverse drill.
I don't know that one.
I really your clickbay videos and I'm Blake Chrome and you don't know how the class works while commenting that people dedicating resources at the time are working instead of the class. Play another twister campaign and make react.
This guy's really salty. That's really salty.
Uh I learn how to gain ward for Sakura support gem works. Is that is that a sock? Is that a support gem? I I don't even know. I was getting croner receive changes uh involving skill speed coolown reduction increase and slows. Maybe that would be too overpowered, but that's why you're avoiding it. I think that's very similar to what this person is saying, right? Being able to just like adjust stuff like faster and slower. I I think I think they need to do more of that.
Mr. D Roa, how's it going? How's it going? Good. We're uh going over some of the uh stuff from today and uh we started the stream off with some big casting.
You know what would be a good change?
Apex the moment slow aura uncaps your slow it'll be so hard because like right now you can get slow aura to slow things down to 99%.
And if you and you can get it up to 100% I feel like that would just be breaking the game video yesterday change my league star or think about gemling.
Gambling might be my start more involved mean they don't know how to make their code stations. Is it what has to change now? We'll see how this goes. I guess Master Hardcore looks insane.
Again, my comment on the hardcore thing is I think there would definitely be people who die because of that change.
There definitely going to be people who are going to inadvertently like not know or not remember about the uh extra damage we're taking afterwards and just get hit and die.
Uh do we know when patch drops? We don't know for sure. No.
Uh there's a support chair that gives 5% quality of read jelly skills. They don't have Dial's desire. They do. The All Desire was in it there. That's Dial's Desire right there.
And that's the 5%. So Dials got nerfed.
even with ward. I mean it depends on how high you can scale ward. That's what it comes down to.
Uh they say 21st or around May 21st. It said 21st. You go to the FAQ, right? If you go to pathofexile.com, you go to the forums, you go to the announcements, and then you look at the FAQ right here, it says right here, 21st PDT. Doesn't say exactly when, but it says 21st PDT.
You think they'll release all the changes, including a sentence in the patch notes, or they'll juice it through the week? They will not release every single thing, right? I think they like for example probably new uniques. They probably won't release all of them there. They probably won't release um maybe like new ascendancy stuff. Like potentially it won't release there, but they'll release all the balance changes.
They'll release every all the balance changes actually. I mean I say that, but they always have n like stealth buffs and nerfs as well that they don't mention. So it's like they'll probably release as much. It's mostly going to be balance changes is what it is.
Do you think 1.0 release a bunch of reward packs like the early access ones?
I'm sure. I'm sure martial arts showcase a day before just to edge people. I don't know. We'll see.
I do still think that martial artist showcase is a possibility to come. Like some people are feeling like, "Oh, they didn't release a showcase. It's definitely not coming." I think there's still a chance because like in reality after the patch notes release, I think there's still a lot of value off of the showcase. You can like see what builds people like what they give like build ideas and they talk about the nodes themselves and like how they designed it and like what they intended for it to do, right? So, I think there's still a lot of value having the showcase even after the patch or the Yeah, the patch notes.
No, the patch notes today. Yeah, they are. They are today. As you can see on my clock, it is 5:21 and uh the patch notes are on 521.
I hope they don't touch at Zer's impatience.
Well, Azer's impatience is bugged, right?
Azer impatient is currently bugged because you're supposed to lose 25 maximum life, mana, energy healed skills, but if you're using on blink, it doesn't doesn't remove that, right?
So, it's currently bugged. So, they will probably fix the bug.
showcase is far more value for the average Andy 100%.
definitely might be your leisar. Merk was already high in the thing is like with Merc as I mentioned earlier I think there's just like there's a lot of potential with this and there will definitely be something crazy coming out of this I feel but it's about like finding out what the the crazy thing is and how expensive it'll be.
So that's why for me I don't like I think this is going to this has a lot of potential to do a lot of cool things but I'm not willing to league start it because like it could just turn out like the only skills that are good from the the additional quality are skills that I don't like.
like the additional qualities like oh yeah fire like I don't know like maybe it's like um comet gets something really cool or or like spark gets something really cool right and I just have no care to play spark or comet but that's just me I'm I'm sure a lot of you guys will probably enjoy it and have a lot of fun with it but for me I don't want to risk that yes buff comment Uh you don't actually use blink the skill. Blink is a skill that active effect always change. Well, I mean like it I I think it is a bug in the sense that like either a it should cost whenever you space bar or b you just shouldn't be able to use this on blink.
I don't think it was designed in a way to where you could just completely ignore this first line. I only was her intention as they aren't a conditional quality. I don't want sparks to be 25% chance for my projectiles. I rather just have 25% projectile speed for example. Yeah, I don't think it would be that case for everything. Like there probably is like more of this for spells because for spells this is basically wild shards, right?
This is just wild shards and this only works for spells.
I see how bit if they nerf something like dialas love that gem on your sword.
Have they mentioned anything about running a failed nap with tablets? No, they haven't. I mean, they have nothing.
They have been like radio silent in general about tablets.
Like, we know nothing about tablets.
Like, are they staying the same? Are they going to be different? Like, the only thing we know is that we will have temple tablets. That is the only thing that they've really showed about tablets. There has been zero other information about it.
Even any chance the deepest tower comes back? I mean, there's always a chance.
Is it going to happen? Nobody knows. But like, yeah, there's always a chance, but nobody knows for sure.
What time of patch was released later?
We don't know. We don't know.
And video maps is required tier 16 and higher. It It was a typo. They already confirmed that was a typo. If tier 16 is confirmed to the max ancient cry with twisters is kind of broken.
Probably case tabs are all staying the same but the way stones change those tier ones. I will see.
We'll see. Okay, here >> you failed.
>> They show uncrunt 0.4 reveal.
>> Failed in poisoning my subjects against me.
>> I mean, but that never got added if that was the case though, right?
>> Let us see if he answers.
>> Do you think about the new bow block and increase fast according to chance? Uh, I think Cal Tourak has been working hard on that build.
>> We've seen three different version of Waystone. One's called white, yellow, red, ancient, and pristine. 13 T6 said they can't make up their mind. Are you doing the pod? Yeah, pod is happening in uh pod is happening in seven hours.
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What are the Wix trash here? It's just hard to say with any of the weapons because we don't know how plus levels work.
>> A lot of the weapons like none of the new weapons have plus levels and that automatically makes them way worse than a lot like already way worse than a lot of other options, right? So, if depends on how they how badly they nerf the plus weapon plus levels. If they nerf it enough, then the those skill those uh uniques have a lot more viability. But they don't nerf it much. Then those uniques are worse. Like not as good.
I have the most scuff sleeve shadow. My schedule is [ __ ] >> My schedule is [ __ ] as hell.
>> The thing is like I wake up I wake up like there's there's such a huge range of time that I wake up at though. I sleep at the same time every single day. Most sleep. The Miller has seen better days.
>> I want to use the new ones even the worst. Yeah, of course. They're really cool and I hope they end up being really good cuz it would be shame for them to just like be garbage.
>> Uh, you use monkey image with spear skills. Yeah, any melee marshall weapon skill.
Oh my god, that [ __ ] does so much damage.
I sleep in I sleep five hours.
>> My training continues.
>> They have wor nerf plus levels. Wouldn't overall power be a lot weaker than previous leagues. Doesn't that feel worse? Well, I mean, I'd hope that they account for something like that, right?
>> I would hope that they account for it and like buff other things or change other things.
I think pounds can generally genuinely be good with hollow form.
You're weird. You don't know. I mean, I used to sleep 5 hours every single day.
Like back in the day when I worked at the office, like back in the day when I worked a corporate job, I I probably slept around uh five hours every day.
These days I do more like six to seven I'd say is uh what I do.
>> I'm just practicing monk leveling. I was practicing monk leveling. Nothing special.
>> Wait, did I [ __ ] did I not talk to Renley? I think I didn't talk to Renley like an idiot.
be so slept around. Hell no. You think I have that ability? You think you think there are any girls out there who are looking for me? Think you have the ability to attract females?
That is a That is a very very bold assumption.
>> Channel your violence against this devourer has been >> That's a very bold assumption. Children of the forge has taught him strength.
What about with men? I mean, I I've said it before. I've had more guys ask me out than girls.
>> Relic power.
>> One light stirs. There must be more.
That's an accomplishment. That's so sad.
>> My pet dudes ass out on chat every day. I mean, not even including Twitch. Not even including Twitch.
>> Not even including Twitch. I've had more guys ask me out than girls.
I hope they buff Tornado. I agree. I like tornado. I think it's a really cool skill. I wanted to make a tornado build, but it seemed not great last week league.
It's got a really cool concept.
>> I think tornado is such a cool concept that like it's such a shame that it's like not very good.
Hey man, got any weed? Why are you Why are you asking for weed, sir?
Are Are you Are you referencing uh that one guy that I saw at the bar that time?
Dudes ask you, they see your values.
Girls can't appreciate your qualities.
I mean, I that's that's a very nice way of saying I'm just unattractive to girls. I'm just uh just unattractive.
>> Uh what are you use whirling/ monkey use illusion to proc them? Do they make 3x twisters?
No.
Uh I don't cuz whirling slash gets consumed when you throw out the twisters. So the first monk the first illusion that you know consumes it probably would you first illusion that you use would probably consume it.
Do you think they quicken the charge time of plasma shot or seismic slam? I mean I don't know. Maybe girlfriends are overrated. They are so much of a headache.
I mean, I'd say some of them are worth the headache.
I'd say some of them are worth the headache, you know, and those are the ones that you end up staying with for a long time.
There are some that are not worth the headache and there are some that are.
And they smell also.
>> I won't begin.
>> There's extremely low chance of them adding more supports. Uh I'd say it's they I mean I think there's going to be supports. They've showed a couple supports in there already. So I I doubt those are the only supports they're adding in.
>> Your end comes.
>> Dude, killing Palm [ __ ] sucks ass.
You see how many times I've thrown out the killing palm right there and didn't kill the enemy? They need to fix that [ __ ] bro.
Money is overrated. Jeff Bezos Gon's dodging 0.1. Yep.
I hope they fix at some point. I don't know if they will. I hope they will though. I hope they do.
Mary, for 10 years, zero headaches. You got to find the right one.
I mean, there's there's there's multiple ways to look at that, right? I I think there's a way to look at it like, yeah, sure, maybe you did find the right one.
You know, it's it might be true, but there's also something to say. Maybe it's like maybe you're the type of person that just, you know, is okay with some of the headaches. Like they they might give other people headaches and not you.
That makes sense.
There's many situations there.
Many scenarios Okay.
Um, I think we skip Ariy and then we go back to her. Maybe >> generations of senseless conflict.
And for what?
>> You cast a wand. You had no idea. Yeah, in general, spells don't require you to use a wand or a staff.
Spells in general are agnostic of weapon.
>> Isn't the po pinnacle drop? I have no clue. I I don't They probably mentioned it, but I don't remember.
When did Patch us release? I mean, in the past they typically release around 300 p.m. Pacific, but it's hard to say because they always do it after a live stream. So, the actual timing this time might be different.
I can't sleep. I'm so excited.
>> The old ways still hold some power.
>> Savor the feeling, but keep moving forward.
>> I mean, honestly, I mean, I don't know.
Am I weird? I'm excited, but like I mean, maybe it's a little bit different. I guess as a content creator, it's kind of stressful cuz it means that I have to like, you know, give like I have to like super deep analyze it and make like, you know, some content in it and then like it's kind of like also time sensitive too.
>> So, it's like there's there's going to be a lot of work for me. It's not a bad thing, right? Right. I I like the work, but it's just, you know, it's kind of stressful because it is a lot lot of work and like I expect the patch shows to be huge. So, there's going to be a lot of information I have to parse through in like a short period of time.
Can give you like me info for you.
Definitely a content creator problem.
Oh, yeah. 100%. It's a content creator thing. It's definitely not it's you guys would not have the same problem, but like as a content creator, it's it's you know, I'm excited for it, right? But I'm also like, you know, it's also a little bit stressful.
It's not a bad problem to have. It's not like I'm not like, "Oh my god, this is the worst thing in the world." But, you know, there is a level of stress there that, you know, it does exist that I don't normally have. And it's weird because I feel like this patch specifically there's like more stress than normal because there's just so much anticipation for it if that makes sense.
Like there's so much like I really hope it's really good type of stuff going on for this patch.
What's going on? Patch notes or something? Yeah, patch notes.
People ra you new king jungle every day.
You stressing over build ideas. Uh just you watch.
I hope they balance it so there's no hyperinflation in currency. I don't I mean they're definitely I I would hope that it's not the level of this league at least, right? cuz at the level of this league, that would be bad.
But there is still a chance that something might go crazy, especially because they're literally like rebalancing all the endame mechanics. Like there there is definitely a chance that something really busted comes out. Now, the nice thing though is that last league, one of the reasons why it got so bad was because they had Christmas, right? They had winter holiday. So like they couldn't fix the problems before it like became a real issue. But this league is not during that time. So if there are any big problems that arise, they can just quickly react to >> pres.
>> So that is a thing that we have as an advantage for this patch versus the last patch.
I'm super curious how they're going to solve for [ __ ] being destroyed. I mean, I personally think, and this is what I said yesterday, a really easy way to fix it would just to make it so [ __ ] can no longer leech. Like the spells that are connected to [ __ ] can no longer leech.
And that would instantly destroy most egregious [ __ ] builds.
Now, I don't think it would be the most fun fix, right? I think that would be kind of uh annoying, but I also think that that would be definitely something that would make the [ __ ] attack builds really just nerfed like crazy.
Like, it would definitely not exist anymore. And like it would still be good for like utility skills, right? If for like utility [ __ ] it it would still work, but for non-utility for like damage DPS [ __ ] right, that would uh that would pretty that would [ __ ] them massively.
>> Sleep now then dream no longer.
>> Jung was six [ __ ] leeching life.
Maybe it's the leer who nerf it. I mean, maybe there's a chance. I mean, it's kind of the same idea, right, that I was saying. If they nerf leech enough, then it would probably also get impacted heavily. But I also don't know if nerfing leech to that point would be healthy for the rest of the game.
>> Till next time.
How is the club would you like?
Uh would it be interesting if along the patches face breaker unique was also updated to say use any one handhanded melee skills.
>> Go well.
>> Uh I mean it would be cool. Might be really broken though. Would be cool. I agree.
Don't nerf my ES leech gloves.
What happened here?
>> I think we should use shield with holo palm. I mean, I agree with that. I do agree with that and I wish that was the case, but it's not.
>> I mean, I just I I personally feel that uh what is it called? Like a lot of the unarmed stuff, it doesn't make sense that you have to be like like you can punch with a [ __ ] shield in one hand.
You know what I mean? You can definitely do that.
Maybe you won't be using both hands.
like maybe it would be like a reduced attack speed or something like that if you have a shield while playing hollow palm or something. That could also be a thing. But yeah, >> sing it >> cuz like at that point you'd be like punching with one hand and uh not both hands.
First season playing jabling legionaire double shields.
I am really struggling in campaign. Uh where are you in the campaign and what are you struggling with?
Foul creature.
That kind of hurt.
Lightning arrow. Your DPS is rough. Um, I'm assuming you're using Lightning Arrow, Lightning Rod, right? I mean, are you following a build or you just kind of raw dogging it?
I play Jin build again, but I didn't see enough to make me want to try it.
the fob gun build. H I see. Um I mean if you're using a build guide, then your tree is probably fine. My guess is probably just like you need better weapons. And like also if you um something you need to know is that for attack builds, you should really try to make sure you get uh you get flat attack on your rings and your gloves. That helps out a lot.
It's like flat fire, flat lightning, flat fizz, things like that. That'll go a long way with your um the damage that you're dealing in the campaign.
You're unlucky. Well, I mean, you could do things like gamma on like the gamba merchant and things like that, too.
Throw transmutes augs onto your items.
Make sure you're rolling things as often as possible.
Those are really shitty right now. I mean the thing is like bows are a they are a what is it called? They are a item dependent build.
If you don't have good gear, you're going to be doing really bad damage.
So that is the tough part, right? So that's why like unfortunately if you had asked me like, "Hey, I'm a new player.
What build should I play?" Right? I probably would have directed you to something else. But of course, you know, it's play what you like. But if you did come and ask me like, "Hey, I'm a new player. I what what build should I play?" I would have definitely told you something else. Bows in general, I'd say are unfortunately a little bit tough for newer players because they do require some knowledge to make it do like consistently well.
What build is better for the first campaign run? Um, I'd say like one of the most friendly builds for campaign is either essence drain contasion uh witch and then you would uh go into lich Or you could play something like plant druid. That's also really good for a new player. Uh I say both of those are probably like the most new player friendly builds out there. If you want to play uh you know an attacking character and not like a spellcaster, you could also play like any of the um any of the transform classes, the druids. And then also like shield wall warrior is not bad either for a new player.
But I I'd say like if you want to play attacking build, the most straightforward ones are probably like some sort of uh transform druid. And then if you want to play spellcaster, either like a essence drain contagion lich or like um what is it called? Um, uh, transform droid and a third >> looks like a nerf. I wouldn't h I won't hop on it. Well, uh he's talking about now. He said he's struggling the campaign now. So, let me just talk about now and I don't think he's getting nerfed, honestly.
But yeah, he's talking about now.
Is there any like tanky witch builds?
Yeah, I mean Lich in general is a fairly tanky character.
Sadly, that that that link didn't work, sir.
That imager did not work.
My family, >> keeping build videos that you did this league. Oh, like the high build highlights. Yeah. Yeah, 100%. I will. I will.
They're They're a good bit of work, but it seems like people really like them, so I'll definitely continue making them.
Oh my goodness. I just got bonanza bazong. Good.
Is this a mod to Lost Ark? Uh, this is uh the better Lost Ark. What's up, Dickle?
Is this a monk? Looks cool. Yeah, this is a monk.
But I definitely wouldn't recommend Monk League start for a new player. I I I it's not very comfortable to play in the beginning of the game.
Like for like it I was making this joke the other day. I was saying that I wonder how many new players have been slayed because like as in like stopped playing the game because they played they league started monk for the first time and started trying to play it in the campaign and just thought it felt really bad.
Can't wait for the new league. Yep.
Same.
>> Another such device.
>> I really do think they just need to make ice strike a starting skill. I think they they need to make it so ice strike is the first skill that you get. And everybody would love Monk.
Everybody would absolutely love playing Monk.
I I don't know why they don't do that. I I I think that that would just solve all the problems with Monk early game, honestly.
Screw giving me what is it called?
[ __ ] falling thunder, right? Screw that [ __ ] Give me >> give me ice strike. Let me use that as the first skill.
Drews literally get that. Yep. You got to pick the B. Those batchels are not out yet.
Monk act on essentially souls like experience.
I've got something you can strike. All right, sir. Show you you want you want you want to show the you want to show the class.
Uh, Frozen Locust Shred does work in the first few levels. I find it better than the glacial cascade. Yeah, but you got to go some weird build on your tree to like get some strength.
I mean, I guess if you're getting the channeling talisman, it doesn't cost strength, but that requires you to get a channeling talisman.
>> This place harbors an everlasting >> Call me in Discord right now.
>> This will make >> I'm sure Canon beat the MSQ monk.
I mean, Cam's just a gamer, you know.
Cam's a gamer. What can I say?
Question about Krono. I understood her new passive was if initial hit is 1,000 damage, you only take seven damage me 300 damage 4 seconds. Uh you understand it that way too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That that that should be how it works.
>> A liden belt. Is that good? Yo, it's huge. Is huge.
You don't even know. But too bad I got this rawhide belt that, you know, looks better.
Oh, did I not even go and kill Ari? I realized I didn't kill Ari.
Loathome creature come back to Lost Arc now. Why would I?
That's a dying game, sir.
That's a dying game.
He's so alive. What do you mean? Uh, sure.
Sure, buddy.
Whatever you say.
Lost arc in 2026.
forgotten witch.
I think we're below 10k players. I mean, better than uh honestly better than expected. I'm not going to lie.
That was a loss creator. Yep. I started my streaming career, quote unquote, doing Lost Arc stuff. I uh did Lost Arc for a year and a half, I think. I'm pretty sure I I made Lost Arc content for a year and a half. Daily Lost Arc uploads on YouTube. Streamed Lost Arc.
At some point, even got sponsored by them to go and play the game. It's great.
We're at 6.4K.
Yeah, definitely a thriving game.
Definitely a thriving game.
All I'm going to say is this game right here.
This game 24-hour peak 5.2K players. All right.
This game has zero quests.
All you do is grind on monsters.
It has zero raids and somehow it's like competing with Lost Arc numbers.
What game? Spirit Veil is endless chaos. I mean, it's like 3D Maple Story kind of except old school Maple Story, not new Maple Story.
Sounds like Ragnar. Yeah, I mean it's basically it's it's it's a it's inspired by Ragnarok Online. It's heavily inspired by Ragnarok Online. I actually interviewed the developer um and have a video of that on my YouTube channel.
But yeah, Lost Arc is uh pretty cooked.
I think Ragnarok is good.
Somewhere in the darkness.
>> Silk uh Silk Road. Yeah, I don't I remember Silk Road. I never played Silk Road, but I do remember it.
>> I remember. I don't think I think it's because I didn't like the aesthetics of Silk Road. That's why I never played it.
Oh [ __ ] I I actually I keep doing this.
Oh, I keep doing I actually throw I actually throw the plants down on this guy. I need to stop doing that cuz when I the moment you throw the plants down on this [ __ ] [ __ ] literally he machine guns your ass. He literally takes a [ __ ] machine gun, shoves it up your ass and starts shooting the pellets at you, dude. Oh my god, I hate that so much.
Meet the dreamer.
The linen belt carried. I'm not even using the linen belt. What are you talking about?
The final beacon.
>> Oh my god, dude. These early parts of monk are just disgusting.
Dude, did you just die, sir? Did you just die?
Oh, this is bad. This is bad. I'm almost dead. I'm almost dead. Ah, I forgot to change my potions. I forgot to put on the new potions.
I forgot to put on the new potions.
I done goofed.
Uh hello. Oh, there's more monsters over here. F.
There it is. Okay, >> that's all the way.
>> I'm so sad with that linen belt, dude.
There's another linen belt. It's crazy.
It's crazy. It's out of control.
Okay, I need to put on these potions and not forget about them. And we also have two new uh what is it called?
Not the gently could be good. No. Yeah, jam looks like it has a lot of potential.
>> Got any new info on ascendancy buffs? I mean, I don't have any new info beyond what you guys have.
>> Whatever was released today was all I know.
I wish I had insider information on that stuff. That would be cool. But I don't >> to me >> to me the raven.
Astra men is making a comeback. I think so. Like the thing is like if you want to play hollow palm, you definitely got to play Astra. I think >> I don't think or not hollow palm. If you want to play a face breaker, you definitely have to play astroventus.
I I don't see a world where you don't play astroventus with uh face breakers.
Now to me, Draven.
>> Yes, my beloved.
>> Sat hollow palm gem laying maybe. I don't know. The thing is like I just want to see the like I feel like the martial artist has so much potential that I don't want to start geming. Like I think gentling is going to be good right for hollow bomb and um strength stack like for any like unarmed character with any like one of those uh for any face breaker build geming is going to be really good gemling or ritualist but I just don't want to run them because I want to see the potential of hollow like the I want to see the potential of martial artists basically.
>> Thank you.
That curiosity has me more excited than playing those classes.
Oh, plus two melee. Let's [ __ ] go.
Two to three fizz. Oh, yo, that's huge.
>> Stay safe if you can.
>> I play both Lost Arc and Po. You can't beat the raw combat. Lost arc. Yeah, definitely not. Definitely not.
Are you going on chron? It only uh if it only slows things, it'll be named slowmancer instead.
Aspirin is face breaker going to be the ultimate leveling combo. Yeah, maybe.
You're right. Maybe.
Yeah. I can't wait, man. Facebreaker is gonna be so cool.
I just want to like the only thing that's a bummer about Facebreaker is that like I can't get it immediately on league start like I'm gonna have to find it or buy it or something. That's like the biggest bummer for me about Face Breakers.
Uh, Tako Fujiada died at 43. RIP My Hero Academy and Berserk.
I mean, isn't MHA done? I thought my hero was done.
Can I use the get the grenade build pod that Cyclone used earlier? Yeah, 100%.
Um, here it is.
Uh, you got to link to the new Ascendency version. I don't know how to get the link. Uh, I mean, it's just on the YouTubes. Yeah, I I can get it for you.
Here you go.
Here you go.
>> You will have eternity.
>> What time patch notes? Nobody knows.
There's no confirmation.
Nobody really knows.
>> Your soul is mine.
Rend your soul.
>> These spirits are mine.
>> Perish.
>> Your soul is mine.
Shut down.
It has a timer for Yeah. I mean, the thing is like I think it's very likely that that's the case because PO2B I'm pretty sure they I feel like they have an insider, but I I'm not going to say that that's for sure, right? Cuz that's unless GG tells me that what the what that's uh what time things are going to come out. I just don't know.
I'm not going to like give it super just like confident.
Is there a viable supporting fire build?
I think Cal Torak is working on one. I'm pretty sure Cal is working on one. So, if you want to learn about supporting fire or do like a supporting fire build, he's the guy to go to.
I'm unable.
>> Did they give a time? No. Uh O2 DB.
Yeah, they did. Uh it'll be in 12 and 1/2 hours.
>> Rejoin your family. tortured soul.
>> If if if you're with Pol 2DB, they said 12 and a half hours, but again, that is not confirmed by GGG.
>> Hold up a moment.
>> Finally, familiar.
>> So, however much stock you put into PO2 DB's thing, >> you found them.
>> Last time was [ __ ] hilarious when Prada was talking about the NPCs. Talk about he's like Finn that [ __ ] [ __ ] I hate that NPC. Renley though, that guy's a homie.
>> I don't know how to >> He's the real one.
>> Please take your So, >> this hooded one.
I will take Isn't Renley the father of the warrior character? He is. He is.
>> If you find a point out there, do bring it back.
>> Wait, really? Uh, what is the father of the warer? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he is. He's He's a He's the warrior's father.
My memory is still working.
Adopted father. I don't remember the specifics for that one. I just know he's his father. I don't know if it's blood related or adopted, but definitely father for sure.
I sense a surreal presence.
Guys, be honest. Anybody who was there earlier, how was my uh how was my casting for uh the Path of Exile 2 race?
Was it passable? Was it serviceable?
Death becomes you.
>> Good.
>> Meet the dreamer.
>> I hope you're not lying to me.
Way too professional to be on a be so.
What the [ __ ] That That's like a That's like a backhanded compliment right there. That's a backhanded compliment.
Dude's out here dissing me.
Nobody cares about pot racing. You go, "What the hell? That's crazy." I actually think PO racing is very popular. People actually really I I think people like I'm surprised at the amount of people that actually like watching Poto Racing. I'm I used to be on like, yeah, nobody really cares about racing. It's kind of like whatever. But like people turn up in numbers for racing, man. People turn up in numbers for those race events. Like every time Crimson does the race events, he gets a lot of views.
poll and launch too. Well, I mean, at least for now, people care about it, right? But GG is planning to put a lot more support for the racing, too. But also, when at the poll and launch, there weren't that many people playing the game either. Let's be real.
If he was farmer, we have to wait watch him.
>> Uh, now I tried SSF. I really appreciate enjoy watching racing. I never thought in my life I would watch these things.
>> Oh no.
>> That's good. That's good. new found interest and enjoyment in the game. You know, >> it's always good to enjoy more things than less.
It's never good. You don't want to be bitter and just like hate everything.
Life is not fun. If that's the case, life would be super boring.
The more interest one person has, the better your life is, you know?
Don't be a Dota player. Hey, hey, I love Dota. All right. I love Dota. Dota's great.
>> I don't play Dota anymore, but I still do watch it competitively when OG is doing well. When my boys are doing well, I'm happy. When they're not doing well, then I'm probably not watching as much of it.
>> I just opened Dota.
>> Strange beasts indeed.
>> I like Dota, man. It was a great game.
To be fair, even disliking something gets people together.
I mean it gets people together but also aliens alienates a part of the people that you could also you know Dota is good but teammate is bad. I mean that's always the case. When do you ever play a mobile and your teammates are not bad? If you're losing it's because your teammates suck.
6,000 hours you quit in 2016.
Rosa, Mr. Denny, how's it going?
Gambling start. No, I'm not willing to risk it. I'm not willing to risk it cuz like what if the skill that I want Lana to play isn't good with gambling, you know. And then I'd be very sad and it'll just be like last league all over again where I like, you know, league start league start a class and then I just get all sad because it sucks.
I'm risking it all.
Good for you, sir. I'm glad you can risk it all.
I wish I had a person slash something I go risk it all for, but at this point, I don't.
>> At this point, I don't got anybody like that.
Jam releas the video. Yep. Locked in.
Locked and loaded, baby.
Our posters going, "What the [ __ ] Just be I don't got anybody I want to risk it for doesn't mean I'm an incel." I mean, it doesn't, you know, I want to have somebody that I could risk it all for.
>> It couldn't be.
>> But, uh, you know, that just ain't that just isn't in the cards right now. The heart of the cards tell me that I'm drawing the cards that I'm drawing are complete [ __ ] I'm getting kunai with chains back and back to back to back. You know, I don't even remember kunai of chain was good or not.
It's definitely not good these days.
That's for sure.
>> He's not going to go spawn in your room.
You got to go find someone. I want time.
My life is just it's it's I'm a slave to the stream. I'm a slave to content.
I'm a slave to making video for you guys.
Got to go karaoke with Roger more often.
Love new jelly. Now we're able to stand for 5 seconds while charging our supercharged slam. There was a lot of supercharged slam memes tonight. More so than I've seen in a long time.
Yo, a fab. How's it going to respspec a target farm? Yo, are rolling. How's it going?
I need you to save me. Please. Do you know when patch notes drop? I wish I do.
I wish I knew. I don't know for certain.
Nobody knows for certain at this point.
I never said one thing last league. Why did you giga nerf curses in every way?
Well, so the thing is they didn't giga nerf curses. So curses themselves actually got a slight buff overall, but the part that got nerfed is that um depending on or like so it's like depending on rarity, right, of the monsters, the the curses are more slash less effective. I think last week did they also was that the league where they implemented the level requirements for like curses as well? Like curses and like you know um exposure Face your demise.
>> The nerf to curses made Rockiatas flow better.
I mean, there there's no way Rocky does not get nerfed at some point. There's no way. Rocky flow is just it just is stupid. Rockas flow is just stupid.
There's no way they don't nerf it.
>> These men know not what they exalt.
Is it really that OP? Oh, it is. It is stupid. The thing is, the idea of Rocky Auto Slow is super dumb because as the bosses and monsters get harder, the more damage you deal.
It scales with how hard the monsters are. That's just so dumb.
It should be the opposite. The boss the fights should be get e should be getting harder as the bosses get harder. But no, the bosses get easier as the bosses get more life or get get higher tiered.
You like detonate dead. Well, you can't use detonate dead against bosses, but I mean detonate dead is also busted.
It is very strong.
You have done more broken or rocky or garacon. I think rocky is way more broken cuz Rocky is just used on every single elemental skill. The no questions asked. If you can slot Rocky into your elemental skill, you would. That's not the case with Garacans though. Garacans. There are certain builds that don't want Garacans for one, like for example, flicker strike. You don't want Garacans on Flicker Strike ever. But the other thing is Garacans can't be slotted on every skill.
>> The Wildwood's power is >> and it also has a downside too of uh you limit your crit to max uh what is it called? Max uh 50%. die.
>> I mean, it's still really strong and probably broken, but it's definitely not at the level of Rocky. Rocky is on a different level like think about it this way too, right?
I always say this. I always mention this. There's a gi there's a support gem in PO one called invert the rules and that is rocky but it only procs 30 to 40% of the time since when has there been skills in POE 1 that are or when has it been where things in POE 1 are weaker than POE2?
You know that rarely ever happens.
This was it's not over.
This dark >> party has sent me the most broken gem.
>> How can I help?
>> Supposed likely be a successor. I'm not saying that it's not going to be. I agree. But usually stuff in POE 1 is more overpowered than in POE2. A lot of the items in POE 1 are most of the time more overpowered than what it is in PO 2.
>> O take a look.
I'll find some use for that.
>> What do you think of the new Gemling? I think it's going to be really good.
These are massive potential in the gem link. Massive potential.
>> One of my finest if you find what would you like.
Is it good to lear jambling? If so, what build? I don't I don't know if it's good to start lear jambling, honestly. I feel like lear jambling is a little bit not the I don't think it's the best. I think other ascendencies offer you more, but gemling is like there's just some a lot of potential for some really cool builds and stuff. So, if you're looking for like a solid league starter, I would not say it's gemling.
Lo creature.
>> Perhaps this will assuage the girl's despair.
>> We need gem info to determine that.
Yeah, that's a big part of it, too.
Welcome to the >> But the thing is like gemling itself I feel like doesn't really uh provide a lot for like without much like the thing is the best characters to league star are characters that give you a lot without any funding right and I just don't think that's gemling gemling does require some funding to be decent raven s comboed with a raven chest Uh, I mean, I think it can be. I don't think it needs to be. And I don't know if I don't think it's going to be the strongest. If it is, I don't think it's like the strongest combo.
jingling skills in the late game. Lear perfect jeweler six link it.
But again that that requires funding right even beyond whether or not that actually you know is true. It does require funding. Perfect jewelers at like an early early is very expensive.
>> Shatter point.
Is there any possibility that booze from stones with stonefist swaps one handic staff? Yeah, 100%. 100%.
Can you rank what ascendencies give you the most for a good starter?
So I think like for example invoker is one of the best ones, right? You get this right here. Critical hits ignore negative enemy monster elemental resistances. So this becomes kind of obsolete later with uh Rocky, but until then, this is very very good. Such a just a ton of damage. This right here, Lead Me Through Grace, gives you one of the most desired slashexpensive stats.
Spirit for completely free. Very, very good. Right. And then you get just damage and stuff like that too, right?
Meditate if you want to play hardcore.
That's not bad. Um, another really good ascendy for league start of course is Oracle. Inevitable crits is just broken.
It allows you to play crit and um without which is one of the best ways to scale your character and um you know basically does it for free a lot of times. So there's that. Um I would say lich, right? Lots of defensive survivability and then also the fact that you can go low life plus pay attunement is free damage, right?
Low life for free. Pay attunement free damage.
Um, that is also another really really good league starting ascendancy.
Uh, I think Vasha is pretty good for league start too. You get a lot of built-in damage and stuff like that from the class, a lot of built-in survivability, all that. I haven't played it yet, so I can't really like put my 100% confidence behind it, but just like the from what I've heard slashconcept wise, it seems like it's going to be really good.
And then I'd say Amazon is pretty good too. Like yeah, you accuracy is like a stat you like you need items for, but like it's such a cheap stat that like it really doesn't like it doesn't really matter too much and it helps you like build into crit really easily. Um, this is also uh the the the the leech is also really good, right? Leech is really really good. Um, so I think that's like another ascendency that's pretty good league start.
Um, I mean, Dead Eye in general is okay.
It's just I feel like the last meta wasn't really good for Dead Eye because Pathfinder just kind of scaled better, especially with this stuff right here.
Pathfinder is like not a bad league start, I'd say. But like it doesn't really offer you anything in terms of damage or like survivability. It just gives you a lot of comfort and quality of life.
I don't think it's like the best as a result, but yeah, those are the probably the ones that I call out the most.
Invoker, Lich, Verashta, um, Oracle, uh, I mean, Smith, actually, Smith is also really good. Smith is really, really good. You solve all your survivability problems and you don't need any items here, right? And then if you really wanted to, you could do the thing that Prada does, fire spell on hit with detonate dead, and that's just free damage. Literally, it's just automatic damage scaling. You don't need to you don't need to worry about anything.
That's just like automatically do a lot of damage with that. So, Smith Kataba also another very good league start character.
Tidon, it's not bad. That is not bad, but I wouldn't say it's like the I wouldn't put it on like like in my mind like the S tier ones, the chronommancer of decks characters.
Um, I also don't think Chaula is that bad, honestly. But once again, I know a lot of people don't like it, but he just gets so much free damage. He has so much free damage. It's insane.
That's why I think Ty is actually not that bad for a league starter.
But I don't know if I put it in S tier.
I put it in like a tier if anything.
And it's like you you can't you can't just tell like a random person to use it either. You need to know how to play it.
So it's not like a new friendly league starter.
>> What is this madness? I fear I am too late.
>> Two minutes left. 20 uh 1st of May in New Zealand. Well, they're not doing a 21st in New Zealand. They said 21st in Pacific time.
Witch hunter. Yeah, which is not bad, but again, I wouldn't call it like S tier.
Uh, martial artist could be decent. I I just I I don't know yet, right? Cuz I haven't seen it yet. But martial artist could be decent.
The extra rune slots can really help you out with like early survivability with giving you more res and stuff. And then also the what is it called? The the way of the stone fist could just give you a ton of stats and like damage.
>> Don't do this.
>> Is reduced duration titan still bug? Uh no. You can go to 100% reduced duration.
>> Your path of peace is littered with death. Justice now.
>> How many pages of passions do they already get? I mean, honestly, I don't think it's that that much.
>> I don't think there's that much cuz like I it's it's supposedly not a very balanceheavy patch notes, right? Which I say the patch notes for the most part, the biggest parts are like the most beefy parts of patch notes are usually balance changes. I I think like a lot of the things that they're going to put and add into the game are not going to be on a patch.
Invoker 0.5. I see probably going to be a good league start, but as long as like until they do something about Rocky's flow, Invoker is always just going to be like a Btier ascendancy.
Like unless they ever nerf until they nerf Rocky's flow, Invoker is just a Btier ascendy. Unfortunately, it just literally the moment you get Rockyas, an entire part of one of the most powerful pieces of Invoker's kit just becomes uh trivialized.
I wish they gave us the honor to spoil ourselves.
Btier is a generous Yo, what's up ladies? How's it going, man? How's it going, sir?
Blood Mage Karma was busted, so definitely a big nerf. I mean, they're going to I think like Blood Mage should get either like double or triple tapped, if that makes sense.
Get double or triple tapped because um what's going to happen is Leech is getting nerfed for sure, right?
And then um that already is a indirect nerf to Blood Mage.
And then they're probably get some sort of ascendancy a tuning >> abomination >> at the very minimum. So they're at least getting double or triple tapped.
>> They couldn't die because they regen 8k life per second. I mean it is true for the most part. Oh, I'm stuck step bro.
I'm stuck step bro. I'm stuck step bro.
Oh I'm good. I'm good. I'm good step bro. Thank you.
By the way guys speaking. So two things right podcast stuff. Okay. So, uh podcast I of course tomorrow's podcast or the podcast happening in 6 hours that is going to be with Pox. It's going to be really cool. We have never I've never talked to Pox before and I am super excited to talk to him. Mr. Righteous Fire, right? Absolutely. What a stellar gentleman. I cannot wait until that conversation. So, that's going to be good. Six hours, right? Look forward to it. Path to Exile podcast. Another thing is I am gonna be on the uh passive tree podcast by Blaze Works TV on uh June 4th. So uh I I I don't at least we're going to record on June 4th. I don't know if it's going to go off on June 4th, but it's going to record it on that day. So I look forward to that as well.
>> You not blaze. I mean, yeah, that guy's kind of cringe, honestly. But he makes up for it with his good looks. So, you know, you can't I can't I'm a sucker for for for a good-looking person.
Have you changed your mind? Uh, the crowd is still just fine. I mean, I I I never thought that it was bad. I I think I think it's I think it's really strong.
It's probably the strongest defensive node in the game. Uh, I I put I put on the pin comment, but like because it was a first impression, I didn't like I or a first react, right? I didn't do any editing to it. So, it was just literally my initial reaction and I definitely over indexed on my conversation about like the random deaths part, which I still think is going to happen quite a bit, but it I think that the note is really really strong is really really strong.
It's definitely one of the best uh defensive nodes in the game, if not the best.
But I do foresee a lot of hardcore deaths coming from it, and I will be sitting there eating popcorn watching it happen.
Pokeball is a natural extension of A calls stream B to discuss drama. Drama?
What type of drama are you talking about? I don't think we ever discuss drama on the patch or on the podcast. Maybe like once, but we rarely discuss drama if anything if it ever even happened.
First, >> is there no limit to corruption's influence?
>> Couldn't handle my two favorite streamers in one place.
deaths.
>> We're hoping to try to get Gazzy on our podcast, too, at some point, but I I don't know. Van's not responding to us.
He's not responding to Rabbit. We might have to ambush him on the stream one day and just be like, "Hey, can you answer our DMs?"
or I get or I ping DM to to to to get to him.
>> DM's a lot more accessible.
>> 50% movement speed kind of big and sure talk to try can get him. Uh you can lost battle would have been a year ago. How wild is that? It is pretty wild. I mean, the Passet Tree podcast was a year ago, but we have been on the Path to Exile podcast in person together less than a year ago.
Zer's impatient cresur a straight 161% reduce cool down together. Yeah, but I feel like Azer's impatience is so hard to use on like an actual like skill that uses like that works properly like works in the intended way. Losing that much life is just is rough.
Like I I don't remember if it casts to hit or not. So maybe you use on like a recoup character, but other than that it's dealing with that downside is rough.
Oh. Oh, you're talking about four temporal specifically. I I thought you were just talking about the the ability.
I mean the the thing for just in general What do you think about a new Crotoman sir? Uh I mean I think that the defensive node is really really good but it feels a little bit sad forlororn that uh you know it's losing its uh recoup kind of identity.
Feeling a little sad slashforlllororn about that.
Is it still bad? I mean, I don't think it's like amaz I don't think it'll be amazing. And in in general, like super defensive like um well, for me, right, cuz we most people play soft core. So, super defensive ascendancies typically right now don't aren't really worth all that much in softcore. So just kind of off of that, it's less exciting.
20% for echo to have an insanely low.
Yep.
Uh looks quite strong for hardcore.
Yeah, it's strong until you get into like a situation where you're you have a lot of mental stack going on >> and then uh you don't you forget that you're about to take 30% damage that you mitigated earlier on your skill and then you're at low life and then you die.
>> The mighty fall.
What are they doing?
>> For what it's worth, it is just get more recoup. Oh, wait. I mean, I I still think that for me, my favorite recoup builds are always on uh lich anyways, but that's just me.
This interoper temporal rift reset rooting ward.
>> Does temple leeching get nerfed? Oh, 100%.
>> I promise.
>> I mean, temple itself is just getting nerfed in general. So, leeching is going to be much nerfed because of that.
>> We'll see about that.
>> Not yet. Easy prey.
>> First stone's frost.
>> Oriana.
>> Oriana, open the gates.
Release the beast.
I think I expected so much more from you. Since you are too weak to do the job, I'll find someone who can >> say husband [ __ ] HOW DARE YOU ABANDON ME AFTER ALL I'VE GIVEN YOU.
Killing frost.
>> I will take out your heart and savor each bite.
>> Dude, I I I swear to God I was not in that AoE. I swear to God.
I will take out your heart and savor each bite.
Killing frost.
>> Allow me to clear your mind, if only for a moment.
The madness.
>> The madness.
>> My being Oriana used it against me.
>> Where has she taken the beast?
>> I found messages from the dead.
>> All right, guys. But it is uh I do have to wake up for the podcast tomorrow.
>> So, um I'm going to send you guys on over to Mr. Dead Rabbit. Uh again, podcast with Pox in six hours, guys. So, I hope you guys look forward to that podcast, and I will see you all in six hours.
>> Thanks foring, thanks for watching. Hope you guys enjoyed the uh race and the casting for that. And uh until then, I'll see youall later. Peace out, folks.
Bye.
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