Trail
@Trail@lemmy.world
- Comment on Aaaand fade out... 1 day ago:
Black sabbath war pigs intensifies.
- Comment on Why does it feel like too much effort just to go from sitting around looking at garbage online to simply watching a film or playing a video game? 3 weeks ago:
With booze and mushrooms and so.
- Comment on Why does it feel like too much effort just to go from sitting around looking at garbage online to simply watching a film or playing a video game? 3 weeks ago:
No. It means how high is the sun.
- Comment on Pheidippides, if anyone was wondering. 3 weeks ago:
That’s a really good time, congrats. Untrained, I run only half the distance in that amount of time…
- Comment on Pheidippides, if anyone was wondering. 3 weeks ago:
Holy hell, sparta to Athens in two days?
Well I opened Google maps and it is 2 days 3 hours lol. 233km on modern roads. If he’d run on an average 10km/h for 12 hours per day total, yes it would be barely possible I guess. So it is indeed believable, but dude was really rad.
- Comment on How does SecureErase work? 4 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Sticks 1 month ago:
Cod have been the same stick transported from one place to another.
Alsi I thought he used a well?
- Comment on What are the best indie games you've ever played? 3 months ago:
It’s very similar in some ways in the surface, but pretty different in essence. I like both. STS is more hardcore and “strict” and choices matter more, MT is more chill, relying on a single good combo usually, but with very high ceiling for broken fun things. I prefer MT more to unwind.
- Comment on What are the best indie games you've ever played? 3 months ago:
Slay the Spire but no Monster Train?
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 6 months ago:
Well, until you start understanding the game mechanics, you can follow a build guide.
I do not, and I roll my own builds, and I will say they are generally quite successful. I can get ideas from guides, or other builds on poe.ninja, but then I still research and adjust to my liking, budget, and playstyle.
Rolling a build is more than half of the game for me, and I spend a lot of time tuning and testing.
So yeah I’d say there are several layers to playing PoE:
- Playing the campaign and a few maps casually without looking something up. It is still a great experience to discover things and the complexity at your own pace. You won’t get to do the true endgame though, but it is an experience you can have only once, so I would personally recommend to go through it and see how you like it.
- Go with a well described build by someone else. You can reach the endgame, learn how the game works, how the mechanics work, how the market works, how farming works, and lots more things.
- Start rolling your own build. It’s like switching games at this point, theorycrafting a build is the true game, and POE is just a frontend for testing your build. And it feels awesome when you succeed and complete something you can call your own and see it do well. And it is iterative, you learn how building a character works so that you can do even cooler things next time.
- And also do achievent/challenge hunting.
I’ve only followed a build once. And it was fun. Then I rolled my own, and it was more fun for different reasons.
But definitely needs a lot of time investment long term. It should probably take a couple of years for you to be able to claim you know what you are doing. But thankfully, the game respects you and does not demand your immediate time investment. You can play at you own pace. I have work and family, I play for a couple of hours every few days mostly. And it is fine. No one is pressuring me with daily quests and shit like that. I play because I feel like playing. I pause and play other games no problem, depending on my mood. It’s great.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 6 months ago:
The newest path of exile build with my newest custom build.
- Comment on The Game Awards 2023 fell short of honoring its own industry 6 months ago:
Only reason I cared about it was the one in a gazillion chance to get a free steam deck.
- Comment on These things are always the biggest pain in the ass to untangle 9 months ago:
I was thinking about the Gordian knot the other day. Isn’t it a lame solution, like cheating your way through? I dunno, I never liked that part.
What is your opinion, as a selfclaimed obsessed over it?
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Here’s a downvote for you then. Maybe. Maybe not. Guess you’ll never know.