GGG said early access lasts 6 months to 1 year. The early access costs $30 to play. When POE2 leaves early access, it will be free to play.

There's supposed to be a next expansion (3.26) for POE 1 released in March 2025.

This is called SDH subtitles if you prefer this type of subtitle. Subtitles for Deaf and Hard of Hearing. It's made for people who have hearing disabilities.

The real story here is that North Carolina implemented Obama's 2010 Medicaid expansion in December 2023. Which means that North Carolina declined to take free federal money and let people die from lack of coverage for almost 14 fucking years. As part of the implementation, the government is paying off the medical debts of low income people accrued from 2014 to 2023.

Then in September, this company decides to "forgive" 11500 debts right after the government started paying off old debts. That seems suspicious. Why would this company turn down government money from old debts? Seems like the company was trying to scam poor people and realized that the government wouldn't pay the phony bills, so then the debt magically disappears.

Why is it in the news again after the CEO shooting when it happened in September? Because it gets clicks. It's coworker talk. "Hey Bob, ye heard the medical companies are forgiving debts after they got shots? haha"

Here's your build guide for swinging a big hammer as a woman character.

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/slam-chronomancer-paintmaster

my new feed is half full of typical nazi propaganda youtubers

Here's a list of channels to avoid for political reasons.

Here's a list of channels that have good info. I copied this list and labeled some channels I recognize. As a rule of thumb, avoid channels with robot/ai voices.

BTW, the game starts at level 70 when you gain access to The Atlas. Everything that you do before reaching level 70 is only the tutorial for POE 2.

Unfortunately both ingame chat and forums/reddit

You can change your in-game chat channel. You type "/global #" into the chat but replace # with a number. I like channel 4040, which is a channel for achievement completion, but it always has the same group of people in there and there is friendly chatter. Channel 5055 is the designated reddit channel.

I wish this was true. POE 1 is my favorite game ever. GGG was supposed to release the next POE 1 expansion this month but they delayed it until March. In the past, POE 1 expansions lasted for 3 months. By the time the current POE 1 expansion ends, it will have run for 7 months. We lost an entire POE 1 expansion because of this POE 2 release and it's likely GGG will cut POE 1 development even more.

POE 2 feels really bad. I've done 40/40 on 10 POE expansions (completed the game 100%, 10 times).

It feels like POE 2 was modeled after Ruthless Mode in POE 1. Ruthless Mode is a game mode in POE 1 that is only really liked by one streamer named Kripparian. Kripparian is a blizzard-fanboy who only played POE 1 in the beta and complains that POE 1 is too rewarding and easy. One time I watched a Kripparian video where he explained that he buzzes his hair short because he doesn't shower often and doesn't want people to notice from greasy hair. Ruthless mode has existed in POE 1 for 5 POE expansions now. Every expansion Kripparian plays ruthless mode for 1-2 weeks and then quits because it's too hard to play the game with barely any items. (Duh!)

Ruthless mode is a mode of POE 1 where the crafting bench is removed, monsters barely drop any loot, skill gems are only obtained from monster drops, bosses go back to full HP when you die, all movement skills have been removed. Everyone in the POE 1 community hates ruthless mode. Only like less than 1% of POE 1 players think that ruthless mode is good. Nobody who plays Ruthless Mode has actually even completed the game.

All of the characteristics of Ruthless Mode have transferred to POE 2. There's no movement skills, you can only dodge roll. If you become surrounded, you are trapped and die. You can't move through enemies at all, Normal monsters take 5-6 hits to kill. Barely any loot drops. If you die, the whole zone repopulates and resets and you lose any items that were on the ground. Bosses are very difficult to kill. Most of the bosses have abilities that are hard to avoid and kill you in 1 hit. If you die, the boss respawns with full health. The bosses drop very little loot. You will lose 10 times to every boss before beating it. Almost everything kills you in 1 hit because barely any items drop and they removed most of the defensive passives from the passive tree. There's very high difficulty and very little reward.

I'm wishing GGG would have just released another POE1 expansion instead of this. The next POE1 expansion (3.26) was supposed to be released this month but they delayed it until March because of POE 2.

Okay the game has actually been live and playable for like 30 minutes now

Just now I was able to create a character and play for 30 seconds. Then the servers went for maintenance.

and they're rolling back the server.

Show

https://xcancel.com/pathofexile/status/1865145572875018750

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https://xcancel.com/pathofexile/status/1865117100186177581

GGG always have launch problems in the first 2-3 hours of a POE 1 expansion. The last expansion 3.26 had around 500k players on the first day.

They've announced that over 1 million people have registered game keys, so that's double the last expansion launch. I'm hoping that the launch will smooth out after the first 2 hours.

I had queued to log in an hour before launch and the login server already crashed, so yeah.

Official Game wiki
https://www.poe2wiki.net/

Datamine wiki, extracted data from game files
https://poe2db.tw/

GGG just uploaded this video saying that they've passed 1 million game keys redeemed. That's over 1 million expected players.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iFva8e6PhA

Spoilers: the datamine is live. All item data extracted

https://poe2db.tw/

I think I'm going to do mana stacking. Maybe as stormweaver. Mana regen in POE had a base of 1.8% per second. In POE2, it is changed to 4% base. Then the stormweaver ascendancy gives you a MORE multiplier on mana regen based on total mana amount. Mana regen should scale quite high.

Also they changed the way that attributes work. In POE 1, 2 int gives you 1 mana or 2 str gives you 1 life. In POE 2, 1 int gives you 2 mana or 1 str gives you 2 life.

Why would the next CEO be afraid? Is the same assassin going to kill the next UHC CEO? Will the same assassin also kill a 2nd replacement CEO? There is no movement. There is only one guy. Capitalists are not afraid of one guy. You don't even know if that one assassin is politically educated, he might just be a disgruntled person who was affected materially.

You yourself said that you keep being told that adventurism is ineffective. If you disagree where then are the fruits of previous adventurisms? You are self defeating.

weird to me how every time anyone does anything cool we have to get told scolded that actually doing cool things is useless

Reread what you wrote a few times. "weird to me how everytime anyone" "anyONE" "ONE". The reason that adventurism is bad is that it doesn't represent that actions of any movement and will not become a movement. You don't even know that the assassin was even vaguely left leaning. Assassinating the CEO of United Healthcare didn't hurt United Healthcare or capitalism. Their stock price went up. They'll just appoint a new guy and move on like nothing happened. It is going to be entirely ineffective.

I remember a previous time that adventurism was being discussed on Hexbear was the hammer attack against Paul Pelosi by some baby talking groyper. Did that lead to any sort of actual movement? No. Did it make any politicians decide to stop doing insider trading? No. Why would it?

In the work linked in the OP, (I'm sure you read it already, right?), Lenin describes the assassination of a Russian politician Dmitry Sipyagin during the times of Tsarist rule. Lenin says no person believed that the assassination would lead to any greater action on part of the masses. He says that the assassin is completely out of touch from the working class.

We are not opportunists, cry the Socialist-Revolutionaries, and at the same time they are shelving the dogma of proletarian socialism, for reason of sheer opportunist criticism and no other. We are not repeating the terrorists’ mistakes and are not diverting attention from work among the masses, the Socialist-Revolutionaries assure us, and at the same time enthusiastically recommend to the Party acts such as Balmashov’s assassination of Sipyagin, although everyone knows and sees perfectly well that this act was in no way connected with the masses and, moreover, could not have been by reason of the very way in which it was carried out—that the persons who committed this terrorist act neither counted on nor hoped for any definite action or support on the part of the masses. In their naïveté, the Socialist-Revolutionaries do not realise that their predilection for terrorism is causally most intimately linked with the fact that, from the very outset, they have always kept, and still keep, aloof from the working-class movement, without even attempting to become a party of the revolutionary class which is waging its class struggle.

To defeat capitalism, you have to organize the working class to abolish the capitalist class. Adventurism does not organize the working class, therefore it can not end capitalism.