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Can someone recomend me a good youtuber for builds that explains them well. For last epoch i go to action rpg. The youtuber called Aaron explains his builds so wel that thx to him i have a deep understanding of the game. It would be nice to find a channel dedicated to poe2 like that.
 
Just a reminder to all, GGG are announcing the new update for POE2 March 27th on twitch. More relevantly, loot drops are enabled for the announcement on twitch so free cosmetics for your characters.

I'm going to jump in and watch and get my prize and see if it works in POE1. if it does, then i pretty much have a full house of cosmetics to deck out my character, barring maybe an odd potion here and there. linky here



The drop on offer:

 
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just more POE2 news, As we know the new content has dropped in POE2, twitch are giving more drops. This time its the Azmeri Noble Deer pet. Remember you can take 2 as companions, so if you want another to your collection (like i do) start watching. Or do what i do, open a separate web browser, reduce the quality to low and do something else.
 
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Ok somethings up. I'm looking on twitch again and POE2 twitch streams is doing more drops again. This time its 2 items:


hunters trophy

Honor Guard Rhoa



The hunters trophy is pretty much worthless as i believe its a hideout decoration. The Honor guard rhoa i have no idea. Pet?
 
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A bit late, but Path of exile is doing a twitch stream for the new league and the cosmetic helmet might be something you might want. Apparently it records stats of your playthrough. hurry its only for today!
I did not notice that it also record stats (deaths/kills/K/D)! That is pretty cool for a free skin. Thanks a bunch @Johnway!
 
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Imagine if more gaming companies cared about their consumers like Grinding Gear Games does! This is one of the absolute PEAK companies that dish out content after content after content and listen to their consumers while also being tough enough to draw a line in the sand if they feel like it.

It is a long interview, but if you want to get the gist of it, take a look at the first video which just throws in tons of new updates. This is not even one of the larger patches, this is just something they put together while we wait and because the fans have talked about it.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNJSDxwC9bY

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjxzTAcJqAM
annoyingly, this is midnight to 4.30am GMT so its not likely i'll be bothering with it. Shame. If it was 24 hours i would be all over this cosmetic.
 
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annoyingly, this is midnight to 4.30am GMT so its not likely i'll be bothering with it. Shame. If it was 24 hours i would be all over this cosmetic.
Come to think of it, I see POE players like Zizaran already online, so perhaps what you could do, if of interest, is to just have the stream page up, and you can just go to bed and not worry about it. Hopefully, that should make you able to get the Twitch drop.
 

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Finally, after 8 SSFHC deaths in Path Of Exile 2, I beat the campaign and am through to the interlude and towards endgame mapping.

SSF (solo self-found) means you can only get items from mob loot, what you craft, or NPCs. You play alone, so you can't trade with players.
HC in SSFHC stands for Hardcore, which means you only have one life, and if you die, you will get removed from the Hardcore league.

It's been fun finding my own build and learning a bit more about how to grow my character, especially looking at finding the balance between defence and offence. I died a couple of times to the last final Act 4 boss (20-30 hours into the game) and while it hurt losing my characters, it also makes me better.

If you take a look at my screenshot, you'll see that I have almost maxed out in all resistances (90% is the cap) and decent enough armour and evasion. So while I have OK damage from my spells, it is mainly the defence that keeps me going.

I play as a battlemage type, using cold spells for freeze damage and putting mobs in a frozen state is both fun and helpful in preventing too much damage. I also got something called Iron Ward with bleed that explodes in physical damage for a % of the damaged I migitated, while also putting a bleed stack on the enemies. Pretty cool buff that makes me less squishy when surrounded by enemies.

From the first screenshot, you can see my battlemage, but also one of my other SSFHC characters who unfortunately died. I keep him around to test out different boss mechanics; the other ones that died, I manually deleted.

It is incredibly fun to play on SSFHC, because each new character means another adventure with new items that could completely change how I want to play my character. In my latest run, I started as a lightning battlemage, but got a very good staff for cold damage, so I completely changed up my playstyle to complement it.

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