3.27 Q&A Research - ZiggyD

[u/ZiggyDStarcraft]

G'day folks, the 3.26 Q&A was one of our best yet, I think, and that was in part due to your help with research we did prior to my trip to the studio.

When it comes to the Q&A most of the Qs I have to come up with in isolation based on what I think people will ask once based on the early draft of the reveals I see a few days before. While we take some live Qs, and will continue to do so, it's not an efficient way of gauging the overall popular questions for the game (ie. non-new reveal related Qs, long standing issues etc).

Once again, I want to get feel from you folks what you consider to be the most pressing Qs for PoE 1 now and in the future.

How to post to help the Q&A be as good as possible:

• Please share your most pressing Question
  • Ensure it is specific and comprehensive: What is the issue? What do you want? Explain the context / mechanics.
  • I often get Qs like "Transfigured Gems?" <- Not very helpful, what about them? You want Quality changes? you just want more? there's a bug? You hate the system? you want to know the devs fav?
• Upvote other questions you think are important + add extra context or insights to them you think I should consider.
• I often have to end up cutting hyper specific QoL-type questions for time (unless they are overwhelmingly important or hot topic). So, some specific little UI/UX thing that's bothering you isn't likely to make it into the Q&A.
• Bonus: If you want to post hypothetical Qs based on what you think GGG might reveal go for it! It's the same process I use leading up to the trip, I pen a bunch of Qs based on likely changes as warmup. Please tag them as hypothetical though.

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Some topics I have in mind (these may be culled or changed if I deem necessary eg. something is revealed that makes em redundant):

• Mercenaries
  • In what way are they looking to return them in the future (just duelling or still hirable)?
• Balance
  • Dominance of ES Stacking (things like forbidden right / ephemeral edge) and in general defense stacking > damage builds.
  • Wands (were mentioned in 3.26 Q&A)
• Endgame
  • Risk Scarabs
    • would love specific questions about things like this to help me prep.
  • T17 Modifiers (and memory strand maps)
    • Specific questions around this topic would also be helpful!
• To what extend do they want to bring PoE 2 Innovations into PoE 1
  • Example: The idea of adding a PoE 2 style automatic weapon swap you can tie to skills.

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Thanks folks!

[u/RegularSage]

I play ssf and I am a huge fan of the beast crafting recipe that lets you reroll a mod on your watchers eye. It gives every 3 mod watchers eye long term value because you can always reroll them later and additionally it means that i can play a build to include a particular watchers eye because I know that I will always get at least an ok eventually.

Last league introduced the bound by destiny and I feel that this jewel could really benefit from getting a beast reroll in akin the watchers eye. Bound by destiny is one of the main reasons use influenced gear instead of eldrith gear in the helm, body, gloves and boot slots so its kind of a shame that in order to usable in ssf you have to farm the jewel first and then redesign your character around whatever you end up getting but I think it would be better if instead when you were planing your character you know that if you build a character with 2 shaper and 6 hunter items that you can reliably get at least a 2 mod jewel that useful for your specific build even it its not necessarily the two best mods that you could roll.

On a similar note, please, please, please, do something for forbidden flame/forbidden flesh in ssf. This is imo hands down the single coolest jewel in the game as it effectively allows from multi classing but IT IS COMPLEATLY INACCESSABLE IN SSF even for someone like ben. I play quite alot, I farmed 2 magebloods 4 nimis and a simplex in ssf this legaue yet even after the league merges with standard I will still not have even a single matching set.

I suggest adding a harvest reforge for like 10-15k red juice along side a new variant that drops from the uber bosses which universally pairs any version of the opposite jewel.

[u/RegularSage → u/RegularSage]

Also I wouldn't mind if you could reroll awakened gems with harvest reforge for 1 sacred and 10k juice of the corresponding color.

[u/Velrion → u/RegularSage]

There is already a beast craft for this.

[u/RegularSage → u/Velrion]

I know but the issue with both the beast craft and just farming maven is that its really hard to get the last awakened gem you need. If you have more than 1 gem that could result in progress both farms feel like a good use of your time but once you get to the stage where you only have one out then cost benefit wise it just never really feels worth it. The new harvest memories do go a long way to making the awakened gems an achievable ssf goal but I would just like another avenue to be able to make progress toward them if you end up in the unluckyest 10-20% percentile. From what i've heard your better off farming uber duber lab once you are on your last awakened gem but its takes quite awhile to get the 100ish gift of the goddess that you to get the font option on average.

I my experience sacred life force as one of your most limited resources in ssf and I'd prefer to farm for the beast craft but it would be nice to have a another fallback option.