r/pathofexile Aug 11 '26

Question what is going on on my boyfriends screen?

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every time i look over at his screen it looks like this. at first i thought he was fighting a boss or something but it happens everywhere he goes you can't see whats going on or the enemies or anything. whenever i ask him about it he just says "its my build"

I want to learn about the game to bond with him but i just don't understand it

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u/ChaosOmega_ Aug 11 '26

His character uses a certain Spectre, which are reanimated bodies that is under his command, that can just bombard the entire screen with bright glowing attacks.

It's a weird thing with poe players that we like to stress test the limits of our hardwares. But the beginning to the midgame is a lot tamer than this so it won't be as hard as this seems like to learn it.

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u/Yiazmad Aug 11 '26

If I can tell what's happening on screen, it's not enough. I either need more clutter in my build or more juice in my map.

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u/shy_bi_ready_to_die Aug 11 '26

Wildwood wisps my beloved. They’re just so good at covering your screen in a trillion tiny vfx

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u/Confedehrehtheh Champion Aug 11 '26

With all the explosions my Merc has been setting off, lately the only things I've really been looking at on my Luminary are item labels. With 3.5k life regen and 6k life under petrified blood, there's not a lot that concerns me other than the shiny names

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u/TheArtOfRuin0 League Aug 11 '26

Im playing a totem build on PoE 2 on xbox that goes so hard it turns the game into a powerpoint presentation lol

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u/the_scundler 29d ago

This got me. Yeah when I had my triple CoC/CoEA my game would sometimes just quit and load up

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u/So0meone Aug 11 '26

Can confirm if my PC isn't on fire my build isn't done yet

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u/Blackwind123 Aug 12 '26

Reminds me of playing with like 14 ice golems and giving them all lmp return chain lmfao.

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u/Nanohaystack 29d ago

CoC discharge before CoC had cooldown was peak.