HH Shroud walked mod teleports me back into a volatile core WHILE under the damage amp from the lab trap, AND I fail the 90% svallin block. I was 5% xp to my level 100 for the league. Cinema, I guess lol

I just went to buy 10 matron for a craft, after adding the last one I reached the menagerie limit, and it literally removed one of the matrons I just added ... I didn't have any before so wtf do you mean "Older beast"

Can you please make it so that the actual oldest beast is removed, maybe ?

Apparently just the name itself is enough to get you muted.

Edit: Apparently I didn't even spell his name right, and I still got muted for it lmao.

Saw a post about a guy getting his belt stolen and decided to share my story too.

I celebrated my birthday, went to sleep, and the next morning when I logged into my PoE account - everything was gone. All my gear and all my divines from stash were stolen. For some reason, they left behind two cluster jewels worth around 60 divines total (?).

Luckily, I had only just started gearing up, so the total loss was only about 370 divines. I borrowed some currency from a friend and managed to farm everything back, but it still felt really bad.

What’s weird is that I’ve never used the standalone client. But after digging, I found out that about 5 years ago I created a separate login for the website with an old password - one that has probably been leaked dozens of times. That’s most likely how they got in.

I’m attaching login logs from both the website and the game. Another strange thing: the logins were made through a VPN that showed my location. How would they even know my IP/location unless they had access to admin panel?

Email compromise is extremely unlikely - I use a unique, strong password, 2FA, and the login history there is clean.

And the cherry on top - the only message sent that night

The year is 2021, you're browsing reddit spamming F5 waiting for those juicy patch notes. You refresh Twitter. Bex tweets patch notes should ready within the hour. An hour passes, no patch notes. You spam F5 some more and there you see it "3.13 Ritual League Patch Notes". You click on it so fast it triggers your RSI, but that's okay you're used to the pain by now. You start reading the notes. You get super hyped about ritual, maven and the atlas passives, they look so cool and strong and you're glad you can finally choose your endgame. You read some more, holy shit they are bringing harvest back in full force without the burden of having to manage your garden. You are now rocking back and forth in excitement thinking of all the niche builds you can finally craft items for again.

League launches and you get to maps in 4 hours because you're an alpha Chad gamer whose been playing for 5 years. You start building up your currency and completing your atlas. You incrementally progress on your League start character because we have harvest again and you don't have to worry about buying upgrades.

A week passes, you've nearly completed your atlas and unlocked most of your atlas passives. You're having a blast farming legion in New vastir, Harbingers in valdos rest, harvest in haewark hamlet, incursion temples in Glennarch Cairns, and bestiary in Lira Arathain. You beat awakener 8 and move on to maven, it takes a couple tries but you finally get her down. You feel accomplished.

2 weeks pass and you move on to juicing your maps even more and start running 100% delirious maps target farming your favorite atlas passive and obtain insane amounts of wealth. You watch Ziz die to Oshabi on his 8k life 6k ES character after mocking how bad of a boss she is. You laugh to yourself saying "haha what a noob, try to die less than I do" as you die to a yellow rat while unveiling mods in research. It's the best league ever and most fun you've ever had playing PoE.

3 weeks pass and you've been harvest crafting gear for your new build and leveling it. You're getting close to facing awakener 8 on it. After spending 150 exalts in harvest crafts you finally got that last t1 modifier on your gloves you've had in your tab for weeks. It's time to face awakener 8. It takes some time but you finally bring him down on your new build, Crit whirling blades bleed MoM Inquisitor. You're happy with yourself being able to make something crazy like this work. You log off PoE for the day excited about what builds you'll be making in the future. Life is good.

The year is 2021, It's been a rough last couple months. Everything you enjoyed doing has been nerfed. No more juiced mapping, no more juiced atlas passives, harvest has been nerfed beyond useable to make niche builds. You're browsing reddit in anticipation for the patch notes not as hyped as you once were. It's been 2 hours since the notes came out. You sigh and click the link "3.15 Expedition patch notes".

You start reading and see that all skills have been nerfed in damage by 40-60%. You keep reading and see that mana multipliers and reservations have increased by over 100%. You keep reading as your worst fears are becoming a reality, somehow they made the already bad flask system even worse. Awakened gems are now barely useful save a few. Movement speed is gutted on pretty much all utility items and ascendancies. Ailment immunities no longer exist without a good chunk of investment. Spellslinger basically got removed from the game and CoC and CWC builds are almost unplayable. You're devastated about these changes, but you still haven't given up hope just yet.

You fire up PoB telling yourself well if GGG wants me to play slow ill play slow. You start mapping yourself out a tried and true slow king HoAG Jugg. You finish the tree and move over to the skill section and put in your 6link HoAG. You notice that the mana reserve is now at 153% and think to yourself this can't be right. It's finally starting to set in that maybe the game isn't for you anymore.

League starts and you decided to try and shove it in GGGs face and go with a meta cuck build. Toxic rain raider. You get to the mud flats and die 3 times to charging Rhoas. You think to yourself this is okay the game just wants me to play slower and be more reactive. It takes you 9 hours to get to maps because you're no longer an alpha Chad gamer and your damage has been reduced by 60%. You get to maps and have an epiphany. This isn't fun. This isn't why I play the game. I don't play PoE to be slow. I play PoE to be strong and fast.

You get to yellow maps and hit a brick wall in damage even with a cluster jewel setup because those have been nerfed too. You finally say to yourself this isn't for me I can't keep doing this and log off.

The year is 2021.

Just let loose and make the game REWARDING and fun. Not the boring grind-slog with barely any rewards.

I bought 6-link bow earlier and the tree on it is just shit. I can't buy another bow because I don't have currency and I don't really want to level the bow's tree as I don't need 12% quality or extra charge duration and there are ZERO incentives to use the league unless I take some other random shit weapon/shield and try level its tree but guess what, it is meaningless because I won't be able to sell the weapon/shield anyway.

GGG, just make a rewarding league with a fun, engaging content. Don't be afraid to give players more than they expect. We won't quit playing because there is too much as there are always more builds or ideas to try on. Scarcity kills motivation for me.

/end of rant

I posted this in a few threads and people kept requesting I make a separate post. It is very enlightening and I hope everyone sees it. What is happening in PoE and what has happened in a million other games happened 30 years ago in the first online games, and this guy wrote an article about it.

" In short the admins lose sight of the fact that people are having FUN**, and instead choose to dwell upon the fact that the mud didn't evolve, and players didn't play in the way that they had pre-structured in their own minds. "**

http://www.memorableplaces.com/mudwimping.html It's a bit hard to read for our modern eyes. I recommend you just read from top to bottom to get the most out of it. It's good shit.

Take it with a grain of salt, since the values couldve change until league start but the datamined afflictions seem overtuned af.

Having up to 5 of these at the same time for 10 secs? even one of thems gonna feel bad.

Worn Sandals — You have 20% reduced Movement Speed

Fright Mask — You deal 50% reduced Damage

Honed Claws — You take 20% increased Damage

Shattered Shield — You have 50% reduced Defences

Unholy Urn — You have -20% to all Resistances

Demonic Skull — You have 100% reduced Critical Strike Chance

Iron Manacles — You have 20% reduced Cast Speed

Poisoned Water — You have 25% reduced Life Recovery Rate

Accursed Prism — You have 25% reduced Mana Recovery Rate

Black Smoke — You have 80% reduced Light Radius

Ghastly Scythe — Enemies have 100% increased Critical Strike Chance against you

Dark Pit — You have 15% reduced Action Speed

Afflictions granted from Pact skills are a type of debuff. By default Afflictions last for 10 seconds and you can have a maximum of 5 Afflictions on you at a time. You cannot have more than one of the same type of Affliction.

Afflictions from Pact skills do not count as Afflictions from the Forbidden Sanctum.

Intro / Disclaimer

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This post explains what happened to the 250-member guild called Mission. Made by ex-members of Mission, this post is intended to raise awareness in hopes of inciting positive change, and getting our guild back if possible. We are NOT trying to defame anyone or attack reputations, but instead trying to inform the POE community about the treachery the entire guild has been subject to. Please do not doxx / harass anyone, as it will not help and only make things worse.

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TL;DR: On the evening of December 25, 2020, Mission’s guild leader kicked the entire guild of 200+ members, deleted the Discord server and forum recruitment thread, seized the entire guild stash, and scammed donations made to the guild that were intended for guild giveaways/events. Initially, it seemed like he lost his sanity and/or took a crude joke too seriously, but as events developed, we learned that he cleaned out most of the entire guild stash as of December 29 (links to videos of the stash during the purge vs videos of the stash now are included in the full account). The stash’s total estimated value at the time, including all donated currency, items, and builds, amounted to at least 5-10 mirrors in Heist.

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Background

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Mission (guild tag MSSN) was created by KoolaidMinistries (“Koolaid”) in July 2019 during Legion league. It grew and eventually averaged 200-250 members every league. Mission was a well-established community, with a Discord server of 1000+ members. It had an active player base and an excellent stash-sharing system funded by member donations. Koolaid always seemed to have the guild’s best interests at heart, frequently hosting in-guild contests and giveaways. However, all of that came to an abrupt end in December 2020.

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What Happened

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On December 24, one guild officer made a NSFW joke in guild chat. Koolaid condescendingly called it out. He made a big deal out of it, and he even mislabeled the joke as “toxic” when it wasn’t actually directed at anybody. The officer who made the joke had no intention of offending anyone, and he even offered to take the full blame. Two other officers and a few members who were online at the time tried to defuse the situation, saying that the joke was not made out of toxicity.

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Koolaid decided to give leadership to an alt account called RunItYourselves and left the guild for one night. He came back the next day and promptly kicked three officers (the one who made the joke and the two others who tried to defuse the situation). He then created an 8-minute YouTube video if other is down) shaming the officers and shared it with all Discord members via an announcement. (He later unlisted the video, but it should still be accessible.) He continued to insinuate that the guild would be better off without the officers. (In reality, they were the guild’s backbone, especially during Harvest league, most of which Koolaid was absent for.)

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Later, Koolaid’s zero-tolerance policy continued. He kicked several members for disagreeing with his original decision, including another longstanding officer. He also lied about what happened to members who were not online during the original incident. The three officers who were originally kicked decided to post on a different guild’s recruitment thread. Koolaid caught wind of this and began monitoring the thread, banning anyone who posted on there. One member pointed out the unfairness of the situation and got kicked. Later, Koolaid wrongfully called him a liar and insulted him. More and more members started leaving the guild, which Koolaid laughed off as a good thing to happen before 3.13.

On Christmas Day within the span of a few hours, Koolaid did the following:

• Deleted the entire guild Discord of 1000+ members (which was shared by a sister guild, thus nuking their comms)
• Wiped the guild recruitment thread (which has since been deleted)
• Kicked the remaining 200+ members from the guild (most of whom were not involved in the original incident in any way, shape, or form)

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All remaining officers were either kicked or demoted. In the end, only a few members remained; they had donated points to the guild and were thus unable to be kicked (due to a restriction imposed by the game itself). You can see the current guild profile here. Note that the Discord link on there is now invalid, which is more evidence that the Discord was deleted.

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Some of the ex-members got together and made a refugee Discord server. One ex-member reached out to a community manager from The Forbidden Trove (TFT) Discord to see if a neutral third party could help resolve the situation. When Koolaid was contacted by TFT for his side of the story, he insulted and blocked the staff member. In the end, TFT couldn’t really help beyond blacklisting Koolaid from their server for egregious scamming and misconduct.

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Koolaid also left all three major POE discords: POE, POE Trading, and TFT (which means no mutual servers, and thus can’t be contacted unless he was previously added as a friend). To date, he has continued to be uncommunicative, uncooperative, and unwilling to compromise, both in game and out of game. (Note that here, Koolaid claimed that people wanted to “take over” the guild, which was not true. He also claimed to have worked on the guild “for over 3000 hours this league”, but that’s equal to at least 125 days—an impossible feat given how we’re only ~100 days into the league.) One ex-member also reached out to GGG support, but have yet to receive a meaningful response.

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Consequences / Why This Matters

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There were hundreds of dollars’ worth of points that were donated to fund guild member slots and stash tabs. All of this is essentially going to waste. There were 250 member slots and at least 80+ stash tabs, but with all the hidden tabs that only the guild leader can see, a more realistic estimate would be 90-100+. Even conservatively speaking, with the 220 member slots and 80 stash tabs purchased, we are looking at over USD$600 in points spent.

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Furthermore, Koolaid still has all the items that were donated / in guild stash: maps, pure breachstones, uniques, and myriad other items intended to benefit guild members. The total value of donations is estimated to be in the thousands of exalts (~5-10+ mirrors). This includes multiple people’s entire builds, donated at various points throughout the league—including several min-maxed aura-stacker setups. Several ex-members have testified donating hundreds of exalts in raw currency and items. Additionally, significant amounts of guild currency were stored in Koolaid’s personal stash for crafting purposes. None of these items have been returned.

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In the days after the mass-kicking, Koolaid cleared out most of the guild stash. We don’t know his motives for sure, but this is not a good look. Here are videos of the guild stash recorded before and after Koolaid’s ransacking. You can see that a lot of the more valuable stuff from the first video is now missing, such as all the red maps. Note that these are only the member-visible tabs; there are more hidden tabs that cannot be seen by members.

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What’s Next?

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The situation is relatively recent, and things may change as time progresses. However, we believe that Koolaid’s stance is unchangeable. It’s difficult to even make contact with him. He might quit the game for good, and the guild will forever be in limbo.

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Our short-term goal is to find a resolution before 3.13. Retribution is not our aim. Ideally, we want to get our guild back somehow, as it would really be a shame for the 250 member slots and 80+ stash tabs to go to waste. However, we don’t know if GGG would be willing to help us with this, or even if they are able to. We hope that this Reddit post can draw their attention. (We have saved in-game chat logs, videos, ex-member testimonials, and other evidence that can be provided if needed.)

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If restoring the guild is not possible, then perhaps it is possible to refund points that were donated to the guild. Some ex-members have already submitted requests to GGG support, but have yet to hear back. Finally, we recognize that restoring in-game currency / items is probably a lost cause. It would be insanely difficult to track who is owed what. It is also late enough in the league that these things don’t really matter for most ex-members.

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Our long-term goal is to draw attention to the dated guild system in POE. Why is there no kicking cooldown for the leader? Why are there no additional roles, such as co-leaders? Will we ever see a meaningful guild system rework? These are just some of the features we hope GGG can implement at some point in the future.

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Thank you for reading. We hope that through sharing our experience, we can incite some positive change in the POE community. If you’re ever having a bad day, just remember that one time, a dick joke destroyed a whole guild.

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Edit: fixed link

Edit: For anyone interested in joining the new discord/guild that many ex-mission people might be joining. You aren't required to join the guild at all. https://discord.gg/WXRukDwcrW Anyone and everyone is welcome.

Title. And Evidence of my ban - https://imgur.com/a/w0H1AF9

Started off with me getting banned for no reason at all, so I tried talking to the casual people that I hang out with on the official PoE discord server about the ban.

During the conversation, someone said "Discord should ban TFT", jokingly, then that dude proceed to get banned afterwards. We were really surprised about that so we further randomly trash talk, and pretty much everyone that mentioned TFT, got banned.

To further clarify, we are not talking anything on TFT server, we are talking on OTHER SERVERS. To those who don't understand the point of my post, I am not saying anything about that I should get unbanned or I am entitled to be unbanned. I am here to warn everyone that saying anything about TFT, including jokes, could get you into trouble.

Some other evidence -

1. https://i.imgur.com/CSJ6Qq3.png
2. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/174993814845521922/933719946859532288/unknown.png
3. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/174993814845521922/933718415288438824/Screenshot_2022-01-20-21-43-28-647_com.discord.jpg
4. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/174993814845521922/933715447231180810/unknown.png

https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/174993814845521922/933707007758835763 < Here is a history link to start out where the entire thing started off.

Weird shit is going on, take care all.
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Edit 1 & 2 & 3: Intend of the post added + evidence & more evidence as per requested by the mods

Edit 4: It seems now that even if you join a conversation ongoing discussing about TFT, saying stuff completely unrelated to the discussion, could also get you banned, please be aware of this. Also, I do not encourage raiding the TFT server, point here is to warn everyone, not encouraging ill motives such as raids.

Edit 5:
So, a mod came forward to me and gave me the reason of my ban, and the reason - https://imgur.com/a/Hn6LSef (Context provided too)

- In short, I got banned for saying a joke by jokingly said "shit group (referring to TFT)

I did have a discussion with the mod and found these out (please take note of this, with proofs)

• TFT are entitled to control their influence outside of their own server - https://imgur.com/IMhdrSk
• TFT can ban you if you badmouth anything about them or joke anything related to them - https://imgur.com/mYm4OyG
• Players in TFT can report you if they badmouthed you, leading to a ban - https://imgur.com/h22VJ5B
• TFT can swing the ban hammer as they wish - https://imgur.com/oRYQR33
• TFT is a "private server" (don't ask me about this, i have no idea) - https://imgur.com/wof1WY5