Adam

Path of Exile, hiking, soccer, and the art of eating an entire 18-inch pizza by myself.

aphelionpoe on twitch, NA evenings.

[Adam @AphelionPOE]

Get rid of the whole "while moving" aspect of bleed. Make it a dot whose damage per second value starts really high and decays along some curve. Make keystones that mess with that curve or are conditional on whatever. It's even slightly thematic with bleeding eventually stopping.

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@NeverSinkDev Short term? Setback for sure. Long term? They'll be back.

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Conflagration looks so interesting it's just...what's with these bow skills that need you to move somewhere specific to work? I get wanting skill design to be interesting but it seems we're starting to lose a bit of practicality lately

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If I had to nitpick the design of Mirage a little bit, I don't see what the general incentive is to break the Astral Chain, outside of occasional cases where a Wish reward is triggered. You could argue that it's because Mirages have no time pressure, I suppose, but idk.

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delete this node, it's too strong

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Really good interview! I liked how candid it was from Oct and Andrew, and I'm amused at how all jungroan's questions were worded like LinkedIn posts.

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Little constructive criticism for the POE audio guys- the newer sound effects and voices are awesome, but please look at normalizing dialogue volume balance. NPCs' dialogue volume from past 3 leagues is way louder than for past content, and it makes it tough to set volume levels.

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@SimonMcKinney I very much do! I have to say you have a really unique ability to speak very clearly at very low pitch, must make for some really interesting voiceover jobs

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if you spam click a ton of items into rog's disenchanting window he sounds like a coked-out jolly chef singing some kind of disney cartoon song

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Vaal glacial hammer is dumb, make it do something actually interesting

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you people really made monsters with fingers for ribcages and a tree that goes pbbbthhkhwlghblkhbwkhghh as it gives birth

are you guys ok

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You know she's mad when she starts putting periods at the ends of her sentences.

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Geonor is the best boss fight in any game I've ever played

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oh, great, another video about toxic optimality

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Crazy to think how many people paid $500 for something I just quickly glance at and instantly delete

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Sometimes I wish I sounded more Scottish, sounds way cooler to say "doon ma heed in"

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One of these times I want to wander into the Kingsmarch tavern and see an actual tavern brawl going on

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The volatile homing plants in ritual is some of the lamest "rocks fall everyone dies haha lol" bullshit ever. Make them apply a strong dot debuff or something, jfc

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Mercenaries remove everything interesting about POE's item system, especially the navigating around downsides of items that grant niche but powerful benefits.

My take: fine enough to play around with for one league, but if it goes core, remove hiring completely. Duels only.

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yeah ok cool

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@kanethesoundguy @bexsayswords I'm picturing you picking the next letter in the current voiceline by reaching into a bag of Scrabble pieces... "Ah, another U! So far we have U, n, d, e, g, u... hmm maybe just one more?"

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My headcanon for the dimwit mercs is that the voice actor was reading his lines, stumbled a couple words, and went "blabloloblo blaboluwoblolo, my bad let me do that one again"

And the GGG producer outside the booth went "wait! hang on, do that again..."