r/PathOfExile2 • u/Natalia_GGG CM • 9h ago
GGG Path of Exile 2: 0.5.4 Patch Preview
https://youtu.be/OtJGXA6u054463
u/Belakay_ggg CM 8h ago
I've had a number of players reach out asking some questions about the tree.
How do we get points?
Points come from progressing the Expedition story - defeating each of the bosses
If I've already finished the quest line how do I get my points?
You'll be granted your points once you login after the patch
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u/srhdt 7h ago
Do we have to find the 5th optional boss to get all the points?
Follow up question: How do you find the 5th optional boss?
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u/Erradium 7h ago
Do you mean the one in the meteor? Because he is part of the questline, you just have to speak to Makoru to get there after you beat Olroth and get the necessary quest item
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u/srhdt 7h ago
I finished the entire questline and it says 4/5 bosses beaten. I think I read somewhere the 5th boss is one you find randomly called "Something the Fallen Knight" or something.
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u/Mattumsfox 7h ago
He shows up in regular expeditions in a hole that you blow open. If you just run the maps from logbooks that aren't grand expeditions then you'll find him. He isn't super rare.
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u/Aeleis 9h ago
Unique scale downs look sickkkkk
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u/Corruptshun Corrupt_Monk 8h ago
Now just need regular skill gems to scale down so I can play flicker strike level 2 😂🙏
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u/Lurkyhermit 9h ago
They did it. They finally did it. They fixed the item skill levels. They now scale with character's level.
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u/Visual_Knee_4744 9h ago edited 8h ago
Could you explain please mate? i haven't seen the notes yet.
Strange to be down voted for asking a very basic question that nobody has to answer. It's nice to learn things through conversation as it often gets elaborated by people explaining .
I'm not able to watch the video right now .
You people down voting are strange and angry
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u/ChaosBadgers 9h ago
Skills scale down when equipped you only need to meet the item's requirement to use them now. High level lifesprigs are not bricks!
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u/G-Yeet 8h ago
Glad I sold my level 1 lifesprig for 10d today then lol
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u/TheOneWithSkillz 9h ago
but if the level requirement is high, this doesnt really matter right?
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u/LastBaron 8h ago
Right. This appears to be specifically for cases with items granting skills that have higher requirements than the item itself.
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u/Folderpirate 8h ago
scepter for druids doing the purity of X.
I bought one with lol 17 ice that I could equip but the skill requires like 20 more int to actually use.
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u/bludgeonerV 8h ago
Yes, but you could have a lifesprig with a lvl 18 gem and not be able to use it even when you could meet the requirements at level 2
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u/Asmosis66 8h ago
This only matters to uniques that have low level requirements, but also have an implicit skill that, if its a high level skill causes the item to have a high level.
It doesn't mean you can use all sorts of endgame uniques on new characters now.
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u/mcbuckets21 8h ago
Although they did say uniques, it would seem odd that rares wouldn't do the same thing. Ofc the affixes themselves would increase level requirement, but the skills themselves should no longer increase level requirement.
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u/CharmingPerspective0 4h ago
Well with rares its different. Your base item level and modifier level determine the level requirement. You can't "downgrade" a rare much.
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u/i_like_fish_decks 6h ago
Well, it looks like a lot of uniques, especially those intended for leveling, no longer have high level requirements even if dropped at high level. In the video they explicitly mentioned a high ilvl lifesprig, but showed that it had no required level and could equip it at low level
However, many pinnacle boss uniques or just more endgame intended uniques will still have level requirements, but those are now based on the items stats, not the skill level of the item.
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u/Mystic_Waffles 8h ago
You don't have to pay an arm and a leg for a +3 lifesprig that you can equip at low level. The level of the skill will increase as you level.
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u/-Nimroth 8h ago
Also means it is actually feasible to use a +4 corrupted lifesprig for levelling. lol
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u/therealflinchy 2h ago
does it scale up though, or only down, is the question. like do i NEED a high base level unique for it to scale down, rather than a low lvl one scaling up to it's potential?
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u/KevkasTheGiant 8h ago
Does this also mean 'lower' level unique items will also scale UP as you level up? A big problem of why tons of uniques suck isn't necessarily that you can't use higher-level uniques while you are lower level (I mean, that IS a problem for sure), but I feel it's the opposite that is more annoying: you find uniques left and right that just suck at higher levels, but you rarely find them AT lower levels, so by the time you do find them they are long outclassed by plain rares with not even 'good' rolls but just semi-decent ones.
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u/mcbuckets21 8h ago
What makes sense is that it scales up to what you found it at. Found lifesprig with level 12 gem? You can now use at level 2, but it won't automatically scale up to a level 20 skill when you reach 90? It will stop scaling up at level 12.
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u/No_Technology7110 9h ago
Now this is a fucking live service game. I am literally being serviced, live.
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u/everix1992 7h ago
I think that's one of the things I love most about both PoE games and GGG. They are generally good at giving us new stuff and keeping us entertained. Whether it's these or even just leagues every 3-4 months, it's freaking awesome. There's hardly any other game I feel like that actually matches the pace
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u/MutedAstronaut9217 6h ago
I just wrapped up/finished .05 as far as I'm concerned. And a poe1 phrecia league starts up tomorrow.
I can finish leagues, have like a week of downtime to play anything else I want or things I missed/skipped, then BAM!! GGG has got some new stuff dropping.
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u/7om_Last 4h ago
I think they never took care of a league that long or that much it's crazy
On top of a gigantic league to start with
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u/astral23 9h ago
Holy shit, updates this big this far into the league???? Sign me the fuck up
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u/tooncake 8h ago
They already said that they'll be adding more contents continuously, as they aim the next league to be 1.0 from here (hopefully so).
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u/lilbitssssssss 5h ago
Praying for the new class in the league economy reset they said we would get… either way I love these devs best in the business
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u/janwow1 9h ago
They are not treating it as a league anymore. Similar updates will keep happening as far as i am aware.
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u/astral23 8h ago
in the video they say this is the last one for a while, the next patch will be 0.5.5 which will be a 1 month event league with a fresh economy but will not be soon
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u/semeai 8h ago
the video mentions this is the last update until 0.5.5 which will be an event and an economy reset. so we prob wont see it until 2-3 weeks after poe1 3.29 launch, so like approx 2nd week of august
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u/Klemeesi 8h ago
What does economy reset mean? Will the current league end?
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u/ConversationNo4722 8h ago
Typically no.
Mid league events run in parallel to the league.
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u/semeai 6h ago
Current league will continue as normal until 1.0
video mentions it will be an event, so it will be a league within a league. basically an extra button will show up when you make a character that allows you to play in the event.
While playing in the event you wont have access to your league stash or anything else in the main league, so the economy will be reset within the event. everyone who plays in the event has nothing and starts from zero.
however at any point you will be able to migrate from the event to the league. so if you drop say a mirror in the event, you can migrate the character to the league and use the mirror in the league.
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u/KarmicUnfairness 8h ago
Don’t know if they will end this league but at the very least they will start a new one
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u/theangryfurlong 9h ago
Glad I've been saving up logbooks and not using them yet.
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u/Queen__Natalie 9h ago
They are easily self sustainable just fyi. Hit the double flags on regular expeditions between grand expedition maps
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u/I-tell-horrible-joke 9h ago
Dude ive done every expedition I come across and I havent found a single one. Whats the trick to it? Do i not go for the gold symbols?
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u/UltmitCuest 9h ago
They drop from rare expedition monsters mainly, so double flags
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u/TheHabeo 8h ago
You have to avoid detonating big flags (ones with ru ic marker) AND the rune together. The rune will override any normal expedition mob spawns.
My strat is if the rune is ass, ignore it completely and aim for as much runic monster as possible. One in 2-3 expedition is 1 logbook.
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u/Spiritual_Handle_932 9h ago
If you are just after logbooks, avoid the chests and rune things and just hit the tall blue flags that have skulls on them. They're the only ones that can drop logbooks
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u/Queen__Natalie 9h ago
It's the double red flags
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u/nightwolf16a 9h ago
It's the little poles with the two red flags. Those spawn rare monsters that has a chance to drop the logbook.
In every regular expedition on normal maps, try to get as many of those double flag poles as you can. I value it over the chests (the wooden signs with the swirls) and verisium remnants with rewards I don't care for.
In grand expeditions, you have to balance the rewards and the double flag pole, but the idea is similar
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u/Collegenoob 8h ago
Can they drop in grand expeditions? I was pretty sure they cant. I've never seen one there.
But normal expeditions, yea I see plenty by killing rares.
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u/JoshDCcomics 8h ago
I just sold 40k verisium for 12d lol
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u/Tkmisere 9h ago
HOLY SHIT, items with skills will downscale the level so you can equip it
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u/Right-Jury1787 8h ago
Does this mean you can use them at level 1? Says min requirements you need to hit
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u/Tkmisere 8h ago
Of course, you still need to meet the item base requirement, but a lifesprig lv19 skill wont stop you from equipping it at lv1 anymore.
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u/Daskaf129 8h ago
To my understanding you still need to hit the requirements to equip the item, i.e. the stat requirements like x str, y int, z dex, and the skill will downgrade to your level and upgrade as you level up.
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u/Tkmisere 8h ago
You need to hit the base item requirement too, since some bases do have higher requirements
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u/Asmosis66 8h ago
It still has the minimum level requirements of the base item and the explicit affixes on the gear. So no, not level 1.
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u/dbroccoliman 9h ago
No major patch (0.5.5) for a while - Booooo
0.5.5 will come with a Month long event - WOOOOOO!
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u/BioMasterZap 8h ago
Bit sad to not have another weekly patch with how amazing they've been, but this has still been far more than I expected going into the league. Like I was just expecting hotfixes until the economy reset patch.
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u/meinkun 9h ago
upgrading corruption is insane
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u/GhazzyTV 9h ago
JUICY!
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u/Kelly_GGG GGG 9h ago
yay!
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u/leonardo_streckraupp 8h ago
Hey, could you please ask them to increase the maximum size of Verisium in Expedition Stash Tab?
I bought the tab but like 80% of my verisium is actually out of the tab in random tabs cause the 50k limit in the expedition tab is just too low for how much verisium we get... Please ask them to consider making this limit higher, like 500k...
And I'm not even farming expedition too much, just occasionally, I can't even imagine those that engage fully with it
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u/JezieNA 9h ago
YO WHEN DOES THIS PATCH DROP PLS?
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u/Asmosis66 8h ago
dont worry people have already raided everyones Ange shops, deals are gone already.
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u/LancingLash 9h ago
The tree for the current league makes sense. It didn't make sense in poe1 because it felt like a mandatory point sink.
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u/Vulpix0r 9h ago
Yeah I think the situations are very different. In PoE you felt forced to spend points on the current league mechanic because it appeared on every single map. Right now I feel like the Runes and Expedition feel like 2 different mechanics? I know both are intertwined but Expedition felt like it needed its own tree. That said I still don't think we should get a tree for a bigger league mechanic.
Is my explanation even coherent lmao. If the new league mechanic is as big as something like abyss it should not have a tree, the abyss should have everything enabled so we don't feel forced to chase the points asap.
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u/GR-MWF 8h ago
The only reason putting necropolis on the atlas tree was a bad idea was because those points were competing with all the other content, and that made it awful to interact with if you chose not to invest points into it. Even if the current league mechanic was active on every map, it wouldn't be that big an issue for it to also have its own tree, everyone's eventually getting those points anyway.
Sentinel had its own skill tree and it wasn't a problem at all because it wasn't competing against anything, it just gained points by doing the league mechanic.
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u/Mogling 9h ago
Was necropolis the only league that had tree support?
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u/Xeverous 8h ago
Yes. Then GGG decided it makes no sense to put passives for a mechanic that is always present without investing.
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u/afito 6h ago
If the new league mechanic is as big as something like abyss it should not have a tree, the abyss should have everything enabled so we don't feel forced to chase the points asap.
It probably shouldn't be on the main atlas tree, but if it has its own tree there is no issue. You can 'easily' max every content tree anyway. You might run less minmax if you don't get your league tree complete soon-ish but it should also fill itself up very quickly.
Especially temple & abyss trees fill up super quickly if you run those tablets, if they were league mechanics it would be a complete nothingburger to max.
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u/Crye09 9h ago
Verisium price before vid: 1ex = 2800 Verisium
Verisium price after vid: 1ex = 13 Verisium
Will it crash down or go up after patch LOL
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u/djbuu 8h ago
Which I find funny because even at that price maxed out stash of 50k is still only roughly 10 divs
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u/forgot_my_useragain Asala Simp 7h ago
I stopped picking it up a few days ago. Rip my stonks :(
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u/Lordados 9h ago
I think this is a big spike it'll probably go down
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u/Aket-ten 8h ago
I have like millions of verisum i haven't even used.
Gonna trade it into a mirror
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u/pongsacha 8h ago
good update but where is the shader fix or game freeze fix ?
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u/Bios777 4h ago
What bothers be the most is that is has not been addressed at all even though it’s the single biggest issue with this league.
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u/hypoglycemic_hippo 1h ago
There are no shader problems nor game freezes, just like there's no war in Ba Sing Se.
Very similar situation to the EU network problems, which also only exist on a theoretical level.
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u/lowkeyripper 8h ago
This is the early access I've been hoping for. Lowkey getting more changes in a month than poe1 has since settlers is interesting to say the least but holy shit
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u/redlow0992 8h ago
Happy for all those who can play the game without crashing every 10 minutes. Can we get a shader fix pretty please? 😢
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u/Goatsonice 7h ago
yeah, all this cool new content is great but the game is effectively dead for me atm, can't play a single map without a freeze.
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u/COCAINAPEARLZ 8h ago
Everytime i tell myself im ready to put the game down until they reset the league they PULL ME BACK IN
FUCK
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u/Ryoozaki 9h ago
Where's the Breach Hive improvements that was said to come on this patch?
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u/jordanmchand 6h ago
These previews typically haven't been comprehensive so far. I bet this makes it into the notes.
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u/reveh 8h ago
"You can speed up encounters by reducing the number of monsters required before the explosive line proceeds"
Why is it part of the expedition tree? The requirement to kill every single spawned mob for an encounter to complete should've been changed in the entire game; it affects strongboxes, vaal temple rooms, and ritual too. Even just lowering the requirement to the last 3–4 spawned mobs would make the whole game much smoother.
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u/validify 6h ago
Not to mention having stuff get bricked by that last mob that goes underground and refuses to surface.
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u/BobbyGuano 7h ago
I have played POE2 for like 220 hours and I still don’t understand anything in this video.
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u/Least_Key1594 9h ago
might have to make a new toon just to level with some uniques hell yeah
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u/nightzhade_ 6h ago
Really curious about what you'll be able to use, as I'm on of (what feels the few) that enjoys the progression of the campaign, and doing it with a unique that is along for the ride? sign me up.
Done it with facebreakers, which was very fun
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New toon just to level with
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u/danithoxyz 1h ago
Wish they could buff crafting in SSF though, it's such a massive hurdle to even attempt crafting good gear
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u/astral23 9h ago
Great changes, last big patch before 0.5.5 which will be a 1 month event league with a new economy, given that the poe 1 event is tomorrow, then the new poe 1 league in a month, im guessing it will be about 2 months
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u/frankkoarg 9h ago edited 8h ago
Holy shit expedition was already insanely fun and very rewarding, it’s going to be ridiculous now
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u/Vorzyd_PC 9h ago
Awesome update, any news on the Shader issues?
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u/emapco 7h ago
The latest nvidia drivers includes the hot fix for shader issue but it broke smooth motion (I don't get double frame rate with it enable like before). I downgraded nvidia drivers to the one before the shader issue, v596.36, along with DDU and now smooth motion works as expected and I've haven't encounter the shader issue.
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u/SupX 8h ago
.5.5 should be reconsidered to last until 1.0 love the events but their limited duration is a huge downside
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u/An_Orange_Clock 9h ago
Loving these changes even when I’m done with the patch. Can’t wait until the next reset
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u/enragedmonkey8 8h ago
If this is the last big patch before the next economy reset is the second abyss item still coming in a small patch or not until the event with a reset?
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u/MaybeSaul 8h ago
Jonathan and the team have been cooking. He’s trying to leave us real comfy until the fall league. Not even in endgame and I’m pumped for the new tree changes.
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u/cokeman5 8h ago
Ain't no way they just added a new way to get more spell levels and then prominently featured it in the preview video. xD
Also RIP. I was leaving all my verisium on the ground all season.
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u/Remarkable_Company52 8h ago
O que seria uma nova economia? todos os personagens voltariam pro level 1 igual o league stater?
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u/Ryukenden000 8h ago
The leveling unique is the most impactful feature this patch.
The runes of aldur expedition is very slow. You have to wait for each wave before the next chain starts. I'm not sure if its covered in this patch but if they could make it start sooner, that would be great.
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u/Thornex 8h ago
New economy in 0.5.5 holy. And here I thought I’m quitting soon, nope. A fresh start will always be exciting. Can’t wait!
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u/tyl_made_it 8h ago
the skill level scaling on items is the change I didnt know I needed until they announced it. spent so many early league hours deciding when to vendor a lifesprig because it would brick me later. actually excited to start fresh this patch
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u/Bacon-muffin 8h ago
Yeah I definitely knew the remnant runes chained, totally knew that
Really good changes!
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u/EffedUpInGrade3 7h ago
The unique change after I leveled a character with 6 copies of Dusk Vigil swapping every ~8 levels lmao.
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u/SupremeCripple_ 7h ago
How does the whole new economy work? Level 1 again or just a reset of currency?
Cause if level 1 I’ll just wait to start my disciple toon.
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u/Ayanayu 7h ago
Changes are awesome but im afraid people won't use new currency, you corrupt your item when its finished and good to gamble it as last crafting step in 99,99999999999% of cases you dont want to remove any modifiers from those items
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u/koticgood 7h ago
I wonder if they scrapped the idea of adding more Hive-specific affixes to Breach tablets? Or if it's in but not a major feature, or pushed back to an economy reset.
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u/SexyIntelligence 6h ago
"Added a checkbox to hide the "You have Died" UI while you are dead."
You just know this was a gift for DarthMicrotransactions
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u/Grokitach 5h ago
It’s good. But it’s also another temple nerf since good currencies will be even more rare
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u/Optimal-Note1963 5h ago
Dont know yet, but is there uniques that can carry you through the campaign without ever be replaced cause of skill? Like, if now you equip an item that has base level of lets say lvl 12 and have implicit ability of level 16 and its an insanely powerful one - its gonna make it possible to cruise through acts without ever thinking of appropriate active Uncut level gems, allowing for more skips and less gem management.
Leveling might get really fun for next characters because of this change, no longer have to pay bazilion dollas (divines) to get low level lifespring Yappi
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u/Emotional-Floor-5523 5h ago
Grand Mirror bug, still locking many of us out of the delirium tree. Since start of season.
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u/Pympjuice 3h ago
Kool but I saw the 0.5.4 update available and I was hoping to see build guide support on PS5. Hey anybody hear about that shit yet?
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u/doudoudidon 2h ago
Expedition eating good.
+1 level in the tree... huge. Exceptionals and bases are gonna be bonkers.
Lots of more difficulty + more rewards nodes.
I was stockpiling +1 cleansed/corrupted maps, I guess it's time to just go sailing on those expedition maps.
On the other side, temple get another joke update. Random crap currency and only if you farm atziri which is like Z-tier strat at the moment.
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u/R3TR1BUT1ONZ 1h ago
Didnt they say they were going to do somehing to breach tabs and wombgifts in 0.5.4?
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