[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

Either ignore them, or help them regardless. Scolding them makes it worse.

How so, you might wonder?

Well, firstly, very few of them learn from being scolded, so that avenue is mostly pointless to start with.

However, that's not the real concern. The real problem is the state it leaves the internet in. Imagine, many people ask for help with a question that is regularly asked, easily searchable, and well documented, and the reaction from the current experts is:

"Search! It's easy to find, do some work!"

Each time this cycles, the actual answer becomes more difficult to find. Eventually, typing the question in Google gives you pages of results, all of which are the same - some noob asking the question and being scolded about it. Of course, the actual information is also indexed by Google, however, finding it among the dead end results full of scolding gets tougher until it is relegated to page 2 of the search results. At that point, it's effectively gone.

If nobody tells them that what they're doing is harmful to their own development, then they still never learn.

Double-edged sword, and it mostly comes down to HOW you "scold" them. Simply taking an internet-dump on them isn't going to serve any purpose, but something that gives them a carrot instead of a stick, tends to work.

To provide an example, let's say someone is trying to figure out how penetration works in the game.

A simple "path of exile penetration" google search immediate comes up with the resistance penetration mechanic page on the wiki.

So I typically phrase my replies as carrot-y as I can. Which, given that I'm a pretty blunt person, probably isn't the best way, but it still yields positive results.

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Hey, so a quick google search for "path of exile penetration" comes up with the comes up with the resistance penetration mechanic page on the wiki.

You'll find the wiki is a great resource that will typically answer most of your early questions, particularly if your google search includes "path of exile wiki" & "whatever you're looking for."

In the interests of keeping this subreddit clean from repetitive questions, try your hand at using the wiki or the reddit search function located on your right. You'll often find the answers faster than it'll take for you to post your question here and wait for a response.

Failing that, the sub front page has a weekly "Questions" thread pinned to the top, and there's also a PoE Discord server you can find where people will be helpful in answering any questions that you might have.

Lately I've been rather short-fused, so I've been ignoring most of the stupid / repetitive questions flat out, because being snappy (or scolding, as you put it) doesn't solve the problem.

But I've noticed when the same names keep cropping up with easy-to-find-answers-to questions, and I post something like the above, that person suddenly stops asking those types of questions.

Something to be said for the carrot.

In short, more often than not if you just encourage people to work for themselves, rather than berating them for not doing so, they often FEEL better about finding the answers themselves, so that's what they go and do.

Ofc you're always going to have lazy people who never bother.


One of my fave posts was from this guy. I have no problems (well, less problems) when someone flat out admits that they're lazy, like he did.

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Where's a good place to ask stupid questions when I don't feel like googling?

My response:

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Serleth 님이 작성:

Chances are pretty good that if you could get an answer faster by googling than by asking it here, you'll get chewed apart. The wiki is pretty robust and will answer most of your early questions.

That said, if you can't find answers quickly, there's a weekly questions thread that pops up every Monday that's pinned which would be a good place to go. Those threads are a lot more forgiving and are sort of the unofficial location where stupid questions are encouraged, as well as the Discord server.

It links to the answer, which boosts the actual information for Google's SEO, (which solves the 'how do we leave the internet' challenge) it explains how to search, and it gives more than enough tips to proceed.

I'd call that helping them. If they are so thin skinned they can't take that kind of help, there's no hope for them anyway. :)

You'd be surprised how many people get upset when you lead with the phrase "A quick google search."

They take it as a stab at their laziness.



But I haven't been able to come up with a way to phrase it to take the sting off. At some point I'd have to mention what search parameters came up with the given result in order to provide guidance in that regard.

But yeah, if they take offense at it, I just move on.

I'm actually pretty excited for the new league. Open up breaches, kill mobs for new items and occasionally run into Breach Lords - end game bosses (probably in nerfed form) which you must deal as much damage as possible to before they leave the breach.

The amount of damage you do to the lords determines how many "splinters" of a particular type you collect. Combine enough splinters to create a breachstone - which can be used in map devices to open a portal the the Breach Lord's realm.
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Probably the breaches will be designed so that most reasonable skills (CA among them) will do fine and get maximum or near maximum rewards. In fact, CA can spread clouds quickly over large areas and might really shine in these encounters. We'll need to see how it's tuned though; my hunch... Perandus mob-level difficulty.

Killing the Breach Lord's themselves in their domain is probably going to be Guardian-level difficulty, I think. I suspect that Shaper will remain the toughest fight in PoE.

Design limitations in builds will remain; some builds will simply be much more powerful than others.

Interestingly, one of the upcoming features in Breach is a channeled skill support gem. Maybe the gem will allow you to lock the spell in place and then permit movement? Or maybe it's a gem that allows leech for the channeled skills? Hopefully it's some sort of fix for the inability to move while channeling which might make some of the channeled skills much more viable for endgame.

Anyhow, I've really enjoyed all the leagues so far and I expect that I'll enjoy Breach a lot as well.