Good Morning Folks! Today the Trial of the Ancestors league in Path of Exile launches at approximately 3 pm CDT, and I am looking forward to getting in and playing my brand new Ranger character. I spent some of last night poking around on the ghosts of leagues past, and more specifically my Storm Brand Inquisitor. During the Crucible league, I gave a few of my past league start characters a bit of a redemption arc, and I feel like this character needs one during Ancestors. Essentially I have no clue how I managed to complete 115 of 115 Atlas maps and spend quite a bit of time playing at the end game… without ever capping my resistances or having anything resembling proper defensive layers. As Ash suggested last night I just “died a lot”, which is true… but I did manage to get the character to level 90. Maybe I will roll a new Inquisitor and try and make a proper version of this build. Playing last night… it certainly is strong in spite of all of its problems.
I’m getting a bit of a late start on this morning’s blog post because I spent the first bit of the morning updating the Path of Exile Tools page. For those who do not know this… the Game Tools menu features a bunch of pages full of curated information about a given game. Sometimes it is woefully out of date like the Destiny 2 page as I have not played the game in quite some time. Essentially when I am actively playing a game I tend to update it with links that I personally find useful, so that I have a single place to get everything that I need. I make it a public page though so that it can help out other players. There are a few pages that I need to switch over to the modern “single page” format like FFXIV, Grim Dawn, and ESO.
Essentially EVERY section of this page got an update, but namely, I fleshed out the Crafting section a bit more. I also added an Economy section, as when I first drafted this page I was not nearly as engaged in the trade market. Previously I only had Zizaran on there for Streamers/YouTubers so I added a few more of my favorites. Basically, it is a much more useful guide than it was before. Some of these tools I play on keeping up on my second monitor while I play through the campaign this afternoon. Act 2 for whatever reason causes me to get all turned around so I am probably going to keep up the cheat sheet for that act for example.
Another thing that happened yesterday is that I tested out Streaming to Youtube for a little bit over lunch. All in all, I think it worked pretty well so I am contemplating streaming this afternoon when I start the league at least for an hour or so. I really have no clue how one links to their stream on YouTube but my guess is through the Live page. When I actually get a broadcast started I am likely going to just post the link to that on Gamepad as I am doing the busywork that comes with starting a stream. Fair warning… I might have a rough day and back out of this as it has been literal years since I last streamed publicly. Mostly I figured that I really have zero connection to Twitch, and given that I post our podcast and the occasional gameplay video to YouTube, it made a lot more sense just to stream there. It isn’t like anyone is going to watch me regularly, because it is highly unlikely that I will stream regularly. For something like a league start though, it might be fun.
Anyways! I am super excited to get started in a brand-new league. I’m hoping that my excitement rubs off on others and we get some folks logging in to check it out over the next few days. If you are playing Path of Exile on PC, feel free to friend me I am BelghastStern. Though to be honest… most group play is sort of butts, so we mostly just share resources in the guild bank.
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