Good Morning Friends! Last night was a pretty chill night of mucking around in Path of Exile. The problem is like many nights, I don’t have a ton of screenshots to show for the evening, which makes it hard to craft a morning post. There are times when I am absolutely bopping along and vibing and just forget to press the hotkey. There have been a number of tools over the years that have sought to solve this problem. I vaguely remember a tool called Forge that attempted to fill this niche, and now there is Medal.tv but the problem with both of those was the fact that they were focused on recording video. I have no interest in posting video clips of my gameplay to use to dunk on people… instead, I just want nice clean screenshots that I can use to break up the large blocks of text on this here blog.
This led me down a bit of a rabbit hole this morning, and it seems like within ShareX the screenshot software that I use there is the option to start an Auto Capture session. Essentially at a fixed interval, the tool is going to take a screenshot. Now I would assume that most of these screenshots are going to be boring as heck, but there is also the chance that it is going to capture something cool in the process. So this morning I set up a truly obtuse hotkey to turn it on and off, and I think tonight I might give it a spin when I start up my gaming session. This is going to force me to be a bit more proactive in my screenshot maintenance however as I could see this easily filling up a hard drive.
I recently dinged a level on my Righteous Fire Juggernaut, which means I am experimenting a bit with content before I get too awfully far into the progression toward the next level. After about 95… leveling goes painfully slow and a single death can set you back literal days of progress. So last night I noticed I had collected enough fragments to open up a portal to Uber Atziri aka the Alluring Abyss and the normal mode of The Elder aka Absence of Value and Meaning. I’m one fragment away from doing The Shaper and Sirius, but I hope to maybe get those soonish and give them a shot. I didn’t get much for killing Uber Atziri but I did notice I got an achievement in Steam for doing it. I had hoped that maybe it would unlock at least another map favorite slot.
I one-shotted The Elder but it took me three attempts to chew through the Uber Atziri fight. Essentially I was just bad at dodging some of the mechanics when you go into the phase where she splits into four clones. From The Elder I did manage to pull a Watcher’s Eye that I currently have up on the market. I’ve been torn as to whether or not I want to actually use it for myself. I am running Grace and Malevolence on my Toxic Rain Pathfinder, so it would be an ideal fit. However, I also don’t have a free basic jewel slot that I can put it in without either some levels or dropping something else. I have one slot currently but it is being used to help fix some of my resists while also adding damage over time multiplier. Essentially if I sell it before I figure out how to use it, I will be fine with that given it seems that I could relatively easily farm The Elder if I wanted to.
As far as the majority of my evening, I spent it down in Delve chasing cities. I found this gigantic Vaal city that I was working through when I decided it was bedtime. I still have the Grand Architect up, so tonight I will take down that boss and see if it drops anything interesting. Mostly Delve cities are a phenomenal source of currency, maps, and other assorted bits and bobs. I pulled two raw Divine Orbs out of this city so far. Delve more than anything is a currency generation machine for me because yesterday I cashed out my stockpile of resonators and made somewhere in the neighborhood of 1200 Chaos Orbs within thirty minutes of sales. I will likely use this to fund the gear for my Explosive SRS Necromancer I am working on.
I am starting to stockpile fossils and the four slot resonators however because at some point I am going to try and craft a +2 wand for the Necromancer. Essentially the most effective way to craft this is using a Corroded, Jagged, Metallic, and Shuddering fossil on a Minion Wand base. I guess I should probably spend some time running crucible first to see if I can find a base with a good tree before I go down the path of crafting on it. I have twenty stacks of each of the fossils sitting on my builds tab for SRS, so it will take me a while to gather up a fresh stock of the four slot resonators to use them with. The bread and butter for selling resonators will likely always be one slot and there are a handful of high-value fossils that I get cleaned out of every time I gather up some. While the overall price of resonators is a bit lower than the last league, it is still an extremely fluid market, and easy to flip whatever I earn down in the darkness.
Tonight I am going to try out the auto screenshot thingy, and if it goes smoothly I might write about it tomorrow.
