ofarva: Seemed like such a good way to add a jackpot drop to Essence

Immermnemion: Needing to chase an early bird special for certain items - like those essences - is a huge turn off.

gamerboy2-b4m: This is the second league in a row where GGG creates legacy items after ~2 weeks into the league, in Poe2 it was those alloy mods that generated obscene amounts of cast speed on foci.

aaronlilla: damn unemployed people are going to feel this one big time

dalwand: First time I hear Gog being genuinely salty

hamlett2283: Brother that haircut looks excellent. At least 20% more (not just increased) Handsomeness

RationallyChallenged: I had the same reaction when I read the desolation nerf. Items no longer available to those who didn’t already pay egregious prices for them, so now they’ll end up paying even more egregious prices or just not having access to them.

PoE’s economy works because price is balanced against ease of access. With 0 access, price can increase an unlimited amount because the community can’t out-farm the demand.

TheBigAngryHobo: Wanted to say it’s bugged. I haven’t killed Velka (haven’t really done league mechanic at all) but when I went to her she gave me the ducat anyways and I’ve gotten 3 more as well in charts.

jakemartin5553: Oh no.. people with 10,000x my currency will now have 12,000x my currency... I might just have to quit the league now... /s

cuniving7831: TBH based off of your video of how it worked i assumed it was unintentional/a bug and would be patched haha

GTrain2019: Without addressing ground loot, no matter how much you multiply zero by, it's still zero.

Ive had all the altars going in a voyage and 10 lanterns and dropped zero.

KosmatyWilczek: Restricting the access to items in the middle of the leauge is always a bad decision. You either leave them for the time being or you completly obligerate all, I think the first approach is the least harfmull.

ExperiencePath: I kept playing poe, but tbh, I hate poe so much

SpudNug69: That merc bug dropping their gear was great. I died to a merc with a HH and he just dropped it anyway

ChrisMeirose: That was quick!

aervanath: The Heist minimap visibility issue was really chapping my ass as a Heist enjoyer. It's still not perfect; for some reason Gold chests still don't show up until you're close, but it's better than before.

YoutubeStyleChannel: Feel like the amount of people upset about the legacy essence mods surpasses the amount of people who would/will actually use them.

Sure they should have left it for this league, but nothing worth despairing about.

Jothaxify: I dropped one of the shields and then fractured it, missed the 50/50 and then deleted it with the recombinator since i knew i could get a new one....

rksb93: It kinda feels like it’s your fault for increasing exposure to that essence behavior, Mr. Gog. Your explanation about why that behavior being removed is bad just makes it seem like you’re trying to push the (partial) blame away from you.

The_Grimsun: The bug with mercs was really odd. Basically if you died or left the map and came back, sometimes when the mercs would leave they would just drop their loot. I don't know why, it wasn't really something I was abusing, but I imagine you could have been doing it intentionally to somehow get lots of drops quickly without killing the mercs. I think overall it was probably not worth doing in comparison to just killing them normally and moving on. But it was a bug none the less.

I think the crafting stuff is pretty stupid, I think GGG probably figured that the items are so niche and meh (I dont exactly remember who the items are good for but I remember when I saw them in mirage I thought it was a pathetic drop as the major reward for essence.). But it is kind of silly they fixed it, considering it wasnt exactly important to fix either.

I kind of get the feeling GGG just makes changes in POE now when they find the fixes to them. Like the idea they are still building the league content when retention for the league is like the worst since Necropolis make me think they just have a plan to make the voyage core/use it in POE 2 so they are working on it continuously where as previously by this time in a league GGG would basically be off and on to the next league. I can only pray they dont replace Delve with it as I have a real fear that they think it is enough like delve that they could be like "we are reworking delve, it will be gone like harbingers for a few leagues, in the meantime voyages will now drop fossils etc. etc." And I can tell you as someone who loves delve, I hate voyages. So I really pray they dont do something like that. Maybe it will be POE2s version of Delve, which would be a shame, but at least that wouldnt affect me or the currently player base of delve, so I pray its option number 2.

It is hard to ignore these feelings... I mean I know people say they are seperate teams etc. etc. and they only do whats best for both, but I am getting a little doomer about it all in this league. As much as I was happy to be right about my predictions of Abyss update in POE, seeing the implementation of it makes me worry about future "improvements". Like corrupted 6 mod jewels should be the chase item along with the boss loot, how they couldn't see that and continually struggled to make the loot relevant, because of their fear of making abyss like they did in affliction, is beyond me.

Slagomancer: And I JUST did the Essence thing yesterday because I thought it was so cool to have a possible jackpot drop from opening Essences for the semi-low cost of 5 Atlas Points.

I get it where it's a technical Legacy Item thing, but it was so neat and cool

seapeajones: It was incredibly obvious this was a bug. I wasn't really aware of the options to deal with it vis a vis the economy, but I agree they should've just sent those items to standard.

kizzagaming6523: I am getting so over the flip floppy stuff each league, sometimes I don't interact with a mechanic because I'm worried it's exploiting, but they leave it in. Then other times I take my time because it doesn't seem so bad, but they flip on it within a few weeks mid league and your opportunities are now gone

AdmBmb: I had a mirror of delirium expire during the middle of map boss side/middle stage room that was unaccessible after going to the final room. bummer.

HaPKoMaTo3: 9:10 it was a bug where you could challenge a merc and then portal out during timer, and they were dropping their loot. Good thing they fixed 2 support mercs fleeing after you've defeated the main merc before this fix.

K1Crawford: Always appreciate your content!

Thank you for video, input and time!!

Cheers mate

Prae_stat: as a ssf player im very happy with how much loot comes from the water

Aug 15 2026

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