Online Gaming: New League Start and Patch Day Excitement

Players experience smooth gameplay after initial 30 seconds, despite some technical issues.

### " Path of Exile: Scourge League Launch Day Experience"
* 🚀  The player is excited for the new Path of Exile league, Scourge, and plans to **group play with friends** as a **Sorcerer DPS**.
* 🕰️  The player experiences long loading times and server issues at launch, taking **35 minutes to finally get into the game**.
* 🛠️  The group starts farming monoliths, with the player getting a **GG start** and finding **powerful items early on**.
* 🌐  The group unlocks the new Harbinger faction after **5 hours and 45 minutes of play**, but encounters an issue where the NPC is **invisible**.
* 🏆  The group successfully completes their first Orobysslay, but the player experiences a **rollback bug, losing three levels of progress**.
* 🎮  The player is impressed by the new league mechanics, including the **Nemesis system** and **empowered monoliths**.
* 🤖  The player's build focuses on **generating and maintaining Ward**, with **multiple sources of Ward generation** in their skill tree and gear.
* 🔮  The group faces challenging boss fights in the new content, requiring **coordination and attention to mechanics**.

I'm in the fiber cable. Let's go. Okay guys, happy patch day. This is a Le League start. We'll be group play blasting with Snap em and Randle. I'll be playing Sorcerers DPS. Patch is patching and uh, good luck to everyone. Hopefully the servers hold up. Enjoy the cycle SL season League. It's not going so good. I don't feel so good. I clicked play and I got kicked. I got an intro or a movie. I skip loading the old road. Online play is unavailable. That's what I got. Now I'm just in a Perma loading screen. Do I wait? Yeah, do I wait for this or do I Al the four? I'm just loading Old Road. It's happening again. No, I'm going to come team are aware of the online supression of players play for all freedom. I [ __ ] love launches. Oh my God. I'm loading unironically. I'm loading. What me too all drone. I'm in. I'm in. Holy [ __ ] oh my God. I'm in it only took 35

minutes. I'm loading well. I'm connecting. I got the invite. Yeah. Oh, the evade mechanic. Oh, we can evade with space. Oh my god. Did every single zone here took like half an hour to an hour on launch. This is actually super smooth after the initial 30 seconds and now 30 minutes. Yeah. Minutes. Yeah. Like the patching went up 5 minutes late and then 30 seconds after that we could get in. So far inventory pass skills whatever you need to do right here we're waiting. Yep. Down time here. It's a bad that's bad dump passive here. We're good level experience shine. Wait, are is your name Randall _ Mana? Yes. You're rank one letter. Oh, never mind. I'm what wait snap is rank one. I'm rank two. Someone else is rank three. Evan's rank four. Popping off work guys. Good job te. I realized there's a leather now so I press the button big Idol. No. That's bad. Okay. I got an ospr skull for later. I got one. Oh plus 5 int 32 Mana percent health.

flat Health chest Mana regen base holy [__]. I can still give this to you if I put it on it. Wow, that's a chest legendary. You need obsidian resonance. Then I'll just GI it to you. Damn, it's Nemesis. You can't [__]. I gifted it to you. Can you voice act this thing? That's pretty much what he said. Let's see. Oh my God, my spell damage is pretty low. Actually, is there a suffix you really want on a ring? Not any any res or anything. All right, let's see. I hit lightning damage T6 holy [__] iage instead. I have a GG start. Hell yeah, I have 46 Health. That's better. Yeah, that's better than what he has. Better than nothing. Yeah, all right. We are part of the Merchants Guild now. Two hours 52 minutes and we're back to monolith farming. We got our Joras. So when I teleport, I have Giga.

spell damage. Let's see if I can find it here. Spell damage 144% 156. Okay, it's not that. Not that Giga but it's wait that should be way more something else fell off. Oh, oh there we go 350% after teleporting. Nice. Now it's just monolith progress until Empower monoliths. The armor I got me too yes 20 crit multi. It's not in power. It's the shitty one. Yeah, it's fine. Next Big Dam is there way to see passive points. Press M then press shift to open this and then it shows here passive points and Idol swards on me nice charge the game just stop what that's the spark charges the spark charges like my OBS my entire PC grind to a hole charges it's The Spar charges holy [ __ ] what was that got CDR belt nice you need it no two I need it my belt is dog [ __ ] oh bone clammer. I'm empowering this Jesus Christ fck with is man this.

kind sick. One more, one more dude. No, the, I can't. Oh my God, the amount of sh crazy. Okay, I don't have my grimoire on right now, but that's my inventory. Okay, my inventory. Who wants a CDR Bell Rand or yes, me. I already have. You could probably take off most of your gear and the, yeah, enough damage. Any shs, yep. I, man back. I was looting and and it instant respawn under my mouse and I empowered the next one. I was trying to get these shs off my screen. Oh, literally full of shards and then it's full again after I dump. Oh my God, tldr some balance changes new Nemesis mechanic. There's it's a mob that you can like Empower in your map either you roll it or you kill it and it drops his loot or you Empower it so it there his loot becomes better when it comes back around next time and then there is Harbinger bosses that accompany the end bosses of timelines and if you kill 10 of them you can

attempt the new Pinnacle boss. New faction associated with the harbingers that's on top of the currently existing faction. So you don't have to like pick that over like everyone has access to that. It's just like the league-specific faction. There is new leather for arena and leveling. So you can follow who's going to be like level 100 first or whatever. Those are the tldr of the changes I guess getting so much Ward uh Paladin and void Knight. And I also have Mana spent gain as Ward. I also have Ward retention. I'm getting Ward from teleporting. I'm getting Ward from um flame Ward. I'm getting word from channeling focus. And I get W for simply existing from uh the skill train oh ascendance same one. I now and then we have two supports. One of them using Healing Hands. The other one using Javelin and Javelin Pro Smite. Which also gives Ward to people as long as it hits a Target. That's a lot of HP. Yeah, it's the ward bro. I'm working through the W bar.

he's working. Oh my God, I almost. He hurts, yeah, two glyphs of Envy. He dropped. Oh, I got shred. I'll take that for the Mar stuff later. Of Envy enemies. Let go. Touch and power. Everybody has to go unlock it. Y. I'm at the [ __ ] alter of Oblivion. What. Okay, you. I'm. I'm in the [ __ ] Harbinger Zone. I. What. Okay, let's War to him reputation. Oh yeah, we unlocked the harer. Oh, nice MH. Oh cool. What is this my camera. My God. My camera. It's beautiful. Cool. So immersed. And then this thing over here. The boss, a harer at each timeline. And then return with the harbinger's. The girl. The girl is. Is she's invisible. Yep, she's invisible. I see the dialogue box, but I can't. I can't talk to him. Okay. Well. Um. Okay guys. We unlocked and powered mon 5 hours 45 minutes in the new faction, but. Uh. The NPC is invisible. So. Uh. We'll get back to you on that there we.

go I see I see the quest MPC now hell yeah all we need to do is talk to her correct yep 3,000 XP and all right good to go you should have if you hit why we should see harbingers on the faction list let's see yep we have four gten Knights and Merchant skilled very good we got it guys took a while but we got there I'm over here now we're good reloading oh God don't reloading that stand over there what the hell bro no what yeah if you get hit by all of those Shadows you just die I promise oh my god dude where do I stand stand he's Soo nice there's the ey oh or is 19 holy oh no I clicked current that's okay we we unlock it I didn't get oros oh I got the the new item as well the harbinger needle nice okay I'm sending you the thing needle resonance required that's okay I have them back like three levels what what yeah you actually

75 what I just three levels it still says snap is 78 on the ladder, but he's 75 in game. Oh my gear is [__] gone. Oh my God, no way. Okay, yeah, I don't have my wand equipped. There like anything. Uh, you load into somewhere else. I clicked the portal. I DC after I clicked it to leave the Zone. I logged back in and I'm three levels down. I'm like I'm rolled back like an hour. Excuse me. Yeah, you're still on the leaderboard at 78. Look guys here and he's online right now at level 75. I just got that's uh just go quick bug report write that down at least so they know just Escape report the bug just Escape report the bug. I I'm logging out. I'm I'm leaving game and returning to like save. I don't know if that's a thing. Jesus Christ is everybody in no cuz we're doing a gaze oh okay what the [__] okay LP morning Frost no LP that's good oh it's big movement.

speed roll to one of Max holy that's going to S. Okay, nice gaze. That was our first Orobus slay. G.G. and Matt friend. That's our life right now until we locate the main Gorgon or M the like this Zone at all guys killed so many jist fingers on the buzzers guys give us the objective already where's where is the architect BR, please. Yes, let's go. The anything that I so out of Mana constantly. Okay, now. Oh my God just froze. No, no, no, no. Last, it's the last W bar. All the Gorgons are inching in from the corner making more tornadoes. Get out, get out, get out. Extract this map. What the was that, man? I need Mana, so I need to channel for like 30 seconds to get some money. Keep moving right like circles. Oh, you like this. Oh, you like this. I go left now after yeah, left, left.

left yeah circles keep more left yeah he's pretty low just keep keep moving keep calling the location nice I got a needle a double eny two Envy yeah that was pretty sick actually having to pay attention to some of these bosses now pretty cool. [Music]

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Chaotic Start and Smooth Recovery in a Gaming Session

Experiencing initial online play issues and long loading times, the player finally manages to join after 35 minutes of waiting.

Despite the rough start, the gaming session becomes smooth and enjoyable, with the player achieving a GG start and joining the Merchants Guild.

Reviewing Game Progress and New Mechanics

The player discovers a 350% spell damage increase after teleporting and encounters issues with spark charges causing PC performance issues.

The game introduces new mechanics, including a Nemesis mob that can be empowered for better loot and Harbinger bosses accompanying end bosses in timelines.

Summary of Game Changes and New Faction in Pinnacle Boss

A new faction associated with the Harbingers has been added on top of the existing factions, offering new challenges and rewards.

The update also introduces new ways to gain Ward, such as through Mana spent, retention, and various skills, as well as the addition of two support options.

However, some players have encountered issues with the NPC visibility in the new faction, which may need to be addressed.

Frustrations with Game Progress and Levels

Experiencing a sudden drop of three levels in the game, despite being ranked at a higher level on the leaderboard.

The issue of disappearing gear and the frustration of being rolled back in the game.

Players discussing and reporting the bug while dealing with the unexpected setbacks and trying to troubleshoot the situation.

Players navigate through a chaotic battle, struggling with mana management and intense boss attacks.

The team successfully takes down the Orobus, while frantically searching for the main Gorgon.

The intense fight requires constant movement and attention to boss patterns, culminating in a satisfying victory.