Path of Exile: Collaborative Content Creation Insights and Experiences

Subtract is a passionate content creator who values deep understanding and community engagement in gaming.

### Insights from a PoE Content Creator: League Experience, Build Guides, and Crafting Tips
* 🎮  The content creator discusses his recent experience playing in a group during the current Path of Exile league, highlighting **challenges with loot drops, crashes, and player coordination**.
* 🔮  He shares his preference for **Chaos and Fire Damage over Time (DoT) builds** for league starters, emphasizing their **simple damage scaling** and **accessibility for new players**.
* 🛡️  When transitioning to endgame builds, he prioritizes **"comfiness" and utility**, often incorporating **unique movement skills for clear speed**.
* 📊  The creator's most popular video, a comprehensive crafting guide, was a "**freak accident**" in terms of success, but aligns with his **passion for helping players understand game mechanics**.
* 🎥  He expresses a preference for **in-depth, video essay-style content**, citing examples from other channels and his own "**Expedition Guide**" as examples of this approach.
* 💰  When discussing the current league, he praises the **currency exchange mechanic** but suggests improvements to make it **more accessible in the future**.
* 📈  The creator values creating content that he himself would want to consume, balancing **depth and efficiency** in his guides.
* 🤝  Overall, he is seen as a **positive force** in the PoE community, providing **valuable insights and content** for both new and experienced players.

hey man, how's it going? uh, pretty good. how are you doing, man? yeah, thank you for coming. been a long time. we've talked about this a little bit, and now it's finally uh, with our schedules lined up. yeah, we're doing some collab content. yeah, the pal talk number three. I think that's how I called it at this point, but I don't know, maybe I can think of something better. either way, um, we today, we have subtract him here, a well-known content creator in the pee scene, U, making build guides, uh, new player guides, like for example, your crafting video. we're going to go over that in a second, but um, in general, uh, awesome Creator, always looked out for it, and you're also one of the first people who um, supported me. I remember you like shared my videos on your stream when I had like 500 viewers. uh, you did raate me a few times when I was like a a small boy, right? so I definitely appreciate it as well. so yeah, welcome to the show or something. yeah

thanks thanks for inviting me. Yeah, what was um do you remember what I what you were building around when I rated you? I remember you were my one of my best friend's favorite build makers and really not to glaze you up too much but that he was like you got to check out this Pon guy. He is like the smartest build maker and I was like it was like chain I think it was like a chainbreaker build or something. That sounds right. Yeah, you were chainbreaker or something I think probably that time around. Yeah, like 3.15 or whatever. Yeah, it was a it was a mad time. Um, so you've had an interesting Venture this league. You played in a group for the first time time right. How did that go give us kind of look give us your rundown. It's not the best league to start that but what is like the what was the vibe. It's interesting. I mean from uh from a player perspective. Yeah, I mean it's very there there's two different like very different uh perspectives that we can

look at this uh from a player perspective, which I think is going to be the most interesting to most people. This is the league after they removed MF, and you know, if you look at Snap and 's videos about it, the removal of MF isn't as important because they have also the Glittering Scarab, which could give you uh, you get Quant based on the number of kills that you get, and that kind of um, that kind of ramps up and makes up for the lack of Quant. But um, just overall, the way that they rework drops, like I think everyone's kind of been feeling it. You know, if you look at your number of gem cutters and glass blowers in your inventory right now, uh, it's kind of just the raw ground drops just feel worse than last league, and that could be the lack of a map mechanic or something. I don't, you know, I'm not like the most experienced person to talk about everything that caused the issues here. Snap's video is really good about that.

but um yeah for how much we invested into it from a player perspective and how much work like it was um it was really interesting like we spent a about two weeks before League start practicing and that whole experience of going through the campaign with like okay all right it's like all right SEAL Team Six I'm going straight to the ledge you hold this I'm going to go down to the the dweller you put a portal there like it it's really cool like coordinating with a team and doing all that um feel a little bit like an MMO maybe in a sense it it kind of does and like but it also has the downsides of an MMO where then when you start playing like the the worst thing is like I just had two cups of coffee and they just open a new map and I got to pee really bad right like that that feeling of just not being able to walk away from the computer yeah I mean you have bottles right it's not that big of a deal let's let's be honest I mean you have

something in your hand right now, which is very useful. I, you know what, I can um, I'll say it back when I did play World of Warcraft. Oh God, I, I, I hey, I was a different time. I was like 22 years old and we were, we were fighting. I think it was, it was Golem Mag and our off tank had just died on Golem Mag in Molten Core. Um, and I was the number one DPS. I was the Mage. I was the undead Mage. I had to, I had to keep going, you know, and I had my macro doing my frostbolts and I had to pee really bad. I had a glass on my desk and you know, you do what you got to do and you got is what it is. South Park was not wrong. Yeah, I mean, they were not wrong. Okay, so you talked about in terms of like efficiency. That's a very pee thing of you to do. I guess what I also want to know is what was the fun factor. I guess you kind of talked about a little bit. Um, was it like a different

experience was it was it like playing ssf at the end of The League, kind of uh, would you do it again at the start of the league? Yeah, again from a player, so like the content creator perspective, I'll just say is like it was holy negative. It was just can't interact with chat, right? Like you just chat hates it. Yeah, yeah, League start, I had like 150 viewers on League start. Yeah, like they hate it that much. Yeah, I remember I played with Woody, right, which should be a huge raw. I played with him Torch Light, and I had like less than half of the viewers I normally have on Torch Light leak. I remember that exactly, and we were vibing off, right? It's just uh, your chat wants to interact with you, so I totally get that. But um, in terms of fun levels, because of the work that you have to put in, um, the fun really is directly tied to how good the loot is. Oh man, right? And the loot was so bad that we actually like, we had a lot of like tough

discussions with the group where we called it on I think Tuesday. So, we only did like we had a really rough start Saturday. Like one person had a family emergency, and then Sunday we had to like get him back up to up to Snuff. So, it basically it wasn't until Sunday night to Monday morning when we were actually able to start doing group play. And then when we started doing it, we did the exact same like we were in contact like bazooka tank MP. Those guys were really, really helpful. Like we were they were giving us strats. We were doing the same stuff they were doing but just not as good cuz they have so much experience. Um, same strats. In the end, we played a grand total of I don't know a 100 hours or something, and we came out with like 20 divines each. That was our split. Like the loot was so bad, and like even if you look at 's 's group, they only were decently profitable. I think they all made it out with an average they

averaged like 3.5 divines profit per hour. We averaged like .5, and they only averaged it because one person on their team got a hate Forge from their Atlas runner, from their map runner in Kings Mar. They got a hate Forge, no kidding, on like Saturday, and then they had, I think, like two Mage bloods in a headhunter or something drop, and that was most of their money. Like, they actually would have been exactly where we were if they didn't have that. We only had one tzero drop, and it was the, um, what was it? It was like Bino's quality. It was like one of those really crappy TZ, and uh, yeah. So, that's the main thing, is you're struggling with the engine. The game's crashing non-stop. Like, you people are randomly dying because the game just can't handle it. We had to, like, everyone was at like 50% scale, doing like 1270 by 720 resolution, um, and we all had to go to predictive instead.

of lockstep, so it didn't crash. Yeah, that's it. Looks so bad. The game's crashing, people are randomly dying, and then there's no loot, and you're just looking at a bunch of blessed orbs and transmutes on the screen, and you're just like, Why am I doing this? I can make more doing, you know, Expedition. Meanwhile, you get like hate comments about printing so much currency and killing the experience for everybody else and killing the economy or whatever. Yep, yep, yeah, weird. So it's, and then, yeah, from the content creator side, it just, on stream, people just really don't like it. They can't engage. They want to ask you questions about your league start and just chat and stuff, and you know, I'm sitting there in Discord with six other people trying to, you know, trying to coordinate and all that, and just like, yeah, in a different content creator space, like, this is a weird thing, is just PoE content communities are just very singular and different in how they interact, whereas like, you look at

Yeah, you know, you look at Northern Lion or Lwig or any of those guys. They're on Discord with their friends most of the time, actually. Like, yeah, most content creators actually don't really talk to chat, whereas like Po, it's, they're more like a TV show, exactly, and more like intimate. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, oh yeah, we get real intimate. Um, either way, um, so when I look at your leak starters, talking about the leak starters, um, I see kind of a pattern. You like to play stuff like Bane, fire trap, so a lot of dot builds. Can you kind of, uh, walk me through what you like about, for example, your Bane leak starter right here? Uh, what draws you towards chaos dots and, um, I don't know, fire dots? Is it aesthetics? Is it like the easy damage scaling? I think the biggest thing for me is the easy damage scaling. I, I think that's what's always drawn it, drawn me to it, where it's not just that you can scale so efficiently, it's just

It's so straightforward as well. So, you know, with chaos dot, it's gem levels and damage over time and increased damage. That's basically the only way to scale it. And then, you know, make sure you have wither. Same thing with Ignite. It's like fire dot multi, increased fire damage, and gem levels. And I think that also makes it very straightforward in sharing it as a build as well. It really shows people that, like, it gets you into the intro to, Okay, this is how I make my build even better. And it allows you to, I don't know, it makes it a simple template for people to put together. And as someone who likes to share builds, that's, uh, I don't know, I find that really pleasant because then we can talk more about, like, the other mechanics and how you play it and all that, which I think is something that's not really talked about very much. It's just like, Okay, like, yes, this is how the build scales. This is the stuff that goes

into it, but how do you actually play it? Like, which buttons do you press and when? And I have like a very mechanical game background, like I come from TS games, first-person shooters, fighting games, and I love the mechanical aspect of things. And I think that's something that's so deemphasized in Poe, but it's there; like, we just don't talk about it. Um, yeah, something I definitely hear there is something you talk about with, like, it has less scaling vectors, like dot builds do, but that's also less chance to [__] something up, right? Basically, so that's why it's a lot more approachable for people. And, uh, yeah, that's something I think about all the time as well, like, what happens if people screw that up? It's like, I don't know, you don't go for freezing Moon Pantheon if somebody screws up their boots and doesn't have the 100% ailment avoid. They are going to die to freeze, right? So might as well still tell them that.

they're going to take the Pantheon, and the same is true for damage scaling, right? So, you can forget a few damage-over-time multi roles, but in general, you're going to do fine with like fire trap or Bane or whatever. Yeah, this is like the probably my second favorite thing in a lot of the time has often been like cast on crit. Like, my first build got ever shared was a cast on crit build, and that's like such a big jump in complexity. And I think especially like the number of times that I've shared cast on crit builds, uh, and you know, I made an entire video on, Hey, this is, you know, you have to get your attack rate up, your hit chance, your crit chance, your spell crit chance, then you do your crit multi, like, and then you got to get your power charges, and then you're scaling AOE or whatever. Like, there's so many more factors that go into it, your cooldown recovery rate especially, like, so many factors go into scaling something like cast on crit like

It's one of my favorite archetypes in the game, but it's so beginner-unfriendly in general, and especially when you're onboarding someone to the game. It's just like, you know, I just would never push someone towards a build like that, despite how much I like those archetypes. Or even if you have like temporary attack speed buffs, and you have to explain them, that's not good because you need a certain amount of attack speed all the time. It's like, yeah, uh, but let's be honest, your reasoning for custom crit is just you want to do the cats MTX, right? Every single time, that's just your excuse too. I have so many videos that say like cats on crit or cats SP channeling or anything, and those videos do really well. Um, y people, people love it. I mean, it's great. I love it. Looks cool. Yeah, yeah, it definitely looks cool. What's your approach for like endgame builds? Like once you get out of your leak starter, what's what do you what are you looking for? Like you talked

about custom CR the theme I kind of see is comfiness, right? Like not targeting um, not pressing too many buttons. Yeah, I think that's a really good way to put it. Yeah, I always talk about just, I say utility a lot, functionality. Um, like the build that I'm playing right now, like I took last R gladiator, and the biggest problem with it when I played it was just like using late only to clear feels awful. And a thing that some people were doing is they were using Shield charge, and I thought, like, I looked at some of the, uh, I wasn't the only person to do this, but I also was just like looking at the damage efficiency of skills, and I saw leap slam of groundbreaking as like, let me look at it right now. It's got uh, 688 effectiveness of added damage, and it has a, it has a base AOE of like 2.5 M. Yeah, 2 M. It's also a bunny hop though, to be fair. It's a bunny hop, so I'm using

Shield charge in the frost blink like that. The way that I always move my characters is like, you know, Shield charge or leap slam into Frost blink, and that's just like my comfort. It's like that dual movement, and then I use, I'll like leap slam once or twice to do like an AOE bleed pop, and then I'll keep moving forward with that. But anyway, like that's usually what I do, is like reminds me of your Frost blink stuff, right? Like you really like that, right? Dealing damage with your movement skill while even on leak starters. That's usually something I try on game builds once you have the currency for it, but you just kind of throw in a foink sometimes, right? Just for Clear. Exactly, and like, yeah, when I um, like the frost blink build actually came from me playing crangle League where I chose like the crangle Raider, and the tree just kept giving me like fire multi. It also gave me like trap throwing speed and stuff, so you know, fire trap's been

just known as like a really high-efficiency skill for a long time, and yeah, I just, I was using Frost Blink, and I noticed that my Frost Blink, 'cause I also got Shaper Flames on radar in Crangle League, and I noticed that my Frost Blink was killing packs really, really cleanly. And then I put it in a four-link, and it was clearing packs even better, and that's like kind of where the build came from, and it just, it felt so good. But there's also the mechanical component of you have to Frost Blink properly, and that's actually a thing. That's like the number one pitfall of builds like that is like, there's actually like, if you miss it, yeah, yeah, and then people complain about missing, yeah, yeah. Now we have Frost Blink of Winry Blast, which a lot of people also put that in like a four, 'cause it is surprisingly a lot of damage, you, yeah, it just feels really good to, yeah. I just love like your Shield Charge KN build from, yeah, I love that build.

I love that build. It was so fun. It might be back this league, honestly. Yeah, it's a great build. It's just defensively just nowadays as an Elementalist. Like, what are you doing? Like, yeah, Ser. I'm so happy. Like, when I saw the changes and the removal of all that fizz taken as, I'm like, witch is dead to me, man. I'm like, I am. I'm going. I still don't know. I'm still using armor on right side builds, and people ask me, Why would you do that after the dterm change? And I'm just like, What else am I supposed to do? You have to do it even more. Yeah, there's no other choice. Yeah, it's like you have to do the same thing but more and for less, basically. That's what you have to do. Yeah, it's rough. The mitigation on right side build is so awkward right now. And yeah, fist taken as was definitely a Band-Aid, and I wasn't in love with it. But now they just didn't leave them with anything else. Now it's just weird. Mah

zle Nerf also didn't help on honestly cuz on a lot of right side builds especially on Pathfinders you could kind of fix it and you could still if motle was still the same it would still be good but the veg rework was really rough for that just that Shield yeah it's a 20c shield now yeah and and there's new tech right like for example with the new Watcher imods that converts damage there's definitely new stuff and there's also this Shield that a lot of people are not using the one that converts 40% to lightning uh 40% of fire I I forgot how it's called but um that one's pretty underrated right now but yeah in general that that was a rough rework how do you like the league so far I guess in general what are your thoughts it's Pleasant I I think that's the the word lechan stuff yeah League mechanic specifically is just very uh also I worked on FarmVille back in the day so

it just feels feels like I'm back at work a little bit um oh yeah yeah just testing uh testing the which how would okay if I put 2K here and then comes back in 30 minutes. This is more efficient and putting 4K here and oh my crops are wilting like uh anyway yeah I think the league mechanic itself is really Pleasant. I have a theory that the reason why so many people are playing right now is primarily because of the currency exchange. I think that might be one of the by far driving factors because the accessibility of those enchants which is like the only unique thing that it brings to to builds right is those enchants is so gated behind very expensive runes. Yeah I think that just the price of the runes so many of the the interesting ones like actually say the vast majority of the interesting ones at least the price trade league right now is really really high ex exceedingly high and like I think that that Soul gain one is like 90 divines right now plus if you want to buy all

those runes, um, the ghost one as well, is like 80 to 100 divines right now, you know, as I'm talking. And so many of them are really, really cool too, yeah. And you need two of them, which is insane. Need, but you really want to, yeah. It's kind of crazy. Also, just the fact that they haven't really responded at all. I mean, their league is fine. They don't need to respond, but just kind of feel uneasy. I'm so used to them screwing something up and then fixing it and patching it that not hearing much from them kind of makes me uneasy. I don't know, yeah, just I'd love a little bit of a rebalance there, you know. That'd just make it a little bit more accessible, or I think the easiest thing would be, uh, up the return rate of runes. Like, if I look at, I've only done, I think, two or three enchants, uh, the entire league so far, and they're relatively cheap ones, just like 40 War runes, like

the Fizz damage implicit, and looking at my total runes right now, I've gotten a total of two runes, like total, and I've killed the bosses at least a couple dozen times. I send three ships every 30 minutes, um, you know, consistently on stream, and the just the returns for those runes feels really, really bad because I think it's that's like the coolest accessibility thing, um, you know. I'm always interested in the borrowed power stuff and what it means for builds, and uh, yeah, that that's directly and also the fact that those enchants are tied to uh, the weapon types, the specific weapon types are tied to, is a little, well, I I get what they were trying to do, right, but it's part of the balancing, right? Like, there's a lot of enchants that are currently interesting and that I think people are not really looking at, uh, no spoilers for any upcoming builds, but like, I think that's what makes them unique and that's what makes them be able to be this strong, right, if you

wouldn't get returning Pro if you could put it on a bow probably and true sure the two-ended sword was kind of an oversight for Molton strike and lightning strike sure but what they wanted to do is they wanted to give B builds nothing but still have other interesting ways I don't know why all those uh s tier skills fell through the cracks but that's their intention right yeah yeah I think I think that you you hit the nail on the head where that that's where why it feels weird to me is the skills that we knew were already going to be good are the ones that still get the good en chants and are really good so it's like yeah the one thing I really like about this league is just running over gold in general like Maps feel so much better I'm even like being inefficient just to wh towards gold even though it's not even worth my time just because it feels good to always have something on screen and I mean the marketplace in general and just and this is like a little bit

weird because it doesn't have anything to do with diff prow, but just like walking around this town, it just looks good, and it looks kind of cozy from the whole Dreadful, like, uh, landscape that is very pretty and stuff like that. But this, this just feels different. That, like, this league just feels so different. I 100% agree, like, and it also, the fidelity of the graphics is a little bit higher. You can tell there's assets from PE2. Yeah, it just, it feels good. So, I got a pro tip. I don't know if you've done this yet, absolute pro tip to make the league twice as fun. Go to your loot filter. If you're using a default never sync, just make the gold color like the text for your gold or, uh, make it like gold or yellowish, and give it a yellow beam. So, you just, you get the yellow beam. It doesn't matter the size of the gold. So, when, um, you kill a monster, a bunch of gold beams shoot out of it, and it feels

twice as good to pick it up. I'm not even kidding, really. Yep, do do it 100%. Your dopamine doubles. It feels incredible. All right, yeah, I'll try it out. I'll try it out. Do you think they can implement this into the main game? Like, I'm just trying to think how they would do it. The way I would personally do it is I think all of this upgrading is too oppressive to put it into the main game. It would take too much space, right? I think the way they could implement it, for example, is they could leave gold and, for example, the vendor and, obviously, the trading, but make gold something that always resonates with the current league mechanic. Like, there's something new to do with gold every league, so they can keep the trading center, they could keep the vendor, but they didn't have to do all of this every single league, right? Honestly, it's so seamless. I think definitely the upgrading, they could cut that in half, so

just make them all go to like level five or six. Um, make the cost go way down. The question is how annoying would it be to always be worrying about sending your ships and setting up the map Runners. I don't, I don't mind it. Like, it just depends on like if there's a really complex mechanic in addition. Like, if they add something like Heist as the league mechanic, meic, then you really want kings march to be like very seamless. Uh, but I don't know. I think it's cool. Like, there's a, it's a full sync for your Maps where you actually get value out of them. And just, yeah, having the runes and the tattoos and everything kind of flowing, it just feels really good. And I like, my favorite thing is I wake up in the morning, I make my coffee, I open up Poe, you get all your stuff. Yeah, you log in, and the right side of your screen is just like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And you get all these notifications, and you go

It feels really good, actually. And then it feels really good. It's also like a stream thing where I usually stream like 5 to 6 hours. I send a shipment to Calgary, right? Like 50 million at the start of the stream, and then at the end of the stream, I kind of have it. It just feels good. I wonder if they could just remove all of this grinding and just simplify it and put it into the main game where you can just run maps with your map runners for a certain amount of gold. It's like a flat fee or the shipment, right? It would make it a lot less interesting, but I mean, you have to make way for the next league mechanic, right? Somehow. So yeah, yeah, as you were saying, it's such a well-designed town. It looks and feels so nice that if it wasn't an oppressive mechanic like my... I don't love running Heist anyway, but for me, the worst part about Heist is leveling up the dudes again and doing all those quests and everything. Exactly.

if that wasn't there, I'd probably do a couple, like at least 10-20 blueprints a league, probably, yeah. But yeah, it's a chore. The bootstrapping chore just feels so bad. Same thing, like kind of the same thing with getting your un Veils. I'm kind of just used to it now. Same thing with delve, like if you could start delve at 3 or 400, then I would probably do a little bit more delving every single League. It's just that chore, you know. It makes sense when they first make it go core, but then it becomes such a tedious thing that, yeah, I just, I don't want to do it anymore 100%. I even think they could make stuff like Beast area way simpler. Like everything could be simpler, and then the new Leakes would have way more space, I guess. So your biggest video of all time, which I noticed has 1.2 million views now. This is like in po terms that is

like godhood and is basically your guide about how to craft everything. It's a very long video, but it is very precise and super new player-friendly. Was this like a thing that you thought would happen? Was this like, uh, just a video you made for your community, and it kind of popped off? Do you think it was like luck? Was there anything going into that you planned out, or was it just like a freak accident, kind of absolute freak accident? If you think I'm calculated about anything, yeah, like when people accuse me of like any streamer calculation or like manipulating things, I just don't. I don't think that deeply about things like that. Yeah, um, I really kind of just go off the cuff with what I like to do. Like if you look at my oldest videos, um, my very, very oldest videos, I actually started off making Hades, uh, Hades videos, and I did the exact same thing. Like if you scroll down to like the 32 heat, uh, guide that's like hour-long, yeah, like

the that ring of Pain video um is two hours long. The one right like if you scroll up a little bit more on the right side. It's it's uh the one above that. The one right above it. That one a tutorial for a game that no one's ever played. I made a 2-hour walkthrough and tutorial. I think it's an awesome beautiful game. But yeah like that is just what I like to do is sit there and kind of like really deeply explain things. And I want people to I want to help people understand things uh because I think that's there so much fun and Longevity and a healthy relationship with a game comes from understanding it at a deeper level. And uh and yeah that's just like with crafting. I I remember uh before Harvest League. I was an absolute scrub like my relationship with crafting was I think I basically never chaos spammed anything. I had almost i' done almost nothing uh and then Harvest League really forced it put it right in your face and you had to

engage with it, and after that, like understanding prefixes, suffixes, mod weights, mod groups, all that type of stuff, that it opened up this whole world of Path of Exile that was kind of closed to me, and I was just like, Oh my god, this is such a beautiful, well-implemented aspect of this game, that there's so much out there, there's so much out there, and people are just not engaging with it. Like, so many people still, even people that have been around for a while, they're just like, I have never crafted anything, or whatever. And one of my favorite things still, like, you know, that video still gets like 5 to 10K views a week, like still, three years later. And like a new comment, and like, I watch your crafting video, and here's a pair of boots that I made, and here's an axe that I made. And that just like, I can see someone now having the road forward to them opened up for being able to enjoy the game more. And I think that's, that's

one of my favorites. That's like why I like being a content creator. That's actually a thing that I feel like I hate when I stray too far from that. Like, I love all the other stuff that I do, but that for me is definitely the core of what I like doing the most. It's kind of hard to not get caught in this whole autonomy where you just, you're kind of like chasing views 'cause you always compare yourself with other people constantly, but you kind of have to stay in your lane and like focus on what people actually want. Like, I remember I had two videos that I made that did horribly for how much time they took, right? For example, my PA of building guide and my loot filter guide. They took forever, and they were like one of my worst-performing videos of all time, but they're also one of the videos where the most people are happy about them. So, that's like a completely different metric than views, right? Like, just matching views doesn't really do anything. It doesn't build a community, so

that's it's interesting that you say that so you you don't pride yourself on just necessarily um this uh crafting guide but the way you handled this guide and it's still you you like that this is the content you like to make and it did well right because very often you have videos where you're like I don't know why this did well and I don't know if I feel comfortable about it right kind of oh yeah like the daily throwaway videos I never feel awesome about and it it actually feels even worse when they do really well cuz I'm just like I don't want to make this and I hate that I'm getting rewarded for making something I don't like um and yeah yeah did you ever have this with update videos I used to do like day one day two day three day four day five leak starter videos and I just kind of like sto doing that because if I don't have anything to say on day three I just don't make a day three you you'll notice I didn't do that the past

League either, yeah, yeah, it's just not uh. I don't find it as interesting, like wait, wait until your build guide is good enough, and then, you know, I'll pin the comment with an updated po or something if there's more in there, but I don't, I don't try to like milk it or anything. It's just, yeah, it's just, it's not as interesting, and I, I really like, you know, as you can see, like, I like making like the big chunky stuff. The other thing that I like doing is sometimes doing like funny, funny skits and like satirical stuff that I've also, I did that a lot more in the past and got a little bit of zizin in you. Yeah, I would go like really hard editing the stuff and doing like, like I would make be a whole character for a whole video and like tell jokes the whole time. Uh, I used to, I used to do that more in the past, but yeah, uh, it's uh, that's, that's the type of content that I really like.

uh like the I have like a betrayal guide, an expedition guide, stuff like that, and the big projects, right, kind of where at the end you look at it and you can be kind of proud instead of just like these flavor of the month [ __ ] videos, right, where you're like two weeks later, you're like, Why did I make this even? I don't even know. Yeah, and I'll usually wait until like the Betrayal guide. I think it came out two years after Betrayal. It was in the game 'cause I kind of waited until I truly understood it at a deep level, level, and yeah, just it feels good. Like my Expedition guide, I edited that video for 9 hours. Like, Damn. Yeah, I sat there. Like, I literally took cartoon characters and was moving them around and like showing different stuff. It's ridiculous how much I edited it. Damn. But yeah, complete guide, this one right here. That's it. That's the one. Yeah, yeah, so like it's got like full cartoon characters.

moving around and yeah yeah that's crazy. It's really, really deep. But yeah, stuff like that. 'Cause like, that's the videos, you know. I want to make the content that is also something that I would want to consume. And the videos that I'm usually watching at night are often like more video essay type of stuff, like really interesting. What's the name of the channel? There's a channel that actually got more popular because of the drama from like xqc and Hanan, like walking away from their computer and watching it. It was the one about the JFK assassination, and it was like, it just really, it's just really, really nice video where they have like 3 graphics and everything showing like the trajectory of like where the shooter could have been and everything, and like really, really high quality type of documentary stuff. And I think there's definitely room for that in Poe, and it's a thing that I want to make more of. But yeah, like as you said, like I've, I was doing po guides.

actually, um, like, I tried a couple of them, and they did, like, we're talking, like, abysmal 2K views, 5K views at most, right? I made that video. You know how you can see where people skip to and stuff like that? Everybody skipped to how to import a character, the end, right? It's like nobody cares, and it's understandable, and this is often, like, where I kind of have to stop. Like, I often get a little bit, um, jaded about that because I know people don't have as much time to play than me, so for them to put hours and hours into it and watch, like, these huge guides is not really a thing you want to. But then, on the other hand, you, like, PE is one of those games where you just throw on a video and play in the background. Like, people tell me this all the time. They just put my video in the background, and they just play themselves. So, it's also not that big of a deal, but you want to value people's

time, so you still have to make it efficient in a way, but I guess long doesn't necessarily mean inefficient. Yeah, there's so much knowledge and information that you can get across in Poe as long as you're not, you know, patting it with... It would actually be like hard to efficiently pat it because there's so much that you need to say. Yeah, that's true. Well, in general, um, thank you for coming, man. I think you're a really positive force in the PE Community. I really like your stuff. Um, I think, uh, I think your, um, Party play was quite interesting because it's the first time I kind of saw, uh, somebody Party play who's a little bit more casual. I mean, at least compared to, uh, MP and stuff like that. Uh, so it was really cool, uh, to get an insight into that as well. But, uh, yeah, thank you for coming, man. Yeah, no thanks for the invite. It was fun. Uh, it's nice to talk to someone that's not chat. All right, man. See you around. All right, yeah. See you. Bye.

Thoughts on Settlers of Kalguur & Approach to Buildmaking ft. @subtractem | Paltalk Episode #3

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Collaborating with a Content Creator: Subtract Him

Subtract Him, a well-known content creator in the gaming scene, has been a supportive figure, sharing and raiding the host's videos during their early days.

The current league has been challenging for Subtract Him, with a group playstyle and a reworked drop system causing a different player experience.

Coordinating with a team for the first time added an interesting dynamic, reminiscent of an MMO, but also brought its own set of challenges.

Playing solo self-found (SSF) at the league's start was a negative experience, with low viewer engagement and frustratingly bad loot.

The group's performance was hindered by game crashes and technical issues, resulting in a disappointing average of 0.

The content creator's perspective highlighted the difficulty in interacting with chat and coordinating with other players, creating a unique and challenging dynamic in the Path of Exile community.

Chaos and Ignite builds in Path of Exile scale through gem levels, damage over time, and increased damage, making them straightforward to share and replicate.

The simplicity of these builds offers less chance to make mistakes, making them more approachable for players.

Cast on crit builds, while complex and beginner-unfriendly, are a favorite due to their intricate mechanics and cool visuals.

Dual Movement Skills and League Mechanics

The speaker discusses their character movement strategy, using Shield Charge and Frost Blink for damage and mobility.

They share their experience with a successful Frost Blink build from Crangle League, highlighting the importance of proper execution.

The conversation also touches on the challenges of right-side builds, the impact of recent game changes, and the current league's mechanics and currency exchange driving player engagement.

The Current League's Runes and Gold Mechanics

Runes are in high demand, costing 80 to 100 divines, and their low return rate is frustrating players.

The league's unique gold mechanics and improved graphics are making the gameplay feel different and enjoyable.

A pro tip to enhance the gold pickup experience is to change its color and add a yellow beam in the loot filter.

The Impact of Game Mechanics and Content Creation

The speaker discusses the balance between complex game mechanics and the enjoyment of managing in-game tasks, like sending ships and running maps.

They share their positive experience with the game's notification system and the satisfaction of tracking progress during streaming.

The speaker's successful crafting guide video, which gained 1.

2 million views, was a spontaneous effort to help players understand the game better, reflecting their passion for deep explanations and community support.

The Impact of Crafting Guides in Path of Exile

Crafting guides in Path of Exile have opened up new gameplay opportunities for players, with the creator receiving positive feedback and engagement even years later.

The creator struggles with balancing popular content and personal satisfaction, often feeling rewarded for videos they don't enjoy making.

They prefer to focus on in-depth, meaningful content and unique projects, rather than chasing views or creating daily update videos.

The speaker aims to produce content that they would also want to consume, focusing on interesting video essays and high-quality documentaries.

They have struggled with low views on their guides but recognize the value of providing knowledge and information efficiently.

The speaker appreciates the positive impact of their content in the community and enjoys the casual party play approach, offering a different perspective.