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Voicemail Dump Truck Color Coded Drops with Jeff and Ben

This week we take calls and chat loot, floor fries, and gamer-American representation.

If you think the GIant Bombcast spends too much time talking about Not Video Games, you're going to hate this thing.

Jan. 23 2019

Posted by: Ben

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That background is ASMR for my eyes

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Nice, an albino rhoa feather.

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This image of POE maps is cruel. This is like leaving an empty bottle of alcohol with the cap off just so alcoholics catch a whiff as the walk by.

Downloading to get a whiff...

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I just got off that sweet sweet PoE why do you do this

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I'm twitching looking at that podcast art. So many colours.... maybe I could boot up PoE again just for a couple of hours......

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That is a lot of Orbs.

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Sooooo many orbs...

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mmmmm love me some PoE.

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Colour coded loot, truly one of the scourges that plague video games today.

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Breaking News: Giant bomb confirmed to be enablers by showing sensitive pictures.

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I hate how most games have adopted the WoW color scheme for item tiers :(

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Edited By MikeLemmer

The hilarious part is, those aren't even the default loot colors for Path of Exile. PoE implemented Custom Item Filters that lets you set any loot to any color you want. Get a taste of the madness here: https://filterblade.xyz/

(Honestly, it's near vital for endgame PoE; so much loot gets barfed out you need a way to filter the useful stuff from the shit.)

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Edited By noizy

The Epic launcher friends request spam is annoying. I just decline all. If someone is my friend, they can tell me on Steam/Discord they're sending me a request and i'll accept it then and there.

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Dang I'd love to hear Bombcast talk about Path of Exile but it takes so much investment to really get into.

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@masonmjames: It doesn't take that much to get into! I was in your shoes about 4-5 months ago... had tried PoE when it first came out and found it overwhelming, then tried several times over the years and never made it past Act 1.

The thing that really cracked it for me was finding a stable build guide (Enki's Arc Witch was what did it for me) that was well written and gave lots of information for what you should be doing and more importantly WHY you would be doing it. Having the guesswork taken out of my build and routing let me really focus on learning the game without getting overwhelmed by systems or the skill tree was awesome.

With the basics down, I've gotten to spend time in this league playing around with the deeper features in the endgame and am having a blast.

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@trainewreck: Not sure what you mean when you say 'like me', I've been playing since Talisman league and have several thousand hours in the game. I regularly teach friends and newcomers how to play, and yeah, the game is definitely a lot to learn, I still believe that. Any game that requires you to look up a build guide is already more complicated than 95% of other games. Still, I could see how Jeff (who loves to see numbers going up, fan of Diablo) could get into it.

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@masonmjames: Oh my bad! I thought you wanted them to talk about it so that YOU could get into it ... I shall slink back into lurkerhood now :D

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PoE is the greatest game

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What Jeff is proposing about loot quality is exactly the way it works in CS:GO. Personally, I think it sucks.

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I love how GB's pulled a bunch of people (myself included; off to kill my 3rd HC toon!) back into PoE, despite just admiring/loathing it from afar (Rorie excluded).