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Farming Docks.
Been here 8 years, still play virtually every day.

Races in general, specifically decent races as a ranger with the returning proj bow.

Two weeks of 'spoiler season' before every league theory crafting builds.

The forums - the old forums, with the old posters, and the old topics of conversation that we're not allowed to have any more.

So. I started pretty early, but my brother started playing independently later, or maybe heard about it, and we started again around launch. Piddling around, and I'm still not very good to this day. But the first league we got to "endgame" was the Vaal area one. Forget which that was.

Anyway.

Here we are, farming merciless docks for XP in a public group. I notice this dude is just chilling in the corner. He's not getting XP, I think. Go over and check on him and... There's a CHAOS ORB JUST ON THE GROUND!!! Whoa!!! With permanent allocation, no telling who it dropped for, and he's just chilling there waiting for the guy to leave so he can snatch it up.

That always cracks me up thinking about. Granted, back then, exalts were more like 20c to 1 so it was a bigger chunk of change. A nickel instead of a penny, lol.

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My best PoE memory actually happened this league.

I spent two weeks practicing and simulating a league start in trade SC, trying to get to maps as fast as possible and have a smooth progression to red tiers.

I was happy with a run that i did in SSF just before the league start, where it took me 16 hours from a fresh start to kill the first Sirus. Even posted it on reddit.

When the Harvest League launched i tried to replicate that SSF run since i'm not a party player and trade early on is very minimal.

After 13 hours of tryhard gameplay, i was the first player to kill Sirus in Harvest SC, with zero party play and zero trades.

The build i used was a standard Occultist Bane with a lucky Obliteration drop.

oh boy Hardcore Beyond League so many memories running away from Abaxoth

Playing POE wasn't by choice but rather by circumstances.

In 14th June 2016, I was wrongfully banned by Activision Blizzard in D3 for botting. Something that I have never done and never could cos I was playing D3 on a Mac. I will never forget that day as till now I am still fuming over this injustice that was dealt to me.

My kids (I am 45 this year) were shocked that I was banned from D3 cos they see me playing everyday.

All appeals landed on deaf ears. Since that day, I have my whole family boycott Blizzard games.

My friends in D3 were shocked too about my wrongful ban. 1 of them recommended me to try out POE and on 20th June 2016, I decided to take the jump.

I was amazed by how the developers of GGG actively interacting with the community (something that I have never encounter in Blizzard). Taking in feedbacks and addressing concerns most of the time.

I am also pleasantly surprised by how responsive the support at GGG were. Addressing issues that I face within a day. In fact, most of the time they were addressed within an hour or 2.

For a company like this, I feel that I should give in all my support (and you can see it in my support packs). Within 4 years, the amount of money I have spent in POE have way exceed the amount of money I spent at Blizzard over 20 years.

My gaming time in POE has never changed from D3 days and when GGG introduced SSF mode, I jumped right in. Not having to interact with trade was a great experience with me. Instead of spending most of the gaming time in copy and pasting trade deals, all my time is now spent farming gears, currency and pondering what I can do next with the drops I find.

There is however 1 big gribe that I have with GGG's mentality over clicks. I do agree that if player don't click to pick up loot, it don't feel like an aRPG. However, POE is a game with just too many clicks. If I was still in my 20s, this wouldn't be an issue but as age catches up, my hands no longer are so forgiving.

I used to pickup every currency in the past, but since Delirium, my hands got so painful that I have now started to skip currency picking if I can.

I do hope GGG could really minimize the amount of clicks in the game. It is now 2020. Instead of dropping multiple 1 x chaos / alts / augment, etc. If a loot explosion were to occur, it will be great to just have stacks of the same currency dropped instead. The same goes for splinters.

I remember Chris mentioning about auto moving items to the appropriate tabs from inventory. I do hope that gets implemented. It will be even better if there is a quick and easy way to move everything to the tabs.

Anyway, cheers to GGG's 10 years of glory. I would love to see another 10 years ahead. :)

i wish i could say "catching my first fish" ... :'(

Salient memories from PoE, in no particular order.

- farming Docks
- killing Atziri (when it was first released)
- fishing
- Flashback league
- 3.0 story rework

Memories that stick out to me the most;

1) Getting together all the pieces for a flicker strike/frenzy charge build, (When it first became kool/good - before all the changes/capping) then playing it, only to find myself halfway across the map with no loot and a major case of motion sickness constantly. Then starting a new toon, cause it was quicker than to farm loot and get regrets, and the fun of the build wore off for me after about 30mins of trying to see if my eyes could cope without getting spasms.
I ended up making a build again, about 4-5 leagues later after all the changes, and it was much better, not as crazy/quick, but alot easier on the eyes.

2) Building my first Lightning Arrow/cast on crit/arc build.
It was so much fun, was probably the start of when I started really looking at stats and matching gems properly.

3) Getting a Metamorph with all orange and yellow (Was my 3rd one too), but then finding out I gave a pile of life regens and my 30k/dps went from overkill to useless. I even went and rerolled and switched half my gear to change my dude almost to a glass canon, but still couldn't move its health.
To this day, I never put more than one regen on a metamorph.

4) First time fighting Atziri.
I am more the type to explore and roll with it. took me about 5 deaths to figure out she was reflecting on me and then decided to have a breather.
Went back to fight her (months) later, but then the loot drops became virtually worthless, so it kind of frizzled my energy, so I beat her once, then decided she was just annoying.
Hard fights, or ones you have to figure tings out are awesome if they have great rewards. Any fight easy or hard without some kind of incentive is just clutter.....

5) Getting my first exalt drop (In Synthesis League), which sounds kind of lame since I have been playing POE since Beta, but that's how it is. I didn't even become a real player until after Act 4 stopped being the final part of the campaign.
Sadly I absolutely loved Synthesis league, but played for about 2 weeks straight then got busy at work doing 12+hr days. When things finally cooled down the league was over and never became core... I was SUPER bummed out about it.

6) Playing with my 12 year old daughter.
She will only play witch or scion, and always wants to modify hideout, sort stash or play with what little MTX she has instead of killing things, but I am still very glad.
Aside from one or two compulsive tendencies (Like turning everything into races), the diversity in content is to me, what makes POE the best ARPG out there. By a long shot. (now that the lagfest finally got fixed.. haha)
Sometimes I wish I had spent $1k (or 2) and took advantage of back when you could make your own item or later card.
I never imagined that POE would become as grand as it is now.