finally got a Freaking power rune from this stupid pirate man, now i can finish upgrading the town but i still need one more to actually craft with for the league challenge. some weapon crafts require 15+ of them dude!! i'm starting to feel bad constantly sending my ship crew on 30-minute 12-dollar shipments hoping they get boarded by pirates but what am i gonna do

i said a few pages ago how cool it was that this boss fight exists in its context but it gets less cool each time i do it and he doesn't decide to drop what i want from him. and there's the fact i only get one life for some reason, whereas with another Kingsmarch boss the Black Knight i can just keep throwing myself at him endlessly until he gets sick of me and kills himself. just some armored dude who lives in a small hole in the ground and starts yelling at me about how epic his sword is when i show up

hate that it still shows this text and forces me to click 'abandon'. sorry guys he's usually really easy but i accidentally stood in front of a splash of water for 0.2 seconds and died. you know how it is

being cool with throwing away all my currency has paid off....hit the 6 links on this bow in under 100 fusings i think. even forgot to up the quality to 20% to increase my odds beforehand. thinking back to when i wrote yeah i'll absolutely wait until i have 1,500 saved up so i can guarantee it, imagine being that much of a sucker. suffixes blow on this thing but i've done enough totally wrecking items while attempting to make marginal improvements that i'm gonna let them sit for a while. ignore my disorganized stash tabs and their names and also the fact i bought all the useless ones

might be the most time i've spent playing a game without a journal entry to show for it. there ain't been much goin on folks it's a game where after a certain point you do something and then you do that same thing a lot more. i'm at around 260 hours played total, but most days lately i'm only online for an hour or so. i've since managed to beat Catarina without dying, which is the only tangible sense of character progress i've made in a while. maybe not though because i died six times on the prior attempt

checking in now because something incredibly wacky bizarre happened today: i leveled up. i'd just accepted i was level 92 this league and that was that. but at some point i noticed my experience bar was getting considerably fuller than usual....could it really be that i haven't died in a while, and i now must make the effort to elongate this herculean feat... as a reminder i lose 10% of my experience bar when i die, and generally i die

also completed this today, and thank god because i spend far too much time rerolling maps and deciding what scarabs to use. it almost always feels wasteful whatever i choose, since a lot of league mechanics seem pointless to engage with unless i'm specced into making them as fruitful as possible. like i could be saving these scarabs that buff Betrayal encounters for when i'm specced into making it so at least one Syndicate member will give me a big kiss per map. scarabs and the atlas tree system are good and fun i just have a very bad and unfun mix of indecisiveness and all-or-nothing thinking

i don't know the specifics of how drop rarity works. it makes me wonder if i'm shooting myself in the foot by not having any plus-rarity gear on my build, but i'm fairly sure quantity of items matters more. i put on a bunch of rarity gear and loaded into this map of nothing but chests and one of them dropped a 6-linked bow, and it was almost ow worth the physical strain of clicking all these chests one-by-one ow ow. this is the main reason i don't spec into the Harbingers that drop currency shards

exile......it has been a couple months since i last played. i did not play today either. i have felt rather unable to engage with the whole forevergame thing lately. it turns out doing things that matter somewhat is much more fulfilling for me. but regardless, we all commit errors at some point or another

i don't know if this marks the end of my PoE1 journal. i don't even know if it marks the beginning of a PoE2 journal; that download time gives me ample chances to rethink certain life choices. but one thing's for certain: i'm tired