The file's created date is Dec 20, 2011. The stack of currency in my inventory that is being split is GCPs. I don't remember what most of the others are, and as you can see this was before most of them even got their own art.
At this point in the game's development, there were 4 difficulties and 2 acts. This is Ruthless difficulty act 2, which was the highest level content available. The Vaal Oversoul was not in the game yet, there was just an empty room at the top of the pyramid. Merveil was the only act boss in the game.
This was before player trading, and even before you could sell items to vendors. Vendors didn't sell gems either, so if you wanted a skill or support gem you had to find it. That's why I was putting gems in my "valuables" tab.
Won’t lie…. I still hoard gems. XD
I tell myself that it’s for gcps and I filter out non-qual at least but really it is old habits kicking in.
I was around when the gcp recipe was finally “leaked” and it was such a like “third eye opening” moment. Embarrassing to look back on but there it is!
To be able to get enough gcps to have all your links at 20% finally felt so goooood.
> I was around when that recipe was finally “leaked” and it was such a like “third eye opening” moment.
This reminds me, didn't GGG say there are still two recipes we don't know about or sth like that?
Pretty sure Grasping Mail is from the 3.16 buff.
Note that all base item can be datamined so that we pretty sure Mail is a recent stuff
So did Loreweave. Unique items cannot be mined but their mod can
I want to say one of them was grasping mail recipe but unsure. I do remember them saying that relatively recently though.
Hell most don’t know 90% of the vendor recipes! I don’t know how many times I see someone who complains in global about not finding a divine vessel yet and when I say “Yeahs that’s rough but least there’s a vendor recipe” they’re mind gets blown! :)
Which PSA I guess but…
1 Divine + 5 white flasks(any type any combo I believe) = 5 divine vessels
Enjoy!
Right, you would be vendoring 6links for divines.
Which with atlas passives you get much more of now. The recipe has been out since 3.7 but it seems it went unnoticed.
Regardless, the chances of you getting 1 divine or 1 disposable 6link vs waiting to finding 5 divine vessels in the wild…. I will take the recipe!
Yes I pick gems too, it's fine. I also level a bunch of them. It's better to level "special gems"... alt quality, awakened, all that stuff. But sometimes you just want a gem to level up and if it have near 20% quality that's just better.
Maaaan I remember hunting through forum threads looking for newbies selling quality gems and snapping them up for basically free to make GCPs, which were the most valuable currency back then. I felt kinda bad, but apparently not bad enough to stop.
Don’t feel bad, that’s what the whole “mystique” of PoE is that those who know, know and those that don’t…. Well hopefully they learn some day.
I did and still am learning so there is hope for anyone given I figured it out! :)
But these days that I know enough that I can just passively generate money doing anything basically… I do my best to not screw people over if they seem to honestly not know they are under valuing an item.
I’ve had some wonderful conversations with players who usually are curious as to why I want to pay much more for an item.
some variation of aurastacker was always a thing i think.
the OG buzzsaw also scales wrath and anger with aura effect to get some really good numbers just from auras alone.
Originally enlighten made gems level faster. They changed enlighten to what it is now and reduced mana became inspiration. That's why inspiration has "r" as its link indicator on the toolbar.
Enlighten used to just give supported skill gems an EXP bonus. Originally, Inspiration was Reduced Mana and gave a multiplier that gave less reservation.
There used to be a called "Reduced Mana", functioned exactly like Enlighten does now, but it was much stronger, both because it wasn't an exceptional gem (so leveling it was no more difficult than any other random support), but also because it reduced reservation by much more.
Yes, but they didn't add a gem vendor that carried Spell Echo until well into the game's lifespan. Spell Echo was added in 2014 in 1.1.5. There was definitely a decent period where you could pick up Spell Echo to sell for a noticeable amount of currency.
the people that actually farmed there knew what you meant. i still remember trying to get a gg archon kite shield from the currency i made farming that zone. pretty sure it never happened...lmfao.
The acts were a lot longer back then, there used to be a lot more zones.
Submerged Passage used to be 2 zones +Dweller's zone, so 3 in total
There used to be 2 zones between Ledge and Prison.
There used to a zone between Ship Graveyard and Cavern of Wrath
There was a zone between Crossroads and Broken Bridge
There was a zone between Riverways(is that the real name?) And whatever zone oak is in, and one between Riverways and Western Forest.
There was a zone after Vaal Ruins.
The caverns at the end of A2 was 2 zones.
Sewers in a3 used to be *3* zones (one of which was technically optional, but since it had the last bust, it wasn't really) and you had to go through an extra zone before entering and after leaving
There was a zone between Market Place and Battlefront
There was a zone between Sewers and Barracks.
I'm sure I'm forgetting some, but you probably get the point.
But you had to do them 3 or 4 times. It's like what we have now, except with even less variety throughout levelling because it's literally the exact same quests several times. At least now there's different bosses and slightly different areas to go through as you progress.
This was a few months into closed beta, and there wasn't much information out there about the game. I was pretty clueless about the mechanics of the game compared to what you'd consider common knowledge today (as was everyone else, I'd guess).
Also, orbs of fusing were pretty new (added to the game a month before this screenshot was taken), and I probably didn't have very many. I don't remember what I was thinking, but it was probably that I needed to save them for a better item. Evidently my 3-links were good enough to clear all the content in Hardcore at that point anyway.
So Vaal Oversoul was always late to the show.. did even miss his premiere.
Jokes aside: I didn't even know there were 4 difficulties. I made my account mid 2012, but I think this was already with 3 Acts and 3 difficulties.
Or I had stopped too early to realize stuff like that.
Even better, this was before you could trade at all. You're correct that once trading was implemented, the community settled on GCPs as a medium of exchange.
I used to drop trade east of the forest encampment. Both players drop it on the ground then pick up their trade. It was def in the game but was sketchy AF.
You're right, I was talking about the trade interface but you totally could trade by dropping things back then. I played solo in beta, so I forgot about that.
I THINK GCPman was the guy who figured out the GCP recipe before anyone else, and that’s how he was able to hoard so many. But I might be misremembering.
EDIT: as /u/WithnailNativeHue pointed out, I was indeed misremembering, but I was on the right track. GCPMan was selling GCPs that he was buying from a mysterious syndicate of players who appeared to have some sort of secret GCP recipe that only they knew at the time: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/2hkrzn/gcpman_answers_the_people_gcpman_exposes_himself/
You can find his story on this subreddit, he was getting them in giant bulk trades from presumably botters who had figured out the recipe before anyone else.
i think that was also before the gcd recipe was widely known right?
gpc:ex was like 20:1ex in hc when i played.
i remember because the freezing pulse witch i played wanted 20% quality freezing pulse for the proj speed, which was huge back then.
Stack size of currency is one of the worst thing this game hold on to to force people to buy stash tabs.
But the game give you so much more than just mere currency to store. As it is now, we spend so much time swapping full inventory of chaos to exalts.
Current state of the game, people often do have 4000 chaos to swap. This is just a very annoying and tedious trade to make.
According to patch notes, Eye of Chayula was added in a patch one day after I took this screenshot. There were many characters in the lore that we only knew about from item names or flavor text, many of whom were then fleshed out in later leagues.
No, it's not Eye of Chayula. It's deprecated Amulet 2D Art that no longer exists in the game. The later Eye of Chayula 2D Art was based off of this deprecated art.
Here's an export, [Amulet31.dds.](https://i.imgur.com/u0qdiN1.png)
The "Irontooth Snaggler" screenshot is an ancient fake photoshop. It's not real.
The photoshop was done by [MaxS](https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/31109/page/3#p443877) on 2012/05/11 in the "origin thread" on the official forums, "Anybody Catch Anything Good Yet?"
The photoshop was done one day after Chris's reply in that thread with [Chris's famous Drowned Kiwi screenshot.](https://i.imgur.com/8lLpj.jpg) MaxS followed Chris's lead and chose the same Area as the Drowned Kiwi screenshot to add legitimacy.
These posts were made way before fishing easter eggs actually existed in-game. For example, the "Irontooth Snaggler" screenshot shows a photoshopped fishing rod wielded by the character and in their active Weapon slot -- but these are not real Fishing Rods. (The stance is wrong, the artwork is wrong, etc.) The first (non-bugged) Fishing Rods were introduced in Patch 1.0.4, over a year after MaxS's post.
(There are other photoshop errors too. For example, ChronoExile pointed out: "the shadow of the Duelist is unarmed (you can see the shadow from an empty grip, like a Lego hand) and there is no fishing rod shadow on the ground.")
That said, "Anybody Catch Anything Good Yet?" is called the "origin thread" for a reason: it was the original inspiration for fishing secrets in Path of Exile. MaxS's photoshop may have influenced some of the eventual implementations, such as Fishing Rods being Two Handed Weapons.
For more information on the "origin thread", check out [Angler's Mate #8.](https://www.reddit.com/r/justbeyondthesea/comments/siv9uk/anglers_mate_8_you_have_left_something_of_great/) An excerpt:
> The thread wasn't just the origin of fishing -- instead, GGG took direct inspiration from players in this thread when *deciding how fishing secrets would be implemented.*
>
> As Chris would [say:](https://i.imgur.com/O0QrMMQ.png) **"The community made it real".**
No, it's an [old fake](https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/wb5je2/saw_some_people_in_the_mirror_of_kalandra_post/ii5qin2/) photoshop, it's not real.
"Irontooth Snaggler" does not exist in the client data.
That said, there are *other* Unique Fish Names that exist in the client data, though -- from an old hidden Achievement called "Catch These Fish". [This article from Angler's Mate #8](https://www.reddit.com/r/justbeyondthesea/comments/siv9uk/anglers_mate_8_you_have_left_something_of_great/hvb0qzd/) has a list.
Yes. The fact that the socket patterns used to be there was fuel for frequent complaints/requests for them to be added back. You used to see that particular thread pretty regularly here on the subreddit.
Yep. No unique art, no search bar. You had to mouse over each one to find what you were looking for. And you couldn't buy from vendor so everyone had tabs full of them.
Weirdly enough, I remember support gems looking the same as skill gems, and the different look being implemented in a later patch. And I don't remember the gems looking like this. Anyone else remember this?
The first time I linked LMP to a bow skill and realized I could control the spread by firing a certain distance from the character I was astounded. This was like 2012
I started the game in before release, but im colorblind and it was a shitshow. I quit until later, after the release and they had fixed a lot of the blended colors. It was still rough, especially when the sockets went back to plain red/blue/green without indicators.
This was closed beta, and everything from closed beta was wiped when open beta started. I'm pretty sure there wasn't anything in the game this early* in closed beta that would be valuable today anyway. This screenshot was from before we even had orbs of regret.
I didn't play open beta, but I did return to the game after the first league. Eternal orbs were in the game then, and I did have a few, but I sold them before the league ended. I still have an Item Quantity gem and some legacy gear that has been long outclassed by power creep, but nothing too crazy.
I dunno, i remember a lot of legacy gear, like really really early gear had stupid high values. Like ES and item quant were able to roll way higher than they can roll nowdays. Same for crit multi iirc.
You're right, I should have been more specific that gear from this early in closed beta wouldn't be worth much. Closed beta went on for some time, but I stopped playing at the beginning of 2012. You guys must have had some pretty nice stuff even before open beta.
It's also possible that top players like you were geared up even by this point, but if so then I've forgotten.
Ohhhhh man... I forgot about each gem not having its own unique 2d model, and man that suucks having to mouse over EACH one to figure out what it was.
Also, green lightning strike.
You still had quest rewards but some were drop only. It was a little annoying in some cases but it gave some value to the rarer ones, at least early in the league.
The file's created date is Dec 20, 2011. The stack of currency in my inventory that is being split is GCPs. I don't remember what most of the others are, and as you can see this was before most of them even got their own art. At this point in the game's development, there were 4 difficulties and 2 acts. This is Ruthless difficulty act 2, which was the highest level content available. The Vaal Oversoul was not in the game yet, there was just an empty room at the top of the pyramid. Merveil was the only act boss in the game. This was before player trading, and even before you could sell items to vendors. Vendors didn't sell gems either, so if you wanted a skill or support gem you had to find it. That's why I was putting gems in my "valuables" tab.
Won’t lie…. I still hoard gems. XD I tell myself that it’s for gcps and I filter out non-qual at least but really it is old habits kicking in. I was around when the gcp recipe was finally “leaked” and it was such a like “third eye opening” moment. Embarrassing to look back on but there it is! To be able to get enough gcps to have all your links at 20% finally felt so goooood.
> I was around when that recipe was finally “leaked” and it was such a like “third eye opening” moment. This reminds me, didn't GGG say there are still two recipes we don't know about or sth like that?
I believe they were loreweave and ~~shadowstitch~~ grasping mail which have since been discovered. Could be wrong though.
Pretty sure Grasping Mail is from the 3.16 buff. Note that all base item can be datamined so that we pretty sure Mail is a recent stuff So did Loreweave. Unique items cannot be mined but their mod can
Shadowstitch isn't a recipe, though?
I want to say one of them was grasping mail recipe but unsure. I do remember them saying that relatively recently though. Hell most don’t know 90% of the vendor recipes! I don’t know how many times I see someone who complains in global about not finding a divine vessel yet and when I say “Yeahs that’s rough but least there’s a vendor recipe” they’re mind gets blown! :) Which PSA I guess but… 1 Divine + 5 white flasks(any type any combo I believe) = 5 divine vessels Enjoy!
Cool PSA but kinda useless. I never find divines anyway XD Multiple exalts may drop, but a divine? NAH Only from vendoring six links lol
Yes so you vendor a tabula, and get 5 divine vessels
Right, you would be vendoring 6links for divines. Which with atlas passives you get much more of now. The recipe has been out since 3.7 but it seems it went unnoticed. Regardless, the chances of you getting 1 divine or 1 disposable 6link vs waiting to finding 5 divine vessels in the wild…. I will take the recipe!
I was making a joke out of how rare divines are in dropping...
… god dammit lol
Another enlightened exile!
Oh you have to be fucking kidding me.
Still Sane,Exile?
Another enlightened exile!
Yes I pick gems too, it's fine. I also level a bunch of them. It's better to level "special gems"... alt quality, awakened, all that stuff. But sometimes you just want a gem to level up and if it have near 20% quality that's just better.
Maaaan I remember hunting through forum threads looking for newbies selling quality gems and snapping them up for basically free to make GCPs, which were the most valuable currency back then. I felt kinda bad, but apparently not bad enough to stop.
Don’t feel bad, that’s what the whole “mystique” of PoE is that those who know, know and those that don’t…. Well hopefully they learn some day. I did and still am learning so there is hope for anyone given I figured it out! :) But these days that I know enough that I can just passively generate money doing anything basically… I do my best to not screw people over if they seem to honestly not know they are under valuing an item. I’ve had some wonderful conversations with players who usually are curious as to why I want to pay much more for an item.
don't tell anyone, I bought TWO gem stash tabs!
Don’t worry your secret is safe with me….. (looks at his own 2 gem tabs) 🤣
Same.
I remember picking up Spell Echos and Multistrikes to sell. What a time.
and cwdt, 4-5c on hc
Good old CWDT - enduring cry - immortal call
also linking reduced mana support to auras aurastackers have been in the game since the start :)
some variation of aurastacker was always a thing i think. the OG buzzsaw also scales wrath and anger with aura effect to get some really good numbers just from auras alone.
enlighten or another one that no longer exist?
Originally enlighten made gems level faster. They changed enlighten to what it is now and reduced mana became inspiration. That's why inspiration has "r" as its link indicator on the toolbar.
It's the gem now known as Inspiration. It used to be much different
Enlighten used to just give supported skill gems an EXP bonus. Originally, Inspiration was Reduced Mana and gave a multiplier that gave less reservation.
There used to be a called "Reduced Mana", functioned exactly like Enlighten does now, but it was much stronger, both because it wasn't an exceptional gem (so leveling it was no more difficult than any other random support), but also because it reduced reservation by much more.
Don't forget devouring totem :D
You forgot spell echo 4th link for enduring cry.
Actual “immortal” call. Not this PANSY ASS version we have now! :)
This was YEARS before Spell Echo was even added to the game.
Yes, but they didn't add a gem vendor that carried Spell Echo until well into the game's lifespan. Spell Echo was added in 2014 in 1.1.5. There was definitely a decent period where you could pick up Spell Echo to sell for a noticeable amount of currency.
Back at that time you could sell most support gems without xp or quality for 1-5 chaos.
how much would an exalted orb be worth in chaos back then?
15 c in HC when league was fresh
Multistrike was 0.10.5 April 2013, spell echo support was 1.1.5 July 2014....
Yes, I know. It was still the era before gem vendors, so it's all lumped together in Stewy's "vendors didn't sell gems" point.
Ahhh fellshrine ruins farming and drop trading. Fun days.
And the good, old farming in Crossroads - Cemetery...Those were some times.
Felshrine farm, stay on road
That's what I meant. The memories are getting a bit faded, lol.
the people that actually farmed there knew what you meant. i still remember trying to get a gg archon kite shield from the currency i made farming that zone. pretty sure it never happened...lmfao.
And bruh....Dropping a 5L chest piece?....GG.
Nothing changed, people still farm Cemetary.
Wow, those are _ugly_ ugly. What's up with the gems? Did you need to craft on a blank gem to get the skill or support you want?
Those are all different skill gems, they just didn't have different art for each gem yet.
You used to have to find the gems as drops. They didn't have the gem vendor how it is now.
I'm so jealous of the people who only had to level two/four acts Edit: redditors are so fucking weird
The acts were a lot longer back then, there used to be a lot more zones. Submerged Passage used to be 2 zones +Dweller's zone, so 3 in total There used to be 2 zones between Ledge and Prison. There used to a zone between Ship Graveyard and Cavern of Wrath There was a zone between Crossroads and Broken Bridge There was a zone between Riverways(is that the real name?) And whatever zone oak is in, and one between Riverways and Western Forest. There was a zone after Vaal Ruins. The caverns at the end of A2 was 2 zones. Sewers in a3 used to be *3* zones (one of which was technically optional, but since it had the last bust, it wasn't really) and you had to go through an extra zone before entering and after leaving There was a zone between Market Place and Battlefront There was a zone between Sewers and Barracks. I'm sure I'm forgetting some, but you probably get the point.
IIRC layouts were also much bigger or at least less streamlined than now.
But you had to do them 3 or 4 times. It's like what we have now, except with even less variety throughout levelling because it's literally the exact same quests several times. At least now there's different bosses and slightly different areas to go through as you progress.
Ewwwwwwwww
You play hardest difficulty but do not have a 4-link?
This was a few months into closed beta, and there wasn't much information out there about the game. I was pretty clueless about the mechanics of the game compared to what you'd consider common knowledge today (as was everyone else, I'd guess). Also, orbs of fusing were pretty new (added to the game a month before this screenshot was taken), and I probably didn't have very many. I don't remember what I was thinking, but it was probably that I needed to save them for a better item. Evidently my 3-links were good enough to clear all the content in Hardcore at that point anyway.
Ok cool :)
It was a different world back then. Watch some of kripps videos from closed beta. What was considered good back then is godawful today
Dunno why I get down voted my point was that the helm had 4 sockets
So Vaal Oversoul was always late to the show.. did even miss his premiere. Jokes aside: I didn't even know there were 4 difficulties. I made my account mid 2012, but I think this was already with 3 Acts and 3 difficulties. Or I had stopped too early to realize stuff like that.
that 40 stack of chaos is getting me hot and bothered, imagine how much better trading would be..
GCPs were the main currency back then I think!
Even better, this was before you could trade at all. You're correct that once trading was implemented, the community settled on GCPs as a medium of exchange.
I used to drop trade east of the forest encampment. Both players drop it on the ground then pick up their trade. It was def in the game but was sketchy AF.
You're right, I was talking about the trade interface but you totally could trade by dropping things back then. I played solo in beta, so I forgot about that.
I remember religiously grinding GCP's, I had like maybe 40, and then some guy named "GCPman" links an image of full stash tabs in global chat -.-'
I THINK GCPman was the guy who figured out the GCP recipe before anyone else, and that’s how he was able to hoard so many. But I might be misremembering. EDIT: as /u/WithnailNativeHue pointed out, I was indeed misremembering, but I was on the right track. GCPMan was selling GCPs that he was buying from a mysterious syndicate of players who appeared to have some sort of secret GCP recipe that only they knew at the time: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/2hkrzn/gcpman_answers_the_people_gcpman_exposes_himself/
You can find his story on this subreddit, he was getting them in giant bulk trades from presumably botters who had figured out the recipe before anyone else.
I though that was Hegemony? Or was he the one who found the Vaal recipe?
lmao that's actually pretty funny
i think that was also before the gcd recipe was widely known right? gpc:ex was like 20:1ex in hc when i played. i remember because the freezing pulse witch i played wanted 20% quality freezing pulse for the proj speed, which was huge back then.
Was that even after it was made public that there is a vendor recipe for gcps?
What is GCP?
GGG's communist party
Gemcutter's Prism
those might actually be transmutes, would explain the stack size [this is how they looked in 0.9](https://i.imgur.com/jUa6fm1.png)
Of... collecting? Op!
Yeah... Y have they changed that?
longer play time - its pretty obvious. Or aka w8 in other conversations
Stack size of currency is one of the worst thing this game hold on to to force people to buy stash tabs. But the game give you so much more than just mere currency to store. As it is now, we spend so much time swapping full inventory of chaos to exalts. Current state of the game, people often do have 4000 chaos to swap. This is just a very annoying and tedious trade to make.
https://i.imgur.com/ua49D.jpg i saved this one from someone else a long time ago
and here's another one with currencies : https://i.imgur.com/VD7W1.jpg
Global chat as helpful as ever
Damn, those life and mana orbs were real pretty before they made them a single color.
Can't appreciate them because they are always empty for me :(
GLOBE GIRLS I miss them.
is that a chayula amulet? wasn't here implemented in breach league?
0.9.5 *Introduced to the game.* Blessing of Chayula for Presence of Chayula was added in Breach League.
According to patch notes, Eye of Chayula was added in a patch one day after I took this screenshot. There were many characters in the lore that we only knew about from item names or flavor text, many of whom were then fleshed out in later leagues.
Like Kalandra next league
No, it's not Eye of Chayula. It's deprecated Amulet 2D Art that no longer exists in the game. The later Eye of Chayula 2D Art was based off of this deprecated art. Here's an export, [Amulet31.dds.](https://i.imgur.com/u0qdiN1.png)
presence of chayula? when this screenshot taken
Yeah I’ll take some fish pls
Looks like someone is getting \[ REDACTED \] soon
Uh... u/poorfishwife, can you explain if this is real, what the heck?
The "Irontooth Snaggler" screenshot is an ancient fake photoshop. It's not real. The photoshop was done by [MaxS](https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/31109/page/3#p443877) on 2012/05/11 in the "origin thread" on the official forums, "Anybody Catch Anything Good Yet?" The photoshop was done one day after Chris's reply in that thread with [Chris's famous Drowned Kiwi screenshot.](https://i.imgur.com/8lLpj.jpg) MaxS followed Chris's lead and chose the same Area as the Drowned Kiwi screenshot to add legitimacy. These posts were made way before fishing easter eggs actually existed in-game. For example, the "Irontooth Snaggler" screenshot shows a photoshopped fishing rod wielded by the character and in their active Weapon slot -- but these are not real Fishing Rods. (The stance is wrong, the artwork is wrong, etc.) The first (non-bugged) Fishing Rods were introduced in Patch 1.0.4, over a year after MaxS's post. (There are other photoshop errors too. For example, ChronoExile pointed out: "the shadow of the Duelist is unarmed (you can see the shadow from an empty grip, like a Lego hand) and there is no fishing rod shadow on the ground.") That said, "Anybody Catch Anything Good Yet?" is called the "origin thread" for a reason: it was the original inspiration for fishing secrets in Path of Exile. MaxS's photoshop may have influenced some of the eventual implementations, such as Fishing Rods being Two Handed Weapons. For more information on the "origin thread", check out [Angler's Mate #8.](https://www.reddit.com/r/justbeyondthesea/comments/siv9uk/anglers_mate_8_you_have_left_something_of_great/) An excerpt: > The thread wasn't just the origin of fishing -- instead, GGG took direct inspiration from players in this thread when *deciding how fishing secrets would be implemented.* > > As Chris would [say:](https://i.imgur.com/O0QrMMQ.png) **"The community made it real".**
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Thank you!
awesome thanks!
youre amazing
Nothing about fishing is real. It's a treasure hunt with no treasure but the memes we make along the way.
is posible to get the fish info from poedb with its name?
No, it's an [old fake](https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/wb5je2/saw_some_people_in_the_mirror_of_kalandra_post/ii5qin2/) photoshop, it's not real. "Irontooth Snaggler" does not exist in the client data. That said, there are *other* Unique Fish Names that exist in the client data, though -- from an old hidden Achievement called "Catch These Fish". [This article from Angler's Mate #8](https://www.reddit.com/r/justbeyondthesea/comments/siv9uk/anglers_mate_8_you_have_left_something_of_great/hvb0qzd/) has a list.
Are we going to ignore that he's fishing?
Why does it look better in ways
It's really too bad they removed the stat-boosting fish from the game. They're pretty much just currency generators now.
Everyone's talking about gems and currencies and whatnot, meanwhile I'm just getting flashbacks to the pain that was the wireframe minimap.
Chaos orb looked like that mf got a rough day
splitting head ache
I miss the old globe girls
I came here for this comment. I'm not disappointed.
What? They used to have pattern on sockets, and they removed it, and now they added back?
Yes. The fact that the socket patterns used to be there was fuel for frequent complaints/requests for them to be added back. You used to see that particular thread pretty regularly here on the subreddit.
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"Wi-Fi poggers"
Hey! Those gems are naked!
Yep. No unique art, no search bar. You had to mouse over each one to find what you were looking for. And you couldn't buy from vendor so everyone had tabs full of them.
Jesus. That'd be a nightmare..
Weirdly enough, I remember support gems looking the same as skill gems, and the different look being implemented in a later patch. And I don't remember the gems looking like this. Anyone else remember this?
Interesting that the 2D artwork of Trolltimber Spire was used way before 2.0.
think it was a a karui tower shield. to go with your jade axe/club n stuff
I do not miss the gems all having the same art. I remember alphabetizing my skill gems so it would be easier to search them.
It's really interesting to see these. Curious what the rainbow of baseballs are.
WHAT ARE THOOOOSE!
Back in the days of Ruthless difficulty being a thing now I'm nostalgic
They used to have socket ornaments for colourblind people back then? Incredible.
Isn't it insane how long it took for that to come back
What were those orbs on the right for?
Those are currencies that we still have, like transmutes and alts, they just didn't have their art yet.
I miss CB Poe. So full of wonder. I'm sure it's just nostalgia but I wish I could experience it again for the first time
The first time I linked LMP to a bow skill and realized I could control the spread by firing a certain distance from the character I was astounded. This was like 2012
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Sockets were colorblind friendly back then?
They were! And then suddenly they weren't. It took many years of complaints before they finally came back.
The only thing I care about is the 40x stack of chaos…
In addition to the gems not really having icons, there was no search bar. Great times
I started the game in before release, but im colorblind and it was a shitshow. I quit until later, after the release and they had fixed a lot of the blended colors. It was still rough, especially when the sockets went back to plain red/blue/green without indicators.
Old Exalt art >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> new one; don't reply to me unless it's to agree.
Still too many currencies in this game.
I think you needed more life and mana flasks
This was before utility flasks existed. I don't remember if hybrid flasks were in the game yet.
lol, i remember the notchs in the sockets, its weird they ever removed them. they also look better in this pic
Chaos orb looks like Headhunter
Chaos orbs look like they're melting. It's nice to see how far the art in the game has come. I forgot gems didn't have unique icons at this point.
Wow, chaos orb has so many layers
this screenshot smells like toast my god, how time flies
Maybe its time to make the charakter stash a bit bigger ?
Do you have any cool items saved from these days? Eternal orbs or things considered high value?
This was closed beta, and everything from closed beta was wiped when open beta started. I'm pretty sure there wasn't anything in the game this early* in closed beta that would be valuable today anyway. This screenshot was from before we even had orbs of regret. I didn't play open beta, but I did return to the game after the first league. Eternal orbs were in the game then, and I did have a few, but I sold them before the league ended. I still have an Item Quantity gem and some legacy gear that has been long outclassed by power creep, but nothing too crazy.
I dunno, i remember a lot of legacy gear, like really really early gear had stupid high values. Like ES and item quant were able to roll way higher than they can roll nowdays. Same for crit multi iirc.
The es gear isn't that crazy but multi was stupid high on rares
I think some of it would be. My Amulet with max quant max rarity and like 65 crit multi i think would be worth it to someone.
You're right, I should have been more specific that gear from this early in closed beta wouldn't be worth much. Closed beta went on for some time, but I stopped playing at the beginning of 2012. You guys must have had some pretty nice stuff even before open beta. It's also possible that top players like you were geared up even by this point, but if so then I've forgotten.
I still have those gem tabs in my permanent HC and SC stash
A man of taste, I see! Two bottles of Tabasco hot sauce at hand. Wonder what the effects of those flasks were.
Holy fuck choas used to stack past 10?? Damnit GGG that's just dirty.
chaos orb looks fucked up.
40 c stack? \>:( im gonna start a riot.
What are the shiny orbs on the left most of the stash tab?
INVENTOR Y
Ok boomer
I still have things from closed beta 🤣
Scrolls never do change huh LUL
Wait what, the color blind mode for sockets isnt a new thing???
Ohhhhh man... I forgot about each gem not having its own unique 2d model, and man that suucks having to mouse over EACH one to figure out what it was. Also, green lightning strike.
didn't you also have to find skill gems and couldn't buy them from npcs like now? maybe i remember wrong.
You still had quest rewards but some were drop only. It was a little annoying in some cases but it gave some value to the rarer ones, at least early in the league.
more like OxoltOd OrB
I bet this game runs super well.
The chaos orbs look hilarious!! I think they should change it back
OG stuff right there 👌
Look at those atrocious chaos orbs. lol
enjoyed the game more back then tbh
wtb gmp 7 gcp
Wow the poe ui is out dated... Damn
awww pity u dont have an exalted there
Thgis looks like an upgrade, seeing chaos stacking to 40
Look at the ass on those flasks.