Every League Mechanic Explained! [PoE University]

Timestamps in the video bar as usual.
Let us know if this format works for you, there is a lot to cover when explaining every league, so in order to avoid a 10 hour video we had to be very succint on each one!

When you got to harbinger and mentioned that partnership line I nearly choked.

Yo Ziz, still one of the funniest videos you've ever done! I'm here creasing at this video in 2023, live long and live well brother!

three weeks in and cant even figure out how to get my resistances to 75%. on act 9 with 1k health. getting 1 shot by everything. ive done all the researching i can. sad they would make a game this confusing. I have a headache so ive decided to uninstall. thanks for trying to help.

I would love to see an updated lecture of this Prof. Ziz!

idk i tride but i just cant anymore

Grats for the video. Very well explained!

Can we have an updated version? It'd be trully awesome to have one of those at the start of every league

Haven't played since Betrayal, coming back in Kalandra at the moment. This was very very helpful.

I still don't understand betrayel. After 3k hours in the game.

THANKS A LOT

Lets play drinking game when Ziz say Hmmm ^^

wheres expedition?

Makes sense that I feel like I have no idea what's going on playing my first league. The amount of mechanics in this game is insane. Which is awesome. Should have e switch from Diablo a long time ago lol

You forgot the league when I first tarted playing years ago and I think was one of the very first leagues: Strongbox. Had multiple strongboxes in each zone just about, and learned you can use currency on them and yadda yadda.

I'm not sure if I encountered Invasion before but I'm pretty sure I haven't seen one or I have seen one but I didn't know it's part of Invasion league. Is there a distinct indicator for it? I mean legion for example, has purple stone you have to click etc.

Subscribed, youve really been pumping out ext level content for quite a while now.

"used for a ((slightly)) overpowered build that you can build, called the aura stacker" - ziz the aziz

Could you upload it somewhere like Tidal or Spotify(or both) like a podcast so i can listen on the go. Tyy

I got spawn trapped at campfire by a rogue exile during act 3 this league lol it was ruff

PSA the League specific drop is now mostly not a thing. There's a few exceptions (like voices/assailum) but for the most part its gone so you dont need nemesis for HH anymore.

Holy sh*t I've just realised I've been playing PoE since the first league...

"...partnering with hospitals.. specializing in wrist injuries.." 🤣 Ziz you crack us up

I wish the first 12 or so waves of simulacrum didn't feel like a waste of time

wait, isn’t this just a game ?

I have trouble understanding what he is saying , have to rewind a few times to figure it out .

Started playing on console in delirium, can confirm, if you want to die just walk thru the mirror and lag your mind out lol it did get fixed but damn it was a shit show off league start

Prophecies are really strong. But there is soo many of them. I’ve gotten the 5 link and 6 link ones, they come in clutch early game

Wait,what? i need to let ghosts to take control of other monsters? i thought i had to kill them before they run too far, wow so much to learn :D

TIL you can apply mods on strongboxes

Ziziran, talking about abyss: Amanamu is extremely dangerous
Me, a new player: Omnomnomu?

This video is longer than Ive been able to play Ultimatum on day one so far....

looking to get into the game, would enkis arc wizard build be viable to start the new league as?

I loved Abyss for music and design. Music especially. It's nice to see it been pointed out.

Are GGG idiots by nerfing Harvest? Sorry for being an "asshole" and offensive.

legacy hope it come fast back

man please can create build assassin FLICKER STRIKE x2 dagger? im like assasin and like dager and FLICKER STRIKE.... im want version for 3.13.Someone talk bad charge franzy ...no work on Farrul's Fur
Triumphant Lamellar + Ice Bite Support gem ?

Bloodlines the bad mod is heralds of the obelisk I think. Every now and then there's one sneaky bastard who spawns behind something so your attack that normally blows up the whole screen just turns it into a lightning forest.

The old leagues from when the game launched in 2013 are weird and buggy. They are also the source of the majority of the performance issues in the modern game; I suspect the code isn't 100% optimised and since it's so deep in the game's mechanics now 8 years later, it would be difficult for the developers to fix things without breaking the rest of the game. I also suspect it's kinda the same problem CCP had to deal with old code in EVE Online, so I think GGG is in the same boat. It's mostly Nemesis which causes most of the issues and since it's now core code it tends to activate onto other league mechanics and causes those mechanics to lag as a result; Also the Nemesis mechanics start showing up much earlier than other deadly league mechanics, around act 9 and if players are not fully geared in their starter builds by then it could result in them getting 1 shot very quickly, it's especially an issue in Hard Core, more often than not new players will get beached by Nemesis mechanics early on before reaching maps or taken out by the ascendancy obstacles.
Players also start encountering Domination earlier than every other league mechanic in the game with the exception of the current league, right from the get go of Act 1 and with it the crazy mob density associated, luckily Domination mob clusters are easy now; The buff shrines showing up from the very start.

God I hate Harbinger for bringing shards into the game for bigger orbs.

Thank you for this video. You've put out a lot of great content and this has been one of the more impactful ones for me (at this time anyway; really needed to learn about all the different things to lookout for while going into maps and completing my atlas)

Hadn't played since Delve, really needed this, thanks Ziz!

This video was awesome, thanks ziz

This is why I have a love hate relationship with PoE. Absolute content vomit.

It was like a 6% chance of not being a beachhead from using this harbinger orbs btw

i got a map with the ghosts
and until that map (including the map clear) i thought this mechanic was what ever
until 5 spawned in the boss arena and 4 possessed the boss which made him insane
i'd get 1 shot from 2 screens away
first map i had to yeet out from until that point
i'd imagine this scenario is an instant logout for hc players

How long until we have professional gaming universities? I don’t think it will be long

Good Job Bro

I think it would help to think of the term "content specific" uniques, rather than boss uniques (things that require a specific (type of) enemy, or chest), this would help differentiate them from "league specific" uniques (which can drop anywhere with a high enough iLvl that has that league mechanic enabled).