I just did my first map with it, and plan for it to be the ONLY map I play with it on. Absolutely the most unfun thing I’ve encountered in this game. It’s too fast, too unnoticeable, spawns too frequently, and often spawned centered around my character, making it nearly impossible to keep from it compounding.

An interesting and challenging mechanic should make me want to engage with it more so I can overcome an obstacle and feel good about it. This just made me want to stop playing the game, the only good feeling I had was knowing the map was done, and I plan to just sell any waystone that has it on, regardless of how good any other perks are. What a horribly designed mechanic.

2LBottleofPiss

36 | a day ago

increased waystone drop chance per map modifier instead of quant+rarity

Comprehensive-Log804

5 | a day ago

My map tab is full, i’m vendoring 80% of the maps i find. Same with tablets.

Ok_Zombie414

4 | a day ago

Try running a citadel with increased waystone drop chance and see the light, I got 3 fragments from 1 boss yesterday

2LBottleofPiss

5 | 19 hours ago

I don’t really care about one juicy map if 30 others in a radius are bad xD

I just want to have a reason to run 6mod corrupted maps other than for lulz. If my character can survive such hostile environment I feel like I should be rewarded

Comfortable-Fun1726

1 | a day ago

So very true, and people who never played poe1 don’t realise that temp chains can be avoided now. That was not the case in poe1.

2LBottleofPiss

1 | 19 hours ago

yeah but honestly this game is so zoomy that I never felt like Temporal Chains is a bad mod in PoE 1

Acceptable-Put6542

21 | a day ago

Not a modifier but my least favorite mechanic by far is trial of chaos.

It is just so mind numbingly boring.

Pretty much every room is some form of waiting around. The travel between rooms is whatever but waiting on the timer or escorting the statue drives me insane

kiefy_budz

15 | a day ago

I just wish he wouldn’t keep pausing time to explain the rules like I get it already I have to do the thing

throwawaywhatever27

1 | 18 hours ago

This. I tried to farm it a while back and after 2 runs i was already bored out of my mind and stopped.

StayAdmiral

18 | a day ago

I wish temporal chains didn’t also apply to their servers.

Osteinum

5 | a day ago

Haha this!

myst3r10us_str4ng3r

1 | 16 hours ago

Sharkbait_O_aha

8 | a day ago

Best part of my crit incinerate pathfinder build is one of the ascendancy nodes is immune to slows to I can just walk right through it and since I only hold down 1 button it doesn’t affect me at all, but yes any other build it’s trash

Cellari

2 | a day ago

Same, except with Rapid Shot. I’m hearing players complain that Temporal Chains is their weakness, while I feel my build validated because I can ignore it. :D

This coming from a player who has learned to live with temp chains, reflect, and no regen maps in PoE1

Tldr; it’s fine in my opinion, nothing new. Widening available build options can help counter it.

FattestRabbit | 💀 Minion Enjoyer

1 | 2 hours ago

I’m torn between incinerate pathfinder or chronomancer. Why’d you decide on pathfinder? The move speed or…?

Sharkbait_O_aha

1 | 36 minutes ago

The move speed from the second ascendancy is almost required in my opinion, since it gives you immunity to slows on the first and 50% reduced affect of movement while channeling. I also use a From Nothing diamond to allocate the passive that lets you not dodge roll but can’t be light stunned. With all the movement I just hold incinerate down and spin as I walk through the map and everything instantly melts it’s very satisfying

HotTruth8845

6 | a day ago

It could be a good mechanic by simply making the monsters gain lots of movement speed every time you get affected by it. The principle would be the same, a speed unbalance but with the difference of not wanting to kill yourself.

Yasai101

5 | a day ago

Its temporal chains and 1 hit death from random nowhere.. and and stun/animation cancelling

Jaad5

4 | a day ago

Temporal chains should be a physical debuff. I mean for instance some kind of totem that pops ups and chain you. We should be able to destroy the totem tho.

Massive_Put1638

4 | a day ago

Portal out and back in. Bye bye chains.

GiveMeSomeShu-gar

2 | a day ago

That’s slow and risks infinite loading screen

TheRealBeefChief

2 | a day ago

Exp penalty on death. It’s anti-fun considering the absolute lack of options to counter it. It doesn’t need to be 10% when that can literally mean hours of gameplay lost due to lag or on screen clutter preventing you from dodging a mechanic.

jjamesw1995

2 | a day ago

Temporal chains should only have the capability of procking you if you’re not already effected by it…

Osteinum

-3 | a day ago

Nothing beats when you have 2 sek left and is too slow to avoid the next on, bam back to 20 sek. I play d4 s9 now, no temporal chains there😅

CapsizeDnB

4 | a day ago

Burning ground, Jesus Christ

Last-External-4323

3 | a day ago

I am new into poe and I have been struggling a lot with temporal chains. For me it feels so impossible to dodge, the area is too big and if I ever get hit, I need to afk for 20 seconds. I’ve been trying to use second wind to dispel it but it feels overkill, idk if there are other dispel mechanics out there to help it but ye absolute nightmare of a modifier.

Gentleman-Bird

1 | 18 hours ago

Time of Need also works iirc

blade55555

3 | 19 hours ago

What, you don’t enjoy being 40% slower? It’s my favorite mechanic… To question why they added it and made it worse!

SilverArrows6662

2 | a day ago

Wait till u get temp chains, with ignited ground and 60% slower health and energy shield regen. Freaking suck fest trinity.

J-Dawgzz

1 | a day ago

The only time it’s okay is if the maps affected by something else like elemental weakness, slashes the time affected by half

ImpiusEst

1 | a day ago

I like how temporal chains makes me look at the screen for once.

Sure, i get stuck on every piece of terrain because only the minimap has any indication of where walkable space is… but you cant have everything i guess.

Selamat-Pagii

1 | 9 hours ago

Simulacrum and temporal chains.

SnooHabits3911

0 | a day ago

Exp loss on death.

I can easily avoid temporal chains by selling the waystone that has it.

tehacjusz

5 | a day ago

Only 3% loss is not bad. Play only prefixes waystones.

SnooHabits3911

1 | a day ago

How do you only lose 3? Thought it was 10?

rafpelobello

4 | a day ago

Omen of Amelioration is your best friend there.

SnooHabits3911

1 | a day ago

Yep I need to remember to get more of those

ruedigga

3 | a day ago

Theres an omem that reduces exp loss by 75% when active in your inventory while dying, they are very cheap at alva, like 3ex for 1 i think i always carry 4 of them with me because i suck edit: its called omen of Amelioration

SnooHabits3911

1 | a day ago

Ah yes. I was thinking you were saying it was a prefix on a waystone. Gotcha

GiveMeSomeShu-gar

1 | a day ago

Oh darn I have to get some of those. I died 3 times last night - really set me back

Round-Comfort-9558

5 | a day ago

I hate that as well but there’s an omen the reduces experience loss on death

SnooHabits3911

2 | a day ago

True

What’s your least favorite mechanic in endgame and why is it temporal chains?