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In 3.10 Delirium, my designed divination card "The Progeny of Lunaris" for the unique flask "Dying Sun" will be added to the game. Some people might feel this degrades the Shaper fight and the chase for one of his better rewards and I totally understand their point of view, but this has been a big deal for me and I want to share some of it's backstory for those who might be interested.
In 2015, my father died from cancer after a long fought battle with it for years. It was hard for our entire family, and I couldn't imagine how much harder it was for him. Till the end, he kept his smile and positive attitude and tried the best he could to protect and hide all the horrors he had to go through for us around him.
Whether or not it's healthy, gaming has always been my escape from reality and a way to distance myself from my problems so I can look at them from a broader perspective later on. PoE has helped me immensely with that, and from the moment I learned that I could design a div card, I knew I wanted to try to honor my father in one when I had the money to do so.
As a fairly new player, the Dying Sun flask has been a chase item for most of my builds. When I learned the Shaper and Elder was going to be downgraded to side content, I knew I wanted to be able to have it in my future builds regardless of how rare the Shaper would be post Conqueror of the Atlas. At the same time, I learned that div cards could be designed for boss drops by "Succor of the Sinless" for the "Bottled Faith" flask, and that marked the beginning of the idea.
My father was born on 20 July 1969, the same day as Apollo 11 got to the moon and Neil Armstrong took the first steps on it. I instantly connected the dots, and saw the potential for a Solaris/Lunaris theme where my father would be projected as someone strong from the Lunaris side fighting with all his might sacrificing himself for his comrades. With some help from the devs at GGG, we came up with the flavour text that I felt captured the essence of my story beautifully.
You fought bravely, but in the end the darkness was too strong. Rest in peace <3
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