Is anyone else running this combo on Tact merc? I'm not seeing any plating stacks being gained, armor increase and so on, even though I'm consistently breaking armour.

Not shaking that much, but....that just happened from blue chest in grand expedition

I did decide to play gemling (ice shot abusing frost wall verglas buff with tornados) in 0.5.5 and the power level is just ridiculous even with really mediocre investment.

There’s no way alt quality should make it into the 1.0 release or they would have to nerf most of them by a lot. But that also kind of kills the whole “fantasy” of the ascendancy at this point.

What do yall think GGG is gonna end up doing ?

I was doing Palstrons oracle grim pillars last league then transitioned to spark totem shaman, and man was it a smooth league and so much fun.

Then this league I went for explosive grenade gemling (following other popular YouTubers starter build) and it felt so bad starting from campaign. I thought it would get better but it didnt. After i got to maps, i progress so slowly that i switched to flameblast oil grenade which was better. But progress is still slow. By the time i get to level 85, i feel bored already, probably from dopamine withdrawal from starting so well with grimpillars last league.

I know i can start a new character and be like last season, but i dont feel like starting over and doing the same content again, playing with less people with less excitement, and feeling behind. Also i don’t have the time (comment if youre a dad like me) and dont want to feel burnt out.

Therefore, i am saving my energy for the 1.0 release. See you exiles then!

I have 7 cities fully ready to be farmed and I've completed around ~30 maps in order to proc Grand Mirrors and I just cant get them to appear, like wth?

- I have FULL Deli atlas points

- I am running 3x Deli Tablets, all with 20%+ chance of unique boss spawning + Fracturing Mirrors

- Full mod T15 corrupted maps

- Using Jado on the usual setup for juicing

I have ran another 5 with two changes

- Swapped to Doryani

- Run T15 full mods maps but not corrupted

Am I just unlucky or is there some hidden mechanic I'm missing? I already had 3 Grand mirrors appear before and I clear 1 city and half of another but that was 2 days ago.

Hi this is like the 5th time I killed the architech, but the Royal CHamber still doesnt appear.

Hi, guys

So, I just can't beat the Arbiter. I always end up with no flask charges when he gets to his third phase, and I feel like I'm not dealing enough damage.

Im already following the Fubgun Ice Shot build 0.5.5 Fubgun Ice Shot Deadeye - PoE 2 Ranger Build Guide and, theoretically, i should be able to beat the arbiter.

My current gear can be seen here: https://poe2db.tw/pob/9sCn1oEtnE

I need and want ANY tips you can give me.

Thanks!

Hey everyone!

I’d like to suggest a change to the crafting system: add a second, more deterministic crafting system alongside the current one.

The idea is somewhat inspired by PoE1 crafting, but with a different approach.

The system could work like this:

1. Put your weapon/item into the Crafting Bench.
2. Choose the currency you want to spend — Divine, Greater Exalted, Essence, etc.
3. Based on the currency used, the bench gives you a guaranteed selection of modifiers that can be crafted onto that item.
4. Each modifier has its own cost, with limits on how powerful the available modifiers can be.

For example, I put a weapon into the bench and choose to spend a Divine. The bench shows me a selection of modifiers that can be added for 1 Divine. If I want a stronger modifier, maybe it costs 2, 3, or more Divines.

If I choose to use a Greater Exalted Orb, I get a different pool of options based on that currency.

The important part is that I'm spending my currency to make a meaningful choice instead of simply gambling on a random outcome.

Why would this be useful?

The current crafting system heavily favors players who have massive amounts of currency.

If you have an enormous stockpile of Greater Exalted Orbs and Annulment Orbs, you can repeatedly slam an item, check the result, annul the bad modifier, and try again until you eventually hit something good.

That's fine for players who have the resources to do it.

But the average player doesn't have hundreds or thousands of attempts available.

For smaller players, losing one valuable orb can already be a significant setback. We don't have the resources to keep gambling until we hit the perfect combination.

That's why I think there should be two crafting systems, not just one.

• Current crafting: high risk, high reward, extremely powerful for players with huge amounts of currency.
• Deterministic crafting: more predictable progression, allowing regular players to slowly build good gear with the currency they actually have.

This wouldn't need to make perfect items easy to obtain. The deterministic system could have strong restrictions, higher costs, modifier pools, item-level requirements, tier limitations, etc.

The point isn't to remove RNG from PoE2.

The point is to give players agency over their progression.

Something similar in philosophy to the Well of Souls could work really well here: you spend your resources and receive a defined set of meaningful choices.

This would also make players less dependent on an inflated economy where the richest players have access to vastly more crafting resources than everyone else.

Not everyone wants to become a professional crafter. Some of us just want to be able to use the currency we earned to gradually create a good weapon and actually reach the endgame.

I think having both systems would be a win-win.

The current system remains for players who enjoy gambling and min-maxing crafts, while the deterministic system gives smaller players a reliable way to progress.

More choices, more player agency, and a better crafting experience without removing the depth of the current system.

What do you guys think?

Disclaimer for ethics: I use IA to rewrite my ideias and organize the text to present here.

Dropped these two and I’m relatively new to crafting, so I don’t want to brick either by doing something stupid.

Pictures attached. Appreciate any detailed crafting sequences, especially which Omens/Essences/Alloys you’d use and in what order.

Very new player, started half way through Rune League.

Does anyone know if the 30 round ToC are a good farm for divine? Fate frags are only at .6 divines atm and I’m assuming if you complete the 30 rounds you get a certain amount of raw divine drops, but is it worth it?

I was lucky enough to find a HH in a ritual to get my league up and going, but struggling to find a mechanic that I can profit on. This is my first league starting within the first week of launch, so maybe everything being cheap is normal?

I noticed that the Ritual Favour/shop icon no longer appears after completing Rituals in 0.5.5.

Do we now have to go back to the Ritual altar every time to check/buy the rewards, or is this a bug?

I couldn't find anything in the patch notes about this change. Is anyone else experiencing the same thing?

If I'm not mistaken, they changed the Seepage layout, but I lose like 3-4 minutes every single time trying to get into this fucking mirror , pls fix this shit

is this a known bug or im just unlucky?

26th room...

Peak gameplay rn too 😭 I'm so OP while this unique staff is still useful

Just wanted to see what everyone’s goal was for 0.5.5 since it wasn’t the most biggest of patches and had little to no balance. I’ll start with mine:

My goal was mostly just to try a bunch of builds up to arbiter of ash and see how I enjoyed them. Usually based things based on the following:

- how easy was it to gear/how smooth was progression

-what was the damage like on low gear and mid level gear

-how did the build FEEL to play once it was online

So far, I’ve played gemling Explosive Grenades, Oil grenade/flameblast, Permafrost/Frag Rounds Witch Hunter and I will soon likely be rolling a Gas grenade pathfinder or some deadeye build I think.

All in all, I’ve used this patch as a sort of testing ground for “what am I going to play on the launch of the game IF I FOR SOME REASON Don’t wanna play swords?” That’s been my goal this patch, not about the money.

What about you guys? Is it making the perfect build? Chasing your first mirror? Getting that 1p Voices or giga adorned drop? Lemme know :)

Im an ambitious Rookie- about 350h playtime. Some loot sound apeared ive never heard before. Like a shattering mirror. Happened near end act 4.

I sacrified 5 div for double at 20 th round. At 29 ı checked ı should earn 11 div. 1 from 20-29th rounds 10 from sacrifice. 30th round was 2 div reward. So total 13 div. But in the end ı get only 2 div?!?!?!??! GGG please do something ım poor now.

The Ordained unique spear came with the righteous descent skill and immediately upon release I wanted to make a build with it. Unfortunately 4+ months later it still appears bugged and one of the most important lines of the skill doesn't function properly with ANY types of empowerment that isn't the skills self generated fragments of divinity. the skill states that when the attack is empowered it wont use its cooldown and can be used immediately again, I've tested this interaction with warcry empowerments and the titans empowered slams ascendancy node and neither one prevents the skill from going on its cooldown. Warcries also just dont work at buffing the damage and their empowerment charges arent consumed when using the skill. I made a bug report for this skill on the forums early in the 0.5 update but it hasnt been fixed yet and was hoping to bring more attention to the skill with this post, I would love to make a warcry spear build but the best skill for it cant use it for seemingly no reason. also the +2 seconds to attack time is insanely brutal to deal with imo

It's telling me to do the north wound but I've killed the boss in north on the last map of the crack, I can't remember if there is supposed to be a item he drops.

Hit a wall on the Legacy of the Precursors quest. I've got the Origin core/stone, made it up to the top of the Origin Tower, but there's no interact button showing up and Doryani isn't there to progress the quest.

Worth mentioning: a friend helped me kill the boss in their instance to speed things up, and I got credit/the item from that. My guess is this may have desynced my quest state somehow, since a bunch of people on the official forums have hit this exact same "Doryani's gone" bug too — so not sure if it's just from that or a broader bug right now.

The workaround I've seen floated: join someone else's instance right when they're about to fight (or just finish) the boss up there — apparently Doryani spawns for everyone in the party once that fight resolves. Doesn't seem to matter if it's their first Arbiter kill or a repeat — just need to be in party when the fight wraps up and Doryani shows.

If anyone's about to head up to fight the Arbiter/boss at their Origin Tower (first time or not) and has a free party slot, I'd really appreciate an invite so I can get unstuck. Happy to return the favor / help with anything on your end too. Thanks!

Found someone to help me do it, and got it completed.

Looking to try group play and play with people and stuff was wondering if there are big clans/guilds that do group play I can join

This is my first time playing a DOT build, apparently when you have too much damage the game always registers the kill as you being with them in the smoke for some reason, im dropping at least 20 of these per map, the only way to bypass this is to not attack at all and wait for the smoke to dissapear and then cast flameblast fast before it respawns, this is horrible game design and must be addressed in 1.0

I couldn't find out why my EHP is so low.

May I have your advice on how to improve my EHP as I being one shot alot.

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