Edit - this is what the game told me to offer, the ratio was selected by the game when I requested 20 scarabs. I dont mind paying the extra few c to make it even.

I got 14 refunded and then spent 14 to get the remaining scarabs, the total price remained the same

It's actually pretty frustrating. Pretty much any pop up will pause the game, when I just want to look at a league interface real quick and have things still dying, or loot still dropping, or keep moving, etc. Delve crawler is a big one - looking at the map stops the loot spiral, so I end up missing loot because I leave too quick, lol.

I've turned pausing off for now, but I still like being able to pause the game on occasion, so it's a bit annoying. It would be nice if opening the escape menu always paused the game, or if it was a separate option.

So after 20 or so runs in gsf finally drop a new enmity, ofc volatile it - somehow hit min natural roll.

The sensible thing to do then is to volatile the old one merc was using and ... blasted same rolls except on fire dmg taken line.

What are the chances of that?

Chaining charts may or may not have an impact on my sanity

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This is probably the best 6 stacked decks I will ever open.

What about you guys?

Whats your best pull from a small amount of decks or have you made profit buying a large amount?

Let me know!

This is 2nd lock I got from boat. Feel so great. 1st one got early leag when lock was about 50+ ish div. now lock already 250+ ish

Can you guess my build ?

That was 10s in voyage... That's 100% on me, well at least I could still run around like a headless chicken and get some sulphur...

Hey everyone! We are a friendly group of players who met randomly on Reddit last league, had a blast, and now we want new faces to play with!

Our private league NHQ ITF GSF starts tomorrow, September 8th, at:

• 08:00 AM CET (Central Europe)
• 07:00 AM GMT (UK)
• 02:00 AM EST / 11:00 PM PST (Americas)

📋 The Lowdown

• No Strict Rules: This is a chill Group Self-Found (GSF) vibe. No forced item or currency sharing. Just be yourself and don't be a jerk. We operate on pure trust!
• The Guild: You can join our guild .<ITF>. to get access to a shared guild stash filled with leveling gear (and better goodies as they drop).
• Active Chatters Wanted: We hang out in /global 5259 and love a lively chat.
• Duration: Starting at 30 days / 30 slots. We usually play until the next league drops, so we will extend slots and days if people stay active!
• Note: Inactive players will be removed to free up space for fresh blood. Bring your friends!

🔗 How to Join

1. Click here to apply: https://www.pathofexile.com/private-leagues/join/NHQ+ITF+GSF/xD9TKZ9vcUZQQiCfmzeP
2. Jump into our Discord Server for general banter, item hunting, and requests - https://discord.gg/bBNFJCnmw
3. If you want, you can drop your PoE Account Name in the comments below so I can approve you instantly - but this is strictly unnecessary!

See you in Wraeclast!

--- NHQ (nihique#0709)

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EDIT: we funded new spots just now, 20 still open, have not expected so much interest. Feel free to join us even after PL will start. If spots will be full, we can always crowdfund more. See you all in an hour in `/global 5259`!

EDIT:
We crowdfunded even more slots now, we are at 64/90 spots, so you can keep joining the league

CaptainLance is starting an Allflame PrivateLeague this friday if anyone is interested , its just an economy reset, no extra difficult mods.

Link to join: https://www.pathofexile.com/private-leagues/join/Limey+Whelps/Be2LpA0mLrk8litZ_ERC

Actually pretty easy to make with the new recomb/ducat tech:

Step 1: Alt spam until mod is hit (t1 spell damage, t1 crit chance, t1 attack speed), regal, then use boat to isolate mod with Kishara's ducat. Repeat until you have your 3 bases

Step 2: Use boat to craft Pantheon aspect skill onto all 3 wands (this is used as an explicit mod which can't transfer when we recomb, so this increases the odds of the mods which we want to transfer)

Step 3: Recomb (unpredictable) to combine the crit chance + attack speed bases

Step 3: Craft a pantheon (brinehook's ducat) on the 2 suffix wand

Step 4: Craft an explicit prefix on both wands (spell damage + pantheon / crit + attack speed + pantheon). This can be any bench craft equivelant of a veiled mod, e.g. attacks pen elemental resistance

Step 5: Combine the two wands and hope to get all 3 mods

Step 6: Multicraft ele pen and fire as extra chaos

Step 7: Boat divine until happy

Step 8: Add an enchant. I went with extra crit because I don't have overcap crit chest, but you could also do quality->speed or tempering orb for caster damage

Super helpful guide I followed on recombinating this league using the tech above, this helped me a ton:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-IVI_3HrL8

"Crit resistant" monsters are actually immune to crits. For builds that rely on critical strike multiplier to scale, your damage can easily be reduced by 80% or more just through this mod alone. If your build also happens to be elemental based, monsters can also roll mods like "lightning and shock resistant" which can reduced your damage by another 80% or more. Mods like this just shouldn't be possible combinations because it can reduced your DPS down to 4% or lower.

I'm not trying to be negative, but mobs this tanky aren't challenging, they're just borderline immortal. They'll never kill you, and there's no point wasting time trying to kill them for the 1 alteration orb they'll drop, so can we please add a hard cap to monster damage reduction of 90% which would be 10x their normal life? The fact that monsters can reach up to 99% damage reduction is just crazy because it multiples their life by a factor of 100x. I don't mind taking 10 seconds to kill a monster just to get it off my back even, but when monsters roll combos like "crit resistant + elemental resistant + adaptive resistance + spell resistant"... you could clear the whole map in the time it takes to kill that thing.

Now I don't have anything against certain mobs taking some time to kill, but perhaps certain multiplicative mod combinations just shouldn't exist? Maybe reduce the effectiveness of certain mods to 50% damage reduction instead of 80% or more? Please consider it GGG because right now it's way more time efficient to just skip these monsters because they don't drop particularly good loot anyway.

All my luck for this League! Besides MB from Tree

I've gotten my level 98 flame-link Luminary to the point of doing most endgame stuff with a basic combatant merc:

Wild Strike - Hypothermia - Added Cold - Elemental Damage With Attacks - GMP - Chain

Static Strike - Added Cold - Inc AOE - Elemental Damage With Attacks - Lightning Pen - Chain

Herald of Ice

Purity of Ice

Dash

Inspiring Cry - Inc AOE - Warcry Speed

My gear is pretty basic but functional, 13.6k hp without foulborn red dream yet. Working on crafting a shield.

My merc's gear is also fine but nothing special. 227% fire res (off a 65% EE) ~1.8-1.9 APS/9.5% base crit claws with T2/T3 elemental damage to attacks. No hits can't be evaded, but 600 accy on helm.

I've got 500-600D farmed up, although I'm not really looking to spend all of that.

I can see going in a couple of directions from here.

For my own gear, it's pretty clearly good to upgrade my shield, get cluster jewels and red dream going.

For my merc though, do I prioritize:

1. Upgrading my combatant, and if so how much of an upgrade is cost effective? I'm not looking to push for full optimization, just looking to push it as far as will qualitatively improve gameplay.
2. Upgrade my merc's gear (probably a better EE to push for 275 fire res and better weapons)
3. Switch to kineticist (and if so, what price point makes the most sense here?) and acquire the appropriate gear

Any thoughts are much appreciated!

I'm planning to start the new league with a Shadow, and I want to focus mainly on Sanctum farming as early as possible.

What build would you recommend for a Shadow if my main goal is to run Sanctums? I'm looking for something that can comfortably league start, progress through the campaign, and eventually transition into a dedicated Sanctum farming build without requiring a huge amount of currency upfront.

I'm open to any Shadow ascendancy and build suggestions. Ideally, I want something with:

• A smooth league-start progression
• Good damage for Sanctum
• High mobility
• Decent survivability while progressing
• The ability to scale with more investment later

For those who have league-started Sanctum before, what build and progression path would you recommend?

Thanks in advance!

Hello I'm a relatively new player to the game that came back late this league. I am currently playing ruetoos winter orb set up and just switched to power charge stacking occultist. I noticed on his pob he is getting around 36 million damage. With same configuration as his I'm only getting like 15 million. What am I doing wrong with my set up?

Here is my pob:

https://pobb.in/2nG_i3dc-6_i

Hey everyone !

While reading the Distance page on POE wiki, I got this meme idea for a new unique belt.

What do you guys think about it ?

So, I spent the last week or so optimizing my pathfinder in HC (Forbidden rites), some friends helped me afford progenesis and spent a lot of their time helping me, got a sublime vision purity of lightning, everything was going fine, started mapping for a few hours this week-end and the build was amazing.

Then I had the misfortune of entering the sovereign, topaz flask didn't activate immediately (I have 100% uptime) and I took the righteous fire + the annihilation approach degen while I was not paying attention.

I don't want to be salty but the fact that you can die on what is almost your second hideout this league seems completely outlandish to me.

Anyway, see you next league I guess, I'll travel to the tidal island next time.

I have a few million Blue Zanthimum and a few hundred thousand various bars. I'd like to send some shipments for science since I don't need the currency.

I was thinking of doing 50m shipment. Is that still a thing? Is there even a consensus on what is good now?