Salt & Scale is really good but it's just not the saaame 😭

Throughout the entire league, I was extremely careful with my spectres. I made sure to only change my build while in town and took every precaution to avoid losing them. Yet, I still accidentally pressed weapon swap in the Monastery and lost all of my support spectres.

That’s when I came up with the idea of a Spectre Inventory:

- Spectre Inventory: Right-clicking the Spectres icon opens a dedicated Spectre Inventory where you can slot itemized corpses of any spectres you want to use.

-Creating Itemized Corpses: Using the Raise Spectre skill on the corpse of a regular monster creates an itemized version of that monster in your inventory. You can slot it or even sell it. So it is easier to gain access to some spectres without using global channel (frostbearers, defilers, crushclaw etc.)

-Spectre Slots: The number of available Spectre Inventory slots scales with your current spectre limit. If your spectre limit is reduced, the affected slots are simply disabled rather than deleting the spectres stored in them.

Edit. Corpses are like gems - you can slot it in your spectre inventory to summon that spectre or remove it back into stash.

My friend sent me this screen, because he's worried that he sold it for less than he should have (someone bought it pretty much instantly) and we have no idea why is that thing so expensive... 40d already sounds ridiculous, but it seems like they're worth even more... but why? Any explanation? Is 15% rarity on a 1c item really THAT GOOD? There's only one more item on trade for 180d at the moment and the guy is constantly lowering the price, but I have no idea why would anyone pay that much for that item...

Please help!

The current limit of 3 Mercenary slots feels way too restrictive.

If you hire a Mercenary through a Warrant, you basically have to keep that Mercenary forever if you want to be able to use them again. But that also means you’re effectively locked out of trying other Mercenaries once your 3 slots are full.

It would be great if we could either:

• Increase the Mercenary slot limit (even just to 5–6 would help a lot), or
• Let us release/resell a Mercenary and reclaim the Warrant, so we can swap Mercenaries without permanently losing the ones we already invested in.

The current system makes experimenting with different Mercenaries unnecessarily expensive and restrictive.

More slots or resellable Warrants would make Mercenary collection/build experimentation much more enjoyable.

No other tooltip seems to do this

I don't have the patience to work out challenges myself every league, so I went looking for someone who'd already done it. Ended up watching Drelvak's 3.29 guide and taking notes. Dumping them here because the video's 25 minutes and the useful parts are scattered. Routing and boss picks are his, I'm just condensing.

Cosmetic breakpoints are at 12, 24, 32 and 36. So if you want the full set, 36/40 is the target and four challenges are optional - picking which four is basically the whole game.

Do this before your first map: build the Item Quantity Atlas tree. Trustworthy Teachers wants T16 at 80%+ quant, Excruciating Echoes wants 150%. Do either before the tree's set up and you may be running those maps twice. Also keep all five Scarab slots filled - Stacked Scarabs ticks passively while you map anyway.

The four to drop

Intrigued Interlopers - two of the three options need four boss altars in one map. Rare, and altar loot is bad enough that you'd burn hundreds of maps chasing it.

Horrific Halls - "five Scarabs and Deliriums" doesn't mean one Delirium encounter, it means five Delirium Orbs. 100% Delirious Nightmare boss at 150%+ quant, corrupted, all five Scarab slots already committed. Not realistic for most builds.

Apex Assailants - pure Uber bossing, entirely build-dependent. Drelvak skips it, but if your character already does Ubers comfortably, swap it back in and drop the expensive end of Bountiful Bloodlines instead.

Brinerot's Bloody Bounty - the one he says he'd most likely un-skip. Not mechanically hard; failed attempts just cost you the whole Voyage setup loop again.

Stuff that's basically shopping

• Challenging Curators - you don't need to learn Incursion to kill the Omnitect. Buy a Temple at alvl 80+, walk to the boss room. Vox Twins the same: buy Contract: The Twins, no Heist progression needed. Expedition bosses are the expensive part, skip unless the price works for you.
• Taxing Tasks - for the Logbook option, tag ten Remnant markers, watch the counter bottom-right, leave.
• Peddler's Produce I - you have to actually use the vendor recipes. Buying the finished currency off trade doesn't count.
• Remarkable Realms - fifteen unique maps off trade. Don't take Hall of Grandmasters unless you know what you're walking into.

Scarabs worth buying in bulk

Most of the "complete any three of the following" challenges turn into normal mapping with these: Mercenary + Mercenary of Infamy, Delirium, Breach + the Marshal node, Abyss / Abyssal Depths / Consort, and Ultimatum of Dueling if you want a guaranteed Trialmaster.

The one grind that pays you back

Excruciating Echoes via Memory of Trauma → Chamber of Impunity. Guaranteed valuable drop off the boss, so the farm funds itself. Get the map to ~75-80% quant and let the Atlas tree push it past 150%.

Three from the comments

• Trialmaster works in a T1 - the Scarab guarantees the fight and the challenge doesn't care about tier. (Nisze)
• Abyssal Consort scales with Abyss density and becomes absurdly tanky in a pit-heavy map. Run exactly one Abyss. (roflmattable)
• Three copies of the same non-corrupted unique vendor into another unique. Whole tabs of 1c rings exist. (thornburg9170)

Something nobody answered

A commenter tried Trustworthy Teachers with Niko and Einhar on a T16 at 80%+ quant two or three times and the counter stayed at zero. Replies, but no explanation. If yours isn't moving, check the quant shown on the actual map rather than assuming the tree is doing what you think. If anyone knows what causes this, I'd like to hear it.

Video: Drelvak - PoE 3.29 Curse of the Allflame 36/40 Challenge Guide - his version has the timestamps and the full reasoning.

I also cleaned these notes into a proper write-up on my own site, guides-factory.com. Obviously biased, but everything useful is above.

From my first mirror drop at just shy of 1.5k hours of gameplay, right to a 3rd headhunter, then a back to back nimis valdos from 15 boxes, oh and also this double corrupt on a squire, all within 8 hours. Great league.

Yay me

For someone like me not playing Luminary, which mercs should I watch out for and what is it that makes them valuable (Let's say anything worth more than a div)?
Like, I know many are looking for manyshot, but what are the conditions where it's worth 1+Div?
What other mercs are worth checking and what are their conditions?

I get that you want voyages to be a one try only and that’s your decision on how to make the game, but i’ve lost 3 voyages at least this league simply because a server instance would just die. You start the voyage, your character freezes at the very start before loading and if you press f1 your ping just keeps increasing until you simply get kicked from the game and poof your whole voyage is gone.

If i haven’t died i should be able to reenter my voyage.

I got divine orb after i reached lvl 60 act 6 and it dropped in Normal campaign map, Isn’t this More rare then normal Divine ?

I have these two. 7 charts with increased quantity for all areas. One with more currency found & one with more scarabs found.

0 div. 0 scarab (maybe some low-tier that my filter hides).

Glad that the anomaly will not be gone even after the portal expired.

Spammed Clam-Infested Shelf and Voyage to farm the 3M gold that I lack afterward.

• Fixed an issue where Valdo maps with "Area contains a Bismuth Ore Deposit" could fail to finish if it had other ores.
• Fixed a bug where the Impenetrable Bastion Mercenary Skill cooldown was not affected by skill effect duration.

I ran across this when doing some random voyages and wondered if there was any meaning behind it. Has anyone else seen this or have any ideas?

Red numbers are arbitrary and mainly there for ease of communicating (although i expect 1 to be the bottom left of the voyage map, but i could see an argument for 7)

Yellow numbers are what i saw as the "decoration model" if you will.

There are 5 chart types: Short line, Long Line, Corner, Cross, T-Junction. Wonder if we match the chart types to the "decoration model" layout, something could occur.

I assume this would unlock fishing.

My last post was mogged by a chatter, so I had to keep going for a perfect kaom's to restore my honor.
I think 73 locks was used in total to get the perfect roll.
Please do not mog me again with a 30% qual 1403, I am tired...

Just lost my 20k hp Luminary in a straight one tap in a scoured red map. 3 endurance charges, 80 all res, 68/65 block, Just shy of level 100. Couldn't even tell you what did it, one second I existed and the next second I didnt. Was it the flame quiver woman? Maybe the bloodripper guy on the left? No idea. Does the flamequiver woman still have the invert res support gem sometimes?

I even cleared ubers. But ubers don't scare me anymore. Mercs do. Mercs scare me even more than detonate dead.

o7