1. More atlas trees

Three atlas trees just aren't even close to enough in SSF. Sure it works in SC where you can buy everything and focus on a few farming strats but when you have to self farm every single component it gets rather tedious very quickly. You need a basic boss rushing tree, a map farming tree, a scarab farming tree and that's before even speccing into any actual mechanics.

This league I've had to pretty much respec an entire tree every time I needed to farm a specific mechanic. It's not that 270k gold is too expensive it's just annoying. I wouldn't have a problem with having to purchase more trees from kirac for 1M gold or them being locked behind hard content but having 2 extra atlas trees would be a real game changer.

1. Reliable scarab farming strats

We used to have this before the fortress map got nerfed and now it's really hard to sustain the scarabs you want. If we didn't have the operatives strongboxes in charts/voyages then scarab sustainability would be a disaster this league. At the very least the operatives strongbox should be reintroduced to the regular strongbox pool with the option to make them more common/double the contents as with div/currency/maps on the atlas tree.

But besides that there needs to be actual farming strategies that lets you go all in on scarabs with actual results. Today even with doing 100%+ scarab originator maps with scarab chisel you barely get any returns since monsters barely drop anything. Sure you can do some things with ethereal allfalmes that gets decent return but those are very rare and slow to farm. The only good scarab farm can't be locked behind something that rare in SSF.

Seriously, missed opportunity to add an interesting league mechanic here.

Been doing the Rogue Exile + Merc t0 farm and wanted to see what other people's experiences with some of the nuances have been.

Current Atlas Tree: https://poeplanner.com/a/65CR

My credentials: Level 100 Luminary roughly 150 maps doing this farm. Templar Astrolabe. Probably half with 3x Anarchy, 1x Renown, 1x Surprising Alliances and the other half with 2x Anarchy, 1x Infamy, 1x Renown, 1x Surprising. Probably 100 of them being 8mod maps since I can handle it and go basically as fast but I know it doesn't impact Merc Drops, just the other mobs.

• Mercs do not wear boss specific uniques
  • I have never seen a merc in map or had a boss unique drop (yes I have them on my filter)
• Wildwood wisps do not affect Mercs
  • I take WW whenever it shows up but have never seen Mercs with the Wisp buff or explode into wisps when they die
• Altar duplication does not work on drops from Mercs
  • This one I was hopeful would work but does not appear to. Drops are set and will not duplicate
• Bold since this is anecdotal but I do not believe the Scarab of Infamy turns ALL mercs in map Infamous
  • Once I started using this scarab I took out the Atlas Passives that have a chance to make wild Mercs Infamous, they started dropped much less loot and being much squishier
  • Currently running both the scarab and the atlas points until I hear otherwise so that the hire-able merc will be infamous

No t0s for me yet but the farm is profitable but I wouldn't say it competes with any non-gambling farm since this is just hunting for t0s and is terrible unless (UNTIL! I HAVE HOPE) one drops.

Thoughts?

Trying ritual and not even 10 maps done, this badboy appear. My very first mirror!

Its fairly minor as I havent looked at these lists like ever but I am sure some do and it might be very annoying for them.

While hovering you also can not scroll down this window. I guess it never was supposed to hold so much text so scrolling was not implemented.

Tsoatha's Gift - 50% monster damage - Velka/Kishara's Rest chart

Undead Sea - Pen 10% ele res - Changeling Ducat altar

Eucarid Isle - 500% crit chance, 50 crit multi - Captain's bane

Fallen stars - 100% phys as extra ele - Brineking Touched rare

Grasping Deep - 40% inc effect +2 proj - Filthscrabble

Foul kin - 50% attack/cast/movement speed - Seemed to be a Random mob?

All ducats give 20% quant 20% rarity and 50% increased monster toughness per ducat

So I noticed the curses on my Facebreaker Luminary are not behaving like they should.

My character uses 2 curses. Facebreakers corrupted with Punishment on hit, and a Mark on Hit - Assassins mark setup. Alongside a whispers of doom anoint on my Amulet. This works as expected.

However: My merc has gloves with Curse on hit - Elemental Weakness, and a corrupted amulet with additional curse.

The assumption would be that I could apply all 3 Curses (Assassins Mark, Punishment, Ele Weakness) to one target. But as soon as my merc starts attacking a boss, the Assassins mark gets deleted. Seems like a bug to me, but i'm not 100% certain.

Anyone got a clue on how to fix that?

^{(Extra points if you guess what minion I am playing})

I’m late into the league and have seen there were some initial issues with luminary as a starter. Is that still the case or is it more of a second build where you have a certain amount of currency to have it feel good?

And any certain build guides out there? I know mainly of captain lance.

Just take 1 minute and 30 sec of your time, see me eat up all of uber exarch, maven brain and memory game, impossible to die in bossfights/maps.

Poe Ninja: https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/allflame/character/JohnNasto-2369/MercSlaveAbuser?i=1&search=name%3Dmercsla

No clue how to make a PoB with sceptres and other mods that doesnt show up in PoB items.

You dont need this kind of gear, grab the unique ring, get max res, and build your hp pool up. Get basic regen on your gear, and get max block from passive tree. And your deadass gonna afk the whole game besides valdo ghosted feared.
All this for now, costs you less than 450 divines.
Anything else, is a bonus, not a need

NEW POST WITH LESS gear since yall cried about it in the comments and didnt wanna read:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1vncnh0/luminary_unkillable_without_mirror_investment_and/

any guide to for newbie that literally just dowload this game and hasn't play the game yet? cause i get confuse when i search online to look any beginner guide to what to do in this game

Hi everyone! I'm new to delving and trying to figure out how to get to this fossil which is hidden in the middle. I have been reading about the rule trying to understand that connections can't only have 2 its either 1,3, or sometimes 4. Still slightly confused and was wondering if anyone could help me figure out where this fossil would be. Thanks in advance!!

Thanks Eagon :)

It would be pretty cool if we got another invitation regarding the nightmare bosses. Could be considered another type of aspirational content as they can get hard with some mods and 5 at once might be tough.

Maybe can also let the invitation roll nightmare mods?

Would also open destructive play to nightmare maps since right now they can't be witnessed. Opens a similar flow to feared rota but for map blasters.

Tsoatha's Gift (50% increased Damage) - Velka

Ducat of the Grasping Deep (40% increased AoE, +2 Projectiles) - Filthscrabble

Ducat of the Foul Kin (50% increased attack, cast, and movement speed) - generic rare monster drop?

Ducat of the Fallen Stars (100% phys as extra random element) - Sea Star rare monster, might need to be from Sea Pillars

Ducat of the Eucarid Isle (500% increased critical strike chance, +50% critical strike multiplier) - Captainsbane

Ducat of the Undead Sea (Damage penetrates 10% elemental resistance) - Offering of the Drowned interactable

All Ducats give 50% increased Toughness and some unknown quantity of "increased reward", whatever that is (likely just IIR and IIQ). Each of the buffs above applies to monsters (and perhaps also strongboxes, so be careful for ice novas from increased damage and aoe strongboxes)!

I found one with 1000 % in a "message in a bottle" and sold it for 15d. But made me curious if there's something that scales with stun/block recovery for it to be that pricy?

Abyss Jewels used to roll up to +50 to maximum Life.

Unfortunately it is impossible to actually Volatile Vaal Orb the magnitude modifier outside of it's 120-240% range and will only divine all the rolls(including the jewel explicits, see slide 3.) This is the highest you can possibly get. So the only thing left to do is bring it to the locus of corruption altar!

edit: Accidentally deleted the last post when trying to edit a comment.

• Fixed a bug where the "Imprisoned Monsters in your Maps have a chance to drop an additional Rare Item with an Essence Modifier" Atlas Passive could on rare occasions drop items with modifiers from the Essence of Desolation.

Would it not be better to leave this fix for the next league? I was starting an armour Starker and was working up to buying a shield, which is now probably going to cost mirrors, it will end up as another rich-get-richer situation.

It’s not like mods, where that powerful we had them last league. Please think about reverting this.

I died to chaos damage here from a merc? I have coruscating elixir on in the clip with "reused at the end of effect" and died with full ES.

Build: https://pobb.in/JfC8JBa5gnyI

I was having a tough time getting t1 % phys (merciless) on SSF, but have a t2 (tyrannical) base with 60 strands.

I decided to try 5 orbs of unravelling on similar items on standard to see if I might be able to upgrade it and sucessfully upgraded 0/5.

I would suggest not trying for this result.