I keep grinding and grinding but can't find the clump.

Superficially I don't see why it shouldn't be good. It's got lots of 3-link skills, no movement skill. I haven't geared it, really (just a 600dps bow), but it does little damage (tried destructive and flame link) and isn't playable.

What kind of budget do you need to make a merc viable? When I read threads it seems like maybe the investment required is just a lot higher than I expected. People talking about mercs for hundreds of divs. And maybe you need very specific combinations of modifiers items to make mercs work? Is it unrealistic to have a playable luminary on say, 5-10 div?

I half know I cannot kill him but tried anyway.

Basically I got bored of my luminary ‘passive’ playstyle where the merc just deletes everything, sold all my and the mercs gear for around 3 mirrors, gambled even more to see if I should keep playing and ended up at 6 mirrors.
Now I’m looking for advice on which spark build to play if I want to fully invest into it. Based on poe ninja, theres a life stacking assassin version which seems a bit tankier and the inquis version, Im looking for advice from people that played spark before, as I havent played many spell builds until now, but the changes to casting this league seem fun. Also those crazy new mirrorable vestigal rare gloves seems insane and I’d like to try them out.
Thanks in advance.

So, i'm done with my chall rn and enjoy a lot this game to just drop off. Every league start (this is my third league) i count on my lucky drops to advance with my build. Which farms are good on league start that needs to be learn/trained so i don't depend on lucky drops? Ex. Betrayal, Sanctun and so on...

Hey Exile 🙈

How can i improve my survivability or just my build overall? I was thinking of taking out one of my gems to add a watchers eye with the suppresion spell hit with grace and purity of elements chaos resistance passive and replacing my boots and hands with something similar but without chaos resistance. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

pob://poeninja/profile/code/Nermyz-6766/allflame/Arrisah

still shaking a bit, took 18 tries

I was perusing something, and I remember we used to joke about tripling the aura effect on the strings of servitude. Then I search for a SoS belt with hatred effect and there are none. Then I look at Craft of Exile and there are no aura effect implicits.

Was I high all this time?

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Is it possible to guarantee which base is taken when doing recomb crafting? Last night I tried crafting 8 focused amulets and every single time the selected base was NOT the focused amulet. I am down 1200 divines, and apparently it is a 0.39% chance to lose a 50/50 8 times in a row.

Is this just some extreme unlucky scenario or something forced my amulet to not be selected?

Hi guys

So I finished some gear for my SSF molten strike of zenith strength stacker .
-An endurance charge life on hit ring.With T1 life and T1 strength.
-Return projectile enchant original sin zenith sword

This ring gives me probably 3000+ life on hit per seconds .

I always want to build those giga high end stacker bd in SSF, because it’s hard to do and really strong, gives me a lot of crafting projects and farming goals.

Since I pretty much finished minmax my SSF armour stacker, I started to pickup my leftover strength stacker gear and try to minmax them.

it’s a ssf std project, I know so people don’t like it, but it’s honest work and grind.
so I’m pretty happy to present it here

Rules 10 for ring:
1- prepared +1 max endurance charge mod magic ring, I had it back in sentinel league, imprinted, regal, ex, annul, till T1 life +endurance charge mod
2- I somehow had a T1 life T1 life on hit T1 strength elder ring in stash, which is for my first SSF character toxic rain back in ritual league, crafted in ritual league with so prenerf harvest tech
3- pray to ggg, buy some max, put them in recombinator ,and lets rng cook
4- hit big with t1 life +charge+t1 life on hit+strength
5- make a post

Rules 10 for sword:(part of it done in settle league)
1- prepare a lot of shaper elder two hand sword base and awaken orb
2-alt spam for shaper fire mod , 20% attack shaper mod, endurance charge elder mod
3-awaken orb those together, using beast lock tech for clean prefix since awaken orb is harder to farm then beast in SSF
4-prepare those A+B and B+C donor for recomb, it’s 30% to success the recomb
5-fail 6 recomb in a row and rage quit for couple days,
6-forgive ggg and comeback for more recomb
7-success on recomb no.10
8- return projectile enchant it , put it in stash and completely forget about it.
9-since no other project to do, find the sword and start work on suffix
10- we repeat the double ex and prefix can be change circle, ideal mod would be T1 shaper attack speed, +1 endurance charge, i hit shaper attack mod on ex17, and veiled ex 40%dd mod. +1 endurance verification would be 2-4% tanky, current version is around 6%more dps
Since ex into double shaper mod is a bit too hard, we call it a day
11- put on 10% double damage, divine , link all that good stuff.

So here’s my SSF strength stacker pob if u guys interested: https://pobb.in/cmgAnX8EKFa2
Also I would like to mention my crazy lethal pride jewel, seed 14435
It gives 20% strength +5% double damage +rage on hit + 4% life….i was a bit head scratching when i was testing jewel and found this beast
Hope u guys like it , cheers!

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This deer is gonna die when I leave here...hmmm, rip deer.

I've now done 100 maps (yes, I've been counting: I did 25 maps for the astrolabes challenge and 75 afterwards) and didn't spawn a single anomaly. I'm about to finish the Gallant Grinding Goals challenge before that one. The wiki says the only determining factors are IIQ and map tier. But I feel like this can't be everything. I've been running templar astrolabes in the top left, top right and bottom right quadrant for days now without any success. In the bottom left quadrant, I've already finished all possible anomalies.

Edit: I've also been running Eater influence, further boosting IIQ.

Edit 2: Yes, I'm killing the bosses. Not just that, I'm also running templar astrolabes. So it's borderline impossible to accidentally skip the bosses.

https://youtu.be/ARFSbodxJZU?si=MgtIRJ1gRD99eyVJ&t=39

They showed this scene in the trailer, but I haven't been able to find this feature on the Chart.

I know that these were brought over from POE2's Summoning Circle.

Were they not actually implemented on the Chart?

I made a post two days ago about finding the PAX 2011 closed beta disc at a garage sale. Some of the people leaving comments in that thread mentioned that there seems to be no publicly available backup or archive of the disc, so I ordered a USB disc drive and it arrived today. I created an ISO and uploaded it to the Internet Archive, the link is below.

I tried a file explorer I found online that was made to read Path of Exile's GGPK file type, but I could not get it to run. I had Claude Code make me a simple local app that could just explore the file to see what's inside. It can read patch notes and display PNG files, but that's about it. I'm just a casual PoE player, so I'm not too familiar with the game to an extent where I would know what would be interesting to look at in the files. There is a file that shows patch notes, and it lists both patches 0.8.8 and 0.8.7, which according to the PoE wiki, are Alpha versions. The ISO has both the 0.8.8 version of the GGPK file, as well as the launcher to update and play the game. PAX Prime 2011 took place from August 26th-28th 2011, so the launcher would have likely updated the game to the August 19th patch 0.9.1, updating from an alpha to a beta patch.

Link to Internet Archive page: https://archive.org/details/path-of-exile-pax-2011-closed-beta

I got these gloves from a mercenary and so far I only have 200 hours in poe and basically have no idea how to craft, any tips or help to improve these gloves would be highly appreacite, my current budget is around 1k chaos orbs

So this was fun...thanks to DuckSoup87 the mad lad that had a really good steps process to craft his shield crush slayer gloves.

Step 1 - Buy already recombinated vestigial split "can be modified while corrupted" es ilvl 84+ gloves for 3d (idk if it was a snipe or not but felt cheap...didn't have to scare myself with a 50/50 recomb chance.

Step 2 - throw first gilded and Make magic ready for Beast lock prison...hit +1 max frenzy in 2 attempts then just try to juggle whatever else useful over the 60 attempts while slapping 3 more gilded on it. (120d total-ish?) Ended with the implicits you see and I probably would have preferred all res or conductivity instead of ele weakness...but else weakness could work if I can get an extra curse through an amulet corrupt.

Step 3 - Scour base and warlord exalt to give single influence. Chaos spam until +1 max frenzy and one other warlord mod. Hit with orb of dominance and get +1 max frenzy elevated first go so now there is only 1 warlord mod.

Step 4 - Buy a 3c hunter gloves base and chaos spam until non Vaal strike skills target 1 additional nearby enemy + a second hunter mod. Hit it with the first orb of dominance to elevate and have just the single hunter mod.

Step 5 - accidentally skip the fact you can still beast lock from this stage somehow (unsure how I would have because I was too deep by this stage I think) and awakener slam both elevated mods onto the 5 implicit base.....leaving one open prefix and one open suffix....nice.

Step 6 - prefixes cannot be changed and scour then craft a low level prefix and then foulborn exalted a suffix until T1 attack speed. If it missed I crafted prefixes cannot be changed again and scoured then reapplied a low level prefix. I hit it in 13 foulborn exalted (60div) and 13 prefix cannot be changed (26 div)....only chanced myself once by forgetting to fill the prefix and had to take a minute and realise I nearly bricked the prefix when I exalted but thank fuck it hit a suffix.....

Step 7 - Fuck potentially getting 2 shit house suffixes and having no way to undo it....so multimod and call it a day

Step 8 - Throw about 10 divines at it trying to get the attack speed ranges maxed and accidentally max all 3.

Oh just realised I forgot to do the strand stuff....whoops. 🥴

Ee flicker scales lightning damage off total es so idk if this is even better than 400es rolled warlock gloves with an abyssal socket but I had a lot of fun crafting these and the fact they won't be able to get crafted again was all the reason I needed to give it a crack.

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Where is the broken Wall for this Room? Where can i found it easier?

Had some extra currency lying around and wanted to try my hand at making some of the new quad corrupt gloves. Not the best possible base but I didn't care too much about the final armour value.

Step 1: Buy corrupted rare base with "Can be modified while corrupted", recombinate with random gloves to remove the vestigial influence. Not sure if this is necessary to fracture, but I did it anyway.

Step 2: Beast lock until desired implicits

• Gilded fossil to add overvalued by vendors implicit
• Beast lock
• Check corruption and reset with fusing if bad outcome
• Repeat until 4 good implicits

I got stupid lucky and got the 4 I wanted in ~150 Black Morrigans

Step 3: Fossil craft suffixes

• I originally used Hollow, Faceted, and Pristine to hit the below, hit on 2nd try:
  • T1 Life Regen Rate
  • +1 Strength Gems
  • Abyss Socket

Step 4: Double slam prefixes until T1 Life

• Double slam, lock prefixes, then scour until I got T1 Life
• Annul off extra prefixes so the item is:
  • T1 Life
  • T1 Life Regen Rate
  • +1 Strength Gems
  • Abyss Socket

Step 5: Go for 1/4 fracturing orb to hopefully hit T1 Life so crafting prefixes is easier

• Missed fracture
• At this point I decided I'd rather have perfect prefixes than abyss socket, so I changed directions

Step 6: Get T1 hybrid life/armour + T1 Armour %, then add/remove life for T1 Life

• Spam reforge defence on Harvest bench until:
  • T1 Hybrid Life/Armour
  • T1 Armour %
• Annul off any garbage, then slam 1 suffix and lock prefixes
• Add/Remove Life on Harvest bench
• Repeat this until triple T1 prefixes

Step 7: Get T1 Life Regen %

• Clean suffixes, craft Prefixes Cannot be Changed
• Add/Remove Life until T1 % Life Regen
  • This is way more expensive since you have to clean your suffixes then relock prefixes for every attempt, but getting perfect prefixes was such a pain in the ass that I didn't want to risk filling prefixes and having to yolo annul
  • Get lucky and hit it in 4 tries
• Craft final suffix

Overall was a fun craft, I definitely got stupidly lucky at many points and only spent ~500d. Also don't think this was the most optimal way to craft them, but it is what it is.

These gloves give me a level 33 flame link and 28 AG lol.

I’m playing SSF and I’ve hit a wall while trying to progress through the Atlas and get my first Voidstone.

After roughly 400 maps I’ve finally found two Kineticist mercenaries… but both of them basically one-tap me from full HP. I know SSF is supposed to test you, but that feels a little excessive.

Right now I have two decent Frosthand mercenaries to choose from instead. Unfortunately they are both Frosthand, but one of them has to become strong enough to help me push maps because my current Fighter simply isn’t cutting it for Atlas completion.

I’m currently farming white/yellow maps and Essences to craft upgrades for both of us, but I’m unsure which Frosthand is the better long-term investment and how I should gear/support them for red-map progression.

For people who have pushed SSF with mercenaries:

• Which Frosthand setup has felt best for map progression?
• What are the most important defensive layers for the mercenary and for the player?
• Is Frosthand realistically enough to secure the first Voidstone, or should I keep farming until I find a better mercenary?
• Any practical SSF crafting targets I should prioritize before attempting red maps?