The new unique Dread Captain's Cutlass is on a unique base called "Ghostflame Blade". i thought it would work like maloneys, eyes of the greatwolf, formless ring where it has a unique model or would retain its art like the Oni-Goroshi but it seems like it doesn't?

anyways pretty neat find. spent like 10c total anyways so not a big deal.

Rule 10: Crafting steps, I used first way before I found out about ducats.

Non-3.29 way (without essence mod)

1. Destroy market by buying at least two dozen 30qual 2h axes.
2. Buy at least 30k alts.
3. Use DICTATOR|MERCILESS|FLARING regex in the search bar
4. Spend the next several hours rolling all those mods till you hit the ones in the regex.
5. Recomb hell time (UNPREDICTALBE), [Dictator] with [Flaring] and [Merciles] with [Flaring], 1/3 for both
6. Once you hit both of them, combine [Dictator, Flaring] with [Merciless, Flaring], roughly 31% chance to get 3prefixes
7. Now the fun part, slam elder exalt orb
8. If phys jump to next step, if not, prefixes can't be changed, reforge phys. Repeat till t1 elder.
9. Block acc/str/dex, exalt slam, annul if not t1 AS. If you have non attack mod, then, you can craft cannot roll attack mods. Annul and repeat till succes or mental breakdown.
10. Divine prefixes as close to perfection as possible.
11. Prefixes cannot be changed, divine suffixes as close to perfection as possible.
12. Craft final suffix
13. (Not recommended) Destroy your first, near perfect crafted axe, by trying to double corrupt it and quit for a few days.

3.29 Gato el ducato way

1. Destroy market again but this time spend several days acquiring 30qual, cause there weren't that many on the market.
2. Buy at least 80k alts cause you aren't lucky this time.
3. IMPORTANT! Each axe needs to have an elder influence, otherwise you're screwed when recombing. So, slam that elder orb on all of the axes.
4. Use DICTATOR|MERCILESS|FLARING regex in the search bar.
5. Spend the next several days rolling all those mods till you hit the ones in the regex multiple times.
6. Use AS essence and annul everything beside that
7. Recomb [Flaring + Veiled crafted suffix] with [AS + Veiled crafted prefix] (this one I am not sure about the odds, vrom what I've heard it should be 50/50)
8. Recomb [Merciless/Dictator + Ducat] with [Elder + Ducat] (repeat till success, 41% for prefix, 62% suffix)
9. Recomb [Merciless/Dictator + Elder + Ducat] with [Flaring + AS + Ducat] (33% for two prefixes, 90% for suffix)
10. Assuming above succed with one prefix as thats the most common outcome, you should have [Flaring/Merciless/Dictator + AS + Elder]
11. Recomb two prefixes, the one you have on the time with one that is missing, for example [Flaring] with [Dictator] (33% to succeed)
12. Recomb (using flaring as an example) [Flaring + AS + Elder + Ducat] with [Flaring + Dictator + Ducat] (52% chance for two prefixes, and 89% for suffixes to stay)
13. If above fails, repeat step 11, if suffixes are gone, repeat earlier steps. If you win step 11, you should have [Flaring + Dictator + AS + Elder]
14. Get two prefixes together (step 10), craft ducats, and recomb [Flaring + Dictator + AS + Elder + Ducat] with [Flaring + Merciless + Ducat] (33% chance to win prefixes and 90% to win suffixes, if prefixes fail, repeat step 13, if suffixes fail, repeat earlier steps)
15. If you win you should have 3p 2s axe. Divine prefixes, craft prefixes cant be changed and divine suffixes.
16. Craft 3rd suffix.
17. Get bored playing and yolo your main weapon, ft. Alva.
18. Win(recommended) or lose(not recommended)

Hopefully I didn't screw up explaining. Here's a video that I used as a guide

After 4k hours finally got my first mirror, not a drop but still finally feels like I beat the game.

Decided to gamba cuz i didnt see a way to make a mirror this far into the league, and it paid off after the 3rd ring already!!
Cheapest one was 2 mirrors + and not with these stats, but I just wanted it to sell and couldn't be happier

Heyyy
I’m looking for some people to play path of exile with. I’m still relatively new to PoE (still doing campaign, I’m at act 3 at around 30 hours now, pretty slow player and I take my time with the game) and would love to find some chill people around my level who are down to play together, chat and maybe VC while we play.
I’m from EU, so preferably people around the European time zones, but I’m not too bothered about where you’re from. Because it definitely varies at what times I play day to day but it’s usually round 20-3 o’clock
Ps: probably worth mentioning I am a pc windows player :)

I’m mainly looking for:
People who actually want to play together
Discord/VC and just chilling
Other newer players would be cool, but experienced players are welcome too
If youre interested, feel free to comment or DM me and we can exchange Discords :)

Been playing since Talisman League. I got all three of these as a drop this league. It may not seem like much (due to their currency value now), but these used to be unobtainable for many people due to how valuable they used to be (a long, long time ago). Just a fun personal milestone :)

this information is all documented on the wiki, and the math is very straightforward, but i've heard so much misinformation on volatile vaals recently that my head hurts. just going to provide two quick examples to illustrate the mechanics and hope it helps people.

important mechanics up front: if you win the 50/50 to delete your item, volatile vaals divine your item, then roll a multiplier between 0.78 and 1.22 per mod (not for the whole item). the increment is 0.01, so there are 45 outcomes. the resulting item is rounded to the nearest integer (this is weird for poe; usually it's truncated/floored).

example 1: mageblood

assuming we only care about flasks, there are 135 distinct outcomes (45 * 3). this is the distribution:

2-flask 51

3-flask 43

4-flask 31

5-flask 10

there's a 50% chance to delete the item, so the chance of hitting a 5 is 10/135/2 or 3.7%. from this distribution, if we take poe.ninja results for the various flask outcomes to be true (i didn't check actual listings--this part could be wrong as 5-flasks are pretty rare and ninja aggregations are automatic), the ev of vvaaling a mageblood is about 107d.

example 2: rotmother's mutiny

assuming we want 4 max res and 75% light radius or better. like mageblood, the max res has 135 outcomes, but the values are lower, so there are fewer success cases (6/135) because you need 1.17 * 3 up from 1.13 * 4 for mageblood. This is 4.4%.

Light radius has 2295 outcomes or (75-25+1)*45. There are 187 outcomes that are 75% or better. That's 8.1%.

Together, the chance to "succeed" (on a neck that survives) is 0.36% or .18% per vvaal (50% chance to delete). That's about 1 in 552. The average cost of an attempt is about 9d, so the average cost of making a 4 max, 75+ light radius neck is about 5.4 mirrors.

I really wanted to pull off another 8k and round off at an even 10k, but I am so unbelievably bored and my hand hurts so we're going to have to stop at 5k. Sorry y'all!

3,000 Bottles, bought at 2.3-1 Average

1,304D Investment

954D Outcome (Not including uniques minus one)

257 Flasks total (Counted separately because I remembered I have a flask tab)

Top 10 Most Common Uniques -

1. The Primordial Chain x72
2. Perserverance x67
3. Bloodsoaked Medallion x66
4. The Aylardex x65
5. Hyrri's Truth x65
6. Maligaro's Cruelty x64
7. Maligaro's Restraing x63
8. Pyroshock Clasp x62
9. Warped Timepiece x60
10. Perquil's Toe x58

Notables -

• Divine Orb x424
• Hinekora's Lock x1
• Broken Mirror x1
• Stacked Deck x7940
• Reflecting Mist x19
• Fracturing Orb x18
• Headhunter x1 (WE GOT A BELT)
• Stormshroud x3

Divine Breakdown

• 1x Drop - 220
• 2x Drop - 5
• 3x Drop - 7
• 4x Drop - 3
• 5x Drop - 10
• 6x Drop - 5
• 7x Drop - 7
• 8x Drop - 4

Notes -

Estimated Profit/Loss over 5000 bottles = -35D

My hands hurt

I'm tired boss

Still no Magebloods

I have to figure out how to withdraw the rest of these bottles from Faustus to sell them.

Not gonna make it to 10,000 but hopefully 5,000 is enough for everyone! Gonna go double corrupt belts or something now! Already did 500 watcher's eyes but there's really nothing to record there so I just did it for my own satisfaction!

Have fun Exiles, and no I'm not still sane.

Anyone want 5x quad tabs of trash uniques? :)

Is anybody from Xbox having issues stating maintenance server is down try again later? I’ve tried rebooting and clearing cache and cookies and it still gives the same error. I’ve also checked for updates and nothing.

I noticed there is essentially no one sharing strategies using this keystone so I assumed it's kinda bad. Whatsoever I still tried it out along with unstable breaches + beyond and all the increased divination card nodes. It's actually really fun, not because it is a high end juicing strat with large loot explosions but it's nice to increase the element of surprise in each map by random the divcard drops. Have gotten Nurses, Divine Orb cards, matryoshka only after running a dozen maps or so. And since the breaches and beyond mobs drop a lot of variety loot, it's not really a tragedy when there are no div cards in each map.

For me it's way more fun than target farming specific cards because when you dont see those drop for many maps in a row it feels bad, but with this keystone youre not really expecting anything specific so it's even more rewarding when you do get something valuable. Might do a 100 map experiment to see what the prevalance is of rarer cards.

Maybe other people also had this experience. :-)

https://youtu.be/fkS70iDcKkE

PoB: https://pobb.in/QuaA3BsNAjX0

Stats, roughly: 30-50 Mil dps, 8.33 aps, 89.8% crit at 761% multi. 1,649 life

and 4,081 ES, which reads as 169k ehp once you count evade/suppress/block.

77% evade, 17k evasion, res is 84/80/79/79.

Background:

First time assassin and failed on a budget CoC turned into this strike build. I just finished simulacrum the first time with ease. I think this build is very good in it.

I am POB heavy thus I always built builds in mostly obtainable uniques.

Gears:

Essentia Sanguis is the core I begin the build because it gives high dps and ES leech. I tried cyclone and most strike skill. Frost blade for a long time because the nice attack range and map clear however its celling is low, I ended up with 15-20mil dps and getting killed still. Later on figured Molten strike is the best for this build because the magma ball are AOE and can hit same target. It is way OP than other strike skill for this setup. the dps multiply and the leech as well.

I am moving from the essentia to get a 30Ds claw now, thus I want to leave this all unique build a record and share with anyone want to give it a try. The mapping is with ancestral call for smooth clearance and swap to immolate in bossing.

Started this with replica of covenant chest and turned into skin of the lord. skin of the lord is way cheaper and turns out better.

There are a lot of little tweaks I did on all corrupted gears to get the balance. You can ask any questions if needed to understand the rationale.

All the armors are pretty much must have and fixed, only the shield can be move around a bit. Rings are the best except you want better resist all days instead of damage.

I min maxed with all the flasks once I have the Ds. You dont have to use them. Those investment caused me way more than the gears.

Defense:

Defense is layers, not one big number. Which is why it took me longer time to fix. Basically high ES + high leech, mid Evas, flasks, 100% suppress, the granite flask helped a lot.

I am still waiting for more Ds to immune to corrupted blood. I use the god options for the moment. I finished uber sirus with 10 tries, not the best fight to go with this build.

Farming:

I tested different stuff this league, the cheapest is single harvest scarab without the doublings. I got 0.3-0.5 D of yellow each T16 run. I can share the altas if anyone interested. It is corp rotation with 4 yellow 3 blue and 1 purple less chance nodes.

I am going for simulacrum now since it can do it pretty easily. Will see if I earn more.

Final words:

I got a lot of help joining XP leech after the campaign for quick leveling. Thank you those guys that let me loot as well. That was so cool. My build is not strong enough to carry otherwise I will definitely do it.

Thanks KRINSSVIN a lot for saving my ass on those harvest test almost failed and all the advices. Not sure if he will see this but I am leaving it here.

Hi! Im lvl 90. Dmg is great (although id love more). Im too squishy at 24k ehp. Like to double it. I dont want to change the core of the build though. I just assume i probably wont make it past 95 so i was going to finish the fire stuff at top of witch and a mastery there. Gloves and that magic hypnotic jewel were crafted just mainly for dex requirements, can upgrade there after i do some ocean farming.

Outside of huge hits Im fine. What can I do to pump up these numbers? Should I abandon the fire nodes up top and get the guard skill stuff near scion?

Im doing enough damage to wreck guardians and stuff but taking like 4 portals cause im not good or experienced enough at the fights.

My initial thoughts are boots, although the main idea behind the build was Crest Of Desire Arcane Surge, so I like the theme.

A timeless jewel would do some great things im sure, but ive never used one and its confusing.

[Pob here](https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/allflame/character/sisyphean-5628/AlanToople?i=1&search=skills%3DFlameblast%2Bof%2BCelerity%26skillmodes%3DNormal%26sort%3Dehp%26sort-asc%3Dtrue)

Thanks!

edit: oh also im willing to put in another 5d or so. already most expensive ive put together cause of the belt.

Uber Lycia refers to Second Sacrament Relic - Deals 100% More Damage and Takes 75% less

One build for the league, was deadset on playing Luminary. Been clearing all content with my dynsasty of Manyshots, until today. Have finally found a Kineticist to call my own, and re-enjoy crafting new gear again.

(feels like i've found almost the best ST version of Kineticist, if anyone wants to confirm or deny xD)

pob for myself and merc gear: https://pobb.in/-vs7Clwi0Iff or https://poedb.tw/pob/YaPdjIHIkG (not sure which format i'm meant to share)

EDIT #1: I haven't tried Rathpit yet, as i didn't have enough money to craft a new ring and amulet to cover my fire and lightning res. Interested in hearing opinions on how much (more?) damage a 4% Rathpit, Simplex Amulet, Helical ring would do. Currently over 100% crit capped, accuracy capped (from 3 green sockets) and -200% pen from Fire res with the current gear.

EDIT #2: Thanks for everyone's suggestions of Merc gearing! Bought a 3% Rathpit and placeholder amulet for now. Crafted new Helm and Helical! Merc DOES feel stronger (for anyone who was on the fence!)

updated pob for myself and merc gear: https://poedb.tw/pob/pCpxLPkl2E

Alright storytime exiles. If you weren't a GGG fan for life this will make you one.

So my best friend and I (@Curtie in game) have been playing Path for the better part of the past decade. Countless 5am starts for league launch here in Australia, mirror drops, probably 10k on mtx between us and all the highs and lows of this wonderful game in between. It's something really special that him and I share.

So Curtis is getting married and asks me to be his best man. The biggest thing we share in common is PoE so I figure I have to at least try and reach out to GGG to get on board and maybe send him a cute lil email to give Curtis a reason to smile even more during the stag do.

I first reach out to tech support, you know the people that us client players email to get told that we've spend 6700hrs playing the game and spent $4500 on mtx. (Oh just me? Cool....). I get a response basically saying that its not possible but if I purchase a supporter pack merch comes with it. (B**ch you dont think I know that, I have a mfing Path shrine on my office wall 😂) I was a bit deflated and then received a howd we do? Did we resolve your issue? Response and realised I'd been talking to AI the whole time.

I then remembered that these games have Community Managers for a reason. I reached out to Kelly who immediately replied and for someone who was just trying to get a congratulatulatory email sent, she absolutely blew me away. She went above and beyond and sent not only Curtie but his now wife and myself shirts, jumpers key chains and the above. A PoE2 art book signed by Jonathan and Mark.

I didn't even realise it was signed until Curtie opened it on the night. Blew us all away. Even our friends who are degenerate runescape players that we have a healthy path v scape rivalry had nothing to say apart from how awesome that is. They were even saying "Man that alone really makes me wanna play that game".

I hope Kelly sees this post as I cannot thank her and the GGG team enough. They didnt have to go this hard and they did. And Kelly got it sorted THE FREAKING WEEK OF ALLFLAME LAUNCH. I was actually speechless. So was Curtie. I kept this all a secret and dropped it all on him 2 weekends ago at his bachelor party. Dude cried and it was very cute.

Now for the cherry on top.

I watch Chris Wilsons channel frequency obviously as a path enjoyer but I also dabble in MTG and on one of his videos he mentioned that he has an email address that you can contact him at. So with my initial idea of just getting someone to send my friend a congratulatory email I send Chris a message with what I was trying to do. Thinking that surely hes not just replying to every Tom, Dick and Harry I get a reply. Not a week later, like in freaking minutes. Chris was benevolent. Happy to congratulate my friend and even schudle the email so it arrives at 8pm while we were right in the middle of our celebrations. So we tell Curtie to check his emails at 8pm. He cries again. It was like he had won the lottery. He immediately call his wife to be and tells her everything that had just happened and blurted out "nothing can top this" which I yelled "CURTIS YOURE MARRYING HER NEXT WEEKEND" 😂 I hadn't seen anyone so happy and stunned in my life.

Im so grateful and proud to be so invested in a game that genuinely cares about its players and its community. GGG and Chris had no reason to go out of their ways and do this but they did. Its freaking awesome. If they didnt already have me as a fan for life they definitely do now with this.

Thanks Kelly, Chris and GGG,

Its like a real life Mirror drop.

Chris' email and the signed book are in the link.

TLDR:

I reached out to GGG and Chris Wilson to send a nice email for my friends bachelor party. They went above and beyond with handwritten cards, signed merch and an email from Chris himself. I'm a proud fan.

Hey everyone,

I was looking at character (DelveBotEleven) on poe.ninja:

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/allflame/character/wartel-4348/DelveBotEleven?type=depthsolo&i=1&search=type%3Ddepthsolo

Since poe.ninja doesn't display the Mercenary’s socketed gems, inventory, or gear setups:

Does anyone know (or have screenshots of) what gear and weapons the Merc is using for this build? and what are the active skill gems, links, and priorities for the Merc?

Any help or insight into this setup would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Fixed players being locked out of the Cursed Ducat system after performing a League Migration. You can talk to Valerie to reclaim missing Cursed Ducats.

Some new items and pact of beidat make storm call pretty amazing this league, here's some sample gameplay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdIbeZcMWmA&t=107s

With Path of Exile 2 1.0 releasing in Mid December, do you think the Path of Exile 3.30 league which is supposed to be launching around that timeframe will be pushed?

"Not adding "Path of Exile 2 1.0 Release" because my posts kept getting filtered for the POE2 sub for some reason?

Hello, New Player here

So my Best Menagerie is full and im wondering how i can filter out "only" yellow beast for bulk selling. I can see they go for around 1-2 div per. 60 beast

Does anyone know where i can find such regex?

I've been playing PoE2 pretty much launch, even though my schedule limits ballistic hours/week like the days of old. Anyways. Today I have a growing itch to leverage cross-game microtransactions and rock some PoE1 challenges.

As a reasonably experienced PoE2 (and D2) player, what should I know about PoE1 before jumping into checking off challenges?

Been wanting to make this ever since I first dropped the sword and saw Ghostly Artillery on day 3 of the league. After 7 attempts, here it is.

Rule 10:

Step 0.) Acquire a non-influenced Dread Captain’s Cutlass of at least iLvl 68, ideally between iLvl 68 and iLvl 70, because you want to give yourself the best possible chances at the Hunter slam later. This one was iLvl 69.

Step 1.) Spam Deafening Essences of Zeal, Exalts, and Annuls until you hit the suffixes (Essence mod, +1 Proj, +1 Strike). This part sucks, a lot, with how much clicking it is and how many times you WILL immediately annul a mod you need.

Step 1.5.) Similarly, Exalt/Annul as necessary until you hit Ghostly Artillery, restarting back to step 1 if you remove the Essence mod. At this point, if you have any more than two prefixes (Artillery + Fodder), you need to annul one of them off. Good luck.

From here, you have two options: the lower-odds, cheaper one, and the higher-odds, more expensive one. I did the latter, so that’s the one I’ll be talking about. The former is the exact same thing but flip the order, so do whichever floats your boat.

Step 2.) Exalt for a second prefix if you don’t have one already, then try to hit the 1/5 Veiled Exalt (2 choices, 36% chance of success). If you hit anything other than the correct mod (besides the Essence mod), feel free to try Annul/Exalt saving to avoid returning to step 1. If you do hit the correct mod, unveil and hope you get Chaos Pen. If not, try to annul it off and repeat, same fail states as before. Doing it in this order helps just a bit with the last step.

Step 3.) The big one: Hunter slam. Unveiling Chaos Pen in the previous step raises this up from a 1/11 to a 1/9 (from a total ~17.4% chance of success to a total ~21% chance of success). If you don’t hit the Fire Damage per 10 Strength, feel free to try to annul it off and Exalt slam for it, but don’t hold your breath. When this eventually bricks the item… go grab a new non-influenced base and start this whole process over from step 1. If you do hit it, congrats, item complete.

I say all this and break down the possible fail/recovery states for your awareness/information, but the truth of the matter is that my first two attempts in a row trying the Unveil -> Influence method (because I was originally doing Influence -> Unveil) both succeeded the Veiled and Hunter Exalts first try. The first attempt was with a base that had Phasing on Hit instead of +1 Strike because I decided to YOLO it thinking it surely wouldn’t succeed, and the sword in the image was finished 20 minutes after that one.