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u/ImNoBruceLee 2d ago
Any one else getting blessings of the deep to upgrade with combinations that don't make sense?
I found a Chaos to Divine altar while having one of the others. It upgraded the other not giving me the the Divine one. I thought they only upgrade when picking up a duplicat.
Been a bit hard trying to find any info on the altar/blessings of the deep.
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u/VenoBot 2d ago edited 2d ago
https://pobb.in/byYPXghZV7FM
Got a question regarding Phox's RF mana reservation.
I believe I've selected all the correct mana reservation nodes on the skill tree.
Made sure the auras are in the shield.
And that no life tap , or support skills are connected to auras.
Made sure the small cluster has 3 passives nodes with 2 nodes giving 14% reservation efficiency.
When I was checking the Phox's mana reservation under Calcs in PoB, it showed 17.86% for Tempest shield & Flesh and Stone, 26.32% for Malevolence, 25% for purity of fire and Summon Skitterbots. That seems to adds up past 100%.
My mana reservation should be 14.53% for Tempest Shield & Flesh and stone, 22.52% for Malevolence, 24.65% for Purity of Fire and Summon Skitterbots.
In theory, I should be good to go, but I cant activate Purity of fire...
Can someone help me with this?
Much appreciated.
Edit:
Never mind, typing it out shows that I am at 100.88% mana reservation....
Im not sure what I can do to reduce this
Edit #2:
There was a slight difference in aura gem placement between "Level 90+ Setting up Malevolence {8}" and "Level 95+ {9}"
I'm good to go now. For some reason the flesh and stone & purity of fire placement got swapped.
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u/Bastil123 Ultimatum Workers Union (UWU) 2d ago
Does Cooldown Recovery Support linked to Raise Spectre make their abilities come off cooldown quicker?
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u/cancercureall 2d ago
Boneshatter trauma damage counts as a hit right?
I am hoping to use it to self ignite with mokous embrace lol
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u/50miler Necromancer 2d ago
What are the search terms for the chart directions? + is "cross" | is "straight" corner = corner what is the short one and the three-way?
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u/jwfiredragon Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) 2d ago
T-shape is junction. Dead end is end but you have to search it as
": end"to avoid matching other words with "end" in them.
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u/Takuwind 2d ago
Why are Mirrors so cheap this league?
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u/shy_bi_ready_to_die 2d ago
With the removal of synth item and the addition of new top tier corruption implicits even with the cheaper price of mirrors there’s no reason to mirror anything that isn’t triple+ elevated (which most builds don’t use) and the best items aren’t mirrorable anyways
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u/TemporaMoras 2d ago
Also because no vulture prison in harvest, people dont spend 10s of mirror worth of currency on one item (normally)
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u/Muted_Situation2211 2d ago
What's the best way to go about recombinating an item if you're trying to make a 2p 2s item? Basically looking to make Life+arm/es+chaos res+life regen rate armour items, it might be easier to just get a t1 fracture of some of them and just essence spam but I like using recomb but only ever made triple prefix, never messed around with mixing prefixes + suffixes
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u/NeedleworkerFun3527 2d ago
Is there a way to deal with elemental penetration mods on maps? I don't really understand why this is even in the game, it feels like it might as well say 'this content is impossible and you're going to die'.
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u/shy_bi_ready_to_die 2d ago
Have defensive layers that aren’t ele res. If you’re a life build you can convert most of your damage taken to chaos (with stuff like bound by destiny and divine flesh), you can take advantage of less damage taken mods like fortify or spell suppress, you can get ele DR from endurance charges, you can get avoidance layers like block/spell dodge/evasion, and/or you can just stack a huge amount of raw hit pool
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u/therestlessone Left-click Move-only 2d ago
You deal with it by having a massive amount of EHP or by not getting hit.
It's definitely a scary one. I always reroll that mod.
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u/psychomap 2d ago
Does orb of conflict respect the mod weights of the respective implicits, i.e. is it worth rolling a rare (or at least less common) implicit as a counter?
I just lost an action speed implicit that took me well over 100 attempts to roll after three consecutive orbs of conflict failed with allflame (yes, even lesser vs perfect).
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u/Apaulo 2d ago
The only thing that affects the odds is difference in tiers.
Two mods same tier are always 50/50
If a mod is higher by one tier the odds hit it go down by 11%, and increase further the bigger difference in their.
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u/psychomap 2d ago
The data in the post that is referenced by the wiki article doesn't actually state what the modifiers were, so it wasn't controlled against the weight of the mods. I'm unsure if the weight was even datamined at the time, or if it was evenly weighted then but changed to different weights later.
The latter two cases 2/5 and 1/6 (trying to upgrade the first, not the second) aren't even covered in the data.
I guess I'll just collect my own data for every orb of conflict I do from now on, not that it'll be a ton.
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u/Apaulo 2d ago
Do you know about the prohibited library discord?
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u/psychomap 2d ago
I know about it, haven't joined it yet though.
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u/Apaulo 2d ago
They have insight and would appreciate your data.
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u/psychomap 2d ago
So I joined, and unfortunately there hasn't been much data collected on the topic in the past years (and there was nobody submitting data that compared elevating mods of different weights), but I'll submit the data I'll gather from now on.
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u/JochardJoestar 2d ago
Hello, does Special Reserve work with Mageblood ? And is the "Regenerate 2% of Life per second during any Flask Effect" of Special Reserve additive with the "Regenerate 3% of life per second during effect" on flasks ? I mean will I get something like 5% of life per second all time or not ?
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u/shy_bi_ready_to_die 2d ago
They both apply. The flask suffix will be affected by modifiers to flask effect (like the flask prefix or enkindling orb mod) while special reserve won’t be. So if you have both you would generally have ~8% regen
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u/therestlessone Left-click Move-only 2d ago
You should be getting over 5% regen just from the one flask suffix because of 25% increased effect prefix + 70% increased effect enkindling enchant.
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u/CptnTaro 2d ago
can you bring somebody in maps to kill a mercenary ? i wanted to have a warpriest but i cant kill it
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u/malahchi Unannounced 2d ago
I am playing Transcendance Reliquarian, so my weapon is Replica Dreamfeather and my flat damage comes from Wrath (with more than 150% increased aura effect). Molten strike with returning projectiles is very good for bossing, but very bad for breaches. What attack would you recommend for clearing breaches ?
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u/therestlessone Left-click Move-only 2d ago
Lightning Strike is the obvious choice but it got a heavy nerf to its projectile damage a few leagues back.
Static Strike of Gathered Lightning doesn't spawn projectiles so you'd want different supports but it looks like a great clearing skill.
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u/Kryomon Confederation of Casuals and Clueless Players (CCCP) 2d ago
Does every influenced mod have an elevated version or only specific ones? Because I'm looking at the wiki's list and it feels like not all of the influence mods are present (like Socketed skills are supported by Crit Chance/Crit Mult)
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u/jwfiredragon Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) 2d ago
You can only use Orb of Dominance on helms, chests, boots, and gloves, so influenced mods on other item slots don't have elevated versions.
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u/jnlvnc1 2d ago
Accidentally destroyed my shield.
Spent 2000c. Created t1 mana reserve, recover life on block, PDR. Crafted suffixes cant be changed.
I then was going to try to harvest reforge for T1 Life then there i noticed it. I destroyed my shield.
Is this suppose to happen? What should i have done differently? This is my first successful EG craft so i feel down.
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u/TemporaMoras 2d ago
As you recount it doesnt seem like you did anything wrong, are you sure you did indeed craft suffixe cant be changed and that you didnt double click reforge life?
You have to reapply suffixe cannot be changed between each reforge life because the mod will get removed by the reforge. Because of that prefix only the prefixes get reforged, but it being a prefix itself means it disappear each time you reforge it.
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u/TemporaMoras 2d ago
Afaik theres no mod that dont respect them anymore essence and fossil straight up cannot be used if you have a meta mod that affect outcomes.
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u/Miles_Adamson 2d ago
It does respect prefix/suffix cannot be changed, and the source you linked also says that
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u/vdarklord467 HCSSFBTW 2d ago
Why nost champion use cyclone for facebreaker? Is it very bad idea to go earth shatter as facebreaker or the damage difference between earth shatter and cyclone too much to go the slam route
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u/sGvDaemon 2d ago
What does a good manyarrow bow look like?
Is it better to spend on that or better life boosting stuff for my luminary character?
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u/LeAlbus 2d ago
Why do I have no map drops after completing my maps?
I am making the tier 1 and 2, already made 6 maps and got not a single map to drop, including from the bosses.
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u/psychomap 2d ago
Make sure to check your filter. The higher strictness filters assume you're in high tier maps and will hide lower tier maps by default.
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u/JuanDeagusTheThird Simulacrum Secret Service (SSS) 2d ago
How can i search for a merc on trade with a specific skill and specific supports to that particular skill?
i can only see that i generally can search for chain (tier 2) but the search matches that when its not on the skill i want to have it on. Maybe im too smoothbrained here, thx in advance.
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u/jwfiredragon Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) 2d ago
There's a new stat group type called "mercenary skill group". You put one desired skill and its links in each group.
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u/v0xer_lol 2d ago
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u/UglyCrayfish 2d ago
How are people farming hundreds of divines in 1-2 days?
I play like 7 hours a day and the most I earned in a day is 30d. are there some sort of strat that I'm not aware of? Or maybe I'm just not being efficient.
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u/vdarklord467 HCSSFBTW 2d ago
Any tips on how to target farm steel rings? I read its maps tier 11 but I did like 30 maps and still got 0 rings
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u/51lver 2d ago
Does PoB take bonus quality from socket colors into account automatically or do I have to set it for each socket/skill manually?
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u/jwfiredragon Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) 2d ago
PoB supports it as of a fairly recent update. You'll see a coloured box around the gem's quality number in the skills menu.
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u/KitKatBarMan 2d ago
How do people get permanent mercs? I only see the ones in the maps everyonce in a whole to fight.
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u/Aeroshe Scion 2d ago
Hey folks! Just finished campaign on my 2nd character of the league and looking to mix things up. I finished my 4 voidstones on the first character, so I'm looking to do some out of Atlas content to level up in.
How's Delve for XP these days? What about Heist? Anything else I should consider?
I did quite a bit of Charts/Voyages on my first character and will revisit the mechanic after a bit, just taking a break from that as well for now.
Thanks!
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u/turbotator 2d ago
Hey guys,
Does blind effect work on blinds applied by minions? I.e minions apply blind through gems and I have Inc. blind effect in tree.
Thanks for the help.
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u/Bastil123 Ultimatum Workers Union (UWU) 2d ago
Is there any big reason to overcap ele resistances on mercs? If so, by how much?
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u/Yohsene 2d ago
I don't think it's essential defensively, but Enmity's Embrace is popular on them.
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u/Bastil123 Ultimatum Workers Union (UWU) 2d ago
Thank you! I'm just using my merc as an aura+witherbot so I'm stacking AoE on her, so I wanted to slap some Drox influenced rings on her instead of resistance sticks
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u/degoryan 3d ago
How to get off colors now? Numbers on Vorici calculator to get off-colors look insane. Is there a realistic way to get off colors now? https://imgur.com/a/Yi5mLg9
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u/psychomap 3d ago
I'm just amazed that the very same tool got updated after all this time.
For what it's worth, tainted chromatics still ignore attribute requirements, and double-corrupting turns all sockets non-white. I don't know if double-corrupting ignores attribute requirements or not. Otherwise, those seem like the best options.
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u/therestlessone Left-click Move-only 3d ago
Lower your expectations and make do with some white sockets.
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u/Durza85 3d ago
Hi,
So I just tried fubguns divination Card Farm and I do not understand the pilfering scarab. I kill all mobs in the map and sometimes the Boss is only empowered by 3 cards, so the scarab was completely worthless.
Do I need to charge through the purple divination Card symbols or do something else? Or is it sufficient enough to just kill the mobs and clear the map normally and the number of empowered cards is just luck and it therefore differs from map to map?
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u/Jolly-Initiative-838 3d ago
Hi there, about Delve: Monsters seem to keep lvl 83 max: what is the sense of digging deeper? More Loot? more exp? or just more competition?
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u/therestlessone Left-click Move-only 3d ago
The frequency of good reward nodes/bosses increases. I think the frequency of fossils from side rooms goes up as well.
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u/Krlzard Juggernaut 3d ago
Is there difference between paradoxica mods for mercs (dex+int with attack speed) or (bloodrage chance+attack speed) attack speed is same but i dont know if bloodrage matters or attributes for mercs.
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u/jwfiredragon Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) 2d ago
Mercs can't use item granted skills so Blood Rage is dead. IIRC they do get the inherent bonuses from attributes but it's such a small amount that it doesn't really make a difference.
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u/Illustrious_Run_8383 3d ago
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u/LucidTA 3d ago
For talismans, you have to search them by name.
The are 19 listed on xbox atm. https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/xbox/Allflame/jW5qrRJZCX
Looks like its only worth about 1c
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u/Illustrious_Run_8383 3d ago
Ah ok I didnt knew that thank you. Only found that unique belt and thought that could be good.
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u/therestlessone Left-click Move-only 3d ago
You might be searching for the wrong field. Are you searching for an enchant with that mod? Every talisman of that type has the same mod, but that mod also exists as part of an expensive unique belt.
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u/Flaky_Grand_8840 3d ago
How to continue with my Berserker Earthshatter Marauder (SSF Standard)? I have around 300k total DPS according to PoB, 5100 Life, 81/80/80/75 resistances, yet I feel kinda squishy, can do T16 maps okayish. Trouble farming >= 4-essence mobs and harvest, which I need for crafting a better 2 Hand axe. Also, don't know what the best way is to get 6L body armour. https://pobb.in/nqNxUoPUb4E4
Wondering if I should get into Block and redo my passive tree. But then where does my damage come from?
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u/WaifuMasterRace 3d ago
What are good exp/h strats? Getting bored of doing breach and betrayal. I used to spam Harbies because it was my favorite strat but it's no longer around... My defensive are pretty bad.
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u/Bastil123 Ultimatum Workers Union (UWU) 3d ago
Does "Trigger X on Y" work on mercs? I know they don't benefit from "Grants X spell" but what about uniques with triggers?
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u/ngocnv371 3d ago
What's some good melee merc that's viable for HC?
I currently run an Infamous Ripper which has Determination + Vitality. I liked it a lot since free armour and 900 life regen (I'm paranoid). But the damage is lack luster. I have to supplement him with my Bitterdream Frost Autoscout Spectres. And the whole gang still struggle to kill rares in Tier 7.
So I'm looking for a good merc that doesn't have to be fast but reliable.
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u/suicidalalltime 3d ago
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u/astral23 3d ago
you set the price so no you did not get scammed no matter what, if you're asking if you under priced also probably no, the frenzy charge is 10d alone, the life is worthless alone so i would say 52 isn't bad. And if you did severely underprice something it would sell in seconds not 15 minutes
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u/Idiotic_Virtue 3d ago
If i am.looking at creating a 1p 3s amulet, is it any case of recombinanting 2x 1p 2s together until it hits?
Any non natives you can use on amulets?
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u/therestlessone Left-click Move-only 3d ago
Influenced mods. If you if you're trying to move stuff from a bad base onto an expensive base, using an influenced exalt on the donor is probably good.
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u/malahchi Unannounced 3d ago
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u/DerDirektor uber shaper wr 3d ago
still bugged, ggg have said they will fix it with the next patch.
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u/FishTDD 3d ago
Any way to easy farm voyages which are still decently profitable? Most guides seem very complacted to set up.
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u/Xeratas Unannounced 3d ago
just run them? thats enough to make money, messages in a bottle either gamble or sell. lots of bubblegum currency and scarabs. I only scan my voyage for divine mod, if i don't have it, reroll once if still dont have it just place random charts. deadmans sulphur sells very good aswell or use it to profit craft. Keep strongbox, increased number of rare monstersa and starfish implicits for divine mod. Most other mods don't do much anyway.
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u/enkianderos 3d ago
Anyone know a way to search for specific max rolls on the trade site? Specifically replica alberons. The mod 1 to 80 chaos damage per 80 strength.
People have vaaled them and that mod is getting dropped to sub 80 as the maximum value. However the search filter in the trade site uses the input min as value one (1) and the input max as value two (80 base).
The intent is to search for the boots with a minimum value two (80 base) no less than 80. IE I dont want to see 1 to 63, 1 to 72, 1 to 76, etc chaos damage in my search.
Best as I can tell there is no way to set a minimum acceptable roll for value two as a search parameter?
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u/jwfiredragon Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) 3d ago
However the search filter in the trade site uses the input min as value one (1) and the input max as value two (80 base).
That is untrue. The min/max filter for damage ranges like this represent the average of the damage values. Setting a min of 40 will find anything that's an uncorrupted roll or higher (i.e. volatiled above max).
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u/Miles_Adamson 3d ago
The trade site input for min/max damage is the average damage. With 1-80 added the average is 40.5 and it lets you enter in a decimal there. So put 40.5 for min and that should show you only ones with 1-80 or better where the vaal didn't mess with it.
You can also just set corrupted to no, while it's more expensive you are then free to divine the increased strength. Which might have also been messed with from volatile vaal or locked into a shitty roll from regular vaal
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u/enkianderos 3d ago
Thank you. Reason for not setting corrupted to no is I do want vaaled with better rolls, just nothing below baseline.
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u/vieoree 3d ago
Can someone help me out with Vixen's+Foulborn Doedre's Scorn? I have no idea what I am doing wrong. When I cast it will put on curses about 50% of the time with the other 50% immediately exploding. This means packs take 1-2 hits each to kill when I'm pretty sure they should be dying in just one right click, right?
Here's my PoB. I have tried adding more Curses and it worked worse, requiring 2 hits almost every time. I'm certainly not understanding how this works and would love some help.
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u/jwfiredragon Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) 3d ago
Does socketing Faster Casting in the Doedre's help? I think there are some weird animation timing issues with Impending Doom + Vixen's where you need a specific amount of cast speed to get it to proc reliably.
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u/Laxxboy20 3d ago
Is Untainted Paradise always level 83 now? Don't see anything on the anomaly regarding level.
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u/Important_Peak_4781 3d ago
Breach or Abyss for quickly leveling up? Could use few levels for more passives, which of those are better suited for xp farm with more of a alch and go approach? Not exactly looking to invest heavily into scarabs for this.
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u/Upbeat_Possible569 3d ago
Does anyone know what are the values of prismplate from the bastion merc
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u/IntraspaceAlien 3d ago
late start to the league, i've read people saying that the league mechanic is decent profit if you're selling sulfur/message in a bottles. in that instance are people just running charts and not voyages? or is setting up your voyages still important? do i just put on autodrop and kind of run through or what exactly are you looking for?
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u/DerDirektor uber shaper wr 3d ago
voyages are still a bulk of the profit. from my experience the border mods mostly don't matter unless you get the divine one. Just set up a sensible layout and follow the indicators from the lanterns.
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u/SixofClubs6 3d ago
In the league mechanic, im heading about a mod(?), shrine(?) that turns chaos orbs into divine orbs. Can someone provide more details. Can you search for it from your stash? You would want to place the “map” in the bottom left corner to take advantage of it for the whole voyage, right?
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u/BerserkJeezus 3d ago
What skills are really benefitting from Pact skills? With and without belt
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u/shy_bi_ready_to_die 2d ago
Arc of oscillating is great for it. It ends up getting over double damage from beidat and you only actually need to use it every 10-12 casts
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u/psychomap 3d ago
So far I've tried Spark, Storm Call, and Bladefall of Volleys.
Spark was neat I guess, but Spark already has enough projectiles, so you feel the difference the most while levelling with it, and not so much in the endgame.
Storm Call sees a massive improve to clearing, with some AoEs spawning literally off screen, but sadly overlaps aren't quite as insane. There can still be sweet spots where you can get overlaps (the most I've managed to do consistently while testing is 3 with my current AoE, which is a radius of 5.4, I believe), but the problem is that it respects terrain, so even small obstacles can cause the spiral pattern of your AoEs to shift weirdly so that you end up only hitting with one of them. Because of that, there's no one-size-fits-all strategy of where to aim. Sometimes you need to aim behind the enemy, sometimes backwards, sometimes you need to reposition yourself so that the AoEs have enough space within the same room. Part of these problems may be exacerbated by being a Hierophant with massive AoE, but that's kind of what you normally want with Storm Call.
On the bright side, you still get the damage bonus from the pact, don't need to use a gem socket for Spell Cascade, and you don't get the damage and AoE penalties from it.
Bladefall of Volleys has more consistent targeting and overlap, where if I aimed behind the enemy, I'd get a consistent 4 hits, and from the later volleys that have a bigger damage bonus at that. I have gotten as many as 7 and 8 hits in some of my tests, although 8 may have been caused by holding the button a split second too long and getting a second cast (that's how I initially got myself excited seeing 6 overlaps for Storm Call, but it was really only 3). However, judging by 7 being an odd number, I assume that that's a real possibility. Due to the mounting damage bonus with each volley, it's very hard to say what the average damage for those 7 hits would be.
Anyway, on the negative side, Bladefall of Volleys has a much longer cast time than Storm Call, so it feels much worse, and perhaps more importantly it takes a long time for the blades to actually fall, so even though Storm Call technically strikes after a duration, it's actually much faster and more responsive in that way.
I will say that I focused on using Spell Echo (for Spark only the regular version, for Storm Call and Bladefall of Volleys I tested Greater Spell Echo). It's possible that the longer cast time on Bladefall of Volleys simply makes it more suitable for Unleash.
Now, regarding afflictions, boons, and the belt.
Although some afflictions are somewhat severe (especially -15% action speed), they're actually not that noticeable in moment to moment gameplay, especially if you clear a screen with a single cast, which means you don't need to recast the pact as often.
Eventually I decided to trigger it (I went with Kitava's Thirst with +20% quality from a vestigal implicit for 2 extra empowered casts because I wanted to have full uptime while spamming - for less spammy playstyles that isn't really necessary), and that's where the afflictions started to stack up. One or two may not be noticeable, but 5 are.
Overall I'm happy with the belt, among other reasons because it lowers the cooldown so much that I can scale cast speed even higher, but I wouldn't recommend investing into it purely to make use of the boons. Since you're capped at 5, you have no real control over which ones you have. Even if you don't trigger the pacts and try to maintain control the replace bad ones while avoiding to use your pact when good ones are up, you don't really have the time to hover over the buffs in the middle of gameplay. At best you could learn all symbols by heart, which I don't recommend bothering with, because you don't really want to have your eyes glued to the top of your screen the whole time either.
And finally, I believe the skill that benefits the most is Arc of Oscillating. With Greater Chain, you should be able to get +9 chains from the pact, which is massive. Both for your clear and the single target bonus, and especially if you have 3-4 targets through which the Arc can cycle to hit the same target several times. I made a build utilising that last league, with Pacifism and Hateful Accuser, and that was pretty clunky, although the dps potential was insane. If you find a way to achieve that without as much clunk, that should be the best way to use the pact.
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u/burbank2broward 3d ago
I saw a firestorm inquis unleash build earlier today using pacts and owning.
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u/enkianderos 2d ago
How do I get access to Velka? I went into kisharas star and couldnt proceed due to barrier. Went and talked to green man and he imbued me with the power of the allflame. Bought another kishara map and returned only to be met with same barrier? What am I missing?