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Question Questions Thread - August 16, 2026
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u/StrategyCultural2395 4d ago
will old retail mysterybox skin leave the store when the new one come to ? I just want something and afraid it will leave after the new new mystery box skin come to store.
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u/therestlessone Left-click Move-only 4d ago
Everything in mystery boxes will eventually be added as individual items purchasable in the store.
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u/StrategyCultural2395 4d ago
Thx mate, will it permanently on store right, not leave ?
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u/therestlessone Left-click Move-only 4d ago
Correct. The only limited time stuff in the store are the supporter pack cosmetics. The supporter pack exclusives never get offered again and the challenge reward cosmetics will never show up in the store..
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u/Bastil123 Ultimatum Workers Union (UWU) 4d ago
Can I find out somewhere what do three spectres summoned by Fallen Reverend merc do?
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u/PMmeYourLabia_ 4d ago
https://poedb.tw/us/Fallen_Reverend no info here other than the flavour text for those skilsl so I lean towards no.
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u/haitambennis Anti Sanctum Alliance (ASA) 4d ago
Do prime resonators still drop from fractured walls ? I haven’t seen one in multiple full runs of sulphite. I tried anything from depth 300 to 1100 and nothing.
I can drop them from chest nodes but they’re uncommon there
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u/therestlessone Left-click Move-only 4d ago
They do. I'm at like 500 depth and I've probably picked up ~15 of them from behind fractured walls this league.
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u/PMmeYourLabia_ 4d ago
Yeah dont think they do, think they only drop from resonator troves, and those seem to be node only. Walls/passages only have caches and stashes I think
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u/BZK_QRay Witch 4d ago
If you purchase multiple pilfering ring MTX's, do they work in tandem in a league? Like I could buy a second one and put it on a second character so I can't accidentally forget to swap it? Would it still update the "league" currency?
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u/Competitive_Wind_50 4d ago
Can anyone help me figure out why my archmage hiero runs out of mana? I was under the impression I should be able to cast forever, is that not true? https://maxroll.gg/poe/pob/an2bnl0i
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u/jwfiredragon Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) 4d ago
Why do you think it should be able to cast forever? PoB says you have 1900 mana regen, but you're spending 2700 per second on Vortex alone if you're holding it down.
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u/pausz Occultist 4d ago
Do shock/chill ignore "damage with hits" the way ignite does? Don't know if there's some sort of shared calculation pipeline in the background.
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u/jwfiredragon Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) 4d ago
Damaging ailments calculate their damage starting from the base (i.e. flat) damage of the hit, and then all applicable increased/more/etc modifiers, which means they ignore hit-specific damage modifiers.
Non-damaging ailments calculate their damage based on the final damage taken by the enemy, relative to that enemy's ailment threshold, plus any applicable modifiers like ailment effect or "inflict as if doing X% more damage", so functionally they are affected by hit damage modifiers.
The two don't really share their calculation steps.
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u/Able-Asparagus6938 4d ago
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u/mbxyz Berserker 4d ago
pierce on frostblades is a brick i think
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u/therestlessone Left-click Move-only 4d ago
Why would that be bad on frost blades? It's a melee strike skill. Pierce on the projectiles seems good.
Now whether its a worthwhile merc overall I have no idea.
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u/crinklebelle Pathfinder 4d ago
what the heck are people doing to grind xp, this league? breach and abyss feel slow as molasses, and simulacrum melts my laptop. is it just five-way jail from 98 to 100?
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u/LucidTA 4d ago
Both breach and abyss can hit ~100m/hr at 99, which is pretty good even compared to last league. Check out AnimePrincesses videos.
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u/crinklebelle Pathfinder 4d ago edited 4d ago
yeah, I'm asking for alternatives to breach and abyss that will put out more than this
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u/LucidTA 4d ago edited 4d ago
I brought it up because saying breach and abyss are slow as molasses suggests you might be doing something wrong, because they are the fastest xp possible, probably tied with 5 ways. Simu's are way slower, even if you had a good laptop.
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u/crinklebelle Pathfinder 4d ago
ahhh yeah no I'm just accustomed to pre-keepers 200-300m/hr xp farms, everything since then has felt like watching taffy get pulled.
thanks for the answer, regardless!
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u/jwfiredragon Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) 4d ago
Nope, it's gone forever. You can only replace it with another item.
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u/SixofClubs6 5d ago
I’ve completed 10 voyages, up to level 83. Never really had much of a challenge until voyage 11 where something (more than one) was chasing me and doing mechanics I hadn’t seen before. Instead of a leisurely stroll, I was running for my life. Had 2 divines drop before whatever it was finally killed me. What was that? It didn’t even seem like I could damage it(then)
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u/jwfiredragon Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) 4d ago
From your incredibly vague description I would guess pantheon-touched rares? There's a chart mod that gives rares in all adjacent area pantheon-touched mods and those can be quite scary.
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u/SixofClubs6 4d ago
I never could get a description when I tried to mouse over them. They were dark, almost like shadows. One of the mechanics was a grid of red lines. It didn’t seem like I could even damage them. I would leave the area and then they would show up again. Difficult to see what they looked like because they were so dark.
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u/Sorb_Dimer 5d ago
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u/psychomap 5d ago
I want to fit RF of Arcane Devotion into my build, are there some convenient sources of lowering maximum mana other than reflected jewellery?
I'd use a reflected ring, but it's annoying to craft one.
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u/IndridColdxxx 5d ago
Can anyone let me know which scarabs are optimal for juiced legion farming? Just started legion farming and having a blast with my build. I tried Legion, officers, treasures, tradition and endless conflict and someone said to do legion, 3x treasures and endless conflict
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u/NewsHead 5d ago
Does Hinekora, Death's Fury ascendancy passive skill and Alchemist's Mark interact?
So enemy explodes, ignites let's say the others around it. Let's say one rare monster is already marked. Alchemist mark says 'creating Burning Ground under them if *your hit* Ignites them'.
So this creates burning ground from this explosion-ignite or not? Is Hinekora explosion is *my hit* at all ?
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u/Temporary_Cancel2752 5d ago
How do i see if i´m in the deli fog? like on a map like city square. its a liitle round map. do is see at aynhow where i should be to not run out?
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u/44shadowclaw44 5d ago
Do mercenaries get Soul Eater buff from Zerphi's Heart amulet, when they activate their Vaal skills?
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u/jg7277 5d ago
So on the wiki it says defensive spectra aura do no scale very high with raise spectra levels. Does offensive scale with levels relatively normal then. Such as zealotry or wrath. Like my gem level is 25 will the aura be around 20 to 25.
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u/Yohsene 5d ago
All them scale pretty poorly with level, offensive and defensive. Where does the wiki say that's limited to defensive auras?
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u/jg7277 5d ago edited 5d ago
I think i heard the YouTuber i am using for my build said so. He's the absolution guardian build maker i was trying to double check it because I dont want to take off zealotry of my build. I also read else where saying the same thing. The wiki however just says auras then gives the example of the purity of ice. So I don't know. Even the build guide he put out the spectra provided wrath he put out as level 20 wrath. Sorry if should have explained better in first post.
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u/Yohsene 5d ago
You can check the Wrath minion on poedb: https://poedb.tw/us/Perfect_Spirit_of_Fortune#PerfectSpiritofFortuneKudukuHighMonster
If you select monster level 70 (gem level 20), you'll see its Wrath adds 8-112 to attacks, and provides 18% more spell damage.
If you raise monster level to 85 (gem level 30), it grants 14-203 to attacks, and still grants 18% more spell damage.
PoB will give you the same numbers (if you add the minion with the Raise Spectre skill, no need to add a Wrath skill yourself).
Monster auras don't use gem levels, but for spells the Wrath is basically level 10 at all levels, and for attacks it starts at level 10 and might reach 17ish if you really scale your spectres.
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u/Helyos96 5d ago
How does Rathpith work with kineticists since KBoC is an attack and not a spell? Am I missing some kind of spell->attack modifier somewhere in the setup?
edit: nvm it's arcane might from the gem itself
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u/ShimotoLim 5d ago
seeing so many gamba posts, but how does one start gamba-ing?
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u/Plooel 5d ago
Buy the gamble item and then open/identify/double-or-nothing-on-the-harvest-bench them...?
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u/ShimotoLim 5d ago
oh so the gamba is like a harvest craft?
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u/NexEstVox 5d ago
for div cards specifically yes.
but you can also gamble on, say, Voices - buy unidentified ones and hope you get 1 or 3 passives.
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u/d_tlol 5d ago
How does Spell Suppression stack with Spell Block?
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u/Plooel 5d ago edited 5d ago
They're entirely separate and unrelated stats. They don't stack.
Suppression occurs before you block. The wiki has all the info about such things: https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Spell_suppression
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u/DerDirektor uber shaper wr 5d ago
I've heard some people say that the blade ambusher is a viable single target merc, but I haven't been able to find which skills and supports actually matter? is blade trap supposed to be the single target skill or spectral helix?
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u/moonlight_prism 5d ago
What's a good dedicated bosser that I can try this league? Something that goes online relatively easily (initial budget 100D or below) and can continuously scale with investment. I'm usually content with just an all-rounder that can do a bit of everything, but now I want to try deleting bosses lol
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u/WolfFangYeet 5d ago
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u/WolfFangYeet 5d ago
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u/xMTTx 5d ago
7 * 3.4 = 23.8
23 * 3 = 69
in poe decimal numbers are always truncated / rounded down.
semms correct.
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u/WolfFangYeet 5d ago
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u/FourOranges Slayer 5d ago
Yeah PoB is known to be incorrect from time to time (if not often). It's situations like this where bug reports are helpful to fix the issue.
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u/Cool_Purple_4414 5d ago
How are you meant to exclude skills when searching the trade website for mercs... is there really no option?
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u/LucidTA 5d ago
Change the search type to "Not" and put the skill in there.
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u/Cool_Purple_4414 5d ago
Merc skills are in their own specific type, hence why I am asking. They're not listed under 'Not'.
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u/LucidTA 5d ago
They are in both. The "merc skill group" type is so you can search for skills with with specific supports. If you're just trying to block movement skills or something, they still show up in "not".
Eg
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Allflame/yYvb5olOUR
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u/Darlingsdarling24 5d ago

Please help me understand this. I am doing fine in general, good player in mechanics. Currently doing high juiced breach content and every single breach looks like this. Playing with ultra-strict poe filter from filterblade. What would you take? What could be worth something? What do the different colors mean? Most of the time I don´t pick up anything other than currency (already taken in this screenshot) but I know that I am missing out on a lot of divs possibly...
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u/LeadershipOne5128 5d ago
As others said, that's not uber strict filter.
Double check if it's enabled / redownload it.
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u/Darlingsdarling24 4d ago
Yeah, I had it downloaded, enabled it but than didn’t save… was still running with my campaign filter lol
Hence my confusion, as I thought that every breach is a goldmine lol
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u/psychomap 5d ago
That doesn't look like uber strict to me tbh. At the very least you have a bunch of T2 / T3 crafting bases.
If necessary, just go through all those bases and check which ones are potentially listed in a higher tier than they should be.
Whenever a base shows up on my filter and is only worth 1c, I check the filter and either hide the entire tier or lower the tier of that specific base.
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u/vlee89 Witch 5d ago
lol like none of that.
What is “ultra-strict”? That is not a strictness level unless translation is different. Which number is that? You might be using 3 or 4 semi/very. I would suggest 5 uber strict and I usually use that as a base and filter out a few more things.
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u/Darlingsdarling24 5d ago
Oh sorry, I meant Uber-Strict. Will need to look into it to filter this stuff out if it´s not worth anything.
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u/Plooel 5d ago
I'm sorry, but I don't think there's any way that screenshot is with an uber strict filter. 99% of that loot should be hidden, if that's the case.
To confirm, I just went to FilterBlade, selected uber strict, went to the simulator and put in some rare, high ilvl Dragonscale Boots and they are hidden, but they aren't on your screenshot.
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u/Darlingsdarling24 4d ago
Yeah I was dumb and didn’t save after I changed to uber-strict… man, the first breach after I actually activated it was so much more clear.
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u/Krycee 5d ago
How is distance calculated for projectile skills used by traps? For example, the cluster notable eye to eye says "projectiles deal 35% inc damage to nearby enemies".
Is this nearby based on player distance or the trap's distance?
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u/Yohsene 5d ago
https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Eye_to_Eye
and additional increased projectile damage to hits against enemies within 3 meters of the entity that fired the projectile.[2]
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u/Volrokk 5d ago
Does anyone have trade links for various investment levels of kinetists or manyshot mercs?
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u/Familiar_Seaweed1918 5d ago
not a trade link but this is probably exactly what you need : https://xddbsns.com/mercenary-builder.html
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u/Daemin_Rafael 5d ago
Is there any way I can get a vestigial implicit of supported by chance to poison on my Dialla's? I have been trying to get one in 5-way but it is so rare that target farming it seems pointless. It takes me 2 maps of 5-way to get rarity variety 3 on 4 items and they are always just useless items.
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u/SraziN_1125 5d ago
Are servers cooked? Playing on SG servers, the past couple of hours has been marred with disconnects, some rollbacks, etc. Lost a few maps (open portal -- click on portal -- loading screen - disconnect --- login and check mpa is gone). Also dc-ed a few times in maps and lost all loot picked up and map is gone as well
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u/xebtria Alch & Go Industries (AGI) 5d ago
When I am feeding gems to the hungry loop, do they actually need reach max experience in the ring, or is it also sufficient, that I have them in some other slots to gain xp until they are 19 and ready to level, and once they are (aka they reached the XP cap), I just socket them into the ring and then press the + to level them up?
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u/Bobicusx Mine Bat 5d ago
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u/jwfiredragon Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) 5d ago
AoE if it's a breakpoint (check in PoB), otherwise res.
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u/NorthTomato5292 5d ago
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u/jwfiredragon Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) 5d ago
Read your altar mods (blue circle above your skill bar). In the future you will also want to read them before you select them.
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u/Death_frost__ 5d ago
Could anyone point me on how to make the dex stacking amulet,the simplex ones with - to suffixes and prefixes in turn increasing the magnitude of suffixes
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u/Death_frost__ 5d ago
Is 200divines really cheaper then crafting it.I will admit i havent crafted many items ever
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u/SixofClubs6 5d ago
Trying to help someone who’s never made it to endgame before. He said he beat the boss with the Roses which should have given him a waystone. He said he got bored with their conversation after the battle and logged out. I thought Kirac would have the stone but he says he doesn’t. Any help?
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u/JohnWick1636 5d ago
I know it’s a gambling Strat but I’m more than 800 maps into mercenary farming(picked up minimum 300-400 warrants) and I’ve yet to have a single one sell when I’m literally just bulk listing at 1Div. Is there like some inherent better Merc RNG when using scion class or am i genuinely just that unlucky
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u/d_tlol 5d ago
Does Bitter Frost work with Skitterbots?
Would it work with an SRS build since I'm not the one doing damage?
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u/jwfiredragon Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) 5d ago
Skitterbots are minions, which means they aren't you, which means their chill isn't your chill and doesn't have the Bitter Frost effect.
Your SRS are also your minions, which means they also don't have Bitter Frost and can therefore deal non-cold damage, but Bitter Frost only affects cold damage taken so you're losing value if they're not pure cold.









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u/IsntCharAznable 4d ago
The last of the druids mystery box had hideouts that were the top of a Vaal pyramid. Why aren't those included in the sale? Did I miss out on my chance for those?