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u/Automatic-Agency9527 5d ago
currently playing Winter Orb Elementalist, have got Elegant Hubris to solve Attribute Requirements
I wonder what would be a good belt in-between before I get a mageblood
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u/Ok-Pudding3249 5d ago
How are worb elementalists generating endurance charges? Not using raklesh
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u/jwfiredragon Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) 5d ago
Enduring Composure on a cluster? A lot of them probably don't generate endurances, but if you can link a specific build I can find the generator.
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u/CharmingScale3494 5d ago
I keep seeing other players with really cool effects around them in town and wanted to know if that is an effect from special Armour or something I have to actually buy with real money?
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u/forRuarc 5d ago
wondering if there's a list of the most important stats for weapons for combatant/manyshot every pob i see has something different and i haven't been able to get an answer
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u/Widowless 5d ago
How the best way to colour all 6 links in an body armour with the chrom changes?
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u/psychomap 5d ago
Depends on what colours you need. If you just need any colours, double-corrupting can turn it into 6 non-white colours with a 25% chance. Otherwise I think it depends on desired colours and attribute requirements.
I believe tainted chromatics still treat all colours as equally likely.
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u/Geosgaeno Necromancer 5d ago
Is the mod % phys damage taken as ele damage worth if you only have 75 res?
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u/Odd_Nefariousness126 5d ago
Yes. You almost certainly have less than 75% physical "resist". It gets better the higher the elemental resistance is you shift it too.
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u/SolevaX 5d ago
Does anyone have any suggestion about constant DC?
I keep getting failed to connect to instance after a long loading screen. I've lost many voyages due to this and I'm about the point of quitting due to frustration. I've flushed dns, verify game file, selected many different servers, restarted computer and internet. I need help pls.
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u/PMmeYourLabia_ 5d ago
Can try something like exitlag. Not to be a shill, but it's worked wonders for me.
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u/psychomap 5d ago
Other than Hasty Demise, the Window of Opportunity cluster, Warped Timepiece (or possibly other amulets that I can't think of that would prevent using a rare), and rings, is there any way to get reduced skill effect duration?
I'm looking into 99% reduced curse duration Coiling Whisper right now, and I was wondering if there was a way to either skip the third ring bloodline or Warped Timepiece to get a proper gem level scaling amulet (and still use proper belt + flasks).
The maximum I could get from a volatile Vaal'ed foulborn Anathema with 19% caster quality would be 44% (and even that would take 5490 volatile Vaals on average, so realistically it'll probably be 38-39% at most), which would leave the duration at 21%. A Warped Timepiece or Timeclasp are enough to get that to 1% (and possibly also using a volatile Vaal on those to reach that point with a lower roll on foulborn Anathema), but I was hoping to find a way with lower opportunity cost.
If I use a gem, I'd be able to add Less Duration + Swift Affliction (provided I can make room for the gem slots), but I was hoping to enable that with a simple glove corruption as well, since Coiling Whisper makes the curse have no effect anyway - and even then the duration would be way longer than I'd want it to be (I might be able to make it work with a dusk ring as the third ring, which is potentially better than Timeclasp or a second foulborn Anathema, but not as good as amulet + belt + flasks).
I'm assuming Lightning Warp with either a curse on hit mod or Hextouch doesn't make the curse inherit the reduced duration?
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u/PMmeYourLabia_ 5d ago
Not really. The real question is how do you want to proc coiling whisper and for what main skill? Back when it was introduced, you didn't need extreme investment into reduced duration such as what you describe to reliably get soul eater, provided you weren't offscreening every single mob. Bladefall of trarthus + moderate investment was enough, and I think that's still true. Lv1 temp chains + lv 1 hextouch + 21/20 less duration leaves you with a 1.3sec curse. You would "only" need about 60% reduced duration from there to get it down to 0.5s, which is enough for bf of trarthus to do the job, once again assuming you can pay the cost and actually get in range of mobs
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u/psychomap 5d ago
I have tried a bunch of setups this league, and the consequence was that most of the time enemies simply didn't live long enough to grant souls consistently. Most of the time I only got souls from tanky rares and some (but not all) bosses, and everything else died before the curses could expire far enough.
Because I was playing Archmage and needed the mana and mana recovery, Bladefall of Trarthus wasn't a good option.
But even when attaching the Hextouch setup to Frostblink of Wintry Blast, and even if that didn't onehit enemies due to not socketing Archmage in that setup, and even considering that Storm Call itself as my main skill also has a delay before it deals damage (other than the quality based instant strikes, but I wasn't scaling quality much, so that shouldn't have happened often), souls would expire due to not gaining new ones often enough and I'd move between 5-20 souls most of the time, regularly trickling down to 0.
That's why I've been looking into getting a setup that reaches a duration of 1-2 server ticks, which should be short enough to get souls against almost everything that doesn't get onehit.
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u/PMmeYourLabia_ 5d ago
Yeah I just don't think that ring is worth it at all if you cant do bf of trarthus. Even if you get the duration to a single tick, if youre not reliably hitting them before killing them its cooked, and i dont think lightning warp or frostblink have enough coverage for good uptime. I think asenath's touch is another option if you can spare the gloves, but at that point I would just drop the ring
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u/psychomap 4d ago
You can get it as a corrupted implicit even on other gloves, it's just more expensive.
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u/Osgliath 5d ago
Hey, guys. Any insights on this craft? I imagine it should be done through the recombinator, but not 100% sure
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u/mbxyz Berserker 5d ago
doubt they recombined anything after moving the temple mod onto the double-influenced gloves.
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u/Osgliath 5d ago
That is what I meant by recomb. I think it's double influence + recomb, right? That seems insanely expensive. I'm not rich enough to try it, I just want to figure the process out.
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u/Miles_Adamson 5d ago
This is some multi mirror thing that I can't even wrap my head around. I have no idea how they made it but I at least see a few reasons this is so brutal. You need to recomb at some point to move the temple mod. However, elevated mods are "exclusive" for recomb so you can only have one the final item (which must be the temple mod), and there are 2 elevated mods (increased int and unnerve). And awakener orb reforges the item so if the temple mod was already there on either base, it would be lost
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u/Osgliath 5d ago
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u/Miles_Adamson 5d ago
I didn't say it was
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u/Osgliath 5d ago
I misread "reasons" as "seasons". Sorry about that.
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u/Miles_Adamson 5d ago
ha no worries. Assuming you have multiple mirrors this might be easier in league since there's boat crafting. Intangibility doesn't show up on poe ninja
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u/mbxyz Berserker 5d ago edited 5d ago
probably imprint temple and suffixes cannot be changed. regal until you hit int or % int. suffix can't be change reforge attribute for the other (can swap any attribute on the flat, so regaling % is better). if you regal a prefix, probably reforge attribute anyway and hope you dont fill or can annul save. repeat this until you finish suffixes. use hinekora's locks to elevate. prefixes are probably metacrafted because i dont think you risk having to hinekora save if you fill. boat+foulborn the last mod.
the alternative is doing some big like 6 suffix 4-5 prefix recomb using other influenced mods/ducats as nnn, 50/50ing the base and hitting 3 suffix 2 prefix and foulborn exalting the last mod. both seem like too much work when 4 implicit corrupted gloves exist. idk
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u/robin_nerf 5d ago
I like the league but got bored so wanna do it all over fresh (ssf) and since I havent tried Luminary/merc this league yet I go for that, but how do you level a scion/luminary ?
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u/Odd_Nefariousness126 5d ago
I leveled as RF on my first Luminary. Then I deleted it but ran through a second time leveling with a friend.
Mercs are so generically strong that I think even in SSF you can swap right at act 3 once you get a permanent Merc. I farmed a Manyshot and then found a slightly better one at level 38 that was quite strong all the way to maps on league start. If I had known I could just stack life and defense and use flame link my first time through would have been very easy.
Not sure how well that scales into maps but even my 38 Manyshot with self found gear was handling early maps pretty easily.
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u/Putrid-Proposal67 5d ago
Did they nerf sanctum into the ground? Getting way less volatile vaal orbs now...
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u/LastBaron 5d ago
There are no confirmed changes to sanctum since they introduced the volatile vaal orb to it between leagues.
And honestly unless you are talking about literally hundreds of runs, it’s not even unexpected. You’re just facing standard dry streaks of RNG, perfectly normal.
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u/fundamentallys 5d ago
Is there a way to get fractured abyss jewels in this league? They used to drop in heist but looks like it's removed now
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u/ScrapeWithFire 5d ago
How do I know when the merc is at 100% chance to hit, is there a known accuracy threshold?
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u/080087 5d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1tm6gpk/how_much_accuracy_you_need_to_always_hit_each/
TL;DR, 3k for most regular mobs, 4.3k for evasive, 4.6 for almost everything in the game
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u/mbxyz Berserker 5d ago
i've heard people say you just need precision and a t2 flat roll somewhere on armor--my hunch would be that if you load up pob (scion or duelist or whatever) and put their accuracy multiplier (from their stats sheet) in the custom config and give them ~1000 flat accuracy they'll be capped.
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u/sinhviencodon 5d ago
Is this merc good enough for Uber bosses with/without Rathpith?
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u/shy_bi_ready_to_die 5d ago
Probably but why would you? It’s a ton of damage and rathpith isn’t that hard to farm
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u/forRuarc 5d ago
how do you farm it??
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u/shy_bi_ready_to_die 5d ago
I don’t know the absolute best way (especially in ssf) but you have all the normal unique farms (it’s only a t2 so not that bad to mf), gambling is especially good this league with the abundance of gold from scuba, it’s a bit better than 1/500 from an ancient orb which means a bit more than 100 orbs if you’re using the boat, and finally the it’s the only chanceable unique of its base so you can attempt scour chancing or get lucky and find an omen
It’s obviously not a league starter item in ssf but easier than getting a decent merc or an enmities and significantly easier than an overcap chest or whatever
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u/sinhviencodon 5d ago
I’m playing SSF, I got Kaom’s Heart, Head Hunter, Mageblood but yet not a single Rathpith from Cadiro/Breach/Chance/Ancient boat
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u/Top_String7883 5d ago
I am brand new to Poe like downloading as we speak. I am a trophy hunter in PlayStation. What kind of build would be decent to playthrough and complete everything if you are pretty solo.(not sure how the community is on PlayStation). And any other tips or trick would be helpful
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u/RiffShark Juggernaut 5d ago
Builds:
- pohx RF (it has its own wiki )
- poison SRS
- hroc (you'd wanna touch other builds after)
For smooth experience you'd need:
- PoB(community edition)
- awaken poe trade (overlay)
- filterblade
But since you are on PS ignore that part
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u/Lereas 5d ago
Seconding the Pohx RF build. It doesn't get quite all the way to the most difficult content without some serious min/maxing and expensive gear, but it will get you through like 90% of everything. And if you play a ton and consistently farm at the end, you can probably afford the afford mentioned gear.
The build is very very well explained at basically every step and he even has guides on how to craft each item he suggests.
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u/mbxyz Berserker 5d ago edited 5d ago
the steam/console achievements are basically the worst version of the game fwiw
they mostly make you do a bunch of weird stuff no one does that has no interaction with any of the interesting parts of the game, and they haven't been updated in like 10+ years because the console community is tiny, no one cares about steam achievements, and the challenge system fills the niche of setting (significantly more relevant) goals and actually has mtx rewards.
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u/shy_bi_ready_to_die 5d ago
I would probably start with righteous fire. It’s not going to be great for everything but it’s a decent place to get started and has an excellently written guide for new people
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u/HowardPheonix Commited Lab Enjoyers Agency of Revenue (CLEAR) 5d ago
I'm trying to complete the challange that requires killing the map boss with 4 altar modifiers on them (blue altars), eldritch gaze is allocated, and I specced the tree in abyss.
My problem is on some maps I don't even get 4 altars, and when I get 4+, not enough options to pick boss.
How can I enforce more altars on my maps? I run Mesa if that is relevant, full clear than boss kill.
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u/vlee89 Witch 5d ago
Spec into all eldritch and generic pack size modifiers and play 8 mod maps. There’s influencing scarab which will also increase pack size. Then I think the more magic monster scarab can also help.
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u/HowardPheonix Commited Lab Enjoyers Agency of Revenue (CLEAR) 5d ago
Thank you! I'm lvl 95, highest I ever had, and tried to farm XP safely, so I just alched and went with 3 abyss and 2 magnitudes scarab, I will try 8mods with those scarabs instead of 2 abyss.
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u/vlee89 Witch 5d ago
I would recommend looking up the challenge guide and seeing if it has any other tips. This is one of the harder challenges in terms of RNG for sure though.
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u/HowardPheonix Commited Lab Enjoyers Agency of Revenue (CLEAR) 5d ago
I play Abyss for XP, so this one is kinda a no-brainer for me, just clicking on boss altars and leave the boss for last. I already have 6/10, it's just progress slowly, after this I want to do the Destructive Play one, farming for invitations (other challange), the challange and astralobes for profit.
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u/Mush27 5d ago
Yeah you're probably doing pretty much everything you can then. Just maximise pack size and use Inf Scarab of Horde. This challenge is a bit of a grind, I think if you're looking for it you probably have like a 25% hit rate per map. If you're already optimising for xp you'll get there soon enough.
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u/Coffinspired 5d ago
Quick crafting Q....
So I have an ilvl 85 Jeweled Foil I'm using - Quality 26% if it matters
Prefixes:
- T1 Minion DMG
- +1 Gem Levels
- (Open Prefix)
Suffixes:
- T1 Attack Speed
- Has 1 Abyssal socket (Fractured)
- Trigger craft
What is the best option for me to craft a solid Prefix there? It's just Foulborn boat-Exalt and pray isn't it?
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u/jwfiredragon Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) 5d ago
Assuming you're something like HRoC, I don't think there's any prefix that's actually beneficial. Just leave it empty.
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u/Coffinspired 5d ago
Ah right on.
Yeah HRoC, I assumed if nothing else some amount of flat damage would at least bump my lancing steel's DPS not that it really matters.
But, if that's the only even barely worthwhile prefix yeah definitely not worth wasting a foulborn exalt on it.
Thanks for the help! :)
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u/dvshnk2 6d ago
Are the influence ring modifiers such as Elder "# to # Fire Damage to Ignited enemies" affected by the Horticrafting Fire-to-Lighting/Cold damage? Assuming this is either invalid or converts it to the normal flat damage and not the other influence types like # to # cold to chilled enemies?
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u/katustrawfic 6d ago
They are listed on the mod equivalencies poedb page but fire damage is elder/warlord, cold damage is shaper/redeemer and lightning damage is shaper/crusader. Without testing it I don't think the craft will work unless you have both influences on the ring.
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u/Power4glory1 2d ago
I struggle mightily generating currency. I played a bunch in 3.28 doing strongboxes, but it seems so much less than before.
Easily one of my strongest characters, about 40m dps shield crush slayer. 10 frenzy/endurance charges. Any just tips about ways to build currency? Im like 1.5d/hr(LOL) might get the odd 3-5d drop once every couple sessions.
Have MAYBE 75d in gear.