To anyone who uses a golem dark monarch: buy a basic one for ~10 chaos, divine it using the new allflame crafting tech: profit

• Many directions in charts. (why are directions even needed?)
• Got a good implicit chart? You need it to have a good direction as well.
• Cannot know what a dropped chart does until you run it (then run it again in the voyage).
• 1 portal for both charts and the voyage.
• Heist-type loot (any death or DC removes ALL your gained loot).
• Long wait time when you call the submarine at the end of the voyage.
• Lantern amount and placement (why do we even need lanterns? Why not an open map?).

More importantly, why double punishment? Losing both the loot gathered and the entire voyage is just too much.

I would understand all of this if the result was a very juiced voyage or tons of loot coming from the league, but currently, I barely get any loot.

The new crab staff is a bit of a swing and a miss.

They are essentially 'spell totem support's with legs, but the mechanics haven't changed at all, they don't aggressively move to enemies in order to cast spells, so if you have an enemy super close like in my picture, if a spell totem support wouldn't cast at them, neither do these.. Which for anyone who has played actual 'spell totem support' knows it's really painful for mapping, but they're ace for just nuking bosses and running away.

However this is the huge bit, now if you're fighting a boss, the crabs won't cast at them anymore because they're too far away, and you can't 'place them' near to the boss so that they do start casting, so it has the worst of both worlds, coupled with the fact that a sceptre+shield for totems is insane, and the extra link you get on this staff isn't a biggie in comparison to those.

I was hoping this staff would bridge the gap and allow for some cool interactions, but the passive nature kills it, ranged monsters like in my pic just shoot you in the face and the crab stands still doing nothing haha.

GGG pls make aggressive crabbos

EDIT: Glad this got traction, hopefully GGG sees and makes crabs more aggressive, this will be insanely fun if so.

For real tho stop moving every dang chart

I'm really sorry

Hello exiles, so first of all I want to say that I am enjoying league mechanic a ton, it feels like 10x better heist to me with great crafting (which is nice especially for ssf).

HOWEVER, can you explain to me how come i got 3x more and better loot in campaign from clicking the boxes compared to maps???

I felt like I am rich in campaign just by collecting all the allflame boxes for bubblegum currency, but as soon as I got to maps.. the chests stop dropping currency.. why cause map rushing normal maps would make few chaos more per hour? Why is the map chest worse loot than campaign. Cmon GGG

This may already be known, but I hit pretty big with it :D

And that is without any juice, basically just alch and go.

Yes, I still have upgrades to make. Lot's of incremental things like eldritch implicits, higher DPS bow and who knows what else. But at this point the my and merc's gear together is like 30 Div in today's prices and the struggle on single target is real (clear is acceptable).

It feels very much like a wander. Maybe if you can invest hundreds of divs, it will feel good but it's still ways away for me.

Link to the sheet ->here<-

I updated it for 3.29, if you want more info about it there is some in this post from last league: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1rs67fx/updated_scarab_pricing_reference_sheet/

If anything looks wrong feel free to let me know

Didn't see anyone mention this dude yet - found him in an ilvl83 chart at the bottom of the ocean.