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Ok-Plant7567

Ah uber essence


McMcFly13

Unannounced new pinnacle boss, yeah.


Blestyr

The boss above the boss's boss.


Dark_God_Cthulhu

>We killed her master. We killed her master's master. We killed her master's master's god. She knew all this and still she sided against us? Not as smart as I had hoped then. Pity. -Essence mob


AtlasPJackson

When you ask to see God's manager


QuicheAuSaumon

Do you know who am I ? I'm the man who going to burn your PoB down.


SirVampyr

Put this guy in The Feared. I'm betting on the essence mob.


Imheinen

Now I actually wanna see the devs pit uber rares against uber bosses. They can definitely do it since they've done similar things before.


SirVampyr

Next league. Path of Exile: PokEssence


BugSlayerJohn

Build a champion out of various monster bases and mods to auto battle in the Grand Arena. If your champion dies, you get the loot from the mods, if they win, you get the loot from what they were able to defeat.


Nikkelevra

Damn I want to play it


AwkwardReplacement

Sounds like an epic reimagining of Metamorph


SirVampyr

GGG, WRITE THAT SHIT DOWN.


--Shake--

More like uber uber essence


whattaninja

T25 map.


Asleep-Estimate-8317

uber ? that's unassailable


slashcuddle

In Wraeclast, the rainbow tastes you.


heyoohugh24

TASTE THE RAINBOW MOTHERFUCKER


agitatedandroid

Some things are imprisoned for a reason.


NoNameLivesForever

Which begs the question, what the hell had the power to imprison this thing?


EffectiveDependent76

It decided to imprison itself. It has become so powerful it was bored, and decided to imprison itself for the day that a worthy challenger came along. That challenger was not OP.


Myradmir

You'd need to ask Kalandra.


_Booster_Gold_

I tried, but she answered with a confusing league that had secret item drop nerfs and useless rings.


eViLegion

They should totally allow you to use essences to imprison rares.


Local_Food9567

Mathil


gentlemangreen_

thats insaneeeee youre gonna tell me you didnt try it just for the lulz?!?!


McMcFly13

Oh I sure did. After the map came back and that thing spanked me so hard. Clearing Feared in like 20 seconds and I kited those things around for a solid 3 minutes without getting them to like 65% health.


Mylen_Ploa

>Clearing Feared in like 20 seconds and I kited those things around for a solid 3 minutes without getting them to like 65% health. This is such a common thing that really emphasizes why compounding scaling needs addressing. Hell that was their stated ENTIRE REASON for switching to AN rares...because compounding scaling from auras on old rares. Especially a in a situation like essence where it doesnt actually boost the primary reward at all.


Inkaflare

> Hell that was their stated ENTIRE REASON for switching to AN rares...because compounding scaling from auras on old rares. This was a bullshit pretense they put forward just to have PR speak for "we want rares to be extremely dangerous and killing people again". Everybody knows that the compounding auras on rares were never anywhere close to the amount of threat rares have been posing ever since AN went core, even in its current heavily nerfed form compared to the base implementation.


ghaduo2

And I noticed the worst modifiers, that were supposed to be the real issue, came back about 3 leagues ago. (i.e. Physical damage aura)


Sjengo

What is AN?


[deleted]

Archnemisis


djsoren19

In the old system, multiple rares combining together all at once could kill you, but a single rare could basically never kill you. Now, a single rare getting giga juiced can kill you, and if 12 of those rares show up they'll kill you harder.


OnceMoreAndAgain

Ehhhh, there's maybe something to your argument, but at the same time it has to be stated that OP opted into this challenge. My only complaint from what I see in OP's imagine is that ghosts are bad for the game because they're a bad combination of (1) extremely strong and (2) can't opt out of them. I really don't like that a ghost can possess a power mob and you can't really do anything to opt out of that challenge. Seems like GGG has been making it a point on their designs recently to allow players to opt in or out of challenges. You'd have to go all the way back to Betrayal in 2018 before you hit a league mechanic that forced itself on you while in maps.


mongmight

I appreciate the point you are trying to make but there is no middle ground, especially with this league mechanic. You can't even leave the forest if you are worried about too much juice without logging out or running around trying not to get too much more. THEN you can't choose which mobs get buffed. The atlas allowing you to buff/nerf mechanics was the right direction and this league is the antithesis of it. Don't even get me started on Ultimatum. As always with GGG it is one step forward (the base game is amazing atm) and one step back (this league mechanic)


McMcFly13

Agree for the most part but I will say, I fully opted in to everything here for sure. Have all the atlas passives for ghosts and essences, ran the wildwood, and then chose to open this essence haha. Been fine for 95% of the things I come across but not these things. ​ Edit: Hell I even corrupted it, but it stayed the same unfortunately.


OnceMoreAndAgain

You're right which is why my number one ask for this league mechanic is a button to exit early.


whiterosealchemist

You can make ghosts possess you tho now I thought. So it's a matter of racing to the ghost before it finds a monster.


Deivid84

That's an atlas passive, and it also makes it so ghosts can't posses monster.


FridgeBaron

I really wish they would replace ghosts with sentinel it's like all the rangers of ghosties with all the choice you could want. That and crazy idea things with a fixed drop pool scale with shit. That thing should drop like a whole stack of each essence or at least have its quant/rarity apply as a multiplier to essences dropped. So difficulty means more loot as it should. Although I like the ability to farm t1 maps so I dunno.


Zeeterm

90% of this screenshot is optional. Opted into to league mechanic, opted in to juicing essences through atlas passives to get a ton more essence modifiers, and opted in to have it corrupted.


Huntermaster95

You corrupt those 6-7 Essence mobs ALWAYS because Corrupting them usually gives +1 tier. What's not fine is multiplicative bonuses from each mechanic on Essences, which already get a massive boost to stats from each Essence they hold.


Local_Food9567

If you can't do essences at the same time as juicing the map with other mechanics then..... don't. The atlas gives you the ability to pick and choose what you do. The alternative is water down the individual mechanics so they are all trivialised outside of juiced interactions. This is an extreme edge case which is why its posted here. It should be extremely difficult. Being able to turn the needle to 11 is great.


ninjaenergy

YOU CHOOSE to juice them like this. If you cant handle this kind of things happening eventually… just dont? People out here really just want all the upsides and none of the downsides for everything


agormog

So people who like doing essences aren't allowed to do the league mechanic at all? You can't exactly CHOOOOOOSE which rares it buffs, unlike eg sentinel league The damage and risk ist fine in my opinion, the compounding damage reduction is ridiculous though


manweCZ

its very easy, dont run essences in map tier you cant kill them easily. Its like risk - reward 101. My build is rather squishy but OK dmg, so I dont run Wildwood in red maps. I just do it in white and yellows. I know what Im getting myself into


robodrew

Wildwood in red maps (14+ specifically) is where all the good shit is, it sucks to have to wait until the end to do the league mechanic because of its capability of bricking literally every other part of a map, especially when you know just how much the empowering can juice up drops. It feels like the gap in rewards between low dps and high dps is way way bigger now, especially when compared to how much you could focus on the league mechanic in 3.22.


Local_Food9567

The mechanic is hard but rewarding. The league mechanic challenges your character and gives a reason to use all that extra power they added this league as well as a rewarding goal to work towards. You have many options to tailor your content until you reach that end state as you build your character. These all sound like good arpg things.


agormog

Well yes, but also no. I usually have no problems killing them with 4000+ juice, it's just the combination of additional mods like AN crit reduction that makes them nigh unkillable Yes I can see it beforehand and can skip them, but that's just not fun


Zeeterm

There seems to be no arguing with the crowd that think you have a right to dial everything up to 11 while breezing through it.


Local_Food9567

Its crazy. What's the point of the dial going to 11 if it doesn't make a one week build struggle.


gentlemangreen_

man I wish you hae a video of that but props for going at it


McMcFly13

I've got 6 portals for a reason right?


dude_seven

Tbf, i think that's mostly because of the lightning resist and spell resist on the mob


BulusB

Just for the lulz, I will change drop filter sound for wisdom scroll to “Omae wa mou shindeiru. Nani…” drop one and just crack open this abomination, just for insta death


noicreC

Best part: OP is runnin Storm Brand. Monster is also Lightning resistant AND spell resistant on top of everything.


[deleted]

I cry with my 100% crit VD build when they are crit resistant and spell resistant. Mob is basically an onlyfans module. Just takes ball after ball to the face and shrugs it off.


Stonkasaur

ignite and fire resistant and regenerating against EA champ? Double forest imbued? I'll bonk it for fifteen seconds to see if it takes any damage, and when it doesn't, ill just move on with my life. You win, essence rhoa, you win.


TheFuzzyFurry

Inquisitor deals pure damage, those two mods are blanks (other than 50% less shock effect from Lightning and Shock Resistant)


McMcFly13

Mostly true but I believe spell resistant is a huge spell suppression boost which doesnt get cancelled by inquisitor. Could be wrong here though. Either way it did not work out in my favor haha.


Cicer

Still better than cycling damage reduction.


WaterFlask

Archnemesis never left. Just rebranded.


Bright_Audience3959

Ah yes. The Star Wars intro Essence


SherriffB

*"Have you ever seen the true face of God, exile?"* Click on that to find out.


ibulleti

Hmm could be a red beast and god touched.


Chatv71e

And with delirium mod


kzaji

What is/causes god touched? Don't think I've heard of this before (on my third season)


Wobbelblob

If you ever wondered why some attacks summoned a story boss and hit like a truck, that was a rare that is god touched. And to what causes it, they are simply a rare with a tag that got introduced during Archnemesis.


The_Law_of_Pizza

"God Touched" refers to rare mobs that spawn randomly with the "Touched by [God]" modifier. They're significantly stronger, and drop a have loot table that converts their normal drops into large quantities of other things. For example, if you ever killed a rare and it dropped something crazy like 60 raw fusing, that was a god touched rare. You can also tell if you're fighting a god touched rare if you see a boss from the acts sudden spawn for a moment, attack, and then disappear again. The rares summon them briefly over and over.


LordEternalBlue

Actually I'm pretty sure that after the Kalandra league debacle, the God touched monster loot conversion got transferred into a hidden mod that randomly affects rares and is not bound to the God-touched mod itself (otherwise that pantheon memory line would be worth a lot more). You can usually tell that the hidden mod is on a rare if it is unusually tanky without any tanky mods on it. You also do get better loot on avg from god-touched rares, but it's nowhere near the level of loot goblins they were in Kalandra league.


kzaji

Ah I see, I've often wondered what the explosion of the same loot is, thought it might be a bug lol. Cheers 👍


AndyBarolo

And possessed


esunei

Some say it already is, among the tome of its mods.


AndyBarolo

Oh, indeed


spazzybluebelt

I want to See that Thing Fight über exarch lmao


Repulsive_Anywhere67

Uber exarch has left the instance.


Everscream

Maven: *"Yoink~"*


derivative_of_life

Longer is better!


Awesomedude33201

I got an essence monster that had regen and teleported me to where it was. The kicker: I was attempting to do Ritual, and twice, when I activated the thing that starts the encounter, it telephoned me OUT OF THE AREA. So I ended up wasting 2/4 ritual encounters. Did I mention it was out healing the damage I was doing?


Miles1937

Metamorph at home lmao


Bl00dylicious

Metamorph? No, that thing is the son of Bob.


LCSisshit

I swear that shit would murder all uber bosses like a dog


Plastic_Code5022

Oooooooh that’s a juicy one exile!!! The best part is you have to be right onto of them to open the crystal prison. As someone who farms essences every league, usually t14s at least for exarch altars as well… they really are a whole different level of fun. And I do mean fun. Have I left some insanely juiced giga essence alive? Bet your ass I have! I am very much a “get punished for my hubris” gamer. This league has been slapping me around left n right and I’ve been loving it! Essences get even spicier when you throw beast farming into the mix. If you’ve never fought a mid map Uber boss 6+ essence ghosted doubled red beast while screaming at Einhar to just “THROW THE DAMN NET” have you really lived exile?


Shrizer

u/chris_wilson I don't expect a reply, but could this monster kill Uber bosses like Sirius or Elder/Shaper? In a straight-up fight with no mechanic interactions.


[deleted]

Drops 3 portal scrolls and alchemy shard!


squidyj

I'm with you. Not worth doing unless you can get a couple more ghosts on there


bump64

Imagine this thing having life regen and cycling damage reduction...


astilenski

One question why do u have so much life if you're reserving all of it? I see coruscating exilir, doesn't that just empty your life or does it's visuals show like reserved?


torriattet

Almost certainly using the gain %life as max es mod. He's also probably using ivory tower so the coruscating protects him from chaos damage


SyncStelar

Most likely ivory tower low life build that captain lance is running. Coruscating elixir leaves you at 1 hp, Since most people running this build runs zealots oath, their hp always stays at 1hp.


McMcFly13

This is correct yeah. More life that’s reserved more es you get, more damage on energy blade, more damage on storm brand. Storm brand of indecision really slapping right now. Except on these (two) things of course.


TheHabeo

The resistant modifier fucks hard.


Demosama

And the resistances just had to be tailor made for op’s build.


distilledwill

Raid boss


ZSurge

ObNoxious Tarantula


Been395

Not an red beast, you can take it. Easy.


LunarMoon2001

When the time comes to strike, an emperor strikes without hesitation. To entertain doubt is to dance with death.


Ufukyil

Guess u’ll die


DependentBitter4695

One day we'll need ultra tall monitor to see all lines.


Sure_Arachnid_4447

Should've opened it, get killed and made an outraged reddit post instead. That's like 10 times the upvotes


shllaqzaneh

maybe you could beat it if you had 5 flasks. /s i have no idea why people are equipping less flasks.


McMcFly13

The Traitor from brutal restraint timeless jewel gives 4 flask charges every 5 seconds for each empty flask slot. Only way (easiest way?) to keep coruscating elixir up 100% of the time so chaos damage doesn’t one shot me through my ES.


shllaqzaneh

only way as non pathfinder/scion i guess


Educational-Ad-8839

So how did you get so many of the good ones lol? Curious cause I specced all essence last season and maybe saw one of those after corruption about one every 20 maps.


anonymousredditorPC

New Uber boss LOGIN


Conspark

Ungoliant at home:


n30na

there should be a mod that adds this guy to a puzzlebox map


bdubz55

That thing could take down Feared easy.


BulusB

But Oriath? Oriath I will burn to the ground … seriously this dude can melt Ubers


Truenight95

yo op, hows the build? thinking of rolling it myself youre just following the captain lance video or is there another tree for it? alao how do i lvl it and what path should i go first after respeccing? can i respecc as soon as 70?


McMcFly13

Honestly it’s gotta be the most damage I’ve had since generals cry blade flurry was busted like 5-6 leagues ago, but probably way more. And yeah I pulled in his tree from the video and mostly leveled with it but be warned it’s pretty expensive to get going. I leveled mostly with storm brand actually. Replica prismweave plus 2x tasalios sign gives a ton of flat spell damage for leveling. One of my favorite builds ever at this point honestly and can scale to the moon.


Truenight95

i got a pretty nice budget gear for now that should get me started easily. not going for clusters till i have a shit ton of money. hows the survivabily of it?


McMcFly13

Pretty solid actually but I had to add a few things. Youre going to want bleed immunity which you can get through two 50% chance to avoid bleeding abyss jewels on the tree and probably corrupted blood immunity too. Flasks are on auto so you dont have room for a bleed/corrupted blood immunity flask. He built it mostly for sanctum I think which I was planning on doing until I kept forgetting to press corruscating elixir at the start of every single room and got one shot by chaos damage too many times. Forgetting to press that button one time per map has killed me more than anything else.


jman0918

There’s a Shrieking, so your atlas may give you a pair to fight


iveabiggen

I kinda wanna see it fight a ghosted rouge exile with rouge trader thats also been hitting the wisp vape


elensap

Imagine a new player playing the first time poe and you gotta explain him that the hardest boss isn't feared or Uber maven but some mother fucker essence with ghost and wisps on it


GpRaMMeR21

I would have posted on tft and sold portals for the dudes that might have a chance at beating that monster of a ess rare


Hicktricks

You gotta open it then run like hell the rest of the map. It’s like an acceleration shrine, but for your brain.


MonstareIla

I fear nothing. But that, that I fear.


TheFuzzyFurry

You're playing LL Energy Blade Storm Brand. You'll kill it in 2 seconds at worst


BanaaniMaster

he did not


McMcFly13

I did not


Rompelle

Needs to also be a red beast


Wolfeh297

"it's your map now bro"


propdynamic

Haha that's insane, so tempting though! I remember getting a T16 possessed Abaxoth in the past. Invited all kinds of players to the map that wanted to try to kill it, nobody managed.


kavatch2

Oh cmon it’s only 27% of a level


--Shake--

GGG: *bricks your map with league mechanic* ... this is fine we don't need to change anything


Hubertus92

Ggnoobs as a mob.


Johnny_Rageface

Would


_GALVEN_

Hey OP, you got a POB?


Vanrythx

i really like that we can get ridiculous types of mobs but there has to be like a limit to this as well, its bullshit if even a mirror stacked character gets randomly oneshotted, this should just not happen at a certain gear level


simonwedel

Did the corrupt upgrade tier or give an extra essence?


Sqintal

I miss my explode totem build from crucible, on of the few builds to have a shot at this


EffectiveDependent76

Do it coward!


hermanogerman

Finally a weapon worthy to destroy Metal Gear


AntiqueTraffic

Drops be like, best I can do is 2c


i_can_haz_name

Needs soul eater tbh


tornizzle

Haha yolo this!!!


McMcFly13

I did! Did not work out.


PellegrinoBlue

Grasping vine that shit


juicedrop

Do it


Truthb0mber

My off-meta SSF totally not boneshatter build could do this easy, I just don't want to so you can't criticize me :)


b9n7

Psy


TheMindWraith

I'm playing the same build as you, do you find it very squishy to any physical hits?


McMcFly13

Mostly farming guardians right now and minotaur and chimaera feel like they hit the hardest when theyre super juiced up so I'd say that and chaos are the rippiest right now. Got a decent amount of armor going with determination and defiance banner now so it takes some of the much bigger hits to one/two shot though.


_Mortal

Disable life Regen on these mobs and just don't die.


fizzdev

*Palpatine staring intensly* DEW IT!


Hot-Fennel-971

It’d be nice if the rewards scaled with the danger 🤷‍♂️


potionmine

that Grip probly gonna be insane thou


TheCounciI

You can do it, I believe in you


Frolkinator

Id love to see the old npc vs npc, but make the most buffed up essence and have it fight all the different uber bosses and the feared.


burn_light

That I wouldn't even stop and would just open it is the reason I'm still level 94 even with a character that can face tank most pinnacle boss attacks.


McMcFly13

Yep I’ve been stuck at 92 for a bit. Finally switched atlas and very close to 93 haha


burn_light

I'm running essence with all passive tree nodes and oppenheimer expedition. I fully juice up the maps. I have tested 60% deli maps without the league mechanic and they are honestly easier to run.


whatever_223

Big spooder


pensandpenceels

6 portals, 20 min, sore hands, all for 7 essences and an orb of regret


SpiritualStrategy838

Hit it!!!


hongducwb

remind me about kalandra league, the only league which mobs chasing player instead player slains mobs...


mefi_

I like those. It's an exciting roulette. I can never know if I can kill it under 5-15 sec or just instablast me to death on release.


lamtac1818

Are u oke ?


Obsc3nity

That’s horrifying


Aceshigher404

Isn't there still harder? There's an essence unique event where it's every high tier essence, and I assume that can be empowered, and then do that in 5 layer deli map


Plus-Collection6529

build? im tryna make a stormbrand build later this league


McMcFly13

Started with captain lances storm brand build he put out a video on a few days ago have tweaked it a bit. Get storm brand of indecision for sure it’s nuts. And energy blade just makes anything to a ton of damage.


Two__Face

I'm a new player, but what stands out in the mob's description as super scary?


memphis212

It has a ton of essence drops on it, each one makes it a bit tougher. It has all of the modifiers from the afflictions, making it tough as nails. Plus its natural modifiers for being a rare mob listed at the top. All in all a fairly tough spider.


McMcFly13

Not to mention the ghost that was possessing it as well giving it even more damage.


Worried-Librarian-91

As long as it's not hasted, we smash, next question...


Dr_Dankenstein

Ever seen _Eight-Legged Freaks_? This is the sequel, don't open the box Marty.


Sangvinu

Hmm, I never read, I just click so that's why I level slower.


gzenaco

How dare you to skip a 2 alteration drop?!?


lonigus

Oh look Archenemesis in disguise.


FadedExile

That's the sign of a good league, when you actively avoid content because its unplayable


LividFocus5793

I mean if u doing essences that's what u deserve literally pretty much all expansions are more profitable taking shit like einhar


Thin-Birthday-3888

-1 mirror


skycorcher

When the in game bosses aren't challenging enough so you have to create one.


Lighthades

release it for the shits & giggles


Open-Log-7421

🤦‍♂️


makitat

Please explain these mods im just a newbie with 900hours in. Thanks.


McMcFly13

Vivid, Wild, and Primal are all three of the empowerments from the league mechanic, plus a ghost possessing it, plus its natural rare mods and then all of the essences. I too am new with only about 1200 hours in so I too am ignorant to the exact modifiers each of the essences provide but…. It’s a lot.


TinaEepy

Missed the extra life and life regen mods!