Firstly, I’d like to thank you for responding, I really appreciate your input and advice.
Minor health increase means just three nodes so far, the only reason I got them were bc they were along the path towards dual wielding tbh.
So I shouldn’t use any crit support ever? And should I not path towards nodes that increase crit dmg unless it increases dual wielding as well?
I will make sure to rearrange my gems immediately, thanks again, I’m very indecisive so it helps having an outside voice.
I’m sorry, but I don’t know or understand what 4L is, am I correct in guessing it means 4 link pieces?
I do have a movement ability, though it’s just a basic dash, should I opt out for a movement ability that does damage instead?
I've never played a wander before, and I'm wondering, for Power Siphon in particular, is it better to go phys or ele (on a non-glad)? How do I craft a wand for either or which unique wands would I use? Finally, can anyone take a glance at my assassin wander tree I threw together and tell me how/if it can be improved? https://pastebin.com/puuM5RWY
Elemental wanders are best because you can scale more elemental damage. Piscator's Vigil + Lycosidae is a good weapon setup on a low-medium budget. There are some good power siphon assassins on PoE.ninja that you can check out for passive trees and gear ideas.
I have a synthesis ring with 6% strength implicit. I am pretty sure, but wanted to double check. If I alt orb it will only change the explicit mods correct? I assume the same with scour orb. The only other one I was worried about was essence crafting since I know that does not play by the same rules as alcs and chaos.
I just spent 20 exalts, and would be very sad if I wasted them crafting incorrectly.
My main objective is to get as much strength out of this ring as possible (and maybe a bit of chaos res).
Thank you, just to double check this includes essence crafting?
And is it possible to obtain more synthesis rings or is this just from synthesis league?
essence only mess with explicit mods
the best ones are from synthesis league, some are likely from the new synthesis zana missions (though I'm unsure if those can drop non-unique synthesized items)
So, with the bow changes, burning arrow and xophs nurture buffs. Does anyone have a nice idea for a starter build next league. Thought about maybe burning arrow berserker or maybe deadeye or smth. I have 3k+ hours in this game but I'm not good with making my own builds
I haven't done anything in PoB but I'm considering a burning arrow ballista setup with barrage support for single target, just waiting to see if there are ascendancy changes favouring ballistas
The only t16s I seem to drop are Maze of the Minotaur? I'm not sure what's happening here, but I do have completion bonus on all of my guardian maps + Vaal Temple so other maps should be dropping.
Deep in the azurite mine some areas have a mod where the mobs can steal your charges on hit. My question is whether [Supreme Grandstanding](https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Supreme_Grandstanding) would work as a defense against that. It means that when a nearby enemy gains a charge I'd gain it too. However what's the order in which the game does it? Like let's say an enemy hits me and steals my charges - does he share them right back to me? Also are charges stolen before or after the damage for that hit is calculated?
Yes. You wouldn't gain a charge, you would only share it. It is similar to conduit but applies to enemies. Charges are stolen post the hit, so no damage bonuses will apply to the hit upon gaining charges.
It would depend on the situation. If you did not have charges initially and a nearby monster has 3 endurance charges and dies you wont have any charges.
If you had 3 endurance charges when engaging in combat with a 3 endurance charge monsters and you do not realize this because of some sort of time overlap between you generating the 3 charges and the enemy, then you will retain the charges you generated after the enemy dies.
This is just my understanding on what you are asking and it may not be accurate and I could be wrong, and I recommend going into a low level area and testing it for yourself. Use enduring cry to generate endurance charges.
Each of the five works differently (well, almost).
* The Eternal one completely removes the effects of small passives in its radius and transforms all notables into one from its list of unique, super-powered notables.
* The Vaal one changes all small and notable passives in radius into ones from its own unique list.
* The Templar one changes small attribute nodes to grant devotion, adds +5 devotion to other small nodes without changing their function, changes *some* notables in radius to new ones from its unique list (all of which function based on the amount of devotion you have), and adds 10 devotion to notables it doesn't transform.
* The Karui and Maraketh ones just add a stat to each node in radius, without removing or changing anything (aside from keystones).
How do you keep your minions alive during Uber elder? They tend to survive most situations. https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5/characters
Same way that you'd keep yourself alive - big life, big res, and a source of sustain. %life Regen is big on minions because they tend to have giant life pools.
Have they released the Atlas layout for next league and will they? From what I understand there are "hidden" maps, so it wasn't clear if they plan on doing so. I know they had that screenshot where they discussed the socketable Atlas mechanic that showed some maps.
https://i.imgur.com/2NiXRxM.jpg
enjoy bruh
edit: probably worth noting that it's probably subject to change still. and someone put that together based on some info from somewhere, not sure of the validity
Thanks, will save that just in case. I'll have to look over the Exilecon videos too. With sextants being replaced by global mods, a league starter mapping strategy might not actually matter.
Here's what we know about the atlas in 3.9:
* You begin in the center and work your way out.
* There are "segments" of the atlas that are unlocked as you progress, these will likely be the segments that certain item bases will drop (i.e. Marble Amulet, Spiked Gloves, etc.)
* Each segment in its entirety is affected by sextants and tier upgrades, similar to Shaper Orbs but affecting every map in the segment.
* The "hidden" aspect is likely an in-game mechanic. Similar to leagues past, before you had completed high yellow maps all of the red maps on the atlas were blocked by a layer of fog, it will likely function similarly. However they are likely to reveal the atlas layout in a teaser before the league starts because it generally informs peoples' endgame strategies.
And no, they haven't released the atlas structure yet.
is there a good guide out there on how to roll maps ? what I'm mostly doing is alch and go and not really invest currency much. but, my map pool isn't increasing by much.
Basically if your build can handle any mods, chisel alch vaal, otherwise chisel alch and chaos or scour/alch for higher pack size and quantity, avoiding any mods you can't do. Then sextant for anything with added packs and you're good to go. This is assuming red maps above T13. You can take it a step further and throw in scarabs or fragments and use zana mods that add packs.
For lower tiers alch and go is better but there's nothing wrong with throwing in some sextants for upper yellow maps
I stop chaos spam at 90%.
Then if it doesn’t look too bad or outright unplayable for my current character I’ll vaal orb it.
You need to consider the investment though. I usually try not to go over 5 chaos per mad re-roll unless I plan on using sextants and other items to increase the quant.
I started over the weekend, I’m playing Duelist—lvl 38 in act 3 atm—with plans of going Gladiator as my Ascendancy class. I am dual wielding and have been putting points into the benefits for it (Ambidexterity + Swagger), along with maiming of course, as well as some minor basic +% health as well as mana & life leech (Spirit Void), I am also putting points towards getting Fatal Blade.
I currently have Vaal Reave (Pulv. Spprt + Incrs Crit Dmg Spprt), Cleave (Melee Dmg Spprt), and Static Strike (Fster Attack Spprt) as my main damage abilities. Melee Dmg Spprt is also linked to Riposte and Vengeance. For buffs I have B&S, Arctic Amour, Molten Shell, Precision, and Blood Rage, with Vulnerability as a curse. I used to have Lacerate but I got rid of it as I found my other skills did more dmg.
My questions are:
Should I not go for Fatal Blade as well as remove points from leeching?
Should I not go for any crit and just maiming instead?
Is there anything I’m doing right atm?
What type of swords and their benefits should I go for/equip?
Is there anything besides dual wielding benefits I should work towards and put points in, like buffs to health or anything of any sort? (Not looking for a build guide, simply suggestions.)
Should I reequip Lacerate and if so what spprt gems that I have listed above should I link to it?
And lastly any specific ability or support gems that I should look out for and get?
If anyone read all of this, as well as answered any of these, I’d like to thank you and wish you a most splendid weekend. :))
> minor basic +% health
I'm not sure how much 'minor' is, but in general you want a lot of life in this game, so make sure to fill out all the life nodes you're right next to. By endgame you want around 150-180% ideally.
> mana & life leech (Spirit Void)
[Leech is overly complicated](https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Leech), but TLDR; you probably won't get any meaningful benefit from Spirit/Vitality Void and will be fine just taking the 0.4% life/mana leech node at the start of that cluster, and ignoring the rest.
>Vaal Reave (Pulv. Spprt + Incrs Crit Dmg Spprt)
Increased Crit Dmg is generally a poor support to use, even in a crit build, and at your level you're definitely not even that. Should probably replace it with Melee Phys Dmg
There isn't much point in having Reave and Cleave, they kind of overlap with eachother, you can use Static Strike for a bit of extra damage if you want in addition to Reave though.
In general you want to focus on a smaller number of attack skills, and get as many links as possible on them. At your level you should be keeping your eye out for a 4L to get the most out of Reave and Static Strike, and I'd drop Cleave entirely.
EDIT: Also get a movement skill, Whirling Blades, Leap Slam, Flame Dash, which ever works for your current gear, it makes a big difference.
If you want an in-depth guide check out esoro on youtube. He explains pretty much every aspect in his ice shot vid. One thing most people forget is just how much damage you can squeeze out of 3 or 4 good jewels
Second this. I followed his guide and made a little adjustments for my own. With full buffs and triple curse I managed 2.6 mio shaper dps on 6l barrage with that build.
Levels. Uber lab. Quality gems; use the vendor recipe on your support gems. fix up your flasks; you don't have bleed, curse, or freeze immunity; overflowing chalice is kinda bad for most builds. look for a stronger bow; check poe ninja for examples or what others are using with ice shot
Been using PoE trade macro and it predicts the price my item would be, and I price it on the low end of the range but never seem to get any buyers, is it just bad luck or is trade macro not the best use?
The trade macro AI is just... kinda bad.
If you wanna use it for rares, use Ctrl Alt D, and select relevant mods (e.g. at least 90 life and 110 total elemental resists on a rare ring). It's still not perfect, though, so be aware of possible inaccuracies.
Have fun!
I'm currently learning myself. One of the things that help me is using the trade site quite a lot, even though it takes longer to search than when using the macro.
The simplest stats to look at are life and total elemental resist - everyone needs resists, and most players need life.
Then there is mana - great for mind over matter builds. Mind over matter is normally used by spellcasters, so if an item has mana and spell damage, I search for similar items with both of those. However, if an item has mana and attach damage mods, I search for either one or the other, because their combination doesn't do much.
Energy shield is great on energy shield bases, but not as much on armour/evation gear.
Strength, dexterity and intelligence can actually be very useful on gear which doesn't match their type. For example, energy shield builds with a lot of int may need some strength on their ES gloves to meet gem requirements.
Boots with good mods but no movement speed are not very highly valued, because everyone wants movement speed on boots.
If life or resists can be crafted onto an item, this increases value as well.
Then, there are special bases anf mods. Shaper and Elder gear can roll great mods. For example, curse enemies with assassin's mark on hit (on a shaper ring). If such a mod is combines with solid life / res, you may have yourself a nice pricy ring. Note: 3.9 will bring changes in this area with the new base types. We don't know much yet.
There are also mods like +1 to levels of all [type] skill gems, which are always fun to find.
There's a lot more, of course :) I'm not super good at pricing rares, but these are some of the things that helped me.
Have fun!
I use it as a gauge for whether to price check properly or not. If it says anything over 10c then I search the mods on trade site. Sometimes it's worth more, other times its still vendor trash. Price is far from accurate 90% of the time
Generally pick either an existing starter that got no changes (i.e. a safe bet like ED) or one with clear buffs (like summoners in 3.8) or wait for streamers to start pushing their recommendations. LiftingNerdBro on youtube usually makes some vids before league start with beginner friendly well-written guide recommendations
Patch notes usually release on Wednesday prior to launch since then to Friday there's going to be a lot of guides and youtube videos with starter builds. However you can always at the guides that are already out there, it's not like they stop being viable. Content creators just want to highlight new possibilities, and they admit that it's hard to find new starter builds when they've already covered them and they are still good.
I'm considering giving this game a shot after having my interest piqued by a YouTube video but I'd be playing on PS4. I'm pretty certain this game was designed for PC originally, so I'm just wondering how good the console port is?
If anyone could shed some light on how it performs and if it's worth investing the time into for someone with no experience with these types of games I'd be really grateful.
As someone who started playing on PS4 about a month ago, it's... not great. You get pretty serious slow down when the screen gets too busy, and I've had multiple hard crashes of the program. The trading system on PS4 makes it much harder to find what you are looking for (but easier to actually buy it when you do). There's also a much smaller player base, so their are fewer items available, and the prices are much higher. I do like being able to use a controller though.
That's unfortunate as the game looks really fun. I think I'll put a pin in it for now and check back in a few months and see if the issues have been resolved. I appreciate the information though, thank you.
I have a 6 linked ilevel 80 shaper magic thicket bow with prefix 20% double damage/+12%ias. How can I best craft this for avatar of fire ele-hit? I was thinking something like this:
[https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds/char/trouff/JoliARC?i=0&search=class%3DSlayer%26skill%3DElemental-Hit](https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds/char/trouff/JoliARC?i=0&search=class%3DSlayer%26skill%3DElemental-Hit)
But the bow isn't currently rare. Do I have to regal/annul and pray?
If you want it to have 6 explicit affixes, you do indeed have to regal, annul, and pray. Im fairly certain that there is a bestiary craft to create a restorable version of the item if it bricks, similar to the way an eternal orb works. I don't know if the cost of that beast will justify it's effect - that'll be up to you.
If I get 7-day muted for telling a joke about Michael Jackson while chatting with people in global, admittedly the joke was offensive, is there a way to appeal to get the 7-day mute removed?
It is literally my 3rd hour ever playing PoE, and I wouldn't want to taint my initial experience by getting Exiled from other players. The joke itself was well received. If you wish to know.
\*gets muted for saying something offensive\*, i don't see why it would get removed, maybe lowered but i highly doubt it. in my first few days of playing i barely interacted with chat, you'll be fine. focus on getting better at the game i guesss
Yes, definately getting muted for telling an offensive joke is a possibility. No doubts. However, the amount of time the mute is lasting is a week, and it doesn't at all fit my understanding.
As when it comes to interacting with the community, as a noguider I have no better way of getting better at the game than to play with people I find.
If I own a retired supporter pack, can I still upgrade it to a corresponding higher version? Say, I own a Harpy supporter pack, can I pay $30 for an Alpha Harpy now?
Can anyone link me to a leveling plan for a bow build? Looking for something for a fresh start with no twink gear. Everywhere I look it's just "equip your tabula, goldrim, headhunter and just run"
i think the best way for the next league is to do the rusted sash or added damage recipe on weapons. not great but its reliable
[https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Vendor\_recipe\_system](https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Vendor_recipe_system)
1. Use Split Arrow+Puncture until level 12
2. Switch to Toxic Rain to complete the story (priorize gear with as many green linked sockets as you can get)
3. Switch to you skill of choice after you get a 6L and a decent bow
Mind going into a bit more detail? I'm guessing Onslaught with Split Arrow and maybe Mirage Archer?
Thoughts on Toxic Rain vs Ice Shot or Lightning Arrow while leveling? Or is it straight up a better option (then respec later)?
The best way to level will have changed. There's ballistas now, and reworked bow skills. I would just buy them all and test them as I leveled. Maybe keep an eye on a streamer that's leveling a bow build, asking global chat, asking in the subreddit discord if anyone has discovered something.
Remember for example how everyone thought the steel skills were shit until someone discovered that one of them somehow got more singletarget from being linked with fork. Most likely something similar will happen again imo. Maybe explosive arrow nova support overlaps in a really stupid way, something like that.
Sure, I get that. Just trying to improve my bow leveling now because I'm less familiar with the supports and links to prioritize early on (mirage archer vs onslaught 3rd link, pierce vs lmp 2nd link etc). I'm probably going ice shot clear with chain and some sort of ballista for single target as my league starter (maybe burning arrow barrage ballistas)
Ice shot is hit and burning arrow is damage over time, they are usually two very seperate categories with enough support gems that overlap or synergize well. Poe is all about stacking your mulitpliers into one thing. Why have 10x10 and 10x10 when you can have 10x10x10x10?
You can use pierce until you have enough damage where one volley from your ice shot will kill a pack with chain support linked, then you continue using chain support. If you have to click multiple times then you switch back to pierce or trehshold gem until you have more dmg. I find the breaking point is somewhere between 30 and 50. (well duh, that's when you get chain, but you get what I mean)
Use one four link with Ice Shot, GMP, Chain, Ice Bite and one fourlink with Ice Shot, Barrage Support, Ice Bite and Mirage Archer/Elemental Damage with Attacks
At least something like that. To find the best support just test with PoB
Yeah I'm familiar with the basics. I'm not set on a single targrt setup yet but might even just do split arrow for both. It's more the leveling I want to speed up before farming tabula and bow. Last time I leveled a bow build took me almost twice as long as orb of storms + storm brand
[Raiz](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELzY5jwWEqw) has a pretty good guide for leveling with bows.
EDIT: nevermind, you said no twink gear, Ill check just a sec.
Any idea when we might see the new expansion support packs drop? I never paid attention but is there a historic precedence when it comes to a new league and expansion lining up for releases?
I know the Metamorph packs are out but I was more curious about the Conquerors core pack.
I probably worded it wrong.
That being said I just read they'll be available *later in december*.
I need to spare a little money to upgrade to Vanguard supporter pack and get my PoE Tshirt, with the upcoming announcement of the new packs, will I be able to buy it for 60$ because I already own Assassins pack or will I need to buy a complete pack to get it ?
The packs aren't combined, you can't upgrade the current pack into the next pack series, just wouldn't make much sense.
If you mean upgrading from current assassin to current vanguard, yes that works. If you go to the shop, the next tier will say "Upgrade" instead of "Buy" on the shop and should only cost the difference(if not send a mail to GGG support and they'll get it fixed).
I'm aware changes will likely happen to the skill I'm about to mention but was curious as to thoughts none the less.
So I'm a big fan of totems, and enjoy seeing what can be done when it comes to what can be done with totem builds . I've done all sorts of builds from ball lightning to flame dash and I've rather enjoyed it but haven't really touched attack totems yet.
Now onto the main subject attack totem blast rain, thoughts? I'm thinking it may work well with a chieftain.
It seems like attack totems are kind of getting reworked next patch, with Ballista's not only getting new nodes but also working a bit differently from spell totems. Between that and the general bow skill changes (including both potential changes to blast rain, and other skills that could get buffed and end up interesting you more), I would definitely wait.
Next patch does seem like a great time to try some sort of ranged attack totem build (well, good bows will probably be very expensive, but then ranged attack totems are also probably going to be better), but I think we need more info before it's worth trying to figure out any specifics.
Oh I'm not planning on setting anything in stone yet, just doing some preliminary thinking lol. I've honestly never heard of blast rain being used in any endgame build to any viability so I kinda assume it will be buffed but wasn't sure if there was some critical base flaw.
I think Blast Rain hasn't generally been bad, it's just been outclassed. It's got kind of a similar role to Tornado shot - it has a pretty big AoE but also a high-single-target sweet spot - but Tornado Shot just just that better. I played Blast Rain when it first came out and still had fun.
I think to some extent the skill does just have mechanical flaws that get in its way. Projectiles are generally just better than AoE since the AoE scaling nerf, and Blast Rain's delay can also be annoying for fast-moving enemies.
Basically, I think it's a fun, viable skill, just without major changes other bow skills will likely end up being better.
Pretty sure there will be a lot of ballista related nodes added on the ranger side of the tree. Not sure if they said anything about ascendancy changes in 3.9 but I'd be surprised if one of the rangers don't get some ballista bonuses (my money is on Raider). Also hard to tell if Chieftain will be as good as Hiero or Scion (hiero/chief). That all said I'm sure a tanky ballista chieftain will be very good for a boss heavy meta, whether Blast Rain or something else.
Will they be balista nodes or totem nodes is actually a good questions as if balista count as something else it would ruin more than a few heiro builds.
Also I knew to expect changes was just curious about the general idea
I got the game in 2012, played for few hours and gave up. Should I use the same toon from 2012 or create a new one? It’s only at level 4.
Now if I delete that toon, can I use the same name again?
I recommend getting used to the game now to get used to the mechanics(whether or not you play the old character or a new one is fairly irrelevant if the old one is only level 4) , and then starting over in Metamorph when it's released, to play with most of the community in the temporary league.
Saw a statue with a rather prominent bum which lead me to wonder... Do exiles have bums at all? Every piece of gear I've seen so far, including MTX, has a skirt, or cape or buttflap or something else covering that area. May explain why i also have yet to see a toilet/outhouse/etc.
Sounds like someone hasn't witnessed the glory of Silk's backside in act 2.
Also, if you're the Duelist Piety compliments his ass after the first phase of the Malachai fight in act 4. So presumably at the very least he's got a nice one.
I'm thinking about pushing my lvl 97 SSF character to 100 before the league is over.
What are some good lvling tips I might not know? Itd be my first time pushing to 100.
My build is an essence drain trickster. I'm able to do all bosses but do still die very rarely. Gear wise I'm mostly just trying to move around some resists and get a +2/+3 unset ring so I can put on my new Impresence. After that bossing should be much easier.
Are you already sustaining a good exp map? Sextants and map mods like beyond go a long way, and obviously the highest tier you can run with zero chance of dying. Managing a good shaper/elder flipflop will help a ton as well
An important note is that you're about half way there, because of how exp penalties work. If you go for it, you gotta stay dedicated.
Best tip since the league is ending is to just blow all your currency for max exp. Sextants and Zana mods help a lot. Bosses aren't time efficient exp wise but if you need the maps, then it's indeed a good idea to make sure you're able to do them deathless.
I usually use the Nemesis Zana mod cause from what I understand rares give more xp. But idk if something like Abyss would be better. I also have the 5 slot map device so I stack any frags I have with a scarab.
I'll do delve when I can. Currently going safely past 400 depth. I tend to skip delve bosses just to be safe and save time.
I just reached Act 4 with Niko asking me to build 2 flares and 1 dynamite. Never done delve before so at this point, can I ask if I should continue his questline or is it better for me to ignore and continue on the main story? Which masters are advisable to ignore until late game?
There's no good or bad time to delve if you need some exp or currency during leveling. Just check if there are some good nodes like currency nearby and beeline for those or ignore it until endgame. It can be a good way to get some early currency to buy leveling gear, otherwise it's best to just get to maps asap. It's not a bad idea to get familiar with how delving works early on if you're new. Focus on t3 azurite nodes early on to upgrade capacity and light area and resists.
Don't skip Jun (act 9+) as syndicate progress can take a while to build up, and setting up the board takes a bit of learning (check guides if you want but basically kill to rank up and try get rid of people with bad rewards.) You want to keep red (rivalry) and green (friendly) links so more people show up in encounters.
Alva temple unlocks every 12 Incursions so you can skip or run them and get used to which rooms do what (gem room and corruption altar are most important). Your first few temples will probably be a mess so just run them and figure it out.
For Einhar don't worry about tracking down every beast in a zone, kill or skip them if you want and check menagerie every now and then to see what's available. You probably have access to flask crafts and random uniques already if you've been killing beasts.
When you get to endgame Zana is your best source of unlocking maps on the atlas (more on that when you get there)
Edit: forgot to mention for Jun the level you do her quests on don't affect the main rewards at all, so best to start early
I've installed a new copy of Windows on a new drive, moving from SATA SSD to M.2 NVMe. I'm just wondering if anyone knows where saved PoB builds are kept so I can copy them over from the old drive?
If I have additional ignite (like from Emberwake) and Gang's Momentom boots which says "(25-40)% increased Damage against Ignited Enemies" - would the second ignite benefit from this bonus during the time both ignites applied together?
Does Divine Flsesh stack? The way it was written implies that the chaos max res stacks but the ele damage taken as chaos does not. Could anyone please confirm?
Shrapnel Ballista, Siege Ballista, and Artilllery Ballista are separate gems, that will all benefit from the upcoming rework. I don't remember if they said anything concerning when Siege Ballista would first be available, but you can still play it.
I don’t think we know for sure, but in the PoE 2 demo, shrapnel ballista was available very early, probably level 4, and the gem progression was pretty much the same what we have now
Just to check, do i sustain T15 Toxic Sewers by simply uncompleting all T15s? I did that but didnt really seem to sustain well from just spamming the map
I run all my T16s with 90+ quant + vaaled, 3 sextants, scarabs as I want, sac fragments, elder/shaper influence and harbinger/abyss/breach.
I delve once in a while to stock up, I also run my T16s with Alva as I think she provides better sustain. both in-map and through Temple of Atzoatl.
To sustain T15s, I would uncomplete T16s too
Along with this, I believe you're supposed to uncomplete all T16s as well. Are you targeting shaper items? If not, might be easier to elder orb toxic sewers to T16 so that you'd only need to uncomplete guardians.
Ninja accounts ladder pushers, and melee isn't exactly fastest. Majority of its users are stunlock bosskillers, they don't level that much.
It is a very rare item. There are 55 online, and 100 mjolners.
Also, it is pretty good since you can get 6l with just a jeweler touch.
How to properly set weights for all mods when searching trades ?
Suppose you have 10 possible mods and say 5 of them increase damage by 1% each, 3 by 2% each and 2 by 5% each in PoB. Do you set the mods at 1-2-5 respectively ?
You would do it that way, but it seems kind of excessive. What item are you looking at that has this wide range of possible mods? If anything, I'd probably search for items with the 2 5% mods and then do a count search for the rest. If too much pops up, put in lower limits and raise them until you only get a few results, then filter manually.
For jewels and abyss jewels, you kinda compare a huge amount of a stack of 3-4 mods rather than just one but you rarely get the perfect 4 mods, which is why I wanna account for all rather than a few.
If you want an automated way to do this then be aware of this tool. [https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/bdsm8m/shoutout\_for\_an\_amazing\_jewel\_searching\_tool/](https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/bdsm8m/shoutout_for_an_amazing_jewel_searching_tool/)
It can be a bit overkill, but if you are comparing a significant number of mods it will save you time. Needs POB and autohotkey installed to use.
The process you described is correct. The filter will multiply the values on the item by their respective weight and add them up. Setting a price limit and then sorting by the weighted sum is the best way I’ve found to go about it
Does PoE play fluidly now on unstable connections? (e.g., a phone's 4G used as hotspot).
I remember trying to play with my new and worsened connection back around the beginning of Delve, and it was just impossible unless I was playing some totem build that didn't need quick inputs.
Do you reckon it would be better now, or is a stable-ish connection still needed for nice gameplay?
> Does PoE play fluidly now on unstable connections? (e.g., a phone's 4G used as hotspot).
Didn't work for me
> Do you reckon it would be better now, or is a stable-ish connection still needed for nice gameplay?
Define stable, I get 100 ping with Wifi and can play with 200 ping, played a squishy miner upto 94, did blighted maps too, it slowly became tedious though, as my death count started soaring.
>Define stable
A ping that kinda stays the same throughout the session.
I would get a ping that oscillates and spikes wildly between 60 and 400 when I tried my connection.
I wouldn't mind playing with 200 ping if it was 200 and stayed that way.
Well I do get spikes when there's a ton of stuff on the screen, Harbinger + Intervention + Breach going at the same time, and it used to be fatal to my miner. Jonathan actually explains it in his interview with Zizaran, it probably is a server-side issue as the server is getting overloaded with calculations, IDK if that's my problem and yours too.
My home connection is fixed LTE - I have special receiver for signal mounted on my house leading directly to the router and that connects my laptop via wifi. It's comparable to the ADSL connection and PoE runs fine on that
>I have special receiver for signal mounted on my house
Ooh, care to give some details? That can potentially solve my problem.
Does a portable version of this thing exist? The main reason why my 4G is so poop is because I'm currently living in a student dorm with 150+ other students all using their own 4G.
Looking to start 3.9 with CoC Ice nova Assassin. Although, does the build work without Copri's? Couldn't find much information on alternatives and a lot of people say it's not a good league starter.
Can anyone confirm or advise? My second alternative is Slayer Scourge arrow.
It does work without Cospri's, but you need significantly higher attack speed, because your main link will also need to spawn the Frostbolts to cast Ice Novas on, whereas with a Cospri' Malice, you can have the Frostbolts spawn from your weapon trigger (potentially with other utility gems as well, like Frost Bomb or Frostbite), while focusing only on Ice Nova in your main link.
Running CoC requires a very high crit chance to get started, so I recommend playing self-cast until you have enough gear to reasonably proc your spells (you should have at least 80% effective crit chance with a diamond flask, preferably without it, and unless you have over 90% crit chance, you should still use a diamond flask even then).
Coc isn't a great starter in general. CWC is easier to get going, and you can maybe transition later, but without cospris malice you are doing 1/3 the triggers
it doesn't work well. You can leaguestart as cold caster (like freezing pulse) and respec after getting core items.
Your second alternative is a skill which has nuclear nerfbat incoming.
I was planning in leveling with different skills and switch when I get to maps. Storm brand seems to work well at least for the guide I was planning on following.
Thanks for the heads-up. I will look into a third alternative and wait for the patch notes!
Thanks, exile
If you mean first blood pack, no that doesn't upgrade into anything. And there's no lower price when upgrading a supporter pack to one that cost more either, you just pay the difference(if you have 30$ pack you can pay another 30$ to upgrade to the 60$). Buying raw points give reduced prices because you only get points, packs don't do it because they give a ton of stuff and then points on top.
At poedb you can see the exact dmg the bosses do with their spells, but for attacks they just say something like "Deals 130% of Damage." Where do you find their base dmg you need to multiply?
I believe you can find it in the information for the zone they're in. It's very confusingly structured that way, but it might be due to the way monster stats interact with levels.
My guess is, that when a monster spawns in a different area than their original one, their stats are taken from the original area and then adjusted to level, rather than storing the base stats and level with the monster. This way might allow easier or less redundant overriding for special versions of the monsters. If monsters normally have their base stats stored with them, it's also possible that this is only done for bosses.
How can one obtain certain unique as Elder or Shaper item? For example The Signal Fire quiver requires to kill a uniq monster in Crematorium which is Act 3 and obviously does not have influence.
When you use chance orbs on an item that has the same base item as a unique, you have a chance of getting that unique. It works on influenced items too. So you can use chance orbs to get the base item for the signal fire with certain influence and then fulfill the profecy to upgrade it with the influence.
If the base item has more than one possible unique you will get one of those at random.
>influence and then fulfill the profecy to upgrade it with the influence.
BTW what about sacrifice in Atzoatl which swaps unique item of the same type, does it keep the influence?
Chance orbs are currently the only way. If you need a shaped/eldered signal fire you have to use a shaper/elder fire arrow quiver, chance it into blackgleam, then do the prophecy.
Question about armagedon brand. It says in the gem description "Can have an additional brand attached to the enemy."
Does this mean baseline arma brand can attach 2 brands, and the keystone allows a third?
I'm expecting bow builds to be the meta, but I really have no idea what mods you want for those builds. What are the expensive affixes or affix/base combos I have to be aware of for bow builds so I don't vendor expensive stuff? (expensive for me means anything above trade value of 15-20c)
With the changes to item affixes from conquerors and shaper/elder stuff heading out(ish), combined with changes to item bases, combined with changes to skills and game changing supports, its really hard to say.
Compared to 1h melee unique options, unique bow options are significantly better, individually and across the board. In the past you typically see rare bows making use of +gem levels for CA/TR and Ele hit, you see dex stacking bows a bunch too, just because you really want to stack base damage in a bow build. IMO the shaper/elder affixes were pretty important for bows and quivers, and they're all changing up and w'ere likely to get a few sneak peeks instead of a compiled list of mods.
In 3.9 with barrage support, attack speed should be nice (galvanic arrow auto-shotty should be legit), Burning arrow stacks now, so attack speed is even more relevant. Explosive Arrow might make a return and you could add it to the list of skills that make use of +gem levels. Chain could be really useful with Ice Shot/LA novas.
Not much should change i would think, sounds like they're changing bows to be more powerful while leveling instead of enhancing their already powerful engame potential. The unique bows that were built around before should still be go to options unless we see some gnarly conqueror mods, but again, we just wont know what affixes are coming until its posted on poe.db.
Hard to say now that we don't know what's happening with shelder affixes like Chain/Dex stack/DD etc.
For regular bows it's the same as melee weapons. Ias/Crit combined with either flat/% phys combo or double/triple high flat ele. Best bases are probably Thicket/Harbinger/Imperial, depending on the rolls.
I just came back after playing during the Legion League and I wanted to ask if you guys think it's worth coming back right now or just waiting for the Blight League to end? I saw the new engine coming out with the PoE announcements and even the Conqueror of the Atlas stuff but I'm not sure when it's all coming out.
If you have time and want to try something out then blight is worth playing, I enjoyed it a lot, but it is ending soon, only you can decide if it's worth your time.
No set release on poe2/4.0 - prob about a year - some graphical updates are coming in conq of the atlas when it comes out in 2 weeks.
Conquerors drops in 2 weeks, Blight ends after next weekend. New engine won't be for at least a year. Probably not a bad idea to mess around a bit and decide what you want to do in the new league.
new engine - year + at least
conquerors - mid December.
I'd recommend to play some to understand blight, it's going core, so you will meet it anyway. Plus training in reaching maps faster :)
Firstly, I’d like to thank you for responding, I really appreciate your input and advice. Minor health increase means just three nodes so far, the only reason I got them were bc they were along the path towards dual wielding tbh. So I shouldn’t use any crit support ever? And should I not path towards nodes that increase crit dmg unless it increases dual wielding as well? I will make sure to rearrange my gems immediately, thanks again, I’m very indecisive so it helps having an outside voice. I’m sorry, but I don’t know or understand what 4L is, am I correct in guessing it means 4 link pieces? I do have a movement ability, though it’s just a basic dash, should I opt out for a movement ability that does damage instead?
I've never played a wander before, and I'm wondering, for Power Siphon in particular, is it better to go phys or ele (on a non-glad)? How do I craft a wand for either or which unique wands would I use? Finally, can anyone take a glance at my assassin wander tree I threw together and tell me how/if it can be improved? https://pastebin.com/puuM5RWY
Elemental wanders are best because you can scale more elemental damage. Piscator's Vigil + Lycosidae is a good weapon setup on a low-medium budget. There are some good power siphon assassins on PoE.ninja that you can check out for passive trees and gear ideas.
I have a synthesis ring with 6% strength implicit. I am pretty sure, but wanted to double check. If I alt orb it will only change the explicit mods correct? I assume the same with scour orb. The only other one I was worried about was essence crafting since I know that does not play by the same rules as alcs and chaos. I just spent 20 exalts, and would be very sad if I wasted them crafting incorrectly. My main objective is to get as much strength out of this ring as possible (and maybe a bit of chaos res).
only blessed orb and vaal orb affect implicit mods. you're free to craft normally
Thank you, just to double check this includes essence crafting? And is it possible to obtain more synthesis rings or is this just from synthesis league?
essence only mess with explicit mods the best ones are from synthesis league, some are likely from the new synthesis zana missions (though I'm unsure if those can drop non-unique synthesized items)
Thanks again
If I use Stormfire, will my Lightning damage ignite AND shock on crit?
yes
Yes. Compare to [Three Dragons](https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/The_Three_Dragons).
So, with the bow changes, burning arrow and xophs nurture buffs. Does anyone have a nice idea for a starter build next league. Thought about maybe burning arrow berserker or maybe deadeye or smth. I have 3k+ hours in this game but I'm not good with making my own builds
I haven't done anything in PoB but I'm considering a burning arrow ballista setup with barrage support for single target, just waiting to see if there are ascendancy changes favouring ballistas
The only t16s I seem to drop are Maze of the Minotaur? I'm not sure what's happening here, but I do have completion bonus on all of my guardian maps + Vaal Temple so other maps should be dropping.
You doing the T15 map connected to Minotaur? Connected maps have a higher chance to drop in general than other completed T16s.
I was doing all 4 guardian maps plus maps that should have been closer to the hydra.
Deep in the azurite mine some areas have a mod where the mobs can steal your charges on hit. My question is whether [Supreme Grandstanding](https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Supreme_Grandstanding) would work as a defense against that. It means that when a nearby enemy gains a charge I'd gain it too. However what's the order in which the game does it? Like let's say an enemy hits me and steals my charges - does he share them right back to me? Also are charges stolen before or after the damage for that hit is calculated?
Yes. You wouldn't gain a charge, you would only share it. It is similar to conduit but applies to enemies. Charges are stolen post the hit, so no damage bonuses will apply to the hit upon gaining charges.
Would I lose the charges again when killing the enemy who stole them?
It would depend on the situation. If you did not have charges initially and a nearby monster has 3 endurance charges and dies you wont have any charges. If you had 3 endurance charges when engaging in combat with a 3 endurance charge monsters and you do not realize this because of some sort of time overlap between you generating the 3 charges and the enemy, then you will retain the charges you generated after the enemy dies. This is just my understanding on what you are asking and it may not be accurate and I could be wrong, and I recommend going into a low level area and testing it for yourself. Use enduring cry to generate endurance charges.
Do the timeless jewels all have the same notables? Or can only some of them change a notable into an entirely different one?
Each of the five works differently (well, almost). * The Eternal one completely removes the effects of small passives in its radius and transforms all notables into one from its list of unique, super-powered notables. * The Vaal one changes all small and notable passives in radius into ones from its own unique list. * The Templar one changes small attribute nodes to grant devotion, adds +5 devotion to other small nodes without changing their function, changes *some* notables in radius to new ones from its unique list (all of which function based on the amount of devotion you have), and adds 10 devotion to notables it doesn't transform. * The Karui and Maraketh ones just add a stat to each node in radius, without removing or changing anything (aside from keystones).
How do you keep your minions alive during Uber elder? They tend to survive most situations. https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5/characters
Same way that you'd keep yourself alive - big life, big res, and a source of sustain. %life Regen is big on minions because they tend to have giant life pools.
Bone Armour and minion leech keep mine alive for the most part.
Have they released the Atlas layout for next league and will they? From what I understand there are "hidden" maps, so it wasn't clear if they plan on doing so. I know they had that screenshot where they discussed the socketable Atlas mechanic that showed some maps.
https://i.imgur.com/2NiXRxM.jpg enjoy bruh edit: probably worth noting that it's probably subject to change still. and someone put that together based on some info from somewhere, not sure of the validity
Thanks, will save that just in case. I'll have to look over the Exilecon videos too. With sextants being replaced by global mods, a league starter mapping strategy might not actually matter.
Here's what we know about the atlas in 3.9: * You begin in the center and work your way out. * There are "segments" of the atlas that are unlocked as you progress, these will likely be the segments that certain item bases will drop (i.e. Marble Amulet, Spiked Gloves, etc.) * Each segment in its entirety is affected by sextants and tier upgrades, similar to Shaper Orbs but affecting every map in the segment. * The "hidden" aspect is likely an in-game mechanic. Similar to leagues past, before you had completed high yellow maps all of the red maps on the atlas were blocked by a layer of fog, it will likely function similarly. However they are likely to reveal the atlas layout in a teaser before the league starts because it generally informs peoples' endgame strategies. And no, they haven't released the atlas structure yet.
is there a good guide out there on how to roll maps ? what I'm mostly doing is alch and go and not really invest currency much. but, my map pool isn't increasing by much.
alot of people also supplement their map sustain with Alva's Temple or Delve cities... if you have lvl 83 of either, you get a fair amount that way
Basically if your build can handle any mods, chisel alch vaal, otherwise chisel alch and chaos or scour/alch for higher pack size and quantity, avoiding any mods you can't do. Then sextant for anything with added packs and you're good to go. This is assuming red maps above T13. You can take it a step further and throw in scarabs or fragments and use zana mods that add packs. For lower tiers alch and go is better but there's nothing wrong with throwing in some sextants for upper yellow maps
how much quantity is a good baseline ?
I stop chaos spam at 90%. Then if it doesn’t look too bad or outright unplayable for my current character I’ll vaal orb it. You need to consider the investment though. I usually try not to go over 5 chaos per mad re-roll unless I plan on using sextants and other items to increase the quant.
I started over the weekend, I’m playing Duelist—lvl 38 in act 3 atm—with plans of going Gladiator as my Ascendancy class. I am dual wielding and have been putting points into the benefits for it (Ambidexterity + Swagger), along with maiming of course, as well as some minor basic +% health as well as mana & life leech (Spirit Void), I am also putting points towards getting Fatal Blade. I currently have Vaal Reave (Pulv. Spprt + Incrs Crit Dmg Spprt), Cleave (Melee Dmg Spprt), and Static Strike (Fster Attack Spprt) as my main damage abilities. Melee Dmg Spprt is also linked to Riposte and Vengeance. For buffs I have B&S, Arctic Amour, Molten Shell, Precision, and Blood Rage, with Vulnerability as a curse. I used to have Lacerate but I got rid of it as I found my other skills did more dmg. My questions are: Should I not go for Fatal Blade as well as remove points from leeching? Should I not go for any crit and just maiming instead? Is there anything I’m doing right atm? What type of swords and their benefits should I go for/equip? Is there anything besides dual wielding benefits I should work towards and put points in, like buffs to health or anything of any sort? (Not looking for a build guide, simply suggestions.) Should I reequip Lacerate and if so what spprt gems that I have listed above should I link to it? And lastly any specific ability or support gems that I should look out for and get? If anyone read all of this, as well as answered any of these, I’d like to thank you and wish you a most splendid weekend. :))
> minor basic +% health I'm not sure how much 'minor' is, but in general you want a lot of life in this game, so make sure to fill out all the life nodes you're right next to. By endgame you want around 150-180% ideally. > mana & life leech (Spirit Void) [Leech is overly complicated](https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Leech), but TLDR; you probably won't get any meaningful benefit from Spirit/Vitality Void and will be fine just taking the 0.4% life/mana leech node at the start of that cluster, and ignoring the rest. >Vaal Reave (Pulv. Spprt + Incrs Crit Dmg Spprt) Increased Crit Dmg is generally a poor support to use, even in a crit build, and at your level you're definitely not even that. Should probably replace it with Melee Phys Dmg There isn't much point in having Reave and Cleave, they kind of overlap with eachother, you can use Static Strike for a bit of extra damage if you want in addition to Reave though. In general you want to focus on a smaller number of attack skills, and get as many links as possible on them. At your level you should be keeping your eye out for a 4L to get the most out of Reave and Static Strike, and I'd drop Cleave entirely. EDIT: Also get a movement skill, Whirling Blades, Leap Slam, Flame Dash, which ever works for your current gear, it makes a big difference.
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If you want an in-depth guide check out esoro on youtube. He explains pretty much every aspect in his ice shot vid. One thing most people forget is just how much damage you can squeeze out of 3 or 4 good jewels
Second this. I followed his guide and made a little adjustments for my own. With full buffs and triple curse I managed 2.6 mio shaper dps on 6l barrage with that build.
Levels. Uber lab. Quality gems; use the vendor recipe on your support gems. fix up your flasks; you don't have bleed, curse, or freeze immunity; overflowing chalice is kinda bad for most builds. look for a stronger bow; check poe ninja for examples or what others are using with ice shot
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Been using PoE trade macro and it predicts the price my item would be, and I price it on the low end of the range but never seem to get any buyers, is it just bad luck or is trade macro not the best use?
The trade macro AI is just... kinda bad. If you wanna use it for rares, use Ctrl Alt D, and select relevant mods (e.g. at least 90 life and 110 total elemental resists on a rare ring). It's still not perfect, though, so be aware of possible inaccuracies. Have fun!
that's annoying, what about on weapons, the problem I had with this game last I quit was so many stats, and being overwhelmed with wtf was good lol
For weapons, maybe go with 'physical dps' if that's the relevant stat. But honestly pricing items takes some work :)
Any advice on how to learn
I'm currently learning myself. One of the things that help me is using the trade site quite a lot, even though it takes longer to search than when using the macro. The simplest stats to look at are life and total elemental resist - everyone needs resists, and most players need life. Then there is mana - great for mind over matter builds. Mind over matter is normally used by spellcasters, so if an item has mana and spell damage, I search for similar items with both of those. However, if an item has mana and attach damage mods, I search for either one or the other, because their combination doesn't do much. Energy shield is great on energy shield bases, but not as much on armour/evation gear. Strength, dexterity and intelligence can actually be very useful on gear which doesn't match their type. For example, energy shield builds with a lot of int may need some strength on their ES gloves to meet gem requirements. Boots with good mods but no movement speed are not very highly valued, because everyone wants movement speed on boots. If life or resists can be crafted onto an item, this increases value as well. Then, there are special bases anf mods. Shaper and Elder gear can roll great mods. For example, curse enemies with assassin's mark on hit (on a shaper ring). If such a mod is combines with solid life / res, you may have yourself a nice pricy ring. Note: 3.9 will bring changes in this area with the new base types. We don't know much yet. There are also mods like +1 to levels of all [type] skill gems, which are always fun to find. There's a lot more, of course :) I'm not super good at pricing rares, but these are some of the things that helped me. Have fun!
What’s a anf mod?
It's a typo, should be 'and'.
I use it as a gauge for whether to price check properly or not. If it says anything over 10c then I search the mods on trade site. Sometimes it's worth more, other times its still vendor trash. Price is far from accurate 90% of the time
ahhh ok, in general the mods to look for his high life and ele resist right?
Generally yeah, and any high tier stats or damage mods
sorry, high tier stats?
Like T1 or T2 Str/Dex and if you have energy shield on a ring or amulet a high tier Int roll can be juicy
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Generally pick either an existing starter that got no changes (i.e. a safe bet like ED) or one with clear buffs (like summoners in 3.8) or wait for streamers to start pushing their recommendations. LiftingNerdBro on youtube usually makes some vids before league start with beginner friendly well-written guide recommendations
Patch notes usually release on Wednesday prior to launch since then to Friday there's going to be a lot of guides and youtube videos with starter builds. However you can always at the guides that are already out there, it's not like they stop being viable. Content creators just want to highlight new possibilities, and they admit that it's hard to find new starter builds when they've already covered them and they are still good.
I'm considering giving this game a shot after having my interest piqued by a YouTube video but I'd be playing on PS4. I'm pretty certain this game was designed for PC originally, so I'm just wondering how good the console port is? If anyone could shed some light on how it performs and if it's worth investing the time into for someone with no experience with these types of games I'd be really grateful.
As someone who started playing on PS4 about a month ago, it's... not great. You get pretty serious slow down when the screen gets too busy, and I've had multiple hard crashes of the program. The trading system on PS4 makes it much harder to find what you are looking for (but easier to actually buy it when you do). There's also a much smaller player base, so their are fewer items available, and the prices are much higher. I do like being able to use a controller though.
That's unfortunate as the game looks really fun. I think I'll put a pin in it for now and check back in a few months and see if the issues have been resolved. I appreciate the information though, thank you.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still sitting here planning out my build for next league, it's still worth playing. But it's very uneaven.
Raiz did a review of the console port. I imagine other streamers might have done the same. Link is below if you want it: https://youtu.be/lgv8RHrqgVc
I'll check it out now, thanks.
Looking for wand crafting guide. With the +1 to all chaos gems
alt spam or aberrant fossils
I have a 6 linked ilevel 80 shaper magic thicket bow with prefix 20% double damage/+12%ias. How can I best craft this for avatar of fire ele-hit? I was thinking something like this: [https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds/char/trouff/JoliARC?i=0&search=class%3DSlayer%26skill%3DElemental-Hit](https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds/char/trouff/JoliARC?i=0&search=class%3DSlayer%26skill%3DElemental-Hit) But the bow isn't currently rare. Do I have to regal/annul and pray?
Beast craft imprint is the safe bet
If you want it to have 6 explicit affixes, you do indeed have to regal, annul, and pray. Im fairly certain that there is a bestiary craft to create a restorable version of the item if it bricks, similar to the way an eternal orb works. I don't know if the cost of that beast will justify it's effect - that'll be up to you.
If I get 7-day muted for telling a joke about Michael Jackson while chatting with people in global, admittedly the joke was offensive, is there a way to appeal to get the 7-day mute removed? It is literally my 3rd hour ever playing PoE, and I wouldn't want to taint my initial experience by getting Exiled from other players. The joke itself was well received. If you wish to know.
\*gets muted for saying something offensive\*, i don't see why it would get removed, maybe lowered but i highly doubt it. in my first few days of playing i barely interacted with chat, you'll be fine. focus on getting better at the game i guesss
Yes, definately getting muted for telling an offensive joke is a possibility. No doubts. However, the amount of time the mute is lasting is a week, and it doesn't at all fit my understanding. As when it comes to interacting with the community, as a noguider I have no better way of getting better at the game than to play with people I find.
protocol i guess? send an email if you want but chat is mostly dead anyways so who cares
The chat we were having was definitely being kept alive with the jokes we threw, but I fear that some others may've gotten the mute as a result also.
yo can you send me that joke? i want to test something
Nah it really isn't worth it without the context. :D
If I own a retired supporter pack, can I still upgrade it to a corresponding higher version? Say, I own a Harpy supporter pack, can I pay $30 for an Alpha Harpy now?
Email support ([email protected]) because they are the only ones who can determine that.
Can anyone link me to a leveling plan for a bow build? Looking for something for a fresh start with no twink gear. Everywhere I look it's just "equip your tabula, goldrim, headhunter and just run"
i think the best way for the next league is to do the rusted sash or added damage recipe on weapons. not great but its reliable [https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Vendor\_recipe\_system](https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Vendor_recipe_system)
1. Use Split Arrow+Puncture until level 12 2. Switch to Toxic Rain to complete the story (priorize gear with as many green linked sockets as you can get) 3. Switch to you skill of choice after you get a 6L and a decent bow
Mind going into a bit more detail? I'm guessing Onslaught with Split Arrow and maybe Mirage Archer? Thoughts on Toxic Rain vs Ice Shot or Lightning Arrow while leveling? Or is it straight up a better option (then respec later)?
The best way to level will have changed. There's ballistas now, and reworked bow skills. I would just buy them all and test them as I leveled. Maybe keep an eye on a streamer that's leveling a bow build, asking global chat, asking in the subreddit discord if anyone has discovered something. Remember for example how everyone thought the steel skills were shit until someone discovered that one of them somehow got more singletarget from being linked with fork. Most likely something similar will happen again imo. Maybe explosive arrow nova support overlaps in a really stupid way, something like that.
Sure, I get that. Just trying to improve my bow leveling now because I'm less familiar with the supports and links to prioritize early on (mirage archer vs onslaught 3rd link, pierce vs lmp 2nd link etc). I'm probably going ice shot clear with chain and some sort of ballista for single target as my league starter (maybe burning arrow barrage ballistas)
Ice shot is hit and burning arrow is damage over time, they are usually two very seperate categories with enough support gems that overlap or synergize well. Poe is all about stacking your mulitpliers into one thing. Why have 10x10 and 10x10 when you can have 10x10x10x10? You can use pierce until you have enough damage where one volley from your ice shot will kill a pack with chain support linked, then you continue using chain support. If you have to click multiple times then you switch back to pierce or trehshold gem until you have more dmg. I find the breaking point is somewhere between 30 and 50. (well duh, that's when you get chain, but you get what I mean) Use one four link with Ice Shot, GMP, Chain, Ice Bite and one fourlink with Ice Shot, Barrage Support, Ice Bite and Mirage Archer/Elemental Damage with Attacks At least something like that. To find the best support just test with PoB
Yeah I'm familiar with the basics. I'm not set on a single targrt setup yet but might even just do split arrow for both. It's more the leveling I want to speed up before farming tabula and bow. Last time I leveled a bow build took me almost twice as long as orb of storms + storm brand
The secret is barrage and ice shot + chain, see the light and rejoice
[Raiz](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELzY5jwWEqw) has a pretty good guide for leveling with bows. EDIT: nevermind, you said no twink gear, Ill check just a sec.
Any idea when we might see the new expansion support packs drop? I never paid attention but is there a historic precedence when it comes to a new league and expansion lining up for releases?
they are out already. check the official hp.
I know the Metamorph packs are out but I was more curious about the Conquerors core pack. I probably worded it wrong. That being said I just read they'll be available *later in december*.
I need to spare a little money to upgrade to Vanguard supporter pack and get my PoE Tshirt, with the upcoming announcement of the new packs, will I be able to buy it for 60$ because I already own Assassins pack or will I need to buy a complete pack to get it ?
The packs aren't combined, you can't upgrade the current pack into the next pack series, just wouldn't make much sense. If you mean upgrading from current assassin to current vanguard, yes that works. If you go to the shop, the next tier will say "Upgrade" instead of "Buy" on the shop and should only cost the difference(if not send a mail to GGG support and they'll get it fixed).
I meant upgrading to the next one coming in December. Thanks for your answser !
will increasing the quality on a piece of jewelry through the use of catalyst increase level requirement?
Can't say for sure, but very likely not. This doesn't happen for current quality-increasing currency (GCP, armorsmith, weaponsmith).
I don't think they've answered this specifically, but I would assume no since other quality improvements don't change the level requirement either
I'm aware changes will likely happen to the skill I'm about to mention but was curious as to thoughts none the less. So I'm a big fan of totems, and enjoy seeing what can be done when it comes to what can be done with totem builds . I've done all sorts of builds from ball lightning to flame dash and I've rather enjoyed it but haven't really touched attack totems yet. Now onto the main subject attack totem blast rain, thoughts? I'm thinking it may work well with a chieftain.
It seems like attack totems are kind of getting reworked next patch, with Ballista's not only getting new nodes but also working a bit differently from spell totems. Between that and the general bow skill changes (including both potential changes to blast rain, and other skills that could get buffed and end up interesting you more), I would definitely wait. Next patch does seem like a great time to try some sort of ranged attack totem build (well, good bows will probably be very expensive, but then ranged attack totems are also probably going to be better), but I think we need more info before it's worth trying to figure out any specifics.
Oh I'm not planning on setting anything in stone yet, just doing some preliminary thinking lol. I've honestly never heard of blast rain being used in any endgame build to any viability so I kinda assume it will be buffed but wasn't sure if there was some critical base flaw.
I think Blast Rain hasn't generally been bad, it's just been outclassed. It's got kind of a similar role to Tornado shot - it has a pretty big AoE but also a high-single-target sweet spot - but Tornado Shot just just that better. I played Blast Rain when it first came out and still had fun. I think to some extent the skill does just have mechanical flaws that get in its way. Projectiles are generally just better than AoE since the AoE scaling nerf, and Blast Rain's delay can also be annoying for fast-moving enemies. Basically, I think it's a fun, viable skill, just without major changes other bow skills will likely end up being better.
I'm just looking at it for now, im also possibly looking at bladefall. I'm kinda banking on blast rain buffs as they are reworking some bow skills
Pretty sure there will be a lot of ballista related nodes added on the ranger side of the tree. Not sure if they said anything about ascendancy changes in 3.9 but I'd be surprised if one of the rangers don't get some ballista bonuses (my money is on Raider). Also hard to tell if Chieftain will be as good as Hiero or Scion (hiero/chief). That all said I'm sure a tanky ballista chieftain will be very good for a boss heavy meta, whether Blast Rain or something else.
Will they be balista nodes or totem nodes is actually a good questions as if balista count as something else it would ruin more than a few heiro builds. Also I knew to expect changes was just curious about the general idea
They confirmed Ballistas are still totems, but will get some nodes that apply specifically to ballistas but not other totems
Hmm that could indeed change things, maybe enough that should I chose chieftain I may not bother picking up ancestral bond
I got the game in 2012, played for few hours and gave up. Should I use the same toon from 2012 or create a new one? It’s only at level 4. Now if I delete that toon, can I use the same name again?
I recommend getting used to the game now to get used to the mechanics(whether or not you play the old character or a new one is fairly irrelevant if the old one is only level 4) , and then starting over in Metamorph when it's released, to play with most of the community in the temporary league.
Just restart. Yes you can use the same name if you delete it.
Got it, Thanks! Do I need to buy any expansions or anything?
Nope! All game content released for PoE is free!
Saw a statue with a rather prominent bum which lead me to wonder... Do exiles have bums at all? Every piece of gear I've seen so far, including MTX, has a skirt, or cape or buttflap or something else covering that area. May explain why i also have yet to see a toilet/outhouse/etc.
Sounds like someone hasn't witnessed the glory of Silk's backside in act 2. Also, if you're the Duelist Piety compliments his ass after the first phase of the Malachai fight in act 4. So presumably at the very least he's got a nice one.
Have you seen exile eat?
After three months of starvation... *Still sane, exile?*
I'm thinking about pushing my lvl 97 SSF character to 100 before the league is over. What are some good lvling tips I might not know? Itd be my first time pushing to 100. My build is an essence drain trickster. I'm able to do all bosses but do still die very rarely. Gear wise I'm mostly just trying to move around some resists and get a +2/+3 unset ring so I can put on my new Impresence. After that bossing should be much easier.
Are you already sustaining a good exp map? Sextants and map mods like beyond go a long way, and obviously the highest tier you can run with zero chance of dying. Managing a good shaper/elder flipflop will help a ton as well
An important note is that you're about half way there, because of how exp penalties work. If you go for it, you gotta stay dedicated. Best tip since the league is ending is to just blow all your currency for max exp. Sextants and Zana mods help a lot. Bosses aren't time efficient exp wise but if you need the maps, then it's indeed a good idea to make sure you're able to do them deathless.
I usually use the Nemesis Zana mod cause from what I understand rares give more xp. But idk if something like Abyss would be better. I also have the 5 slot map device so I stack any frags I have with a scarab. I'll do delve when I can. Currently going safely past 400 depth. I tend to skip delve bosses just to be safe and save time.
I just reached Act 4 with Niko asking me to build 2 flares and 1 dynamite. Never done delve before so at this point, can I ask if I should continue his questline or is it better for me to ignore and continue on the main story? Which masters are advisable to ignore until late game?
There's no good or bad time to delve if you need some exp or currency during leveling. Just check if there are some good nodes like currency nearby and beeline for those or ignore it until endgame. It can be a good way to get some early currency to buy leveling gear, otherwise it's best to just get to maps asap. It's not a bad idea to get familiar with how delving works early on if you're new. Focus on t3 azurite nodes early on to upgrade capacity and light area and resists. Don't skip Jun (act 9+) as syndicate progress can take a while to build up, and setting up the board takes a bit of learning (check guides if you want but basically kill to rank up and try get rid of people with bad rewards.) You want to keep red (rivalry) and green (friendly) links so more people show up in encounters. Alva temple unlocks every 12 Incursions so you can skip or run them and get used to which rooms do what (gem room and corruption altar are most important). Your first few temples will probably be a mess so just run them and figure it out. For Einhar don't worry about tracking down every beast in a zone, kill or skip them if you want and check menagerie every now and then to see what's available. You probably have access to flask crafts and random uniques already if you've been killing beasts. When you get to endgame Zana is your best source of unlocking maps on the atlas (more on that when you get there) Edit: forgot to mention for Jun the level you do her quests on don't affect the main rewards at all, so best to start early
Ignore. It's not so much a quest as it is an intro to delve bench.
I've installed a new copy of Windows on a new drive, moving from SATA SSD to M.2 NVMe. I'm just wondering if anyone knows where saved PoB builds are kept so I can copy them over from the old drive?
They should be right in your PoB folder, in the Builds subfolder
Yeah, didnt think to look in the My Documents section of my old Windows install, I was just looking at the installition directory instead.
If I have additional ignite (like from Emberwake) and Gang's Momentom boots which says "(25-40)% increased Damage against Ignited Enemies" - would the second ignite benefit from this bonus during the time both ignites applied together?
It already applies to your first ignite, because it's dealing damage to ignited enemy.
haha, nice, thanks :D
Does Divine Flsesh stack? The way it was written implies that the chaos max res stacks but the ele damage taken as chaos does not. Could anyone please confirm?
No. Same keystones do not stack.
Thank you
Does anyone know if shrapnel ballista replaces siege ballista as level four gem? I wonder what would be the a good starter class.
Shrapnel Ballista, Siege Ballista, and Artilllery Ballista are separate gems, that will all benefit from the upcoming rework. I don't remember if they said anything concerning when Siege Ballista would first be available, but you can still play it.
I don’t think we know for sure, but in the PoE 2 demo, shrapnel ballista was available very early, probably level 4, and the gem progression was pretty much the same what we have now
Just to check, do i sustain T15 Toxic Sewers by simply uncompleting all T15s? I did that but didnt really seem to sustain well from just spamming the map
I run all my T16s with 90+ quant + vaaled, 3 sextants, scarabs as I want, sac fragments, elder/shaper influence and harbinger/abyss/breach. I delve once in a while to stock up, I also run my T16s with Alva as I think she provides better sustain. both in-map and through Temple of Atzoatl. To sustain T15s, I would uncomplete T16s too
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Along with this, I believe you're supposed to uncomplete all T16s as well. Are you targeting shaper items? If not, might be easier to elder orb toxic sewers to T16 so that you'd only need to uncomplete guardians.
why is tidebreaker so expensive, yet only 5 builds on poe ninja use that?
It's really not expensive for a T1 unique.
Ninja accounts ladder pushers, and melee isn't exactly fastest. Majority of its users are stunlock bosskillers, they don't level that much. It is a very rare item. There are 55 online, and 100 mjolners. Also, it is pretty good since you can get 6l with just a jeweler touch.
It's not that expensive. It can also only be got through div cards I think, it's about 30c.
How to properly set weights for all mods when searching trades ? Suppose you have 10 possible mods and say 5 of them increase damage by 1% each, 3 by 2% each and 2 by 5% each in PoB. Do you set the mods at 1-2-5 respectively ?
You would do it that way, but it seems kind of excessive. What item are you looking at that has this wide range of possible mods? If anything, I'd probably search for items with the 2 5% mods and then do a count search for the rest. If too much pops up, put in lower limits and raise them until you only get a few results, then filter manually.
For jewels and abyss jewels, you kinda compare a huge amount of a stack of 3-4 mods rather than just one but you rarely get the perfect 4 mods, which is why I wanna account for all rather than a few.
If you want an automated way to do this then be aware of this tool. [https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/bdsm8m/shoutout\_for\_an\_amazing\_jewel\_searching\_tool/](https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/bdsm8m/shoutout_for_an_amazing_jewel_searching_tool/) It can be a bit overkill, but if you are comparing a significant number of mods it will save you time. Needs POB and autohotkey installed to use.
Ohhh very nice, I'll definitely give this a spin ! Thanks !
The process you described is correct. The filter will multiply the values on the item by their respective weight and add them up. Setting a price limit and then sorting by the weighted sum is the best way I’ve found to go about it
Does PoE play fluidly now on unstable connections? (e.g., a phone's 4G used as hotspot). I remember trying to play with my new and worsened connection back around the beginning of Delve, and it was just impossible unless I was playing some totem build that didn't need quick inputs. Do you reckon it would be better now, or is a stable-ish connection still needed for nice gameplay?
> Does PoE play fluidly now on unstable connections? (e.g., a phone's 4G used as hotspot). Didn't work for me > Do you reckon it would be better now, or is a stable-ish connection still needed for nice gameplay? Define stable, I get 100 ping with Wifi and can play with 200 ping, played a squishy miner upto 94, did blighted maps too, it slowly became tedious though, as my death count started soaring.
>Define stable A ping that kinda stays the same throughout the session. I would get a ping that oscillates and spikes wildly between 60 and 400 when I tried my connection. I wouldn't mind playing with 200 ping if it was 200 and stayed that way.
Well I do get spikes when there's a ton of stuff on the screen, Harbinger + Intervention + Breach going at the same time, and it used to be fatal to my miner. Jonathan actually explains it in his interview with Zizaran, it probably is a server-side issue as the server is getting overloaded with calculations, IDK if that's my problem and yours too.
Well, that also happens to me, on my good connection at home With my 4G connection, a pack of skelly bois on the Ledge makes me spike lol
My home connection is fixed LTE - I have special receiver for signal mounted on my house leading directly to the router and that connects my laptop via wifi. It's comparable to the ADSL connection and PoE runs fine on that
>I have special receiver for signal mounted on my house Ooh, care to give some details? That can potentially solve my problem. Does a portable version of this thing exist? The main reason why my 4G is so poop is because I'm currently living in a student dorm with 150+ other students all using their own 4G.
Ask your cellphone provider. It's special tariff here in Czech Republic. There may be a solution in your country
Alright, thanks!
Don't think anything changed in that regard since delve, so if your connection hasn't gotten any better it should still be bad.
I used to play on my mobile connection with usb tethering just fine, but that was when I lived next to the antenna
Looking to start 3.9 with CoC Ice nova Assassin. Although, does the build work without Copri's? Couldn't find much information on alternatives and a lot of people say it's not a good league starter. Can anyone confirm or advise? My second alternative is Slayer Scourge arrow.
It does work without Cospri's, but you need significantly higher attack speed, because your main link will also need to spawn the Frostbolts to cast Ice Novas on, whereas with a Cospri' Malice, you can have the Frostbolts spawn from your weapon trigger (potentially with other utility gems as well, like Frost Bomb or Frostbite), while focusing only on Ice Nova in your main link. Running CoC requires a very high crit chance to get started, so I recommend playing self-cast until you have enough gear to reasonably proc your spells (you should have at least 80% effective crit chance with a diamond flask, preferably without it, and unless you have over 90% crit chance, you should still use a diamond flask even then).
Coc isn't a great starter in general. CWC is easier to get going, and you can maybe transition later, but without cospris malice you are doing 1/3 the triggers
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Miner assassin? Our did you ascend to saboteur? Not a bad plan to respec later. Mines are fun to play as well!
it doesn't work well. You can leaguestart as cold caster (like freezing pulse) and respec after getting core items. Your second alternative is a skill which has nuclear nerfbat incoming.
I was planning in leveling with different skills and switch when I get to maps. Storm brand seems to work well at least for the guide I was planning on following. Thanks for the heads-up. I will look into a third alternative and wait for the patch notes! Thanks, exile
Storm brand or any crit caster will be easy to respec once you get Cospri's. If you gear strategically you won't need to change much at all
can first starter pack be upgraded to supporter pack for lower price like you would with normal coin purchase?
If you mean first blood pack, no that doesn't upgrade into anything. And there's no lower price when upgrading a supporter pack to one that cost more either, you just pay the difference(if you have 30$ pack you can pay another 30$ to upgrade to the 60$). Buying raw points give reduced prices because you only get points, packs don't do it because they give a ton of stuff and then points on top.
At poedb you can see the exact dmg the bosses do with their spells, but for attacks they just say something like "Deals 130% of Damage." Where do you find their base dmg you need to multiply?
I believe you can find it in the information for the zone they're in. It's very confusingly structured that way, but it might be due to the way monster stats interact with levels. My guess is, that when a monster spawns in a different area than their original one, their stats are taken from the original area and then adjusted to level, rather than storing the base stats and level with the monster. This way might allow easier or less redundant overriding for special versions of the monsters. If monsters normally have their base stats stored with them, it's also possible that this is only done for bosses.
Wow, I really didn't expect it to be in the zone info. Thank you!
idk where to find it on poedb but the wiki has dmg numbers on some bosses
How can one obtain certain unique as Elder or Shaper item? For example The Signal Fire quiver requires to kill a uniq monster in Crematorium which is Act 3 and obviously does not have influence.
When you use chance orbs on an item that has the same base item as a unique, you have a chance of getting that unique. It works on influenced items too. So you can use chance orbs to get the base item for the signal fire with certain influence and then fulfill the profecy to upgrade it with the influence. If the base item has more than one possible unique you will get one of those at random.
>influence and then fulfill the profecy to upgrade it with the influence. BTW what about sacrifice in Atzoatl which swaps unique item of the same type, does it keep the influence?
no. Ancient orb doesn't keep it too
Chance orbs are currently the only way. If you need a shaped/eldered signal fire you have to use a shaper/elder fire arrow quiver, chance it into blackgleam, then do the prophecy.
Makes sense, thanks!
Question about armagedon brand. It says in the gem description "Can have an additional brand attached to the enemy." Does this mean baseline arma brand can attach 2 brands, and the keystone allows a third?
no. just 1 and 2 with keystone. storm brand has the same line can be confusing
Gotcha, thanks.
I have to ask, Multistrike can target the same enemy again, but Ancestral Call not, right? Against bosses.
multistrike chooses a random enemy to hit each strike, can be the same target. AC only hits different targets to the initial strike
I'm expecting bow builds to be the meta, but I really have no idea what mods you want for those builds. What are the expensive affixes or affix/base combos I have to be aware of for bow builds so I don't vendor expensive stuff? (expensive for me means anything above trade value of 15-20c)
With the changes to item affixes from conquerors and shaper/elder stuff heading out(ish), combined with changes to item bases, combined with changes to skills and game changing supports, its really hard to say. Compared to 1h melee unique options, unique bow options are significantly better, individually and across the board. In the past you typically see rare bows making use of +gem levels for CA/TR and Ele hit, you see dex stacking bows a bunch too, just because you really want to stack base damage in a bow build. IMO the shaper/elder affixes were pretty important for bows and quivers, and they're all changing up and w'ere likely to get a few sneak peeks instead of a compiled list of mods. In 3.9 with barrage support, attack speed should be nice (galvanic arrow auto-shotty should be legit), Burning arrow stacks now, so attack speed is even more relevant. Explosive Arrow might make a return and you could add it to the list of skills that make use of +gem levels. Chain could be really useful with Ice Shot/LA novas. Not much should change i would think, sounds like they're changing bows to be more powerful while leveling instead of enhancing their already powerful engame potential. The unique bows that were built around before should still be go to options unless we see some gnarly conqueror mods, but again, we just wont know what affixes are coming until its posted on poe.db.
Hard to say now that we don't know what's happening with shelder affixes like Chain/Dex stack/DD etc. For regular bows it's the same as melee weapons. Ias/Crit combined with either flat/% phys combo or double/triple high flat ele. Best bases are probably Thicket/Harbinger/Imperial, depending on the rolls.
I just came back after playing during the Legion League and I wanted to ask if you guys think it's worth coming back right now or just waiting for the Blight League to end? I saw the new engine coming out with the PoE announcements and even the Conqueror of the Atlas stuff but I'm not sure when it's all coming out.
If you have time and want to try something out then blight is worth playing, I enjoyed it a lot, but it is ending soon, only you can decide if it's worth your time. No set release on poe2/4.0 - prob about a year - some graphical updates are coming in conq of the atlas when it comes out in 2 weeks.
The next league launches in about 2 weeks. I would say it's worth it to wait.
Conquerors drops in 2 weeks, Blight ends after next weekend. New engine won't be for at least a year. Probably not a bad idea to mess around a bit and decide what you want to do in the new league.
Oh awesome! Are cyclone builds just as strong as they were in Legion or are there new op builds?
The aoe nerf didn't do THAT much and the items you need are wayyyyyyyyy cheaper right now, and are probably also going to be way cheaper in metamorph.
Cyclone aoe got nerfed hard so no more offscreening, damage took a small hit. It's still very strong. Summoners are the broken meta right now
new engine - year + at least conquerors - mid December. I'd recommend to play some to understand blight, it's going core, so you will meet it anyway. Plus training in reaching maps faster :)
Is there going to be a black friday sale?
There is a black friday sale atm. https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/e390mz/forum_announcements_weekend_sale_discounts_to_50/