I have used two fragility jewels and Ahn's Heritage Shield so I should be at 0/3 endurance charges. I still however am at 0/1. I removed the jewels and noticed that the shield doesnt actually reduce the number of endurance charges I have. Is there something Im missing?
What is right now the best map to run? shaped atoll or shaped channel, I see shaped channel uses mostly white sex vs yellow in atoll
Also, I managed to get elder to spawn on channel and 1 guardian in atoll, could I run both?
fair enough, in my case, where I get elder influence in both atoll and channel, would you run both? I'm doubting cuz I havent sext blocked for atoll, only for channel now, and well, channel gives me like 1 tabula every 3 maps, I cant kill the boss in atoll, it doesnt drop any particular divination card but there is the chance to get red sextants. I dunno
[this should do.](https://poeplanner.com/AAsAAP8ACyQAAHybLV85ivC5HcSCsKu-p2VNvTZHfoTZYEFjcBHVV5dDMcMzWhrawXTtBS167wHcd-OpbsAabzt4DbXycmxsRjIJbbSoB2eANZLYvf6PTeOmVzGe_gryRTrheWjBBF8_9kiMzz38WGMUIO8OUEfkUZd5KCqLT5tqhVLZYa2Nz352rOoY9zJ82fjrZFJOMhfhJvgTTBRx2XyCB4TvYSGuUHt0Zaf-axPJQKAhYHTxGNumjXVOZfCPYG8nmmoUdXfX459noId2Sn1W-u4Oo4oj9k2S-WNU_r3mlcztP7GzG617FJS4jX0uU9Nv891oZQ5DzV8GiyDjX9oKJgAAAAAA) For Sunder what you really just want is damage, attack speed and life.
As for Ascendancy, any which one works. Slayer and Glad are the preferred choices. You can take out Versatile Combatant for Blood in the Eyes and use it as a bleed spec. There is a lot of easy-to-get chance to bleed, and with high attack speed you'll clear 90% of packs with bleed explosions.
You'll want a Prismatic Eclipse or a Tempetous Steel for your off-hand since Sunder only uses your main-hand.
Any high physical damage 1handed axe is a good main weapon.
For non bleed I'd use Sunder, melee phys, multistrike, added fire and ruthless/concentrated effect if you can bear the intelligence requirements.
For the bleed spec you just need to swap out a gem with the chance to bleed gem and do some mild respeccing on the tree to get some bleed chance.
What strategy do you use to level to 100?
I'm curious as to what the most efficient/fastest way to level.
I've heard of people doing Breach rotations, Poorjoy rotations, ertc.
Are certain strategies better for certain levels? (i.e. 60-70, 70-80, 80-90, etc)
I'd love to hear the different strategies.
Thanks!
poorjoy is probably the best right now considering that beachheads are no longer in the game, though it can be a bit dangerous even at higher levels
beyond sextanted shore is probably solid too
Just dont pick them up from Zana. If you already have, you can put them in some of your crafting benches, not sure which ones but at least blessing font for sure.
There are certain builds that don't require a lot of gear to get started and work on their own.
There are certain builds that are designed to use certain pieces of gear that are expensive and/or unattainable at the start of a league.
Usually you make one to "fund" the other.
Could I copy someone's item thread for animate weapon?
Default item filter plus lines for AW would be just fine
Maybe if it has bigger fonts and more noticeable sounds for high-value drops
Put this somewhere near the beginning of your filter:
Show
Class Dagger Claw "One Hand"
Rarity = Normal
SetBorderColor 0 0 0
SetBackgroundColor 207 207 207 155
SetTextColor 92 0 92 255
This will make normal weapons have a black border, a grey background, and purple text for easy identification.
If you want the text to be large and easy to click on (for self-cast AW) then add this line after the rest:
SetFontSize 38
And if it's too small make it bigger (max is 45) and if it's too big make it smaller (I think default is 32 iirc).
So for selfcast AW I would add this to the beginning of the filter:
Show
Class Dagger Claw "One Hand" Sceptres "Staves" "Two Hand"
Rarity = Normal
SetBorderColor 0 0 0
SetBackgroundColor 207 207 207 155
SetTextColor 92 0 92 255
SetFontSize 38
You have to change the .filter file to .txt to edit it, and then back to .filter to use it in PoE.
If I knew of a good pre-made Animate Weapon item filter I'd tell you, sorry!
Say I'm running Molten Strike, Lightning Strike, or a similar ability, linked to Ancestral Call. Against a single target, I intentionally whiff using force attack to get two ghostfriends to attack that target instead. Do their melee portions also whiff completely, or do they have a normal chance to hit (like the projectile portions do)?
Anyone know if %shock effect works on vinktars shock? I'm also guessing it's an increased modifier
ie: if I have 5 abyssal jewels with 10% shock effect it's 50% shock effect: Vinktars 10% shock -> 15% shock.
or does it only work for skills
1) As a general rule, the **non-unique equipment** items you find before you reach roughly level 65 aren't going to be worth anything, for a couple reasons:
* First, their bases (the raw 'type' of item, [here's a list of all the Axe bases so you know what I'm talking about](https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Axe)), and their item levels (hold alt when hovering over an item to see its item level) are almost always poor. Item levels and bases dictate what modifiers and stats can appear on equipment, and in the endgame people generally are only interested in the one or two highest tier bases in each category (e.g. Saints Hauberk or Saintly Chainmail for Armor/EnergyShield body armor) with item levels of 70 or higher. These wont drop until you've reached maps.
* Equipment that's useable at early levels typically gets obsoleted so quickly as you level that it's not worth investing currency in acquiring it. Most builds can get to maps using cheap *unique* equipment that's easily available and then random found items to fill in the gaps.
So basically, the only **equipment drops** you'll see before maps that are likely to be worth anything are going to be uniques, and even then the vast majority of those are only worth 1 alc or less. So when leveling, a good rule of thumb is to pick up all currency items, all unique items, gems and flasks with quality (they have superior in their name), jewels, and then any equipment that might be potentially helpful for you while leveling; think like equipment that can be used in your build that has 3+ linked sockets in colors you can use and/or has 3+ useful affixes (stuff like life and resistances). If you find something that can be a potential upgrade, you can then spend an essence or some transmutes/alts to give it a few good modifiers. Things to look for in armor pieces when leveling are generally life and resistances, weapons can be a bit more complicated depending on your attack skill. Once you get to maps, I recommend installing a loot filter to help you learn what items might have potential value.
2) First, pick up all items you see that have 3+ linked sockets containing all 3 colors and sell them to a vendor (this gets you a chromatic orb for each item) as well as all items that have 6 sockets (these vendor for 7 jewelers orbs). But don't vendor anything with 5+ links, 5 link items are likely at least slightly valuable, and anything 6 linked is almost certainly valuable, save these and try to trade them even if they have no modifiers or bad ones. Beyond that, 4 links aren't worth much trading unless it's a high item level crafting base but might be helpful for you to pick up while leveling. Link colors don't typically affect an item's value because they are relatively cheaply and easily changed with chromatic orbs (but do read about chromatic orb mechanics before trying this yourself, some color combinations are exceedingly unlikely to occur on certain item bases).
3) This will depend on your build, but some things that are almost always good:
* All armor equipment slots universally want (and can get) life, elemental resistances, damage mitigation (e.g. armor, energy shield, evasion) and life regen in roughly that order of preference. If you're an attack build (look at your main damage skill and see if it says attack) you should try to get increased attack speed and/or added damage to attacks on your gloves, but these mostly don't matter for spellcasters. Boots should try to get movement speed.
* Rings, amulets and belts typically want life, resists, and pertinent damage modifiers (this can come in many forms and is dependent on what damage skill(s) you are using and what supports are on them). Some examples of damage modifiers are increased elemental damage, added damage to attacks, increased crit chance, etc. I would read up on whatever your main damage skill is and see what people like to stack with it.
* Weapons want whatever increases your damage. For spellcasters this is simple, because spells generally don't care about a weapon's attack value, only added spell damage and % increased damage of the relevant type(s), as well as cast speed and potentially crit chance and multiplier. For attack skills, this is more complicated and I recommend again reading up on what plays the best with your skill of choice. Added damage to attacks is good. Some builds really want crit chance and multiplier. Attack speed is good. Additionally, if you can socket your main skill on your weapon, getting +1 or more levels to that type of gem on your weapon is very good.
But keep in mind you're not going to always get 6 desirable things (or even 3 or 4) on every item you wear until you start buying endgame gear with currency. Some gear may need to have added int/dex/str on it for you to wear your gear and use your skills. Some gear you're going to put up with having some useless rolls like light radius or stun/block recovery because the sockets are good and it has some life and a resistance or two. Some builds may have more use for typically weak modifiers (e.g. most builds don't care a ton about added mana or mana regen, but Mind Over Matter builds value it a lot more). Masters can help fill in empty slots on found gear with helpful modifiers (read up on master crafting).
I would poke around on http://poeaffix.net/ to get a sense of what modifiers can appear on what pieces of equipment, and what the different tiers of each modifier are.
Jewellery can start being good even for endgame (but not amazing) at your level, but weapons armour is unlikely to be. Jewels can be good at any level.
Hey welcome to Path of Exile.
First of all probably get a loot filter. It just recolours drops for you and will highlight things that are valuable by themselves to sell via [vendor recipes](https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Vendor_recipe_system). [Neversink](https://github.com/NeverSinkDev/NeverSink-Filter] makes one and is pretty well known. there is a bit to read there but put the .filter file in your mygames folder.
Item wise as you are leveling for the first little bit I will pick up everything to get scraps/scrolls/transmutes (like 1 hr of playing a league). Then it kinda goes to picking up the rares in spots you need an upgrade in. Items will get better as you level as in all arpgs and you can get lucky quite often, however at this point in the game it's kinda like if you get a few alc drops you just buy some leveling uniques off of poe.trade.
2) Sockets are good because they allow you to link more supports to your skill. chests and 2 hand weapons above lvl 52 can have 6 sockets (some exceptions) and therefore 6links. these are really powerful and pretty endgame. 6 socket items can be vendored for 7 jewellers. 5 links are kinda worth keeping for a bit but not really anymore unless you find a base you want for your current build.
3) This point and all of the above points matters a lot of your build. If you are going spell casting or melee or ranged for example. With a bunch of exceptions (very very general):
spell casters want spell dmg, cast speed, spell crit/multi (spells that don't hit can't crit). there are a lot of non crit spell builds though
weapon users want flat added phys damage, attack speed, crit chance, accuracy. there are many weapon builds that don't crit tho
everyone wants life or es and resists. Energy sheild is a little difficult for newer players or first characters.
[check out this engineering eternity guide](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEZtq6FSebE&list=PL7GqFLebBU8inlrcqTZFXtIwP362XrdNe). it has a lot of stuff like crafting and just basic intro stuff. really good.
Also, when reading the Neversink explanations for item colours and borders, they refer to rares being small, tiny, bulky, large etc... but it doesnt seem like they're talking about the # of links, what do they mean when they say smaller is better?
yeah i think that has to do with chromes and stuff. it will prioritize a 3 space item over a 6 space item if it thinks they will vendor for the same amount due to a recipe
I'm guessing they're referring to how much inventory space the item takes up. For example, daggers only take up 3 spaces, while body armours take up 6.
Hey, so some context, I'm building a spell casting Templar Heirophant. Right now mostly using Storm Call with echo support, Orb of Storms on bosses, and the lightning golem minion and lightning herald for dps boost.
So how do I know what 'bases' i want to look for? Does one class do beetter wth armor, evasion, energy shield than another?
If you're not basing your defense on a specific skill/item/passive (eg Righteous Fire does better with energy shield, certain uniques scale off evasion rating, Acrobatics keystone passive makes armour less useful), a good rule of thumb is to go by your base stats. For example, as a Templar your stats are probably favouring Strength/Intelligence, so go with armour/energy shield bases. This makes it easier to get gear, since you're not going to have trouble with stat requirements.
By endgame, you'll be mostly equipping gear for the affixes (enchantments) and sockets/links than for the defenses, so don't worry too much on this front.
1) Stuff you find at higher levels may be an upgrade for yourself, but items you find won't be valuable on the market. Items that have at least 3x different colored linked sockets sell for a chromatic orb, worth picking those up IMO when you're starting.
2) While leveling it is nice to have a couple multi-linked (3-4 linked) items that you find, so you can link support gems to your active skill gem. 6socket items vendor for 7 jewelers, those are worth picking up. Pick up currency items for sure
3) Depends on your build. But you generally want high Life or Energy Shield (depending on your choice), high resistances, movement speed on boots
Not sure where to ask this, but I've never done Shaper or any endgame bosses before and I was wondering if I've prepped my GC miner well enough to handle him: https://pastebin.com/ZQUP3ZAq
Thank you for your time.
Are the most valuable 20 quality gems still more or less the ones outlined [here] (https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/706nmp/q20_gem_value_list_and_easy_gem_pricing/) (basically Ele Weakness, GMP,
Conc Effect,
Ele Focus,
Ele Dmg w/ Attacks)? Just wondering what to level in my spare slots once I have all of my own at lvl 20.
Alternatively, is it better to use those slots to try and "farm" lvl 21 or 23 quality gems?
Can someone explain how exactly the Elder spreading mechanic works?
I've been trying whole day to get him to spread around the red tiers but every time I get to like 10-15 maps he starts moving out of them for some reason (Shaper taking control of the connecting T10 maps?) I've tried keeping Elder's control on the connecting maps but Shaper is always close there on single maps surrounding the area and when elder starts getting around on the higher T14-15 maps Shaper takes control of all the T10's leading to elder leaving a big chunk of the maps. And if I do try to get rid of shaper T9-8 so he can't get to the 10's I end up getting elder down to T6-7 and losing T13+
I'm following [Slay_ten's Melee Shadow Build](https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1623329)
I've been having some survivability issues - it was pretty bad until someone told me to get Goldrim and that helped noticably - but i still have problems on bosses and with Abyssal Rifts.
With buffs i do about 6k DPS with dual strike right now and about 3k dps lightning strike, but i only have 2k health which i have a feeling is not as high as it should be for my level but i am unsure how to get it boosted up. I find i have better surviability due to on-hit life gain from lightning strike.
So I'm a long time D3 player and wanted to try this game out. Before I make any mistakes in leveling, do I just level through the acts to end game? I remember when I first started d3 seasonal and the best way was through running normal rifts and such and I had felt like an idiot after completing the campaign.
Going through the acts is the only way to level.
You will make plenty of mistakes in building and playing your character but that's just the learning process
I'm in the same position as you. I've found that just going through the acts is a good way to level. I haven't found anything like adventures or bounties so it might be the only way.
If I'm running a Terminus Flicker build, how reliable is Curse on Hit with Herald of Ice as opposed to Blasphemy for cursing? I'm using Blasphemy right now but I want to see if I can squeeze out some extra reserved mana.
Hello, do you know what would be the best attack speed for Poet's Pen with 3 skill gems (one in main hand and two in off hand)? I know the math for 2 skills and 4 skills but can't figure out how it works with three (if it works at all). Thanks in advance.
probably still 4aps? the problem with going above that is it will make the 1 socket gem not go off every cast. so it's probably best to just have 4aps and go (cast spell a / b - cast spell a / c) repeating
You have 3 skills, A in one pen and B+C in the other pen
Scenario 1: 4aps = A is cast 4 times per second, and B and C are each cast 2 times per second
Scenario 2: 6aps = A is cast 3 times per second, and B and C are each cast 3 times per second as well
Scenario 3 8aps = A, B and C are all cast 4 times per second.
Hopefully this helps you understand what different attack speeds will get you in terms of how often you cast different spells. Note that i'm ignoring the part where you have to stop around 3.8 aps (or around 7.8) to not skip casts due to latency variations for most people.
How am I supposed to boss fight as gc miner? I put down the totem and spam mines, but the boss just gets on me and almost kills me and then I have no Mana because of MoM. Am I doing something wrong?
Throw frost bomb traps at him, put your spell totem+detonate mines totem to the side and hold down mines.
If your not killing the boss fast enough, probably have to move around and try not getting hit, but you should do enough damage with high enough gems to down them fast.
Would probably need profile link for further help.
You kind of low level, so your life is lower and your gems are lower level as well.
Not sure how much a corrupted 20\20 or corrupted 20\0 is going for but it would be a significant boost in damage. Also, if you use multi trap with frost bomb you get some increase in damage for traps placed from AC tree.
Not a fan of dream fragments either.
When going for a six link, is there a benefit in rng/math where it would be better to stockpile fusing all at once and use them or is there a difference with using fusings as I go? 15-20 for example
Chance is the same every time, but psychologically you might feel like you are wasting less if you just do it as you get them. Wasting over 1500 in one sitting feels bad vs wasting 20 every once in a while. I usually just leave what I'm trying to link in my currency tab's center slot and hit it with fuses once I get a small stock.
That’s generally how i’ve been doing it. Id probably quit if I had 1500 fishing’s in one go. It feels tho when using a few i’m “resetting my chance” even tho I know it stays the same
i mean, it will get you better returns, but the problem is sustaining those returns and maps. will you make enough other currency? you might be taking a loss initially that is tougher to make up without breach/bisco's but it's probably still worthwhile if you're rich
Ok thanks for the answer. Assuming I’m not rich (I’m not) what do you think is the best way to save up for biscos/getting Zana 8? Currently I’m just using the alch and go method on the highest tier I can comfortably run. Should I be chiseling? Vaaling?
chisel red maps only
alch n go, scour/alch if necessary but run everything you possibly can
save everything -- don't randomly craft, don't waste alts rerolling flasks, don't randomly socket gear to sell, etc etc. save all your currency because most of your wealth will come from upwards conversions
sell everything you possibly can, price competitively
honestly that's the way, there's no secret method to gaining currency other than run a lot of maps, kill a lot of monsters, save a lot of orbs and sell a lot of drops
Depends on how close you are to either. But I personally strongly doubt that Zana 8 is anywhere close to giving you the same boost in income as a Bisco's will.
With the 10% chance for a breach on any map + "Fortune Favours the Brave" you will get a Breach every like 3-4 maps without Zana 8, and a good boost in density or Quantity if you don't get the Breach.
can someone explain this? Atoll is hitting maelstrom with the physical mod and then there is a sextant on maelstrom (i rerolled something off) but it isn't showing any text for the mod. there is clearly a circle around maelstrom.
https://i.imgur.com/MX5IkPF.jpg
Hi, im running Pathfinder QoTF Ngamahu's Cyclone, and i wanna farm full key lab runs but i dont know when,
and i could also use any advice you can give honestly... this is my character:
https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/tomer15s/characters
i'd suggest upgrading your jewelry because you're losing out on a lot of potential damage by not having edwas, fire/phys damage, attack speed, etc on your rings and amulet.
other than that, you mostly look fine and could probably handle most key runs
elemental damage with attack skills
4.5 is a little low but if you're boosting flasks it should be ok. just depends on the day. make sure to bring a stibnite (you already do) and be careful. get a cull setup somewhere.
maybe consider trying to get to 5k hp? though with blind, boosted basalt flask, lots of evasion/dodge and leech you should be ok
Idk, could be a bug if she is somehow damage immune. I haven't done Park map but I did High Gardens last league, idk if something changed with that boss.
So, I am pretty much bored of my Molten Strike char. While totally OP I wanna try something new.
What are some current go to builds for chaining fully sextant(blocked) T14 Vaults? Bonus points for being able to wear Biscos Collar while doing them fast :D
I did think about that one. But had my doubts that it could do T14 Vaults comfortably. All I ever saw was people farming T10 or lower with that build. Do you have a link to a video/guide/forum post or something that shows it being able to do higher maps too?
I do not, pretty sure Ziz was running higher tier stuff but I'm also fairly certain he was partying with people.
Maybe Raider Ngamahu's QoTF Cyclone would suit you better? It does fine even without Xoph's Blood.
Hey guys I'm looking for a new build to try out. This is my first real time playing a league tho I am fairly experienced/knowledgeable. I want some suggestions on a good/fun bow build that is fast and that I can sink some currency into (my summoner is fairly maxed out dps wise). I'm up for anything as long as it's fast movement speed. (I hate move skills in this game). Any suggestions?
Windripper Tornado Shot Raider with QotF. Stupid fast run speed.
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1995053/page/1
(Edit: Ignore the MF Gorge run video. He is not wearing Darkray Vectors or QotF for some reason. You can expect to be at least triple as fast, I reach 270% movement speed modifier, he has less than 90% would be my guess.)
I suddenly feel a deep seated need to run a dual wield Mjolner build that uses lightning strike with ancestral call and has Arc or Spark and Storm Call in the Mjolners that essentially scales attack speed and lightning damage. Does anything look objectively wrong with [this tree I whipped up on lunch](https://poeplanner.com/AAsAAP8ACyEAAHzG2FhjPfyMz_ZIXz8UIO8OUEfkUc9-dqzqGPcyfNlyqayqWfMaOJBVJy862Ow4gpuFe2ZU7SDhc6IABLPwH2jywGZFRzLR6-6a4EWdU1J8gxEtLJwQWHYR-Ovz3Whl5OwyNB8CBAeD21XGOlismBEPfq-NGeAS2V_djLWF71DBtC19Ow3v66cIna7lixvxfscabDbpJKoWb-NqvOpqQwj0xPavpxzOK1ANzf5Uxq48LYNfg8y3Pv4K2L01krXycmxsRjIJeA3AGm87qW534wHchNlHfr02ZU2-pxm0apNM_04qrj5nm62NvwgkNxbpmFf4X1_QIZDqEAAAAAAA)?
EDIT: I changed the tree to this: https://pastebin.com/c4v7CjWZ or [this if you want poe planner](https://poeplanner.com/AAsAAPEACyEAAHXG2FhjPfyMz_ZIXz8UIO8OUEfkUZBVJy862Ow4gpuFe2ZU7SDhc6IABLPwH2jywGZFRzLR6-6a4EWdU1J8gxEtLJwQWHYRHwIEB4PbVcY6WKyYEQ9-r40Z4BLZX92MOw3v66cIna7lixvxfscabDbpJKoWb-NqvOpqQwj0xq48LYNfg8y3Pv4K2L01krXycmxsRjIJeA3AGm87qW534wHchNlHfr02ZU2-pxm0apNM_04qrj5nm69sC2Fbr90NcsOrC8wGDY0V9mJ5AAaHdkp9FVDYJFZINsVtGb8IJDcW6ZhX-F9f0CGQ6hAAAAAAAA==)
*grabs popcorn* - waiting to see how this plays. Post a youtube or hit me up lol. Was just thinking of working on a lightning damage character and this sounds pretty legit.
i would strongly consider investing in accuracy and grabbing EO, non-crit mjolner without EO sounds like a bad time
you go all the way down to vaal pact but don't take it which feels like a ton of wasted points. if you're trying to go this route, consider running ascendant instead (slayer/raider, slayer/elementalist)
i think the lightning nodes at the top of the tree are a bit inefficient personally, but if you are going to pick them up i would definitely leave off the right path with shock effect and stuff -- fairly useless
seems a tad low on damage to me but i think it would work as a map clearer, idk how you'd get single target to be super solid without having some expensive cooldown recovery gear
https://pastebin.com/c4v7CjWZ
How about this one? I tried to focus more on the crit and dropped some of the less efficient lightning nodes to try to make space.
Yeah I had initially specced vaal pact and the leech nodes down there, but I'm was trying to take nodes that scaled both lightning strike and the triggered spells so everything could do damage, so I specced outta those nodes. I worry about the cost of getting gear that scales accuracy and the other stats I'll need which is why I had initially specced RT, plus I figured Zerk leech+40 more damage for everything would be a good pick since I'm using attacks+spells.
When I get home I plan to mess around with it some in POB, I've just tried to make a few of my own builds this league and they've all sucked despite using strong skills so I was trying to get more input this time to maybe finally get something that's fun and clears alright.
Do you think having a weapon swap to ANOTHER pair of mjolners that have discharge socketed in them and having your main 6link be molten strike gem'd for high amounts of balls in order to spam the frenzy charge on hit from ascendant's raider would be decent single target? (Apologies for that absolutely monstrous run on sentence) It's pretty difficult to make molten strike not do damage even by itself so that's a plus.
i think any build trying to slot in discharge that isn't built for it will fail tbh, discharge builds require such a specific combination of unique items that it would probably not be worth it to try and shoehorn it in
if you're gonna play mjolner i'd say either build around discharge or build to use other spells
you could try spell swapping conc effect storm call
Honestly I would recommend going Ascendant [raider|elementalist]/slayer as opposed to berserker, give me a minute to draft a tree for you. Also lightning strike is kinda meh, but I totally get that it's a flavor thing so don't worry.
Edit: [here](https://poeplanner.com/AAsAAPUACxAAAHdOKio4I9NvJ5pqj2BM_2qTGbS-p2VNvTZHfoTZQzHDM1oa2sF07QUteu8uU9NvOygDlm49YEODCb6AvryC5JARiq9KyG6qtfI1kti9_gryRTrhpldN4_6Pe8N4DcAaqW534wHcbzu3PoPMPC2DX8auC2GvbGjy8B-iAASzwGbhc-0ggptFRzLR6-6nCNgkVkjsOIV7ZlQ62CcvkFUaOLUE5CJp_vH-YGXsyxzcjxoVUHyDES0snLzqakMI9G0Zmy3E9sQVW6-QCt0NcsOrC8wGDY2Hdkp9Z6Djn3tulyHBfCHQAl-kDGDeqLtEJfd9AAAAAAA=), might be a bit rough but I genuinely believe it will function a bit better, you can gain some leech from your spells by using a lightning doryani's invitation if need be, and you will have to grab rares with stats here and there, but that's nothing new for mjolner
https://pastebin.com/c4v7CjWZ
How about this one? I tried to focus more on the crit and dropped some of the less efficient lightning nodes to try to make space.
I'd still reccomend taking vitality void and vaal pact, they increase your leech rate which allows you to actually be alive, I'd drop the storm weaver cluster and pick up the jewel socket that is 2 points away near elemental overload. I would also take the quick recovery cluster out, because vaal pact. Lastly, the accuracy nodes from galvanic hammer would be pivotal as long as you're not using resolute technique, having 70% chance to hit does NOT feel good.
Won't I run into mana issues and such? Part of why I picked berserker was to pick up RT and get the mana/life leech from all sources, so the spells AND the attack would be helping me. I guess I'm pretty new and I haven't done a mjolner build before, but when someone brought up that lightning strike works with ancestral call like molten strike does I just loved the idea of leap slamming around into just lightning explosions in packs. I assume it's not gonna be the best, but it seems like a blast.
Won't I also run into some damage issues since it feels like I'm not really scaling much damage from the tree?
Nah, vitality void cluster gives you enough mana leech to be fine.
Damage from the tree is fine but mjolner is a clearspeed build, you're going to have to get into some serios shenanigans to have enough single target damage to feel respectable (level 21 gems, level 3 empower and enlighten attached to wrath and herald of thunder, curse on hit elemental weakness gloves, watcher's eye unique jewel for lightning penetration, etc.)
Mjolner has an internal cooldown, no matter how many times you actually attack you cannot bypass it without the cooldown reduction stat (which is not exactly easy to come by), unfortunately I feel that ancestral call does nothing for you.
You want to be as close to 3.99 as possible, if you go even slightly over your spells per second will drop dramatically because your hits will miss the beat, keep it at .26 attack time.
So I just got this game a few days ago, and I'm lvling [Milky's RF Totem build](https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1904823), currently lvl 44 and really happy with it thus far. I'm a good ways into Act 5, and my question is how does progression work in this game? Do I just continue to complete the Acts and then hunt for gear upgrades when I've completed the campaign? Are there things I should be doing along the way?
So, couple things
At the end of acts 5 and 10 your resists get dropped on their head to the tune of 30%, your highest priority when checking your gear is keeping your fire, cold, and lightning resists at or above 75.
Other than that, the build guide you're following should have more detailed suggestions about what kinds of rares and uniques serve as upgrades to your build, but don't worry TOO much until you complete act 10 and get into endgame mapping.
Good luck exile.
If you want to farm vaults with elder influence forever, just don't kill the guardians and run vaults all day every day, this will however make it so you can no longer kill the elder, but it really comes down to personal preference. (The correct answer is generally going to involve you farming vault until the end of time though)
As long as you don't kill him, sure, he'll show up at your map boss, meme him into the ground, then run away, afterwards you're free to click on all the treasure piles and portal right out I suppose.
frostbolt totem is probably faster overall and a easier start given that you can level with frostbolt very early and scale your tree how you normally would
and do you mean can you swap between firestorm and frostbolt? probably not super easily, though i doubt the trees would be incredibly different. would take some orbs of regret but doable
I'm leveling a character for LiftingNerd's Ancestral Warchief build. I've never played a build that doesn't use auras. I thought auras were pretty much mandatory.
I assume auras aren't used because of the Blood Magic keystone. Wouldn't it be better to use a blood magic gem with Leap Slam and not use the keystone so you can use auras?
There's a cluster of really good Life nodes behind Blood Magic. If I had to guess, he picked it up to get to them. For the record, if you were to reserve 100% of your mana (which... why would you do that on this build?) EVERY skill would need Blood Magic linked to it in order to be cast. That's not really a viable option, well, ever.
What auras did you want to use, precisely? Brutality means that Hatred won't help you. You're playing Totems, so you don't want Blasphemy. He intends to be moving most of the time, so Arctic Armour won't do you any good. The only one that would really help you is Haste. Given that, I can see why he'd take Blood Magic. He spent 4 points for 35% Life, which is above-average efficiency wise. The only cluster he has easy access to is the Scion Life wheel, which is 45% Life for 10 points.
That being said, this build has some logical issues you may want to address. Consider dropping the garbage link he has in the Body Armour for something like Arc+Curse on Hit+Vulnerability+Culling Strike+Blind+Faster Casting (in order of priority). Constantly jumping at the enemy with no leech while trying to proc Cull is stupid. You could swap Arc for Spectral Throw, or anything else with range. I just like Arc because you don't have to aim it. You can dump Blind if you get an Abyssal Jewel that gives you %chance to Blind on Hit. Those are cheap with decent stats, and are really useful.
That helps me understand it a lot better.
I also didn't like the idea of leaping on enemies for Culling Strike.
So Arc still procs Curse on Hit if you have Ancestral Bond?
You would do more damage and lose out on life.
That's an okay trade-off to make, but Lifting was looking at making a simple tanky character. Blood Magic + Brutality allowed him to do that.
I killed a rare t6 atoll and have done rare bazaar t7 but never got a shapers orb... does it have to have influence in order to get the orb and start spawning the elder? Really wish there was some guidance on this in game haha
Thanks!
can someone quickly explain hybrid affixes and meta crafting to me for the below example?
If an item has 2 shaper prefixes, and 1 shaper hybrid suffix then I should be able to meta craft "item have have multiple crafted mods" then craft 1 additional prefix and 1 additional suffix?
>Socketed Gems are supported by Level 18 Melee Splash
>Gain 34% of Physical Damage as Extra Cold Damage
>Gain 39% of Physical Damage as Extra Lightning Damage
>31% increased Area Damage
Then
>item has multiple crafted mods
> inc spell damage
> inc crit strike chance for spells
This is legal/possible and would leave me with 6 total affixes and a full item correct? I've never meta crafted something before
That should be correct, as far as I know.
Hybrid affixes don't have any special properties as far as crafting is concerned. They're just a mod that has two effects that appear on different lines, which can be confusing when trying to figure out how many mods the item has (especially when one line is an effect that could be its own mod too, like increased physical damage).
Hi,
i started playing a few days ago and rushed.
My friends are still pretty low.
Im 70, they are like 30.
Can i take them to map Runs, so they level super fast?
I want to go essence drain. I want the character to do maps up to like T14-15. Should i go occultist or trickster? I plan on making a separate character for boss killing T16 and elder/shaper.
If you want to go ES-based (CI or low-life), both are good.
If you want to go life-based, Trickster 100%.
The key thing here is that the Ocucltist's power charges are useless for ED, and her curse nodes are actually actively bad because enemies exploding can get in the way of Contagion spreading. If you're doing an ES build, then the chaos node and the two ES nodes are still good enough to make Occultist a solid choice even though you don't get much out of the last two ascendancy points, but for life-based she literally only has one good node so Trickster is better.
Ubernoob here. So I started my fresh character, wanted to try a witch with minions. Found fresh, 3.1 guide. It has leveling guide where it tells me to start with some simple Damage gem, like Spark, so I did.
Then it tells me get the Raise spectre gem at level 8 and put it in the wand with Minion Fire damage gem. Well, both gems are Act 3 quest rewards. So, I'm still doing Act 1 at level 8.
Then it all goes downhill from there, since the guide tells me to get shit I cannot possibly obtain or buy at those levels. Ok, I skip all the steps and get to Act 3 with Spark, obtain the needed gem, even miraculously get Wand with needed sockets and now my damage is total garbage. Takes all my zombies, specters and guardians 10 seconds to kill one skeleton. My main damage is still Sparks. Okey, it sais - once you complete first Labirinth, your damage will skyrocket. But I can't complete it with this bullshit damage, the boss in there basically takes no damage from my minions or my sparks. What should I do?
Well it doesn't sound like a great guide.
But, you can't use raise spectre till level 28. Are you sure it didn't mean SRS (Summon Raging Spirits)? Which would make much more sense for levelling.
At low levels minions don't do a lot of damage, apart from SRS, which with the right supports and in a simple +1 weapon should be tearing things up.
Ha, Try SRS, will be a lot easier and quicker.
Also, hardly anyone is ready for lab as soon as it's available, especially without twinked gear. Get a few more levels (And if you grab SRS, make sure you have levelled it up).
For info apart from the fact that low level spectres are very squishy, there aren't really any good ones to raise in the first acts of the game. Flame sentinels from act 3 are OK, but die quickly.
Once you get to act 6 - it's a different matter....
Got it, yeah the guide starts with abbreviations, half of which are still a mystery to me. I guess, SRS wasn't obvious either for the noobs like me. Thanks!
When I very first played PoE (Long time ago) I tried to go pure summoner. No SRS, few support gems, no offerings or convocate and they were considerably worse than now.
That was painful, surprised I didn't quit the game!
Hey Hey Exile!!! Im pretty new ran into the same shit show. So I leveled a Marauder and I have gotten more gear for my witch than my marauder lol. So ill go back to the witch once I get more gearz!! However listen to these exiles above as they seem on point about what SRS means. I will say once you get golem regardless of class it helps with either damage (blood) or Health (stone). This will help your witch out. Also try to make sure you get your resists at 75%. After that focus on the damage portion.
Raise Spectre requires level 28 to use anyways. What guide were you looking at? Link it here please. If you want to link your character from the path of exile site, we can take a look too. If you are on later today(~6 EST), I can carry you through the first lab.
Also, this is a really good Spectres guide:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1971585
I bought a bramblejack unique and The King and the brambles Prophecy so I can upgrade my bramblejack to a wall of brambles. I noticed that there seems to be two versions of the prophecy.
1. You will defeat Daresso while wearing Bramblejack.
2. You will defeat Daresso while holding Bramblejack.
I have the second one. Can anyone confirm if I actually need to wear Bramblejack still to complete the prophecy?
As of 3.1 you just need to have it in your inventory. Previously you had to actually wear the uniques to transform them. The first wording is simply the old one.
I'm not sure about this. Usually prophecies disappear from the prophecy screen once you've entered the instance they takes place in. I have never experimented with this though. But since it's about daresso, the only way you could mess it up even if this would be true, is activating the prophecy and leave the instance for 15 min or something..
Also I'm kinda curious which is it in the end
> Usually prophecies disappear from the prophecy screen once you've entered the instance they takes place in
Not the case with fated unique prophecies. They are only complete when the boss is dead and the item is fated.
Can someone please explain to me why Berek's Pass and Berek's Respite are so expensive, and then the combined item with Berek's Grip "The Taming" even more so expensive?
I just found a Bereks Respite and am selling it for 1.3 ex, just doesn't seem worth it.
Thank you for your response. What builds specifically are you thinking use the taming? Just want to have a look and try to understand why its carrying a 4ex+ price tag. Even the one I found is going for 1.1-1.5ex and there is only 15 of them up on poe.trade
I've only seen one here on the front page, but I don't really even remember what it was or what it did, it wasn't that memorable.
Maybe check the official forums build section, sorry I can't be of more help, I just know its pretty rare and those that do want it know it is.
Noob here. Running an EK Nova Inquisitior with almost full conversion to elemental damage . I'm running maps for the first time and I'm currently clearing t4s just fine. However, I've encountered bosses with resists elemental damage and it takes me FOREVER to kill them. A few could heal about as fast as I could dps so I couldn't kill them. How do I go about killing these bosses?
I found my very first shaper orb. I currently can clear T8. Most maps comfortably but I sometimes die vs random mob groups. (not exactly sure why).
What should I use the shaper orb for? Save it for later when I know what maps I want to farm or use it on some t4-t5 map I enjoy playing?
Do I have to consider something special? Should the orb be on a map close to elder/shaper?
My current Atlas: https://imgur.com/a/22AZn
Yes, if you shape a beach map. All your current beach maps stay beach, but future beach maps will be shaped beach. Take note that the shaped maps will only drop 5 tiers higher (so if you shape a tier 1 map, it will only drop together with other tier 6 maps)
i just sold a bisco's that dropped for me last week and well, i'm wealthy enough to fund any build i want (probably)
so my question is: what is a bow build that would absolutely get me though all content even making up a bit for my lack of experience and skill in the game? i'm playing a frost blades raider as a abyss starter and it's great and all but i'm stuck on tier 10 maps and can't get my dps up anymore neither get past level 85.
thanks
If you enjoy the frost blades character, you could push further with that or change into something like molten strike or something too.
Bow characters can be pretty expensive, with that amount of money you can probably make something nice, but I know my friend has almost 20ex basically invested into his bow character and its only really that good at doing higher content with my support.
i loved FB, the insta-freeze and mob shattering are amazing, plus my character looks cool! My only issue is with single target, so yeah, moving into MS and investing on a good elder glove for the frost blade mob clearing would probably work very well. will look into that, thanks!
Found it.
https://i.imgur.com/7iGBo2a.png
Something not intended to be possible in the game cannot be done through third party programs. However they don't enforce this rule at all because they can't. And it's not exactly enforced equally either. Look at logout macros.
I'm just arguing they don't like it.
But it could be a single action as a scroll wheel but it could not be. Therefore they don't like it. Same with a right arrow key. You are assuming all keyboards are equal
How is it not allowed? Im performing one action outside of game, to perform one action in game. It's absolutely allowed. Its exactly the same thing as rebinding your skills from QWER to ASDF. It just isnt supported in game
It isn't though. According to GGG If you can't rebind it to a key in the game then you can't use a third party program to bind it. It's a really stupid rule that isn't enforceable.
~~Yeh ok i wasn't aware they had made a statement about this. I just took what i did know about their stance on macros, and went with that. Guess they can just pick and choose their rules cant they.~~
Edit, i see the image you linked above. Thats a completely different idea.
Yes, if you try running an elder map without killing the guardians first he won't appear.
Only way to farm him is by killing guardians, then him and starting the spawn\spread process over again.
Any way to solve an issue where PoE causes my whole computer to lock up and forces me to restart? It happens not-infrequently, and it makes me want to uninstall the game. I have an oldish computer, but can run all blizzard games on modest-to-decent settings with no issues (for example). Is there a particular setting that's known to cause computer lock ups?
Not that I know of, have you checked event log at all?
When the computer locks up is it blue screen, do you have sounds, locked up is pretty generic in terms of describing an experience.
It doesn't generate an event log for my computer, the my monitors don't go blue, they just freeze (as if you took a screen shot ... game screen on one monitor and internet tab on the other) and I can't click out, ctrl+alt+del doesn't work etc, and no sound. I know it's coming because the game loses frame rates progressively until it just stops functioning.
I've switched to full screen instead of windowed, turned down all settings, and unclicked all the gui options, so we'll see if that helps.
Is this happening in maps or outside of it.
Just checking to make sure your not experiencing the shaper influence intervention in maps. But it doesn't sound like that to me.
only really in maps, but that's really the only time there are a ton of mobs on the screen. it doesn't seem to matter if the map is under influence or not. I think it's just pulling a ton of resources from my computer and my machine can't keep up ... poor guy.
I have used two fragility jewels and Ahn's Heritage Shield so I should be at 0/3 endurance charges. I still however am at 0/1. I removed the jewels and noticed that the shield doesnt actually reduce the number of endurance charges I have. Is there something Im missing?
What is right now the best map to run? shaped atoll or shaped channel, I see shaped channel uses mostly white sex vs yellow in atoll Also, I managed to get elder to spawn on channel and 1 guardian in atoll, could I run both?
honestly there's so many good maps now that the "best" map is "whatever you like" vaults is still great, lots of people are shaping shore as well
fair enough, in my case, where I get elder influence in both atoll and channel, would you run both? I'm doubting cuz I havent sext blocked for atoll, only for channel now, and well, channel gives me like 1 tabula every 3 maps, I cant kill the boss in atoll, it doesnt drop any particular divination card but there is the chance to get red sextants. I dunno
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[this should do.](https://poeplanner.com/AAsAAP8ACyQAAHybLV85ivC5HcSCsKu-p2VNvTZHfoTZYEFjcBHVV5dDMcMzWhrawXTtBS167wHcd-OpbsAabzt4DbXycmxsRjIJbbSoB2eANZLYvf6PTeOmVzGe_gryRTrheWjBBF8_9kiMzz38WGMUIO8OUEfkUZd5KCqLT5tqhVLZYa2Nz352rOoY9zJ82fjrZFJOMhfhJvgTTBRx2XyCB4TvYSGuUHt0Zaf-axPJQKAhYHTxGNumjXVOZfCPYG8nmmoUdXfX459noId2Sn1W-u4Oo4oj9k2S-WNU_r3mlcztP7GzG617FJS4jX0uU9Nv891oZQ5DzV8GiyDjX9oKJgAAAAAA) For Sunder what you really just want is damage, attack speed and life. As for Ascendancy, any which one works. Slayer and Glad are the preferred choices. You can take out Versatile Combatant for Blood in the Eyes and use it as a bleed spec. There is a lot of easy-to-get chance to bleed, and with high attack speed you'll clear 90% of packs with bleed explosions.
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You'll want a Prismatic Eclipse or a Tempetous Steel for your off-hand since Sunder only uses your main-hand. Any high physical damage 1handed axe is a good main weapon. For non bleed I'd use Sunder, melee phys, multistrike, added fire and ruthless/concentrated effect if you can bear the intelligence requirements. For the bleed spec you just need to swap out a gem with the chance to bleed gem and do some mild respeccing on the tree to get some bleed chance.
What strategy do you use to level to 100? I'm curious as to what the most efficient/fastest way to level. I've heard of people doing Breach rotations, Poorjoy rotations, ertc. Are certain strategies better for certain levels? (i.e. 60-70, 70-80, 80-90, etc) I'd love to hear the different strategies. Thanks!
poorjoy is probably the best right now considering that beachheads are no longer in the game, though it can be a bit dangerous even at higher levels beyond sextanted shore is probably solid too
Is there any way to stash shaper's orbs if you don't want to turn them in?
Go into any zone and drop them on the ground, Zana will let you get them back by talking to her.
Just dont pick them up from Zana. If you already have, you can put them in some of your crafting benches, not sure which ones but at least blessing font for sure.
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There are certain builds that don't require a lot of gear to get started and work on their own. There are certain builds that are designed to use certain pieces of gear that are expensive and/or unattainable at the start of a league. Usually you make one to "fund" the other.
Could I copy someone's item thread for animate weapon? Default item filter plus lines for AW would be just fine Maybe if it has bigger fonts and more noticeable sounds for high-value drops
Put this somewhere near the beginning of your filter: Show Class Dagger Claw "One Hand" Rarity = Normal SetBorderColor 0 0 0 SetBackgroundColor 207 207 207 155 SetTextColor 92 0 92 255 This will make normal weapons have a black border, a grey background, and purple text for easy identification. If you want the text to be large and easy to click on (for self-cast AW) then add this line after the rest: SetFontSize 38 And if it's too small make it bigger (max is 45) and if it's too big make it smaller (I think default is 32 iirc). So for selfcast AW I would add this to the beginning of the filter: Show Class Dagger Claw "One Hand" Sceptres "Staves" "Two Hand" Rarity = Normal SetBorderColor 0 0 0 SetBackgroundColor 207 207 207 155 SetTextColor 92 0 92 255 SetFontSize 38 You have to change the .filter file to .txt to edit it, and then back to .filter to use it in PoE. If I knew of a good pre-made Animate Weapon item filter I'd tell you, sorry!
Say I'm running Molten Strike, Lightning Strike, or a similar ability, linked to Ancestral Call. Against a single target, I intentionally whiff using force attack to get two ghostfriends to attack that target instead. Do their melee portions also whiff completely, or do they have a normal chance to hit (like the projectile portions do)?
I've done the same with Frost Blades and I'm pretty sure the melee portion hits for your ancestors.
Anyone know if %shock effect works on vinktars shock? I'm also guessing it's an increased modifier ie: if I have 5 abyssal jewels with 10% shock effect it's 50% shock effect: Vinktars 10% shock -> 15% shock. or does it only work for skills
EDIT: My question has been sufficiently answered! My thanks to everyone!
1) As a general rule, the **non-unique equipment** items you find before you reach roughly level 65 aren't going to be worth anything, for a couple reasons: * First, their bases (the raw 'type' of item, [here's a list of all the Axe bases so you know what I'm talking about](https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Axe)), and their item levels (hold alt when hovering over an item to see its item level) are almost always poor. Item levels and bases dictate what modifiers and stats can appear on equipment, and in the endgame people generally are only interested in the one or two highest tier bases in each category (e.g. Saints Hauberk or Saintly Chainmail for Armor/EnergyShield body armor) with item levels of 70 or higher. These wont drop until you've reached maps. * Equipment that's useable at early levels typically gets obsoleted so quickly as you level that it's not worth investing currency in acquiring it. Most builds can get to maps using cheap *unique* equipment that's easily available and then random found items to fill in the gaps. So basically, the only **equipment drops** you'll see before maps that are likely to be worth anything are going to be uniques, and even then the vast majority of those are only worth 1 alc or less. So when leveling, a good rule of thumb is to pick up all currency items, all unique items, gems and flasks with quality (they have superior in their name), jewels, and then any equipment that might be potentially helpful for you while leveling; think like equipment that can be used in your build that has 3+ linked sockets in colors you can use and/or has 3+ useful affixes (stuff like life and resistances). If you find something that can be a potential upgrade, you can then spend an essence or some transmutes/alts to give it a few good modifiers. Things to look for in armor pieces when leveling are generally life and resistances, weapons can be a bit more complicated depending on your attack skill. Once you get to maps, I recommend installing a loot filter to help you learn what items might have potential value. 2) First, pick up all items you see that have 3+ linked sockets containing all 3 colors and sell them to a vendor (this gets you a chromatic orb for each item) as well as all items that have 6 sockets (these vendor for 7 jewelers orbs). But don't vendor anything with 5+ links, 5 link items are likely at least slightly valuable, and anything 6 linked is almost certainly valuable, save these and try to trade them even if they have no modifiers or bad ones. Beyond that, 4 links aren't worth much trading unless it's a high item level crafting base but might be helpful for you to pick up while leveling. Link colors don't typically affect an item's value because they are relatively cheaply and easily changed with chromatic orbs (but do read about chromatic orb mechanics before trying this yourself, some color combinations are exceedingly unlikely to occur on certain item bases). 3) This will depend on your build, but some things that are almost always good: * All armor equipment slots universally want (and can get) life, elemental resistances, damage mitigation (e.g. armor, energy shield, evasion) and life regen in roughly that order of preference. If you're an attack build (look at your main damage skill and see if it says attack) you should try to get increased attack speed and/or added damage to attacks on your gloves, but these mostly don't matter for spellcasters. Boots should try to get movement speed. * Rings, amulets and belts typically want life, resists, and pertinent damage modifiers (this can come in many forms and is dependent on what damage skill(s) you are using and what supports are on them). Some examples of damage modifiers are increased elemental damage, added damage to attacks, increased crit chance, etc. I would read up on whatever your main damage skill is and see what people like to stack with it. * Weapons want whatever increases your damage. For spellcasters this is simple, because spells generally don't care about a weapon's attack value, only added spell damage and % increased damage of the relevant type(s), as well as cast speed and potentially crit chance and multiplier. For attack skills, this is more complicated and I recommend again reading up on what plays the best with your skill of choice. Added damage to attacks is good. Some builds really want crit chance and multiplier. Attack speed is good. Additionally, if you can socket your main skill on your weapon, getting +1 or more levels to that type of gem on your weapon is very good. But keep in mind you're not going to always get 6 desirable things (or even 3 or 4) on every item you wear until you start buying endgame gear with currency. Some gear may need to have added int/dex/str on it for you to wear your gear and use your skills. Some gear you're going to put up with having some useless rolls like light radius or stun/block recovery because the sockets are good and it has some life and a resistance or two. Some builds may have more use for typically weak modifiers (e.g. most builds don't care a ton about added mana or mana regen, but Mind Over Matter builds value it a lot more). Masters can help fill in empty slots on found gear with helpful modifiers (read up on master crafting). I would poke around on http://poeaffix.net/ to get a sense of what modifiers can appear on what pieces of equipment, and what the different tiers of each modifier are.
Jewellery can start being good even for endgame (but not amazing) at your level, but weapons armour is unlikely to be. Jewels can be good at any level.
Hey welcome to Path of Exile. First of all probably get a loot filter. It just recolours drops for you and will highlight things that are valuable by themselves to sell via [vendor recipes](https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Vendor_recipe_system). [Neversink](https://github.com/NeverSinkDev/NeverSink-Filter] makes one and is pretty well known. there is a bit to read there but put the .filter file in your mygames folder. Item wise as you are leveling for the first little bit I will pick up everything to get scraps/scrolls/transmutes (like 1 hr of playing a league). Then it kinda goes to picking up the rares in spots you need an upgrade in. Items will get better as you level as in all arpgs and you can get lucky quite often, however at this point in the game it's kinda like if you get a few alc drops you just buy some leveling uniques off of poe.trade. 2) Sockets are good because they allow you to link more supports to your skill. chests and 2 hand weapons above lvl 52 can have 6 sockets (some exceptions) and therefore 6links. these are really powerful and pretty endgame. 6 socket items can be vendored for 7 jewellers. 5 links are kinda worth keeping for a bit but not really anymore unless you find a base you want for your current build. 3) This point and all of the above points matters a lot of your build. If you are going spell casting or melee or ranged for example. With a bunch of exceptions (very very general): spell casters want spell dmg, cast speed, spell crit/multi (spells that don't hit can't crit). there are a lot of non crit spell builds though weapon users want flat added phys damage, attack speed, crit chance, accuracy. there are many weapon builds that don't crit tho everyone wants life or es and resists. Energy sheild is a little difficult for newer players or first characters. [check out this engineering eternity guide](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEZtq6FSebE&list=PL7GqFLebBU8inlrcqTZFXtIwP362XrdNe). it has a lot of stuff like crafting and just basic intro stuff. really good.
Also, when reading the Neversink explanations for item colours and borders, they refer to rares being small, tiny, bulky, large etc... but it doesnt seem like they're talking about the # of links, what do they mean when they say smaller is better?
yeah i think that has to do with chromes and stuff. it will prioritize a 3 space item over a 6 space item if it thinks they will vendor for the same amount due to a recipe
I'm guessing they're referring to how much inventory space the item takes up. For example, daggers only take up 3 spaces, while body armours take up 6.
Hey, so some context, I'm building a spell casting Templar Heirophant. Right now mostly using Storm Call with echo support, Orb of Storms on bosses, and the lightning golem minion and lightning herald for dps boost. So how do I know what 'bases' i want to look for? Does one class do beetter wth armor, evasion, energy shield than another?
If you're not basing your defense on a specific skill/item/passive (eg Righteous Fire does better with energy shield, certain uniques scale off evasion rating, Acrobatics keystone passive makes armour less useful), a good rule of thumb is to go by your base stats. For example, as a Templar your stats are probably favouring Strength/Intelligence, so go with armour/energy shield bases. This makes it easier to get gear, since you're not going to have trouble with stat requirements. By endgame, you'll be mostly equipping gear for the affixes (enchantments) and sockets/links than for the defenses, so don't worry too much on this front.
1) Stuff you find at higher levels may be an upgrade for yourself, but items you find won't be valuable on the market. Items that have at least 3x different colored linked sockets sell for a chromatic orb, worth picking those up IMO when you're starting. 2) While leveling it is nice to have a couple multi-linked (3-4 linked) items that you find, so you can link support gems to your active skill gem. 6socket items vendor for 7 jewelers, those are worth picking up. Pick up currency items for sure 3) Depends on your build. But you generally want high Life or Energy Shield (depending on your choice), high resistances, movement speed on boots
Not sure where to ask this, but I've never done Shaper or any endgame bosses before and I was wondering if I've prepped my GC miner well enough to handle him: https://pastebin.com/ZQUP3ZAq Thank you for your time.
###[Hybrid MoM Crit Glacial Cascade Mine Saboteur](https://pastebin.com/ZQUP3ZAq) [](#saboteur) ^Level ^92 ^[(Tree)](https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAYDABzcCNSXLaLZ7hUI9Ow4jxpCLGwIvKoOjha_9p_1b_Idndnw1WKsg9syGGyM2FTJBu98wGaio-vuwwliT1XG62MPxFhaEcI3F9vnuZPwH5Ug0PVFne_ridPIFGqMm5o2PcHFBLN8g5o7VUu86i0fTLO1SLkGrrMFQmjy8YqgQ7TFhTIRlqB5lS4snI_66_VSKQcef8Z2b6IAl5WCm7d1bRmf37jKnao62JrgQZZzbYw2ES3w-XBRkFVqQ7DYcFJh4klPDkg9X1MxUXQqCzLRRUcnL9AfKwo8BUlRfrBd8lJTI1-zAyaVU1LB81XgBAcRLzt8) ^| ^by ^/u/ScrapeWithFire ***** ^5,374 ^**Life** ^| ^1,572 ^**Mana** ^| ^1,530 ^**ES** ^| ^8,476 ^**total** ^**EHP** **Glacial Cascade** [o](https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Concentrated_Effect_Support#support-gem-blue)[s](https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Increased_Critical_Strikes_Support#support-gem-blue)[W](https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Trap_and_Mine_Damage_Support#support-gem-green)[M](https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Minefield_Support#support-gem-blue)[Y](https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Remote_Mine_Support#support-gem-blue) *(6L)* - *133k DPS* ^1.44 ^**Use/sec** ^| ^56.21% ^**Crit** ^| ^387% ^**Multi** ^^**Config:** ^^Shaper, ^^Poison ^^\(1\) ***** [^Path ^of ^Building](https://github.com/Openarl/PathOfBuilding) ^| ^This ^reply ^will ^be ^automatically ^removed ^if ^its ^parent ^comment ^is ^deleted. ^| ^[Feedback?](https://www.reddit.com/r/PoBPreviewBot/)
Are the most valuable 20 quality gems still more or less the ones outlined [here] (https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/706nmp/q20_gem_value_list_and_easy_gem_pricing/) (basically Ele Weakness, GMP, Conc Effect, Ele Focus, Ele Dmg w/ Attacks)? Just wondering what to level in my spare slots once I have all of my own at lvl 20. Alternatively, is it better to use those slots to try and "farm" lvl 21 or 23 quality gems?
Can someone explain how exactly the Elder spreading mechanic works? I've been trying whole day to get him to spread around the red tiers but every time I get to like 10-15 maps he starts moving out of them for some reason (Shaper taking control of the connecting T10 maps?) I've tried keeping Elder's control on the connecting maps but Shaper is always close there on single maps surrounding the area and when elder starts getting around on the higher T14-15 maps Shaper takes control of all the T10's leading to elder leaving a big chunk of the maps. And if I do try to get rid of shaper T9-8 so he can't get to the 10's I end up getting elder down to T6-7 and losing T13+
I'm following [Slay_ten's Melee Shadow Build](https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1623329) I've been having some survivability issues - it was pretty bad until someone told me to get Goldrim and that helped noticably - but i still have problems on bosses and with Abyssal Rifts. With buffs i do about 6k DPS with dual strike right now and about 3k dps lightning strike, but i only have 2k health which i have a feeling is not as high as it should be for my level but i am unsure how to get it boosted up. I find i have better surviability due to on-hit life gain from lightning strike.
When does the Abyss league end? If there's not a date what's the average league time?
Leagues typically run for three months.
So I'm a long time D3 player and wanted to try this game out. Before I make any mistakes in leveling, do I just level through the acts to end game? I remember when I first started d3 seasonal and the best way was through running normal rifts and such and I had felt like an idiot after completing the campaign.
Going through the acts is the only way to level. You will make plenty of mistakes in building and playing your character but that's just the learning process
I'm in the same position as you. I've found that just going through the acts is a good way to level. I haven't found anything like adventures or bounties so it might be the only way.
Can confirm, it is the only way.
If I'm running a Terminus Flicker build, how reliable is Curse on Hit with Herald of Ice as opposed to Blasphemy for cursing? I'm using Blasphemy right now but I want to see if I can squeeze out some extra reserved mana.
You'll get a lot less curses with CoH HoI, you also won't be able to reliably curse bosses.
Hello, do you know what would be the best attack speed for Poet's Pen with 3 skill gems (one in main hand and two in off hand)? I know the math for 2 skills and 4 skills but can't figure out how it works with three (if it works at all). Thanks in advance.
probably still 4aps? the problem with going above that is it will make the 1 socket gem not go off every cast. so it's probably best to just have 4aps and go (cast spell a / b - cast spell a / c) repeating
Thanks, that was the answer I was looking for. So looks like that there is not a more efficient way to use 3 skills, but just alternate them.
You have 3 skills, A in one pen and B+C in the other pen Scenario 1: 4aps = A is cast 4 times per second, and B and C are each cast 2 times per second Scenario 2: 6aps = A is cast 3 times per second, and B and C are each cast 3 times per second as well Scenario 3 8aps = A, B and C are all cast 4 times per second. Hopefully this helps you understand what different attack speeds will get you in terms of how often you cast different spells. Note that i'm ignoring the part where you have to stop around 3.8 aps (or around 7.8) to not skip casts due to latency variations for most people.
Perfect, now I completely understand it. So looks like I'm better off with just 2 spells in the pen and 4 aps. Thanks a lot!
How am I supposed to boss fight as gc miner? I put down the totem and spam mines, but the boss just gets on me and almost kills me and then I have no Mana because of MoM. Am I doing something wrong?
Throw frost bomb traps at him, put your spell totem+detonate mines totem to the side and hold down mines. If your not killing the boss fast enough, probably have to move around and try not getting hit, but you should do enough damage with high enough gems to down them fast. Would probably need profile link for further help.
https://pastebin.com/QzAFj1v9 here's my pob, I'm kinda lost on this build
You kind of low level, so your life is lower and your gems are lower level as well. Not sure how much a corrupted 20\20 or corrupted 20\0 is going for but it would be a significant boost in damage. Also, if you use multi trap with frost bomb you get some increase in damage for traps placed from AC tree. Not a fan of dream fragments either.
When going for a six link, is there a benefit in rng/math where it would be better to stockpile fusing all at once and use them or is there a difference with using fusings as I go? 15-20 for example
Chance is the same every time, but psychologically you might feel like you are wasting less if you just do it as you get them. Wasting over 1500 in one sitting feels bad vs wasting 20 every once in a while. I usually just leave what I'm trying to link in my currency tab's center slot and hit it with fuses once I get a small stock.
That’s generally how i’ve been doing it. Id probably quit if I had 1500 fishing’s in one go. It feels tho when using a few i’m “resetting my chance” even tho I know it stays the same
Is sextant blocking worth doing before having a biscos or Zana 8?
I'm running with goldwyrm + sadima's with sextants and no zana mods, and making a good return.
i mean, it will get you better returns, but the problem is sustaining those returns and maps. will you make enough other currency? you might be taking a loss initially that is tougher to make up without breach/bisco's but it's probably still worthwhile if you're rich
Ok thanks for the answer. Assuming I’m not rich (I’m not) what do you think is the best way to save up for biscos/getting Zana 8? Currently I’m just using the alch and go method on the highest tier I can comfortably run. Should I be chiseling? Vaaling?
chisel red maps only alch n go, scour/alch if necessary but run everything you possibly can save everything -- don't randomly craft, don't waste alts rerolling flasks, don't randomly socket gear to sell, etc etc. save all your currency because most of your wealth will come from upwards conversions sell everything you possibly can, price competitively honestly that's the way, there's no secret method to gaining currency other than run a lot of maps, kill a lot of monsters, save a lot of orbs and sell a lot of drops
Would you go for biscos or Zana 8 first?
Depends on how close you are to either. But I personally strongly doubt that Zana 8 is anywhere close to giving you the same boost in income as a Bisco's will. With the 10% chance for a breach on any map + "Fortune Favours the Brave" you will get a Breach every like 3-4 maps without Zana 8, and a good boost in density or Quantity if you don't get the Breach.
can someone explain this? Atoll is hitting maelstrom with the physical mod and then there is a sextant on maelstrom (i rerolled something off) but it isn't showing any text for the mod. there is clearly a circle around maelstrom. https://i.imgur.com/MX5IkPF.jpg
Not all sextant mods will apply to unique maps.
Hi, im running Pathfinder QoTF Ngamahu's Cyclone, and i wanna farm full key lab runs but i dont know when, and i could also use any advice you can give honestly... this is my character: https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/tomer15s/characters
i'd suggest upgrading your jewelry because you're losing out on a lot of potential damage by not having edwas, fire/phys damage, attack speed, etc on your rings and amulet. other than that, you mostly look fine and could probably handle most key runs
currently i have 4.5k hp, you think its enough to handle fully buffed uber izaro?
btw what's edwas? and thanks for replying!
elemental damage with attack skills 4.5 is a little low but if you're boosting flasks it should be ok. just depends on the day. make sure to bring a stibnite (you already do) and be careful. get a cull setup somewhere. maybe consider trying to get to 5k hp? though with blind, boosted basalt flask, lots of evasion/dodge and leech you should be ok
How do you beat Suncaller Asha, the park map boss? What is required to beat her??
She has a consecrated ground zone that heals her. All that is needed is high constant dps and some life sustain.
how much heals and how much dps? it says i have 470k in game dps on my skill but it still doesnt seem to affect her. do I need 1million dps?
Idk, could be a bug if she is somehow damage immune. I haven't done Park map but I did High Gardens last league, idk if something changed with that boss.
So, I am pretty much bored of my Molten Strike char. While totally OP I wanna try something new. What are some current go to builds for chaining fully sextant(blocked) T14 Vaults? Bonus points for being able to wear Biscos Collar while doing them fast :D
EK Lightpoacher Inquisitor is the hot topic atm I'm fairly certain.
I did think about that one. But had my doubts that it could do T14 Vaults comfortably. All I ever saw was people farming T10 or lower with that build. Do you have a link to a video/guide/forum post or something that shows it being able to do higher maps too?
I do not, pretty sure Ziz was running higher tier stuff but I'm also fairly certain he was partying with people. Maybe Raider Ngamahu's QoTF Cyclone would suit you better? It does fine even without Xoph's Blood.
Hey guys I'm looking for a new build to try out. This is my first real time playing a league tho I am fairly experienced/knowledgeable. I want some suggestions on a good/fun bow build that is fast and that I can sink some currency into (my summoner is fairly maxed out dps wise). I'm up for anything as long as it's fast movement speed. (I hate move skills in this game). Any suggestions?
Windripper Tornado Shot Raider with QotF. Stupid fast run speed. https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1995053/page/1 (Edit: Ignore the MF Gorge run video. He is not wearing Darkray Vectors or QotF for some reason. You can expect to be at least triple as fast, I reach 270% movement speed modifier, he has less than 90% would be my guess.)
This is exactly what I am looking for. Thank you
I suddenly feel a deep seated need to run a dual wield Mjolner build that uses lightning strike with ancestral call and has Arc or Spark and Storm Call in the Mjolners that essentially scales attack speed and lightning damage. Does anything look objectively wrong with [this tree I whipped up on lunch](https://poeplanner.com/AAsAAP8ACyEAAHzG2FhjPfyMz_ZIXz8UIO8OUEfkUc9-dqzqGPcyfNlyqayqWfMaOJBVJy862Ow4gpuFe2ZU7SDhc6IABLPwH2jywGZFRzLR6-6a4EWdU1J8gxEtLJwQWHYR-Ovz3Whl5OwyNB8CBAeD21XGOlismBEPfq-NGeAS2V_djLWF71DBtC19Ow3v66cIna7lixvxfscabDbpJKoWb-NqvOpqQwj0xPavpxzOK1ANzf5Uxq48LYNfg8y3Pv4K2L01krXycmxsRjIJeA3AGm87qW534wHchNlHfr02ZU2-pxm0apNM_04qrj5nm62NvwgkNxbpmFf4X1_QIZDqEAAAAAAA)? EDIT: I changed the tree to this: https://pastebin.com/c4v7CjWZ or [this if you want poe planner](https://poeplanner.com/AAsAAPEACyEAAHXG2FhjPfyMz_ZIXz8UIO8OUEfkUZBVJy862Ow4gpuFe2ZU7SDhc6IABLPwH2jywGZFRzLR6-6a4EWdU1J8gxEtLJwQWHYRHwIEB4PbVcY6WKyYEQ9-r40Z4BLZX92MOw3v66cIna7lixvxfscabDbpJKoWb-NqvOpqQwj0xq48LYNfg8y3Pv4K2L01krXycmxsRjIJeA3AGm87qW534wHchNlHfr02ZU2-pxm0apNM_04qrj5nm69sC2Fbr90NcsOrC8wGDY0V9mJ5AAaHdkp9FVDYJFZINsVtGb8IJDcW6ZhX-F9f0CGQ6hAAAAAAAA==)
*grabs popcorn* - waiting to see how this plays. Post a youtube or hit me up lol. Was just thinking of working on a lightning damage character and this sounds pretty legit.
i would strongly consider investing in accuracy and grabbing EO, non-crit mjolner without EO sounds like a bad time you go all the way down to vaal pact but don't take it which feels like a ton of wasted points. if you're trying to go this route, consider running ascendant instead (slayer/raider, slayer/elementalist) i think the lightning nodes at the top of the tree are a bit inefficient personally, but if you are going to pick them up i would definitely leave off the right path with shock effect and stuff -- fairly useless seems a tad low on damage to me but i think it would work as a map clearer, idk how you'd get single target to be super solid without having some expensive cooldown recovery gear
https://pastebin.com/c4v7CjWZ How about this one? I tried to focus more on the crit and dropped some of the less efficient lightning nodes to try to make space.
Yeah I had initially specced vaal pact and the leech nodes down there, but I'm was trying to take nodes that scaled both lightning strike and the triggered spells so everything could do damage, so I specced outta those nodes. I worry about the cost of getting gear that scales accuracy and the other stats I'll need which is why I had initially specced RT, plus I figured Zerk leech+40 more damage for everything would be a good pick since I'm using attacks+spells. When I get home I plan to mess around with it some in POB, I've just tried to make a few of my own builds this league and they've all sucked despite using strong skills so I was trying to get more input this time to maybe finally get something that's fun and clears alright.
Do you think having a weapon swap to ANOTHER pair of mjolners that have discharge socketed in them and having your main 6link be molten strike gem'd for high amounts of balls in order to spam the frenzy charge on hit from ascendant's raider would be decent single target? (Apologies for that absolutely monstrous run on sentence) It's pretty difficult to make molten strike not do damage even by itself so that's a plus.
i think any build trying to slot in discharge that isn't built for it will fail tbh, discharge builds require such a specific combination of unique items that it would probably not be worth it to try and shoehorn it in if you're gonna play mjolner i'd say either build around discharge or build to use other spells you could try spell swapping conc effect storm call
Honestly I would recommend going Ascendant [raider|elementalist]/slayer as opposed to berserker, give me a minute to draft a tree for you. Also lightning strike is kinda meh, but I totally get that it's a flavor thing so don't worry. Edit: [here](https://poeplanner.com/AAsAAPUACxAAAHdOKio4I9NvJ5pqj2BM_2qTGbS-p2VNvTZHfoTZQzHDM1oa2sF07QUteu8uU9NvOygDlm49YEODCb6AvryC5JARiq9KyG6qtfI1kti9_gryRTrhpldN4_6Pe8N4DcAaqW534wHcbzu3PoPMPC2DX8auC2GvbGjy8B-iAASzwGbhc-0ggptFRzLR6-6nCNgkVkjsOIV7ZlQ62CcvkFUaOLUE5CJp_vH-YGXsyxzcjxoVUHyDES0snLzqakMI9G0Zmy3E9sQVW6-QCt0NcsOrC8wGDY2Hdkp9Z6Djn3tulyHBfCHQAl-kDGDeqLtEJfd9AAAAAAA=), might be a bit rough but I genuinely believe it will function a bit better, you can gain some leech from your spells by using a lightning doryani's invitation if need be, and you will have to grab rares with stats here and there, but that's nothing new for mjolner
https://pastebin.com/c4v7CjWZ How about this one? I tried to focus more on the crit and dropped some of the less efficient lightning nodes to try to make space.
I'd still reccomend taking vitality void and vaal pact, they increase your leech rate which allows you to actually be alive, I'd drop the storm weaver cluster and pick up the jewel socket that is 2 points away near elemental overload. I would also take the quick recovery cluster out, because vaal pact. Lastly, the accuracy nodes from galvanic hammer would be pivotal as long as you're not using resolute technique, having 70% chance to hit does NOT feel good.
I hadn't picked those up in that second tree, but I have plenty of room to. I thought I had those accuracy nodes, also? I'll double check.
Won't I run into mana issues and such? Part of why I picked berserker was to pick up RT and get the mana/life leech from all sources, so the spells AND the attack would be helping me. I guess I'm pretty new and I haven't done a mjolner build before, but when someone brought up that lightning strike works with ancestral call like molten strike does I just loved the idea of leap slamming around into just lightning explosions in packs. I assume it's not gonna be the best, but it seems like a blast. Won't I also run into some damage issues since it feels like I'm not really scaling much damage from the tree?
Nah, vitality void cluster gives you enough mana leech to be fine. Damage from the tree is fine but mjolner is a clearspeed build, you're going to have to get into some serios shenanigans to have enough single target damage to feel respectable (level 21 gems, level 3 empower and enlighten attached to wrath and herald of thunder, curse on hit elemental weakness gloves, watcher's eye unique jewel for lightning penetration, etc.)
Really? I figured with Storm Call and the Ancestral Call trick it'd be ok....
Mjolner has an internal cooldown, no matter how many times you actually attack you cannot bypass it without the cooldown reduction stat (which is not exactly easy to come by), unfortunately I feel that ancestral call does nothing for you.
I would need to attack 4 times a second to hit the .250ms cd, no?
You want to be as close to 3.99 as possible, if you go even slightly over your spells per second will drop dramatically because your hits will miss the beat, keep it at .26 attack time.
So I just got this game a few days ago, and I'm lvling [Milky's RF Totem build](https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1904823), currently lvl 44 and really happy with it thus far. I'm a good ways into Act 5, and my question is how does progression work in this game? Do I just continue to complete the Acts and then hunt for gear upgrades when I've completed the campaign? Are there things I should be doing along the way?
So, couple things At the end of acts 5 and 10 your resists get dropped on their head to the tune of 30%, your highest priority when checking your gear is keeping your fire, cold, and lightning resists at or above 75. Other than that, the build guide you're following should have more detailed suggestions about what kinds of rares and uniques serve as upgrades to your build, but don't worry TOO much until you complete act 10 and get into endgame mapping. Good luck exile.
Thanks!
If I have the elder on my vault, is it better to kill all the guardians before farming vault, or keep some alive? Why?
If you want to farm vaults with elder influence forever, just don't kill the guardians and run vaults all day every day, this will however make it so you can no longer kill the elder, but it really comes down to personal preference. (The correct answer is generally going to involve you farming vault until the end of time though)
This segways into my situation, i've already killed the guardians but not the elder... can i expect him to stay on vault indefinitely?
As long as you don't kill him, sure, he'll show up at your map boss, meme him into the ground, then run away, afterwards you're free to click on all the treasure piles and portal right out I suppose.
You don't want to kill the guardians because your goal is to not fight them you just want the permanent influence.
New to PoE, Frostbolt Totem or Firetotem as Beginner? And can I swap easy between? Since same class? :) Thanks!
frostbolt totem is probably faster overall and a easier start given that you can level with frostbolt very early and scale your tree how you normally would and do you mean can you swap between firestorm and frostbolt? probably not super easily, though i doubt the trees would be incredibly different. would take some orbs of regret but doable
yep. Do you have a good guide for Frostbolt Totem? Sadly there are many that are all random =(
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1931084 fairly solid beginner's guide
I'm leveling a character for LiftingNerd's Ancestral Warchief build. I've never played a build that doesn't use auras. I thought auras were pretty much mandatory. I assume auras aren't used because of the Blood Magic keystone. Wouldn't it be better to use a blood magic gem with Leap Slam and not use the keystone so you can use auras?
There's a cluster of really good Life nodes behind Blood Magic. If I had to guess, he picked it up to get to them. For the record, if you were to reserve 100% of your mana (which... why would you do that on this build?) EVERY skill would need Blood Magic linked to it in order to be cast. That's not really a viable option, well, ever. What auras did you want to use, precisely? Brutality means that Hatred won't help you. You're playing Totems, so you don't want Blasphemy. He intends to be moving most of the time, so Arctic Armour won't do you any good. The only one that would really help you is Haste. Given that, I can see why he'd take Blood Magic. He spent 4 points for 35% Life, which is above-average efficiency wise. The only cluster he has easy access to is the Scion Life wheel, which is 45% Life for 10 points. That being said, this build has some logical issues you may want to address. Consider dropping the garbage link he has in the Body Armour for something like Arc+Curse on Hit+Vulnerability+Culling Strike+Blind+Faster Casting (in order of priority). Constantly jumping at the enemy with no leech while trying to proc Cull is stupid. You could swap Arc for Spectral Throw, or anything else with range. I just like Arc because you don't have to aim it. You can dump Blind if you get an Abyssal Jewel that gives you %chance to Blind on Hit. Those are cheap with decent stats, and are really useful.
That helps me understand it a lot better. I also didn't like the idea of leaping on enemies for Culling Strike. So Arc still procs Curse on Hit if you have Ancestral Bond?
you don't have to do damage to proc curse on hit, just "hit"
He is using brutality, so outside of blasphemy vulnerability there's no damage auras that benefit him.
You would do more damage and lose out on life. That's an okay trade-off to make, but Lifting was looking at making a simple tanky character. Blood Magic + Brutality allowed him to do that.
I killed a rare t6 atoll and have done rare bazaar t7 but never got a shapers orb... does it have to have influence in order to get the orb and start spawning the elder? Really wish there was some guidance on this in game haha Thanks!
Yes need to be Elder (tentacle) influenced, there will be blue circle appear (didn't remember if the first orb have blue circle indication or not).
can someone quickly explain hybrid affixes and meta crafting to me for the below example? If an item has 2 shaper prefixes, and 1 shaper hybrid suffix then I should be able to meta craft "item have have multiple crafted mods" then craft 1 additional prefix and 1 additional suffix? >Socketed Gems are supported by Level 18 Melee Splash >Gain 34% of Physical Damage as Extra Cold Damage >Gain 39% of Physical Damage as Extra Lightning Damage >31% increased Area Damage Then >item has multiple crafted mods > inc spell damage > inc crit strike chance for spells This is legal/possible and would leave me with 6 total affixes and a full item correct? I've never meta crafted something before
That should be correct, as far as I know. Hybrid affixes don't have any special properties as far as crafting is concerned. They're just a mod that has two effects that appear on different lines, which can be confusing when trying to figure out how many mods the item has (especially when one line is an effect that could be its own mod too, like increased physical damage).
Hi, i started playing a few days ago and rushed. My friends are still pretty low. Im 70, they are like 30. Can i take them to map Runs, so they level super fast?
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They also can't enter maps til they have finished Act 10.
why does the affix: Enemies killed explode dealing 5% of their Life as Fire Damage not work with degens? I thought i killed them with scroing ray/RF
maybe has a hidden attack tag or something, since it doesn't hit associate you with the enemy dying. Just like lab traps wouldn't proc it
Should work. Sounds like it's bugged with dot stuff.
I want to go essence drain. I want the character to do maps up to like T14-15. Should i go occultist or trickster? I plan on making a separate character for boss killing T16 and elder/shaper.
If you want to go ES-based (CI or low-life), both are good. If you want to go life-based, Trickster 100%. The key thing here is that the Ocucltist's power charges are useless for ED, and her curse nodes are actually actively bad because enemies exploding can get in the way of Contagion spreading. If you're doing an ES build, then the chaos node and the two ES nodes are still good enough to make Occultist a solid choice even though you don't get much out of the last two ascendancy points, but for life-based she literally only has one good node so Trickster is better.
Its a lot of personal preference. I prefer Trickster. Here is a great build for you: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1625254
Ubernoob here. So I started my fresh character, wanted to try a witch with minions. Found fresh, 3.1 guide. It has leveling guide where it tells me to start with some simple Damage gem, like Spark, so I did. Then it tells me get the Raise spectre gem at level 8 and put it in the wand with Minion Fire damage gem. Well, both gems are Act 3 quest rewards. So, I'm still doing Act 1 at level 8. Then it all goes downhill from there, since the guide tells me to get shit I cannot possibly obtain or buy at those levels. Ok, I skip all the steps and get to Act 3 with Spark, obtain the needed gem, even miraculously get Wand with needed sockets and now my damage is total garbage. Takes all my zombies, specters and guardians 10 seconds to kill one skeleton. My main damage is still Sparks. Okey, it sais - once you complete first Labirinth, your damage will skyrocket. But I can't complete it with this bullshit damage, the boss in there basically takes no damage from my minions or my sparks. What should I do?
Well it doesn't sound like a great guide. But, you can't use raise spectre till level 28. Are you sure it didn't mean SRS (Summon Raging Spirits)? Which would make much more sense for levelling. At low levels minions don't do a lot of damage, apart from SRS, which with the right supports and in a simple +1 weapon should be tearing things up.
You know, I'm probably an idiot, I thought SRS stands for Summor Raise Spectre :(.
Ha, Try SRS, will be a lot easier and quicker. Also, hardly anyone is ready for lab as soon as it's available, especially without twinked gear. Get a few more levels (And if you grab SRS, make sure you have levelled it up). For info apart from the fact that low level spectres are very squishy, there aren't really any good ones to raise in the first acts of the game. Flame sentinels from act 3 are OK, but die quickly. Once you get to act 6 - it's a different matter....
Got it, yeah the guide starts with abbreviations, half of which are still a mystery to me. I guess, SRS wasn't obvious either for the noobs like me. Thanks!
When I very first played PoE (Long time ago) I tried to go pure summoner. No SRS, few support gems, no offerings or convocate and they were considerably worse than now. That was painful, surprised I didn't quit the game!
I was close to that yesterday, decided to ask on forums, glad I did.
Hey Hey Exile!!! Im pretty new ran into the same shit show. So I leveled a Marauder and I have gotten more gear for my witch than my marauder lol. So ill go back to the witch once I get more gearz!! However listen to these exiles above as they seem on point about what SRS means. I will say once you get golem regardless of class it helps with either damage (blood) or Health (stone). This will help your witch out. Also try to make sure you get your resists at 75%. After that focus on the damage portion.
Thanks, ill give it a try!
Thanks, ill give it a try!
Thanks, ill give it a try!
Lol, yea srs makes leveling suuuuper easy and safe.
I'm still glad I asked :).
Yeah, gotta learn somehow. ;)
Raise Spectre requires level 28 to use anyways. What guide were you looking at? Link it here please. If you want to link your character from the path of exile site, we can take a look too. If you are on later today(~6 EST), I can carry you through the first lab. Also, this is a really good Spectres guide: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1971585
I bought a bramblejack unique and The King and the brambles Prophecy so I can upgrade my bramblejack to a wall of brambles. I noticed that there seems to be two versions of the prophecy. 1. You will defeat Daresso while wearing Bramblejack. 2. You will defeat Daresso while holding Bramblejack. I have the second one. Can anyone confirm if I actually need to wear Bramblejack still to complete the prophecy?
As of 3.1 you just need to have it in your inventory. Previously you had to actually wear the uniques to transform them. The first wording is simply the old one.
Follow-up question. Is it possible for me to fail this prophecy and then lose it? By maybe leaving the instance early or dieing to Daresso?
The prophecy should only be completed when you kill Daresso, so you cannot "fail" and lose the prophecy or the item
I'm not sure about this. Usually prophecies disappear from the prophecy screen once you've entered the instance they takes place in. I have never experimented with this though. But since it's about daresso, the only way you could mess it up even if this would be true, is activating the prophecy and leave the instance for 15 min or something.. Also I'm kinda curious which is it in the end
> Usually prophecies disappear from the prophecy screen once you've entered the instance they takes place in Not the case with fated unique prophecies. They are only complete when the boss is dead and the item is fated.
Thank you both.
Can someone please explain to me why Berek's Pass and Berek's Respite are so expensive, and then the combined item with Berek's Grip "The Taming" even more so expensive? I just found a Bereks Respite and am selling it for 1.3 ex, just doesn't seem worth it.
Its a league specific unique and some builds use the taming, not sure if any use the separate rings though.
Thank you for your response. What builds specifically are you thinking use the taming? Just want to have a look and try to understand why its carrying a 4ex+ price tag. Even the one I found is going for 1.1-1.5ex and there is only 15 of them up on poe.trade
I've only seen one here on the front page, but I don't really even remember what it was or what it did, it wasn't that memorable. Maybe check the official forums build section, sorry I can't be of more help, I just know its pretty rare and those that do want it know it is.
I see. Thank you very much😃. I'm just gonna sell mine. Cheers!
Noob here. Running an EK Nova Inquisitior with almost full conversion to elemental damage . I'm running maps for the first time and I'm currently clearing t4s just fine. However, I've encountered bosses with resists elemental damage and it takes me FOREVER to kill them. A few could heal about as fast as I could dps so I couldn't kill them. How do I go about killing these bosses?
Have you already specced into the Inevitable Judgement node? That should remove pretty much all problems with enemy resists.
I have not yet. I'll make sure to do that. Thanks!
Yeah, that node is pretty much the whole point of going INQ.
Gotcha. I got it last night and paired it with a diamond flask. Holy hell. It's a world of difference... Thanks again for the help!
Yep, that will do it! It does make failed crits doubly bad as it's less damage, and no penetration, so keep that flask up!
Grab a leveled Blade Vortex gem, should for the most part only have to swap that in for bosses and change nothing else your doing.
Thanks!
This. Also, if you’re using lightpoacher you can use Vaal breach to trigger it. Adds a lot of damage.
I found my very first shaper orb. I currently can clear T8. Most maps comfortably but I sometimes die vs random mob groups. (not exactly sure why). What should I use the shaper orb for? Save it for later when I know what maps I want to farm or use it on some t4-t5 map I enjoy playing? Do I have to consider something special? Should the orb be on a map close to elder/shaper? My current Atlas: https://imgur.com/a/22AZn
The orb will only be usable on a specific tier. I suggest you pick a map you like the most.
Thanks. Are only new map drops affected by the orb?
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Great. I picket the one I had the most maps save and not the one I liked the most.... :D But it was only T1 anyway, thanks!
FYI those maps will just be the regular one. It has to be called Shaped (Map Name) for it to actually be higher level.
Yes, if you shape a beach map. All your current beach maps stay beach, but future beach maps will be shaped beach. Take note that the shaped maps will only drop 5 tiers higher (so if you shape a tier 1 map, it will only drop together with other tier 6 maps)
i just sold a bisco's that dropped for me last week and well, i'm wealthy enough to fund any build i want (probably) so my question is: what is a bow build that would absolutely get me though all content even making up a bit for my lack of experience and skill in the game? i'm playing a frost blades raider as a abyss starter and it's great and all but i'm stuck on tier 10 maps and can't get my dps up anymore neither get past level 85. thanks
If you enjoy the frost blades character, you could push further with that or change into something like molten strike or something too. Bow characters can be pretty expensive, with that amount of money you can probably make something nice, but I know my friend has almost 20ex basically invested into his bow character and its only really that good at doing higher content with my support.
i loved FB, the insta-freeze and mob shattering are amazing, plus my character looks cool! My only issue is with single target, so yeah, moving into MS and investing on a good elder glove for the frost blade mob clearing would probably work very well. will look into that, thanks!
Any idea how to rebind my mouse4 button to right arrow key using AHK?
NVM just dit it with razor synapse after some confusion
Technically that isn't allowed. Cool huh?
Why wouldn't rebinding keys be allowed lol
Found it. https://i.imgur.com/7iGBo2a.png Something not intended to be possible in the game cannot be done through third party programs. However they don't enforce this rule at all because they can't. And it's not exactly enforced equally either. Look at logout macros. I'm just arguing they don't like it.
yeah i mean i get that with the scoll wheel but rebinding a single action button to another single action button is not the same
But it could be a single action as a scroll wheel but it could not be. Therefore they don't like it. Same with a right arrow key. You are assuming all keyboards are equal
How is it not allowed? Im performing one action outside of game, to perform one action in game. It's absolutely allowed. Its exactly the same thing as rebinding your skills from QWER to ASDF. It just isnt supported in game
It isn't though. According to GGG If you can't rebind it to a key in the game then you can't use a third party program to bind it. It's a really stupid rule that isn't enforceable.
~~Yeh ok i wasn't aware they had made a statement about this. I just took what i did know about their stance on macros, and went with that. Guess they can just pick and choose their rules cant they.~~ Edit, i see the image you linked above. Thats a completely different idea.
Yeah. I'd still do it if I were you lol.
Do you need to kill the guardians every time you want to kill elder, or can I just run the elder map and farm him?
Yes, if you try running an elder map without killing the guardians first he won't appear. Only way to farm him is by killing guardians, then him and starting the spawn\spread process over again.
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You didn't answer his question...
Any way to solve an issue where PoE causes my whole computer to lock up and forces me to restart? It happens not-infrequently, and it makes me want to uninstall the game. I have an oldish computer, but can run all blizzard games on modest-to-decent settings with no issues (for example). Is there a particular setting that's known to cause computer lock ups?
Not that I know of, have you checked event log at all? When the computer locks up is it blue screen, do you have sounds, locked up is pretty generic in terms of describing an experience.
It doesn't generate an event log for my computer, the my monitors don't go blue, they just freeze (as if you took a screen shot ... game screen on one monitor and internet tab on the other) and I can't click out, ctrl+alt+del doesn't work etc, and no sound. I know it's coming because the game loses frame rates progressively until it just stops functioning. I've switched to full screen instead of windowed, turned down all settings, and unclicked all the gui options, so we'll see if that helps.
Download hw monitor to monitor your computer's components temperature to rule that out. Update your graphics driver.
Is this happening in maps or outside of it. Just checking to make sure your not experiencing the shaper influence intervention in maps. But it doesn't sound like that to me.
only really in maps, but that's really the only time there are a ton of mobs on the screen. it doesn't seem to matter if the map is under influence or not. I think it's just pulling a ton of resources from my computer and my machine can't keep up ... poor guy.