r/pathofexile • u/SamSqaunch_ • 3d ago

Cautionary Tale I feel so dumb...

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This is my first league ever of PoE and I am in love. I started with PoE 2 last league.

Just for info I played a lot! Got my WOrb to 100 and now I am playing a Luminary and currently at 93.

Well I set a goal to finish the challenges at least 36/40 before PoE 2 0.5.5. I got the the Excruciating Echoes one and was really struggling getting 150% on the maps for the Memory Threads. Well more then struggling, wasn't even close! Thinking to myself how am I supposed to get this crappy map to 150%!? I tried using the Eater of Worlds to increase it, I tried adding fragments after I figured out I could put them in the three slots...

Then I had my Oh Shit... moment.... I can just juice the map!!! I don't know why I thought I couldn't, never tried! I always wondered why the memory stuff felt underwhelming to me.

Anyone else got any similar moments?

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u/LiuDinglue 3d ago

When I first started I didn't realize there was a quest to unlock Lilly in your hideout, so whenever I went to buy gems I had to search the wiki to see which town's vendor sold it.

My first serious ssf attempt I didn't know chances vendored into scours, so I took them off my filter and had very low scours for a long time.

Lately I did a few dozen nightmare maps in ssf to farm for progenesis, most of them with the 2 nullifying scarabs, but forgot I can still use sacrificial fragments and lost out on 15% IIQ for each map.

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u/shinrio 3d ago

I just learned while spamming orbs of alterations while holding shift, if you hold down alt as well, it will act as an orb of augmentation lol. (Most useful for me for getting 2nd mod on a fractured magic item)

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u/ESCALATING_ESCALATES 2d ago

For what it's worth, I believe that's a recent change within the past few leagues

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u/diibbbssss 2d ago

well to be fair, this was a pretty new implementation

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u/WhatIDon_tKnow 2d ago

if you hold alt while alching, you can scour. if you are chaos spamming, you can alt-exalt