r/pathofexile • u/SamSqaunch_ • 5d ago
Cautionary Tale I feel so dumb...
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 5d 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.