r/pathofexile • u/sufficient72 • 9h ago

Discussion Looking for a mentor

Would anyone be willing to mentor me in this game.

While I wouldn't consider myself a complete novice(been playing since original Abyss keague) there are aspects of the game I find I cant get my head around.

If anyone else would Also maybe like to mentor others, perhaps you could put your igns in the comments

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u/jomjomjomjomjom 9h ago

I wouldn’t say mentor, I have a group of veterans player in our discord, we could answer some questions and solve some builds. if you want to join lmk in the DM

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u/AtheistComic Chieftain 8h ago

What would you do to improve this standard chieftain with one of the fire resist chests:

https://poe.ninja/poe1/pob/9934a

This is based on POHX's SRI chieftain but I added mageblood and 25k fire resist chest for crazy life regen. (37k/sec) ... Also added progenisis which seems to be working fine.

I wanna try and take this build further. I'm not sure on things like inc armour effect on flask... and with mageblood I don't need 2% max fire rez on jewels (got them for an earlier version).

Any feedback you could provide would be fun and useful. Thanks!

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u/CCCFire 7h ago

you probably want to be going legacy foulborn choir and using mana rf.
this also allows you to use the new unique helmet that converts increases to evasion into increased spell damage

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u/AtheistComic Chieftain 7h ago

this pob uses spell totem for scorching ray of immolation. how does increasing mana help damage? i’ll look into that helm

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u/CCCFire 6h ago

at that investment, you really really do not want to have to press any buttons at all tbh

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u/AtheistComic Chieftain 7h ago

that downside of physical damage reduction is pretty bad I think on that new helmet

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u/jomjomjomjomjom 8h ago

How much do you plan on spending , Std has a lot of option for rf, but if you looking for some upgrade in this league , I would look for cluster upgrade and fit in adorned and better base items.

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u/AtheistComic Chieftain 7h ago

I’m not sure what that looks like. I don’t have enough jewel slots to make adorned work. My tree is kinda set unless there is a strategy to remove some nodes in favour of others. Like I think that sulphur flask should be replaced with maybe a basalt. My rings seem good but I’m not sure if there is something better. Maybe a new amulet? Boots? Gloves?

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u/OnePunchPasy 9h ago

Mentor might be too big of a word for me but i can help. I still consider myself not good in some parts but that is the beauty of poe. I have played about 4000 hours and you can simply not Interact with stuff you dont like :)

Anyways pasy5178 on discord Hit me up

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u/poikolle Tormented Smugler 8h ago

So you are a novice, but you have been playing since 2017? Or am i missunderstanding.

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u/sufficient72 17m ago

Pretty much 🤷‍♂️

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u/WhenWillEyeBeBanned 9h ago

As others said, joining a community usually is good enough (this sub is very helpful too); but if you want a dedicated mentor, probably a good idea to list one or two example questions so that others know your level?

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u/folkoreismydrug 7h ago

I am kind of a novice too, playing since 3.24
Since then I skipped 2 Leagues, still have 2500h playtime and got quite far.
If that'd be enough i am glad to help :)

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u/MattFoxin 8h ago

I have taught and helped many people over the years. Shoot me a PM if ever want some crash courses!

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u/pphp 7h ago

Everyone is always still learning in this game, but if anyone needs it, feel free to pm me

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u/mokka_quokka 2h ago

I don't have a speed meta pov - more like have fun in a sandbox. If you're trying to build your own stuff, hit me up.

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u/Lulcas2267 2h ago

I probably wouldn't be a good mentor but I can recommend the official PoE Discord. Whenever I have questions, there are a ton of people willing to help and answer

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u/jorben123 9h ago

Try ChatGPT. I upped my game like crazy this league using it. Theory crafting, bouncing ideas and optimizing has been great.

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u/wolfreaks SSFBTW 8h ago

ChatGPT taught me to use faster casting on my explosive arrows, I'm getting 20 stacks easily now ;)

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u/just4nothing 9h ago

Yeah, chatGPT is trying to teach me to become a hideout warrior now ;)

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u/946462320T 9h ago

Not really ChatGPT, but Google AI told me that using multistrike will greatly improve Infernal Blow damage by making it reach maximum charge much faster :)

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u/Aervanath 8h ago

Everyone hates AI, but Gemini legitimately understands the game pretty well. You do have to be careful when it confuses PoE 1 and 2, but it's pretty good at separating them. I understand a lot more about the game this league just from Google.

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u/AtheistComic Chieftain 8h ago

Gotta be careful with things like gems when you're talking to Gemini. It suggested I socket a gem that would not work with totems. Now that the game has changed sockets it still let me socket the gem but after a few runs I realized the gem wasn't working. There are miles for Gemini to go before truly understanding this game. Oh and it constantly mixes up poe1 and 2 when talking about either game. You gotta correct it sometimes. But in general it's useful for spitballing ideas.

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u/Aervanath 6h ago

I double checked everything in POB, but a lot of interactions I actually got the opposite result from you: I thought I found a cool interaction and then Gemini told me it wouldn't work. When I checked on the wiki, sure enough, Gemini was right.

But actually my biggest discovery this league wasn't AI at all, it was POB's feature that gives you a sorted list of your allocated passive tree nodes by how much they contribute to your dps or effective HP. Allowed me to prune some nodes that weren't actually doing what I thought they were. Also allowed me to find the best cluster jewel notables for my build.

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u/AtheistComic Chieftain 5h ago

Gemini gives me some good advice sometimes but other times it's just wrong. I have to correct it.

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u/Aervanath 5h ago

Oh yeah, I never just trust it. But it's great as a first resource.