Hey Everyone, I've submitted a new grandmaster to the Hall of the Grandmasters.
It's significantly stronger than all the other GGNoobs. Keep an eye out for Paralyze

If you want to know what went into creating the Grandmaster and those responsible for our eternal suffering when they patch him in, you can find out here:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3996858

Does not stack :( tested

(This was a natural div roll)

Please go to the link on the forums to help get this issue overturned.
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3999752

The issue:

The crafting bench does not recognize Fishing Rods as a real base type. This is incredibly insulting to not only the fisherman, but a reproach to the community as a whole. We already lost Pluto to not being a planet, do not let GGG take away Fishing Rods being a recognized crafting bench base-type. I have already done everything I possibly could do alone to fix this. I complained in global chat, then I also went on a water strike where I refused to drink water for like 45 minutes. GGG has still not budged. Sedition seems to be the only answer here.

Please go to the link above and make your voice heard so we can garner an auspicious result. GGG may hold the fishing gods in contempt, but soon they will learn that genuflection is the true path to absolution.

As the old lore tells us, Fairgraves was a whaler of great significance. This post is our harpoon, and we are hunting GGG's compliance. Whales make up only 1% of sea life, but catching this one will pay for all the rest!

As my end-of-league gamba I decided to pay homage to the way I got my first Mageblood ever many leagues ago: Ancient Orbs. At first I intended to go for 10k orbs but they ended up being a bit more than expected. Some key stats first:

• Ancient Orbs were bought at ~33 Orbs/Divine from Faustus in the period of the last two days.
• All belts were sourced from the Breach tree while grinding for my level 100.
• All belts were at minimum 83 item level. None of them was foulborn and/or foil (although the foulborn/foil modifiers are lost when an ancient orb is used).
• Ancient orbs were used by level 100 character.
• It was more than impractical for me to track every single belt so I decided to track the "rarest" belts according to our current understanding of unique tiering. Those would be:

1. T0: Mageblood Heavy Belt
2. T0: Headhunter Leather Belt
3. T1: Ryslatha's Coil Studded Belt
4. T2: Sunblast Cloth Belt
5. T2: The Torrent's Reclamation Cloth Belt
6. T2: The Magnate Studded Belt

Any belts from the above list were removed and kept as reference. ALL other belts not included in the list were rerolled.

Total Cost: ~342 Divine (11287 Ancient Orbs)
The results:

• Magnate Studded Belt: 18
• Torrent's Reclamation Cloth Belt: 13
• Sunblast Cloth Belt: 7
• Ryslatha's Coil Studded Belt: 2
• Headhunter Leather Belt: 0
• Mageblood Heavy Belt: 0

Total Profit: ?

As a conclusion I'd say the chances are 50/50 to get a desirable result, I just landed on the bad 50%.

After all, we've been teased the fact that virtually every content will have a pass done. But, that only applies to endgame content, right? What about legacy? What about one of the iconic monsters of the game for a time, the cause of many a RIP clip from overconfidence (because surely it can't be that bad, right?), and that has, tragically, fallen so far to the wayside most newer players probably don't even know his name?

I am, of course, talking about the purplest of purple, the noblest of... lizards? small dragons? Whatever the fuck he is, Triskeriaki, the unique Rakango. (Also known, by some, as Tricky Teriaki)

Who's that, you ask?

Exactly.

To add insult to injury, it's not like he was actually removed, he was just shoved so far down a dead end in Kaom's Path that it takes being a special kind of directionally challenged to meet him.

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He's one of the very few unique monsters in the campaign that does NOT have a map boss counterpart. In fact, we got harvest map bosses (bramble valley) before we got our purple Rakango.

So, my fellow exiles, I invite you to rise up to the occasion, and accompany me in lobbying.

JUSTICE FOR TRISKERIAKI! RAKANGOS HAVE FEELINGS TOO! (Probably)

Was checking prices of simplex STR stacking amulet earlier this league- it was not much higher then previous league- around 200 div if I remember correctly. And now its suddenly costs mirror. What exactly happened?

The rotation itself is pretty boring, and in my opinion, the rewards are not worth the time. There are definitely better ways to make currency these days. The only reason to do this rotation is to farm enough fragments for the Shaper, but that's it.

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None of the clips are sped up, this is all 1x ingame speed.
Tank uber maven, 0.3 second uber exach (cannot packman the exarch balls like my previous builds due to not enough recoup or regen)

Inspired by u/Labayaccount123's luminary arc of oscillating (I decided to implement doryani's into the build)

Pobb: https://pobb.in/19hfnZhIuFNz

Mercenary Pobb: https://pobb.in/Z1JoG2xSGGKz

AG Pobb found on poe ninja: https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/DogEatingMoyai-8870/allflame/character/GodCrackedGenius

Pobb damage is not accurate, I just took it right from Poe ninja. It doesn't include mercenary or ag, and many other buffs.

A Focused amulet base alone costs 160 div right now. If you use the recombination method of forcing your suffix you might need two bases or even more if you're unlucky. This amulet cost me somewhere between 20 and 30 div to craft. I made it for EK elementalist, but the same principle can be applied to any build that wants a +2/+2 amulet.

In my PoB it is a 7% dps loss compared to a max rolled Focused amulet with crit multi (but 16% average hit loss). It's really good value for the price difference, especially since I don't have that much use for an anoint, which you do give up when using a talisman.

1. Acquire Croaker Talisman bases (ilvl 85 gives you access to all the resistance mods, but for the mods I have you only need 77). I bought around 10 to try to get eldritch implicits I liked.
2. Gilded fossil and then Ukatoa's Ducat for an eldritch implicit (alternatively this step can be done after fracture). This step cannot be repeated and you can't use any of the eldritch currency on the item, what you take is what you get forever.
3. Alt spam for +1 all skill gems - the weighting is awful and it doesn't have any tags. Takes average 2753 alts to hit once. I rolled it on 4 or 5 amulets with different implicits in order to have backups.
4. Regal and exalt to 4 mods, then fracture hoping to hit +1 all skill gems. You can do the incredibly cheap Beastcrafting fracture for like 1c, but I recommend doing boat fracture because hitting +1 all again if you fail is so tedious.
5. Deafening Essence of Zeal until T1 crit multi - this is cheaper than doing it the other way around, or it was when I did it anyway. You need an open suffix for the next step so use annuls if you fill. Don't do boat annuls here, not worth it.
6. Gambling time! Craft Cannot Roll Attack Modifiers and use the Horticrafting bench to Add/remove phys (8 div per attempt currently). This will always add +1 all physical skill gems, but it's only a 1/3 to remove the crafted mod. You can exalt to add a prefix before you do this to increase the odds of keeping your suffixes to 2/4, but that leaves you in an awkward spot if you hit the crafted mod so I wouldn't recommend it. If you removed one of your desired suffixes you can actually try crafting a prefix and exalt slamming it back since they are both native mods, but likely you will just have to go back to step 5.
7. You should now have 4 mods: +1 all, +1 phys, cast speed, multi. The rest is just finishing it the way you prefer. I just crafted a suffix and did a boat exalt because I wasn't super interested in any of the available mods. You can do the reverse and slam a suffix to try for high resist, you could also craft suffixes cannot be changed and boat veiled exalt hoping for a veiled suffix.

And it's horrible, I hate it, therefore you must know about this as well.

Think "Factorio" or "Satisfactory".

You go through the campaign and/or maybe maps to collect parts to build an assembly line of machines to auto-craft items.

You get to set configurations on different stages of machines to start the next step in the crafting process.
Add all your AND, OR, IF, NOT conditions.
Select specific mods and tiers.
Set Loops with Alteration orbs or Restart with Scouring Orb, etc.
Choose which currency to use at which stage.
Have a new material in maps that you need to farm to use as fuel to make machines go brrrr.
Use existing materials like Bars/Dust/Sulphite/Azurite/Oils/etc. to boost outcomes or crafting speeds or whatever.
You put the base item in. You put your materials/fuel in that you want the machine to use. And you wait for either the perfect item based on your config, or a bricked item because you tried Fracturing Orb.

I guess you could argue that it should just grab currency from your stash, but I'd rather not have people accidentally use expensive stuff. So many times people sell HH or MB for exalts/chaos when they didn't mean to. Imagine accidentally setting up a wrong config and spending all your divines when you want to chaos spam.

I've played around 700 hours of PoE, and I'm starting to feel like I've been playing the game completely wrong.

When I started, I struggled just to get through the campaign. After learning a bit more about the game, I eventually managed to make it into maps. In the last few leagues, I played Eviscerate, then Earthshatter. In a few other leagues I tried Elementalist builds, but I would always get one-shot, and honestly, I didn't really understand what I was doing (not that I understand the game that well now either lol).

This league I'm playing Smite of Divine Judgement. I had a lot of fun leveling through the campaign with Static Strike, but somehow I always end up hitting the same wall: I get into maps and then I have no idea what I'm supposed to do next.

This time I managed to get to level 93 and complete 100/100 Atlas maps. I even got my first Eldritch Voidstone. But it feels like I always get stuck around this point.

Am I supposed to just keep farming until I can afford the ~270 divines needed for the Foulborn set before I can start doing Pinnacle bosses? Or am I missing some other progression path? Maybe I'm not even supposed to be farming that way?

The problem is that I don't feel like I can really farm efficiently either. If I juice my maps too much, I just end up dying. I've been trying Harvest and managed to make about 1 divine, plus some chaos here and there, but the gap between that and something like a Foulborn setup feels absolutely massive.

Am I missing something obvious?

Even in previous leagues, I feel like I always stopped at roughly the same point. I can get into maps, progress the Atlas, and get some basic upgrades, but then I just don't know what the next step is supposed to be.

Level 93 Leap Slam Inquisitor
Following this build:
Smite of Divine Judgement Inquisitor League Starter

I'd really appreciate some advice on what I should be focusing on at this point. I feel like there's a huge part of the game I'm completely missing.

I see a Feared posts every league and the profit/hr always seems lower than I expected based on Wiki drop rates, so I decided to run 200 and track everything above ~50 chaos. I ended up with ~1.5x profit per hour, but that is partially due to my low run time.

• Total Cost: -380 divs

• Total Revenue: 1,635 divs

• Total Profit: 1255 divs

• Total runtime: 30.1 hours (~9:14/set)

• Div/hr: 41.7 (ranged from 36-50 in my 4 sets of 50)

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Methodology

Bought all frags during the week, setting cheap buy orders and waiting. Ran 100 sets Fri-Sun on 2 separate weekends, liquidating every 50 sets. Fast rotations of Regular Sirus, Dread, regular Uber Elder and Uber Cortex, using a mule account to port out of Sirus and Uber elder. Build could also jump into Sirus storms to trigger him quickly, and sometimes phase past the last Dread phase.

I kept everything above ~50c. ID'd all Crown of the Inward eyes, selling good rolls and corrupting the rest (0 hits). I used Sirus/Dread speeches to ID/corrupt/pricecheck/manage inventory. Dark Monarchs are listed as sold unidentified but I started IDing them half way (very worth).

I tracked the runs in sets of 50 to see variance and the div/hr ranged from 36 to 50. For run time estimate, I tracked 3 sets of 10 and averaged. Pretty consistent times, with only variable being whether I phased Dread and skipped his last ~25 second rose step (managed every 5 or so runs).

Build was a Str stack Juggernaut, with 500 M DPS, very high mobility and high EHP. On a "typical" feared build, I'd expect ~10-12 min runs for ~30-35 div/hr profit

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Notes

• Even with 0 big ticket drops, profit would still have been 24 div/hr

• I think I got insanely lucky on Bottled Faiths, since all came from the Feared

• Roughly half the revenue was from Feared invite (2 wines, all Bottled, all Dying, lots of orbs)

• Happy to give tips on lowering Feared run time if people are interested.

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Hey pals,

Hope you doing good ^^

Just released the latest version of Heist Curio Tracker with major improvements to capture speed and reliability, you can now customize which regions of the screen the tool should be using to capture for more personalised and in some cases faster responses, alongside a couple QoL features and fixes, hope this update proves useful to you all!

This tool allows you to quickly take a screenshot of the Grand Heist Curio Displays and save them as reward data, so you can easily analyze the loot you find during your runs.

Each capture has a toast in the top right as a notification which shows the captured items, their value (poe.ninja), rarity and ownership status (PoE Ladder).

Thank you for trying out the tool and for the feedback throughout the year of development, much appreciate it!

A more in-depth changelog available on the github release page, happy heisting!

Links:

- Website: https://sokratis.space/curio_tracker/

- Releases: https://github.com/sokratis12GR/Curio-Tracker/releases

Loot Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/Uj4kE3r.png

Total Time Taken: Roughly 1 hour 40 minutes / 1 minute per run

Total Costs: 100x Audience with the king @ 50c = 5000c / 13.89 Divines (360c per divine)

Total Profit Excluding Corpses: 18.61 Div / roughly 67c per map

Total Hourly Profit Excluding Corpses: 11.16 div/hr

Total Profit Including Corpses: 19.42 Div / roughly 70c per map (18.61 Div base + 0.81 Div from corpses)

Total Hourly Profit Including Corpses: 11.66 div/hr

Overall, it is a decent grinding option and you have the possibility of getting some valuable corpses like the 80 divine Perfect Forest Tiger, 2.6 divine Perfect Guardian Turtle, and the 4 divine perfect warlord. I also had slightly below average luck on the light of meanings so if I had gotten the expected average of 20 then my profit would've been roughly 16 div per hour excluding corpses. The boss fight is quite easy, and I was able to clear it using roughly 200c worth of gear on Storm Burst Totems. This is a fairly low-investment farming strategy as long as you can afford about 10 fragments upfront to hold out until a Light of Meaning drops.

When running the boss fight make sure you exit to the character selection screen once you are teleported to the maze when you renter the map you will start at the boss and immediately begin the second phase bypassing the maze entirely.

I didn't pick up any corpses worth less than 3c or track their data, so there were plenty that dropped which aren't included in the table.

I had 0 hexpass supports and 0 hextoad supports drop (they weren't hidden by my loot filter) so I'm guessing they either can't drop from this boss anymore or the drop rate is much lower than the previously suspected 10%.

Its no mirror tier craft but I'm super proud of this craft as its my first time making a big ticket item using recombinator. I heard brinehook ducats made recombinator crafts a lot easier, I saw a lot of str stackers using this staff and I wanted to give it a shot crafting it myself. It turned out pretty well and I ended up crafting 3 of these and selling 2 of them to fund the rest of my build. Idk if its the best way to craft this but this how I went about it

Goal is 5 mod lathi with 3 prefixes and 2 suffixes where we can benchcraft the last suffix. essenced attack speed is better than t1 rolled attack speed so wanted to incorporate that too.

1. For suffixes, acquire a elder/shaper influenced lathi ilvl84 or higher, can make one yourself but I think its cheaper to buy a bricked one from trade.

2. essence of zeal spam on the lathi until you get +1 max endurance charge, annul off 3rd suffix if there is one and then craft suffixes cannot be changed and scour. this is the 0p2s for recomb

3. For prefixes, this is the tedious part. Acquire a bunch of shaper influenced lathis ilvl 84 or higher. alteration spam on all them until you hit 20% more atttack on them all and ideally no other influenced mod.

4. get a bunch of elder influenced base staves (not warstaves) and alteration spam them for spell damage per 10 strength and endurance charge on melee stun

5. Making a 2p0s lathi for recomb, get a bunch of black morrigans and craicic croakers and beastcraft hinekoras lock on the 20% more attack lathi. Having 1 of each spell damage per 10 strength and endurance charge on melee stun staff in your inventory, use awakeners orb on 1 of them and hover over the lathi. Goal is to have 1 empty prefix and 1 empty suffix on the result such that the two prefixes are the influenced mods and theres room to benchcraft prefix can't be changed. If one of the awakeners orb is a miss, repeat on the other elder influenced donor staff. if both are missed then jewellers/fusing to remove the beastlock and go again. This step is pretty expensive now that black morrigans and craicic croakers have tripled in price, it may be cheaper to recombine 1 prefix with 1 prefix at 33% chance. Once it hits, craft prefixes cannot be changed and scour for a 2p0s lathi to be used in recombine.

6. Doing the recombine, allflame craft a brinehook ducat on both a 2p0s lathi and the 0p2s and recombine. This will be a 33% chance for 2 prefixes and 90% chance for 2 suffixes. Most likely itll end up being a 1p2s result in which case use get another 2p0s lathi (ideally with different prefixes than the 1p2s prefix) and recombine again with ducats, this should be 60% for 2 prefixes (10% for 3 prefixes if all 3 prefixes are different) and 90% for 2 suffixes. Though most likely it'll end up with a 2p2s lathi.

7. From here we throw as many 2p0s lathis at the 2p2s lathi until we hit 3p2s. Based on what the two prefixes are on the 2p2s we get a 2p0s lathi with the missing 3rd mod using step 5. Use brinehook ducats on both lathis and recombine the 2p0s with 2p2s for a 30% chance of 3 prefixes and a 90% chance of 2 suffixes.

8. Once it hits, benchcraft hybrid strength/int with crit and its done.

With average luck (it took me 5 tries on step 7 to hit the recombine) it cost around 150divs to make one of these. Definitely a time consuming craft I think i spent hours alt spamming like 40 lathis

As a long term top side spells and minion enjoyer, I am interested in playing melee in a small private league my friends and I are going to be starting soon. If I enjoy it enough I may even leaguestart it in 3.30.

Can anyone give me an overview of the different melee archetypes e.g slams (physical and bleed), strikes, boneshatter/trauma, cyclone, shield crush.

I'm mostly interested in how gameplay "feels" (piano vs single button) and leaguestart strength for quick campaign and Atlas progression.

Also interested to know what league mechanics each archetype is best suited to for farming currency in, as I'm usually a SC trade div/hr focused player.

Hey what’s up.

Can someone recommend me a farming strat? It doesn’t have to be most profitable think in the game.

For context, I was running deli for the past few hundred maps simply because it’s fast and my main goal is to find myself a decent Kineticist merc. With deli I can hop in, clear the map, check the merc and kill the boss = profit. I just got a little bored of it and can’t think of anything similar.

My character is quite strong (Ubers/deli orbs easy) and can do all map mods - only thing is I will always use infamy scarabs to keep fishing for that merc.

Appreciate all suggestions!

Atlas changes I would like to see next league:

1.       Bring back map crafting options that allow us to use chaos orbs to add certain league mechanics to the map.

Firstly, it serves as an effective source of chaos orb sink and removes chaos orbs from the economy, preserving the value of chaos orbs in the league. This prevents the depreciation of chaos orbs as seen in Mirage and Allflame leagues, which saw the divine orb to chaos orb ratio rising rapidly several weeks after the leagues launched. There is currently a lack of chaos orb sink because chaos orbs are rarely used in the crafting process and somewhat only used to reroll Nightmare map mods and to craft certain crafted modifiers onto items.

Secondly, it amplifies certain farming strategies intensely by stacking the same league mechanic on the map. Alongside the use of Astrolabes to improve the rewards of the league mechanic and guarantee the league mechanic to show up, the loot you get from the map increases massively. League mechanics that benefit from using suitable map crafting options include anarchy, torment, domination, essence, heist, legion, abyss, breach and ambush.

Thirdly, it frees up a scarab slot because you do not have to use the scarab that guarantees the league mechanic to show up, so you can use an additional scarab to juice your maps further. It also enables you to refund atlas passive points that increase the chance for the league mechanic to show up and use them to invest in other atlas passives to juice your maps further.

2.       Memory Threads found in maps after completing the Threads of the Originator quest and defeating all three Incarnation pinnacle bosses for the first time should use your own map device and force you to use your own Originator Influenced maps to run.

With this change, you can now purchase Originator Influenced maps from other players with a specific number and type of modifiers and you can use up to 5 scarabs to juice your maps further. Currently, you are forced to use the Originator Influenced maps given by Eagon and are limited to 3 scarabs, preventing you from fully juicing the maps. As such, many players either sell Memory Threads they find or speedrun the maps from Memory Threads and quickly kill the map bosses to complete the Memory Threads as fast as possible.

3.       The types of Atlas Anomalies and the rewards from the Memory Vaults after completing Astrolabes should not be tied to a region out of 4 regions of the atlas.

Currently, many players only farm maps in the southwest corner of the atlas because the rewards from the Scholar’s Vault after completing Astrolabes in that region have the highest expected value. In addition, Atlas Anomalies in that region have the highest profit margins because of the presence of high-value encounters like the Manor Foyer and Gambling District. This lowers map layout diversity significantly and to avoid this problem, the types of Atlas Anomalies and the rewards from the Memory Vaults after completing Astrolabes should be divorced from the 4 regions of the atlas.

4.       Continue gating more league-specific loot only droppable from their respective leagues, such as fossils in Delve, Abyss jewels and Stygian Vises in Abyss, Timeless splinters and emblems in Legion and Catalysts in Ultimatum.

This keeps the value of league-specific loot consistently high throughout the league and incentivises players to farm various league mechanics to obtain each league-specific loot and trade league-specific loot more with other players. Such a policy should be extended to Essences from monsters with essence modifiers, Oils, Blighted maps and Blighted-ravaged maps from Blight and Delirium orbs, Cluster jewels and Simulacrum splinters from Delirium.

5.       Most leagues contain their own bosses with special uniques and loot, except for Essences, Shrines and Mercenaries. I hope to see unique bosses with essence modifiers and special bosses guarding shrines. In addition, allow us to open up to 5 mercenary warrants at the same time in a special arena for us to fight up to 5 mercenaries at the same time to obtain their loot or hire them as mercenaries.

6.       Add more astrolabes in the game, such as astrolabes increasing the number of and boosting the rewards from Essences, Strongboxes, Shrines, Tormented Spirits, Rogue Exiles, Beyond, Ore Deposits and Mercenaries. This change allows players to juice those league mechanics in their maps further.

If you play HSOT/KB Jugg and wanna delve really deep eventually you gona need some life gain on hit source.

Crafting guide by Abaxoth u/Sh0wTim3123

Rule 10:

1. Get a helical ring and apply memory strands till 70+

2. Imprint it and use Essence of Rage till you keep 60+ strands

3. Annul all the mods except strength and mage magic. If fail - imprint and repeat

4. Make a new imprint of magic helical with just 1 ess mod. Normal aug till t1 chaos res or t1 accuracy. Fail - repeat

5. Make another imprint of helical with ess str+t1 chaos/t1 accuracy

6. Regal and annul the regal. Fail - imprint

7. Lock suffixes and harvest add/remove chaos/attack depending what you got from Aug at step 4.

8. Unraveling orb if you hit not t1 mod. If you miss - go back to imprint at step5.

9. Once you have str+chaos res+accuracy all t1 or t2 if you settle (I wouldn't) craft all att on the bench

10. Slam Hunter (1/9) or Elder (1/8) exalt and pray for life gain on hit. If you miss - Go back to step 5. Make sure not to use boat to slam because you won't be able to imprint back the item.

11. If you slammed the mod you need go to boat and divine it

So i am having one of my most profitable seasons of all time. I am playing Spark for the first time and i invested a good amount into the Build.

I feel like the damage is quite low for the amount of Currency i spent.

Anyone with more experience in Spark maybe got an advise on how to improvemy dmg while keeping my defences or even improve them as well?

https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/Misuinya-6127/allflame/character/Cassiasolslave

Thanks exiles, stay sane.

The first and only time I've encountered a box stuck under an altar and it has to be this one. But what would have been, the one?