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How do you feel about Archnemesis mods on rares?
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Frank Frank: Jun 13, 2001; Mirrored

Setec_Astronomy posted:

This sounds atrocious! I am all the more impressed with your success with the game given how rough the console experience seems.

Oh the other downside is that people can make offers on stuff with no prices. This especially sucks if you're trying to sell currency because you can't list/de-list individual slots so if you're selling 200c, expect a bunch of 3 alc offers for your stack of divines. I ended up buying a 2nd "currency for sale" stash tab because it got so annoying.

It's not terrible and definitely has its uses. Console also has access to the PoE website market so it's just another way to buy/sell things and the nice part is that the buyer/seller don't have to be online at the same time or meet up to exchange items.

Frank Frank fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Sep 27, 2023

# ? Sep 27, 2023 05:18

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# ? Dec 1, 2023 22:49

whypick1: Dec 18, 2009; Just another jackass on the Internet

Frank Frank posted:

Oh the other downside is that people can make offers on stuff with no prices. This especially sucks if you're trying to sell currency because you can't list/de-list individual slots...

Uh, is there not a "Do Not Index" option?

# ? Sep 27, 2023 05:23

Frank Frank: Jun 13, 2001; Mirrored

whypick1 posted:

Uh, is there not a "Do Not Index" option?

Nope. I don't think so anyway. You can de-list entire stash tabs but not individual items.

# ? Sep 27, 2023 05:26

totalnewbie: Nov 13, 2005; I was born and raised in China, lived in Japan, and now hold a US passport.

I am wrong in every way, all the damn time.

Ask me about my tattoos.

Frank Frank posted:

Apparently my freaky luck does not extend to item crafting. I'm ~30 fossil sets deep now (dense, bound, pristine) and have not hit +2 minion gems yet and I'm starting to strain the fossil market (lol). I'm at depth 300 in delve and I'm still not seeing a ton of fossils, not even off the beaten path behind dynamite walls.

This is within expectation for fossil crafting that helm. You may get a +2 in the next ~20ish. Hope for a good life roll too because if not, you'll have to gamble to fix the prefixes. Or just keep rolling fossils.

Also, console sounds atrocious.

# ? Sep 27, 2023 06:29

Tonetta: Jul 8, 2013; look mother look at ME MOTHER MOTHER I AM A HOMESTIXK NOW

**methodically removes and eats own clothes*

Frank Frank posted:

Oh the other downside is that people can make offers on stuff with no prices. This especially sucks if you're trying to sell currency because you can't list/de-list individual slots so if you're selling 200c, expect a bunch of 3 alc offers for your stack of divines. I ended up buying a 2nd "currency for sale" stash tab because it got so annoying.

It's not terrible and definitely has its uses. Console also has access to the PoE website market so it's just another way to buy/sell things and the nice part is that the buyer/seller don't have to be online at the same time or meet up to exchange items.

the workaround I've found for this sort of thing is to just pull out a stack of the currency and list it in a different tab.

there's a neat trick you can use to potentially save a lot of money in meta crafting, assuming you don't intend to start with a fractured/synth base. if you think about the steps it takes to make the item you want, and then search for the items as you would expect them at "breakers" (right before you start crafting cannot change prefix/suffix for example). the vast majority of players are either just searching for bases to do the whole craft themselves or trying to buy the completed product. There's a lot of hidden gems out there to find

# ? Sep 27, 2023 10:05

Frank Frank: Jun 13, 2001; Mirrored

Tonetta posted:

the workaround I've found for this sort of thing is to just pull out a stack of the currency and list it in a different tab.

Yeah like I said, I just bought a 2nd currency tab and labeled it �currency for sale�. I may end up doing the same for the boss stash tab (breach/legion/maven/eow/exarch/shaper/elder/sirus tab). I wonder why that particular stash tab has so many different mechanics on a single tab.

quote:

there's a neat trick you can use to potentially save a lot of money in meta crafting, assuming you don't intend to start with a fractured/synth base. if you think about the steps it takes to make the item you want, and then search for the items as you would expect them at "breakers" (right before you start crafting cannot change prefix/suffix for example). the vast majority of players are either just searching for bases to do the whole craft themselves or trying to buy the completed product. There's a lot of hidden gems out there to find

Doubt this is a thing on console but I�ll check just for the hell of it.

# ? Sep 27, 2023 12:01

The Wonder Weapon: Dec 15, 2006

The dude offering 200 engineering orbs every single day for a mirror is great

McFrugal posted:

Is that purely hit-based?! I wanna know how this build works.

yes

bawfuls posted:

What does PoB say your dps is? I�m gearing up to try the Feared for the first time soon, trying to get a feel for what to expect.

My current floor on pinnacle bosses is about 27m a hit. At full pob warrior, 55m. https://pastebin.com/JZiLrMit

# ? Sep 27, 2023 13:40

bawfuls: Oct 28, 2009; greatness

The Wonder Weapon posted:

The dude offering 200 engineering orbs every single day for a mirror is great

yes

My current floor on pinnacle bosses is about 27m a hit. At full pob warrior, 55m. https://pastebin.com/JZiLrMit

That is absolutely monstrous, but it does make me feel confident about my ~21M ignites

# ? Sep 27, 2023 13:58

wemgo: Feb 15, 2007

LifeLynx posted:

Are any fractured bases worth money, or are they only worth picking up if you're willing to put in the time to learn how to craft?

If you get a fractured base that has a tier 1 or tier 2 affix, its worth checking trade to see if its valuable. I have sold a few fractured bases for 4d and one for 14d this league.

# ? Sep 27, 2023 14:29

Ouzo Maki: Jul 4, 2023

Do you all have any recommendations for cheap uniques that would help speed up my run through the campaign on my league starter? I have maybe 5-ish-C and a bunch of alchemy orbs... so not much but hopefully something to speed it along...

# ? Sep 27, 2023 14:56

dyzzy: Dec 22, 2009; argh

Depends on the skills you want to use, but the real minmax stuff like seven league steps are pretty pricey. Do you have a tabula?

# ? Sep 27, 2023 14:58

External Organs: Mar 3, 2006; One time i prank called a bear buildin workshop and said I wanted my mamaws ashes put in a teddy from where she loved them things so well... The woman on the phone did not skip a beat. She just said, "Brang her on down here. We've did it before."

dyzzy posted:

Depends on the skills you want to use, but the real minmax stuff like seven league steps are pretty pricey. Do you have a tabula?

I mean, clarification needed -- if you're starting the league now you can get all sorts of poo poo for 5c(or free from goons), not counting a tabula.

# ? Sep 27, 2023 15:00

Ouzo Maki: Jul 4, 2023

Assume I know nothing about anything. I see a tabula is a 6-link white, which, yeah, that sounds super helpful. I'm moving through a couple different characters right now to see what I like, looking at RF juggernaut and maybe a minion based necromancer build, but there I'm reading conflicting things about the Ghazzy zoo build I started. Reddit says it sucks, and spectres are better, but I'm still really clueless. I've never finished the campaign, this will be my first time :/

# ? Sep 27, 2023 15:08

whypick1: Dec 18, 2009; Just another jackass on the Internet

So absolutely generic dirt-cheap twink uniques:

Chest: Tabula, as mentioned
Boots: Wanderlust - 20% move speed (you probably have no idea how important move speed is) and Freeze immunity that you can equip right from the jump
Helm: Goldrim / Thrillsteel - The former provides a bunch of resists so you have less gear pressure later on in the campaign, the latter provides a permanent Onslaught bonus (attack/cast/move speed)
Gloves: Lochtonial Caress (attack/cast speed, charge generation)
Belt: Belt of the Deceiver or the a String of Servitude with an appropriate corruption
Rings: Praxis / Perandus Signet - Former helps solve mana problems if you try to jump straight into a 6L skill setup, latter gives you more XP
Weapons/shield - Depends on what character you're leveling as/build you're aiming for. You listed both a Marauder and a Witch character.

Ouzo Maki posted:

Reddit says it sucks

Remove those middle two words, that'll help you out immensely

Do link whichever build guides you're thinking of (if your RF Jugg isn't Pohx's you're doing it wrong).

# ? Sep 27, 2023 15:17

External Organs: Mar 3, 2006; One time i prank called a bear buildin workshop and said I wanted my mamaws ashes put in a teddy from where she loved them things so well... The woman on the phone did not skip a beat. She just said, "Brang her on down here. We've did it before."

If you're an attack build with a decent attack speed, the thiefs torment ring can carry you pretty far with the obvious downside of not having another ring.

# ? Sep 27, 2023 15:22

Ouzo Maki: Jul 4, 2023

whypick1 posted:

Remove those middle two words, that'll help you out immensely

Do link whichever build guides you're thinking of (if your RF Jugg isn't Pohx's you're doing it wrong).

LOL good call

these two builds:

https://www.poe-vault.com/guides/righteous-fire-juggernaut-build-guide (Pohx!)

https://www.poe-vault.com/guides/zoomancer-necromancer-build-guide

Thanks for the tips everyone!

# ? Sep 27, 2023 15:27

Edmond Dantes: Sep 12, 2007; Reactor: Online
Sensors: Online
Weapons: Online

ALL SYSTEMS NOMINAL

Zoomancer is really fun/funny and a surprisingly smooth campaign/levelling experience. I fell out of it last league because for the higher end stuff you want AG and I was too poor/had no idea what I was doing to slam 100c on a good AG gear set (and recasting zombies/skellies gets annoying) but running around with 50 assholes punching everything is hilarious.

# ? Sep 27, 2023 15:53

Ouzo Maki: Jul 4, 2023

I should probably just stick with one, huh? My ADHD brain demands dopamine, and mixing it up is helping a bit. Mostly I'm just figuring things out. Does all my currency etc. poof away when league ends? How do people accumulate so much wealth? Is it just grinding it out?

# ? Sep 27, 2023 15:55

bawfuls: Oct 28, 2009; greatness

Kumquat posted:

posting it here as well as discord because it hasn't been wildly publicized but there is now a Community Edition of exilence that someone from the exilence discord got up and running https://github.com/exilence-ce/exilence-ce/releases

Thank you for this link, I had found the community release and been running it early in the league but missed this update so it broke a couple weeks ago. This update has me back up and running. SO much better than PoE Stack!

# ? Sep 27, 2023 15:58

whypick1: Dec 18, 2009; Just another jackass on the Internet

Ouzo Maki posted:

I should probably just stick with one, huh? My ADHD brain demands dopamine, and mixing it up is helping a bit. Mostly I'm just figuring things out. Does all my currency etc. poof away when league ends? How do people accumulate so much wealth? Is it just grinding it out?

At the end of the seasonal league all of your stuff goes into the root permanent league (i.e. Ancestor Softcore --> Standard Softcore, Ancestor SSF Ruthless Hardcore --> SSF Ruthless Hardcore). Next season will be a fresh start for everyone (and to be clear, stuff like stash tabs and other MTX stick around, you don't have to re-buy those).

And yes, people get currency by playing the poo poo out of this game and making/selling stuff that earns currency.

# ? Sep 27, 2023 16:01

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 11, 2001

bawfuls posted:

Thank you for this link, I had found the community release and been running it early in the league but missed this update so it broke a couple weeks ago. This update has me back up and running. SO much better than PoE Stack!

only part of poestack that's good is the TFT thing that means I don't need to use discord to bulk sell my garbage

# ? Sep 27, 2023 16:01

Setec_Astronomy: Mar 10, 2003; there's nothing wrong with you that an expensive operation can't prolong

whypick1 posted:

And yes, people get currency by playing the poo poo out of this game and making/selling stuff that earns currency.

But note that your "earning power" will skyrocket with both character power and currency investment. The 5c that represents your current total wealth will eventually be 5% of what you spend on running a single map (which then pays you back multiple hundreds of chaos for your investment).

# ? Sep 27, 2023 16:10

dyzzy: Dec 22, 2009; argh

Stretching my legs off of BPL and just need to finish level 100 (thank you Chris for omen of amelioration, love, a softcore idiot). Sanctums are decent and safe but I wanna blast stuff so I might just do some juiced legion dunes and solo 5 ways

Spark has been a very fun build to take from zero to (mostly) hero and I am pretty sure I'll revisit it at some point, maybe as the trickster variant or pathfinder

# ? Sep 27, 2023 16:23

LifeLynx: Feb 27, 2001; Dang so this is like looking over his shoulder in real-time; Grimey Drawer

https://poe.ninja/builds/ancestor/character/Pasgoyf/ChanelleFirebal

First ever character since beta going well. I've resigned to probably never getting those last five skill points, but I think I only need some very expensive items with +% cold damage, spell damage, dot, cold dot, etc to double or triple my DPS.

# ? Sep 27, 2023 16:45

bawfuls: Oct 28, 2009; greatness

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

only part of poestack that's good is the TFT thing that means I don't need to use discord to bulk sell my garbage

If I understand the recent discord posts correctly, someone is working on that

# ? Sep 27, 2023 16:58

whypick1: Dec 18, 2009; Just another jackass on the Internet

LifeLynx posted:

https://poe.ninja/builds/ancestor/character/Pasgoyf/ChanelleFirebal

First ever character since beta going well. I've resigned to probably never getting those last five skill points, but I think I only need some very expensive items with +% cold damage, spell damage, dot, cold dot, etc to double or triple my DPS.

Not bad, not bad. Couple things jump out at me:

*Your Jade Flask doesn't have a prefix.
*I'd look into improving your resistances on your gear and replace all the tattoos you have. Since you're Coward's Legacy, I'd look at Tattoo of the Hinekora Deathwarden to reduce curse effect on you, especially since your flasks won't be up 100% of the time (which, yeah, that's a bit of PoB Warrior'ing on your part). Not going to be able to get fully immune because you don't have 25 +10 int nodes on your tree and you still need 159 int, so you can use a max of 13 nodes without shuffling any gear around. That's 78% reduced effect, which cuts it in half without your flasks up.
*Your Two-Stone Ring is a Shaper item with no Shaper mods on it. Guessing you bought it as is? I think you'd be better served by a Frostbite-on-Hit ring, because manually casting curses kinda suck unless you have a Balance of Terror.
*Speaking of, you took the reservation efficiency nodes leading to Whispers of Doom instead of literally any of the other paths that would actually provide some benefit.
*You have the Cruelty mastery in the Growth and Decay wheel...and no Cruelty supports anywhere :confused:

The duration one is probably your best bet.
*Don't have Pantheons set in your PoB, as well as a couple of outdated options.

whypick1 fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Sep 27, 2023

# ? Sep 27, 2023 17:12

LifeLynx: Feb 27, 2001; Dang so this is like looking over his shoulder in real-time; Grimey Drawer

whypick1 posted:

Not bad, not bad. Couple things jump out at me:

*Your Jade Flask doesn't have a prefix.
*I'd look into improving your resistances on your gear and replace all the tattoos you have. Since you're Coward's Legacy, I'd look at Tattoo of the Hinekora Deathwarden to reduce curse effect on you, especially since your flasks won't be up 100% of the time (which, yeah, that's a bit of PoB Warrior'ing on your part). Not going to be able to get fully immune because you don't have 25 +10 int nodes on your tree and you still need 159 int, so you can use a max of 13 nodes without shuffling any gear around. That's 78% reduced effect, which cuts it in half without your flasks up.
*Your Two-Stone Ring is a Shaper item with no Shaper mods on it. Guessing you bought it as is? I think you'd be better served by a Frostbite-on-Hit ring, because manually casting curses kinda suck unless you have a Balance of Terror.
*Speaking of, you took the reservation efficiency nodes leading to Whispers of Doom instead of literally any of the other paths that would actually provide some benefit.
*You have the Cruelty mastery in the Growth and Decay wheel...and no Cruelty supports anywhere The duration one is probably your best bet.
*Don't have Pantheons set in your PoB, as well as a couple of outdated options.

Jade Flask was an early purchase, I haven't looked at it since I knew more about what I was doing.

I used to have a Watcher's Eye that made me immune to vulnerability (that's a curse, right?) but it wasn't doing much so I swapped it until I can afford a better Watcher's Eye. I wasted so much chaos trying to juggle the resists on all my gear and I'm not looking forward to doing it again.

One or two guides I read mentioned not having Frostbite-on-hit and instead just hardcasting it on bosses and tough rare mobs. I think it was to save a chunk of divs. I want to touch as few buttons as possible. If there was a way to have Hatred as an always-on aura instead of on Divine Blessing Support without cutting a defensive aura I'd love it.

If I don't need the reservation efficiency nodes that's great news. I thought I was just barely meeting my mana reservation requirements with a jewel and those nodes combined, but I didn't do the math.

Good catch on the Cruelty thing; I used Cruelty while leveling, but I'm embarrassed how long I've had the node since I switched to my endgame skill gems.

Bandits are 2 SP and pantheon is Brine King for no-freeze and... I forget the minor one. Something that helps with flask charges?

Thank you!

# ? Sep 27, 2023 18:25

Bugsy: Jul 15, 2004; I'm thumpin'. That's
why they call me
'Thumper'.; Slippery Tilde

I think I'm going to roll a void sphere/ensnaring arrow only tota raider, about what level should I repsec the tree to just run tota?

# ? Sep 27, 2023 18:29

whypick1: Dec 18, 2009; Just another jackass on the Internet

LifeLynx posted:

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Yes, Vulnerability is a curse. You should be able to afford a moderately useful Watcher's Eye with the Vuln immune mod + 1 other mod that would actually apply to you. Vuln immune + damage mod might be a bit much though.

If trash melts just fine, then a curse-on-hit ring isn't really necessary.

"Reservation of curse aura skills". None of your auras are curses.

# ? Sep 27, 2023 18:38

Cynic Jester: Apr 11, 2009; Let's put a simile on that face
A dazzling simile
Twinkling like the night sky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eO59BfeW1Y

Yepp.

# ? Sep 27, 2023 20:36

whypick1: Dec 18, 2009; Just another jackass on the Internet

Jousis an official GGG BotW, new videos from eirikeiken and Engineering Eternity...

...what year is this?

Video is quite accurate, that build is quite cancer.

# ? Sep 27, 2023 20:40

xZAOx: Sep 5, 2004; PORKCHOP SANDWICHES

whypick1 posted:

Jousis an official GGG BotW, new videos from eirikeiken and Engineering Eternity...

...what year is this?

A good one.

# ? Sep 27, 2023 20:41

whypick1: Dec 18, 2009; Just another jackass on the Internet

Today must be Screen Cancer Build Day^*:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwaFfF9KjfU

^{*Obviously joking, because that's every day in PoE}

# ? Sep 27, 2023 21:01

Frank Frank: Jun 13, 2001; Mirrored

Man, this SRS build is night and day compared to the assassin. Almost feels too easy now that I have that green nightmare thing turned on. I kinda miss dancing around/dodging but I definitely don't miss the random 1HKOs. I'm farting around depth 350 in delve. Today I learned that there's a 2nd kind of lich in the game that's totally different from the Abyss guy. He looks cooler too. No Aul yet but I'm just about to hit 98 and I figured out where bound fossils drop. Now I just need to figure out dense and pristine.

Frank Frank fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Sep 28, 2023

# ? Sep 28, 2023 02:15

pork never goes bad: May 16, 2008

Poison SRS is a really good build. Idk what you should do next. Honestly maybe you should farm up currency for a second build that's more specialized - given SRS strength as a bosser and just ok mapping you'd probably either want a real super speed map blaster or something that can really deep delve past where SRS can reasonably go. Or perhaps instead of a new build you should work on setting up a seriously juicy mf strat, similar to what totalnewbie recently laid out. Pretty cool stuff.

# ? Sep 28, 2023 05:32

Fister Roboto: Feb 21, 2008; Buglord

Obviously the next step is to homebrew a build.

# ? Sep 28, 2023 05:38

Shitty Treat: Feb 21, 2012; Stoopid?

Fister Roboto posted:

Obviously the next step is to homebrew a build.

Agreed. Time to take the training wheels off

https://poebuildroulette.github.io/

# ? Sep 28, 2023 05:43

NPR Journalizard: Feb 14, 2008

pork never goes bad posted:

Poison SRS is a really good build. Idk what you should do next. Honestly maybe you should farm up currency for a second build that's more specialized - given SRS strength as a bosser and just ok mapping you'd probably either want a real super speed map blaster or something that can really deep delve past where SRS can reasonably go. Or perhaps instead of a new build you should work on setting up a seriously juicy mf strat, similar to what totalnewbie recently laid out. Pretty cool stuff.

What is a really good delver build?

# ? Sep 28, 2023 06:09

pork never goes bad: May 16, 2008

Tbh I don't know the really good delve meta. I know manabond has made it very deep, as well as a variety of jugg builds. I'm curious how some of the 'immortal' pathfinder builds handle the depths and I'm sure transcendence can be a part of it. Jorgen is a YouTuber with a bunch of videos about delving to a level that's past the casual but isn't anywhere near Misha or the other top end delvers. But if you wanted to specialize in delve but didn't wanna push to the top of the leaderboards, his content isn't bad about helping you make a decent build on the way down there. I'm not sure if any of the really deep folks are putting out guides and vids. Delve has a weird sort of scaling where what works for moderately low depths (say, 600ish - pretty low but not the top end) starts to drop off as you continue down.

# ? Sep 28, 2023 07:01

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# ? Dec 1, 2023 22:49

No Safe Word: Feb 26, 2005

lovely Treat posted:

Agreed. Time to take the training wheels off

https://poebuildroulette.github.io/

If only it had been updated in 6 years

# ? Sep 28, 2023 08:31

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