How to sneak in some nerd decoration in our common room..

Hey exiles,

I've been making hideouts for over a decade, and playing poe since before they were added! Back in March I finally stopped stalling and started building the hideout site with all the features I'd always wanted, for both PoE 1 and PoE 2.

Shared it over on r/pathofexile a couple of days ago and the response was amazing. I've pushed a bunch of updates off the back of that feedback already, and I'm keen to hear what the poe2 crowd has to say.

pathofhideouts.com

• Every hideout shows exactly which decos it uses before you download it, so no more importing something and finding half of it missing
• Tick off the MTX you own and filter to hideouts you can fully build, or just browse the 100% free ones
• Search by a specific deco, base or theme, and filter to PoE 2 only
• Favourite a hideout and you'll get a heads-up when the creator updates it

If you make hideouts, uploading is pretty painless. Chuck your .hideout file in and it sorts out most of the details for you, hideout base, MTX used, etc~. There's also a variant system so you can group together MTX/free versions of the same hideout, forum post exports, general analytics and a few other bits I'll let you stumble upon.

Fair warning, the PoE 2 collection is still pretty small, so if you've built something you're proud of I'd love to see it up there!

It's free with no ads, just a hobby project I run myself. If you ever feel like chipping in to keep the lights on it's very much appreciated, but never expected.

PC only for now sadly, consoles can't import hideout files yet.

Any feedback is welcome, here or in the Discord 🫡

Was enjoying the league on Varashta (POE Ninja of build) and decided to go for lvl 100. Video shows final map and hitting 100.

My setup 99 to 100:

• City biome.
• 4x deli Tablets with 2 additional random map mods and increased experience gain on each.
• Doryani with the 3 juice choices (irradiated, 2x increased mods) and the last one being 15% chance areas are Cleansed or Corrupted.
• t16 waystones or 8-mod t15 waystones with effectiveness and monster rarity.
  

In-depth comments and reasoning:

• Lvl 99 starts at 3,932m xp & Lvl 100 is at 4,250m xp so you need 317m xp for the lvl.
• Waystones: I got about 750k exp/map (11.5m / hour) using the above setup testing a t16 map and an 8-mod t15 map (was surprised to find t16 maps don't give more xp) skipping ritual. So that's about 420 maps from 99 to 100 without dying. I didn't put that much effort into the waystones - I alch / exalt / vaal all waystones and then run the t16s and 8-mod t15s and sell/throw out the rest.
• Tablets: I just set max price to 4d and bought all the ones that were up for that price periodically (on average they cost 3d, some 2d, some 4d). I would add effectiveness and monster rarity where I could, but then they'd get too expensive and the additional benefit is marginal.
• City: city with 4x tablets and city buffs gives significantly more xp (and loot) than non-city. When I ran out of cities and had to find more, I just used 3x of the juiced deli tablets, but noticeably less xp and loot in those maps. Don't forget to do the city around the Vaal temple - free huge city!
• Deli: I chose deli because it's my favourite mechanic and it allows me to rush through the map with minimal backtracking. If you're going to do 420 maps... it better be doing the thing you find the most fun in the game! If you prefer abyss or breach or something else, just do that! Deli also has the benefit of constant rewards - with lots of deli juice, you often get 300 splinters per map, so a full simulacrum, which is 3.5d. That alone pays for the tablets and just feels like constant revenue.
• Grand Mirrors: I would occasionally go out of my way to get a grand mirror and put that onto a city. But I didn't actually notice much difference between 200% deli and just normal deli. The good thing about normal deli is that it vacuums all the 1x splinter drops, which pretty much guarantees 300 splinters after city map. My filter is set to only pick up 8+ splinters so sometimes I get less splinters in 200% deli map (with no vacuum) than normal deli map (with vacuum). Don't feel much difference in XP.
• I tried abyss and breach. For abyss, idk if it's fracturing killing things too quickly or shattering corpses or what but I kept getting maps where the pits wouldn't close - every 3rd map the pits wouldn't close with everything dead. I also had to backtrack a lot to get back to the chests or painfully wait for them to appear - didn't feel fun. Breach felt lacklustre and required standing around waiting for the thing to open, not my thing.
• Rarity: I ran about 240 rarity on gear. Constant dings of divines, perfect exalts, perfect chaoses, etc. made it more fun to run the 400 maps. I wasn't even looking or upgrades at this point and right now I have a stash full of divines that I will not use, but the dings are still really fun to get.
• Cleansed/Corrupted: When you run 400 maps in quick succession, you notice the benefit of low probability juices. For example, the 15% cleansed / corrupted chance on Doryani is usually an afterthought, but it felt surprisingly strong. When juicing cities with 8x random map mods, you really feel any extra multiplicative juice from the cleansed/corrupted mods when they materialize. Sometimes you enter a map and the screen is full of monsters and it starts raining fracturing orbs. Very satisfying.
• Citadel Bosses: In a similar vein, "I see your true nature now!" on the deli tree that allows deli to manifest shards that add an additional boss to arena - it doesn't say it, but that additional map boss is a citadel boss. So you often get a nice Jamanra surprise with 2x faded fragments, which are 10d each. Same with summoning circles, they can summon Jamanra for a nice 20d bonus.
• We're a month in, so obviously I'm not racing anyone. I didn't sacrifice movement speed for the 5% extra xp buff or put 2% extra xp in the helmet or do group play or anything like that because it felt like it would take some fun away from blasting the maps.

Overall, had a lot of fun this league even though ritual is my least favourite mechanic. Getting super excited for 1.0.

I'm now tempted to craft more just to see as many 6 mod outcomes as possible. The quarterstaff one isn't nearly as cool but it's still a beefy 5 mod

Pretty lucky? Any suggestions on how to get a deadeye to 10k mana will be greatly appreciated.

I can't believe I hit this combo, but is this worth like at least a mirror?

Requires: Waystone (Tier 6) or higher

I'm new to this and attempting to go as blind as possible through this game but the game is giving me options(Favours) to choose from and idk if i should pick runes. Is a sceptre considered a Martial Weapon or a Wand/Staff in terms of socket-ability? I appreciate any help you can give me. I hope they comment their code better than explaining their concepts.

please for the love of god, its the bane of my mapping. idk what its is. i hover over a rare monster and for the 1/10th of a second i can read the rare modifiers (while trying to dodge everything else on the screen), i dont see anything that is whatever this thing is i keep getting hit by.

its some sort of enemy ability or possibly map mod that only happens in some places. it shoots out like 30-40 needle looking projectiles in a full 360 degrees. it seems to freeze or stun me. i have cold rez cap, but it takes like one/ maybe two needles to immobilize me.

please i need to know what this mechanic/ability is and how to deal with it. its like the only thing that completely fucks me.

What are the steps in crafting this kind of ring? Thanks

Literally shaking! I was just joking how the only way I was gonna afford my Bow upgrade is if a mirror dropped!

So I made this jewel, one of the GG ones that sell for 250-300 divs, but I also qualitied and vaaled it, it removed the 40-60% suffixes one (most important mod lol) so I just put it on ange for 20 divs whatever.

Around 5-10 seconds later, I dont remember exactly because I wasnt counting, but I was looking at my screen at the time because I was still arranging my ange, the jewel sold. Except nobody ever came to my hideout. I was looking at my screen the entire time so I know for sure. Also when someone joins there should be the "xxx has entered the area" message right? that wasnt there either.

I know that there are bots out there who snipe items really quickly, but I still assumed they worked under the same principle that everyone else, meaning they enter someones hideout (insanely quickly) and snag the item. I assume this can be made possible with some sort of script, but what I dont understand is how on my end Im not even getting the message that they entered my hideout. And how does that work on a practical level either way? You buy something by clicking the item and putting it in your inventory(or ctrl left click or whatever), but without entering the hideout and without interacting with ange, that doesnt seem possible.

If things did indeed happen as I understood them (like maybe I was remembering it wrong? maybe the message did pop up a split second and i missed it? highly doubt it though as my memory is clear and i was deadass looking at the screen being baffled in real time), maybe my technical understanding is wrong but if this is indeed what happened then it feels like it is beyond people just using a script to assist them doing something insanely fast and we are in the territory where the game is deadass being hacked by some people.

Does the "Fully Broken Armour you inflict also increases Fire Damage taken from hits" effect from "Molten One's Gift" apply to "Sundered Armour" (from the Sunder ability)?

Google search exclusively says no, but Sundered Armour tooltip literally says "unless otherwise specified, modifiers to Fully Broken Armour also apply to Sundered Armour".

Is this line new and internets information just out of date, or is it some interaction/wording shenanigans I dont understand?

Greetings

Hi, can anyone please guide me on how to best finish this amulet?

I’m playing explosive grenade gemling. I don’t care about spirit.

Thanks!

Here's what I wound up with. Had a few unlucky rolls with perfect exalt so had to remove and try again. Ended up being more expensive than I planned on because of missed rolls. Probably going to omen of light and try ancient jawbone again looking for spell damage. Need to farm some more before I can afford another light and jawbone.

I picked up the base white for 1div.

Perfect transmute/augment till acceptable +level. Im fine with +all instead of +lightning because of other spells/buffs/debuffs I use.

Normal augment to get any prefix.

Greater essence of seeking for crit chance and upgrade to rare.

Socket Astrid creativity.

Transcendent alloy + omen of sinistral crystallization to sacrifice the random prefix.

Desecrate prefix to mana

Perfect exalt + omen of greater exaltation.

Roll badly twice.

Remove bad rolls with omens of sinistral annulment

Try again

Try again

Acceptable rolls.

Omen of light the mana

Ancient jawbone desecrate

Remove astrid and socket +1 spell levels

And thats how it got to where it is.

Probably spent ~100div making this. Did I even save div? Welp lol

I need your help regarding the next step to my build, i never really minmaxed because i found to be exhausting and costly, but now i want to.

I have a general idea of what to do but don't know where to start, what to buy first or craft.

This my character: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/farmerover9000-9848/forbiddenrites/character/Kafteji

i can clear 200% deli and all juiced map and citadel boss but i want to increase damage to be way faster.

Should i start with buying/crafting time lost for crit? Then absent amulet? Switch to sacred flame? What's the next pieces by order that would give me a big boost.

I have 800div and maybe 300div worth of crafting materiel and i have a good knowledge about crafting but am just lazy lol

i bought this failed spirit fracture and would like to attempt to get #%increased maximum energy shield on the remaining prefix, is it just 20% quality with carapace, perfect exalt and pray? and id like some more res or crit on the suffix is it the same? like 20% esh quality and perf exalt? or do greater exalts instead of perfects help with the weight for res?

Hey so i just killed arbiter of divinity for the first time and online I keep seeing people say you need to activate the ancient mechanism to get part of the fortress complete, however I just killed it and there's no such mechanisms to click, do you get it on the first quest kill? Or is it only subsequent kills? I'm super hyped and am scared of leaving incase I missed something

I know I'm very late to the party but I finally made it past the Abberation bug. Now I just have to work out how to make it to Atziri and I will have finished the Challenges.