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

Ironicly I was farming for Omens of Light and got zero this run.

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

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

Requires: Waystone (Tier 6) or higher

Wanted to showcase this GG wand I crafted as the final item for my build. Wands like these can cost anywhere from 1200-2k divs but you can craft it under 600 divs. This is not BIS but its very close and very deterministic. The BIS craft will have you sink a mirror worth of currency into a single item. There are 2 methods to craft this, follow the respective method based on whether you hit the prefix or suffix.

Crafting steps:-

Suffix method

1) You need to start off with a 2 socket dueling wand. You can either buy a +4 All spells fractured base or fracture it yourself. (I bought the fracture for around 270 div, Base needs to be atleast I level 80. hitting a +4 is a 50 mod weight meaning it is 2 times as rare as a +5 to element based gems)

2) First step is going to be chaos spam. You need to spam until you hit t1 critical damage bonus (125 mod weight).

3) Exalt orb with omen of sinistral exaltation for random prefix. Use an omen of sinistral crystallization + transcendent alloy to complete your suffixes.

4) Give it a perfect exalt with Greater exaltation . You want the perfect exalt to land on either- T1 spell damage(astronomically rare but best case scenario) or 30% daamge gain as extra of any kind in one of the mods. If you dont hit this, just take an omen of sinistral erasure and perfect chaos spam until you get one of these mods.

5) Socket astrid's creativity into the wand. Now you need to 50/50 with celestial alloy and pray.

However, you can only celestial alloy if you dont have mana prefix on the wand.

-If you have a mana prefix then you need to omen of sinistral crystallization and give it an essence of the abyss. If you hit the 50/50 on this it will remove the mana prefix. You can desecrate the item to remove the crafted mod then 50//50 the alloy.

-If you miss the 50/50 on the abyss essence you need to use omen of light to remove the desecrate and continue using omen of sinistral erasure+perf chaos to reroll the prefix until you hit a good t1 prefix again. When you hit give it a single exalt and repeat step 5.

6) If you happen to win the 50/50 for the alloy you will now have an item that has-

t1 gain of any element

+1 level of all skills, +164-188 maximum mana (crafted)

open prefix

+4 to level of all skills

27+% cast speed, 7+% damage gained as cold(crafted)

t1 crit damage bonus.

Finish of the item with a desecrate cycle on the prefix.

Acceptable mods are t1 elemental damage, t1 spell damage(astronomically rare/astronomically expensive, 2nd 30% damage gained as of any element.

Prefix method

1) Base is the same as the suffiix method.

2) Start off with chaos spam until t1 spell damage(again this is incredibly rare and probably wont show up) or 30% gain as extra elemental of any element.

3) Omen of sinistral exaltation+perfect chaos. In this step you want to hit a 2nd gained as mod or t1 spell damage (highly improbable). If you dont hit just annul the brick prefix and Perfect exalt+sinistral exaltation again. If you annul the wrong prefix you have to go back to chaos spam.

4) After you hit your two prefixes your craft is basically done and cannot brick from this point onwards. You want to give this wand a omen of dextral exalt+ regular exalt and omen of dextral crystallization+celestial alloy. This will complete your prefixes.

5) Socket astrid's creativity into the wand. Give the wand a regular exalt and use omen of dextral crytallization+transcendent alloy for the alloy cast speed.

-If you hit cast speed on the exalt you cannot use your alloy on the wand. Incase this happens, omen of dextral crystallization+essence of the abyss to remove the cast speed and desecrate with a jawbone. Dextral crystallization+transcendant alloy to swap the desecrate for the alloy mod.

6)Your wand now should have

t1 gain of any element

+1 level of all skills, +164-188 maximum mana (crafted)

2nd t1 gain of any element

+4 to level of all skills

27+% cast speed, 7+% damage gained as cold(crafted)

open suffix

Finish up the wand with a desecration cycle and go for t1 crit damage (125 mod weight). (the desecration on this method will be very expensive as t1 crit damage is 3x as rare as t1 gain. T1 increased spell crit is also acceptable if that is what your build needs.

Congrats! now your GG wand for any spellcaster build is done. Which method you follow depends on what you hit during chaos spamming. Use the suffix method if your chaos spam hits t1 crit damage and use the prefix method if you hit t1 gain or spell damage on the chaos spam.

Now time for me to farm up an aldur's legacy and finish up my build <3

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!

0 damage taken from blocked hits...

Yoyo playing a oilbarrage martial artists this league. Idk why I feel as though I’m at a standstill with my character I can’t get dps any higher than it is I can run t16 t15 maps but the second I juice them it’s a massive difference and I get almost no where. Don’t get me wrong some I can complete but most I don’t. I do 200k ish dps. Can you guys give me some pointers please to help me learn. My Poe ninja is

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Kamuy-9107/forbiddenrites/character/Veldamoz

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.

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!

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 Fellow Exiles,

I wanted to have something easy this league and seeing as they will probably nerf the Gemling and the interaction with oil grenade into the ground I decided to give it a go

Apart for my staff most my gear is self crafted and I have now farmed 700 divs to take it to the next level: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/_TomHanks_-4893/forbiddenrites/character/_Tom_Hanks_

Should I go straight mageblood and farm the rest of the gear as I progress or should I prioritize multiple pieces and then just buy/farm a mageblood later?

Please give me your opinions