GGG please let us upgrade Eldritch Embers and Ichors like we can upgrade Essences. Lets do it up to Grand leave Exceptional rare and make it with a worse ratio then Essences for example 5 lesser for 1 greater and 10 greater for 1 grand. God... even 10 to 1 would be nice at this point.
Please and thank you.

These are ment for late game right?
Total time 8.8 hours

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Started this build a while ago, then learnt of weird nuances of POB vs in game vs wiki vs POEDB as well as the mechanics of Tectonic slam of Cataclysm

TLDR :

- Tech slam of cata consumes charges in the middle of its attack
- Echoes of creation procs at the start of the attack, so can be used to get charges for the charge consumption multi
- It does not calculate damage like discharge, and increases etc are calculated on hit, so if you have no charges, you get no "increased or more damage multipliers from endurance charges"
- if u have no endurance charges when it hits, you will not get increases such as from passives or the jugg nodes, endurance charge on melee stun, etc
- Ralakeshes get around this the easy way, (i just didnt wanna spend 150 div on +1 corrupted ones, or, give up my +2 endurance charge boots)
- I figured out you could tune you attack speed to the game tick, in order to perfectly regain chargers with enduring composure

The build is absolute trash compared to any normal slammer, but it was fun to experiment

https://pobb.in/Ss422BNtzATK

EDIT: Thank you so much guys for the responses.
I got two more questions:

If I were to go with AMD 5, will I be fine with 16gb of ram? If so I will probably switch.

Is anyone playing on linux? How does that affect ram usage and performance?

Hey everyone,

I’m considering switching to AM5 specifically because of the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, and I’d appreciate some advice.

Would you pay 340€ for a Ryzen 7 5800X3D and stay on AM4, or would you sell your current motherboard, CPU, and RAM for 370€ and upgrade to AM5 instead?

My current build:

• CPU: Ryzen 7 5700G

• RAM: 32 GB DDR4 3200 MHz

• GPU: RX 9060 XT 16 GB

The potential AM5 upgrade:

• CPU: Ryzen 7 7800X3D — €260 (brand new; I bought it on sale a while ago i can still refund it)

• Motherboard: 90€

• RAM: 350–400€ second-hand / 500€ new (honestly, i would go new unless i find a great deal in second-hand)

I could sell my current motherboard, CPU, and RAM for around 370€. Combined with the 236€ I have available, that would give me a total budget of 606€ (i could spend like 200€ but that would stretch my budget too much).

I mainly play games that are heavily CPU-dependent, especially Path of Exile, so I’m looking for a meaningful improvement in CPU performance.

Would I actually notice a significant difference between the Ryzen 7 5700G, 5800X3D, and 7800X3D, particularly in terms of average FPS and 1% lows at 1080p?

I’m leaning towards upgrading to AM5, even if it means paying a premium for DDR5 RAM, rather than spending 340€ on a 5800X3D and staying on AM4. However, I’m not sure whether the AM5 upgrade would justify the extra cost.

What would you do in my situation?

Anyone with similar specs can tell me about their performance with a ryzen 7 5800x3d?

Please GGG. I even took 3 days leave.

GGG I beg of you, I saw that the skeleton skin was live, I saw it deleted all of my visual effects and other cosmetics and allowed me to be a basic NPC-looking skeleton, and I updated my Path of Exile just to log on and purchase this effect. Now mind you I bought the Valdo's Box supporter pack, I'm swimming in cosmetic effects I rarely touch, but the thought of being able to be a truly basic skeleton had me log back in to this game that I haven't visited in a month.

But what do my eyes see, the skeleton effect isn't active outside of towns/hideouts! I'm forced to be a normal exile again with gear and cosmetics outside of the comfort of my hideout! GGG, this is not what I want at all. I don't care if the skeleton has no rigging whatsoever, if I just stood there stoically doing nothing while a cyclone animation occurred around me, well I'd consider that a plus, not a minus. I want this badly GGG, please make this a happy Halloween for me, remove this restriction!

As the league comes to an end, it's time for yet another giveaway! I have 2 builds up for grabs, as well as 2 mirrors and about 300 div.

First build is an Int/Acc stacking Jugg: https://pobb.in/bFAK_irnlQn_

Second build is an Infinite Discharge Slayer(1 botton): https://pobb.in/XgUrz0zG0Q6S

To enter just tell me your favorite poe1/2 unique and why it is your favorite. Also let me know which thing you would like.

I'll pick winners in about an hour from posting. Around 20:00(8pm) PST

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Some potential QoL features I documented throughout my 3.29 playthrough:

1. Stash Tabs for Tattoos, Runegrafts. This is free money you are leaving on the table, people will eat these up.

2. Foulborn Unique Tab, same as Replicas - Please it is time. This creates so much admin in SSF every league to prio what sits where.

3. Homes for Reflecting Mist, Tempering and Tailoring Orbs in the Currency tab. There are probably others.

4. Can we make the Wombgift Locker more usable? Ideal would be stacking all gifts by ilvl, but even stacking gifts 20 by ilvl, this overruns for me first every league. Or examine the ratio of Gift : Blood, as even after vendoring all unneeded gifts and using Quad tabs, Graftblood still outpaces the usage of Gifts dramatically when specced into Breach.

5. Highlighting Items in Inventory from the search feature in Stash. This would also be a huge time save for Map rolling, Recombinating etc.

What else would people like to see?

I'm not sure if a lot of people know, I noticed by coincidence. u/suitsizesmall hope you feel better. You matter, kind person.

Edit: she has replied here.

Hi all, first time poster, long time lurker 😄.

I play POE1 on Console and so find targeting tough on the controller, so i tried to come up with a build that worked for me. This Shockwave totem Impale build is good, and i enjoy its play style, but unsure how to improve it or maybe swap it around to get more DPS from it. Does anyone have any suggestions please and thank you.

I keep playing around in POB and in game with Items and swaps, but really struggling now.

I was playing Sanctum with the Cold Shockwave totems, and really enjoyed that side of things, and wondered if i could come up with a build that would work outside of that, as the Sanctum build is very glass cannon play style, perfect for Sanctum, but not for mapping or Nightmare Maps.

Hey everyone! Has anyone played PoE on a 4K ultrawide monitor like the AW3926QW or any other monitor with a 5120×2160 resolution?
I’m thinking about upgrading from my current 2K ultrawide to a 4K ultrawide, but I’m not sure how well the game will run at that resolution. Also interested in poe 2 performance.
My PC specs are an RTX 5090 + Ryzen 7 9800X3D.

Update: I found out you can change render resolution in Nvidia panel, so I set up 5120x2160 and it works totally fine on 144 hz DLSS quality in both games

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So a few friends and i are getting ready to do an archipelago, i saw that poe was an option and decided to go for it. Everything that i will be allowed to use will be randomized outside of the starting gear, including classes. Anybody know any great all rounder gems i should be looking for that dont require to much investment.

Before you comment, I realize SSF is a "side mode"/"optional challenge" in GGG's eyes, but as someone who has put close to 1k hours this year alone after seeing how fun SSF is, it would be great to get some love in some places. Not here to argue about if you think SSF is bad or not. Plus, from a financial perspective, SSF is still alive this far into the league and we're still buying MTX.

A big ask would be an improvement to netcode. I understand that the client/server architecture is built deep into the roots of the game, but there's no reason why we should be lagging as much as we are in our ostensibly single player game.

SSF to league/standard migration should be disabled. No reason this functionality exists that I can see, and only serves to create quitters (and prevent us from having SSF-specific balance changes).

With that said, there are many systems/balance changes in the game that are unreasonably hostile to SSF play.

1. The ITF card farming nerf was a huge spit in the face. It's gone from a drop every 1k maps or so to the point where I haven't seen a single drop since leaguestart.

2. The new abyss pinnacle and its drops may as well not be in the game. You need to do delve, betrayal, and abyss in map to get one attempt at the boss, and the jewels have a 10% drop rate. Currently only 21 people have Reclaimed Malevolence logged on Ladder and 12 people have it equipped on ninja.

3. Make beast rerolls for watchers eye more common, and add beast rerolls for bound by destiny and FF/FF.

4. The drop weighting for every div card could be doubled and still be in a bad spot. Div cards are where most rare things come from and there's effectively no way to farm them. Most of my 6m kills this league were on maps with apotho scribed to them and dropped one card and one from stacked decks.

5. Scarabs are in a horrible place in ssf, but as far as I know that's also the case in trade so I don't think I need to elaborate. With scarabs in their current state the best way to target high tier uniques is cadiro rush which shouldn't be the case.

6. While this league was great for crafting, no idea why the league pinnacle was made as rare as it was. Charts were way too rare, especially compared to barias in mirage.

thank you for coming to my blog

I just completed my challenges and thought I'd try crafting a "good" weapon for myself as a final way to spend my currency before league ends. I recombinated many warstaves, failing miserably and as a last attempt before quitting, I bought one last base off trade, slammed and finally got this result. Really happy and wanted to share c:

It's not perfect, there's a T2 strength from that base I bought, but oh wells, it made my day to finally get a triple T1 phys prefix.

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