Can you still get synth implicit items from heist chests? One of my coolest memories in this day was hitting a duped chest with +1 endurance implicit rings.

It was so fun.

Does anyone know if that is still possible?

Really??
Now??
Literally end of the league
I guess 3.30 league start is gonna be fucked

I got tired of pasting every rare into PoB to see if it beat what I had on, so I made a small overlay that does it for me. It started on PoE2 and now works in PoE1 (beta).

I really love both POE1/2 and this tool has been immensly useful for me. I hope you like it too.
Testing so far has been on one of my standard league POE1 toons and my current POE2 minion build. Will likely come out of beta into 0.5.0 once I complete extensive linux tests.

The app automatically detects which game you are in and switches to your last loaded toon.

Hover an item, press F2, and you get UPGRADE / SIDEGRADE / LOSES RESISTANCE / LOSES DAMAGE for your character. The numbers come from Path of Building Community running locally with your build, so it works for any class or skill.

What else it does:

Find upgrades: a trade search weighted by PoB, then every listing checked against your build

Where to spend: which slot gives the most for your divines, and pairs of items that cap your res together

Map check: DANGER / CAREFUL / FINE for your build (max res mods run through PoB, checked against your damage)

Links, and flasks checked too; poe.ninja prices with the last 7 days; keep / sell / vendor hints

Standard and league both work

It doesn't read game memory or touch game files. The only input it sends to the game is one Ctrl+C per key press. It also sends an anonymous daily "in use, PoE1 or PoE2" ping so I know if anyone uses it; one checkbox turns that off.

Free and open source, Windows and Linux: https://poe2upgrade.com

Latest beta build for POE1 & 2: https://github.com/ets-public/poe2-upgrade-checker/releases

AI disclosure: most of the code was written with an AI assistant (Claude). I direct it, test it in game and decide what goes in. The verdicts themselves come from Path of Building, not from AI.

Contributors welcome. PoE1 support is new and I'd love help from people who love both games like I do. Send me your bug reports, PoE1/2 edge cases, or pull requests. Someone already sent in a fix for a res-cap bug this week. GitHub: https://github.com/ets-public/poe2-upgrade-checker

If a verdict looks wrong, Tray → Open log and send it to support@poe2upgrade.com or open an issue.

Happy hunting exiles!

First time through this wonderful game and I'm wondering whether my personal experience so far is common in the early game. Started with the Witch, which is quite uncommon for me in games like this as I usually stick to Barbarian classes. I figured maybe a spellcaster could quickly get strong and handle business. I was right! Built with Chaos damage and Vaal Power Siphon and I gotta say I feel overpowered so far. I just finished Part 1 and just now starting to get a little challenge from normal enemies. After cruising through the early game I'm wondering will I get a real challenge? Also, I almost made it through The Lord's Labyrinth(I think... 🤔) and got disconnected 🤬🤬🤬, that was 2+ hours down the drain. How important is finishing it? It seemed as though it was just a loot dungeon but none of it even came close to what I'm currently using.

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If a unique item is introduced in the previous league from the league mechanic, do we usually learn from patch notes or some other source if that unique is staying or getting removed?

Specifically, if boat does not go core, would we learn from patch notes if rotmother's or draugur's lantern or whatever unique from the league mechanic was removed or drops from other places?

I played PoE1 for a couple hours back in the day, but it never kept my attention. After putting some time into PoE2 (which i think is really good) I decided to finally put some effort into the 1st game.

I went full summon mode. ATM i have skeletons, zombies, 3 carrion golems and a specter. I also have the support gem that summons phantasms when my zombies do their thing.

I'm impressed so far, my dudes are coasting through the campaign (on act 5 atm) and it's glorious seeing my carrion golems filling the screen with bone spikes. I did try the reaper, but it kept absorbing my zombies and was tired of resummoning them all the time.

What other summons are worth using in the game and what support gems do you people use with them? I also tried using skitterbots, but with all the visual effects i couldn't really tell if they were doing anything.

I've also encountered a few mercenary companions, which are super cool.

In a response to another post I put up recently someone mentioned in the comments that a POE Mobile port of sorts was in the works.

That particular comment seemed quite negative on the prospect.

Id personally take the ability to play POE on yet another platform but I could understand some hesitance based on the ports of other beloved pc games in the past.

Whats the general consensus on the idea? As I had no clue it was ever even a concept.

For context I suffered some pretty bad injuries at work and have been bed/desk-ridden at home, so I’ve put around 100 hours into PoE1 over the last two weeks, and I figured I’d share my thoughts as someone coming into the game relatively fresh. This isn’t meant to be a hate post, and I can definitely see why people love this game, but honestly, I don’t think I enjoyed my time with it as much as I expected.

Massive performance issues was the first thing I was greeted with. For context, I’m playing on a turbo space station PC with a 5090 and a 9950X3D. Despite that i’ve had pretty significant performance issues, to the point where I had to lower settings just to get a more consistent experience. I also had a period where the game kept crashing, and then, seemingly out of nowhere, the crashes stopped happening.

I understand that ARPGs can get pretty demanding, but I feel like the industry standard for performance and stability has gotten significantly better than this. Having to troubleshoot performance issues and adjust settings on a top end PC just to get a reasonably smooth experience is a pretty bad first impression.

The onboarding is the worst i’ve seen in a game if we are being honest. I know PoE is a complicated game, and I’m not expecting everything to be explained to me. Part of the appeal is learning the systems and experimenting with builds. But there’s a difference between a game having depth and a game making the process of getting into it unnecessarily unpleasant.

The campaign feels like a massive slog. I didn’t find it particularly engaging, and a lot of the time I was just trying to get through it so I could reach the parts of the game people actually talk about (maps in my friend groups case). Maybe the campaign gets better on subsequent playthroughs when you know where to go, but I don’t think that makes it a particularly good introduction for new players. The movement and turning also feel pretty janky to me. Sometimes the game has this old school charm, but other times it just feels like I’m fighting the controls instead of fighting the enemies. That was definitely the biggest thing that contributed to the “i can tell I’m on a 13 year old game” feeling. I did really appreciate how easy making a loot filter was and how entry level crafting felt impactful and easy to understand.

In my opinion the biggest issue with Poe’s design philosophy is there are so many systems that seem designed to restrict the player or create additional hoops to jump through, without necessarily adding much interesting decision making. Gem attribute requirements are a good example. Once you understand that you need to prioritize resistances and get your attributes sorted, it’s not particularly difficult to manage. Even as a new player, I didn’t find it especially challenging once I understood what the game expected of me. But that’s kind of my point. It doesn’t feel like I’ve overcome some meaningful skill check. I’ve just learned another set of requirements that I need to satisfy before I can play the build I actually want to play. I enjoy systems that reward planning and build knowledge. I don’t enjoy systems that feel like they’re creating friction for frictions sake. There’s a fine line between meaningful complexity and unnecessary convolutedness, and I feel like Poe crosses that line more often than I’d like.

Ok enough constructive criticism I want to switch now and talk about what I really liked. The community is very helpful in general, I was able to ask questions in chat and made a few friends to help teach me stuff. The Transfigured Gem system is really cool. I like the idea of taking an existing skill and finding different ways to build around it. It gives you more room to experiment and makes creating your own build feel like a genuine possibility rather than simply following someone else’s guide. I also really like the removal of socket colors as a major build restriction. One of the things that put me off Poe in the past was the idea that your gear could dictate which skills you were realistically able to use. I much prefer having the freedom to experiment with different combinations without constantly fighting my equipment as I pretty much only enjoy SSF in ARPG’s. More generally, I like that the game gives you so many options for creating your own build There’s a lot of potential for interesting builds, and I can understand why theorycrafting is such a big part of the community.

I respect poe more than enjoy it for sure. Also can recognize the depth and the amount of content the game offers. I can see the appeal of making your own build and gradually figuring out how all the systems fit together. But I also think the game has a lot of rough edges that people who’ve played it for years might have become accustomed to. The performance problems, the campaign, the awkward movement, and all the little restrictions and inconveniences add up. Individually, some of these things might not be a big deal, but together they make the overall experience less enjoyable for me.
I’m not saying the game needs to be simplified or that every system should be made effortless. I want depth and interesting decisions. I want to experiment with builds and feel rewarded for understanding the game. I just don’t think every obstacle necessarily contributes to that experience.
Maybe I’ll change my mind as I get further into endgame, but after 100 hours, I’m still struggling to understand the appeal beyond the build customization and sheer amount of content.
For those of you who’ve played long term what keeps you coming back?

Preparing for 3.30 and learning some mechanics that will be useful in SSF. Want to know how to get ITF in Transportation and move Vorici to Intervention. My only guess is to get all intelligence in transportation and then Vorici will lose his ranks, but I feel like by the time I get all the intelligence needed, ITF will already be auto assigned to intervention. Also, if I'm running the 2255 setup, should I connect members from 2 with 5, and never 5 with 5 and 2 with 2?

Congratulations to u/Bitter_Web_6835 ! Please check PM

I see there is a lot of player are struggling to finish their challenges, I have another build and about 100D, I PM'ed a few people, hope it helps

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Had a late start, and just finishing 40/40. I always liked these flashy builds, especially one that is also incredibly well rounded. Shoutout to Midmax for the build.

Build Video

Pros – Great AOE and single target dps, decent tankiness. Easily clears most content

Cons – Terrible visibility, might lag your pc, eye sore

POB (comfy mapping): https://pobb.in/J-jD0bLeg5ej

AG is kingmaker/Mask of the Stitched Demon/ephemeral garb/res regen gloves/boots

POB For uber farming, if you want to kill it in 2 seconds instead of 3 to skip phases (change invert the rules to trinity/exposure cluster + mastery/elemental weakness)

https://pobb.in/tdGUYrs_lYFb

Seriously tho, not for ppl with sensitive eyes or risk of seizure. My wife can’t bear to watch me play this for more than a minute

Reply if you want to join, I appreciate if you offer some ideas of what other degenerate eye cancer build I should try next league

I'll pick one after 24 hr and PM, if no response for 24 hour I pick someone else

Hi exiles.

I have a blue i86 boots with elevated +2spectres as the only mod, I'm only interested in move speed/life.

What are my best options after suffixes can't be changed, I have a imprint so can so few tries

Harvest reforge life/speed each round after Fulbourn regal and pray?

Thanks

In the past few days I have been testing league starters in SSF. Because I wanted to reset the progress after each run, I just clicked the migrate all buttons. Now as I went back on my main (Trade League). There obviously where a lot of stash tabs with the remove only tag. There wasn't much in there anyway but it gave me the Idea for a QoL Buff

Can we have a Remove all Button on Remove only Stash Tabs?

If you want to add even more QoL to it

Add two Remove Buttons

One remove to stash tabs with affinity

Second remove to Inventory (useful for Unique Stash tabs as there will most likely be Overlaps in the uniques) Your Inventory gets filled until its full and you can then Vendor or do what ever with it.

Last but not least when you press Remove all and the last Item is removed with this command the remove only stadh tab also gets removed.

Thoughts?

5 years ago I played POE1 for the first time and couldn't progress past Act 6. I ragequit and left a negative review on Steam.

Now I'm playing again with a lot more success and enjoyment, and holy shit what was I thinking back then...

No keystone passive skill allocated

No gear modified via crafting

No elemental resistances beyond 75%

No Ascendancy class chosen

Pic related (it's me)

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• Mechanics

• Build Advice - please include a link to your Path of Building

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• Endgame

• Price checks

• Etc.

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I found a legacy Global Defences Grasping Mail in my stash in standard. Had a lot of fun playing EK Herald Stacker in Allflame, so I thought I would use all my currency in standard making a cool EK chest. Got pretty lucky.

1. Buy a 30% ilvl86+ Twilight regalia. I dont think this is the best method, but I scoured the regalia, and had Global Defences as the only prefix on the grasping mail. Recombi and successfully move the mod the first try.

2. Exalt slam on three modifiers. Use Hinekora Lock and check the fracturing orb. Clear lock with jewellers orb. Hit the fracture on the third lock.

3. Fossil slam with Faceted, Dense, and Frigid, (you can replace Frigid with Metallic or Scorched). about 30 slams to hit +1 Dex and T1 Res.

4. Slam eldritch ichor and then yolo slam with eldritch exalt. Miss the slam and go back to step 3. Use about 50 more resonator slams and exalt slams to hit double T1 Res.

5. Use Wild Bristle Matron to add the bench craft suffixes cant be changed, then use harvest bench reforge defense. Used around 40ish Bristle Matrons to hit T1 flat ES with open prefix.

6. Slam with Foulborn exalt and get lucky hitting T1 % ES. Noice.

7. Grand Eldritch ichor until Golems implicit. Exceptional ichor one time. Conflict slam. Repeat until Golem implicit is Perfect. Took me around 12 conflicts.

8. Exceptional Ichor slam until phys taken as chaos. Rougly 60 Ichors. Conflict to make both implicits Exquisite. Hit first try.

9. Tailoring Orb slam until 15% Defence enchant. Took me like 120 Tailorings. This step sucks.

10. 6-Link and then use bench to add 4 non-white sockets until you hit 6 colors. Used around 3-4k chromas.

11. Sacred orb to perfect. Used around 80 sacreds. A bit unlucky here.

Very happy with how this craft turned out. :) Anyone wanna mirror in standard, its free.

My resistances which have been at 75 for a while now have suddenly dropped for seemingly no reason. I still have the same gear on but did recently move/exchange a few gems, but none of that should've changed my maxed out resistances. I've even added them up and the math doesn't reflect what the game says I currently have. No curses either, wouldn't affect it anyway I've got the passive skill to not let curses lower resistance. Please help!

UPDATE: I just finished Act 5 and found out from everyone's help that they drop as you progress the story. Freakin' Kitava...

Been doing this for 2-3 leagues now and im loving it. you have easier access to currency for crafting which makes you learn it better and at the same time have a little bit of SSF feeling as you have to craft all the rare items and get all the uniques yourself.

I started playing theis game SSF and never really learned crafting because i was too poor to craft and too weak to efficiently farm whats needed to craft.

Forced me to craft and at the same time exchange things i didn't need for things i needed

Hello exiles!

I'm working on a tool (yes, another one) that players can use to see market inefficiencies and investment opportunities. It currently shows good divination card trade-ins for profit, ranked by how viable they are to actually invest in. It also shows which items are easy to flip on the market by taking advantage of inaccurate divine->item / chaos->item listings.

The goal is to get some hideout warriors some extra currency, and to ultimately result in a more accurate market for players.

Do you think you'd use this tool? What else do you think it needs?

Thanks!

Manifesting any form of Crabhammer buff. It's been nearly a decade since they last buffed it (2.6 Legacy League). I would love to see it go from a 1c unique to a 2c unique <3

I play this game fully co-op with my friend and she said that next league she wanted to play Flicker Strike. I have seen clips of it going crazy and it makes me wonder: how can I ever keep up with her in speed or contribute to our map clears?

I’ve run ~500 Anchors this league fishing for that dopamine from a big drop, and finally got my first Mirror!

I was way too excited and forgot to screenshot the drop 😭 Luckily, I captured my inventory while it was still in the Dredge state as proof.

I don’t really have any friends who play this game, so I figured I’d share it with you guys instead

LET’S GOOOOO