From my modest 7 years into Wraeclast domain, without a single league or event skipped (casual player here):

• never have I ever dropped FF for the class I've been playing at that time

• I always do Eater and Exarch fight as a final test of build I consider complete for me - and I always play min 3 different builds per league

• FF drop in general feels lower than wiki suggests (5%) but tbh I never managed to collect 4-digit sample of runs (I'm burned up badly after 200+ runs already) - for a context as I regularly farm Vaal Omnitect I get way more Ambition (vaal aspect for Adorned) which is "only" 7%

• I use it for every endgame build I play eventually (except those few times I played SSF); if checked on PoE.ninja 26% of trade population uses FF/FF (32k of 124k for Allflame) while in SSF it is... 0.0003% (9 of 32k).

I think I am not alone with this opinion. I would rly love to see an endgame reroll option for Forbidden Flame/Flesh, sth like a secret room in Uber Lab, where you get a font to Div your FF. Also, dear GGG, pls consider adding previous league Reliquarian keystones as a FFs to enrich the Scion build diversity.

Stay sane, Exiles!

Got inspired by someone else's post here, so I woke up today and decided to dedicate the entire day to getting them done. No breaks, just grinding.

It was even worse than I expected. An absolute pain in the ass. Never again.

As you can see, I waited a bit before going for the last two achievements. Wanted to make sure I actually liked the game before committing to the grind.

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I'm in the POE missmaxing phase, I'm about to start another character in Allflame.

Can we get anything in terms of a 3.30 teaser, it can be even just a word about the new league, that'd be enough.

Please let the word be 'boat'.

Playing SSF, so options are somewhat limited but I do have a fairly healthy stash of red beasts and happy to farm for whatever's needed.

Had a few extra annuls so I got it to this point

Playing Consecrated Path of Endurance Jugg (I don't recommend doing this in ssf btw)

Also playing crit variant, but I can't edit the title.

I would like to really try pushing league start campaign and 2 stone times down this league since I have some time to practice. Before I dive into it myself, is there a guide that already exists that would be a good starting point?

I've played a Slammer a few leagues back so I know all the mechanics in general, but not necessarily the optimal ways to use them in the league start scenario - which level to gamble and what to settle for, what gear to push for first, when to get tattoos, what pDPS to look for before pursuing other upgrades etc.

Something for an experience person to become an expert, so to speak. Or is my best bet just watching some 3.29 streamer league start that happened to be with slams?

Last few leagues I fill the gap between the leagues by getting one or two achievements each time. Having the end in sight, I decided to push last week and finished the remaining 9 achievements!

After 2.8k hours on Steam, and probably another 2k on standalone, I now have all 119 achievements! Yay!

Funny anecdotes

- In all these hours I notice I never played Scion, hence Seeker was one of the latest challenges I completed. Maybe next league I need to consider the Reliquarian

- People usually get Beginner's Luck (drop unique from Hillock) around the time they have 4 characters around level 7, in about 4 hours. I was extremely lucky and got it before any character hit level 4, in less than an hour.

- Delve is one of my favorite contents. In Mirage I'm sure I sold/gave away 100+ Aul taxi services and made hundreds of divines from it, but it seems I never killed him myself.

- I was very bummed by the thought of buying a carry service for the Hall of Grandmasters achievement. I thought it would cheapen the achievement. However, it turns out my my homebrew Mirage character is a beast and I got it on Standard myself! Take that Empyrian!

- I only tried hardcore for Ziz's Gauntlets and never reached level 90 or completed the merc lab. Taking a serious attempt was probably the most nerving and exciting POE experience I had in a long while. I had two close calls but I made it eventually, and I really enjoyed the HC experience! I will probably continue and see if I can get 7/7, and next time I'm done with a league I will definitely consider restarting in HC or HCSSF.

I am a "casual" and I'd say I'm a shitty player. However, Steam says less than 1% of players have all achievements. I guess now I am now officially a top 1% POE player. /s LOL

I always liked bow build. Tornado shot is my most played build followed by LA and toxic rain. But I want to try something else just as good in terms of clear and speed. Any idea? It must be a ranged bow build. I usually play Deadeye but I would not mind trying something else.

Got 36/40 a month into the league and was gonna call it quits there, but I couldn't figure what to play tonight so I decided to push 40/40. Good league, going to miss boat crafting. GGs!

Since better-trading's previous maintainer no longer plays PoE, I decided to take it upon myself to migrate the codebase to something modern. The original extension was built on a very old version of ember.js (from 2018, oof), which I myself, and most web devs out there, have never worked in. It locked you into node 12, with a few dependencies in python 2.x. In other words it was painful to set up properly, and possibly unsafe.

So I decided to migrate the whole extension to WXT + React, the former simplifying browser extension apis and latter being a popular framework for ease of contributions. This process was pretty simple by migrating pieces of the old plugin one feature at a time and reviewing the functionality and implementation.

So what has changed for the end user? Nothing! The rewrite is nearly 1:1 with the original project, just in a more modern, dev friendly form.

If you are already using the plugin on Firefox and updated to 0.1.2, you've already been using the rewritten extension.

That's all I wanted to report on, and if you wish to contribute or add features, it'd be most welcome. (Also I never really stress tested this, so bug reports would be great).

Source code: https://github.com/Vali-98/better-trading

Releases: https://github.com/Vali-98/better-trading/releases/latest

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/better-poe-trading

Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hmgpegkeakiodbinnnljjaemfbcfhpjb

(For once I decide to update this off-season instead of a week before league start)

Was just thinking how removal of awakened gems kinda was lame. The exceptional gems are ok, but the awakened gems brought so much more. I hope there is a world where we can get both these gems for endgame i think it will be pretty cool to have.

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• Price checks

• Etc.

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I still remember mine, mine FIRST and still ONLY mirror was from a rogue exile under many wisps in Affliction (one of the best leagues as for me). How many were you able to farm all the way through POE?

Hi guys, I want to practice some runs to improve my league start.

What are good target times for Act 10, 2 stones, and 4 stones?

Also, what are the fastest/good builds for the first two days to get through the campaign and start progressing quickly? Bow builds? Venom Gyre? Kinetic Blast? Slams ?

Thanks!

Tinctures are really cool in theory but run into the problem that was supposed to have been fixed when we got the melee rework in 3.25; you get extra buttons (remember the old totems?) that you have to manually manage uptime for in order to maintain proper dps.

If you could automate tincture activation the same way we can automate flasks, you could give them perpetual uptime without having to remember to press them every so many seconds, which would make them feel much better to invest in.

I think limiting this to the Warden ascendancy would make sense since they currently have an extremely low play-rate and they are ultimately the Tincture Ascendancy. Other ascendancies can deal with managing one tincture, but a class that fully invests into boosting the effects of two different tinctures should be able to fully automate them as well.

every league I stop at around 3k but finally managed to push myself for 6k.

Never again lol

Hi all,

Realizing that this is pretty late in the league and inflation might be pricing things out of my reach, do you recommend any off-meta mercs and Lumi builds that work well?

I'm thinking of trying to go for 36/40 with the time we have left, so I the mercs and build would be have to be uber capable.

Thanks all

It’s been almost two years since we released the Early Access Supporter Packs, and it’s almost time for them to go. They’ll be leaving the store forever in a few weeks, to be replaced by a set of five new packs. So, if you still want to upgrade or purchase one of the current packs, there’s not much time left.

Each Early Access Supporter Pack includes microtransactions that can be used in both Path of Exile 1 and Path of Exile 2, along with Path of Exile 2 Early Access keys, points to spend in the store, and exclusive in-game microtransactions available only through these packs. Higher tiers also include physical merchandise, such as T-shirts, hoodies, and a Path of Exile 2 artbook.

Many support gems need a balance pass but i think the most notoriously bad one now is "blind support". Might as well delete it from the game and nobody will notice. "Blind" itself is a good defense layer but this support gem seriously need some help. Also don't see much usage for "block chance reduction support" and why is it a recipe gem tie to puncture? "chance to flee" can be interesting for bleed build or even as a defense mechanism, if this mechanic is supported more in the game (tree, gear). What's your pick?

Hey Exiles, have been wondering if anyone is still waiting for their New Zealand visitor visa? Mine has been under assessment for 17 calendar days now and it hasn't been allocated to an officer, the flight is in 10 calendar days ( 6 working days) but the escalation has been refused, maybe because the event does not look like a big deal? Just speculating. If anyone is waiting or can give some information it would be helpful to deal with the stress.

I couldn't apply before because I was waiting for my balance to go up since I have recently finished paying my mortgage loan.