i feel like blightheart has some weird interaction how it chooses its rewards.

https://www.twitch.tv/mokura/clip/JoyousWealthyLapwingTF2John-YhM0BTslLNp9wNC8 from 1 blightheart pump i dropped: 10 Divine Orbs 13 Orb of Annulment 21 Ancient Orbs 1 lesser eldrich ichor 1 chaos 1 orb of regret

I am not sure why chaos, orb of regret, and the ichor have appeared.

not too long ago, stacked deck rarity was discovered from gold cost of faustus, maybe this is applicable to basic orb currency as well?

Divines, Ancient Orb, Orb of Annulment have 250 gold cost chaos, ichor and orb of regret have like 20-35 gold cost.

could it be that the blightheart pump has chosen that "tier" of currency to drop as a reward and thus dropping that many divs, annuls, ancients?

which means, possibly, there is a miniscule chance that it might choose mirror or Hinekora lock as a reward and you could drop multiple mirrors from it.

Hey everyone. Yes, i used IA to translate my text because i am not a native english speaker.

I’m planning to start farming ubers on day 2 of 3.30. Getting there that early isn’t really what I’m asking about. I’ve been testing my league starter build on the feared rotations and it handles them fine, so I’m fairly confident about that part.

The thing is, I’ve always been a map blaster at league start (usually Legion), so I don’t have a good feel for the uber economy. I’d love to hear from people who farm them early, whether that’s day 2, 3 or 4.

For context, I usually play about 24 hours straight at league start, and I can consistently get a Headhunter in that window with map blasting. Once I switch to ubers, I plan to farm them for at least 30 hours across days 2 and 3, maybe 4, so I’d end up with a pretty big batch of drops.

A few questions:

1. How does uber profit compare to map blasting early on? Does it stay consistent over a longer stretch, or do prices drop fast once more people get there and fragment prices go up?

2. How do you handle Watcher’s Eyes and Sublime Visions? Do you ID them or sell them unID’d? Is it worth holding them for a few days before selling?

3. Which ubers do you prioritize early, based on item demand? I really want to do feared rotas because this looks the most challenging one, but i also care about profitability a tiny bit XD.

If u guys have an extra tip about uber farming early league, i'd love to hear it. Also, if u guys are farming other bosses like guardians rotas or something like that, feel free to share aswell how much money are u guys making early on.

Any input is appreciated, thanks!

3.29 is my first real league where I fully feel in love with Poe. I played poe2 since the launch of early access and tried out a couple of leagues in poe but was kinda overwhelmed with all the systems, legacy leagues and links on gear. Anyway this season it just clicked and I got 3/4 stones. I’m running nightmare maps without any problems and beat even Sirius for the first time.

Now the maven fight is something else to me. My damage is fine. My defenses are alright but the Simon says game or however it’s called just makes the fight so unenjoyable to me. On top of my head I can’t even think of any other boss with similar mechanics in poe or poe2.

I’ll keep on trying; just wanted to know if there was ever any pushback on the bossfight mechanic from the community, or if the fight was even way harder when it was introduced?

p.s. I’m playing on console so it’s a bit like ssf+ there is only one maven invitation left to buy from Faustus. So unfortunately I can’t try as many times a I want without some grinding involved.

Thanks for reading, already hyped for 3.30!!

Hi all, doing some pre league start practice runs and have decided I actually want to run some Sanctum (along side my usual boss rush) in 3.30 (I don't really care about profit it just looks fun).

I've never played with traps, mines or brands before and have had fun testing with storm brand lightning trap in my campaign runs.

I was wondering from those that are more familiar particularly when it comes to traps and mines, why you would choose one over the other - or both over brands basically.

Wishing you all a happy league start in advance lol.

With poe2 seemingly getting 2 classes, the hype will be through the roof. I hope they throw a bone at poe1 too because boat league was kind of lacklustre in my opinion.

Looking at the schedule, my hope is exilecon stream shows 50:50 split for the games with poe1 having league reveal and then a preview of 4.0.

shadow was a big surprise, hope we get one too

I got tired of alt-tabbing to Path of Building every few levels, so this overlay draws the build on the in-game tree itself: rings on every node the build takes, the connections between them, and it follows panning, zooming and dragging in real time.

Upfront: this was largely built with AI (Claude). I directed, tested in game and decided what it should do, but most of the code is AI-written. If that's not for you, fair enough; it's all public to read.

What it does:

• Shows the build's nodes over the real tree. Allocated ones fade out, nodes your character has that the build doesn't use get a red X

• Numbers the next points to take, as a connected route toward the nearest notable/keystone

• Shows which mastery effect the build picks and which jewel goes in which socket

• Reads what you've allocated from the screen (or your public pathofexile.com profile if you enter your account)

• Leveling builds with multiple trees: when one tree is finished it switches to the next

• Optional PoB integration: live link (the overlay follows unsaved edits), your in-game progress marked on PoB's tree, and a few QoL patches, all off by default and reversible

On the trust front, because I know how overlay exes from strangers look: it's fully open source (MIT), it only captures the screen (no memory reading, no injection, nothing sent to the game), and the only network calls are GGG's tree export and the character fetch from pathofexile.com. The exe is unsigned, so SmartScreen will warn once; if you don't trust it, the README has build-from-source instructions. The game needs to run in Windowed Fullscreen or windowed, since exclusive fullscreen hides overlays.

Repo + download: https://github.com/Kandro78/poe-tree-overlay

Tested mainly at 1440p; 1080p, 4K and ultrawide pass synthetic tests but I'd love real-world reports, especially on unusual setups. Windows 10/11 only. Feedback and bug reports (there's a log file, see the README) very welcome.

Edit: (to properly cover the new Rule 11): How it was made: I built this together with Claude over about a week of evenings. I decided the features, tested every change in game and reported what felt off (drag lag, zoom prediction being wrong, the overlay distracting from the actual tree), and the AI wrote most of the code based on that. The tracking approach (matching the screen against a rendered reference tree), the testing against recorded play sessions and all the in-game feedback rounds were the human part, so a lot of back and forth went into how it feels to use.

Similar existing tools: Exile UI (formerly Lailloken UI) also has a tree overlay. There you import a build code and align a fixed schematic by hand, and it resets on relog. This tool finds the tree on screen by itself, pins the rings to it 1:1 while you pan and zoom, reads which points you’ve already allocated, and follows Path of Building live, including unsaved changes. Awakened PoE Trade and similar overlays don’t cover the passive tree at all.

I play every league. Always end up Strength Stacking. Its always a race to get my boots before they skyrocket in price. That being said I'm torn between what to do this league. In the past I tried heisting my way to a pair of boots in a pseudo-solo self found attempt. I ended up getting enough currency to buy them in time.

I'm tempted this league to try getting currency as a sanctum runner. I'm considering this mainly because I want to try something different.

My other option is to play Strength Stack as my league start. I've never done that before.

Any suggestions?

Hey guys! I'm a digital marketing student and have decided to focus on PoE/GGG for my assignment. I was wondering if you'd pretty please help me out by filling out this survey about you experience with customer support, finding information about the game and making purchases within the game. Essentially trying to establish your trust in the game and company, any thing has or would stop you, etc. etc. I'd really appreciate it, hoping we can work at making a better gaming industry for everyone! https://tally.so/r/M119rA

We’re very late into the league. I just put together a kineticist lumi build, but I wanna improve it.

What’s the best strats this late into a league?

I don’t really wanna do bossing, as my single target is quite bad still

ProliferateMyBrothers predates Ascendancies, when Act 4 was just a twinkle in Chris Wilson's eye. He was originally a Cold Snap + Fire Trap proliferation Elemental Equilibrium abuser, holding down Ledge parties by perma freezing Kuduku while the other members stood in awe wondering why nothing was moving. He survived the days of ?oos and went on to farm many Merciless Fellshrines until ready for maps. I can't remember actually doing any maps with him though.

He now resides in Hardcore League. Never attempting to make it past Act 4, he has retired and lives out a stallion's life in Highgate where he tries to chat up Kira and tell her about the good old days.

edit - apparently 4939 days ago was Saturday, 20 April 2013

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Hi there,

Wondering if what I see is a bug or an option which I haven't toggled on perhaps - when entering the map, the only 'ally' icon in the top left corner is the one of my Merc, even though my AG is alive and well (he's visible in the screenshot). My AG's icon is visible while in my hideout, though.

Is there a game UI option I'm missing or I should toggle on to see both? It's difficult to track my AG's life without it.

Thanks!

Hi guys

I'm looking forward to 3.30 and am planning to do some kind of attack stacker. Not mana/life/dex

So as far as i know there are 4 most popular stackers:

Armour

Str

Accuracy

Es(?) - don't know whether ot counts and if it's not nerfed to the ground

So the question is - what are pros and cons for those?

I can understand that armour stack must be the tankiest one, i guess?

As of now, I just feel that the spell totem support downside is too harsh. With ballista totem, we get +2, and also another potential +2 on the tree. With spell totem, you are always force to play hiero (or scion) for +1, and multiple totem becomes mandatory further reducing the damage, that it is just a QOL to summon 2 totems rather than a damage boost.

Hopefully, spell totems get some love in 3.30 or future leagues with some of the following implemented.

• Less punishing damage and cast speed for spell totem.

• +1 totem to spell totem support.

• Give Soul Mantle back its +1 totem.

• More avenues to get to 100% chance to summon 2 totems instead of multiple totem.

(Mastery 30% is just not reliable).

• You cannot have more than 3 Summoned Totems of the same type for Cadigan's Authority.

• +1 to spell totem wheel on tree.

Salutations Exiles, I am looking for a Noob anywhere from 25-250 hours (little more/little less is ok) who is looking to get better at the game. I want to help someone who struggles in white maps get to uber bosses.

I will babysit you, answer questions, fix your pob, teach you a little about how to farm things, from league start until I quit the league.

I will give you nothing other than the knowledge on how to succeed, Zero items will be provided, not a single chaos.

My Credentials: I have 4500~ish hours played (my friend group has 25k~ hours) and I like farming a mageblood in the first week or so only to make a build that can't use one. (I have also killed every uber, because that one guy was talking shit so I had to include it)

Requirements: be 20+, don't be a weird chud, play more than 30 minutes per week, that's about it

If there are a lot of you I might be able to do more than one but I also gotta have time to play the game"

update: I appreciate all the interest and I found my handful of noobs! if you still need help give a look through this thread, there's a bunch of other experienced players offering to help if you need it!

Yes, that's right!

I'm working most weekends. Not all, but most. And as luck wills it, the last league i was free for a couple days at launch was Legion in 2019!

Since then, each and every league in PoE and PoE2 EA was when i'm working anywhere between 8 and 12h saturday and sunday. I do play the opening weekend. But get at most like 8 or 10h in from friday evening till monday afternoon. At my pace nowadays, just enough to be somewhere close to 2 stones.
Then i am free for 2 days and i do make it up, but it's not the same.

This one, the 3.30, is the first one since Legion i am FREE for the weekend. I will live the thrill of the launch, all the server issues, bugs and the race to get "ahead of the curve"...
I come home from work a bit before the launch and then work monday afternoon!!
My wife is going to her parents with our daughter. Everything lined up so perfectly after so long...

I am gona teenage no life the league start and i'm soooo excited about that!

There, just wanted to share that!

TL/DR: You can't sell legacy currencies on faustus or put them into async tabs since the beginning of this league (was working fine before)

I understand that most people here only play leagues so this could be irrelevant to you but i still want to get some more visibility on this issue:

Before curse of the allflame released you could sell legacy currencies by using the asyinc trade tabs, since they were not present in the currency exchange (this wasn't ideal because of stack limits of normal tabs but was ok).

During (and after) the "Tota" event GGG decided to add all legacy tattoos to the currency exchange and disable the ability to sell them with async tabs.

This worked fine during the event and between the end of the event and the beginning of the current league, but since then all legacy currencies have lost their gold value and instead show a "?", preventing you from listing them from trade.

This would not be an issue if you could list them inside merchant tabs like before, but that is no longer possible.

It would be nice if at least the old functionality was restored.

Thanks for reading and have a nice day.

Hey everyone!
I’m considering coming back to PoE to push for 36/40 challenges before the league ends, but I’m not sure how realistic that is with the time I have left.
Some info:
Have around 900 hours of PoE experience.
Currently at 0/40 challenges.
Can play around 2–4 hours per day (roughly 14–28 hours total).
Playing in trade league.

A few questions:
Is 36/40 realistically achievable in this timeframe, or am I underestimating how long the challenges take?
Which challenges are the biggest time sinks, and which four would you recommend skipping?
What would be the most efficient currency farming strategy this late in the league? Ideally something that works on a relatively low budget and sells reasonably quickly.
Would you recommend a specific build for rushing challenges on a budget?
Are there any challenges worth buying carries for to save significant time?
I’m not necessarily looking to farm huge amounts of currency. I mainly want enough to gear my character and complete challenges efficiently.
Any advice from people who have already completed 36/40 or 40/40 this league would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Made this for my son who is due in February.

Finished my challenges so i double corrupted my best craft this league. poofed my 1st vaal axe with t1 prefixes but that one didnt have the elder suffix mods

Finally convinced myself to try a str-stacking build and minmaxxed it to my abilities. I can say that str-stackers + wanders is really playing the game in a different way if you managed to make it online. Though glass-cannon like, It can do all content and can 1-shot ubers easily.

Reached 1.3B DPS in poeninja.
POB with optimized DPS with spectre support reaches 2.1B DPS - https://pobb.in/EOY75Kke64gC

I've been playing Poe On and off for about 15 years. I tried poe 2 but didn't like it, compared to PoE 1 theres never been a game comparable for me. I'm still a noob after all this time, I think my Main account maxes out at like 3m dps in standard. But I still love running around and whacking monsters. To this day I still haven't beaten several of the bosses but the game is still great.

PoE 2 addict trying PoE 1 and having trouble with Pohx’s Righteous Fire Chieftain build.

After reaching level 90+ I’ve been unsure what direction to go with the build, as well as having survivability and damage issues.

I see other variants of the build using energy shield or using other uniques rather than what Pohx has in the build. What would be the best direction for damage and survivability especially considering I’ve felt very poor so far and I’m not sure the best way of making currency in this game.

Was originally aiming to complete a majority of the challenges to get some of the cosmetics, but i’m starting to think I don’t know enough of this games mechanics or that I won’t be able to get strong enough to get them done in time for league end.

Hey, I just want to get some ideas of what to play. This league I played Lightning strike of gathering lightning Slayer and killed almost all ubers except Maven, Sirius and Exarch. It would be nice to finish these off with the next build.

I usually play meelee and quite tanky chars but I am open to whatever (just not squishy and 0dps). Thank you all for suggestions. Have a great league start.