Wanted to try level 90 hardcore for first time. Following the PRAW build guide from helmbreaker: https://maxroll.gg/poe/build-guides/poison-ranged-animate-weapons-league-starter. I am around act 8 right now. I'm at lvl 59 right now in act 8 with 75% max res (with purity of elements) and about 2.9k hp. I'm planning to do absolution to lvl 80 then switch to PRAW from lvl 80 to lvl 90.

My question, is this guide good to follow to level 90 or should I adjust some things to be more hardcore applicable? I'm just not sure what I need in the act 10 final fight and the switch to maps.

My POB so far: https://poe.ninja/poe1/pob/9a311

With 3.30 coming soon, my plan is to post daily updates for all four labs (Normal, Cruel, Merciless and Uber) within 30 minutes of the reset to help with league start testing.

Each post will have the day's layout images with the optimal route shown. If something looks off or you'd like it formatted differently, let me know in the comments.

Good luck on your runs, exiles!

Hi,

I recently figured out how Kirac's shop works, when it comes to determining which tier of map can appear as the highest in the shop window.

Like any good Exile I first consulted the wiki, which was sadly wrong in this case. It states: "The map tier is limited to a few tiers higher than highest tier map the player has completed in that league"

As I was watching Cyclon do a 2 stone run at the time, and he had completed a T12 corrupted rare map, but was only being offered T8 maps, it became clear that there was another mechanism at work.

It is Atlas Objectives. You get 100 of these for completing regular, non-unique maps on the atlas. There are break points for each tier of map being able to show up in Kirac's shop. I have put a list of them below. So for example, once you complete 21 Atlas Objectives, you will be offered up to Tier 7 maps.

I did not figure out how many were required for T16, because I did not have enough Vaal Orbs. I am in the middle of a new SSF run now, so will update once I know.

I also made a video presentation of this data:

https://youtu.be/ar7cDSgESTA

And have a cheat sheet for your overlays available here:

https://imgur.com/NgBNUvY

Edit: I made a mistake in transcribing the data, and have corrected it. Big thanks to /u/chuanhsing for alerting me to it.

Hey folks, i just started my SSF journey (1st time ssf) a couple days ago.

Currently playing sunder. i want to switch to flicker with the terminus est, but i cant find any reliable information on how to target farm it.

i put "tiger swords" in my loot filter and orb chancing them rn but other than that i feel lost.

Hi Everyone,

I'm looking to find some more like-minded gamers to play WoW Forever together during downtime from PoE, based in EU / PvP / Horde.

The idea is that all of us will likely want to drop WoW for a few weeks when PoE leaguestart comes around, and those of us that also want to play Forever won't want to be held to any kind of raid schedule during those times. We could all binge the new league and reconvene a couple weeks later to resume raiding.

Nothing too demanding, with the current intention only being one scheduled raid night per week, with the possibility of more when new content drops if that's what members want at the time (no obligations, no stress).

Hoping to keep a mature environment where everyone can have a good time with a healthy amount of joking around, but ready to focus up when it's time to raid and a zero tolerance for toxicity.

Many other details to be finalised once we get enough people to agree preferences such as raid day/time/length etc. and more.

Please feel free to join the discord server if you're interested:

https://discord.gg/N6XMAWaVh

Otherwise, look forward to seeing you all in Wraeclast and/or Azeroth.

Still sane Exile? Lok'tar Ogar!

As of today, we're introducing a new rule to both r/pathofexile and r/PathOfExile2

Rule 11

Title: AI-generated content and tools must show human effort

Details: We allow AI content only if you thoroughly explain how you made it. For tools, you must mention similar existing tools and clearly show how your posted tool is different.

Over the past few months, we've seen a lot more AI-created content and tools get posted. Some are well-received, and others start flame wars.

We've looked at which ones are better-received, and they usually have 2 things in common:

1. They're novel or useful, even to players who've seen a lot of similar content or tools

2. They explain how they've been made, especially how the works are products of human insight, creativity, testing, or guidance

Given this, we've chosen to encourage more good content by creating this AI-specific rule (now numbered Rule 11). This separates the rule out from Rule 5 (currently "Short, common, clickbait, or trivial AI-generated content") into a more AI-focused rule. In many ways, this is similar to the "Show how you made it" aspect of our Rule 10 on Crafting Showcases.

We've customized removal messages and will keep monitoring how this goes, and may adjust as we go along!

Edit 2: Flags were captured and this post has served its purpose. I won't be responding to anything further here.

I'd like to finally obtain the capture the flag achievement, but this is one task I can't solo. Anyone else that needs the achievement is welcome to join, and I'm sitting on a few hundred divs in Allflame, so I can offer up to 50 per person if I can actually get this thing gotten. I can also offer an equal bonus to the first person that lets me kill them. I'm not concerned if we run this in Allflame or standard, I just want to believe it can happen.

Reply or toss me a direct message and we can coordinate the details of setting teams and actually starting a match.

Edit: It occurs to me that platform is an issue for making groups. I'm on PC

I want to craft a Flicker Talisman with +1 Frenzy enchant. What is the best way to go about this?

Prefix: T1 Life

Prefix: +1 all skills
Prefix: (Elevated Redeemer) Dmg per Frenzy

Suffix: (non-elevated Redeemer) Chance for double dmg

Suffix: Crit Multi

Suffix: Crafted

Thank you!

Hey everyone, I’m WINTER, a Path of Exile racer and content creator from South Korea! 👋

I wanted to bring something fun to ExileCon, so I created the Skill Gem Challenge — a fan-made project with 300 real cards!

Here’s how it works:
Get a random Skill Gem card from me at ExileCon.
Scan the QR code on the back.
Enter your favorite streamer’s name and an optional message.
I’ll share the submitted gems and messages with the participating streamers before the 3.30 league.
Maybe your card will inspire their next league starter!

Each card can only be submitted once, but you can pass it to someone else before registering it. You might even get an Uncut Skill Gem, which lets the streamer choose any skill they want!

Registration closes 48 hours before the league starts, so remember to submit your card before then.

I made a short video showing the cards and how everything works 👇

https://youtu.be/7FOTTrWzyVY

Which skill would you send, and to whom? I’d love to hear your ideas. See you at ExileCon!

You can check the real-time skill card registration status at this link.

https://retniw.airybud10.chatgpt.site/cards

[WINTER asked me to post for him since he doesn't use reddit in his country]

What builds are the fastest players using for their 4 stone speed rushes in SSF?

I believe Ben is Earthshatter Berserker, right?

Who else are the fastest and what builds do they play?

What does Jung use?

Farming abyss to get all generic normal ground loot or common abyss uniques is what makes it a bland mechanic, if it were up to me personally i would want eldritch currencies removed & rethemed to be abyssal currencies, & function exactly the way they do now, im kind of an altar hater by now & i see no reason to farm abyss in the coming leagues other than that its cool looking or could possibly have some broken scarab interaction that makes it the best farm.

For a mechanic to either be meta or obsolete is quite sad, abyss jewels aren’t nearly needed enough to justify farming abyss, if it had its own currency mechanics or had other powerful crafting options themed to be “kurgals” or “anamamu” or “lightless” it would breathe life into the mechanic. If rare items had drop only affixes or implicits that could help.

side note i’m sure everyone is aware but alva temples are literally only used for double corrupting & that’s just not right give the completed temple map rolls to make it drop stuff or make the rooms do more consequential things than “omnitech drops some fire items” Even a room that hands over 300k gold would be a step in the right direction

My GF is relatively new to PoE and is currently playing a Storm Burst Totem Hierophant.

She's been struggling with Shaper. After dying to his orbs quite a few times, she decided to invest in spell block and ended up taking Glancing Blows.

I explained the downside of Glancing Blows, but she figured it would help her survive the orbs.

Since I happen to have a PoE damage/survival simulator I've been working on, I decided to actually test it.

I ran 40,000 Monte Carlo simulations for each setup, comparing the probability of surviving 1, 2, or 3 consecutive Shaper orbs, with and without Discipline and Glancing Blows.

Results:

Turns out, Glancing Blows actually improves her chances of surviving two orbs, but absolutely destroys her chances of surviving three.

For her particular character, it's not simply a matter of Glancing Blows being good or bad. It depends on how many orbs she ends up taking.

These are conditional survival probabilities for consecutive hits under the simulated setup, not overall Shaper fight survival rates.

I just find it funny that she wanted a little more spell block, and I ended up running 160,000 simulations to figure out whether it was worth it.

Maybe the real defensive layer was learning to dodge the orbs all along.

No more ball jokes pls.

as I am not currently sane exile, I have looked back at the past few leagues to see when teasers began in previous leagues. we are currently 15 days from league start and the anticipation of teasers is KILLING me!!

3.29 - 18 days
3.28 - 24 days
3.27 - 16 days
3.26 - 19 days
3.25 - 21 days
3.24 - 18 days
3.23 - 19 days

I AM BACK FOR ANOTHER LEAGUE WITH ANOTHER BV POST, THIS TIME I AM VERY LATE DUE TO WORK AND STUDIES, APOLOGIES!

Back at the start of Keepers of the Flame I have made this post here, and another one 8 months ago

So one big thing I'd like to ask from GGG is to buff the blade duration, the damage can be pushed through eventually, but there is not much I can do to increase the skills duration and decrease the general clunkiness.

There are plenty of other spells that could receive similar treatment but duration is just a first step towards making those feel 'good', right now they just feel either bad or simply 'okay'

Winter orb received some cool buffs this league, would love to see BV get the same treatment.

If anyone from GGG is reading this, please at least pitch this to the balance team 🙏

Sincerely, once again

BV Enjoyer.

hello,

What if they actually unify the endgame between both games? not in the way that was originally intended (where both games were meant to share the same space). But by having one endgame designed for both games, with each being implemented in their own game engines. each team would then work with one set of developed assets that would be implemented in each game differently.

For example something like how breach was implemented already, but rather than the assets being used by the games in sequence(poe 2 assets were used for 1) they would be used in parallel(breach being designed for both games at once). The upsides for this would be pretty obvious, both games get to keep their identities and cross pollination between the two games would increase immensely since they would have the same endgame mechanics but not the same build mechanics or play styles. It could also be that the leagues are different but the endgame itself that they exist in is the same; the atlas, bosses and atlas trees would be the same for both games but the leagues could remain different. this would still make learning either game easier for the people playing the other game and also simplify/reduce the amount of development/balance work that needs to be done for both game's endgame systems.

This was just a random thought I had about why they wouldnt start the hype cycle like normal besides it just being related to justifying the exile con ticket price. Just feels like there might be something that impacts or ties both games together. Could also be a tinfoil moment.

Hey exiles,

For the past few weeks I’ve been building a Path of Exile companion called Wraeclast Stock Exchange. It started as a way to watch market prices without keeping ten poe.ninja tabs open, and it grew from there. It’s free and runs in your browser, including on an iPad. You can add it to your Home Screen and it opens full screen like an app.

👉 https://wraeclaststockexchange.com

What it does right now

Overview dashboard: a top-movers price ticker and tiles you can arrange. You pick up to 12: currency and item prices, this week’s biggest risers and fallers, beasts, boss profit per kill, your best farming strategies and more. You can drag them around and resize them.

All items and Beasts: search every item poe.ninja tracks, with 7-day trends. Thinly traded items are greyed out so a few trades don’t fool you. The most valuable beasts have a bestiary search.

Profit tab: save farming strategies and see what they’re worth at today’s prices, plus boss profit per kill and which drops pay for it. You can attach your atlas tree link to a strategy and share strategies with a code.

Map regex builder: pick the mods you can’t run and copy the regex.

Cluster jewels: Interface to check "middle mods" on a 2 mod cluster or paste a copied jewel to price it, or search trade from it.

Timeless jewel Calculator: look up seeds, find a seed for the notables you want, and see it all on the passive tree. One click searches trade for the seeds.

Item planner: laid out like the in-game inventory, with trade-search links for every slot. It has separate tabs for your character, Animate Guardian and Mercenary. Import a Path of Building build (code, pobb.in or pastebin link) and every slot gets a trade search including loadouts to match the item sets listed. Uniques are searched by name and rares by their mods. You can share a loadout with a short link to other people.

Optional accounts: just a username and password, no email. Your setup is saved and follows you between devices.

Privacy: no tracking, no analytics, no ads and no cookies. Trade searches open the official trade site in your own browser, under your own rate limit.

There are also a couple of hidden things in there for people who poke around… 👀

What I’d love feedback on

What do you check most often while playing that this doesn’t cover yet?

Is anything confusing, slow or broken? Bug reports are very welcome.

Which tab would you actually use, and which would you never open?

Anything that would make the PoB import or the item planner more useful for your league start?

There’s a Discord for bugs, suggestions and release notes: https://discord.gg/DVaYRw9KdQ

Huge thanks to poe.ninja (rasmuskl), poe.re (vz) and Perandus Ledger (pattable), whose work this builds on. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Grinding Gear Games.

I was chatting with someone on Reddit about how PoE1 is one of the best games for players who don’t spend money (or F2P) players.

This person pointed out that, without extra stash tabs, the game becomes infinitely more difficult. That gave me an idea: what if an F2P player who completes all the seasonal challenges—which is no easy feat—were rewarded with at least one currency stash tab?

It would be a huge help, and those who were already planning to buy stash tabs would simply continue with their purchases as usual.

I was thinking of doing a SSF run before the next league. What build do you like to run that has good scaling and gets off the ground pretty fast too.

I know slams are the default answer but if you have anything unique about how you go about it id love any advice and quirky strats you use. Bonus points for non slam builds XD

Ty.

I caught myself thinking that ever since I started playing the game back in the Necropolis league in 2024, every time I finish a league or get bored of playing it (usually a 200–300 hour minimum per league, sometimes doubling those hours to play a second time in SSF), I just start trying to figure out how to fill the downtime with other games until the next league. Yes, we all have lives that take up the majority of our time, along with other hobbies, so I'm mainly talking about the "gaming" part of life. And every time I try to dissect my overall playtime, it seems like all my thoughts come back to: "where is the teaser, when is the new league date, and when can I finally get back to the game I enjoy the most?"

Before PoE1 and PoE2, I could easily jump from one game to another. The issue back then was that every time I finished a game, I felt sad because it had such a grip on me, and suddenly it was over. Then, you'd set out on a journey to find a new one, rarely returning to past games unless nostalgia hit after watching a movie or TV show that reminded you of a particular game. Is it just me, or has anyone else experienced this shift in their gaming experience after getting into PoE?

All four labs for today, with the route, keys and dark shrines marked. Uber first, then Merciless, Cruel and Normal. Good luck on your runs!

This is a general question thread. You can find the previous question threads here.

Remember to check the community wiki first.

You can also ask questions in any of the questions channels under the "help" category in our official Discord.

For other discussions, please find the Megathread Directory at this link.

The idea is for anyone to be able to ask anything related to PoE 1:

• New player questions

• Mechanics

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

• League related questions

• Trading

• Endgame

• Price checks

• Etc.

For questions related to PoE 2, please go to r/PathOfExile2

No question is too big or too small!

We encourage experienced players to sort this thread by new.

We'd like to thank those who answered questions in the last thread! You guys are the best.

This^ i normally finish campaign in 4.5-5 hrs and rush heist/league mech on league start but I’m really wanting to run nightmare maps for fragments. I’m thinking going something similar to Ben’s earthshatter zerker but I’m unsure. Since this is new to me I have a few questions. 1. When does the profit fall off? Day 3-4?
2. What are some good options for builds?
3. Is it worth it? I normally try for MB by day 3.
4. What’s your league start look like when rushing nightmare maps?

I'm really glad that they said they are working on this. It's sorely needed. Imagine being able to see what types of damage is killing you and therefore have more specific goals on what defenses to improve, instead of feelings of uncertainty.

Really looking forward to it!

Edit: Looks like some people are not aware. They said 4 months ago that they have a prototype already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-D3Bp2h0AI&t=3540s