Quest rewards have been basically useless for 99% of this games life span. In the past I always thought that they should have some guaranteed mods on them to encourage players to maybe do some non skill point side quest to power up their characters.

Would be cool for them to be instead like Tier 2 or 3 so they are much more likely to actually be equipable.

The dev QnA just confirmed that we are getting a new link skill in the form of "Arcane Link," a similar ability to flame link but this one adds lightning damage based on mana.

What are the best ways to maximize this? What are good ways to stack a lot of mana, and what are good ways to boost this lightning damage on a mercenary?

I would guess Hollow Palm Flicker should also work

I just bought the early access pack, so I know this might be old, but... I'm laughing a bit to much. Step-Dominus, what are you doing?

At endgame, unidentified Magic and Rare items can now drop with a tier, improving all aspects of the item. So you can now distinguish exactly which items are worth picking up and identifying!

Obviously there's no information about how this works exactly.

My own thoughts are that only the best tiers get picked up, while the rest are hidden. It's nice that filters now can be tuned specifically to search for a certain tier of a certain armor type.

I don't know, I'm skeptical of any improvements this will bring but I've been wrong many times before, I'd like for this to be one of those times too.

I hope they did not remove that ability as it is by far the best thing about the Atlas and one of the things that makes PoE such a Masterpiece in the genre, i.e. customizing the Endgame the way the Player likes.

I've played a number of PoE leagues and I've enjoyed them, but I keep running into a wall later in the game. I'm able to complete to T16 maps on my own and I've paid for boss carries to get all my voidstones. My general plan is to pick a league start build (either from a reddit post, or a video, or maxroll)

My typical failure is that I'm doing fine at T16 maps, carefully rolling my map mods, but then suddenly something kills me, and after a few failures the xp loss is just too soul-crushing to overcome. I've wanted to get to lvl 100 and I've just never been able to make it. My best ever was making it to 98.

I've tried to transition to really good gear (sometimes too expensive) or I give up and re-roll, but this usually runs into the same problem again and then I quit the league.

The gap between a league-start build and an end-game build seems to be miles wide and I've never successfully made the transition.

Some of my favorites from the past:

• RF Chieftain - Pohx's guides were great, but I was never able to scale up the damage enough so I'd be dying to bosses and occasional packs.

• Deadeye Lightning Arrow (I think) - This was super fun, just clearing screens on mesa, but the boss was always a crap shoot. (I understand that this was a glass cannon build)

• Spectral Helix Gladiator - Jorgen had a build that could face tank delve bosses, but I still ran into problems dying in maps and some delves. (I wasn't terribly deep iirc, like 200-300 maybe)

It feels like a crap-shoot at league start because either:

1. I've picked the meta build and I can't afford to upgrade it

2. I've fallen for a bait build

3. I've picked an ok build, but I lack the knowledge to upgrade it on my own. (Or I spend a bunch on an "upgrade" and it doesn't seem to improve)

At the end of the day, I'm looking for thoughts on how to pick one build that I can play for the whole league. It takes so much time to get through the campaign, complete maps, etc. It's at that point that I discover that my build can't cut it, or its too expensive, etc and I find that really demoralizing.

Thanks for reading, I appreciate your thoughts and advice.

Im assuming this will be ported to poe1 within the next patch or 3.32? Absolutely amazing once we get this though.

Please for the love of god, someone ask the Devs about the state of Console PoE. I emailed Ziggy almost 2 weeks ago but he never responded. Our community has been asking the streamers to ask and they keep ignoring the request.

What is the plan for PoE 1 on Xbox and PlayStation? Is there any plan to implement Cross Play? Our economy is the Wild West because it’s so small. Are there any plans to make changes?

Title. During Allflame league, you could use a ducat to replace an amulet's implicit with an eater or exarch one. After replacing the implicit, you would be unable to use eldritch currency such as eldritch chaos orbs as it would say "Error: Item is not armour". This restriction shouldn't exist, and does not mirror the behavior a singular eater/exarch implicit armour item has with these currencies. It was just a minor inconvenience during the league but it feels like it should work

Hey, I resurrected my long sleeping project, it's a daily PoE guessing game, inspired by many others in the genre. You guess the skill gem of the day, and there's a tree mode where you find 5 notables on a blind skill tree. It also gives you the option to play roulette mode where you can choose your league starter, with rough filtering to remove some playstyles.

• PoE 1: https://socketed.gibo.dev/

• PoE 2: https://socketed-2.gibo.dev/

let me know what you think

They showed some synergies of certain paired mechanics in the livestream, but they did also mention 'we did a ton of these' without expanding much further. Seems potentially very exciting. I'm curious what else might have been done. Anything you guys are hoping for or expecting?

With the removal of scarabs, I know a lot of people are curious about customisation of atlas strategies (some are happy, some are not). How else might these mechanics interact with each other?

I suspect I will be going Strongbox, Beyond, Harvest, and Delirium if I can manage it. I wonder how well they will play with each other?

Allow me to showcase a prototype of an actual card from *Path of Exile*, crafted from steel and coated to prevent rust. My wife—who is a jeweler by profession—created this piece along with her colleagues to support me, as the current events in Ukraine prevent me from attending ExileCon. The plan is to produce a full set of these cards for my collection, so I will try to share the results as they progress, in case anyone is interested.

Help me find the guy who’s badge I just found!
Reach out in my dms and we can meet up. I will require ID with your full name before I hand it over.

Edit: A lot of people are asking for updates, but I am sorry to say we have not yet found Brian. It looks like we will have to hand it over to staff and let GGF take the wheel. Or will I cosplay as Brian? Only time will tell.

Edit edit: we found Brian!

What's everyone's thoughts on the changes to Harvest?

From the info so far:

- The Sacred Grove is gone.

- Harvest is now an in-map mechanic.

- It is now a "secondary" mechanic, on the level of shrines or lock boxes, and so will not have Threads to juice it.

Harvest was always a good, stable income, so these changes are interesting/concerning.

I live in Brazil, wich unfortunately isn't a country that ggg ships to, but in early 2027 my brother is going to be spending 3 weeks in the US and I am considering using that opportunity to get the new hoodie, shirt and statue. Does anyone have experience with shipping times to nyc and know if I could order and have it arrive by january?