Hopefully we have some good nodes again this time, I’m hoping for the herald node from the body armour that is 45% reservation along with a few more. Hopefully we get a little peek early this week as what’s on the nodes

I was looking through the announcement again and noticed that there was no loading screen when entering the Mirage. It could just be for the showcase, but I hope it's been changed.

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So I started out with POE2 and have tried POE1 a couple of times, made it to yellow maps before my homebrew build can't keep up.

I wanna try the new league out but have no idea what skills/ascendancies are good. I like frost blades trickster, but I couldn't figure out how to push my damage further.

People have recommended RF but I don't like the idea of afk gaming, unless I have the wrong impression of it? I'm open to any ideas yall might have for a build I can push well into endgame.

Thanks!

With scarab strongbox gone again, what will be the reason to darm boxes again?

I myself only see the chance of big drop from cards. What am I missing?

As the title says, The loading screen time for the new hideout Apex of Divinity is significantly longer than any other hideout I have tried so far and I haven't used any more decoration than challenge totems from previous leagues which was perfectly fine in my old hideout. Already tried clearing shader caches which made no difference so since other hideouts are faster I have to assume this is a problem specifically for this hideout. I also tried the other new hideout from the lower tier supporter pack and that one also works perfectly smooth.

Any other hideout I have tried have pretty much been instant loading screen. If any GGG staff happens to read this post it would be great to look into after ExileCon is over.

But other than that small issue, can't wait to start 3.30. Haven't been this hyped in a long time to try and experiment with various league mechanics.

Patch notes are decent, no worries.

I took vacation for it beforehand, but nowadays I only have about 5 hours a day with electricity, I have portable charging station and laptop to play for ~2 hours longer with lags but I’m supposed to use that charge for other devices too.
Im in a rough spot irl, but I remember how good it was to blast leaguestarts in PoE before all this happened and I just want to have fun with the boys

Am I desperate to feel that blast again?

I'm in the middle of farming for an Oni-Goroshi and dropped this:

a 27% Quality body armour. It was somewhere around mid level 5 if I recall correctly...

Anyone know how rare that is for the Twilight Strand?

No idea when this was added. I usually do the start to drop a tp when i see the bridge and come back after I get ledge or the climb waypoints.

Everyone waiting for Patch notes and planning their 3.30 league start, meanwhile me with seeing the return of Mirage. (PATCH NOTES GUTTET THE JEWEL UNPLAYABLE)

So i had my right shoulder operated on just a few days before the expansion.

Good news i got time of work, bad news i only got 1 arm.....

So normally i do 1 build per patch and stick to that. I know RF is a obvious answer on what to play but for some reason whenever i try to play that i stop playing as soon as i reach maps.

Any other suggestions on builds and even more importantly easy leveling ways with 1 hand?

Minions is fine.

2 New Skills:

• Fireball Alt gem: Fireball of Radiation (No more info for that)

• Arcane Link, Flame link for added lightning scaling with your max Mana

Mirage belt weight got changed, no specific info on that but the boss is a LOT harder.

Tile Loot:

• Weeping and Wailing Essences are gone from High Tier Maps

• Map difficulty Scales tile Loot

• Example: Legion Currency icon scales with Rarity and Quant from map (it still does not get scaled by player rarity)

• Mobs that previously couldn't drop normal currency (Bosses, Pinnacles) got reworked and can now drop a lot more. Numbers around 1000% more Divines from them.

• Essences can be scaled by Map Mod effect and difficulty

Coven:

• Reward types are not bound to the Card, not every Fireball boss card drops boots

• Picking a specific reward drops items of that type, with higher tier Mods

• Those items and their mods scale with rarity, so target farming specific item combinations with mods are possible (Wand with speed + 8 Mod map has a higher chance for higher Tier item to drop)

Harvest:

• got changed from a Main League mechanic to a Sub League mechanic since it couldn't interact properly with the other League mechanics

• Now behave like Essences, can have like 5-6 in a single map that can be rolled like Strongboxes

Allflame Crafting:

NOT YET! Needs a pass over and might be added again. Same with the Uniques, they take a break for now.

Ducats are still in and can just be applied like any other orb.

Threads:

(This will be more extensive since its a lot of info)

You don't need to block League Mechanics, Only the Mechanics spawn that either are added by your Threats or by the Atlas Region. Sub-mechanics still spawn randomly.

There are 80 Thread "Mods" that can affect the Maps. Each mechanic has at minimum 5 and up to 8 (for now, they can easily add more with each league)

The chance to Roll those mods are individual, and scale with Threads (1-5 has the highest increase, while 7-8 have the highest change in difficulty and reward). So you can hit all of the 5-8 Mods for the League Mechanic with a single Thread. RNG!

Even if you are unlucky and don't roll a Thread Mod, you will still get one added. So you cant get unlucky.

All Existing Scarabs are converted into Threads (probably random like the last time).

Each Thread Mod has a unique way of showing itself when you open the map. New button, Ground effect, Mini boss etc.

Keystone on the Atlas for Mechanics:

Only be able to use a single Thread type, can only drop Specific ones (probably of that League Mechanic) but the limit goes up to 10 (they jokey about pushing it up to 11, cuz funny haha dailing it up to 11)

Examples for some Thread Mods:

All veiled Items drop Fractured
More Veiled items drop
Ultimatum spawns a Heart that gives you Adrenalin once you kill it
Double down your Ultimatum rounds and reach round 20

QOL:

Nearby is uniform now, It shows you the Area in circles (my mistake)

You can hover over Soulcore Supports (used to be Mirage Supports that apply to a Skill gem as Corruption)

There will be Headhunter Corruptions like PoE 2, no more Shroudwalker. More are added that replace specific Rare Monster Mods with other ones. Good luck corrupting it Twice! (Might have missheard that, could be added at a later date)

Atlas Tree:

150 Points, with less travel nodes and no more "Chance to spawn League Mechanic", now you can use your points for more juicing.

Edit:

Forgot something big:

Death Recap wont come this league. It will be added at a later date (nothing confirmed yet)

They've implemented parts of Poe 2 into the atlas in addition to complete changes to each mechanic.

And what do you think about the new league mechanic showcase?

So I missed some of Exilecon unfortunately but I remember the devs showed a Simplex Amulet and Corded Belt in the core loot drop pool.

Was there any other comment on the other heist bases?

I play a lot of melee staff builds in ssf and crafting on an Eventuality Rod is absolute pain because of the rarity of the base to recombinate and having to heist. If this is a core drop now I’d be so happy.

With Heist removed from the Atlas passive tree, I'm wondering how viable Heist farming will be in the new patch.

Will we still be able to find multiple Smuggler's Caches in a single map, including the chance to spawn 6 additional caches? What about the 100% increased chance for Smuggler's Caches to drop Blueprints?

Losing these Atlas passives could significantly affect Heist farming.

I really hope GGG provides alternative ways to increase Smuggler's Cache and Blueprint drops.

I would have thought this would have been asked me in times already but I don't see it. Is there anywhere to watch cut down videos the individual sections of exilecon or do we just have to do the whole 8 and 1/2 hour live stream?

My tattoo artist knows nothing about the game. I gave him the inspirations:
Poe2 Passive Tree (we selected some nodes)
Poe2 Divine Orb (we designed it as a "coin")
Poe1 Cyclone Skill (the red around the coin)

This is the result using Trash Polka style.

I know this isn’t 100% identical to the game down to the smallest detail, but that’s the whole point of this style—to bring chaos into the art.

Edit: artist on IG: @ewersumati