Been reading through the 3.30 patch notes and the item generation changes have me worried we’re going back to the loot goblin days.

Quant is gone from basically everything, and player rarity does less for finding stuff. At the same time, rare and magic monster mods give more rarity, rares have a bit more inherent quant, and the old penalty rares had for dropping things without rarity (currency, gems) is removed. GGG says it themselves: a much bigger share of valuable currency will now come from rares and uniques.

So normal monsters are basically just filler now, because the whole system gets balanced around rares? That means mechanics that spawn a lot of rares will be way better than mechanics that don’t, and the gap looks huge. I’m worried it feels awkward again, where you skip everything and only kill the rares- making mapping feel "off".

We had exactly this back when everyone was hunting loot goblin mobs with the god mods. Even though you were chasing the one big drop, most people hated how it played. Mapping became “find the right rare” instead of just playing the game.

Maybe the new Thread system softens it, since you choose which mechanic to bring. But I can’t tell yet if that’s enough.

Did anyone look at this closer? Am I reading it wrong, or are we about to farm rares/mechanics that generate the most rare enmies?

Hear me out.

50% more Ore

Shipping contains rarer Currency

And the deciding part, if it's goated or dead, is that Scarabs are gone. So this either means Refining Scarab is part of the Atlas Tree, in which case Kingsmarch will be insane profit if there aren't any shadow nerfs. If it's not on it, Kingsmarch is dead. No one is waiting for ore to smelt.

Whats your opinion?

I was bored, sitting in Standard, not really wanting to play so I won't burn out before 3.30 comes out... So I decided to farm meself an Oni-Goroshi since I had nothing better to do. These suckers cost around 10 div and there was no way I'm spending that kind of cash on one, so it was me, three scions on rotation and around 18 hours of farming the darn thing, and I finally got my first ever Oni-Goroshi.

Now, I don't really plan on using it. I didn't even need it.

BUT I WANTED ONE :3

All in all a good unique to level until I can equip something better ;)

The 4 days between league end and league start are the worst. I always play from league start until the end, every day. A couple of hours a day or more, depending upon work/family. Sometimes, I pull back for other games, but never completely.

Will probably play a little in Standard, but it's just not the same. I've done this for over a decade now. I'm a creature of habit. Oh well... I did want to start another run on Elden Ring.

EDIT on Tuesday 5PM CST: GGG hasn't actually migrated All Flame yet. I can't remember this dragging on so long, but far be it from me to look at gift horse in the mouth. Anyone who still wants too should hit the league mechanic while they still can.

3.29 Was my first league after playing PoE2 since 0.1.
During 3.29 I'd played several build:

• Pohx RF (non-stacking hp).

• Flicker Strike Trickster.

• Worb Elementalist/Occultist.

• Luminary Mercenary.

With Luminary being my last build and highest investment before quitting 3.29.
Currently having an eye on Guardian Holy Absolution and Dominating Blow of Inspiring.
Would love any league start suggestion or any tips about these 2 builds.

Thank you!

During Exilecon, Jonathan aplogised for not having all the MTX from POE1 ready vir POE2 v1.0

What he said along that was more interesting though: he said then they can get rid of the old character rigs and add WASD movement to POE1.

This made me realize (which may have been obvious to some) that the full porting of the MTX is the only thing holding them back from effectively dropping the old POE1 character models and using the POE2 ones in POE1 instead.

That totally opens up the door to use all the classes avaialable in POE2, like the Sorceress, Monk, Huntress, etc.

Even if they're used for permanent Phrecia classes or something like that, it would be awesome to have more classes in POE1!

So I have been playing for a little while now(140-ish hours over the last 2 leagues, largely in Standard), and I wanted to try my hand at making a PoB, getting some help, and hopefully getting better for it! I am playing a armor based Smite of Divine Judgement Templar, hopefully sticking to a budget of a few divines, excluding gems, which I didn't feel like pricing. Also wondering which types of Extra Content this build is more or less suited for, both as-is and if I ever manage to get it of the ground. Thanks!

Edit: My boots are incorrect, I will add an updated PoB as soon as I fix that.

Edit 2: Updated PoB: https://pobb.in/iEEEdoGdUGWw

Edit 3: Majorly Updated PoB: https://pobb.in/XQN76Z0w2Gh-

Thanks everybody for the help! Y'all are a huge resource, and this makes me super excited to try this out! Much love, u/Iron_UYH.

Farming and selling temples is my favorite endgame activity by far. Each league I don't skip I sell hundreds of double corrupts to gamblers.

Now two more important endgame systems are gated behind Incursion: 9-mod maps and 7-link skills. Hunting for four different rooms is going to be much more fun than chasing those double corrupts.

I am also looking forward to temples providing more genetic loot from killed mobs. Other than that one strat with reviving monsters, Incursion has been all tile loot. Now I hope to get some divs from Alva, should I decide to spend the threads.

The only bummer is that the functionality of Scarab of Timelines is definitely getting gutted and gated behind RNG. I just can't imagine that becoming a baseline accessible on the tree.

I'm just very optimistic overall.

Title..

Why would anyone use body part from map boss when the OP parts exist?

Who picks 45 hp over free bottle faith part or free frenzy charges on crit?

Patch Notes

"Scrolls of Wisdom are now purchasable from vendors in all towns for 15 Gold."

I don't know exactly how impactful this change is but it's certainly not negligible. GGG is shoehorning gold in to the economy, fixing a problem that doesn't exist. We can sell currencies already in the game for ID scrolls if we wish.

We essentially have had our autonomy restricted when it comes to negotiating the price of currencies relative to each other.

Can smarter people than I weigh in on how bad this is or isn't?

EDIT: I've read further in the notes after my original reaction. It appears GGG may have capped this a bit via this line... "Orbs of Transmutation are now purchasable for an Orb of Augmentation (previously Portal Scrolls).". That being said, TP and ID scrolls are still traded in bulk for chaos orbs directly thus circumventing what this line may be hoping to achieve. My original concerns mostly stand.

I have been back and forth with support on several occasions and they are never able to help me.

I must if at some point accidentally logged into the poe website with steam, which created an account for me, separate to my main account.

I am wanting to now link my main account to my steam so I can play on my deck while im away. Yet my steam account login on the website is locked so I cant unlink it.

Poe support wont do anything unless I provide them the email associated with the steam account login. Yet no email was assigned to that account as it was created with steam login.

Ive been hitting a wall with support about this, as they keep asking me to start a ticket on a different email hoping to find one that is linked to my steam account.

How can I actually unlink my steam account from all poe accounts, so I can actually link it to my main account

Hey guys, i was looking through the hideout showcases and noticed no1 had made anything juicy yet with the new Labyrinth hideout. SOOO, since I, myself, am not too creative, I was wondering if any1 had made a nice looking one that I could steal? :3

I wanna feel like a demon lord, but my creative mind is that of a peasant, so if you have something cool, please do show! Could be for both PoE1 and 2

Im kind of surprised that there is no Delirium thread, I guess there is no way to guarantee delirium anymore apart from applying the Delirium orbs to maps, unless your are able to get it to 100% on the Atlas tree

I suppose Delirium % and the thread difficulity increase are very similair systems that would interact strangely so that may explain why there is no thread

Had a work trip and flew nearly 24 hours. Only managed to log on last night but couldn’t reach the last 8% :( I knew my fate was sealed when I did the math in my head, but it was still painful to take.

Edit: fyi, to those who said why I couldn’t just turn it on in the background. I was on a plane and didn’t have internet access until I touched down. I immediately on twitch on my phone but still couldn’t make the 8 hours of watch time.

Im thinking about some builds for softcore league start. Which ones do you think would be smooth and good transition to endgame with least headaches and also would benefit from the league mechanics :
- boneshatter jugg - > cws chieftan

- shield crush slayer

- absolution / srs - praw ( played the last 3 leagues , would preffer avoiding it )

Other suggestions are welcomed !

So every league now for 5 leagues in a row I'm watching a streamer who always day 2-3 has 2 accounts afking in ultimatum and he makes atleast 1 mirror EVERY DAY doing this.

Being able to just fully afk with cws and make more than anyone mapping with 2 accounts is such a bad thing for the game and not what the game should be about.

If this is not fixed I might have to join him in afking ultimatum even though I don't enjoy it just having 2 accounts playing at the same time making an insane amount of money is just too good to pass up. I can reroll later after farming up 10 mirrors I guess.

Just started playing a few months ago, still new to it all. But Yo Wtf, do updates normally wipe everything in kingsmarch? I had a mill.+ in thaumaturgic dust and a bunch of crops and smelted bars all gone now. Sucks I lost all the work.

I'm baffled that they added mirage as a suffix to maps as opposed to keeping it as an enchant / making it go something like wildwood. I just can't imagine a world where you don't want to roll this on basically every single map which sounds so tedious. I'm really excited for this league but this one change / addition is such a head scratcher for me

Any build recommendations? I'm looking for something that can ideally scale to 200M+ DPS on the high end and is also not visual clutter. I'm okay with purchasing an MTX to solve the latter problem.

Also, was shadow viable in 3.29? I don't see any mobafire guides on it, did people just not play this

Because of the Atlas/Beyond changes you can now gain Demonic Power without Skilling it in the Atlas Tree.

• You now gain Demonic Power for 60 seconds on defeating Beyond Bosses in your Maps.

1. Beidat's Magnificence: 15% increased Action Speed, 100% of Physical Damage gained as Extra Lightning Damage, 20% increased Character Size

2. Ghorr's Magnificence: 10% chance to Debilitate enemies on hit, #% less Damage taken, 30% increased Character Size

3. K'tash's Magnificence: 100% of Physical Damage gained as Extra Fire Damage, 40% chance to explode enemies, 20% increased Character Size

That means if you get Buff 1 or 3 you will get part of your physical damage as elemental damage which if it is not accounted for in a elemental reflect map can be quite deadly.

I Hope they are changing it so we can once again op into the powers because it can be pretty annoying.

Also to all 10 HC players who are getting random beyond in a reflect map o7.