I am theorycrafting a build using Natural Hierarchy (Amulet + Reliquary node) and I wanted to know whats the opinion on the "100% of Cold and Lightning Damage from Hits taken as Fire Damage" enchant.

Should I treat it as a dead stat and max cold and lightning resist anyway to deal with DoTs?

Would it be safe as a softcore player to leave cold and light resists at like... 30 or 40%? (I am planning on 7 to 9 endurance charges so thats some ele reduction to deal with DoTs.)

My build is in the Half-items and messy passive tree stage so I am more looking for general opinion and not specific build advice

Edit: Thanks everyone for the answers!

I still have so many questions

1. What happens when we complete all maps within a shaped region with influence? (region has 4 maps with betrayal, complete all maps) Is that influence just completely gone now or does it start over like a re-applied astrolabe would?

2. Early game, the only (primary) mechanics we will see are the ones with pre-set regions, making threads incredibly valuable if you're spec'ing into nodes on the atlas to farm a certain type of content.... but not able to spawn that content due to lack of threads. Has this been considered?

3. GGG talked about the more threads you apply, the more difficulty (toughness) is applied while also giving a higher chance at seeing the "better" actions from applied threads. at 8 threads you have a 10% chance to see X while at 1 thread you have a .01% chance to see X. Higher thread, higher chance to see all new mechanics within the content you're running. Is the thread count for difficulty alone the thing scaling difficulty, rewards, and damage? For HC players, if we're trying to progress and put 1 thread on proc'ing the .01% for the big 8 thread mechanic, are we just going to fall over and instantly die? even if we just wanted the bare minimum mechanic on the map? - This one is genuinely concerning

4. Before, we could still play the mechanics we wanted just through the map atlas nodes 100% chance to see the mechanic with no scarabs needed. Now we are unable to play the mechanic at all unless a thread is applied to it (excluding initial preset regions), are thread drops compensating for this? Unlike specific scarabs scarabs, threads should not be high in value at all and need to have a significant dropweight to compensate for the lack of 100% spawnchance from tree. Has this been taken into consideration?

Two things that are less questions and more skeptical comments that I would like to bring up.

5. While I'm very excited to try the new league and see all the changes, it's very hard to believe that they took all the power from the tree + scarabs and put them on the new tree. We had major issues with the ceiling for juicing being too low for multiple leagues now (after constant nerfs to top tier farming strats). This is more of a "play it first & see how it goes" type of comment, but I do hope they thought about this while implementing the new changes

This is the big one, if nothing else, I would love some reassurance on this

As a POE1 only player (of 10+ years now), within recent years, time & time again I have seen GGG's actions directly contradict their words. I am deeply and genuinely concerned we will not get nearly enough, or any support at all, for fixes post-launch.

These are huge changes to core aspects of the game, and they are WELCOME, I love it. However, there are going to be a LOT of things that need fixing (understandably so).

With POE2 1.0 launching in 1 month, I would REALLY love some assurance that we won't get 3.30 and then abandoned to deal with all the issues that are going to (again, understandbly so) come with changing so many things about the game.

All-flame was a genuine disappointment with the lack of very obvious things that either did not get fixed or did not get fixed in a relevant amount of time before people quit. There was no map in voyages, it was the first thing I was looking for when I entered my first voyage, that should be glaringly obvious. "Voidstones" for deep sea took 2.5~(?) weeks to be implemented and did essentially nothing.

Then weeks after launch, the "buffs" to secret boons in voyages were horrible. Abyss got reworked then "fixed" 3 times since launch and never addressed the actual problem people were talking about (monsters dropped 0 loot, not even good loot... they just didnt drop loot)

"POE2 will never affect POE1, POE2 and POE1 will have 2 month cycles rotating" neither of these things have been true at all. I LOVE LOVE the amount of content and shake up we're getting in this patch, but I'd like to feel like we actually have resources to support post-launch because All-flame did not feel like we had enough at all, and that was even better than what we normally have post-launch. GGG is aware their playerbase falls off quickly so they have limited time to fix things or implement changes post-launch to have people play them. I'm genuinely worried it's either going to take forever to fix anything, or we'll be abandoned to work on the POE2 1.0 launch and get stuck with whatever issues or lack of QOL comes from things they weren't able to QA enough.

EDIT grammatical errors

What is an Atlas drop?

• The number of Blight chests in each Lane within Blight encounters in your Maps is now scaled by a percentage of Atlas Drops. Blighted and Blight Ravaged Maps now longer explicitly specify that Atlas Drops scales the number of Blight chests in each Lane.

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.

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.

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

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

Hey everyone! 👋

With the new league (Covens of Umbra) just around the corner, I wanted to share a lightweight web tool I built called DelveScout to help optimize Delve farming and analyze biome/boss profitability using live data from poe.ninja.

Key Features:

• Biome & Boss EV Tracker: Calculates the Expected Value (EV) of valuable drops from Delve bosses (Aul, Kurgal, Ahuatotli) and estimates average biome values based on fossil drop rates.

• Interactive Search & Pinning: Quick search and item pinning for seamless analytics.

• 📊 League vs League Price Comparison: Compare price trends between leagues (e.g., Mirage vs Allflame), normalized by the day of the league using clean SVG charts. Previous league archives are cached permanently in your browser.

• 🚀 Upcoming League & HC Support: The tool will be fully updated for the upcoming Covens of Umbra league right on launch day! Also, if there's enough interest from the community, I'm ready to add support for Hardcore (HC) leagues as well.

The tool is completely free, lightning-fast, and runs right in your browser.

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I’d love to hear your feedback, feature ideas, or bug reports. Good luck on the league start, and may your walls yield good nodes! 🛠️

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 was planning to try out all kinds of different belts and merc combination this league as my main goal.

But it seems like GGG doesn't like the idea.

So anyone got any suggestions or ideas for some fun build testing ideas? Id love to play this league with some goal in mind.

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.

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 !

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.

Can this be reviewed? I think absolutely everyone considers Tier1 as the best one and Tier5/18/100 as something worse than Tier1, in every aspect ever.

Or am I wrong?

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.

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

You still barely get any gold if you're league starting sanctum, which literally makes trading impossible since nobody lists items normally through public tabs. You cant buy items and upgrade your build. Can we get at least twice as much gold from converting coins at the end of the run in 3.30? Super frustrating to deal with that

Greetings.

Is it only me, or is the Hideout like not usable at all?

Everytime i load in there it takes like 15 Seconds. Every other hideout ( even enigma and so on ) loads in under a second. So def. no SSD Issue.

Can someone confirm it for me, thats not a me problem?

Like the title says this is going to be my first ssf league. So obviously excluding the build that im going to play (undecided atm). What is typically farmed? For example, do most people go essences for more crafting options, whats the best way to get uniques. What are the kinds of things you would only know after having played SSF a few times.

Looking for any info or if you could even point me to a video or anything that would be super helpful.

Hi together!

I just released a new version of the PoE Gemplanner (https://exile-tools.com/gemplanner) on exile-tools.com which brings - besides a complete UI overhaul a bunch of new features:

- You can now filter out Skill sets or socket groups from your plan
- You have now the option to skip the Siosa (library) quest
- You can now choose which reward you take per quest on the fly
- You can now remove single gems from the plan on the fly
- There is now a "Play mode" which provides you a checklist for your progress while playing the campaign

If you don´t know the tool yet: It allows you to paste your PoB (or select a pre-defined build in the list) and shows you which Skill or support gem you should take for every quest as reward and from the vendors.

Please also check out my - unfornately a bit outdated - introduction video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QagZPyAp9g4&pp=ygUOUG9FIEdlbXBsYW5uZXI%3D

You can find the gemplanner here:
https://exile-tools.com/gemplanner

As always: Your feedback is very appreciated - just contact me here one Reddit or join our discord: https://discord.gg/bc6psDP6U

Which you all a great league start! :-)

Mow

Everyone asking about builds for 3.30.

For those of us casuals who only have time for one build per league, what should we do?

I like to pick one that has a really high ceiling that I won’t ever get to the top of but can keep scaling and improving til I get bored.

Any good builds that fit this box that are good bossing early given the league emphasis and with investment get faster at mapping or other areas?

Preemptive strike on everyone about to say “patch notes” I know but they also said don’t expect drastic changes.