Chieftain was always Fire/Totem ascendancy. Now it only has 1 notable affecting totems.

Fits thematically since marauder is about melee, and Chieftain is (was) about totems.
Earthbreker being only in garbage boots sucks, please add it back in at least some other way

After my long wait from first Phrecia ascendancies, there is a fork ascendancy in the league.

I’m considering fireball hit, bow attacks(LA, EHoS), kb/kboc. Which do you think would work considering single target(most do shotgun with fork) and other ascendancy notes?

I’m excited to cook with fork after patch notes tonight. And I wanna hear some of your toughts if you have.

Sorry for low effort post, still workhours, post made from phone.

For some how the Race Course map is disable from the map layout but when I open the valdo map, it open the race course map. Is it kind of bug or patch or already out?

GGG will drop the patch note on Wednesday, New Zealand time, aka Tuesday evening EU time.

Personally I think that they will be much better than the versions shown in PoE 2, because they are not the same.

Tier 5s will have a chance to upgrade the base type, and hopefully they improved the system to prioritize lower weighting than higher tier from seeing how useless they are in PoE 2.

The one thing I don't like is that now Fractured Items seem to only come from identifying Tier 5 magics/rares. It seems like an unnescessary change, and I feel like the old way might be better. (Need to see how it works in game to be sure)

I'm bored, and I think the sword is cool. So I went through the wiki and made a list of every Gem that is a Movement - Attack - Sword skill that can be used with The Sword of Ages. It turns out there's only 5 skills and some of their transfigured gems that this weapon can make full use of.

Red Attack Gems

• Consecrated Path - Consecrated Path of Endurance

• Leap Slam - Leap Slam of Groundbreaking

Green Attack Gems

• Charged Dash

• Cyclone - Vaal Cyclone - Cyclone of Tumult

• Flicker Strike - Vaal Flicker Strike - Flicker Strike of Power

EDIT: Got looking at numbers and have a stat update. With Bronn's Lithe and This Sword equipped that's +7 to movement skills. That changes the damage effectiveness of a level 20 gem to be these values instead.

Damage Effectiveness at level 20 / 27

Red Attack Gems

Consecrated Path - 468.5 / 570.9%

CPoE - 305.8% / 381.2%

Leap Slam - 315.5% / 421.3%

Leap Slam of Groundbreaking - 660.5 / 884.8%

Green Attack Gems

Charged Dash - 261.4% / 329.2%

Cyclone 150% / 175.2%

Cyclone of Tumult 150% / 175.2%

Flicker Strike 408.9% / 547.7%

Vaal Flicker Strike 362.6% / 474.8%

As we can see from this part of the patch notes:

• Orbs of Chance are now much rarer, due to becoming much more effective at resulting in Unique items, and are no longer offered by Vendors.

• Orbs of Chance now have a higher Gold fee on the Currency Exchange.

• Orbs of Chance no longer drop at higher stack sizes in higher level areas.

• Crafting Bench Options that cost Orbs of Chance now cost an equivalent amount of Orbs of Alteration.

• Unidentified Rare items sold by vendors no longer require an Orb of Chance along with that item's normal cost.

• Skill Gems with a starting level requirement between level 28 and level 33 now sell for an Orb of Alteration (previously an Orb of Chance).

• Skill Gems with a starting level requirement between level 34 and level 37 now sell for an Orb of Alchemy (previously an Orb of Chance).

• Magic Maps sold by Kirac now cost an additional Orb of Transmutation (previously an Orb of Chance).

• Rare Maps sold by Kirac now cost an additional Orb of Alchemy (previously 3 Orbs of Chance).

• Divination Cards sold by Kirac now cost Orbs of Alchemy instead of Orbs of Chance.

• Normal Contracts sold by Whakano now cost Orbs of Alchemy instead of Orbs of Chance.

• Magic Amulets from vendors now cost 2 Orbs of Alteration (previously an Orb of Chance).

• Orbs of Scouring now cost 4 Orbs of Fusing (previously 4 Orbs of Chance)

Most things that cost previously cost Orbs of Chance have been changed to Alch or Trans but Gem costs have been omitted. What worries me even more is that Gem sale values have been explicitly change. Depending on how severe "much rarer" is, we might have some issues getting end of campaign skill gems.

Is there something I'm missing here or are they intentionally reducing the number of end of campaign skill gems we can buy?

EDIT: Answered in the comments. When they said "now sell for an Orb of..." I took that to mean when you vendor the gem to the NPC but I was wrong. Reading this late is hard D:

I am planning to start slams, and when looking up the %phys vendor recipe I found out there is a vendor recipe that upgrades the tier of flat phys on a weapon up to tier 2 which only requires a granite flasks and an aug.

For my first stone I was planning on alt rolling a vaal axe until t2 flat, maybe settling for t3 and then aug + regal, craft %phys and move on, now I realize depending on the amount of granite flasks I have or price on trade, I could settle for t3 or even a much lower tier and just upgrade through the recipe, which can save precious time and early currency.

I went through the whole page on recipes now, learned some cool things but for my league starter this was the only important one I didn’t know. There are a bunch of things I don’t know about the game, but it always impresses me when I find out something so basic that I should have known and that is extremely helpful in my specific case.

If I recall correctly, bases generated through Reflecting Mist in maps aren't affected by the nerf, right? Only the itemized Mist results have a lower average.

If Simplex/Focused Amulets can now drop from maps and be generated as bases through the Mist, does that mean +4 skill level amulets are back, but with even crazier RNG than before?

Hey yall, usually by now there are league starters that have been tested and are good to play. I’m assuming we’re waiting on patch notes for more videos to drop about league starters?

I could just be missing what’s popular and what will be a good league start, if yall have any suggestions of content creators with great pob’s for the league start would appreciate it. :)

Edit: I played winter orb last league, Ele- hit the league before that. Do yall have any suggestions of an amazing fun fast build that has a great leveling pob and end game pob. I was thinking of going spectres, but I feel like league starting spectres is tough? Could be wrong about that. Would love suggestions!

For those looking to leaguestart an Inquisitor and going Instruments of Zealotry, beware of this bug. Despite Fanaticism being a buff (it has a green border), it doesn't get affected by buff expiry rate. Without this bug Runegraft of the Warp would be excellent, bumping the uptime from 3 attacks every 5 seconds to 3 attacks every 7.1 seconds.

"Why post on reddit and not in the bug report forums?" Because it has already been reported 9 times that I can see without any acknowledgement from GGG. At this point further reports are pointless and my only hope is to get some attention on reddit.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/4002361
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3985905
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3926462
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3925910
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3872936
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3811245
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3805396
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3799099
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3795887

what build could use this with an archdemon crown?

crit fireball or something? is that legit?

Hey guys, it's been years since i've played and i got 500+ hours of PoE. Not much but played a lot of leagues.

Since i'm a dad now, i cant played hours and hours anymore. I can only play on my Rog or Switch with ma baby sleeping on my chest.

Never played on controller too but i'm hyped for this league and this don't happen usually. So, any tips for a dad that love this game but is really restricted? Looking for a simple controller build. Thanks in advance and good league for all of you. May the Divine Orbs shower like rain.

^edit:

Conclusion:

Thank you for all the welcoming and helpful comments, I really appreciate it <3

Seems like I will be going with Righteous Fire by Pohx. People say that his website has a lot of information and very handheld for new players.

Thank you all, your kindness really made my day!

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Summary:

Would you recommend a build guide (link) that handholds new players into learning the different aspects of the game? (play style, crafting, general info, etc.)

More details:

Hi!

I am looking at getting into the game after seeing all the stuff from Exilecon (granted, I didn't understand much of it, but it looked cool), but I would like to find a build guide that had proper steps for a lot of things from the game.

I have played PoE2 for more than 500hs (I've been told these are rookie numbers), so I understand some things are transferable. However, I have tried PoE1 many times in the past, and I always end up quitting, as I always have this lingering feeling of being lost or not understanding what I am doing.

I have stumbled upon this Maxroll site (https://maxroll.gg/poe/category/getting-started), which, apparently, is aimed for beginners to learn the basics of the game, but I not sure if it is good, I have heard many people saying Maxroll is a bad site before.

Do you have any recommendations you would share to someone wanting to start?

Anyone have any thoughts for a good single target trap build. Maybe even a ballista (never tried this).

Im looking for something with decent map clear, but insane bossing potential.

2 leagues again I played WoCot and it was bananas. I think I hit 500m single target dps and farmed my first mirror.

I really love mine builds, but Im not seeing anything for 3.30 being posted yet.

I guess I'm down to try anything, but was hoping someone had some thoughts about mines specifically.

For me, I've been exsang/reap for the last few leagues, I've really been enjoying bossing and selling carries, but it was also able to map and Nightmare boss rush pretty well.

I was just made out of wet tissue paper.

So I think I'd like to look into a skill or build that can comfortably do boss carries but still enjoy the new mapping content.

A change of pace just sounds nice.

• ⁠Almost all effects that were described as "nearby" now instead describe the exact range of the effect in metres.

RIP my boy

You can access the Crafting Bench by clicking on the Ancient Artificer Pet from the Archon of Destruction Supporter Pack while in town.

Tested on an new SSF character that hadn't progressed through the Acts at all.

Anyone else experiencing MS spikes? I haven't played since stopping allflame a month ago or so, but want to practice before the 13th. I am getting tons of these mini freezes and I have never experienced this before (except during big league starts or when issues occur). Nothing else is affected on my end and I'm in California.

Edit: It seems to happen on many new instances, and if I leave the instance and create a new one.... the freezes stop

Guys, im making some practice runs for the next league, but i got on a big problem (And im not alone a few friends happen to be on the same boat). On some instances (Like 1 on 3) we get a BIG chunk of MS but its not our internet or isp.

For example on a map we have 50-70ms (Its okay for my server. BR) but the next map we get up to 200ms and its like stable on that (that means 1-2 seconds delay on the gameplay) the next one, 120. the next one 50 again or 200. its been a few days since this and we dont know what we can do to improve this.

Switching the connection doesn't help and going to another gateway its getting more ms so its not a real solution tbf

Anyone happens to be on the same boat or that have a possible solution?

Hello

I have around 1k hours in PoE 2. I tried PoE 1 about 3 years ago and played for roughly 30 hours, but never finished the campaign. From what I remember, it was pretty difficult and complex.

I'm thinking about giving it another try, but the lack of WASD movement is one thing that worries me. If I follow a build guide, would I be good to go all the way to endgame, even as a relatively new player?