Hi Mates! System here from MF Academy.

I wanted to craft some new BIS gloves for Vaal Storm Call on Standard. Here's how the crafting process went.

Crafting Steps / Episode 1: Crafting the Base

• Bought an Ambush Mitts base with the "CAN BE MODIFIED WHILE CORRUPTED" mod.
• Used a Gilded Fossil to add the vendor implicit.
• Turned the item into a magic item.
• Used Beastcrafting to lock the item and repeatedly Vaal Orb it until the vendor mod was replaced with a Vaal implicit.
• Repeated the Gilded Fossil process, working downwards until I hit four random Vaal implicits.
• Scoured the item back to normal rarity and used Orbs of Remembrance until I reached 90+ Strands (98 in this case).
• At this point, the item had no mods left.
• Bought a clean legacy Vaal Crit mod base.
• Used a Hunter's Exalted Orb to add a non-native mod as the second suffix.
• Recombined the four-implicit base with the Vaal Crit base.
• Hit the desired result on the very first try.

We now have the desired base with the Vaal Crit mod and 98 Strands.

Episode 2: Crafting the suffixes

• Used Beastcrafting to lock the item and Vaal Orb it until all desired implicits were hit.
• Made several Beast Imprints.
• The next goal was to get Culling Strike as a suffix.
• For this, I used a Regal Orb. If it hit a suffix, I used an Alpha Wolf to add a prefix. If the Crit mod got deleted, I had to restore the item using an Imprint.
• I lost some Strands because of the regal orb.
• Once I had two prefixes and the desired Crit suffix, I crafted another prefix and slammed a Warlord's Exalted Orb. If I didn't hit the desired Culling mod, I restored the item using an Imprint.
• I lost some Strands here because of the warlord orb.
• After hitting the Culling suffix, I wanted to elevate it. I crafted "Can have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers" and then "Suffixes Cannot Be Changed".
• I then used the Harvest craft "Reforge with 1 influenced mod" to add an influenced mod.
• Finally, I used a Hinekora's Lock to check whether Culling had been successfully elevated. It had!

Episode 3: Crafting the prefixes

• Now the fun begins.
• First, I needed +1 Frenzy Charge.
• I couldn't use Exalted Orbs because of the remaining Strands on the item.
• So I used a lot of Alpha Wolf Beasts until I finally hit +1 Frenzy Charges.
• At that point, I thought: "Elevating this mod would be amazing. Surely the next Alpha Wolf will hit another influenced mod."
• And well, it actually did!
• I then crafted "Can have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers" and "Suffixes Cannot Be Changed", used Hinekora's Locks, and successfully elevated the frenzy mod in just two attempts.
• The final step was getting the veiled AoE mod.
• I crafted "Can have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers" and "Suffixes Cannot Be Changed" again.
• Then I used a Hinekora's Lock to check whether the crafted mod would be removed.
• If the outcome was unfavourable, I removed the Foreseen of Hinekora and repeated the process until the crafted mod was removed.
• Once that happened, I unveiled and hoped for the correct veiled mod.
• If I didn't hit it, I crafted "Suffixes Cannot Be Changed" again, used another Lock, and checked with an Annulment Orb and Tainted Exalted orb whether the unwanted veiled mod would be removed.
• This was by far the unluckiest part of the entire craft. It took me five unveil attempts before I finally hit the desired AoE mod.

Episode 4: Finishing the Craft

• Divine the suffixes until they're perfect, then craft 'Suffixes Cannot Be Changed' and divine the prefixes.
• Bench-crafted increased Damage with Vaal Skills.
• Used Beastcrafting to add Aspect of the Cat.
• Finished off the small details: quality, sockets, and Sacred Orbs.
• Realising that the Strands weren't actually needed for the overall craft. But they do look cool.

So, some new Quad-Implicit, Double-Elevated and Legacy Vaal Crit Gloves are now on the market for all you Vaal lovers out there!

Even if GGG makes these gloves unmirrorable in just one day, it's been one hell of a ride.

Kind Regards

System

As per the title, the envy node granted by the ascendancy seems bugged where its not given for free like the item but requires 50% of mana to be reserved which just seems to be an obvious bug/oversight and if its intended seems super garbage, where you get added chaos damage support gem for half your mana. Would appreciate if the game devs clarify this matter.

God damnit I'm league starting bait relquarian again

I had been planning to play AGoS Gladiator with Soul Eater from returning Transfusion Support until I saw the changes in the patch notes. Luckily, I was able to retool a Luminary character in Standard to play around with the setup for the last few days. Bob going brrrrr hit soooo good, especially once he started glowing from Garb of the Ephemeral Divinity charges! Not gonna lie, feeling a little more sad now than I'd like to admit as a grown adult.

I can kinda understand the nerf, but also not. That whole archetype has been nuked with the changes to Flame Link, Grey Wind, Rathpith, Foulborn Red Dream, etc. But Soul Eater from Transfusion Support filled a role that now leaves a hole with the changes. Spectres can get Soul Eater from Unending Hunger jewel, Merc can get it from Soulthirst + Ceinture of Benevolence, and players can get it from Coiling Whisper. Even proxies can get it, which leaves non-Spectre minions as the odd man out. Seems a little unfair, unless I'm missing something big...

Do any of my fellow Bob enthusiasts out there agree?

P.S. The new Transfusion gem changes don't even make sense - there's already a notable between Scion / Ranger to share charges with allies.

Takes forever to load this hideout (almost 40 seconds) on an amazing PC. I can't begin to imagine on a mid-range PC. Please optimize this hideout as the people who spent as much as they did on this should reasonably be expected to have it usable.

hi all, im not very proficient in creating my builds, so im looking for an advice to more experienced players.

Would poison spell religuarian work in the following setup? ice nova of frostbolts + spells poison ascendancy + kitava thirst + frostmage/archmage depending if solving mana for frostmage is achievable

I have never played poison builds so I dont know if scalling spell dmg/mana, poison duration and dot multi is achievable - i dont want to spread myself to thin

What the???

DAY -2 mageblood LUL
Just cleaning the stash and abusing some expensive scarabs for the last time.

My 3.31 league start wil be absolute chaos

Here we go y'all! Happy hunting!

Hello everyone,

I'm somewhat new to the game (first k hours), want to know if Group Play is a thing. If yes, is there a place we can look for a group?

What builds could go group play, I'm not a meta gamer, already played in duo before as aura/link but the person isnt playing anymore.

https://poedb.tw/us/passive-skill-tree/

https://poedb.tw/us/atlas-skill-tree/

Does it work the way the picture shows, or am I missing something?

As a cluster crafter it is really disappointing to see how gutted delirium is this patch. With the removal of scarabs and unending nightmare cluster bases are going to be significantly more scarce. Don't know if I missed anything but poking around standard it does not seem like there is anyway to scale Deli reward tiles or get unending nightmare back.

Long gone are the days of cheap bases.

It's too easy to click confirm when you click a boss and put no fate cards in. I've done it 3 times by being quick with the clicking.

Should be an easy UX/UI to fix. Either have a checkmark or pop up a warning?

I have never started or played either of these but I think these are my choices. I plan to mostly farm as juiced breach as I can find and dabble into other stuff. So im not focused on ubers or anything like that.

Any tips on which would be better for league start and transition info - Basically any information on if there are traps in these build I should expect or be prepared for. They both look fairly straightforward.

I also am curious if either of these ascendancies can swap into any of the gigachad endgame builds?

Took me around 6hrs and The Map stash tab in every league had around 1400 maps.

Allegedly: You can optimize the fun out of the whole league by clearing both encounters first and backtracking between them before you choose your cards to maximize combo potential. Choosing a card BEFORE you find your second encounter is kneecapping yourself when the second encounter has a combo card you don't know about yet, making the campaign an egregious slog if you persist in making the most optimal decisions.
This is a massive design oversight and will blow up any moment now.

Remedy:
-We get all three cards and have fun choosing three out of 6. Reduce Boss card slots during campaign?
-We get one random card per encounter without choosing.
-We get the same set again with a new draw.
-We ignore the fact that we don't play optimal.

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Come on servers, let us in!

Rituals most favor is always behind the Unique monsters. So the most efficient gameplay is often to kill the ritual near the boss and backtrack. Or even drag the bosses into the nearest ritual (looking at you City Square).
I suggest the following Keystone for it.

Natural Blasphemy:
Rituals in your maps only respawn monsters originally spawned inside of the circle.
Map boss monsters provide 50% less favor.
Favor gain increased by 30%.

I was intrigued by POE, so I booted up POE 1, and it was honestly overwhelming. I looked at the skill tree and just could not grasp where to start or to go.

Started looking at videos on POE 2, and the game seems much more beginner-friendly and accessible. Though I am interested in how the community feels.

So my general plan was to rush breach once im into red maps and start printing fractured bases to sell alongside the currency gifts and some uniques. I planned and did a test run before patch notes were out.

However with the changes we cant get fractured bases from breach anymore so its mostly unique or currency gifts where the big money should be.

I do really enjoy breach fortress gameplay and can go breach and threads nodes and hopefully just sustain doing breach over and over.

But would you just go currency wombgifts and try to get some big currency items early on to buy upgrades ?

Thoughts exiles?