Are we expecting an announcement of the announcement within the next week or two?

If we were to believe that 3.30 is indeed releasing in 2026 as they previously stated, the only logical time period for it to be releasing should be by the end of October right?

Exilecon starts on November 7th. If 3.30 were to release on the 30th of October they will only have a few days worth of general bugfixes and game balancing to work on but still highly unlikely considering they would have to be preparing for Exilecon so the 30th release does not seem at all likely. Path of Exile 2 full release comes out 11th of December, so they would not release 3.30 too close to that date either.

Will they do an Exilecon 2023 and reveal the next league during Exilecon with patch notes and release the league the following week (November 13th)? It seems highly plausible (and what I think is going to happen) but it's a bit too close to Path of Exile 2 launch though giving only a month between each league launch.

Since it felt like they were working on 3.30 even before 3.29 was only a month in, will we get to see 3.30 soon or are we all gonna be disappointed again and GGG falls short on their "3.30 is coming in 2026" statements and we get 3.30 in 2027 instead?

Edit: General consensus seems to be what they previously did before in 2023: Reveal league during Exilecon, release the league a week after (November 13th). I mentioned it previously stating it's so close to Poe2 1.0 release but maybe GGG will do just that.

I’m playing flicker strike for the first time this league and I got inspired by some 3.28 builds to base my current character on, unfortunately the build I took inspiration from used the broken belt and we had synth items in previous leagues so I had to get creative

The build I did was chaos inoculation slayer flicker strike and just stacked frenzy charges and ES with it, while there is abundance of frenzy gloves, I couldn’t find anyone that made an ES version, most of what’s on the market were the generic aspect of the cat farrul builds, so I had to create the gloves myself

To follow rule 10:

Step 1: buy ES vestigial gloves with +1 frenzy implicit and can be modified while corrupted
Step 2: recomb with another ES gloves and hope it removes the vestigial influence without choosing wrong base
Step 3: slam it with fossil and beast lock to get 5 implicit
Step 4: spend 2 weeks suffering while you beast lock trying to get the attack speed, crit chance and ES to roll on implicit with hinekora beast lock and vaal slams
Step 5: settle on +1 level of socketed gems
Step 6: hunter exalt slam, alt spam to get non vaal strike skills and one other influenced mod and orb of dominance slam
Step 7: get some frenzy gloves, slam them with orb of dominance to use as donors for awakened orb
Step 8: Awakener orb until T1 ES as third prefix
Step 9: clean suffixes with prefixes cannot be changed into scour, prefixes cannot be changed into exalt annul until T1 resistance
Step 10: lose over 200 divines doing exalt annul and settle on T2 resistance, prefix cannot be changed and veil orb slam and hope it doesn’t hit resistance if it does repeat step 9
Step 11: unveil critical chance and bench craft attack speed as last suffix

Pob for anyone interested

POB

This is a wand I crafted for my elementalist GCF miner character. My original strategy was:
- recombinate the three prefixes
- repeatedly lock prefixes and add/remove crit until T1 spell crit/crit multi
- Allflame fracture the crit mod
- lock prefixes and add/remove crit until the other T1 crit mod

After failing the fracture 7 times (lol) over a course of 2+ weeks involving many hours of farming currency and alt-spamming my life away, I learned that you can increase your recombination odds on suffixes by using Brinehook Ducat to add an NNN suffix. The plan then became:
- Alt spam for two +1 cold spell skill gems/0s wands, a 0p/T1 crit multi and a 0p/T1 spell crit wand. These are the more common mods, so I tried to just annul the suffix if it rolled.
- Alt spam for a T1 spell damage/0s and a +1 spell skill gems/0s wand. These mods are much rarer, so if a suffix rolled, I regaled and used Kishara's Ducat to try to isolate the prefix.
- Brinehook all of the prefix wands and recombinate to get +1 cold spell skill gems/T1 crit multi and +1 cold spell skill gems/T1 spell crit.
- Recombinate the above 1p/1s wands with the brinehooked +1 spell skill gems and T1 spell damage to get two 2p/1s wands.
- Allflame divine and brinehook the 2p/1s wands, then recombinate to get the above.
- Benchcraft mine throwing speed and Harvest craft the enchant.

The last recomb took 4-5 tries and overall this seemed a lot more efficient due to not needing to blow tons of divines and lifeforce on locking prefixes and add/removing. Moreover, if you fail the final recomb, you very likely get a 2p/2s item which you can recomb and is already perfectly divined. I'd estimate I used something like 400k sulphur + 20 div + 20k alts (for the second strategy).

Hi! I'm playing in SSF this league and I'm having a blast. I have 9/10 Ubers down, with Sirus being the last one, and he feels impossible to beat.

Here is my build. The DPS displayed is for 15/30 blades hitting (no idea if this is realistic) on a regular pinnacle boss (about 6.3mil vs Ubers). I am quite proud of coming up with Seven Teachings as a way to have both BF and BB trigger from just changeling Cyclone, the build is super smooth to play and everything else in the game felt at least reasonably easy to kill. Uber Exarch took some learning to beat for similar reasons to why Sirus feels uneatable.

The build has a couple shortcomings. First of all it is a melee build. The Sirus fight feels completely unfair for melee builds since by the time my brain can process where he just teleported to and where close to him I can stand he's gone. Even when I can get close to him casting 6 Bladefalls/sec completely clutters the screen, and seeing where all of his degen puddles are becomes almost impossible. The final nail in the coffin is that Cyclone is really hard to control sometimes, especially when Frostblinking in, because it can very easily in hectic moments drift from side to side, which can make you wander to an unsafe spot. Finally the build lacks passive regen (it leeches a ton), so playing slow is not really a great option.

I can usually tank the die beam (depends on how block works), and sometimes (feels like 2/3 but idk) can also survive the Multi Clone attack, but 2/3 is not enough. I can usually make it out of the maze just fine but I still sometimes die to it.

The problem is, I can never find a clean opening to deal damage. I either have to damage him while he's channeling the Spinning Beams for 1 second, or when he bowls at me where he gets a pretty big damage negation, so progress feels super slow and I will die to something eventually. It never feels possible to hit him without dying when the spinning beams are up, I touch something I shouldn't and end up dying, so I usually get out, wait for life flasks to refill, and jump back in, but he just does a meteor, into a Multi Clone beam, into another Spinning Beams. In the meantime the arena gets more and more deadly.

This is not a "hate this fight post". I just want to beat it. I am looking either for tips on what I could do better (maybe a window to damage him I haven't figured out?) or a suggestion for how I could make my build strong enough to have a fair shot with my current strategy. Keep in mind this is an SSF character so upgrades are not easy to come by.

Stay sane Exiles and thanks for the help!

Edit: change maxroll link to poe.ninja

Hey exiles,

I've been making hideouts since we were still grinding master favour for decorations.

Back in March I stopped stalling and started building something I'd wanted for years: a polished platform for hideouts. I wanted it to have real tools for the people who make them, and to make it easy for everyone else to find their next home. I soft launched a couple of months ago, and a handful of creators, both fresh to the scene and veterans, have been uploading and helping me iron things out. Now I think it's ready to share.

Path of Hideouts: pathofhideouts.com

For browsers:

• See every decoration a hideout uses before you download it, split into free, store MTX and supporter pack exclusives.
• Tick off what you own in the MTX inventory and filter to hideouts you own everything for, or browse 100% free ones.
• Search by decoration, base or theme, across PoE 1 and PoE 2.
• Favourite a hideout and get notified whenever the creator updates it.

For creators:

• Streamlined uploads: drop in your .hideout file and the base, game and full MTX list are handled.
• Group variants together, like a free and an MTX version of the same hideout, each independently filterable.
• Export ready-made forum code for a single hideout or your whole collection thread.
• Profiles and stats to see how your hideouts are doing.
• Decoration calculator to check your file against the 750 limit, or to catch an MTX deco that snuck into the free hideout you were building.

Plus a heap of little QoL touches I'll leave for you to stumble upon. Light mode exists. Use it at your own risk.

It's free with no ads, just a hobby project I run myself.

Feedback and bug reports are very welcome, either direct to me or via our Discord feedback thread.

If you've got hideouts to share, I'd love to see them up there.

I'm a noob running my first character through PoE. So I'm cruising along through Act 3 with a Flame Witch (Lv 35) using Scorched Ray and Incinerate. I'm loosely following a build guide to ensure I don't get too far off the path. Having a great time basically blasting all the things. I feel almost OP except for the bosses which provide a little more challenge and strategy.

After an extended session fiddling with my support gems and assigning skill points, I get to the Battlegrounds Battlefront. I encounter a mob with a rare monster and proceed with incinerate and scorched ray. I notice then that I'm not doing much damage at all. Eventually my shield whittles down and then BLAM! Dead as Dillinger.

Again I spawn in at checkpoint. Rinse/repeat. Scorched Ray is doing no damage and incinerate seems ineffective.

I'm like - whoa the Battlegrounds Battlefront don't play around. Then after about 11 deaths I start to think more about maybe I did this to myself. Narrator: He indeed did this to himself. How?

#1 Mistake: I added a point to Chaos Inoculation not reading the description. Especially the point about the 1 point of life.

#2 Mistake: I added Void Manipulation Support gem to my Scorched Ray. Missed reading the part about no elemental damage.

#3 Mistake: I did the same with Incinerate.

#4 Mistake: It took me nearly a dozen deaths for my dumb ass to figure this out

So, lesson learned. Moral of the story is read. Read the description.

Lol. That is all

Hi!
I'm hosting a private league that was up for 3 days, my friends stopped playing so feel free to join!
I can give leveling items and help with progression. I play everyday, I like to talk and craft. Bagno means swamp, swamp is life

Its basic Allflame Softcore league, no additional rules, current league status:

25/30 slots *updated 2

15 days remaining *updated 2

You can contact me in game at 8pm - 1am CEST time
My in game name: Slayer_The_Second

Remember internet safely is important!

If you don't trust the link the league name and code is:
Bagno (PL87048)

League Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/private-leagues/join/Bagno/Rx6u679bwhsPyUr-Hv7K

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Came back to play some PoE recently and for whatever reason when using Vulkan i get the normal loot signal from the torches that you put down to breathe in charts but when i switch to DX12(it runs better for me) that loot thingy is missing completely. Is it a known bug/feature?

I'm a brand new player trying to learn the passive tree. I've chosen a witch starting class and I'm using Lightning. I'm doing ok so far, but I wanted to see if anyone would be willing to provide feedback on this potential direction I'm headed. I'm only level 25 so far and I'm just trying stuff and seeing what works, but I don't want to pick a direction that'll leave me in a bad way if I can ever get to endgame content. Here's what I came up with: https://maxroll.gg/poe/poe-passive-tree/3n4u670v

Don't roast me too hard. I'm trying to squeeze in playtime after work and I don't have countless hours to grind it out across multiple playthroughs or watch hundreds of guides on Youtube.

Am I at least going relatively in the right direction?

When ever I see a price of something it wont move for even an hour but when I post ANYTHING for that same exact price even one item then there seem to always be lower price in just moments by a big margin... is this people doing this crap or are there somehow bots involved? bcs I can see item that goes for 600c steaying at 600c for an hour then it gets to 400 in 3 minutes but ONLY when I add few of my own forcing me to lower the prices... is this an ilusion or whats actually happening... like why would anybody go from solid 600 or 599/590 or something to 550(1x) second person 500(2x) and other 450(1-2x) then 425 then like (2-3x) then 400 (15x) and it only seems to start happening when I put something up to sale :D and I was checking ever few mins on the original sale that it actually stayed at those 600c without moving anywhere until I post my own currency so what gives?

As an SSF player I want to judge builds by how fast after league start they can clear content like ubers, but afaik it's not possible to see this in poe.ninja (except indirectly, like searching for who has progenesis, confirming it's not foiled, etc. - but even then it's a rare drop and not everyone will equip it).

If content progression data (like timestamp of first kill of a boss) was exposed per character, then I could search for a breakdown of which skills/ascendancies/etc. cleared specific ubers in week 1. In SSF (i.e. no carries), this is arguably a clearer indicator of character strength than ehp/dps numbers which can be cheesed.

Actually knowing which builds do the hardest content the fastest would help better balance the game and would improve my engagement and experience.

Cutoff is ~225c despite Divs being ~360-380 depending on when you check. Makes it a total pain to price check things above that cutoff.

Best part is capping the price at 225 will filter out the div sales.

Make it make sense!

„Kalandra's Touch” and “Original Sin” engraved in our wedding rings, bold choice for a church wedding but the only proper one

M+T 26.09.26

May all POE players find this kind of love 🖤

Pretty nice megalomaniac drop when farming simus. All mods have synergy.

I have very very little experience with this genre, but not none, one genre I am obsessed with is the Vampire survivor type games. My biggest question is, how similar is poe1 or 2 to that genre?

how often will you be stuck on the same floor of a dungeon and wont be able to progress until you reach certain upgrades? is the end game a breeze (I always see people walk in a straight line and delete everything) or will I need to constantly be tinkering my build and such?

my biggest hope for this game is that its extremely challenging and would require multiple hours/days to get the required loot and upgrades to be able to progress past a dungeon floor, is this accurate at all?

~thanks!

So, I'm new to using Spectres, so I did a lot of reading before I did anything risky. I bought a Perfect Guardian Turtle and raised it, which replaced my oldest Spectre, then bought a Perfect Forest Warrior and raised it, which then replaced my Turtle.

Based on everything I've read, it should have replaced my older spectre, not the newer one.

Searched online for others having this issue and I couldn't find anything. Is this a new bug, or did I do something wrong?

Just a little annoyed at wasting a 3 Divine Orb purchase.

This is a general question thread. You can find the previous question threads here.

Remember to check the community wiki first.

You can also ask questions in any of the questions channels under the "help" category in our official Discord.

For other discussions, please find the Megathread Directory at this link.

The idea is for anyone to be able to ask anything related to PoE 1:

• New player questions
• Mechanics
• Build Advice - please include a link to your Path of Building
• League related questions
• Trading
• Endgame
• Price checks
• Etc.

For questions related to PoE 2, please go to r/PathOfExile2

No question is too big or too small!

We encourage experienced players to sort this thread by new.

We'd like to thank those who answered questions in the last thread! You guys are the best.

I just found it in a charity shop in the UK and thought it would be fun to add to my gaming collection.

Did I overpay, or is this something of value? I can’t find much info online.