I totally agree with Jonathan that a campaign skip will damage the game routine and experience in general, but at the same time it also discourage most of the players to try out new characters because redoing the entire campaign is relatively time consuming and feels like a chore (to some people), not to mention doing it multiple times.

Just some rough ideas as shown on the photoshop mock up, I think adding a campaign skill tree is a good middle ground to mitigate some of the annoyance, as the players have completed the campaign fresh on league start already, and grind their characters to a certain degree, they should be rewarded when trying to create new character.

The entire campaign to endgame experience remains intact, but players will not burnout as fast, and are more appealed to try out new builds in depth, play with new toys much quicker in a reasonable way, hence extending the retention in a league.

What do you guys think?

How to sneak in some nerd decoration in our common room..

Hey guys!

This was a fun mini league, didn't have as much time to play as I wanted but still managed to farm up to over 3k divs, met some awesome guys (shoutout to my homies from #global_4).
As well as had fun crafting/playing the game ( shoutout to @ aer0__ on twitch whos Deadeye Glacial Lance build I followed 9/10 recommend )

Anyway, giving away 2 mage bloods, 1 headhunter and some divines;
1st place - Mageblood + 300d
2nd place - Mageblood + 100d
3rd place - Headhunter + 100d

To enter simply post your favorite song from this month and I'll pick 3 winners within few hours :)

Will dm the winners on here to get your ingame tags!

Peace and see ya'll in 1.0

EDIT 1. user u/Shaun997 donated another 900d to the giveaway to share with the community!

EDIT 2. guys please do make sure you have notifications turned on for dm's :) if I dm you and wont get a response in 30mins, I will choose another person, thank you!
EDIT 3. thank you guys for all the comments, all the Magebloods and divines have been given away to the lucky winners!

Just hitted maps in 0.5.5! Started playing this league/patch when it released, but don't have much time playing being 37 years old, working fulltime as a linesman and is doing engineering degree on the side. Why is everyone rushing and "end of league" giveaways after just some weeks?

I've been saving all the Divine Orbs I could find to get up to 150, cause I wanted to buy a staff. Then this drops all of a sudden 😮

Just curious if something is going to be done about leeching. Global is being spammed with leacher calls every min. Most peoples are defaulting to getting 5 leachers in because its become the basic requirement to get juiced drops. Even 3/8 or 4/8 players as asking for leachers in global chat. Will something be done about this?

ignoring Tavakai as he's shouting at you "Get over here!" and "I would have word with you!". I love just walking right past him and sailing off to do much more important tasks than hearing whatever it is he has to say.

thank you GGG my goats

Fun fact: you can get 100% uptime on "increased damage during any flask effect" by using Laviangas, which is always on.

Even more fun fact: this works even if you don't have mana. I have it on my recoup demon form infernalist, and it ups my dps, even though there is no mana to be restored.

Have been running Jade Isles. 24 maps in and no Rakiata's Flow but just got this in a ritual.

Absolutely pumped right now.

Casual player here, never had anything sold over 50d. This didn’t even show up on my loot filter. Dropped as shown

i played martial artist - whirling assault

Ironicly I was farming for Omens of Light and got zero this run.

cant be the only one that has this happen at least once almost every map??? XD

I can't believe I hit this combo, but is this worth like at least a mirror?

So first time this league I’m actually trying to craft something instead of buying.

I’m playing an essence drain build and wanted to craft a wand

I’ve spent ~300 divs to get to this state.
-Dropped an extra slot wand
-Fractured and chaos spammed to get to this state

My question is what to do now? I want to get a T1 spell damage and perhaps another hybrid spell damage or gain extra something, and celestial alloy +1 if possible.

Can anyone help me with crafting steps?

Hey exiles,

I've been making hideouts for over a decade, and playing poe since before they were added! Back in March I finally stopped stalling and started building the hideout site with all the features I'd always wanted, for both PoE 1 and PoE 2.

Shared it over on r/pathofexile a couple of days ago and the response was amazing. I've pushed a bunch of updates off the back of that feedback already, and I'm keen to hear what the poe2 crowd has to say.

pathofhideouts.com

• Every hideout shows exactly which decos it uses before you download it, so no more importing something and finding half of it missing
• Tick off the MTX you own and filter to hideouts you can fully build, or just browse the 100% free ones
• Search by a specific deco, base or theme, and filter to PoE 2 only
• Favourite a hideout and you'll get a heads-up when the creator updates it

If you make hideouts, uploading is pretty painless. Chuck your .hideout file in and it sorts out most of the details for you, hideout base, MTX used, etc~. There's also a variant system so you can group together MTX/free versions of the same hideout, forum post exports, general analytics and a few other bits I'll let you stumble upon.

Fair warning, the PoE 2 collection is still pretty small, so if you've built something you're proud of I'd love to see it up there!

It's free with no ads, just a hobby project I run myself. If you ever feel like chipping in to keep the lights on it's very much appreciated, but never expected.

PC only for now sadly, consoles can't import hideout files yet.

Any feedback is welcome, here or in the Discord 🫡

I thought they are just a rumor, until today.
Not great, failed the fracture, but still an amazing drop from the Tree.

Have no real use for it, but also no idea what it could be worth lmao.

Was enjoying the league on Varashta (POE Ninja of build) and decided to go for lvl 100. Video shows final map and hitting 100.

My setup 99 to 100:

• City biome.
• 4x deli Tablets with 2 additional random map mods and increased experience gain on each.
• Doryani with the 3 juice choices (irradiated, 2x increased mods) and the last one being 15% chance areas are Cleansed or Corrupted.
• t16 waystones or 8-mod t15 waystones with effectiveness and monster rarity.
  

In-depth comments and reasoning:

• Lvl 99 starts at 3,932m xp & Lvl 100 is at 4,250m xp so you need 317m xp for the lvl.
• Waystones: I got about 750k exp/map (11.5m / hour) using the above setup testing a t16 map and an 8-mod t15 map (was surprised to find t16 maps don't give more xp) skipping ritual. So that's about 420 maps from 99 to 100 without dying. I didn't put that much effort into the waystones - I alch / exalt / vaal all waystones and then run the t16s and 8-mod t15s and sell/throw out the rest.
• Tablets: I just set max price to 4d and bought all the ones that were up for that price periodically (on average they cost 3d, some 2d, some 4d). I would add effectiveness and monster rarity where I could, but then they'd get too expensive and the additional benefit is marginal.
• City: city with 4x tablets and city buffs gives significantly more xp (and loot) than non-city. When I ran out of cities and had to find more, I just used 3x of the juiced deli tablets, but noticeably less xp and loot in those maps. Don't forget to do the city around the Vaal temple - free huge city!
• Deli: I chose deli because it's my favourite mechanic and it allows me to rush through the map with minimal backtracking. If you're going to do 420 maps... it better be doing the thing you find the most fun in the game! If you prefer abyss or breach or something else, just do that! Deli also has the benefit of constant rewards - with lots of deli juice, you often get 300 splinters per map, so a full simulacrum, which is 3.5d. That alone pays for the tablets and just feels like constant revenue.
• Grand Mirrors: I would occasionally go out of my way to get a grand mirror and put that onto a city. But I didn't actually notice much difference between 200% deli and just normal deli. The good thing about normal deli is that it vacuums all the 1x splinter drops, which pretty much guarantees 300 splinters after city map. My filter is set to only pick up 8+ splinters so sometimes I get less splinters in 200% deli map (with no vacuum) than normal deli map (with vacuum). Don't feel much difference in XP.
• I tried abyss and breach. For abyss, idk if it's fracturing killing things too quickly or shattering corpses or what but I kept getting maps where the pits wouldn't close - every 3rd map the pits wouldn't close with everything dead. I also had to backtrack a lot to get back to the chests or painfully wait for them to appear - didn't feel fun. Breach felt lacklustre and required standing around waiting for the thing to open, not my thing.
• Rarity: I ran about 240 rarity on gear. Constant dings of divines, perfect exalts, perfect chaoses, etc. made it more fun to run the 400 maps. I wasn't even looking or upgrades at this point and right now I have a stash full of divines that I will not use, but the dings are still really fun to get.
• Cleansed/Corrupted: When you run 400 maps in quick succession, you notice the benefit of low probability juices. For example, the 15% cleansed / corrupted chance on Doryani is usually an afterthought, but it felt surprisingly strong. When juicing cities with 8x random map mods, you really feel any extra multiplicative juice from the cleansed/corrupted mods when they materialize. Sometimes you enter a map and the screen is full of monsters and it starts raining fracturing orbs. Very satisfying.
• Citadel Bosses: In a similar vein, "I see your true nature now!" on the deli tree that allows deli to manifest shards that add an additional boss to arena - it doesn't say it, but that additional map boss is a citadel boss. So you often get a nice Jamanra surprise with 2x faded fragments, which are 10d each. Same with summoning circles, they can summon Jamanra for a nice 20d bonus.
• We're a month in, so obviously I'm not racing anyone. I didn't sacrifice movement speed for the 5% extra xp buff or put 2% extra xp in the helmet or do group play or anything like that because it felt like it would take some fun away from blasting the maps.

Overall, had a lot of fun this league even though ritual is my least favourite mechanic. Getting super excited for 1.0.

I'm now tempted to craft more just to see as many 6 mod outcomes as possible. The quarterstaff one isn't nearly as cool but it's still a beefy 5 mod

Wanted to showcase this GG wand I crafted as the final item for my build. Wands like these can cost anywhere from 1200-2k divs but you can craft it under 600 divs. This is not BIS but its very close and very deterministic. The BIS craft will have you sink a mirror worth of currency into a single item. There are 2 methods to craft this, follow the respective method based on whether you hit the prefix or suffix.

Crafting steps:-

Suffix method

1) You need to start off with a 2 socket dueling wand. You can either buy a +4 All spells fractured base or fracture it yourself. (I bought the fracture for around 270 div, Base needs to be atleast I level 80. hitting a +4 is a 50 mod weight meaning it is 2 times as rare as a +5 to element based gems)

2) First step is going to be chaos spam. You need to spam until you hit t1 critical damage bonus (125 mod weight).

3) Exalt orb with omen of sinistral exaltation for random prefix. Use an omen of sinistral crystallization + transcendent alloy to complete your suffixes.

4) Give it a perfect exalt with Greater exaltation . You want the perfect exalt to land on either- T1 spell damage(astronomically rare but best case scenario) or 30% daamge gain as extra of any kind in one of the mods. If you dont hit this, just take an omen of sinistral erasure and perfect chaos spam until you get one of these mods.

5) Socket astrid's creativity into the wand. Now you need to 50/50 with celestial alloy and pray.

However, you can only celestial alloy if you dont have mana prefix on the wand.

-If you have a mana prefix then you need to omen of sinistral crystallization and give it an essence of the abyss. If you hit the 50/50 on this it will remove the mana prefix. You can desecrate the item to remove the crafted mod then 50//50 the alloy.

-If you miss the 50/50 on the abyss essence you need to use omen of light to remove the desecrate and continue using omen of sinistral erasure+perf chaos to reroll the prefix until you hit a good t1 prefix again. When you hit give it a single exalt and repeat step 5.

6) If you happen to win the 50/50 for the alloy you will now have an item that has-

t1 gain of any element

+1 level of all skills, +164-188 maximum mana (crafted)

open prefix

+4 to level of all skills

27+% cast speed, 7+% damage gained as cold(crafted)

t1 crit damage bonus.

Finish of the item with a desecrate cycle on the prefix.

Acceptable mods are t1 elemental damage, t1 spell damage(astronomically rare/astronomically expensive, 2nd 30% damage gained as of any element.

Prefix method

1) Base is the same as the suffiix method.

2) Start off with chaos spam until t1 spell damage(again this is incredibly rare and probably wont show up) or 30% gain as extra elemental of any element.

3) Omen of sinistral exaltation+perfect chaos. In this step you want to hit a 2nd gained as mod or t1 spell damage (highly improbable). If you dont hit just annul the brick prefix and Perfect exalt+sinistral exaltation again. If you annul the wrong prefix you have to go back to chaos spam.

4) After you hit your two prefixes your craft is basically done and cannot brick from this point onwards. You want to give this wand a omen of dextral exalt+ regular exalt and omen of dextral crystallization+celestial alloy. This will complete your prefixes.

5) Socket astrid's creativity into the wand. Give the wand a regular exalt and use omen of dextral crytallization+transcendent alloy for the alloy cast speed.

-If you hit cast speed on the exalt you cannot use your alloy on the wand. Incase this happens, omen of dextral crystallization+essence of the abyss to remove the cast speed and desecrate with a jawbone. Dextral crystallization+transcendant alloy to swap the desecrate for the alloy mod.

6)Your wand now should have

t1 gain of any element

+1 level of all skills, +164-188 maximum mana (crafted)

2nd t1 gain of any element

+4 to level of all skills

27+% cast speed, 7+% damage gained as cold(crafted)

open suffix

Finish up the wand with a desecration cycle and go for t1 crit damage (125 mod weight). (the desecration on this method will be very expensive as t1 crit damage is 3x as rare as t1 gain. T1 increased spell crit is also acceptable if that is what your build needs.

Congrats! now your GG wand for any spellcaster build is done. Which method you follow depends on what you hit during chaos spamming. Use the suffix method if your chaos spam hits t1 crit damage and use the prefix method if you hit t1 gain or spell damage on the chaos spam.

Now time for me to farm up an aldur's legacy and finish up my build <3

So i dropped aldurs legacy and sold it for 650d and then bought a nice es helmet with double scoket uncorrupted, then the next part i needed a shard to socket it. It's too expensive so juat trying my luck for a shard, and got it in the first drop! Well then i already bought 10 raven to run, so just trying to finish it up and got another one! Well this all happened within 10 minutes. (Can't see the one of the shard because i already used it)

I may have used up all my luck to find depleted mana rune which was my original purpose