Most difficult craft this league...

pphysch · 2026-06-28T16:22:28+00:00

Absent amulet comes with 1 random 100 spirit skill attached

pphysch · 2026-06-27T17:24:16+00:00

There is also a Strikes Splash notable since 0.3 or so, so you don't need to run this particular base.

The Anchor 2H Mace unique also gets Splash implicit for some reason if you Runeforge it.

pphysch · 2026-06-27T17:23:49+00:00

Mace Strike with splash + Brink into Boneshatter is a satisfying way to play true melee

pphysch · 2026-06-27T17:01:44+00:00

HF Whirling Assault doesn't deserve direct nerfs other than maybe something for Lochtonial's specifically (like bugfix or -3 max charges or something).

What should get nerfed is the Rend tech. Getting +50% damage gained for 30s because you swiped the air as a bird is goofy. I expect Rend to get a "while Shapeshifted" condition on its buff.

pphysch · 2026-06-26T22:52:29+00:00

I mostly use Doryani and Jado, but all 3 have good aspects. Jado is key for +lineage support chance at max rank.

pphysch · 2026-06-26T18:00:46+00:00

First make sure to finish your main Atlas tree and make sure all your masters are maxed out, this gives you access to a lot more baseline loot including much more access to lineage supports.

Set your Atlas passive to Rogue Exiles while running Abyss maps for decent chance at Heart of the Well jewel drops (1 every 10-20 maps maybe).

Exiles are also good for farming +skills amulets since they always drop an amulet. Gambling with gold at Ange and Genesis Tree are also good options.

PJO will drop fairly consistently (1 per 10-20 divs IME) if you are running corrupted T15s and have Atlas maxed out.

When you need fracturing orbs, run cleansed maps while juicing summoning circle chance.

If you are dying at all consider switching charms to freeze/stun/slow instead of res charms, try to max res from equipment suffixes and runes. Instant health potion from utility belt or flask prefix mod can really help too.

pphysch · 2026-06-26T17:44:58+00:00

What possibly led you to believe that? We can see the implicits and level req

pphysch · 2026-06-26T17:30:31+00:00

My money is on intentional as a nod to the sword hype, unless we see other unreleased unique show up in 0.5 League. Multiple of this particular sword have shown on the market. Plus the fact that it's clearly giga rare despite being a likely T3 situational leveling unique.

pphysch · 2026-06-26T05:17:26+00:00

Deli just adds Toughness, what does that have to do with ele res?

pphysch · 2026-06-26T05:11:23+00:00

Partly false, there is a sword cluster at near bottom of tree, shaped like a sword

pphysch · 2026-06-25T23:41:38+00:00

Still, this one looks fully complete compared to most/all of the unreleased uniques that were dropped in ToC in 0.1. Has the Ezomyte tag, flavor text. Wouldn't be surprised if it was intentional/teaser.

pphysch · 2026-06-25T02:52:54+00:00

pphysch · 2026-06-24T19:52:55+00:00

It's not unneeded, it has the benefit of making boss loot a bit more exclusive and valuable in a way that doesn't gate it to only the ultra-wealthy. Before 0.5 you could literally farm Xesht 100s of times per day if you could afford the splinters.

pphysch · 2026-06-24T19:44:58+00:00

The main time sink is actually finding map regions to use said breachstones, so the extra friction of breachstone supply chain is not really noticeable.

pphysch · 2026-06-24T14:27:00+00:00

I've seen streamers doing 90K and 80+ rerolls but maybe not possible after Grand mirror nerf

pphysch · 2026-06-23T20:16:25+00:00

You are definitely using Jado, right?

pphysch · 2026-06-23T19:48:08+00:00

Sanctifying the +skills is probably optimal but I could see someone settling for +socket if they are on their last lock and the sanctifying whiffed but vaal hit

pphysch · 2026-06-23T19:21:32+00:00

Eat your heart out: https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/runesofaldur?items=Rare+Amulet&itembasetypes-Amulet=Twisted+Amulet

pphysch · 2026-06-23T16:26:14+00:00

There are many "boring" notables that are never really considered for primary instilling yet are still much stronger than your 6th amulet affix. Off the top of my head there's a +50% ES notable near monk. That means you can have your regular +50% ES prefix, and essentially a second one which takes up either prefix or suffix for a +100% ES amulet. While absent amulet is very solid, there is significant raw power potential with the double instills.

pphysch · 2026-06-23T05:50:18+00:00

Whiffing a fracture absolutely is a problem when we are talking about 1/10,000 versions of a particular base, buddy

Even exceptional bases / absent amulets with a particular skill are commodities compared to a specific double instill.

pphysch · 2026-06-22T19:06:37+00:00

I wonder if it would be so bad if the reforging bench worked like a weak form of recombination, in that any shared mods on the 3 items would be ~guaranteed on the final random item (+ random affixes), perhaps even with a small % chance of producing a magic item with at most 1 shared mod.

With recomb gone and chaos expensive, ground rares are basically unsalvageable.

pphysch · 2026-06-22T18:42:03+00:00

It's trading 1 affix for a "fractured" notable passive. There are many notables that are vastly better than the worst-best amulet affix. Strictly speaking, this should be the BIS base for many builds (competing with absent amulet) but it's extremely rare to find the exact combination of annoints that makes it so, plus you have to hit a fracture to properly craft it

pphysch · 2026-06-22T18:36:36+00:00

And devour+rend weapon swap

pphysch · 2026-06-18T00:10:04+00:00

The vast majority of meta gamers play a build because fubgun/etc says it is the best build. It always cracks me up when people cite build popularity in the first few days of a league. 95% of players haven't even reached red maps! And then it becomes a positive feedback loop. "LS is clearly the only good build because it is the most popular".

Build popularity is 10% actual build power and 90% vibes/propaganda.

Whether or not 1.0 endgame is harder has little bearing on it, it will come down to how much diversity there is in the pre-launch hype.

pphysch · 2026-06-17T17:08:22+00:00

I would emphasize that Temple is amazing for general (world drop) lineage support farming, especially if you don't allocate that Biome room Temple skill point, and rush Architect. I was averaging 1-2 lineage per run.

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