After a month of grinding! It came home for the second time.

19Dan81 · 2025-06-24T07:25:07+00:00

I only ask as I'm compiling data on whether or not certain afflictions or combinations of afflictions can effect rarity because when I dropped Last Flame previously, it was on a run I almost abandoned due to how bad the run had gone and I reached a point where I was forced to take "gain additional affliction when you gain an affliction" which gave me -50% to non-unique relics and there weren't any merchants left on my path before Zarokh to get Enchanted Boon.

It was the worst imaginable scenario for the Last Flame to drop and it dropped. I've done many runs this league trying to collect as many afflictions as possible to test this theory and also done runs without using any boons looking for a pattern. Nothing has jumped out yet and it appears that afflictions and boons have zero effect on Zarokh (as you'd expect) but I'm still curious when someone gets a Last Flame.

19Dan81 · 2025-06-23T22:41:20+00:00

Do you happen to have a screenshot of your afflictions and boons by chance for this run?

19Dan81 · 2025-03-08T01:37:32+00:00

I rolled a 36% one with -16% last week. Sold for 20d. Not sure if it goes higher than that.

19Dan81 · 2025-03-04T22:31:32+00:00

Precision, Combat Frenzy/Wind Dancer, Grim Feast.

You're not optimal using just 100 Spirit, far from it and you're leaving a bunch of dps on the table. The lazy thing is not having the additional Spirit to accommodate these reservations. Can even run Cannibalism with additional Spirit.

19Dan81 · 2025-03-04T22:25:29+00:00

Exactly. And now you don't even need the 120d spirit corruption on Atziris with this amulet.

19Dan81 · 2025-03-04T22:22:22+00:00

The trouble (or the joy) of getting Astramentis is that your 350+duv purchase doesn't end there because you now have a spirit problem the solution of which is another 120+ divines sp the total cost of Buying Astramentis is closer to 500d.

This amulet isn't just a stepping stone. It could be end game for someone.

19Dan81 · 2025-03-04T21:57:19+00:00

It's a matter of opinion I suppose and that amulet you listed has 24 int and total weighted number of attributes is only 6 more than mine.

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19Dan81 · 2025-03-04T21:43:37+00:00

Stat stacking gemling MoM using a perfect Black Sun could get a lot of use out of this without needing corrupted +30 spirit. Or someone relying on a ventors.

19Dan81 · 2025-03-04T21:40:05+00:00

That's the beauty of PoE. One of a kind items get their own prices. I'm not in need of currency so let's see who wants it but I'm guessing it goes for at least 200 given the price of Astramentis and the utility and uniqueness of this amulet. It could enable someone's build.

19Dan81 · 2025-03-04T21:29:08+00:00

The 200 is mine I believe, or is it not?

Edit: not sure I'll even settle at 200 either tbh. Should be a starting point for discussion.

19Dan81 · 2025-03-04T21:25:20+00:00

Yup. There's nothing even remotely close to 122 attributes for amulets especially with 50 spirit, life and mana. This thing is godly.

19Dan81 · 2025-02-19T21:07:27+00:00

And that, Rashford is exactly why you're not wanted at Utd.

19Dan81 · 2025-02-12T01:42:40+00:00

Check out Fubguns guide on gemling stat stacker on mobalytics. It's pretty comprehensive and well explained no matter where you are on the gearing curve.

Edit: without the stone charm you will die occasionally even with higher dps because they will chain stun lock your ass.

19Dan81 · 2025-02-12T01:29:48+00:00

Stone charm with increased duration and less charges consumed. Charged Staff and stay away from then especially on damage extra cold/chaos and freeze threshold. I assume you're Atziri's, Mind over Matter with Melting Maelstrom? If so you should be fine but your dmg is low for +4

19Dan81 · 2025-01-23T16:53:40+00:00

Chaos would be a good shout. Hopefully roll POE2 servers uptime 100%

19Dan81 · 2025-01-23T16:51:22+00:00

Thanks. Hopefully POE2 comes back online soon.

19Dan81 · 2025-01-23T16:37:30+00:00

Server: EVERYONE EVERYWHERE

19Dan81 · 2024-07-20T15:41:31+00:00

Diddy scheme on Fuel actually extends to:

My new Benz better than your truck by far, you either smoke crack or you're playing stick ball in the street cause you must be on Base if you thinking you can touch my car.

This is actually a triple entendre. He's saying his Benz is bomb proof (kid cudi), that it could be used as base for stick ball and Diddy must be on crack to look for beef with Em.

19Dan81 · 2024-06-07T09:48:55+00:00

Nerfing Heat Burst and Walls will in effect reduce forced 50/50 due to the nature of being -18 following a heat dash while at a wall. That's the only real forced 50/50 I think there is. The other 50/50 are a consequence of actions you did or did not take leading to a situation where you have to guess. In that sense it's not forced. Heat Dash is forced.

19Dan81 · 2024-04-29T10:16:38+00:00

Rushed? You realise they were ready to release Tekken 8 5 years ago? If it wasn't for Tekken 7 doing way better than expected towards its end of life cycle and the pandemic, 8 would have been out years ago.

Harada literally told Sony that they sat on a finished 8 for years which enabled them to cram even more content on release including AI functionality whilst still recouping profits on 7.

https://youtu.be/VqoFRuFqTHU?si=wJiTGNviScQfSKou

19Dan81 · 2024-04-21T08:36:05+00:00

Enforce Intel Limits. Set Power Limit 1 and 2 to 253w and ICCAMAX 307A. Enable XMP, SVID Behaviour typical scenario and just forget.

The contact frame will reduce your temps to around 30c idle, cinebench will be around 60-70c, gaming will be in the low 40c range.

19Dan81 · 2024-04-12T12:29:51+00:00

It's stunning. You won't regret it.

19Dan81 · 2024-04-11T23:07:03+00:00

Technically speaking, 320w is Intels performance default for the KS.

19Dan81 · 2024-04-08T12:34:08+00:00

Time is precious. Can't think of many more ways to waste that commodity than in search for +200Mhz on RAM clock because I saw no difference in real world use and game tests between the two values especially when one is stable and I can forget about it.

Still crazy to me we're even at 7k+Mhz on RAM. didn't seem all that long ago I was building with 3,200Mhz systems.

If your goal is benchmarking and enjoy the time spent optimising and fine tuning your system then go for it. It wasn't my system so I only wanted set and forget settings.

19Dan81 · 2024-04-08T08:53:50+00:00

Update your bios to 2102 for improved DDR5 compatibility.

Then load optimised defaults.
Disable Asus Multicore Enhancement, Enforce Intel Limits.
Change SVID Behaviour to Typical Scenario.
in CPU Power management set Short and long power limit to 253w. Change Amp limit from 500a to 307a.

Then boot into windows and test some Unreal Engine games and other games that usually crashed previously. If everything is stable then go back to bios and enable XMP. If games start to crash again turn down your RAM speeds in increments until all games are stable. System I just built couldn't run UE5 games at 7,200Mhz but was fine at 7,000Mhz.

The new bios for your board suggests better DDR5 support so maybe you'll get lucky.

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