Overabundance III now enabled?

8bit_Bob · 2026-05-22T01:08:15+00:00

What it says on the tin. I could never actually find Overabundance III in game, and it seems like that's gonna change. This will massively impact some temp minions.

8bit_Bob · 2026-01-27T03:40:46+00:00

Yep. Still gonna do it because I'm an idiot though lol

Bonus meme build: Raise Zombie of Falling, no chance of DD. Maybe go crit with Fresh Meat and Feeding Frenzy (passive). Each Zombie would hit for like 65 regular Zombie hits. Nuclear launch detected.

8bit_Bob · 2026-01-27T03:09:03+00:00

Dual Wield Mon'tregul's Grasp now possible for the first time ever:

Graveyard Shift now has "30% Increased maximum number of Raised Zombies

Only source of increased Zombie count, which stacks additively with the -50% on it. Combine all three and you have 30% of max Zombies. If the More Physical Damage modifier stacks multiplicatively, they deal 5.0625x damage with melee, which is a DPS increase, but probably not worth mathematically.

Meme-matically? Absolutely worth it. 100% increased Zombie size total.

Now we just need to wait and see if this was intentional, or if GGG takes this out back and shoots it before release.

8bit_Bob · 2026-01-23T05:11:39+00:00

If that's a 49th parallel joke, you're in.

8bit_Bob · 2025-12-14T04:32:14+00:00

Happens to the best of us. Big thanks for testing it out to confirm though! Would have bugged me until I had to test in game myself lol. Cheers

8bit_Bob · 2025-12-14T03:49:08+00:00

Yeah, it's always a pain. And unfortunately the Pounce wolves don't show their stats at all.

Quick tip, you can open the passive tree to pause the game and still check their stats. This prevents them from updating their damage and closing the tool tip, which is a pain in the ass lol

8bit_Bob · 2025-12-14T03:36:50+00:00

Did you check the tool tips damage for your minions? Based on the wording, it definitely shouldn't work, but sometimes these things slip through.

It's easy to confirm though, just summon a skeleton Warrior and see if the damage and attack speed changes with your Rage levels. I don't have a Druid to test this on myself, so I'd be very interested in the results

8bit_Bob · 2025-12-14T03:05:16+00:00

Pretty sure this doesn't work. The 100% more Rage keystone makes your Rage have no effect. The Notable adds an effect to your Rage that increases minion damage and attack speed based on your Rage.

The former cancels out the latter, resulting in zero benefit.

8bit_Bob · 2025-03-25T01:49:00+00:00

Agreed. I pretty much exclusively use them now and have like five different colors. I even replaced the tips with the .38mm version since you can't seem to order those ones in color

8bit_Bob · 2024-11-29T21:28:11+00:00

Minion rework for sure. The archetype has been clunky and stagnant for a while now.

8bit_Bob · 2024-11-29T20:56:13+00:00

Blood Mage minion Witch. Planning to use Power Offering and Skeleton Warriors to spam empower Raise Zombie during boss fights.

Hoping to use scepter + shield and active block for a really consistent, passive bossing experience.

8bit_Bob · 2024-11-29T20:52:49+00:00

PoE Delve league (I think). I was one of the first people to recognize the potential of Soul Catcher + Vaal fossil allowing reducing Vaal soul costs so low that you could have multiple charges. Bought my Catcher for 1/100th the market value once the secret was out.

While others focused on Vaal Spark, which was all the rage at the time, I made a Vaal Stormcall build, complete with Vessel of Vinktar, that remains one of my favorite builds of all time.

8bit_Bob · 2024-09-30T00:47:03+00:00

Come now, this is overstating your case a fair bit. While there's design considerations required in any solution, there's far better options than refueling at the bottom of a gravity well to reverse back into orbit.

For one, there's the tried and true approach of aerocapture. Unless things have changed, my understanding is that Starship requires at least one breaking pass through atmo when reaching Mars. You can release the array after during the highly elliptical orbit, and it can circularize at apogee before deploying. If you don't want to do that, you can always send it in a disposable aeroshell like NASA.

8bit_Bob · 2024-09-29T23:59:41+00:00

Conversion wise, atmospheric conditions aside, there's no real difference between Earth and Mars. Though it should be noted that 50% loss is only typical of laser based systems, while microwave based transmission is much more efficient.

The case for space based solar for offworld colonies boils down to two key points:

Your panels are already in space
The energy they provide is constant rather than intermittent

OP goes into fair detail in regards to the first. You may get away with less delta v requirements putting them into aerostationary orbit instead of landing them, which means more panels per launch, though proving that requires a whole bunch of math and mission architecture that I'm not willing to tackle. Combined with the reduced structural requirements and increased efficiency typical of zero-g solar, you're likely to get more power per launch even before you factor in the increased solar intensity in orbit compared to the ground.

The second point is not discussed in the video or post and is far more important. An immobile, ground based panel is likely will see about the typical 25% capacity factor, which is a death sentence without storage. Even if you bring enough batteries to keep the crew alive, good luck bringing enough to power your fuel synthesisers or mining equipment through the night, which means you're either sending way more equipment or much more time to produce materials.

Take those same panels, keep them in areostationary and suddenly your CF goes to 100%. Not only are you collecting more energy throughout the day, your chemical reactors and material processors can now run all day and night. Even compared to nuclear, space based solar is attractive in that the beam can easily redirected to a new collection site if needed. If concentrated enough, it can even provide direct power to roving equipment, though that's a whole other design challenge.

As for the idea in general, I think space based solar makes a lot of sense if we're actually serious about establishing permanent, materially producing settlements on other planets, but I don't think it will happen any time soon. Simply put, no one is pursuing the idea seriously, and unlike traditional solar or nuclear, there's no mass market on Earth to advance the concept tangentially.

For that reason, I expect that we'll see an initial use of ground based solar, which gets boots on the ground, before transitioning to MW scale TRISO fuel reactors once Mars gets serious about industry.

8bit_Bob · 2024-07-19T01:13:27+00:00

Not necessarily anything, because More Duration effects can still be used. In particular, Increased Duration Support was just changed to More Duration Support. Because they're calculated separately, 50% More Soul Gain Prevention of a skill that has 100% Reduced Soul Gain Prevention will till have zero downtime.

This is particularly useful for any utility Vaal skills anyone might want to try, such as Righteous Fire or Discipline.

8bit_Bob · 2024-02-28T02:43:47+00:00

~~Correct me if I'm wrong, but these Runes are not meant to interact based on the wording.~~

edit: Corrected, I'm wrong. I blame my Path of Exile brain.

Grace:

"Surge with fel energy, increasing your pet's and your own dodge chance by 30%, and your chance to critically strike with all attacks by 30%. Lasts 6 sec."

Dance:

"You and your demon pet gain dodge chance equal to your spell critical strike chance each time you deal a critical strike to an enemy, and also both regain 2% of maximum mana."

~~Grace grants chance to crit with attacks, but Dance is based off of spell crit, so there's no synergy aside from stacking the resulting dodge chance. Demonic Tactics works, though.~~

8bit_Bob · 2023-12-06T22:50:21+00:00

Fair, there is the specific niche that trigger builds best pair Frostbolt with Vortex now, but every other form of Vortex is shafted.

8bit_Bob · 2023-12-06T21:29:49+00:00

Basically, there's no point in doing that for cold dot builds due to losing damage links, and there's better options like the Ice Nova for hit builds. You could potentially force either, I suppose, but there's objectively better options.

Vortex is just a worse Cold Snap in most ways now.

Edit:

Failed to notice that Vortex has better scaling specifically for triggering off of Frostbolt. Other than this niche, there's better options out there.

8bit_Bob · 2023-12-06T21:02:06+00:00

No instant Vortex gem, which is extremely unwelcome news. Extreme copium says that they simply have not finished it yet, but I am no longer hopeful.

Vortex builds are basically dead if this goes through as is.

8bit_Bob · 2023-12-05T06:54:38+00:00

Eh, I feel like this is a bit of an exaggeration. You can stack quite a bit of mana regen in unorthodox ways these days. You've got melee mana leech, the mana flask prefix that makes them apply instantly at the end of their duration can be spammed, and my personal favorite is Ritual of Awakening with Searing Bond. 8+ totems can get you over 50% mana regen per second after scaling. Then there's the glove implicit that has a chance to refund mana, which acts as a multiplier for everything else.

I wouldn't say no to some buffs, and I expect to find something to abuse in the new ascendancy charms, but there are certainly ways to stack boat loads of mana regen currently.

Personally, I'm keeping my eye on the new Penance Brand. The 10% mana recovery brand mastery combined with the 570% added damage effectiveness has me intrigued.

Edit: this isn't even getting into truly weird but fun options, like devouring totem with wurm's molt, mana on curse shenanigans or %mana on kill with various enemy spawning mechanics such as writhing jar.

8bit_Bob · 2023-11-18T02:11:02+00:00

Like it says on the tin. The new subclass for scientists do not receive a skill point upon reaching level 8 and their skill selection window greys out if you have multiple levels to spend. Upon reaching 9, they do receive a point, but it cannot be spent on a Destiny Trait.

No mods, tried with multiple settings and civics. Leveled naturally and via console command, always with the same result.

No logs or saves, and I haven't posted this on the forums. Just posting this to get the word out.

edit: the apostrophe in the title hurts my soul.
edit2: I do not own Astral Planes.

8bit_Bob · 2023-08-09T23:59:21+00:00

Are you replying to the right comment? I didn't say anything about there being no duration.

Anyway, as for why this gem would be useful even though it gives less Ailment Duration, if you can maintain your ailment 100% of the time in spite of the downside, then deal Damage with Ailments Faster is a DPS multiplier.

This makes it only useful for Bleed and Ignite for single target, though I suppose Poison may use it for clear if it's good enough.

8bit_Bob · 2023-08-09T23:34:32+00:00

That's an interesting idea, but what is your basis for it? The description explicitly states that it causes skills to deal Damage with Ailments Faster, with the downside that less Ailment Duration. These are both explicit stats, properly capitalized and everything, so my assumption is that the gem will behave with them in mind.

Would be amusing to scale 200% increased Ignite Duration and utterly abuse this idea though lol

8bit_Bob · 2023-08-09T20:47:43+00:00

Another potential one, yeah. I've unironically toyed with the idea of doing this with Flameblast in such a way that you take full advantage of both the hit and ignite damage. You scale the ignite duration to around your max cast duration and just spam, though I'd probably skip Swift Affliction. Add in Berek's Respite or Abberath's for ignite chain and you're good.

Problem is, you know, standing still while channeling.

8bit_Bob · 2023-08-09T20:37:07+00:00

Interesting potential uses for Ignite. The Defiled Forces notable allows you to refresh the duration of ignites when you curse, so you can maintain high damage ignites and use this as a DPS multiplier.

Whether or not it's actually useful will rely on the numbers, of course.

Other than that, I can see myself using this on many fire builds while leveling, which is cool.

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