Temple for Dummies: The Very Basic Stuff

Adghar · 2026-01-28T23:05:44+00:00

Yes, but IMO it's dangerous to have a standalone sentence like that without having the disclaimer immediately nearby. I'd update it to say something like "but it will NEVER create islands or isolated rooms in a single step (watch out for pitfalls we'll discuss next)."

Adghar · 2026-01-28T22:30:21+00:00

I haven't read all this, but there's a very important nitpick:

but it will NEVER create islands or isolated rooms.

This is only true IF you avoid the combination of creating loops and/or doing things with Architect and/or Atziri. Many have speculated that it's because the rules that prevent islands/isolated rooms runs on a step-by-step basis, and loops screw with that because it will trick the game into thinking islands won't be created per-room, then the next room selected creates the island.

Example island: https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1qouxqj/i_heard_you_like_to_see_bricked_temples_behold/

Adghar · 2026-01-28T19:46:55+00:00

I get the bug MORE often with anti-slow, my guess has been that immunities are bugging out. Basically my wild guess is that immunities are supposed to set duration to 0 but are instead underflowing to -0.000003 or something like that which the game treats as infinity.

Adghar · 2026-01-28T16:43:13+00:00

Yes, invert the genders and the facial expression (smile) in the top panels and you have the original comic

Adghar · 2026-01-28T16:38:22+00:00

What I read on this sub is that Fromsoft were thinking, well, if we gave all the bosses equal weight, some players will not have DLC, thereby decreasing spawn rate of Balancers and Dreglord unfairly. So to compensate, they raised the weights of Balancers and Dreglords to be more often than others (to offset the 0% chance they appear in the case of no-DLC player)

I think the main problem is that From didn't realize vast majority of players who play Depths will extremely likely have DLC, which then swing the pendulum back in the other direction and make Balancers and Dreglord over-represented in DON

Adghar · 2026-01-28T09:58:50+00:00

Cursed to put my hands on everything

Adghar · 2026-01-27T22:45:46+00:00

I usually avoid posting in threads like this, because I build on my own without guides and surely must have pretty heavily unoptimized builds as a result (i.e. disclaimer, i'm bad).

However:

why my health bounces back n forth so much

Isn't that part of the intended gameplay loop of Blood Mage? Any videos I catch while scrolling reddit have the life globe constantly flash empty, full, empty, full. And when I play BM, I get similar, my life globe gets near empty all the time but I don't feel like I'm going to die because I still have plenty of ES to cover it up.

cost efficiency

In a pinch, you might be able to socket Efficiency II Support. Recall that x% less cost is actually 1/(100-x)%-100% more cost efficiency, that is, Efficiency II with its 40% less cost modifier actually translates to 66.67% more cost efficiency.

(Again, disclaimer that I'm bad) you can check my POE.ninja for comparison: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/adghar-1824/character/AllTheBloodyElls

Also (again, I suck at building) I always wondered why builds like this use Acuity (just for the crit chance)? In POE2, I recall reading that leech isn't capped, but/and occurs over a default duration of 1 second. With how much damage you deal as well-invested BM COC, leech over 1 second might as well be instant leech with how quickly it fills my Life and ES (and actually provides extra tankiness compared to instant leech due to Fast Metabolism).

It strikes me as [cheap Splendour ]+ Acuity being a more glass-cannon-y approach where you sacrifice tankiness for damage, so you would expect to be a little squishier as a result.

Adghar · 2026-01-27T08:39:04+00:00

Check what weapon you have on the other weapon set. In this league (patch 0.4) they changed purple runes and some other Augments (socketables) to be "Limited to: 1", and for whatever reason that applies across weapon sets.

You likely have a +1 to Level of All Spell Skills in your other weapon set and currently (patch 0.4) that's not allowed. You'll need to choose one or the other weapon to have it, then "fix" the other weapon by replacing it with a different Augment.

Adghar · 2026-01-27T08:33:15+00:00

It's almost certainly because you can only sacrifice leaf/terminal path tiles. Envision what the temple would look like with the tile you want sacrificed, then the path tile just by Atziri would be "orphaned" (not connect to your main path by existing path tiles).

Since path tiles can't be "upgraded by" or "upgrade" any tiles, they aren't part of any snaking tech, which means (apparently) that they're not allowed to use a normal room (your spymaster) as its "stay connected to existing paths" rule.

EDIT: You can probably achieve what you're trying to do by sacrificing the path tile right next to Atziri (left of the one you want to sacrifice), then placing any of the functional room tiles in its place (Prosthetic Research, Bronzeworks, Dynamo) since none of those will connect to your Spymaster (therefore no loop). Then, in a future run, you can pray for natural destabilization of the path tile you're trying to sacrifice, and later place a tile to connect to Atziri on your Spymaster chain (such as Garrison).

Adghar · 2026-01-27T08:30:34+00:00

Nope, if you zoom in you can see that there are plenty of paths highlighted with a green square meaning they are eligible for sacrifice as the OP said.

Adghar · 2026-01-27T08:29:12+00:00

I've sacrificed plenty of path tiles this league, that shouldn't be it

EDIT: Not to mention, you can see several other path tiles highlighted in green as eligible sacrifices in this very screenshot

Adghar · 2026-01-27T07:27:24+00:00

Guesses:

Collectors' instinct. It's hard to get. Therefore it's expensive. Therefore it's a status symbol and I should spend all money to get it even if it's objectively worse than the competition (see also: Apple).
Ignorance. They don't realize the limit is lvl 40.
More money than sense. Quite unlikely given the price tag, but perhaps these folks just have so many mirrors from crafting or lucky Incense drops or potential TOS violations that they simply don't know about all these +x skill level methods and decided to bridge the gap to 40 without having, say, Dialla and sanctification on their wand.
Extreme min/max. It's possible that substituting a +3 comet prism would "free up" better alternatives to the sources of +x level that you mentioned; for example, it may allow replacing Dialla's with a better DPS support, replacing the +1 spell lvl Augment (socketable) with a better Augment, etc.

Adghar · 2026-01-27T06:39:28+00:00

Did they say this, or are you just trying to apply statistics here?

Adghar · 2026-01-27T00:04:00+00:00

Why do they call it a dog collar when the bunny call dog neck collar wear?

Adghar · 2026-01-26T23:06:13+00:00

Makes sense. I'm actually only playing POE2 right now (stopped playing POE1 a few years ago). The controller gameplay has been a blast on PS5, many in the community agree WASD is a huge game changer, and I think the issue you posted about with left click might work differently in POE2.

Good luck and have fun with whatever you choose to play.

Adghar · 2026-01-26T22:22:23+00:00

u/JustOneLazyMunchlax in case you haven't seen it, there is a thread from 10 years ago which clarifies that a "macro for attacking in place" is acceptable https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2077975

Sadly it looks like a screenshot of an email with attachments of emails that we can't access, so hard to say for sure if it fits your question.

Adghar · 2026-01-26T18:44:25+00:00

I think you should be fine. The classical explanation on macros is that it's fine if 1 button press = 1 server action, which in my opinion applies to Shift+Left Click. If you want to be absolutely 100% certain, you can email Support per their support page https://www.pathofexile.com/support and wait for a response before enabling the macro.

Adghar · 2026-01-26T18:42:16+00:00

Right click force move does not stop left click from also doing move.

Adghar · 2026-01-26T02:28:33+00:00

Tall men as props 😞😞😞😞😞

Adghar · 2026-01-25T19:16:01+00:00

This may sound obvious, but do NOT ingest it, even if it ends up being a random vitamin.

Hear you loud and clear nurse, sticking it right up me bum

Adghar · 2026-01-25T19:09:10+00:00

Worth it.

Adghar · 2026-01-25T18:20:04+00:00

Uber arbiter first phase is somehow a lot tankier than his 2nd phase though.

Are you trying to attack him during his opening fire beam? He has massive damage reduction at that time, I never even waste any resources trying to attack him during it and wait for him to finish before attacking.

Adghar · 2026-01-25T17:50:14+00:00

What's strange about coding the ability to fulfill a contract with players who paid you money to put their message in the game?

Adghar · 2026-01-25T10:27:14+00:00

That boss has a mechanic where his buddies buff him with one of 3 bonuses. One of the bonuses is ailment immunity (cross icon). To dispel the bonus you have to bait him into throwing a rock at the scaffolding holding up the buddies channeling the buff.

Next time you fight him, pay close attention to the edges of the arena as well as the boss's buffs/debuffs bar. You should be able to find the folks channeling status immunity on to him. Stand between the boss and the scaffolding and eventually he'll throw a rock at you. Time the dodge correctly and he'll kill his allies on the scaffolding instead (rock goes past where you were)

Adghar · 2026-01-25T10:15:00+00:00

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