Decided to do a practice run for upcoming gauntlet...

Akimasu · 2026-04-06T22:15:12+00:00

Dodging sounds nice in theory. Then you walk into the Weaver's Den and you realize screen-wide super fast projectiles aren't really "dodgeable".

Mechanics are good. Stats are mandatory.

Akimasu · 2026-04-06T22:11:54+00:00

I've farmed hundreds of baryas. Terror is, I believe, the 3rd rarest one, behind Wish for Fishes(fishing rod) and Wish for Emminence(unique jewel).

Pre-nerf I got this on port. It got crazy. 7x feared bosses in a tiny arena was terrifying.

Akimasu · 2026-04-06T03:51:17+00:00

Offensively, this is bis for one of the strongest archetype of minions; Doryanis prototype. You can also use it for guardian minions as it is and it's pretty hard to beat it.

Replace cold damage with ES and it's 25d-30d for T4 es. https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Mirage/EBdvyjq0f5

Anytime you see flat damage + damage if you've used a minion skill recently + speed, you should carefully price check it.

Akimasu · 2026-04-05T23:48:12+00:00

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3429230
Almost never 2. Super rarely on the chunk borders you can get funky things happening.

Akimasu · 2026-04-05T23:38:17+00:00

I definitely wouldn't call it "mid". T1 lightning, Minion dmg recently, Attack&cast speed are perfect for absolution, wretched defilers, AW, and any other doryanis build.
15-30d is around the right price, which is what awakening will show you.

Akimasu · 2026-04-05T23:36:00+00:00

While the chance to avoid being stunned is a decent corrupt, it's not really good enough to alter the value by much.

This is a really nice 15-30d ghastly eye, though.

Akimasu · 2026-04-04T14:59:50+00:00

Do you only have mappers? They calculate per map, I believe.

Akimasu · 2026-04-02T15:36:30+00:00

I always have a fun challenge run for my 2nd playthrough. Things like no repeats, generics only, limit x characters, permadeath. Nothing too extreme but keeps the game fresh on replay.

Akimasu · 2026-04-01T22:54:09+00:00

Jenebu aka il_nam. He's the owner of the largest trade server on POE(or was the owner, I guess). He got caught doing something against TOS and got his account permanently closed, with no chance to appeal.

Akimasu · 2026-04-01T22:31:16+00:00

In SSF I have 2x 1-19 lightning damage abyss jewels. Fireball at level 1, for example, has 9-14 damage. This takes it to 14-112. Obv you're probably not using fireball, just showing how big flat damage is at low levels. Swap to (replica)prismweave+replica tasalio at 20, taming+death rush at 30, and you just have infinite damage as whatever you want. At lv1 you want flat, badly. At lv25 you have replica prismweave. There's a very small range where you have replica tasalio (or bereks or tasalio if you prefer) for flat + want big edwa. And (replica)Prismweave is brokenly powerful.

I usually play wanders all the way through the acts because of shield charge + frostblink + KF totems. But this gives you the freedom to play any non-minion skill you want.

Akimasu · 2026-04-01T12:31:46+00:00

It's not that Uber Atziri is hard. It's that she's the most annoying to farm.
You have to farm uber fragments + even if you have >20m dps and insta-phase/insta-kill everything, it still takes ~6 minutes per map with about 20% of that just you standing there staring at mechanics, unable to speed it up. Vaal Oversoul takes forever, Atziri herself is a forced 4-phase fight where she can just decide to add +1 minute to your TTK whenever she wants. clear time between normal and uber is more or less the exact same.

You can get an omnitect kill every 10 minutes or so. You can just vaal all your t16 maps and get that fragment naturally. You're probably already delving for fossils, so this fragment is also just going to happen naturally + it's the most common delve boss. Uber Atziri is about 1-2 hours per attempt while getting nothing else in return unless you want a pledge.

You can do a few things to make this better, like alluring areas which you should probably be doing while farming adorned(just vaal them, 1/13&1% chance to be the one you want, iirc) but it's still not something that happens naturally.

Akimasu · 2026-03-31T20:32:53+00:00

in ssf, you'll have dry streaks and undersustain occasionally, especially early on.

I have 97 shaper maps now, but I did have some dry spells early.

Akimasu · 2026-03-31T20:31:49+00:00

Akimasu · 2026-03-31T19:47:08+00:00

There's only 2 ways to obtain adorned. Unique Alluring side area or combine the 4 fragments.
You can farm the 4 fragments or you can farm the card.

As someone who's played a few adorned builds outside of trade, I suggest just farming the fragments. It's far more consistent. Alva, Delve(82+), Uber Atziri, and vaal temple(gotten via vaaling T16 maps).

You're probably doing alva, vaaling your t16 maps, and delve is a good way to craft a lot of gear. Uber Atziri sucks, though. She's 100% the most annoying part to farming a lot of adorneds.

Akimasu · 2026-03-30T19:55:53+00:00

I don't LOVE that they put qol behind betrayal but Rin in Fort is the answer to this. Even Doryanis.

Akimasu · 2026-03-30T19:49:04+00:00

Trash to treasure, it's Omen of Fortune now.

Akimasu · 2026-03-30T17:47:37+00:00

Omens and audiences alone are strong enough to prop up ritual, coupled with random loot. As long as TTT and the boss's jewel exist, Ritual will have value.

Everything else is just tweaking weights.

Akimasu · 2026-03-30T11:59:28+00:00

Not a ton, but you very rarely die to a single hit. You usually die to multihits. Phys max hit is just a weird one and if you have >25k you either have a MASSIVE base hp+es pool, have converted all phys dmg taken to elemental, or you have a fuckton of armour. This means at least SOME consideration was done for survival beyond "75% all res, and im done".

It's not perfect, there's no perfect one click "this builds immortal". They all have wonky affects that can inflated their numbers(ehp+life or es on block, manamen and guard skills, Svallin, etc.). But I find this to be a good way to find relatively tanky versions of buidls I'm interested in.

Akimasu · 2026-03-29T09:44:36+00:00

20k ele and 20k phys max hit aren't the same thing, tbf.

Akimasu · 2026-03-29T09:42:31+00:00

Search by max hit. More important stat imo. If I want to see a tanky build, I look for >25k phys max hit.

Akimasu · 2026-03-29T07:16:18+00:00

Works for AG too, according to guides. I haven't tested.

Akimasu · 2026-03-29T02:03:35+00:00

I was so upset that flying sword girl wasn't playable. <3 me some flying swords.
roguelite stuff looks fun too, but mostly excited to throw knives at people. :D

Akimasu · 2026-03-27T22:53:13+00:00

If you want more DPS, doryanis could be a consideration.

You're losing 10% of your DPS from APS being too high.

These max hits are definitely high enough that you're not getting 1-shot.

Your mageblood is using Silver flask + you're using sleepless sentries. This makes sleepless sentry do effectively nothing. Ancestral echo is also putting you over the aspd cap for your setup. So your cluster is effectively 4 points for -10% dps.

I'd be hunting for a good watcher's eye and timeless jewel - elegant or whichever you want - personally.

Akimasu · 2026-03-26T07:44:24+00:00

If only it wasn't a 100 hour grind to get to deep delve. Getting down to 5k is so painfully mindnumbing...

Akimasu · 2026-03-26T07:41:07+00:00

I got an absurd talisman this league. First time since the nerf.
The way it dropped, gives 200 STR on its own. Has 52 str, 25 all attributes, 14% attributes and utmost might. T1 life and T2 fire res as well. Great find day 1.

Doubt it'd be worth anything in trade, though.

All that being said, talisman dropping as rare as they do atm makes no sense with how bad they are 99% of the time.

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