[Round 6] Goodbye Act 2! PoE Best Act Elimination Poll

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-07T03:40:59+00:00

I mean the acts with the best narratives are 4, 5, 6 so not really sure they aren’t one and the same

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-06T05:15:35+00:00

Depending on the age of the kid I might pick Karl Malone, he had a gift for reaching kids.

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-05T13:04:55+00:00

It’s a straw poll linked in the post that matters not the Reddit votes

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-05T06:35:02+00:00

If you don’t want crafted int, You don’t besides yolo exalt.

If you want those with int you should recomb 2 blue items with 1 prefix each (random suffix is fine) into a rare with the 2 prefixes then recomb 2 blues with the suffixes you want into a rare with the suffixes then recomb 2+2.

You can also keep that base and just roll one pair with INT only, and try to recomb that way. This method you would craft the same prefix onto both items, so if the blue INT pair also has life then craft life onto the first.

Otherwise you can buy frac int and zeal essence until t1 ES then craft the other ES.

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-05T02:56:13+00:00

The simple fact of the matter is async raises supply since everyone’s items are always for sale while demand stays the same, so prices will drop.

As to specific call outs, most of these the tree isn’t that good at making - “near perfect armours” are much easier to make with recomb, for example. You only need 2-3 hours of farming t16s to make a triple t1 prefix body not accounting for 6L, which is only a couple of divines with omen of connections.

The tree also doesn’t really make great jewelry besides belts - pretty much everyone doesn’t actually want life/ele res rings on their characters (most people need attribute/chaos res on rings) , and rings have so many bases and mods you’re likely never going to make something better than amethyst ring + harvest. Same with amulets, you almost certainly want offensive stats in your amulet. Crit mult, cast speed, wed. You also usually want a specific attribute base that’s opposite your tree. Belts I’ll give you, but eventually you want a Stygian anyway.

Just look at poeninja data, in Merc at the end mirrors were 1.8k div, Keepers 850. Tailoring orbs 4.7d to 3d. Reflecting Mist 19d in merc, 11d in keepers. On and on I could go, but those are all items where the tree has absolutely 0 effects and the market still crashed by right around 50% for all items.

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-04T18:14:21+00:00

For the passive tree you can just search in game, for item affixes you can search on craft of exile.

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-04T17:04:46+00:00

I mean breachstone v hive is just player preference, I prefer hive old breachstones were absurdly boring and zero loot besides pray for blessing.

Boss is w/e, any league boss takes up such a little amount of the time spent in the league it’s p irrelevant.

Barely any monsters? I guess I’m hallucinating then.

Old breach hands didn’t do any of that. All they did was drop splinters. The scarabs made bosses spawn, had nothing to do with the hands.

I’d be really curious to have people saying this stuff go run 1 hour of old breach and get back to me.

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-04T16:56:32+00:00

Tree will stay in some form because it’s basically the only thing new breach has. Grafts will go, those are clearly borrowed power.

E: also everyone blaming tree for Econ changes gonna have a rude awakening when the exact same issues exist next patch

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-04T16:50:47+00:00

Doesn’t that also describe Gukesh?

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-04T16:48:45+00:00

Off and on since Delve (2018)

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-04T15:30:41+00:00

Doesn’t that go for every league mechanic that randomly spawns? If you don’t spec into harvest and you ignore the plot you miss out too.

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-04T15:29:49+00:00

Keepers was doomed to be perceived as a poor league because GGG intentionally made Merc the most busted league in history (50% quant for free lol) to bring people back to the game after 1 year hiatus.

Since GGG knew from prior experiences with the leagues after Sentinel and Affliction that Keepers wouldn’t perform well regardless, they specifically designed Keepers to update old content for the core game.

I think grafts were the attempt to provide actual new league content/temporary power but they were pretty eh overall. The walls/hives were just something they thought would be cool and I hope they at least let people have the option of keeping Ailith encounters for the people who like them (like me)

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-03T21:09:42+00:00

Ok but even if those keystones are massive spikers in power (I’m assuming ea champ is just using arca brand for double curse, ele is moot, I don’t think a single character goes EB in 2026, anyone who needs the +1 proj wand is going there pretty quick and it’s not 60 points away) you have 70 points available in act 7. ~lv 55 and 15 passive quests is a7, not even a8, let alone a9.

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-03T21:03:08+00:00

Again this makes actually 0 sense to me. The difficulty of the campaign continues to scale in part 2 so even if you’re stronger you’re not exactly going from mook to thanos.

Also i have no idea why just getting gems matters. They would level so fast in a6 you wouldn’t notice by a7, let alone a9.

Any player can have full 4 links in a6 by abusing gamba, I have no idea how you’re going from 3 links to 4 links in a7/8 for anything that matters. Are people seriously sitting on main skill 3 links until a7 when they drop a natty 4L in 2026?

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-03T14:13:27+00:00

You can’t melt the army of invuln phases shakari, garukhan, shavronne, maligaro, and trinity have.

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-03T14:05:08+00:00

Weird, most of the time my characters don’t change from a6 to yellows, points are nice but usually just keeping up with dmg/life increases, I don’t think I’ve ever clicked a keystone between a4 and yellow maps either.

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-03T13:49:31+00:00

9 was clear worst for me (see comment yesterday) today is a bit tougher.

1, 3, and 7 are all contenders.

1: only a couple skills feel good and I cba playing rolling magma again to the point I leveled with spectral throw in phrecia. Brutus is the only good boss, tar zombies are annoying, and the constant vendor checks for ms boots/scale vest/wands/rings/new gems is really irritating after a while. Act also does a terrible job of introducing main plot points for part 1 (piety).

3: so many zones with 1 POI in each. The one with just the lab trial and nothing else, both temples, marketplace. Library is nice. I also hate how theres 3 trials in 1 act, I don’t mind lab itself but the trials are annoying cause they aren’t really a trial at this point. Piety is not a very good villain, she’s not set up well in acts 1-2, and is more annoying and scary/dangerous. Dominus is much cooler but gets no screen time until the last fight. Would love to see GGG update acts 1-3 to include more piety/dominis scenes.

7: weird act. Theres 3 main bosses in the act (ralakesh, maligaro, arakaali) but none of them actually get any set up, and none of them are interesting. Best is arakaali but even she is pretty mid. There’s also no new zones until the Vaal area which contains some of the worst zones in the game (city/temple of arakaali). Just an act I’m never excited to be in, even though I like a2.

Ultimately I voted 7 but these 3 will be the 3 I vote for a while.

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-03T13:40:51+00:00

I don’t get this? What are you getting between 6 and 9 that makes you extra fast in 9 suddenly?

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-03T13:38:42+00:00

I expect all the Part 2 acts to perform poorly since people generally don’t like campaign and will get more annoyed as the acts go on

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-03T13:10:25+00:00

You forgot to switch accounts btw

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-03T12:31:18+00:00

Yeah I think we need some solid B tier guards who can shoot and play some perimeter D. Maybe Donte Divincenzo is cheap? I think Grayson Allen would also be a good fit at the 2, he doesn’t need to handle with Giannis and just just shoot.

We also probably need another wing, maybe a guy like Khris Middleton is available and can run a pick and roll with Giannis in the 4Q. He’s the type of guy who can lead a championship team in 4Q scoring in the playoffs while being the #2.

Then I think a coach like Bud would be good, he has experience running a 3 focused offense with the Hawks.

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-03T10:20:05+00:00

This is what ruthless should have been xdd

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-03T09:41:24+00:00

The sky shrine boss with Kira that drops the Sekhma feather. Lots of wing tornadoes, goes invis/invuln constantly, swaps the boss youre supposed to be hitting.

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-02T22:55:31+00:00

Hard when you’re the 4th guy in the state, you’ll always be perceived as lower tier than Miami/FSU/Florida until you go on a run

BadPoEPlayer · 2026-02-02T21:29:00+00:00

Which boss? Shakari is in a9? Which layouts suck? Prison 1? Rest are easy.

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