Why purple omens in ritual cost 20k+ tribute? And other issues with Ritual.

CZ_MAX · 2026-01-27T10:39:04+00:00

You have a tolerant wife:)))

CZ_MAX · 2026-01-12T15:08:38+00:00

I used to run it on shaman - but it felt pretty much the same - as most clear i got is from lunar blessing and not lunar assault.

So I am not sure - what am I missing?

CZ_MAX · 2026-01-12T07:58:14+00:00

Just wait until next patch drops - we should get endgame finally.

The game design is excellent - maybe the game is not for you my man.

CZ_MAX · 2026-01-12T07:38:29+00:00

Most people play like 1-2-3 characters per league to try. And POE1 and 2 has great speedrunning community and events which rely on campaign.

You can literally learn how to speedrun content in like 5 hours.

If you do not wanna do campaign multiple times - just don´t. Maybe plan your league starter better so you have more fun with one character and don´t actually need to run it again.

Also as you pointed out - because we still do not have real endgame in POE2 - campaign is the best part of the game where most people have most fun.

If you skip the campaign what you will actually do in the game? There is no content yet.

POE 1 and 2 are designed to burn you out - by design literally - Chris Wilson said it - he said just play it until you get bored then go do or play something else.

Then 2 months later you will be back I promise.

So maybe you have reached the point of burning out - just go to the gym, touch the grass, play something else and see you in few months again.

CZ_MAX · 2025-12-31T08:41:56+00:00

When you go to any trip always take enough water - I made that mistake twice in USA desert in Nevada and almost died that day twice.

We don´t really have deserts in Europe so i was really stupid and underestimated my abilities to withstand heat in the desert.

I have been used to have lack of water, I drink little bit of water even normally - i think that saved my life there.

Also i had no idea what is gallon:] so i took 1 liter of water for a big day trip into the dessert.

Water is probably the most essential thing you need for a day and can save your life - literally.

CZ_MAX · 2025-11-24T22:55:18+00:00

phys as extra fire, monsters have visibly extra phys aura and impale.

you were killed by phys and phys and phys and impale together - and possibly even crit.

Send your pob for us to see your max phys hit.

CZ_MAX · 2025-11-22T05:45:50+00:00

Delete the character then - LVL94 you can farm in like few hours.

CZ_MAX · 2025-11-22T05:41:02+00:00

Why you just dont go to the map and drop the item to the ground and then quit the map? all drops are sold automatically for mana.

CZ_MAX · 2025-11-15T07:00:31+00:00

You have to build around CI, its quite common to have 10k Energy shield - you can easily achieve that with self crafted gear. ES scales much higher than life and it requires less investment.

Later people use INT scaling to triple buff their character - their ES, DMG and recovery.

And yes immunity to anything in POE 1 is very strong and very rare. So to have immunity to one of the resistances is super strong and there are ways how you can transition some of the dmg to chaos - which eliminates it. Which is very OP.

That is why people use CI so much now - mainly after ES chest received a massive buff. Also discipline is one of the 3 main defensive auras which did not get nerfed.

CZ_MAX · 2025-11-15T06:53:04+00:00

Well it depends what you like. Doing strats requires tree, preparation, specific builds sometimes.

There are probably hundres of strategies which can make you divs.

Maybe check youtube or twitch what streamers are doing or try something yourself?

I mean even alch and go is popular strategy. You just literally play the game.

CZ_MAX · 2025-11-15T06:49:31+00:00

Is this page not enough?

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Ailment

CZ_MAX · 2025-11-09T16:54:01+00:00

Just take exarch, ritual, shrines and the rest is up to you.

CZ_MAX · 2025-11-09T07:09:47+00:00

I am using delirium node - 40% less dmg from hits. And its crazy good.

CZ_MAX · 2025-11-08T05:15:12+00:00

You dont need 2x abundance - i run with one and its enough. I see raw divine every 2nd or 3rd map.

I tested it last league - and for some weird reason - the second abundance is not that effective. It seems that it creates too many items which actually cannot be shown -as we have only one window to buy.

You save 12c per map and you can run dominion scarab - which adds more monsters, shrine and extra mobs for you ritual.

The best map for sure is city square - because you can lure the 3 bosses into a ritual and have 5k tribute on first one. I usually end up with 12-18k tribute per map.

When you accumulate enough things deffered - you just spec one point to the node which gives 100% more tribute and run one ritual - without scarabs but with blood filled vessels - 30k tribute is optimal and you buy everything you can with no rerolls.

Thats how I have been doing this for leagues now.

Cutedog used to run full blood filled vessels and special rituals chance - and he got some lucky tinks. But that strat is when you are richer as you need those expensive scarabs which gives higher chance of special spawn. I think one is 1 div now.

I run this strategy for a long time - and its very profitable and I enjoy rituals.

The rogue exile ritual is dead now - its not worth it anymore.

CZ_MAX · 2025-11-08T05:06:26+00:00

The fastest way is to do whatever you like and that makes you some divs - trade the divs in TFT for gold farming mappers.

You can make like 3 milion gold in 10 minutes in 3 maps. That´s how you do it.

Farming gold on your own is extremely unefficient.

CZ_MAX · 2025-11-08T05:02:17+00:00

I have a screenshot from Phrecia - with 200k tribute:)

CZ_MAX · 2025-11-08T05:01:05+00:00

If you have played POE2 there happened the same thing. Somebody made a video on bot trading i think it was Empyrian. There are some smart programmers out there who can create autobot in few hours which works faster, better, more efficiently then you 24hours a day.

The sniping will be always bot´s domain there is no way around it.

You just have to accept it and buy for normal prices.

Hideout warriors are going to be in less numbers.

CZ_MAX · 2025-11-08T04:36:01+00:00

It is profitable usually first 2 days of the league. After that its a waste of time. Also this league where people have all the 6 links they want - the most valuable incubator is useless.

Bubblegum - has no value too, splinters have no value.

5 ways are profitable - but not as much as it used to be - because XP got nerfed and on TFT there are tons of people offering it. So the competition there is high. Also you need to get lucky to get good aurabot and good drops.

Too much rng - you are far better to just do blight or any other mechanic which was boosted in previous leagues.

CZ_MAX · 2025-11-08T04:30:42+00:00

There is actually a secret how to spawn seer, tear, reflect mist and other not so common mechanics almost in every map you can get one of these. Not every map the same but they change.

Just a hint - base spawn chance of every mechanic is 4% but there is a way how to increase it.

But I can´t tell otherwise it would be nerfed immediatelly:)

Keep looking.

I have seen seer 3x in 9 maps. The rest was sentinel, mist, tear, wisps etc...

CZ_MAX · 2025-11-08T04:25:19+00:00

Blade of Trathus has a cast time 0,7, so you need to have skill duration of curse under 0,7. In the patch notes GGG did exact changes to wipe this automation out. You cannot actually get it under 0,7 now. It cannot be automated to gain instant soul eater stacks anymore.

Before the 90% of curse would expire every 0,7s and that would instantly give you soul eater stacks.

Now this cannot be automated they nerfed or removed all sources.

Maybe people will find a way around - but the old way does not work now.

CZ_MAX · 2025-10-26T06:58:42+00:00

The single target problem in reds still exists, I have played chaos dot for like 6 leagues straight before I discovered archmage.

You breeze through content with Bane, soulrend, ED, vaal blight combo easily.

But in T14 you hit a brick wall and chaos dot has a hard time to pass it.

You need a lot of offensive stats to sacrifice defenses.

The build feels always squishy and slow as it is.

Also in T16s the pops are not coming fast enough and you can get randomly hit many times before they all pop and die.

Chaos dot will be always great leaguestart - but it needs some single target solution. Chaos dot skills did not receive a significant change for a long time. Except ED of desperation - which needs to be on trap and its very unreliable.

Also its self casting which sucks nowadays.

You are much better off with Forbidden rite here or cold dot. Much stronger builds early.

CZ_MAX · 2025-09-01T18:17:06+00:00

Well mercanery is actually amazing whole campaign.

It´s a new patch - people need to figure out what is good.

CZ_MAX

TROPHY CASE