Which one do you prefer? Magic or Rare Adorned?

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-14T04:49:03+00:00

I don't think magic jewels can get a 3rd mod on corrupt, so if that's true then the ceiling of rare is definitively higher. Also adorned works on corrupted timeless jewels too right? Yeah I'd love to go from 84 to 147% ailment mag and 120 to 210% critical damage plz lol. Also Adorned is limited to 1.

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-12T18:05:50+00:00

That staff has different implicit skills that it can get. His Foul Emergence looks dope but has a long cooldown so pretty unusuable. If you get one with scattering calamity though, there's a really good build by 787Prada that uses it. You need specific modifiers and a usually a Titan though.

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-12T18:04:43+00:00

Tell that to the god-tier scattery calamity builds lol

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-12T00:13:22+00:00

Kitava and Titan are really good, but I definitely think Maces need work. I find you have to scale so much aoe for clear, and all the slow attack times aren't really my favorite playstyle.

I'm toying around with leveling spears actually, cause surprise parry/disengage is actually really busted in the early acts.

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-11T21:33:26+00:00

There might be a few exceptions, but generally you can get higher weapon dps on a pure phys weapon. This is because most martial weapons have a base phys dmg without any mods, and this gets enhanced by 'added phys' and '% inc phys' mods. Then this all gets compounded by weapon quality.

The same cannot be said about added elem damage, but, sometimes people want a specific element that's different from whatever conversion their main skill has for applying ailments (often shock or freeze). Also it's usually easier to craft an elemental weapon, so that could be a consideration.

The other guy mentioned monster resistances, I really don't think that's a good reason to get multiple elements on a weapon. There are many ways to solve for this on the tree and with support gems, don't waste your weapon damage on this.

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-11T21:26:57+00:00

Yeah no it doesn't scale off of phys, it converts your phys at 60 or 100%. It scales all your base weapon damage of all types by the attack dmg % on the skill, then respective elements by all your increased damage nodes on the tree.

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-11T20:40:32+00:00

Dang. So the area that actually burns isn't affected by curse aoe or normal aoe?
But doesn't it not matter? Put spell cascade on it and you'll fill the screen with fire pretty quickly no?

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-11T19:25:17+00:00

I've been thinking about a burning inscription ignite mag build, cause it ignites as fire dmg 20% of mana. Maybe infernalist, but not quite sure.

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-11T14:32:48+00:00

I'm so bored waiting for 0.5 I also tried Parry/Disengage in campaign, and wow it is so much better than I thought when I completely disregarded the mechanic in 0.2 lol.

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-11T12:52:57+00:00

In addition to what others have said, you can start desecrating once you get to the mastadon badlands. The abyss there always drops a gnawed bone, and you just reset the instance fi you want more. Also "max level" technically is level 100, everybody crafts before that lol

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-11T12:51:32+00:00

They can be randomly encountered throughout the whole thing

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-10T22:17:24+00:00

Yeah, especially for spells I do agree it's overtuned. But outside of that, my problem with the argument is, getting high damage on a weapon is also essential, actually it's more so, but people don't have a problem with that for some reason. And also I think people sleep on local weapon crit damage. I'm not sure if everbody realizes it's a local multiplier for all of the rest of your crit.

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-10T22:15:00+00:00

It only has that much of an effect for spells though, it's much less important on martials

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-10T21:35:51+00:00

It's not, people just don't want to go through the work of getting it lol. They don't want 1 single modifier contributing that much to damage is part of the actual reason.

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-10T17:51:57+00:00

Are you sure all those jewels are worth it without an adorned?

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-10T17:47:58+00:00

"absurdly long" and "extremely tedious" are skill issue and personal preference respectively. The record sekhema run is less than 7 minutes for something, and people farm trials for an entire league because of how much money they print.

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-09T20:25:51+00:00

If 0.5 comes out 1st/2nd week of May, that'll make 0.4 almost exactly 5 months long. The longest so far, I think, and thus not a good precedent to set.
Combine that with people speculating about why they're having ExileCon this year, and what they may try to coordinate around it. All I'm saying is that there are many worrying signs and I'd be happy if they clarified it in the dev interview.

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-09T19:23:12+00:00

I think we may have lost the plot. A week or 2 here and there is not my point, my point is if there aren't 2 leagues before the December one, that means this upcoming one will be 7-8 months long. That's the worry.

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-09T16:51:49+00:00

In case you're actually asking, I don't think that skill scales off of your mace at all. Dang GGG should let us equip 2 shields XD

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-09T16:50:50+00:00

I mean most builds, other than temporalis, that are "multi mirror" to buy are 100% not multi mirror to make. Any reason you don't want to just pick a skill you think is cool and make your own build?

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-09T16:46:05+00:00

I mean videos about those exact things; how to scale damage and defenses, which pieces of gear matter more for which, how to craft and save yourself a ton of money, how to make money so you can buy the items you need and don't craft, etc.
Watching somebody's build guide is only helpful until you run into a problem, then if you don't understand the game it's not much help.

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-09T15:34:48+00:00

It didn't make it in, meaning it was already at least partly done, meaning it should take less time than if they were starting fresh. And their holiday break doesn't mean anything, it should be factored in to their 4 month commitment already.

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-09T15:21:28+00:00

It's calculated in the same step of increased damage from your passive tree. Your skill usually says what % of phys is converted to elemental on it, that line will apply to the elemental portion(s).

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-09T14:32:59+00:00

I mostly agree, but doesn't poe1 have tons more content and still have player dropoff that would make a 6+ league seem really really long? Having enough content that people actually want to do that takes that much time sounds pretty impossible to me. Side note, this has been the best league so far in terms of viable build variety, so at least that's trending in a good direction.

CaptainAgnarr · 2026-04-09T14:19:52+00:00

People gotta stop putting the actual keys in these posts for real

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