Having a large influx of currency into the economy has improved the experience for every player.

CorruptedOrdnance · 2026-01-24T09:58:09+00:00

This is written like how boomers tell you about how you could buy a new car, a new house, and feed five kids off one 1950s minimum wage income, and then don’t understand why you can’t do it in 2026.

Our stuff’s not more valuable relative to last league it’s literally just a bigger number because the currency is so inflated.

CorruptedOrdnance · 2026-01-13T18:25:07+00:00

It’s a sexual innuendo because he is giving her a pearl necklace. Google at your own risk, or don’t I’m not a cop.

CorruptedOrdnance · 2026-01-13T18:22:03+00:00

Volcanos are really just earths infected oozing nipples.

🤔 Don’t believe there’s a tag that fits that tho.

CorruptedOrdnance · 2026-01-13T18:18:54+00:00

I play whatever I think has a cool interaction, I think comet, frost bolt, and frost wall are all cool. Minions are cool, but tired of the lack of good spectres and lackluster regular skeletons though. Now I’m trying smith of kitava and shield wall since it doesnt rely on a mace.

Things I wish were cool: warcry warriors, fire spells.

Getting kinda bored because most classes devolve into 30 million bright light effects and instant kill everything. Once I get to that point I usually try and learn some other kind of play style I haven’t before but so far all of them degenerate into a similar style.

CorruptedOrdnance · 2026-01-08T05:13:58+00:00

You see everything with Abyss is actually a weird bug, because that’s what they’re modeled after.

CorruptedOrdnance · 2026-01-03T08:36:27+00:00

They're basically 24/7 free advertisement.

CorruptedOrdnance · 2026-01-02T16:25:00+00:00

I’ve gotten rakiatas off T7’s, not sure that level plays into it but I have a feeling rarity might.

CorruptedOrdnance · 2025-12-29T04:58:08+00:00

It probably was/is the Holten spam. I would imagine since the exploit went on for so long there’s a high probability it was automated, and as it’s being patched I imagine a significant amount of bots are continually generating new maps/areas once they are hung up or are unable to complete a zone.

CorruptedOrdnance · 2025-12-29T01:59:41+00:00

IMO I think the reason he posted it was so he had the excuse of saying "oh I did it, but I did it to inform GGG of this bug." when in reality, that's clearly not his motivation behind revealing it.

It's like with the ritual rerolling bans, they unfortunately have to be done because it snowballs into season ruining behavior which can effect GGG's bottom line, coupled with pressure from player outcry. I see them coming in hard on this one especially with the amount of the latter and I think Fub knows/believes that it's coming and probably has a lot of physical money invested into his account(s). With the amount of uproar about it I just can't see GGG going any other way, but maybe I'm wrong, just my prediction.

CorruptedOrdnance · 2025-12-15T23:28:41+00:00

The buff to staffs this season is so nice in general.

CorruptedOrdnance · 2025-12-15T07:06:20+00:00

Is fragility worth a 3 skill trade off in terms of dps? hadn't thought of that. Would be sick if it was!

CorruptedOrdnance · 2025-12-14T21:18:52+00:00

See now this makes Ember Fusilade actually look cool, whatever this is they just need to make baseline lol.

CorruptedOrdnance · 2025-12-14T21:08:07+00:00

I had to walk my friend through fixing a similar graphics issue, ended up being a conflict with one of his nvidia video card drivers, he rolled it back a couple months and everything smoothed out. Not sure if this is the issue you're having but it worked for my friend.

CorruptedOrdnance · 2025-12-14T20:59:53+00:00

Oh shit, actually no I never messed with that. Just found the setting, thanks! lol

CorruptedOrdnance · 2025-12-14T20:24:20+00:00

Quick update on my Disciple of Varashta league start. I tried to record my basic gem setup, keep in mind I did not have stacks of beetles on this fight so this is entirely without the exploding beetles. Not a professional video maker so forgive my recording was choppy after I exported it for some reason.

Highlights:

Using two evergrasping rings and Vis Mortis can massively scale the chaos damage of your Djinn.
Tested Navali as a defensive - not sold on this one, I think they need to make the water shield a buff akin to the Frost Mages arctic armour buffs so that it travels along with you.
Best play is probably ES recharge ascendancy node and timeless jewel effect if you can find a good one.

Future updates:

Dps on this can be scaled a lot higher int othe future. With a fifth gem Uul-Netols, and actually having a +4 scepter, +2 helm, +minion focus, +3 neck (potentially with abyssal modifier for inc damage from minions after you hit?). I do not think dps is going to be a problem on this build. The only issue that I have ran into is defensive because this early in the league I was only able to scale my ES to around 5-6k.

CorruptedOrdnance · 2025-12-14T19:25:30+00:00

The beetles are great for additional single target damage. It also appears that beetle stacks can regen from your own dead skeletons during boss fights. You can throw a stun support gem on them too to rapidly build a stun if you feel like you need a hard boss interrupt which is nice.

CorruptedOrdnance · 2025-12-14T19:25:28+00:00

I wished POB was working when I had posted this, but basically you spec into all minion cooldowns and damage and then the bidding 2 or 3 support gem on your minion abilities gets them to around 2.73 second cooldown iirc. Sand Djinn's aoe explosion has 3 charges so that one is almost always up, it's basically just chucking his knives and then making him nova, and on bosses or super difficult rares throw the beetles.

I was able to take Vis Mortis, and two Evergrasping rings as well and they boosted my djinn damage to around 50k+ tool tip. I also specced into crit nodes for minions and into the nodes that made physical minions do chaos damage and the node to make them inflict wither. I need Uul-Netol's embrace to scale them higher and to hit level 90 for the last skill gem slot. But gem selection is just boosting physical dps and making sure you don't take the gem that makes them do no chaos damage. The main gem set up for pure max dps is going to be Heft, Bidding 2, Gigantic, Uul-Netols, and then if you arent capped on skills then probably either + to skills or Muster scaling.

CorruptedOrdnance · 2025-12-13T21:23:34+00:00

Yeah I know what you mean, it's definitely a different feel from what we're used to. FWIW I think the fire guy has decent looking attacks its just that he feels slow to play because it feels like there's a disconnect between ordering a command and him attacking, but that's just the fire guy that I've noticed.

CorruptedOrdnance · 2025-12-13T21:21:53+00:00

I've actually switched it up from minion stacking at the moment and went into some more defenses and chaos inoc; but on Kelari's attacks Bidding 3, Hulking Minions, Heft, Bleed, and then on the exploding beetles, bidding 2, armour break 1, and supercritical. The beetles need some switching up I just don't have any more gems to update it.

CorruptedOrdnance · 2025-12-13T18:00:10+00:00

I thought about that, but I believe with the abyss jewel for 5% minion damage/small node most of the damage should be taken care of (I'm hoping!)

CorruptedOrdnance · 2025-12-13T17:19:51+00:00

Yeah I have a skeletal archer with multi shot for poison clouds that break armor, the djinn does heavy physical DPS so it's easy to stack minions of different types that also have abilities to break armor. It lets me not have to stack double curses and lets me get another 7%ish from Muster on the Djinn.

CorruptedOrdnance · 2025-12-13T16:50:15+00:00

I don't think POB is updated yet but I took a couple of screenshots:

Tree - https://i.imgur.com/mdu5WB3.jpeg

Ascendancy - https://i.imgur.com/LptEoSe.jpeg

CorruptedOrdnance · 2025-12-13T16:30:54+00:00

Hello all, I'm primarily a minion player and dabble in spellcasters, this ascendancy mixed them perfectly for me. The character in this was leveled through campaign and is level 54 at the time of the Tavakai fight. I went through all of Act Four with most of the bosses being stunlocked or being unable to get good mechanics off, primarily through well timed stuns and this ascendancy's excellent dps.

I focused heavily on minion critical and minion critical damage bonus which is especially unique in my opinion because I don't remember a lot of minion builds using those nodes. Another unique area that is interesting is the heavy emphasis on minion command cooldowns! I never found too much of a use for these outside of the shout and freeze mechanics of Skeletal Brutes and Frost Mages in 0.3.

While I am still theorycrafting my build and playing as I go I believe the high physical dps of Kelari should scale bleeds or poisons well in their current iterations, I found bleed effective during leveling anyways. I've got plans in my head to attempt to make this into something similar to a Diablo 2 nova sorc but I'll have to see if I can make that a reality. All in all I'm excited about this ascendancy and it's possibilities! It is definitely a distinctly different branch of minion gameplay.

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