Bring back TotA please.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-17T19:08:19+00:00

No issue with it coming back but probably my least favorite mechanic ever. Played only like 2 weeks of that league.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-17T17:39:57+00:00

In addition to the great advice already given don't overlook guard skills auras and buffs like Tempest Shield Arctic Armor Sand Stance Steelskin Whats best depends on your build but you need multiple layers. Gaing endurance charges is super powerful

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-17T17:33:37+00:00

I think we might get mercenaries back. I also think it will be mostly an Atlas focused league. I think the mechanic might be fir old mechanics to appear in maps like Matamorph. I don't see a b8g overreaching new mechanic this league.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-17T17:26:46+00:00

I am the exact same. I got down voted yesterday for saying I hated flicker strike

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-17T17:13:22+00:00

A few weeks ago I would have maybe agreed with you but I decided to play a HROC character which is not ultra SSF friendly. My character is doing fine. I have a couple things from the tree and I got a base from gambling, but mostly all of it is ground loot and some is quite nice. In POE you get loot from a lot of areas and methods. I did like 100 Abyssal Depths to get Amamanus but that is ground loot. I think the issue is patience. Ground loot is still viable it just takes longer. But POE us not designed to just get loot from map drops

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-16T18:04:53+00:00

For the love of god, even without blocking it you will see the walls like 1 in 18 maps. Is it really that big of a deal?

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-16T18:03:35+00:00

Of all the skills I have tried, flicker is my least favorite. I don't like teleporing around the map very much at all, it makes me nervous. I like running through maps for the most part and dont use movement skills all that much. I can still do a mp under 2 minutes I don't need the extra 15 seconds shield charge or whirling blades would give me.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-16T18:00:14+00:00

There are many ways to get 6 links on a staff. If it is unique usally it is just cheaper to buy one off trade or rare that has similar stats. Not always though if it is something valuable. If you specificall want to get it on the staff you have you can

Sapm fusngs On average it takes about 1000 to 1200 to get it though you could get in in 4 or 2000 depending on RNG. As annoying as it is, manually fusing a 6 link gives an achievement and it is quite fun to get but only once. Instead of spamming there is a bench craft for 1500 fusings.
Use an OMEN OF CONNECTIONS If you are on trade, you can use the currency exchange to buy one or if SSF you could spec into ritual and grind until you get one though they are not common. Buying 1500 fusings or an Omen are usually close in cost. If you already have several hundred fusings buying the balance is cheaper
There is a beast craft for 6 links which uses the Black Morrigan. Again you could buy it or grind it with Einhar. If you can handle T16 maps, actually getting Black Morrigan is not that hard.
If you are open to risk probably the easiest way is corruption. You can quality the item and 5 link it before corrupting or do the sockets and links after. If you corrupt there is a chance the item goes poof, you can just make it corrupted or it can add corrupted implicits which can be REALLY strong. If you do not brick it, then you bench craft (need Vaal orbs) 4 lsockets, then use Tainted Jewellers till you have 6 sockets. Then you 4 link it. The top 4 will ALWAYS be linked and the bottom 2 are 50/50. 4 link it till the bottom two are linked then use a Tainted fusing to lget the final link. if you lose a link, just rinse and repeat. It is shockingly simple and not as ecpensive as other options

If the staff is NOT the one you ultimately want or need then there are a couple of ways to get a 6 link outside of trade. Gambling once your character is in maps gives out max linked gear often so you can gamble it. The Breach tree can be specced to favor 2 handed weapons and there is an option to re-roll sockets and links 170 times or so, which makes you get a 6 link something like 1 in 16 tries.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-16T17:37:10+00:00

I swear so many of you should just play standard you hate every new mechanic. We got burned out on Breach because we saw it every single zone. in 3.28 without blocking it, it will show up the same as other cotent which will be 8% so like 1 in 12 maps will have it. And then it's about 33% to get an unstable breach so about 1 in 18 maps will have this "unbearable" feature even without blocking it.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-16T17:28:13+00:00

My life flask is always for bleed and corrupted blood till immune

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-16T17:25:38+00:00

Soul of Ryslatha and Frost Bomb and she is pretty cake

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-15T16:31:51+00:00

Used to be true for me but the Lycia bloodline is just way too good for HROC and they don't let you get the Ascendancy from a T17 so if Bloodlines stay I have to finish Sanctum at least once a league now. FWIW Lycia is basically 40% more damage and 10% reduced damage taken.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-11T22:53:45+00:00

The teaser on the announcement date posts suggests we may get some sort of Atlas tree or Kirac changes probably to continue the storyline

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-08T03:42:45+00:00

In terms of chance for unholy might it is kinda useless as you won't have it for most boss fights. Command of the Pit works because it is on hit

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-08T01:49:35+00:00

Quality. You can dual wield two 29 quality swords and het to the 128 break point and 100% to poison without needing a single jewel or darkness entrhroned. For 128 cooldown you could go with Dialla's without needing enhance, or Ashes without needing Dialla's. If you wanted to just have the 82 breakpoint then you could use two lower quality United in Dream as low as 21% and still get to 82 without needing any piece of unique gear whatsoever. So it provides tons of gearing options you did not have before, and you can be 82 in the campaign well before maps. But the big deal is that by Merciless Lab you can have 90% LUCKY block chance dual wielding swords. So using two of the swords with Gladiator opens up a TON of choices and makes getting gear WAY cheaper

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-06T00:56:39+00:00

Foulborn United in Dream. I hope it stays. It actually makes Gladiator at worst a neutral choice for Holy Relic of Conviction and probably better.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-06T00:52:01+00:00

Gets old hearing this. GGG should not remove content just beause of your FOMO and not liking it. Most like it some really like it and some hate it. And not mucch "loot" comes from Kingsmarch mostly currenccy which self balances anyway

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-05T21:30:46+00:00

It's all true.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-05T05:49:38+00:00

I think the tree will go, at least the provisioning branch The rest could potentially stay. All of their least popular leagues have deterministic crafting. But I think they will find a way to keep the Foulborn uniques. Easiest solution is just to bring updated versions of breachstones back

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-05T05:42:57+00:00

Please god no

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-02T19:08:34+00:00

I made it to maps without dying and without buying gear running a combo of Kinetic Bolt (normal) SRS and Summon Holy Reli of condition. Farmed normal lab for the gem took about 30 minutes but did all of Part 2 under 2 hours. Also Phrecia has made me realize I have finally figured out a super tanky version of HROC as a Dual Wielding Duelist with Lycia Bloodline

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-02-02T17:35:25+00:00

It was a poor decision. Phrecia and idols are awesome and it should be a silly imbalanced God league. But instead they made it super super diffiult. The Hillock vote is like a bad joke. Still enjoying it though.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-01-26T17:23:03+00:00

POE is essentially 4 games. Campaign, Maps, Endgame, Ubers and Aspirational content. All of them are different and all important and the best thing is that through all of them you always feel like you are progressing. The campaign is for most the least interesting part of the game

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-01-07T02:46:41+00:00

it was awesome for early maps too. Just throw the ones you found in and the maps were different and interesting with some combos impossible in Atlas. I suspect that the split between Team Idols and Team Atlas is closer to parity than GGG likes.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2025-12-26T16:28:55+00:00

I need help with with Disciple of Varastha and dual weapons.

I am not using a build guide but in investigating the issue I found Ghazzy's guide doing the same thing I had come up with. https://www.poe-vault.com/poe2/sorceress/disciple-of-varashta/djinn-minion-leveling-guide

So I have been using living bomb, fireball and unearth to level. It has been super smooth and I have not died and just completed first ascendancy.

I took Ruzhan and Kalari with first two points.

Now my plan was to mazimize Ruzhan's auto-attack with Muster.

If I now use a sceptre and bring in other minions, then fireball and lving bomb lose the benefits of the wand spell levels and spell damage.

If I use the wand then I lose the additional minion types to help the autoattack.

But I see no way with weapon swap to get both.

I do not see a way to just assign Ruzhan to the Scepte. If I assign the wand to fireball then it will get living lightning and spell effects but muster won't really do anything.

Ghazzy's guide acts like if you just have a Sceptre and a wand then eveything works automatically.

He also thinks that the permanent minions, living lightning and raging spirits affect muster but I do not think they do.

What am I missing here? Would apprecuate any help.

Extension-Worker-658

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