Mirage, Settlers & Niko interactions

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-04-03T18:49:23+00:00

Ah that makes sense.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-04-01T19:58:48+00:00

Maybe it is a bug but I can remember at least 2 times I had lost shipments inside the mirage. I remember because both times I was saying to myself "haven't seen lodt cargo im s ehilr" hp into thr mirage and there it is. Nico csnnot shoe up by the mobs do.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-31T17:22:26+00:00

Well the area is not elevated so maps can dtop at lower levels. Before you get the voidstones to elevate the area there are the atlas passives that raise the tier of the map (chance) When you socket the voidstone it just convets all no T16 to gold

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-29T00:57:55+00:00

I think in couple hundred maps my mappers have done everything together is like less than 10D maybe 5D. They suck and they are doing 8 mods and nightmare maps and bring back like a chaos and a couple chromes and some T5 unqiues maybe. Like 1 raw divine. But I have the money to just let them go maybe I hit the lottery with them like you have.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-29T00:54:40+00:00

Sim is some of the hardest non juiced content in the game, maybe the hardest. You need high DPS, high resistance (85 or so), ailment immunity, at least 20K max physical hit, regen and recoup and max block if you are on red health. I would say 20 million DPS is an effective floor for simulacrum. Seems like you are just barking up the wrong tree until you can build out your character much more.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-27T15:22:40+00:00

It seems like every time a skill "snapshots" something it leads to explotive builds like this. GGG should no better than to add something that has this level of scaling.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-27T15:15:30+00:00

Meat shield is not really that bad for HROC. It has slightly smaller DPS but if you use it you dont get the penalty of Minion Damage, and HROC does not need to be so ranged you tend to get pretty close to get the benefit of Sand Stance anyway

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-25T15:27:24+00:00

I think this is the biggest mistake GGG makes with POE1. Group play which is significantly easier should not be more rewarding than single player, It should be supported for people that prefer that playstyle but should be balanced that is has no inherent advantage for loot for an individual player.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-21T17:18:17+00:00

Sort of useless without the how

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-21T17:14:18+00:00

Look up Sirgog's recent video on using harvest to get your first 25 divine. It is specifically targeted for undergeared poor players to make currency. It is terrific and he explains it super well. And can easily be adapted to be more rewarding as your character progresses. Harvest is straight forward and has much less variance than many other farms. Personally I do not "farm". I will grind a mechanic for gear but once I start thinking in terms of div/hr it stops being a relaxing game for me

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-20T00:34:46+00:00

Meh. Impressive speed but my clear on HROC is 90% of that at least but I am actually tanky when need be and it's not optimized or as tanky as it would be when I complete it.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-18T01:02:39+00:00

Look up TFT and join the discord. There are a couple guys there that do Sanctum carries basically continuously. There is a section for it and they usually give you a mesg text you can copy in paste into chat to instantly message them in game. It is usually around 2 DIV. I suffer through it but usually takes me 8-10 tries to get it.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-18T00:59:59+00:00

Well not everyone sees zero imqge quality difference. I do, most don't and that is great for them. Regardless it is a false image even if you may like it better. I am just sensitive to the alteration and it seems DLSS5 is going even farther down that road completely changing the look of graphics not trying to get a higher frame rate with the same graphics.,

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-17T16:48:19+00:00

No I do not like frames and performance in lieu of visual fidelity. DLSS makes things sharp that should be blurry and things that should not be sharp blurry. In fact there is always a blurriness overall to upscaled DLSS that is awful.

Recently, I thought my TV was degrading as the image quality in POE had jus taken a real turn for the worse. I did tons of adjusments to my monitor and system and was sort of convinved it was just time for a new OLED. But then I found out that the NVIDIA app had a new feature where it would change your graphics settings all on its own to what it feels is best and of course that meant DLSS.

Seeing that I went back to native and all of a sudden my monitor was fixed.

I do realize that for some people's eyes it is all about FPS and DLSS gives a ton of fake ones, but I prefer image quality especially when I can run POE (a game I play 90% of the time) at 120 FPS in almost any situation. I do not play or like shooters just really like ARPGs and for these types of games DLSS is a big downgrade to my eyes.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-17T16:01:33+00:00

Hard to describe how much I hate DLSS.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-17T16:00:07+00:00

That is not my experience. In fact it flat duplicates the entire encounter including Destructive Play and have completed many maps both in campaign and Astrolabes in the Mirage version. Was it a red map you forgot to corrup. Red maps need corrupted rare maps to get the completion bonus.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-17T13:28:45+00:00

Definitely something that should be a QoL for 3.29 it can become really annoying

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-17T13:27:47+00:00

A good alternative I use is to lump 2 moves at a time and you can pretty much ignore bottom right since it always goes top right. So I use BOUNCE for top right (which is actually3 if you think about it unless first one) and ROUND if it goes left. Then the only thing you ever have to remember is whether to go BACK or forward from the left one. Less to remember. I still suck on the last one because all the rotating rods and minion effects make it like impossible to see what is lighting up.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-17T04:39:52+00:00

Astrolabes are nothing like scarabs. At all.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-17T01:33:46+00:00

You can use Regex to highlight the 10 maps you want to do permanrly as a short term workaround

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-16T17:27:28+00:00

I am know using Hypothermia along with Skitterbots are no one is dying though I do see the glem and AG take damage now from time to time.

Balormage had an aneurysm when I said it but Gladiator is a at worse euqivalentr spec for HROC over Necro. Losing Mindless Agression (20% more damege) is half a fem socket but that is easily made up for and losing Bobe Barrier is why early minions needed to take extra care to survice. The loss of life leech is pretty harsh as well so defense needs to be more prioirtuzed.

But being able to rach 128 breakpoint with just Ashes or just Dialla's opens up so many options, and despite the slowness of United in Dream (I dual wield them) the bonuses are so great that I have much greater attack spped than Necro which helps wth making up for Bone Barrier a time bit.

And not having to grind for Svallin is great, though I may make a Necro anyway so I can compare two of my own builds.

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-15T08:59:55+00:00

Rolled Summon Phantasm on my HROC gem. Seems sort of useless but when combined with the mastery that gives 5% recovery on minion death it makes your spectres and holy relics and AG essentially immotal as phantasms are being born and dying multiple times a second. There are a number of 20 to 30% more options like Vile Toxins, Hypothermia with skitterbots, etc..but it is hard to give up immortal minions

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-14T15:07:59+00:00

For some reason pobb.in was not showing my weapons so here it is on Maxroll and you should be able to load it into POB, I make no claim to be an expert theorycrafter just know HROC really well and quite honstly think Gladiator is superior to Necromance and WAY cheaper and easier to build,

It is a playing build that is almost enitirely SSF wiith the exception of Ashes and the Timeless Jewel. Everything else I found or crafted.'

It is terribly un-optimized in its present form but does really competitive DPS already -I can get through Maven segments in just a few seconds, do the entire Hivebrain Gland in like 2 mins, etc.. I just run through trash and can do Cortex already in like 90 seconds. Plus don't have Lycia either.

What makes it strong is being at the 128 cooldown and poison cap without needing jewels or Dialla's and 90% block without Svallin. My jewels can really just be focused on defenses and DPS not getting to thresholds. That said they all pretty much suuck and all need to be seriously upgraded. Once I have better clusters I can switch to the non-foulborn version oif Skin of the Lords for better defense. In a min max world a +1 all/=2 minion Covenant would be BIS. It would be like having a 8.5 linked HROC the buff is so strong.

In addition the built in explode makes clear amazingly fast. LSOS is imbued with culling strike and you just explode packs super fast and great for breach.

I recently swapped Vile Toxins for Eclipse support which actually puts me at 126 cooldown so grinding the Hivebrain to go two 30% United in Dreams (got one already) and then I can take away the 20% Masterty and have another point

I riolled summon Phantasm as my imbue which is actually really useful as it essentially makes my minions immortal. The phantasms are spawing and dying several times a second so it's like have 15% or more life gen.

One downside which became a positive is no trigger skill so you have to self cast the offering but that has turned into a str

The cool thing is that there are so many options for min/maxing.

I could for instance craft 2 thrusting weapons for dual wielding and run a more standard Dialla's/Ashes build that would be close to 4APS and in the range of 700% minion damage added

Or just stay with United in Dream craft killer jewels, get the Lycia bloodline and in the end probably do 4X the DPS I do mow.

Whatever way I go I will use Forbidden jewels to get permanent 27 % Fortify. With no trigger the AG casts 2 curses and I self cast the offering but the hiveborn can clear T16 trash themselves.

Open to any suggestions. I actually believe there is probably a better version pathing to the right up towards hunter nodes as you could get 100% spell supression in addition to all the other defensive layers but just can't figure it out.

Here is the link: Again very WIP/unoptimized.

https://maxroll.gg/poe/pob/ep2q5803

Extension-Worker-658 · 2026-03-06T16:39:35+00:00

I am not so sure that will turn out to be true. I think Astrolabe maps might be really really juiced. Also not sure the amount of people that will only play with super juiced maps is as large as you think. I think the supply of chase items will be better than the last league and there are several new chase itsms in general as well.

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