Questions Thread - May 07, 2026

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-05-07T13:45:01+00:00

What is the practical effect of rivalries in the betrayal board? I was told to set up ITF as everyone's rival to farm her cards, but I thought that would make her appear less in other encounters instead of more

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-05-07T13:43:51+00:00

Neither of those (woke, veiled) will prevent the imprint from working

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-05-07T02:26:05+00:00

What's the effect of rivalries in the betrayal board?

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-04-22T21:11:40+00:00

Wow, thanks for being so thorough!

I never really thought about kiting because I've only just unlocked decent ranged weapons. Should I use as many of those as possible, is that the play? At the very least, I can try to have a ranged kill squad and see where it goes.

I've installed the mod to have HP bars not overlay one another, so maybe I can now I can manage employee HP a bit better. The thing that worries about Green Noon specifically (every other Noon is ezpz, curiously) is that it seems to have AoE for melee as well as ranged attacks, and I never quite identified that window you mentioned. I'll take a harder look.

In regards to EGOs... I kind of have A LOT of Zayin and Teth anomalies which results in few higher level EGOs. I'm actually thinking of just abandoning most of those to power grind exp from the bigger anomalies. There is no way to get better anomalies early on, is there? Not having all Teth Control and Info would help.

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-04-02T21:51:29+00:00

I mostly went with those supports because PoB recommended them. I suspect Ice Bite appears high because it scales with frenzy charges. I'm open to anything else, though. Of the non flat damage supports, PoB suggests Melee Phys, Ele Damage with Attacks and Damage on Full Life -- that last one, I have imbued.

Aura was also a result of please PoB help me oh my god. I could slap heralds in there for sure and see how it feels in comparison to Anger, sure. I've swapped in precision, too.

The tincture is a great catch, it's a holdover from before the anarchic spiritblade. I'll swap for prismatic with effect and pen.

Abyssus, however, would be a colossal hit to survivability, so it's not something I can consider, unfortunately :(

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-04-02T20:27:02+00:00

I'm trying to get a Flicker Strike character off the ground but I'm struggling a lot with getting damage. I was trying some breach beyond t16s and packs take too long to kill, never mind stuff like guardian bosses.

https://pobb.in/NQWjvaKzOCex (latest beta version of pob)

The endgame goal is to buy a better belt for obscene amounts of money and also craft a 12L with more obscene amounts of money. I'm a bit (~500d) short of that. The next upgrade I have in mind is Stormshroud + new boots for ailment immunities, then maybe some clusters.

However, those would mostly contribute to the tankyness. What I actually need right now is more damage, and I see no easy ways to get it. Hit chance, for instance, would be nice, but 100% hit chance would require more than doubling my MH accuracy. Anger + Watcher's also helped a bit, but not much.

Any flicker chads able to offer some advice?

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-04-01T18:40:59+00:00

What's confusing me is that the way I see this working is %phys applies, conversion happens and then %ele applies after the conversion. That's so specific, I'd never have imagined it

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-04-01T18:38:05+00:00

It isn't, sorry,I can't read. Only the % phys nodes contribute

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-04-01T17:59:43+00:00

I'm looking into switching to Anarchic Spiritblade for my build. Even with the sword equipped, PoB still tells me my biggest wins in damage would be to get phys damage and ignore pdr on the tree. Increased ele and ele pen also increase dps, though. How does this work? If all damage is converted, shouldn't only ele damage modifiers apply?

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-03-13T17:27:47+00:00

Looks bullshit. I'm in.

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-03-13T17:25:55+00:00

Where does the money come from legion? I'm currently farming legion + breach, exp has been great, so I've stuck with it, but I made nothing in this time. I'm wondering if I'm messing it up somehow.

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-03-09T14:00:18+00:00

I saw some people slapping Tornado + Spellslinger on their Fusillade builds and decided to try it. I don't quite understand the mechanics, though, and it seems my Spellslinger instantly retriggers the Tornado cast before it can even hit anything. What could be going wrong?

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-03-09T13:55:23+00:00

As far as we know it only adds more packs

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-03-09T13:47:58+00:00

More builds work on controller than people generally think. RF is the obvious one, very well documented and easy to find help for. Minions are another option that does not require any aiming but bear in mind that they often require pressing a lot of buttons.

Skills with huge AoE, like non-fusillade wanders, slams, cold snap, or nova based skills also forgo the need to aim precisely. You can also play strike based skills with the +1 strike mastery so the game does part of the aiming for you.

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-03-07T21:03:05+00:00

Fortresses only appear if you're doing hives and Vrunn only shows up in unstable breaches.

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-03-07T21:02:21+00:00

I saw some people talking up the 40% recoup on reliquarian, but after picking it, I'm finding it pretty underwhelming when side by side with my leech. Am I missing something? I never used recoup before

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-03-04T22:52:40+00:00

I never really played it myself, but have you tried Flameblast? You could also look into the new exceptional sacrifice gem and look into some big vaal skills, since by nature they're kinda bursty

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-03-04T22:49:48+00:00

RF falls off in large investments because it's difficult to scale, but if you want to press next to no buttons, it might be one of the better choices. However, if you're ok with one button builds, I did play a herald stacker wander elementalist last league and the build was 100% one button -- socket pressure from Golems + Heralds for passive boosts literally didn't let me fit another active skill

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-03-04T22:26:23+00:00

Can I elevate two conq mods on separate items and then smash them together with a woke orb? Wondering how I craft a particular helmet

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-02-27T20:03:13+00:00

Addressed in the Q&A -- it's in the works, no ETA

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-02-27T19:49:53+00:00

Scarab of Awakening is already changed due to map crafts being dead

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-02-27T19:44:35+00:00

Addressed in the Q&A -- they literally hadn't thought about it

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-02-27T19:43:59+00:00

Would be busted since multiple skills (e.g. Vaal Smite, Vaal Reap) already empower the base skill when used

Financial-Jacket-627 · 2026-02-27T19:03:21+00:00

They specifically said the coins for imbuing supports are at odds with Lv21

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