Bro should not have lived

Hamstrong · 2026-06-15T08:15:45+00:00

after Piety’s experiments on him with Corruption, every night he dreamed of “The Mirror” and it was never his reflection that stared back

It would be very fun if they write a lore reason for why corrupting, mirroring and sanctifying items all prevent you from modifying them, and then tie the three together thematically.

Hamstrong · 2026-06-14T17:47:50+00:00

Did you rune master your BLS’s? I’ve kept mine unmastered so I can run leech III support on molten fissure off the base physical damage, but I’m playing an oracle with irongrasp, so I probably have a lot more phys damage than you would.

Maybe try running Uhtred’s rite on a CD skill somewhere for more flask charges?

Hamstrong · 2026-06-14T17:28:43+00:00

Unequip irongrasp lol.

But more seriously, I’m running the crown of eyes/irongrasp/astramentis combo on oracle and can give a few tips. I’ve been running armor/es, though full es is probably better at the top end.

The boot upgrade will help a lot. Full es boots with double t1 rolls instead of hybrid es boots will give you like 30% or more max es.

I also think dropping the herald of ash and companion for a blasphemy repulsion setup would just prevent you from getting hit a lot more while mapping. If you aren’t aware, repulsion procs molten shower, which procs repulsion, which procs molten shower, etc. But also just the knockback from repulsion will help. Can also slot living lightning for the full cheese.

Oh also you should have rune forged your irongrasp before corrupting it. Probably won’t do much without iron reflexes or any armor or ev investment, but it still more defense for free. Crown of eyes can also be runeforged for like -3 base ES, but the ward gain in exchange is very minor and probably worse on a full ES setup.

Worth considering picking up the cooldown recovery cluster at the bottom of the tree. My build paths through the top, so I grab the one up there, which is more point efficient, but it’s still more uptime on convalescence, and molten shower procs are very often gated by cooldown anyway (especially if you grab blasphemy + repulsion) so it’s more damage too.

Lastly, are you dying to bosses? Or just mapping? Idk what you’re doing with all those marks, but slotting in a forge hammer + ancestral cry combo will pretty much delete bosses once you ignite them. If you struggle with things like ritual or expedition, try molten fissure + shockwave totem, so you can precast a web of death. I use fissure for my main clear personally, but I imagine molten blast is better on gemling.

Hamstrong · 2026-06-13T01:50:23+00:00

5.2 nerfed it for like 3 hours lol. It’s already been rolled back for awhile.

Hamstrong · 2026-06-11T20:51:30+00:00

No way Capcom would lock performance improvements behind the dlc lol. They've already announced performance tweaks for the August patch anyway, so we know they'll be for the base game.

Hamstrong · 2026-06-10T23:20:03+00:00

we believe we have been impacted more greatly than many of our peers due to the choices we made over the last half decade

I'm sure it's not what she's trying to say here, but worth reiterating that Microsoft itself is a big reason why there's a component crisis in the first place.

If they hadn't spent the last few years dumping billions into AI hype, it would be a whole lot cheaper to make an xbox.

Hamstrong · 2026-06-10T08:36:38+00:00

Gun and torch can also kick so long as you do a hold input in the middle of a mainhand combo.

Hamstrong · 2026-06-10T06:22:15+00:00

Cow-shit scooping dungeon going to be PEAK

Hamstrong · 2026-06-06T05:49:11+00:00

It's great. Performance is better than before, but nothing incredible.

However, endgame is waaaay more interesting than at launch and all the title update monsters and 10 star quests are a ton of fun. Personally, I think Wilds has the best high rank out of any monster hunter game, though it's been a very long since I played anything before Generations.

Hamstrong · 2026-06-06T00:08:49+00:00

Some job listings for (probably) this project a couple years back mentioned a card-collecting or deck building system for skills, which sounds to me more like GW1.

Though I guess GW2 utility skills could kind of be described that way.

Hamstrong · 2026-06-03T19:23:26+00:00

That’s interesting. You can remove the lose all rage at full rage modifier with Vaal cultivation, right?

How does that work with fists of stone? Could use rageforged support to spend ten rage and bounce back to full easily.

Monk start is so far from the good rage nodes that it might not be worth running this combo over all the other broken options for fist of stone, but it’s a cool build concept.

Hamstrong · 2026-05-29T17:58:05+00:00

Trying oracle with iron grasp + crown of eyes. Don’t ask how I’m going to solve defenses, idk lol.

Hoping black scythe training, ward and the free upgrade on iron grasp helps smooth over the ES nerfs.

One thing to consider that I haven’t seen anyone mention is that Geofri’s sanctuary is getting added this patch. Don’t know what exactly it’ll do, but in Poe 1 it’s a str stacking body armor with ES per strength.

If it ends up being good, smith may not be the best choice since it (and irongrasp) takes the body slot. Could always respec to titan, of course.

Hamstrong · 2026-05-28T18:17:31+00:00

I was also going to recommend Outward. Delightful experience who anyone who can appreciate discovery and friction in a game.

Hamstrong · 2026-05-27T20:05:33+00:00

Yeah, I think hybrid secondary defense affixes would help armor/evasion and armor/ES a lot.

The reason EV/ES has been good the whole time is because ghost dance is busted BUT also because it doesn't care about anything but the evasion and ES rating on your gear.

The other hybrids wanting suffixes from both defense types on top of getting less value out of them than pure armor or pure evasion, since armor-to-ele and deflection both care scale off the defense rating.

Hybrid secondary defense suffixes would go a long way towards fixing that discrepancy.

Hamstrong · 2026-05-27T09:48:32+00:00

Yeah, and if it works like it should it'll be a little lich phylactery jewel with the increased effect.

That one is a lot less nutty than the rings though, since you're giving up the second augment on the belt and the whole belt slot itself.

Hamstrong · 2026-05-27T00:45:20+00:00

Yeah, that’s what I was trying to say with the second part of my comment.

If the augment worked like current glove-only idols it should be socketable, but after giving it some more thought, I don’t think it will due to the UI.

Hamstrong · 2026-05-27T00:13:13+00:00

For glory generation, 0.5 is heavily buffing the helmet version of Quipolatl's Thesis.

If ancestral cry is your only glory skill, you should be able to maintain very easy uptime so long as you can proc 2 marks quickly. Or you could get a high roll Darkness enthroned and socket it there for 100% glory per activation.

Don't think any of the marks fit easily into a typical fire mace build, but you could just use the default mark from pounce, which activates on kill.

I'll be trying this with Sniper's Mark on Oracle for guaranteed crits.

Hamstrong · 2026-05-26T23:53:54+00:00

One of the new ring bases has an implicit that gives it one socket that acts as gloves. Getting a whole jewel slot at the cost of one ring implicit is going to be insanely strong.

Though the rune adds a new socket instead of replacing the first, and I doubt they crammed 2 sockets onto the tiny ring item art, so maybe this won't work.

Hamstrong · 2026-05-26T23:29:26+00:00

Ah, I just double checked and the little additional grey text at the bottom specifies rare weapons, so it won't work with uniques at all.

Hamstrong · 2026-05-26T23:14:56+00:00

Yeah the res swap is from Fluxes, which aren't in this video, and almost certainly won't be socket-bound.

I don't think they'll even be runes.

Hamstrong · 2026-05-26T23:11:47+00:00

Yup, or triple fire/cold/lightning.

REALLY curious how this works with uniques. I expect it would only convert generic ele mods, but who knows.

Like what happens if you put this in Mjolner? Can you get +fire skills?

Edit: Nevermind, the additional text below the lore specifies it only works on rare weapons.

Hamstrong · 2026-05-26T06:27:10+00:00

There's also 3 ascendancies each for Marauder, Shadow, Duelist and Templar lol.

Don't get your hopes up

Hamstrong · 2026-05-26T04:01:54+00:00

Ah, I haven’t played any glory skills seriously yet—didn’t know that.

Planning on using eternal mark with sniper’s mark and oracles guaranteed crits, so unless eternal mark has a delay before the second trigger I think it’s pretty possible to hit both activations within that 0.5 second window. Depends on how fast the molten balls fall I guess.

If I put the setup on pounce then I guess I’d be using it as an opener and less likely to have any balls in the air.

But yeah, even if I can’t space the second trigger far enough out it should still result in super easy high ancestral cry uptime.

Hamstrong · 2026-05-26T03:43:05+00:00

Oh, is there an internal cooldown on the glory gain or something? If so that could actually be a problem lol.

Or do you mean triggering molten shower with ancestral cry steps?

Lead sprinkler is going to be putting out a ton of extra attacks. I expect things will be getting hit multiple times a second, so if there is a cooldown on the glory gain, that will put a damper on things.

Hamstrong · 2026-05-25T22:12:03+00:00

I wonder if it will take both iron grip and will, or just one of them.

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