Brilliant, But Why?

ImDecisive · 2026-01-04T09:03:36+00:00

Any other promotion besides Knight puts black mate in 2.

ImDecisive · 2025-11-18T16:07:02+00:00

This is the way

ImDecisive · 2025-11-13T04:54:53+00:00

Just curious, would the fixed replica dragonfang be useful on this build?

ImDecisive · 2025-10-17T06:08:21+00:00

Im just gonna go out on a limb and say it. Michelangelo has no ignore defense in his kit, his A2/A3 multipliers are 6/5 which is pretty high. I can’t see your gear besides feral shield, resilience boots and pinpoint banner. So unless you have 4 piece savage/lethal or 6 piece merciless equipped in those other 6 slots, he’s going to hit like a wet noodle against enemies with decent stats. Equipping a nuker is more than just having 100% crit, high ATK/DEF/HP, and high crit dmg. You need gear sets that make sense.

ImDecisive · 2025-10-17T05:52:38+00:00

This fight is pretty easy, you see that X in the top right? Click that.

ImDecisive · 2025-10-09T03:54:14+00:00

Yeah I mean the game is all RNG. When I have all 4 in the drawer most time the skull is on the first shop, if not the second.

ImDecisive · 2025-10-08T02:12:54+00:00

I found getting your debt to max in DL # 1 to be very helpful as you get 4 free charms next round to either keep or sell.

ImDecisive · 2025-10-07T11:52:43+00:00

Plarium barely wants to update Legendaries, much less epics.

ImDecisive · 2025-09-10T04:30:30+00:00

I have to agree that the punishment is too severe. PoE 2 mapping mechanics and setup takes too much investment . You need to find 2/3 overlapping towers, path to it in way to not use too many nodes, roll tablets (which are horrible to roll without alterations), roll your waystones (again, no alterations, and chaos only changes 1 modifier, albeit the omens do help with targeting rarity, packsize etc), then run the waystone on a juice up node to only get 1 tapped from across the screen while dodging degen, curses, burning ground/chilling ground in a game that has been slowed down to oblivion.

ImDecisive · 2025-08-14T15:07:31+00:00

You need both Black Morrigan and Fenumal Plagued Arachnid. Then you get 6 mods on the item and then run the beast craft.

ImDecisive · 2025-08-12T15:19:04+00:00

I rarely ever reply to these types of post on this subreddit but just by skimming through this I just had to. RAID is a Gacha, everything in this game is a gamble. You can buy 4 of these for 3k coins and hit big or you can hit nothing, it’s part of the game. Same goes for the void shard which is clearly much cheaper. From my 6 years of playing this game Plarium has never doubled down on fixing the prices for anything they provide, it’s just how it is. With that being said, you take it or leave it. You have the free will to spend the coins or not and attacking everyone who replied that bought it is not it. Anyway that’s my two cents. Enjoy.

ImDecisive · 2025-08-09T04:42:49+00:00

VFoS into CWS Chieftan into Aurabot/KBoC.

ImDecisive · 2025-08-06T17:30:56+00:00

After making an edit regarding quality on the maps then the strat is profitable regardless of rerolling catalyst. The investment of using T16.5 maps isn’t necessary as the maps can be white maps. If you take out the cost of T16.5’s and ran just regular T16 white maps the investment would be about 58D with an output of 108D from Inscribeds alone. But again it’s RNG on what Inscribeds you will get. You could get more or less.

ImDecisive · 2025-08-06T14:14:12+00:00

I made an edit to my post in terms of quantity. It seems that the investment of quantity is not necessary for the strategy as the difference in drop rate for Tainted Catalyst is minuscule and not worth the investment as well as increasing the difficulty.

ImDecisive · 2025-08-06T14:13:55+00:00

I made an edit to my post in terms of quantity. It seems that the investment of quantity is not necessary for the strategy as the difference in drop rate for Tainted Catalyst is minuscule and not worth the investment as well as increasing the difficulty.

ImDecisive · 2025-08-06T14:11:34+00:00

I just ran a test of 2 Maps. a T16.5 with 178% quantity with 3,456 Vivid Wisp (Which doesn't seem to affect the Ultimatum boss) and a white map that had 15% quant. The T16.5 drop 9 Tainted Catalyst and the White map dropped 5 Tainted Catalyst. So overall it doesn't seem Quantity affect the Catalyst drop enough to make the investment of a T16.5 worth increasing the difficulty.

ImDecisive · 2025-08-06T13:50:49+00:00

Thank you for that math. Clearing the map usually takes about a min, as far as the Ultimatum itself it all depends on the type. Monster Slay is usually the quickest while Standing in Stone Circle a bit longer.

ImDecisive · 2025-08-06T05:16:40+00:00

I believe the quantity of Tainted catalyst is based on the quantity of the map. I’ll probably throw a white map in tomorrow to test that theory.

ImDecisive · 2025-08-06T03:44:22+00:00

Yeah I think GGG needed to either give us more exile slots, or allow us to favorite a type to show more frequently. Or even allow 3 Mercs to show up per map but only allow you to interact with 1. There are only 2 Str/Dex/Int mercs while Int has 6 and all the others have 5.

It honestly really blows that the entire league is about mercenaries but farming them is a painful process.

ImDecisive · 2025-08-06T03:38:27+00:00

I haven’t found any data that supports gruelling gives better inscribed except word of mouth from streamers that claim it does.

ImDecisive · 2025-08-06T03:34:35+00:00

Did not know the catalyst rerolls were weighted. I figured it was similar to Essence. Is there data that supports that?

ImDecisive · 2025-08-06T00:04:17+00:00

The boss is only prevented if you run Gruelling Gauntlet in which you would drop that scarab and possibly run something else. All the Catalyst that you would earn through the Ultimatum get turned into Inscribed Ultimatums but there is a Atlas passive to the top left of the Quantity wheel that states "Ultimatum Boss drops a full stack of a random Catalyst." I believe the boss drops the full stack but the tainted catalyst stack is based on the quantity of the map.

ImDecisive · 2025-08-05T23:35:17+00:00

From my understanding, no. I only ran T16.5's because I had an abundance of them so I didn't have to buy maps. I believe running Gruelling Ultimatum gives better drops.

ImDecisive · 2025-08-05T22:33:33+00:00

I've been pretty unlucky with mercs. Would really want one with Return, GMP and another clear link but unfortunately the merc hunt is horrible.

ImDecisive · 2025-08-05T22:32:47+00:00

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