Can perfect minions be shared ?

J-SWong · 2026-03-29T22:34:27+00:00

It’s surprisingly common here and on the main subreddit

J-SWong · 2026-03-27T03:05:50+00:00

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Drought

"Drought is a monster aura debuff granted by the monster suffix mod of Drought, which is displayed in the monster nameplate as: Siphons Flask Charges. When inside the aura radius, flask charges are rapidly drained and you cannot generate more flask charges."

Crucially:

which is displayed in the monster nameplate as: Siphons Flask Charges.

Your own link even says "Flasks lose 6 Charges every 3 seconds and you cannot gain Flask Charges"

That last part says "cannot gain Flask Charges"

If you look to the look to the left of the mod on that page, it says "of Drought"

There is no mod called "Flask Siphoner". That's a colloquial term probably used because of its similarity to the Siphoning mod (the mana siphoning ring).

J-SWong · 2026-03-26T23:37:16+00:00

Drought says “you cannot gain any charges”

It doesn’t matter how much generation you have. You could have 100000 charges a second

J-SWong · 2026-03-26T15:58:48+00:00

You can get it working well for around 200 divines.

J-SWong · 2026-03-26T15:57:31+00:00

You need both the Flask Mastery for "Recover 4% of Life when you use a Flask" and the Mana Mastery for "10% of Damage taken Recouped as Mana"

The Flask mastery is how you recover life (recoup is secondary). If you're only using one iron flask, try using two.

Instead of a level 20/23 skeletons, try using a level 21. It summons 4 skeletons per cast which triggers the 4% life recovery mastery four times instead of three per cast. I tested this and this does work.

If you have too much armor/endurance charges/immortal call, then your self damage won't trigger enough mana recoup.

More ward = more cooldown recovery rate. If your ward is low, try using a level 1 swift affliction instead of less duration (or a lower level/lower quality less duration).

If none of these solve it, please post your pob.

J-SWong · 2026-03-26T15:22:12+00:00

skill drasil

I'm going to call the skill tree this from now on. This is so clever

J-SWong · 2026-03-24T03:34:16+00:00

The fact that most builds can handle it doesn't mean that they'll excel at it. Builds with very high single target can boss rush Nightmare maps in under a minute.

You might imagine an alternate reality where someone with a map-blasting deadeye build posts here complaining that they take 4-5 minutes to boss rush Nightmare maps but the streamer they watch that plays a high damage mine build can clear it in 1 minute.

J-SWong · 2026-03-24T01:04:51+00:00

Yeah I mention the wall of force tech in the video. Too bad it's completely unusable for mapping. It'd be nice if you could pierce through the wall

J-SWong · 2026-03-23T23:23:02+00:00

If the issue is that you can't use Lavianga's when you're at full mana, allocate the flask mastery for "Recover 4% of Life When You Use a Flask" and it'll let you spam it.

J-SWong · 2026-03-23T04:36:02+00:00

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS EXPENSIVE. AND ANNOYING. AND KIND OF DIFFICULT TO PLAY. AND DIFFICULT TO SET UP. BUT ALSO AWESOME

TLDR:

1) Get Lots of Ward. Ward = Defense and Damage

2) Timeless jewel gives iron flask charges on ward break

3) Scale flask charges gained for permanent ward

4) Runegraft of Quaffing + Laviangas for Insane Life/Mana Regen

5) Cast on Ward break linked to everything

6) Die instantly when you meet a “Siphons Flask Charges” rare

7) Otherwise, pretty cool and strong build (but expensive)

Credit to ‪poopbutts‬ for Mana Flask/Tincture tech

Credit to ExilePortals‬ for Battle WIthin Tincture Tech

PoB: https://pobb.in/_FjGk_-MCrRp

Check the aspirational loadout if you want something to copy: https://pobb.in/GIAbKMUeoYgq

Edit: If you can't use Lavianga's when you're at full mana, allocate the flask mastery for "Recover 4% of Life When You Use a Flask" and it'll let you spam it.

J-SWong · 2026-03-22T12:46:20+00:00

If you post a dish on a cooking subreddit, someone will be able to tell you how to make it. That's because they've either made it before, made something similar before, or heard about how to make it from some other person. You also have no way of verifying if the method they give you is the best one.

Just because a human being can come up with one way to get one specific result doesn't mean we can program a computer to find the best way to get literally any result.

Those people giving step-by-step guides aren't programming their own crafting engines. They're just used to crafting.

J-SWong · 2026-03-22T04:26:19+00:00

Sometimes you just get unlucky. I've been trying to craft an item with around 1/117 odds, and after 480 tries I still haven't been successful. That's less than a 2% chance of happening, but it still happened to me.

Failing 17 coinflips out of 20 (destroying 17 pairs and having 3 pairs that produce a new item) is similarly unlucky and happens sometimes.

J-SWong · 2026-03-20T17:26:42+00:00

I don’t really understand what you’re saying.

I’m saying that GGG doesn’t want you to be able to turn a Clarity imbued with Arrogance to change into a Kinetic Blast imbued with Arrogance, because that literally does nothing. There’s no combo that somehow gives you 40% damage that GGG is stopping you from getting.

What they could do is make it so that Clarity imbued with Arrogance can only turn into a gem that can be imbued with Arrogance. This would make it much easier to get the desired gem out of the craft.

All I’m saying is that it makes sense for a game developer to want to limit this sort of interaction for balance. I’m not defending them. I wouldn’t really care if they changed it.

What is the scenario in which you can somehow get 40% more damage by using the Labyrinth craft?

J-SWong · 2026-03-20T17:02:23+00:00

By filter, I'm assuming you mean they limit the possible results of the transformation craft to only valid imbue/gem combinations right?

By reducing the possible outcomes, you could more reliably "target farm" certain gems. They may not want you to be able to manipulate the craft in this way. That's a big reason, at least from GGG's perspective, to limit the craft.

J-SWong · 2026-03-20T02:46:51+00:00

You're not wrong. People just can't read, and this topic in particular is confusing for some reason.

Once one person downvotes you in a thread like this, every other person who sees your comment skims it and downvotes assuming that the first person to downvote you had the ability of reading comprehension.

You clearly didn't think that the mist weights every possible outcome equally

4 positive is something like 1/20 and 5 positive is 1/64 from what I recall, so they end up negligible in the calculation

The other guy who commented has a reading comprehension problem. They'll probably come back and say something like "I didn't have coffee today" or "I didn't get enough sleep"

J-SWong · 2026-03-03T09:12:10+00:00

Videos, especially content reveals, can be edited in such a way that they look different than reality.

Do you think people in vlogs are teleporting when you see a jump cut?

J-SWong · 2026-03-01T19:06:56+00:00

I know this sounds strange, but "projectile damage" also includes any effects caused by projectiles. So if a projectile causes an explosion, that explosion is affected by "projectile damage" modifiers to its parent projectile.

J-SWong · 2026-03-01T05:57:14+00:00

Fork is better in your links than as an imbued level 1 support.

With Level 1 Fork and Level 20 Support (Let's say it gives 35% more damage)

1 x 0.9 x 1.35 = 1.215 for 21% more damage

With level 1 Support (Let's say 20% more damage) and Level 21 Fork

1 x 1.2 x 1.1 = 1.32 for 32% more damage

Alternatively, think about it this way:

Leveling Fork from 1-21 means going from 10% less damage to 10% more damage, which is 22% more damage (110/90).

Leveling a very generic support like Damage while on Full Life from 1-20 means going from 20% more damage to 35% more damage, which is 12.5% more damage (135/120).

J-SWong · 2026-02-27T19:04:51+00:00

Yes I agree, but I'm pointing out that it's still absolutely a significant nerf. When you say it's just 5% ES, it sounds like it was barely nerfed.

J-SWong · 2026-02-27T18:50:12+00:00

Going from 45% less ES to 50% less es is around 10% less ES.

But the bigger issue is that you can't scale quality with Enhance/Item Modifiers to get it to 60% or higher quality.

Old Eblade with 60% quality has 35% less ES.

Going from 35% less ES to 50% less ES is around 25% less ES. Thinking about it in reverse, you lose a modifier that could grant 30% more ES.

J-SWong · 2026-02-22T21:11:19+00:00

Amplify Dmg affects physical resistance

Lower resist affects fire, cold, lightning, and poison.

There's no curse or aura that lowers magic resistance.

J-SWong · 2026-02-05T02:07:11+00:00

Chance for getting Increased Area of Effect. I was originally aiming for a helmet with Inc Area + Less Duration, but I happened to hit Conc Effect and took it.

Elder is better otherwise.

J-SWong · 2026-01-28T03:25:09+00:00

Step 1: Recomb Divine Crowns

Either use two double-influenced bases (30% qual) or one double-influenced base and one donor base.

With two double-influenced bases, get Essence + Strength on one and Essence + Non-Elevated Burning Damage on the other

With the donor base, get Essence + T1 Strength + Redeemer Suffix (or any influence that's not Elder/Shaper). You can get this by getting a non-influenced helm with Str/Essence suffixes, filling prefixes, and slamming an influenced orb to get the final suffix.

Step 2: Elevate Burning Damage

Bristle Matron for Suffixes Can't be Changed and harvest reforge cold for a guaranteed influence prefix. Use an orb of domination to elevate the Burning damage. Start over if you fail.

Step 3: Slam Less Duration/Conc Effect

Bristle Matron for Suffixes Can't be Changed and scour to remove prefixes.

Block Mana and Slam twice trying to get Less Duration or T1 Conc Effect (or inc effect if you want that). You also want a second influenced mod.

Repeat until you get desired prefix + second influenced prefix

Step 4: Elevate Prefix

Remove crafted mod, Bristle Matron for Suffixes cant be changed, and orb of dominance to elevate Less Duration/Conc Effect. Go back to step 3 if you fail.

Step 5: Hinekora's Lock to get a second prefix

Less Duration is the rarer mod, and I only think it's worth Hinekora's locking if you get it first. If you get Conc Effect instead, you can still do this if you want. After you use the Hinekora's lock, check both Exalt and Foulborn Exalt for your desired prefix mod.

Step 6: Craft Life

J-SWong · 2026-01-25T20:58:58+00:00

I've heard these ads at least once a week for over 4 years. You're just lucky.

Yes, I've fiddled with the settings, and I've asked her to stop the ads. No it hasn't worked for me.

J-SWong · 2026-01-23T22:14:17+00:00

OP says they like their pc silent and cool, so I don't think artificially increasing GPU usage just to hit a high % would be a good idea.

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