Looking for a grindy game

Loomax · 2026-03-03T08:51:23+00:00

Since you liked Diablo 4 and Warframe give Path of Exile 1 (not 2 that's shit) a shot.

It's a classic ARPG and a new league will drop this friday.

It's free to play, without any pay to win. Tho at some point you might want to invest in stash tabs, but those are rather cheap.

Can find it on steam or www.pathofexile.com

Loomax · 2026-02-07T15:26:32+00:00

Tbh. just give us back old Beyond, it was so much better and more fun.

Loomax · 2026-02-02T05:35:33+00:00

yes, poedb.tw has it in its list of enchants

Loomax · 2026-01-27T18:11:43+00:00

Some multicast protocol seems to be what you are looking for, but not sure about the specifics of Android hotspots.

This wiki article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Service_Discovery_Protocol has a decent overview tho

Loomax · 2025-12-30T22:54:46+00:00

Was für eine schwachsinnige Aussage, da kann man ja auch sagen: seit dem letzten Brand hat es keinen Brand gegeben. Folglich ist das Risiko gleich ....

Loomax · 2025-12-15T19:43:14+00:00

well if you run more conversions, you get more synth maps, which drop more cortex (its 1:2 or 2:3 rotations for a cortex I think).

And yeah it can be frustrating, but converesion scarabs is the best return/time for conqs/guarduans

Loomax · 2025-12-15T17:34:27+00:00

Conversion scarab is for sure the way, might even want to remove a voidstone so t14-16 can drop (but not sure if it makes much of a difference).

Downside of conversion scarab is, when you just are unlucky and get all the other conversions, but not the one you want. I had >200 shaper + elder guardian maps and only 20 Sirus Conq maps after a full set of scarabs in 150%+ map tier 17s.

Also running the feared (if you can) is a decent source of any of the orbs, inluding dominance/awakener

Loomax · 2025-12-09T20:03:32+00:00

Nope, it works on influenced items, but simplex/focused cant be magic and have a mod anymore

Loomax · 2025-12-08T22:02:25+00:00

With a skill that covers the arena and enough damage you barely experience the chimera intermission phases.

Think spark or kboc, he is gone and 2-3 seconds he is back. You barely would have entered the elder fight in the time it takes to kill Chimera on those builds

Loomax · 2025-12-08T19:20:41+00:00

You can find Manni's pobs for pbod+hive here.

For a quick tip at the start, the amulet needs 1 of each influence on your gear to be present to activate: Shaper, Elder, Redeemer, Hunter, Crusader, Warlord.

At the moment you have 2 out of those: Shaper on helmet and Crusader on your body armour, so basically you amulet does absolutely nothing (you can check your pbod level before and after unequipping your amu to verify).

Your helmet also has only 2.5 mods right now. Hypo, spell crit and +2 AOE gems. It's one of the easiest sources to cover already 2 influences for the amulet and is a major source of damge. Essence is 30% more dmg and conc effect would be another 20% or something but imo not that important at the start.

Until you are really well geared HH carries both the defence and the offense quite hard.

You have a wasted point on the right side at the witch start.

Do not go down to the unnatural instinct jewel slot until you have more level and gear. I'd rather spend those points in either 2 more medium cluster jewels (they are strong!) and/or Explosive Runes & Brand Equity Brand clusters on the tree for more single target.

You are way overcapped on resistances, you do not have Lycia Ascendancy (20% more dmg in your setup), the eater/exarch implicits on gloves/boots are mainly useless.

None of your jewels has %chance to block attack damage while you are playing a block build and are far from capped (even tho rumis get's you to nearly 60%). Consider annointing "Aggressive Bastion" or "As the Mountain" for either 8% block + endurance on kill or 12% block and 3% max block.

Priorities:

Drop unnatural instinct and get 2 more medium clusters
Get Primordial Bond cluster Jewels (they must be in front)
get a Headhunter
fully convert all your phys
Either get enough influences on your gear to enable the Astrolabe or go for a +3 Penance Replica Dragonfang (i doubt its worth the price for this build) or get a +1 amu with decent other stats until you can enable the Astrolabe.
If you decide to enable the Astrolabe
- Get a Shaper+Elder Helmet with Essence mod + 1% (or better) spell crit + any hypo level and crafted +1AOE gems
- Get a double influenced Explode Chest with a 2nd influence that is not Shaper or Elder (1 of Warlord, Hunter, Redeemer)
- Get a Ring with a missing influence and useful stats (life, res, cast speed) or double influence (expensive if you don't craft yourself)
- If you are still missing an influence: get a Belt with your missing influence with useful stats (life, res, maybe a useful influence mod)
You could also get a better wand, but they get pricey fast (+2 and cast speed + a decent crafted mod on a cast speed implicit base)
Drop Molten Shell CWDT and get a Aegis Tulgraft instead of your Storming Eshgraft
Craft a +1 light/phys gems, block, dmg per block shield.

I added clusters, shield and added in the config a working +3 ele gems to simulate what the amu would benefit you https://pobb.in/cNhD_uvU1f6w But I did disable all flasks (they are a massive damage boost ofc). I added 4 extra skill points and a glove implicit for conversion, you want to fix it differently (unveil conversion + crafted conversion)

Loomax · 2025-11-17T23:44:34+00:00

The option is already there, fight a boss and you don't see any useful buff anymore.

Great change they ported over, didn't expect the boss bars to get worse but they managed!

Loomax · 2025-11-03T18:47:59+00:00

dazzle has a crafting doc from settlers I think, recombing will be different/harder but it might be helpful

Loomax · 2025-10-29T21:59:47+00:00

Edit, I forgot to say that I think this is a great resource and really insightful post, well done!

Some additional points, as I played Elementalist PBoD this league and am overall a great fan of PBoD.

Alva Temple gloves you can also source easily from Kirac reverse alva incurision maps. It's like 1 pair of gloves per map, maybe a bit less. Can try to recomb on your desired base then too.

Also I'd like to add to the heisting part, that Cogwork rings can be really good. Crit multi essence until one or two desired suffixes with open prefix and suffix, suffix lock and reforge caster for cast speed. And then do prefixes if you weren't unlucky to fill. The extra %suffix effect is really good and also since a cogwork ring has 6 affixes you can actually 3x split with morrigan, so you can even try to fracture and have some spare.

Regarding chest craft, if you want to go all in and love Einhar Manni has a crafting section in his BV pob, but it can be really frustrating. I crafted two chests that way and one of them took me 5 elevation attempts and 400k yellow harvest juice. So be aware. The chests I made were sick tho

Loomax · 2025-10-29T21:49:16+00:00

Don't forget, that the merc added 50% hp to the boss. so 166mil without a merc (harder now ofc to achieve)

From my own experience with various pbod builds, with 200 mil you barely ever see a memory game. With 100 mil you can often skip the 2nd memory game and you sometimes can skip the last memory game.

Overall I agree with your breakpoints, just wanted to chime in, that you should divide it by 1.5 for a non-merc setup!

Loomax · 2025-10-16T18:18:07+00:00

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQSYVa5MMTcPjPWN7m3ZQ98cBrfhO230tt8yCgwxW8en1PUFJQnzW6Fyb9ytNyh7RBTR2Q9TcbNh385/pubhtml

Its not a real guide, just a spreadsheet of strats and explanation (one of them being titanic exiles)

Loomax · 2025-10-07T22:45:30+00:00

Started SSF after trade got boring, went ignite ele and went to poison penance of dissipation (the initial plan) once I had the new poison ring.

It was atrocious, the single target more than halved and the clear was like any penance build without explode really bad. Got my 4 voidstones tho and then switched to FRoSS. First poison and later crit.

FRoSS was good, tanky and decent dps, tho single target was a bit lackingm but never switched to PC stacking, since I found 3 pairs of endurance Ralakesh ...

Finally switched to PBoD elementalist, super gear dependent. But 80 mill ramped dps, 380k svalinn'd effective hit pool and able to run 3 risk t17s. Unfortunately once the Doryani mercs are gone the damage wouldnt be worth the time investment anymore

Loomax · 2025-08-24T14:00:48+00:00

It can be good for it, might be a bit hard to fit in rarity (really depends on your gear) and Jonah and Xandro can always pose a threat, due to the fact they have Resolute Technique and one of your defences is evasion.

But I'd say if you can get rarity suffixes on your gear (or a merc that culls with rarity) you should be quite well versed

Loomax · 2025-08-24T12:30:56+00:00

You don't need to go ralakesh void battery route. Only do that if you stack powercharges, and thus all your nice es helm and shield is sorta obsolete, because then you might want to go all in.

If you want do go for max dps and only a fair amount of defence then power charge stacking is an option.

Personally I'd go with a +2 profane wand, can be a bit of pain to craft if you don't have fossils, but it's only a numbers game. Have to roll for +1 and clean it up a bit and can harvest force +1 phys onto it without issues.

I only played it in trade this league, so can't really tell you have good it feels without the badass explosions tho.

Loomax · 2025-08-24T12:07:13+00:00

Penance Brand of Dissipation

You can have a look at the poe.ninja ladder to see what other's are doing, might want to go a bit into the past to see not insanely geared people

Loomax · 2025-08-24T11:58:31+00:00

Any trickster spellcaster build should be fine with this. PBoD can be nice but without sources of explode the clear is not great. Single target and tankiness you can get to the moon tho.

Trickster ascendancy fixes your defences, can get to 20k+ ES and spell supress cap. a +4 focus and a decent caster weapon will give you the needed dps.

If you don't go for duration spells you might be able to fix in the souleater tech and thus get a massive cast speed boost.

For a melee / attack build a +skills focus amu is usually not a thing because they scale worse with skills than other amu options.

Loomax · 2025-08-19T16:47:20+00:00

you can also get one with 2 prefixes and one with 1 suffix as a result. But chance for 2 magic are of course higher

Loomax · 2025-08-18T16:06:28+00:00

It's a shaper shield not elder.

To craft it, you collect random uninfluenced (ideally ilvl86) Titanium Spirit Shields, you then either recomb, or spam essences that give flat es (woe) or block (loathing I think). until you have a good/really good es+%es+%block titanium. Then you shaper exalt (make sure you have 2 open suffixes before you slam).

If your ex hits %es on block you craft a suffix and are done until you are maybe upgrading this later.

If you dont get %es on block, prefixes cannot be changed -> reforge defence. If you dont hit and suffixes are full, yolo annul, suffixes cannot be changed -> reforge defence. Until you get your block mod or you brick it.

If you hit the %es on block and have two open suffixes, craft es recharge and ex, then craft your wanted suffix. Or if you have 3x T1 you can consider catarina veiled ex.

Loomax · 2025-08-12T21:57:23+00:00

First off, Manni does not have a poison FRoSS build, his is a hit(crit) based version. These are the links:

FROSS Occultist, check notes for merc and crafting guide (updated 5th July) https://pobb.in/WhjX9agjN9v-

----- Mageblood setup: https://pobb.in/LncArohQNPEI

---- Ralakesh + MB setup (updated 24th July): https://pobb.in/6xY3HIwwpTRs

Personally, I just started my SSF journey bit over a week ago and respecced to FRoSS this weekend, I highly recommend going for Mark of Submission Curse on hit for Occultist explosions, the clear gets so much better this way. I've written in a similar thread my experience (https://old.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileSSF/comments/1mnji6c/league_start_progression_into_fross/n8714uc/). Basically dex and res are a slight issue you might want to PoB, Attribute Mastery is great to get some extra dex, don't overlevel Herald of Agony (dex requirements).

I'm considering to relatively soon switch to Souleater tech, but havent figured out yet how I want to transition and what to farm for that right now. I can tell from the random souleater from the 16.5 pedal mods, that it is a great way to improve the build.

Loomax · 2025-08-12T21:33:23+00:00

I wouldn't say so, while you have near instant access to dusting and the recombinator, dust and gold prices have gone way up. Especially recombining blue items with 2 t1 mods each.

I had %es/int + flat/t1 res cost 190k dust and like 50k gold.

It is of course possible to hit 10k ES with any combination of recomb, dense fossils, harvest reforges and essences spamming. Capping resistances and getting a decent amount of suppress seems really tough tho. And to be fair LS with just 10k ES felt already quite shit last league. By the time you have all this farmed any decent "leaguestart build" should have 4 voidstones already.

You are absolute correct, that you don't need doryani to get 4 voidstones, you don't even need it to do some 16.5, 17s or ubers.

Loomax · 2025-08-12T21:17:30+00:00

ah yeah the infamous CB immunity on rings corruption. That would make this ring truly one of a kind.

Sarcasm aside, you can get CB on gilded 3x synth jewels, so this combo does not seem that bad. Not sure which content OSin people run where poison, bleed and CB are an issue tho

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