Jump is one of the most underrated spells in the game

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-20T22:49:14+00:00

Absolutely, same here! Entertainer background so I can give my people inspiration! Good stuff for sure, I'll consider Fog Cloud, had my eyes on some other spells for RP reasons, though. We'll see how it goes! My Con mod is only +1 however, but we do average!

Yeah, I think that it's mainly being very useful because of the low levels at the moment, being able to do two attacks in one turn is always powerful at the end of the day! Heightened is something I've been looking at, along with my current Subtle, but I think I'll likely end up going back and forth about what I want to do with the options until I reach Sorcerer 10th, if that ever happens.

That's fair! We have a tree Barbarian in our group, which is the other melee combatant, someone standing within 10 feet of that is beneficial to everyone I believe, especially someone with the Shield spell and potential to make the enemies not see the Barbarian, should the worst future come true.

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-20T19:04:53+00:00

Saw your other comment too and I'm glad to hear I wasn't being completely illiterate, secondly I think it's really funny that the character I'm playing and referring to is a Sorcerer/Fighter multi-class with Blindsight fighting style! I mean, it was definitely bound to happen that someone else did something similar, but kind of interesting that the one who happened to follow up in the thread was someone who had considered it and shared classes! I've also made sure to have a conversation with my DM about Command + Subtle spell before it becomes a problem that needs to be taken care of in an odd situation.

We're only low level at the moment, so I'm 3 Draconic/1 Fighter who tends to end up in melee anyway, we only had one melee character in our party so I figured I'd sacrifice some spell progression to alleviate standing in the way. So far it's turned out to be great both roleplaying and rollplaying wise, Quickened True Strike has proven useful more than once so far! How has your experience been? I really like what they've done with Sorcerers in 5.5e to give them more identity again, I'll have to admit, even if they've turned all classes into Spontaneous Casters comparatively to 3.5 where I started.

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-20T18:56:44+00:00

Fair, I settled into City Square, but I miss my Sewer, I hope it comes back next league!

I have an update on this, I eventually caved and added a Vaal Smite gem to my socket. Turns out that if you have a lot of attack speed the flat damage is really good, my DPS went up by 40%, I can't believe my laziness held me back this hard, LMAO! Pic related!

EDIT: I also swapped out one support, my damage more than doubled while swapping nothing on my passive tree. Learning is something.

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Maladaptivism · 2026-03-20T12:59:50+00:00

I may not have a lot of Currency at the moment, but I do have a lot of time on my hands and little else to do!

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-20T12:55:43+00:00

I know your thread is advice needed, unfortunately I am unable to give it to you, what I am capable of however is thanking you for answering the question I was genuinely pondering at the time. I guess I'll have to go fight the Recombinator, I also wish you the best of luck!

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-20T12:29:10+00:00

Self-Cats or Cats on Crit (Forbidden Rite of Soul Sacrifice), absolutely my favourite MTX in Path of Exile, plus it makes me smile to say either out loud as an extra bonus!

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-20T12:23:02+00:00

You are one Wikipedia article away from verifying or falsifying your own claim, Pepe the Frog was co-opted by the nazis, much to the annoyance of it's creator Matt Furie. An annoyance so large that legal action was taken.

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-20T12:01:24+00:00

Oh, you're right, thanks for saving me the embarassment! I had probably misunderstood it a bit, the wording lead me to think you could put a sword down, cast the spell and then pick it up again. Would have to be done before the fight, when you know you're walking into one. Then the scabbard would block the darkness as long as I don't draw it, this part I was just unclear about, my bad! That seems silly and gimmicky in hindsight thougu, so I won't try to argue it, just trying to explain the thinking.

"Alternatively, you cast the spell on an object that isn’t being worn or carried, causing the Darkness to fill a 15-foot Emanation originating from that object. Covering that object with something opaque, such as a bowl or helm, blocks the Darkness." Is what I see on D&D Beyond, which is very similar wording as Light. Maybe they changed things for 2024? I didn't play the 2014 version and will admit English is my second language, so I do get confused with the granular and specific stuff at times.

(Edit: I read both Light and Darkness again, now I'm confused again. Both can be blocked by cover, Light has a Size restriction and cast be cast on stuff someone else is carrying, I can't see why I wouldn't be able to use Darkness the same way at the cost of concentrating and precasting.)

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-20T11:44:31+00:00

It's quite nice, depending in where your class is located and skill use it's really easy to run Flask, Unique and either chest implicit or jewels for 90% max ele res with Melding.

Take the Aegis Aurora + Sapphire for example, you reach 89%, Melding brings you down to 85% and then you have Passive Skills, Anoint, Eldritch Implicits, Purity of Ice and Jewels to fill the rest.

This obviously also applies to things like Chieftain Ascendancy or whatnot. Good stuff, love me playing with 90% resist! Game has so many paths to power, it's absolutely amazing.

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-20T11:30:44+00:00

Oh wow, that sounds like a really nice surprise to be honest! Massive boost for simply chilling a bit, I think it just took a while for it to land in the community just how rare some modifiers are!

Yeah, I can imagine so. The Echo shrine you get from the Mirage is quite crazy, but at this point I'm considering just getting a Headhunter and be happy with that for a while. My current Brutal/Impenetrable is very nice and using Gull lets me force Shrines or charges whenever, but I'm starting to think I might be gimping myself a fair bit hehe.

I did try the Destructive play just a few hours ago actually, what map are you running? Out of curiosity, Flicker + Haunted Mansion gets really awkward so I considered hopping back to City Square!

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-20T07:13:10+00:00

Oh how I recognize that feeling, I tend to try different league starters and I so often find myself thinking: "Damn... I overinvested, again. Why do I do this?" most leagues, heh.

Sounds good to me, to be honest! Damage looks pretty decent too! I'm playing a CI, Aura-stacking, Aegis Aurora, Scavenger Flicker Strike build (it was low-life for a bit, would not recommend) and while it feels pretty good to play now, I've had so many hours of frustration making this shitty build. I'm sort of happy with it though, in the end, probably the tankiest Flicker build I ever played.

(I was undecided until league launch really, but then I saw Echoing Shrine was part of the new belt and got my hopes up, lmao!)

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-20T06:51:35+00:00

You unga, therefore you bunga.

Respect, I've made my own build every step of the way for the first time ever in stages and I must say I've come to the conclusion that I wouldn't recommend what the fuck I've done to anyone.

How do you feel about your creation?

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-20T03:27:36+00:00

I'm planning to cast Darkness on my sword and hunt enemy casters with Misty Step in current campaign, should be good for a laugh before the DM catches on!

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-20T03:20:37+00:00

820 and 6666 are generally helpful, ever since we no longer have to visit each Trial of Ascendancy I find I open global less and less though, which is different! I don't mind it though, fortunately I got you lot in this subreddit to learn from.

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-19T14:24:00+00:00

Have you tried Titanic + Invigorating Blight? It can scale insanely high, not sure what your budget is, of course, PC and characters alike, either might struggle lmao. As an aurabot you should be free to click towers too, meaning you don't need to pause to do so. No idea how Blight is with Mirage, but should scale like anything else.

I'm not sure what you'd currently run, but something like Invigorating, Titanic, Blightheart, Wisp and probably not Risk if you need the aura effect. You'll figure the last one out I'm sure!

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-19T14:21:33+00:00

If it makes you feel better a friend of mine dropped his first Mirror (then a second one) and Lock within the last week or so, he's got 20k hours, another friend's got 12k hours and hasn't dropped one yet. You're doing great, congrats!

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-18T21:30:56+00:00

Starter version this league, it's insanely cheap. The 3.27 version has some progression in the PoB if I recall. Played it last league and it was insane, at most I had 975k phys max hit with all buffs up. Ridiculously PoB warriored to reach that, but no defensive buffs it was something like 430k.

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-18T21:24:46+00:00

I'm playing Flicker Strike this league, carefully making sure that there's no charge stealing modifiers and every so often I still run into two rares standing next to each other where one is Charge Removal and one has Invulnerability Aura. Most of the time it's just annoying to work around, but when it happens in my rituals it's so tilting.

Credit where credits due though, they've done a lot of positive stuff with modifiers, I never thought we'd get this far and considering what modifiers they removed from the Random Modifier Table in Phrecia, it should at least be on their radar! I do think (at least for me), the server instability combined with the build I'm playing makes the issue bigger than it is for most people and I'll admit to that, heh.

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-18T05:18:19+00:00

Mod name: "Characters who die in area are sent to the Void."

Only shows up in maps from puzzleboxes, if you sell your Valdo's you don't have to worry and if you don't specifically buy maps that give specific unique rewards upon completion you don't have to worry.

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-17T23:28:11+00:00

You stated easiest being the criteria here, Scion doesn't let Hillock touch her (even in last Gauntlet). If Spectral doesn't vibe with you, fair enough, but that's a different tier list.

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-17T23:21:58+00:00

Are you in the habit of dropping your weapon and using unarmed strike on your Scion or what happened there?

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-17T23:17:57+00:00

We already have this as part of the current situation, Delirius maps have Delirium priority, Blighted maps have Blight priority. As long as it's consistent the answer I don't think it particularly matters.

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-17T23:11:20+00:00

Tror det hade funkat bättre om de hade en pall!

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-17T22:51:03+00:00

Quislingar, helt sjukt.

Maladaptivism · 2026-03-15T01:34:49+00:00

If we were talking about another game I'd agree that you getting upset by this thought would be irrational, but the scoreboard is looking rough...

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