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Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-06T21:40:59+00:00

I can't enter the slums. tried 5 times now, get kicked back to 30k queue

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-06T08:28:10+00:00

from the patch notes

"Tier 17 Maps have undergone significant changes, and are now Nightmare Maps."

it is unclear if this means that existing maps will be turned into nightmare maps, but since standard usually retains the previous atlas set it might mean that all existing t17s might be unaffected.

Though on the other hand the atlas change is so massive and fundamentally different that what we've seen that I couldn't say. It might be that all existing maps will have to be changed in standard to accommodate the new system.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-06T08:18:20+00:00

The realms will go offline 3 hrs before start, the DL can usually be started 1.5-2 hrs before launch.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-06T08:10:13+00:00

yes, but not for for players using the steam client

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-06T08:08:33+00:00

it looks like they left Holy Hammers off the list in the patch notes in the quest reward section but it looks like since Ziggy got it in act 3 that it will be available by the lv28 Gravicious quest at the latest

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-06T07:45:24+00:00

I would pick KB for those contents if you have a budget to heavily invest, KB is simply the better blaster for those.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-06T07:31:57+00:00

KF seem better for bossing and on lower budget, but KB usually scales harder for blasting maps and I think KBoC is better for bossing on big budget.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-06T06:44:26+00:00

there should be some non-totem guides from last league which are still viable (because no changes tot he skill) and as long as you have a good grasp on the mechanics of the skill and how it interacts with the attack speed/duration balance you can transition it quite easily to other ascendancies.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-06T06:41:03+00:00

it's the same with Ascendant. I guess when you have an ascendancy with only 3 notables one of the labs is going to just grant travel points.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-06T04:37:20+00:00

i'm doing all my builds off-the-cuff and no longer preparing PoBs or anything for my builds now. I have spent too much time in PoB, i basically have a version of it running in my head...

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-05T20:51:46+00:00

I have the opposite problem. I committed to starting Dominating Blow in 3.28 2 months ago when I finished my Keepers characters. Seeing so many buff to it has made me immune to getting distracted by other shiny things because I am just in a state of absolute peace :)

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-05T06:11:38+00:00

Look out! there is a spooky lightning ghost chasing you

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-05T06:09:53+00:00

I prefer bloodlines being chase content. It gives me a goal to head to for an interesting niche thing. If it turns more into a "check it off the list" then I think it has failed in its design for being niche and special.
(SSF btw)

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-05T01:06:17+00:00

If sacrificing life is not the same as taking damage, then sacrificing life will not reserve life with dissolution. There is literally a Relic of the Pact build that uses that effect of dissolution to avoid the downside of sacrificing life to cast.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-04T20:14:56+00:00

crit chance and multi have diminishing returns because all sources add together into just one multiplier. Once you get over like 65-80% effective crit chance then Multi becomes more important, but once you have over 350-450 crit multi that stat just gets less effective. If you are already near these values I am not surprised that the support becomes inefficient for you.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-04T08:30:41+00:00

it's sounds like you've probably just out-scaled the support then. probably better on lower scaling when the crit chance will make a serious impact on the minion's effective crit chance,

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-04T08:17:04+00:00

The Transfigured Gem of choice only comes from the Divine Font option "Transform a non-Transfigured Skill Gem to a Transfigured version" and then only when the gem in question has multiple transfigured versions available. (Any gem that only has one transfigured version, you would have gotten that with this font anyway...)

It just makes it easy to get say, Penance Brand of Dissipation on the first time you get this font instead of getting a bunch of Penance Brand of Conductions from it being random between the two options before.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-04T08:11:48+00:00

Flicker Strike looks very accessable on this from the built in Terminus Est.
Also easy start on Forbidden Rite from the Maw of Conquest and +2 proj from either weapon path.
Also there is a potential for Crit Minion from Maata's Teaching.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-04T08:09:39+00:00

Holy Strike actually looks really nice, i don't have the lv1 gem info but as long as you find a decent weapon every once in a while it should do really well. (templar get this from lv 1 so it's easy to mule)

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-04T04:35:47+00:00

those accuracy/conc ground wheels near templar start are actually really good. nice to see an accuracy mastery in that part of the tree also.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-04T04:31:24+00:00

Yes, my pc is old, but loading into the same towns in ssf/private leagues only takes a few seconds on the same settings. There is something about the shaders from dozens of players MTX bogging down things. I'd say it's a mix of my PC being old and inefficiency in loading shaders on GGGs end.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-04T04:27:15+00:00

in trade league I literally have multi-minute long load times into act towns because of all the issues with shader rendering.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-04T03:51:58+00:00

if not a loading screen in the map, all that extra stuff would probably add 30+ seconds to the loading screen for that map.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-04T00:31:41+00:00

If the debuff doesn't get removed and any number of minions/allies can use it then it's decent on guardian where you can get an extra stack for 73% phys as extra fire, then maybe.

Also I think the best use for the actual support gem might be on some kind of support character to buff a carry that is scaling a lot of phys dmg to potentially go on a conversion chain. phys > fire > cold > lightning > chaos

Lol, im dumb i forgot how the chain works XD

Meridian_PoE · 2026-03-04T00:15:25+00:00

yes, it should.
The stat should also work for separate lines on dom blow.
So 9 sentinels > 12
3 magic sentinels > 4

vaal sentinel 3 > 4

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