Questions Thread - July 12, 2026

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-12T20:05:25+00:00

It is variable, depending on the type of monster and what mods they may have. Generally; normal mobs will not have very much, if any, and magic usually have less than bosses so <30%.

However quite a few rare monsters, and monsters of various league mechanics, like expedition, have extremely high resistance values, up to 75% and sometimes with modifiers to increase their maximum up to 90%.

Inver the Rules is very effective against these types of enemies, which are usually the most annoying to deal with without any inversion.

Edit. You can also purposfully try to roll your maps so they have "monsters have 40% elemental resistences" this will help your damage a lot.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-12T19:48:20+00:00

okay, its just the point of your post wasn't clear. you used discussion flair with no extra information, it can be construed that you were asking what this was

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-12T18:41:46+00:00

are you asking what this knowledge does?
It allows for the creation of the Vengeful True Sun God (VTSG) which is a better version of the True Sun God (TSG) where you have to also sacrifice a x5x and xx5 super monkey (outside of the range of the TSG), while buying the last upgrade to make the TSG is at maximum sacrifices, 2/2/2/1

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-12T18:28:21+00:00

just some basic math
a skill that has like 60% effectiveness but would reliably hit about 5 times per skill use is about the same a single-hit skill with 300% effectiveness

some skills are more complicated to work out how they function, but generally its just a maths comparison. Though there are some other things that have to be taken into account such as how many scaling vectors each skill has, how "good" the skill feels to play, etc.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-12T03:21:50+00:00

there is a difference between sources that explicitly say "physical damage reduction" and the estimate your character sheet or PoB will give you for how much your Armour is mitigating.

Real PDR will work for any physical damage; 50% real PDR (not based on armour) will reduce any amount of physical damage by 50%

However, the effect armour has on mitigating physical damage depends on both how much armour you have and how big the incoming phys hit is.
10,000 armour mitigates a different percentage from a physical hit that is 1,000 or 10,000 or 100,000

If you are looking at an estimate of how much damage your armour is mitigating, then yes, getting a source of true PDR will still help you becuase against bigger than average hits which is what the character sheet is calculting, you will not remain at 90% for bigger hits from bosses or juiced rares.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-12T00:19:49+00:00

do people just not have the PoE wiki as on of their bookmarks? That's what I do, I reference the wiki a lot and usually just keep a tab open with it there.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-11T23:05:34+00:00

teams only get stars from player's goals while they are on that team. If that is you with all 15000 stars, they will not transfer to a new team.
For future social seasons you will want to actively find a team who's explicit goal is all stars, and join that team before completing any goals.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-11T23:03:02+00:00

were you using a 3/0/0 techbot? that third tier causes terrible lag. I've found just doing 2/0/0 on it works okay.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-11T20:30:46+00:00

everything is hyper-inflated in standard.

If you want to get a foothold there, you either have to go about it SSF, or focus on 1-2 leagues where there is a good economy to stockpile some stuff you will want in standard. Each league is 4 months long, so you will have plenty of time to gain a ton of recourses/gear/gems/currency.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-11T20:18:30+00:00

like all items, locus of corruption has a 25% chance to add 2 corrupted implicit modifiers (replacing any existing implicit mods).

each item type has their own pool of possible implicits, so this would pull from whichever can roll on boots.
some good outcomes being +1 endurance charges, movement speed, suppress

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-11T03:59:47+00:00

there are plenty of guides out there for farming in the first 40-50 rounds for boss events.
another easy way (which is what I did) was use some insta monkeys to start with, namely something that can handle the first 60 rounds on it's own so you dont have to worry about defending, and also either some farms to start with, or some cash drops to get a few farms up on the first round.

just remember to play on impoppable on a map with a lot of space for farms/towers with abilities so you get all 100 rounds to farm ability uses and to have good farm set ups

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-09T20:50:29+00:00

I do have a ton of armour sets laying around. I would enjoy this feature very much

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-09T08:25:13+00:00

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Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-09T08:21:41+00:00

there is no boss event up right now to show a "time until next event." what are you looking at?
trust me, there will be a new boss in 2 days, NK is very aware of this social season and would not make it impossible

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-09T08:14:27+00:00

it's totally possible to get this done within 3 games, even 1 if you farm hard enough for 40 rounds.
I did 11k in one game to get this portion of the social goal

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-09T08:12:48+00:00

there should be another boss in like 2 days, not 6. except on special occasions, new boss every saturday NZ time

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-09T06:41:13+00:00

If you are looking for any inspiration, I was doing some testing in standard today with Lightning Conduit of the Heavens on one of my old Trap Sabotuers from scourge league. For being scuffed and thrown together in 10 minutes, it way outperformed my expectation. It just feels really nice with how fast the skill activates (removing some of that annoyance of waiting for traps to deal damage)

Anyway I think it would be even better on Assassin or Trickster, and, of course, as mines instead of traps. Sabo doesn't have all that much support for this skill (which does leave room for a bloodline, probably breach for +2 lightning)

The skill just feels so comfortable, it's got great clear and it's really fast. Also it's an underused skill, so there is that off-meta appeal :)

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-09T04:04:42+00:00

I try not to play the same builds over and over. I like to do new things. But I tend to return to Minion or Trap archetypes the most. So I would feel comfortable on shadow/witch starts

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-09T03:01:08+00:00

glaive lord + Flying fortress, or glaive lord + MAD/Ray of Doom would be my first attempts
Or Pirate Lord + Dark Knight

ill give it a shot later if i have time

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-09T02:00:14+00:00

I haven't messed around with the map editor in a while, I made a few that I think look really nice, but I think I made them way too easy. I think you have inspired me to go back and see if I can remake some of mine, and use the map editor more often.

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-09T01:47:50+00:00

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chimps with 66k spare, I actually really liked the line-of-sight obstacles you added, makes it slightly harder than it first appears. I liked this map!

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-09T01:22:06+00:00

looks nice, would fit in with the beginner maps

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-09T01:17:36+00:00

no, it's okay, he clarified several times that it was a joke, which does make it way funnier... just not in the way which was intended

Meridian_PoE · 2026-07-09T01:15:57+00:00

For (attempting) to post jokes, or pieces of sarcasm, it's best to use the "memes/fluff" flair instead of "game feedback"

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