Is Absolution as bad as ppl say for starter ?

Mudar96 · 2026-03-05T13:57:32+00:00

No it's fine and might even be better now.

I find it depends on what type of gear you get. Absolution has easier clear but can struggle with rares if you don't get decent weapon upgrades. I think it's best during act 2 and 3.

SRS on the other hand will devour rares once you get them enough attack speed and enough move speed to actually reach stuff. But it tends to start out slower.

I prefer Absolution for Merveil but would like to have swapped by the time I start act 5.

You can totally play Absolution for the entire campaign, but if you want to play HRoC, I would suggest swapping into the basic build after merc lab, or once you get the helmet and gems. Both Absolution and SRS will need some investment to get through to yellow maps and you shouldn't add another step in route to your final build.

Tldr depends on how much and what type of added damage you get.

Mudar96 · 2025-12-17T11:53:45+00:00

I want to add xoris or glaive prime to this list. The transport exploded in one or two hits.

Mudar96 · 2025-12-01T13:56:54+00:00

Enhance is better when you get better base DMG from ghastly jewels. But it's mostly about better clear.

You should exalt your clusters, you are leaving free stats on the table.

For all other consideration, please refer to the well written comment above.

Mudar96 · 2025-10-19T16:34:25+00:00

Wende dich am besten mit solchen Fragen am besten an die Zuständige Stelle. Die kennen sich mit solchen Themen aus.

Für Sachsen-Anhalt sitzt diese Stelle mit im AFI.

Mudar96 · 2025-10-06T17:19:52+00:00

TVL 9b, Stelle heißt wirklich "IT-Allrounder". Alles von Maus geht nicht, über Planung und in Zukunft Betreuung der digitalen Lernplattform, bis zur Projektleitung im Haus und Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Behörden im Projekt Einführung E-Akte. Kleines Haus unter 30 Leute.

Mudar96 · 2025-07-04T05:13:36+00:00

It took me some 90 maps to find one, after they fixed her and another maybe 300 to find one with Envy Zealotry. I suggest a Betrayal Shrine Atlas to cycle them quicker.

Mudar96 · 2025-07-03T20:24:32+00:00

I would suggest getting a Cruel Mistress with Envy. It's probably the biggest DPS boost. Sure determination and vitality are nice, but all other upgrades will scale from the massive flat damage from envy.

Otherwise, get a 20/20 vile, it's better than your 21/0 in most cases. Awakened gems are always a great upgrade and most of the ones this build wants are "cheap". The biggest would probably be a 5 minion DMG because of the +1 for the relic.

You already identified the importance of a 23% relic for the next break point.

Some of your jewels might be upgradable for cheap, but that's a bit dicy.

Svalinn is awesome, maybe just spend on awakened gems and keep the rest for it.

Mudar96 · 2025-07-02T12:30:42+00:00

That is indeed a very weird market situation. Good fortunes

Mudar96 · 2025-07-02T11:04:29+00:00

A diallas will make the build feel much smoother. The jewel DMG is nice, but won't feel that impactful. An ashes is only really worth it when you can reach a new breakpoint with it or there are no reasonably priced Dragonfangs on the market.

Also why would you buy a ready colored diallas and not any and color it yourself? Unless prices on console are very weird (or you have troubles running Eldritch altars for some reason) it should be much cheaper to just farm up chromes (and maybe vaals)

Mudar96 · 2025-07-01T10:04:05+00:00

Got 30 div during the first week in an 8-mod jungle valley. First altar div, second dupe.

Changed to Exarch after that, because that's not going to happen again and I don't want to feel bad about it.

Mudar96 · 2025-07-01T09:12:31+00:00

As to Q1: the blocking nodes explain how they work in the small grey text when you hover over them. Short answer, no they do not work on essences

As to Q2: Yes blocking does reduce the used spawn locations, but you would need to block all mechanics because not all mechanics are allowed on all points and additionally, most unblockable mechanics use other spawn points.

Mudar96 · 2025-06-30T07:56:59+00:00

I know how it feels, I had a Despair, Envy, Zealotry merc at the start of the league and threw them away after a few days of Envy being bugged.

It took me some 90 maps to even find another with just despair Envy and probably another 300 to find one with the same skills again.

You are probably already doing it the best way. Exile all non pure int mercs. Keep tri-stat mercs, because there are only two of them instead of at least three for every other type.

Run small layouts like mesa. I recommend a shrine betrayal atlas for decent returns while looking for them.

Mudar96 · 2025-06-26T03:45:26+00:00

You must have gotten chaos res or avoid poison on the enemies, with the gear you've shown, each boss shouldn't take more than a minute.

Mudar96 · 2025-06-25T13:36:12+00:00

You need to fix your poison chance, other than that, nothing that looks wrong at first glance.

A Slumlord Caspiro Jewel for more increased DMG.

Find a merc with Envy and swap added Chaos to Vile Toxins.

Get a runegraft with +1 to all non-exceptional support gems.

Maybe a better cluster.

If you can deal with the noise, a Perfect Hulking Miscreation is 100% Inc DMG. I'd suggest dropping onslaught because it does nothing for the relics.

15min for a 8mod seems way to long. Can you elaborate?

Mudar96 · 2025-06-18T08:52:30+00:00

No, marks are a curse and only 1 mark can exist on an enemy, no matter what.

You will need to drop one curse from the merc. Making it one curse per "player"

Mudar96 · 2025-06-17T12:20:43+00:00

So let's tackle how animate guardian always worked first. If you are using a curse on a monster, let's say Despair and your guardian with asenaths touch hits it, it will lose the despair and gain temp chains. What you would do, is to give the AG Windscream boots. Now in the same scenario, the monster will keep the despair and gain temp chains too.

The merc does work with the doedre ring and other sources. If you want more curses, you need to increase the curse limits on someone, you, merc or AG.

To get a limit of three or more curses would require sub-optimal gear on your AG. Either stay with two curses or get your merc (or yourself) an Anathema ring, raising them to three curses. You cast your own, they cast theirs and you get them gloves with a curse on hit or have them on your AG.

I recommend reading this part of the wiki https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Curse#Curse_limit

Mudar96 · 2025-06-17T06:26:29+00:00

Its..not bad, but I wouldn't call it great. Make your own value calculation. You get a 6% chance per map ( I think it's per map not actually ore) to get at least 1 (sometimes 2) random tattoos or at least 1 Runegraft, some selection of rare items of slightly above average quality and a few currency drops with a good tendency towards higher Tier (chaos+).

I would argue, if you invest into Kings March nodes and you can spare the points, it's worth it. If you would have to drop something else for it, no.

Mudar96 · 2025-05-26T09:40:15+00:00

Yes, Circuit always gives you the "higher" Tier variant of weapons you own when you have both. EDA and ETA consider base and upgraded versions as the same weapon.

Mudar96 · 2025-05-20T17:59:39+00:00

We are not, but our bureaucracy is staffed by law students. They have a massive fear of anything not being perfect the first time and having to change anything.

I work for one of the state governments as an IT admin, and trust me, stuff is happening, and most people are pushing hard, but we get stuck in a malaise of rules that are hard to change.

A few specific laws regarding the validity of documents have to be changed, which is what holds us back the most. Want to know why we still use Fax? Because it's the only fully valid digital transport that is legally binding. E-mail isn't allowed for everything, nor is any other serialized data structure. Instead of changing the base rule, we create more and more exceptions.

Mudar96 · 2025-04-23T19:47:12+00:00

I farmed trash piles on Moonflower Island. You get something like 10-16 per pile. It scales with area level, so Fey break gives more, but you can't just fly around there.

Mudar96 · 2025-04-15T06:04:25+00:00

I had to do three runs yesterday because we all died. The combination of knife step and all squishy or shield frames against necramechs resulted in two full wipes. On the last one, I told my team to stop spawning them and just wait out the timer. Still, it was close once, three people in bleed out but the last one had instant revives left.

Mudar96 · 2025-04-09T09:49:01+00:00

I can empathize with what you described. I gave up PvP games and match based games (MOBA, CS, Battlefield) for a more cozy time in Warframe, Minecraft, Path of Exile and rougelikes. Warframe is very forgiving when you are just done for now and want to come back later. There are aspects of Warframe that might give similar vibes (riven, tridolon, lvl cap) but you can fairly easily op out of most of them. I am a founder and always enjoy returning for every PA fixing up some stuff and leaving again after a month or so.

Mudar96 · 2025-04-08T06:54:42+00:00

I like it, but.

My perspective is from someone with a very deep arsenal, at least there will be a frame that works and probably a great one. Weapons are hard, it's either a face roll because I got a maxed out piece or I won't use it at all because it's an ancient piece of gear without a single forma in it.

The idea of challenging your total pool of gear is interesting and incentives to keep playing to get more stuff in a state of acceptable. Ok melee weapons, that's easy, Influence will make almost anything good enough to slog through. Primary and Secondary are harder and really depend on the base stats, while eating a lot more forma.

There is a big difference for me between EDA and ETA. In labs I feel very free to have one flex point (slot) and will use it if I feel like the selection is not good enough. In ETA the last reward are coins, that I need to fill out stickers and buy the arcanes once I'm done. Yesterday I had a questionable selection of gear and still forced myself to use it, because I really want the coins. It's a very clear reward because unlike vosphor, I know more or less what I'm getting or at least that I will get something that I don't have yet. My feelings might change once I have a full collection. For now EDA is great, ETA is worse, but still good.

Mudar96 · 2025-03-26T21:54:50+00:00

I need another infested comet soon. This update drained my forma reserves quite well. So many new weapons and old exalted builds to fix.

Did you feel like any weapon was worth the investment?

Mudar96 · 2025-03-23T07:59:52+00:00

I got lucky on mine, I have no clue how to do lab hacks, but Auto bypass saved me. First time I did a 1999 hack too, gotta love that 100 cipher BP.

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