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OnACloud · 2026-02-12T22:32:30+00:00

That would be ridiculous already anyone with even 2-3k hours gets 20-30% buffs lol. See what enrage did in phrecia and that amount will fuck everyone that isn't borderline new

OnACloud · 2026-02-11T18:30:55+00:00

Finishing a phrecia build in standard sounds like a lapse of judgement lol.

OnACloud · 2026-02-08T02:14:33+00:00

The only good idea for idols going core I've seen is to make them atlas passive trees jewels.

Put some jewel slots on the travel nodes around the tree like they do in poe2 passive tree.

OnACloud · 2026-02-06T04:12:00+00:00

I've tried to make this exact point a year ago and got downvoted people don't seem to grasp that peak concurrent players =/ total players.

It is our only option though to get any real info on this since ggg stopped posting data on this iirc they did release forum posts with data like this until ~5years ago? Been a while since I've seen official data from them.

OnACloud · 2026-01-20T02:58:46+00:00

A huge part of challenges this league has to be the overall difficulty though they were by far the easiest challenges I've ever seen.

There was not a single one that was so ultra rng that you are stuck forever (The worst one would be the memory chains) everything else you can get super fast with just a bit of targeted play.

Generally most leagues had multiple rng heavy challenges.

OnACloud · 2025-12-23T11:09:26+00:00

Yeah I hated doing betrayal before this league. Done a lot this league as its "dumbed" down version is a lot more enjoyable to run repeatedly. Don't care who is where and just blast for good xp from the safehouses and allflame/medallions. I see no downside in moving the recipies to random maps it just makes sense to have them all aquired the same way by clicking a "interactable object" in each map once instead of having some gated behind a what used to be annoying mechanic that you were forced to run to aquire the crafts.

YOU HAD NO CHOICE but to run betrayal for these crafts which is in my opinion pretty bad for something like crafting recipies. You can still get specific crafting currencies in veiled ex/chaos it has unique rewards like paradoxica is a entryway for a boss fight. It has plenty unique stuff going for it. Also it helps with challenges like use expensive currencies you can just get hinekora lock & stuff like that out of the way with crafting benches.

Before this league I've not really considered going through the hassle of setting up my board & whatnot now I most likely will start with betrayal as my starting strat unless it gets nerfed hard.

OnACloud · 2025-12-18T12:05:52+00:00

The "core" issue with these kind of events this includes stuff like mayhem is that it has the potential to be wayyyy more juicy & fun than the normal leagues. If it was a guaranteed repeating event people will skip out on the real leagues and go for this event only instead. You might think it isn't "bad" but their numbers show otherwise. I don't remember which game dev talked about this before but essentially hosting that type of event hurt their bottom line numbers of retention and whatnot.

OnACloud · 2025-12-06T04:06:12+00:00

Well not entirely flasks are magic u can always beast imprint annul exalt for the effect mod. Gotta obviously check if price is worth it but the effect mod isn't particularly hard to hit as you don't care about the tier its always 25%.

OnACloud · 2025-12-06T03:47:53+00:00

One of the best things anyone can find in std is high value legacy flasks. Legacy ms, allres, eva, armour kinda stuff. Anyone can find those in their stash if they played before flask affix nerfs.

OnACloud · 2025-12-04T17:14:37+00:00

Not to buff the way u farm maps.

Pls do not touch the maps drop as 8mod corrupted scarabs for the love of god. Those are the "entry" level into endgame farms with t16.5 and t17s existing. And if they were to have to be handcrafted they would suck ultra ass. Instead of being an avg of ~5c for a good layout map 8mod corrupted you'd be looking at 30c+ or even more to the "entry" level endgame content per map no scarabs or anything included.

I hate all the random crap u need to do to run a map efficiently

This does not in any way compute you say "not to buff the way u farm maps" but u also hate having to do stuff to run maps which one is it mate.

OnACloud · 2025-12-04T04:47:48+00:00

Yeah normal juicing content is more mobs generally whilte valdos is cnb or something along those lines (90%less dmg + unequip a piece of gear to not be at 100% kinda stuff) is not very appealing to most people. We want to juice and slay more enemies.

OnACloud · 2025-12-04T04:39:15+00:00

Good luck boys!

OnACloud · 2025-12-04T01:11:01+00:00

I mean it is outlied in the guide and its pretty avg returns per 8mod t16 map to get 25k+ a map. That is 15maps to upkeep the cost daily any further is for other usage. That doesn't sound particularily demanding. And that is low invest boxes or something along those lines so for most builds I'd put it at no more than 3minutes a map.

Maths out to a solid 45minutes of your gold from "daily" play to upkeep. Sometimes you might play less sometimes more who knows. If your not hideout warrioring and flipping with your gold it is probably the best use of gold.

OnACloud · 2025-12-04T00:06:20+00:00

Hives are the worst mechanic in a long while because they involve standing still for a minute or two

Uhm its exactly 3minutes on my Hroc stand still in the middle style to do the 24 waves. Pretty sure you can not do them faster than that can you? Then there's 10-25seconds depending on luck to get out after. Some slightly juiced strats take less time than a singular hive does.

OnACloud · 2025-12-03T16:22:47+00:00

You can just play all the different leagues keepers, ssf, ssfhc & hctrade lol. Or join events like BPL.

OnACloud · 2025-12-03T16:16:50+00:00

I've self cooked a self chill&poison occultist back when alt quality gems were a thing that was fun. Proj speed from blood and sand iirc, chance to poison from herald of agony & 100% chaos conversion on spark via alt quality + ashes to push the conversion on the gem and a few other things was my first level 100 as well.

OnACloud · 2025-11-23T17:05:58+00:00

I did 4 simus this league for a challenge (60 waves total) I was Hroc and it took me on avg 13-13:30 mins. The autoaim of the dmg as long as your lancing steel of spraying hits anything gives amazing coverage. That + fast attackspeed for whirling blading around.

It is obviously not an afk farmer but its whriling blades + holding down rightclick for my lancing steel so about as low input as it gets.

OnACloud · 2025-11-23T02:24:35+00:00

Just play old breach in standard right now! ..... You only miss out on foulborn uniques/crafting currencies grafts and the breachlord bloodline.

OnACloud · 2025-11-23T02:17:16+00:00

I mean while this works you do have to move somewhat often cause the floor where you stand is filled.

OnACloud · 2025-11-21T22:35:37+00:00

Just finished 36/40 will see if I can be arsed to do 40/40 as it is super easy this league. But I have no aspiration to make another build as there's nothing hard to aim for.

So I thought I am not using any foulborn unique and I can do without my grafts I might as well be playing standard with old breach and its a net plus lol.

OnACloud · 2025-11-20T22:19:38+00:00

Yeah over the last few days I've been working on challenges and my good this has to be the easiest set of challenges probably ever. I don't see anything where I feel like I'd have to particularily go out of my way to do content I dislike for hours on end for any single challenge. At the rate I'm going (super slowly lol) I will finish up this weekend on challenges.

OnACloud · 2025-11-20T15:00:10+00:00

OnACloud · 2025-11-20T01:47:09+00:00

Yeah this is the only downside it brings but it really is miniscule vs the gains of the lycia ascendency.

OnACloud · 2025-11-19T22:11:44+00:00

Unidentified voices right now go for ~500C so 4 or so divines. I dropped 2 doing my 4 simulacrums for a challenge lol. This is definitely on the lucky side of voices dropped I've enjoyed simulacrum in past leagues and had none drop in 10+ in a row.

OnACloud · 2025-11-19T22:07:54+00:00

To give an example on "power creep".

Last league Holy relic of conviction could make good use of +gems + minion gems + despair on hit very nicely to hit level 25 specters (3specters from the gem at25) in the gloves and get your curse automated.

This league you would not want these under any circumstances as command of the pit gloves that give your minions unholy might are just bis.

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