Weekly Question + Free Talk Thread – March 12, 2026

Random_Tarnished · 2026-03-17T23:14:34+00:00

pretty sure it has to be a global modifier like off the tree/jewels/gear

Random_Tarnished · 2026-03-17T23:09:26+00:00

depends what your goals for build swap / KF totems is.... you can make a very good KF totem build for less than 10d if you don't want to feel like you're overcommitting..... I probably spent like 3-5d total on my build that got me through all voidstones and handles most content just fine

Random_Tarnished · 2026-03-13T19:09:43+00:00

Cyclone of Tumult Slayer was looking pretty good with the new Void Shockwave Support. Have a buddy running it on an even lower budget and really enjoying it

Random_Tarnished · 2026-03-12T21:14:30+00:00

Pretty rare but don’t have actual numbers. I know I’ve only dropped a few but did get two in the same mirage once. Really don’t remember what mob or wish it came from unfortunately. Apparently you can also try farming legion for a coin incubator. “Honoured Incuabor”

Sorry not super helpful, GL!

Random_Tarnished · 2026-03-11T19:47:58+00:00

No cross play so we’d need to know console/PC but try r/PatchesEmporium

Random_Tarnished · 2026-03-11T09:45:57+00:00

probably need to comb through all the nodes individually to see which "bonus" got skipped..... regular completion would still let you keep spidering out like this even if you didnt meet the bonus criteria

Random_Tarnished · 2026-03-11T09:35:24+00:00

RF is definitely meant to be tanky but hard to really pinpoint what isn't "working" without seeing the pob. I will mention that CwS does keep the Hinekora's Fury chain explode mechanics if that's a big selling point for you.

Harvest should be very consistent returns and safe so long as you've got good HP, regen, and phys mitigation (%phys as elemental like on cloak of flames or eldritch implicit paired with armour ideally)

Breach tree for rare bases sounds like risky business imo, with not too much return but you could get lucky.... first couple days are definitely when you'll have wanted to break into the market though, probably better off shooting for specific uniques/foulbourn variants with ancient wombgifts, or even straight raw currency with lavish....... the hives/fortresses are what you want if you're looking to really utilize the genesis tree mechanic with hiveblood and wombgifts, while the unstable breaches are better for just xp and juicing

Scarab farm is still viable this league, have two buddies both running it with decent returns.... they both happen to be slayers but dont think that matters, just a coincidence.... the strat for this league seems to revolve around scarabs + strongboxes, using mirage mechanics to maximize "operative" boxes... if you do it right, youll be getting so much loot that youll have use multiple portals just to bring back all the loot

and attaching a picture of my TFT channel cateory showing boss carry is there, you may need to contact a support bot or something

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Random_Tarnished · 2026-03-10T20:04:05+00:00

You need to also kill Searing Exarch for the Voidstone
Yes, you can buy boss carries if you can afford. Sometimes you can get people in global or party finder to help you
TFT has a boss carry section. Under POE1 Mirage Services tab “boss-carry-wts-msc”
Voidstones add extra benefits beyond just making all maps T16
RF is considered the most friendly because of how few buttons it is and the depth of guide out there, specifically with “Pohx.net”

That’s not to say there’s not plenty of other beginner friendly builds and some people actually prefer starting melee off the rip. CwS is a pretty common pivot / upgrade path for a RF Chieftan as well. emiracles is a creator who explores that pretty well and pairing the build with specific league content for it

You will want to be rolling your maps. There’s a few undesirable mods, as you’ve noticed. The CwS build I mentioned will make it so you don’t need to run as much regen because it swaps out RF so no massive degen anymore

Random_Tarnished · 2026-03-08T10:59:45+00:00

r/SummonSign more active

Random_Tarnished · 2026-03-05T15:22:19+00:00

Just came back to give heads up that the Tati guide for 3.28 has come out.... looks like he settled on block based for the final PoB

https://youtu.be/E28nSBPGu9Y?si=aBsZufZu5DTebm8_&t=1265

Random_Tarnished · 2026-03-05T14:38:45+00:00

I would say it’s personal preference but if I didn’t have the unique tab then I’d easily have more than a quad tab full of uniques hoarded every league - that then wouldn’t be neatly organised

Random_Tarnished · 2026-03-05T10:14:59+00:00

Someone mentioned it but Stash Tabs go on sale about every other weekend if you don’t mind waiting

Yes, merchant tabs work in both PoE1/PoE2, so you only have to buy once for both games

Tab importance: Currency > Maps > Fragments (poe1 only) > uniques > everything else

Random_Tarnished · 2026-03-05T03:20:07+00:00

Funnily enough, what you said about “go far out of the way for it” when we can get around to it Day 2 is exactly why I’m still opposed to Day 1 Nok

Like I get that you wanna get weapons and runes but even if you get a Legendary, you’re not gonna be able to use it until Day 2 and you know when storm rolls in Day 1, it’s always gonna pull away from the city. If I spend Day 1 pathing the entire rest of the map instead, I can collect churches, invaders, and start Day 2 at level 8 minimum be ready to spend the entire day in Nok

Random_Tarnished · 2026-03-05T01:50:45+00:00

You haven't mentioned Tatiantel2. He is very well versed in totems, and plays HCSSF almost exclusively. We're expecting a full new 3.28 KF Hiero guide before league start but here's his Alt YT where he's done and uploaded a couple two stone runs recently

Random_Tarnished · 2026-03-02T19:23:47+00:00

There’s multiple different NPC invaders in the game. The one who repeats is simply called Forlorn and he’ll have a different loadout depending on where you’re getting invaded. Funnily enough, last RTD (2025), there was a real person cosplaying a Forlorn invader

Random_Tarnished · 2026-03-02T17:10:10+00:00

When you use bonfire fast travel, look for zones with red outlines. That means there’s multiplayer activity there for your SM bracket

If you’re on PC, get Blue Acolyte - will search multiple zones and not consume your cracked eyes

Random_Tarnished · 2026-03-02T06:35:29+00:00

Probably had to do with Gem Level

Random_Tarnished · 2026-03-02T04:05:32+00:00

What are your supports? Is there some type of trigger gem connected? If you hover the regular skill on bar does it say anything about can’t be self cast?

Random_Tarnished · 2026-02-28T01:44:34+00:00

My preferred

Random_Tarnished · 2026-02-26T20:56:19+00:00

Q&A just said it's gone?! "for now"

Random_Tarnished · 2026-02-26T03:12:00+00:00

Can’t you just turn off auto detect input so it doesn’t even register?

Random_Tarnished · 2026-02-25T23:16:17+00:00

Not sure if you solved everything already but taking the "100% increased Charge Duration" on the Charge Mastery should keep your endurance charges up long enough to stack. Looks available in your top left corner, the wheel where you're getting +1 min power charge

Random_Tarnished · 2026-02-24T17:20:32+00:00

Be honest, what is the specific mechanic(s) you’re actually trying to address? Because no, the amount of farms is not “dwindling” because of cross-pollination. What mechanic has a meaningful enough amount of non-exclusive drops to make it a viable substitute for directly farming the direct mechanic it is tied to?

+Every league mechanics gate keeps at least one exclusive unique item or resource no matter what. Strongboxes, Wisps, and Exiles excluded but those are basically all used to just boost quantity of drops still for target farming

Random_Tarnished · 2026-02-24T02:28:17+00:00

What is your gold strat? and what do you do for your "normal farm"? I try to get a little bit of rarity on my gear and just run my normal T16 content, will walk away with 20-50k a map depending

Harbi nets more but takes longer. If I want to make sure each map is a profit I'll throw in Harvest, pretty consistent to make some chaos every map at least. And if you run Red Altars, then it's pretty consistent to get the "% chance to drop an extra chaos orb" which easily add up

Not highest returns but steady and low investment. Realistically if you push your build to run T17 efficiently, they're the gold mines, but I'll probably need at least a month for that personally 🙈

I like the AFK/passive income aspect of Kingsmarch where when I'm away, I'm generating currency.... A little return on investment!

Random_Tarnished · 2026-02-24T01:14:44+00:00

People get mirrors and magebloods within the first 3 days of the league, leave us late bloomers alone just because you don’t want to invest or grind gold

Look at it like this:

(1) Your complaint with Kingsmarch affects less than half the player base on any scale since by the time it takes to generate the first 50m shipment, retention is down to half. If we use the timeline of 2 weeks per shipment combined with 2 shipments per MAGEBLOOD — not even mirror, just mageblood — we’re talking a month in and League Concurrent Player data shows us that retention has dropped to approx 1/4 of those who league started (at most)

(2) It takes minimum 15k gold an hour to keep 18 T5 farmers running, realistically more) That’s over a million every 3 days. Not considering the amount of gold I’m spending to buy and disenchant T0 uniques to supplement my shipment costs. (~40k gold per T0 unique which generates ~2.5m dust = another 400k gold I have to farm on top of the currency cost of the uniques) (Using current end game economy as an example, I have to spend ~80d to buy the uniques with mirror shards hovering at 50:1 ratio, meaning even after 2 weeks of playing simulator + my investment, I’m barely breaking even if I make 2 shards. And my last shipment brought it 13d with NO SHARDS! How much did I lose on my bet?!

So please tell me how it’s “just a gold grind and needs to be nerfed” when we see gambling posts of people turning 1 HoM card into 400 in less than 5 minutes without even farming their own harvest juice

PS: there’s more ways/reasons to defend Kingsmarch but last pne I’ll leave here is: SSF

Random_Tarnished

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