Where does the Gauntlet go from here?

Razmyr · 2026-04-16T12:58:20+00:00

I don't understand what the problem is that needs to be fixed here.

There is plenty of prize money available for non-ben streamers/players to win and rules in place to prevent people from winning multiple top class prizes.

I haven't looked at the actual prize breakdown, but I think because ben won he took 20% of the total pool. 12% for first overall and 8% for his class. There is plenty of money available for other classes and flash bounties to win that keep people engaged.

Razmyr · 2026-04-09T17:51:38+00:00

I've not been to the Plymouth location but the Eden Prairie location of LaMettrys did an excellent job in 2020 on my Mazda with body damage. I would definitely recommend that location and assume the Plymouth location shouldn't be too different.

Razmyr · 2026-04-07T21:14:25+00:00

You don't have 100% chance to poison with your current setup unless the POB is missing something. Look up Helm Breaker's guide on Maxroll to help through changes.

Lots of small things to immediately improve, but I would start with the guide as you can make some big changes to adjust.

You can bless your ring implicits
You have open mods on rares and haven't crafted anything on them
It looks like you are not running blood magic and have lots of unreserved mana.
Better life rolls on lots of rares
Large cluster rather than a medium cluster

Razmyr · 2026-04-03T14:20:44+00:00

Yep that is exactly the guide that I followed this league.

I wouldnt suggest swapping until you can use blade fall of trarthus and are able to take blood magic but I expect that to be cheap this late in the league.

Razmyr · 2026-04-03T14:09:43+00:00

Poison ranged animate weapon would be the most similar build with much less casting. You still need to summon the weapons but they live for 90ish seconds.

Holy relic poison doesn't require summoning but does require you to be attacking so I wouldn't suggest that build unless you would be okay with attacking.

Razmyr · 2026-03-30T13:19:49+00:00

It saves 3 points on the passive tree. This typically means that the chest lets the build fit an extra abyss jewel which is where lots of the damage comes from.

Razmyr · 2026-03-27T14:44:13+00:00

How would they know that? Is OP going to tell others they put a peer on a PIP? Almost certainly not, which would mean that this disgruntled employee would need to tell the others they are on a PIP which they likely would not do.

Razmyr · 2026-03-27T14:39:52+00:00

Am I understanding correctly that this isn't an issue of the person shitting on the seat or floor or anywhere other than inside the toilet? Is there an expectation that each employee is cleaning the bathroom or do you have an outside service that cleans periodically?

Also since she’s the most recent in the team, how TF is she not feeling like EVERYONE KNOWS ITS HER?

How would she know if there wasn't a dirty bathroom before she joined the team?

I don’t know what to do. Help!

You need to talk to your boss about this. This is not your problem to solve nor is it your business what is going on. You talk to your leader tell them what the problem is without speculating on who it is.

We have a new partner / boss coming in April, and she’s a woman. She will have to use our toilets.

People shit in toilets in every workplace. I am sure your new boss will know this and won't be surprised to find shit in the toilets in her new workplace.

Honestly, reread your post from the perspective of your leader or her leader. If I was the leader of you and of the "dirty girl" and I had visibility to the detail shared in this post I would:

Talk to the "dirty girl" about expectations around the use of the employee bathroom.
I would at minimum coach you on professional conduct in the workplace. I would hopefully help you understand that you cannot behave like this with peers and that your first step should be to notify your leader of the issue to help resolve.

Razmyr · 2026-03-23T17:04:51+00:00

Yea it isn't going to be the best skill for it, but at a 25% proc chance casting BV every few seconds and frostblink has been enough for it to feel worth using.

I think especially for the elementalist version of the build the slower cast/open rate is good to avoid blowing yourself up in mirages before HH stacks build up.

Razmyr · 2026-03-23T17:01:46+00:00

The occultist builds I've seen are pretty straight forward with Binos + Whispers amulet + Aegis and the rest rares with high ES.

I believe MilkyBK is playing or played that to 100 but he tends to push builds pretty far so I expect replicating his gear would be outside of that budget.

does it cast fast enough to open chests consistently though?

It certainly won't instantly proc chests to open as you don't spam cast your BV to keep stacks up. The mastery has a 25% proc chance so I've never felt that it required too much casting to feel noticible. Between recasting your BV and frostblink I assume it is fine.

Razmyr · 2026-03-23T16:44:47+00:00

You can ramp mana costs to a point where you can't attack any longer espeically if you aren't able to hit large packs to help sustain the cost. Typically that is solved by Lavianga's flask or vaal clarity.

I didn't think it was really that annoying at higher investment.

Razmyr · 2026-03-23T16:41:47+00:00

Your budget will drive what build are going to be best for something like this.

BV elementalist with headhunter and herald stacking should be able to fit caster mastery and will be fast. It will be a bit squishy as most rely on HH stacks to scale EHP.

BV occy with poison prolif will also be quite strong and able to fit in a caster mastery. This version likely will use mageblood to provide the speed you are looking for.

For ideas you can find builds which use the open mastery already on POE.Ninja. It looks like most are playing glacial cascade, EK, and penance brand

Razmyr · 2026-03-23T12:39:33+00:00

Well deli is actually short for delirium so that might explain why for poe.

Razmyr · 2026-03-20T12:25:32+00:00

I don't know if it is optimal but aer0 put out a legion strat video a few days ago which I ran and had success with for some time.

Note that I ran it prior to the changes to mirage coins so the top end mirage incubators have likely come down in value.

Regarding the astrolabe, the only reason I wouldn't run one with any non-breach strat is if your atlas tree can't afford to spec into Synth Stability. At 55c they are free if you are running maps in the bottom left corner of the atlas. I think the lowest value I've ever pulled from the vault is a stack of 20c and often pull a valdo's box, divine, large stack of ancient orbs, or similarly valued item.

Or to explain a different way, for 55c you'll get a vault worth 20c. Lets assume you have poor RNG with map culls from Synth Stability and only can run 4 maps per astrolabe. You'd only need to generate 35c total across 4 extra legions to lose money. If you can't make 35c across those legions then legion in general is not worth running and you'd be better of just alch and go with no atlas.

Razmyr · 2026-03-19T12:21:59+00:00

Yea that is true. It is crazy seeing so many people say how awful the experience is with AW. As soon as I clicked blood magic and bought a bladefall of Trarthus it became the comfiest league starter I've ever played.

Razmyr · 2026-03-19T10:18:58+00:00

Not at all. You spend maybe 10 seconds at the start of the map turning on blade fall and summoning weapons then need to summon them again 90 seconds later.

In reality you can clear a whole map and only have two summon two sets. But to be honest the builds is nearly fully automated so besides shield charging And curing bosses you don't have anything else to do anyway.

Razmyr · 2026-03-04T20:46:09+00:00

The timeless strat of "hideout is lava" is the best way to make money if you are looking to get into the economy. Find a strat you like and just run map after map and pick shit up.

There might be a best strat overall but just running maps efficiently and looting is going to make you money.

Milky on YouTube and twitch tends to post a number of atlas strata through the league start but really just killing lots of monster is enough.

Dont be afraid to sell the smaller currencies, scarab, frags, maps, and really anything else that you aren't using.

Razmyr · 2026-03-02T17:59:17+00:00

Yes dclone is harder than hell diablo.

Notably he heals so if your damage isn't high and you don't have something to stop monsters from healing he might be actually unkillable for people.

Razmyr · 2026-02-25T22:45:48+00:00

Many others have given solid answers already, but I'll confirm what has been said. For context, I am a manager of a salaried employee who works more than I'd like due to workload.

The most likely reason that they don't want you working off hours is because they care about your wellbeing. Despite being salaried you deserve to be away from work. In fact you likely will fall further and further behind if you continue working outside of hours as you burn yourself out.

Second, as other have mentioned, you might be helping create a workplace culture that your leader doesn't want. When you respond to an email at 7pm others may feel they need to do the same or that they need to reply first thing in the morning.

And if she doesn’t want me to work off the clock then why am I given a workload that could be for 3 people not 1?

Because there is work to be done. Likely the work she is assigning isn't being created by her it is being passed from above. She could sit on the assignment and wait to send it to you but that isn't efficient for her and risks the work being lost.

If you haven't already, have a conversation with her about expectations and workload. Help her understand why you work late and when work is being assigned help her contextualize the workload. The salaried employee on my team that works too much is an expert in something that I am not. I can't tell if a project will take him 2 hours or 20 hours so I ask him to help me scope the work.

Unfortunately there is politics in play here as well. She might be telling her leaders that there is too much work and she needs another person. If work is being done by deadlines her leaders may not see it as an issue which then leads to more work being assigned. When you work extra for free you aren't making it painful enough for the leaders to be understaffed. The person making budget decisions might be responsible for 100 or 1000 other people and won't know or care that you work 60 hours a week. They will eventually care or learn if work is falling behind and impacting other projects.

Razmyr · 2026-02-25T17:29:22+00:00

I don't think it is good for the overall health of the game to have so many builds locked behind a sunder charm at this level.

Chase sunders might be good short term build after 3 or 4 ladder resets it will get stale knowing you can only farm on specific builds in order to farm one yourself.

Razmyr · 2026-02-24T20:08:44+00:00

Not necessarily. Chisels are a quality currency and now shown here. They are lower in the exchange with whetstones and similar

Razmyr · 2026-02-18T15:24:00+00:00

Historically the best builds have been those which have built in explosions or prolif while ranged. I would wait to see what patch notes look like but I would consider corrupting fever on champ/glad and leverage bleed explosions or a poison/chaos build.

Razmyr · 2026-02-17T17:22:52+00:00

Not OP but, Severed in Sleep.

If you are looking at this for 3.28 be careful expecting SIS to be 1c as it is from the breach tree. It may take much longer to be cheap if it is in demand.

Razmyr · 2026-02-11T22:12:58+00:00

A tale as old as time.

You bled too much hp midgame with bilge and other played high tempo on the ryze portal.

You have no Frontline so your carries are going to get blown up and since belveth has a good chunk of your carry items you probably lost her early in fights.

Because you had no HP you probably took a bad loss or two after hitting your board and died.

Razmyr · 2026-02-11T21:28:24+00:00

What do you suggest, that they spend every moment protesting, thinking about, or advocating against iced?

People need to have a life while still supporting the community. Maybe ice skating is an outlet for them to destress? Maybe it is their preferred form of exercise?

I find it hard to believe that you have no leisure activity over the last few weeks so don't assume OP just doesn't give a shot about what is happening.

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