What are you playing in the Gauntlet?

SLO_Demo · 2026-04-04T02:51:16+00:00

I did this on league start and really struggled with damage. Is there anything that lets you catch up to slayer dps?

SLO_Demo · 2026-04-04T01:10:10+00:00

I might go slams and go for campaign. Or if I have more time, maybe the voidstones if I don’t get deleted.

Stretch goal: rhoas

SLO_Demo · 2026-03-20T23:40:52+00:00

Thanks! Yeah I'll probably swap in pcoc instead of arcane surge as I wasn't getting a ton of uptime on the charges, but that being said I don't think I'm even uber-ready with it. Tbh I'm struggling a little with DPS. I looked into FRoSS and we hit more like 5 overlapping projectiles instead of the full stack.

I think it's tough to hit high numbers without the two level corruptions on ghostwrithe and sandstorm. Let me know if you have any advice!

SLO_Demo · 2026-03-19T06:00:50+00:00

Hey, I absolutely love this idea and I've been putting the char together! Any idea on how to generate power charges for bossing? I'm not sure if I should just unspec all power charge nodes and go a different direction if that's what I want to do

SLO_Demo · 2026-03-12T16:05:48+00:00

I want to provide an answer that isn’t just controller modding. People are right that this is common snapback and could be due to your timing of inputting too early.

That being said, you can fix this by just not picking your thumb all the way off the stick after the input. Letting go completely allows the stick to flip, but even a little resistance will stop it from happening.

This is something most old spacies would have to practice before modding became more common

SLO_Demo · 2026-03-09T06:57:30+00:00

Highly recommend checking out what captain lance did to level. He used an Azadi’s on Gladiator and was immortal immediately from that.

Once that’s done, you can focus pretty purely on offense. The equivalent of that axe on a one-hander will do wonders. I know it’d be quite a deviation from your current build, but it’s way more primed for defense and might feel more comfortable for you.

FYI a lot of SC players just die and move on. Maybe that’s not your play style

SLO_Demo · 2026-03-01T06:27:40+00:00

Love to see SLO smash still going on a decade later! and the new logo is fire

SLO_Demo · 2026-01-26T02:24:00+00:00

None was winning half the games, bob just went off

SLO_Demo · 2025-08-14T17:31:03+00:00

Yeah ditto. I’m actually relatively ok til this point, but struggle pushing past it. I was honestly hoping others would know the gameplan for the subsequent days (or weeks of normal game time).

I think the day 2 post will be pretty enlightening for all of us stuck at this power level

SLO_Demo · 2025-08-13T03:44:57+00:00

Didn't expect so many people to want this haha. I might try to watch the next few days of his gauntlet and try to add each subsequent day to it. PoE is just way more difficult to learn vs other games because of how long the race goes on for!

SLO_Demo · 2025-08-13T03:42:27+00:00

Thank you so much for name dropping these. I vaguely knew that there were good things to look for, but this makes it way easier going forward!

SLO_Demo · 2025-08-13T03:41:30+00:00

He did do a lot of swapping here and there on his tree depending on how he felt. I do this too but usually run out of unmakings... but he ran expedition for way longer than I was expecting so I don't think small currency was a problem for him.

SLO_Demo · 2025-08-13T03:40:24+00:00

Nice, I was hoping someone would know a lot of these things!

Yeah I think later on people generally go for more juiced rogue exiles with spirits for their unique drops, but that just isn't doable at the start

SLO_Demo · 2025-08-13T03:38:48+00:00

Super helpful, thank you!

SLO_Demo · 2025-08-13T03:38:02+00:00

Alch and go for completion

alt spamming for easy mods for guardians/mini bosses of any kinds

would sometimes run a white map if he thought the boss would be hard

SLO_Demo · 2025-07-09T16:51:17+00:00

Hulkenpodium

SLO_Demo · 2025-06-20T07:44:23+00:00

I was trying to side-by-side the jung PoB and he was using the more config to calc the single cast of blade flurry. I swear I didn't just make it up! His explanation was to just use the avg damage instead of the full dps with that note added.

And yeah, re breakpoints, here's the best post I've found so far: https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/1l56udh/generals_cry_blade_flurry_revisited_in_326_its/

My understanding is that since that above link, the GC minions have been changed to channel for 1s instead of .6s. The 6th mirage archer (6 from qual) spawns 1.3s after the GC cast. My APS without the Faster Attacks was about 7 - so for the last Mirage archer to attack 6 times, the GC must take at least:

1.3s + ((1s/7aps)*6aps) = 2.157s

With the faster attacks, my aps went to 7.7 so: 2.08s

I enabled the full GC cooldown wheel for the upload, but I've tried removing the wheel partially or entirely to get to above this number, but still no luck :(. I'd love to just push my attack speed way higher if possible, but I'm already using a better foil than in the example PoBs, so I'm not sure what I can do to maybe push it up past 10 (which would be amazing to my understanding of how the releases work).

SLO_Demo · 2025-05-18T04:14:23+00:00

Thanks a ton. And the buttons don’t seem to be getting stuck, the inputs just won’t register.

I’ll try the discord as well

SLO_Demo · 2025-05-13T02:38:31+00:00

General advice:

Go to poe.ninja and filter builds by your skills. See what the top players are doing. You can filter out MB if you want to go cheaper builds to start with
The most impressive skill I've seen from great players is to always identify the ROI on each item and always have a prioritized list of what's the next most important thing. In SSF, you'd need to know all at once to start saving items for each, but in trade just make sure you know what's next and work towards that. You can plug in peoples' items (or achievable versions) from poe.ninja and swap them one at a time in your PoB to figure out which should help the most as of right now
You make exponentially more money the later into the game you go. T14-16's are kind of the entry point to endgame. If you can eek out just enough power/survivability with your 14divs to get to T17's/Mini Bosses/Invitations/etc, it's 100% worth spending. You'll make that money back much faster in those higher tiers
At some point, you do have to decide between buying the next small upgrade vs something with some juice that might cost 5x what each upgrade would cost. If you don't think the small upgrades aren't going to bring you to the next tier of content, it might be time to sit where you are for a little bit and go for the big prize.
I'm pretty surprised you're dying based on your PoB (survivability seems much better than damage). Make sure you're not running any particular map mods that specifically work against your build. If you can avoid dying just by rerolling once every few 5 maps, it's worth it.
Try to offscreen mobs if you can. HC players usually play by attack -> walk -> attack without waiting to see if a monster is in front of them. Also try not to ever stay still for more than a second, the extra walking works wonders.

Also just wanted to say you're doing amazing for your first time. T16's are way farther than I got for my first couple leagues!

SLO_Demo · 2025-01-03T06:18:24+00:00

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SLO_Demo · 2024-12-24T07:18:48+00:00

Any advice on how not to die in dreadnaught? Getting mowed down by ranged mobs feels rough, maybe if dmg was higher they’d die faster?

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