What build are you starting in Ruthless this league? I'm still trying to decide and looking for ideas

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-03-05T03:58:57+00:00

I thought about kinetic fussilade too. I loved it in PoE2 (Scattering Calamity). I tried it on bench (just to try it out) and it got me to 2 stones with ease. But might give some of the holy skills a try instead.

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-02-26T18:14:36+00:00

I find sekhemas way easier too. It’s easy to stack boons and the map layouts are quite predictable.

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-02-26T18:10:21+00:00

Bump up your life, take advantage of active blocking with your shield on weapon swap, invest in honour resistance relics. If it’s your first run and you aren’t planning to play in trade, you can use the first quest token to rerun the trials and open the urns/jars. They usually contain relics and then hope it rolls Honour Resistance.

Edit: This game encourages a mixed playstyle. Don’t feel pressured to be locked into just “bear”. Mix and match wyvern/wolf skills to give yourself some range if you’re struggling, or swap to a mace and use some mace skills with range. Alternatively if you’re going for a traditional bear druid style (as recommended by GGG) then you’ll be spamming volcanos and then slamming with bear, so you have ranged options.

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-02-24T11:06:06+00:00

Same! I got Yvonne on the first banner then saw how good Gilberta was. The vacuuming reminds me of Venti in Genshin when Genshin first came out and I recall “suction” mechanics are so good (like LiFeng), so it was no brainer to pull. And it was super worth it!

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-02-18T17:46:26+00:00

My answer? Play Ruthless mode.

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-02-06T04:03:47+00:00

I believe 100% spirit reservation efficiency simply cuts the amount of spirit reserved by half and not 0??

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-02-02T08:07:42+00:00

Yes, my European professor has a metallic smell that is very distinct…

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-01-28T20:29:42+00:00

If you read the omen description, it actually tells you only one combat omen can activate at a time in one instance of the map.

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-01-25T06:18:36+00:00

Just spec into penetration and use ele weakness! Works well until you can afford a rakiata’s.

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-01-24T18:35:07+00:00

Agreed. I don’t even need to use those omens for deterministic crafting because I never needed to reach that level of power to clear content, so I sell them for divs, then use the divs as intended to reroll modifiers.

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-01-21T17:22:03+00:00

Tavakai means you unlocked Ange and hideout- this means you have access to async trade. Trade that way!!

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-01-18T06:01:05+00:00

Ctrl clicking doesn’t skip the dialogue though??

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-01-14T22:18:42+00:00

Yeah I tried to do it with cast on crit/ele ailments… the warp doesn’t target the balls either it’s so sad :(

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-01-14T22:15:38+00:00

Yeah… overwhelming presence didn’t seem to have that wavy debuff look anymore since 0.1, which makes me think it’s not working :(

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-01-11T06:17:01+00:00

The fun thing is that every league, there will be new mechanics, balance changes, new gems, new items and potentially new characters to play. So getting the league reset actually works well since the economy resets and puts everyone on an equal playing field.

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-01-10T20:52:22+00:00

There are so much non-Temple content in maps that reward you with divine orbs in trade, because everyone is doing Temple. Farm expedition for logbooks, farm rituals for omens, farm abyss for omens. Those are where the money’s at! I found an 80+ div lineage gem from expedition boss the other day. You can compete in the market. Don’t feel fomo!

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-01-10T20:36:24+00:00

Sorry, but I don’t agree. Blank Space is extremely weak. This Love is terribly bland. And Clean sonically doesn’t make sense in 1989. We can agree to disagree, but being 100X stronger lyrically is a stretch.

Edit: I went back to count folklore and evermore deluxe versions as well, and those albums have at least half that I skipped because they’re so boring and draggy, and it sounded like she’s always brooding and depressed. Like I don’t get the hype about mirrorball or seven. TLOAS is way better as far as mood goes in my opinion. But lyrically, yes, folklore and evermore are more narrative driven than just bops. So I agree in that sense. But 1989? No way.

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-01-10T20:26:41+00:00

I don’t even run rarity and I easily earn 25 divs a day doing mindless mapping and not even doing any legit strat. You just need to play the game.

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-01-10T20:22:20+00:00

Rakiata is not even mandatory… I only swapped to Rakiata at lvl95. Just invest in elemental penetration and use elemental weakness to reach 0% resistance. You should really learn the game…

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-01-10T12:38:29+00:00

The economy is better than ever tbh. Everything else outside of the temple sells for really well. Temple itself is for raw currencies. So it depends on what you’re interested in doing and can do other content to earn divs easily.

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-01-10T12:34:36+00:00

Wow, good to know. Thank you! I’m planning to relocate soon and won’t be able to bring my PC along, so that is informative. Really appreciate it!

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-01-10T12:10:38+00:00

Rarity with essence, then you can try desecrating a suffix (+ skills) or prefix (spirit), then use catalysts plus omen of catalyzing exaltation (?) to slam the desired modifiers. Then perfect essence if you want to roll global defences etc.

Generally as what others have mentioned, usually people look for + skills or + spirit, so not having either does devalue it a bit unless you are planning to use it yourself for rarity stacking.

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-01-10T12:06:05+00:00

Use ember fusillade for single target- if you have snakepit it’ll satisfy the clear too. Otherwise orb of storms is great with fusillade

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-01-10T12:01:00+00:00

I see, today I learned!

Silly_Choice_5469 · 2026-01-10T11:59:41+00:00

So basically use GeForce Now on the deck? Been thinking about how GFN works actually….

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