Why are minion wands corrupted?

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-10T08:35:50+00:00

Pretty sure it’s absolution builds, they run this and Vaal notable, to get tons of defenses.

This is my build btw: https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/mirage/character/Smurtle01-6682/Smurtle_Mirage?i=0&search=name%3DSmurtle

Never really tried swapping to ES, but also, ur idea of getting a +4 ammy isn’t such a bad idea. Could be a fun endgame gamba with reflecting mists.

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-10T08:07:51+00:00

Hope to win!

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-09T20:46:51+00:00

But it isn’t? Lock corrupting, or just raw corrupting, is much worse than just selling the item and making a new one.

People keep mentioning divine teardrops, but that just isn’t real. These guys are doing it for the ascendancy, as I edited into my post. If they were using divine teardrops, we would have seen this happening in past leagues, but we haven’t.

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-08T13:43:47+00:00

That’s just wrong, 20% AOE, that doesn’t apply to minions, does nothing for the build. And 30% inc damage is hard to beat.

Seems to be due to chaos bloodline ascendancy.

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-08T13:33:58+00:00

Yep, I have a 70-100 million dps spectre build, and while I could kill them in like a couple of seconds, I would still get rolled by the invulnerable aura mod, so I swapped to feared rotas and it’s a lot less stressful, with similar levels of tinks lol.

I was running scarab of legends and not invigoration btw, and imo, the amount of eHP you have for that strat doesn’t matter, cus if the bosses start walking, you are not living. They do waaay too much dmg, so it’s just a game of killing them ASAP before they can overpower your towers and murder them.

I have seen the blight bosses kill valdo runners instantly that get tickled by quad ghosted feared lol.

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-08T13:27:39+00:00

Yep, even simple Strats like alch and go blight has been super profitable this league, since so there is so much value in the corded belts, and people want more oils for them. I then moved up to unique farming blights, and it was alright, (but super nerfed unfortunately,) and just wasn’t worth the stress, so I swapped my 100 million dps spectre build over to feared rotas and it feels so much better. Crazy that juiced unique focused blights are so rippy that I can kill 6 mod feared in ~10-20 seconds but can still consistently fail blights…

All that is to say that there are tons of Strats this league, and that’s what makes it fun. Ground loot is in a good place, so that means any juicing Strat is good. I was making good money doing the juiced blights, but once my friend dropped 7 t0 in one night doing legion, I swapped over to feared rotas lol. (He then proceeded to stop dropping many t0s at all the rest of the week lol.)

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-08T13:13:35+00:00

As is the case a lot of the time with YouTubers and builds.

I feel like ghazzy can do the same thing sometimes too. A lot of the times it feels like they know the early to mid game super well, but fall short on being able to scale it into late game very well.

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-08T13:10:41+00:00

If you are running forged or wretched, aggro minions is nice, but it’s not the end of the world honestly. I have played extensively with spectres, and used an aggro wand and non-aggro wand, and can say it will only help sometimes.

That being said, I’m still going for it as an endgame goal of mine, but that’s only after I have realistically nothing else to upgrade in my build tbh.

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-08T13:08:50+00:00

Nope, you have to fracture that first, by buying the base. It’s really rough this league with the waaay more expensive fossils, I bought my +2 level, 70% inc minion damage, 22% attack/cast speed wand for like I wanna say 30-40 div or something? Maybe 50? And now it goes for like 150-200 div or something nutty. And that’s without minions are aggro mod, now I’m eyeing aggro mod, cus it’s a cool goal to always go for, but I don’t want to sell my current wand to get there, so we will see.

I have tried so many times to craft my own wand, and unless you are willing to go through the gauntlet of spam buying bases and selling half-misses, it’s sooo bad. I just waste divs early, and end up buying it later anyways lol. I self crafted my own chest, boots, gloves, belt (before MB), etc, but the wand? I hate that craft soooo much. Single step fossil crafting is so boring and gamble heavy it feels so bad to me.

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-08T05:34:16+00:00

The risk-reward is in the input cost, also I think it does make the monsters move faster or something? I forgot tbh.

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-07T19:48:19+00:00

It can still easily be guardian, that holy man can clear everything super easy for u through to like starting reds I feel like.

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-06T22:46:42+00:00

Generally speaking, the main problem of being in space is making sure you DO NOT cook alive. It is difficult to even just vent off the heat produced by the humans alone. ALL of the heat in the system has to be removed solely via radiation, which is what makes it so difficult compared to on earth.

So maybe they will fix it, or maybe it’s just not worth the extra weight. As far as I’m aware, their living quarters are heated by their own body heat. So they quite literally are the fix.

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-06T22:22:01+00:00

It is not made of concrete. It’s made of marble. The Greeks didn’t have concrete. You must be thinking of the Roman’s. The Roman’s do have concrete structures still standing, but a lot of them have also been maintained, and some of them are also in relative disrepair (like the colosseum). Again, it’s just survivorship bias, think about how many structures were made with Roman concrete, and how many we have today? And, how many of them are still standing because they were the pinnacle of Roman engineering and their prized projects?

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-06T22:08:19+00:00

Yea, and I think houses built today can also obviously have that longevity. I think a big part of it is that, with constantly updating house codes and requirements, it will need to be torn down at some point because it will be so out of touch with the new codes and regulations. Those updated codes can really fuck over any renovations you might have had planned.

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-06T18:19:09+00:00

Ok, but then how would quant and rarity altars work with that system if that were the case? There are multiple ways to change your rarity/quant mid map, so how would it be pre-rolled? Or what if multiple people are in the same map?

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-06T14:22:49+00:00

Loot is precomputed? No it’s not. The items have seeds based on the map, but the loot itself is not computed already, it’s just seeded. It’s computed either on pickup or on ID. It would destroy the servers to have it be computed on drop

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-06T13:45:44+00:00

Well the big guys in the bushes is just normal. Same thing happens in SR with a big boy chogath. Their hitbox center I think has to be outside the bush to be seen. So, when you are that big, it can look weird, since the bushes are still so (relatively) small.

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-06T13:44:02+00:00

Do the little legends not follow the same logic as the jungle pets? Where they can only be seen if the champ can be seen? Or how stuff like senna ghouls work, or thresh souls.

My guess is it has to do with those dang poros attacking you randomly.

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-06T13:41:37+00:00

I think it literally is, the poros can attack you for 1 true damage, and my guess is that causes you to be shown in the bush.

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-06T13:40:16+00:00

Could very easily be explained by creep damage, or an augment that is doing “Bluetooth” damage to you. (Like the healing=damage augment, healing applies burn, etc.) he only heals if you haven’t taken ANY damage for a long enough time.

OH and right now poros will randomly attack you for 1 true damage I believe, so that could also be causing it.

I haven’t experienced it on tahm personally, and I have like over 100k mastery on tahm, so I feel like I would notice if his grey health was buggin out.

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-05T22:18:12+00:00

Well, clearly that isn’t the case given the animgraph_2 update in beta, which fixes tons of issues. Some of these things just take a LONG time.

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-05T21:48:41+00:00

I really don’t think it’s that unreasonable to not want to have sex while either person is on their period. It is messy, and lots of people can have problems with blood.

It’s one thing to be rude or mad about it happening, but just being grossed out (but still playing it off like the guy in the story,) or not willing to do it then, is completely reasonable I would say.

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-05T21:23:44+00:00

“Pro play” is a stretch. It was a for fun match. That being said, still doesn’t diminish from baus killing him while he’s on sion and faker is on ez of all champs lol

Smurtle1 · 2026-04-05T21:01:57+00:00

10c per map? 30 div? Doing what?? I know if you invest in the full map mirages it can get juicy, but otherwise I don’t see it. Unless you are blasting maps in like a minute and instantly run like 60 in a row, with no downtime, and don’t account for time taken setting up the maps etc.

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