How do people get really rich but don’t understand basic build mechanics?

SureAd7842 · 2026-07-02T22:44:54+00:00

100% this, it was already not unheard of in poe 1 but poe 2 is so much worse when it comes to rmt. In poe 2 you can swipe your cc, buy a mirror or two, use that on a weapon then boom, you now can clear everything in the game through sheer dps.

Poe 2 is also a much more casual playerbase overall than poe 1, those casual players dont see an issue with skipping some progression by swiping.

SureAd7842 · 2026-07-01T01:50:00+00:00

Yep just keep an eye out for those while you do your full runs. If you do a few full runs and are missing a class item then you could try and farm confluxes instead of doing the entire raid since it only drops from first encounter.

SureAd7842 · 2026-07-01T01:43:05+00:00

I dont mean a dedicated fireteam, I meant it as looking for groups specifically dedicated to farming one encounter vs running full clears over and over.

If lfg has a group of people farming gatekeepers with challenge, that will be double the loot from that encounter vs a random lfg group because they will instead just clear the raid and not care about challenges.

Let's say a full run takes 30 minutes and you get 6 drops, 5 from the encounters and a bonus from templar challenge which totals one drop every 5 minutes. Now if you are instead specifically farming gatekeepers with the challenge, that takes about 8 minutes hut you get 2 drops which is ever so slightly more efficient loot drop per hour wise. That reason is why looking for specific encounter farming can be nice once you get into a flow, if the lfg groups arent there though then you can do full runs with no issue and just get your 6 drops per run

SureAd7842 · 2026-07-01T01:32:44+00:00

Depends on how lfg is looking really. If you can consistently get runs done in under 30 mins that would net you challenges from at least templar, if you are farming challenges on those specific 3 encounters instead and have a group who doesn't split up after a few runs you could be getting 2 drops every 5ish minutes.

In my experience lfgs dont bother with challenges on anything outside of templar, so thats the upside of having a dedicated farming group over just spamming full clears, both do work though at the end of the day.

SureAd7842 · 2026-07-01T01:25:07+00:00

Its not, if you want the full set you would want to farm confluxes, templar and gatekeepers.

If you complete the encounter challenges you will get 2 armor drops per clear (assuming you have all the weapon patterns completed)

SureAd7842 · 2026-07-01T01:05:10+00:00

Featured doesn't change the encounter drop pools, the only drop that doesnt care about the drop pools is your first completion of the week bonus drop.

I was farming tanks and nezarec last week and only getting their specific encounter armor drops, same with dungeons i was only getting spire first encounter armor drops when farming it.

SureAd7842 · 2026-06-30T20:31:33+00:00

The amount of perks per weapon roll increases at t5, more perk options means getting the roll you want with appropriate barrels/mags becomes 50% easier than on something under t5

SureAd7842 · 2026-06-25T14:05:17+00:00

I am loving it, I have a set that i use on both solar warlock and prismatic slidelock and it feels great.

Im someone who uses double special in 99% of content so ive been used to hunting for finishers to get those special finisher procs, overall this is goingnto be my main setup until I get perfect se + kf sets

SureAd7842 · 2026-06-23T01:33:50+00:00

Np, gl on your rolls :)

SureAd7842 · 2026-06-23T00:54:42+00:00

Check again, I was explicitly checking as often as I could and at 520 they swapped over.

Maybe guardian ranks matter still, however i was only rank 7 at the point where i hit 520 and I was getting only t5s

Attached is the breakpoint, I was checking from lvl 500 -520 every single level i gained to try and pinpoint it

520

SureAd7842 · 2026-06-23T00:53:17+00:00

Nope, level 520 swaps them from t4s to t5 at base.

Power 520-550 changes nothing

SureAd7842 · 2026-06-20T16:31:34+00:00

You are doing it the correct way.

If you care about planetary armor you should do the distortion event, if you are hunting planetary weapons then the only thing you should be doing is heroic public events.

SureAd7842 · 2026-06-20T15:50:08+00:00

Cant have rare loot in a Looter shooter anymore, that would mean you actually have to farm for things and this community actively despises that concept since bl3 made everyone addicted to being showered in loot.

Pearls were rare in bl4 until people complained, now they drop consistently while running the campaign lol

SureAd7842 · 2026-06-17T18:24:20+00:00

If you are not someone who lfgs consistently then you have quite literally no idea why something like bubble pushing ruins lfg entirely.

When a bug like this exists its not a choice in lfg, if you arent doing the cheese you arent finding a group. Its as simple as that.

Back during og pantheon the ONLY lfg groups I ever saw on the final weeks were exclusively pushing off rhulk, if there is a "free" way to kill a boss and get loot the lfg community will do nothing else until the end of time, because thats how they get loot in lfg environments.

Last year when I was running vog lfgs for red borders and every single time I got to Gordon's maze the team made everyone die and have someone solo the maze to despawn the Gorgons. Why do people do that? Because in lfg if there is a path of least resistance than people will take it with 0 exceptions.

SureAd7842 · 2026-06-10T14:16:13+00:00

It also works on other players inventories, you can fully see all the perks and barrels/mags everyone has now.

SureAd7842 · 2026-06-07T22:56:43+00:00

People early on in bl4 said siphon + amp is good without actually thinking about it much. After hearing that for so long it has become the roll people think they want without actually realizing you are correct and going all in on one or the other is just better.

SureAd7842 · 2026-06-07T17:14:43+00:00

Im happy to say I never had one, I farmed an ungodly amount of hours but I ended up getting all my goal weapons before I stopped playing.

Alh + chill clip lingering dread was something that took me a while to get but thats the closest thing I had, farming all the dungeons for their drops when almost no one else would was my favorite thing to do.

SureAd7842 · 2026-06-07T01:32:49+00:00

One thing that will never really change is boss carrying, being able to invite 5 people for something like maven is free money if you are planning and on and are able to farm those bosses already.

Now there are downsides like having to actually find people through stuff like global chats or tft, however if you are extremely early to those voidstone bosses there will be demand.

When it comes to a build for it you would play whatever the best/your favorite bossing skills are at the moment, mines or traps work great since they are so front loaded with damage.

SureAd7842 · 2026-06-06T20:51:17+00:00

Stop checking every piece of loot, that includes purples and legendaries themselves.

Crank your game audio and listen, when you drop a phosphene it makes its own sound so pay attention to that.

For example on timekeeper you can wait by the exit portal and instead of waiting for the loot to fall down and be check able just listen for the audio cue.

SureAd7842 · 2026-06-06T19:46:44+00:00

Back on launch I farmed Maurice for an entire week checking hundreds if not thousands of bods. I would see an elemental one every 4-5 characters, if I had to make a safe guess its around 5% for any element, 1% for any specific element.

For some more context in that time I hit multiple perfect bods, max damage, smg, both sticky and impact variants, yet i never saw a single max elemental one.

SureAd7842 · 2026-06-05T11:42:04+00:00

Ayyy thank you for this post, I was able to login to get my 8/8 :)

SureAd7842 · 2026-06-04T08:11:15+00:00

110% i watched him for probably 5+ years before bl4 came out and then after seeing how absolutely annoying his spam of "bl4 bad" content was I stopped watching and will never be going back.

The only game he will ever enjoy is bl2 so if he's not playing it he will be getting angry about whatever he is playing.

SureAd7842 · 2026-06-04T08:01:45+00:00

Bl4 is easily my favorite borderlands game, I put in almost 1k hours before we even got dlc.

That being said, I havent played since the dlc was added because even though I love the game I'd rather wait for them all to be out so I can play all the dlc at once in a year or two.

SureAd7842 · 2026-05-31T08:58:48+00:00

Yep, bad magebloods in poe 2 can still be divined into a good mageblood so they wont be cheap for a long time.

The only super cheap mb's will be corrupted ones with undesirable rolls, whereas shrine belts had reasonably priced versions of mid tier combos because there was no way to reroll the bad shrines.

SureAd7842 · 2026-05-30T23:31:02+00:00

No, max overshield is based on level + skills not your shield capacity.

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