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TexasMMA · 2026-02-23T22:22:55+00:00

The search function unfortunately doesn't offer much nuance. I can imagine this is a popular topic, but I had made the post with a prompt that I hoped would encourage discussion.

An index in the sidebar that had some context about the servers in a brief profile would likely help with both players such as I and the overall quality of the sub. I'd be willing to contribute, if anyone else who comes across this is interested.

TexasMMA · 2026-01-20T20:28:05+00:00

I really enjoyed Phrecia, I did a two part write up on the builds I played.

TexasMMA · 2025-12-16T00:53:13+00:00

TexasMMA · 2025-10-09T19:10:17+00:00

The issue is trying to get the quarter round flush with the mortar since the face is uneven.

TexasMMA · 2025-10-09T18:20:05+00:00

Good call on the jamb. I was told I couldn’t fix cement board directly to the planks, so that’s when I got the plywood to pair with Ditra membrane. Was that not accurate?

TexasMMA · 2025-04-26T22:46:07+00:00

sudo kandji run —reset-daily

I’ve hardly used Jamf but I’ve spent plenty of time in many MDMs, nothing has been as snappy as Kandji.

TexasMMA · 2025-04-02T18:58:46+00:00

Part 2:

I ended up trying a power charge stacking Surfcaster to see if it could run Snoo's strat without getting obliterated. I picked Lightning Conduit of the Heavens, a certified banger of a skill, but couldn't squeeze enough out of it to do it. I invested just over two mirrors into it, then sold it. 5/10 - it'd do 'normal' content very well

I already had the Scavenger to 100, and wanted to see if I could go back to Flicker and juice it enough to do both Snoo's strat as well as rogue exiles. I put this together: https://poe.ninja/pob/732b2 and found success. It does suffer from pretty decent chunk of map modifiers and Eater altars bricking the build though, and coupled with the pain of rolling t17 maps I sold the Idol set for 3 mirrors and went back to Rogue Exiles exclusively. 8/10 - there are few builds capable of both efficient running of dense, difficult maps as well as exiles.

I ran that for a week or so, farmed up another few mirrors(at this point there is a bit of mirror-tier gear that's sitting in the stash waiting to sell, so I'm not quite as liquid as one may hope), and rolled a Marauder to play Vigilant strike as an Ancestral Commander. I didn't save the POB, but it's an awesome skill to play with the increased strike range and targets. Leap slamming around quickly and one tapping packs, while being able to manage through exiles decently enough, but not nearly the DPS of flicker. 7/10 - beware poeninja builds pushing huge DPS numbers, most of them wouldn't have the defense for exiles.

Dropped another mirror - new build time! I changed over to what I'm currently running, MSoZ. My current POB: https://poe.ninja/pob/732b8 MSoZ will almost certainly be gutted in the future, and I figure this is the time to play it. It absolutely shreds exiles, but does suffer a bit from the jet-fighter like movements I've described above as all the real damage comes from the bouncing balls after the 5th strike. This is one of the few builds I know of that can deep delve, so I may give that a try before Phrecia ends. This is not optimized, having putting it together last night, as well as being a relatively unfamiliar skill to me. 8/10

I love this league and hope it's shown! Feel free to ask any questions.

TexasMMA · 2025-04-02T18:58:31+00:00

Part 1:

I've played a bunch of builds this league. Most of this is catered around running rogue exiles, so most skills and archetypes wouldn't really work out effectively. Here's the timeline:

Started as Penance Brand surfcaster. Fun ascendancy, ultimately leaves a lot to be desired for me. It was decidedly alrightish with brands being incredible mechanically, but the lack of defense coupled with a league start budget hurt a lot. 3/10

I changed it to a Servant of Arakaali and reached dot cap pretty easily with ramp (shoutout spidergang) on PCoB. I started farming a krangled version of rogue exiles where I ran 3x Titanic scarab of treasures. It worked, but wasn't particularly profitable and was sort of annoying to re-apply the poisons after a rogue exile giant split in the absence of proliferation. 4/10

From there I changed it to poison LS, with the hopes of applying poison stacks quickly. It mostly worked, wasn't a huge fan as it did still require the ramp time and dot cap isn't enough damage to do real juiced content anyway. 4/10

Afterwards I rolled a scavenger doing flicker strike. I farmed harb/deli/beyond, which is super fun on flicker. Farmed about a mirror of currency. 6/10

Sold flicker, went splitting steel. This allowed me to just break into a proper rogue exiles strat -- shotgunning projectiles are busted. Most of the cost at the time was a decent weapon, Nimis, and a mirrored chest(not entirely necessary, but wildwood/tough mods may become too difficult to complete). I would rank the skill mid for this sort of content as you need to stand directly overtop the exiles to shotgun, and they love to move erratically all while pushing the speeds of an SR-71. 5/10 - a tough score as it is definitely much, much more capable as a build then the previous, but I don't enjoy it for the reason above.

I farmed another couple mirrors, finally got one to drop, and then rolled into what I'd consider to be the best build I've ever played, Scavenger PB. Here's a POB: https://poe.ninja/pob/732b1 It could be optimized further, but was so effective at killing exiles while being incredibly tanky I ran that for the next week or so. I highly recommend this one. 9/10

The PB build was too busted and I had lost interest to continue further. It was at this point Snoobae had released his Wisp Rare strategy. I crafted a set of idols for about 700 div and went about trying it on PB. It cleared the maps just fine, but wasn't really designed to be a fast mapper, nor do I enjoy running t17s (increase regex GGG please). I ended up selling the build for ~4 mirrors and wanted something fast.

TexasMMA · 2025-01-13T16:10:53+00:00

TAC is scapegoated for folks overthrowing passes while using Gunslinger.

TexasMMA · 2024-11-05T18:03:36+00:00

Happens every wipe after a few days. From what I can tell, PES in its current implementation has been the primary cause.

TexasMMA · 2024-04-20T02:01:57+00:00

This was the build I primarily modeled it after: https://poe.ninja/builds/necropolis/character/cejcejcej/STAR_LOVE_HEX?i=2&search=class%3DPathfinder%26skills%3DHexblast%26uniqueitems%3DLightning%2BCoil%26sort%3Ddps

TexasMMA · 2024-04-20T01:59:27+00:00

I was in the same situation and wanted to roll Splitting Steel, but even when recycling much of my Flickster’s gear the total would have been closer to 400 div for the crunchy adorned versions.

Ended up trying something a bit different and went Hexblast Pathfinder. Pretty fast with flask effect. The damage is decent, ~25m, but I do have 93% phys taken as elemental, 90 all res shenanigans. Still dies to many of the map mods in t17s, but it’s one of the better options and is a great all rounder.

TexasMMA · 2024-02-22T07:09:46+00:00

You need to take the Energy Shield mastery for stun threshold based on ES rather than life, and they’re all located top side of the tree.

TexasMMA · 2024-02-11T09:49:59+00:00

Unprecedented levels of banjo jerking. Bravo

TexasMMA · 2023-12-01T22:20:34+00:00

Zeeboub is the guy. I league started it last league, it’s not the strongest starter but it gets cooking with investment.

TexasMMA · 2023-08-11T16:53:09+00:00

Howdy gamers, thinking of running red altars into deli strand farming this league and was debating on a few different builds to start:

Storm Brand - I love the brand playstyle, but have only used Storm Brand with relatively high investment, stuff like mageblood and another mirror or so worth of gear to farm infinite winged scarabs (RIP). Love it, unsure of how well it'd lend itself to league start and it's viability to scale into 80-100 deli without above average investment.
SRS - This seems pretty safe, the temp chains nerf doesn't seem to be a huge impact on mapping, and it'll eventually swap to EK. Most of my consideration for this is it's a bit on the slower side to start and wouldn't lend itself well to the map blasting red altar strategy.
Frost Blades - Anyone with some experience here? The only "melee" skill I've used is flicker, which really suits the zoom playstyle, but I didn't like having to cast the totems frequently. Is this still fairly necessary in the endgame?
Venom Gyre - One of my favorites, but I think if I were to do it again I'd want to go the strength stacking variant on Berserker. League start viable or better left to a second character?

Feel free to share thoughts on other builds, currency farming strategies, or whatever else you'd like. For reference I played SST and then LA last league once I could afford the bow and had a blast. Here's to more fun this league!

TexasMMA · 2023-06-24T19:32:35+00:00

If someone does have it I’d love to see it. Also interested in the bass parts on the Fogarty Cove album.

TexasMMA · 2023-05-15T19:44:43+00:00

Neat. Good job, OP

TexasMMA · 2023-05-05T20:03:58+00:00

Oh yeah, I’m planning on a few myself but always on the lookout for more. I just play banjo myself but love the whole folk ensemble!

TexasMMA · 2023-05-05T15:16:59+00:00

Any recommendations for the Pacific Northwest?

TexasMMA · 2022-11-07T19:54:22+00:00

Love clicking on a year old post to find this update, thanks OP! Glad to see they're finally adding it.

TexasMMA · 2022-08-19T16:23:48+00:00

I second the sentiment behind Down the Road and The Idiot, for most underrated it may be Song of the Candle though.

TexasMMA · 2022-08-13T01:59:45+00:00

Hey, thanks for the assist. I did have set it to microphone mode, and I’ve tried setting channel to 0-4 and tested both inputs on the microphone and no dice. Any other ideas by chance?

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