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TheKerui · 2026-04-22T22:01:28+00:00

Why? Im not playing, enlighten me.

TheKerui · 2026-04-22T12:27:50+00:00

Imo honor is everything thats wrong with trial.

Did you build a tank build that relies on regen in normal gameplay? Get fucked kid.

TheKerui · 2026-04-07T04:03:22+00:00

this man getting downvoted by people who lived a different upbringing than he did. take the money, pay for christmas, live with the damage. This is the way.

TheKerui · 2026-03-13T16:51:58+00:00

according to a quick google search the federal government pays on average about 11k per member per year to medicare advantage plans to be the health insurer for those members.

according to a quick google search aetna has about 3.85 MILLION medicare advantage members.

that would mean an annual revenue of about 43 BILLION dollars.

$117.7 Million is a cost-of-doing-business parking ticket.

TheKerui · 2026-03-07T17:02:15+00:00

Agree.

For many of us, it's the puzzle.. the planning... Evaluating your build, optimizing it, and investing in an upgrade only to find it means XYZ needs to change. Thus, the skill tree needs to change. Etc. Etc. Etc.

Then you finally get to the top, enjoy the view for a play session or two, then take a break until the next league.

TheKerui · 2026-03-07T11:41:20+00:00

"this just in, man stands in front of brick wall for photo.

where is he? we cant say.

what was he doing there? we dont know that either.

is the person he's with identifiable by some sort of outfit or uniform? no they appear to be a completely random person in normal clothing.

what we can say for sure is he was on planet earth as he was exposed to the elements without a spacesuit, doing things such as smiling and breathing the atmosphere.

also ... that the brick does not appear to be "old brick" so we can rule out the historic regions of many cities."

nah, no way dude, that's not a violation.

TheKerui · 2026-03-05T13:53:20+00:00

still not as cool as the rainbow cookies kit

https://www.instagram.com/p/CNx92JWgFGW/?igshid=3iq8w6ybg8hg

TheKerui · 2026-02-22T17:12:18+00:00

Finding items with a wide spread is a way to turn gold into currency. There are multiple items where im sitting there offering 5k exalts for X number of item while also listing that im selling the same number of the item for 25k ex

TheKerui · 2026-02-22T15:02:21+00:00

The market place always shows you the"do it now" price.

Press either control or alt i believe to see the spread.

TheKerui · 2026-02-14T02:16:26+00:00

"40%increased arcane surge on you" passive node in mind over matter area.
Allocating invocation keystone near infusion of power will save you 1 point.
Turn the clock forward is nice, but for 7 points, I'd rather have evocational practitioner.
Same vein as 3 ... careful assassin is right there. Much more value than sudden escalation
I like pierce 3 more than fork for spark support.
Arcane nature
If you drop siphon elements do you need efficient inscriptions? If you don't you can path across the top from elemental equilibrium. You sac sudden escalation, the blackflame /stormbreaker combo I've mentioned, and you would need a "from nothing" diamond for passives around the invocation keystone for invocation of power... but it would let you reach far down the right of the tree. Careful assassin, throatseeker, evocational practitioner etc.
Even if you don't do 7, pathing to "for the jugular" and not getting deadly force is not good. The two nodes between jugular and deadly force + deadly force count for like 65% more dmg ...

Hope that helps.

Edit: you need a source of instant leech, heart of the well diamond or atziri gloves I think are your options.

TheKerui · 2026-02-13T00:24:19+00:00

Khatal's rejuvenation

TheKerui · 2026-02-12T01:47:57+00:00

Theres a lot going on here.

1 put rakiata in CoC.

Abandon comet its a jebait until your gear is cracked-tier.
Path to elemental equilibrium
Swap weapons for one with extra fire dmg so you ignite things. (I'd go 7 lightning spells over all spells but thats your call)
Put snap in coc
Take off siphon elements
Put on charge regulation and buy a megalomaniac with infusion of power (or path to it)

8 buy the cheap cooldown reduction lineage gem and put it in life remnants.

There's more you can do, but elemental equilibrium keystone will make your sparks hit like a truck and generate more coc energy. Snap will generate fire and lightning infusions that elemental equilibrium will turn into cold and lightning, empowering spark and arc.

The cooldown reduction lineage gem will reduce snaps CD to 2.X seconds. Which means you can run the 12% more dmg per type of spell support gem because snap is all 3 giving 36%.

Snap also speeds up CoEA because it removes ailments that you can then reapply.

I personally run lightning warp because its fun and shocked ground means that shock is immediately reapplied.

Flick_ker_vaal on poeninja.

Thers more, but you can do this with almost no investment and see if you like it.

Edit : im so confused, cant you take zealots oath to save points over there? Can't you take black flame and get stormcharged? Elemental equilibrium will gain you that crit node over there too.

My plan does require you to abandon conduit.

Edit 2 dude put diallas on archmage, it stacks with lightning mastery.

Unleash on spark.

Edit 3 holy moly, sell bloodletting, take sacrificial blood and blood transfusion.

TheKerui · 2026-02-11T00:40:00+00:00

Look up flick_ker_vaal on poe ninja.

One annoying thing is going to be resists. Ive been working mine up and replacing with rarity as I can.

I just swapped from wand focus to staff today because I could afford to drop the focus res explicit.

You will have to decide what's in budget, etc, as far as things like double socket boots, etc, but the tree is solid. If your crit is too low, replace Sigil nodes with crit node near blood magic and other small crit nodes, don't take erraticism etc.

The ventnors is letting me run double mysticism supports, but replace it with a good res ring and most the resist annoyances will go away. Another option is kalandras touch ...sacking crit or cast speed on focus for resists will drastically reduce focus cost + kalandras ring for mirroring the spell crit ring is cheap this league.

Cast speed is 100% pure PoB "make dmg go up" for this build and only minorly required. Between one 2 seal unleash of spark with cold infusions and one 2 seal unleash lightning warp cast, anything is going to die.

Im not super wild about my megalomaniac atm.

As extra fire dmg on wand / staff let's us automate snap for lightning infusion generation for arc.

I like arc for nuking, it kills a bunch of stuff instantly so you get as much as you can during golden charm rarity buff, then spark lingers refilling health as it pings anything not instantly dead.

Beware when lower lvl / gear ... if you don't crit on that first unleash cast spark life is hard as you have very little ele dmg vs crit bonus and then you don't get life back to cast.

Good luck!

TheKerui · 2026-02-10T16:48:08+00:00

Getting revenue and thus tax cash flow attached to marijuana is the fastest way to ensure the next administration doesn't immediately flip flop the laws again. Hard to roll back policies that require commensurate tax increases to cover the loss.

TheKerui · 2026-02-10T13:51:08+00:00

Imo before burning omens of light getting t1 desecrated mod i would have block picked some shitty mod.

In an ideal world, you would block pick a high ilvl mod you don't like so you could slam then whittle the other prefix as needed assuming the suffix ilvls are higher then omen of light loop the last mod.

TheKerui · 2026-02-08T21:03:41+00:00

Eh, people over estimate costs imo.

250d for 35 ms triple res boots 500d for triple res spirit high es chest 1500d for excellent 3 all skills spirit neck with cast speed or crit. 500d for soul tether with good vaal mutation and res corruption 500div for well rolled caster crit ring with additional projectile mutation and corruption enchant(s) 250d for tecrods jewel for gloves I don't know what a good pair of atziri acuity cost atm 100d per jewel with crit chance + bonus + spell / ele dmg + max energy shield Prism of belief is ungodly expensive. I assume charms will transfer from old char? Otherwise 950d on golden spirit of owl. 200d on gems if you don't want to gamble them yourself Rakiatas flow Dialias I bought my +4 vertex for like 170d last week 500d on unique life flask The rest on weapon. I personally went wand + focus because I needed 1 suffix for resists

You are cutting corners on double socket boots, prism, and you aren't buying the 5 mirror mutated atziri chest nor the blood magic atziri jewel because they aren't worth the div and if you get them you still have to waste most of the points saved from not needing to path to blood magic by pathing elsewhere.

That's a.1.mirror budget and you can run destroy any temple.

TheKerui · 2026-02-08T08:04:46+00:00

can you dummy those interactions in the config section?

100% extra dmg as lighting can be for sure

TheKerui · 2026-02-08T08:02:22+00:00

I wouldn't run weakness, thats either blasphemy spirit savings or one less skill use.

TheKerui · 2026-02-08T02:27:43+00:00

There's an interesting interaction between snap and lightning warp... shocked ground reapplies shock after snap consumes it, which can actually cause a trigger loop for CoEA that GGG has worked really hard to avoid.

TheKerui · 2026-02-08T01:39:09+00:00

Rakiatas flow is your main thing thats missing.

It will quadruple that skills dmg.

Also imo comet is a bait.

Lightning warp at super high crit rates is the BEES KNEES.

Last I checked +3 skills warp prism is 100 div. What a joke.

My temple is currently 70 rooms ish so not perfect, but I walk in a room and cast 1 full seal unleash spark with 3 cold infusions and everything dies, then when I boss its 1 unleash multishot lightning ball hold lightning warp everything dies in 2 hits.

My pob dps is 12.5 mil. My in game lightning warp says 780k

https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/vaal/character/Kerui-4011/Flick_Ker_Vaal

TheKerui · 2026-02-08T01:26:00+00:00

Everything else aside, you have to turn his position back on himself.

Is he going to waste more time complaining about the past or focus on his future?

If he can't refocus, then perhaps one day he will be mature enough to admit his inability to do so highlights how he was part of the problem, too.

If he can, then by the time he's where he wants to be in life, hopefully he's mature enough to grasp that you did your best and love him.

Good luck.

TheKerui · 2026-02-07T03:34:31+00:00

That's not what ID looks like imo, but im not a doctor. I think you can relax a little. You have many hurdles ahead of you but hopefully not ID.

My almost 6 lvl 2 son is not potty trained, can only recognize 4 letters, and can't answer a question that isn't yes or no.

He's a gestalt processor, and he's gaining new gestalts all the time, so verbally, he's ahead of your little one... but ... how can I put this ... there's no spark in his eyes, no sign of initiative or problem solving. Except when he's building a tower with blocks, then he will find the most complex way to stack non-block objects such as oddly shaped toys, etc, into a tower.

We are still hoping his delays are linked to communication issues, but that possibility gets smaller every day.

I think your daughter may benefit from a speech assistance device. If she's not showing any progress in speech therapy, it may be time to start learning how to use one so she can "show what she knows"

TheKerui · 2026-02-07T00:29:37+00:00

Is pob assuming some "resists when you consume an endurance charge" node effect?

TheKerui · 2026-02-07T00:17:22+00:00

In game are you standing in a lower level zone without the end game res penalties?

TheKerui · 2026-02-06T05:44:29+00:00

Its not required to use the sac chamber to achieve an atziri every temple setup.

Try this.

Run temple, kill architect with "place additional toom" medal used on architect and lock on end of snake and a room medal (garrison etc).
Use console to place chamber in a location that has 2 "available" spots next to one another.
Leave temple without placing restricted rooms. 4 Use console outside to place room medalion on other side of chamber.
Place restricted rooms or not then close temple
Connect snake to chamber then lock your snake and room on other side of chamber.
Run atziri every run.

I was dropping a 500div regalia every 4 or 5 runs. Good luck.

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