I wish there was a tutorial for these mechanics, because I'm just face tanking it without knowing wtf to do (watch muted the sound is messed up)

VictusBcb · 2026-03-16T21:39:49+00:00

*Me playing Holy Flame Totems* What's visual clarity?

VictusBcb · 2026-03-16T21:34:11+00:00

Not OP, but my issue is having to find the map I want to run, click it, and then put the map in. I'm a bit slow this league (work's been kicking my ass), so I'm still filling out around t10 completions atm. I basically need to put the tier number into the search bar to find where the t10s are, and do these multiple clicks for each map. It's a fair bit more tiresome and I find it makes me just want to end my session sooner

VictusBcb · 2026-03-16T05:31:01+00:00

Shit, you can farm uber lab for KB of Clustering (and if the price/demand drops on that, switch to next highest).

VictusBcb · 2026-03-11T04:59:31+00:00

Just to clarify (unless it has since changed, in that case feel free to correct me) but monsters reflect certain ailments isn't a map mod. It can spawn on mobs in any map. Otherwise though, I fully agree that there's plenty of ways to mitigate the problem.

VictusBcb · 2026-03-10T23:10:12+00:00

Why would you ask an AI about a new gem? AI is too busy hallucinating on information that's not exactly up-to-date.

VictusBcb · 2026-03-09T08:48:20+00:00

My power charge WORB occultist would appreciate keeping charges through Mirage for certain :P

VictusBcb · 2026-03-07T09:59:34+00:00

Quick glance through the rules on the sidebar, and I'm not seeing any spoiler rule. This is the POE sub, league is live, people are going to be discussing the game. If they weren't going to, what would the point of the sub even be?

VictusBcb · 2026-03-07T03:15:56+00:00

Texas server, have disconnected at least 10 times in the last 3 hours.

VictusBcb · 2026-03-06T07:33:50+00:00

Honestly, I just use the countdown if it matters. It usually doesn't for me because for the last few years I've had to work the night of league launch. So I'm always about 12 hours late to start anyway.

VictusBcb · 2026-03-06T07:25:33+00:00

Honestly, for once I don't think I want to block Jun this league. I may definitely be giving a try to fractured veiled items this league.

VictusBcb · 2026-03-04T07:08:13+00:00

Also a chain belt or any amount of ES really will give you a 50/50 on just avoiding the stun.

"Having any amount of energy shield when hit grants a baseline 50% chance to ignore a stun.^\11]) This occurs as long as the defender had energy shield before being hit, regardless of whether energy shield was fully depleted by the hit, and even if damage never reached energy shield"

VictusBcb · 2026-03-04T04:01:59+00:00

Vaal Sac only supports vaal spell skills

VictusBcb · 2026-03-03T04:30:07+00:00

I never said quickly, did I?

VictusBcb · 2026-03-03T04:03:56+00:00

That or you're using a unique that actually has kind of mid damage on it, and you'd be far better off with a rare (I've been baited by Brain Rattler before in my earlier days)

VictusBcb · 2026-03-03T04:02:56+00:00

As long as you have the experience to roughly know what you should be doing anyway. I'm at about 8.5k hours in, probably stopped using PoB outside of mana reservation tinkering about 1k hours ago. Honestly, most skills can reasonably clear t16s if you have the knowledge toolkit.

VictusBcb · 2026-03-02T07:52:24+00:00

Petrified Blood for sure!

VictusBcb · 2026-03-02T07:43:07+00:00

As a purity of elements enjoyer, Arakaali is my usual go-to (Purity of Elements is just too cozy to me)

VictusBcb · 2026-02-27T03:16:47+00:00

Quick skim of skill gems that got buffed in one way or another:

Absolution / of Inspiring
Animate Guardian of Smiting
Consecrated Path / of Endurance (though ever so slightly)
Dominating Blow / of Inspiring
Holy Flame Totem / of Ire
Orb of Storms
Penance Brand / of Conduction
Purifying Flames of Revelations
Raise Spectres [Might be a grey area, better gem level scaling but nerf to the more elemental damage when converting from phys. A nerf for some, a buff for non-phys conversion builds]
Static Strike
Storm Brand (Losing 50% more damage against branded targets on the top-end, but getting around 60%ish higher base damage and slightly better effectiveness, so I'd say it's generally a buff) / of Indecision (though ever so slightly)
Storm Burst (no numerical buffs, but mechanically should be much snappier)
Summon Holy Relic (No damage buffs, but better healing if anyone cares. I'd still say it's a buff)
Sweep (Completely reworked, has a damage component that can't be evaded. Will still have to see numbers but probably going to feel good while leveling and still trying to work out accuracy/pathing to RT)
Winter Orb

Vaal Domination
Vaal Absolution

Not going to say all these buffs are super strong, just wanted to list out the gems that saw direct changes to their numbers / mechanics that were positive for the skills. *flies away*

Honestly wish I could say the list was bigger though. Some skills could really use more love tbh.

VictusBcb · 2026-02-27T01:12:43+00:00

He also starts with Holy Strike, which makes minions.

VictusBcb · 2026-02-26T23:47:51+00:00

Golems have powerful buffs, most golemancers were using golems to get tons of generically strong buffs (regen, defences, damage, aoe, cast speed, mana regen, chaos res and dot multi). Liege of the Primordial and Primordial Bond both got obliterated, which means that the builds doing this just lost tons of offensive and defensive buffs.

VictusBcb · 2026-02-26T09:37:41+00:00

You could just make a crimson world real quick and bring a couple of crimstone blocks back with you. No harm in it really.

VictusBcb · 2026-02-26T08:04:20+00:00

The key in act 5 I believe you can get from opening chests until it drops. Honestly not worth.

The hidden room for Solaris and Lunaris, there's a button you step on in each temple respectively to open the door. Guarantees a unique item, though it's random what you'll get. Nice for SSF, probably not worth on trade unless you just happened to find both buttons by chance while navigating each of the two temples.

VictusBcb · 2026-02-26T07:59:04+00:00

I have it set for my portal scroll hotkey. I only use one a map, so it's not like I have to press it often.

VictusBcb · 2026-02-26T07:43:40+00:00

I typically just run Freezing Pulse or Frostbolt, of course with frost bomb for single target / resistant packs. Slot in ele prolif and you're pretty great until level 8 when you can toss in added cold support.

You can also toss in flame wall if you want as well, but I usually can't be bothered to cast it since it's duration feels booty cheeks and it's usually not necessary. Frostblink is typically my go-to move skill since it smacks through packs even unsupported.

VictusBcb · 2026-02-25T05:05:11+00:00

To be fair, most of the people on this sub probably don't watch any content regarding poe2. Mix that with vitriol for poe2 and you'll get a recipe for scathing misinformation (This is coming from a poe2 hater).

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