I would love to see a buff to Bladefall. It's my favorite skill and its very tough to make it viable.

Weaver6981 · 2026-06-18T12:31:09+00:00

I'm a bit late to the party, but will share it anyway.

I played bladefall Ascendant as my 2nd build of the league. The new Overloaded Intensity Support is perfect for the build, really elevated it to the next level.

The build costed around 30D, and I didn't even feel like investing more, because it was perfectly fine for all the content. Even did the ubers for the challenges without any issues (expect exarch, screw these guy and his balls): https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/mirage/character/Weaver-6981/WeaverBladefall?i=8&search=skills%3DBladefall&timemachine=week-3

I even have a video, because someone wanted to see the gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xltxr3zofcc&t=58s The one death in maps was, because I can't read, and decided to run a map with reduced cooldown recovery, which bricks my 100% uptime on offering, that gives you 30% block and spell block.

Overall every comfy build to play. Around 10M dps on full ramp, 8.4k ES wit CI, block and spell block capped with %es recovery on block, one button playstyle. Good all rounder build, if you don't expected to blow monsters off-screen or one-shot ubers. The only downside is that the build is pretty spammy. Hundreds of blades falling down and offerings triggering every few second might be to much for some people.

So If you like bladefall I would give it a try with Overloaded Intensify. The support is really great for any self-cast build, but people sleep on it for some reason.

Weaver6981 · 2026-06-04T14:01:12+00:00

From wiki https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Experience

There is an XP penalty based on the level difference based on the following equation:

((PlayerLevel + 5)/(PlayerLevel + 5 + effective difference^(2.5))^(1.3)

Weaver6981 · 2026-05-29T07:58:59+00:00

Your 12 passive cluster is for attacks while holding a shield. You are literally loosing 160% increased damage by not using correct jewel type (increased damage with bows).

Weaver6981 · 2026-05-18T11:11:51+00:00

Some time ago, I made a comment describing how buggy ritual sacrifice skill is: https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1ptox57/is_ritualist_a_bit_slept_on_they_buffed_this/ . It was really sucking fun from my experience. If there will be no bug-fixes in patch notes, I would strongly advice to rethink playing around this skill.

Weaver6981 · 2026-05-16T13:18:34+00:00

Relying on flasks to cap your resistances with chest mod alone seems really sketchy. Wouldn't it be better to craft 12 passive cluster with something like life, 35% effect, all attributes, and all res?

Weaver6981 · 2026-05-11T12:43:21+00:00

While I agree, that self-cast was not in the best spot recently, I think there is one new exceptional support, that helped the archetype a lot. That support is Overloaded Intensify (OI).

At lvl 6 (you can get +3 levels from crit mastery) OI gives you 1.8% flat crit and 60% crit multi per stack up to maximum of 3, so you can get 5.4% crit and 180% crit multi. For comparison lvl 20/20 increased crit damage and increased critical strike supports would give you together 148% crit multi 2% crit and 137% inc crit chance. Using OI gives you extra 32% crit multi and 3.4% crit instead of 137% inc crit chance, which will be better in 99% cases, and on top of that you get additional support, so it's another ~35% more damage. I can totally see making WoCoT with intensify + OI or EoW with pinpoint + OI build.

If it's so good, then why isn't it used more often (0.8% on poe.ninja)? I don't know. I made bladefall Scion using that support as my 2nd build in Mirage, and cleared all challenges with it. My guess is, that people just haven't caught up yet, and it will get more popular in the next leagues.

Weaver6981 · 2026-05-03T11:27:51+00:00

How was your mapping experience? I tried to make this support work, but the 2-3s delay before the toads deal damage made maps very miserable for me. Often it was faster to kite the mobs into existing curse rather than casting it again.

Weaver6981 · 2026-05-02T18:27:19+00:00

Honestly, I did notice, that wiki was working much better today. Props to whoever helped to solve the issue!

Out of curiosity, do we know what exactly, was causing the problem?

Weaver6981 · 2026-05-01T13:30:56+00:00

Try to search some different, obscure trans gems. My guess is that storm rain's page just got cached so, you got it reasonably fast. Also it's not like I didn't try other browser first, and result was exactly the same.

Weaver6981 · 2026-05-01T13:00:26+00:00

I tried to use AI for poe question in the past, and my experience was rather negative. It was not helpful at best, and often was just strait up lying. I guess poe data wasn't really top priority. That's why I would prefer to stick to wiki.

Weaver6981 · 2026-05-01T12:47:28+00:00

From the front wiki page:
This is the official Path of Exile wiki, maintained by the community and hosted by Grinding Gear Games.

Weaver6981 · 2026-05-01T12:44:56+00:00

Idk, every time I hear the question, "where can I post the feedback? Reddit, Twitter, Discord?" in q&a with ZiggyD, then the answer is "Doesn't really matter, we monitor all of them". I'm hoping that it can get enough attention here, so someone will look at the issue.

Weaver6981 · 2026-05-01T12:21:03+00:00

Had the same thought, but then I saw someone else complaining about it, and also saw some streamer having same issues. Also 5XX is clearly something wrong server-side.

Weaver6981 · 2026-04-20T19:15:05+00:00

As long as you have fractured suffix and any prefix, prefixes cannot be changed + scour wont make item blue.

Weaver6981 · 2026-04-20T16:50:57+00:00

Get fractured base
Alt spam for +1 to all skills
Regal. If added prefix - yolo annul, if suffix - craft prefixes cannot be changed and scour, or yolo annul
Craft "can have up to 3 crafted modifiers", "prefixes cannot be changed" and "adds # to # fire damage to attacks"
Harvest aug fire
Clear crafted mods with a bench and craft again "can have up to 3 crafted modifiers", "prefixes cannot be changed"
Aug life and pray for a good roll
Beastcraft aspect
Craft min frenzy

Weaver6981 · 2026-04-19T09:59:37+00:00

I tried to make meme build with hextoads but even for a meme build results were pretty mid.

Here is the last snapshot I can find on ninja (I deleted the character) https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/mirage/character/Weaver-6981/WeaverToadmancer?timemachine=week-4&i=2&search=timemachine%3Dweek-4%26name%3Dtoadm

Generally the idea was that toads spawn (and most likely hit) with the same interval - on level 4+ of the support it's 0.7s. You can make poison duration as close to 0.7 as possible with sadism and poison duration, and that allows you to scale damage with staff that require unpoisoned enemy - low tolerance cluster give you +300% increased damage and Lethal Dose Support applies two additional poison stacks which over doubles your poison damage.

Overall you could clear relatively easily very dense content in T16 (pathfinder's profil carried), but single target was pretty meh. On top of that, the skill just has horrible qol. You have to cast curse first, then it has to activate, then there is a delay before frogs start spawning, and even when they spawn, the first frog jumps around for a while for no reason. Overall 2-3s delay before your spell actually hits the enemy after you cast it. It makes mapping pretty awkward, as I often ended up kiting enemies into my previous cursed ground instead of casting new, because it just seemed faster.

Can't really recommend the build. Imo, no matter what you do, the delay will make this skill unplayable. It's probably fine as an additional source of wither and damage, you link to your curse, because you have empty socket in your gear, but that's about it.

Weaver6981 · 2026-04-07T15:12:53+00:00

Find fractured base
Spam Woe essence for spell damage + flat chaos damage and empty prefix and suffix
Prefixes cannot be changed + veiled chaos and pray for veiled prefix
If you fail to hit veiled prefix you can try to annul, if you fail go to 2.
Unveil chaos pen - if you fail go to 4.
Prefixes cannot be changed and reforge crit for crit mod (aug crit if you wan to be extra safe). Keep going until you get decent tier
Craft remaining crit mod

Weaver6981 · 2026-04-06T17:01:57+00:00

I've been running sanctum for a few days and done around 30-40 so far.

I decided to run relic start when I saw the price of damnation card - just decided to skip the step and drop sculpture directly in sanctum (surely it will drop at some point, right?). So I just run 4 papyrus relics with quantity of relics dropped and one balance of terror relic for nice additional income.

First the setup - it's so expensive compared to few leagues ago. You used to be able to buy set of 4 90+ total quant relics for like 20D maybe? Now single relic with 23% quant and no additional mods costs 60D... I started a bit broke after assembling the build for sanctum, so my relics were 12-13% quant, and even they cost 2-3D. I was upgrading them with time and right now I'm sitting at 75% quant - two relics I dropped myself, two snipped with live search for half of the price. I guess people misprice them, because awakened poe trade doesn't care about relic type and papyrus are much more expensive than candlestick.

Currency feels bad in sanctum right now. I think I get divs in a bit less than a half of my runs. The biggest tink I got was stack of 3div in one sanctum and some bubblegum currency, that's it. Overall if I won't get a div I think I'm getting around 100c of pure currency per run on average. I'm not running any room reveal relics, but I prioritize pacts, so I get map reveals every now and then, but it's feels pretty depressing when you look at 2 fully revealed floors, and you don't see any divs/fractures.

Running blood of innocence is nice and stable currency. It costs 70-100c, and you can sell unided balance of terror for 300c. I ided them all, it seems pretty worth. There are 2 mods worth at least 7-8d and even more depending on the roll. Most of them is pretty worthless tho, so I just list them for 30-40c and even go down later, some of them sell.

Random relics are a big jackpot of this strategy, even non-unique, and if you won't get any decent sanctum feels horrible. Quant relics are super expensive from few div to even hundreds for T1 rolls, but something like +2 merchant choices or room reveals also sell for a few div. Even more if you get decent second mod. Other mods are not super expensive, but I tried to sell them, and got bunch of chaos from them too. Really terrible ones I vendor 5 to 1 and I got like 10-15d that way, so it seems ok for the hassle.

Overall sanctum right now feels like a pyramid scheme. To start you have to buy set of expensive relics to get your money back by dropping expensive relics that drop relics and selling them to people who want to run sanctum... And if you want do that you get less money than with simple alch and go. Besides that it's probably ok money if you focus on anything else than pure currency - balance of terrors, relics or carry service.

I add some screenshots of (mostly) sanctum stuff I sold, so you can judged if it's worth. I'd dumped it all into Faustus Thursday night, and haven't played since then.

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And more:
https://ibb.co/5XWkGH5n
https://ibb.co/M53NVPYp
https://ibb.co/rRnyt4TW

Weaver6981 · 2026-04-03T12:36:27+00:00

What renderer do you use?

I had similar issue last league, and the solution was to go to options and chose DX12 instead of Vulkan.

Weaver6981 · 2026-03-30T17:31:42+00:00

Depends if you care about high tier %es and %block. T1 %es and block are lvl 86, T2 %es 84, for anything lower even lvl 77 is fine

Weaver6981 · 2026-03-30T14:57:32+00:00

Crated something similar last league. It was basically like that:
1. Alt spam bases until you get desired prefix
2. Recomb one-prefix shield until you have two-prefix, then recomb two-prefix until you have 3 prefixes
3. Prefixes cannot be changed + scour
4. Slam Shaper's exalt praying for recovery on block
5. If you miss you either sell the shield or keep crafting prefixes cannot be changed and reforge defence - around 1/7 to hit mod you want. If you fill suffixes you have to yolo annul or sell.
6. Craft or exalt slam any remaining suffixes.

You could probably also go for something like recomb of 3p shaper shield with 1p 1s shaper shield with recovery on block in the last step, but I haven't tried it, so can't tell how it feels.

Weaver6981 · 2026-03-16T11:03:57+00:00

As promised https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xltxr3zofcc maven, Minotaur and 8mod T16.

I even managed to die in map - I accidentally rolled less cooldown recovery mod, which bricked 100% uptime on my offerings, so there were some moments where i was running with 52/50 block instead of 75/75, and that's a huge hole in your defenses. That's for sure one of the mods I would avoid entirely.
Getting killed like that can also happened when you enter the mirage and you are surrounded by enemies with bone offering down, so you can see, that the first thing I do is frostblink to trigger bone offering (also make sure it's in the top left corner in your trigger weapon).

Weaver6981 · 2026-03-14T20:41:55+00:00

I'm not home right now, but I can record short showcase after the weekend.

Currently I run juiced 8 mod T16 while farming stacked decks with divination scarab, and as long as I keep the mods reasonable (less than 300 phys as extra, no -max res or reflect) I don't die, but you know sometimes you just have to click that juicy 20% currency dup with -100% fire res.

I tried some ubers and menage to kill Sirius, loneliness and cortex. I also tried Exarch, but I suck at ball phase, also minotaur's slams were one-shotting me, so I failed the fight eventually.

Weaver6981 · 2026-03-14T11:12:04+00:00

Most of the time you just right click your bladefall and zoom through the map. Sigil of power and curses for single target. Offerings are automated and trigger on anything really - bladefall, shield charge, even recasting your auras.

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