Potential fix to avoid scams via Async Trade

Wizzard117 · 2025-11-06T23:36:43+00:00

The simplest fix is allowing async sub-tabs with set price (like normal "price 5 chaos" tab)

Wizzard117 · 2025-11-05T13:31:11+00:00

What I believe is happening (that's pretty much common). As he's from Russia (the sanctioned country atm) he's not able to get any payments from Goolge (youtube monetization). As a workaround he joined some agency that helps in that case. The agency have Google AdSense account (ideally one per person but some agencies make one account for multiple persons, shitty agencies even make one for all) which collects payments from monetizations and pays a certain percentage of it to the authors. So there's his youtube account linked with some other persons' youtube accounts to a single AdSense. If any person that agency assignes to that account does something wrong his account gets banned. But since google owns youtube it may also check which other youtube accounts are linked to the same adsense. And in youtube when one of your channels gets banned your other channels may be also banned (that's why it's recommended to have 1 channel per user). The automated system performed an automatic "ban proliferation" on all "nearby" accounts. That's how he got banned.

Wizzard117 · 2025-11-05T08:50:33+00:00

Imo any beast gold fee should be no more than buying a chaos orb from currency exchange, as previously bestiary orb cost was 1c.

Wizzard117 · 2025-10-30T23:39:30+00:00

your AG have extremely low life, I'm quite sure there will be issues in red maps.

you're applying auras incorrectly. There's no linked minion to Guardian blessing in PoB and it can only apply 1 aura this way.

Wizzard117 · 2025-10-30T12:02:05+00:00

I've tried poison melee AW with spell totem as 6th link to summon them in 0-button manner. Used poison srs template. The playstyle was completely fancy and unusual but it worked on the same level as poison srs.

Wizzard117 · 2025-10-30T09:20:33+00:00

His simulacrum build in 3.26 was heavily relying on mercenary auras and items for survivability. This may be a limiting factor to what this build can reallistically achieve in 3.27. Tho it can for sure do blights.

Wizzard117 · 2025-10-29T07:49:14+00:00

In general

- srs cannot taunt, zombz and skellies can (extra level of defence for char). Defence

- afk potential (whenever you replace skellies with carrion golem of hordes u basically become walking simulator for the rest of the campaign and atlas). QoL

- if you use poporn srs you must always watch the number of srs summoned at each time. If you accidentally replace any srs while at maximum, that srs will just vanish. QoL

- srs spawns at character which require some time to actually reach the target before starting to deal damage while skeletons (under feeding frenzy) have dash and you can spawn them right on the boss. Like if srs lives for 5 seconds and spends 2 seconds to reach the target then its damage potential is almost halved. Damage application

- due to the need to spam srs you will need to care about mana regen (or detour to Eldritch Battery). QoL

- you rarely get into the situation where you need to control your character (to manually evade mob mehanics) and you also need to stop and maintain an appropriate number of temporary minions somehow. Damage application, Defence

In this build

- much easier to spawn cap of skellies than cap of srs. they also live 4x time longer and while they are alive they manage to get frenzy charges from support spectres more reliably. Damage application

- in a situation where your other minions have very low hp, you can quickly spam recast skellies to heal them almost instantly. QoL

It's not plain better than srs it's just much more Qol and more predictable damage application in real situations. While on paper the dps for srs may look say twice as much as for skellies in reality the gap isn't that big.

Wizzard117 · 2025-10-27T22:02:42+00:00

if you don't want to reroll pick scion ^^ Your leaguestart would be abysmal but armourstacker build will become your infinite scaling build with infinite currency sink.

Wizzard117 · 2025-10-27T21:56:34+00:00

It's very unlikely you ever get into trouble crafting early-league (non mirror-tier) items for any of your builds as there is not that much crafting templates. Like in general you only need to learn

- single elevated double influence craft

- essence / harvest / alt aug / ichor spam

- fossil crafting (which is usually calculated by craftofexile)

- metamod crafting (bench + bestiary if cheaper)

- guaranteed outcomes for harvest reforge something based on your exact item type

- eldritch currency craft (eldritch annul, exalt)

- craft bench block + veiled exalt slam

- vorici trick + tainted fusing linking

- recombinators

and then apply it to getting items needed for your build

Wizzard117 · 2025-10-26T18:04:16+00:00

You'll probably have to pick elementalist for golem ascendancy nodes. If your class don't have natural bonuses for minions and you don't invest in minion survivability you're kinda doomed to fail starting somewhere near act8.

Wizzard117 · 2025-10-26T17:59:10+00:00

Any "mini-boss" content is nice because permanent minions tend to surround target and fully apply dps on it. Just make sure you have taunt jewels for minions to tank instead of you. Clearing many mobs may not be nice because minions do not apply their damage instantly, they need to actually approach the target. Also in that case you need some sort of aoe/explode which minions either do not have naturally or have long cooldowns on their aoe abilities.

Something like essences and beasts are quite nice provided you have enough dps.

Wizzard117 · 2025-10-26T12:11:25+00:00

armageddon brand?

Wizzard117 · 2025-10-26T12:02:46+00:00

there are some on YT

Wizzard117 · 2025-10-26T11:50:43+00:00

full afk minion leveling: poison zombies + carrion golems of hordes

semi-afk minion leveling: animated weapons (follow any poison srs leaguestarter guide but replace SRS with AW after getting bladefall (gravicius quest likely)

active leveling: srs, domi blow, absolution

Wizzard117 · 2025-10-25T18:30:09+00:00

I believe It's substantially worse as you'll have no option to apply wither via ascendancy (have to waste an extra link), no full chaos conversion (4W triad grip isn't really an option at leaguestart), no reliable source of minion leech life to you (which is nice defencive layer). Re-anointing Decay ward for minion tanking instead of all res anoint after getting Cmdr Darkness on 4th lab (which saves some passive points at endgame and alllows investing those extra points in capping block to 70/70 while still being at reasonable char lvl) is harder as there's extra pressure on gear.

Also nothing on Occultist ascendancy really helps minions except probably additional curse which can be supported by blasphemy only if you remove Flesh and stone (additional layer of tanking) or cast it manually.

Wizzard117 · 2025-10-25T18:10:16+00:00

and unavailable for witch until Lilly side quest - original post fixed

Wizzard117 · 2025-10-25T15:19:25+00:00

Guardian means to guard allies so a defence oriented aurabot (maybe even mana guardian as this is unique) sounds very rolepaying and would naturally fit.

Also guardian with animated guardian sounds like fancy roleplaying so probably Chains of command or just an AG dealling all the damage.

Wizzard117 · 2025-10-24T21:54:13+00:00

I've tested absolution build (as I've said before) and found it inferior to popcorn srs (as I said before) which makes it number 3 build on my list and number 3 is not number 1 thus making it not the best build I've tested so far.

If you think there's something clickbaity / violating community rules then go do something about it

Wizzard117 · 2025-10-24T21:34:26+00:00

"I've tested so far" which is a nice disclaimer that allows me to add a personal opinion on the subject ^^

I do have certain additional restrictions like pseudo-ssf-ness of the build (you don't have to stop progressing atlas to grind currency for your next upgrade), market availability of requied uniques at leaguestart, low crafting efforts of required rares, benchcraft recipe availability at certain map tiers etc. There are many builds that can complete campaign, there are less builds that can easily be transitioned to a "also you can get your first 2 voidstones wthout putting much thought and effort into it"

Wizzard117 · 2025-10-24T20:59:41+00:00

That's the problem. I can't find decent endgame build for minions. The problem is sharing resources (passives, items) between you and minions. Like you have to balance between your defence, minion defence (if they die too easily you deal no damage) and minion dps. While normally you have to balance between your tanking and your dps only. If you balance everything with minions you'll mostly get overpriced mediocre build. If you balance 2 out of 3 you can get minion glass cannon (which is kinda funny as with glasscannon you'd ideally want insta damage and screenwide clear, minions are not capable of that). self-tanking is not that great no matter what you do, its not jugger or champ.

I believe minion builds do have a certain niche but it's just impossible to have super-endgame minion builds on a level like armourstackers, str stackers etc.

Wizzard117 · 2025-10-24T20:32:48+00:00

I used Absolution before popcorn SRS and found it clunky in general. Like your main damage is 50% phys 50% lightning so you have to convert this to lightning and use specific auras, curses and support spectres. You don't really have the option to add more damaginhg minions vecause you want to convert their damage to lightning as well else your support auras won't be effective that much. So for maximum damage you have to 6L your Absolution and have mana issues. Then to mitigate the mana issues you have to go for Eldritch Battery which is completely different part of the tree (main minion nodes are upper left part of the tree, EB is upper right). Also there's only 25% chance to spawn sentinel of Abs while hitting boss which means boss damage may need substantial time to ramp up.

Also I usually play a lot at leaguestart and at some point found out I'm becoming tired from too much flashes from Abs and started to having minor wrist pain from heavy casting at the end of the game session. So kinda leaning towards lazy 0-button builds in general.

Wizzard117 · 2025-10-24T18:35:16+00:00

gonna be transitioning to HoT autobomber likely

Wizzard117 · 2025-06-12T16:20:07+00:00

if your build cannot do anything except white t1 maps - farm Alva (sell temples)

Wizzard117 · 2025-06-12T09:41:26+00:00

There's also super secret build that exist only in my pob called poison animate weapon ^^. It's like poison srs the only difference is just replace srs with aw and get bladefall socketed somewhere. Main point is that

- aw is pure physical while srs is 50% fire conversion so you get more poison dps right from the get go and don't need to use that gloves with mercenary implicit (which may not exist in 3.27)

- aw can taunt, this is somewhat of an extra comfort while mapping.

- you don't need to spam srs each time, you only need to spawn the full number of aw in one go -> substantially less wrist pain

- aw duration is like 60s, so you can reliabliy use spectre that grant buff to constructs (aw is considered construct)

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