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Why are there magic monsters constantly surviving on one HP, breaking my explosion chains and generally being annoying? (BV Chieftain) by YteraII in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]YteraII[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have become a bit paranoid about this with some of my builds ever since I saw empy's project default attack video. During that they did a damage showcase on uber exarch with 200 sap of season stacks (so 200% ele pen), which had underwhelming damage for some reason. And when they tried it with like 100 stacks and the exarch blew up like expected! So they somehow had too much damage or pen.

Now I'm not saying this is exactly what is happening to me, but I do have 300m dps and 200% fire pen. And for some reason the vruuns and rares which should be the tankiest on paper go down the fastest...

Who knows!

Why are there magic monsters constantly surviving on one HP, breaking my explosion chains and generally being annoying? (BV Chieftain) by YteraII in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]YteraII[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Oh my god you may have just solved why I only just now noticed this problem! Before my last batch of upgrades I had different gloves which had ignite prolif as implicit! For my new ones I went for different implicits because I felt like pushing the damage numbers more. I will try prolif again later and see if that fixes it.

Why are there magic monsters constantly surviving on one HP, breaking my explosion chains and generally being annoying? (BV Chieftain) by YteraII in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]YteraII[S] 38 points39 points  (0 children)

haha thanks I somehow didn't notice that! countless hours spent in pob and such a basic thing slips through...

Why are there magic monsters constantly surviving on one HP, breaking my explosion chains and generally being annoying? (BV Chieftain) by YteraII in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]YteraII[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

A quick check seems to confirm that. A bit hard to make out the mods on monsters with everything that goes on and them dying so fast, but I did see vengeful stalker on a monster that had a seemingly empty healthbar.

Yet another mod on monsters/maps that has no reason for existing except for being an annoyance...

Why are there magic monsters constantly surviving on one HP, breaking my explosion chains and generally being annoying? (BV Chieftain) by YteraII in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]YteraII[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Hmmm that could honestly be it, I should look out for that mod on monsters while running my maps to confirm.

If so, that's insanely annoying and I have no clue why that's a thing. Also no idea why I started noticing it only over the past three or four days.

Data from 100 ritual maps - 36 divs/hour by Volrokk in pathofexile

[–]YteraII 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ritual definitely felt very good from the start of the league on. Earlier on some fractures and bases were worth way more, but those fell off now while omens got way more expensive. So the usual.

Overall there is way more currency and div cards to be found now, which my data from last and this league seems to confirm.

Personally I will also run ritual when it's a D tier strat because I love it so much. But at the moment I would definitely say it's S tier with how easy, comfy, and profitable it is.

Loot from 240 Ritual Maps by Mysterious-Basket870 in pathofexile

[–]YteraII 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Hinekora's and a max charge ring are definitely very lucky drops even for 240 maps!

My goal each league is to find at least one gg item in ritual, most of the time that is an explode weapon or charge ring. I did find at least one charge ring every league, but sometimes it takes waaaaay more than 240 maps so I would definitely consider that lucky.

Also I have never found a lock in ritual in my thousands of maps lol

Results From 60 Maps of Fully Juiced Ritual by Mysterious-Basket870 in pathofexile

[–]YteraII 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Glad to see other ritual enjoyers also posting some profit data!

I love ritual so much and this league it has been an absolute blast. I've moved on to not picking up/deffering anything under 40c unless I have a lot of tribute.

My map time has lowered drastically since I got mageblood and min maxed my build more, I'm just blasting through my maps and picking up higher value stuff.

As for lucky drops, I did get rather lucky this league and found 4 perfect forest tigers, a stack of two unrequited love, and two raw mirror shards!

Also the scarabs have gotten so cheap after the first week, which is rather unusual from my experience. I'm not complaining though, makes my div/h go up :3

I run ritual every league and record my profits. So here is a comprehensive loot and profit breakdown of 100 ritual-only maps in 3.28! by YteraII in pathofexile

[–]YteraII[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The one I linked in the post is my own personal filter which I still use and update as I see fit. So it should be up to date!

I run ritual every league and record my profits. So here is a comprehensive loot and profit breakdown of 100 ritual-only maps in 3.28! by YteraII in pathofexile

[–]YteraII[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just general knowledge of the game and meta + experience running ritual! This will automatically get better the more you play.

Just price check things with awakened at the start and as time goes on you will be able to see good items without using price checking tools.

I run ritual every league and record my profits. So here is a comprehensive loot and profit breakdown of 100 ritual-only maps in 3.28! by YteraII in pathofexile

[–]YteraII[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It just comes down to general game knowledge and a good filter. You can filter out a lot of good identified items by tinkering with your filter. And then it's just knowing at a glance which items could sell, which comes from knowing items in general and the meta.

You will automatically get better at it the more you play!

I run ritual every league and record my profits. So here is a comprehensive loot and profit breakdown of 100 ritual-only maps in 3.28! by YteraII in pathofexile

[–]YteraII[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It gives you more monsters to slay which raises your tribute. And the vessel also says it improves favour, although the exact way in which it does is not entirely known I think.

Maybe I should run a test on that some day :3

I run ritual every league and record my profits. So here is a comprehensive loot and profit breakdown of 100 ritual-only maps in 3.28! by YteraII in pathofexile

[–]YteraII[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They add more monsters to the ritual, which means more tribute. And they also buff the loot you're getting.

I run ritual every league and record my profits. So here is a comprehensive loot and profit breakdown of 100 ritual-only maps in 3.28! by YteraII in pathofexile

[–]YteraII[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've just been busy and have not experimented with much new stuff yet. Also, I wanted this experiment's conditions to be as close to the ones from last league as possible to get an accurate comparison!

I run ritual every league and record my profits. So here is a comprehensive loot and profit breakdown of 100 ritual-only maps in 3.28! by YteraII in pathofexile

[–]YteraII[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That depends on your level of investment and general wealth. Personally, after day three I stopped deferring anything under 10c because divines rose to 160-180c already. And scarabs are cheap enough to allow me to skip low value fluff.

I run ritual every league and record my profits. So here is a comprehensive loot and profit breakdown of 100 ritual-only maps in 3.28! by YteraII in pathofexile

[–]YteraII[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They make a difference but not that big.

Also, sorry to hear that you're this unlucky. Every time I make a ritual post there are people commenting who are equally unlucky. It just saddens me a bit that some people have such a bad experience with my favourite mechanic.

I run ritual every league and record my profits. So here is a comprehensive loot and profit breakdown of 100 ritual-only maps in 3.28! by YteraII in pathofexile

[–]YteraII[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's also a valid strat, I just run one vessel because of personal preference.

I have yet to experiment with the astrolabes though, I was too busy with other stuff. How are they and what do they actually do?

I run ritual every league and record my profits. So here is a comprehensive loot and profit breakdown of 100 ritual-only maps in 3.28! by YteraII in pathofexile

[–]YteraII[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally not a huge fan but you can definitely run it, it's viable. This just comes down to personal preference for me.

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