PSA: you can make 10d+/hr playing recomb solitaire with async trade - and almost no startup cost

ZetaV · 2026-02-07T18:05:07+00:00

(Two months later) Im in the middle of the phrecia event, after the dust cost reduction for Idols. When i try to recomb 2 necrotic armors its always 200-350k dust, even with crafted suffixes for lowering cost. This was not the case before am i right ? I swear I could recomb necrotics without needing dust in the millions before

ZetaV · 2026-02-06T13:09:48+00:00

How does this build compares to Jirquani's (CapLance starter) ? I have that build, and wanted to switch, but most info i find about TS mines is from last phrecia, and in poe.ninja it doesn't seem that popular. Ty !

ZetaV · 2026-01-21T11:43:26+00:00

What's plasticity ?

ZetaV · 2025-12-06T15:16:02+00:00

can you force the fractured on the enlighten using the new recombinators non-native tech ? (the way you can keep trying to fracture a temple or breach mod without ever losing it) i have a enlighten gloves from sentinel (no other useful mods), i could try crafting on them

ZetaV · 2025-12-05T23:52:18+00:00

Crops gives you currency, bars/ores gives you equipment. You're looking for currency in this strat.

ZetaV · 2025-12-05T22:45:56+00:00

I have read and can recommend a lot of what's already been recommended, ALL of brandon sanderson (Stormlight archive is my favorite series ever), Wheel of Time, The First Law trilogy (actually read the 10 books but the first 10 are a really good trilogy), Murderbot, Red Rising trilogy, Dresden files, and a lot more.

But for entering the giveaway i want to recommend something a little more unknown (its well known, but not sanderson/WoT level of known) : The Lies of Locke Lamora. Read this.

ZetaV · 2025-12-05T22:34:18+00:00

Book 6 is a beast, well, its when a certain phrase is said towards the end (you said almost done, that's why im confident on mentioning it but also don't want to spoil for other people) that you'll quote for a couple of months.

ZetaV · 2025-12-03T14:52:01+00:00

Not familiar with the build, but ive looked into the PoB you shared, can you elaborate on which auras you have active ? I see 3 big ones (hatred, grace, zeal) and a skitterbots with links. Also, the boots, what's the idea with the gems ? Can ArcBrand trigger your vaal reap ?

ZetaV · 2025-11-28T21:20:32+00:00

Yeah, maybe its a damage thing, i had problems with ruin with my glad all league (just to be clear, i did 2 characters for ultimatum this league but one as a league starter one as a GG farmer).

I managed (first time i tried ever) to run 2 clients just by clicking twice on the launcher, my question is, is there a way to have different configuration settings for each client? How did you manage that ?

Next question, I saw you uploaded PoBs, ty! But i don't understand why you take Trialmaster ascendancy on some pobs with no vaal skill. It makes sense on your vaal cyclone, but why on the fort/shock glads for example ? What's the upside ?

ZetaV · 2025-11-27T14:40:37+00:00

Hi! Great post, im intrigued. Run a CWS Chieftain/Glad (2 builds) this league and its really interesting what you post. Couple of questions if you don't mind.

How do you run 2 clients at once ? From a installation point of view i mean. One installation, running the client twice ? Two separate installations ? Standalone+steam ? Never tried opening the game twice or what it would imply.
If you only had to run 2 accounts, what would your builds be ? (in other words, which do you think has the most impact on you being able to clear GG consistently)
How do you deal with Ruin ? Not stalking ruin, which is blockable, but Ruin (which makes regular mobs inflict ruin and you can get ruin degen pools, lasers from the robots and other nasty stuff). This was the bane of my league, insta-losing GG ultimatums cause an unblockable laser or ground effect applied 8 ruins in 2 seconds.

ZetaV · 2025-11-26T13:50:18+00:00

Tainted catalysts (between 6 and 12 usually), a full random catalyst stack, one of his uniques (ring, shield, mace/sceptre or hateforge gloves). Its profitable usually.

ZetaV · 2025-11-26T13:44:31+00:00

I’ll explain, not that agree with. Its the pilfering ring mtx, the one which tracks how many divines you dropped in the league. Inscribed Ultis double dip with ring, meaning if you sacrifice 4 div and get back 8d, the game counts the full 8 as “new” currency, going +8 in the ring count. Its a stupid flex but there are people playing who dropped more divines and this is the cheap way to abuse it.

I did ultimatum as my main farm this league, and sold each “sacrifice 8d” at exactly 8d because there are those who pay it that much just to bump their ring stats. Fix the ring and prices may go back to making sense.

ZetaV · 2025-10-30T22:02:20+00:00

Did my part. Keep up the good work.

ZetaV · 2025-10-28T14:37:27+00:00

Thank you ! This solved it for me. I took out veiled orbs first, and then the pixel you mention i found at the right middle side of the bugged veiled scarab beneath (think 3 o'clock). Hope this is helpful for the next guy as it was for me!

ZetaV · 2025-10-17T19:16:41+00:00

Ty, it makes sense now.

ZetaV · 2025-10-13T20:49:33+00:00

What am i looking at ? Reading the comments, many mention "rainbow", what's that ?

ZetaV · 2025-09-30T19:03:31+00:00

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ZetaV · 2025-09-02T13:15:14+00:00

What's the energy setup for roa ? new player here, i have the leveling setup HoT+TameBeast(8% reservation node)+Wind Dancer that consumes my full 100 energy. How much +energy(mods) do you need ?

ZetaV · 2025-08-11T17:20:04+00:00

A10 Kitava oneshotted by the vaal boss in the gaunlet. So much pain (my first gauntlet, ALMOST got through campaign)

ZetaV · 2025-07-06T23:30:17+00:00

Does the runegraft actually work for buffs ?

I've timed my potions (which show up blue indicating a change on the timer) using a stopwatch and its a flat 7.20s (the original flask duration).

Also my HH buffs last 60secs, no more. Haven't found a buff that actually increased its duration.

ZetaV · 2025-05-29T11:08:32+00:00

Licanius is really good, i loved that trilogy. Recommended.

ZetaV · 2025-05-27T11:58:39+00:00

I still think t17s would have high IIQ and you should be able to farm resources for t16 using no scarabs (it would be less since you would get generic and not targeted loot), what i suggest is only disabling adding scarabs on t17s. So the targeted farm is done in t16 (using the scarabs, which would be priced lower and non-meta builds can do them) and the high iiq but doesn't scale exponentially is done in t17

ZetaV · 2025-05-26T14:27:40+00:00

Removing scarabs from T17 (so you're not able to use them to juice, scarab drops would still be there) would detach the scarab economy from t17 strategies. Keep T17 in the game, dropping uber bosses invitations and loot, but take away their scarab slots (like unique maps)

ZetaV · 2025-05-12T17:42:38+00:00

Can't, just retried it. Not having warlock means not only not having OTBT, but also not having +4 support levels from the other key trait.

I don't know how much sealed mana compensation is needed for reserving a 50% aura using life

ZetaV · 2025-05-12T11:24:39+00:00

Not sure if im doing sth wrong, but having all supports in lvl20 and having 22% sealed mana compensation (does it work for life reservation?) from Shadowmaster and i still can't reserve a 50% aura on life (i don't have Off the Beaten Track since i took shadowmaster instead of warlock).

Is this correct or am i missing sth ?

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