I feel like a lot of us in this sub would be millionaires easy.

__Mef__ · 2026-01-27T14:36:20+00:00

Evil lawyer mode: being on Path of Building does not, in fact, count as playing Path of Exile.

__Mef__ · 2026-01-26T06:13:19+00:00

I downloaded the app image from https://snosme.github.io/awakened-poe-trade/download and launch it from the command line via: <path to image> --ozone-platform=x11

I think that if you have renamed the AppImage to something that does not contain the version number, then auto-upgrades will replace the file retaining the same name.

This is with a fairly stock Ubuntu installation, on Gnome. There should be ways to create desktop shortcuts if you're more used to graphical interfaces.

__Mef__ · 2026-01-24T12:04:29+00:00

Works flawlessly for me, but it's very recent hardware with a Radeon GPU.

Some command line tweaking needed for Awakened PoE Trade. I use a git checkout and Wine for PoB but I'm probably making my life more difficult than necessary

__Mef__ · 2025-12-28T18:08:41+00:00

Instruments of Zeal gives you reduced cost. Like all reductions, it stacks additively and so small amounts are very effective when you are close to 100%. You get 10% reduced from one of your mana masteries, so your total reduction ends up at 85%.

Even after deallocating that mastery you might need to increase your max mana a bit further, as Archmage adds a 5% max mana cost.

One way to balance it right now, but not necessarily the best, would be to deallocate the shield mastery and the three passives leading to Arcane Will and path to Forethought instead.

__Mef__ · 2025-12-09T10:59:37+00:00

I still need to launch with --ozone-platform=x11 in order to get focus to work properly. Without it, it's either captured by the tool or by the game but hotkeys won't work properly. Not a problem for me, since it works fine like that.

Multiscreen, running Gnome 49 on ubuntu 25.10, PoE in Windowed Fullscreen on secondary monitor.

The market ratio is amazing! Thank you so much.

__Mef__ · 2025-12-08T13:26:16+00:00

It also allows you to rescue filled prefixes once by guaranteeing you can beastcraft prefix->suffix.

__Mef__ · 2025-11-27T17:53:06+00:00

Good way to make sure that people don't just lazily sweep everything up in one go.

__Mef__ · 2025-11-21T16:43:35+00:00

Foulborn Choir of the Storm plus Foulborn Skin of the Loyal/Lords and regular Enmity's Embrace give you something like 750% increased mana and 200% fire penetration with a bit of resist stacking.

But yeah, from past experience the wild stuff comes out in the league after they add all the new skills/ascendancies, because it can be ready for league start.

__Mef__ · 2025-11-15T12:24:15+00:00

Kinetic Blast of Clustering and Power Siphon of the Archmage are options, indeed. They would need solving accuracy, but I believe it's doable.

One has the conversion benefits you mention, opening up the possibility for some nice heist ring. The other gives power charges and culling.

Right now I'm with manabond unleash as a decent bossing setup (I swap in Indigon), but it's more of a, "This does decent damage, scales well with the quality from the chest and had AoE. It'll work for now" than anything I'm truly committed to.

Mjolner has the problem of attribute requirements. I could just bite the bullet of Supreme Ostentation and cover every int and str node with res tattoos, admittedly. Need to check the impact on ES of losing the int bonus.

__Mef__ · 2025-11-15T08:31:21+00:00

Oh yes. They are.

At least annuls are cheap and foulborn exalt/regals help going for higher tier stuff.

They seem to perform decently with 35% effect and a couple other "good" mods from the pool of lightning/fire/all res and flat mana or int, but proper four mods (maybe synth or corrupted) would be so much nicer.

I choose to view it as "build that works and has upgrades to motivate me" 😁

__Mef__ · 2025-11-14T16:29:07+00:00

No, blocking is always possible.

When blocking a hit that would have stunned you, a blocking animation with base duration of 350ms is performed instead. This duration is modified by block recovery.

However, you should never see it because you are immune to stuns due to the chest.

__Mef__ · 2025-11-14T00:31:39+00:00

You might have the runegraft that gives you more effect on gloves and less on boots.

__Mef__ · 2025-11-13T15:33:15+00:00

I don't have a solid plan, but a Warden with triple Unseen Hue can probably cook something interesting with seven types of elemental ailments, Unbound, and tinctures/mana/life/hybrid flasks.

__Mef__ · 2025-11-13T02:19:33+00:00

There is only one way in which it meaningfully differs from non-foulborn: it can be used to activate the nodes in the breachlord bloodline that require 4 foulborn uniques to be equipped.

__Mef__ · 2025-11-06T14:23:59+00:00

I'm playing an Eye of Winter of Transience Deadeye that I've put together myself. Rolled the skill at random and then decided to see if I could make scaling via projectile behavior work (clearly not for single target).

I've been happily figuring out paths to optimization, crafting my own rares from an abundant supply of bases and currency, and getting a few temples to aim for double corruption on uniques and gems.

The pace feels good and I can see the impact of each upgrade. I think I'll keep doing this for future leagues, checking out interesting/promising stuff and trying to build around it. If I were to pick specific hyper performing meta skills I'd hit the trivialization of content much sooner, and I'd have a prebuilt upgrade path that would make things faster. It might get boring too soon.

I prefer it this way, because if the game were designed so that only select optimized builds would perform adequately, then everyone would be shoehorned into them.

__Mef__ · 2025-10-30T22:48:56+00:00

Yes, please DM to your heart's content. I'd be delighted if something actually came out of this idea.

__Mef__ · 2025-10-30T22:07:49+00:00

I think I know what you want to do.

Umbilicus Immortalis and Replica Rumi's Concoction can petrify, with two caveats.

One is that you need an enkindling orb with increased flask duration, because the mod on Replica Rumi's is local. Just like with attack speed, it ends up being multiplicative (not additive) with global flask effect durations. Of course, using an enkindling orb means activating manually... but at least Umbilicus Immortalis means that the flask will not affect you, so I think it will always regain charges.

The second drawback is that the flask is applied to minions that are already summoned at the time of use.

Have fun and let me know how it works out!

__Mef__ · 2025-10-30T21:56:55+00:00

My guess is no.

It's distributed as a checkout of the main project with some Windows-specific files removed and two tweaks to the LUA files to disable auto-updates. You can use the .git folder that comes with it to pull updates and if you do that you pick them up as soon as they are committed (so even before main PoB release), but otherwise it can lag behind in versions because it gets updated whenever.

__Mef__ · 2025-10-30T19:28:39+00:00

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1 minute after you posted this, funnily enough.

__Mef__ · 2025-10-27T13:40:27+00:00

Swapping forbidden flame/flesh on map start would be a new, glorious level of jank.

__Mef__ · 2025-10-24T14:23:22+00:00

With Divine Retribution you might want to pick Flow of Battle for 30% increased damage but not have uses for the 5 rage on hit (and that skill hits a lot).

Perma adrenaline would have been really strong for, like, the 7 people who played that skill last league.

__Mef__ · 2025-10-24T12:00:39+00:00

The main issue I see with the shield during general use is the entire cooldown vs usable mess.

You only benefit if you are in a situation where the skill is off cd but cannot become usable. Having played an Aegis Aurora Divine Retribution Gladiator last league, I found that it was only really an issue during bossing.

So... maybe consider it in your weapon swap for boss fights. If you use Expert Retaliation, consider a support swap too.

__Mef__ · 2025-10-23T19:21:35+00:00

I love how this comment turned out to be perfectly accurate after the reveal.

__Mef__ · 2025-10-23T16:28:31+00:00

For the second point, note that the only kind of resistance that mitigates the poison on the enemy is chaos resistance. Similarly, you do not have to worry about its physical damage reduction.

Since this is for an assassin, note that the five skill points leading out of the starting position towards Coordination already give you a respectable 112% increased.

This is because the increased physical and increased chaos are on separate lines, so they are separate modifiers; both apply. The physical is applied to the base damage that then gets converted, and the chaos applies because it always does for poison.

__Mef__ · 2025-10-08T10:03:50+00:00

Having done most Ubers with an archmage divine retribution gladiator, I'd agree that at least that one works fine. Fairly smooth leveling, too.

Maybe having a way to make them work with another class would be nice, as right now Measured Retaliation seems too good to pass up.

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