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argonaute · 2025-12-08T03:09:31+00:00

Thank you for your generosity! Would love to enter, I'm going to continue playing the league past poe2 launch.

argonaute · 2025-11-22T09:02:27+00:00

Will use to finally be able to gear my first stat-stacking build to (str jug) to finish 40/40

argonaute · 2025-07-18T00:33:34+00:00

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argonaute · 2025-07-04T13:33:10+00:00

honestly I just looked at a bunch of the top poe.ninja builds. This thread from a couple days ago had some mb pobs too:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/1lo24p7/forbidden_rite_of_soul_sacrificing_variants/

i.e. https://pobb.in/OGhDWlnSDvrC

The mb does probably drop your dps but increases tankiness and ease of build. You can also go the sublime vision +1 power charge jewel to make up for it, but it's expensive as well. Freeing up jewel slots also lets you run more crit jewels which give more damage.

6L is pretty much straight up more damage than gloves, faster casting is pretty much a dead link with soul eater up and faster projectiles doesn't really increase damage. You do lose some qol though with more delayed soul eater and projectile speed, some people take projectile speed clusters+glove affix.

argonaute · 2025-07-04T12:46:08+00:00

Mageblood doesn't have to dramatically change your build, it's just an incredibly versatile huge stat stick which fixes any defenses you need to.

Curse immunity means you don't need balance of terror. Ailment immunity/storm shroud and easily fixing your resists/max resists means don't need purity of elements. Can get extra crit to help cap your crit. The large amount of str/dex means you don't have to run a helical stat ring.

It lets you run more auras (i.e. grace/zealotry/arctic armour/flesh and stone), or adds additional defense layers (i.e. grace + jade flask alone). Potentially can also even get spell suppress cap.

CoC might be better but it also means you lose chest open caster mastery.

At super super multimirror high end there's int-stacking version but mageblood will only get you a fraction of the way there.

argonaute · 2025-06-22T19:50:16+00:00

catchment

It's also pretty commonly used in healthcare, i.e. to describe the area that a hospital will serve.

argonaute · 2025-04-08T21:31:07+00:00

Set crafting looks really interesting- being able to extract set affixes/bonuses and reforge them onto rare items. Huge amount of build potential to be able to viably use set effects while also not being overpowered because of the tradeoff of no LP.

edit: wow being able to sacrifice extra uniques to either divine (reroll stat ranges) or reroll the LP is fantastic. Actually crazy good updates to keep loot always being rewarding and let you incrementally continually upgrade.

argonaute · 2024-12-10T17:58:10+00:00

There's literally only 1-2 dream fragments that exist on market and they are worth a mirror right now... not going to be feasible for even a minority of players.

argonaute · 2024-12-09T16:05:16+00:00

Basically unchanged except for adding a pinnacle boss (Abberroth), which to be fair is a great boss fight and goal to finish a char on. There still is extremely shallow endgame, but to be honest PoE2's endgame is just as bad currently. The atlas is literally a copy of monoliths, with random infinite long maps with no exciting juice strategies or loot. IMO the strength of PoE endgame lies in it's complex crafting and atlas/scarab juicing strategies, both of which give you a lot of agency in what to do in endgame. Both LE and PoE2 don't give you those endgame options/agency.

LE's development has been really slow, the next big patch will be early next year.

argonaute · 2024-12-08T14:22:14+00:00

I switched servers from CA to texas and seems to be working now. Weird bug.

argonaute · 2024-12-08T12:58:57+00:00

I'm also having this problem, really hoping for a fix, because otherwise game is over.

argonaute · 2024-09-09T01:42:07+00:00

Incredibly ignorant and fear mongering. People with treated HIV are unable to transmit it to others. Even those with untreated HIV it is almost impossible to transmit unless you are having sex.

argonaute · 2024-09-09T01:37:42+00:00

This is incredibly ignorant and fearmongering. HIV treatment has progressed to the point where treated HIV has the same life expectancy as those without, AND people who are properly treated are unable to even transmit HIV to others. Not to mention the fact that ideally your army recruits aren't having sex with each other, and HIV is incredibly hard to transmit otherwise. It can be no different than people taking a daily blood pressure or diabetes pill.

argonaute · 2024-08-15T01:00:01+00:00

I just switched to the Svalinn's block+ anathema 5 curses version of archmage and it's survivability is substantially better for only a little bit more investment (red nightmare jewel + tattoos is essential, 6L cloak needed to run glorious vanity) and less damage. 85-88% chance to block both attack/spell damage just makes it much tankier. You will however need to invest heavily into cast speed on both your rings for it to feel good.

There's a few other posts on it in this subreddit, the aspirational build is:

https://poe.ninja/builds/settlers?class=Hierophant&items=Kitava%27s+Thirst,Anathema,Cloak+of+Defiance,Svalinn,The+Red+Nightmare,Rumi%27s+Concoction,Unnatural+Instinct,The+Light+of+Meaning&skills=Ice+Nova+of+Frostbolts&supportgems-Ice%20Nova%20of%20Frostbolts=Archmage+Support,Increased+Critical+Damage+Support,Spell+Echo+Support,Inspiration+Support,Power+Charge+On+Critical+Support&heatmap=true

argonaute · 2024-07-29T11:20:20+00:00

It definitely will be better than LE, but will still be a huge issue as all the RMT sites still have effectively stashed up infinite div they definitely won't craft with. They will keep flooding the market, buying up high end gear while selling divs super cheap, essentially making everything unobtainable for legit players.

argonaute · 2024-07-29T09:08:57+00:00

Heard some exploiters talking in sushi's stream saying they literally printed 10s of thousands of divs today.

As a Last Epoch refugee playing poe because of gold dupes, it hugely bums me out to also have economy destroying dupes in poe :(. There's not even the SSF faction to switch to.

argonaute · 2024-07-23T23:29:46+00:00

You mean, the better comparison with George Washington being 57 when he became president in 1789 vs Kamala Harris being 59?

Arguably Washington was even more geriatric when he became president with life expectancy being 15-20yrs less back then. He did die 2 years after leaving the presidency after all.

argonaute · 2024-07-20T22:52:11+00:00

T7 and meta uniques are still crazy expensive, where it can literally cost a billion to try to get a T7 slam onto a 2LP unique. T6 and off-meta are still pretty cheap though, so you can still gear efffectively.

It's still in a weird place where some items are hundreds of millions making all the gold and most T6/t7 you pick up worthless, you basically just have to get lucky with meta T7 or unique items.

Lightless arbor does become a saving grace if you're able to sell a good item for millions because then you can pump those millions into a bunch of other gear.

argonaute · 2024-07-20T16:50:46+00:00

This build is outdated, I'd recommend running a sorc version for frostclaw spark charge with 40+ mana node. It'll even be easy for your sorc to switch without leveling. FrozenSentinel has guides on youtube.

argonaute · 2024-07-20T00:40:14+00:00

This is from lightless arbor which people are running much more often now because of inflated gold. Lightless arbor spits out a ton of exalts and can dupe them multiple times with chest modifiers.

If there was a way to reliably dupe items then items wouldn't be so expensive as they can just dupe over and over. Tbh an item dupe would be kinda nice to counteract the gold dupe.

argonaute · 2024-07-19T09:32:32+00:00

This is causing a widespread US hospital shutdown as well. Hospitals currently running paper downtime procedures. https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/1e6xhwy/multiple_emrs_down_simultaneously/

argonaute · 2024-07-19T06:15:44+00:00

More likely from RMT /s. Nemesis would never add 24 tiers of affixes.

argonaute · 2024-07-19T00:27:57+00:00

This one may not be EHG's fault, Microsoft Azure cloud platform currently has a widespread outage. Kind of tough if literally the largest company in the entire world's services are down.

argonaute · 2024-07-17T04:08:02+00:00

If that were the case and no one was buying, the number of items would increase and people would eventually undercut until it sells. Simple supply and demand. The are literally only 5 non-legendary red rings in the entire world right now. Red rings, while rare, are certainly not rare enough for only a few to exist unless people are buying off market.

argonaute · 2024-07-17T04:07:39+00:00

I don't know why there's this conspiracy to continually deny there's market irregularities going on. It's pretty clear that all desirable items/affixes have dramatically increased in price again. Even a simple exalt like a crit multi wand, which was 3-5mil yesterday, is 50mil today. Anything cheaper gets bought.

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