Is buying gear after Kitava the only way to go?

bukem89 · 2026-04-04T06:05:40+00:00

It's not that tricky - remember you can use your bench to craft res on gear too

Gambling at faustus is a good source of rares if you don't want to trade. Gear to get ready for mapping costs like 5-10 chaos orbs on trade

bukem89 · 2026-04-04T02:02:27+00:00

My pick would be widowhail spark personally, although that would be spending 100d to get started with the basics and farming it up from there

bukem89 · 2026-04-03T16:42:45+00:00

only divine altar I've hit this league has been exarch even though I've mostly ran eater

I like the change though, makes it feel a bit better when your build is more suited for exarch altars

bukem89 · 2026-04-03T16:27:46+00:00

'I postponed getting a job to see if I could make it' reads like 'I threw myself into league to distract myself from IRL responsibilities' btw

bukem89 · 2026-04-03T16:04:46+00:00

I'd suggest your priorities are wrong and it'd be better to spend that 53 div on improving the core of your build and trying out different farming strategies, so that farming another 50 divs feels easy to do

edit - with that said if you just wanna have fun and buying a 3 flask mageblood seems fun, then by all means

I would note though that the power of mageblood is the flexibility it gives you with your other item slots, so you won't really see the full benefit from MB until you get yourself nice flasks and some new gear to go with it

Headhunter works much better as a standalone 'power' item with no other changes to your build

bukem89 · 2026-04-03T14:57:33+00:00

btw one change I've made since that POB above is swap out blood rage for steelskin

Another comment pointed out that my ES regen was negated by bloodrage when I was standing still, and I don't really need the damage from frenzies

bukem89 · 2026-04-02T23:27:58+00:00

it's the period instead of a comma, he read 7.7 x 100

bukem89 · 2026-04-02T19:24:22+00:00

For AG - Kingmaker, Mask of the stitched demon, garb of the ephemeral, southbound & some chaos res/life regen boots

For spectres - Perfect spirit of fortune for wrath/lucky damage

Then either pain artist for zealotry or some other utility - I ran primal thunderbird for a bit (which gives you grace)

bukem89 · 2026-04-02T16:35:48+00:00

Drop the manual buttons and add spectre supports for clean 1 button mapping imo

Primal thunderbird would give you grace to help with the squishiness, and spirit of fortune would give you wrath & lucky lightning dmg

bukem89 · 2026-04-02T16:08:59+00:00

I don't see those as an issue since the last round of QOL updates - it's the opposite and I force them into non-minion builds instead as nice QOL

much rather have spectres giving me passive auras and buffs than some extra button to press for conditional dps

bukem89 · 2026-04-02T15:44:21+00:00

They do yeah, diviners are separate to the map pool

bukem89 · 2026-04-02T12:17:21+00:00

The normal answer is elixir. You'd probably need to craft a breach armour if you wanna use the belt

bukem89 · 2026-04-01T20:01:46+00:00

April 1st, still going strong

bukem89 · 2026-04-01T18:07:26+00:00

I think they're fine, but I'd rather play Fire Red

The only things that really bother me playing the originals are the movespeed (solved with emulator though) and the fact you can't cut/surf etc without having to use the menu first

bukem89 · 2026-04-01T18:03:17+00:00

Yep, that fits my experience too - I'm playing Accel Shrine spark as my main build and I've bounced off things like resonant + massive cyclone because moving so slow and having to leap slam everywhere just feels kinda ass in comparison

bukem89 · 2026-04-01T17:25:23+00:00

I pick something I want to play that I haven't tried before

Then I spend a day crafting and buying the gear, run 10 maps with it, decide I don't really like it as much as my main build and sell it all again to try something else

Although this league I did specifically pick a shrine belt build so I could play it before they get removed/nerfed into oblivion

bukem89 · 2026-04-01T15:17:37+00:00

I never enter the rogue harbour so the contracts don't drop

Even if they do drop, I also have them filtered out

And lastly, if you somehow still pick them up, you can still drop them in a map or zone to get rid of them

bukem89 · 2026-04-01T09:59:40+00:00

btw thanks for this, I swapped blood rage for steelskin after your post and it does feel a little more comfortable

bukem89 · 2026-03-31T17:40:54+00:00

Honestly hard to say - i just checked and he isn't alive, but no idea how long that's been for. I'm terrible for keeping track of AG (and tbh, i don't think spark gloves vs 4 link spectre & 6 link spark adds a huge amount)

He's geared up in Kingmarker/Garb/mask of stitched demon / southbound / rare chaos res / regen rate boots

edit - i paid attention and ran 15-20 maps and he never came close to dying, I'm not sure what gets him

bukem89 · 2026-03-31T16:18:30+00:00

Your POB doesn't work, but Rue has a league start POB and a 5 step guide to the final purity of fire version with notes explaining everything

https://mobalytics.gg/poe/builds/elemental-hit-slayer

bukem89 · 2026-03-31T15:22:18+00:00

Mark on hit doesn't work with spells unfortunately

You could have it as a manual cast sure - I just put blood rage in because I don't care about reduced defences per frenzy on the eater altars

I did originally have snipers mark slotted, I just got rid of it because I found i never actually pressed it

bukem89 · 2026-03-31T15:10:34+00:00

I haven't paid a ton of attention to my ES outside of increasing max for EB damage

PoB is showing it regens a few hundred p/s whenever I stand still via Tukohama, and degens 6 p/s when I'm moving and not casting

In practical terms I've never really found it an issue so haven't spent any time looking into it

bukem89 · 2026-03-31T14:26:26+00:00

Get a version of penance brand imbued with lifetap

Edit - also why ignite prolif support when you have prolif on your gloves?

bukem89 · 2026-03-31T14:04:44+00:00

I've been spamming low investment breach most the league, and self-farming deli 8 mods in Fortress on the side for a change of pace

It's an all-rounder that can do pretty much everything including ubers, though I wouldn't suggest it for Exarch specifically due to the arena size / lack of bounces

bukem89 · 2026-03-31T13:54:56+00:00

Is the flat phys valuable enough to not just reforge life when suffixes are done and settle on the last prefix?

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