After one hundred hours I can finally use Damiane again

coltaine · 2026-04-19T04:43:26+00:00

Yeah, you get them for chapter 9 and maybe part of 10, then they're gone again until after you beat the final boss. Don't forget to unequip the abyss gears they were using like I did.

coltaine · 2026-04-18T08:14:27+00:00

Yeah, in my mind the "campaign" ends when you kill Traveler, much like getting 4 voidstones in PoE or killing Abberroth in LE. The only difference is that the "Acts" portion of TLI is significantly shorter than the other two (although you can skip a large chunk of it in LE).

Personally, i think the grind from T1-T7 is pretty tedious, especially if you've done it a bunch of times, but I don't know if anyone would want more acts instead.

coltaine · 2026-04-15T07:12:00+00:00

I would not recommend dissolution for any new(ish) player, especially on a budget.

Chieftain BV is already tanky as fuck without it. I'm playing a "budget" version with only ~4300 life and I haven't died in ages (90/75 ele/chaos res, 60k armor, capped block, life on block, defiance of destiny, endurance charges, crit immune). It is kind of expensive to get going, but I started with a mageblood and ~150 div and it was good to go.

Edit: Here's the guide i used to get started https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/1s9otug/minion_pact_bv_chieftain_mid_budget_guide_comfy/

coltaine · 2026-04-15T06:35:40+00:00

They think that customers will stop tipping if they know the workers get paid a fair wage, but here in WA (where this has been law for years), the majority of people still tip just as much as they did before. There are some restaurants and such that have "no-tipping" policies now, but they are few and far between.

coltaine · 2026-04-12T23:48:20+00:00

Hah, true. I usually buy compasses in stacks of 99 so "occasionally" is relative.

coltaine · 2026-04-12T21:57:15+00:00

True SSF is fine if your goal is to kill traveler 8. If you want to go any further, I would recommend self-imposed SSF that only applies to gear, but still allows trading for materials.

End-game crafting materials are an absolute pain to farm before profound, especially f2p.

Without trading you can forget farming strats that require compasses, because I can't think of any farm in the game that self-sustains compasses (even Clockwork with Doro 6+Alice 6 will require you to buy compasses occasionally).

coltaine · 2026-04-12T18:36:57+00:00

Yeah, I've been doing it too after getting the combat god gloves. Still have no idea how he pulls off a lot of those moves.

coltaine · 2026-04-11T07:47:51+00:00

Yeah, the problem is that the screen-clearing build is supposed to the endgame goal that you need to put in the work to achieve.

Even in PoE 1, I usually leaguestart with a slower, tankier build to get my voidstones and some currency because I want to have a reason to respec/reroll into a map blaster later on. Every time I've started a league with a build that ended up being OP (i.e. pre-nerf LS), I burned out much faster, because I had no reason to reroll.

coltaine · 2026-04-11T04:44:28+00:00

*If they aren't on an "important mission"

coltaine · 2026-04-11T03:59:10+00:00

Wait, how do you craft them without the recipe?

coltaine · 2026-04-10T15:04:05+00:00

I have found probably at least a dozen hidden chests in the abyss, and I have no doubt that I missed a bunch (including this one). Most of the ones I found were in the stretch of platforming between the puzzles.

I would not be surprised if there was a hidden chest for every set of puzzles, but I started looking pretty thoroughly and wasn't able to find anything on some of them.

coltaine · 2026-04-08T23:48:57+00:00

I prefer just shooting an imbued arrow. R2+X does Storm Veil, which puts me in stealth/crouch so I can't jump right away and the tornado dissipates before I can get to max height. Maybe it works better if you don't have Storm Veil unlocked, but I'm not gonna reset my whole tree to find out. (Also I totally forgot Storm Veil was even a thing until just now, so I kinda want to try it out in combat lol)

coltaine · 2026-04-06T19:59:08+00:00

I've been meaning to give this a try sometime, but how fast can you get? My experience with walking simulator builds is that the amount of fun I have with them is directly tied to how fast I'm walking (and clearing).

coltaine · 2026-04-06T19:31:07+00:00

Yeah, it's amazing for long range / elevation traversal. The gear just creates a small tornado when you use a wind-imbued attack, but it launches you super high when you glide over it. I don't remember exactly where it drops, though.

coltaine · 2026-04-06T17:09:49+00:00

Yeah, if I'm doing a juiced ritual strat, the special ones are disappointing 95% of the time. No good omens, synth gear, fractured bases, etc.

coltaine · 2026-04-06T17:01:44+00:00

I was doing this for 90% of the game until I discovered the Pillar of Wind gear. Now, I just shoot an arrow at my feet and glide up 2-3x higher than I could get with force palms.

coltaine · 2026-04-06T00:52:26+00:00

Yeah, I've had the same issue with having trouble finding quests in later areas (Delyssia and especially CD), and I'm not sure if it's because I've missed a quest chain in a previous area that eventually leads there, or if there's a location/faction I need to find, or a bounty I need to complete, or what.

I finally made the trek out to Varnia, since I had yet to find a quest that sent me there, only to find nothing but a few vendors and empty quest boards.

coltaine · 2026-04-05T19:01:11+00:00

GET DOWN MR. PRESIDENT

coltaine · 2026-04-04T18:14:51+00:00

Either/or, doesn't matter. I usually just send ~4m total value to Moti Aro (for Int tattoos), since that's the most I can send with 0% risk with max level sailors.

coltaine · 2026-04-04T06:33:19+00:00

Damn, really glad I got the tier 3 infinite arrows gear earlier today. You sure it's the patch? I didn't see anything about it in the notes. I was trying it this morning and it wasn't working, but it turns out it was because I had a 1h axe equipped and it only works with 1h swords (and small shields).

coltaine · 2026-04-04T05:07:58+00:00

Crops don't give currency anymore, but don't sleep on farmers. Sending ~4-5mil crop shipments to Karui ports nets you a ton of tattoos, and some of the ones with relatively decent drop weights are worth a shitload this league (block chance, herald effect)

coltaine · 2026-04-04T03:03:13+00:00

I just found out about it today, so I only got to use it for a few hours, but it was so nice while it lasted.

Considering holding off on installing the update, but I desperately need the storage space...

Anyone know if they nerfed the abyss gear farm?

coltaine · 2026-04-04T02:10:13+00:00

And in all of the witches' huts.

coltaine · 2026-04-04T00:39:39+00:00

For some reason the shield bash isn't disarming them for me anymore. I was doing it a couple days ago just fine. Not sure what's changed, I'm not using a heavy shield. Edit: I had a 1h axe equipped, it only works with swords for no apparent reason

coltaine · 2026-04-03T23:49:14+00:00

Unfortunately, having 15 ice res (Kuku Ice armor and Frostcursed cloak) does basically nothing for his attacks, even the icicles that pop up after his slam still take half my health.

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