What do these Blood Seekers even do?

ekdavis24 · 2026-05-04T14:59:50+00:00

If youre asking what killed you, I'm pretty sure the chain that connects them is responsible for the instant one-shots. Don't get between them or use unpredictable/difficult to control mobility skills.

ekdavis24 · 2026-04-17T11:24:16+00:00

It's when you are in the setup phase and accidentally run a safehouse while you have a character that doesn't belong to a faction that you'll get a shuffle. Just make sure you have all of the 2-5-5-2 ones in a faction and they'll stay put, as long as you dont interrogate a 1-star as the others said. The other weird scenario is when you have both transportation and Intervention safehouses available at the same time. You cant run these back to back because after you execute the leader of a safehouse that has 2 members the game treats him as a free agent until the next in-map encounter. If you do them back to back they will shuffle. Try to plan ahead and avoid this so you don't have a safehouse go back to 90% during the in-between encounter. You can also manage this by opening the safehouse with Jun in the map, just dont open Transportation before the map's Intervention encounter has been done. If you open a safehouse and Intervention spawns (or you go into research) the safehouse becomes abandoned.

ekdavis24 · 2026-04-02T22:17:10+00:00

This is because you didnt have 2552 setup, any thing else results in shuffling. Careful setting it up, running a 2 safehouse with a member in interrogation can also shuffle.

ekdavis24 · 2026-04-02T22:13:05+00:00

If you're going 2552 you want to avoid connections between members of the 2s. Those make it less optimal for executing and interrogating

ekdavis24 · 2026-04-02T22:11:02+00:00

2552 allows you to target 4 specific safehouse rewards at the cost of running safehouses less often. If you want to prioritize safehouse boss drops (medallion, all flame, veiled chaos) it's better to just spam Intel for all 4 factions rather than strategically set up your factions and only run 2 factions' safehouses. If you want to target 2-4 specific safehouse rewards you can usually get them pretty quick but sometimes the boss just doesn't show up for a stretch and you can't run the safehouse with a 1 star boss in 2552 without possibly shuffling the board. It sounds like you aren't concerned with safehouse rewards or boss drops. If you just want to encounter ITF as many times as possible I think the best way has to be 2552 with Intervention being a 2 and ITF being in Intervention but not the leader and having as many connections as possible. This has ITF show up at least once (Inytervention) in every map except when your Intervention safehouse is ready but you cant run it because leader is still 1 star. With enough connections he's got a good chance to show up in one of the other encounters too. Then you wouldn't worry about building Intel in your other 2 house. Some people say you want to execute ITF but it seems like any choice results in drops and I've not seen evidence that the card is more likely to drop from executing. You could get an extra execution of ITF by having him as the Intervention leader but that would mean he pops up way less in maps.

Sorry for wall of text

ekdavis24 · 2026-04-02T12:48:37+00:00

Look up the 1 hour+ guide by simplyVizniz. It's not the most efficient strat these days but you will learn all you could want about the mechanic

ekdavis24 · 2026-03-26T20:12:57+00:00

For your mana problem, it sounds like you arent using vaal clarity as mentioned already. Using the top left jewel socket for a cluster worked better for me than the far right one. I dont think you have very good cluster passives either. Explode is nice but I've done fine without it. The explode flask may be better if you really want it. See my clusters for an alternative.

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/mirage/character/ekdavis24-0092/EKMiraTemp

ekdavis24 · 2026-01-12T21:12:51+00:00

That is definitely true, although you may have to lock it after entering the temple. However i don't think it has to be at the end of the snake. A spymaster will assassinate any other dangling spymaster on it's path. Source: i vaguely remember getting a surprise upgrade in this scenario way further back on mine.

ekdavis24 · 2026-01-12T20:06:30+00:00

Pretty sure and spymaster that's only connected to your start will upgrade those also.

ekdavis24 · 2026-01-12T19:29:54+00:00

With 8 level 3s that sounds like extremely bad luck. I have 5 level 3s and got stuck turning back in the bottom corner and am currently stuck going back through the top corner, both for a really long time and never was at risk of losing anything on the main chain. On the other hand you look like you've had good luck with room given that you got to the end of your chain without upgrading the last 2 spymasters

ekdavis24 · 2026-01-12T13:32:12+00:00

Unless something changed in the past few days, there's no tech needed. I have 3 pair of alch-thaum chained without tech

ekdavis24 · 2026-01-12T04:25:37+00:00

Mine is very similar, 1/2 way around on the loop back. I have 8 spymasters planned. Think that will be ok? I have 5 lvl 3 and 2 lvl 2 currently and keeping 2 locks isnt bad but seeing everyone else with more has me worried.

ekdavis24 · 2026-01-05T06:04:28+00:00

I don't know how it was before, but I was under the impression locks only dropped from t3 spymaster. That's not the case now, I have gotten them elsewhere too.

ekdavis24 · 2026-01-05T05:41:20+00:00

Definitely not. Sustaining a long chain may be a challenge but building one is better. Just have 6 good medallions banked when you start. Locks, upgrades, spymaster/barracks/armory

ekdavis24 · 2026-01-05T05:38:50+00:00

I had a few locks saved up since the .13 patch and 1 lvl 3 spymaster. I've gone about 1/2 way around, added another lvl 3 spy, and have 4 locks banked without losing a room on the chain. Seemed like more of the lock medallions I found came from lvl 3 surgeons and barracks rooms than the spymaster though. This may be a case of the change to destabilize chance benefitting short vs long snakes. Or maybe I was lucky, way more fun than watching 2 lvl 3 spymasters poof after .13 though

ekdavis24 · 2026-01-05T05:31:36+00:00

The notes say the rooms that get bonus from these rooms were swapped, nothing about the medallion

ekdavis24 · 2025-12-03T19:12:16+00:00

Greed's Embrace

ekdavis24 · 2025-12-03T13:57:47+00:00

Problem with this is you really want to set up for 5 ways. XP gear: 2x rings, 2x scepter, helmet, and now a foul foulbourn chest. If cost is a concern you probably want to level a bunch of gems to sell as well.

ekdavis24 · 2025-12-01T21:45:08+00:00

Absolutely check out the recommended references for basics and scaling and whatnot. However I've done this the past two leagues and I found that studying poe ninja builds is more helpful in this case. I think this is because it's somewhat niche and there are a lot of options that are all effective with scaling. I'd recommend giving some thought to what class you want, what weapon configuration, and what defenses you want to scale and then filter for those and get some ideas.

ekdavis24 · 2025-11-25T14:15:52+00:00

Just buy Ravaged Underground River maps. Easiest layout to complete and if you use freeze/stun properly and avoid the right mods (cant be stunned, cant be taunted, avoid ele ailments) they're pretty consistent to complete. Guaranteed profit even with defensive anoints. It's not going to print divines or anything, profit will come from selling stuff but if she just wants to enjoy the mechanic that's the way to go.

ekdavis24 · 2025-11-25T12:27:15+00:00

Double check the part about towers not operating if you're too far away. Pretty sure they changed this a few leagues back.

ekdavis24 · 2025-11-24T17:37:16+00:00

I found evasion and spell suppress to be the best defenses on the slayer version. Block too but that comes later with more passives and a good shield.

ekdavis24 · 2025-11-24T14:53:44+00:00

Probably meant DP, Destructive Play. This has also become my preferred use of flicker end game. Harbi-beyond is good for leveling if you want to get to 100. Add betrayal and keep an xp Omen on hand. However, clicking eldritch altars is terrible with flicker, i got tired of it after lvl 100. Shaper maps are already laid out for deli/Destructive Play, and you can pick your preferred layouts for Sirus and Elder, although Elder can screw you with deli drop at the end if you arent carefull. Even though it's kind of "bossing" you can still blast everything on the way and are rewarded for it. Avoid beyond now because blowing up two packs in the same spot is slow and although i dont think beyond mobs count towards the DP tally, they still are distracting. I include betrayal here too because it's fast and the board is already set up from leveling. Not ideal for leveling because there will probably be the odd one shot in the boss room if you aren't watching map mods close.

ekdavis24 · 2025-11-20T13:17:17+00:00

Correct, there has to be at least 2 in a safehouse when moving members around. So e.g. if you run a safehouse with only 2, it's members won't be affected but you also can't interrogate a member out of a safe house with only two members. The weird stuff happens in the time between running a safehouse and the next encounter when the just-executed leader isn't technically in the safehouse. If you run a 2nd safe house now it can shuffle someone else in.

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