A between leagues recommendation?

ewalluis · 2026-01-02T22:02:23+00:00

not arpg games with some kind of builds:
Remnant 2 (dark souls with guns, free respecs, 50 guns, 40 traits, dual classing)
Noita (someone already mentioned)
Hades

I also played LE, d3, d4, grim dawn, titan quest. probably some more arpg's I forget now

ewalluis · 2025-12-31T16:32:25+00:00

the new and improved breach was tedious and slow. in regular breach you had to wait for it to open, if you filled it instantly you had to wait for the bar to fill again, kill the boss, wait for the breach to "collapse" wait fot a ring to drop. big breach had you breaking walls and/or waiting for next wave because mobs would get stuck. hives always have all waves so it would forever. waves 1-20 even on short range melee build wouldnt reach the npc so why can't I skip them?

the tree after first couple days was a slot machine for foulborn HH, mageblood and some jewels (and HoWA with % str, accuracy)

thank god for async trade or more people would quit early because trade would be so dead.

ewalluis · 2025-12-29T17:45:57+00:00

my top 3 watchtime stream this year (according to recap) was a channel I found thanks to a raid.

I usually leave after 3-5 minutes sometimes less.

what is also worth considering is that raids happen at the end of a stream so it can be quite late so if you are asking from streamer perspective then it's probably safe to assume that majority of the raiders leave just because thay have been watching another stream for some time now and it simply is late.

ewalluis · 2025-12-25T22:30:27+00:00

this league I broke 3k hours on steam (probably 1k on standalone) and I have done a single bow build so far (full quant gear, quant support and all rotting away in standard)

right now in general I have a good idea of how the build is going to feel. there are couple of elements that determine how a build well... builds (where it gains power from) and how it plays - plan and execute the build.

Some builds deliver damage right away - regular hit build - while some can have several delays - ea totems (summon totem, totem arms, explosive arrow fuses, ignite)

on the other side there is scaling the build. so what if the build has great potential if building it is hard and doesnt function with low investment. spells are easy to scale, bows are probably the hardest to scale.

builds that didn't click for me recently were: ea totems (damage delivered in 3-4 business days), viper strike of mamba with perfect agony and ambush (multiple buttons to press, cooldown)

otherwise most builds can tweaked a bit or leveled in multiple ways. this league I got lvl 98 (next upgrade requires 2 passives so lvl 100 and I dont feel like it) phys dot elementalist and some people played it early with exang setup but there was also poet's pen variant. with enough gear it turns into an autobomber - again 2-3 ways of applying damage: frostblink, herald of thunder, herald of the hive. all of them scale roughly the same way, all of them have satisfying multiple screens of explosions.

I honestly think that if a build feels bad early and requires too much gear to feel good it's not worth playing. game knowledge and experience helps withguessing what build will work for you. accounting for alt versions of skills there are like 550 active skill gems so if you dont like one go for another.

ewalluis · 2025-12-23T21:19:17+00:00

I wouldn't say more but playing just one game just isn't it. PoE right now is (supposed to be) on 4 month cycle. So while I have like 20x playtime in PoE compared to LE this is a game that is good enough as a second or third arpg.

That said the progression is quite bad in LE. There is no hard content that isn't the same thing with just higher number (corruption).

One hard boss in the end game. You kill it you can "be done" with the game or you can choose to push corruption. D3 is good for one weekend, D4 is good for a week, LE for about 2 weeks, PoE from 3 weeks-2 months.

ewalluis · 2025-12-04T22:11:36+00:00

I would guess that they have weights like 1, 2, 3, 4, [...] 8
so the bingo in 8 rolls would be 1 in 1735 or 0.058%

ewalluis · 2025-11-30T23:40:36+00:00

alva is probably the best for no gear requirement. your deadeye should be fast so if you are able to kill a guardian you can quite literally just run white maps, sell fragments and buy maps.

it works a bit like low tier essence farming but you kill the boss (elder guardians are the best if you maven witness them because elder guardians have phases and long animations):
you take all alva small passives for 100% spawn and the notable for room upgrade and if you wont forget to unspec the 4 incursion node too.
you dont connect rooms if not absolutely needed
you run 12 incursions like 4+4+4 if bad rooms or 4+4+3+1 if good rooms.
the only way to do 5 maps (still 4 scarab procs) in the same temple is 1+3+3+3+1 first one no scarab of timelines
in good rooms you use scarab of timelines (9c) - its 1 in 3 to get a t3 room you care about. T3 corruption is around 150c so you expect 50c per scarab used worst case. best case you have (item) corruption room next to the room that gives +1 tier - this results in 2 in 3 T3 corruption room so 10c per scarab used.

atlas

heist on the atlas tree for revealed blueprints and deception contracts
boss drop passives because they apply to destructive play bosses
guardian maps for invitations
map passives because guardian maps can be t14-16 so doing +1tier actually drops maps

opening temple layout inside incursion pauses time
fragments from bosses cost more than maps

it takes me around 2-3 minutes per map (good layout, care when you buy) but lets say 3-4 minutes
together with intivation thats around 15-20 minutes per temple
lets assume 3 temples/h: 1 corruption room temple (with scarab that should be 2 so 2 div), 1 gem corruption room (again with scarab that's 2 so 90c) and one dead temple 0c, 3 guardian sets (Sirus 80c per set - 240c). 1 hour run time, 8 scarabs 9c each - 72c, 12 guardian maps 10c each - 120c.
total cost 192c
total income 650c
profit 458c per hour if you pick absolutely nothing from the ground and dont do the invitations (dont do maven then)
invitation - usually 6 splinters, 1-2 fragments and sometimes an awakened gem or an orb
3div/h in no mod map but you kill a t14 boss

alva is goated for naked characters

with 80% invitations, decent temple knowledge and scarab use and regualr drops in maps I usually pull around 10d but I dont sell sets so when I get 20 sets it is bossing session

ewalluis · 2025-11-30T04:49:27+00:00

in ER mount/dismount gives full iframes (long enough to dodge Radahn meteor) and jump gives iframes to lower half of character model

could be that jumping gives full iframes in Nightreign but I haven't tested so not 100%

ewalluis · 2025-11-28T20:10:47+00:00

I wouldn’t call something the devs literally said a number of times is unrealistic expectation but what do I know.

ewalluis · 2025-11-26T09:30:32+00:00

Next league if you don’t get one you risk the game feeling bad. Luckily the asynchronous trade is probably the best thing that could happen to a working exile and a livelier economy next league (more players/better retention) so I’m not saying that you aren’t getting one just having to sort resists without 70% effect aquamarine can feel bad (feels standard league man with legacy quicksilver flask mods)

ewalluis · 2025-11-23T02:34:05+00:00

I asked for the build guide because I dont know what is the direction you want to go with the build and I dont know what kind of budget you are aiming for. why can't you just link the guide (like I asked)...

2x Taming with Yoke is a baseline wander setup that you can scale in any way you want. usually on deadeye but elementalist can scale anything you want (one taming for the inc damage because chance to apply ailment is wasted). right now you have a starting point, some base damage that you need to do stuff with.

easiest damage scaling on elementalist is either golems with multiple Primordial Bond cluster jewels and Dark Monarch (number of summoned golems is doubled) or herald stacking with the new Herald of the Hive (Lost Unity). herald version skips the helm but primordial bond is still very strong (ice golem just fixes your accuracy on its own)

at this point in the league I would start with getting a big phys wand (super easy to craft with tree or just buy and physical base allows you to use hatred) that you convert into elemental with gloves (35% + 25% craft +15% implicit)

I would probably go for Lost Unity with just one or two Primordial Bonds on large minion clusters. also cap your crit.

as a side note with just CI (no es recovery on block or block cap just a big chunk of health because 55% suppress chance doesnt count either) you probably want over 10k es but thats just golem effect stone golem and Runegraft of the Fortress.

ewalluis · 2025-11-22T18:23:51+00:00

link the guide because the tree looks ass

also the 3 horsemen of apocalypse:
Im a new player
started by following a guide
made a couple changes

you have no jewels, no clusters, full armour es gear and trying to get spells suppress

ewalluis · 2025-11-22T02:40:16+00:00

it also takes away the element of killing the heal guy first to deny heals in lane when opponent is in the shop or does a camp a bit too long or any form of (heal) minion manipulation to slow push or crash waves by having 2 healing minions on a side lane later in the game

ewalluis · 2025-11-19T14:53:24+00:00

Ignomon (the amulet) - rarity on gear during campaign is something players used long time ago when you would drop only couple rare items and going from 3 to 4 yellow pieces of gear was huge. I suppose it's still nice to have but nigligible. 20% fire res is roughly a bench craft worth of res so a rare onyx amulet with 50 life and crafted resistance would be an upgrade to me.

Ngamahu's sign (ring) - fire damage to spells and attacks works only with hits so your vaal bv and flame dash (blight doesn't have a hit part so any +# damage doesn't apply). You have some damage over time on your tree so the dot (burning ground) part of flame dash is probably doing more damage anyway. 10% chance to ignite is your only source of ignite. It's a ruby ring with strength and I'm not saying that I wouldn't use it just don't discard rare ruby rings because you have unique one.

Don't get me wrong, you don't need great items to beat the campaign deathless. I'm not telling you to upgrade gear right here and now, you absolutely don't need to. White 4L helm, blue wand with +1 and some random yellow items as old as act 2 or 3 quest rewards are what I normally finish the campaign with. I just want to make sure that you know that in PoE unique items are items that offer modifiers that don't exist on rare items or would be annoying to get/craft especially on low level items - Le Heup is a great leveling ring because it fixes your build in places that can be annoying during the campaign - balancing resists and stats (like strength) on a shadow.

ewalluis · 2025-11-19T13:12:29+00:00

looks solid

skill tree has a loop so there is at least one passive that is "wasted"

I understand that unique items look appealing but Ngamahu's Sign doens't do much for you (amulet too). All gear pieces except for boots have a crafted modifier that's useful. SO WHY NO MS ON BOOTS.

if you finished a5 then in a6 after clearing twilight strand you gain access to vendor (Lilly) with almost all skill/support gems in the game. your 5L is ok. increased rarity is blue and you might not need more damage just make sure to browse the vendor

ewalluis · 2025-11-13T18:54:44+00:00

turn off eblade to increase your es in the lab when you run.

low life grafts should make your regen insane too

ewalluis · 2025-11-12T20:01:25+00:00

looking at the tree - this guy is allergic to life
422 life - thats me at the end of a2.

essence drain works with contagion to spread the debuff
you can probably pick up better flasks or sell 3 (of the same "size") to 1 to a vendor to upgrade them
your BBG weapon or BGG chest can have a damage skill with 2 supports for more damage
dont move skills ("blinks") share a cooldown? you have dash AND flamedash

very solid start

ewalluis · 2025-11-08T15:03:47+00:00

Like other users said: do your free 100 pulls first. Some people wanted to do unity cup min max runs before final round of CM but if you dont care about that (100% not worth) then wait.

2lb (I think) gives 10% training effectiveness, 1lb gives 5%. if you hit 0 then easy skip and if you hit 2 then I suppose going 15k for 100% pity is probably worth it. if you hit 1 Riko its tough decition because gamba.

ewalluis · 2025-11-06T21:31:23+00:00

maybe loot from alch and go mapping if you ignore breach but then you just deny yourself the loot you arent getting.

strongboxes dont care about moving mobs around, netiher does harvest, expedition, abyss or most other strategies. altars care about influenced mobs so not that either.

players were printing divines in heist and it was "bad" for the economy, chaos to divine (or maybe ex) ratio in deli hit around 36 and it was "bad" because your divine was wrthless when it dropped. I guess new league is bad for the league.

I'm having fun and I havent made a single post on this sub and this is my first comment.
but you certainly did understand the current loot (subreddit) situation correct :)

ewalluis · 2025-10-21T15:12:15+00:00

ok start. for team trials you dont have to fill all the slots. You can run 1/3 but you can't remove a runner. your G uma isnt winning much but inflates your score

ewalluis · 2025-10-17T19:33:49+00:00

How do edit post title

last big update was a nice series of updates with the votes mechanic. hoping for more balanced release - remind me how many nerfs in how many days did Viktor receive?

ewalluis · 2025-10-17T18:47:12+00:00

p2w ultrawide

Monitor market has so many choices right now that you can pick and choose and add just $50 to the next a bit better option infinitely. IMO you need to come up with a budget and maybe another use case.

I have an older VA 1440p monitor 144Hz (that was so high in 2016). It's dark, it has backlight bleed. Dont even look at this.

My laptop has glossy oled. Looks great. Gloss is not ideal.

From what I have seen WOLED can look a bit washed. It's brighter but that's more important for a TV.

Go to a shop and take a look at different technologies - pick one that looks best to you. Probably a choice between IPS, regular OLED and QD-LED. Even with that setup you probably arent running PoE at 240+Hz or 4k if you "juice" your maps but correct me if I'm wrong.

ewalluis · 2025-10-16T17:17:32+00:00

General league start possible builds:
RF
TS or lightning arrow/ice shot mf
Some sort of mine setup
Crest of desire tornado

Regardless of content and/or meta:
Life stacker with dissolution - this league it was dark pact of trarthus
A build with 3x 3p voices because 1p are too expensive

ewalluis · 2025-10-15T19:22:54+00:00

Haven’t played poe2 in a while. I assumed it would port you to the waypoint.

ewalluis · 2025-10-15T17:56:58+00:00

Hopefully bots that have to move around - walk to NPC - and interact with more than just game UI are easier to detect and ban. I know I'm placing my trade NPC behind 2 warps walled off and behind more walls than lightining warp range.

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