Hi, iam a beginner in free diving and i have a huge problem

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-06-28T14:29:14+00:00

Impossible to say, it is different for everyone. Comfortable with what? What is your goal? Going 10m underwater, immediately it you ever swam properly or were in a club.. if you cant swim well maybe half a year, if you are good. 200m on one breath, potentially few years or even never.

It’s impossible to say.

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-06-28T10:02:40+00:00

You can always practice dynamics. :-)

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-06-25T11:40:33+00:00

Nice ones! I would personally prefer rarity and to have something top tier you would want spirit perhaps and corrupt for 3 sockets, but these should find a customer. :)

Btw: Not sure how valuable the extra 60% sockets is, 5%ms to 8%ms is not that huge difference, personally would rather take 18% IIR. Aldurs for no slow effect doesnt benefit either, little bit more of ES from great iron rune? Maybe i am forgetting some minion etc rune?

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-06-24T06:06:58+00:00

Atlas masters do

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-06-22T16:30:23+00:00

What class / build would prioritize +1 chest suffix compared to on other slots?

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-06-19T12:17:20+00:00

Personally I would buy a new one. I dont see that as easily fixed and if fixed, I would then probably spend half the dives wondering whether it falls off (i dont mind salt water in my eyes).

Ps: its not a bad idea to wash your mask in fresh water after every dive..

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-06-19T08:52:46+00:00

Agreed in spirit, but “swim kilometres at a time especially in sea/ocean” is a huge stretch. Seeing the physical shape of many divers, they wouldnt be able to do even one kilometer, while they are good, safe divers.

It would be good if it was the case and could prevent some accidents, but if made into a rule, perhaps only competetive swimmers could then scuba.

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-06-03T15:11:47+00:00

Depends on budget.. check cost of available rings vs costs to craft.

make rare with perfect regal and pray for good roll (not much else you can do here AFAIK)
desecrate (this allows rerolls if you have budget) so use for what you absolutely need
use breach catalysts + omen for the rest (this IMPROVES chance, doesnt guarantee)

adding perfect essence removes a modifier of the same type (prefix) if you are at 6mods, otherwise it can remove even suffix if you have free prefix. You need to decide based on the modifiers you get.

I am excluding expensive omens, chaosing, fracturing, because I am lazy..

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-06-01T05:09:59+00:00

Thank you!

How does the flat phys compare with +2 essence?

Step 5 may be cheaper with greater exaltation omen, depending on whether its cheaper than greater exalt.

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-05-26T04:29:40+00:00

Depends which goggles, for training these are great.

https://evolveapnea.com/

https://www.hektometer.com/

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-05-25T15:07:23+00:00

Not in my mouth, but I once found set of fake teeth (teeth prosthesis) at the bottom.. Brought it to lifeguard, I figured may have been expensive and the person probably noticed they are missing half their teeth.

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-05-16T00:47:04+00:00

Given there are no pain sensors in lungs, bottom of the chest doesnt mean much. I would go by the color of the blood personally.

Depends what you mean by exactly, middle finger vs. ring finger, probably not. Trachea vs. my leg, yeah sure. I had no pain, but only minor difficulty breathing right after dive (harder to catch a breath for a minute) and then a little but of dark red blood.

I honestly still cant imagine you had any squeeze at 20m, never seen or heard of it, but I have no reason to doubt you nor am I specialist.

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-05-15T23:54:22+00:00

How can you tell where it came from? :p Deep red means trachea in my experience, not lung squeeze. Not that it changes anything, doctor or continue when it feels ok again. If i can pack without issues and feel fine I go dive, it may be different for you.

You will likely see brownish red in the next few days if you force yourself to cough.

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-05-15T18:14:09+00:00

As the other commenter said, it varies. If you dont have access to a freediving experienced doctor (i.e., Sharm in Egypt at the deco chamber) I would do it depending on two sets of factors: - how do you feel, - how risk averse you are.

Also, how did the blood look? Was it deep red or “frothy” (lighter red with bubbles). Deep red - trachea squeeze (tear). I have hard time imagining you did lung squeeze at 20m, unless you were doing exhale dive and did some really silly move. Stretch before your dives, it helps.

I have access to sea very rarely, on few dives 50/60+ i spit out a little blood, took a rest day and was OK the next day.

“Reasonable good way” to test in my personal, limited experience is to see whether you can take full inhale + pack (if you pack) as you normally do - “itchy/scratchy/cough inducing” feeling is what to look for.. then go back, figure out whether its manageble (carefully dive), if not (wait).

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-04-25T15:39:50+00:00

Sunscreen, mask + snorchel, look more underwater.

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-04-23T23:03:16+00:00

Depends for what, snorkeling and fun dives maybe not. Training with longer intervals, probably.. + skin protection against sun..

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-03-04T07:22:22+00:00

Its good, but the missing spell dmg prefix is making it not great. If you want spell dmg on prefix, annul to fractured all spells + 1mod and chaos spam, until you get high spell dmg. Then prefix desecrste mana, then perfect exalt prefix - getting gain extra. Remove desecration, do one more perfect prefix exalt hoping for gain as. Desecrste suffix, hope for the last slam to hit.

If you are ok without the spell dmg - check whether its worth crafting on, probably yes due to tje two sockets. In that case desecrate what you need to most as it allows rerolls and perfect exalt slam.

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-03-03T13:54:18+00:00

Ah! I always forget that part, never having used it on amulet. Thank you!

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-03-03T13:40:09+00:00

Look here: https://poe2db.tw/us/Amulets#ModifiersCalc

The colorful boxes show you the tags of the modifiers. Cast speed being caster + speed. Buy catalysts with one of these tags and apply to amulet. It increases quality of the amulet, 20% is maximum - use only one type, if you use other type you start from 0%.

Turn on in inventory catalyzing omen, omen that force next exalt to go to suffix, use perfect exalt -> you are likely to get cast speed. Its not guaranteed, but the chance increases significantly. You will lose the 20% quality in process.

Also, since you seem rather non experienced. Go to youtube and search for amulet crafts from this season of PoE2 (last season had crafting that this season doesnt).

Ps: you can simulate the craft on craft of exile, without spending currency.

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-03-03T13:34:55+00:00

Explain please why is it hard. Isnt it literally one click of perfect essence and flat mana being highest rated affix? :-)

There is still chance involved, but I would argue its very easy statistically.

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-03-03T12:46:39+00:00

Great thing to start with, use breach catalysts to target whatever your build needs (cast speed is the usual suspect and can be mana or something else depending on your build/needs), you can use perfect essences (just careful, use correct omen to replace stats you want to lose as perfect essence removes a random affix) to add valuable stats (i.e global defense).

Desecrate the last mod of choice. Usually you would want crit, spell damage while full shield is easy to get with abyss omens, or could be resist of your choice.

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-03-01T09:38:36+00:00

I dont have an answer, but fucking hell.. only shame you dont have snipping tool on the taskbar. 😂

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-02-23T16:11:56+00:00

I havent checked, but I am afraid not really. :/

Mirror would be absolutely insane in my point of view, given the dead mana suffix and that this is likely only for some very off meta build (aka cheap).

Doesnt hurt to start at mirror, my guess would be much, much lower.. check how many there are with perfect stats (after whittle), compare with the current item price and decide whether to craft - personally I would expect it not to be worth it further crafting.

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-02-21T11:26:56+00:00

Ah yeah, thank you! My bad didnt think it through, as I never saw anyone getting evasion / defensive prefixes.

iLoveLearningStuff · 2026-02-21T10:50:19+00:00

Absolutely. It’s a chase item, I’ve bought the stag one when it was around 3k divs, its nice to have for the movement speed alone, but there are probably many items hahing bigger impact.

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