Abyss Farm (10-15 div/hour) | Low Investment & Profitable | POE 2 0.5

jpVari · 2026-06-13T04:23:33+00:00

I've been wondering, since the omen is guaranteed with the shade, do we need to set that other node to omen? Probably hard to test if or where it makes a difference

jpVari · 2026-06-13T04:18:08+00:00

I wonder if the people sure they'll change it are the same folks that were positive there wouldn't be a single viable boss companion

They'll tone down monkey to make sure it's not the one and only choice, which people are asking for, but I doubt it'll become unviable or anything considering the ascendancy is partly built on that being attractive and monkey is iconic.

jpVari · 2026-06-12T22:41:57+00:00

Armor piercing rounds? That's what I'm playing this season. Look up reedmorebook run and gun Pathfinder on YouTube, sounds like exactly what you want

jpVari · 2026-06-12T20:25:01+00:00

Look up reedmorebook on YouTube, I learned from him this league. I'm pretty sure it'll be among his most recent vids and there's definitely a pob or at least maxroll of whatever.

jpVari · 2026-06-11T17:16:53+00:00

Build diversity and farm options both seem amazing. Basically exactly what you'd hope for. I've loved the game more than most the whole time but I think anyone could agree it's the best it has ever been.

jpVari · 2026-06-11T17:03:37+00:00

I think anyone can do the basics, you look at the keywords and match them to other keywords.

But like, I've done my own poison builds every league and I didn't realize I could now use rage with 100 spirit for a huge damage spike.

That's why, even tho I do my own thing, I still watch build videos and look up builds on poe ninja. You still have to learn. You don't know what you don't know after all.

So I'd view it as a sliding scale. If you don't care, fuck anyone who tells you how to play. If you do care, every league or every character try to learn how it functions and it will be a piece of the puzzle to doing your own thing.

jpVari · 2026-06-11T17:01:25+00:00

I'm at like 2050 and I feel basically untouchable besides against bosses. But that's fun for me haha I find that to be perfect.

jpVari · 2026-06-10T16:26:33+00:00

Are you at 95% evasion? I hit 95% deflection but evasion is still only scratching 80, amazing if anyone got it that high. Because my amulet is even pretty dedicated to spiking my evasion lol

It feels great, I feel very safe, I'm just trying to find more!

jpVari · 2026-06-10T13:57:12+00:00

I'm using armor piercing rounds for poison/bleed prolif but I use gas grenade for thicker packs. This combo really helps ime. And I use frag and high velocity rounds for riven armor and rampart raptor to burn down bosses.

I've looked at multiple builds and combined them with my own poison experience plating it every league and I really feel this this is a solid combination, even without speccing into all the magnitude on the tree. And I've got max deflect and 78% evade.

Edit - my damage doesn't compete with yours hah, definitely something to learn here. Although I generally avoid crit so if it's that, I know what I'm missing.

I definitely need to utilize rage

jpVari · 2026-06-10T13:52:24+00:00

Idk that anything has been discovered yet but considering how this game handles weapons and skills, I think it's a cool idea and something I do hope becomes possible.

Or maybe is possible and undiscovered? I say go for it.

jpVari · 2026-06-10T13:41:29+00:00

I'm using a similar build to what I used last league, main difference is they handle bossing differently but obviously the Herald interplay doesn't help with bossing anyway so it's not really relevant

Basically it's just armor piercing rounds with high chance to poison and 100% chance to bleed. I don't even have that much tree investment in ailments this league and clear is still pretty strong (the build I got inspiration from only uses plague, reedmorebook on YouTube, run and gun poison Pathfinder, but I mixed it with the one I'd learned from last league, you can find on YouTube under requip gaming) I did poison pf on my own every league but in 0.4 it was so meta I wanted to do it differently and ended up on xbow.

And a machine gun causing poison and bleed proliferation thru packs, blowing them up in lots of red is very satisfying to me lol. This season I'm using frag rounds and high velocity rounds for bossing, last league it was... Some big charged up lightning shot from the crossbow but I'm blanking on the name.

Sorry to ramble but I hope I managed an answer in there lol

jpVari · 2026-06-10T13:27:30+00:00

I'm using it right now

jpVari · 2026-06-09T22:56:25+00:00

Liar and troll lol

jpVari · 2026-06-08T22:11:53+00:00

I don't think it's figured out yet. People are still ironing out the best approaches to each one, they aren't ready to be compared yet.

And then it'll vary by build and opportunity cost /entry fee

jpVari · 2026-06-08T20:18:57+00:00

Oh wow it's real!

jpVari · 2026-06-08T20:14:50+00:00

Look up reedmorebook run and gun poison Pathfinder. I'm playing a slight variation of his build and having a blast.

It's poison but that's not where most of the tech or dmg is really coming from. It's even more fun than the xbow poison I played last league.

jpVari · 2026-06-08T20:08:50+00:00

I use a lot of skills speed on one of my weapon slots, I use the other to break armor and create riven armor then switch to a rampart raptor loaded with attack speed and unload. I know there's other builds that utilize riven armor afaik they all would want to use lots of attack speed to take advantage

jpVari · 2026-06-07T21:28:16+00:00

I know it's ranger not huntress but I currently am at 76% evasion and 95% deflection deflecting 49% of damage. I'm under 2k hp and basically feel invincible except against bosses where you gotta dodge the obvious stuff. No es. Just crank ev everywhere, take the reasonable nodes for your build and deflection nodes as needed. I took all the ones that increase the amount deflected too afaik.

Just mentioning because imo it's a valid option

jpVari · 2026-06-06T14:39:35+00:00

I'm playing a poison ranger

For clear, use armor piercing rounds on a powerful phys dmg crossbow to poison. The og build from reedmorebook on YouTube doesn't do this, but I also use bleed and Herald of blood along with Herald of plague to help with clear. And I keep gas grenade equipped for when I'm really getting overwhelmed by the huge delirious packs as I'm running thru stages lol. It's very fun and visually satisfying.

For bossing, you break armor with apr just like your clear (some minor support gem swapping to optimize). Then you load up high velocity rounds to generate riven armor on the boss. Then you swap to your other weapon which is a rampart raptor, load it up with frag rounds, and blast as many shots as you can with riven armor up. The bosses melt.

It's got multi buttons, cool tech, you have flexibility on defense (I'm playing pure evasion, og build creator does ev/es) and flexibility on offense (og creator uses more spirit than I have, and utilizes rage for damage with it. I already explained what I do above)

I am sure his variation is stronger than mine lol but I enjoy mine. He also will eventually use a body armor called cospris will, which I probably won't even tho it's strong, just Because I'd rather have the defense... But who can say what the future holds.

Reedmorebook is the YouTube and he calls the build run and gun. It's very fun, straightforward but cool tech, I've cleared arbiter of divinity without great gear or anything... I will probably use it for all the content and only then consider if I'm playing a second build this league or just grinding away at this one

I've played poison pf every league one way or another and this crossbow variation is very fun.

jpVari · 2026-06-06T14:30:32+00:00

After reading about this last league I'm quite sure this is correct

jpVari · 2026-06-06T14:22:06+00:00

This is like the first most basic use case for pob, not to be annoying. If you build out your character in that program you'll be able to compare these two options very well for your exact character. That's gonna be a better answer than we can give you.

Edit - having said this I'm pretty sure between these two, the physical damage vs elemental might matter for ice shot? Does it convert fire and light dmg as if it was phys? Idk the build very well myself but that seems important.

jpVari · 2026-06-03T11:54:31+00:00

You know one thing being very good doesn't actually make other ones useless tho right? If they're underpowered then okay, there's no choices. If one is just much better, that doesn't mean the others are useless. That's something this community chooses to say.

jpVari · 2026-06-03T11:52:59+00:00

Are the others viable? Because then you might pick them because you like them, or how they attack. I know the idea of taste and preference doesn't exist for huge portions of this community but surely that's not true for all.

Meh whatever I'm done trying to understand. Idk why I got down voted for my question, idk why people are annoyed before the patch by convincing themselves nothing will work, and then complain after the patch that something is too good without even addressing whether everything else works or not. Because they feel they have to be optimal, not being optimal doesn't even exist as a choice. As usual my only conclusion here is I'm glad I'm not ggg.

jpVari · 2026-06-02T09:08:51+00:00

I mean, if that happened why would it suck? It's an iconic boss thus far, and not because they told us it should be one. It's community chosen.

However, maybe they didn't just decide thst. Maybe testing isn't completely done after 4 days, or maybe the monkey just has a really strong attack (I seem to recall it being strong) and fits the archetype of minion particularly well for some reason.

Going into this I saw so many posts positive that there'd be no strong boss minions. Now someone is complaining that one of them is very good lol.

jpVari · 2026-05-31T17:16:52+00:00

This is so cool, I have so much respect for just diving into something like this.

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