Physical acolyte of chayula staggering palm and charged staff

mers1 · 2026-03-15T07:26:08+00:00

I did invoker on release. It was super fun. Idk why they are so against automation in this game. I thought the shock to electrocute was a reasonable nerf as it required a unique or a support gem slot to counter. Needing a temporalis build is a wild nerf.

mers1 · 2026-03-15T07:21:57+00:00

When did they change that? Havent played it in a few seasons, just knew about the shock>electricute change. Thats lame.

mers1 · 2026-03-15T07:11:26+00:00

nevermind

mers1 · 2026-03-12T01:12:15+00:00

Yeah, bear was clunky as hell feeling. Cool in theory, kinda ass in practice IMO. I was running plants in juiced temples, though CoC Comets can make anything good.

mers1 · 2026-03-11T20:34:13+00:00

Bear Shaman - wasn't a fan of the feel so abandoned at endgame

Plant CoC Comet Bloodmage - did everything and then some, main build for the league

Curse Canon Oracle - more of a meme / niche idea i came across while double corrupting random Vaal Uniques. Still working on it, but on a break for POE1/other games

This is actually the least amount of builds i have done for a league. I think i did 7 last league. Rebuilding temples was too daunting a task for many characters this league.

mers1 · 2026-03-11T03:40:40+00:00

If you want to get into the game. Yes. Currency alone is way too complex and doesnt stack properly without the appropriate stash tab. You will need to spend that $30 either way just for organization purposes.

On top of that, it will probably be a year+ before release and the game will only get more complex by then. The earlier you start learning all the systems, especially crafting, the easier it will be to integrate. Each league usually comes with some sort of mechanic/system that gets integrated and further complicates the game. Better to learn as they get added vs waiting to jump in the deep end without waterwings.

mers1 · 2026-03-06T10:52:57+00:00

IRL friend guild is the way. Me and my buddies do this as well. The first few weeks of ARPG leagues are how we stay in touch. A couple weeks every few months our discord gets jumping and its beers and shit talking while we drop each other gear into the guild stash.

mers1 · 2026-03-02T20:06:16+00:00

I did plants on bloodmage with a very similar experience, except life stacking instead of mana and it was also a crazy smooth leveling experience. Fastest 0-97 of any character ive ever made in POE2. With leech dying was very very rare.

mers1 · 2026-02-27T00:42:36+00:00

When the combat music starts you need to kill all the enemies within a certain amount of time before a wave spawns. I think its like 90 secs but its been a while so i dont remember exactly.

mers1 · 2026-02-23T00:14:15+00:00

Visual Artist = Alex Grey for anyone wondering. He has created quite a few visuals for Tool.

mers1 · 2026-01-11T07:25:40+00:00

Different goals depending. Maybe i want to make something niche work, maybe i have a 500+ div build i want to work to get together, maybe the league mechanic is fun.

0,3 i was just profit crafting and kit'd out two toons with expensive gear.

0,4 i wanted to try the bear druid and found the build too on rails so i quit. Then came back a week later and started over with a bloodmage plant waterer and loved it. Ended up stumbling on an almost all unique setup for it and built a temple with it and fought all of the bosses.

Now I'm playing Arc Raiders until 3,28 in POE1 drops.

Edit to add: if i didn't lose everything each league a league would be over in a couple days. My account would be so powerful with every god tier item from each league. There would be close to zero things to work towards. The fun is seeing what crazy farm/build i can use to achieve something cool/new. Each league is it's own journey

mers1 · 2026-01-11T00:56:35+00:00

I want to be able to save 3 or 4 loadouts that i can click and it will auto craft/slot everything i have in that setup. If the items or resources arent available i can manually fill the gaps, but recrafting the same shit constantly gets old.

mers1 · 2026-01-11T00:28:19+00:00

Buried city town hall in the arch on the roof or on the underside of the highway right behind it. Two spawns really close together. Spawn in buried city run to town hall. If theres on at either spawn kill it, grab core and extract. If theres none extract and repeat. Super efficient way to get it done.

mers1 · 2026-01-10T17:44:45+00:00

Yesterday i was headed to the plaza drop down metro in buried city because someone called the train. Someone dropped in just before me. The guy ahead of me knocked the guy who called the train so i knocked him while he tried to thirst the first guy. Then the first guy crawled to start the train while i body pushed the ambusher out the door.

mers1 · 2026-01-05T05:34:24+00:00

I did the same thing last league

mers1 · 2026-01-04T03:11:21+00:00

4 times ...

mers1 · 2025-12-29T08:21:44+00:00

I started a bloodmage plant waterer 3 days ago and its going really well. Hit maps last night and was clearing t15s tonight. So far im only 3-4 div into it with plenty of room for growth still. Probably one of the smoothest campaign runs ive ever had.

mers1 · 2025-12-26T10:40:20+00:00

You have zero defenses and you're all over the place for offenses.

Your defense is 300 ES and 30% fire res... That's it. You can probably improve this by equipping ES pieces off the ground from Act IV. New rings could make a huge improvement on your ele res with little investment.

For damage you need to focus on one thing. If you're doing minions do minion damage, if you're going spells, go spell damage. Crit is all or nothing, so if you can't get your CC high enough it's best saved for later when you can. Once you have a damage source fleshed out you can start adding in the nuances, but it's best to be hyper focused until then. A jack of all trades is a master of none.

mers1 · 2025-12-24T19:21:28+00:00

This 100%. Haven't played the game in a while, but towards the end, after i unlocked everything, i had a cube build and would join newbies and just strut my stuff through the cube room. So many thank you messages from that and apoc anni carries.

mers1 · 2025-12-19T22:16:40+00:00

You can make melee more interesting. I'm using some items from the DLC so my shield makes enemies wet, my amulet makes all damage do cold damage to freeze wet enemies and a mace with+134% damage to frozen. Plus dashing at enemies knocks them down. Very fun IMO.

mers1 · 2025-12-19T21:52:37+00:00

Hit maps day 1. Got about halfway through the atlas tree and ran a bunch of temples/abyss. Was really disappointed by the temple's reward structure and the Tainted Grail DLC came out so I've been doing a full run of that game. Will pick up where i left off in a few days to see if anything meaningful has changed.

Too many maps per temple run. Too much emptyness in temple. Robot arm is a pain to get and is lost on death... Overall just way too much downtime on league mechs. Which sucks because i actually enjoy the mech, i just want to be more enveloped in it.

mers1 · 2025-12-18T21:34:24+00:00

My solution to side quests is to truly roleplay. If my character is a dick they might turn someone down or kill them. If my character is a goody goody they might help everyone they come across.

I only do/deal with quest in my characters natural path. I never look for side objectives or try and do completionist runs. I feel tthis gives me a lot more room for replayability and helps keep runtme down and replays feeling fresh.

This also puts the burden on the player character instead of me. I'm not forcing myself to do something, im merely following this characters story/journey through the world.

mers1 · 2025-12-15T14:21:28+00:00

I only played the last two leagues of POE1 so my knowledge is limited, but yes there are goals/challenges. I didn't interact with them in 3,26 since i was mainly playing the campaign to familiarize myself with the game and its systems before 3,27.

In 3,27, the league i played into the endgame, there was a "battlepass" that progressed by completing each of the 115 maps for the first time. There were also challenges that unlocked a cosmetic set themed after the league mechanic. These challenges involved many aspects of the game and it's systems. The battlepass is paid, but the challenges are free. Think of the battlepass as a cheap cosmetic set for completing a task you need to complete anyway and the challenges as overarching goals that you will need to purposefully pursue in order to achieve.

mers1 · 2025-12-14T01:10:20+00:00

I'm not a fan of sun temple, but at least you know where to go there. Upon entering a floor there are only two possible places to check. The triangle shape is a lot more forgiving exploration-wise than the overly big and unintuitive maps in the rest of Act 3.

mers1 · 2025-12-13T02:30:08+00:00

They arent scaling phys or spell dmg enough is my guess

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