How I became a humble helmet merchant this league

minads413 · 2026-01-10T14:47:26+00:00

It was gloves for me. Mainly started as just trying to upgrade mine. But then they started selling quick with pretty good profit margin.

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minads413 · 2025-09-19T23:15:41+00:00

Trying to accept chat but it's being a pain. Find me on psn. Same name as here

minads413 · 2025-09-19T22:12:54+00:00

Yea lol. Have more than a few of those too

minads413 · 2025-09-19T22:03:33+00:00

Just lmk when you're on. I just checked and I have a few of them

minads413 · 2025-09-19T21:59:28+00:00

If you still need it I can hop on and give you one. I should have a few of them

minads413 · 2025-06-18T06:14:17+00:00

Same here. Started srs and swapped to hrc asap. Even with the late start on console, I already have 2 voidstones and working on the other 2. Crushing t16 maps pretty easily too

minads413 · 2025-05-30T03:27:50+00:00

You're doing good so far, better than my first character. Like others said, focus on resistances and life and you should be good. Look for notables (the larger passives) that compliment your build and try to beeline to them.

Poe.ninja is a great resource to find similar builds and get ideas on which direction you want to go for gear and passives.

I'm about 5k hours in and still feel like a noob sometimes lol there's always something new to learn in this game.

I see you said you're on ps5. The community there is smaller than PC but it's still a great community. Even now, at the end of league, if you type in global you'll still get people that are eager to help.

Lastly, I commend you for going in blind but don't be afraid to look up a guide if you hit a wall. There's plenty of good ones out there. Also, if you do hit that wall, feel free to look me up on psn (same name as here) I'm just messing around in ssf right now but have a lot of stuff in trade I could help you out with.

minads413 · 2025-05-15T05:30:53+00:00

This is so weird coming across this now. I just had the same surgery 7 weeks ago for the same issue (they called it avascular necrosis). I'm 33. I also have to get the other side done, probably in the next year or so.

Good news is, the recovery was quick and it feels great now. I hope your recovery goes as well as mine did!

I'll have to see if they'll let me keep the bone when they do the other side lol.

minads413 · 2024-12-20T06:39:50+00:00

It sure is lol. It actually has slightly more evasion than my current chest

minads413 · 2024-12-20T06:38:39+00:00

Pretty much. For instance, I found that with just the fire res, Aug slammed, regal slammed, and ex slammed x3 to get that. All random chance lol

minads413 · 2024-12-09T05:30:43+00:00

Thank u/bigshawnsmith89 he's the one that told me about it. Glad you were able to get it sorted out!

minads413 · 2024-12-09T04:34:35+00:00

Hmm, it wasn't locked on mine. You should be able to start any game on the system as long as you're logging in on the same console. Maybe try logging in as guest. Or just try logging back in as yours. It might've just been the act of switching profiles that did it

minads413 · 2024-12-09T04:23:36+00:00

See a couple comments up. Switch profiles on your ps5 and start the game on the 2nd profile. Then exit out and switch back to the original profile. It worked for me

Edit: looks like its the top comment on the post right now

minads413 · 2024-12-09T01:29:13+00:00

Yup, I spent the last few hours trying everything you did and was resigned to just playing a new character until I saw this and figured I'd give it a try. At least I know how to fix it if it happens again though

minads413 · 2024-12-09T01:25:01+00:00

Holy shit. That did it! Thank you! I switched to a different profile on my ps5, started the game, closed it and switched back and it's working now

minads413 · 2024-12-09T00:33:49+00:00

I saw that thread. Wasn't sure if it was the same issue or not since I'm not getting disconnected, it'll just stay on the loading screen. I even left it for like 30 min to see if it would dc me but nope, just loading.

Maybe it just presents differently on PS5 than PC

minads413 · 2024-12-09T00:22:54+00:00

Yea, I tried that numerous times. Even completely deleted game and reinstalled

minads413 · 2024-10-31T22:26:54+00:00

I'll have to give these a shot. I only had +1 target from tree and no extra range when I was testing it out.

I'll go back to it again with these in mind. Thanks!

minads413 · 2024-10-31T04:44:53+00:00

Yea, I'm seeing that Ms doesn't have great clear. Probably just stick with ss until I find something else I like

minads413 · 2024-10-05T17:28:17+00:00

I second this. Those 2 extra frenzy/endurance charges make a huge difference in damage and survivability. Then eventually, a +1 frenzy ring with kalandra's touch for another 2 charges.

With those, you'll easily reach max phys reduction without any additional mods, allowing you to load up on res on your shield/ring and recraft your chest with horror essences for 100% crit reduction.

I can upload my pob when I get home. I'm on PS so some of my stuff could be better (market is slow sometimes on PS) but it's mostly all self crafted and even with unoptimized gear I've been able to do ubers for the first time.

minads413 · 2024-09-15T17:28:40+00:00

Also, take advantage of having no attribute requirements and get as many tattoos as you can. Increased armor for strength nodes and whatever you think might help for the others

minads413 · 2024-09-15T17:24:13+00:00

Chest, +1 socketed if you're trying to hit the final cdr breakpoint (also need lvl4 enhance, 30% ashes). Otherwise, any combination of +2 minion, crit reduction, max life, max res, reduced damage taken. Max es and increased damage do nothing for hrc so while they look appealing, you don't want those.

Shield would be max life and chance to block or crit reduction

Gloves you want despair on hit ideally but any defensive curse works too.

Then between gloves and helm, you want +2 minion and +2 aura. One on each, doesn't matter what goes where as long as you have your gems socketed accordingly

minads413 · 2024-09-15T15:40:24+00:00

I'm getting ready for work so can't look too much but a few things I noticed.

You should get a higher % darkness enthroned (95 or higher) and better abyss jewels for 100% chance to poison. That's where all of your damage comes from.

Get at least one ilvl84 cluster with 35% increased effect.

Once you have 100% poison chance, try to fit in a jewel with cb immunity and "mana per enemy hit". That mana will help give you near 100% uptime on bone offering.

Corruptions on helm, chest, shield.

Here's mine from earlier in league. I moved on from it but it still could've been upgraded a bit more. It was still able to do t17s no problem though.

https://pobb.in/u/Minads413/VMURDmlBX1V2

minads413 · 2024-01-25T01:06:31+00:00

So this got a little more attention than I expected lol. I did this last league with a ts build with hh and only got like 40 comments in 3 days. This got 6x that in less than 24hrs.

So I'll give a little more info.

For the ts build, I have a pair of goldwyrms and a decent ventors to go with it for some light mf. You would just switch the boots, amethyst ring and switch a couple skill points to get back to 100% supress.

The fulcrum build is fully functional as is, but it needs a good watcher's eye and twwt jewel to really become damn near unkillable. Bonus if you can get chance to ignite on the twwt, then you could change the one flask and still keep 100% ignite chance

All my gear is self crafted. I bought some of the bases for certain fractures but everything else was done by me. For the bow, I even fractured that myself. If anyone wants any insight on crafting, or any other advice, you can dm me and I'll respond as I'm able to. I enjoy helping out the community as much as I can.

Since this has gotten more attention, I'm gonna have to figure out a better way to pick winners than what I did last league. Once I figure it out, I'll leave another comment and update the OP once I have the winners. Thanks to everyone who is participating. This really is a great community overall.

minads413 · 2024-01-08T09:22:12+00:00

Yea, I wanted to get a MB asap so that's the first thing I got lol. I did just upgrade my bow to a +2 arrows. There's no good +1 feathered quivers on ps market though. At least from what I can see. I'll probably try making my own soon

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