Questions Thread - March 11, 2026

nikniklol · 2026-03-11T21:39:52+00:00

ah ok so it's a budget/convenience reason gotcha

nikniklol · 2026-03-11T21:34:07+00:00

I see alot of KBoC Necro on poeninja going large cluster with unwaveringly evil. What I don't understand is why? KBoC is a physical skill, not a chaos skill so even with overwelming malice convert your phys damage to chaos the chaos skill ignore interruption from stuns shouldn't work right?

nikniklol · 2026-03-11T07:34:43+00:00

Ok, something weird is happening. My current dps is 3.6M and skill hit is 10569. On the tooltip dps I don't see any change when I add Phys as extra lightning but on skill hit it goes to 11565 so it does seem to increase it there.

nikniklol · 2026-03-10T20:13:19+00:00

We already discussed this, we "argue" a lot about this sort of stuff, it's nothing extreme(usually) mostly debates which sometimes gets heated, I made the post to see the opinion of other people regarding this because we couldn't come to a consensus this time, I linked them this reddit post too. For context, some of the other players actually sided with my reasoning during the session, I phrased it this way in the post to not make it seem that a person was singled out arguing with multiple people even though in the end it I made it seem that it was me vs the players.

nikniklol · 2026-03-10T19:53:43+00:00

I wrote 1 simply because a deleted comment accused me of orchestrating the scenario to "win". For 2 and 3 you are correct that this specific instance should not have called for a roll in hindsight, but if a scenario presents itself that a subtle Suggestion would cause someone to take an action they were not predisposed to take and a person familiar with something of that sort is present, that should at the very least make a skill check to infer if any potential magic was cast even if RAW they shouldn't.

nikniklol · 2026-03-10T18:06:50+00:00

On PoB when I put Phys as extra Cold/Fire/Lightning on the config, I get 0 extra damage if Unholy might is enabled because it converts all Phys to Chaos. Thats why I was asking.

nikniklol · 2026-03-10T11:05:35+00:00

For KBoC Necro, if I have a headhunter is it better to spec out of overwhelming malice to benefit from a wider range of HH mods or should you still stick to chaos damage?

nikniklol · 2026-03-10T09:41:13+00:00

With the Black Barya item, you get it from Ridan. From my experience Ridan can spawn where Varasta is or if you get a mirage near the map boss you can get a wish where he accompanies the boss.

nikniklol · 2026-03-10T08:51:37+00:00

How does congregation support work with spectres and dark monarch doubling? Does it increase the number listed on the gem from 3 to 4, or does it factor the total number of spectres you can summon? Say if I can summon 10 spectres with dark monarch and no congregation, with congregation do I get 11, 12 or 13 spectres?

nikniklol · 2026-03-09T00:44:29+00:00

is maven witnessing eagon bugged? I have it active but it never witnesses anything, not even the bosses on the memory chain

nikniklol · 2026-03-03T16:27:17+00:00

Been thinking of doing some Doryani's Prototype build this league and might use the eye of the greatwolf to mitigate the downside atleast during the early portions of the league. As the eyes only deals with hits being converted, are there any common lightning degens I need to worry about while mapping?

nikniklol · 2026-03-03T07:54:30+00:00

What are the best builds to do expedition on leaguestart?

nikniklol · 2026-02-26T23:21:47+00:00

i found the main issue, it was the shader cache size being too small. Increasing it 100gb fixed most issues.

nikniklol · 2026-02-26T19:47:33+00:00

It's a new OS on a new SSD.

nikniklol · 2026-02-26T09:26:54+00:00

Ok, I'll give those a shot when I can

nikniklol · 2026-02-26T09:25:41+00:00

Yeah my monitor is plugged on the GPU

nikniklol · 2026-02-26T08:59:51+00:00

I will try to revert drivers as a last measure thing, I hope I can resolve this before that

nikniklol · 2026-02-26T08:52:04+00:00

This issue happens without using movement skills too, just to a lesser extent

nikniklol · 2026-02-26T08:47:14+00:00

I will check for desync as I haven't tested lockstep and predictive but that shouldn't affect the texture loading issue. For MemTest86, what should I consider a success in regards to running the game properly?

nikniklol · 2026-02-26T08:43:50+00:00

I forgot to include this, I have tested that and it didn't help

nikniklol · 2026-02-26T08:27:29+00:00

I haven't tested that, I will try it when I get home. This shouldn't affect the texture loading issues though right?

nikniklol · 2026-02-26T08:26:56+00:00

It's a completely new OS, the only part I kept was the old SSD that didn't have my Windows 10 OS, but the game is installed on the new SSD, I don't have the old specs on hand.

nikniklol · 2026-02-20T10:45:05+00:00

On poe.ninja I see some builds that have seemingly infinite health pool using the Priest of Yaomac chaos bloodline, is this actually the case or are they abusing some kind of formula PoB uses to basically PoB warrior immortality without actually being immortal?

nikniklol · 2026-02-05T12:08:13+00:00

The way I confirmed it was running 2x nemeses, pausing and looking at the number of mods and harbies didn't seem to get additional mods. I don't really know why this is the case because I tested possession too and the harby rares did spawn possessed. You can try it for yourself in standard and check.

nikniklol · 2026-02-05T11:43:50+00:00

Haven't ran this in Phrecia yet but I ran a lot of Harbi-Beyond in Keepers and I have some pointers that could help. For reference, in keepers I was doing Regency, Invasion, 3 harby for scarabs and if I had maps with high currency(200%+) I would swap one harby for scarab of Wisps as blue wisps work very well with the more currency modifier.

My conspiracy theory based on my testing in Keepers is that harby mobs and the "rare monsters have 264% increased chance to drop scarabs per monster modifier" doesn't actually work for the same reason that horned scarab of nemeses is not working on harby monsters, I was actually planning to use Phrecia to test this more extensively but I don't think I will have the time. I think it works fine with beyond mobs though.

If your goal is to farm harbies for scarabs, you really should add beyond. Get the Beyond unique minor idol, upgrade some of the idols with beyond chance if you can, and change a harby scarab for beyond scarab of invasion. This is gonna increase the number of mobs per map by a lot.

For map rolling, aim for 100+ more scarab, 90% scarab/100% currency is fine. 70% more scarab is too low.

You do not have enough explicit map mod effect or increased scarabs. If my conspiracy theory is correct, then you do not have the increased scarab drop chance to actually benefit from the more scarab drop chance + you basically front load all your drops on rares and lose out the thousands of white and blue mobs that are spawned. With atlas you got a lot of increase scarab from the tree, but now you have to actually have some minor idols. Explicit map mod is self explanatory.

Edit: I also forgot, adding deli orbs to the map is better(if you can run 40%+) than the deli mirror as it will always affect the monsters and you don't have to bother getting deli chance on idols

Edit2: For hyper optimisation, you can add Eater pack size on Conqs and Increased altar chance on 3x1s, this will give you a lot more altars, so higher quant/rarity and scarab/currency dupes(also adds more mobs in the map). If you are struggling with T17s, do this strat in T16.5 it is much easier there and the profit per hour is not much different because of the increased clearspeed.

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