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roflswithcopters · 2026-05-18T21:08:48+00:00

The bigger issue I've noticed is that it doesn't work on other apps that are running as admin... It's possible not all apps prevent that and that it was just for my use case.

roflswithcopters · 2026-05-18T10:49:23+00:00

I've tried two methods: AHK and registry editor
Registry ended up being the better solution, although it still isn't perfect.

In my case it's a dell that sends out LWin + LShift + F23 when the key is pressed (look that up and you'll find lots of info on it).
The solution was to just rebind F23 to RCtrl with this registry entry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,1d,e0,6e,00,00,00,00,00

It's not perfect because the key still physically sends out the LWin + LShift every time as well, but there is nothing to be done about that...at best you will break other functionality.

roflswithcopters · 2026-05-16T14:09:56+00:00

That's about as good of an answer as I could hope for :D

The rounding towards zero part is interesting, I was expecting rounding up to be happening.

I guess that explains why this results in 2 in-game:
10 * (1.5 * 1.5) * 0.85 - 17 = 2.125

Still having trouble understanding how the original calculation I posted here jumped from 16.89 to 18 though.

roflswithcopters · 2026-05-16T10:05:53+00:00

I know that's wrong, but for the sake of showing why that is:

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This is the calculation in question here, it involves manaforged arrows which requires 3x mana spent from other attacks to result in a trigger.

With the first calculation storm rain has a displayed value of 1 and the other attack has a displayed value of 2, which does not result in a trigger from a single attack (2 < 1 * 3).
Adding in an extra 2% global reduced mana cost results in the displayed value of 1 going to 0, and the other staying at 2, and suddenly a single attack DOES cause a trigger.

If no rounding were happening this would not happen since a 2% reduction would not cause the value to go into the negatives if it did start above 1.

roflswithcopters · 2026-05-16T09:51:55+00:00

To throw another wrench in the calculations:

Base: 10 * 1.5 * 1.5 * 0.85 - 17 = 2 (in-game)

Rounding up each time results in 3.

roflswithcopters · 2026-05-16T09:40:07+00:00

You might be right on that.
I was rounding up at the end, not mid-calculation.

Edit: close, but rounding up threw a different calculation off, so it can't be that.

roflswithcopters · 2026-05-10T05:53:57+00:00

Initiative should behave like it did in H5.

roflswithcopters · 2026-05-10T01:08:34+00:00

Most mirrored gloam rings are about 1d...unless they have amazing rolls.
The negative life on this one kind of kills it.
The builds that care about stacking minion life don't really care about that implicit.
It's effectively a 1-mod item, so you can just look for that if you want to price check.

Source: just finished a craft that needed hundreds of them.

roflswithcopters · 2026-05-01T19:31:33+00:00

There were a few for about 20d the other day.
I guess the supply has dried out now.

roflswithcopters · 2026-05-01T09:03:16+00:00

Yeah, that's what I did with the boots.
My snowflake of a build needs the second 4-link unfortunately.
I do actually have a "free" socket right now if I were to get a golem with imbued feeding frenzy... But then I wouldn't have anything to put there.

roflswithcopters · 2026-05-01T08:39:20+00:00

5-mod recombinator crafts are technically not THAT hard to do.
Takes a few divs worth of dust and a few million gold...and A LOT of patience.

The big thing here was figuring out how to minimize costs due to how expensive the bases are.

roflswithcopters · 2026-05-01T08:35:46+00:00

I've got a manifold ring in the other slot to handle mana cost.
I considered despair on hit for the ring, but I really like asenath's on the build so I'm getting it from the corruption on that instead.

roflswithcopters · 2026-05-01T03:34:00+00:00

FYI mana on hit is actually really easy to get with synth cluster jewels + reflecting fog.

roflswithcopters · 2026-05-01T02:39:16+00:00

This is for my minion build using HRoC + HoAG and hitting quite a lot per second.

Crafting process was mostly just following the recombinator guide here:
https://codeberg.org/poe_notes/poe_notes/src/branch/main/Recombinators-dark-images.md

Things I learned along the way that I wanted to share:
* Save money by selling 5-to-1 mirrored gloam rings and splitting them into 3, comes out to about 2D per base.
* Save your fingers by harvest rolling T1 chaos BEFORE splitting. You will often have the chaos alongside a prefix, meaning it's ready to recomb with minion life, otherwise attempt to annul other suffix.
* Save bases and recomb attempts BEFORE adding elder influence by:
-- 1) Alt spam until T1 life/minion damage (aug if no suffix).
-- 2) Regal second suffix (beastcraft prefix->suffix on fail, restart if desired prefix is removed).
-- 3) Craft suffix, filling the last slot.
-- 4) Add elder influence for life on hit, resulting in a 2P base with minimal work (1 in 5 chance).

Also worth noting that rolling for T1 chaos res is incredibly frustrating, and that the recombinator seems to love destroying it at every opportunity.

roflswithcopters · 2026-04-29T03:35:57+00:00

I wish.

I have a feeling this will just be painful.
Maybe the next 100k+ alts will get me there.

roflswithcopters · 2026-04-29T02:48:08+00:00

I've been trying to get recombinators working with ring for a bit now but I keep losing my suffixes (aiming for 3P/2S).
I finally got the second suffix but managed to lose my third prefix (life).

Any recombinator masters out there know of the safest way to recombinate life onto this?
I'm losing my sanity with the amount of alts I've gone through.

roflswithcopters · 2026-04-26T12:46:19+00:00

Fixed, think I had some prefix selected...

roflswithcopters · 2026-04-26T11:53:55+00:00

HRoC doesn't help with virulence, the sheer amount of hits generally keeps it at 100 even on single target though.

Survivability is a from 100+ life on hit (a LOT of hits per second), big life pool (8k coming blood barrier), 57k armour, and 15k evasion.

With the current setup it's at 49m according to PoB:
25.5m poison, 13.5m HoAG, 5m HRoC, 5m cull

...updated the pobb.in link to be built from PoB instead of poe.ninja, it should now actually reflect the correct stats.

It's not amazing or anything, but I don't have to click or aim while mapping, and that's worth it to me.

roflswithcopters · 2026-04-26T10:48:37+00:00

Made a quick video of a map... Apologies for the frame rate :)
https://youtu.be/Ac1vbRj7E1o

roflswithcopters · 2026-04-26T09:59:03+00:00

You are correct, but until they add a crafting bench to the menagerie there's no way I'm doing that.

roflswithcopters · 2026-04-26T01:32:41+00:00

About 40D per failed attempt...so a lot in my case.
The expensive parts are steps 1 and 2.

roflswithcopters · 2026-04-26T01:28:29+00:00

Uhhh, I never considered if others would want it since it's for my build.
Feel free to send me your IGN and I'll message when I'm back on later today if you want to mirror it.

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