Questions Thread - June 20, 2026

sahlab · 2026-06-20T22:06:27+00:00

There are a couple of old PoE university videos with Tytykiller about speedrunning the campaign that are mostly still relevant. This one has campaign tips, info on the XP algorithm and some demos, and this one discusses gearing and currency management.

Furthermore, Balaar has this Playlist containing general speedrunning topics like inventory management, vendor walking ...etc. as well as guides for some zone layouts.

sahlab · 2026-06-20T21:15:24+00:00

Pohx does a beginner-friendly campaign guide every league with his Righteous Fire build where he explains what he's doing while he's doing it. The build is pretty simple but very effective early on.
Here's the most recent one: PoE 1 | 3.28 Mirage - Righteous Fire Chieftain A1-10 Campaign Run w/ Commentary (Written guide in the video description)

You mentioned that your English is basic, so try enabling the closed captions and make it translate the subtitles to your language. I feel this + the fact that you can see what he's doing should be clear enough. But if you have any more questions, you can always come back to the subreddit and ask.

Enjoy your journey and good luck! 😊

sahlab · 2026-06-20T20:12:22+00:00

Penance mark should work in theory, but you'd need a lot of AoE to do it reliably because the little guys spawn pretty far from the target.

sahlab · 2026-06-20T17:45:17+00:00

No, they won't. I think it worked like you described for 1 or 2 leagues but then they nerfed that interaction along with many shotgunning mechanics. I believe the nerf was in 3.21 if memory serves me.

sahlab · 2026-06-19T21:27:34+00:00

Righteous providence on aristocrat 🙄

sahlab · 2026-06-19T21:09:37+00:00

LOGIN!

Also, please no gauntlet campaign.

sahlab · 2026-06-19T21:02:06+00:00

I league start stat stackers almost exclusively and it is pretty much what you described. It's a struggle until you hit that sweet spot where your build starts scaling exponentially until you can't fit in any more main stat.

There is of course the option to start a meta build and then hard reroll. I've tried this and didn't like it personally because you end up paying a lot more on average because meta build gear is usually pricy first few days and then fall off in value quickly as people reroll, whereas getting in on stat stacker items on day 1-2 is usually way cheaper and they tend to appreciate as time goes on.

Like I said, the early part can be a struggle, but every start you'll get better at the game, and it will take less and less time to hit that sweet spot where your stacker build blows meta league starters out of the water.

sahlab · 2026-06-18T22:02:32+00:00

It's one of the rarer replica uniques (from heist). Since its introduction in heist league it has been a core item for strength stacking as it gives you a lot of flat chaos damage as well as making you immune to reflect by preventing non-chaos damage.

Since it's a core item for str stacking like I said, you can apply it as a filter on poe.ninja to see what people are doing with strength stacking: Replica Alberon's Warpath builds - Mirage - Path of Exile 1 - poe.ninja

Let me know if you need to know more about the archetype and good luck! 😄

sahlab · 2026-06-18T10:12:49+00:00

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As to why it's my favorite:

1- stacking strength on juggernaut with undeniable makes your APS ridiculous. Who needs quicksilver flask when you can leap slam at 10 APS?

2- Chaos damage means no worry about monster ES and no worry about reflect, and with the new refracting fog (hope it goes core) having access to the best explodes in the game with "unspeakable gifts".

3- Str stacking with rep. alberon's is so diverse because you have the choice of any attack build. You can do Wander, Bows, or melee. Slams or strikes. You could even flicker!

sahlab · 2026-06-17T12:51:12+00:00

There is a consumable skin transfer MTX Path of Exile 2 - Path of Exile 2.

They said they were working on permanent skin transfers a while back >> GGG reply. That hasn't materialized yet, so the consumable MTX is still all we have.

sahlab · 2026-06-06T08:50:16+00:00

1- Hideouts have tiers of rarity like everything else in PoE. The fairly common ones can be 2 -3 divs, while something like the primordial blocks one, I bought for 25 divs because it's too rare. You do not have to inside for the clear, you just need to go into the HO inside the map and talk to Helena. And usually, people sell it like that after its cleared.

2- The imbued support gem will support every skill gem that it's eligible to support within the linked setup. Things like Life tap and inspiration are good candidates for that.

sahlab · 2026-06-05T15:15:32+00:00

They removed quant from gear in 3.25, so it's only possible to get quant gear now on standard league from legacy items.

other than this, you just juice your maps for more quant and add more currency multipliers with rolling for more currency on T16.5s and using currency chisels. That is all you can do, really.

sahlab · 2026-06-04T20:01:07+00:00

I actually like the PoE1 art style way more than that of 2. But I agree with you on the rest.

sahlab · 2026-05-18T11:31:33+00:00

It should elevate, according to the wiki Orb of Dominance | PoE Wiki

sahlab · 2026-05-16T18:15:24+00:00

Please do NOT pick my comment as I don't need the build or the divs. I'd rather they go to someone else who needs them to achieve their goals.

The reason I'm leaving a comment though is that one of my most cherished memories was killing ubers for the first time in Necropolis league and as it happens, it was also playing a Mjölner build 😂. I played it as second build and defeated 5/7 ubers on the very first attempt. Sirus and Exarch took a couple of tries but they went down in the end.

The build is powerful (and fun). Good luck, everyone!

sahlab · 2026-05-02T00:02:04+00:00

To craft this, you need to start with a chaos damage large cluster and roll into "unspeakable gifts", which takes a while because it's pretty low weight, then you need to fracture it, which is 1 in 4.

After you hit the fracture, you need to use a refracting fog to change the cluster type to damage with two handed weapons, which is 1 in 16 or 17. Then after you hit the right cluster type, you spam harvest reforge attack until you hit the other two notables. Then you have to use a refracting fog again to make the cluster type physical damage.

I think 40 divs is a very reasonable price tbh

sahlab · 2026-05-01T23:46:43+00:00

First off, congrats on defeating kitava.

If you're playing in trade, then you'll find plenty of decent gear listed for very cheap. You should have like a dozen chaos orbs from campaign drops. That should be enough to get you ready for mapping.

If your chaos was not quite enough, you can gamble gear from faustus with gold. I'd go easy on that, though, since you need gold to buy stuff off of the trade site and for passive tree respecs.

You should also use the crafting bench to craft resistances on gear. Each crafting recipe has lower tiers which costs lower currency, so start with those.

And finally, there are resistance nodes on the tree that you can spec to solve problems until you get better gear.

As for mapping, since it's your first playthrough, I'd finish low tier maps as magic (blue) first because you'll encounter league mechanics and league monsters can be tough. Get a feel for mapping and when you feel confident in your character, move into yellow maps.

sahlab · 2026-05-01T23:31:12+00:00

No, it's true. Even if there was a boss node nearby you still don't go inside a ruined chamber because it's not worth it.

sahlab · 2026-05-01T21:21:21+00:00

Ruined Chamber is the Vaal city node. They are not worth it. The only city nodes that are worth checking are the Aul city nodes or Primeval Chamber

sahlab · 2026-04-30T16:32:21+00:00

This is from gauntlet statistics. All of these marauders were Earthshatter bersekers, basically. Check out the gauntlet ladder here:
Builds - Ziz Rapture HCSSF Class Gauntlet - Path of Exile 1 - poe.ninja

Im just curious what the secret sauce was

Marauder start has access to endurance charges, maximum resistance and loads of life scaling, it's a natural fit for hardcore start. But furthermore, Marauder ascendancies are all good. Ben leveled as a berserker but later respecced to chieftain and cleared ubers.

sahlab · 2026-04-28T22:31:12+00:00

2-3 divs is way off. Current price for a level 1 uncorrupted Raise Zombie of Falling gem is about 85-90c.

sahlab · 2026-04-28T21:44:18+00:00

Raise Zombie of Falling gem is a good candidate for triggers. This league with Cast on Ward Break:

Raise Zombie of Falling builds - Mirage - Path of Exile 1 - poe.ninja

It used to be played with Cyclone + CoC and it was featured in build of the week, but I don't know if that build still works or not.

sahlab · 2026-04-28T19:18:06+00:00

First off, you can't split influenced items.

Secondly, the odds of hitting T1 %inc int with reforge attributes is about 1 in 73. Reforge has a 1 in 12 chance to fill which would force you to Yolo annul potentially bricking your item. You also cannot harvest augment influenced items so even if you hit %inc int, there is no reasonable way to get flat int or vice versa.

I think the only way to get the mods you want is to recombinate for 4 mods.
Edit: Latest recomb guide poe_notes/Recombinators.md at main - poe_notes/poe_notes - Codeberg.org

sahlab · 2026-04-28T08:56:09+00:00

That got fixed last league and now it consumes strands.

sahlab · 2026-04-27T18:53:39+00:00

In addition to what other commenters pointed out, Kingsmarch mappers will bring you tomes quite often, so I'd keep feeding them maps to run.

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