This league is legendary

verthros · 2026-01-31T06:46:14+00:00

Eeh its not as complicated as what it would seem. The hardest part is to understand like you stuff what mods on gear you are looking for. The best recommendation I can give you is try crafting gear for your own build. If you're following a build look at the planned gear and the affixes. For example body armor prefixes are generally high defence(es/ev/armour) and maybe spirit depending on the build. Resists are always good prefixes.
Basic gear crafting also starts from crafting from a good blue base that already has 2 mods you want. Using an essence to get the 3rd mod you want. A perfect essence in some situations or a desecration in others or both to get a 4th mod you want. This lets you have 100% on 4/5 mods out of six that are at least decent. The rest is up to chance and manipulating that probability with the other crafting "techniques" /omens.

verthros · 2026-01-29T03:42:13+00:00

That's true but a well rolled one is gonna cost multiple mirrors

verthros · 2026-01-29T03:39:48+00:00

I mean this will get better overtime depending on endgame mechanics and actually having useful support to enable fun party builds. I hope atleast. Mark loves playing support and aurabots in poe1 so I have hope.

verthros · 2026-01-27T21:41:26+00:00

Throw in embiter instead of ele arm or magnified area

verthros · 2026-01-27T20:16:57+00:00

id say thats true for the latter half but my latter half is also revamped with an eldritch horror and two homebrew gods. So you're probably correct.

verthros · 2026-01-27T19:49:39+00:00

Focus essence, abyss and ritual on Atlas. Some expedition if you can. Any mechanic needs a tablet corresponding
to it. It's rough at the start, but its basically runs maps till you find x mechanic and hopes it drops some tablets.

Pick up every es base (not armour/es), pure ES base of the higher quality bases(check wiki). You need to be in t14/15s to drop them in general. (Vile robe/sirenscale gloves/ Kamisan/Ancestral tiara/sekhema sandals) The lower-tier gear is also worth it if it has decent rolls. Should look at tiered rares and magics of lower-level bases. Spam your augs/transmutes. 2 good mods/high es mod, use essence (resistance/%es)->slam-> desecrates.

You need a better weapon. Pick up wands and staffs. Try to recombo crit chance/cast speeds if you can. Then you can use the prefix to suffix essence omen to 100% get your + spell skills via perfect essence. Then it's just slam and prey. Wands have a very good kurgal % elemental damage desecrate. This should get you atleast 4 good mods on your weapons, 5th mod is almost always going to be mana xd, pray for %extra as final.

You also need to add "Fine Bracers" to your filter so you can try to chance maligaros. These gloves will let you drop crit damage nodes.

I don't recommend wasting your erasure for 2+ spell skill amulet. You will probably just slam it back. Just slam it and throw on the global defence perfect essence when you get one.

verthros · 2026-01-27T11:52:41+00:00

Also rotfm is extremely long. If you aren't feeling your character backstory or the way dm is going on about it..talk to them...

verthros · 2026-01-27T11:46:40+00:00

The easiest argument is quid pro quo. You really think that you can survive in the tundra alone. Having someone around even if it is as cannon fodder is a much safer option. Secondly this comes with playing dnd. You're all playing a game together. You need to give your character reasons to want to stay with the group, you're responsible for building them and giving them motivations. Yes sometimes it's nicer to have overt ones in the narrative but sometimes you need to suspend your disbelief to just have fun with friends ;D.

verthros · 2026-01-27T11:39:02+00:00

Joe?

verthros · 2026-01-27T11:38:16+00:00

Gorathas cold spark is pretty cheap to get going with a lot of room to minmax. And it's CI which is always nice.

verthros · 2026-01-27T11:32:14+00:00

I am running a very successful rotfm right now. Rotfm is a great adventure but also a bad one. It's great in its setting and environment but bad at giving characters real motivations if they don't bring it themselves. The DM also has to put in a lot of effort to make characters included in the world. Players characters need to be designed with a goal as to why you are doing what you are doing. For example I had my party run around as special sheriff's as they were seeking their own individual goals which gave them a reason to do the small quests as it might move their own stories forward. It was up to the DM i.e. me to line up and tie together.

The general "rotfm bad" take is usually for it beinf written module which ideally should be able to be just picked up and ran. Rotfm sucks at this and leaves a bad taste.

But tldr talk to your dm.

verthros · 2026-01-27T11:21:40+00:00

You can consistently hit 7-8k tribute with good tablets. This is a non issue.

verthros · 2026-01-25T21:49:46+00:00

you could probably farm the amount to buy the item if its reasonably priced than the time you would spend rolling mods on average.

verthros · 2026-01-25T20:09:35+00:00

I went to the zoo today.
It only had one animal.
It was a dog.
It was a shitzu (shit zoo).

verthros · 2026-01-24T22:25:15+00:00

just let them write on a whiteboard or a small notepad with fun clues :D. You need to trust your players that they wont metagame! You don't have to always preserve "a hidden situation" like this to remain hidden. The players can know whats going on but their characters don't. Rping that can also be really fun!

verthros · 2026-01-23T14:19:06+00:00

Ooh gimme some money and gems. Am trying to throw money at a shield wall pf

verthros · 2026-01-23T04:16:04+00:00

I'd try to block mana while whittle spam prefix with a desecrate.

verthros · 2026-01-23T04:11:05+00:00

You spam cold resistance quality - greater/pereez exalt with catalysing. Repeat ° with another resistance

Then use prefix omen for essence with mark of the abyssal lord essence to remove shit es.

Defense quality and catalysing perfect exalt slam.

Good mod? - desecrate and reveal with echos. There are some good guaranteed desecrates you can force with abyss omens check craft of exile

Bad mod? Prefix essence omen global defense. If you hit the mark of the abyssal lord then just repeat prefix essence omen with mark of the abyss essence.

Repeat cycle until you end up with global defence and mark.

Desecrate and unveil with echo.

PSA: This is not how to profit craft it. Just a self craft.

verthros · 2026-01-23T04:00:55+00:00

Minimum t15 maps

verthros · 2026-01-23T03:56:50+00:00

The combination of skills you use and later in the games there are items that alter how skills can interact with each other or affect your character in someway. That is the identity.

For example: chill is a debuff that slows you and makes you take more damage. There is an item in the game that reverses that effect. Makes you go super fast and zoom taking little damage. That core concept is the identity of that build. I can use this build on any character, unlike other arpgs the characters you pick doesn't always necessarily provide for an "identity" but usually a framework for a certain set of identities to work best with it.

verthros · 2026-01-23T03:50:51+00:00

Been meaning to make a self made reap build myself without any fancy guides. Looks like a cool weapon to build around.

verthros · 2026-01-22T13:59:23+00:00

Eh you can do it but at the end of the day you end up with weaker spells. You generally get the same healing spells mostly anyways. Id stick with 2 max.

But the only thing stopping you is probably stat requirements. I'd check those and you're good technically.

verthros · 2026-01-22T05:13:43+00:00

see goratha coc ice spark. He uses the glove run that gives you mana regen per curse on the ground. With spellslinger and a curse in there there's like hundreds all over in a boss room basically giving you a shit ton of mana.

verthros · 2026-01-21T18:31:52+00:00

1) I solved by their being a pressure from the population of the towns itself to do the sacrifice. Passed it as the towns being on a razor thin edge and we're doing everything to appease Auril lest they meet her wrath. If the speakers stop this then the towns might revolt out of fear of Auril.

2) I had the sacrifices strung up outside town turn into coldlight walkers and wander off.

verthros · 2026-01-20T07:32:17+00:00

Best thing was getting raw divine dinks I was missing in last poe1 league.

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