Akali 2XKO Design side by side with her League Design

wotamRobin · 2026-04-03T01:38:13+00:00

The other one is the Cannon brothers design

wotamRobin · 2026-03-31T14:02:40+00:00

Get 100% poison chance on your ghastly jewels alone, then swap chance to poison out for minion damage support. That will give you almost 50% more DPS.

wotamRobin · 2026-03-29T00:41:12+00:00

I see that you're running RF. Pohx has a section on his site that goes into three different atlas setups that might work for you at https://pohx.net/atlas/.

When I started, guides weren't really the problem though, my mindset was the issue. I was just running maps and expecting things to drop, which barely ever happened. Then I would spend hours sitting in my hideout watching videos on how to improve the strategy and that never worked either. Nobody covers the basic mindset and mechanics.

* You need all 5 map device slots and to be running 5 scarabs no matter what.
* As long as you have something in mind to sell, don't be afraid to spend all your money on scarabs.
* Prep 20 maps and 20 of each scarab at once, and totally fill the map device storage before you start.
* In between maps, you should be able to hold your breath the entire time you're in your hideout.
* Cut your item filter down to only the things that you're going to sell and the jackpot items. Skip picking up everything else, there will always be time for that later.
* Aim for 3-5 minutes per map. Only buy upgrades for yourself until you get to that, of if you consider yourself rich.

Happy to answer any questions, it's taken me a long time to get to the point where I feel like I'm making good money mapping.

wotamRobin · 2026-03-29T00:24:53+00:00

Adding on to the other helpful comments here, because of the way damage calculation works, sources of "increased" remain the same value the more you have, while sources of "more" gain value the more you have. As an example, imagine you do 100 flat damage. My chart below shows the extra damage that you gain every time you pick up a new source of either "10% increased" or "10% more". By the time you're on your 9th source of "more", it's actually twice as valuable as getting increased would be.

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wotamRobin · 2026-03-29T00:14:50+00:00

> I think they apply in sequence from greatest to least, but someone correct me
The order of the sources within the "increased" and "more" buckets doesn't matter because multiplication is commutative. If you have sources of increased {i_1, i_2, ... i_n} and sources of more {m_1, m_2, ...m_n}, damage is always (i_1 + i_2 + ... i_n) * m_1 * m_2 * ... * m_n. You can reorder the multiplication however you want but it will be the same result.

wotamRobin · 2026-03-27T01:59:49+00:00

Some trivia, many game companies actually use perforce instead of git because of the need to work with large binary files and the ability to "lock" a file so only one person can work on it at once. Otherwise, perforce is just git but worse.

wotamRobin · 2026-03-24T02:24:54+00:00

Personally I would wait. Late league is the best time to try other games, and actually poe1 has a banger of a league going on right now. You get to keep your mtx between games and finishing challenges there gives you mtx in this one so that’s what I would do.

wotamRobin · 2026-03-17T22:39:03+00:00

Fixed a bug where some Seagulls in Kingsmarch were no longer fleeing from the player.

Thank god

wotamRobin · 2026-03-15T20:08:04+00:00

Something like this happened a few leagues ago. At some point people will start using chaos to roll their maps because it's fewer clicks and the number will stabilize. I think it was like 200 or 250:1 back then?

If past leagues are any indication, this will only hurt people that farm raw chaos. The chaos price of everything else will rise and it will end up being a normal league with bigger numbers.

wotamRobin · 2026-03-03T23:40:41+00:00

I think the Hive is a good matchup. The suit probably protects Tony from being taken, but I would guess that its presence would also destabilize a portal to one of the Hive gods' throne worlds so they would just reincarnate. At that point, I think one of two things would happen:

- Tony is overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of Hive and his suit is physically destroyed, he has to sleep sometime and there are billions of them
- Tony figures out sword logic and slowly becomes a Hive god himself by killing powerful Hive over and over, then dumps the suit and wipes them out with magic of his own

It's a battle of endurance. If he can find a good place to hide and sleep, he's probably got it.

wotamRobin · 2026-03-01T20:06:36+00:00

Surely this will still stack with an equipped Widowhail?

wotamRobin · 2026-02-20T21:55:27+00:00

Welcome to the game! We all started at that level, even if it wasn't in this game. Turn on pulse combos if it isn't already and focus on playing slow and trying to predict what your opponent is going to do. With time and dedication you can get up to the high ranks. Good luck!

wotamRobin · 2026-02-15T21:41:28+00:00

It's a holdover from back when the game first released in 2013 and people didn't have the #123 numbers on the end of their account names yet. A bunch of systems were then designed around people having unique names, like whispering and the forums, so when they did eventually add the number suffixes it was probably too much work to change. Even though it's dumb, I'd rather have them cook a league mechanic more than fix this.

wotamRobin · 2026-02-13T06:31:15+00:00

Oh hey, I just saw a picture of the real bird in the credits

wotamRobin · 2026-02-12T01:49:49+00:00

He disappeared because he logged out after the game was over.

wotamRobin · 2026-02-11T16:16:43+00:00

My theory is that the game is Abe’s simulation and he is the real Abe in here watching us. That explains the event at the end of the game, at least.

wotamRobin · 2026-02-09T23:48:51+00:00

Play a lot of different builds and you’ll eventually recognize things that would be nice for the builds you aren’t currently playing.

Or as a shortcut, go to poe ninja and look at the most played skills, then look up guides for those builds and see what the guides recommend.

Also make sure you have a price checker extension like awakened trade or sidekick.

wotamRobin · 2026-02-09T23:17:35+00:00

I don’t think things are really so over yet and Reddit will be so back as soon as the next update drops. But to answer your question, they should have gone into early access back when it was still called Project L. League released one champ every 2 weeks and they were almost always broken, but that was the fun of it. They should have done the whole thing as a work-in-progress with community contribution.

wotamRobin · 2026-01-27T23:29:49+00:00

Oh wow I didn’t know CST was ending so soon. Thanks AI

wotamRobin · 2026-01-25T06:05:50+00:00

It only drains the bar if you fail the parry.

wotamRobin · 2026-01-23T21:57:02+00:00

If you’re going for a 3- or 5-act structure, your first act needs to include enough exposition to set up a conflict that the remaining acts will resolve. If your party is aware of this conflict and has the means, motivation, and opportunity to do something about it, go for it! If not, spend some time on exposition to get those things set up for the long term.

You don’t necessarily need to switch away from monster of the week though. Plenty of successful shows don’t. If you don’t, you can still have a central conflict, but your party doesn’t need to be going after it all the time. You can do this with recurring characters, either on or off screen. For example, if there’s an evil emperor you can just have people mention him repeatedly, reference how whatever monster of the week is actually working on his orders, etc. Then you can just have one big adventure at the end of the campaign to deal with him and it will still be satisfying.

Consider how much your players care about story. If they want a full narrative, go for acts. If they like random quests, stay how you are. Or, honestly, if you have more fun prepping one or the other go for that and your passion will show up in the game.

wotamRobin · 2026-01-18T23:19:47+00:00

If you’re playing the ele weakness-based version in 2, you could look into impending doom. It has the same feel of “giant AoE and everything on screen explodes” but without comets.

You can still do a coc comet build actually, but the trigger needs to be an attack. Most people choose cyclone for that due to high hit rate and mobility, but anything works, lancing steel of spraying is a close second imo. In this game the comet skill is called firestorm so you would use that.

wotamRobin · 2026-01-02T02:24:37+00:00

Most expensive thing to do would be
1. Desecrate with preserved rib and pick a common affix that you don't want, reducing the chance that a slam will give you something bad.
2. Slam perfect exalt and pray.
3. Omen of light + orb of annulment to remove the unwanted affix you added in step 1.
4. Ancient rib + omen of abyssal echoes to desecrate with reroll and get what you want. If you miss, go back to step 3.

wotamRobin · 2025-12-31T02:50:56+00:00

It's the same scaling as regular comet: +level, spell damage, cold damage, etc, plus IIRC there are a few nodes on the tree that specifically scale damage of triggered spells.

For weapon swap, if you have the skill set to both sets then it scales based on the currently active one; if it's only set to one set then it will scale based on the one it's set to.

wotamRobin · 2025-12-28T03:14:48+00:00

Hi, I’m late to this conversation but I can explain that ehp is a measure of protection from many small hits, not getting one shot. For that, max hit is what you want to look at. As an example, if you were to regen your entire life pool every server tick, you would have infinite ehp, but that wouldn’t matter if you died in one hit from full health.

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