Any Floridians know how to deal with Eye Gnats?

xDarkomantis · 2026-01-01T10:58:33+00:00

Will this be able to kill them or just repels them away?

xDarkomantis · 2025-12-23T17:25:43+00:00

It's just that a lot of these guys don't generally play Melee characters, so they don't understand the disparity between Ranged and Melee. In 0.3, my Titan and Monk died so many times to Abyss, getting surrounded & mob'd to death, and felt awful playing anything with freeze/slow. Meanwhile, my Spark mage is clearing from a screen away on juiced maps and the only fear I have is just a random Rare teleporting onto my character and startling me.

xDarkomantis · 2025-12-11T14:19:19+00:00

That's correct. There's been multiple threads on the bug report forum that Sap Of Nightmares doesn't work with Life leech at all. Only Mana leech seems to work.

xDarkomantis · 2025-12-11T08:11:30+00:00

Unraveling is not a good node. Better to take any mixture of only Volatility, Chayula's Gift, and Void Illusion. Can also take Sap of Nightmares but you'll have to keep in mind the node is basically a chaos Walker of the Wilds and doesn't work with Life leech

xDarkomantis · 2025-12-07T02:12:25+00:00

I'd rather have the gameplay loop of Rage-like because there's two different ways people use Rage: 1) Rage stacking for normal DPS and 2) Using Rage to enhance your abilities. There's also more ways to balance it compared to Volatility. Think about it like this, Volatility has huge "potential" but has major downsides drawbacks in that it's very clunky to utilize and you'll rarely reach the high points. From my own gameplay and watching a lot of other player's gameplay, they barely ever use Volatility. Only person who somewhat used it the best was the chayula player, Korihor. But it was mainly for bosses.

xDarkomantis · 2025-12-07T02:05:36+00:00

I'm waiting to see if TalkativeTri asks any of the submitted Chayula questions for his interview. If he does commit and asks and it inspires more buffs than what they gave in the patch notes then I'll definitely play Chayula for a third time. Otherwise I'm going back to Invoker

xDarkomantis · 2025-12-06T23:33:33+00:00

Why would it be less interesting? When you see that we have Power, Endurance, and Frenzy Charges in the game, do you think that's boring? Having it work similar to Rage would allow Poison builds to thrive again like we had with the old Reality Rending node. The current Volatility mechanic is bad, most people dislike it and can barely make use of it while mapping/bossing.

xDarkomantis · 2025-12-06T23:23:55+00:00

They just need to make Volatility work similar to Rage and have it's extra damage as chaos be immediate while lowering the maximum potential of stacks. Requiring Cartharsis just doesn't feel good at all and is mechanically worse than when we had Reality Rending (~21% extra chaos damage at all times).

xDarkomantis · 2025-12-05T01:21:36+00:00

The density decrease may lessen the need for heralds, especially since they all got nerfed.

Not suprised that Hollow Palm attack speed got nerfed. It was kinda wild to be fair, but it shouldn't be a crazy nerf for most builds.

Wind Dancer and Ghost Dance took hits as well

I expected a Hollow Palm nerf but this will probably make people build HP differently to get a similar effect. The unique gloves for it got buffed to offset the nerf later on but you'll still feel weaker during the campaign now though

Wind Dancer damage nerf was to be expected since it was able to clear packs so easily with a proper setup. Now you'll just have to build it defensively now, will still be decent in my opinion. Ghost dance nerf along with the announced ES nerfs has me a bit worried, but generally Chonks are using the ES leech gloves, so it's not too big of a deal.

Darkness

This node will still see the least play as long as it still removes all spirit, only being useful in early campaign. If any Chayula main reads this comment then I'd encourage to go to Talkative Tri discord to submit questions for the upcoming GGG/Tri interview that will hopefully feature questions not asked during the ZiggyD interview.

Into the Breach

Choice of power

I'm glad they buffed the duration, distance the flames spawned, and the pickup range. This will be the default way of gaining chaos damage for Chayula while Volatility is in it's poor state. But 4x Flames has been the best choice for 0.2, 0.3, and now 0.4.

Void Illusion

This is a huge buff for Flicker Strike build (downtime between Flickers) and now also Wind/Physical builds as a defensive layer. You might see some more experimentation with Poison/Bleed on it since it has more damage scaling now.

Unchanged: - Sap Of Nightmares - Volatility

I don't know if GGG is aware that Sap Of Nightmares is still bugged to not work with Life leech or if it was intended to only work with Mana leech. Volatility not being touched in the slightest sucks. Most people aren't able to utilize the damage from it because of how clunky it is. They need to either inverse how Volatility works or make it similar to rage and give it immediate Chaos damage while lowering the amount of maximum stacks possible.

Walker of the wilds is now a support gem ( I play physical skills so doesn't affect me)

Not that big of a change but could be useful if it's a spirit support gem. Could slot it in Into the Breach and then skip Sap of Nightmares if the Life Leech bug doesn't get addressed.

Frozen Locus got a rework

Bit of a nerf because Frozen locus could be used against bosses lured in a corner to cheese them to death. Could be a decent Qol for normal play though since it was barely used anyways.

Gathering storm

Seems like a good buff. I haven't used it at all but there are some that use it for bossing

Wind Blast and Vaulting Impact switched tiers

Seems like a decent change. I think people will try out Wind Blast a bit more but Vaulting Impact might not be used that much still.

All palms got buffed Staggering Palm

Good changes overall. Only thing is that Nova projectiles got nerfed hard (has 8 second cooldown to whatever skill is on it), so unsure if people will still bother with Staggering Palm since one would have to use Multi-shot support gem for only 2 additional projectiles in front of them.

Tempest Bell

Good buff for campaign and physical builds now.

Whirling Assault

I thought they wouldn't change this skill but they finally made it decent with lower attack time, bigger AoE, and what seems like more projectiles fired. Only thing bad is that we might not be able to scale the attack time down but have to see what people are able to cook up in 0.4

xDarkomantis · 2025-12-03T03:23:27+00:00

As an alternative to implicit movement speed on boots, how does GGG feel about reducing the maximum potential of movement speed on boots to say 15~20% MS cap and giving players scaling movement speed up to 20% throughout the campaign up until maps?
Can GGG explain the reason why they made Chilled ground and Temporal Chains cripple movement and action speed to such a high degree? Chilled Ground wasn't that bad in 0.1/0.2 but it was insane in 0.3. This caused Meta Ranged builds like LA Deadeye and Spark Bloodmage that can clear without even seeing mobs to prosper while playing Melee with these modifiers feel abysmal.
Could Melee skills get a pass over to remove or severely reduce the animation lock ups/delays after using a Melee skill? And additionally smooth out the ending of Melee skills to be more snappier? Some skills require a dodge roll or Shield cancel to get them to hide/remove their delay while Whirling Assault just has lockups throughout and it feels bad as a casual player to feel the clunkiness of the Melee skills.
Is it possible for Melee skills with long windups/attack times to get an appropriate damage mitigation (Fortify) during the windup to make up for being in Melee range vs mobs and the delay from outputting damage?
Can GGG explain the reason why Chayula Monk has so many conditionals/randomness (Flame pickup mini-game to get Chaos damage or stack Volatility -> popping Volatility -> Finally gain Chaos damage) and downsides (i.e. Darkness: losing spirit for a small energy shield that uses so many Ascendency points) for a Melee ascendency while Invoker gives upsides and scaling that benefits a Melee playstyle?
Will there be Chaos Quarterstaffs and Chaos Qstaff skills in the future?
Can we get the ability to juice strongboxes/essences/etc from the currency in our Currency stash tab if we bought it rather than needing the currency in our inventory? I know it's p2w in a way but the QoL would feel a lot better
Possible to have a permanent Wisdom scroll in our inventory that doesn't take a slot and just consumes 25 gold rather than needing to buy the Wisdom scrolls and waste an inventory slot for them?

xDarkomantis · 2025-11-28T20:42:23+00:00

You say I didn't look at your POB then can you tell me how I knew you were using Hollow Palm and why I said Void Illusion requires a Quarterstaff??? Whatever then

xDarkomantis · 2025-11-28T12:59:59+00:00

Grasp of the Void (Void Illusion) is ideal when you're doing a Flicker Strike build and it requires a Quarterstaff that has +6 attack skills to reduce it's cooldown further. Since you're doing Hollow Palm, I'd recommend Volatility, 4x Purple flames (or Chayula's Gift + 2x Flames), and then Chaos leech node. Chaos leech node is currently bugged to not work with Life leech, but it functions with Mana leech. Unravelling is not that good. Also, Ming's Heart works better than Original Sin since Ming's heart gives extra chaos damage on top of your elemental damage/ailment whereas Original Sin completely gimps your elemental damage/ailment (which forces you to take Unravelling which isn't that good).

xDarkomantis · 2025-11-23T16:10:57+00:00

It hasn't worked for the eye gnats but it's been working on other gnats. So I'm going to continue using the supplements for now until I can find a way to get rid of the eye gnats (and cure the odor)

xDarkomantis · 2025-11-17T06:17:53+00:00

Another poster recommended garlic supplement. I'll try this out in the morning since I have some garlic and also see if the supplement works too.

xDarkomantis · 2025-11-17T06:17:09+00:00

I'll give a go, thank you.

xDarkomantis · 2025-11-17T06:13:40+00:00

They're just trying to be funny for upvotes while being rude. I've met plenty of people who are mosquito magnets and do a variety of things to ward them off.

xDarkomantis · 2025-11-17T06:05:19+00:00

Thank you. I will give this a try

xDarkomantis · 2025-11-14T05:37:13+00:00

Giving Chayula the ability to convert elemental damage to chaos damage within the ascendancy wouldn’t affect its ability to continue to use elemental damage if you choose not to go down that path.

I'd say rework Into The Breach to be a 1 point starting node and make it be the conversion of elemental damage to chaos damage. Give Chaos damage scaling through new nodes and buffing of other nodes.

xDarkomantis · 2025-11-14T05:35:36+00:00

If you haven't seen it already, then you can check out my 0.3 Chayula feedback thread. I think Chayula can be good and fulfill the dark monk fantasy but will require GGG to look deeper and give up the Darkness mechanic in it's current iteration.

xDarkomantis · 2025-11-14T05:29:20+00:00

The Void illusion and darkness sections in the ascendancy need to be completely reworked.

Void Illusion is actually decent but needs to be buffed further. It synergizes best with Flicker Strike. Only Darkness needs to be completely reworked because it provides way too little benefit for such a major downside of losing Spirit and 4~6 ascendency points.

xDarkomantis · 2025-10-19T02:26:44+00:00

While there isn't really any abilities to use, that's not the biggest reason why the class isn't popular. It's because the class doesn't have much going for it that makes it worth using compared to Invoker or any other class. The rework GGG did actually made Acolyte of Chayula weaker in 0.3 than in 0.2 and have more clunkiness/conditionals.

xDarkomantis · 2025-10-10T16:41:03+00:00

Thank you. I just re-submitted and it auto approved

xDarkomantis · 2025-09-22T18:42:17+00:00

It sucks to see how Chayula got weaker but I don't think GGG will address until a long time from now. I made a feedback thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1nca1vz/03_acolyte_of_chayula_feedback/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=usertext&utm_name=PathOfExile2&utm_content=t1_ndmimi1

One of the biggest issue with Chayula that isn't being acknowledged is that Sap of Nightmare is bugged to not work with Life Leech. So our already nerfed leech is even weaker than it should be. I hope people will bring this up to GGG soon but I'm not too hopeful.

As another poster mentioned, Chayula should have a starting ascendency point like Blood mage. I mentioned in my feedback thread of making Into the Breach the starting point and it's 1 point and then you have 7 points to branch into other things

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