Path of Exile

I cranked that shit way up once you get to regular T17. Anything less than a chaos? Fuck it. 20 alterations? Pass. Regret orbs? Pass. Alchemy? I have 900.

Basically ichors, 0 rare bases outside of like Amethyst and Bone Rings, chaos+ currency, and maps/scarabs etc. It's really nice to just click twice per massive pack instead of 7+ times picking up shit I'd never use and identifying at this point is usually a waste of time.

I know my current filter goes beyond bonkers for incubators. I had to port out and turn down the sound and back when I got 6 of them at once. You would think 6 mirriors dropped, but nope. Beyond bonkers.

Welp, I am done with the league. Got the portal effect with 4,000 map explicits, no more goodies to get.

Tried a couple of T17s with 250% Quant - I am pretty sure I could eventually complete them, but I simply don't have the patience to slam my dick in the door learning the bosses and/or doing some gear boosting on my build to squeak up the dps. Without a grind incentive, my will to play immediately left!

I must say I am happy with the league and the build I chose. Best in a while. I probably made more than 150 Div through raw drops, casual (lower value, no 30 million here) shipments, mappers, and currency sales.

See y'all next league!

None of the runesmith enchants that would work with my top build and weapon I've already done which was pretty low end. Just phys. The much more expensive chance to do double damage with bleeding can't be put on 1 handed axes.

In the end in the town the limiting factor was ore if I wanted to smelt to send in a shipment for runes or stacked decks. Had lots of gold.

I was messing around in PoB just to see how high its theoretically possible to push Ward numbers. I thought maybe 40-50k would be doable. I was a bit off.

The interaction between Ynda's (with catalyst) and Faithguard and the new bases is kinda stupid. This is not a real character (it would do very little damage, even with Nightgrip) and isn't even fully pushed to the limit (3 passive voices instead of 1 passive, no corruptions, etc). And Im sure there are items/interactions I am unaware of to push this even further but... its kinda lulzy and kind of an interesting idea.

I know you steal buffs and not abilities, but I want the ability to use a headhunter and steal that thing the dive bombing drive by birds do in beast stuff.

Funky things. Tier 14 map playing with headhunter, 3 ambush scarabs of containment drop. Right at 700c total for all 3. Divine beauty card off same pack.

Ok I'm not a big player. I did a 100$ delerium map on beach. Things were going okay and ran into a boss manifest of fear or something. I had to back off a few times but he would teleport me to random areas. I finally found a few mobs to get my flask back up and steal shit with my headhunter and I got him down. He didn't drop anything.

Then on the other part of the map was another similar deal and I forgot the name. Eventually he killed me. He did those beams like I see other boss fights do. Leave big black orbs/balls of shit where he was and shoot a big black beam out. I stayed out of it but eventually ran out of mana flask and wasn't killing anything so no life on kill.

I had thoughts of trying to level but I'm too hard headed. I may go back and see if I can finish him but his life didn't seem to move much at all. Even after getting shit with the headhunter and using vaal attack twice on him.

He's down, apparently the first time I died he was at 5%. Knopis or something with a K the revelation. (Looked it up Kosis the revelation) and the other guy Omniphobia the fearmaster (delerium bosses) Never run into that shit for the low end crap I do. Ancient shards was about it. Laugh but for a normal rolled tier 14 map he was kind of a pain the ass, with two of them dorking around especially after I had killed most everything else and wasn't in the boss room.

Fight was fun and was a surprise when I thought I was doing just regular mapping with some delerium thrown in. Nope, two delerium bosses at once. I'll know next time get them down before killing the other shit that was keeping my flask up. It kind of wakes you up.

Been doing a lot of 20 and 40% deli JVs; I had bought a ton of them and since I already chiseled/ corrupted I figured nobody would want them.

Still no damned Apothecary but even at 40% some of the Deli bosses are a pain.....at least when you basically take any and all eater quant altars along the way.

I like the pack size increase from Deli, but the visual effects and flashing gets on my nerves after a few maps, and rewards generally don't seem very good this league either.

Side note: does the Wildwood actually affect drops at all? Had a few maps where I had 5k+ juice and it didn't seem like it made much of a difference. Is there a specific color I should focus on?

Yeah I had two harbingers spawn on top of each other yesterday in a lower delerium map. I got through it but my graphics card was making noise the entire time. I was only doing del for the exp not really the drops. I hit 95 and pretty quick got to 30% and I thought about keep going. We'll see.

I was messing around trying to find ways to reduce area of effect enough to make every kinetic blast explosion overlap, thus shotgunning for single target. Took a while but I did finally find a method. Only problem being it requires a helm which means you can't use Indigon for the huge damage boost AND you can't use it on a strength stacker because of the "deal no chaos damage" line. Still interesting though and something I'll keep in my back pocket for future leagues where they might add more reduced AoE mechanisms. Made a little video of it:

There are probably quite a few applications for it. KB of Clustering is interesting because you can scale its phys damage directly off mana and extra proj = extra explosions. So, for instance, as a deadeye with a dying sun and 2 proj from tree you're at 10 explosions per "collision". With spellslinger + tornado tech you get 10 explosions into the Tornado, 10 more after it pierces the tornado and hits the boss and then 10+10 again on the way back. That's with +1 pierce either on glove implicit, tree, etc. 40 hits per attack.

Every explosion you add is technically 4 explosions in the sequence of events.

EDIT: Also, I'm unsure of how this interacts with Fork. If you pierce the tornado then hit the boss then fork and both those projectiles can cause all their explosions on the tornado and boss again on the way back its even more shotgun potential.

Been doing like 5 or 6 Abominations as I accumulate them from running JV, and for the most part I don't have much issues clearing them.....it just doesn't feel fun.

Maybe I should swap to a different atlas and ditch the strongbox scarabs for T17s? Not sure what it is, but the maps are annoying to run and the boss is just as bad. Sometimes I die once or twice depending on the mods, but the whole thing sucks.

I really hope they add some more open layouts to T17s without adding a ton more bullshit mods on top.

I completely ignore T17s. I don't even sell mine because I can't be bothered. They just rot in my stash. Awful mechanic in my opinion but nothing that detracts from my ability to play the game or earn currency so I'm fine with them existing.

They sell pretty much instantly in bulk. If you have like 30 of one type, that’s 30 quick divines you could have if you wanted

T17's just need to separate more of the "giga" mods to not roll together. Once you get a good build they feel pretty good, but having shit like 370% phys as extra ele with 8 extra proj is just absurd. They're amazing for gold though, can alch n go them for 30-50k gold easy. They're just a few tweaks away from being where they're supposed to be.

Khane said:

I completely ignore T17s. I don't even sell mine because I can't be bothered. They just rot in my stash. Awful mechanic in my opinion but nothing that detracts from my ability to play the game or earn currency so I'm fine with them existing.

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You definitely should sell them, but I agree, sticking to T16s for the most part myself.

The joys of reflecting mist. Pretty laughable. I you need life have I got the ring for you...Some of it I don't know where it came from. Had all resist and chaos resist. Dropped off a couple of things comletely.

lol this gauntlet is insane, looks like ggg got more involved and all the bosses have stupid twists now like maven lasers during Malachai