Path of Exile

For unid maps, you can either buy them(I bought phantasmagoria for 7c), buy 3 of the previous tier or buy 5 white/blue/yellows, then make them all rares and sell them to do the other vendor recipe of 5 of one item > one new unid item. It was cheaper to buy 5 phantasmagorias but since it was the last thing I was doing I just spent 7c instead. For the T1, you also get one for free from doing the act 4 malachai quest. I got the other as a drop, but getting 5 of them isn't too hard anyway.

Weird that you count so many I didn't do. I did do lvl 20 gem cause a friend gave me one of his lvl 19 gem that only needed 10millions since he was rerolling, but would have just done something else instead.

What I did was normal waypoints, act2 uniques, 50silvers, a prophecy, encounters 1, normal act bosses, create a hideout, cruel sewers, cruel quests, use currencies, encounters 2, cruel act bosses, merc dried lakes, prophecy chain, merciless rares, prophecy types 1, 25vaal bosses, currency from vendor recipes, lvl 20 gem, merc izaro, prophecy types 2, 50uniques, merc act bosses, unid maps.

Encounters 2 is RNG and lvl 20 gem I wouldn't have done without a friend, but as I said I was 4/5 beyond and 4/6 endgame lab and then argus in endgame lab so I had some leeway.

For beyond, it was all RNG with maps, I didn't roll the mod but didn't roll it away. One of the few first maps I did, Zana was in there and opened a beyond siren map. I got 3 of them in the map, it was a massive clusterfuck. I think it's the only time my stone golem died to something else than traps. Then I got another from another beyond map, but after that I only got the same uniques so never completed it. Endgame lab you can get easy in #820 I believe, at least my friend asked if I was looking there but I wasn't, wasn't in a hurry. I also forgot to do one of the trial at the end of a map so I should have been 5/6 naturally.

The last one I was considering was clearing map bosses, it's similar to unid map, can just throw money at it and buy a map. Might actually be cheaper I haven't checked. Encounters 4 is also kinda doable, it's just really fucking slow. I was at I think 80 shrines or so. I think once you have everything else though you can farm the labyrinth for shrines, they seem to spawn often there. Still it's probably on the level of 90/lvl 20 farms so meh.

I haven't used spectres in forever, they're just too fucking annoying to play. Spirit Offering I'm not a big fan although it's really a spectre/zombie offering so it makes sense. I just don't like what you get out of it if you use mistress of sacrifice, in comparison to 30%castspeed and movespeed from flesh.

I don't think summoners are particularily weak, but they're not as fast as the speed builds, so they're not really top tier either. They're not as good as specialized build for specific boss farming either(uber labs you want those voidheart EQ 50end charges facetank everything builds, atziri it's a lot easier with bladefall mines and shit like that). They're just kinda ok and fairly easy to play and for the most part gear for. Spectres, SRS and Animate weapon are all decently strong. It's just they could be a lot less annoying to play with some changes, which still wouldn't make them crazy strong, so I hope they do a pass on QoL stuff for summoners in the expansion. They have a lot on their plates though, I'd say the state of melee skills is probably in a worse state overall because they don't need QoL, they need actual rebalancing.

I can give you a 5L Doomfletcher's Prism to sell if you want, I used the linking prophecy on that for the challenge since it was the best piece of gear I had, I think it was worth about 40chaos or so. Have some chaos too you can have.

Chris posted on reddit that they'll be revealing expansion stuff in 5days, so friday. I assume NDA is US based, although might be region specific, but anyway yeah, new stuff, excitement, yay.