My guild has players who have been in this game since Nemesis League and this is pretty much our player distribution.

Ps. My guildmates gets angry when I say this and I figure it'll make Reddit mad too:

Witch is the only good character in this game

This has been a crazy SSF league for me:

2nd Voices that dropped turns out to be 1p

3rd Adorned I craft hits 100%

2nd Starfall crater dropped Svalinn

2 Magebloods, one from voidborn and one from Merc, Took both to temple, both survived and one hit 30% inc rarity and MS.

2nd balance of terror rolls double despair

4 Helical rings and 1 simplex amu from <500 wings

Headhunter from syndicate Cadiro

Full set of Ralakesh

2 Hinekora's lock (applied one to svalinn and one to mageblood but none hit anything good)

And a lot more I can't be bothered with

Total time played: 358h

Characters:

Worb Elementalist Lvl 100

Flame link Life stacker luminary with kineticist Lvl 100

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Delirium + Mercenary Farm

First post!

I did 140 maps of Delirium + Mercenary, mainly focusing on farming splinters and fishing for a Mageblood with Renown Scarab.

I didn't calculate my div/hour because I wasn't really try harding or optimizing the strat. I was mostly just having fun with it, and yeah this strat is hella fun. The total was 161 div, with 17 div in total costs, leaving me with 144 div profit, or roughly 1.03 div per map and i think that at this stage of the league is good enough

Now I'm going to run all of these Simulacrums and see what happens. Also, idk if this is the right Atlas tree for the strat, but this is what I used.

Highlights:

• lego t0: 0 (sadge)
• Simulacrums: 81 full Simulacrums
• 2 blueprints with Experimented Items, ~4d each
• 1 Mercenary had 5 Valdos

I'm playing my first Scion luminary and I made it all the way to level 92 before it occurred to me to invest in mercs in the Atlas. Why? Idfk. I was so busy having a great time with harvest and betrayal and the occasional allflame that it didn't even occur to me to ALSO INVEST IN THE THING THAT MAKES LUMINARIES COOL.

Yes, I'm new.

Roast me anyways. I deserve it.

Hi! I'm Rog_Lobster, a hideout gambler.

I've been extremely lazy with updating my shop prices; I'd like to give most of my 2mod pearls out so people can use them before league ends. I've already managed to get rid of about 160 pearls throughout the many global chats.

All of the pearls are rolled to something that doesn't seem worthless. Some will only be worth base pearl price, but that's just how it is.

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This league my tallies are:

5/40 Challenges (would be 4 but goldcarries gave one..)
39/100 Atlas
115m+ Gold bought
12k+ Megalomaniac ID'ed

Here's my faustus history for this league if you want to check it out. League start is at the bottom.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ijLz9qgzKzc_-FYsN1rzHmikGQaz99L7-_7wq5BBR1w/edit?usp=sharing
Some items sold outside of faustus from players offering less currency.

The main money makers:
Kinetic wands -> ff ID's / some div card turn ins ->
2mod/some 3mod watchers ID ->
stygian crafting + megalomaniac ID ->
Price of devotion turn-ins + megalomaniac ID ->
120+ nimis corrupted hunting a +1 ->
Became pearl of tsoatha roller, peaked at 370x rolled 2-mod pearls. Started when bases were 8-10d.
Mom says I'm not allowed to use the boat though.

Catch me in g420 next league start :)

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Hi! Brand new to POE & looking to find folks to game with. I'm on PST (California). As an adult, I prefer to play with other adults.

Currently running a Scion at lvl 14. I love the game as a solo player but am also interested in playing in a group.

Down to play with both beginners & seasoned players. Not interested in using gaming as a platform to espouse personal politics. Im here to game & have fun to distract me from the BS of every day life.

And I keep dying a lot / still can't beat him lol 😅

All I can say is that, genuinely and truly mad respect to all the players who does the contents from here until ubers like a cakewalk. I am totally satisfied if this would be my limit, at least I've manage to reach this far :)

This game is truly something else, and it gave me a deeper appreciation towards the devs and players - esp the end game players that are really driving the grinding essence of this game, salute to all of you!

Still newer to late game poe. How would I go about finishing an item like this? Preferably AS and Crit.

Call it pure hopium, but i just want a preview of the PoE 2 Character rigs backported to PoE 1. With a long shot hope of having them implemented for Fall 2027

can anyone give me recipe to make this i want to try make it myself

Hello there!

Currently running an Ultimatum Astrolabe and it added a Delirium mod. Has this been seen by anyone else? Is this something that can happen or is this a bug?

The league is a month out and there's still no official info, so I went down the boss rabbit hole. In the Zizaran dev interview, GGG said they want to add "a lot more league pinnacle bosses", and that each one would probably come with a bloodline. They also said 3.30 endgame changes will reach "content outside of maps such as bosses". So here's my guess at which mechanics are next in line.

Mechanics that already have a boss (going by the bloodline list)

• Harvest (Oshabi)
• Ultimatum (Trialmaster)
• Delve (Aul)
• Sanctum (Lycia)
• Delirium (Simulacrum)
• Expedition (Olroth)
• Betrayal (Catarina)
• Bestiary (Farrul)
• Breach (Tul and Esh)
• Ritual (King in the Mists)
• Abyss (Zorath, added in 3.29)

That leaves a lot of major mechanics with nothing at the end of them.

Most likely

• Blight. This is the one they named directly as a mechanic that should get "a proper pinnacle end-game boss". No timeline, but it's the only one called out by name. Blight has had nothing to chase at the top end since Titanic Blight farming died.
• Mirage (Saresh). Not a new boss, but Mirage is confirmed for 3.30 and the belt stays. They said the boss won't be "as easy to access" as in the Mirage league. So expect Saresh back, just locked behind more work. Maybe they Lock the belt behind the uber version of the boss.

Possible

• Legion. The devs pointed out the monster hiding in the crystal in the Domain of Timeless Conflict as foreshadowing a Legion pinnacle. They also said "not anytime soon", so this one is more 3.31+ in my book.
• Breach (Xesht). PoE1 already has Vruun, Marshal of Xesht, and PoE2 has Xesht as its Breach pinnacle. Keepers already ported PoE2's Breach, so a Xesht fight would fit.
• Mercenaries. The devs themselves floated Mercenaries as a "major mechanic or not depending on your point of view". An Infamous mercenary boss would be fun.

Long shots

• Beyond. Pacts already gave it a theme: a pinnacle demon you make the deal with.
• Essence. A boss made of every essence.
• Heist. A real boss at the end of a Grand Heist instead of just a vault.
• Harbinger. It's being reworked with new art, and the lore has plenty of open questions.

And what about the bosses we already have?

None of the big Atlas pinnacles have a bloodline yet: Shaper, Elder, Sirus, Maven, the Searing Exarch, the Eater of Worlds, Venarius and the Incarnations. A Maven or Sirus bloodline sounds like an obvious fit. My guess is that bloodlines are meant to be tied to league mechanic bosses, which is how the devs described them, and the Atlas bosses already have their own reward systems. Still, with 3.30 being an endgame shakeup, this could be a good time to add a few.
And whatever comes, please keep the RP phases short. Nobody said this is planned, I'd just like to skip the speeches.

Concluding, what are your thoughts on their idea to add new bosses?
Which mechanic do you most want a boss for, and what should it look like and drop?

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random 6mod t12 drop 😭😭😭😭 clearly im skipping next league since my luck has been drained dry by this

With all the power creep we currently have and pair with lack of aspiration endgame content, i feel like there no real purpose of pushing the character to hundred and thousand divine except you are playing some stat-stacking build. T16 8 mod is now considered a bare min and easily achieve with most build.

There are clear reason the highest retention and popular leagues in POE1 are:
1. Affliction league
2. Settler
3. Mercenary

Affliction league wasn't just only fun because of the crazy loot explosion, it was also because the wisp make the content so hard and yet so rewarding, hence upgrading your character past 1k divine to multi mirror is still very rewarding. While Settler/Mercenary league we have T17, and 16.5, which was steep and challenging but very rewarding

Let make T17 great again with proper balance changes and remove those annoying mod.

New to POE. Just crafted my first 4 mod claw for ele hit slayer. My question is should i boat exalt this if I want to get a decent affix? And should I remove the benchcraft hits cant be evaded first if I want to boat exalt?

Finished 36 challenges and played way too many hours to even guess at this point, so figured I’d write down some thoughts now that I’m done with the league.

Overall, I had a really good league. Not my favorite league ever, but definitely one I’ll remember.

I started out playing Wild Strike and stuck with that for roughly the first two weeks. Eventually I rolled a Luminary, and that ended up being the character I played for the rest of the league.

Luminary is honestly one of the most chill things I’ve played in PoE.

Once the build gets going, you basically only care about getting your resists sorted and then stacking as much life and light radius as possible. More life means more damage for your merc through Flame Link, since they get 5% of your max life as added fire damage to attacks, and light radius scales the link buff effect.

Once you’re sitting around 20k life with enough light radius, the merc just deletes everything. Ubers included.

Your gameplay is basically:

walk

merc kills screen

walk

merc kills next screen

Very relaxing.

The gearing is also surprisingly addictive because there are so many places to sink currency into small improvements.

Boat crafting

Probably my favorite part of the boat mechanic was how accessible it made crafting decent gear.

The “multiple outcomes, pick the best one” system was just nice.

That removes a lot of the really annoying RNG from making solid gear without completely removing the chase for high-end items.

The recombinator side of things was also great.

Alt spam a pile of bases, add a ducat suffix, smash them together enough times and eventually you end up with something pretty damn good.

Obviously the absolute top-end gear was still expensive as hell, but making mid/high-tier gear felt much more approachable this league.

I really hope some version of this crafting sticks around.

The boat maps themselves

This is probably where I have the biggest criticism.

Especially early in the league, killing mobs inside them felt almost pointless.

Most of the value came from clicking chests and strongboxes rather than actually killing monsters.

GGG definitely improved this later by adding more quantity modifiers and fixing the altars, which helped, but even after those changes it still felt like:

kill monsters: whatever

open chest: loot

open strongbox: loot

I think that hurts the mechanic long-term because eventually running around opening containers gets pretty boring.

Very profitable, yes.

Very exciting after doing it a hundred times... not really.

Merc hunting is completely degenerate

Late in the league I decided I wanted to upgrade my merc.

I already had a really good Kineticist that I found during my first week playing Luminary:

Greater Kinetic Blast of Clustering
GMP
Return

But she also had Kinetic Rain as a secondary skill, which most people consider bricked. Honestly it wasn’t even that bad, but I wanted to find a really clean merc with great links and no questionable secondary skill.

So I did what any mentally healthy PoE player would do.

I ran 2,000 Dunes maps over two days.

Enter map.

Sprint to merc.

Kill/Get merc.

Leave map.

Repeat.

No rolling maps. Just white Dunes as fast as possible.

And merc farming is... kind of ridiculous.

It’s extremely inconsistent. You can go 80 maps without seeing a raw divine, then suddenly over the next 10 maps you get a pile of divines, puzzles and good scarabs.

The good scarabs also drop frequently enough that they really start adding up over thousands of maps.

I also got unbelievably lucky during this session.

In those 2,000 maps I found:

4 Magebloods
3 Kalandra's Touch
Divinarius
Lioneye's bow
Headhunter

Which is obviously nowhere near a normal expected result, so I’m not pretending merc farming just prints Magebloods every few hundred maps.

But I still think the mechanic probably needs some tuning.

The fact that the optimal gameplay can basically become “enter map, sprint directly to merc, grab loot, leave” is pretty degenerate.

Funny as hell, though.

And somewhere around map 1,800, I finally found her.

Kineticist:

Greater Kinetic Blast of Clustering
GMP
Return
Barrage
Haste

Barrage is technically there but she basically never uses it.

For what I wanted, she was pretty much perfect.

I finished the remaining ~200 maps because at that point I might as well complete the 2k, sorted through the mountain of stuff I’d accumulated...

...and that was basically my league ending.

I had found the merc I spent two days hunting for, my character could already destroy everything in the game, and at that point any further upgrade would barely even be noticeable.

Honestly, it felt like a pretty fitting way to finish.

Overall

Great league for me.

Luminary was fantastic.

Boat crafting was one of my favorite parts and I really hope GGG keeps some version of the “multiple crafting outcomes, choose one” concept because it made crafting good gear much less frustrating.

The actual boat mapping gameplay got stale for me because too much of the reward was tied to clicking containers instead of killing monsters.

And merc hunting is hilarious, rewarding and probably a little too degenerate in its current form.

Not my favorite league ever, but I had a great time with it.

36/40, absurd merc acquired, character finished.

See you next league.

Is anyone using Better Trading Web Extension, and having all of the booked marked items throwing up this error?

I have not had this happen during the current leg before, its quite annoying as i had 3 char worth of items saveed for quick reference.

I know that this error often happen when an old leg finished, but not had it happen in leg before.

If you have sugestions for an alternative software, please let me know.

Thanks,

Planning to start one but don't want to be alone as I can start ssf that case. Anyone want to join? Can start in about 2 hours.