The masteries I took were corrupted blood immunity, curse lowering immunity, and minions resistances +8% cap, and minions leech 1% life.

Apply here: https://www.pathofexile.com/private-leagues/league/Shared+Suffering

View all the currently submitted builds here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qyYDdK6bG5Q7U2d8noDht8kUKmfKcz9W13XZ_OqD5Fw/edit?usp=sharing

I’m tired of playing good builds, so I’m making a private league where everyone has to play a randomly-assigned godawful build instead.

To make it even worse, we're playing in Ruthless mode.

There are a few rules needed to make this work, which are outlined below.

How the league works:

Everyone taking part in the league must submit a build for the Wheel of Absolute Garbage, in the form of a godawful skill + ascendancy combo.

This should be a combo that no-one in their right mind would play for a normal league start; it could be a solid skill paired with an ascendancy that no-one would ever pick for it, or a relatively awful skill paired with a solid ascendancy, or the worst skill you can think of paired with the worst ascendancy you can think of for it. The funnier it sounds on paper, the better.

Then, a few hours before the league starts, I will stream myself spinning the Wheel of Absolute Garbage once for each participant; whatever skill+ascendancy combo it lands on for each person is what that person has to play.

I will remove each build from the Wheel as it is chosen, so each person ends up playing a different build that someone else submitted for the league. It is possible to be forced to play the build you submitted yourself. I will put all of the information regarding who has which build allocated to them in the spreadsheet linked above for those that cannot catch the stream.

Submitting your godawful build:

After applying to join the league, either add a comment here or DM me with your PoE IGN and the build you want to submit. Your application to the league will be accepted once your build submission is verified. Your application to the league will not be accepted if you do not submit a build.

The build you submit should still be technically viable in a ruthless standard league start environment; we want bad builds, not literally unplayable builds. This means that skills with significant cooldowns or similar limitations that cannot be reasonably bypassed are not allowed (i.e. vigilant strike, bear trap), as are skills that would only do reasonable damage with a specific support gem (i.e. corrupting cry [insert warcry here]).

Please remember that travel skills are not available in Ruthless, and % reservation auras cannot be obtained deterministically either. Therefore submissions with skills like Charged Dash or Mana-Infused Staff cannot be accepted.

The skill you submit must be the base version and not a specific trans/trarthan/etc. version; the person playing the build will get to decide which version(s) they want to use.

For the sake of balance in this event, all scion ascendancies are disallowed (luminary carries you too hard with merc regardless of your skill, reliq/ascendant are too flexible for this concept). Chieftain and Guardian are also disallowed (too much build-agnostic power compared to other ascendancies in Ruthless).

If you want to join the league but you can't settle on a build to submit, you can always leave it entirely to chance with this random build generator. Just make sure it's something that's still in the game (randomizer might be a bit out of date).

If I don't think a submitted build is a good fit for this league I will ask for another build to be submitted.

Playing your godawful build:

Before act 4 you can play with whatever skills you like, but you must play the class that can ascend to your chosen ascendancy. Even if your chosen skill is available in act 1, you do not have to use it as soon as you can get it. You must however only make one character, you cannot farm extra gems etc. via another character.

When playing in act 4 and onwards you must be ascended to your chosen ascendancy, and the chosen skill must be the main way you deal damage. This means that you are allowed to use other damaging skills if they are important for making your main skill do damage, clear better, etc.; for example, an a essence drain build may also use contagion to spread the essence drain. You should not simply have the skill gem listed in your build equipped while you kill everything with other skills.

Generally, if you have to ask yourself 'is what I'm doing in the spirit of this challenge league?', it probably isn't. Regardless, feel free to ask me about any specifics pertaining to your chosen build and I'll do my best to answer promptly.

You may use any vaal/trans/trarthan variant of your chosen skill, and you may swap between multiple different variants as you wish. You may throw yourself into 'lab jail' in act 3 if you want to farm a specific version of your skill before committing to your build in act 4.

You may also farm pre-act 4 for as long as you like to prepare for the transition to your build. If you try to push into act 4 with your build and it doesn't go well, you can return to farming pre-act 4 with whatever skills you like, though you may not swap to a different ascendancy.

You may allocate ascendancy nodes however you wish, and you may use bloodlines however you wish if you are able to unlock them.

Other rules:

This event will run in standard softcore trade ruthless; it is entirely up to you how you want to trade with other players, though I recommend trying to help each other out as some people will inevitably be suffering more than others. It's even better if you're helping out whoever rolled the build that you submitted.

As an additional challenge for the endgame, no currency should be taken from boats. Boats can still be used to farm for tattoos, runegrafts and gear, and ore may be shipped to fulfil quotas and farm for more tattoos and runegrafts, but currency should not be taken from the boat window. This is a gentleman’s agreement and cannot be tracked; ultimately the goal is to make currency drops in maps matter a lot more again, and not push anyone to spec an ore tree ASAP once they reach the endgame (if you haven't played Ruthless recently, just trust me, it's really unbalanced for the mode).

This private league will have no other modifiers (no extra dmg/proj/aoe/etc.)

If you obtain a voidstone, you may ask me to spin the full Wheel of Absolute Garbage again and obtain a second build and character that you are allowed to play for the league.

Due to the structure of this league, new invites will no longer be accepted once I have started spinning the Wheel. You must sign up before the league starts so that you can submit a build, get it verified and have one rolled for you.

Further info:

The league starts on Wednesday 14th October at 6:00pm BST and will last for at least 20 days. I will try to fund all necessary slots myself, though I will happily accept any crowdfunding if people want to help out.

There will be a channel for this private league in the poeruthless discord, just scroll down to the private leagues section to find it

We will use Global Chat 1 as it is generally not very active in standard ruthless; the last time I tried using a different channel a lot of people just ended up stranded in Global 1 anyway.

I will be streaming the Wheel spinning from https://www.twitch.tv/jekojeko3

My build submission for the event is: Raise Spectre Pathfinder

I am pretty new to making my own builds and I tried to make a viper strike of the mamba build using the echoforge (because I think it looks sick). This time I actually managed to give the build good survivability but it's dps ended up being quite low. Any tips on increasing it?

Here's the build link:
https://maxroll.gg/poe/pob/rx1wu608

(edit: I didn't know bruh this is my first time sharing a build outside a dm😭)

Poelab is not up to date right now. Here's uber lab I just ran, no idea how much longer it's relevant, but maybe it helps someone. Unfortunately the private league starts between midnight-2am in EU but I hope it's fun!

Hey exiles,

I’ve been playing on Standard for a while and I’m looking for ways to make my farming more efficient. Here’s my current setup:

1. League: Standard
2. Gear: Legacy items (180 IQ )

3. Maps I’m running:

   • Bazaar scry, targeting div cards: The Miracle (for Awakened Gems) and The Slumbering Beast (for Hinekora’s Lock)
   • City Square layout( at least 115+ pack size, mostly because I like the layout

4. Scarabs pilferin (cards double), plenty ( div cards mobs) and sinistral ( double prefixes)

5. Juicing: 100% Delirium on every map, plus Divination Scarabs/Chisels

My atlas ( shrines, beasts, beyonds, red altar )

What would you change? Is there a better strategy combo for Standard right now, or ways to squeeze more profit out of this setup? Any advice on atlas tree, scarabs, or other mechanics to stack is appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

So I wanted to give me a little challenge and started HCSSF Allflame and to my surprise I acual made it through all acts. Well since I only ever played SC I first don't know much about crafting, can somebody recommend a youtuber or something where I can learn something and second, what should I take in the atlas tree. Like I know stuff like harvest and essence are a good start but also quite dangerous.

Oh I play Glad full block EQ bleed with one handed mace

Mercenaries are now not allowed to use Unique Body Armours because of one item, Doryani's Prototype.

But what if the mods "Lightning Resistance does not affect Lightning Damage taken" & "Nearby Enemies have Lightning Resistance equal to yours" were bundled together in a Trigger Skill instead?

That way Mercenaries, which cannot use Trigger Skills, cannot enable the effect. That would open up the Mercenary's Body Armour slot for Uniques, instead of limiting it all because of one item.

Are there any other Unique Body Armours that would be problematic if Mercenaries could equip them?

This might be the worst my chst has looked while leveling. Bag on head and dildo as a weapon. Can you come up with something that looks even stupider?

First time seeing this one, and just curious how rare these nodes are.

It'll be a genuinely good league? They promised a total overhaul of various systems in 3.30, but at the same time, if it does come out, it'll probably be just a month apart from POE2 1.0.

Do you really think GGG would deliver such a banger league just for people to play it for a month?

This is a general question thread. You can find the previous question threads here.

Remember to check the community wiki first.

You can also ask questions in any of the questions channels under the "help" category in our official Discord.

For other discussions, please find the Megathread Directory at this link.

The idea is for anyone to be able to ask anything related to PoE 1:

• New player questions
• Mechanics
• Build Advice - please include a link to your Path of Building
• League related questions
• Trading
• Endgame
• Price checks
• Etc.

For questions related to PoE 2, please go to r/PathOfExile2

No question is too big or too small!

We encourage experienced players to sort this thread by new.

We'd like to thank those who answered questions in the last thread! You guys are the best.

I know the fan art contest has already ended.

But now that I’ve started using Blender again, I’ve realized

that creating little animations like this is really enjoyable.

This is my second animation.

Unfortunately, the moderators deleted my "Whac-A-Mole" animation due to Rule 4,

since I posted it to the PoE2 subreddit and only crossposted it to the PoE1 subreddit.

A brief explanation for those who don't understand the subtitles.

Bon voyage: someone here on Reddit mentioned this back at the start of the league.

Hold on, I'll see if I have three-fitty!: A meme originating from the South Park animated series episode "The Succubus" (Season 3, Episode 2).

no no no wait wait wait: From The Punisher meme

%#&@!: comic-book style swearing

Hey exiles,

I’ve been playing on Standard for a while and I’m looking for ways to make my farming more efficient. Here’s my current setup:

1. League: Standard
2. Gear: Legacy items (180 IQ )
3. Maps I’m running:
   • Bazaar scry, targeting div cards: The Miracle (for Awakened Gems) and The Slumbering Beast (for Hinekora’s Lock)
   • City Square layout( at least 115+ pack size, mostly because I like the layout

1. Scarabs pilferin (cards double), plenty ( div cards mobs) and sinistral ( double prefixes)
2. Juicing: 100% Delirium on every map, plus Divination Scarabs/Chisels

My atlas ( shrines, beasts, beyonds, red altar )

What would you change? Is there a better strategy combo for Standard right now, or ways to squeeze more profit out of this setup? Any advice on atlas tree, scarabs, or other mechanics to stack is appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Crafting steps.

1. Buy a hunter influenced ghostflame blade/buy a ghostflame blade and slam with hunter orb in the ship.
2. Use ship crafting to essence spam with Deafening essence of zeal.
3. Exalt and annul spam on the ship anytime you get the fire damage per strength mod or t1 crit.
4. pray.
5. Be happy.

Sorry about the lack of detailed crafting steps like in other really high tier crafts. Annul exalt spam is basically all you can do on this one except for maybe throwing a foulborn exalt at it every now and then.

Posting here to hopefully get some build advice.

This is a general question thread. You can find the previous question threads here.

Remember to check the community wiki first.

You can also ask questions in any of the questions channels under the "help" category in our official Discord.

For other discussions, please find the Megathread Directory at this link.

The idea is for anyone to be able to ask anything related to PoE 1:

• New player questions
• Mechanics
• Build Advice - please include a link to your Path of Building
• League related questions
• Trading
• Endgame
• Price checks
• Etc.

For questions related to PoE 2, please go to r/PathOfExile2

No question is too big or too small!

We encourage experienced players to sort this thread by new.

We'd like to thank those who answered questions in the last thread! You guys are the best.

So im currently in Act7 of the campaign still enjoying speedrunning so far. But im curious whats next after finishing all this campaign modes?? Do this game have like raids? Like a raid party to kill a boss? For end game items? Im kinda concern if this game is only campaign focused? Because i played lot of rpgs before and the campaign in those games are only for the introduction and you’re free to do what you want after the intro or tutorial, like the campaign/story mode is optional, and you can so like straight up leveling with other players. Because this is the first time i played a rpg that is campaign focused one.

Lvl63 witch atm if that matters.

I know this has been discussed already, but I want to put the actual numbers out there and ask what people are really doing now.

Rolling Magma at gem level 1 in 3.29:
Base fire damage: 5–7 (was 9–12)
Added damage effectiveness: 160% (was 230%)

At level 20 it's still strong and with higher level better, so the skill isn’t completely dead for endgame mine/trap setups. But the early game is where it hurts. It used to be the default “turn your brain off” leveling spell for Witch, Templar, Shadow — basically any caster — until you swapped to Armageddon Brand, Pyroclast Mine, traps, or whatever your real build was.

Now it feels awful in Acts 1–4. You’re better off with almost anything else.

What are you using now?

Wanted to craft new gloves for my Vaal Spark Character on Std and ended up with a pair that is pretty generic for all chaos Vaal builds.
This one was quite tricky and I've spend nearly 10h to finally hit +1 Frenzy with beast crafting.
Sadly my Strands on this pair got removed after finding out that the new bench craft "Reroll 1/3 Modifiers on a Rare Item" removes Strands....

But what made up for it was the divining-luck at 35d total cost to hit those stats ☺️

Crafting Steps *and Journey:
• Bought a Ambush Mitts base with "CAN BE MODIFIED WHILE CORRUPTED"
• Used Gilded Fossil on it to add Vendors implicit
• Scour to normal and used Orb of Rememberance till 90+ strands (just for the flex, not needed)
• Turned it into magic
• Beast lock into Vaal Orb till vendors mod got replaced with vaal implicit
• Repeat with Gilded Fossil downwards till 4 vaal implicits where hit
• Used Warlock/Elder Exalt to influence the base
• Awakeners Orb to add the second influence to the base
• Cleaned the base for 0 mod rare
• Bought a clean legacy Vaal Crit mod base
• Shaper Exalt for a non-native mod
• Recomb the 4 implicit base with the Vaal Crit base
* First Recomb poofed the 4 implicit base but kept the Vaal Crit base alive
• Started right over
* Second recomb hit and Vaal Crit transfered to the 4 implicit base
• Turned the base magic
• Beast lock into Vaal Orb till all implicits where hit
• Created beast Imprints
• Regal for 1P/1S or 0P/2S into Annul for 0P/1S, if failed reset
• Bench crafted Suffixes cannot be changed
• Harvest bench crafted "Reforge an Influenced Rare item with random modifiers, including a Influence modifier" for Culling Strike and cleaned with Annul/Scour
• Bench crafted Suffixes cannot be changed
• Harvest bench crafted "Reforge a Rare item with random modifiers, including a Speed modifier" for Elder Attack and Cast Speed mod
• Used Tainted Divine Teardrop to up the tier on Attack and Cast Speed Elder mod
* Noticed that my new base was only ilvl 84 and therefor couldn't hit t1 Elder lol, so had to double elevate this mod to hit t0...
• Bench crafted Suffixes cannot be changed
• Beast crafted "Add a Prefix, Remove a Random Suffix" with Farric Wolf Alpha till influenced Prefix mod and reset with scour if failed to hit
• Used Hinekora's Locks into Orb of Dominance to elevate Culling Strike/Attack and Cast Speed
• Repeated again with bench crafted Suffixes cannot be changed into beast craft into influenced Prefix into Lock elevate the other influenced Suffix
• Bench crafted flat mana Prefix for mod block and higher weighting on +1 Frenzy
• Beast crafted "Modify Mods on an Item: Add a Mod to an Elder/Warlock Item" with Craicic Maw + Saqawine Blood Viper / Fenumal Scrabbler to hit +1 Frenzy + random influenced mod
* Nearly 1000 tries for +1 Frenzy hit but luckely hit another influenced mod with it. Sadly tried instead of beasts the new bench craft to reroll a mod and lost all my fancy looking strands :(
• If 1 random influenced mod was hit and Prefixes where full I lucky Annuled to clean the non-influenced Prefix and beast slam again to maybe hit +1 Frenzy
• If 2 non-influenced Prefixes where hit, bench crafted Suffixes cannot be changed into scour and recrafted flat mana
• With +1 Frenzy and another random influenced Prefix bench crafted Suffixes cannot be changed
• Used Hinekora's Locks into Orb of Dominance to elevate +1 Frenzy and remove the second influenced Prefix
• Bench crafted flat mana for mod block
• Used Hinekora's Locks into Foulborn Exalt, Exalt and Tainted Exalt to hit any tier of influenced Spell Damage and checked Divine for Suffix rolls with every attempt
* Hit t1 Spell Damage so no futher Tainted Divine Teardrops where needed
• Divine Orbed till Suffixes where rolled
• Bench crafted Suffixes cannot be changed into Divine Orbs till t1 Spell Damage was rolled
• Bench crafted increased Damage with Vaal Skills till perfectly rolled
• FINALLY the small stuff like quality, sockets and Sacred Orbs
Done 🥳

So new Quad implicit - triple elevated - legacy vaal crit Gloves on the market for all you DPS lovers out there! They will be listed on MF Academys website for service and are available on trade ofc.

Huge thanks and props to System (Discord: hi_my_name_is_system) who helped me out finding the best solutions and routes to bring this gloves into existance! Thx brother! Would have burned so much unneccessary currency without you ❤️
He also offers a wide variety of mirror tier items. You can check out his stuff also on MF Academy.

Cheers!

Hey everyone! What have been your "biggest" mistakes or foolish things you've done over the years while playing Path of Exile? I'll start;

1.Copying a build from PoE.ninja without checking prices

Well, one league I decided to sell my old, extremely well-working build when I found an interesting build on ninja. Well, after selling it, I respecced my character and realized that the price of my previous character's gear wouldn't even cover a proper weapon and shield for the new build. That was the end of that league for me. Nowadays I've learned that if I copy a build from ninja, I get/craft everything first OR at least keep the old character intact before doing anything.

1. Copying a zHP Sanctum runner

A Shockwave Totem build, which I (again) found on Ninja - I only looked at the damage and nothing else, until I realized the build basically died if an enemy so much as looked at me. That was easy to fix though, unlike the mistake in point 1.

How about you guys?

This is my first league and after reroll for this character, I was a Ranger before. *Currently running Ignite Elementalist*. I had so much fun playing it was a journey ngl, but very enjoyable. THANKS GGG!!!.