If you're absolutely hell bent on farming ritual (for example) and the Mirages are curated to try and spawn next to league mechanics it's going to behoove you to keep your atlas clean and block a lot of content. I doubt the system is going to recognize the Mirage should go next to the Ritual you...
Being able to always do the kind of breach you want or even block the mechanic entirely fixes one of worst aspect of Keeper's league - when you're running a strategy that doesn't interact with breach but there's a huge fucking hive in all your maps.
I'm doing spell totems and the hives go better with that but I expect to bail off of all of those nodes to unstables before end game mapping. I can't see how it would make sense to spend the time it takes to do hives or hives with extra waves as clear speed improves. The scarab that turns...
The new atlas tree is up on the different planner sites
https://poeplanner.com/atlas-tree
They gave breach six wheels with what looks like a lot of ways to scale up the encounters. I guess the devs took it to heart when people said they wanted to juice them. Breach might be legitimately good...
We'll see if we get any bitching down the road. If the gems are just good in the aggregate than who cares. If it appears to be the deleting of raw power in exchange for niche or transformative options whose benefit is not reflected on a PoB I'd expect some loud complaints about nerfed character...
If you're accustomed to always buying, let's say, Awakemed Minion Damage and Awakened Cold Penetration, you might want to know the state of those two otherwise not hard to acquire gems.
I'm not a fan. They announced 40+ or something and we've seen I think six. You can throw a condom on my league starter it's so safe but there is going to be some salt flowing over what's missing (I'd have started something else if you told me X was gone with no replacement) and then again over...
I'd like to see exactly how much it scales on gem level. A corruption of +2 level of socketed minion gems takes it from 3 or 4 to 5 or 6 with other options including Diallas or Squire stuff.
I did a quick run to the start of act four to check out Penance Brand of Conduction. It's getting a big buff. I remember not liking it at all but phys spell with baked in convert to lightning is a nice bit of text to have for a possible Guardian.
It's still bad. After the patch if it's got the...
I've league started Absolution maybe six times. SRS at level 4, quest reward Absolution before fighting Mervail and it takes a big ol' dump on the campaign.
This is I'm sure a skill issue but around yellow maps it always fell off for me. I know it scales in to crazy damage and it just got...
If anyone gets seduced by Guardian you can socket Automation with Convocation and not have to worry about where your big ass minion is. It even heals him a little.
This is why people were saying it was deleted. If you used it as a generic strike you didn't have the less attack speed penalty and you didn't have the less damage while dual wielding penalty on a strike skill with perfectly fine effectiveness of added damage. This is also why it got nerfed. It...
Bret Hart would then go on to have a hardcore match with Terry Funk after his match with Goldberg. When he eventually took time off he would fall while riding his bicycle and give himself a stroke.
It's a fucking mess top to bottom is what it is. If we're assigning blame don't forget to ladle...
Deleting a skill with like 2% representation didn't seem necessary. I get wanting to make some changes after people started using it as a generic skill due to it's raw mechanics.
It's an easy fix, yeah. I'm hoping Octavian was thinking about how many a normie would get and not at all about how many a big juicer would be looking at. If the top end is two a day that's going to be ass.
They're going to get granular with it I think and carefully weigh both the mods...
I think this is the only one of Buelman's books I haven't read. Those Across the River, The Necromancer's House, The Suicide Motor Club, The Blacktongue Thief and The Daughters War were all varying degrees of good to great.
With the changes to Raise Spectre the target number is gem level thirty for level 85 spectres. That's a tall order.
If you were running Wretched Defilers and you hit Returning Projectiles (66% reduced damage at 20, 70% reduced damage at 1) that would allow you to run a big Empower in that slot...
Don't forget that you can merchant recipe GCPs. One 20% quality gem can be sold for one GCP. A combination of gems totaling 40% is also one GCP. I typically have one tab designated to hold all the random quality gems that drop and then the actual proper gem tab holds a more curated pile. When...
I was initially excited at the prospect of getting spell totem support as an imbue so I could wear a real chest instead of Soul Mantle but I had forgotten that totem life is based not on the skill gem but on spell totem support itself.