Path of Exile 2

Pyros

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Website down for maintenance for a bit, they're releasing item filter info and adding the skill tree on the website for PoE2. Unless they magically unfucked their terrible website architecture though, it'll still only show the current 0.4 tree until the patch.
 

Xevy

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Here's how it generally works to make an uber weapon:

  • You start with a base with high enough ilvl to get the T1 rolls you want
  • Perfect orb of augmentations until you get T1 Phys % or whichever elemental damage you want, if you fail, orb of annulment it back to empty like you were using scours in poe1. Annuls are not cheap btw. you can use 2 augs for each annul because it doesn't matter what the other affix (suffix) is.
  • Then you use a greater essence of abrasion to take it from magic 2 affix to guaranteed flat phys 3 affix rare. (2 prefix, 1 suffix)
  • now you use an omen of sinistral necromancy to guarantee that using a jawbone will add a prefix. you also use an omen of the liege or similar to guarantee that the desecrated prefix is Amanamu or Kurgal or whichever you want. you could also use the omen that lets you reroll it twice if your chosen abyss guy has more than 3 mods.
  • now your prefixes are done.
  • Now you want to fill the suffixes so that there are 6 mods, you can use an omen of greater exaltation (next exalt adds 2 affixes instead of 1) and use it on a Perfect exalted orb since those are expensive.
  • Now you can use a perfect essence of battle which is guaranteed to replace one of your junk suffixes with +5 skills. <----- this is where 0.5 breaks this process
  • Then a perfect essence of Haste which is also guaranteed to replace a suffix with Onslaught. 1/3 chance to remove your +skill, but then you just use another perfect battle for another 2/3 to replace a different suffix. keep doing this till you have both. it will never touch your prefixes.
  • You might be left with 1 crappy suffix, but there are ways to fix it without starting over depending on how much you want to spend.
Yeah this is more or less what I figured. Seems they just added some RNG to the finishing of the items, but you can get fucked on RNG at the finishing steps and still have a pretty good item/item you can just sell with the new changes.

It does seem weird they did the "crafted" modifier when it afaik exclusively applies to essences. Could've just said "essence modifiers" like they did in PoE1 after recombinator shenanigans.
 

Pyros

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Yeah this is more or less what I figured. Seems they just added some RNG to the finishing of the items, but you can get fucked on RNG at the finishing steps and still have a pretty good item/item you can just sell with the new changes.

It does seem weird they did the "crafted" modifier when it afaik exclusively applies to essences. Could've just said "essence modifiers" like they did in PoE1 after recombinator shenanigans.
The new alloys also work, and it's future-proofing for more currency later on.