Slaanesh69
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So I am just getting around to the late game league stuff, because life, and I am sure glad they added another Sirus fight to the game. Double my least favorite content!!!
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The leagues were the same way PoE was developed. A lot of things you see now in the core game date back to leagues from the betas. Stuff like strongboxes, exiles, a lot of the mods on mobs, half the bosses you fight in maps, shrines, onslaught, etc.
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That’s what I do. My whole strategy this league has been based around trying to get a svalinn. The best way to do that is blast thru as many maps as possible. So any league mechanic that has you dicking around in a map for extra time, like breach or legion , etc doesn’t work. Sulphite scarab with packed with energy node is super synergistic for this strat, as you just go faster. I decided to throw in some cartography scarabs too cuz originator map drops sell for stupid amounts sometimes. Initially debated using refinement scarabs but I think it’s worth it because you can send shipments way more often, and the gold you save can be put into sending mappers to white elder guarduan maps , which for some reason the fragments are like 50c this league.
I currently have the lost shipment node, but debating if I should drop it as it might be losing me some starfall craters, and also clicking that bullshit takes as long as doing the map. I have gotten a few divines from it tho.
so far 52 star fall craters and one svalinn . And that may just be average luck, the shit is rare.
Not sure how many maps I’ve run but definitely over 1000.
I currently have the lost shipment node, but debating if I should drop it as it might be losing me some starfall craters, and also clicking that bullshit takes as long as doing the map. I have gotten a few divines from it tho.
so far 52 star fall craters and one svalinn . And that may just be average luck, the shit is rare.
Not sure how many maps I’ve run but definitely over 1000.
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Xevy
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I got a svallin on my ~3rd black knight, not looking for him. Got a min block roll, divined it perfect. Double corrupted it. It died. It was a glorious 7 minutes.
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I've been trying out this strategy as well as I'm not a fan of T17 mods. I specced my tree for Kingsmarch, Rogue Exiles, and Destructive Play. I've found if I use the refinement scarab, dust output can't keep up with verisium bar output. I've been using sulphite scarab, refinement scarab, fill the rest with rogue exile or extra ore deposit scarabs
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No you will probably have to sink some divine into buying uniques.
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I was wrong, Mamba was indeed nerfed. Or more accurately, Master Surgeon was nerfed. Pausing makes a simple duration-based life flask macro unreliable. I've been farming up a Mageblood and a lot of my deaths have come from noticing my health dipping(and not bouncing back), looking over to life flask not active, dead. I'm also doing ghosted rogue exiles, so Thief's Grip is a factor, but my utility flasks are almost always active when I notice my life flask not being active, so I'm blaming pausing.
Kinda a shame to relegate almost an entire ascendancy to the trash heap for a qol feature.
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I know that people love it but Master Surgeon is a trash heap ascendancy point anyway. An end game build should never need or use that and a Pathfinder throwing away a utility flask for it is a mathematical travesty.
The 3% regen and leech after being hit flask crafts with pathfinder flask effect are better anyway.
It's a crutch while also being the wrong choice
Pathfinder shouldn't even be fucking built around flasks anyway, what the hell do flasks have to do with an outdoor guide in the wilderness? Either change the ascendancy to "Alchemist" or something more on-brand or just rework it to be about applying and exploiting some kind of weaknesses.
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I rarely play what you consider endgame, I just find the inherent grind really boring. I make an exception for Mageblood because of how much qol it offers. Finally got mine today and now I'm free to play low budget builds....with a Mageblood....without them feeling like slow pieces of shit.
It's hard to model the leech affix, but I'll also say I haven't really tried it, perhaps it is as strong as you say. However, it's really hard to dismiss the amount of cheap sustain you can get with Tides of Time, Sorrow of the Divine, Divine Flesh, and Master Surgeon. That's close to 4.5k sustain for maybe 2D depending on time of league. On some builds, it enables things like Righteous Fire and Marionettes with Guardian's Blessing. It just requires a flask macro...that doesn't really work that well anymore. Surviving one shots usually becomes the next problem. And since the phys taken as nerfs, Pathfinder and many other builds have had a serious issue with that.
I agree flasks are stupid and overtuned. They also haven't shown they know what to do them. I'll take current flasks over PoE2 charms.
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Highly recommend trying aura stacker this league if it’s something you’ve not done before. It’s never gonna feel this good again. Basically the main investment is the mageblood and you’re mostly set from there, you’ll be tanky enough for any content in the game. The usual problem of not having enough dps without mirrors of investment, is totally offset this league by the merc / doryani / perquils cheese. And whispers of infinity also adds huge qol to the build. Both these things are either getting nerfed or crazy rare going into future leagues so don’t miss this chance
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