Path of Exile

Did Incursion get nerfed? I do not see the nodes that allow architects to gain an extra rank or get the rank of the one you kill. (Resource Allocation and Contested Development) That would make getting T3 corruption and gem rooms a lot more difficult. Or did I just miss something?

p.s. also..ultimatum looks like it got a huge buff (25% double rewards up to 40%)

Apostolos said:

Did Incursion get nerfed? I do not see the nodes that allow architects to gain an extra rank or get the rank of the one you kill. (Resource Allocation and Contested Development) That would make getting T3 corruption and gem rooms a lot more difficult. Or did I just miss something?

p.s. also..ultimatum looks like it got a huge buff (25% double rewards up to 40%)

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ooh ok. I see what they did.. I did not even notice it in the top right. Thanks. Sucks you can't get both now :/

I hate that I'm that guy who plays the same build every season, but it just feels like filling out the Atlas takes such an effort that it's just too important to use something reliable. A lot of these reliquarian things have my brain buzzing, but there's no way I'm trying to do fucking Maven with a half-cooked build that I haven't flushed out fully. Hopefully there's enough steam this league that I do my usual 2nd, 3rd, and maybe 4th characters to fuck around with.

Might go stormburst totems? Anyone play them last league? Wondering how the scaling is.

Uriel said:

Might go stormburst totems? Anyone play them last league? Wondering how the scaling is.

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I've done Divine Ire spell totems in a couple different leagues all the way through level 100 and 40/40 challenges. I gave Storm Burst of Repulsion a go in 3.29 as a mid-league experiment and that skill is absolutely not reasonable. I'm like 95% sure I'm starting old man this league unless i see at the last minute all the streamers are going Templar.

Having tried it I'm shocked it hasn't been nerfed.

edit - for bossing/single target you can swap in regular Storm Burst but I'm not sure how much that is actually necessary

But of course Winter Orb got nerfed, because even the scrubs like me could take it to endgame and pinnacles.

So NOW what am I going to play?

I've seen a couple videos with tier lists with people claiming that the spellcaster carry mercs (soulrend chick for example) are still great but proper detailed guides and actual streamers starting it are slim. Part of the issue is a lot of streamers bailed on 3.29 two or three weeks in. As an example here's Ghazzy's 3.30 starter tier list for minion guilds -



There is not a single minion Luminary on this list. He didn't play any. His last video on league content came out on Aug 5th. CotAF launched July 24th. Fub went one week longer. As an example if someone sees something like "Cruel Mistress S+ tier starter" and hops in there's just not much in the way of readily available and detailed information. It's true that Cruel Mistress is good and did all content last league but it's also true that most of the videos are just highlights of people killing ubers.

Fub's tier list cites for Luminary stuff (after placing it as Number One) cites as resources Rue, Lance and Jung. Rue hated his Luminary 3.29 league start and rerolled Ele Hit to get up and running. He's league starting Ele Hit for 3.30. Lance is starting Reliquarian. Jung is probably starting slams. If you hit a patch of gravel after the changes you're going to have to figure it out yourself. Lance does have a guide focused on the changes


but it's all attack stuff. Again, if it gets rough you're on your own. Support-oriented mercenaries are very strong but everything else you could do with a merc got overshadowed by Kineticist Flame Link. I think a lot of people are going to hop to 3.30 in trying to do the exact same shit and get wrecked once they get to maps with no clear path forward.

Deathwing said:

Wasn't the soulrend merc doing 10x damage?

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Was it? I don't even know.