The amount of low effort and/or stolen buildguides that gets recommended to me since I started watching the new season content is absolutely insane.

Always the same pseudo dark fantasy garbage picture and a terrible guide to complement it.

Hi! I'm the girl who, like every league, comes to bring you the updated Syndicate cheatsheet ✨.

This league Betrayal includes the following general changes:

• Syndicate Leaders can no longer drop Allflame Embers. The Syndicate Mastermind can now only drop The Allflame Ember of Kulemak. All other Allflame Embers have been moved to the Curse of the Allflame league mechanic.
• The average number of Scarabs dropped from Scarab Chests in Safehouses has been doubled.
• Trapped Stashes in Safehouses now have a time limit of 15 seconds (previously 10).
• Cluster Jewels from Trapped Stashes and Crafting Sprees in Safehouses have a maximum item level of 83.

The reward changes are as follows:

• Vagan in Fortification now offers a trapped stash with Enshrouded Uniques.
• Vagan in Transportation now offers a chest containing Trarthan Scarabs.
• Vorici's Fortification rewards have also been adjusted.
  • At Rank 1, the reward is a bench that reforges the number of Sockets on an item 100 times, using the outcome with the greatest number of Sockets (previously colours of Sockets).
  • At Rank 2, the reward is a bench that reforges the colours of Sockets on an item 25 times, using the outcome with the greatest number of Non-White Socket colours (previously number of Sockets).
  • No changes at rank 3.
• Jorgin in Research now offers regular Currency to craft the Talisman, instead of Tainted Currency. This is due to Talismans no longer being corrupted by default.
• UPDATE: You can no longer obtain Abyss Jewels from Betrayal. I forgot to remove the icons. I'll update them soon along with the new icons for Vagan's rewards.

IMPORTANT:
The cheatsheets I'm sharing here are based on my personal opinion and might not be perfect. So please, don’t be rude. Personally, I'll be focusing on Scarabs at league start. Once I reach red maps, I'll switch to farming Syndicate Medallions and gambling rewards like Cadiro, Ancient Orbs, Divination Cards, etc.

You can create your own version on my website:
🔗 https://pathofexile.elrincondelexiliado.com/syndicate (press F5 to clear cache if you don’t see the updated version). Website demo video here.

DISCLAIMER:
Ruthless has different rewards, but I don't plan to support that version of the game — mainly because I don’t play it. And if you play SSF, I recommend creating your own version based on what your build needs or the mechanics you enjoy the most.

🌓 Dark Version

🌕 Light Version

You can download the PNG versions here:

📁 https://pathofexile.elrincondelexiliado.com/books/liga-curse-of-the-allflame/page/chuleta-del-sindicato-betrayal-329

If you’d like to support my work, you can leave a tip through the Ko-fi link on the website. Thanks so much 💛

🔁 REMEMBER: You can make your own version here: https://elrincondelexiliado.com/syndicate

Enjoy the league!

... but aside from dots and select few skills, this is how the buffs feel to me. Nevertheless, I think the league will be amazing.

Hi all, with the recent nerfs to lettuce and berries by introducing the Cyclospora keyword to them, I am feeling a little bit lost on how to league start efficiently and not shit myself. I personally also am recovering from a gallbladder removal so anything with a lot of fat can still make me shit myself, a normal amount is fine but the canes combo unique is out of the discussion for me.

Just wondering what everyone else's league start food plan is for 3.29, fatty or not. Interested to see how everyone builds for their own str stat in mind. Stay sane, exiles!

Saw this on Insta under a post about icky boyfriend postures 😭. gamer stance

E: Phone quality just now realised it’s PoE2

• Added a new Voracious Flame Keystone Passive Skill to the north of the Witch's starting location. Voracious Flame grants You can inflict an additional Ignite on each Enemy, Base Ignite Duration is 1 second, 25% less Damage with Ignite, and Cannot deal non-Fire Damage.

First of all lets start by addressing that we don't even know if it works correctly - Emberwake which grants second ignite does not respect the second highest ignite, just "an" ignite.

Old thread, I don't think it was ever stated to be fixed: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/pooi9c/psa_emberwake_double_ignite_does_not_always_use/

Oki, but what if it works as it should applying two strongest ignites, what are the downsides?
- 25% less damage with ignite
- ignite base duration is 1 second
- can only deal fire damage

On paper it seems like 75% of ignite + 75% of ignite is just 50% more damage, no? Yea, no.

What are the implied additional downsides then?
- You can no longer realistically scale your massive multiplier that was "Ignites you inflict deal damage x% faster"
- Even using a lot of resources to scale ignite duration back it is now much harder (+100% ignite duration before granted you 4 seconds, now it is 1 second)
- You just killed every form of explosions, no Foulborn Berek, Profane Bloom, Unspeakable Gifts, even your Oriath's End now explodes once every three times it previously would
- You can no longer get damage as extra elements/chaos
- If you're Elementalist your Shaper of Flames does nothing if you are not already playing Fire Skill, since all damage can ignite, but ignite is based on the original skill which, if not fire, will deal 0 damage
- Duration of proliferation from Berek's is not refreshed when applied to new enemy so you killed your 'feel good' proliferation. The normal proliferation is just 75% shorter in duration.

Maybe it can be used with Vaal Flameblast to get 2 last ignites on the target if it works correctly (still wont be even remotely close to 50% more dmg). Maaaybe you can do something with Avatar of Fire and Cold to Fire.

But jumping through all the hoops makes it feel like I'm a dolphin.

(Using my own build, and not some unreasonably OP fotm meta - minion pact bv, explody totems, etc. - this should be nearly identical in 3.29?)

Final PoB

Swapped to life flask on some bosses, and WED->Gr. Ancestral Call to have better reach. (Sione's Ambition would've worked better, but had enough of farming blight for the belt, to farm the oil as well)

Despite having an incredibly tanky character, nearly offed myself several times anyway (inexperience/nerves - some of them I fought for the first time (sirus, maven, trio), the rest, for a 2nd time. 1st was in TotA (~3yrs ago) with divergent Boneshatter, which did 4/7 and rip'd to UCortex)

Major fuckups were on Exarch (annihilation w/ rune debuff), and Sirus (tanking meteor without guard skill cause dum-dum).
Maven was just a PITA in general. The no-recovery debuff sucked. Took her balls to the face repeatedly.

(In case anyone's interested - recorded all the fights, just raw footage)

edit: it appears i was wrong about mercs. The mercskills on item is for merc contracts. guardian does return an array of items, so most definitely refers to a character's AG

It’s going to be amazing for comparing builds once PoB, poeninja, and the mountain of other glorious community tools add support! Thank you GGG and we appreciate you tool-maker community!

TL;DR

Stacked Decks ratios: https://wraeclast.cards/path-of-exile/mirage/stacked-decks

Soothsayer stacked decks tracker: https://wraeclast.cards/soothsayer

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Hi everyone,

It's been almost 6 months since I've posted about soothsayer and there are couple new additions. The app itself is ready to enter maintenance mode as I consider the app feature complete, though I will wait until upcoming league ends to flag it as `1.0.0` release.

New features:

• Profit forecast - A new page that projects returns from bulk stacked deck openings. It combines Prohibited Library card weights with poe.ninja snapshot prices to calculate expected value, cost, and profit/loss for any batch size.
• Card Details - click any card name in the app to see everything about it in one place
• Revamped Statistics page - Redesigned the Statistics page with a new side-by-side layout — interactive chart on the left, card table on the right.
• Live Session Profit Timeline - real-time chart now appears on the current session page, showing your cumulative profit over time as you open stacked decks. Every card drop is plotted on a timeline so you can see exactly when big hits landed and how your session's value grew
• Multi Session export - You can now export data from several sessions at once from the Sessions page.
• GGG account linking & optional Community Drop Rates contributions

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Special thanks to the few individuals that decided to share their opening data (and especially that one freak who opened nearly 4M cards, whoever you are. All user data is anonymous unless you, the user, decide to verify yourself through GGG linking - ngl not sure if I (and/or the community) should thank you or ask you to seek help)

Thanks to contributions data, I could delegate the wraeclast.cards website creation to my wife who is aspiring to be a software engineer in the nearby future (if you see some bugs, let me know in the issues page and I will handle these once I find some free time, as she moved to another project!)

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Both pojects are free and open source.

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Unrelated to both projects above, I'm also working on a dedicated to PoE (1 & 2) gameplay recorder & video editor Hinekora . I think it's awesome, mayhaps better than your current software that you use! There are videos in the README if you are curious to see how it looks like (and it's also open source and free)!

I don't play Standard, but every now and again I go to Standard to test things out. It's annoying to sift through rows upon rows of remove-only tabs to get the few items you want to keep from a previous league.

Why can't we just delete a remove-only tab? I have like 10 full of crappy Heist contracts..

Hello Exiles!

We updated PoE Planner with the passive trees from 3.29. We get our data from GGGs github page which can be found here and here.

Have fun planning!

good league 5/5

you do a campaign quest, you may pick a reward, pick the base and its trash. great, could have just picked up something from the ground instead quest items feel bad except for the flasks since you know you want those anyway. especially with the rework for sockets we can now wear off color bases. ground loot should stay unidentified but the rewards feel off when unidentified!

Originally the patch notes only had the crit change, but the rest was added today, and makes the CF picture a lot bleaker. That's a damage reduction of 38% and an damage effectiveness reduction of 31%. 22% and 14% if you factor in the crit change I guess, but still not overall a good thing.

I defer to actual experts on whether the radius will help enough to compensate via overlaps (it very well might), but I doubt such compensation would be consistent.

Edit: an eagle-eyed commenter pointed out that the decondary radius is not the one for the AOE overlaps for hits. Instead, that one is for the size of the chilling areas. My question is answered; no the AOE change in the patch note is not in any way compensatory for the nerf to hit damage. (Other comments are also saying that CF doesn't really need to scale AOE to get full overlaps anyway. So, it was probably moot, but now it is definitive.)

Making this post because I felt like hearing about how others ended up starting PoE. Whoever wants to join in can have a go. I'll go first.

In 2017, I ventured out to find a game that was free, no pay to win (only cosmetics) and something I can sink countless hours into. So I made the post and downloaded the standalone client. I found myself traversing along the side of the green cracks at the coast, struggling to fend off monsters coming out of the ground.

But of course, I didn't progress too far (up till act 5) as I didn't follow a guide. But didn't end up disliking the game either. Got a few of my friends to play for a few hours too. Ultimately I dropped the game after a while.

I returned in 2020 in Harvest league. Didn't get much time to play in Harvest but I remember making it to maps. Then came Heist. Made my first melee build (Flicker Strike). Holy it was cool. Cleared A8 Sirus for the first time which was the biggest accomplishment back then for me. Ever since Heist, I've been playing every league and I'm now 4000 hours into this game. I've grown to enjoy HC. Got my first level 100 character in Mirage league. Which was in HC as well.

Met a lot of cool people in the community and made some friends as well. One of the best gaming communities ever honestly.

Taking the week off and looking forward to 3.29. League start has now been one of my favorite times of the year. Happy league start to all.

Contemplating if my body can take one more all-in leaguestart.

Everybody is talking about skill gem changes. I also want to point out this in patch note.

• The waypoint in The Solaris Temple Level 1 in Act 8 has been moved closer to the Level 2 entrance.

Drop portal when you reach the fork leading to level2 and solaris concourse

Run to the waypoint but do not go in level2

Teleport back to town and come back through portal

Keep moving to the solaris concourse.

Go get your luanris orb

Then come back to temple get your solaris orb.

This can at least save your 10s, which is super important because you can use this 10s to pee, while others are still running.