r/pathofexile 20h ago

Question Questions Thread - July 22, 2026

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This is a general question thread. You can find the previous question threads here.

Remember to check the community wiki first.

You can also ask questions in any of the questions channels under the "help" category in our official Discord.

For other discussions, please find the Megathread Directory at this link.

The idea is for anyone to be able to ask anything related to PoE 1:

  • New player questions
  • Mechanics
  • Build Advice - please include a link to your Path of Building
  • League related questions
  • Trading
  • Endgame
  • Price checks
  • Etc.

For questions related to PoE 2, please go to r/PathOfExile2

No question is too big or too small!

We encourage experienced players to sort this thread by new.

We'd like to thank those who answered questions in the last thread! You guys are the best.


r/pathofexile 6d ago

Path of Exile 3.29: Curse of the Allflame links & information

63 Upvotes

r/pathofexile 2h ago

GGG Path of Exile 1: Curse of the Allflame Voyage Deep Dive

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r/pathofexile 8h ago

Fluff & Memes The sloppification of build guides is brutal this season

1.1k Upvotes

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.


r/pathofexile 53m ago

GGG New and Changed Gems in Path of Exile: Curse of the Allflame

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r/pathofexile 3h ago

Information Potential Act1 improvement teased from ZiggyDs Video - Fairgraves is now seemingly spawning instantly and drops the Allflame instead of it dropping in Ship Graveyard Cave.

184 Upvotes

EDIT : ZiggyD Confirms this in the comments of the video and this post!

Link to ZiggyDs Video

As title statess, potential Act 1 Improvement . Seems like he is blocking the way to the Cavern of Wrath. Huge improvement to this area, as it removes the need to travel to the Ship Gravyard Cave (Might have a new quest there or it is being removed all together)! Good Change!

Fairgraives at a new location and prespawned.
He now drops the Allflame.

r/pathofexile 7h ago

Fluff & Memes I do admit the second part of the buffs is better...

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335 Upvotes

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


r/pathofexile 12h ago

Fluff & Memes Me watching ZiggyD gameplay from act 1

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823 Upvotes

r/pathofexile 7h ago

Fluff & Memes Is this merc good for endgame?

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294 Upvotes

r/pathofexile 1h ago

Fluff & Memes Gets me every time.

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r/pathofexile 12h ago

Tool 3.29 Ready: Updated Betrayal Cheatsheet + Customizer Website

589 Upvotes

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!


r/pathofexile 7h ago

Fluff & Memes League Start Food Nerfs 3.29

183 Upvotes

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!


r/pathofexile 6h ago

Information FYI: New Nvidia hotfix driver fixes PoE 1 issues even though it's intended for PoE2

106 Upvotes

Nvidia released a hotfix driver for PoE2 this morning that fixes issues with the dx12 shader cache

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5870

I upgraded, logged into PoE2, and other than what felt like the normal shader rebuilds, could not get the game to hitch and get the dreaded "gearing"

I wondered if whatever fix was made for poe2 translated into poe1 as they are effectively the same engine under the hood and was pleasantly surprised

I went ahead and logged into a character in poe1 and juiced it as much as possible and could not get the dreaded "gearing" issue in dx12.

I do not think we will see a WHQL official release before Friday, so if you want a gearing-free league start, I wanted to reccomend this to everyone else who has been frustrated with the freezing in both games for a long time.

It looks like 50 series card owners finally have an option for a driver that does not have issues in both poe1 and 2


r/pathofexile 4h ago

Paint Build My paint bait for Curse of the Allflame: HoT buff stacker

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80 Upvotes

r/pathofexile 17h ago

Fluff & Memes Which one of you is this?

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760 Upvotes

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

E: Phone quality just now realised it’s PoE2


r/pathofexile 19h ago

Paint Build Luminary with Merc GF build

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990 Upvotes

r/pathofexile 12h ago

Game Feedback Can we talk about Voracious Flame Keystone and why it is unusable?

269 Upvotes
  • 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.


r/pathofexile 7h ago

Information Mercs and AG seem to have been added to API!

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110 Upvotes

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!


r/pathofexile 16h ago

Information ZiggyD has a new video going over the league mechanic a bit more and showing how luminary preforms early

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551 Upvotes

r/pathofexile 11h ago

Build Showcase Thanks for 3.28 GGG, achieved my longtime goal of clearing ubers in SSFHC

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170 Upvotes

(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)


r/pathofexile 8h ago

Tool Soothsayer - open source stacked decks tracker & Mirage stacked decks ratio data

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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)!


r/pathofexile 22h ago

Fluff & Memes ༼ つ ◕◕ ༽つ PoB Community TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕◕ ༽つ

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1.1k Upvotes

r/pathofexile 11h ago

Game Feedback Please allow us to delete Remove-only tabs

114 Upvotes

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..


r/pathofexile 2h ago

Tool POE Levelling Planner 3.1

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Website: https://poelevellingplanner.com

3.0 Update Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1rzmw82/poe_levelling_planner_30/

Planner Version 3.1

Updated for PoE Version 3.29 — Curse of the Allflame

Here’s a quick overview of what’s new:

Ascendancies

  • Added the new Luminary ascendancy (Scion)
  • Reshuffled the Reliquarian notables to the new 3.29 set
  • Updated reworked notables: Deathmarked and Mystical Infusion (Assassin), Ritual of Awakening (Hierophant), Instruments of Zeal (Inquisitor)
  • Added new notables: Instruments of Justice (Inquisitor) and Unhallowed Rite (Occultist)

On the Luminary art: the ascendancy image is an AI-generated placeholder for now — the official art wasn’t available yet when I pushed this update. I’ll swap it out for the real thing as soon as it’s out. Just didn’t want it sitting there with a broken icon in the meantime.

Gems

  • Added the new Mana-Infused Staff skill gem — Templar quest reward, and a vendor gem for Witch, Shadow, and Templar at A Fixture of Fate
  • Refreshed all quest reward and vendor gem data for 3.29

General

  • Planner now defaults to PoE 3.29

If you spot anything broken or have ideas for improvements, let me know.


r/pathofexile 13h ago

Tool PoE Planner - Updated Passive Trees for 3.29

134 Upvotes

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!