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Questions Thread - December 27, 2025

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.

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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](https://pathofbuilding.community/)
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.

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Farm strat

Hello I’m returning to Poe 1 and I’m playing a bleed gladiator feels kinda close range for clear so I was wondering what is a reliable farm I can do as this build? I tried breach fortress and it’s impossible for my build so I can’t farm it

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How to price Originator maps? Sry am noob
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Just giving support is all
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8 Divine and a Dream - Advice for crafting or trading requested
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2000 Scouting Report Rerolls- Data Summary

I bought 2000 explorer scouting reports, clicked them all, and recorded the data to share with anyone interested.

[Here is a link to a screenshot of the data.](https://imgur.com/0BDsWVn) (Note: the value of items in theis spreadsheet is not as accurate as the data in the post).

Strategy:

Reroll Kirac missions with scouting reports until you see [this](https://imgur.com/DxWYPs7) beast mission or [this](https://imgur.com/RBXFfci) harvest mission. If you get both in the same reroll (like in the screenshots) I recommend running the beast mission.

If Harvest- rush to harvest, do the 5 plots, leave.

If beast- capture the beasts.

It's pretty simple.

Results: (converted to current CE prices, 12/27/2025 2:30PM EST, may vary from the screenshot).

Investment:

* 2000 explorer scouting reports \~26d (current prices, I bought for 20d slowly over time)

Returns:

* 32d in yellow juice
* 13d in blue juice
* 9d in red juice
* 15d Wild bristle matrons
* 51d vivid vultures
* 17d vivid watchers
* 3d wild hellion alphas
* 2d wild bramblebacks
* 3d in sacred blossoms
* 7d in yellow beasts

Beast Maps run: 87
Beast Returns: 90d
Beast Return/map: 1.04 div per map
(3 minute average map) **Beast only div/hour: 20.7 div per hour (revenue only)**

Harvest Maps run: 86
Harvest Returns: 57d
Harvest Return/map: .66 div per map
(3 minute average map) **Harvest only div/hour: 13.25 div per hour (revenue only)**

Total Profit: 132 div
Time taken (3 minute average map): 8.65 hours (round to 9 for inventory management)
**Div/hour: 14.67 div per hour**

Pros:

* No atlas tree required
* Simple to do/set up
* Great way to farm beasts/juice for SSF

Cons:

* Build must be able to handle almost any map affix
* Decent amount of clicking (rerolls and picking up juice)
* Beast management (use a regex for filtering, fill up inventory with scrolls before dumping bad beasts)

Overall takeway: Mid farm, not bad, not great. In the future I'll probably use my own scouting reports, but I won't buy any for rerolls. Probably a better farm when bristle matrons and hellion alphas have more value. If focusing on div/hour only do kirac.

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KeepingItSortaGucci Private League

Since the dream of a Phrecia holiday league is more than dead, I decided I wanted a private league to kill some time now that the family portion of the holidays are over. I figured we would go with a different set up just to keep things interesting and settled on a (mostly) Gucci set up. For those unfamiliar, a Gucci league is one where you have UNIQUE ITEMS ONLY(mostly). It's a minor challenge set up to test what you can come up with based on the items the game decides to bless you(or maybe someone else) with.

https://www.pathofexile.com/private-leagues/league/KeepingItSortaGucci

That said, I figured folks would be more likely to wanna give it a shot with some less restrictive "rules", so the league set up as I see it in my head is this.

- The only added modifier on league creation is "No magic or rare items drop"
- As stated you have to use uniques in all slots, but we're going to add a couple of exceptions. Most importantly will be you can use ONE rare weapon or gear item. Use it because you need a mod, for damage, for easier links, movespeed, whatever you want. But know that people will respect you more if you don't
- You can use magic items. If you wanna look poor and sacrifice by wearing a blue items, you can. This also solves a couple of other issues, as you get full access to flasks, and at least partial access to jewels and cluster jewels. I know some leagues have done clusters can be full rares and others don't, so this splits the middle there.
- Edited note: someone brought up Grafts to me, and how them being yellow would potentially be good for the economy of generating more blood for more foulborn uniques, so rare Grafts are on the menu with no restrictions.

I don't have much else to say set up wise. It'll start later tonight, roughly three hours from posting. Anyone who wants even more respect from strangers on the internet can use this randomizer wheel to pick their class for them https://wheelofnames.com/zvf-yrw . One step above that would be to pick a skill that falls under 1% usage on PoENinja.

The league is funded for 30 players+20 days to start, if it looks like we need more we will open it up. Created a discord if people wanna use it to organize what they want others to keep an eye out for https://discord.gg/3qu99Tu5 . And then lets go with Global 1967 for chat. If folks want any adjustments to the ruleset we can chat about it here, or on discord, or just play it and mostly follow it since you're an adult playing a video game.

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Just how rare is Mageblood?

When I first started playing PoE however many years ago, I had no idea what I was doing and I heard people talk about uniques and just didn't really think about them. I heard a lot of buzz about Mageblood but never really thought it sounded very good. As I learned the game more I understood just how ridiculous it is, but how rare exactly is it?

I've never been rich enough to afford it in a league (and combining all my leagues so far, still not rich enough to buy it off-league) but just as a game loop stand-point, is it worth trying to get it to drop or is it better to do something that makes me money (even if it's slowly) and repeat ad infinitum until I can afford it. I'm still not exactly the best at this game skill wise, or knowledge wise but I can make anywhere from 20-40 chaos per map with harvests, essences and incursions and such.

Is it worth doing activities like getting the Apex of Ascension in temples or getting ancient wombgifts with belt specialising to aim for the mageblood drop? Or should I just earn the 30 or so chaos per map for the 600 something maps until I can afford it? People with magebloods, how did you get your first? And just how much difference did it make to your gameplay (if you use it, and if you don't, why not?).

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Improving/Optimizing PhysDoT Herald Elementalist

https://poe.ninja/poe1/pob/853a0

Looking for ways to improve this build for potentially handling Ubers and finishing out challenges efficiently.

Current upgrades that are pricey but in-mind:
Getting FF jewel combos and swapping to Lycia Herald node
Mirrored Life/Gem Level/Ailment amulet (Using Ashes because I missed the last attempt)
Getting 3 great node Megalomaniac Jewels

Are there any other suggestions for improving this beyond what I have? Am I missing anything obvious?

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How I made money in keepers

Now that the league is pretty dead I will share how I made some of my money (1 mirror ± 1.5 in gear). I stumbled into this and wanted to share for people who struggle to earn currency. Basically the strat is fracturing high value items for popular builds. I will give my best 2 examples.

1. The main one I found due to my build (POEGuy shrapnel ballista str stacker). I was buying ilvl 84+ penetrating arrow quivers with bow attacks fire an additional arrow already on and annul/crafting them to 4 mods and fracturing. Bases were 50-100c and fracture were anywhere from 2-4 divs and the resulting hits (fractured bow attacks fire additional arrows) sold for 18-30 divs based on level of crafting done after fracture. I was averaging 1.5/4 hits over the league and made several hundred divines off these.

2. The second item had slightly less profit due to more expensive bases but this was minions are aggressive fractured convoking wands. Bases ran 3‐5divs and fractures were 2-4divs with resulting hits selling for 25± divines uncrafted.

I'm sure there are many more items like this but I was barely crafting my hits and making 10-20divs profit on sales per item. It's super uninvolved and doesn't take too much currency to start. I usually saved and crafted in batches of 4-8. You can hit unusually unlucky streaks so I would supplement this on top of a farming method. My worst dry streak was 24 misses in a row but I hit a few jackpots in ritual/ultimatum.

Feel free to ask any questions or provide feedback! Thank you exiles and good luck next league!

Edited to eliminate confusing wording.

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Loot from 10 Rain of Chaos sets.
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Questions Thread - December 28, 2025

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](https://pathofbuilding.community/)
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.

https://redd.it/1pxit3g
@GGPoE
Tanky, all-rounder under 100 divs?

Hi folks,

I've been playing exsanguinate / reap miner trickster from fearlessdumb0. So far it's a really good mapper and single target damage feels good, though pob says it's less than 30m. But... it feels squish against t17 bosses. I often get one-shotted and I die at least 3 times for any bosses.


Do you have any suggestions for tanky, sort of all-rounder under 100 divs? Any input will be much appreciated. Thanks!

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Hard Drive = BOOM! So here's my findings from 5000+ Uber Shaper

Since my hard drive broke down and I feel like I wont be able get to my goal of finishing 10,000 Uber Shaper runs in one league. Here's my drops from 5410 runs.

Uber Shaper | 5410 | %
-----------|----|----
Sublime Vision | 98 | 1.81%
Starforge | 92 | 1.70%
Orb of Dominance | 165 | 3.05%
Cosmic Key | 58 | 1.07%

Builds I used that I farmed Uber Shaper with.


1. First 1-400 was done with a Kinetic Fusillade Elementalist with "budget" gear: https://pobb.in/gfi7NDe0Seq

1. Runs 401 to 1800 was done with a Icicle Mine of Fanning Occultist also with budget gear but I decided to stack ES and add Vaal Arctic Armour for the Bullet Hell Phase:
https://pobb.in/iP22mUTZQ2vl

1. Lastly, I just saved up for a vanilla Armour Stacker from the the last 1200 runs and all of my extra currency I make is to farm more runs and also to save up for standard since I only have 1 character there-which is from my first league(TotA) because I've voided others from Affliction - Mercenaries:
https://pobb.in/7q91utrDjZLW

Note #1: I started farming Uber Shaper at around 18th of November and sorry for having no currency breakdown as I don't really care that much currency I make but I consistently overpayed for the frags(30-34c) as I hate downtime.

Note #2: Most of the gold i made is from Vertolka
Exiled guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QPl9NWITDg&t=117s. But I payed for gold runs before they were 10d+

Note #3: I farmed my initial currency by selling Alva Temples + Selling Blueprints/Deception Contracts + Selling Exarch Invitations. I made them on the T16 Beach Map to save up for my MB + Gear for my budget Kinetic Fusillade Elementalist. This is how I farmed because I'm bad, my build is bad and I was busy with univ.

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First time I got a Mirror Shard from a Harbinger

https://preview.redd.it/dx2aaustdx9g1.png?width=3840&format=png&auto=webp&s=15a64a75c7a12a361530907c34ff1cae0a65bb9c

My main farm this patch is harbinger+beyond, but focused on scarabs. After hundreds of maps, it's the first time I got a mirror shard from a harbinger.

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What are your expectations, wishes, hopes and all going into 3.28?

Hey everyone, happy holiday season.

Just wanted to see what are people's hopes & expectations in the upcoming league, I think it's confirmed some ground loot and endgame changes are planned for 3.28 but I am curious what exactly are people expecting, what is your "make it or break its"?

I personally would love to see some new chase uniques being added to the game and honestly some rewarding league mechanic aswell.

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It finally happened after 11k+ hours....
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First League to reach lvl 100

Been playing since Synthesis league and on and off some leagues. And big thanks to Async being a thing, i managed to more easily make currency. Usually got stuck around lvl 94 with 1-10 divine builds. But this league i managed to reach lvl 100 for the first time and bought my first mageblood!!! :D


Just wanted to share my success story even though people say this was a poor league, can't imagine making alot during a juiced league!

https://redd.it/1pxsrg8
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