masteries can also be reliably used in maps. Frenzy charge generation, crit immunity and monster regen prevention are all benefits which you can reasonably rely on.

The biggest benefit is the damage up time here which POB cannot display. Having no cooldown between triggers vs a 4sec cooldown is night and day in maps. In addition to this damage bonus, you get the other bullets I mentioned, which further provide incremental damage and damage up time bonuses. All adding up to a big QOL and damage reliability improvement, which cannot be shown on paper.

Miss-conceptions about its downsides

"The single target damage bonus is minimal" - This skill is designed to improve your mapping speed and real-world damage; it will not give much value against bosses or in extended fights.
"Level 30 gives you basically no extra damage vs level 20" - True. But as discussed, the value of this node is in its real-world damage uptime in maps and lack of a cooldown. Translating to your mapping DPS being significantly more reliable and thus higher in practice. On paper you cannot show this.
"You need to crit to apply it, this is bad" - If you are using Assassin's mark you are already a crit build, you have already passed through the "Unstable Infusion" node to get here, giving you 4 power charges (default 3 +1). You probably also have a high attack speed, as its natural for Assassin's to do so. It’s not like you have no crit and applying this skill is hard.
"The cannot evade line is unreliable" - GGG did not design this so that you run around with 50% accuracy, but against rares you have 100%. This line is not a primary benefit to be built around (it could be though), but a QOL feature giving passive value against map mods, rare mods and other active downsides in game.

Don't get me wrong there are downsides to this node, but this is the case with nearly all ascendancies in POE. Overall, the value which you get from this node makes it a B-A tier node for mapping.

Summary

Deathmarked is designed for mapping not bossing and it competes against mark on hit support or manually casting the mark. The auto application on crit which this skill provides, coupled with the lack of a cooldown (vs mark on hit support; 4sec), provides a significant and very real damage increases in the form of damage up time in maps. This node also provides multiple passives benefits which layer together to form a strong overall package. The criticisms of the skill have focussed the lack of raw additional damage and its passive benefits being the main star. These critiques are somewhat valid, but miss-understand the true value which you get out of Deathmark.

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PoE is far more fun than any other ARPG.

I think the 40/40 challenges can actually make someone who isn’t interested in PoE endgame want to play it. I’m basically a case study for this.

I completed all 40 challenges and, honestly, I fell in love with the Blight mechanic. I love how extremely craft driven the game is when it comes to builds and player choice, especially through the Atlas.

Try this: pick the node that makes rogue exiles possessed from the start, then add the node that gives five rare mobs possession in the instance. Oh boy… that map becomes absolutely hilarious. Those five-mod, tormented rares clap cheeks 😭

Anyway, I went back to PoE 2, and the endgame feels very plain right now. It’s missing a soul. Maybe we’ll get there by version 1.0.0, but I’m honestly shocked by how fun the Blight mechanic was in comparison. GGG did a great job introducing older league mechanics and making them feel engaging again with 40/40 challenges.

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x6 50M shipments Standard + Keepers

First time interacting with shipments. Was playing standard during settlers and I just put gold in for farmers/disenchant and forget about it. I bought 24M worth of dust on keepers to send x3 ships (rest was obtained throughout the league).

std
setup
ship1
ship2
ship3
$$

keepers (missing shipment 2&3, forgot to screenshot)
setup
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TL:DR

standard x15 mirror shards 23divs 12 sacred 16 exalteds 1 block tattoo

keepers x7 mirror shards 26divs 11 sacred 21 exalteds 3 block tattoo

0 herald tattoo ;)

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I clearly don’t know what I’m doing
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Questions Thread - December 29, 2025

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

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New player questions
Mechanics
Build Advice - please include a link to your [Path of Building](https://pathofbuilding.community/)
League related questions
Trading
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Price checks
Etc.

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

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

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Genesis tree question
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Any effective farming strategies for RF build?

I started this league late and chose to play an RF-Str stack Scion build. Does anyone have any suggestions for an effective strategy for an RF build?

My build has 4.5 million dots (skill icon dmg - without cursed) and can kill the fortress map boss (it takes a bit long). I've tried some farming methods on wealthyexile.com, but haven't found anything truly effective; most require builds with high clear speeds.

Update pob : https://pobb.in/oA\_zY2O6XFwW

or : https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/NLKStory-5823/character/KunC%C3%A1nhChjp

i dont know setting config my pob, but my build runs quite smoothly in the game.

And how can i change main skill from poe.ninja to RF, it's always show as Bane ?

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Happens way too often
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Farming strat for poison ssr

Use to do harvest crop rotation but the price is kinda bad right now so i want to change to something new. Is there any fun farm strat that good for my build ? I’m currently in end game/min max state of the build. Prefer some strat that help with xp also. Thanks

Edit : it was poison summon raging spirit. Sr

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In the wake of the foulborn choir meta coming to standard, would T1 hybris ES/mana prefix make more sense?
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My first craft of the game after 14 years of PoE
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Dropped my first ever Mageblood
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Help me understand Hybrid class a bit better

I have hard time trying the hybrid classes that has two attributes, what i mean is for an example shadow he is dex/int or duelist which is dex/str or templar who is str/int.

Let's take shadow for an example so im dex/int, should i focus on both energy shield and evasion in this case? or would focusing on both be incorrect and bad? should i wear dex/int gear even if i go only for energy shield?

I know that some people probably will say that there isn't a wrong way to go about it but if anyone have any tips and tricks for the hybrid classes to make them a bit simpler would be appriciated!

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Achievements done!

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So yesterday, I made a post after hitting level 90 in HC but for some reason, it's still awaiting mod approval 😂

Getting the "Eternal" achievement, playing EU servers no less, was a huge deal, which gave me the motivation to finish the four that I was missing. These were "Zombie Horde", "Behold my Army", "Beginner's Luck" and "Seeker".

Beginner's Luck took me 4 hours of farming Twilight Strand, and the rest was easy.

This is my HC character if anyone is curious Builds - Andrava\_HC - Path of Exile 1 - poe.ninja

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Path of Exile announcement trailer
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Ritual is good after all...

Found this last night when I was farming ritual with 3 vessels, 2 abundance scarabs. Ritual gets a lot of hate but it's a fun jackpot strat. GGG can we update the rewards pool with global drops like keys, boxes, and locks? GL to you guys for the remainder of 3.27.

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Do I Keep the Grafts when Moving to Standard?

Can't find an answer about this. This is the first time I've made it all the way to end game during a league and I don't have any experience with what sticks around on a character after they've moved over to standard. Will my attached Grafts still be present on my character in standard if I want to use them later, or do all league specific items and skill trees get stripped?

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GGG working hard to make sure we don't tank our Social Credit scores
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Is it true that the most powerful CPUs will not be able to handle juiced maps?

Does anyone own the new AMD CPU and can give me some insight?

I get great FPS in PoE normally, but in juiced maps it drops to 5–10 FPS and becomes unplayable.

My goal is to at least have 30-40 fps when juicing.

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Questions Thread - December 30, 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.

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Can we get phercia private league for new year?

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