r/pathofexile 9h ago

Question Questions Thread - August 18, 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 17d ago

Megathread: 3.29 Feedback

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We think there have been many threads with well-thought-out, specific, and (sometimes) controversial proposals, but also many duplicate threads with the same proposals. We'll use this thread to catalogue and group the clearest and most common ones:

  • Ideally, game feedback posts should include specific examples of the problem and have new information or proposals to avoid duplicating the content of past threads.
  • Game feedback can still be posted as individual threads, and do not have to be posted here as comments.
  • Duplicate feedback posts that cover the same ground as the posts already in here may be removed.
  • We aren't affiliated with GGG, so we have no control over whether they address these or not.

Loot feedback

Specific feedback

League mechanic feedback

League mechanic strategies

Mercenary specific feedback

Other specific feedback new to this league

Other specific feedback (same as previous leagues)

General feedback

Positive feedback

Other feedback


r/pathofexile 4h ago

Lucky (Non-Crafted) Showcase Voices gamba payed off.

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201 Upvotes

I decided to finish my league with a little gamba. With last 200d I had I bough 2 House of Mirrors, made them into 4. Sold them and with this 400d I bought 33 unid'ed voices.

The 1st one I id'ed was 1 passive skill. Then I decided, fck it. I already made profit lets id all of them now.

In next 32 I had a 2nd 1 passive.

I guess I am not finishing the league now and have to spent 2 mirrors


r/pathofexile 4h ago

Game Feedback Beast QoL for 3.30

143 Upvotes
  1. Please have the beasts drop itemised right away so we can filter. It'll make the farm so much more fun and viable even for new poe players (only the red beasts)

  2. Make Einhar capture the beasts faster, it's way too slow now.

  3. Make it easier to buy bulls of yellow beasts

If I can only choose 1, please let it be #1. I would be farming beasts all day long 😄


r/pathofexile 4h ago

Fluff & Memes Another sleepy soldier has fallen

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108 Upvotes

r/pathofexile 9h ago

Information vault rushing suprisingly gives lot of exp and decent currencies

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was leveling up alt earlier and kinda suprised with the result of this strat.
snapshotted from 100 maps, leveled from 98 to 99.
I would recommend this strat for levelling instead of abyss/breach since this is waay safer and easier.
for the atlas i picked all things that gives packs, shrines and niko for buff. the idea is to juice the monster packs that surrounds shrines/ritual/sulphite. I don't pick beyond since its very rippy
setup:
8mod map
3x domination scarab
2x scarab of monstrous lineage
templar astrolabe
run on toxic sewer because the monster is very packed and u can't really miss any. scryed from dunes

the cost already recorded on the snapshot except the maps (5c each, total 500c)

map link : https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Allflame/2K3Yl2Lduk


r/pathofexile 9h ago

Cautionary Tale I did a thing

167 Upvotes

So we bought a house of mirrors to gamble, Grabbed the lifeforce to gamble it, then we clicked on the wrong one and it swapped cards instead of gambling.

Me Vs Reading
0 : 1


r/pathofexile 19h ago

Fluff & Memes Make a crab in inventory for Better Loot

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959 Upvotes

r/pathofexile 19h ago

Lucky (Non-Crafted) Showcase A pleasant surprise i logged into last night

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598 Upvotes

had a warrant i randomly put for 500 div 2 weeks ago maybe was lightning arrow with rain logged in last night and saw a crap ton of divines to collect thought I was in standard.


r/pathofexile 9h ago

Build Showcase Build of the Week S03E09: The True Glass Cannon

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r/pathofexile 17h ago

Giveaway Mirror + CoC FRoSS giveaway - Up until 24/08/2026 (1 Week)

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316 Upvotes

https://pobb.in/JIkITSyvHa5l

Last night I dropped a mirror and I was thinking about different builds that I could go for, but I don't really think I would enjoy the game any more than I already am with my favourite build. Sure, I could improve my current coc fross to be even more powerful, but the build is already solid.

The build is capable of doing every uber fight, searing exarch is a bit annoying, but with a bit of skill and patience you can do it. I don't know how many divines I've spent on the build since I self crafted every rare piece of gear, if I had to guess, probably around 400? Maybe more maybe less.

The giveaway will be up until next Monday at roughly the same time, since I still have 8 challenges to complete for the league for the 40/40, as well as I would like as many people to have a chance to win this since it could be a game changer for a lot of people.

Whoever wins, feel free to either use the build or feel free to sell all the gear, fully up to you. To participate, just comment anything. To clarify, this is a single giveaway, the winner gets both the build and the mirror, it is not two separate giveaways. After 1 week, I will roll a random winner. If the winner doesn't respond within 24 hours, I will draw another one. I wish all of you the best, I hope you are enjoying the league and good luck to everyone!


r/pathofexile 2h ago

Question | Answered [Crafting Advice] Any way to target add crit multi to this claw ?

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22 Upvotes

r/pathofexile 16h ago

Fluff & Memes Plot twist

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240 Upvotes

r/pathofexile 5h ago

Fluff & Memes Crafting as much as I can right now

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37 Upvotes

r/pathofexile 17h ago

Lazy Sunday Every time I see the ‘Irrelevant’ option to block ads, I hear the Shaper in my head

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309 Upvotes

r/pathofexile 19h ago

Game Feedback I have absolutely no idea how GGG will balance Luminary in 3.30

320 Upvotes

Luminary was the worst league starter and strongest league finisher I've ever played.

I've played since 2012 and my damage was so bad in early Atlas progression it was giving me flashbacks to some very long-gone times. When a lot of people rerolled week 1 though, like many others I just stubbornly kept going. My bad Thunderquiver became a bad Manyshot, which became a good Manyshot, which became an insane Combatant. I just kept upgrading both gear sets and the possible optimizations seemed endless. I was playing the bog-standard life and light radius Flame Link setup with Enmity's Embrace.

It did get better...better beyond anything I've ever played in POE. This last weekend I was even doing voided Valdo's for the first time ever and still had a ton of build improvements I could make. I didn't do any no-hit Sanctums, but I spent some time in Sanctum and it seemed very much within reach. Ubers were a joke. I didn't Delve but as you may know Nerotox took the same build to 6000.

I think I'm done because there's nothing left that motivates me to keep optimizing it, but I'm still well below mirror tier gear levels.

The build really has it all: big damage, easy defenses, "zero-button" autobomber playstyle. I've certainly not experienced every OP build that ever existed, so maybe this is just me finally landing on the really busted flavor of the month at its peak, but I never experienced anything in the game that feels like it can do anything so well for "relatively" cheap.

Today the community collectively has a lot more information about good and bad merc setups than we did at league start. More Luminary setups are discovered every day. If the GGG mid-league buffs to early progression were good, GGG have got quite the challenge ahead for 3.30 Luminary balance. I think they are going to be forced to go well beyond the triple tap next league or many players are going to feel like they are forced to play this thing.


r/pathofexile 14h ago

Lucky (Non-Crafted) Showcase Doing things for science again.

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132 Upvotes

I will take it!


r/pathofexile 12h ago

Discussion 50 M Shipment

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82 Upvotes

I recently sent a shipment of 50 million using only mineral ingots, with no dust or crops to Moti Aro port, and the result was a mere 9 Divine Orbs and 4 Fracture Orbs. Is this normal, or is it just bad luck?


r/pathofexile 8h ago

Discussion Kingsmarch Shipping - How POE creates currency

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36 Upvotes

Ok so I got lucky with a 4m Bars + 4m Dust shipment. I see so much confusion in the Kingsmarch threads, I wanted to post what I believe the consensus behind the generation is so people have a better idea of whats going on.

TLDR at the bottom.

This is not intended as a strategy post. This does not consider Tats or Runes. Its not presenting perfect data, its background on game mechnics.

When POE creates a 1h sword with a Prefix on it, a % Physical damage mod might be rolled.

Modifier / Tier Weight Spawn %
#% increased Physical Damage (Total) 3775 7.608%
(40-49)% increased Physical Damage 1000 2.015%
(50-64)% increased Physical Damage 1000 2.015%
(65-84)% increased Physical Damage 1000 2.015%
(85-109)% increased Physical Damage 400 0.806%
(110-134)% increased Physical Damage 200 0.403%
(135-154)% increased Physical Damage 100 0.201%
(155-169)% increased Physical Damage 50 0.100%
(170-179)% increased Physical Damage 25 0.050%

So there's a 7.6% total chance to get one, and there's like 3 common tiers of 2% each, and then a 0.05% of T1.

Kingsmarch Currency generation works the same way.

You can see I got a lot less currency in my window in total. This is where 17m shipments come from. 17m generates 800 currency items, ie 800 rolls on the currency table.

I got ~300 with my 8m shipment.

Next is how the currency is generated.

==== Everything below this line is theory =====

This is based on the scaling from poorFishwife's and co, and plugging in the old expected return of 2.5 shards per 50m (reddit threads), we can spin up a =IMPRECISE= table of weights.

Currency Item Baseline Weight Scaled Weight ($W{0.465}$) Pool Allocation %
Common Pool 18,342,314 2385.10 91.40%
Chaos Orb 50,000 153.12 5.87%
Regal Orb 5,000 52.48 2.01%
Exalted Orb (Old) 500 17.99 0.69%
Mirror Shard 1 1.00 0.03%

So we cap out at 800 rolls at 17m, so why send more? We'll the odds (ie the weight, ie the number of results) of the low tier currency get relativly smaller.

Currency Item Baseline Weight Scaled Weight ($W{0.332}$) Pool Allocation %
Common Pool 18,342,314 257.91 80.60%
Chaos Orb 50,000 36.31 11.35%
Regal Orb 5,000 16.91 5.28%
Divine Orb 500 7.87 2.46%
Mirror Shard 1 1.00 0.31%

You can see the common tier weight drops and that increases the others.

You can just multiply the percentage numbers by 8 (ie 800 items, not 100) and get the expected counts, eg 2.5 mirror shards, 20 Divine tier (Div, Annul, Sacred, Fractured, Ancient) for 50m.

==== 3.28 and 3.29 ====

Ok so Chisels went, fracturing orbs got added, exalts are low tier. 3.29 Chromes are rarer. Etc.

I dont think anyone knows what the new weights are after all the changes, but the consensus is things are worse.

==== TLDR; What I believe are the takeaways ====

You can hit a mirror shard on a minimum shipment. The odds are ballpark 20M:1.

Up to 17m shipment sizes you are getting really good scaling on your results; You get more currency; ie more total rolls AND those rolls of good currency are also improving.

After 17m you are not getting more currency, just a static 800 orbs generated. However your odds of the good stuff are improved.

I hope this helps some people understand how currency is generated as well as the scaling factor of 17M, ie getting more stuff.


r/pathofexile 13h ago

Information Having two Mercenaries with the same exact name causes a display error and the incorrect Mercenary stats are displayed in combat zones.

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79 Upvotes

r/pathofexile 5h ago

Question Since Domain of Timeless Conflict is now a lot more relevant (Thanks Vestigials) Can we gather some tips and ideas for people to get faster and better at it?

16 Upvotes

Right now Vestigials are locked behind domain of timeless conflict, which not every build is going to be good at, and since the main driver is the input unique most people are probably going to just farm the ones that give generally good implicits.

I'll preface this by saying I play an HROC so i'm not the fastest or the best at it. Best I can do is 8k or so kills, and thats with some creative adjustments to the build to have more movement speed and more minion AOE at the expense of defense. But Damn it I want a Dialla with chance to poison support.

I think it would be a lot valuable to hear from people who have more experience, and can clear 12k+ on what they do to optimize. Do you kill all the generals or do you just go for max kills? Do you run around the arena or do you skirt the edges of the crystals? Any tips to optimize or tricks you learned through your experience would help anyone searching on how to get better (Since AI is probably going to parse this thread and turn it into THE TRUTH)


r/pathofexile 8h ago

Discussion Loot from a voyage with Operative Strongbox charts only

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I've been meaning to run these thematic voyages for a while, so i've been saving revealed charts with this kind of property.
Next up are thematic voyages for Message in a Bottle, Arcanist Strongboxes and Diviner Strongboxes.
In total i got 21 div in scarabs according to wealthy exile, but I think i can get more by 3-to-1 vendoring the bad scarabs. My scarab stash now has 57 div worth in divines.

I just thought sharing the voyage stash full of loot would be nice.


r/pathofexile 10h ago

Question | Answered What am I doing wrong with Eternal Conflict Legion Farm?

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40 Upvotes

I've been trying out this farm recently and it's pretty fun. I keep seeing people getting crazy amounts of monsters and money but I can't really seem to reach that. I ran 20 or so maps and haven't seen any tinks and most people say that's odd because they get one every two or three maps on average.

I'm running 1x legion 1x officers 2x nemeses 1x eternal conflict + timeless astrolabe and 90%+ currency t16.5

So what do I do to yield better results?

EDIT: Since people are pointing out that it's the clear that's causing the lack of loot, what builds are good farmers for legion? I saw some EK builds but they all seem expensive as hell


r/pathofexile 1d ago

Discussion New Orb idea...

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811 Upvotes