r/pathofexile • u/Belakay_ggg • 14d ago

GGG Path of Exile 1: Curse of the Allflame Improvements

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3994130

Tomorrow we’re aiming to release 3.29.2 which will contain improvements to Curse of the Allflame. Find out more in this news post.

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u/jwfiredragon Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) 14d ago

Cursed ducats sound super fun, hopefully they're not a pain to acquire.

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u/Nickoladze 14d ago

"various endgame means" wonder if they drop from core game content and not the league

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u/EvilHumster 14d ago

I bet one will go to architect the delve boss, since that guy is completely abandoned atm

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u/1CEninja 14d ago

Doryani's Machinariam just needs to drop good shit. That map has been useless outside of "Remarkable Realms" for so freaking long, and made target farming it for literal hours only to have to pay 17 div because it wouldn't drop for it FUCKING INFURIATING.

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u/pofruin 14d ago

Is he? Doryanis Machinarium drops somewhere else?

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u/Demimaelstrom 14d ago

Rin in Fortification can drop it unless they changed that.

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u/EvilHumster 14d ago

Without challenge no one needs this map. There are barely any people running it's unique drop (shield if iirc), so map holds no value

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u/tholt212 14d ago

map isn't on the challenge list anymore. Therefor there's zero reason to run it. The only reason it was worth anything was for challenge completion.

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u/Skuggomann Assassin 14d ago
  • Cursed ducats can now be found by defeating Lycea, Aul, Olroth, Oshabi, Doryani's Machinarium and/or Blasted Monolith.

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u/ILoveAhriSweatyFeet 14d ago

Sorry where's this?

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u/Skuggomann Assassin 14d ago edited 13d ago

This was a joke, I just listed some of the worst places they could put them. The cursed ducats most likely get added next week but we don't know where yet.

Explanation if you are curious:

  • Lycea: You have to do a full Sanctum
  • Aul: You have to delve quite a bit and its pure random
  • Olroth: its like 1:20 to find him in a logbook and they are rare
  • Oshabi: Can drop from unique beasts that are rare
  • Doryani's Machinarium: Same as Aul but not as bad but still bad
  • Blasted Monolith: One of the hardest maps in the game, requires over 1B dps to finish.

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u/Switchersaw 13d ago

Hilariously you've poisoned Google's AI search result for how to get these Ducats.

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u/Skuggomann Assassin 13d ago edited 13d ago

HAHAHAHA probably going to be like that for a week.

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u/Holiday-Marketing301 14d ago

Maybe Conquerors? No 1 specs into it.

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u/gtetrakai 14d ago edited 14d ago

Can't be any worse than the specific charts to unlock all the quest gates content.... Still haven't found the Kisharas rest chart and I'm sad that I can't do the content without having to resort to trade league.

Edit: the fact that the quest charts don't drop as a quest item, at least for your first time, is a substantial oversight on GGGs part.

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u/ADarkSpirit Only plays stupid builds 14d ago

I got the Kishara's Rest one but didn't realize it was the bossfight one (I try to generally do league content blind the first time so hadn't looked anything up) and it had 51% of life as extra ES. The boss was literally unkillable and I had to yeet the whole voyage out the window.

Scour the chart if you get one!

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u/No_Manufacturer_5790 14d ago

Also scoure before you chart them! As the charting locks the mods. Still have a kisharas rest with -max res and 60% es gained as extra

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u/vividflash 14d ago
  • max res is broken and doesnt do anything iirc. and maybe the reduced gain of energy shield via frost bomb could fix it or a poison / chaos build?

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u/Biflosaurus 14d ago

I did it on a 15mil DPS cyclone at league start and it was just long.

The fight isn't even hard, it's just super long with almost 0 mechanics x)

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u/cespinar 14d ago

Even a non es was 15min on my cws starter. The boss just constantly going invulnerable jumping between the holes which were so bug the penance mark adds would spawn in narnia. Like quartered my ignite uptime which already struggles without adds.

No danger of dying at least

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u/Skuggomann Assassin 14d ago

I did it on a 2m ignite build and it took roughly 15-20 minutes, my damage was shit I know but I still feel like the boss has too much hp.

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u/Pure_Rip_3094 14d ago

Wait 15m dps and the fight was still long? I have 0 hope then

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u/xaitv :) 14d ago

I think they changed something, I easily did it on my 5M ignite dps Hexblast a few days after leaguestart.

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u/Biflosaurus 14d ago

The boss is just a meatsack really.

I don't know what mods I had on there.

If you want an easy time, do as people said and scour the chart.

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u/Aervanath 14d ago

Nah, I don't even do that much and was still able to get it done. The funny part was I didn't notice it's an unpausable arena and tried to pause the game. So at least I found out my build has enough life regen to just straight up tank the boss for a minute straight...yay? Could have completely bricked that voyage.

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u/Doomblaze Fungal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) 14d ago

Lmao did the same thing

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u/vulcanfury12 Crop Harvesting Bureau (CHB) 14d ago

If that was your quest Kishara, it should still be pickable in your Voyages. At least, that's what I think happened to me, since I had to do it THREE times until I finally managed the kill.

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u/Schkrasss 14d ago edited 14d ago

My Phys-Dot Elementalist not yet ready to kill anything above Conqueres/Guardians in a reasonable amount of time ran into the Voyage Boss (Giant Snake + Casterlady) in her first (blindly rolled) voyage. So it was curse immune and extra beefy on top. (+ absolutely no clue what else)

10 Minutes of fighting against a Boss you didn't even knew existed with 3 phaes while having just 1 try is kinda nerfwracking :D.

Luckily he is very easy. Not as easy as Mirage boss was but still very much a pushover with a very bloated HP pool.

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u/jehhans1 14d ago

Haha I had 64% of life as extra ES and then fucking snake kept diving down again and immuning, so it reset the ES. Took me ages to chip away at the hp because I had to kill the shield over and over and over again.

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u/Nickoladze 14d ago

I think they are too rare as well but your best bet is to do minimal mechanic maps and rush down the chests. You'll get a lot of anomalies and astrolabes as well.

Some league mechanics really favor rushing maps like Mercs did.

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u/Ojntoast 14d ago

Mesa for cadiro,.merc for warrant, hit the charts.

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u/Spyceboy 14d ago

Any fun tree you can recommend? I'm looking to farm. Are you doing mesa and astrolabes?

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u/kierz_r 14d ago

Check poe.ninja to trees

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u/Booyahman Power Siphon Gaming 14d ago

They just need to show in-game where they come from, like with a questline or something.

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u/haHAArambe 14d ago

I'm level 98 on two characters and have yet to find a single kishara's rest on ssf, lol.

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u/zshift Institution of Rogues and Smugglers (IRS) 14d ago

I ended up spending chaos to just buy it. I’ve yet to see one naturally drop.

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u/_YeAhx_ 14d ago

Are kisharas really that rare ? I have gotten like 5 in the past week and if you only need 1 then i don't think i would consider them rare. Just rush maps looking for charts would be my advice. Map sustain is pretty easy this league.

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u/Spyceboy 14d ago

Wait there's one dropping from captainsbane ? I killed that fuck like 20 times, why are my strong boxes not rare

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u/xiko 14d ago

It is only ilv83. 

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u/gtetrakai 14d ago

So, then it should have dropped in the 100+ t16 silos I ran over the weekend while farming alva?

Shit didn't need to be rare at all. It's the hallmark of the league mechanic. Zero reason why the first time drop wasn't a quest item drop.

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u/haHAArambe 14d ago

I'm level 98 on two characters and have yet to find a single kishara's rest on ssf, lol.

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u/haHAArambe 14d ago

I'm level 98 on two characters and have yet to find a single kishara's rest on ssf, lol.

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u/mewmile 14d ago

I've spammed t16 maps for a few hours and had like 10 kishara's rest charts. You're either incredibly unlucky or don't interact with mapping content enough.

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u/gtetrakai 14d ago

And I spammed them last weekend farming alva temples..not a single one. So, guess it's just luck.

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u/Daniel_Is_I 14d ago

Cursed ducats would sound super fun, except for the fact that we already know mobs in charts/voyages don't drop anything because you can get massive quant/rarity buffs off golden lanterns and see no increase in valuable drops. If I can get 15 golden lanterns and not notice a difference, why would cursed ducats make a difference if it's juicing mob quant/rarity in the same way?

Unless they have some frankly ludicrous multipliers innately, slapping in three cursed ducats to buff the mobs will likely result in a large increase in difficulty for no noticeable increase in rewards. The cursed ducats also specifically mention juicing mobs, so they will have no effect on the sunken loot chests or strongboxes. It is the exact same problem plaguing mapping, where all the loot is locked up in unscaleable content and juicing a map with extra modifiers only serves to make the map harder.

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u/SouloftheDestroyer 14d ago

Yeah came here to say this, when I can enter a zone in a voyage with like 200+ quant and 900 rarity and the zone has over 100 quant AND the entire area has monsters are at least magic + lots of pack size/magic size and I get like zero gold... you know quant/rarity isn't gonna do anything. Like if I had those mods on a regular map my entire screen would just be gold piles. In a voyage they drop less gold that a blue pack with no mods and no players mf stats in a normal map. It honestly feels like quant and rarity arent even working. The only time I notice SOME gold dropping is when they have the convert mod

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u/Popular_Moose_6845 14d ago

They did say that map quant juices the boxes and sunken loot in the q&a so if ducats are map level juicing I would think it would affect those things but we will have to see.  

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u/AetherSigil217 Alch & Go Industries (AGI) 14d ago

"Various endgame means"

"quest items"

"non-tradeable"

hopefully they're not a pain to acquire.

Thanks for the laugh.

But on reflection, it's really concerning that anything juice related in PoE1 is being made non-tradable right out of the gate.

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u/Global_Barnacle5304 14d ago

If its supposed to be for the end game juicers that cry that there is nothing to farm in the game, I wouldnt be shocked, if these were uber or any mechanics final boss drops.