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My neck is hurting badly from having a broken chair and a bad bed, so I won't be playing more today. Idk if I'll do something else for the rest of the day.

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Nah, if I start a new campaign right now with almost zero resources from my main to funnel to my new character, I will burn out fast.

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I tried adding Cast on Elemental Ailment with Comet, since I had a lot of spirit from gear. When it procs it feels great, but it takes forever to proc atm. I might end up pausing the Sorc and level up a Huntress for the tamed boss build, which I wanted to do anyways but only after reaching tier 15.

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I was thinking of getting to CI soon, but I need more stable defenses before that. Hopefully Coalescence is enough, but I'm still missing the damage that kill enemies before they touch me anyways. Coalescence should be something used every 1-2 minutes on the worst case, not just off cooldown.

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I finally reached maps and I'm having some problems even in tier 1. My damage is like 2-3 times less than it should, and I keep having my shield at zero like all the time. The shield part was already like that in campaign. It seems using Coalescence is mandatory.

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Btw, I learned that if you skip the Atziri Temple in Act 3 and do it later, you can't do the present time version ever. There was a special interaction in the Interlude with Alva when I found a temple circle. When I got inside the temple, there was a cutscene with both Alva and Doryani.

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And after I got those divines, I basically got all the money I could need to get fully geared. My weapons and jewelry are still from my own drops though.

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Also, exalted orbs drops felt ok. I tried to use less this time and trade more. Since I'm going slow, most people are selling their good but old leveling gear for cheap.

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About the build I'm following, I'm actually using 2 different build guides from different people, comparing and deciding what I like more. I'm now less married to the idea of following a guide down to the small details since I have a few hours on the game. I still have some caution though.

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One sad thing about the build is that Spark itself, without the Orb of Storms or the cold infusion from Frost Bomb, is not doing that much damage. But at least one of those two is enough to delete most things.

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It's true what they say that builds start to feel good/complete/whatever after reaching Act 4. I even dropped Fire Wall cause it took more time to use it than the damage it added. Now I'm always just dropping Orb of Storms and using Spark, and spamming Frost Bomb when off cooldown.

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Etrexum @etrexum.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

4 Divines. In campaign. All in Act 4. HO-LY. Still going slow, partially cause I want to check the new layouts, and also this is only my second character to get beyond Act 3 if not counting 0.1, so Act 4 and the interludes still feel kinda new.

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Sleeping early didn't work out, I got tired midway Act 1. I'll continue tomorrow. I started with Sorcerer btw. Spiritwalker seems to be ok on Act 2-3 from what I saw from streamers, but the Twister combo is still long.

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Now the number is going down fast after it hit the time, though stremears even at 0 people ahead are not getting in yet.

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I think I'm a bit late...

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Time to sleep early to be awake for PoE update~

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Fuck it, I'm using the xp omen to reduce xp lost by 3/4. I should have done it since long ago.

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Man, I fixed the mana, yes, but I'm still dying a lot. Idk if it's that the damage is not enough to kill before being killed or what, but I almost doubled my deaths on my Deadeye fromwhat I had in 0.3. I'm still lvl 94, but with all the xp I have lost I could have been at least 96.

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I only have enough gem slots for 1 companion skill cause now I'm using Mana Remnants. If I want to switch them around, I have to replace them completely, instead of just toggling them like I did before. I would also need to change the LR support too (...wait, for that, I can just stay on set 2).

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After checking the forums, it seems it's a bug with weapon swapping while mounting a Roa. I have Lightning Rod on set 2 so it uses this support, but I guess that's not possible in a Roa. Well, there is not much use for Roa on bosses anyways, and Haste Aura can be used both on bosses and mobs.

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Idk what the devs are thinking with the Roa. First, was the fact that it existed. Then the bug where you could dismount it by removing the +1 minion level support and still have it's movement buff, and now this. Can we go back to the prior bug at least?

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I had to go back to use my tamed beast with Haste and Haste Aura. Roa was great when it worked after I started using the mana support for LA, but since it was bugged it wasn't worth it. If I have to basically walk normally most of the time, might as well have a Haste Aura.

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Btw, Roa mount is bugged atm. The character glitches while mounted most of the time, but most importantly the reduced penalty to movement doesn't work most of the time. It might not work after the mount get hits, or just right after mounting, and you need to dismount and mount again.

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If I use it on my Deadeye, the base evasion on hideout with Wind Dancer on goes from 71% to 55%, and deflection goes from 60% to 30%, but everything else is better.

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All rest is actually above the limit, with 11% from a maximum of 10, but spirit went down to 10. At least it's not less than 10, the minimum pre-corruption. I could argue this is actually a good corruption if I don't need too much spirit.

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After using many divines on the Regalia, I decided to corrupt it to gamble another socket. Got worse stats...

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Btw... HOLY CHEST. First try great chest, all res and spirit.

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Probably an extra socket, but it got eaten by the default 4 sockets of the chest?

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Oh, it's an exceptional regalia too. Or at least that's what it said while unidentified...

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Also, finally I got my first Regalia. Let's hope it's decent.

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HOLY, I FUCKING DESTROYED HIM ON MY SECOND TRY. The only mechanic he was able to do was the cold orb and 2 slams from the sky in phase 2. And in phase 2 he didn't have time to exist.

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This happened in the fight before, and now again on my first try of the second time: I died cause of unintended sprinting. Can't wait for the dodge only keybinding.

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