Hello fellow exiles, here I want to show my Crit Arc Totems Hierophant build. What’s really cool is that it’s built entirely with rare gear items! Of course, many of the items in this guide can be used until the mid-game, when better items will be available.
Therefore, maybe this guide is more suitable for players with a higher POE Currency budget. If you are looking for a top-level build with strong crit damage, don’t miss this guide. Without further ado, let’s jump right in!
Why Soul Mantle Doesn’t Work With This Build?
First of all, I have to say that I didn’t use Soul Mantle on this build. You may be wondering why I didn’t use Soul Mantle this time.
While Soul Mantle is a great unique skill that provides pseudo-7-link and powerful corruption, adding a ton of damage, Arc is neither a projectile nor an AoE skill, so Corrupted Implicit Mods like +2 to level of Socketed Projectile or AoE Gems do not benefit Arc.
Additionally, Soul Mantle Unique Body Armour no longer has +1 max Summoned Totems, so this will also nerf the effectiveness of Arc Totems.
Offense
So, this also brings us to the question: how do we deal with enough damage using only rare items?
In addition to stacking crit chance and crit multiplier, we also get a portion of our damage from Arcane Cloak buff. It costs a lot of manas and increases lightning damage based on 15% of mana cost. Therefore, getting mana on most of our gears is very important.
The rest of the damage comes from Wrath Aura, Lightning Penetration Support, Exposure, and Charges. I cleared everything except tier 17 and the uber boss with this build.
During my run, I took on Feared at 70% quantity. Died a few times, but overall, the fight wasn’t bad. One time was because of a Shaper slam while my Flame Dash was on cooldown. Just keep summoning Totem, moving around, and occasionally throwing Wave of Conviction traps to cause Exposure.
It’s important to note that as of POE 3.24, instant skills are no longer tied to the left click. Therefore, we have to link Arcane Cloak to the new support gem, Automation, so that it triggers automatically after activation.
Defense
For defense, you will always have at least four Endurance Charges and Power Charges, and have Conviction of Power Ascendancy, which reduces the physical damage you take, increases your Elemental Resistance, and increases your critical strike chance.
You can also restore 1% of life per second for each summoned totem through Ritual of Awakening. So this build has the high health of Templar tree and a strong defensive advantage of being able to use a shield.
I ran a lot of 8-mod maps with this build to farm Harvest and Expedition. It’s not the best build for this strategy, but the clearing is still very satisfying.
I felt very safe because everything died very quickly and had no problems running in maps with multiple dangerous mods like Increased Crit, Vulnerability and Increased AoE.
Even though my defense only consisted of Mind Over Matter, 100% Spell Suppression and some Block, I could stay away from monsters because of Totem playstyle, which really improved our survivability.
My only concern was Fire, Rock and Projectiles thrown by Cannibals, which blocked me off the screen many times while mapping.
Arc Totem vs Shockwave Totem vs Storm Burst Totem
In terms of clear speed, I think Arc Totem is on par with Shockwave Totem. Even though Storm Burst Totem doesn’t clear very well, it has a very good clear speed.
As for single target damage, Shockwave Totem and Storm Burst Totem are the clear winners. Arc Totem doesn’t even come close. You can get 3 times the damage of Arc Totem with the same budget. So, if you want to farm Uber bosses, either go to Shockwave Totem or Storm Burst Totem.
But to be honest, Arc Totem and Storm Burst Totem are easier to build because they require less unique items. Storm Burst Totem requires some league specific unique items, so it’s not very suitable as a league starter.
Gear & Mods
Finally, I have to say that upgrading with this Arc Totem build is a breeze. Because it doesn’t require mandatory items. You just need to take the time to grab any Sceptre or Wand with the highest spell or lightning damage and slowly upgrade the weapon once you reach the map.
You can totally look for these mods when you make your next upgrade. The most important mod for your shield is +1 to maximum number of Totems. I also highly recommend getting +1 to Level of Lightning Spell Skill Gems.
For the rest of your gear, look for the following mods: Life, Mana, Resistances, Dexterity and Chance to Suppress Spell Damage. Note that Dexterity is important because it helps limit the spell suppression we have because of Magebane Keystone. Of course, you can also try installing some cast speed or damage mods on your Jewellery to get more damage.
That’s it for this complete guide to Crit Arc Totems Hierophant build made entirely with rare items. Whether you’re new to totem builds or a seasoned player looking for a powerful setup, Arc Totems Hierophant is a pleasant choice for you in POE 3.24.
Hello everyone, welcome to this guide. This version of Penance Brand has hits and elements and can deal with a lot of single target damage. If you really like challenging players with Uber bossing and hand-to-hand combat, you will definitely like this. I’ll cover how to use this in this guide.
Before starting, you can expand the scope of your adventure by obtaining POE Currency, and you can also craft and strengthen your equipment to take your gaming experience to the next level.
How To Inflict Poison?
First, let me introduce how to inflict poisons. The reason I want to mention this first is that Original Sin is the most expensive item in the entire build. Even if you may not be interested in participating in the building yourself, don’t rush away. You can also learn a thing or two about the other mechanics in POE 3.24.
Original Sin will convert all our elemental damage into chaos damage. These two types of damage are the only types of damage that can cause natural poisoning. In this version, we can use Herald Of Agony, Skill Tree and Tattoos to get the chance of poison. And different levels of poison damage can be built from gem links, large cluster joules, weapons, but the major source is stacking double explicit corrupted magic adorning jewels. Considering that your goal is to get 8% chaos damage on magic adorn jewels, it is very important that you get an effective magic adorn jewel.
Scaling Hit Damage
Because the more hit points provided by peninsula dissipation will greatly increase your build ability and will also allow you to reach the limit quickly. Never try to jump out of or block the spell’s first damage. Because Pattern Spawn is a kind of physical damage, and it is fixed physical damage in magic adorn jewel.
But because of Original Sin, this physical damage is of no use to us. To solve this problem, gloves can be used to convert physical damage into cold damage. At least 50% of it will be converted into cold damage, and the other 50% will be converted into lightning damage by the jewel. Another thing to note is that this build can use hatred as its major hit damaging aura and hatred will bring more cold damage to our body. This damage will accumulate with the level of the gem.
We can become a level 21 hatred through “+1 TO LEVEL OF ALL SPELL SKILL GEMS” button in the game. Or insert a gem with two prefix models into a helmet or gloves, which can further increase head damage by oscillating the scepter’s own elemental overload keystone implicit. This keystone will be 40% more elemental damaged than the bill’s hit damage.
Defensive Layers
I’ll break down the defensive layers in this build into five parts. Physical take into elemental conversion, spell suppression, 90% all max resistance, critical immunity, recovery and life recovery.
Physical Take Into Elemental Conversion
Converting physical damage to elemental damage allows us to ignore the role of implementing armor and provide more defense in other defensive layers. This can be obtained from lightning coil, helmet prefix craf, and the remaining 10% can be obtained from chaos mastery in the tree. Keep in mind that this defense will become ineffective over time and additional defenses must be acquired through other means.
Spell Suppression
Spell suppression is easy to understand, which is why it is so popular among players. It can halve the spell attacks received, which is very useful, especially when facing BOSS whose highest attack is spell attack.
90% All Maximum Resistance
This works when combined with the first offensive layer I mentioned. Maximum resistance is capped at 90%, which not only indicates taking most of the elemental damage. It also applies to physical damage taken. This method of absorbing physical damage is much better than reducing physical damage, since armor can only withstand larger hits if your armor level is higher than the damage taken. This simply notifies damage as a percentage of the maximum resistance you have. We can reach 90% of all max resistance from the following, using Flesh Melt along with 23+ Purity. There is also an elemental flask that adds flask effects both explicitly and implicitly, with enchantments paired with the primary blood.
This works best when combined with the first defensive layer I just mentioned. 90% All maximum resistance is not only used for physical damage but also for spell damage. Compared with reducing physical damage mentioned before, this kind of direct absorption of physical damage will be much better. Because only if your armor level is higher than the damage you take, your armor can withstand greater attacks. In combat, we can use the melting of the flesh alongside a level 23+purity to achieve 90% All max resistance.
Critical Immunity
It is very necessary to have critical immunity in battle, especially if you are preparing to cultivate T7 or Uber bossing. Both T7 and Uber bossing will make you take particularly bad damage, but there are two ways to gain critical immunity.
The first method is simple. When you main poison, you can deal damage to enemies you poison, but this requires you to trade the poison and deal damage 20% faster. The second one requires you to take 50% less critical hit bonus damage, Corruption Hidden in Lightning Coil, and the famous Temple of Thought, which gives you an extra 30% bonus damage reduction, with the remaining 20% being gained from the tattoo. It all depends on whether you want the extra damage.
Recovery And Life Recovery
This is the defensive layer that can make you feel you are truly “immortal”. When jewelry is perfectly combined with the tree alongside the fines of destiny, you’ll find that it will not only protect you from smaller heads but also allow your own heads to recover quickly.
Besides the above, there are some other defensive layers that can be used to build houses and so on. Waiting for your novel exploration!
Summary
Most of the construction speed comes from stacking large cluster jewelry. This is because stacking large cluster jewelry will bring us indescribably powerful chaos damage. In this version, note that we need four jewelry, and be aware of Wicked Powell and dark radiation alongside an unspeakable gift while searching.
Based on the above guide, I believe you have a great understanding of the construction of Poison Penance Brand of Dissipation Pathfinder. What I’m talking about may be part of the game’s combat. The rest needs to be explored on your own! Happy gaming!
In this guide, we’ll talk about a forgotten unique item, Apep’s Supremacy. We’ll discuss the mechanics of this item and look at any synergies or interesting use cases they might have, especially given the many trend-changing or new unique items that have been added to the game recently.
Apep’s Supremacy is a unique shield introduced in Incursion League, located within Temple of Atzoatl, and is a combination of the predecessor unique Apep’s Slumber on Altar of Sacrifice, as well as Vial of Awakening.
This shield has unique modifiers that allow you to take physical damage from chaos damage instead of bleeding, while requiring you to be poisoned to benefit from its maximum resistance. This set of modifiers, along with Tainted Pact and other POE items, has some interesting potential.
This unique shield is exclusively dropped from a chest in Toxic Grove, a level 3 room in Temple of Atzoatl. Apep’s Slumber is a prerequisite to unlock it, and the other component, Vial of Awakening, can be dropped from the last boss of Temple.
Modifiers
Let’s first look at the modifiers on Apep’s Supremacy. We have a flat added damage modifier that adds (50-55) to (72-80) Chaos Damage. This is equivalent to a level 9 or 10 Added Chaos Damage Support.
Then there’s a very large flat energy shield modifier that adds 130 to 150 maximum energy shield. With a good base energy shield roll and 30% quality, you can actually get up to 280 energy shield from Apep’s Supremacy, which is pretty good. In addition, you also get 30% to 50% Energy Shield Recharge.
Chaos Damage From Bleeding
Now let's look at the special modifier on this shield that makes you take chaos damage instead of physical damage from bleeding.
Bleeding is a Damaging Ailment that deals physical damage over time, and is generally considered the most dangerous Damaging Ailment in the game. Bleeding deals 70% of the base damage of the blow that inflicted the ailment every second for five seconds, at least from the perspective of the monster that inflicted it on the player. But when the target is moving, the damage dealt is tripled to 210% per second.
Many characters will choose to use Soul of Ralakesh Pantheon Power to make Bleeding less dangerous. It essentially subverts the bleed mechanics so that it deals less damage to you when you move.
But now, Apep’s Supremacy will make you take Chaos damage instead of physical damage whenever you have Bleeding. The immediate synergy here is Chaos Inoculation Keystone, which sets your maximum health to 1 and makes you immune to Chaos damage.
By combining this Keystone with Apep’s Supremacy, you’ll be able to effectively ignore Bleeding. Sure, you may still be affected by Bleeding, but it won’t do any damage to you.
The modifiers on Apep’s Supremacy don’t just apply to Chaos Inoculation. In fact, it’s so strong that it can also be used on standard setups with capped Chaos Resistance. Because the vast majority of builds won’t have a lot of extra physical damage reduction to help mitigate damage from bleeding.
Apep’s Supremacy vs Soul Of Ralakesh
Next, let’s compare the modifiers for a character using Apep’s Supremacy to a character using Soul of Ralakesh Pantheon Power.
A character using Apep’s Supremacy takes extra damage from bleeding while moving. So they take 210% of the damage from hitting per second while moving. While stationary, they take 70% of the damage from hitting per second with Chaos Resistance at 75%. So they actually take 52.5% of the damage from hitting per second while moving, and only 17.5% of the damage from hitting per second while stationary.
Meanwhile, a character with Soul of Ralakesh doesn’t take the extra damage from bleeding while moving, and they take 25% less damage from bleeding while moving. So in this comparison, they’re actually taking 52.5% of the damage dealt per second while moving, and 70% of the damage dealt per second while stationary.
You can see that a character using Apep’s Supremacy with Chaos Resistance capped takes the same amount of bleeding damage as a character using Soul of Ralakesh while moving. But they take much less damage while stationary.
But one thing to note here is that Soul of Ralakesh reduces all physical damage you take by 25% while moving, not just bleeding. So it can be used to protect against physical damage from other sources as well.
Something else that might be useful is that the modifier on Apep’s Supremacy lets you take Chaos damage. But physical damage from bleeding is not actually a damage modifier taken. This interaction happens before damage modifiers taken are calculated. This means that technically, you can still shift that portion of damage to another damage type.
Slow Down The Expiry Time Of Poison
Now, there’s another potential use case for this modifier, and it takes advantage of another unique item, Tainted Pact Amulet.
Before discussing this synergy, however, we should first look at the other modifiers on Apep’s Supremacy plus the 25% Poison Chance. This modifier will give all incoming physical or chaos damage a chance to poison you.
The added Max Resistance modifier will increase all resistances, including Chaos Resistance, as long as you are poisoned. Meanwhile, Poison Expiry Rate modifier will effectively double the duration of poisons on you by slowing down the expiry time by 50%.
This differs from Poison or Ailment Duration modifiers, which are technically a multiplier of the poison duration, but do not actually increase the duration of the poison. This modifier stacks with other sources of slow expiry rate effects, up to a maximum of 75% slower expiry rate.
Tainted Pact Amulet
Now it’s time to discuss the aforementioned Tainted Pact. This unique amulet will make chaos damage heal you over time while leeching life.
Poison itself deals chaos damage over time and bleeds will also make you take chaos damage over time instead of physical damage. This is thanks to Apep’s Supremacy, and this combination of mechanics will allow you to potentially self-inflict ailment, which actually heals you instead of hurting you.
Now the interesting thing about Tainted Pact is that the healing benefit gained from Chaos Damage over time is actually based on the damage mitigated, i.e. the damage you take from the source of Chaos Damage over time.
This creates an interesting balance after it’s been mitigated by things like Chaos Resistance. You want your Chaos Resistance to be high enough so that you don’t die immediately from Chaos Strike Damage, but low enough so that you benefit from the healing over time from Chaos Damage.
However, using Tainted Pact does have one very important prerequisite. For the healing to work, you must keep leeching life until unreserved life fills up. You will need a way to maintain life leech.
You can get this effect from some non-Ascendancy mechanics. For example, the Immortal Ambition Keystone can grant this modifier. To keep you from ever reaching full health, you can also use Petrified Blood and make sure you don’t have 50% or more of your life remaining so that the life leech effect isn’t removed at 50% of the maximum recoverable amount of life.
Divine Flesh
Finally, I’ll mention Divine Flesh because you might want to use this Keystone with Apep’s Supremacy.
But if you plan on playing a build with a capped Chaos Resistance, I recommend only using Tainted Pact and Divine Flesh in this setup. Because this Keystone turns 50% of elemental damage into chaos damage.
If you choose lower chaos resistance to ensure you get a lot of healing over time from chaos damage, you will inevitably die from the upcoming elemental blows. But without Tainted Pact, using this Keystone with Apep’s Supremacy and focusing on scaling your chaos resistance and other means of chaos damage mitigation is a powerful combination.
Is Apep’s Supremacy Still Worth Using?
So why isn’t Apep’s Supremacy used more often? Honestly, I think this shield is seriously underrated right now.
But that being said, it has competitors like Saffell’s Frame, which provides an extra 1% max resistance compared to Apep’s Supremacy and doesn’t require prerequisites like Poison.
In fact, the need for Poison prerequisite is the biggest downside to this shield. Because it requires an investment elsewhere to really be effective and also makes it less reliable as a defensive mechanic.
So if you’re using a shield and taking advantage of other synergistic mechanics at the same time, it makes sense to really lean into this mechanic.
That’s it for our in-depth discussion of all the mechanics of Apep’s Supremacy. Hopefully, this guide will shed some new light on this for you!
Hello everyone, today I will introduce to you 8 trading tips. Let’s begin with the trade site. Actually, a lot of cool little tricks that you can do here to make your trade experience less awful.
In fact, Divine Orb plays a very important role in trade, and purchasing it in large quantities can make the transaction go more smoothly.
1. Fuzzy Search
First one and most important is using the tilt button. This is when you push shift and then that little button next to your one button on your keyboard. It’ll do this little squiggly line. That will put the search into a fuzzy mode, which means you don’t need to be as specific when naming modifiers and items when searching for them.
If you don’t have this on, let’s say, for example, I’m looking for a modifier like increase elements of damage with attack skills. If you cannot remember all of that, you type in Elemental weapon. It’s not going to bring it up. But if you type this tiled and then you go “ele attack skill” then it’ll bring it up.
You can also use this if you do know the name of the mod, but you just are a bit lazy. Like I just did, you can go like elemental attack skill like that and it should bring it up.
2. Group by Seller
Another very useful thing is that you can group by seller. This means that you can buy multiple different items from the same person with a single trade. So let’s say I want to do my Uber at Sirus. I need all four fragments.
So what you might be inclined to do is head over to fragments and then you going to click one of these and then click Chaos or and then search one by one instead. What you can do is click all four. And then let’s say search by Divine Orbs and Chaos Orbs. It’ll bring up listings for both.
And then you need to do group by seller down at the bottom here. Group by seller. You want to run 50 Uber at Sirus. In a row, you can also adjust the stock count. So this will only show list things with people. Those people who have 10 full sets, so you can go search and then it’ll bring up.
Now if I want to buy a full set from, let’s say, this person, I can contact and then move these sliders. I want five of these and four of these and five of these and seven of these. You click the direct whisper and it will send a message to them saying. I want to buy this from you for this amount. You can also mix it up with different things.
Like I want to get Timeless Karui Emblem and a Mortal Grief, you can do it like that but generally best to buy sets or groups of Scarabs you want to run a strategy that you saw someone do. And you need this Scarab. Then you would click see who has 10 of these and you can buy them all like this.
3. Search by Time Listed
Something else is very useful, especially when you’re trying to buy a low value item or a low value unique. Quite late into a league, I want a Karui Ward for my new character. That I’m going to level and I need to hit search and you will see these will be many people who have listed these 18 days, 4 days, 6 days and 9 days ago. These people, if you message them they will never ever respond to you. However, what you can do instead is go listed and then anytime and change this to 3 hours ago.
Depending on the rare, if it was a Karui Ward, I might even do up to an hour ago. There’s going to be people who have just put in their stash and they want to sell it. These might be new players or people are starting the league late and trying to catch up. These people are much more likely to respond, in the same Vein of getting people to respond.
4. Message the Middle
I know it’s a pain, but you want to buy Chaos Orbs for your Divine Orbs. And you need 1,000 Chaos Orbs down at the bottom. Usually, these people are right at the top. Do not waste your time messaging these folks. It’s not necessarily that they are mean or price fixing or trying to ignore you.
Usually the case is that because they’re at the top. These people are getting dozens and dozens of DMs every minute. It is absolute Madness. I’m sure some of you have sold things in bulk and had that happen. It is panic inducing what is better to do is instead scroll further down and message. Let’s say someone from the middle. This might get you fewer Chaos Orbs.
However, you aren’t going to spend 20 minutes trying to buy it. Sometimes, you will hopefully this gets changed. But at least it is something useful.
5. Sell Instead Of Buy
However, another thing you can do if you want to get Chaos for your Divines or in this case Chaos for my Exalted Orb instead of going to the trade side and trying to buy Chaos for my Exalted. What I can do is put my Exalted in a trade tab, check the price on the trade site.
And then list this for Chaos Orbs and the price is like 15 for an Exalted. If I put it up at 15, it should sell fairly quickly. If you want to sell it really quickly, just undercut everyone, put it up for a little less like one Chaos less your listing will shoot straight to the top. And it will be sold very quickly.
6. Super Secret Naughty Trick
Now another very naughty trick. I haven’t seen anyone talk about this, but I do this all the time. The going rate of exhausted Orbs is 15 Chaos. Now I want my listing to show up right at the top, but I still want 15 Chaos Orbs. I don’t want 14. What I usually do is this: I will list it for 14.99 Chaos.
It’s very cheesy. This does seem to push your thing to the top. It will still show up on the trade site as 15 Chaos Orbs.
My item will be fractionally more cheap than the other listings, which means that it should show up. I often do this might be a bit naughty, maybe everyone’s going to do it after this and soon. We’re going to be listing things for 14.99. But I like that little trick. I do it to sell things at the going rate quickly.
7. Bulk Selling
Now if you want to list items for bulk instead of doing them one by one. What you can do is go over here to trade and then exact price. I want 57 Chaos Orbs for my 20 scarabs. I can go 57, 4, 20. This will show it up on trade in this format, so people will see I want to only sell these in bulk for this amount.
You can also make it a nice round number like 60 or 20 that will show it as three. But it should still show up on the trade site, as me listing these for 20 or 60 Chaos Orbs. Just remember, its first number is going to be what you want. And then the second number is going to be what you have.
Yours for mine, you can remember it like that. You can also list things directly from your tabs. You want to make your currency tab public and then you want to list your Vaal Orbs. you want 20 chaos Orbs for 20 Vaal Orbs. You can list it like that.
8. Reverse Sale Technique
And then another useful little trick that you can sometimes do. Let’s say I have 500 Grand Eldritch Ichors. Instead of me listing those for Divines or Chaos, what I can do is search for people buying these. For Divine Orbs, so we can say someone who has 10 Divines we can search for these people are buying 17 for one Divine Orb.
So you can actually sell your Grand Eldritch Ichors directly in this way, just make sure to first check it the other way around to make sure that you’re not getting rips off. Because these are few and far between.
That you will have these so you can actually see you would be getting undercut a little. These are going for 15 for a Divine, so you would be missing out. Do just check that just in case you’re getting scammed, you can do this with cards.
You find the doctor early in a league. You want to sell it quickly without getting scammed. What you can do? Click that over here, the doctor, and then say I want Divine orbs for my doctor.
We can search for Chaos orbs and these people are buying it. Again, just always check it the other way around to make sure you’re not getting ripped off. But a very good way to offload, sometimes, a lot of less commonly purchased items more quickly.
Master these tricks and you won’t have to worry about trading anymore.
If I want to talk about my favorite game and recommend it to everyone, it must be Path of Exile. From the time Path of Exile was released to the present, it has created its own niche of gamers and a unique market.
In the more than ten years since its release, more and more players have become addicted to its mysterious and complex world. At the same time, the rich content of character customization and innovation has kept players fascinated by it. Entering Path of Exile, you will realize a vast and far-reaching world.
There, you can use the Divine Orb to modify the attributes of the weapons you own, you can also freely define your characters,and the life journey of these characters is in your hands.
We all know that Path of Exile has always wanted players to actively accept training and exploration, rather than always relying on Loot Boxes.
Therefore, this game is very fair to players and does not charge any additional fees. It can be said to be very friendly.
Here are some reasons why I recommend you play Path of Exile.
1. Character building
First of all, Character building is already many games ahead. Its Skill Trees are the most comprehensive and in-depth of any RPG. Not only does it allow you to further choose the game character category, but if you want to enrich your builds of different categories, the game will provide you with build varieties, gear, and spells to help you achieve your goal.
For example, you can summon an army of Undead Minions, or create a Whirlwind of Blades, and manipulate elements with your build.
As you progress through the game, Ascendancy classes will enhance your playstyle and the game will provide players with specialized skill sets to help improve the main builds.
2. Regular content updates
The content in the game is not static and updates are frequent. Because the game world itself continues to evolve over time. For example, it releases a new patch every three months, which may include items, features, fresh mechanics, and new challenge leagues. Sometimes players will even experience a completely new gameplay experience.
Although these leagues look like brand new games, the core experience of the game remains intact because fresh content stimulates players all the time. This is the main reason why it is worth playing Path of Exile. Players can be sure that there is always something new in the game worth fighting for, so they can stay excited and continue playing the game.
3.Deep and rewarding crafting system
The reason Path of Exile is superior to other RPGs is that gear acquisition relies on player luck and even microtransactions. Path of Exile is intended to encourage players to use this robust crafting system skillfully.
Not only can players use powerful Orbs to modify the weapon stats they want, but they can also explore the unknown potential of diverse weapons by carefully and deeply exploring the secrets of gem-linking and corruption.
Therefore, this game's complex and exquisite crafting system is also a good reason to play. In the game, you need to plan your build carefully and in detail, and work hard to make the build have effective and required resources and gear. The more time and knowledge you invest in the game, the more powerful your gear will be.
4. F2P friendly
Entire core game for free is one of the main reasons why players enter Path of Exile. You can experience all campaign and endgame content for free. At the same time, you can participate in thrilling challenge leagues without spending a penny. This complete experience right out of the box is amazing.
Although Microtransaction elements are available in the game, these elements will never affect the core gameplay. You will never encounter the phenomenon of having to spend money to upgrade or unlock essential features.
This allows players to fully enjoy most of the game content without having to be forced to consume and recharge. Path of Exile is a free and friendly game that makes all the time you invest in the game worth it, rather than the kind of game where only trading can buy you happiness.
5. Active community
Each game has its own online community. Path of Exile also has a thriving online community. The community is full of passionate players, and the content creators produce diverse content and are eager to help new players. Whether you encounter a boss that is particularly difficult for you to defeat, or you need advice and ideas on building your character to optimize your potential, there is always someone in this online community to help you.
In addition to this, the game has a variety of online tools, each of which can help you deal with the complexities of this game. Some experienced players have also produced guides that describe in detail how to craft specific character gear and weapons. Social media is also full of players of all levels showcasing unique builds, sharing strategies, and answering questions from beginners.
The thriving and helpful community gives you another reason to play Path of Exile.
In 2024, Path of Exile is still an RPG that can attract many players. It has excellent character customization, fresh league updates, gear and loot system, free-to-play friendly nature, and supportive community. This game can keep you hooked for hundreds of hours without even realizing it.
After you play Path of Exile, you will really like it.
In this guide, I will share how I get Headhunter or Mageblood in SSF. Because of their powerful effects and extremely low drop rates as tier 0 Uniques, they are usually the most expensive items in each league, traded between players for many Divine Orbs.
I have gotten Headhunter or Mageblood in almost every SSF league over the past few years. But does that mean I am lucky? Yes, and no. I mean, you are, of course, always a little lucky when you find those chase items, but at some point, the luck should run out. So, it’s not just good luck.
Today, I will dive into two reasons why I think I get Headhunter or Mageblood in every SSF league. Aside from a little luck factor from time to time, I hope I can tell you some simple tips or strategies.
Play More Games
Unfortunately, getting Headhunter or Mageblood or any extremely rare unique item requires a lot of play, which is the first priority. You have to realize that you need to put in the time because Path of Exile 3.24 has a lot of RNG and you can get Path of Exile 3.24 by playing a lot to break the rut.
This information was put into perspective when a Nameless Seer provided me with it. Currently, my character is at 14 days and 9 hours of playtime, which is 345 hours of league playtime. That is definitely a lot, no doubt.
And I don’t often stand in my hideout during this process, nor do I open this game while doing other things. Instead, I bomb the map most of the time. I reach similar numbers in other SSF leagues.
I play Path of Exile frequently. It’s my favorite game and one of the best ARPGs in the market. I always buy a Supporter Pack or two and have a lot of fun playing.
Every hour you play has a chance to drop that unique belt. But more realistically, you have a chance of something dropping, and those things have a high chance of dropping Headhunter or Mageblood, which brings me to my second reason, there are things you can do even if you can’t play as long as I do.
League Mechanics
The second reason to succeed in Path of Exile is that certain items have a much higher chance of dropping from certain mechanics, and this change in each league.
On the other hand, there are also steady sources of Headhunter and Mageblood here. They don’t change in each league, only the chances of getting these Uniques may change.
Gamble
Let’s first look at what you can do in each league to get Headhunter. There are a lot of things in no particular order that you can do to gamble with the materials you get from Expedition. If you do this, just pick up every Heavy and Leather Belts in Gamble, and then focus on using Ancient Orbs on the unique belts.
Divination Cards
It’s a slight chance, but you may be lucky enough to run a map that drops Divination Cards, which can give you items and increase the chance of dropping items with Scarabs.
Each league has different maps where Divination Cards drop, so be sure to look them up ahead of time.
There’s a reason I run Crimson Temple Map and Burial Chambers Map, especially the last one. I don’t run them for fun, but because I love boss fights.
Ritual
Any league mechanic or map mechanic has some gambling element, and I tend to tailor it to get a mid-level Headhunter or Mageblood.
So in Ritual, I try to look at as many pages as possible for rewards, hoping to get a big reward or high-value Divination Cards, and think about whether there’s a way to reliably get Voidborn Reliquary Keys like I did with Blue Wisps last time.
These are just a few examples of what I’ve been doing that I can think of right now. But I think you understand that if we want to get Headhunter or Mageblood more easily, it obviously depends on the league mechanic. We have to figure out what’s powerful. In the meantime, you should keep an eye on the trades to see if people are using any destructive strategies to get these chase items.
Scarab
In Necropolis league, most people are always happy to combine Divination Scarab of Completion and Curation to get a full stack of Divination Cards from their favorite maps.
It is important to note that Scarab is very rare. Of course, if you play more, you will occasionally find one in SSF, which is why investing time is so important.
Nameless Seer
If you run this strategy in SSF, find some maps, you may get lucky like those people in the trade. Another strategy for this league is all about Nameless Seer. This NPC will sometimes appear on the map and sell a bunch of unique items in tier 16 maps.
You can get Nameless Seer as a map modifier using Allflame, which is why it helps if you blow up a bunch of maps. Or you can use Reliquary Scarab of Vision to get it. You will find these Scarabs from time to time. They are not extremely rare, and whenever I have about 10 Scarabs, I will batch run them to find Seer as soon as possible.
Time to conclude. Unfortunately for you there is no silver bullet here, but setting yourself up for success will give you the best chance of getting Headhunter or Mageblood. Ultimately, it’s about putting in the time and for every hour you play, your chances increase a little until the moment you drop what you want. Wish you the best of luck!
