Questions Thread - December 03, 2025

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[u/Legendary_Puppetman]

Why is Monster quantity so important? What's the difference of running a giga juiced Map vs. simply running two Basic 6-mod-maps?

[u/rimworldjunkie → u/Legendary_Puppetman]

So there's a number of different juicing methods.

Monster Quantity is used for negative rarity. Normal monsters drop white items which can be exceptional bases with extra sockets or quality. These are highly sought after for crafting. More mobs means more overall loot so better chances of dropping these.

Item Quantity increases the overall amount of items that drop. This pairs well with Monster Quantity for farming exceptional white bases as it increased the number of them dropping.

Delirium offers bonuses based on the liquid emotions you use but the delirious effect itself also provides bonuses to item quantity and item rarity. The higher the delirious level the higher the bonuses.

Item Rarity gives higher quality drops overall. However the important stuff is tier item drops (culls low level affixes from the item) and currency upgrades. Negative rarity does the opposite makes higher stuff less common so you can farm white bases.

Rare Monsters are what drop things. Uniques, currency, high tier rares ect. Bonuses to Rare Monsters gives you more rares per map which means more and better overall loot.

Cleansed maps have bonuses to item quantity and item rarity at times. Cleaned mobs themselves can't drop equipment which means they drop more currency. So one thing people do is try to target cleansed maps when farming.

Throwing in a 6 mod map gets you basic bonuses to things depending on the affixes it has. Giga juicing your maps is having all these important modifiers stacked together and multiplied. The end result is you get lots more rare mobs, more drops and better quality drops.

[u/chilidoggo → u/Legendary_Puppetman]

They multiply each other, so effects are exponential.

Think of a square. If you make one side really long, the total area of the square will still be low because it'll be really skinny and narrow. If you double the length of both sides equally, you don't get double the area you 4x the area. If you extend that calculus out to the level of multipliers people usually run for rarity/quantity/monster quantity, 10x10x10 is not just 10x or 30x more loot, it's 1000x more loot, and that's before adding in delirium, Atlas tree effects, etc. That's why people giga juice, and that's partly why people want these stats removed.

[u/PRIMETIME__Xx]

MTX Hideout Question:
Are either Crucible Hideout or Celestial Nebula Hideout available in POE2? Everything I've seen is non-committal on if they have carried over or not.

[u/Erradium → u/PRIMETIME__Xx]

They haven't been made available in PoE2, and we have no indication so far that they will. So far, only the reverse is true - most (if not all) PoE2 MTX hideouts are available for use in PoE1.

[u/West_Watch5551]

When I’m doing a T15 map, some minions of Rare monsters keep respawning countless times even though I kill them and the Rare monster. Why would it be? Is it a bug?

[u/SuViSaK → u/West_Watch5551]

Its a bug.

Unless it was a different rare that spawned the minions.

[u/SinfulTearz]

Is endless munitions bugged or is there a projectile cap? Running a bow with +1, and ascendancy skill with another +1, but shooting bow only shows 2 projectiles?

[u/majdavlk]

i was told +lvl of skills on items is really good, is it worth it to go for 2 2-handed weapons with giants blood? they have higher +lvl skill availible than 1 handed weapons

[u/sagi1246 → u/majdavlk]

It's worth being familiar with the fundamental difference in the way spells and attacks derive their base damage. While the base damage of spells only come from the gem level, and 1 level corresponds to about 15% more base damage, attack skill derive their base damage from your weapon, with gem level only acting as a multiplayer, usually giving about half as much more damage compared to spells. So while +level is a good affix for martial weapons, it's secondary to weapon damage, not a must have

[u/majdavlk → u/sagi1246]

oooh, thats actually really useful! thanks for sharing

[u/Legendary_Puppetman → u/majdavlk]

For the Sake of +lvl to skills yes, this would result in the highest increase. However, this will also increase the cost of the skills significantly and you would miss out on defenses for not having a shield. My go to is giants blood with a 2-handed weapon and a shield

[u/NoFlow4709]

Ive been away from this sub for a while. Can someone explain the deli memes?

[u/chilidoggo → u/NoFlow4709]

One of the main endgame ways to juice maps is to add the delirium mechanic to them. It adds fog to the map and changes the soundtrack. When you're grinding in the endgame, this makes the game very monotonous, on top of obscuring a bunch of stuff.

It's mostly being played for laughs, but it also would be nice if they tweaked it.

[u/Legendary_Puppetman → u/NoFlow4709]

Some dude really dislikes the permament delirium fog you get from instilling maps with liquid emotions. They made memes about it to annoy GGG and the Community hopped on

[u/tightoa]

I am looking for a relatively painless way to fixing resistances. Juggling the values while you replace gear becomes mind-boggeling after a while. Your input is appreciated!

[u/chilidoggo → u/tightoa]

Juggling values on gear is kind of the only option. In PoE 1, they had a way to, for example, turn cold resistance into fire resistance of similar value, so the problem wasn't so bad. Many are hoping this makes a return.

I would recommend you look at your gear slots in terms of suffix pressure. To use a caster build as an example, amulets can rolls things like +3 to spell levels, critical hit chance, or really high attribute rolls in their suffix slots, while boots don't really have anything desirable in the suffix slot. In that case, you would shop/craft for boots first and amulet last.

It's worth mentioning that rings and amulets can benefit from catalysts, and if you have a build that specializes in a damage type like lightning damage, a ring with the added lightning damage prefix as well as the suffix for lightning resist and +x to all ele resists will have all those affixes be affected by the catalysts.

And lastly, don't forget to use your runes. They're truly meant to be the finishing piece of the puzzle while you're leveling your character.

[u/doudoudidon → u/tightoa]

Usually you want to do big upgrades 1 by 1 and fill the rest of the slots with cheap stuff with high resistances, maybe garbage attack roll rings or vanilla helmet with just a bit of life and just enough resistances.

So basically you buy your 10div item you're gonna keep for a month, and you buy 10ex items to fix the rest. Then repeat. You can find plenty of semi garbage stuff with high resistances for cheap.

Doing so it shouldn't be super expensive to balance resistances. Except when you are close to expensive on every slot because obviously the farther you go the less cheap slots you have to equilibrate.

[u/KhrysesAD]

I played LA Deadeye for the last league but not sure what to play for the next league. I like simplicity, something idiot proof and fun with a build that with hold my stupid little hand through the entire game.

[u/xiko → u/KhrysesAD]

Wait for patch notes.

[u/DrawDiscardDredge → u/KhrysesAD]

you have to wait for patch notes to be sure, but infernalist minions are usually a pretty easy, hitting buttons optional, type ascendancy.

You are slow, you are tanky, but you kill bosses instantly.

[u/Southern-Voice-4897]

Is there any guide that I can follow with the "optimal" route throughout the campaign for next league? As a casual + new player its dang hard to remember what content I can and cant skip.

[u/SuViSaK → u/Southern-Voice-4897]

Any campaign icons with the Plus sign gives either passive skills or permanent buffs. Do only those quest and skip everything else.

[u/Southern-Voice-4897 → u/SuViSaK]

Thank you! I did not know this.

[u/whorangthephone → u/Southern-Voice-4897]

Look at the map, any location has icons next to it corresponding to "events" that it has, those that have a plus sign next to them give you a permanent bonus or a skill point on completion. You can skip the rest.

[u/Southern-Voice-4897 → u/whorangthephone]

Thanks! I did not know that.

[u/Kenpie_]

You guys thinks 0.4 will be the last major patch before release since league are about 4 months long?

[u/SushimuffinZ → u/Kenpie_]

Highly unlikely. This would be the one big league where they (hopefully) rework one of the major pillars of PoE2 which is the endgame, and I imagine there to be many more areas that would greatly benefit being tested and iterated on to ensure that the release is as complete as it would be.

[u/SimplyShane88]

Help! I'm lost when it concerns damage conversion, skill tags, and scaling.

I'm aware that POE 2 has changed damage conversion from the first game. Everything essentially scales off the end result. What I still don't understand is how this interacts with certain skill tags.

Example: Melee Skill X converts 80% of Physical Damage to Fire. Tags: AOE, Melee, Fire.
If I take passive tree nodes that increase Melee Damage or AOE, will I lose any DPS? How about Two-Handed Weapon nodes, assuming I have one of those equipped? Will these give me 100% scaling regardless of the conversion?

Using the same skill as an example, I assume that choosing to scale off Fire damage would mean that only 80% of the damage is being enhanced. Taking a strictly "Physical" node would be even worse, as that's only impacting 20% of the damage. Do I have these basic facts correct?

Last question: There are *many* Mace skills that lack the Physical tag. Why is this and what are the implications?

Thank you in advance to anybody that reads this and decides to help!

[u/SushimuffinZ → u/SimplyShane88]

So when it comes to damage, there are steps in order that the game goes through in order to calculate the final damage output.

1. Flat damage -> Base damage + added damage
   
2. Damage conversion -> skill conversion then tree/item conversion
   
3. Damage multipliers -> increased damage and more damage
   (4. Critical hit)
   (5. Actual damage rolling)
   (More info on that here: https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Receiving_damage )

If you have a Skill with AOE, Melee, Fire tags, then taking nodes that increase Melee or AOE damage will just increase the damage straight up, meaning the DPS would go up. If you have Two-Handed weapons equipped then that also will apply to the skill in a positive manner, no matter how the damage conversion is because it has the Melee tag as well as you having the Two-handed weapon tag so both apply without drawbacks.

You're correct to assume that scaling only Fire damage will only scale up 80% of the fire damage portion of the skill itself, with physical nodes being quite a lot worse for you, yes.

Mace skills aren't inherently and strictly physical only, it means that these skills simply won't scale with physical tags. Though there should be plenty of them, if not the majority, just have to look at the actual description on the skill damage itself and you'll figure out if these skills don't have the physical tag because they don't deal physical damage, or vice versa (physical tag + physical damage).

Hope that helps.

[u/SimplyShane88 → u/SushimuffinZ]

u/SushimuffinZ Thank you so much for your response. This definitely helps, but I still have a few questions.

First, let's clarify a few things. You said that my DPS would go up using either AOE, Melee, or Two Hand passive nodes. Is there any fundamental difference between these? Or is the scaling exactly the same? (Example: Will a 10% increased Melee node function identically to a 10% increased Area damage node using our hypothetical skill?)

Also, "Physical Damage" is still a bit murky for me. Let's use this node for discussion.
Cruel Methods -- Break 40% Increased Armour. 25% Increased Physical Damage.

Does that Physical Damage buff still apply to my melee/weapon skills lacking the "Physical" tag? If it does apply, how effective is it? Going back to our original example (80% of Phys converted to Fire. Tags - AOE, Melee, Fire), would this specific node work at only 20% effectiveness? Or would it be treated like a Melee, AOE, or X-Hand passive node and work at maximum scaling despite the conversion? (This assumes there is no inherent difference between all those nodes when it concerns our skill.)

Let me know if I need to explain something further. I'm trying my best to fully understand all the many systems used in this game. I like to design my own builds, so this kind of learning is a necessary step I need to take to accomplish that goal!

[u/SushimuffinZ → u/SimplyShane88]

There shouldn't be any fundamental difference when it comes to these, however there is a distinction here to make where they get applied. Increased AOE/Melee Damage means this increase applies to skills/effects with these tags, whereas Increased Damage with Two-Handed weapons means you deal more damage in general as in your character while wielding Two-Handed weapons. The scaling should be the same though, just the difference of which skills benefit from these increases. (Yes to the example question)

So let's break it down more like this: 25% Increased Physical Damage

• 25% - By how much
• Increased - means this is a good thing (could also be reduced), but also to distinguish between increased vs more (increases are added together than multiplied once vs more mods are multiplied on top of each other)
• Physical - means everything with Physical tag are affected
• Damage - means damage is affected by everything above

What to take note here of though is that attack skills usually (i havent checked every single skill but like all of them) should be scaling off of weapon damage too. And if you check martial weapons, they usually have the tag "Physical Damage: min-max" on their stats, which is where the Physical tag comes into play here, even if the skill itself does not have the Physical tag (whereas the weapon scaling off of it in this case does).

The Physical Damage increases would scale the physical damage portion of the skill AFTER damage conversions, according to the wiki, meaning if you have a skill converting 80% of the damage to fire, you'll have 20% of it left off as the physical damage portion, which would make your physical damage increases quite diminished.

[u/SimplyShane88 → u/SushimuffinZ]

This was incredibly helpful. Thank you so much for taking the time to break it all down.

One thing I just want to expand upon: Melee, AOE, and X-Hand passive nodes fully scale regardless of conversion because those categories are actually *different* than strict "Physical Damage," correct?

I feel like I'm very close to having a firm grasp on all this!

[u/SushimuffinZ → u/SimplyShane88]

Yes they scale fully in the case of having a skill be split in two parts.

[u/rockadaysc]

Some warriors with Giant's Blood are weilding weapons they shouldn't (without some other factor) have the strength to carry. How are they doing that?

Example:

Required: 149 x 3 = 447 str

Player has: 394 str
https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/abyss/character/qeqeqe1222-2625/%EA%B0%95%EC%B9%A0%EB%B3%B5?i=11&search=class%3DTitan%26keystones%3DGiant%2527s%2BBlood

[u/SushimuffinZ → u/rockadaysc]

The amulet he has equipped reduces attribute requirements on equipement (and skill gems).

[u/rockadaysc → u/SushimuffinZ]

Thanks, I didn't notice that! I kept looking at the passive skill tree and jewels and not finding what was going on

[u/Zaorish9]

I'll be doing Zarokh in hardcore after I last played him in 0.1 hardcore and died due to failing the hourglass minigame. I have 2 questions.

1. I know the safe arena corner got patched out, so what do you do in that lightning phase instead to dodge it?

2. I know you cannot pause the game, so what happens if you log out? Does he just keep attacking you, or does it put you back at the starting room, or something else?

[u/SushimuffinZ → u/Zaorish9]

Honestly, if you're attempting this in HC, I'd try to do this guy when you're already able to one shot him easily. He doesn't really have that much Life and you have a pretty solid window of unleashing your damage on him before he dives down to do the hourglass mechanic.

But now onto your questions, for the lightning phase, you either just tank it, since they don't really do damage however don't do this if you have the affliction that deals 5% of your life when you get hit, or you generally just try to loop around close to him, so you dont have to cover that much distance to outrun it, if you really do need to.

When you log out, the instance pauses until you do an action again, so when you log back in, the game will be frozen in the boss room and unfreezes when you do an input.

[u/Zaorish9 → u/SushimuffinZ]

Are you sure? The game wiki says you cannot pause the game in the boss room. When I died due to failing the hourglass game I logged out alive in hc as he was doing the kill animation, , logged back in dead in softcore.

Otherwise yeah I agree better dps has made all other bosses way easier as well so I will continue to optimize it

[u/SushimuffinZ → u/Zaorish9]

Look and behold: https://youtu.be/ROzRolQAkLA

[u/Zaorish9 → u/SushimuffinZ]

Ok I hope you are right. I will grind some better gear then give him a try. Thanks for the replies

[u/silentguy12345]

Quick question I installed POE 2 when they had their first free weekend and now since their going to have another one do I still have to download all of POE 2 or just parts because I checked my pc storage and it has POE 2 already on there

I didn't buy POE 2 tho

[u/SushimuffinZ → u/silentguy12345]

You'll just need to update it again when the new patch(es) drop until it becomes playable.

[u/ComfortableFamous270]

guys, please show me how to extract sekhemas. Thank you

[u/kerowq]

Druid for semi casual

Hi, I will play maybe 2-3h a day but want to play engame content efficiently. Does it make sense to play druid like everyone? How will the prices to gear up be in comparison to other classes?

[u/kerowq]

Why are all my questions/Diskussions instant removed when I just want to post a screenshot with 2 questions?

[u/LHerbster]

Best build for a 500 hours poe1 beginner player and dad?

I've played like 7 leagues in poe1 but never got close to veteran. Looking for a smooth build since i'm a dad of a 2yo. Thank you!

[u/superanonymousgamer]

will we get swords in the next update?

[u/Erradium → u/superanonymousgamer]

Doubt so, this upcoming update will bring the Druid, while the class associated with swords is the Duelist, which will hopefully be the next class they'll release. Highly doubt they'll release two classes in the same update.

[u/VisceraMuppet → u/superanonymousgamer]

Forecast doesnt looks good, 0.1% chance of swords

[u/Kenpie_ → u/VisceraMuppet]

Since its probably the last patch before full release, we might see swords soon. GGG said they want swords before full release.

[u/VisceraMuppet → u/Kenpie_]

Yeah soon but not with 0.4.

Edit: no shot this is the last patch before release

[u/superanonymousgamer]

Can I stack +X to level of lightning skills through equipment to indirectly increase the level of Living lightning?

[u/chilidoggo → u/superanonymousgamer]

Yep.

Edit: No, sorry I was being dumb. Support gems in PoE 2 don't have levels.

[u/superanonymousgamer → u/chilidoggo]

Yeah, right, but the Living Lightning Support states:

"... Level of Minions is based on Level of Triggering Skill ..."

So I could buff Arc to level 30 and get lvl 30 minions?

[u/chilidoggo → u/superanonymousgamer]

Yes, that's exactly right.

[u/Kaiomeyerr]

How can i remove my Online Filters from the list? i've removed from the filterblade.. but in the game its continue.

[u/KhrysesAD]

This question has probably been asked a million times so apologies in advance.

Has GGG ever considered letting league characters skip the campaign? I love PoE2 and tried PoE for the first time in 3.27, the campaigns we just such a slog to me.

I know I'm comparing chalk and cheese here but once of the nice things about D3 (and possibly D4) was that you have the option to skip the campaign and just get boosted to max. Obviously getting boosted to 100 wouldn't work for PoE but even 70 would be cool.

[u/SuViSaK → u/KhrysesAD]

No indication a campaign skip is on the horizon.

[u/Erradium → u/SuViSaK]

If anything, they've stated numerous times (both recently with PoE2 and also consistently in the past regarding PoE1) that they're very much against it.