Good Morning Folks! Things continue to truck along happily in the post-patch Necropolis league. The only real problem I am having right now is that there are too many things that I would like to be doing. Normally speaking I tend to focus hard on a single mechanic, and more often than not that is Delve. I am down around 230ish depth and having a grand ole time… but also I find myself really enjoying mapping this league more than normal. Having access to three Atlas trees seems to have made all of the difference in the world because I can shift things up depending on what I want to run. The shocking winner for this league is the tree that I have focused hard on Einhar, Beyond, Rogue Exiles, and Ritual. It ends up creating some extremely rippy maps but they are also ridiculous loot bonanzas.

When you have a large number of red beasts, corrupted rogue exiles, and beyond packs spawning… your screen often looks like this. I have a lower-density magic find filter that I occasionally swap to, but more often than not I just toggle off items entirely while I am fighting and then run around the room picking things up after the battle is over. The biggest problem that I have with a more restrictive loot filter is that there are things that I still want to pick up. For example, I am not going to pass by a stack of Jewelers Orbs or Chisels because I hate dealing with currency trades. I would instead rather have a full vault of that sort of stuff for when I potentially need it later down the line. The magic find ethos is to ignore anything that isn’t worth a lot of money and then buy the things you need… but I still enjoy looting normal stuff occasionally.

There is a nonsensical strategy where you essentially force every rogue exile to drop a unique, and then do some shenanigans with allflames and scarabs in order to force hundreds of them on your map. I’ve done some of this and it is truly silly. I am not chain-running it as a mapping strategy because I hate buying resources… but when I get the right scarab drops and the stars align I will run one of these maps. I think the challenge I have when it comes to making currency in Path of Exile, is that I can’t ever bring myself to grind the same thing over and over save for Delve. When I am mapping I like to shake things up a bit because it gets extremely tiring running the same map over and over under optimal conditions in order to maximize your profit margins. Instead, I would greatly prefer throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks and then being pleasantly surprised when something pays off.

I am still seeing the occasional raw divine drop and I am still occasionally moving random items that I chuck in my trade tabs. I think the league mechanic is adversely impacting my normal money maker, aka Delve Resonators. Though I have to be honest there are some things that it seems like are a massive pain in the ass to craft with corpses. I’ve mostly had complete failures myself each time I tried to craft anything. I’ve also seen a lot of failed craft videos out there, so I think at some point… good ole tried and true fossil crafting will win out and there will be a significant spike in prices. I am not willing to sell delve goods at the prices they are currently going for, so instead I sit on my mountain of stock in the hopes that eventually the prices will turn around.

I decided to go ahead and commit to the scetpre that I have currently and took it to 30% quality with an alternate quality harvest enchant. It is not a bad weapon, but a couple of the stats only really benefit fire trap and not both of my abilities. I have a project weapon with fractured +1 fire gems on it but have currently run myself entirely out of alts from spamming to try and get t1 Damage Over Time Multiplier or Fire Damage Over Time Multiplier. I managed to get this once… but failed on the regal and then failed again on an annul. Basically, I need the regal to add a prefix or be able to annul off a suffix for it to work. If I ever get the craft to work it should give me a significant upgrade, at which point I will do the alt quality harvest craft again and then beast craft corrupt it to 30% quality like I did this one.

Over the weekend I bought the three maps that I needed to finish out my Atlas. Thankfully they are all pretty cheap this league, but I realize this was a deeply selfish thing to do rather than sharing the love and inviting folks in to get credit. The thing that sucks is right now something is going on with my machine and Path of Exile and every time I attempt to run ANY maps with anyone I crash to the desktop. As a result I made the decision to go ahead and knock out my maps rather than spend the currency and risk not getting credit, with the thought that the moment I unlock these maps the sooner I get additional copies of them. For example, I have already gotten another copy of Coward’s Trial for the guild bank, and hopefully, folks who are not crashing out while doing multiplayer content can group together and run it. I’m hoping to see the other maps soonish so I won’t feel quite so bad for going ahead and knocking them out.

That has been a point of frustration for me ever since they started integrating the POE2 tech into the game. My performance has gone to shit, and every time I have tried grouping with anyone I end up without fail crashing out. Last league I attempted a number of Blight maps with Kodra and in every case I ended up losing one or two portals because I would crash when trying to group together. The other night I tried to bring along Ric to farm Black Morrigan and risked missing the capture because I bombed out right as we were fighting it. For now… I am just going to solo and feel slightly bad for being selfish with maps. My hope is that I will be farming up enough of everything else to make up for it.