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Good Morning Folks! With the end of Legacy of #LegacyOfPhrecia in #PathofExile, I am sort of all over the place. This morning I talked about my progress in #DuneAwakening, returning to #Enshrouded, piddling around in #NoMansSky, and reinstalling #ProjectGorgon […]

Web Slingers and Life Gain on Block Good Morning Folks. While I am not the biggest fan of the Gauntlet mechanics mixed in with Phrecia, I am still playing Path of Exile because I don’t have the mental bandwidth to pick up something else at the moment. My Servant of Arakaali Poison SRS build seems to keep trucking along swimmingly, and thus far feels like maybe one of the sturdiest builds I have played for minions save for maybe my Guardian from several leagues ago. That is one of the things that I love the most about Path of Exile is that you are constantly learning new tricks, and each build is better than the previous build because you have learned something in the process. For example I learned some tech that is new to me that I can see using in the future. Essentially one of the common things that you can do with a Rare Wand for minions builds is automate your desecration and offering via the enchant that auto casts whatever is socketed into your wand. However I am using a Unique weapon which takes away that functionality, but apparently you can do the same thing with a four socket arcanists brand setup. So now I have a little bit of tech in my back pocket for whenever I need it the next time to work around a constraint of a build. Some big changes since the last time I talked about the build is that I managed to pick up a Covenant and then six linked it with a Black Morrigan. I am still using my Foulborn United in Dream with unholy might on it, which I picked up early in the league for a single chaos orb. Yesterday I bought a decent shield base with shaper influence and then threw reforge chaos harvest crafts at it until I lucked into a roll with recover life on block. This is not an amazing roll but was good enough to start using it, and at some point I will probably pick up another shaper influenced base and try and craft one with at least 5% recovery on it. This is one of the tricks that I learned over the last several leagues is taking the “good enough” craft and then replacing it with another craft later. I find that I enjoy my characters far better if there is always some upgrade that I can be working towards. I had to respec my tree a bit in order to pick up Eldritch Battery so that I could afford the costs that The Covenant adds to all spell casts. I have enough life regeneration though to make it feel pretty comfortable. There are a lot of versions of this build that are going blood magic, and I did not really want to deal with the reservation nightmare or going low life. Low Life is fine and dandy if you are also going petrified blood, but I did not want to have to mess with that. I would far rather have my tasty 4500 life pool with good regeneration, and some defensive reservations. When I switched to Eldritch Battery though I dropped Clarity and replaced it with Tempest Shield for more spell block, and Flesh and Stone for more damage reduction. I’ve also picked up my fourth labyrinth finally for Silk Dancer which causes webbed mobs to deal 20% less damage and have 20% less to all resistances. Since pretty much everything that my minions touch has webs via Aspect of the Spider, it means this is largely just a flat 20% damage reduction. I do not know for certain if this stacks since I believe you can apply multiple copies of the spider webs debuff to the same mob. Since I am doing nothing to scale duration though I am not sure how much overlap I am actually getting. I know that it is being applied constantly however because it has a very clear visual tell when a mob has webbing on it. I almost went down the path of summoning more minions, but since I am still running zombies, and am in the process of leveling a spectre and animate guardian gem to bring those online at some point soon, I am probably going to have more than enough minions especially when you throw in the four breach spider things that I get from doing offerings. Defensively I no longer have a negative amount of Chaos Resistance, which already helps considerably. I am sitting at 73% attack block, and 65% spell block… which combined with a recover life on block shield feels pretty comfy. The thing is by not having to take Glancing Blows to get to this level of block, it means I am not giving up the complete negation aspect of that defensive layer. I need to get Aggressive Bastion on my necklace so that I can start picking up additional endurance charges which will go a long way towards feeling more defensively comfortable. Again these are all tricks that I have learned over the years by playing other builds that relied on block as a defensive layer. I am not sure who first made this comment but essentially defenses in Path of Exile are like slices of swiss cheese, and if you stack up enough of them you negative the impact of the holes in any one particular layer. Some people play glass canon builds and rely on six portals to succeed, but I really prefer to play builds that simply don’t ever die. I have still not really made a ton of progress but have largely completed almost all of the white tier maps, and am about to start into yellow maps. With everything going on in my life I have not been able to give this the devotion that I normally I would during a league start scenario. However I am still having a lot of fun chipping away at progression. While the Gauntlet aspects still annoy me, I feel like I chose the right league start character for this event, because so far at least it is working beautifully. I might run into some roadblocks as I hit Red Maps, but I am hoping that spectres and animate guardian coming online around that time will help immensely. Right now my biggest challenge is that I just don’t have much in the way of currency. That will come over time from running more maps, but I could really use a few lucky divine drops to keep my progression from stalling out. ### Share this: * Share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon * Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit * Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr * Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * Print (Opens in new window) Print * More * * Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest * Share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Pocket * Share on X (Opens in new window) X * Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn * Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram * Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp * ### Like this: Like Loading... ### _Related_

Another blog post full of updates on my current progress in the #LegacyOfPhrecia event in #PathOfExile as I pick up my six-link unique chest and craft a life gain on block shield.

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Difficulty is a Weird Kink Good Morning Folks. Last Thursday was the launch of the Phrecia 2.0 event, and last Saturday during the podcast I finished the campaign and got to maps. I had so many issues early not… not the least of which was the fact that I was using a level 1 Summon Raging Spirits until 34. However there are a lot of annoyances with the current state of the game because we are not only playing Phrecia which comes with alternate classes, but also playing under the Gauntlet ruleset which adds increased difficulty to the game in general. I kind of hate it. What I think most people wanted was a vanilla Phrecia league built on top of Keepers of the Flame, and that would have been pretty amazing. Instead we got Gauntlet plus the permanent mod that causes everything unique to enrage and rip your faces off. Grinding Gear Games has this weird kink about difficulty in games, and I really wish they would leave that shit for the hardcore game modes and leave us poor softcore players out of their player death goonfest. I get the point of the Gauntlet ruleset in that it was supposed to test the mettle of players in a hardcore single death ruleset… but on softcore it just feels annoying as you throw your body against the dumb shit until you eventually brute force your way through it. I might be just salty because I made an attempt at my 4th labyrinth this morning and an enraged Izaro took me from 4400 health to zero in less than a second, so much so that I have no clue what even hit me. Izaro was not even standing anywhere near me. I have a second Goddess token so I will give another attempt at this over lunch probably, but it still annoys the shit out of me. Phrecia should be about the fun of building around new ascendancies, not some uber deathmatch scenario. It just annoys me that GGG constantly keeps adding their kink into places where it is not wanted. This is not the first time that they have snuck the Gauntlet ruleset into an event league, and it will likely not be the last. On some level I curse Zizaran for suggesting that this nonsense be created. Having Hillock witnessed by The Maven is novel exactly one time, but it overstays its welcome and the thought of grinding up another character to try some other build becomes thoroughly unappealing. Sure I can just keep rezzing my way through fights, but it rapidly feels like tedium. I will be brutally honest, at this point I have a partially functional character. As of this morning I am wearing pretty much a bunch of gear that I got from the tree, including the six link that I am currently using. I have seven empty sockets, have zero spectres, and no animate guardian. I could improve immediately by doing those things, but I have been able to progress well enough through early maps that I have not felt the drive to do so. I did however get a pretty lucky Gruthkul’s Pelt drop so I could probably cobble together an Animate Guardian set reasonably since that tends to be the most expensive part. When I do this thing I think I am probably going to go with Temp Chains on hit gloves, since I do not believe that Despair on hit exists. I figure Temp Chains + Aspect of Spider is going to make things a lot more cozy overall. I suppose it is well past times to actually finish sorting out my build and gear before I make that second attempt at labyrinth four. Defensively I am doing pretty okay with overcapped elemental resistances across the board, 4400 life, almost 700 regen, and 76% attack block and 41% spell block. I really want to pick up a life gain on block shield at some point and maybe trying to cap my spell block as well. At some point i will have to deal with the process of capping chaos resistance, but at least for early mapping it is generally fine to be in the negatives here. Pretty much all of my gear right now is complete crap and should be replaced. I am trying to decide if I want to stack Armor and Energy shield, or if I want to try Evasion and Energy Shield and then picking up an extra defensive layer in the form of Spell Suppression. In truth Armor + Energy Shield + Block + Regen + Life Gain on Block should be more than enough to feel comfortable, especially once I gain some additional damage reduction from the fourth ascendancy point. I’ve run around with less defensive layers on minion builds before at least. So this is the point where I tell you about another critical flaw in my run so far. As I got to the end of the campaign on Saturday it seemed really fucking weird that I had not seen a single map drop. I was level 75 as I went into acts 9 and 10, and normally by this point I would have started seeing the occasional T1 map drop so that by the time I hit maps I had a stash of them to run. This was not the case, and even weirder… as I started running maps… I was not seeing any drop. At first I chalked this up to the Gauntlet ruleset, but had not been seeing anyone else complain about this. Then it dawned on me… this is the Keepers League, and during the tail end of Keepers I modified my Neversink filter to up the strictness of my filter and turn off any map drop that was not t16 or t17. Sure enough I had just been hiding every single map that dropped and gleefully running past them. I had been farming Kirac in order to get early unlocks, and lord knows how much progress I sacrificed by this stupid move. Suffice to say I am not super far into progression at the moment with only 21 of 115 maps finished. I’ve been having to farm other maps that I have already gotten credit for in the hopes of getting maps that I need to unlock progress. White maps have been perfectly fine for progressing so far, and while I do take the random death here or there to enrages… I am able to them down in six portals without much issue. Mostly I am trying to build up enough currency to be able to buy what I need to improve my build. My next big target is a six link Covenant, and the prices on those are coming down steadily. I’ve contemplated trying to mix in some Delve since resonators tend to sell well enough because someone out there is always looking to craft something. I don’t have anything resembling a cohessive strategy on my idols, so I am slowly trying to work on that as well. I would not mind doing Vaal temple generation again, but I need a bunch of incursion idols to really make that work, and some initial capital to buy the required scarabs. Harbingers is apparently printing currency, but I am sure those idols are already priced out of existence for me. I got my first Divine Orb from the tree but it is unfortunately not the windfall that I would have hoped. Normally at this point in the league I would try and sell a divine orb in order to get some much needed chaos for other things. However right now it is only 114 chaos to the divine orb, so I am probably better off holding onto this for the moment and then trying to get a few more so I can pick up a linked covenant. Ultimately I just need to spend more time playing and more time grinding, but I have been all over the place lately. So much shit has been going on in my life that I have lacked the will to really push forward here. Today is going to be exceptionally stressful, and tonight is probably going to be sibling time in Destiny Rising, so it might be a few days before I actually grind again. Tomorrow I have a very early doctors appointment so it is unlikely that I will blog tomorrow morning to add to the litany of things going on. My life feels like it has been turned upside down, and I am going to need some things to click into place before I can right it again. Too many things out of my control and game progress is just one of the things that has suffered as a result. Anyways. I hope you are having a wonderful week. We are thawing out finally and the snow is almost entirely gone. I hope the same is true for you. If I don’t see you tomorrow, I will be back on Thursday. ### Share this: * Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon * Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit * Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * Click to print (Opens in new window) Print * More * * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest * Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Pocket * Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram * Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp * ### Like this: Like Loading... ### _Related_

Good Morning Folks. This morning I talked about my meager progress in the #LegacyOfPhrecia 2.0 event and some of my general frustrations with the Gauntlet ruleset.

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Good Morning Folks! Yesterday was the start of the #LegacyOfPhrecia 2.0 event in #PathOfExile, and I did in fact start a Servant of Arakaali minions character... but was an idiot, and one early fatal flaw made everything so much harder.

https://aggronaut.com/2026/01/30/gated-by-dumb/

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Good Morning Folks! Tomorrow is the #LegacyOfPhrecia event in #PathOfExile 3.27, and this morning I talk my way through my initial plans. Essentially going Shadow and pivoting into Poison SRS with Servant of Arakaali, but also have a few backup plans just in case that I might shift to later […]

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Good Morning Folks! This morning I talk about #Snowmageddon and the return of an old familiar leak that I thought was fixed. I also played a bit of #DestinyRising and #PathOfExile as I begin looking forward to #LegacyOfPhrecia event 2.0 […]

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Morning Folks. Yesterday I ended up discovering a potential unintended consequence of Storm Brand of Indecision and the Thunderstruck notable. I talk about this nonsense and the general state of my Surfcaster build in the #PathOfExile #LegacyOfPhrecia event.

You've Been Thunderstruck […]

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Morning Folks. I got my Storm Brand of Indecision Surfcaster through the campaign and started yellow maps in #PathOfExile #LegacyOfPhrecia. I also talk a bit about the recent DM/Ghazzy Dev Interview for #PathOfExile2 #DawnOfTheHunt.

Surfs Up Brando […]

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Morning Folks. It's a bit of a round-up post morning as I talk about the delay of #LastEpoch season 2, more faffing about with #PathOfExile #LegacyOfPhrecia, and continuing to plug forward with Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon.

Last Epoch Season 2 Delayed […]

I've been working on various builds for PoE Phrecia - Currently working on Servant of Arakaali Hexblast Mines, the webs and the lower resistances are awesome, need to tweak defenses and scale damage better and I might be in a solid place.

Any thoughts or advice?

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Morning Folks. I'm making slow progress through #MonsterHunterWilds and end up fighting a few bosses each night, before eventually fading into some chill grinding in #PathOfExile. This morning I mostly talk about recent progress and some of the videos I recorded over the weekend.

A New Sceptre […]

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Morning Folks. I spent yesterday wrapping up some things in #PathOfExile #LegacyOfPhrecia prepping to be spending a lot more time playing #MonsterHunterWilds in the coming weeks. Originally I thought I might play it last night but by the time it launched I was long asleep.

Jellies and Palicoes […]

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Morning Folks. It's been roughly a week since the launch of #PathOfExile #LegacyOfPhrecia event and this morning I spent some time talking about the good and bad bits about the Idol based Atlas system introduced with this event.

The Idol Based Atlas […]

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Morning Folks! A bit late getting a post out there, but this morning I talk about further progress on my Righteous Fire Scavenger in the #LegacyOfPhrecia event in #PathOfExile. I shift over to the block-based build and pick up a six-link elder helm.

Scuffed Scavenger […]

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Morning Folks! This morning I talk a bit about the #PathOfExile #LegacyOfPhrecia event league and how the idol system makes early mapping a bit juicier. I also talk about my build progress so far as Righteous Fire Scavenger.

Better Early Maps
https://aggronaut.com/2025/02/24/better-early-maps/ […]

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It's time for more Scion Scavenger Power Siphon leveling.

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Starting Scavenger <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img alt="" class="wp-image-28361" data-attachment-id="28361" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="PathOfExile-20250221-070821640" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-070821640.jpg?fit=880%2C495&amp;ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-070821640.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-070821640.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1280,720" data-permalink="https://aggronaut.com/2025/02/21/starting-scavenger/pathofexile-20250221-070821640/#main" data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" height="495" sizes="(max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px" src="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-070821640.jpg?resize=880%2C495&amp;ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-070821640.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-070821640.jpg?resize=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1 640w, https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-070821640.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w" width="880"/></figure> <p>Hey Folks! The Legacy of Phrecia event is live in Path of Exile and yesterday I followed the <a href="https://poe.ninja/pob/6fb19">Path of Pohx</a> and rolled a Scion. I’ve only ever played one Scion in the entirety of all of my time playing this game, and it was only to unlock the handful of achievements that are associated with that class. The general idea behind rolling this as Scavenger which is the krangled version of Scion’s Ascendant is that it will give me access to 80% of physical damage taken as fire damage once I actually get my hands on a Cloak of Flames. Sadly because I was not super fast… I did not manage to snag one before they started to get expensive. In the first moments of the league they were going for 3 Chaos… which I now have, but the price has unfortunately <a href="https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Phrecia/8KW8cV">gone up to around 20-30 Chaos</a> for a non-corrupted version.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img alt="" class="wp-image-28359" data-attachment-id="28359" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="PathOfExile-20250221-062046934" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-062046934.jpg?fit=880%2C495&amp;ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-062046934.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-062046934.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1280,720" data-permalink="https://aggronaut.com/2025/02/21/starting-scavenger/pathofexile-20250221-062046934/#main" data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" height="495" sizes="(max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px" src="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-062046934.jpg?resize=880%2C495&amp;ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-062046934.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-062046934.jpg?resize=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1 640w, https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-062046934.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w" width="880"/></figure> <p>It’s been a pretty smooth run so far, and I’ve only taken a single death and that was before I was able to switch over to Righteous Fire. I just got completely swarmed in the cavern of rage and could not potion my way through it. Once I swapped to RF it was a cakewalk. I attempted to follow the whole Cobra Lash path that was suggested by Pohx but I think in future attempts I might just do with flame wall and rolling magma. I had a lot of weird early problems getting the right links, and for the first five areas I was struggling to find any wisdom scrolls at all to identify anything that might have been viable. I still don’t have the right links for anything, but I am rolling with it because I do at least have a 2 link Fire Trap and 4 link Righteous Fire.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img alt="" class="wp-image-28358" data-attachment-id="28358" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="PathOfExile-20250221-061220056" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-061220056.jpg?fit=880%2C495&amp;ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-061220056.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-061220056.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1280,720" data-permalink="https://aggronaut.com/2025/02/21/starting-scavenger/pathofexile-20250221-061220056/#main" data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" height="495" sizes="(max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px" src="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-061220056.jpg?resize=880%2C495&amp;ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-061220056.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-061220056.jpg?resize=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1 640w, https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-061220056.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w" width="880"/></figure> <p>The build has a somewhat annoying respec that I am going to have to deal with at some point. He suggested starting down the projectile path because of Cobra Lash and then swapping over to the resistance path for those first four nodes… which is fine but since Path of Exile does not have a “respec mode” you can’t just swap those points directly and will instead need to spend a total of 8 respec points to get those 4 swapped over. I should probably deal with that now rather than later so that the gold costs are not onerous. Overall the pathing is not terrible for this one and you get to the fire regeneration node about the same time you do as with the Marauder path. </p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img alt="" class="wp-image-28360" data-attachment-id="28360" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="PathOfExile-20250221-064913058" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-064913058.jpg?fit=880%2C495&amp;ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-064913058.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-064913058.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1280,720" data-permalink="https://aggronaut.com/2025/02/21/starting-scavenger/pathofexile-20250221-064913058/#main" data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" height="495" loading="lazy" sizes="auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px" src="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-064913058.jpg?resize=880%2C495&amp;ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-064913058.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-064913058.jpg?resize=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1 640w, https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-064913058.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w" width="880"/></figure> <p>Now we get to the point that I hated about Scion in general. The first labyrinth does not really get you anything. Instead you do not gain any new powers until you finish the second labyrinth. So I have ascended to Scavenger but the only thing I have to show for it is two passive points. I mean that is still a decent reward and I am fine with it… but it makes the entire process of leveling as Scion feel a little lackluster. Pohx suggests going for Bluderbore for the second lab and then later respeccing for Cloak of Flames once you get into maps. I am not sure if I will follow that path or not, because I am honestly hoping to be able to get a Cloak of Flames and four link it before we get to that point. Regardless of what I take for my second choice, I am absolutely taking Obliteration for chaos pops when I get to third lab, and then later picking up the bit that allows chaos to ignite as my fourth.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img alt="" class="wp-image-28356" data-attachment-id="28356" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="POE1-Phrecia-DecentDagger" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/POE1-Phrecia-DecentDagger.png?fit=880%2C495&amp;ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/POE1-Phrecia-DecentDagger.png?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/POE1-Phrecia-DecentDagger.png?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1280,720" data-permalink="https://aggronaut.com/2025/02/21/starting-scavenger/poe1-phrecia-decentdagger/#main" data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" height="495" loading="lazy" sizes="auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px" src="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/POE1-Phrecia-DecentDagger.png?resize=880%2C495&amp;ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/POE1-Phrecia-DecentDagger.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/POE1-Phrecia-DecentDagger.png?resize=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1 640w, https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/POE1-Phrecia-DecentDagger.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w" width="880"/></figure> <p>I did find a pretty reasonable weapon. It has an open suffix, so once I get access to the damage over time crafts I will probably slap that on it. Plus one to fire spells is not necessarily the major win that it once was, but it does help a bit since I just added burning damage support to both my fire trap and righteous fire links. I will drop this like a hot potato however if I manage to get any damage over time multi weapons to drop. I have been farming the kingsmarch shipments trying to get some decent gear, and I am hoping I end up getting a hat with the right links to expand Firetrap beyond two links. I basically need better items for almost every slot except my chest, and I am basically running minimum shipments hoping to get something good.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img alt="" class="wp-image-28357" data-attachment-id="28357" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="PathOfExile-20250221-061156801" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-061156801.jpg?fit=880%2C495&amp;ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-061156801.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-061156801.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1280,720" data-permalink="https://aggronaut.com/2025/02/21/starting-scavenger/pathofexile-20250221-061156801/#main" data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" height="495" loading="lazy" sizes="auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px" src="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-061156801.jpg?resize=880%2C495&amp;ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-061156801.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-061156801.jpg?resize=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1 640w, https://i0.wp.com/aggronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PathOfExile-20250221-061156801.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w" width="880"/></figure> <p>I have no clue what strategy I am going to end up leaning on for mapping… because that entirely depends upon which idols I get first. I do plan on dabbling in Delve so now that I am in Act 4 I will probably spend a bit of time getting the early unlocks set up there. My hope is that I can find delve idols soon enough, and I also really want endless delirium for farming cluster jewels. It is going to be wild playing with a mishmash of krangled atlas passives. They verified that you are going to be able to recombinate idols, which is likely going to be required to try and make any coherent mapping strategy. I will worry about that when I get there however.</p> <p>For now I am just going to focus on leveling up and getting to maps. Did you end up rolling something for the Legacy of Phrecia event? What are you playing? 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Morning Folks! Yesterday was the beginning of the #LegacyOfPhrecia event in #PathOfExile and I followed the Path of Pohx and started a Righteous Fire Scavenger.

Starting Scavenger
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Morning Folks. Tomorrow is the start of the #LegacyOfPhrecia event in #PathOfExile and I am still trying to decide which of the krangled classes I am going to go with as my league starter.

Legacy of Phrecia Plans
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Morning Folks! I was a sucker and upgraded my GamePass copy of Avowed to deluxe so I could play last night. It is pretty solid thus far.

I also talk a bit about wrapping up #PohxLeague in #PathOfExile as I prepare for the #LegacyOfPhrecia event.

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Morning Folks. I'm sitting at 100/115 maps on my Atlas Progression in #PathOfExile #PohxLeague as I continue to juggle back and forth between Delve and Mapping.

I also talk a bit about the #LegacyOfPhrecia event and the weird idol based atlas system coming with it.

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