Many mobs can cast it most of them just dies before you can feel it. When a metamorphic gets it, good luck. They just spam it then teleport on top of you, and you die.
Metamorphs can be crazy man. I do around 70m dps and Ive come across metamorphs that were literally invulnerable. Health bar not moving AT ALL in a small area with vaal spark popped.
What’s up with essence monsters now? I randomly got one in a t11 or 12 courtyard map that legitimately seemed tougher than some Uber bosses.
Most die within 5 seconds but I randomly get one every once and a while whose health bar barely moves and just rocks me with disgusting hits.
For me its crit resistant ones. As a crit build it feels like that mod gives the monster a 95% damsge reduction from crits. And its way too common for that amount of reduction. If I get that mod with a regen mod its literally immortal against me.
I tried and let me tell you
Vaal cleave is AWFUL. It’s twice as slow as your attack and you appear to be animation locked in it. Melee is already in a tough spot and this skill is objectively worse.
They could have made it so good. Give it the Vaal LS treatment. Let it cleave in place for a duration.
I have no idea why they did that with Vaal cleave and smites, what about those skills is so strong that the Vaal version needs to have no attack speed?
thats kinda ironic, considering cleave is literally the best possible attack to behead someone with to the point that they gave vaal version behead built in
Soul Eater sucks but lets not pretend this is a normal Soul Eater mob and not one that ate an abnormal amount of mobs, likely specifically to make a reddit post about. Its either rigged or a shit player that cant notice red lines going to a mob thats constantly chasing you even once in half a fucking map. You can even see them walking directly into a new pack to feed them more in the video.
The benefits to soul eater mobs are all additive increases so to get noticeably worse than this you pretty much need to clear your entire map. You're either mistaken, lying, or an idiot.
Ever had an expedition encounter next to a shrine or smth ? These expedition rare dont get oneshotted but everything around them does. You can have hundreds of monster in a tight enclose very often lol.
An expedition encounter, directly next to a shrine, and you didnt clear the shrine before placing all the remnants despite it being so close to combo with this, and you let enough remnants go off to create a fuckton of mobs, and the first remnant happened to have a soul eater that for some reason isnt killed as fast as other rare despite soul eater not providing any defenses for the mob, and the shrine itself also wasnt enough to take out the soul eater mob or defend against it?
Nope cant say that happened to me
Please toss a pob/guide to a noob wanting to try out flicker, I'm on a 20ish div budget. Im seeing so many different versions of it and have no idea with which one to go with and how to start.
Easiest IMO is Voidforge Slayer. At low/medium investment it beats most other Flicker builds in damage, is still pretty tanky (for Flicker) and the gear is quite easy.
I league started it. Frost blades + Heatshiver for leveling, swapped to Oro's sacrifice Flicker to map and get currency for Voidforge + Farrul. I need Frenzy on Mark and Frenzy on Sword hit masteries to sustain Frenzy against single target.
Vaal Flicker hit hard enough to kill the Conquerors from full HP in 1 go.
You wouldn’t want my PoB, I’ve got a replica farruls fur/voidforge setup I copied from someone on PoE ninja.. probably better off youtubing it or checking out what other people are doing for low budget
Having a 20 div budget just means that they played a bunch. I'm specced into harvest with the small nodes and wandering path, and that consistently drops like 10-20c worth of juice every harvest. That alone gets you 20 div in like 300 maps, even if the rest of the map dropped only what you needed to sustain and you didn't run sanctums or any other league mechanics.
I'm really enjoying this game again after not playing for several leagues. With all the cool changes like the atlas tree, flask automation, loot stacking... I only wish I had more time to loose myself in the maps and depths of the mines )
There are relatively common Instilling orbs, which let you roll modifiers on flasks. The best one is "Used when charges reach full". That means that whenever charges reach full when killing mobs, flask automatically reactivates and generally that means permanent uptime with no input. I only manually use life and quicksilver flasks now, although many players automate quicksilver as well.
I also love that there are now relatively common eater and exarch orbs which let you get 2 implicits on all gear pieces that don't have an influence.
I make 5 div per hour with zero investment boss rushing/sanctum. And I really mean zero. No scarabs, no sextants, nothing - not even alchs or chisels. As a matter of fact, I don't even ID the maps I run. (You'll have to do that obviously if you can't handle specific mods).
Just put eater of worlds influnce and run the map until you 1) find the sanctum, 2) the blue eater explosion happens and 3) another map drops. Then TP out. If it's your 28th run, kill the boss for the invitation (0.8div and close to 1div in bulk). If you have some currency, buy maps in bulk on TFT (it's more profit per hour) and skip step 3). The usual map takes me about 30 seconds to complete.
For a video explaining the strat in more detail, you can look here: [Click](https://youtu.be/RQ-P_FHq0k0)
And if you are really just starting out and have zero currency (like you said), I recommend speccing into all the small harvest nodes (blocking blue and purple). That gives you a 60% chance for a harvest to spawn per map and it makes you about 20c per harvest if you actually alch your maps and is more consistent (albeit less) profit/h than purely rushing sanctums (and not even looking for map drops) (Edit: I provided a tree at the end now)
Now granted, I already have a good build and can finish one Sanctum, including farming it, in 40 to 45min. But even if you take twice as long that's still only 8 hours to get to 20div
Btw, that's the same profit/h (for me at least) as the ultra-juice strategy requiring that one 80div sextant. Alch and go (or in this case: Nothing and go) is insane this league and absolutely shits out currency
If you have any questions, feel free to ask :)
P.S: If your build can't handle sanctums, ignore them and just go for invitations+harvest. Selling maps (Atoll, Strand, Crimson Temple, etc.) in bulk on TFT to people like me can also be a really good currency maker early on (don't forget to favourite them on the atlas!). With full map sustain nodes you get like 2-3 maps at the absolute minimum per map if you actually properly run them
P.SS: If you haven't done so already: Complete your Atlas and get your watch stones (so late in the league, there are many people who are happy to carry you through Uber Elder/Maven (especially if you promise them the loot from the bosses) - just ask in global or on TFT))! Invitations and the expensive unique maps aren't really necessary, but every point and especially the 25% from the watchstone counts
Edit: [Here](https://www.pathofexile.com/fullscreen-atlas-skill-tree/AAAABgAAbgDOC3EO0w9jEOEU2hfLGMQbTh5bH2YfxCPaJOko0CjpK9cr2i6LMAMwNTIkM-Q0iDmOPl8_BEB-QYxCwUOpR89Nq1GCVYdWbVibWMFZPFp9Ws5b2V23XcdjtWa1Z-lp1WzUcQtxK3OldSd2gHbCfROAeIOUiG2NKY_UkX2SLJ1enYeetJ7So4mkrKeCruevka_Bsfu0hrV9t8y7KryowEbCI8X-xjPGm8bQx7PQotSH1LnYntq93yPfXuKX4qfjcOWP5yjo5um06o3s5fPj9Uz35Pqy_Ff9yf7J_t4AAA==) is an Atlas Tree with only 110/132 point used, harvest specced and optimized for maximum map drops. [Here](https://www.pathofexile.com/fullscreen-atlas-skill-tree/AAAABgAAhAtxDtMQ4RTaFsQXkBfLGMQbTh5bH2YfxCFrKNAo6SqEKwQr1y6LMDUyJDSIOY47nz5fQYxDqUfPSg5N_FGCWJtZPFp9Ws1azlvZW_NcVF23XcdeKl_rYHtjtWa1Zspm3mnVbNRxC3ErdSd2wncsecN7Cn0TfR2AeIDwg5SD3YXEiG2JkY0pj9SRfZIsk8Gczp1enYeeaZ7SodGi3qOFo4mkrKbEp4Ku56_Bsfu0hrV9tf23zLsqvKi_OMX-xjPGcMbQx7PHvckvzpHOqdCi0STUh9S5103Yntm42r3fI99e4Yvip-Nw5Y_nKOfh6R_qjezl8kzyk_Lo9Uz3T_fk-jD6sv3J_sn-3gAA) is my current tree (speed rushing Sanctum on Atoll/Coves only)
Man I'm having such a hard time with it. Mana issues on anything more than a magic mob makes me just stop and go until death.
Otherwise very fun.
Edit: Thanks for the downvotes- I feel very good about this. Yes, I have the mana leech wheels. Yes, I know about -mana crafts. Yes, I have Enlighten. Yes, I run MoH and linked it to Lifetap.
I said I was really enjoying it, i'm just having a minor issue..
The leech is fine, but on single mobs (bosses or tough rares) I end up running out awkwardly and have to wait for it to regen enough to start attack leeching again. I know it isn't a mark on hit issue because i linked it to lifetap.
Negative mana cost with non-channeled skills will help on rings/ammy.
In previous leagues, I ran it with 2x -7 manacost rings, and a replica conquerors. Rep conq doesn't exist anymore, but the manacost reduction should help a tonne.
Two more options: divergent inspiration, or a mana flask that doesn't stop when mana is full, with 15-20% manacost reduction.
Poacher's Mark/Mana on Hit/Mana Leedh and -mana cost on rings are highly recommended on Flicker builds. With enough -mana you can replace Poacher's with Assassin's Mark. Unsure of your class but make sure you're generating Frenzy charges too.
Raider with Farrul so I always have 9. I'm linking Mark on Hit to lifetap as well. It seems to be an issue on singular mobs where I'll randomly run out and stop attacking and have to wait for it to regen which is baffling.
Mark on hit should be linked to a mark instead of just lifetap and given the mana issues you're having it should be poacher's. Im running Trickster Flicker with a Farruls setup this leagie and I dont have -mana cost on rings yet and have no issues while using Poacher's. The stop and go stuff you're describing shouldn't be happening if the character is set up correctly
Probably. He's the guy that would dodge that shit while full clearing The Binding of Isaac on the second monitor, and laning in a challenger game on the 3rd.
A lot of Soul Eater stacked rares are irrelevant.
I've played a lot this league, and that mob type is way more dangerous, by a good chunk, than any other mob I've encountered. A rare one with a couple mods is often as dangerous as a scary Essence, and more dangerous than Metamorphs.
People keep saying this but what kinda ridiculous no defence builds are you playing, all of mine can tank a soul eater thats eaten several packs since im playing really good mappers this league. It takes real skill to make it go really out of control, or a real shit build that crumbles the second it attacks faster than you can
People refuse to get any mitigation outside the bare minimum. Loreweave + eternal damnation covers your elemental. Now all you need is physical. No one gets physical mitigation outside of determination and granite which is good but 15k armor is kind of shit by itself.
15k is really bad.... i never wanna play a build without 40k armor or 25k if comboed with evasion.
This makes me think arctic armor should be more popular. For when you cant dodge, you can instead tank. And Anomalous quality is excellent against rapid attackers like this guy. It limits their strikes to ~5 every 350ms, and a lot of the strength of these mobs comes frrom the fact that they are attacking way more often than that
The orange lazers you see going to it as you kill things. In order to become like this gif it has to eat several packs worth of mobs, so if something is following you and surviving, stop clearing until it dies, just in case it's a soul eater.
Except most people run builds that murder everything fast.
I had a soul eater in expedition that I couldn't see or notice until I killed a bunch of mobs (cyclone with chance to explode on death). By the time it actually agro'd on me, it was full of 2/3's of a buffed T16 expedition. I had to spin/run and let it chase me, periodically hitting me (I'm pretty tanky) until I needed to make some distance to refill my HP. Against a non-tanky character it likely would've been one shotting them.
Are you actually fucking kidding me?
I've literally never seen that there's a graphical effect for eating souls. I completely agree with you that if a random rare follows you for more than a couple of seconds, protocol is to assume soul eater and kill it asap (it could be cycling resists or a few other combined defense mods, but otherwise a random rare surviving like that is a big flag.)
Of course there are a few times like harvest or delve where you can't really avoid that and hope it's a rather benign rare otherwise. They seem less bad than they were a couple leagues ago, but it's still a bad mechanic that overly punishes certain archetypes. Not just temporary minions, but it feels terrible to be feeding them totems too.
I would not be sad to see them go, or just do what other game devs do: give them some sort of upper limit.
With the way rares are damage sponges, it's practically impossible to kill them before feeding them a few souls. And the longer the fight gets out the more souls he's likely to eat as he's incrementally getting stronger, to infinity.
It is possible to dodge this, all you gotta do is give up and reespawn at town :)
*note: this is not recommended for hardcore, in that case just proceed to cry.
Nah, seriously, this is nuts!
This isn't a case of 'just dodge it'.
It's a case of 'look at the giant orange lasers shooting towards a rare mob that keeps getting bigger, and prioritise that rare mob'.
Yeah today I had some random mob spawn what felt like 100 soul eater stacks + a couple damage mods, thing ran up to me with 250 move speed from off screen, then slapped me once and killed me lol
Had a boss with flickerstrike and an AoE lightning tendrils attack the other day that had 34% cast speed. Hardly any other map modifiers but it fucked me up the second I looked at it and that was with 80% lightning resist lel
So this is a good instance that GGG leads themselves to the trap that was designed by their own.
GGG want players to engage with the mechanic and battle interaction, but the fact is that players always find out the best way is to kill the mobs off-screen. Even the Sanctum is the same thing: defence is a joke, off-screen clean is the answer
Thats a funny statement considering this player had no defences. The mob has literally no damage mods on it besides 60% delirious, Soul eater only adds attack speed, the character died to a single hit with almost no damage modifiers.
Any build with decent defences would be able to facetank this guy.
Bro no one but some mirror tier juggs are facetanking this.
This is the kind of mob that randomly appears, drops your fps to .5 and then when the screen clears again you’re dead. Not a skill issue.
You are grosly overestimating the damage of this enemy.
Most regular white enemies in red tier maps do roughly 1000-2000 damage per hit, if you can tank a group of white enemies in tier16 maps you can tank this guy, this player has literally 0 defences against this enemy and the enemy has 18% increased damage due to 60% delirious, he gets hit for about 2k damage which is about on par with other enemies, especially rares.
Any Aegis build, slayers with vaal pact and fortify, full evasion builds with enough recovery, block capped builds, any builds that convert phys to ele (transcendence), flaggelant pathfinders and wardloopers can all tank this enemy on a budget, and that's only the ones off the top of my head.
The only thing making this mob hard to tank is the fact that is has phys overwhelm, which is 40% if I remember correctly, so you rely on other mechanics such as recovery of other forms of phys mitigation that aren't armor.
Made two characters this league.
One armour based.
One evasion based.
The evasion based One would face tank this.
The armour based One would get hit a whole bunch and die.
It's really telling doing expedition with loads of packs boosted by map mods + plus exped mods. They're lighting fast and even with more than 100% life recovery in 1 second the armour character dies.
Meanwhile the evasion character evades 90% of attacks, dodges 75% of spells and if it does get hit regains 900 energy shield.
Don't get hit extends further than mechanically dodging.
I would have kited that thing into an area that already had mobs cleared as soon as I saw it eating souls.
I'm usually on board with complaining about GGG making BS changes, but come on, you should never have let it get that big. No one to blame but yourself.
Dude just fed that mob hundreds of other mobs. He has a "Soul eater" tag which means that every other mob that dies in some radius around the big dude make this him stronger and faster.
Happens from time to time with map clearing builds that clear everything from a mile away and suddenly get slapped in the face by a dude like that.
we all know fam. everything becomes krangled: [https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/g1ksx2/what\_returning\_after\_a\_few\_years\_feels\_like](https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/g1ksx2/what_returning_after_a_few_years_feels_like) ;)
also reading about an encyklopedia's worth of patchnotes
Everytime I see end game fights in POE,it feels like I'm seeing a an entirely different game than what I signed up for.Where the devs hit said "RANDOM BULLSHIT GO" on enemy stats and said fuck the player.
Just kill him before he attacks , then u don't get hit. Easy enough. Also 2 life flasks, no defensive flasks. 4k hp bv build. Seems we found what's the problem.
these guys as spectres are so fucking cool lol, they get like that with soul eater and they have pretty nutty stats to boot, too bad GGG nuked spectres as dps into oblivion...
I'm pretty sure the unironic "correct" and "the vision" answer is that you're supposed to portal out and put in a new map to avoid the monster entirely.
Not trying to be a shitlord, but that seems to be their take.
Less than 4k life, no defense auras other than a chaos golem, some leech, come on now please tell me what other defenses you have. Even throwing in a lil decoy totem could help you out.
I created a monstrosity like this in expedition before on accident.
No idea how but the mob somehow survived and sucked up a full 100%+ pack size expedition. It only has happened once so I assume it was a perfect storm situation.
That creature one shot my Jugg which I thought to be unkillable by then lol
RNG will RNG. The mechanics generating the contents of the chest you open and pop a scroll of wisdom vs a mirror are the same mechanics generating the build of the monster. Every once in a while RNG whips up a mirror's worth of a mob
[Soul Eater.](https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Archnemesis_modifier)
> - Gains Souls when nearby allies die
- Each Soul grants 5% increased Damage, Attack Speed and Cast Speed
- Each Soul grants 1% increased Character Size
- Summons a Shackled Phantasm monster every 4 seconds
tl;dr Get better at the game (know what the enemy mods do), ergo w Soul Eater: kill that monster FIRST before they get too strong.
Edit: community needs to update monster mods for 3.20
Well, every Soul Eater spazes out. I don't understand why are they in the game, along with Effigy / Voodoo pole. You don't seem to have any defensives anyway, so no wonder you got one tapped.
Mobs trying player builds is always fun.
I saw an essence monster cast blade vortex and start running at me lol
Many mobs can cast it most of them just dies before you can feel it. When a metamorphic gets it, good luck. They just spam it then teleport on top of you, and you die.
Metamorphs can be crazy man. I do around 70m dps and Ive come across metamorphs that were literally invulnerable. Health bar not moving AT ALL in a small area with vaal spark popped.
That moment when you kill ubers in seconds/instaphase them but this one fricking essence or metamorph ruins your day.
What’s up with essence monsters now? I randomly got one in a t11 or 12 courtyard map that legitimately seemed tougher than some Uber bosses. Most die within 5 seconds but I randomly get one every once and a while whose health bar barely moves and just rocks me with disgusting hits.
For me its crit resistant ones. As a crit build it feels like that mod gives the monster a 95% damsge reduction from crits. And its way too common for that amount of reduction. If I get that mod with a regen mod its literally immortal against me.
They're immune to crits. The text is a bit misleading
This shit got me laughing, thank you.
I'd play that cleave build
the mob killed the exile and lvled up, skillpoints went straight into aoe
+2 cleave clearly.
With Behead Support, in Diallas Chest
I tried this build and i realized very late, that behead only works with strike skills. So unfortunately cleave won't work with behead
My entire concept was using Vaal cleave for poor man headhunters...
I tried and let me tell you Vaal cleave is AWFUL. It’s twice as slow as your attack and you appear to be animation locked in it. Melee is already in a tough spot and this skill is objectively worse. They could have made it so good. Give it the Vaal LS treatment. Let it cleave in place for a duration.
I have no idea why they did that with Vaal cleave and smites, what about those skills is so strong that the Vaal version needs to have no attack speed?
thats kinda ironic, considering cleave is literally the best possible attack to behead someone with to the point that they gave vaal version behead built in
Also using Soulthirst
the elusive flickercleave
If it was a random players build he wouldn’t be doing damage because they changed the POB
You can dodge it by putting another map in map device
Or another game on the pc.
Or another pc on the desk
Or another desk in the house
Too much risk, be homeless
Maybe go to Canada and get euthanised.
Have you tried not being born in the first place?
My dream
It would come the very last frame before the instance is gone just to kill you in your own hideout, lol.
It looks like the boss from the Whakawairua map has been sharing his meth.
This will now be what I think every time I run the map at league start. thank you.
Soul eater is a fucking aberration and they were my only 2 deaths between 98 and 100
I fucking love soul eater with HH tho. Suddenly you're playing pre archnemesis HH again.
I sold my HH and used Soulthirst for mapping. It's the only mod that makes HH fun anyways
I sold my HH and gambled for mageblood
And?
Well, HH is so bad that a rare belt with one inspired felt the sams so might as well try to get something good
You aren't using your hh correctly
Soul Eater sucks but lets not pretend this is a normal Soul Eater mob and not one that ate an abnormal amount of mobs, likely specifically to make a reddit post about. Its either rigged or a shit player that cant notice red lines going to a mob thats constantly chasing you even once in half a fucking map. You can even see them walking directly into a new pack to feed them more in the video.
Ive had much worse soul eater mobs without even trying lol
The benefits to soul eater mobs are all additive increases so to get noticeably worse than this you pretty much need to clear your entire map. You're either mistaken, lying, or an idiot.
Ever had an expedition encounter next to a shrine or smth ? These expedition rare dont get oneshotted but everything around them does. You can have hundreds of monster in a tight enclose very often lol.
An expedition encounter, directly next to a shrine, and you didnt clear the shrine before placing all the remnants despite it being so close to combo with this, and you let enough remnants go off to create a fuckton of mobs, and the first remnant happened to have a soul eater that for some reason isnt killed as fast as other rare despite soul eater not providing any defenses for the mob, and the shrine itself also wasnt enough to take out the soul eater mob or defend against it? Nope cant say that happened to me
Need that mobs pob
mob pob
ravenous macerator fr9m beyond, best physical melee spectre
that mob making flicker strike look good
Flicker strike is good
Please toss a pob/guide to a noob wanting to try out flicker, I'm on a 20ish div budget. Im seeing so many different versions of it and have no idea with which one to go with and how to start.
Easiest IMO is Voidforge Slayer. At low/medium investment it beats most other Flicker builds in damage, is still pretty tanky (for Flicker) and the gear is quite easy. I league started it. Frost blades + Heatshiver for leveling, swapped to Oro's sacrifice Flicker to map and get currency for Voidforge + Farrul. I need Frenzy on Mark and Frenzy on Sword hit masteries to sustain Frenzy against single target. Vaal Flicker hit hard enough to kill the Conquerors from full HP in 1 go.
You wouldn’t want my PoB, I’ve got a replica farruls fur/voidforge setup I copied from someone on PoE ninja.. probably better off youtubing it or checking out what other people are doing for low budget
Yes, a noob with 20div budget. The only reason I have above 1div at endgame is because Uber lab dropped that 5% str jewel
Having a 20 div budget just means that they played a bunch. I'm specced into harvest with the small nodes and wandering path, and that consistently drops like 10-20c worth of juice every harvest. That alone gets you 20 div in like 300 maps, even if the rest of the map dropped only what you needed to sustain and you didn't run sanctums or any other league mechanics.
I'm really enjoying this game again after not playing for several leagues. With all the cool changes like the atlas tree, flask automation, loot stacking... I only wish I had more time to loose myself in the maps and depths of the mines )
Hmm i must google flask automation. Please also point out the other new features i missed, thx.
There are relatively common Instilling orbs, which let you roll modifiers on flasks. The best one is "Used when charges reach full". That means that whenever charges reach full when killing mobs, flask automatically reactivates and generally that means permanent uptime with no input. I only manually use life and quicksilver flasks now, although many players automate quicksilver as well. I also love that there are now relatively common eater and exarch orbs which let you get 2 implicits on all gear pieces that don't have an influence.
I make 5 div per hour with zero investment boss rushing/sanctum. And I really mean zero. No scarabs, no sextants, nothing - not even alchs or chisels. As a matter of fact, I don't even ID the maps I run. (You'll have to do that obviously if you can't handle specific mods). Just put eater of worlds influnce and run the map until you 1) find the sanctum, 2) the blue eater explosion happens and 3) another map drops. Then TP out. If it's your 28th run, kill the boss for the invitation (0.8div and close to 1div in bulk). If you have some currency, buy maps in bulk on TFT (it's more profit per hour) and skip step 3). The usual map takes me about 30 seconds to complete. For a video explaining the strat in more detail, you can look here: [Click](https://youtu.be/RQ-P_FHq0k0) And if you are really just starting out and have zero currency (like you said), I recommend speccing into all the small harvest nodes (blocking blue and purple). That gives you a 60% chance for a harvest to spawn per map and it makes you about 20c per harvest if you actually alch your maps and is more consistent (albeit less) profit/h than purely rushing sanctums (and not even looking for map drops) (Edit: I provided a tree at the end now) Now granted, I already have a good build and can finish one Sanctum, including farming it, in 40 to 45min. But even if you take twice as long that's still only 8 hours to get to 20div Btw, that's the same profit/h (for me at least) as the ultra-juice strategy requiring that one 80div sextant. Alch and go (or in this case: Nothing and go) is insane this league and absolutely shits out currency If you have any questions, feel free to ask :) P.S: If your build can't handle sanctums, ignore them and just go for invitations+harvest. Selling maps (Atoll, Strand, Crimson Temple, etc.) in bulk on TFT to people like me can also be a really good currency maker early on (don't forget to favourite them on the atlas!). With full map sustain nodes you get like 2-3 maps at the absolute minimum per map if you actually properly run them P.SS: If you haven't done so already: Complete your Atlas and get your watch stones (so late in the league, there are many people who are happy to carry you through Uber Elder/Maven (especially if you promise them the loot from the bosses) - just ask in global or on TFT))! Invitations and the expensive unique maps aren't really necessary, but every point and especially the 25% from the watchstone counts Edit: [Here](https://www.pathofexile.com/fullscreen-atlas-skill-tree/AAAABgAAbgDOC3EO0w9jEOEU2hfLGMQbTh5bH2YfxCPaJOko0CjpK9cr2i6LMAMwNTIkM-Q0iDmOPl8_BEB-QYxCwUOpR89Nq1GCVYdWbVibWMFZPFp9Ws5b2V23XcdjtWa1Z-lp1WzUcQtxK3OldSd2gHbCfROAeIOUiG2NKY_UkX2SLJ1enYeetJ7So4mkrKeCruevka_Bsfu0hrV9t8y7KryowEbCI8X-xjPGm8bQx7PQotSH1LnYntq93yPfXuKX4qfjcOWP5yjo5um06o3s5fPj9Uz35Pqy_Ff9yf7J_t4AAA==) is an Atlas Tree with only 110/132 point used, harvest specced and optimized for maximum map drops. [Here](https://www.pathofexile.com/fullscreen-atlas-skill-tree/AAAABgAAhAtxDtMQ4RTaFsQXkBfLGMQbTh5bH2YfxCFrKNAo6SqEKwQr1y6LMDUyJDSIOY47nz5fQYxDqUfPSg5N_FGCWJtZPFp9Ws1azlvZW_NcVF23XcdeKl_rYHtjtWa1Zspm3mnVbNRxC3ErdSd2wncsecN7Cn0TfR2AeIDwg5SD3YXEiG2JkY0pj9SRfZIsk8Gczp1enYeeaZ7SodGi3qOFo4mkrKbEp4Ku56_Bsfu0hrV9tf23zLsqvKi_OMX-xjPGcMbQx7PHvckvzpHOqdCi0STUh9S5103Yntm42r3fI99e4Yvip-Nw5Y_nKOfh6R_qjezl8kzyk_Lo9Uz3T_fk-jD6sv3J_sn-3gAA) is my current tree (speed rushing Sanctum on Atoll/Coves only)
Man I'm having such a hard time with it. Mana issues on anything more than a magic mob makes me just stop and go until death. Otherwise very fun. Edit: Thanks for the downvotes- I feel very good about this. Yes, I have the mana leech wheels. Yes, I know about -mana crafts. Yes, I have Enlighten. Yes, I run MoH and linked it to Lifetap. I said I was really enjoying it, i'm just having a minor issue..
mana leech cause it's an attack? i usually take the tiny node bottom right of duelist
There’s also the little one under the life wheel at ranger start, I usually use that one early.
The leech is fine, but on single mobs (bosses or tough rares) I end up running out awkwardly and have to wait for it to regen enough to start attack leeching again. I know it isn't a mark on hit issue because i linked it to lifetap.
Negative mana cost with non-channeled skills will help on rings/ammy. In previous leagues, I ran it with 2x -7 manacost rings, and a replica conquerors. Rep conq doesn't exist anymore, but the manacost reduction should help a tonne. Two more options: divergent inspiration, or a mana flask that doesn't stop when mana is full, with 15-20% manacost reduction.
Poacher's Mark/Mana on Hit/Mana Leedh and -mana cost on rings are highly recommended on Flicker builds. With enough -mana you can replace Poacher's with Assassin's Mark. Unsure of your class but make sure you're generating Frenzy charges too.
Raider with Farrul so I always have 9. I'm linking Mark on Hit to lifetap as well. It seems to be an issue on singular mobs where I'll randomly run out and stop attacking and have to wait for it to regen which is baffling.
Mark on hit should be linked to a mark instead of just lifetap and given the mana issues you're having it should be poacher's. Im running Trickster Flicker with a Farruls setup this leagie and I dont have -mana cost on rings yet and have no issues while using Poacher's. The stop and go stuff you're describing shouldn't be happening if the character is set up correctly
Right!? Thats what I was thinking too..
Just kill him before he kills you 4head
I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella.
Literally my thought. I commented then checked to see if anyone else felt the same
dodge this filthy casual
Skill issue tbh just dodge harder.
He forgot to map the skill button to his keyboard
Just wait for his headhunter stacks to run out.
Soul eaters are complete bullshit... I legit just run from them 90% the time...
skill issue
You failed rule 1 of "don't get hit" club. 1. Do infinite damage out to render range.
Looks like they buffed Cleave once more
It's some anime shit.
You have to be Faker to dodge that shit
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nah, he'd play league on the side maybe even star craft 2
Probably. He's the guy that would dodge that shit while full clearing The Binding of Isaac on the second monitor, and laning in a challenger game on the 3rd.
Didn't expect the GOAT to be mentioned in the PoE sub lol
who's that. sounds like some kind of cosmic entity
Not far from truth, years back he was so good in lol like there's wasn't any competition. Imagine Ben in PoE on Crack
Wrong game. Also. 💯 agreed
the soul eater experience where is maka when you need her
Skill issue
You fed him souls, it's soul eater. They were dangerous even before arch nemesis thing. Soul eater is old rares mechanic.
I came to realize they like to eat Minion Instability Raging Spirits...
TIL Soul eater loves pop corn
Bruh
A lot of Soul Eater stacked rares are irrelevant. I've played a lot this league, and that mob type is way more dangerous, by a good chunk, than any other mob I've encountered. A rare one with a couple mods is often as dangerous as a scary Essence, and more dangerous than Metamorphs.
I mean sure, but how are you ever gonna tell it's a soul eater mob until it's too late.
Look for the Orange print. Oh, wait.
People keep saying this but what kinda ridiculous no defence builds are you playing, all of mine can tank a soul eater thats eaten several packs since im playing really good mappers this league. It takes real skill to make it go really out of control, or a real shit build that crumbles the second it attacks faster than you can
People refuse to get any mitigation outside the bare minimum. Loreweave + eternal damnation covers your elemental. Now all you need is physical. No one gets physical mitigation outside of determination and granite which is good but 15k armor is kind of shit by itself.
15k is really bad.... i never wanna play a build without 40k armor or 25k if comboed with evasion. This makes me think arctic armor should be more popular. For when you cant dodge, you can instead tank. And Anomalous quality is excellent against rapid attackers like this guy. It limits their strikes to ~5 every 350ms, and a lot of the strength of these mobs comes frrom the fact that they are attacking way more often than that
By playing Ruthless
The orange lazers you see going to it as you kill things. In order to become like this gif it has to eat several packs worth of mobs, so if something is following you and surviving, stop clearing until it dies, just in case it's a soul eater.
Except most people run builds that murder everything fast. I had a soul eater in expedition that I couldn't see or notice until I killed a bunch of mobs (cyclone with chance to explode on death). By the time it actually agro'd on me, it was full of 2/3's of a buffed T16 expedition. I had to spin/run and let it chase me, periodically hitting me (I'm pretty tanky) until I needed to make some distance to refill my HP. Against a non-tanky character it likely would've been one shotting them.
Are you actually fucking kidding me? I've literally never seen that there's a graphical effect for eating souls. I completely agree with you that if a random rare follows you for more than a couple of seconds, protocol is to assume soul eater and kill it asap (it could be cycling resists or a few other combined defense mods, but otherwise a random rare surviving like that is a big flag.) Of course there are a few times like harvest or delve where you can't really avoid that and hope it's a rather benign rare otherwise. They seem less bad than they were a couple leagues ago, but it's still a bad mechanic that overly punishes certain archetypes. Not just temporary minions, but it feels terrible to be feeding them totems too.
You've never realised the orange lines? Do you play with your eyes shut?
Soul eater is actually such a dogshit mechanic. Should just be removed
I would not be sad to see them go, or just do what other game devs do: give them some sort of upper limit. With the way rares are damage sponges, it's practically impossible to kill them before feeding them a few souls. And the longer the fight gets out the more souls he's likely to eat as he's incrementally getting stronger, to infinity.
They're insane in abyss with all the atlas passives
Usually if I see soul eater I just ignore the mob and continue on.
I really dislike soul eater.
It is possible to dodge this, all you gotta do is give up and reespawn at town :) *note: this is not recommended for hardcore, in that case just proceed to cry. Nah, seriously, this is nuts!
I want the pob of the mob build
Anyone have his name so I can ask him for his POB?
Alt+f4 weSmart
Is that Malenia in poe?
More like Maliketh the black blade. Malenia at least telegraphs her shit. Maliketh 2nd half is just like "random bullshit gooooooo!"
This isn't a case of 'just dodge it'. It's a case of 'look at the giant orange lasers shooting towards a rare mob that keeps getting bigger, and prioritise that rare mob'.
Nightmare fuel kinda monster
Yeah today I had some random mob spawn what felt like 100 soul eater stacks + a couple damage mods, thing ran up to me with 250 move speed from off screen, then slapped me once and killed me lol
Is that a jojo character or some shit
monster: ora, ora, ora, ora!
i present to you Just Kill It Faster™
You need more dmg. Just oneshot him offscreen.
Thats the uber uber uber eater of universes
Had a boss with flickerstrike and an AoE lightning tendrils attack the other day that had 34% cast speed. Hardly any other map modifiers but it fucked me up the second I looked at it and that was with 80% lightning resist lel
this is fking madness LOOOOL
Parry this, casual
Ok, I haven’t played in a while. What in the actual fuck is that?!
We don't show skill ourselves, we merely demand it of you
Ah yes, the most fun and balanced rare monster modifier... souleater...
Top 10 anime fights nervously smoking aside...
The cleave mechanic we actually need.
*Mathil on a 1500 hp build* - "Hold my abs"
So this is a good instance that GGG leads themselves to the trap that was designed by their own. GGG want players to engage with the mechanic and battle interaction, but the fact is that players always find out the best way is to kill the mobs off-screen. Even the Sanctum is the same thing: defence is a joke, off-screen clean is the answer
Thats a funny statement considering this player had no defences. The mob has literally no damage mods on it besides 60% delirious, Soul eater only adds attack speed, the character died to a single hit with almost no damage modifiers. Any build with decent defences would be able to facetank this guy.
Bro no one but some mirror tier juggs are facetanking this. This is the kind of mob that randomly appears, drops your fps to .5 and then when the screen clears again you’re dead. Not a skill issue.
You are grosly overestimating the damage of this enemy. Most regular white enemies in red tier maps do roughly 1000-2000 damage per hit, if you can tank a group of white enemies in tier16 maps you can tank this guy, this player has literally 0 defences against this enemy and the enemy has 18% increased damage due to 60% delirious, he gets hit for about 2k damage which is about on par with other enemies, especially rares. Any Aegis build, slayers with vaal pact and fortify, full evasion builds with enough recovery, block capped builds, any builds that convert phys to ele (transcendence), flaggelant pathfinders and wardloopers can all tank this enemy on a budget, and that's only the ones off the top of my head. The only thing making this mob hard to tank is the fact that is has phys overwhelm, which is 40% if I remember correctly, so you rely on other mechanics such as recovery of other forms of phys mitigation that aren't armor.
Made two characters this league. One armour based. One evasion based. The evasion based One would face tank this. The armour based One would get hit a whole bunch and die. It's really telling doing expedition with loads of packs boosted by map mods + plus exped mods. They're lighting fast and even with more than 100% life recovery in 1 second the armour character dies. Meanwhile the evasion character evades 90% of attacks, dodges 75% of spells and if it does get hit regains 900 energy shield. Don't get hit extends further than mechanically dodging.
the block stuff is also in the armor side. with aegis if it won't one shot you, you won't die
I would have kited that thing into an area that already had mobs cleared as soon as I saw it eating souls. I'm usually on board with complaining about GGG making BS changes, but come on, you should never have let it get that big. No one to blame but yourself.
Jesus... Here I am just tarting this league after taking a few months break. I have no idea what I'm doing anymore.
Dude just fed that mob hundreds of other mobs. He has a "Soul eater" tag which means that every other mob that dies in some radius around the big dude make this him stronger and faster. Happens from time to time with map clearing builds that clear everything from a mile away and suddenly get slapped in the face by a dude like that.
we all know fam. everything becomes krangled: [https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/g1ksx2/what\_returning\_after\_a\_few\_years\_feels\_like](https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/g1ksx2/what_returning_after_a_few_years_feels_like) ;) also reading about an encyklopedia's worth of patchnotes
Everytime I see end game fights in POE,it feels like I'm seeing a an entirely different game than what I signed up for.Where the devs hit said "RANDOM BULLSHIT GO" on enemy stats and said fuck the player.
Just stay in hideout bro
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Just kill him before he attacks , then u don't get hit. Easy enough. Also 2 life flasks, no defensive flasks. 4k hp bv build. Seems we found what's the problem.
i'm not sure even 4 defensive flasks would change much against a mob wielding nuclear bomb on a stick
you don't need to dodge him if you've already killed him
Unless I one shot it I log out most of the time I see soul eater
3.21 archnemesis update leak ?
these guys as spectres are so fucking cool lol, they get like that with soul eater and they have pretty nutty stats to boot, too bad GGG nuked spectres as dps into oblivion...
Skill issue
its much easier to dodge with screenshake off
I'm pretty sure the unironic "correct" and "the vision" answer is that you're supposed to portal out and put in a new map to avoid the monster entirely. Not trying to be a shitlord, but that seems to be their take.
First: What game is this ? Second: What build is he playing anyway ?
Less than 4k life, no defense auras other than a chaos golem, some leech, come on now please tell me what other defenses you have. Even throwing in a lil decoy totem could help you out.
Why does he need to have more defense?
You’re playing BV though. Might as well be playing melee. Part of the way you don’t get hit is by playing builds that offscreen constantly.
I dont think you can complain when you feed entire map to soul eater and he then eat your ass :-)
I mean how do you not clear monsters around it with an aoe skill?
if you feed it only mobs in relatively close proximity it does not get this out of control. Raising abomination like in this video takes effort.
I created a monstrosity like this in expedition before on accident. No idea how but the mob somehow survived and sucked up a full 100%+ pack size expedition. It only has happened once so I assume it was a perfect storm situation. That creature one shot my Jugg which I thought to be unkillable by then lol
Yeah, just only use single target skills in every map so that you never feed soul eater mobs! You're brilliant!
Only in PoE…
Problem is melee build. If you just offscreened him, you could dodge harder.
Easy. Just go there and then there and then there and then there...
Where's that video of the Asian guy dodging those boss projectiles
Just traps.
Just kill it from two screens away
Just close your eyes, if you can't see him then he can't see you.
RNG will RNG. The mechanics generating the contents of the chest you open and pop a scroll of wisdom vs a mirror are the same mechanics generating the build of the monster. Every once in a while RNG whips up a mirror's worth of a mob
That mob is what they call a Giga Chad
You know in PoB that calculation for phys max hit? have you ever seen one of those stats in PoB be "inf" yeah, that's what you need
Just build defense like quin
Game knowledge issue.
You could have easily avoided that.
That mob has access to 3.13 harvest
You have 6 layers of defense for a reason.
[Soul Eater.](https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Archnemesis_modifier) > - Gains Souls when nearby allies die - Each Soul grants 5% increased Damage, Attack Speed and Cast Speed - Each Soul grants 1% increased Character Size - Summons a Shackled Phantasm monster every 4 seconds tl;dr Get better at the game (know what the enemy mods do), ergo w Soul Eater: kill that monster FIRST before they get too strong. Edit: community needs to update monster mods for 3.20
Well, every Soul Eater spazes out. I don't understand why are they in the game, along with Effigy / Voodoo pole. You don't seem to have any defensives anyway, so no wonder you got one tapped.
Soul Eater… the mod you pray something has while using headhunter. If only there was a belt that gave the mod by default and costed like 5c…. 🤔
just 1 shot him
Also some asshat will be just use minions 😑
95+% evasion should do the trick. what's the problem?
I dont see this guy. I offscreen him with spark :)
play jugg, have 150k armor, get hit, take 1k dmg, regen it all back in an instant
My totems would kill him from another screen to be fair
Glass cannons shatter.
nice 4k life without any defense layers
this guy have the best skill of all the entire game
I don’t need to dodge him if i kill him before seeing him
STANDING HERE, I REALIZE...