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It used to be like in diablo 2 where after finishing a difficulty you lost resistances, but since they added acts and removed difficulties theyve put them on A5 last boss and before you can do endgame maps (end of story mode)

This is my 2nd league playing, and I feel like I’m progressing nicely. How do I go about sustaining red maps? I’ve done every map bonus up to T10s. I haven’t shaped any maps yet. Playing a Blade Vortex Ele.


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Ill play a support build next league and that might help you with that

Play a lot and try to do Temples at the highest possible level you can. Sustaining maps isnt a problem anymore imo.

Woo beat T14 red Elder. Died 4 times and a few more across the guardians, but whatever. I knew I was a bit underequipped, but since you can't keep him around in perpetuity anymore, I figured I'd just take my shot and wrap up the Zana quest. Got a steaming pile of crap for my drops, yay!

So I've made it to the maps, any tips or strategies? What does improving the quality of a map do? Are there always bosses on maps?

Make sure your resists are capped 75% on all. Transmute and augment map if needed and just have fun. There are bosses on all maps. Some will be easy and others harder depending on your build but trying them out and learning their mechanics is recomended. Advanced strats are for later.

Improving quality will improve drop rate from monsters. Its usually not done on early maps so save your chisels for later.

Make sure you complete as many of the 'map bonuses' as you can (i.e. transmute white maps, alc yellows, and vaal reds).

It'll help a bit with sustaining higher level maps.

It's not usually worth it to chisel maps until you are at least well into the yellows (t8+) unless you're farming a map in particular (burial chambers). Keep your eye out for a t6 map with stars on it (check your atlas by hitting g). Beating that map will spawn the Elder. Once the Elder is on the map, you can keep doing one higher tier at a time of Elder influenced maps (tentacles, also such maps will have blue circles) to progress on Zana's quest. You can move Elder influence by doing a Shaper (stars) map that's connected by a line to an Elder map. Once beaten, the Shaper influence will back off or disappear, and the Elder will take over that zone. So, if you want to do a t8 Elder map to continue your progress on Zana's quest, you may have to look out for e.g. a t5 Elder map that's connected to a t6 Shaper map, and then do the Shaper map to push then Elder to t6 and the Shaper influence up to the connected t7, and then do the t7 to iterate, and then the t8, and then the Elder will be on the t8 for you to complete the Elder influenced t8.

Be mindful about using the Shaper's orbs you get as rewards for doing this. It's probably better to sit on them until you have a bunch of maps under your belt rather than using them on maps right away before you know what you're doing. Using them can make it harder to progress deeper into your atlas (the upside to shaping a map is that it makes it easier to do the shaped map over and over).

What are the incursion events? Are those just 1 month sprints starting from nothing?

Yup. It's flashback so the zones are affected by previous league mechanics at random.

3 of them at once! every zone! (a map = a zone too), and they change every hour. Fun times.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2187588

Are you guys ready for some racing? Flashback starts today!

Any recommendations for a melee build for Flashback? Played a BV Ele in league.


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sunder anything

So, infinite spelunking?

OH MY GOD THE ZIGGYD VIDEO

WTF

infinite dungeon with leaderboard

holy ****

new lighting system too looks so much better

First impression is that I like the endless dungeon idea and socketed currency but probably won't be a fan of the darkness and upgrading systems.

you better believe i'm going ****ing flicker in delve. straight off into the darkness. still sane, exile?

Will I be able to use Flicker Strike in the mine?
Yes, absolutely. Just note that the darkness will kill you.

So Incursion is over, what happens to all that stuff?

Folded into Standard over the next few days. It'll be on "take only" stash tabs to start.

standard has everything from all your past leagues, you can play it whenever you want but you dont get the new mechanics.

"Delve" will start in 4 days. It looks amazing.

Is the cave stuff end-game like maps?

The cave looks kinda neat. I am not sure I see a new build that speaks to me. Maybe caustic arrow is now OP? Might be leaning double strike.