After posting this I realized I left out two things. First: my sample atlas tree forgot to take the Solidarity wheel in the bottom right. I’ll edit that into the linked tree in the description but it won’t appear in the video. I would 100% prioritize that before getting extra Shrine or Jun nodes. Second: there’s a beginner-oriented topic I missed in the video: how you originally come into contact with the Atlas. So very briefly: After you complete the final campaign boss and enter the portal that pops up you will be taken back to the Act 10 town, Oriath. There you have the opportunity to collect your reward of 2 skill points from Lani AND talk to Lilly Roth who will offer to sail you from Oriath to the epilogue area: the Karui Shores. This is where you’ll be directed to meet Kirac for the first time and he will give you the initial rundown about the Atlas, maps, and the map device, while also giving you a free map item in case you didn’t find any during the campaign. From there you’re off to the races and the rest of this guide picks up as normal. Sorry for the omission!
@@xedden2 it’s funny to me that I myself love to listen to unintentional ASMR (despite loathing the anti-scientific nonsense that is the name “ASMR” and wishing someone would research what’s actually going on there) and apparently my life has come full circle and so now I am, in fact, a source of unintentional ASMR. That somehow doesn’t feel coincidental but I SWEAR it’s not deliberate lmao
I appreciate that man, genuinely. Thank you for telling me, my goal is to help people out and it’s super gratifying to hear when it does help. It also helps ME to hear back from newer players: so if there are specific topics you think would be interesting or helpful to hear about, your perspective is invaluable.
@@buffalobaronCommendable goal and it's definitely been working especially since there's not that much stuff that is very detailed, personally a video on how to actually be tanky would be nice, different layers of defense you can use and why use them and some more detailed info on what they all do, like I had no idea spell suppression helps with physical hits because I just assumed they're all attacks, could be nice to do it alongside a damage one or just general stuff veterans would know like chaos damage not being reflected. Outside of that I think crafting is something a lot of people wont interact with because of the nature of how luck based and complicated it seems though u already have a video on that, another thing that could help but I imagine would be hard to do is something like things to look for when looking at builds and maybe some tips on making your own though that's definitely way more advanced, but yeah some guidelines on builds would be nice since I think the first build u follow will make or break the game. Thanks again.
Forgot to mention but another helpful video would be how to navigate the trade site, figuring out how to search for specific corrupted or searing exarch/eater of worlds has been a massive time saver and I imagine there's other stuff I don't know about
@@electro3447 nice one, I agree, I think that’s a topic a lot of more experienced players take for granted and forget how much they’ve picked up instinctively over the years. I’ll noodle on that one, but I can see some definite possibilities for a tutorial there. Probably with a few case examples of “this is what I want, how do I find it?”
@@electro3447 Builds are something I agonize over when posting to this channel. Creating builds from scratch is such a nuanced and advanced skill that even I’m only mediocre at it, and you’re absolutely right that a build makes or breaks a beginner’s experience of the game, so I don’t want to post anything that a new player won’t find helpful. I’ve mostly posted build guides or showcases aimed at players with more experience. I’d love to be able to put together a super beginner friendly guide on a build that hasn’t been covered that way before, but most of the good ones are “taken” (if that makes sense) by more prolific new-player friendly content creators like Pohx, Zizaran, FuzzyDucksy, Jorgen, Subtractem, Enki, Fezz etc. (and back in the day: Kay, ShakCentral, EngineeringEternity and others). Suffice it to say I think about this topic a lot and if I’m able to come up with something that meets my own high standards I will definitely post it. Your other points are equally well taken and I will definitely incorporate those into my thoughts on future video topics.
1st time POE player that just fell in love in the complexity of this game was just wondering if for people like me you would do a fix my build series or explaining some misconception new players may have.
Another quality guide! Thank you so much for doing these videos. I'm now making consistent currency because of your previous video and now I am working on the Atlas and getting those voidstones! Thank you again for the simplified explanations for a truly complex game!
Hi @buffalobaron - just wanted to give you an update. For the first time since playing POE back in 2018, I've finally completed the atlas and got all 4 voidstones. Just wanted to share my journey in getting the voidstones. I know in the video, you said that exarch and eater are the 1st two voidstones that you will be getting. This wasn't so clear in game. I just kept on following the Maven quest and wondering why I haven't gotten any voidstones yet. After reading other materials, it's supposed to be the exarch and eater to give me the 1st two so I just enabled the tick box for the corresponding boss and progressed that way. From what I learned, Maven and the other boss give you the other 2 void stones. Now, I haven't had the chance to fight them myself but since watching your previous video on how to make currency, I just paid for a carry from the trade chat. However, i do look forward to fighting these other bosses myself and finally complete the game on my own.
@@mazzith that’s my secret, Cap: I (always) have adhd too. So I try to pace things in a way that hopefully maintains the attention of someone with adhd because….well I know what MY brain would immediately reject and be like “NOPE NOT WATCHING THAT, CLICK TO THE OTHER TAB/VIDEO” If I review my script or my first draft and think to myself “I would have clicked away from this nonsense after 0.01 seconds” then I probably have some editing to do. I’m glad to hear it’s working though. Anything else you’d want to see as a topic? Can’t guarantee I’ll do everything people recommend but I’m always open to ideas.
@@buffalobaron I’d need to check your video list to see what’s there. I last played when the syndicate was the actual league back in 2019. I just finished the campaign and started to do some maps. I haven’t quite figured out what else I should prioritize when it comes to other things like the rogue token things or any of the other endgame activities
@@mazzith I suggest considering each previous league mechanic as equivalent. If it’s an unusual way of encountering monsters and it’s associated with a previous league, just file that away in your brain under the same category of “here’s a tool in my toolbelt, a choice for currency making.” None are automatically better or worse than any others, though they can vary from league to league based on balance changes and economy changes. Consider each league mechanic its own thing and understand them individually. The rogue marker thing is heist, a mechanic that takes place almost entirely OUTSIDE the atlas; it’s very similar to delve except you can get even further away from the atlas if you want. At least with delve you have to go back to get the sulphite to power the delve mine cart, it has SOME mandatory tie to the atlas. With heist you can literally buy the contracts from other players and never visit maps again if you don’t want. It’s a fairly niche playstyle but one than many people do enjoy.
First league I have played past the campaign and was struggling with finding uncompleted maps. Your video gave me a lot of info I was missing to progress. Thank you!
Hey! Just as a side note, I would really appreciate a video on a little more detail on the rest of the Atlas nuances like the voidstones and such, I really like you approach to the explanations! Hope you consider it, thanks!
Man, I just came back from beast league...THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS! I couldn't find any other updated atlas guides....of worth. This knowledge has gotten me through the Elder/Shaper hill I've been stuck on trying to figure out! Well done, sir, thank you!
@@qunningStunts oh that’s awesome, welcome back! And thank you for the kind words. How has it felt for you so far? Any new additions in particular you’re enjoying? It must be wild to come back after so long!
This will be useful for next league for sure! 3.25 was my first league mapping ever so I approached it with as few guides as possible and just played the game. Re ran so many maps (got all rank 1 maps, then rank 2 etc etc) to get one next to it. The only map I had to trade for was "forbidden woods" it just would not drop. Atm I only have the Elder voidstone left, just a matter of gathering enough currency to progress the boss and learn. Been trying all of the different "core" encounters and it has been a blast. My biggest blunder was following a "alc and go" strat from Maxroll where they put a point into "crystal resonance" which gave the map bosses a chance to turn into literal gods and stopped my progress around tier 13-14 maps and it took me a while to realise what was going on lol. Some questions after spending 200 hours in the leauge: How does quantity % and the size of the map affect drops? If I choose a shorter layout like Jungle valley, do I on average get less quantity of mobs vs a longer/bigger map? in the tradeoff being able get to the map boss faster? Would be interest to hear about how to "work" a map, what is common strats to run maps fast and get 2min runs/map and really farm a lot in a little time. What maps people tend to avoid vs maps people love to run (layout wise, cards you can scry to any map so not that relevant) And maybe classes that serve different mapping purposes. Combinations of atlas passive trees with maps i.e I picked jungle valley mostly get fast access to Niko´s mine nodes and betrayal people.
@@jakerichards1988 I do not attack, I only lightly poke ;) I’m glad you find it helpful! And seriously don’t worry, my first league I didn’t get halfway through my atlas before sputtering out and coming back next league. You’re already doing better than I was. Also: I always like to solicit new player feedback on what would be helpful (this video, in fact, was the result of someone’s suggestion), so I’m all ears if there are other topics you would find helpful. Your perspective is importantly because I’ve been playing so long sometimes it’s difficult to put myself in the shoes of a new player and remember which things the game doesn’t explain well.
@buffalobaron Thanks so much for taking the time to respond! I will share from the perspective of someone who had about 5 hours of gameplay in a couple days before league start. I now have about 80 hours of total gameplay, and by my estimation another 20-30 hours worth of reading guides, and watching videos (If its not obvious yet, I've caught the bug.) Other experience of note: More hours than I care to admit in Diablo 2. The beginner guides, and tips for campaign style videos were really helpful to pick up all of the basics. I shuffled through quite a few gleaning bits and pieces, and also listening to things that were essentially Greek. Pressing through the campaign, and getting to maps helped make most of it clear. The hardest thing to discern then and still are the relative terms. Things like "once you are wealthy" or early game, mid game, and end game builds. What I find most difficult about reading a guide on something like maxroll (POB still eludes me, though I am learning.) Is determining what stage I am in because it doesn't say anything like: "Once you can comfortably run 8 mod t16 maps you are in mid game." I know this can be a bit of a moving target based on your build, but... My other major difficulty is determining the amount of wealth I should have before attempting a specific craft. I realize once again that this is a moving target, but I have no clue if a bow craft being described is 60 chaos or 10 divine. It would be helpful to know a rough idea of what I am getting myself into, and how much wealth I should be prepared to use. I believe I saw mention of a tool that can calculate odds on a craft? These are my biggest obstacles at the moment. I would be happy to share more if that could help!
Can you say a bit more about what kind of crafting video you had in mind, i.e. what kind of topics you would be interested in? And in the meantime, let me point you to my video on Untangling Confusing Crafting terms in POE (which is admittedly a sort of niche/specific topic), as well as more comprehensive general crafting guides by Subtractem, Zizaran, GhazzyTV and Scruffy.
@@Barbell_Neptune I will say that those other videos I mentioned make a damned fine effort at what youre describing, and I respect the heck out of them for it. But on the whole it’s a much taller “ask” than you probably realize. Currency making is complex, sure, but as you saw there are some general principles that go a long way. Crafting…that’s a whole other level. We’re talking like a mid level university class in terms of complexity and length. But your point is well taken and you’ve given me something to think about. Maybe there’s a way I can do an overview that is cognizant of (and alerts the viewer to) the relative level of complexity and expense of each tool and method described. I’ll have a think on that, thank you for the suggestion.
I only played standard and got tired of redoing it every league start a few months back and just quit. If they fix that I'll be back. Good video though. Keep up the good work.
@@bobbymoore8030 Just in case you are not aware: I don’t normally play standard myself but I just tested this and it worked for me: my understanding has always been that if you run one of your old maps in standard WITHOUT converting it to the new patch version it’ll actually cascade through and register all your completions aside from any new T16 maps that happened to rotate in that patch. In my test just now I confirmed that only the T16s which had rotated in (4 maps) remained incomplete but the other 111 maps immediately updated to completed status. And even though the bonus objectives show as incomplete I still have my fully allocated passive skill tree with all the points, so you’d really only need to redo those if the visual appearance of being incomplete bothered you, but I don’t think it has any practical impact?
@@buffalobaron I'll give it another go, when I quit they wiped my entire tree and I had to start from scratch. Maybe it was just a huge overhaul but it felt bad when it happened.
@@bobbymoore8030 right, no, I’m with you. The tree gets “wiped” every patch but you can restore it instantly by running a single map as long as you don’t convert that map to the new patch’s atlas type, or whatever it’s called. If you just grab any random map you had the day before the patch, pop it in and kill the boss, you’re going to get a massive string of popup messages alone the the right of side of the screen as 100+ maps suddenly all get re-registered as completed. You’ll have to re-complete around 4, if you’ve got an endgame build and don’t bother killing any enemies that shouldn’t take more than 10-15 minutes every few months.
I dont think having your voidstones in prevents you from dropping lower tier maps inside of lower tier maps. I farm essences in yellow tier and sustain my yellow maps myself with all 4 voidstones in. This comment is at 24:50 of the video. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you meant but it was the first comment I heard that caught my attention.
@@josephchuhran8663 ah fun fact on this one: I kept it simpler for the video but there ARE some mechanics that spit out maps as specific rewards which ignore your voidstone setup. Blight, legion, that kind of thing. But normal monster drops will obey voidstone rules. If you’re not running any of those mechanics I’d be interested in seeing a screenshot of your atlas; is there any possibility that some or all of your voidstones are sitting in the “holding” area off to the left rather than in the central location? Because they ARE supposed to restrict you from dropping lower tier maps from the majority of monsters, unless I missed a recent patch note. Thank you for the feedback though, I’m curious to see how this turns out!
@@buffalobaron When I'm running t16 maps I dont drop many lower tier maps, pretty much they are exclusively t16. But when I'm farming yellow maps, I drop a lot of yellow maps inside those maps. I'm only doing essence and alva in these maps, I dont touch any mechanics that arent those two. I get a lot of maps off of just natural mobs and the bosses. My atlas is totally complete and my voidstones are indeed slotted in, I've never removed them after picking them up. Maybe they are coming from something weird but I completely sustain my farming without buying anything from Kirac or trade. We are talking 100-200 maps a day. Maybe I'll take out my voidstones and see if I start to drop even more maps. It could be from the % chance for one Monster in each of your Maps to drop an additional connected map modifier from the atlas passive tree. I have 24% from the nodes I have allotted. But I often get multiple maps from a single map so maybe its this combined with something else. I really like your content. Your presentation is top tier.
@@josephchuhran8663 thanks for the heads up, I’m going to try doing some testing myself with a loose or nonexistent loot filter. If things have changed I’ll need to update my advice. Appreciate you bringing it up!
@@UltraSuperDuperFreak oh I’ve got a three monitor setup; I actually play PoE on my main monitor which sits right in front of me and is an ultra wide. You can see how the aspect ratio in my older TH-cam videos is weird. When playing normally my top monitor is for stuff like the trade website, the wiki, etc. But I got a couple comments that it was hard to see everything on my videos when I recorded from that monitor, so now whenever I record footage I intend to include in a video I put PoE on my top monitor which is a more standard size and resolution. Hence: looking up :)
Very well done. As someone thats been playing off and on since beta, your format was great and easy to digest. I would say that you have room for a beginners series and could have an intermediate and advanced.
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After posting this I realized I left out two things. First: my sample atlas tree forgot to take the Solidarity wheel in the bottom right. I’ll edit that into the linked tree in the description but it won’t appear in the video. I would 100% prioritize that before getting extra Shrine or Jun nodes.
Second: there’s a beginner-oriented topic I missed in the video: how you originally come into contact with the Atlas. So very briefly:
After you complete the final campaign boss and enter the portal that pops up you will be taken back to the Act 10 town, Oriath. There you have the opportunity to collect your reward of 2 skill points from Lani AND talk to Lilly Roth who will offer to sail you from Oriath to the epilogue area: the Karui Shores.
This is where you’ll be directed to meet Kirac for the first time and he will give you the initial rundown about the Atlas, maps, and the map device, while also giving you a free map item in case you didn’t find any during the campaign.
From there you’re off to the races and the rest of this guide picks up as normal. Sorry for the omission!
Thanks for making this video. It very helpful and informative. I look forward to seeing your edit on the linked tree in the description.
Another hour plus long Buffalo Baron video? My Poe ASMR needs for the next few days are met lol
@@xedden2 it’s funny to me that I myself love to listen to unintentional ASMR (despite loathing the anti-scientific nonsense that is the name “ASMR” and wishing someone would research what’s actually going on there) and apparently my life has come full circle and so now I am, in fact, a source of unintentional ASMR.
That somehow doesn’t feel coincidental but I SWEAR it’s not deliberate lmao
Appreciate the help on my first serious league, have kind of randomly been mapping to 80/120 and got the Eater Voidstone for the first time! (so far)
started playing this league and your videos have been very useful, thank you
I appreciate that man, genuinely. Thank you for telling me, my goal is to help people out and it’s super gratifying to hear when it does help. It also helps ME to hear back from newer players: so if there are specific topics you think would be interesting or helpful to hear about, your perspective is invaluable.
@@buffalobaronCommendable goal and it's definitely been working especially since there's not that much stuff that is very detailed, personally a video on how to actually be tanky would be nice, different layers of defense you can use and why use them and some more detailed info on what they all do, like I had no idea spell suppression helps with physical hits because I just assumed they're all attacks, could be nice to do it alongside a damage one or just general stuff veterans would know like chaos damage not being reflected. Outside of that I think crafting is something a lot of people wont interact with because of the nature of how luck based and complicated it seems though u already have a video on that, another thing that could help but I imagine would be hard to do is something like things to look for when looking at builds and maybe some tips on making your own though that's definitely way more advanced, but yeah some guidelines on builds would be nice since I think the first build u follow will make or break the game. Thanks again.
Forgot to mention but another helpful video would be how to navigate the trade site, figuring out how to search for specific corrupted or searing exarch/eater of worlds has been a massive time saver and I imagine there's other stuff I don't know about
@@electro3447 nice one, I agree, I think that’s a topic a lot of more experienced players take for granted and forget how much they’ve picked up instinctively over the years.
I’ll noodle on that one, but I can see some definite possibilities for a tutorial there. Probably with a few case examples of “this is what I want, how do I find it?”
@@electro3447 Builds are something I agonize over when posting to this channel. Creating builds from scratch is such a nuanced and advanced skill that even I’m only mediocre at it, and you’re absolutely right that a build makes or breaks a beginner’s experience of the game, so I don’t want to post anything that a new player won’t find helpful. I’ve mostly posted build guides or showcases aimed at players with more experience.
I’d love to be able to put together a super beginner friendly guide on a build that hasn’t been covered that way before, but most of the good ones are “taken” (if that makes sense) by more prolific new-player friendly content creators like Pohx, Zizaran, FuzzyDucksy, Jorgen, Subtractem, Enki, Fezz etc. (and back in the day: Kay, ShakCentral, EngineeringEternity and others). Suffice it to say I think about this topic a lot and if I’m able to come up with something that meets my own high standards I will definitely post it.
Your other points are equally well taken and I will definitely incorporate those into my thoughts on future video topics.
11:00 orb of binding. Never thought of that. Nice tip!
1st time POE player that just fell in love in the complexity of this game was just wondering if for people like me you would do a fix my build series or explaining some misconception new players may have.
Another quality guide! Thank you so much for doing these videos. I'm now making consistent currency because of your previous video and now I am working on the Atlas and getting those voidstones!
Thank you again for the simplified explanations for a truly complex game!
Hi @buffalobaron - just wanted to give you an update.
For the first time since playing POE back in 2018, I've finally completed the atlas and got all 4 voidstones.
Just wanted to share my journey in getting the voidstones.
I know in the video, you said that exarch and eater are the 1st two voidstones that you will be getting. This wasn't so clear in game.
I just kept on following the Maven quest and wondering why I haven't gotten any voidstones yet. After reading other materials, it's supposed to be the exarch and eater to give me the 1st two so I just enabled the tick box for the corresponding boss and progressed that way.
From what I learned, Maven and the other boss give you the other 2 void stones. Now, I haven't had the chance to fight them myself but since watching your previous video on how to make currency, I just paid for a carry from the trade chat. However, i do look forward to fighting these other bosses myself and finally complete the game on my own.
Best guide I’ve seen. You get to the point without feeling rushed or taking too long to where my ADD kicks in and I quit watching.
@@mazzith that’s my secret, Cap: I (always) have adhd too.
So I try to pace things in a way that hopefully maintains the attention of someone with adhd because….well I know what MY brain would immediately reject and be like “NOPE NOT WATCHING THAT, CLICK TO THE OTHER TAB/VIDEO”
If I review my script or my first draft and think to myself “I would have clicked away from this nonsense after 0.01 seconds” then I probably have some editing to do.
I’m glad to hear it’s working though. Anything else you’d want to see as a topic? Can’t guarantee I’ll do everything people recommend but I’m always open to ideas.
@@buffalobaron I’d need to check your video list to see what’s there. I last played when the syndicate was the actual league back in 2019. I just finished the campaign and started to do some maps. I haven’t quite figured out what else I should prioritize when it comes to other things like the rogue token things or any of the other endgame activities
@@mazzith I suggest considering each previous league mechanic as equivalent. If it’s an unusual way of encountering monsters and it’s associated with a previous league, just file that away in your brain under the same category of “here’s a tool in my toolbelt, a choice for currency making.”
None are automatically better or worse than any others, though they can vary from league to league based on balance changes and economy changes.
Consider each league mechanic its own thing and understand them individually.
The rogue marker thing is heist, a mechanic that takes place almost entirely OUTSIDE the atlas; it’s very similar to delve except you can get even further away from the atlas if you want. At least with delve you have to go back to get the sulphite to power the delve mine cart, it has SOME mandatory tie to the atlas. With heist you can literally buy the contracts from other players and never visit maps again if you don’t want. It’s a fairly niche playstyle but one than many people do enjoy.
First league I have played past the campaign and was struggling with finding uncompleted maps. Your video gave me a lot of info I was missing to progress. Thank you!
Hey man, great video! I've started playing POE in this league and recently got into maps, this definitely helped me a lot!
Hey! Just as a side note, I would really appreciate a video on a little more detail on the rest of the Atlas nuances like the voidstones and such, I really like you approach to the explanations! Hope you consider it, thanks!
Top of the notch beginner content 👍🏻 thanks a alot m8🤗
Man, I just came back from beast league...THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!
I couldn't find any other updated atlas guides....of worth. This knowledge has gotten me through the Elder/Shaper hill I've been stuck on trying to figure out!
Well done, sir, thank you!
@@qunningStunts oh that’s awesome, welcome back! And thank you for the kind words. How has it felt for you so far? Any new additions in particular you’re enjoying? It must be wild to come back after so long!
This video helped me immensely! Thank you!
This will be useful for next league for sure!
3.25 was my first league mapping ever so I approached it with as few guides as possible and just played the game. Re ran so many maps (got all rank 1 maps, then rank 2 etc etc) to get one next to it. The only map I had to trade for was "forbidden woods" it just would not drop. Atm I only have the Elder voidstone left, just a matter of gathering enough currency to progress the boss and learn. Been trying all of the different "core" encounters and it has been a blast.
My biggest blunder was following a "alc and go" strat from Maxroll where they put a point into "crystal resonance" which gave the map bosses a chance to turn into literal gods and stopped my progress around tier 13-14 maps and it took me a while to realise what was going on lol.
Some questions after spending 200 hours in the leauge:
How does quantity % and the size of the map affect drops? If I choose a shorter layout like Jungle valley, do I on average get less quantity of mobs vs a longer/bigger map? in the tradeoff being able get to the map boss faster?
Would be interest to hear about how to "work" a map, what is common strats to run maps fast and get 2min runs/map and really farm a lot in a little time. What maps people tend to avoid vs maps people love to run (layout wise, cards you can scry to any map so not that relevant) And maybe classes that serve different mapping purposes. Combinations of atlas passive trees with maps i.e I picked jungle valley mostly get fast access to Niko´s mine nodes and betrayal people.
Thank you for this great guide 🎉
Hell yea a new video :D
As a brand new player with a lvl 90 Deadeye and an incomplete atlas, I feel attacked at 1:23, lol. These videos are very helpful.
@@jakerichards1988 I do not attack, I only lightly poke ;)
I’m glad you find it helpful! And seriously don’t worry, my first league I didn’t get halfway through my atlas before sputtering out and coming back next league. You’re already doing better than I was.
Also: I always like to solicit new player feedback on what would be helpful (this video, in fact, was the result of someone’s suggestion), so I’m all ears if there are other topics you would find helpful.
Your perspective is importantly because I’ve been playing so long sometimes it’s difficult to put myself in the shoes of a new player and remember which things the game doesn’t explain well.
@buffalobaron Thanks so much for taking the time to respond! I will share from the perspective of someone who had about 5 hours of gameplay in a couple days before league start. I now have about 80 hours of total gameplay, and by my estimation another 20-30 hours worth of reading guides, and watching videos (If its not obvious yet, I've caught the bug.) Other experience of note: More hours than I care to admit in Diablo 2.
The beginner guides, and tips for campaign style videos were really helpful to pick up all of the basics. I shuffled through quite a few gleaning bits and pieces, and also listening to things that were essentially Greek. Pressing through the campaign, and getting to maps helped make most of it clear. The hardest thing to discern then and still are the relative terms. Things like "once you are wealthy" or early game, mid game, and end game builds.
What I find most difficult about reading a guide on something like maxroll (POB still eludes me, though I am learning.) Is determining what stage I am in because it doesn't say anything like: "Once you can comfortably run 8 mod t16 maps you are in mid game." I know this can be a bit of a moving target based on your build, but...
My other major difficulty is determining the amount of wealth I should have before attempting a specific craft. I realize once again that this is a moving target, but I have no clue if a bow craft being described is 60 chaos or 10 divine. It would be helpful to know a rough idea of what I am getting myself into, and how much wealth I should be prepared to use. I believe I saw mention of a tool that can calculate odds on a craft? These are my biggest obstacles at the moment.
I would be happy to share more if that could help!
Thank you!
Thanks for the vid, you callrified a lot of mu doubts
I'm actually a lot more comfortable with the Atlas passive tree than the character passive tree.
can you make a video about crafting? I really liked your vid about making currency! Thanks
Can you say a bit more about what kind of crafting video you had in mind, i.e. what kind of topics you would be interested in? And in the meantime, let me point you to my video on Untangling Confusing Crafting terms in POE (which is admittedly a sort of niche/specific topic), as well as more comprehensive general crafting guides by Subtractem, Zizaran, GhazzyTV and Scruffy.
I'd watch a video that talks about early to endgame crafting. Similar to how comprehensive this and your currency video was
@@Barbell_Neptune I will say that those other videos I mentioned make a damned fine effort at what youre describing, and I respect the heck out of them for it. But on the whole it’s a much taller “ask” than you probably realize. Currency making is complex, sure, but as you saw there are some general principles that go a long way. Crafting…that’s a whole other level. We’re talking like a mid level university class in terms of complexity and length.
But your point is well taken and you’ve given me something to think about. Maybe there’s a way I can do an overview that is cognizant of (and alerts the viewer to) the relative level of complexity and expense of each tool and method described. I’ll have a think on that, thank you for the suggestion.
I only played standard and got tired of redoing it every league start a few months back and just quit. If they fix that I'll be back. Good video though. Keep up the good work.
@@bobbymoore8030 Just in case you are not aware: I don’t normally play standard myself but I just tested this and it worked for me: my understanding has always been that if you run one of your old maps in standard WITHOUT converting it to the new patch version it’ll actually cascade through and register all your completions aside from any new T16 maps that happened to rotate in that patch.
In my test just now I confirmed that only the T16s which had rotated in (4 maps) remained incomplete but the other 111 maps immediately updated to completed status.
And even though the bonus objectives show as incomplete I still have my fully allocated passive skill tree with all the points, so you’d really only need to redo those if the visual appearance of being incomplete bothered you, but I don’t think it has any practical impact?
@@buffalobaron I'll give it another go, when I quit they wiped my entire tree and I had to start from scratch. Maybe it was just a huge overhaul but it felt bad when it happened.
@@bobbymoore8030 right, no, I’m with you. The tree gets “wiped” every patch but you can restore it instantly by running a single map as long as you don’t convert that map to the new patch’s atlas type, or whatever it’s called.
If you just grab any random map you had the day before the patch, pop it in and kill the boss, you’re going to get a massive string of popup messages alone the the right of side of the screen as 100+ maps suddenly all get re-registered as completed.
You’ll have to re-complete around 4, if you’ve got an endgame build and don’t bother killing any enemies that shouldn’t take more than 10-15 minutes every few months.
@@buffalobaron much thanks🙏
I dont think having your voidstones in prevents you from dropping lower tier maps inside of lower tier maps. I farm essences in yellow tier and sustain my yellow maps myself with all 4 voidstones in. This comment is at 24:50 of the video. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you meant but it was the first comment I heard that caught my attention.
@@josephchuhran8663 ah fun fact on this one: I kept it simpler for the video but there ARE some mechanics that spit out maps as specific rewards which ignore your voidstone setup. Blight, legion, that kind of thing. But normal monster drops will obey voidstone rules.
If you’re not running any of those mechanics I’d be interested in seeing a screenshot of your atlas; is there any possibility that some or all of your voidstones are sitting in the “holding” area off to the left rather than in the central location?
Because they ARE supposed to restrict you from dropping lower tier maps from the majority of monsters, unless I missed a recent patch note. Thank you for the feedback though, I’m curious to see how this turns out!
@@buffalobaron When I'm running t16 maps I dont drop many lower tier maps, pretty much they are exclusively t16. But when I'm farming yellow maps, I drop a lot of yellow maps inside those maps.
I'm only doing essence and alva in these maps, I dont touch any mechanics that arent those two. I get a lot of maps off of just natural mobs and the bosses. My atlas is totally complete and my voidstones are indeed slotted in, I've never removed them after picking them up.
Maybe they are coming from something weird but I completely sustain my farming without buying anything from Kirac or trade. We are talking 100-200 maps a day. Maybe I'll take out my voidstones and see if I start to drop even more maps.
It could be from the % chance for one Monster in each of your Maps to drop an additional connected map modifier from the atlas passive tree. I have 24% from the nodes I have allotted. But I often get multiple maps from a single map so maybe its this combined with something else.
I really like your content. Your presentation is top tier.
@@josephchuhran8663 thanks for the heads up, I’m going to try doing some testing myself with a loose or nonexistent loot filter. If things have changed I’ll need to update my advice. Appreciate you bringing it up!
lol how big is your screen that you have to look upwards to see something in upper half of screen :P
@@UltraSuperDuperFreak oh I’ve got a three monitor setup; I actually play PoE on my main monitor which sits right in front of me and is an ultra wide. You can see how the aspect ratio in my older TH-cam videos is weird. When playing normally my top monitor is for stuff like the trade website, the wiki, etc.
But I got a couple comments that it was hard to see everything on my videos when I recorded from that monitor, so now whenever I record footage I intend to include in a video I put PoE on my top monitor which is a more standard size and resolution. Hence: looking up :)
Very well done. As someone thats been playing off and on since beta, your format was great and easy to digest. I would say that you have room for a beginners series and could have an intermediate and advanced.