Path of Exile (PoE) 3.22 Delve Early Farming Guide: 7 Tips for Success

The highly anticipated Path of Exile 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur has been released! In this patch, the developers have added a lot of new content. Black Knight is an exclusive boss added this time, and it brings new boss mechanics and new loot rewards. Because of these new things, every player should try it. However, because of the mechanics of the game, you rarely have the opportunity to fight Black Knight directly, so you can wait until one day when you have a lot of time, and then slowly explore according to the location and fighting method of Black Knight introduced in this guide! Location Of Black Knight Black Knight can be found in Starfall Crater. If you run the map frequently, you may see a new area open at a random location. Its entrance looks very much like a Twisted Burrows, which is also in Settlers of Kalguur. This boss is level 83, so you can safely assume that Starfall Crater appears on level 16 maps. It should be explained that in Settlers of Kalguur league, many new mechanics have been added to encourage players to explore the map more, and Nameless Seer has been added to players. So you can get some random unique items and map divination abilities, so you can predict where Starfall Crater will appear on the map. The best way to find Black Knight is to explore easy-to-run T16 maps, which will also increase your chances of finding Starfall Crater. Here you should be careful to avoid exploring difficult maps such as Maze, Dungeon, Cage, and other non-linear maps. Black Knight’s Mechanics Black Knight possesses a variety of abilities that are tied to undead mana and dark magic. Understanding these mechanics is essential to developing an effective strategy to defeat him. Undead Minions Black Knight constantly summons waves of undead minions to overwhelm the player and their defenses. These minions include skeletons, zombies, and ghost warriors, each with their own unique abilities. Curses And Debuffs Black Knight casts a variety of curses and debuffs that weaken the player’s combat effectiveness. These curses reduce resistance, drain health, and hinder movement. Spectral Attacks Black Knight uses dark magic and spectral weapons to launch devastating attacks. These attacks include powerful melee attacks, ranged dark magic projectiles, and area denial abilities. How To Fight Black Knight? After you find Black Knight, there is only one point to note: you must fight him head-on. When you alternate between performing two or three actions on him, he will also perform a Whirling Blade’s attack and then dash in a linear direction. When you get close to Black Knight, he will punch you. At this time, you need to pay special attention to his 180-degree piercing projectile attack. If your max health is over 3,500 and your suppress and resist are both very high, you will most likely survive. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to defeat him. When Black Knight’s health drops to 80% or 40% of its original health, it will enter a second phase and become invincible. In addition, it will summon some Verisium Pillars to attack you and shrink the size of the arena, making it impossible for you to hide. At this time, if you hide behind a pillar to avoid his beams, his lasers will penetrate the pillars you used to defend yourself after a few seconds. Don’t stand still. Hurry to the next pillar. You may need to move three times in the complete process. When the boss’s health drops to 60% or 20%, it will become more invincible and summon rock storms. At this time, Verisium Meteors will fall from above you and attack you. During this period, you need to dodge these flying objects constantly, so make sure you are very mobile before fighting. After its last invincibility phase, you will fight it again. The rock storm will continue to fall, and once it hits you, you will take more damage. However, if you have any culling mechanics in your build, this stage will be very easy for you, as the boss is now very close to elimination range. If you die in any of the stages, you will respawn at the entrance of Starfall Crater instead of your hideout. You can reenter and continue fighting Black Knight. However, in the feedback we have received so far, many players have reported that they cannot enter Starfall Crater after respawning. This may be random, or each stage may give you another chance to retry. Loot After Defeating Black Knight After you defeat Black Knight, you will receive a unique item, Svalinn Girded Tower Shield, and it will also drop some runes that can be used for forging. If you don’t need these runes, you can exchange them for POE Currency in the new market. The best rewards for this boss encounter are Verisium deposits scattered around the arena or crater. You will find five Verisium deposits, including one extra large deposit. Mark or mine all Verisium Ores and leave the rest to your workers. These Verisium Ores are very valuable in Kingsmarch, so you should try to fight Black Knight every time you see a Starfall Crater. If you encounter any problems in Path of Exile 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur or have the experience to share with other players, you are welcome to come to iGMeet Discord to communicate. In addition, you have the opportunity to get POE Currency in it. Come and participate! After reading this guide, are you more confident in your battle with Black Knight? I hope this guide can help you in your battle!

Welcome, fellow players! Let me share an effective setup for Champion aura stacking with you today. In the new League in Path of Exile 3.24, some new Uniques appear, and I will pick the Hand of Phrecia to stack the Champion aura and explore the interaction in this setup. However, for the most part, this setup is very limiting in terms of build scope. I do believe that this setup can be effective. You just need to find the right avenue to go down to make the best use of this combination of mechanics. I will show the potential of these 2 unique items together for the Champion. Champion Ascendancy The Champion ascendancy has the Inspirational notable which grants 30% increased aura effect and another 5% on the small node as well, and it also makes Banner skills have no Reservation, which is quite important to how many Reservation skills you're going to want to fit in with a setup like this. Passive Tree The passive tree paths up into the Scion starting area, grabs the Mana Reservation Efficiency Mastery for 3 points, and then through the Evasion wheel, going into the Ranger's starting area for the Charisma wheel and also taking the Mastery for 8% increase damage per aura affecting you. That Mastery is going to provide a great value for 1 point spent in this type of build, and then the tree also passes up the side of the Scion area to grab the Leadership wheel too for even more Mana Reservation Efficiency and aura effect. Instead of socketed gems being supported by Level 30 Generosity, we have socketed gems have 49% increased effect of Non-Curse aura from your skills, and this simulates those socketed gems being supported by Level 30 Generosity while also using the Hand of Phrecia. This current setup is using Grace, Determination, triple Purity, and Defiance Banner, and you can find that just with the scaling on this small passive tree, we're already at 42k Evasion, 30k armor, and 84% Maximum Elemental Resistances. Hand Of Phrecia The Hand of Phrecia will allow you to use Generosity Support to provide a huge aura effect boost to linked auras, which allows you to gain the aura effect from this support gem whilst the aura itself still affects you because the gloves have a modifier which states that auras only affect you and linked targets. Victario's Influence This unique body armor is very common and is typically used in builds to either support other players via a bunch of auras or empower the player's minions. It grants a large amount of Reservation Efficiency to socketed gems and supports those gems with Level 30 Generosity Support. The cool thing about Victario's Influence though is that it's so common that you can just purchase these cheaply or find enough of them to corrupt them with Vaal Orbs for a corrupted implicit. Skill Gems This build has all of its Mana reserved, but this is without using a helmet or any jewel sockets, so you can easily free up more Reservation Efficiency to pay skill cost with Mana. This will provide enough Mana for skill usage. So in this setup, there are all Level 20 gems improved to Level 21 with the Victario's Influence modifier, which grants +1 to socketed aura gem levels. You can corrupt these gems to be Level 21, which would bring their total gem levels to 22. In an aura stacking build, this extra 1% may seem trivial, but it's crucial. The aura effect breakpoint for gaining additional Maximum Resistance from these auras shifts from 25% to 20%. You're looking for +2 to the level of socketed aura gems or +2 to the level of socketed AOE gems. You could fix the sockets after hitting the corruption if you wanted to use Tainted Jeweller's Orb and Tainted Chromatic Orb. Final Thought This is just an example. You could use the classic Champion's best belt - Perseverance to make use of the arm and Evasion. You could instead choose to spec into Iron Reflexes on the tree and go for more of an armor stacking setup, but you’re unlikely to scale a Breach Core body armor for that type of build. If you didn’t want to use the triple Purity aura setup, you could instead go for a single Purity and drop the other 2 and then make use of Purity of Elements for the elemental ailment immunity that it provides and use melding of the flesh to gain all Maximum Elemental Resistances based on a single Purity of Elements that you chose to go with.

In Path of Exile 3.24, Harbinger in SSF proves useful for several reasons, particularly for farming currency. It adds numerous monsters to the maps, and acquiring scarabs is relatively straightforward. This strategy is not overly complex to execute, and the investment required is minimal and can effectively complement other strategies. Strategy Overview The idea of this strategy is incredibly straightforward: we aim to maximize the number of Harbingers in the map, buff them as much as possible. Despite its simplicity, it's a fun strategy. Harbingers can also spawn as a map modifier, resulting in some completely ludicrous maps filled with blue Harbingers. They drop many hard-to-get currency orbs like Exalted Orbs, Orb of Annulment, Ancient Orbs, and even Fracturing Orbs, which are incredibly rare. You can use all the Ancient Orbs on unique belts in SSF. On average, you can take 3 to 4 Ancient Orbs per map, plus an Orb of Annulment and maybe an Exalted Orb. To give you an idea of the loot that is in Tier 16 maps, with perhaps on average 80% map quantity, but that map quantity doesn't actually affect the results. You would maybe think that Harbingers drop the Beachhead map or the Landing Divination Card, which can be traded for the Beachhead. Harbinger Scarabs For scarabs, I'm typically using 2 regular Harbinger Scarabs for 6 additional Harbingers, then one Harbinger Scarab of Discernment to increase their currency to be rare and drop one type. This means you either get a ton of the currency that you want or you don't get anything at all. But it saves you a lot of clicking. The fourth scarab is the Harbinger Scarab of Regency, giving us a 50% chance for a Harbinger boss. The total chance of this is now 75% thanks to the passive tree. Sometimes, you will have enough of the Harbinger Scarab of Warhoards, which doubles the currency that you're getting, which is obviously amazing. Atlas Tree Setup Let's talk about the atlas passive tree. First, we definitely choose the Harbinger nodes. First Wave gives a 25% chance for a more powerful Harbinger. Unspeakable Offensive makes them spawn their monsters much faster and speeds up the mechanic. Then you can take Rogues, as they drop tons of loot, and combined with the increased item quantity from Unrelenting Torment. I’m skipping shrines entirely on this strategy. The Harbinger isn’t all that difficult. It’s a lot easier than Essence monsters or Rogues, so we can do without the shrines and spend those points elsewhere. I recommend running the Searing Exarch influence as it provides a steady stream of currency and scarabs, which is useful in SSF. Running the league nodes for more corpses, more Allflame, and more buffs and debuffs on the monster packs. These synergize once more because the extra quantity and rarity modifiers are amazing in your maps. But also, we're playing the Necropolis League, and that means you should engage with the league mechanic. To sustain, scarabs are crucial, so you can prioritize acquiring most scarab nodes on the Atlas tree. However, opt out of certain nodes that enhance map modifier effects. While these nodes don't boost map rewards, they make maps overly challenging and less enjoyable, which is unnecessary. Final Thought I found a few pros of this strategy. The scarabs are fairly easy to find, and it works with a lot of combinations of Harbinger scarabs, so you can run this with whatever you want. You’re not really bound to one specific scarab. You can mix and match, and everything will basically just work. The loot is very consistent, and it’s also loot that you otherwise cannot get, like Fracturing Orbs. However, there are also some cons too. The first is that the maps take quite a long time to complete with the Harbinger. You still have to wait quite a while before all the monsters show up. The second con is that the mechanics don't really interact with many other strategies, as the monsters despawn on death, and seemingly they're not affected at all by the Allflames. And the Harbinger currency isn't affected by item quantity or item rarity, so you have very few ways to juice the rewards.

Fellow exiles, welcome back! This time, I'm excited to introduce you to another build in the Path of Exile 3.24 Necropolis, which is called the Arc Archmage Hierophant. Whether you're a seasoned veteran or a newcomer to the game, there's something valuable to discover in this guide. Let's dive in! How It Works Today's guide takes the classic build to another level - the ultimate Arc Archmage Hierophant with the Templar class. This build stacks as much mana as possible to take advantage of the Archmage support gem, which grants up to 19% of your mana as extra lightning damage. The skill of choice is the classic Arc, which transforms many enemies at great clear speed. To make things more interesting, we're using the Kitava's Thirst and an Anathema ring for a total of 6 curses on our enemies. Pros And Cons When discussing the pros of this build, let's begin with its exceptional clear speed. Arc effortlessly chains between many enemies, decimating entire packs with just a single cast - no precision aiming required. Furthermore, the boss damage output is truly remarkable. When facing sizable adversaries, unleashing the power of Crackling Lance delivers devastating single-target damage. Yet, it's crucial to consider the cons too. To begin, it's important to note that this build doesn't come cheap. It requires a significant investment of Divine Orbs to optimize its performance. Additionally, ensuring that every piece of equipment provides extra mana can complicate the gearing process, adding an extra layer of challenge. Budget Of This Build When discussing the budget, as previously noted, this build certainly doesn't come cheap. It necessitates a minimum investment of 10 Divine Orbs to ensure its functionality. There are only 2 mandatory unique items required for this Arc Archmage Hierophant build. Firstly, there's the Kitava's Thirst helmet, which holds paramount importance. This helmet triggers socketed gems when you expend a minimum of 100 mana in a single cast, automatically cursing our enemies. Secondly, we have the Anathema ring, which aligns our curse limit with our maximum power charges. Performance Ratings Clear Speed: When it comes to assessing the clear speed of this build, I'd award it a perfect score of 10 out of 10. The pace at which it operates is simply remarkable. With the Arc skill at its disposal, this build effortlessly dispatches large packs of monsters with unparalleled efficiency. You'll find yourself effortlessly traversing maps at breakneck speed, swiftly eliminating any obstacle that crosses your path, all without putting undue strain on your GPU. Boss Damage: When evaluating the boss damage capabilities of this build, it undeniably earns a perfect score of 10 out of 10. The sheer potency of its offensive capabilities is truly outstanding. Take, for instance, the Crackling Lance skill, which stands out as a testament to its formidable strength. When facing formidable adversaries, this skill shines brightly, effortlessly dismantling even the most imposing bosses. Survivability: In terms of survivability, I would rate it at 9 out of 10. Not only do you have a big pool of life and energy shield, but also 50% of the damage is taken from mana before life. And, as you know, we have a lot of mana in this build. We also hit enemies so many times per second that the instant leech causes your life to be full almost 100% of the time. That wraps it up for today! How do you feel about this Arc Archmage Hierophant in the Path Of Exile 3.24? Wishing you an incredible day and remember to keep building!