The Necro Settlers Event Is WAY Crazier Than Expected! [PoE 3.25]

[@svenbardos6637]

I'm currently in Act9. Seeing the economy makes me want to quit. Everything is so expensive. It's absurd and not fun at all.

[@enzuojohn3540]

I get into map and the inflation is insane, I get no benefit of the currency yet the monster is difficult, so I changed back to settler

[@Croc1579]

I went ssf on this one. It's basically ezmode cause of all the drops being more common with the modifiers

[@toukoenriaze9870]

@@Croc1579 no target farming buff tho ... It's all currency

[@Quel_droma]

You just gotta take advantage of it.... I finished the campaign with 3 divs & 80c and a 6-link

[@younggenin2957]

@@svenbardos6637 kinda doing a hybrid SSF and currency exchange decent as a challenge with thr option of picking up something you really need.

[@knappieboy]

Ever since binding my left click to the side button on my mouse, i havent had any wrist pain and ive been able to play POE for more than 5hrs. This event is heaven for me lol

[@WesternHypernormalization]

Hmm, that's an interest idea. I'll have to try this. Edit: Do you use a 3rd party keybind program?

[@Joegengstah]

Good idea, I was in the same boat. I use scroll wheel to loot and just mouse over items in my inventory while scrolling to deposit/withdraw. I have an ahk script I made myself to do this, but you can use the program called x-button that allows you to remap keys or make secondary left clicks etc, for example make scroll wheel left click. Then you can hold ctrl and scroll wheel your inventory clean with bank affinities on or use a dump tab.

[@PathofEvening]

Not a bad idea.

[@joeanon8568]

This event is making it hard to tell if my build is bad. I'll be just cruising through white maps and then have some different pack of mobs just delete me. I dunno what the deal is with those sulphate packs but I actually bricked a t1,.and during the campaign, I almost couldn't progress through southern forest 2 when some tota mobs were camping the main path

[@JayM928]

I am having the same problem. "Is this tougher or is my build really bad?" I'm using all my portals to finish a T1 map. Thinking about rerolling, but can't tell if that's the problem. I'm assuming it is based on all the people (except me) that seem to be rolling it currency with their day 2 t16s. Edit: I have more deaths on my lvl 72 character now than all of my settler characters combined right now.

[@vincentiusiseus]

@@JayM928 I posted on Reddit that I was deleted in T2 magic map and reddittors flamed me for my build being bad, when I was playing the league-favorite LS Slayer. I didn't disclose much information but I think there were enough hints that I just got out of campaigne. I mentioned T2 magic map, my HP was lower than 3,000, and that I would point out these "Disturbed Sulphite" that wasn't in the Settler league deleting me. For me, it's these 'disturbed sulphite'. Still having hard time even when I have progressed into red maps. Freaking normal 'disturbed sulphites' would shoot at me, and I'm just deleted. I can tank Harbinger-spawned mobs without difficulty. I could 1v1 that soul eater bi-atch in that map without frost bomb. But this 'disturbed sulphite' are next level. I don't knwo how raise spectre build works, but if I can take those guys with me, I think I would be super strong.

[@crazy338866]

​@@JayM928 There are certain league mob packs in Necro that are way harder than all the other mobs in the area. Your build is fine as long as you can still kill the map boss. Just pay more attention what mobs you give the Necro mods to and avoid hard to kill packs of mobs.

[@olegstarik8387]

Unfortunately it’s died in 2 days lol, prices skyrocketed on everything coz of the price of div which will become 600 in next few days and it’s not fun,will drop it

[@PathofEvening]

It's dead because prices skyrocketed due to so many people playing it. ????

[@ceezymuccheez]

@@PathofEvening I don’t think so. They skyrocketed because there aren’t enough people getting to content to farm divines. I’ve played basically as much as I possibly can, i’m still learning how to make my build along the way and i’ve fallen so far behind the curve that my next upgrade is 3 divine and i’m still on t15’s.

[@thunderingice667]

Peak players this event is 30k players on steamcharts. League starts are six digit numbers. I don’t know that you can argue there are a lot of players this event. The inflation needs a different explanation.

[@laptuca2007]

Lvled to 50, got my mystery box and quit😂

[@jordy8403]

same here lol

[@sean78745]

I got my first character effect from a box finally

[@PathofEvening]

Alrighty then

[@dennisdaenekas3209]

Is there only one reward?

[@jordy8403]

@@dennisdaenekas3209 yes

[@alxk3995]

Event is definitely not for me. Having to farm a specific map every hour or missing out completely and clicking 100c per map blows. 😐

[@PathofEvening]

ok

[@JordanSherrington-dn7wd]

It's not that good at all to be honest. Not enough ppl are playing the event and the market is hyper inflated. It's great for SSF. But that's about it.

[@PathofEvening]

ok

[@antonego9581]

i want to play but the thought of grinding out the town again... nah. Settlers was fun but im just waiting for POE2 at this point

[@PathofEvening]

To each their own obviously

[@YoutubeStyleChannel]

I think the event would have been much better if every map had different lantern mods, even increasing the rate of the rarer mods so we'd see them a lot more often. Having to have a discord and map tracker open to keep up with the market is a little annoying, and the event dying out only makes the issues worse.

[@PathofEvening]

The one-hour turnaround is a bit much.

[@Valandhir]

I already quit this "league" and went back to Settlers normal. It's utterly no use to start now, that the no lifers already inflated everything

[@PathofEvening]

Interesting

[@WesternHypernormalization]

What they really need to do for a temp league is Scourge maps with Affliction and Sentinel :p

[@PathofEvening]

That would be amazing.

[@Aznvico]

Hello I have updated poemap many many versions since the video and added admins to mod the votes. It has became a more reliable source than before :)

[@PathofEvening]

Excellent, thanks for all the great work!

[@stebobibo]

How come you recommend domination? Does it more monsters appear in the map because shrines are always guarded by monsters? Or cause it helps you clear maps faster? Couldn't find this info in the wiki. I'm not a veteran player of POE so I'm not familiar with all the mechanics. Thanks!

[@PathofEvening]

Both. More monsters, faster clear speed.

[@stebobibo]

@@PathofEvening Gotcha, thanks!

[@edgarl.mardal8256]

Great tip, I have not so much time but enjoy the joy of seeing other getting rich, and look forward to weekend, hope i can cruise true to T16 and make a ton of CH my self. This character can be changed over to settelser also, so see no need to go back, as the economi is being broken I think with focus on getting everyone to get a chance to enjoy max before new PO2 drops.

[@jimmyjohnsson4788]

So basically we need to sit and watch for a streamer getting the confirmation on what map the chaos is on and then go or lurk in Global chat and hope they don’t troll? This event SUCKS.

[@michaellewis1884]

@@jimmyjohnsson4788 there’s a map tracker website that tells you what’s active on what map.

[@TrickZ_Retz]

Just play SSF

[@PathofEvening]

Both viable approaches.

[@aboutvinn]

How do u sustain your chaos resistance?

[@PathofEvening]

Chaos res on gear?

[@jmbrady1]

as someone that likes crafting gear, I HATE how currency items are treated in general as just "WE WANT ALL YOUR DIVINES" or "WE WANT ALL YOUR MIRRORS" or "WE WANT ALL YOUR CHAOS"

[@jacoblancaster5044]

I tried playing the necro settlers but didnt seem like many people where on and had trouble buying and selling stuff. Also tried icenove of frostbolts and it is my fsvorite build ive played so far. Rough as a starter (at least the guide version i used) until about act 4 or 5 hit the ice nova gem naturally on my second lab and it absolutely shredded early mapping. But was disenchanted with playing with how the economy was :(

[@victorsoto4821]

I've been treating this event like a SSF with some trade thrown in there, got my second stone mostly through crafted gear with my slayer LS, been a decent distraction

[@Vox_Curio]

getting a bunch of chaos drops in campaign made lvling easier with buying low lvl uniques even though some of the enemies types are hard enough to kill me far more times than ever still would like this to be a permanent thing.

[@PathofEvening]

True. The first hour of the league had meatsacks in the Mud Flats. It was brutal.

[@JayM928]

Not enjoying this league. It feels like you’re either in the locker room with the champagne and the celebrating or you’re in the locker room with the quiet disappointment, just packing your crap up and thinking about the next league. Just my opinion/experience. Probably in the minority. Had an awesome time in settlers.

[@PathofEvening]

Mixed opinions based on these comments :)

[@nairbIy]

you don't actually have to burn a map to check it, if you click the tiny x in the top right it closes the lantern window without opening the map

[@PathofEvening]

That's true, but it's still locked until you open it.

[@kamilmcki8631]

Event is kind of nice, but whats not nice is event a simple shrine scarab costs like 25c

[@MNtoCali]

Yeah but a simple 10 minute tier 5 map drops 300 chaos so

[@kamilmcki8631]

@@MNtoCali 300chaos? tf are you throwing onto those maps? I was getting max 180c with 3 strongbox scarabs

[@MNtoCali]

@ yeah I found a totem divine conversion about 15 minutes past the hour, ended up with 22 raw divines since then

[@johnhopson7713]

Do you have a PoB? I'm running the same build but your seems way more cracked than mine, are you running Kitavas?

[@PathofEvening]

Yeah, working on a video about the build. Kitava's is a must for QoL.

[@phoenixspirit62]

Loving so far

[@JayM928]

What build are you playing?

[@milaninter2442]

@@JayM928 I'm playing power siphon, my first time playing a mine build and it's been incredibly fun. Starting with act 7 tomorrow

[@wollvischannel7688]

Im having a blast

[@leonhewitt4744]

Sweet, so I’ll farm ambush scarabs and dom scarabs, easy.

[@PathofEvening]

Bingo!

[@davidpowell3469]

I guess I know why GGG decided on this mess instead of adding something useful like Crucible, because they thought that people enjoyed watching Empyrean get tons of currency. But I totally disagree with their decision. I'll leave it at that because I am not happy with my favorite game.

[@PathofEvening]

Everyone has their own opinion.

[@killerkoalazz]

Time to go chaos spam a mirror item and steam it for content

[@PathofEvening]

Not our idea of content but go for it

[@yami2828]

😅😅 as somene who never really get much raw currency and can finally have more than 40div drops. I'm happy with it cause I hate crafting and the number of stuff you need to do t get raw currencies And I don't do sanctum cause nothing I have can get far in it and builds for it I don't play

[@rocksfire4390]

harvest juice is pretty nuts with it's current pricing. people want to craft, it's a crafting league, so go farm crafting mats and sell those.

[@PathofEvening]

Definitely a good strat!

[@williamehrhardt918]

This is a very hostile league for casual players. I do not want to track an ever changing field or watch my currency inflate away. I wanna brain off grind after work.

[@JayM928]

I figured we'd still be able to do that. As long as you were farming things that people want to buy. Let them farm chaos and buy your stuff with it. Unfortunately, I didn't realize there was more to it than that. Namely, (1) the difficulty seems higher as well and (2) the thing you farm one hour may suddenly brick your map the next hour because it's filled with some mob that is tricky for your build. The chaos is probably interesting if you are dominating all of it with your build. Unfortunately, I got baited with the "only the upsides of Necro" and chose an off-meta build that would have been challenging in settlers, so it's a nightmare now. Not sure if I want to take yet another week to roll a new tankier on-meta build. If you can do the content, I would say that you'd just need to farm things that inflate in value as the currency depreciates -- which is likely anything that isn't currency, but I don't know what else has become more common for those people that can chase the lanterns.

[@PathofEvening]

Nothing is stopping you from just running your favorite maps with the extra Allflame juice. If you're worried about balance or fairness, it's okay: PoE was never fair!

[@tokinscotian986]

Game is unplayable on ps5😢 hard freezes in 5 sec of trying to play

[@PathofEvening]

Interesting

[@SrgLuigi]

why does your left wand is not completly linked? Is it corrupted?

[@svenbardos6637]

I think there is no need to link it. Could be an aura in the blue socket

[@MrSatchmoo]

no need. looking at his pob it's wrath linked to eternal blessing and frost shield without link in the wand.

[@svenbardos6637]

FYI: you can link corrupted items: Use corrupted fusings which drop from Beyond monsters or use the bench. Costs are fusing + vaal orb for corrupted items.

[@PathofEvening]

You can also benchcraft corrupted items. As for the wand, Avenbard is right, no need to link it.

[@aceylah95]

Yeah.... I skipped the league restart because of the way this works.

[@PathofEvening]

Ok

[@doranpe]

Lantern is very good.

[@PathofEvening]

Yup!

[@GreysPrimusD]

Here i thought ill test Heist as league start strat.........not the greatest idea ^^

[@PathofEvening]

=)

[@MrDavehathaway]

It's sad that POE is now a game targeted primarily for streamers and people who have tons of time on their hands. This event is not so great. I was just doing leveling and kept running into monsters - even in the first areas of act 1 - that were unkillable or OP enough to one shot you. This event needed some more time being play balanced.

[@PathofEvening]

They went for something casual. This is their version of it

[@Rawlingm]

Seems to me like the league is completely dead. Looked up t3-4 uniques and there is like 10 on trade lol

[@PathofEvening]

Shrug

[@csac1979]

Which map level was that at the beginning? Why are there so many chaos orbs???

[@PathofEvening]

Talked about it in the video.

[@TrickZ_Retz]

Planned on starting, downloaded, Loading Screen Freeze not fixed, uninstalled.

[@PathofEvening]

Potato computer/GPU?

[@TrickZ_Retz]

@@PathofEvening Nope. Its not hardware related anyways, 4090 Users report the same issues.

[@Siesko79]

Yes, the expansion league looks good but I don't feel like leveling a character again and the whole Atlas, it takes forever and is always so boring.

[@PathofEvening]

Sounds like you don't like this game

[@Siesko79]

@PathofEvening i like the game but i dont like to start from the beginning every 3 months

[@Beserker11777]

On today's episode of, who's playing this?

[@PathofEvening]

Huh.

[@dedekunz6247]

There’s a lot wrong with this league but if nothing else, it proves all flames are awesome man.

[@PathofEvening]

Yup!

[@eldombro7049]

Event is so good, that can't figure out whether people are playing or not at all , yeah. Economy ruined, t17 as always, nameless seer hours are so cool, that you can literally fk off with mapping etc xdd Was hyped first two days, then retired with the full party cuz this is pure shit imo. glad somebody still enjoys, hf

[@PathofEvening]

They're not going to please all the people all of the time.

[@eldombro7049]

@@PathofEvening the hell you are talking about? the approach was lame, online is low and div market is about to crash. They f'd it up and that's all, nothing about 'pleasing' here.

[@SimonasVitkus]

On xbox theres still no timeless jewels coz nobody does legion 😂

[@PathofEvening]

PC Master Race!

[@thieff7211]

Everything is so expensive because its so ez to make money lol

[@PathofEvening]

ok

[@HedwigxRocks]

Literally never seen this chaos modifier :(

[@PathofEvening]

oof

[@CasualDudeGaming]

Content creator rlly clickbaiting this league lol. It’s dog shlt. Good for ssf and learning to craft,other than that, it’s trash.

[@PathofEvening]

Uh huh, sure.

[@Toastermann]

League is a joke, lets not beat around the bush. Anything good it added brought worse problems with it.

[@PathofEvening]

They're not going to please all the people all of the time.

[@Toastermann]

@@PathofEvening I feel ya, but this is so low effort considering it was born from their mistake. Now that all being said, if I'm to cut any devs slack its GGG. I'm not mad just let down.

[@MrEzzyKill]

Psn is dead, they should have just added to core settlers, both league events split and markets got hit hard. Not even excited for poe2 anymore who tf is making these decisions, it's wild af

[@PathofEvening]

They're not going to please all the people all of the time.

[@MrEzzyKill]

@PathofEvening it's not about that. It's about making logical desicions for the better of the player base... They have just split it for no reason killing both leagues on psn. It's forced ssf lol

[@light2790]

@@MrEzzyKill they want ppl to move to poe 2, they want as much as ppl they possibly can get on their big release so they had to somehow subtly kill poe 1

[@AndyLivesFar]

Got passed the leveling phase. Saw economy. uninstall

[@PathofEvening]

OK then

[@sammavada7955]

12 minutes for less than 2 div is not worth.

[@PathofEvening]

10 Div/hr in t5 maps on day 3 of a league is very respectable.

[@Sanuier]

i played my char to 50 and quit because so easy to get rich is no fun at all for me

[@PathofEvening]

interesting