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How to set up this new room

Would like to turn this room into an office / home theater. Only need seating for 1-2 people.

Would like to do sound proofing as well. There are no neighbors except one house that is 50ft across from the wall opposite closet doors.

There are two in ceiling speaker connections already installed.

I was considering removing the sliding closet doors as the closet space is lot needed.

Is 7.1.2 overkill for this space?

Any thoughts?

u/Ap0llo — 8 hours ago

Testing Magic Find - T1 vs T15

I have a lot of currency and I wanted to do some science testing as to the effectiveness of stacking rarity.

I’m planning to run 100 deli maps with various MF amounts, ranging from ~650 down to 100. I will provide all the data here in a separate post.

The problem is I don’t think I can squeeze enough damage out of the build while running 500-650MF.

This issue could be solved by simply running T1 waystones. The question therefore becomes what we’ll be missing by running T1 vs T15. Of course high ilvl bases are one, but does anyone know if lower tier waystones affect anything else like currency and top tier unique drops?

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u/Ap0llo — 1 month ago

Armour is Underrated - T16 Deli & Grand Expedition +7 Map Mods - Showcase

Armour is extremely underrated, if built properly with sufficient regen, you are virtually unkillable.

I recorded this for a friend, but I wanted to showcase it here. The video includes a juiced T16 Deli with +7 map mods followed by a juiced Grand Expedition also with +7 mods. At around the 6:15 mark, I intentionally sprinted into a heavy stun, something which people frequently complain is a death sentence. Note that the Expedition map had both Cooldown & Less Regen (the 2 hardest map mods for this build - by far). Almost every time you see my health drop in the video it is because Refutation is linked with Atziri's Inpatience which cost 25% of life to use.

This was the hardest content I could find in a pinch, but if anyone has any suggestions for something even harder let me know and I'll do another recording.

While Gemling certainly synergizes really well with this build, I can do the same thing on my pure armour Smith of Kitava and Titan.

The general formula is amassing about 60k and 150-200% armour as ele. You couple that with 20-40% of life regenerated per second and you can play extremely recklessly.

The build isn't budget by any means, but besides the Crossbow, everything else is roughly about 1k divs total I would estimate. If people are interested I can make a short build guide, but the point of this is to showcase the strength of armour.

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u/Ap0llo — 2 months ago

Dragon Core - #1 Grenade Cannon Crossbow

Background

Grenades are my favorite skills, so this league when I saw the new Trarthan Cannon base type I was really excited. On PoEDB I noticed some very crazy mods for the cannon that are not available on regular crossbows. Specifically 'Cooldown Recovery Rate for Grenades' and most importantly 'Grenade Skills Fire 2 Additional Projectiles'.

Unfortunately, PoEDB does not list the weightings for these new mods, they show as '1'. But after crafting several crossbows for sale, I realized the "2 Additional Projectile" mod is at least as rare as Merciless T1 Phys at 25 weighting. I crafted 5 Cannons with 6x T1 affix and sold them, but I did not see "2 Additional Projectile" a single time in chaos spamming those cannons.

After amassing 1200div + 1 mirror, I was determined to get that mod fractured and finally make this Cannon.

Rule 10

  1. Base & 30% Quality: I bought up the entire market of ilvl 82+ Exceptional 3 Socket Trarthan Cannons. Out of 40 of them I got 3 of them to 30% quality using Vaal Blacksmith's Infusers.
  2. Chaos Spamming for "2 Additional Projectile": As I mentioned above, while the weighting for this mod is not data mined, based on my testing, it may very well by the rarest mod in the game at 10-25 weight. I rolled over Merciless T1 Phys 2x before hitting it.
  3. Fracture: Once we hit the mod I posted in global 5055 and asked everyone to pray for the fracture to hit. And we got very lucky that it worked the first try.
  4. Prefixes:
    • I was shooting for T1 Phys% (Merciless) T1 Flat and either T1 Added Fire or T1 Hybrid.
    • The problem is that if you don't have one of these fractured it becomes a very arduous process.
    • First we chaos spam for T1 Phys% which is iLvL 82. After that we can desecrate T1 Accuracy to block, but it's costly, and since I did not have a fractured prefix, I opted to just whittle for the other 2 prefixes.
    • The problem is that when you whittle for T1 Flat, Hybrid, T1 Fire - if you hit any of the other ilvl 81 mods, it becomes a 50/50 to save the one you want. And if you get really unlucky and hit T1 Accuracy (lvl 82) you have to yolo Annul to save the T1 Phys%.
    • I got really unlucky and killed the Merciless mod 3 times by rolling T1 Accuracy after securing T1 Phys% and T1 flat.
    • On the 4th attempt I finally got 3x T1 Prefix.
  5. Suffixes:
    • Luckily one of the whittles had hit T1 Cooldown Suffix while working on the Suffixes, so at this point all I needed was +5 to Projectile Skills.
    • Used Whittle + Perfect Chaos + Omen of Dextral Erasure (18div per attempt) to roll for +5 proj.
    • Finally hit it after 42 attempts.
  6. 4th Suffix:
    • Once all 6 affixes were done, added Serle's Triumph, used Ancient Jawbone, Echos, and Omen of Light to roll for "Grenades have 25% Chance to Activate a Second Time". Took 24 attempts.
  7. Divining
    • Divining it to 98%+ had an excepted cost of roughly 1800 divines, but I was down to 80div at this point.
    • A generous patron from global 5055 offered 30Divs to try to divine it - he insisted they were lucky divs. I offered to give him 50div if I hit it with his divs, I posted each divine rolls in Global, on literally the last divine he gave me, we got the roll in the posted image. I gave the chad the 50div I promised.

Post-Mortem

I'm tapped out on currency, but I made this primarily for my own use. After testing with my Gemling Explosive Grenade Build, it is just as insane as I expected.

  • 7 Projectiles per shot
  • 1.18 second cooldown on Explosive Grenade
  • Instant Explosions with Short Fuse II support
  • 100% chance to explode 2 times with Payload Support
  • It solves all the clunkiness of grenades, just hold down right click and walk around, everything dies in 1 hit.

Copies

As I stated, this was primarily made for self-use, but if anyone wants a copy the first 2 will be free. I also don't know where the best place to post it for service is, so if anyone has advice on that I'd appreciate it.

If anyone has questions, I'll be happy to answer.

u/Ap0llo — 2 months ago

PSA: +1 Suffix Rune (Serle's Triumph) is limited to 1 PER character - 600d lesson

I dropped a voices and sold it to craft Body Armour and Boots for a Gemling Grenade build. I had quite a bit to spend so I figured why not just add +1 suffix to both, it's better than a rune, as these were meant to be BIS crafts for the build.

I crafted the Body Armour first. Put it on, everything's great. Then went to craft the boots. Getting that Cooldown mod was painful, it cost more divs to get that on there then the rest of the boots. After 600d+, I finished it, went to put it on, and it says "Cannot use this item. It's stats will be ignored." Note: These runes cannot be removed once placed in the socket, so removing it is not an option.

Looked it up, apparently any rune that has Limited to 1 is character limited not item limited.

Now I have to try to sell one of these to try to recraft a replacement, but the problem is they are both a bit niche and will probably take a while to sell. Don't make the same mistake.

-Sorry for the washed out colors on the images, I have HDR on and screenshot end up looking washed out.

u/Ap0llo — 2 months ago