u/gringo-go-loco

I’ve been playing a ward stacking infernalist with comet on elemental ailment. I’ve been doing juiced maps and simulacrum without issue. I hadn’t actually died for the past 2 weeks. Just now I was fighting Jamanra in a T15 maps with no deliriumand just… died when he hit phase 2. I have no idea how but it almost feels like the wind or some damage somewhere bypassed my ward. I had full 4.2k ward when I died.

I decided to go with this build to farm trials but liked it so much I wanna run T15 maps with it. What I'm trying to figure out is why I can sometimes generate a lot of comets and sometimes it just doesn't seem to work and I run killing everything with Spark.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Greenmind-4606/runesofaldur/character/Javeal

I know some of my jewels suck and I'm missing the From Nothing Jewel for conduit and I'm only 93. I ran out of currency and need to sell some jewels I made for my deadeye to buy anything new.

I'm basing it off this build. https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/travic/builds/comets-are-back-spark-internalist-cast-on-elemental-ailment-comet-ward-stacker?ws-ngf5-f7d82102-7e77-4a44-ad24-33b67e8ae7bf=activeVariantId%2Cbf7d3f93-5d2a-499f-9ef8-15e938c1796b

They use Living Bomb with cast on critical but when I switched to that I got even less commets.

I’ve been running GE and using T16 maps to push myself from 99->100. I’ve had multiple Aldur’s saga in my stash while looking for good rumors. Thing is I don’t fucking get any. EVERY set of rumors I get is either only 1 or 2 rumors OR 3 rumors with one being good guy or a boss. Whenever I find a 4 rumor logbook at least 1 if not 2 are bosses or good guy. I’m 2 bubbles from 100 now and all of that exp came from GEs. I’m sure I’ve done well over 200 GEs now and only 2 times have I found decent rumors. So I just started using aldur’s on the best I can find which is typically 3 GE rumors. I don’t care so much about the currency gained. I just want something that actually challenging and right now aldur’s GEs is about the only thing. It sucks having to clear a bunch of normal maps and normal GE just for a chance to use aldur’s. I just revealed 8 new rumors in the last half hour and none were better than 3 GE rumors. Half were 1-2 rumors. And yes I know about moving stuff around in my inventory. My question is why do we have to deal with this crap? Why can’t aldur’s an already heavily rng based mechanic just make any logbook at least 4 GEs?

I personally only run T16 maps. I don’t pay much attention to the stats/mods unless I’m target farming something. Basically every session I have to grab a bunch of waystones, alch them, exalt, and then corrupt them. A full inventory of 60 waystones typically results in… 4-6 T16s. Sometimes more but not often. This entire process is annoying and tedious. For an entire session of mapping I typically have to do at least 300 or so waystones. Then I have a ton of rejects I can either vendor or try to sell. Someone in chat said that the chance to get downgraded to T14 is equal to the chance to upgrade to T16 but from what I’ve seen that’s not the case. I ALWAYS get more T14 than T16.

We need an omen or an orb that only works on waystones that reduces this process to one click instead of 6. Make it drop often or give us a way to target farm it.

I’ve been buying T16 maps and notice that people are listing them for 690 transmutation orbs… these are always first on the list for me even though 690 transmutation orbs is roughly 8 chaos or 345ex. Underneath these are maps selling for 100ex. I can respect the hustle but this feels like exploiting a broken conversion in the trade system. I’ve just gotten into a habit of blocking the person selling so they stop showing up.

The area for ritual is already often too small when factoring in walls and other hazards (purple chaos balls). A lot of the time I’m just dodging between two tight spaces. We don’t need a giant monkey boss that can one shot people with a huge AOE. I swear I’ve died to this boss more times than any other. It’s one thing when it’s in the boss area and another when it’s part of ritual. Fighting on hills is also a bit of a pain but pretty easy to deal with.

Also I got muted in chat for saying queef today. Wtf?

I’ve been trying to grow/farm shroud adhesive but the component to make seeds for the tentacle plants (can’t remember the name) is shroud infused soil. To make this I need 3 critter carapace…. Farming these is incredibly annoying.

Then last night I was moving my farm patch and realized that I can place soil at any size for a cost of 1 soil and then dig it up and get like 20 soil back. In about 5 minutes I had over 200 shroud infused soil.

Every time I unlock a new crafting tier I already have better gear from drops… the only area this seems to be different is weapon. I used the same level 25 bow until I was 41 when I got lucky and got a level 35 or so bow that’s nominally better. I farmed chests and bosses a bit and noticed bows have a very low drop rate from both. It almost feels like they’re trolling me. lol

Luckily most of my damage comes from arrows but damn they get annoying to have to constantly make. I have 4 alchemy stations pushing out nitrates and powder constantly. I have to do a flint run every so many sessions just to keep the base arrow for explosive arrows. Even now with steel normal arrows just seem to take a lot of hits. Not sure what I’m doing wrong.

SOLVED.. Not sure how it got out or where it went. My entire base is surrounded by trees and this hasn’t happened to any other animals… any idea on how to find it?

Found it… had somehow fallen into a tiny crack in the floor…

I just killed the elder and was looking for the swamps. Found it about 10 minutes later (lucky me) and was trying to find an open area to get off the boat. Went a little too far and ended up in the plains… got off my boat to try to repair it and some goblin looking guy 1 shots me. No problem… make a raft, head back down… look around for my grave. It’s nowhere to be seen. Nor is my boat and the items in it. Next thing I know a mosquito looking thing 1 shots me. Make another raft, head back… on the way a sea monster sinks my boat and kills me. At this point I’m out of wood, out of resin, and out of patience so I enable god mods and fly mode and head back. I fly around for 10-15 minutes. Grave is gone… eventually I give up and head back to base. I decided to use spawn to replace the missing items. As I’m restoring things 2 trolls raid my base, kill all my 1 star boars, and wreck half my base before I can get positioned to kill them.

Pretty frustrated at this point. Might be time for a break.