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For Abyss rares, you want to drag them out of the fog they appear in to increase the chances of them dropping high-value omens like Omen of Abyssal Echoes or Omen of Light - otherwise you're much more likely to get low-value ones like Omen of the Liege. The community has aptly named it the "pull-out tech"

Being effectively punished for having a build that can kill everything as it spawns feels bad, it's against the entire fantasy of an ARPG, and when you really get into it: it just doesn't make sense. Would it not be better and more interesting for the fog areas to be loot multipliers, so that I have a HIGHER chance of getting high-value drops if I kill them in that space before they move out of it, instead of breaking up the gameplay to try to kite them into a different area? Shouldn't more build power equal more loot, instead of the reverse?

Nobody likes pulling out.

It's a few weeks into the league and there's a few variants out there now. There's Ghazzy's guide, I've seen Mattjestic's endgame version that uses Chober Chaber w/ Giant's Blood, Zizaran's starter, lots of people on poe.ninja using Sylvan's Effigy for more of a zoo style, some people are playing Chayula Monk, some are playing Spirit Walker, etc. The list goes on.

There's a lot out there, and for someone who didn't league start a Monkey build it's somewhat overwhelming to get my head around now, saved only by the fact that you can pick basically any of them and blast. I'm not someone who enjoys a lot of experimentation in POE, I prefer to have clear goals set and to chase them, so not keen on trying a ton of different spins on the build. But considering Monkey's giga damage you can cut a bit to enable a bit more clear speed while still smashing basically any boss - do any of these variants stand out above the rest? What's been your experience?

Asking for a with and without mageblood context because of how Mageblood can totally warp the rest of your build, I understand it's basically a requirement to get the absolute maximum speed.