Good Morning Folks! We’ve had a bit of a snowpocalpyse here in Oklahoma. We handle icy roads pretty well, but when you give us a bunch of inches of snow at once… pretty much all of our infrastructure breaks down. I had already taken the day off because we were supposed to go do something… which has essentially been cancelled. So instead of cancelling my leave and working today… I am just going to chill out. The above image is from my Dad’s backyard staring out of his shop and I figured I would share it because of how pretty all of the trees look. We technically got more snow, but his yard looks way cooler.
I am still playing quite a bit of Path of Exile II, though admittedly at this point I am pretty ready for another game to come along and distract me. I’ve largely been chasing Citadels and it is awesome when you get two spawn near each other. For example this one screen was worth 6 divines as the Copper Citadel fragments go for the most on the currency exchange. I have no clue why I am attempting to accumulate wealth because my Minions build is effectively as geared as I can probably get it without going to mirror tier perfectly rolled items. Now that Kripparian has made a video about the fart boots, I do have some concern that they will be nerfed. Thankfully I am only using them as additive damage and not the core of that build.
I’ve been knocking out a few of the things like getting my 8th set of bossing atlas points. It is shocking how hard it is to find a boss map node that is both Corrupted and Irradiated, because in order to get that 8th point you need both of those in place and to run a map that has corrupted and upgraded into a t16. I had been sitting on one of those in my bank for a bit looking for a node that met all of the criteria so I could get those two points. My last two points in the bossing tree will require me to actually use the fragments I am farming and go after The Arbiter. I am not sure I really care that much about this, especially given that I only have one shot at that fight, and the accumulated tokens to do one attempt are worth roughly 5 Divines in total.
That said I did finally gather up the 300 splinters required to take on the Breach boss Xesht. I was expecting this to be way tougher than it actually was and in truth it was pretty similar to your average map boss, just with a lot more mechanics. This was of course a Xesht zero difficulty, and I am sure as you scale up the fight it gets considerably more spicy. I did not get anything really good from the encounter, but it was interesting enough that I could see doing this again whenever I organically gather up enough splinters. The node that I chose makes it so Breaches open and close 30% slower, which honestly… GREATLY improves the quality of life of doing Breaches on a Minion build.
I’ve got an Iron Citadel that I have been sitting on, that I will probably take a run at today. My hope is that it drops multiple fragments, because honestly otherwise it isn’t really worth much to run it. Copper Citadels are the real money right now, but they also appear to be the hardest to find. That said the further I get away from the origin the more often I seem to be finding both Citadel spawns and Unique map spawns. This seems to mimic Delve in that the deeper there that you went the more often rare nodes would spawn.
I’ve found exactly one Moment of Zen, which is a unique map that spawns the Nameless Seer. He did not really have anything terribly interesting in the way of the uniques he was offering, but I am very thankful that this node is impossible to miss on the tree. Honestly I really appreciate that EVERY map has a unique appearance on the map, so that once you know what you are looking for you can pretty much tell which map it is before even mousing over it. I do hope that there is either a favorite map slot system eventually or something that at least allows us to ban the maps that we cannot stand. People seem to hate Augury but that one does not really bug me much… it is maps like Vaal Factory with a bajillion doors that sap my joy.
I got a grocery delivery yesterday morning, well before all of the snow started. So for the most part I am going to hunker down and snuggle with some kitties and forget that the outside exists for the moment. I am hoping we get enough melt over the course of the day so I can go out and do my habitual donut run in the morning without much hassle. I hope you have wonderful weekend and thoughts go out to my friends in California dealing with the wildfires.
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