The latest update has been fantastic. Each map has the possibility of having a ton of awesome content from previous leagues. The new crafting bench is a welcome addition that can make mediocre gear viable in the end game. The problem I'm having with this league, however, is the Immortal Syndicate mechanic. The interrogation features are too complicated and require way too much time to reach 100% completion for raiding the safehouse. Also, the rewards from defeating the forsaking masters while mapping are not proportionate to level of difficulty. I guess, maybe, I'm just use to the get-in-get-out features of previous leagues, or I could be missing something entirely. Does anyone else have a similar opinion, or am I just way off the mark on this one?

How would you rate yourself as a PoE player? From what I can tell you seemed to be average, if not below average type of player...

And from what I've been hearing, the average class atm is having heavy troubles dealing with the forsaken masters, cause they don't stack proper defenses...

The system is easy, execute each one, starting from the 2 star / 1star ones fist, Bribe / betray the 3 star ones, keep rivalry to a minimum, kill everything, without dying. The syndicates themselves rewards HUGE loot, from XP, currency drops to an AMAZING amount of maps, and other valuables.

When you are comparing the mastermind, How many times in previous leagues, have you killed chayula/ Red aspect beast? / delve Aul Bosses or simply uber elder etc?

I feel like the mastermind is at the correct time gate, I roughly get 1, or 1.2 master minds per session?

The new benches are insane, There's a good too many few things it can do, once you've figured it out.


Few days ago, I had an lorweave on WITH fortify, and somehow, I still kept dying, I switched to an armor setup, now I have 29k armor, and +16 chaos res, these petty syndicates can't even tickle me anymore on t16 maps.

This post was edited by Lamperouge on Dec 15 2018 09:18pm

1 mastermind per session? uh........... lol

kind of agree not a fan of the new mechanic it doesn't add anything special except the veiled mods

Fantastic addition.
Only hated by low level players

87 on hc starting to figure out what to expect off syndicates, I run them on my cyclone barb pretty handily atm. Also, I imagine map mods play a factor in their strength. Map mods with psn, criticals, double element increase, etc i would prolly avoid the syndicate on hc for that map.

for casters prolly gonna want a decoy totem linked with elemental resist.

I'm at 4.1k hp with my witch that has shit rare gear and a tab, with only cold at 65% rest at 75 and get 1 hit by voici, guff and Baku.

you should grab MoM and max res...

It's kinda bad gear problem, not the games fault that's its actually challenging and fun :/

I like the syndicate stuff a lot. It's very rewarding and challenging.

fortification adds need a slight downgrade and maybe nerf janus just a bit but other than that I think it's one of the most fun leagues so far
there is so much stuff to do it's almost overwhelming and i've been skipping delves completely lol

You really have to build defensively though
I have CI, ~2k es leech/sec, triple balanced wise oak, basalt, enfeeble, fortify, malediction, incandescent heart (= 81% max res) and all the Es regen stuff from occultist
and I still feel like I'm about to die any second when I do t14+ syndicate stuff. It's fun

glad i'm scrubcore though

This post was edited by pypyjyys on Dec 15 2018 11:05pm

I'm not against it but I feel like it should be tuned down a little bit. I run maps and all of a sudden syndicate spawn and wabam open my butt hole wide.ill have to check where that passive is at because I'm following Ziz guide for Bv.

This post was edited by UkrainianProtein on Dec 15 2018 11:10pm