New to the game but I always see people wanting to buy/sell HH so I'm wondering what all the hype is about

Basically, when you kill a rare mob you inherit all of their modifiers. So if you're in a map full of rare buffed monsters (what people call "juicing" a map, 100% delirious) you go around and basically melt the map exponentially as you gain all the powerups from the monsters in the map. That and your character becomes ENOURMOUS on the screen and it looks cool

The item is way overhyped, tons of amazing builds in this game cant even use the item. Also. Shroud walker. If the item was removed from the game tomorrow the only people that would miss it are the people that havent played any other playstyle since nemesis, bout 2-3% of the playerbase, and BOY would these people fucking complain. Normal people wouldnt even miss it.

The picture of elitism in path of exile is what headhunter is. Nothing more. Its a garbage item against top tier bosses thats only going to get you killed so your character can look bigger when you kill a few rare monsters? K.

speedfarm meta - there are certain builds which will go crazy and you got 5x clear speed / power and more ...

CoC ice nova / frost bolt assassin is one example, or many ranger builds ( like EH ... ) ... or take more "basic" cyclone builds ( besides mentioned CoC )

... HH promotes solo playing ofc, do not even think about playing in party with that, people will hate you ( for reason )

... last but not least streamers and no-lifers promote this item - i did not use it for 5 seasons now, in the end it sucks, reduces this game into some "stress funnel",
in the end its kind of overrated and rather annoying - but if you never tried it : DO IT, the numbers and visuals you will see are funny

currently playing fp totem hiero anyway, one of many builds where hh is not that useful

This post was edited by 0x00 on Feb 9 2021 11:05pm

It's very rare and powerful. That's why.

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One of the most enjoyable mechanics of the game, ultra rare and ultra powerful.
GGG needs to do mayhem at end of league with HH mod enabled across the game.

The downside is once you play with HH once you will never want to play without it.

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idk what the other essays mean honestly

hh is one of the items its goes extrem the faster your base speed is


in example the first time i used an HH it was on a selfcast arc before the rewrite and i need it like 6-8mins for a map clear so at maximum i had maybe 5 hh buffs ( didnt used sextants back in the days or scarabs since there didnt exist back then )

these days i can clear a map in like 2-3min when i go slowly or 1min when i go fast with good layouts... so instead of 0-5hh buffs i have in avg 5-10hh at any given time which skyrocks to 50-100 from time to time and that without any tripple beyond max juiced maps...


go any map in Harbinger area use random harbinger scarab + good rolled watchers and you can easily get 20-100 buffs in every map which results in more speed / more dmg / def etc... but to keep that you need to addept your gamestyle so less looting is required or clear full map and loot after the map is done, both ways are possible


if you want i can show you in standard how a normal maps looks, just msg me here and i msg you my ingame name

This post was edited by Denn1s on Feb 11 2021 12:57pm

Without headhunter = u go gym vs all fight them

With headhunter = they become babys ages 1-3 easy attack 🤣