How is your Pinnacle Boss farming experience?

Now we have:

Arbiter, Xesht, Olroth, Simulacrum, King of Mist,

and Kulumak, Atziri, Trialmaster, and Zarokh.

just curious what is your farming experience of them, and do you think it is profitable at different economical stage of the season? thanks!

Comments

goldmeistergeneral5 months ago5

Farming bosses - nah

Farming splinters while I have fun clearing maps and having variety - Hell Yeah!

I make enough currency just selling splinters while I farm breach, abyss, sometimes popping my head in ritual tables when they appear, and I never feel like I am grinding. I tried runic splinters with logbooks for a while, and although very lucrative, it was mind numbingly boring compared to blasting through maps, casually building my temple and trying for lineage gems from the anomaly maps

Edit: important to clarify, I am not being very efficient, but a lot of the time efficiency rips fun out of the games I play, and I play games to have fun, or I'll just play something else

ammenz5 months ago1

I have a character that can do them all but requires a bit of a respec for Simulacrum. I like to farm the splinters myself rather than buying them.

Arbiter: I'm not the best and I do die occasionally, never tried uber. I do die occasionally in citadels and they don't spawn much for me, so this is the one I've killed the least.

Xesht: with the right combo of tablets I can do a Xesht every 1 to 3 maps. I like farming it but I haven't been terribly lucky with his drops.

Olroth: takes me longer to get the splinters and has a bit disappointing loot.

Simulacrum: my favorite but takes me a long time to get the splinters and requires a respec (I need 80% pierce chance because Palm of The Dreamer's POPS don't work). The key for making profit is to be able to clear the last 3 waves, they drop considerably better rewards.

King of Mist: I hate the wisps-chasing phase. Ritual is my main this league so I've done heaps and the loot has been disappointing (except for omens).

Kulemak: not enough invitations for me, the unique drops have a really low chance to be crafted nicely.

Atziri: always play safe and sell the unique regalia unidentified, trust me. I like to have fun crafting rare regalias with a random "allocates passive nodes" (never profitable though). I do not like running the temples before (I don't do snakes).

Trialmaster: I hate the elevators, slow-opening pillar doors and red-on-red mechanics. The reason the fragments are so expensive is that lots of players despise the mechanic.

Zarokh: should be your focus if you have an average build and want to build wealth. The last flame = guaranteed 3 mirrors, if you make it your league goal you are going to get one eventually (or you are going insane before then if you don't enjoy sekhema's trial).

slim_trusty5 months ago1

All bosses are gambling currency, unless you do them enough that you out weigh the odds. Trial masters probably the safest bet for profit, on average 50 runs for a adorned. Which is a mirror

MozM-5 months ago1

Like the other guy said, trial master is the only safe bet really. Adorned has a relatively high drop rate for what its worth. 2% aint that bad at all. Expensive to enter but the chances of you getting it is reasonably high if you can do 30-50 runs.

Its worth a mirror unidentified too so out of all the pinnacle farms, def farm trialmaster.

BeginningEqual55335 months ago1

Either miserable (almost all bosses) or extremely boring (Trialmaster).

Auryt5 months ago1

It is absolute gamba, either you invest a lot of currency and do a lot of runs or don`t bother.
Trialmaster is far the safest bet, especially now mirror is kinda skyrocketing.

SpecialistAd6705 months ago1

Xshesht really enjoyable in the start of the league. Now i think its not worth it because T5 rares wont sell and lineage gem droprate is low.

HollowMimic5 months ago1

Bro it's such a hassle and unrewarding strat (so much worse than Poe 1 imo), it's not worth it at all

zavorak_eth5 months ago1

I just play the game for fun. I'm not farming anything, so I play what I want. I run maps (abyss, breach, deli), citadels, some pinnacle bosses, cleansed areas, build a small temple at my own pace, do a little item flipping, do some basic crafting, so a little bit of everything. While I don't have the best gear and don't have any mirrors, I get enough currency to have a blast. Real life is already a grind, so I come to poe to relax and have a good time.