Thaumaturgic Dust is new material equipment in Path of Exile 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur league. It can be used in many places.

For example, it can help you upgrade settlements, improve or reorganize related equipment. Therefore, we need Thaumaturgic Dust in many places. This passage is mainly focused on the ways to harvest Thaumaturgic Dust and how to employ it appropriately. By the way, if you want to make or enhance other equipments and reorganize the passive skill tree, you can get POE Currency to achieve it.

The Details To Farm Thaumaturgic Dust

Thaumaturgic Dust needs to be planted. It is sealed behind rank 5 Recruitment in Town Hall. First, you need to obtain 900 gold, 60 Bismuth Ores, 35 Wheat, and 15 Pumpkins and successfully pass the ranking level. Among them, Bismuth Ores belong to the fourth level of ores, and Pumpkins belong to the third level of crops. Secondly, your Mining and Farming plots also need to reach the specified level to be eligible for planting.

It is important to note that Mining and Farming plots need to be upgraded at the same time, as they are interrelated. Only in this way can you unlock Recruitment rank 5.

After obtaining Recruitment rank 5, you need to find Rog. It is located between Town Hall and Docks. At this time, you need to use gold to build a Disenchanting Station and unlock it. Finally, you need to use Rog to disenchant items, so that you can farm Thaumaturgic Dust.

The Way To Disenchant Items

To farm Thaumaturgic Dust, disenchanting items is crucial. You need to press Disenchanting button and interact with Rog. Next, you will enter the supplier’s window. First, identify the items that need to be disenchanted, and then place them on this window.

The higher the item level is, the greater the use value of Thaumaturgic Dust embraces. Let’s make a simple comparison. Opal Sceptre, at item level 72, will give you 392 Thaumaturgic Dusts, while a level 73 item, with the same item level and rarity, will yield 814 Thaumaturgic Dusts.

It is important to note that while item level and the amount of Thaumaturgic Dust are positively correlated, there are some exceptions. For example, some lower-level items give more Thaumaturgic Dusts of the same base type and rarity. Therefore, it will be affected by both factors, but the amount is not fixed.

You can check the item level by pressing "Alt" on the keyboard, which will make it easier for you to make a choice. For lower-level or unwanted items, you can just disenchant them, and for those with higher levels, you can collect and farm them.

The Way To Use Thaumaturgic Dust

As mentioned earlier, Thaumaturgic Dust is mainly used to reassemble and upgrade equipment. However, more importantly, you can take it as a buffer for your shipments. If you use Dock to ship items, the excess materials will be placed in Kingsmarch. At this time, the entire shipment value will be closely related to this transportation.

If you add some Thaumaturgic Dusts to the shipment, the total value of the goods will increase a hundredfold. So be sure to add some Thaumaturgic Dusts to your goods. But don’t be greedy. The value growth is not unlimited, so don’t add too much and blindly, causing a waste of resources.

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The above is about the sharing of Thaumaturgic Dusts in Path of Exile 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur league. Thank you for reading.

When you create a new character in Path of Exile, you are presented with a variety of game modes to choose from. Experienced players will probably be able to quickly decide which mode is best for them. However, if you are new to the game, the options can be a bit confusing. Here is a guide to help you choose the best game mode for you.

In this guide, we will explore the two different ways to play in Path of Exile: standard and seasonal modes (called leagues). We will point out the key differences between the two modes to help new players understand which one is best for them. We will also explain what happens to your character when the season ends.

Game Mode Options Explained

When creating a new character in Path of Exile, you have three different modes to choose from:

• Standard League
• Seasonal/Challenge League
• Hardcore Seasonal/Challenge League

It is important to note that Challenge League does not appear as an option, but as a current league. For example, if Settlers of Kalguur is the latest league at the time of this guide, you will see Standard League, Settlers, and Hardcore Settlers in the options.

Beyond standard league or challenge leagues, there are additional modes to choose from:

• Hardcore
• Ruthless
• Solo Self-Found

When choosing Hardcore, if your character dies, it will revert to standard mode, which is non-hardcore mode. Choosing Ruthless, on the other hand, means that the game will be significantly more difficult, which may slow down your progress. For experienced players, this mode may provide a fresh sense of challenge.

However, this mode may not be suitable for beginners who are just starting to play the game, unless you have enough POE Currency to obtain and upgrade equipment so that you can adapt to the difficulty of the game in this mode. You can also pay attention to Giveaway platform in IGGM discord, which often releases some product giveaway information. You can follow each information release by being active in discord group.

As for Solo Self-Found, you cannot trade or team up with other players in this mode. But it is worth mentioning that this choice can be changed after the character is created, so you are not permanently restricted to the initial choice.

Description Of Challenge League

A seasonal league is a limited-time feature in Path of Exile. They are called ‘Challenge Leagues’ in the game. Only during the league event can you create a new character and experience the special gameplay related to the league. For example, in PoE 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur league, players can build and develop the town of kingsmarch.

If you choose to play standard league, the town building function mentioned above will not be available. Standard mode consists mainly of the core game content and content added in later updates, and does not include any unique features for a particular season.

What To Do After Challenge League Ends?

When a season ends, you cannot create new characters in that season. With Settlers of Kalguur mentioned earlier, this means that ‘Settlers’ option will no longer be available.

However, this does not mean that your characters from that season will be removed. Instead, they will be transferred to a permanent league with your map progress and all your stored items.

When Do Challenge Leagues Usually Start?

If you want to restart the game and seek a fresh experience, challenge leagues are a good choice. So how often do these leagues usually take place? For example, the current challenge leagues started on July 26, 2024, while the previous Necropolis league started on March 29, 2024. A challenge league lasts about four months.

This roughly marks the length of a season cycle, but seasons do not end without warning. As new seasons get closer, you’ll start seeing announcements about them, which gives you time to prepare. It’s important to note that once a season ends, your character won’t be able to transfer over to the next one, but this also gives you a great opportunity to try out a new class or build.

How To Choose Game Mode That Suits You?

If you want to experience the latest content, challenge leagues are a brilliant choice. These leagues are where new content is introduced, so joining challenge leagues is the best way to experience the game. It’s also worth noting that since more players tend to play in this mode, you’ll can interact with other players more.

Challenge leagues are also a brilliant choice for new players. Starting at the beginning of a league ensures that you don’t fall behind other players in your progress. If you start in standard leagues, you may not run into other players as often, and if you do, they may be much stronger than you.

In summary, whether you're a hardcore player or a novice, it's important to understand the characteristics of each mode so that you can have the best experience in the wonderful world of Path of Exile.

In Path of Exile 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur, players have gained a new way to obtain items and currency in the game easily, which is through shipping. Shipping allows you to exchange the resources you collect for currency and items. You just need to load the resources and crew onto the ship and then wait for the ship to return in real time with a full load of rewards in tow.

However, every shipping comes with a certain risk, and if you don’t want to lose your crew and rewards, you must learn to manage these risks. This guide will break down the shipping mechanics in Settlers of Kalguur for you step by step, so that you don’t panic in the game.

Shipments

When you start to form your own settlement, you will have access to a dock with your own ships and crew. Each ship you send out is loaded with a cargo, a bunch of resources you want to trade. After the ship successfully returns, each of these resources will be exchanged for common rewards in the game, such as POE Currency, Uniques, Scarabs, etc.

The type of reward you receive depends on the type of resources you ship and the port you’re shipping to. When you upgrade a port, you gain access to up to three ships that can make multiple voyages at once to increase your returns. This system is a great way to earn some passive rewards without having to farm, but rewards players who take the time to build up the town of Kingsmarch.

Resources

As part of Settlers of Kalguur, the townsfolk of Kingsmarch will generate trade resources, which you can then ship to other ports.

Shipment Value

The amount and quality of the rewards you receive from your shipments depends on Shipment Value of all of them. So, the rarer the resource, the better the reward. The value of each shipment depends not only on each resource but also on the destination. So be sure to keep these in mind when sending out your shipments.

Dust

While the resources you ship affect the value of a ship’s cargo, adding a resource called Thaumaturgic Dust will also multiply the value of that cargo, and the more dust you add to that cargo, the higher the multiplier. You can think of it as a buff item.

The stats that are currently known are as follows. The value is multiplied by 1.5 when Dust is 10. When Dust is 55, the value is multiplied by 2. When Dust is 520, the value is multiplied by 2.5. When Dust is 8150, the value is multiplied by 3.

Rewards Based On Traded Resources

By trading specific resources, you will receive specific rewards. Each resource is associated with an item type, as follows:

• Crimson Iron - Armor
• Orichalcum - Weapons
• Petrified Amber - Jewlery
• Bismuth - Skill Gems
• Food - Currency

Crew

To start a shipment, you need to equip your ship with a Crew. When you deliver a batch of resources to a different port, your Crew will reduce the risk meter by a certain amount based on its trait level. Higher-level workers will allow you to deliver high-value cargo at a time with little or even zero risk. Crew that dies because of risk may be permanently killed, which is why you must plan carefully when choosing which crew to send.

Risks

In the game, as in real life, no voyage is smooth shipping, as you may encounter bad weather, pirates, or deep-sea creatures at sea. As the value of your cargo increases, the risk meter for that cargo will fill up.

This meter represents the percentage chance that something will go wrong with your cargo, and the higher the percentage, the more serious the consequences if something goes wrong. Some risks can kill your crew or lose their cargo outright, so make sure to keep the risk low while balancing the ship’s rewards.

Pirates

If your ship is commandeered by a pirate captain, then your ship and crew will be taken hostage. When this happens, you have three options.

You can try to save your crew by fighting the captain. If you defeat them, they will drop their boss loot when they rescue your crew from the pirates. Note that you only have one chance to defeat the captain, so if you die, the cargo is lost forever.

Second, you can pay a ransom to the bandit. If you pay the ransom, you get your cargo and crew back, but you don’t get any loot from fighting the boss.

If you can’t pay the ransom or fight the boss, you can always abandon your crew and cut your losses there. This can be a bit ruthless, but you must remember that protecting yourself is the most important thing.

Likewise, this can also happen within the town of Kingsmarch, as the likelihood of being attacked by pirates increases as the town grows. Just like the pirates encountered at the cargo transport, they will also take your town workers hostage, with the same options listed above.

Ports

Each shipment is sent to a specific port for trading. Each port has different types of rewards that they send back every time you ship a shipment. As your port level in Kingsmarch increases, you will gain access to various ports where you can trade.

Distance

Each port has a distance from Kingsmarch, which determines how long it will take to ship to that port. As the shipping distance increases, the longer you will have to wait in real time before you can receive your reward.

Port Quotas

While you can trade different resources with ports, remember that in order to claim your reward, you must provide a certain amount of resources to the port to reach its quota before you can receive your reward.

In particular, some Refined resources, such as Bars, will take up 5 times the original resource required. So if your quota for Hematite is 500, 50 Hematite Ingots will fill up your quota faster than 500 Ore. You can complete your quota with multiple shipments, but only shipments that complete your quota will earn you the extra rewards.

Make sure to meet your quota at each port to fully optimize the rewards you receive when your shipment returns.

Currently Available Port Areas

• Kalguur
• Karui

That’s all you need to know about Shipping Mechanic in Path of Exile 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur. I hope you can have fun with this new patch and build your Kingsmarch into a prosperous commercial town soon. If you are interested in other mechanics in Path of Exile 3.25, why not come to IGGM Discord to learn from everyone's experience? In addition to learning more about the game here, you will also have the opportunity to earn POE Currency! Come and participate!

The highly anticipated Path of Exile 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur has been released! In this patch, the developers have added a lot of new content. Black Knight is an exclusive boss added this time, and it brings new boss mechanics and new loot rewards.

Because of these new things, every player should try it. However, because of the mechanics of the game, you rarely have the opportunity to fight Black Knight directly, so you can wait until one day when you have a lot of time, and then slowly explore according to the location and fighting method of Black Knight introduced in this guide!

Location Of Black Knight

Black Knight can be found in Starfall Crater. If you run the map frequently, you may see a new area open at a random location. Its entrance looks very much like a Twisted Burrows, which is also in Settlers of Kalguur.

This boss is level 83, so you can safely assume that Starfall Crater appears on level 16 maps. It should be explained that in Settlers of Kalguur league, many new mechanics have been added to encourage players to explore the map more, and Nameless Seer has been added to players.

So you can get some random unique items and map divination abilities, so you can predict where Starfall Crater will appear on the map. The best way to find Black Knight is to explore easy-to-run T16 maps, which will also increase your chances of finding Starfall Crater.

Here you should be careful to avoid exploring difficult maps such as Maze, Dungeon, Cage, and other non-linear maps.

Black Knight’s Mechanics

Black Knight possesses a variety of abilities that are tied to undead mana and dark magic. Understanding these mechanics is essential to developing an effective strategy to defeat him.

Undead Minions

Black Knight constantly summons waves of undead minions to overwhelm the player and their defenses. These minions include skeletons, zombies, and ghost warriors, each with their own unique abilities.

Curses And Debuffs

Black Knight casts a variety of curses and debuffs that weaken the player’s combat effectiveness. These curses reduce resistance, drain health, and hinder movement.

Spectral Attacks

Black Knight uses dark magic and spectral weapons to launch devastating attacks. These attacks include powerful melee attacks, ranged dark magic projectiles, and area denial abilities.

How To Fight Black Knight?

After you find Black Knight, there is only one point to note: you must fight him head-on. When you alternate between performing two or three actions on him, he will also perform a Whirling Blade’s attack and then dash in a linear direction.

When you get close to Black Knight, he will punch you. At this time, you need to pay special attention to his 180-degree piercing projectile attack. If your max health is over 3,500 and your suppress and resist are both very high, you will most likely survive. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to defeat him.

When Black Knight’s health drops to 80% or 40% of its original health, it will enter a second phase and become invincible. In addition, it will summon some Verisium Pillars to attack you and shrink the size of the arena, making it impossible for you to hide. At this time, if you hide behind a pillar to avoid his beams, his lasers will penetrate the pillars you used to defend yourself after a few seconds. Don’t stand still. Hurry to the next pillar. You may need to move three times in the complete process.

When the boss’s health drops to 60% or 20%, it will become more invincible and summon rock storms. At this time, Verisium Meteors will fall from above you and attack you. During this period, you need to dodge these flying objects constantly, so make sure you are very mobile before fighting.

After its last invincibility phase, you will fight it again. The rock storm will continue to fall, and once it hits you, you will take more damage. However, if you have any culling mechanics in your build, this stage will be very easy for you, as the boss is now very close to elimination range.

If you die in any of the stages, you will respawn at the entrance of Starfall Crater instead of your hideout. You can reenter and continue fighting Black Knight. However, in the feedback we have received so far, many players have reported that they cannot enter Starfall Crater after respawning. This may be random, or each stage may give you another chance to retry.

Loot After Defeating Black Knight

After you defeat Black Knight, you will receive a unique item, Svalinn Girded Tower Shield, and it will also drop some runes that can be used for forging. If you don’t need these runes, you can exchange them for POE Currency in the new market.

The best rewards for this boss encounter are Verisium deposits scattered around the arena or crater. You will find five Verisium deposits, including one extra large deposit. Mark or mine all Verisium Ores and leave the rest to your workers. These Verisium Ores are very valuable in Kingsmarch, so you should try to fight Black Knight every time you see a Starfall Crater.

If you encounter any problems in Path of Exile 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur or have the experience to share with other players, you are welcome to come to IGGM Discord to communicate. In addition, you have the opportunity to get POE Currency in it. Come and participate!

After reading this guide, are you more confident in your battle with Black Knight? I hope this guide can help you in your battle!

Verisium Ores are an extremely rare mineral resource in Path of Exile Settlers of Kalguur league. As the top mineral resource, they enable several advanced gameplay features for players’ settlements in Kingsmarch. As you explore the map, you may find these valuable resources, but may not know how to effectively mine them for your settlement. Here’s how to get Verisium Ores in POE 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur.

How To Mine Verisium Ores?

Verisium Ores appear as blue glows on the map. Once you find this ore, you can mine it by holding down the left mouse button or the corresponding button on your controller. A progress bar will appear below Verisium Ores, which will fill up as you continue to mine until you release the button or it reaches its maximum value.

Once you release the button, the number displayed on the progress bar will indicate the number of Verisium Ores you have successfully extracted from the deposit. However, this action will trigger the appearance of enemies. In order to protect your Verisium Ores, you must kill all the monsters that appear.

For less skilled novice players, you can use POE Currency to enhance your character’s equipment to defeat the monsters. If the progress bar is completely filled, more powerful enemies will appear. If you think you can’t handle these powerful enemies, it is recommended that you only mine a quarter or half of the progress bar to avoid attracting too dangerous opponents.

After defeating the enemies, your Verisium Ores will be “marked” for collection. However, to actually obtain these ores, you need to upgrade to rank 6 Mining. Here is a list of materials required to upgrade mining to level 6:

• 6,200 gold
• 40x Orichalcum Bars
• 25x Bismuth Bars
• 20x Corn

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Once upgraded, your workers can start mining these “marked” Verisium Ores. The mining specialty rank of the worker does not affect the mining ability, and any worker can mine. However, higher Mining rank can significantly increase mining speed. Therefore, it is important to ensure that you hire the best skilled workers at Recruitment Center.

It is important to note that Verisium Ores are rare in lower-tier maps. As you enter yellow and red maps, the frequency of finding Verisium Ores increases, at least on par with other ores.

What Are Verisium Ores Used For?

Of all the ores, Verisium Ores provide the most significant shipment value. Smelting Verisium Ores into Verisium Bars can increase their shipment value by three times, making them more valuable than other resources in the late game.

Since your goal is to accumulate currency, increasing shipment value by using Verisium Bars will help you get more generous rewards.

In addition, these Verisium Ores can be used to unlock high-tier rank upgrades for several features in Kingsmarch. However, to complete these upgrades, you need to smelt Verisium Ores into Verisium Bars first.

After reading the above guide, you should now have a comprehensive understanding of how to effectively obtain and utilize Verisium Ores. Remember, these rare resources will not only enhance the functionality of your settlement, but will also bring you a huge economic advantage in the late game.

Therefore, when you spot blue glows while exploring the map, do not hesitate to start mining and be prepared to face the monsters guarding these precious resources. Make sure your workers have enough skills to mine these ores efficiently and maximize your gains by smelting them.

Path of Exile 3.25 introduces Settlers of Kalguur league, bringing a novel mechanic that encourages players to explore the map to collect key resources that are essential to growing your settlement. In addition, with adjustments to various Ascendancy classes, certain starting characters will experience a smoother start after this update. We have selected the best starting character builds in Path of Exile 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur for you.

In Path of Exile 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur league, character builds that can quickly complete the map to collect new resources tend to be more popular. Although many of the selected builds perform well in a Softcore Trade environment. But in most cases, if you pay more attention to the character’s survivability and tankiness, the performance in Hardcore mode will be similar. Here are some of the best Starter builds for Path of Exile 3.25 League:

• Archmage Frostbolt Ice Nova Hierophant
• Lightning Strike Slayer
• Elemental Hit of the Spectrum Warden
• Bleed Ground Slam
• Zoomancer Necromancer

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1. Archmage Frostbolt Ice Nova Hierophant

With the update of Settlers of Kalguur League, many builds have experienced slight enhancements or nerfs because of these adjustments. In particular, Archmage Frostbolt Ice Nova Hierophant has received significant defensive buffs, making this already very strong new character build one of the top choices in POE 3.25.

The core gameplay of this build is to fire frostbolts that quickly spread into a massive Ice Nova AoE effect, which eventually returns to the player and causes continuous frost AoE damage. It is one of the best map clearing builds, and is therefore considered one of the excellent starting character choices in Path of Exile 3.25.

2. Lightning Strike Slayer

With the launch of Path of Exile 3.25, the already very strong Slayer Ascendancy build may become even stronger, thanks to significant buffs to its survivability. One potential advantage of this build in the new league is Strength of Blood passive skill, which significantly increases physical damage mitigation for Slayer.

In terms of gameplay, Lightning Strike Slayer focuses on using melee attacks to release lightning, which will hit targets and chain and bounce around the map. Despite being a melee build, Lightning Strike has surprisingly long range and moves quickly.

3. Elemental Hit Of The Spectrum Warden

While new Ascendant class, Warden, is less well known due to replacing Raider, we can still draw some initial conclusions based on what we’ve seen so far. Warden’s reliance on the use of tinctures and enhanced survivability through bark makes it a natural fit for Elemental Strike League entry build.

This build moves quickly around the map, firing bouncing arrows around the map in a fast and precise manner. This allows you to not only clear the map efficiently, but also focus on defeating bosses with the high attack speed and damage output of your targeted arrows.

4. Bleed Ground Slam Chieftain

This league has shown a heavy preference for melee mechanics, making Bleed Ground Slam Chieftain a strong entry choice into PoE 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur League. Bleed builds have traditionally been high risk with potentially high reward, but with all the updates and adjustments, it promises to be one of the strongest choices yet.

With this build, you’ll be able to slam the ground, unleashing a cone of destructive force while applying a powerful bleed effect to all enemies hit. Once you have the right build for Bleed Ground Slam, the cone will cover a massive radius, stretching almost to the edge of your screen and covering nearly 180 degrees in the direction you slam.

5. Zoomancer Necromancer

Summoner builds continue to hold their place in the list of starting builds for League, and this season is no exception. Zoomancer Necromancer build, however, brings an entire kitchen sink of minions to do its building.

The gameplay of Zoomancer Necromancer allows you to command over 70 minions at once, and as the name suggests, can quickly cover enemies with your zoo. As you progress in this build, you’ll eventually be able to tackle the most difficult content in PoE 3.25 with just your summons, without having to intervene in combat yourself.

With a carefully selected starting character build, players can better adapt to the changes in League and further expand their adventures in PoE 3.25.

In many guides, it has been said that Lacerate Gladiator build is one of the strongest and most reliable league starters in Path of Exile 3.25. Like Boneshatter Juggernaut, this melee build was already strong enough before the league rework.

Lacerate retains the essence of its previous powerful skills, but also increases all of its damage numbers. So, in POE 3.25, it is more powerful than ever before. So how do you make this powerful build when you first try this new league? And how do you upgrade it? This guide will give you the answers.

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Skill Rotation And Tips

Compared to many builds that can cause slam, Lacerate Gladiator is very simple and has a low APM value. You don’t have to use multiple buttons in combat, but you still use defense and movement utilities.

The fundamental skill you can use in combat is Lacerate, a medium-range melee attack damage skill that allows you to cause bleeds. Besides this, you can use Pride and Vulnerability to weaken the monster’s ability. You can also choose Shield Charge, Molten Shell, Flame Dash, Blood Rage and Enduring Cry for defense and movement.

The thing you need to pay attention to here is that you need to always pay attention to the Vulnerability debuff on the enemy. This magic spell may make the cursed enemy take more physical damage and have a bleeding effect when attacked.

But you don’t have to worry about Pride, but you can link it with Eternal Blessing. This way, you can offset your retention cost and increase your effectiveness. As long as you can maintain this debuff and keep it practical when necessary, you can use Lacerate without worrying about it.

Pros And Cons

Although Lacerate Gladiator build is one of the simplest map builds in Path of Exile 3.25, it also has a little disadvantage.

The biggest advantage of this build compared to other DoT (Damage over Time) builds is that there is no damage to ramp-up time. This means that you can deal maximum damage to an enemy once you apply a layer of bleeding to them. Compared to DoT builds that require you to wait for several seconds to reach maximum DPS, Lacerate Gladiator build will make you safer and easier to use.

But the biggest disadvantage of this build is also accompanied by this advantage - it is too simple. This build does not have a lot of skill options, and in some cases, it can make you feel a little boring and not have enough tools, especially if you plan to use it in the endgame. If you are the kind of player who likes to use endgame gear, you may find this build to be overwhelming because Lacerate Gladiator build only requires three Uniques items. But it also saves you a lot of POE Currency, allowing you to focus more on building upgrades and weapon enhancements.

Skills To Use In Early And Mid-game

If you want to get from the early game to the mid-game as quickly as possible in this build, you can use Sunder skill. Sunder will help you advance quickly until you can start running maps on your own. In addition, you will need to use Leap Slam, War Banner, and Blood And Sand Stance to get the utility and extra damage of this build.

When you can start running maps on your own, you can switch out Sunder for Lacerate of Haemorrhage. This variant of Lacerate gives you higher bleeding damage, and you can use Earthquake, Shield Charge, Bladestorm, and Vulnerability to create a better combat situation. You are ready for the endgame skill setup.

Gem Setup

In this build, you can use gems to maximize the bleeding damage you deal in combat. Without this setup, your character will be very powerful, but with gems, you will be invincible. Here are the best gems and some effects to choose for Lacerate of Haemorrhage skill.

Volatility

Supported skills have increased maximum attack damage and decreased minimum attack damage.

Awakened Brutality

Supported skills have increased physical damage, no chaos damage, no elemental damage, and a chance to shatter enemies on hit.

Awakened Melee Physical Damage

Supported skills have increased melee physical damage, increased bleeding and poison damage from melee attacks, 10% attack reduced speed, and a chance to intimidate on hit.

Awakened Multistrike

Supported skills repeat 6 (3+3) times, increased attack speed, reduced attack damage by 20%, and increased damage bonus for the first 3 repeats.

Awakened Deadly Disease

Supported skills have increased disease damage and reduced damage on hit.

If you combine these gems with Lacerate of Haemorrhage, it may reduce some attributes, but it will greatly increase your ailment damage! You can try it in the game.

Uniques And Affixes

Lacerate Gladiator build doesn’t really need too many unique items to support its late game. But just in case, and to make it fully adaptable to the endgame event of Path of Exile 3.25, you can use the following 3 Uniques:

• Koam’s Sign x2
• Ryslatha’s Coil

If you try to get the belt directly with POE Currency, it will probably be very expensive because it is the best slot in almost all disease builds.

That’s all about the preparations and precautions you need to make for Lacerate Gladiator build in Path Of Exile 3.25. I hope you can have fun playing in the new league!

Path Of Exile players, take note! Path Of Exile 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur will be released on July 26! You may have already learned about what’s new in Settlers of Kalguur in some patch notes, but I believe you are still very much looking forward to Settlers of Kalguur.

Although POE has been around for more than ten years, developer Grinding Gear Games is still planning various very attractive ideas for each league. Among them, there will be many upgrades and improvements in Settlers of Kalguur, but the most important one is the addition of a new City Management System.

This guide will introduce you to City Management System and some fresh addition in Path Of Exile 3.25, so that you can get started faster when the official server is launched!

About City Management System

In Path of Exile Settlers of Kalguur, there will be four old faces returning from Expedition league - Dannig, Rog, Tujen, and Gwennen. They are all Kalguurans in Path Of Exile 3.25, and hope to establish trade between their country and Wraeclast.

To achieve this goal, they built a new city called Kingsmarch. As you conduct daily exploration in the action RPG, this small village will slowly build into a prosperous commercial and handicraft center.

In the developer’s social media and some interviews, game director Mark Neon Roberts once said that before this system, they took into account the popularity of creature collection survival and management games during this period, so they wanted to make this almost ten-year-old game more vibrant.

According to the existing game screenshots and beta videos, when you build Kingsmarch, you can fill it with all kinds of people and buildings. These people and buildings all have their own uses, some can improve the satisfaction of the locals, and some can provide you with more updated facilities, such as item disenchantment, farming, and shipping routes.

You can even have them run the map for you, or take advantage of some major features, most of which revolve around something that has never appeared in Path Of Exile before - gold.

About Gold

In Path Of Exile 3.25, you will see that in addition to daily loot and POE Currency, gold will also drop after combat, which can be used to get some tools, etc. But their major function is to pay the wages and maintenance fees of the workers you hire in Kingsmarch.

In addition to the regular use, you can even use gold to reallocate points in your passive skill tree. If you are brave enough, you can also gamble with Black Market vendor! Although players have been very surprised to trade market board currencies with other players, from the developers’ perspective, they hope that players will like Black Market gambler more.

Because it can generate a lot of items at its peak, probably hundreds of times more than the loot you get after a hard battle, and they can even help you pick the best ones. This means that there is no need to run your loot filter!

About Automation

As for the automation that players have always wanted, the developers also explained in the patch that it cannot be run all the time, only for a few days. And bluntly stated that it is impossible to run everything at level 10 efficiency now.

Sometimes, you will encounter a new opponent in Kingsmarch - Sasan, Bandit Lord. Sasan will come out from time to time to hijack your workers and force you to fight him. You can choose to face the battle or directly use gold to pay the ransom of the workers, or even let the workers fend for themselves.

As Path Of Exile 3.25 continues to deepen, I believe there will definitely be more ways to fight Sasan. Every time you defeat it, you will get some powerful unique items and some POE Currency.

Others

In addition to the changes just mentioned, there are many other things to look forward to, such as the increased pickup range in Path Of Exile 3.25. This way you can pick up loot throughout the area without having to move around too much.

In addition, after the melee rework, many melee skills will be 75% stronger at level 20, and the unique items required in the melee build will be reduced, and totem gems will be removed. This may sound like a bit of a nerf to the melee class, but it is the opposite, so that these classes can deal damage on their own without relying on other gear.

Even Gladiator ascendancy has been adjusted a lot, and a new skill - retaliation has been added, which is usually only available when your active shield is up. Tinctures have returned to the game, and you can use it to help your melee weapons get the most powerful bonus effect.

If you still have questions or want to communicate about Settlers of Kalguur, you can join POE player community in Discord and look forward to Path Of Exile 3.25 with tens of thousands of players. IGGM Discord will occasionally release some announcements about giving away POE Currency in this community, so you can wait quietly!

All in all, Path Of Exile 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur looks like a very exciting follow-up. Let’s look forward to the official version that will be officially released soon!

With the official announcement from the game developers, POE 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur League will be officially released on July 26, and players have also ushered in their long-awaited melee enhancements and Gladiator remakes.

So now that the release time is getting closer, have you chosen which league starter to choose in Settlers of Kalguur League? As we all know, a strong league starter can develop your early league economy more efficient and easily obtain your POE Currency and gear in the build.

This guide will introduce some suitable builds for POE 3.25, most of which focus on melee. Each of them is very stable and has been enhanced to a certain extent at this stage, which can make your exploration in Settlers of Kalguur League easier.

Boneshatter Juggernaut

Boneshatter Juggernaut has received certain enhancements in both the basic version and the complex trauma version. Some players may still worry about whether Juggernaut class’s previous Unbreakable Ascendancy will change in this POE 3.25. In fact, this worry is unnecessary.

Endurance charges now reduce the elemental damage provided, instead of just changing elemental resistances and physical damage as before. You will find that the new configuration may be more powerful now, and the role of the new Unbreakable Ascendancy node is the same as before, without any changes.

If you put divine flesh into this build, Boneshatter Juggernaut will become even more powerful. In addition, Quality multiplicative changes will also have a very big impact on this build, especially to increase damage and enhancing offense. I think this should offset the nerf in Determination Aura.

Gear

• Weapon: Brood Etcher Despot Axe
• Helmet: Glyph Star Ezomyte Burgonet
• Armor: Forth Vow Devout Chainmail
• Rings: Eagle Finger Amethyst Ring, Carrion Hold Amethyst Ring
• Amulet: Eternal Struggle Onyx Amulet
• Gloves: Tanu Ahi Wyrmsclae Gauntlets
• Belt: Magnate Studded Belt
• Boots: Brood Sole Goliath Greaves

Frostblades Trickster

In Path Of Exile 3.25, the second best league starter build is Frostblades Trickster because of its high speed, high evasion, and higher damage. Many players worry that it is an early build that will only be dominant in the early stages and weaker in the later stages. This worry is unnecessary and absolutely not a problem.

And in POE 3.25, Frostblades Trickster has not been affected at all. In this build, Frostblade skill gem not only increases its own damage by 265 but also enhances its own basic freezing effect. This makes Frostblades Trickster even more powerful.

In this version and stage, Frostblades Trickster has undergone many nerfs, but it is still strong and has the potential to become an absolute beast in this league. This is also a Path of Exile Settlers of Kalguur melee build that you should try.

Gear

• Weapon: Essence Only Claw
• Offhand: Day 1 Shield
• Helmet: Heatshiver
• Armor: Day 1 Chest
• Rings: Maming, Day 1
• Amulet: New Item
• Gloves: Day 1 Gloves
• Belt: Day 1 Belt
• Boots: Day 1 Boots

Shield Crush Juggernaut

Shield Crush Juggernaut has been around for a few leagues, and in POE 3.19 it was a very slow league start build, but now in POE 3.25 it’s become very powerful. The way this build works is that you stack your armor with your shield soldiers to protect yourself.

In addition to Energy shield, it also adds fixed damage per 75 armor, and also increases your crit based on Energy shields' stats. This means that this is a very powerful crit stacking build.

According to the patch notes, the two skills in this build come with two buffs themselves. One of them has a fixed base damage DPS buff, and the other has a high-end DPS buff that scales with armor, which makes Shield Crush Juggernaut one of the most powerful builds in Path of Exile 3.25.

In addition, this build is one of the few builds in the game that can scale to extreme armor levels through shield quality, and its multiplicative changes will greatly increase the DPS of this build.

Gear

• Weapon: Dream Feather Replica
• Offhand: Emperor’s Vigilance
• Helmet: Enemy Horn
• Armor: Fourth Oath
• Rings: Cataclysm Knot, Storm Ring
• Amulet: Adur’s Uprising
• Gloves: Tanu Ahi
• Belt: Perseverance
• Boots: Cataclysm Slippers

Perforate Slayer

Although Perforate Slayer does not have a complete end-game configuration, players believe that it has the potential to become the best POE 3.25 league starter. In Perforate Slayer, the damage of the perforate skill gem is increased from 265% to 622%, which will make your battles easier.

But it also has certain risks. If you are not an experienced player, it is not recommended for you to use this build. Because it is very likely that when you use this build to kill people, your own health may not be very healthy.

Gear

• Weapon: Death Roar
• Offhand: Crown of Sorrow
• Helmet: Enemy Horn
• Armor: Death Jack
• Rings: Mind’s Eye, Dusk Eye
• Amulet: Doom Amulet
• Gloves: Death Knuckles
• Belt: Chaos Trap
• Boots: Vortex Slippers

That’s it for the best builds you can try out in Path of Exile 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur. Let’s get started on July 26!

The era of Necropolis League is finally coming to an end, and it will be replaced by the long-awaited POE 3.25 Settlers Of Kalguur League. But what legacy will Necropolis leave in the future of Path of Exile?

Recently, the developers released a news post about what will happen when Necropolis ends, as well as all the information about the league and its mechanics. With this information, we will learn which unique items will enter the core in POE 3.25. Let’s get straight to the point.

Will Necropolis League Be Core?

First of all, we confirm right away here that Necropolis League will not be core in POE 3.25. Similarly, Lantern of Arimor and its Allflame Embers, Necropolis Graveyard and its Corpses will not enter the core game. This is not surprising. I really didn’t expect these to be the core. But I must admit that the concept of Allflame is good, and maybe they will return in a more refined form in the future.

In addition, any existing Coffins and Allflame will be removed, so they won’t take up a lot of your stash space in Standard League.

What Unique Items Are Coming To Core?

But these are not the main points. Here, we will focus on looking at the part of Necropolis League that will become a core in POE 3.25, namely unique items.

Perandus Pact (Not Appearing)

The first thing I want to talk about must be Perandus Pact, which has received a lot of attention. But please note that it did not enter the core in POE 3.25.

Perandus Pact is a unique item exclusive to Necropolis. I believe that players who have used it know that this Unique Jewel may be the strongest of Necropolis unique items. It provides many single stats, depending on the modifiers of Jewel itself and its position in your passive tree. Of course, how much POE Currency you invest in it is also an important factor affecting its effect.

It’s no surprise that this Jewel didn’t make it to the core drop pool in POE 3.25.

As an aside, if you want to get more POE Currency, don't forget to follow the IGGM community in Discord, where we will occasionally release some product giveaway information. However, to increase your chances of winning, you need to like and comment more in the community! Maybe the next lucky person will be you!

Getting back to the point, I think it is very similar to That Which Was Taken Crimson Jewel in terms of power level to some extent. But I’d say That Which Was Taken comes with really nice modifiers, while Perandus Pact probably needs a more tailored passive skill tree to be most effective.

Regardless, Perandus Pact won’t be making it to the core drop pool, at least in Settlers Of Kalguur League. Likewise, the chances of this item being added as a loot drop from a boss or, more specific mechanic are also very slim, so I wouldn’t count on it.

As a result, the rest of Necropolis unique items will go directly to the core drop pool in POE 3.25. To be clear, we’ll only be looking at exclusive Necropolis unique items, and every item will be covered.

Nevalius Inheritance

Now let’s start with Nevalius Inheritance. This Unique Belt is all about modifying flask effects and duration, but it has the rare property of changing the stats it provides based on your character level. It increases the flask effect duration by 150% and reduces the flask effect by 60%, but then reduces flask duration by 2% per level and increases flask effect by 1% per level at level 100.

This Belt provides 40% flask effect at the cost of 50% duration reduction. But since we also have options like Tides of Time available. This is unlikely to be widely used in high-level characters.

However, I think Nevalius Inheritance is a very good unique to use for leveling, to equip in the second half of the campaign and use with Unique Flasks, Witchfire Brew, or Replica Witchfire Brew.

These Flasks grant you a Curse Aura of Despair or Vulnerability at level 21, depending on which one you use. And this Curse Aura is not affected by the flask effect modifier. This means you get the full power of a level 21 Curse, and benefit from the increased flask duration to keep its effects longer.

This is very useful for leveling up some chaos or physical damage based characters. But even so, this Unique Belt is very niche and I don’t see it being used very often.

Grattus Signet

Next up we have Grattus Signet, which is a Unique Ring. This item is very useful in terms of the stats it provides. It has some attack speed, cast speed, some energy shield, and some life. Then it also has two modifiers, where attacks inflict Unnerve on crits, and spells inflict Intimidate on crits.

The weird thing about this ring is that they switched things up in terms of what it applies. Attack crits inflict a debuff that increases spell damage, and spell crits inflict a debuff that increases attack damage. If it were the other way around, this item would just be a fairly generic choice for many characters early in their progression.

While the other stats are still very beneficial, one thing Grattus Signet has going for it is its level requirement, which means it can be slapped onto most characters early on to get some useful stats. But other than that, I don’t see this item being used all that much either.

Hand Of Phrecia

Next up is the most interesting of Necropolis unique items, and that’s Hand of Phrecia, an item that seems designed to be a unique item that boosts link skills. But ultimately it’s mostly used on solo characters without the need for link skills.

Because of its very specific interaction with Generosity Support, the final modifier to this unique non-Curse Aura in your skills only applies to you and the target of your Link, meaning you get the full benefit from Aura effect increased by Generosity. This interaction breathes life into this Unique Gloves, meaning they have a chance to be picked up and used in many builds.

Veruso’s Ambition

Finally, we have Veruso’s Ambition, a pair of Unique Boots designed around Ravenous skill that previously existed in Warlock of the Mists from Affliction League.

Veruso’s Ambition makes the monster names also show their monster class, which is important for Ravenous skill. Because the skill allows the character to consume a target corpse and then gain a bonus against monsters of the same type. The buff it brings is also pretty powerful, namely 15% more damage done and 15% less damage taken against monsters of a specific class that are now in Affliction.

While it’s clunky, this ability makes sense because you can get corpses from vendors in Wildwood, and these corpses will also have types. For example, you can select an Eldritch corpse and bring it to Maven’s Arena to consume, which will then increase your damage done to Mavens by 15% and reduce your damage taken by 15% for the entire encounter or until you die. However, you can’t target corpses that you summoned yourself in abilities such as Desecrate.

With the introduction of Veruso’s Ambition in Necropolis, the corpse vendor system is gone, but the ability has not been modified, which only makes this skill harder to use than before. Unfortunately, Veruso’s Ambition is another thing that I think is rarely used.

Anyway, here are some of Necropolis-only unique items that will be entering the core drop pool in PoE 3.25. Let me know what you think of these items. See you next time!