Speed Running Labyrinth for Helm Enchants Feels Pointless

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goetzjam wrote:

If you can't complete the lab in 5 min or under after running it numerious times you have no business running the lab at all.

I've run the Lab today about 10 times in a row, to get those challenges going and tried to get some useful enchant on a new pair of gloves I've found. Something with cold, preferably, mhm... Needed about 6, 7 runs to finally get the layout and stop backtracking here and there. Mostly because the trap gauntlets keep changing each instance, which confuses me (dont tell me I'm a casual?). Still my fastest run was maybe 10 mins.

1.) some people can keep track of layouts better than other
2.) some people dont care for speed-run brute-forcing gameplay

anyway, the last two runs I tried to enchant some helmets and got Bladefall twice in a row. On Rats its not that bad and actually useful for a build I have on hold. 'yay rng! Everything works! Stop complaining!' etc... :P

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1630153

please have a look at my thread in the "selling" section of your league of choice.

thanks for keeping it to the topic.

the grind for the enchantments is a chore, and I've got no problem with grinds as long as there is at least minimal progression. the enchantment skull is basicly just a slot machine. you could hit the jackpot on your very first try and be 'so what, why u complain' or you could insert coins until you're bankrupt without ever seeing a good enchantment (for your build).

give us at least some means to speed up the process or influence the outcome. we have orbs, coins, gems, yet all we do is roll a damn slot machine over and over after we've speed-run another layout of the same trap-infested lvl 68 zone.

No-one should be running for helm enchants now as it is pretty obvious GGG will change this system (probably to socket colour weighting) given the amount of noise on this and the individuals in particular who are being vocal about it.

It isn't a good investment of time as it will likely be corrected within a couple of weeks.

Gloves and boots however are fair game.

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Chronodroid wrote:

thanks for keeping it to the topic.

the grind for the enchantments is a chore, and I've got no problem with grinds as long as there is at least minimal progression. the enchantment skull is basicly just a slot machine. you could hit the jackpot on your very first try and be 'so what, why u complain' or you could insert coins until you're bankrupt without ever seeing a good enchantment (for your build).

give us at least some means to speed up the process or influence the outcome. we have orbs, coins, gems, yet all we do is roll a damn slot machine over and over after we've speed-run another layout of the same trap-infested lvl 68 zone.

look.
im ci
i dropped kaoms.
what a pity, poe items system suck, is a huge chore, i dont need kaoms, it's only about jackpot.

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Gauhron wrote:

No-one should be running for helm enchants now as it is pretty obvious GGG will change this system (probably to socket colour weighting) given the amount of noise on this and the individuals in particular who are being vocal about it.

It isn't a good investment of time as it will likely be corrected within a couple of weeks.

Gloves and boots however are fair game.

You right, its pointless to farm enhants and i only hope GGG have will and power to change it to something acceptable and fine.

Time will answer on that question.

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TreeOfDead wrote:

You right, its pointless to farm enhants and i only hope GGG have will and power to change it to something acceptable and fine.

Time will answer on that question.

sold 84 hubris with blade vortex radius for 2ex.
wha am i doing wrong?

Well I'm lucky, so 'everything is swell'. 'Stay the course!' :P

3 out of 4 helm slot machine pulls, got relevant enchants, on relevant type of helm, of the relevant build I'm kinda planing to do eventually.



Also, got the chill ground effect I wanted on my gloves, after ~6 or 7 tries.


Still, doing this the SF way is horrible. Trading is the only way to go, if you care for your sanity.

congrats with all your helm enchants, I haven't been so lucky.

Tho I got
for my Caustic Arrow guy, I had to grind lab exclusively until my zana 7 had over 1'000'000 XP to finally get a trap enchant on a random rare helmet. I even tried to do it on a dex only, rumors have it the enchants are based / weighed towards their requirements fromt the gems. .

lab runs were below 6 minute marks mostly. using Bloodrage and

all the time, knowing the layout and the 'corners' of where to go.

let me tell you, haven't been this desparated in my gaming years. I was close to quit the league at 39, just so I could stop doing content that didn't reward me in any way unless a roll on that RNG-wheel. we still had no means of influencing an outcome, not even slightly.

please learn from that experience, dear GGG :) you did many things right, for example with the 4 out of 12 challenges.

Well...I got what I wanted on my gloves and boots. 1/15 seems reasonable. Took only several hours lol. Very "re-playable" content when you are 90+ and can face roll all mobs, traps and Izaro altogether while gaining zero exp and loot.

But when I wasted entire day repeating this shit and not a single usable skill on helm, not even a fucking one in my setup - fuck yourself please, I'm out.
Whomever made THIS 2/360 or whatever should be permanently cursed.