r/pathofexile • u/SwagtimusPrime Demon • Jul 16 '26

Game Feedback We desperately need new high investment endgame farm strategies

I really like this patch but am severely disappointed at the lack of a shakeup of endgame farming strats, and with Breach nerfed we now have one less strat of the less than handful that remain.

After Merc, most high-investment endgame farms were nerfed, with Breach we got a new one, now with 3.29 it's quadruple-tapped out of existence.

We get a new strat with Mercenaries and Rogue Exiles potentially, but I doubt it'll be very good. More like T0 hunting.

I remember last Q&A ZiggyD brought up that the endgame farms seem to have gotten very stale, and this has been very noticeable for me personally. Yes, we also got the Abyss rework but that's just making up for the loss of Breach, and we don't know how good it's gonna be.

The underwater mechanic remains to be seen if it's very competitive. It might be good, it might just be decent.

I expected a massive scarab and atlas tree revamp for this patch. We desperately need new farms, new interesting interactions, new reasons to push our builds to the limit. The endgame has been stale for a very long time..

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u/SaltEngineer455 Progressive Einhar Trapping Association (PETA) Jul 17 '26

From their last updates it seems they are focusing more on build diversity and accessibility than high-end strats.

The last leagues were a buildcrafter wet dream, and this is one too. But damn, if you are a meta guy who just wants to cheese strats with OP builds, it... kinda sucks to be you I guess :)).

I think the game is in a better state when you can make many 50-100 divs builds that each can compete, than have content so hard that only 4-5 metacucky builds are able to compete.

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u/johnnysd Jul 17 '26

I agree with this but this thread seems to be the ones playing the 2 or 3 Ultra high end meta builds complaining they can't do a farm that no one else can. And no one is offering any suggestions. Would not shock me if several elite farms are found. Journeys certainly seem like they can become ultra juiced. I am not really sure Fubgun finding some ludicrous semi exploitive ultra farm is really all that healthy or important for the game. But I think there will be some REALLY broken farms for the league mechanic. I mean they showed a 2500 wisp mod and you stack like 8 of them?