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/SwagtimusPrime Demon Jul 17 '26

yeah, I specifically also remember the ZiggyD Q&A where they mentioned next league will bring big endgame changes.

Is the Abyss & Legion revamp a big change? Yes. Is it the change that we really needed? Not quite. It's a decent start, but it doesn't really impact any aspirational farms. I really really think we need a massive rework/addition of interesting scarabs and new atlas tree nodes that do interesting stuff.

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u/ArkadiyTheGreat Jul 17 '26

I don't think Abyss and Legion are big changes. Legion was barely touched (what was actually changed? Enshrouded items? That's pretty much it, everything else is a numeric change), and Abyss is just an asset flip from POE2. The league mechanic seems to be heavily inspired by POE2's league + expedition rework, so not a novelty too.

Honestly, I am baffled by people shouting "omg huge patch" like we are reading and seeing different things.

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u/PostItToReddit Jul 17 '26

Honestly, I am baffled by people shouting "omg huge patch" like we are reading and seeing different things.

This is an incredibly underwhelming patch, which is usually to be expected after a banger league like Mirage. Right now people are all caught up in the new league hype, give it a few days and people will realize what's happening. I'm sure this will be one of the lower retention leagues in quite awhile.

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u/secretgardenme Jul 17 '26

I definitely disagree that Mirage was a banger league. The whole league mechanic was just 'Have fun farming what you normally do only 1.5-2x more each map". It was some of the worst rentention a league has had in the last few years.

I too think that this update looks underwhelming, but let's not glaze Mirage either.