Being a newer player I was struggling with Blight maps and even encounters. This has helped tremendously and has made Blight super fun, thanks for the vid!
yeah, I literally got one map with only 1 node and it was literally 2 jumps for the goat to get it lol Theres no counterplay, no way to know a goat will appear
The last Blight video you had made, I know the towers deactivating issue was still a thing, but I was constantly told it wasn't. Then one day, it just wasn't. I don't know if they stealth patched it, but the range on towers is basically the whole map now, from my experience.
@@JayBigDadyCy I remembered complaining about it back around that time and people very snippily telling me I was making it up. They patched it some point mid-TotA league, if I remember, but I never saw them mention anything about it. I don't think towards are quite global range, but it's a hell of a lot better now.
It was well known in the blight community that you had to stay within 2 screens of ur towers. Did they change it to always work no matter your distance?
"I'm now doing three of these." Please try to name things in your videos! Some people might not know what every item is just by its icon. I know it was crimson oils but I'm nearly blind and had to go back a few times and really zoom in to figure out what oils you meant.
@@andersongomes3211 No one has time to sit and pause the video 300 different times to see everything he goes over. He moves way too quick for a "guide".
Ziz, is it possible for you to recreate a crafting video? At least within 2024 poe league updates please. Thank you so much and I love all the vids you make. Very entertaining and informative.
Ravaged Blight maps allow for 9. Regular blighted maps only allow 3 annoints. Ziz was doing a Ravaged map here. Hence the 9 oils. They are way harder than regular blighted maps if you've never done them. But can be very rewarding with some rare high level stuff.
Those who dont know the tower node is powerful, even for just gold if nothing else. But get 18 towers to max level or more and get better chances at divs and ex from towers
@MirvDingle Correct, but requires some micromanagement to use well. You'll jave to run big spread out maps, with the boss lane node as well to ensure that you have enough salvage. Then, you'll try to get all 18 towers. Build your essentials first and then upgrade the other targets off to the side. You'll need to lock down lanes for time to build the tower and pick off bosses/trash for points.
So exactly the same strategy was posted months ago and I used it because I love Blight.... and TBH it was a BLAST! Really, whatever build you've got you can clear all T16 maps, if you can deal some DMG idealy with explosions then Ravaged can be done with ease. Cannot thank you enough Ziz for teaching us that strategy, stay sane!
The salvage tower node is actually legit if you builds all the differnet towers. it seems even the two level 4 fires are considered different tower types. So two level 4 flame towers, two minion, two lightning etc... ive gotten divines off from the salvage but it is kind of annoying trying to run around making sure to upgrade them all
I ran Blight as part of my Atlas Progression. So far I managed to get two Blight-Ravaged Maps (one of which I failed at the very final moments for some reason), and in one particular in-map encounter, I maanged to get a Hinekora's Lock. It's now sitting in my stash, waiting for it to appreciate in value as the league goes on.
the siesmic right path seems ok, like it permanantly slow mobs, and when they reach any slow tower level 3, they do not move any more. But not like the chill tower, they can slow any amount of mobs, meaning if you dont have the tower/damage to kill the mobs, they are quite good at handling loads of monster
I tried blight for the first time yesterday, and the one thing I dont like, is that there is too much UI fiddling while combat is happening. In other mechanics, for example Expedition, you get you UI setup, and then its just combat. They're not interwoven and you have time to prepare. If it had slowed time like in Ultimatum, it would also be good to be able to read tower descriptions a bit more comfortably.
So I attempted my very first Blighted Ravaged Map using these combinations of anoints & it was perfect. It reduces the cost of towers by SO damn much to where you can fully upgrade a bunch of towers at the very start and borderline afk. And depending on the map layout, you absolutely can afk. Did this on a Cursed Crypt Ravaged map felt really good. Now to try more Blighted Ravaged Maps 🤣
You said not to play with "can not be stunned/slowed" and on that I agree, but that should cover only Corerupted maps, no? Afaik, map modifications do not affect the drop from bliight nodes, only the explosion from the pump itself. Can you elaborate on that, please?
I'm playing the build with you, do you have updated version and can you recommend which leagues I specialize, other than blight (TD is not my thing) I feel a bit lost at mapping. Thanks for the good videos as new player for first time I've finished the campaign and enjoying this league so much!
Blightspawn will often spawn 7+ uniques at once on short lanes and completely brick the encounter. Wouldn’t recommend anybody to take this unless you have like 50m+ dps or smth
On i have the dmg but it means i drop to one frame, i die if one has proxy shield and i cant sapvage towers cause i cant build them with such pressure.
no its not just you , last league i had been thinking that the activation range on towers had been massively buffed cause i didnt need to be anywhere near as close as i had needed to be before. its a great hidden buff tbh.
I wouldn't run the 1 lane defended by uniques in hardcore tbh. And sometimes it can brick a run in maps but if you get the node that uniques drop more scarabs and you buff them with scarabs it can be very lucrative. Also the salvage node is decent for one point. Get a lot of gumball, a few chaos and a decent amount of gold
"a blighted map cannot have more than 3 blight modifiers" can someone please explain why I can't anoint with 3 different oils like ziz does in this video. Please?
How are you putting 9 oils on a map? Once I put 3, it says the blighted map cannot have more than 3 blight modifiers even tho I've only annointed it once.
There is a difference between "blighted maps" - 3x anoint, drops in regular maps and "Blight-ravaged maps" - the "uber" version of a blighted map, that allows 9x anoint and drops only in blighted maps themselves.
Why don’t you take Cassias Pride big node? Towers deal 300% more dmg, you cant do as much yourself but shouldnt it be even more chill then with lots of meteor towers?
maps are easy but blight encounters in T16 maps are very often impossible, multiple lines from start and multiple bosses right from the beginning, any tips?
Me with my Warden LS partially minmaxed just holding right click in the center, no ring enchants, no towers, t11-t16 blight-ravaged maps, just rotating the tincture, avatar and vaal LS
How do you manage to not lag at all? No matter my settings even on regular blights just the mobs existing lags my game to less than 10 fps. And i’ve got a pretty decent pc with a high end ryzen 9 3900x and an rtx 2080 super so my specs are up to speed but the game just can’t handle it for me
Try enabling dynamic culling, dynamic resolution, setting water detail level to low (unless you have a hideout with a lot of water and would want it to look better) and setting renderer to DirectX12 then restarting.
Maybe this is just me, but my blight maps have been completely unplayable and super laggy this league and i have done blight through tons of blight ravaged for at least 10 leagues, running a 5600x/3060ti only 16GB of ram but i also run the game on a gen 5 nvme ssd no idea why its so laggy
This is what annoys me about content creators. You say you hate those blight nodes in the first 15 seconds but then your video from 9 days ago hasn’t been updated to reflect this.
I always have trouble understanding what mechanics my build is good against. I'm mapping with hexblast tricksters, but can't decide between blight and expedition for my first focus
honestly any build can do blight, since the towers are such a big aspect. things with prolif are going to accel, but hexblast would be fine. a lot of times trap/mine builds accel at bossing and things that want high single target damage, since you can preload your damage (think maven invitations, boss rushing, feared rotations, essence etc)
I'm actually not a blight fan anymore this league as the scarab-rework was really bad for in-map blight. Sure we have that one atlas-node more or less replacing one of them, but it still feels extremely unrewarding in maps itself, especially now that we need to run so many maps to keep up with gold.
dont go blightspawn on the tree if your playing build like bleed lacerate the bosses are often incredibly tranky and you lose the encounter not worth it for another reward
I run PoE on a 5700X3d and a GTX 1070. I just can't play Blight maps because of the FPS. Its crazy how this game's performance/optimization is getting worse and worse and GGG is not even worried about it.
Lol "The first thing I look at... not too many stun immunes, not too many cold immunes.............. ..... ................ And I don't see the need to expand on that point." (Partly kidding. But I imagine that means that you just abandon the map?)
@@nickh4354 I changed mine to vulkan and it was better on maps, because I wasn't getting weird FPS issues, but for blighted maps I was getting a game crash at least once per map. Going to try directx12 to see if its better....
It would have been nice if you'd slowed down a bit on explaining the setup. You never mentioned what makes the meteor tower anoint, nor what those anointments on the blighted map were doing.
not really it's a 60 second buff with a chance to turn maps into blighted maps the node it's attached to is already nice so it's worth taking but imo not worth worrying about
What I want to know more, is the required in game settings to make sure the game doesn't get insane FPS drops with how many towers are active at a time + them spamming the stun. I only get FPS drops during this encounter
I'm getting the same thing, my game will start off fine but slowly lose FPS until like 3-4 minutes into the blight where it will be physically unplayable, but for some reason leaving and immediately re-entering fixes the fps issue (even though there's still the same number of towers + enemies)
Such a strange video. People who get what is going on there, they don't need this video. People trying to understand this mess, this video helps in no way. Fascinating.
Blight awful strat this league I tried your guide and I can no longer sustain my town , I think anyone reading should consider this if you plan on interacting with the blight mechanic the gold production is so bad that you will have to avoid blight ravaged/blighted maps entirely or you will fall behind in gold upkeep
Its so hard to follow Ziz guide...he speaks way too fast and use terminology as if everyone knows every mechanic. This is slightly better but in geeneral i cant follow his guides.
