Path of Exile: Synthesis FAQ

I think Synthesis was the straw that broke the camel's back. Just way too much going on in the game. Core needs to be whittled down, there's way too much happening. Remove Betrayal and Incursion, and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't make Synthesis core, and we'll be in a much better place I think.

Hey Bex, can I suggest you give one full example of a targetted synthesised item craft with probabilities?

For example, a tutorial in how someone might attempt to craft a Titanium Spirit Shield with two implicits - +30 ES and "While this item is corrupted, the wearer is immune to curses"

I'd approach that by looking for at least three two locked mod TSS's with locked T1 flat ES and one other mod, all of which is the same (e.g. first has 12% fire res locked, second has 28% fire res, third has 17% fire res, all locked). You can't realistically acquire these yourself, this requires trading.

Scour each (which leaves 2 locked mod items rare), vaal each. Assuming none brick (become a random 6 mod rare), synthesise.

4 possible mods - two desired (T1 ES implicit, immune to curses), two undesired (the other corruption implicit, fire resist)

1/6 to get both desired mods, 4/6 to get one of them without the other, 1/6 to get neither.



I like the system now, but it is utterly overwhelming for newer players to even begin to try to understand.

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Arobee wrote:

I think Synthesis was the straw that broke the camel's back. Just way too much going on in the game. Core needs to be whittled down, there's way too much happening. Remove Betrayal and Incursion, and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't make Synthesis core, and we'll be in a much better place I think.

+1 but do not remove incursion, just remove betrayal and synthesis, my loading screens are gettin worse every league, its getting ridiculous big lol, once i got 76 seconds loading one simple act 10 map. I am going to buy an ssd purely for poe cuse no other game have those long loading screens, if it just keeps increasing i might just quit this game after 5 years playing it. A SHAME!

Nice article. It would be awesome if we got such right before or right after the league start. Perhaps next time? :)

This league sucks. A FAQ won't help it. A bunch of trash to pick up and then having to use 3rd party poecraft site to figure out wtf is what. And even then the outcome is so RNG gated it's not worth the headache. I think I've fought each of the 4 bosses like 2 or 3 times and still no "Cortex" spawn. Sad thing is I really liked the concept. The Protoss nexus area is amazing along with the music. But the more I waste my time in the thing, the more I want it pulled from the game.

Everybody knows 3.6.2 is the actually patch for Synthesis

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Kaltroh wrote:

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Bex_GGG wrote:

We do plan to reshuffle the atlas every expansion. I've spoken to the team about how this can be inconvenient for Standard players. I don't have anything to announce about this at the moment but I've made sure the issue is on their radar. Our apologies for the inconvenience in the meantime.

Any update?????

im with him i'm standard and im don't want my atlas messed with every 3 months i have put enough money into this game to be able to buy that option.

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GaryOakRobotron wrote:

I have two questions:

1) Why is Decay a mechanic in the Memory Nexus? It can needlessly brick your paths on the way to reward nodes, or, because the actual reward's location in the reward tiles has no rhyme or reason, can screw you out of the reward. Why can memories on their final charge not behave as normal, and then disappear after being run?

2) When do you plan on correcting the horrible imbalance that is Synthesis bosses? With the zone mods applying to them, it results in completely unfair encounters. Due to only having 6 portals, this is overly punishing to players who aren't a dedicated boss killer or people playing Hardcore in general.

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FIG THE INTERVENTION SYNDICATE LAGGING

Since we can't get rid of Betrayal (you've made too much of the crafting depend on it), can we at least NOT have Synthesis as core mechanic? I can't remember ever hating a league this much.