1 MORE SECRET QUEST! How to charge the Depleted Mana Rune
Man, i totally love what GGG doing this league.
Hope it will be trend going forward
A small-medium sized minecraft server on which I used to play when I was 15-16 kept pulling this shit on us every few months and it was lovely to see people come together and try weird shit and theorize completely absurd stuff
I too hope we get new stuff to discover as a community when 1.0 drops
Man this is so cool. Props to GGG for adding secret quests like this. Reminds me of the old Destiny 2 days with secret bosses and exotics
RIP the other D2
Eh, it’s not going away. I’m happy I won’t have to contiunally grind for new stuff anymore lol
EDIT: guys I love destiny I’m sad it’s not going to get updates anymore but I’m glad it’s being left in a good final place
“D2 is dead”
“I can finally play D2”
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Lmao, it’s sad but also not, huh? It’s been a while since I’ve been compelled to play D2, and this final update is actually doing it. I was turned off of build crafting when the artifacts kept disappearing and ruining the builds I made. I’m actually looking forward to that not happening anymore.
I haven’t played since before weapon tiers and I think before the most recent armor stat changes? So like everything in my vault is trash, and there’s at least a few expansions I’ve yet to play. It’s gonna be like a D3 for me.
Thats pretty much exactly how I feel! Theres so much amazing stuff in the june 9 update, i’m really excited
It’s crazy, all the executives ever had to do was shut up, get out of the way, let the devs make the coolest stuff they can imagine, and then not take it out of the game. Who knew 🫠 lol
And all it took to convince them of that was yet another wave of layoffs, which will most likely catch everyone not currently in the c-suite or working on Marathon.
I sincerely hope sony cleans house of every c-suite person at bungie and leaves all the actual devs alone, the devs are so talented at making a good game but the upper level decisions are what’s killing them
I’ve played every expansion but really didn’t play much of Edge of Fate / Renegades so my gear is also really behind and there’s some crazy looking stuff now. Heavy snipers and crossbows? The new abilities look awesome (like the titan wall which flies forward incinerating everything).
I’m sad it’s stopping development but I’m glad it’s going to be in a really good state. And it should be a great time to learn all the raids ect. Because so many new and veteran players are returning.
Whisper mission was the absolute goat. My mind was blown the first time someone took me through it, I loved the jumping puzzle speedrun missions before they stopped making them. Zero Hour too.
Whisper was one of my favorite gaming experience of all time. Good shout-out 🤘
Aren’t there still vendor recipes in PoE1 that hasn’t been found?
My exact thought with the guy who sacrificed his character.
Im a mana stacking build i only have 5000-6000 mana it would take some insane things and optimizations to make 10k mana happen no?
I have a pob that has over 10k mana using gemling attribute notable I can link it later
https://pobb.in/nuUqIl383j0D
This can get way higher too, I dont have alot of the new runes accounted for or the 60% increased effect of socketed stuff.
EDIT: https://pobb.in/1c5G17a4cCji new one with over 12.5k mana
What does being gemling give you got your build? Is it purely thr quality effect of arc or is there other mana stacking reasons?
Increased effect of inherent bonuses of stat points. Their int is more mana per point than other ascends
What does it go down to without your body armour on? I’m thinking of trying to make the unique tideseer mantle work where it boost armour by 50% of Max mana which your mana could make it over a 5000+ armour item, depending on how much your body armour is adding.
Kind of interested to use the new mace which stacks mana as well.
Mana remnants overflows 50% so get to 6666+ mana. Looks like you only need to cast it once per instance.
kurgal on undying hate gives 50% overflow from regen. that’s what he used. 6.7k + the jewel gets to 10k https://poe2db.tw/us/Sacrifice_of_Mind
overflow? the new flask, but i tried and i couldn’t make it work.
managed 7k on my gemling but the cup overflow gets you the rest. palsteron just finished it on stream if you want to see
Mana remnants will rise the maximum temporarily, would that work? Who knows
Just stack reduced mana cost as well.
It specifically says cannot be cast if you have less than 10k mana.
The skill specifically states you need 10k max mana to cast it. Definitely something weird there.
on poeninja there are 2 people that have over 10k mana
this counts. undying hate, kurgal. you need ~6.7k mana and the jewel https://poe2db.tw/us/Sacrifice_of_Mind
Its alot easier to just temporarily get to 10k mana than have to actually use it.
I imagine it’d be fairly easy for players to just grab an exisiting disciple to respec and run a max mana staff with focus with pure energy shield gear and eldritch battery alongside 2 time lost jewels with the very large radius and %max mana and undying hate for mana overflow to use it and unlock it.
Yeah mana stacking plus eldritch battery seems fairly attainable to reach 10k max mana. Probably absolutely unusable without proper investment into a mana build. But attainable. Plus T1 mana mods are basically all but guaranteed if you start crafting high level gear.
https://www.twitch.tv/palsteron
Currently trying to charge.
Thank you for the link! This let me watch him make it live.
No problem, one of the most fun streams i’ve witnessed.
GGG is on fire. They cooked an amazing end game, especially with these hidden (community) quests. PoE2 is proving to be not only one of the best ARPGs ever made, but also one of the best games ever made. Definitely in my top 5 now.
They make Blizzard look like an amateur indie developer.
As this point, Blizzard are making themselves looking amateur indie developers. I say this as a (generally speaking) lover of Blizzard games.
Did anyone notice The Stars Answer doesn’t have a duration…
Yup hopefully we will be able to see what that means pretty soon.
I checked Palsteron’s latest vod, it’s exactly what it sounds like. Infinite duration as long as you don’t take it off or zone switch. Appeared to stay even after weapon swap, I think?
Damn now that seems strong, but for 10k mana it should be haha. Now only to figure out if we can insert legacy of runeseeker into rune seeker to give the other 4 slots and additional 225% increased effect of runes.
I mean, if you can socket other Legacy runes into the uniques they came from, it seems likely? Get a lucky corrupt for a sixth socket and it’ll go even more insane.
its a per account item so you’d need somebody else to finish the quest with its crazy requirements, buy it, convert it into a rune and then get a crazy lucky corrupt on your own copy of the fork for that
So you’re saying there’s a chance.
Theres no such thing as chance, its just whether or not somebody has enough mirrors to throw at this proje
its a guaranteed quest drop, theres no need to roll for perfect affixes and corrupted implicits, you just need to keep throwing vaal orbs at new forks till it becomes a 6 socket
U “just” need 10.000 mana to activate the rune. Pal just did it on stream.
PAL DID IT
So it’s farrows fork? What’s it do
Wand with 5 rune slots, and all runes in it are tripled
Trying to get an idea of how strong that is and it sounds kinda crazy. Legacy of Lifesprig is +2 to all spell skills, so +6 All Spells on a Wand.
Or you could socket Legacy of Runeseeker’s Call for 75% effect of Runes, which turns into another 225% effect because of the 200% Effect? So like 425% Rune Effect across all the runes on your gear…
So like 425% Rune Effect across all the runes on your gear…
The increased rune effect is a local mod, not global. Only the runes in the fork are buffed.
Ah, darn. Thought it would specify for that item. Still really crazy though if it can hit 425%.
Yeah, mods on items are usually local unless otherwise stated or impossible - e.g. a helmet with +% defenses is only for that item’s defenses, but a helmet with +% crit chance, resistances or attributes is global because helmets don’t have that stat inherently, and the Stonefists ascendancy node turns local %inc defenses into %more global Evasion/ES.
Keep in mind these bonuses are because you’re effectively using a wand with no modifiers.
Yah. That is why I was looking into how strong it was since no mods is a pretty big downside. But +6 all on a wand alone is a crazy since the best they can normally get is +5 specific or +4 all.
Actually, can you stack Legacy of Lifespring with a Wisdom Rune? They are each limit 1, but I don’t think anything would prevent both. Just normally wands only have 1 Socket… So you could get +6 All Spells and +3 All Spells for +9. And then still have 3 Sockets that can get 105% Spell Damage, 36% Damage as Extra Element, 270 Mana, 180 ES, 84% Crit Chance, 15% Damage ad Extra All Elements (45% total), or 75% +2 Proj Chance. And all but that last two don’t have a limit…
So you could get +9 Levels and 108% Damage as Extra Lightning. I think that beats most other Wands by a mile. PoB is showing like 66% better than my +4 Spell Wand (160% Damage, 27% Speed, 60% Crit Chance) from last league.
I think you basically have to go shaman with this thing so you 3x the bonded mods aswell
Hear me out, 4x perfect rebirth runes for 96% of damage taken recouped as life & 136% increased energy shield recharge rate, get recoup and recoup speed from tree, for the last slot i guess legacy of lifesprig and you just use this skill as damage with archmage
Farrow’s Fork only triples runes socketed within itself.
425% rune effect thats like 750% rune effect!
Holy shit, so 300% increased ignite magnitude with Shaman? That’s essentially a 4x multiplier right now with how rare inc ignite mag is.
EDIT: Then we’re also getting 100% damage as extra fire, so the stars that are dropping help with flammability as well. Infernalist with the hound has been the best solve for flammability I’ve found yet. This would be a hell of a lot better
200% increaaed
5 runes * 30% on the rune, then double effect is 300.
EDIT: Ahhhh, yeah you missed that they buffed the value this league.
The best Ascendancy would probably be Ritualist for that 3rd Ring slot and then just get obscenely high ES gear and get Eldritch Battery then use Uthreds Cup to Regen to 1.5x so you only need a max of 6667 Mana to get 10k
“Cannot be cast if you have less than 10,000 mana.”
Yeah the chalice overflows mana, it’s not a mana cost reduction so this should work, this also fits in with the fact that Uthred drops the quest item.
mana not maximum mana
I feel like gemling would work well too. Int stacking with the double attribute bonus. Could pretty easily get over 1k mana so that would be like 4-6k mana just from that. Plus int is your suffix while mana lines are typically your prefix so easy to get both mods on gear.
A third %mana ring implicit on ritualist does sound tasty though
I’ve killed easily a dozen uhtreds with no depleted rune drop. Is it rare or is there another drop condition?
I don’t buy that a quest item that can drop for everybody needs an extremely specific build to continue the quest. 10k mana is not trivial.
I’ve killed a dozen uhtreds and i dropped it yesterday. So did most people, but i’m not sure if it drops from other bosses.
Uthred is all mana based with his drops and even his unique flask overflows mana.
And here I am and got it first kill. nervously looks around for rnjesus stalking me
im up to 30 uthreads an no rune, is there some secret unlock quest i need to do first?
Yo, I also killed about 15-25 uhtreds, finally dropped one today. Seems to just be rare, I couldnt find any other way to procc it. Turned it in myself, hope you find it
The trade site now registers the item:
Normal:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Runes%20of%20Aldur/lg78J0vQtV
Runeforged: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Runes%20of%20Aldur/mk7L6BKru6
Somebody already got the 1⁄3 added proj implicit perfect divined and corrupted for 6th socket what a legend
Holy, where does that implicit even show up?? Is it a rune thing or unique to this weapon? I can’t keep up with the crafting man
Uniques dropped by the expedition boss can be upgraded in the verisium bench and this wand can do the same.
3 outcomes here https://poe2db.tw/Runeseekers_Call
Duality for instance from Aberration can upgrade its base damage, crit, or attack speed https://poe2db.tw/Duality
Whew, thanks for that informative reply. Now to do some reading!!!
Do you know how to upgrade it? When I go to an anvil it shows that knowledge not yet acquired…
You find the recipes in underground areas in expeditions. Fairly low chance IIRC.
People really are insane with this game.
I fucking love this community.
What would be the best double corrupt?
“Ezomyte wand” Do you think what I think ?
Was looking over runes to see how strong a 5 socket 5x effect wand would be and saw “Legacy of Runeseeker’s Call” with “Wands: 75% increased effect of Socketed Runes”. So yes, put that in the Wand, turning the 75% into 225% for 425% total buff to ALL socketed runes. That is surely going to be the most OP Wand in the game.
Thats an insane combo, especially with shaman this would be for example 100% increased mana and +1800 flat mana just with 4 greater mind runes? Am I understanding this correct? Seems insane.
Probably one just does 3, and uses the + to level rune, and the projectile one is also very good, and that one also has a very solid quality with shaman.
Yup. Shaman with this is going to be busted. Also, I think you could use a Wisdom for +1 Level and a Lifespring for +2 Level… So unless there is some restriction I am missing, that is +9 Levels on a Wand.
Then on Shaman, that also gives 90% faster Archon Recovery and Leech 3% of Max Life on Spells. And on top of that you can run a Perfect Storm for 36% Damage as Extra Lightning with 90% increased Shock Magnitude on Shaman… Or Perfect Vision for 85% Crit Chance with 75% Crit Bonus on Shaman. So even if you don’t stack the Socketed Effects, this seems easily like the best wand in the game.
the Issue I see is getting 10k Mana with a Shaman
The Tuning Fork is tradeable, but yah, for SSF or such that would be an issue. I don’t think any character really gets 10K Mana that well. Like I guess you’d Eldritch Battery a bunch of ES with Mana Mods on gear or something.
the tuning forks skill is useless if you don’t have 10k mana
Oh, I don’t think you need to mind the skill at all. I just realized it doesn’t show in the post, but they all have 5 rune sockets. Seems there are a bunch on trade now for 70+ Div. So you do a build-a-wand with 5 runes with 3x mods, with Shaman getting double the rune mods for some crazy stated wands.
I wonder if it is worth the corrupt for that +1 rune slot worst case it doesn’t do anything I guess
Its a unique, so it could “apply a modifier magnitude multiplier of 0.78x to 1.22x”. Either that, add an enchant, add a socket, or nothing. So it would be a gamble if the 200% rune effect goes up or down, but either way it kinda seems worth. Now that we’re starting to see a few dozen on the market, I’m sure someone will start trying to corrupt soon. Think it is like 2/3rd good outcome and 1/3rd bad, assuming half the modifier one is good.
With Shaman bonded modifiers, 6 sockets, 1 Legacy of Runeseeker’s Call, 4 Perfect Desert Runes, and 1 Hedgewitch rune:
RIP my manastacker build. I expected to have cheap gear :<
Dude same lol!
well it was solved now to figure out how to get 10k mana
Might be like the martyr thing and only one guy per league needs to do it.
I doubt SSF players will be getting this buff then, I don’t think even one player can finish this quest in SSF
I’m sure they can, probably take many many hours but I’m sure they can.
But how about a second build?
if u could move the rune to another char, it might be worth a try but as a monk it will be hard if not impossible for me to reach 10k mana even with gear
why am i downvoted tho
actually
gonna try to cook a build om monk with bringer of rain with 2 empyreian maces or w/e its called for mana stacking just to prove myself wrong
hopefully 50 divs is enough for gear lmao
i was already guessing 10k mana, but i don’t have the budget .I mean the league’s NPC flat out tells you you need more power to charge it and the rune description says it hungers for mana.i tried 0/0 and it doesn’t work.
i noticed that in the star crater the rune has a different sound when being picked up and placed in the inventory.So that might be the location to use it, or act 3 scrying pool.
Damn. Good find!
I’m loving all these secrets! Good job exile
I remember when the patch dropped I looked at all the new skills and came across star’s answer
I assumed that another new unique Utherd’s Chalice was meant to be used in tandem with it to be able to meet the requirements of the spell itself, especially because of the flavor text; “He turned instead to the stars and witnessed the truth.”
This is really cool, its like a separate ladder for mana stackers.
Another thing you don’t get to do if you’re a melee build 😎
Are you aware that this item would be useless to you as a melee build
Jonathan finding out it didn’t take long at all is gonna be so bummed lol
it’s just due to datamining. If we didn’t have access to the weapon and its stats, it would’ve taken a long time.
Yah exactly all that happened is someone searched it on PoEdb2
Does it take into account overflow? You can get 50% more max mana with mana remnants if it does.
Was just figured out lol
idk if ppl found this already but you can turn in 60 unique rings for a unique armour at dannig
Now we are only missing two Gatecrasher Farrows Gift
anyone found even a clue to those?
Gatecrasher might be the PoE 2 Oni-Goroshi equivalent based on the name and level 1 requirement.
Damn, that’s a really good point, now we only need a poor sod to do it
I farmed the first area a bit, you can’t respawn the bloated Miller but you can reset the last checkpoint and farm white mobs for XP, it just take forever to level, I stopped at level 4, might push level 5 while watching YouTube, but I hope it’s not higher and there is a clear Visual that the Miller has changed, cause you do only get that one kill.
Did get to level 5, no change and with XP penalty, level 6 would be a multi hour grind, so thats it from me.
What if we died to and checkpoint reset the miller over and over? Like feeding him XP so he levels up?
Like in GW1 lol?
Yikes that would be insanely tedious, especially if it is a chance based drop in the end
What are these? Do we have any datamined stuff for it?
Not even an item description, we know from the official patchnoes that Farrows Gift and Gatecrasher have been added to the game, so they do exist, that’s all we have now on them
holy he did it! he got it!
This is exactly the type of stuff that just absolutely sucks me in. This is sick
Makes me wonder what other stuff hasn’t been found yet
Also makes me immensely glad I jumped on the PoE2 train pre 0.1 and made the switch from D4
My steam play time speaks for itself 😅😭
Can you socket the rune into the weapon? I imagine there would be an interaction there
I think I missed the specific moment, but how does the Mana Stone upgrade Runeseeker’s call? He’s trying to make a build with the weapon now.
Anyone know if Volatile Power has a cap on the % chaos as extra? Volatility has a 200 cap itself, but does the % as extra?
If Legacy of Runeseeker’s Call gets increased by Runeseeker’s Call, and the % chaos as extra is not capped, Ancient Rune of Decay’s bonded mod gives 15% chance to refund volatility x 5 = 75% + 25% off tree = 100%.
That means you’d get some volatility and then spam a Catharsis supported skill for ramping % chaos as extra (and crit chance from Precise Volatility).
It may be capped at 200% and it may be limited to ~80% refund, but if not it’s probably the most ST you can do. Not that anything in the game needs it or would survive until the ramp is done.
You need 10k mana yes, but overflow counts. Get to 6.7k with the 50% overflow from kurgal’s undying hate and that’ll put you at 10k https://poe2db.tw/us/Sacrifice_of_Mind
So you can only get this weapon once per character? Is the quest repeatable?
https://preview.redd.it/w1xix722nq5h1.png?width=559&format=png&auto=webp&s=7366350932bce96f0fee1c5bb78b8c628fa31b6d
Kinda worth to do i guess.
I finally figured out what feels so weird about all the praise for these kinds of ‘quests’.
And I think it’s that this is literally what an RPG is supposed to be about and, arguably, was before every single game got min-maxed in terms of mass market profitability and minimap icons and all that junk. Seriously this is the *point* of an RPG - finding a thing, intuiting things about it due to the world and what you were introduced to, finding threads, and figuring out a thing that is satisfying.. but the industry has squeezed all that down to journals and popups and markers so they can churn higher numbers.
Cannot cannot.
!!!!!!!!!!!!! UPDATE: IT’S BEEN CHARGED AND PALSTERON HAS ACQUIRED THE TUNING FORK https://www.twitch.tv/palsteron/clip/ComfortableFitGarbageRickroll-IRCbM5tcxjNbqkAd
I don’t get it. Now what? You put mana cost efficiency runes in it in order to use the spell?
Wait till you guys find out about shrike island
Has anyone checked what the extra Gemling Quality is on The Stars Answer?
I don’t think Gemling works with Item skills
Won’t work on item skills
Would be much easier to use this on a gemling with 30% reduced mana cost ascendancy instead of stacking 10k mana lol
Doesn’t work, it requires 10,000 mana to cast as a strict condition
twitch clip has no sound
yeah it does, it just bugs out for the first 10 seconds
Would this go with whatever the Tabula Rasa upgrade in the verisium anvil is that cost 50k?
Is there a way to achieve this as shaman? Or it will be a completely dead slot in inventory forever? Since I can’t seems to drop it.
Yes, easily as shaman.
man this has just been sitting in my inventory since early league launch, not knowing what the hell it is. so cool!
lmao I threw my mana rune away TODAY because i wanted the inventory space back
What does the skill/implicit of the tuning fork do?
This unique is super cool and reminds me a lot of how Destiny 2 does exotic quests
Guys, somebody try to use Rite of Restoration from Reverie and eldritch battery? At max stack Rite of Restoration buff you get great buff to ES, mayble it can be converter to mana?
Mana int stack is back?!
Never went away, was always better the life casting just needed far more investment
Err except it wasnt really int stacking just lots of flat mana mods and ritualist for a 3rd ring >.<
so the hard part seems to be sustaining the cost of the damn thing, I wonder what people will cook with this
The absoulute Irony that I was already planning to make a Shaman to spam Starfall and then this just exists and does all the work for me if I give it mana hilarious to me.
So if this drops you just have another quest item permanently stuck in your inventory, and cant get rid of it until you meet these very specific conditions? Not a fan. I already have an audience with the king in my inventory, and now I’m forced to path over there, so I can get rid of it, despite me wanting to concentrate on other content for now. Please GGG let us put Quest items in the stash. You can even make a stash tab for it and sell it, just let me get random items out of my inventory when I have no current use for them.
What does this rune even do?
This has to have something to do with new runeseekr quest right? Like the scrying pool, or maybe something in the end game? The tree of souls?
Sooo I’m stuck with quest item, as I play smith of kitava there’s no way I get 10k mana
I wish there was a separate tab for quest items. I had a handful of stuff while I was mapping for a while.
So I wonder if the secret has been completely figured out. I still wonder what that well in a3 might actually be used for.
Interesting
Does it deadass say 10k mana???
He only has 8.5 K mana in the video
Overflow.
Only 1.. wow…and a 5 soc…
Now vaal it
I think with Johnathon saying it will take a long time etc, and the arcane related things, my guess is this is related to the end of trial of sekhema in a way or with the boss there.
Is the weapon good?
Is this possible to do as a monk? Or do I just throw this thing on the ground? kinda lame missing out on 100D
I haven’t really played monk side of tree but it’s way harder to achieve than for example, druid or sorc/witch.
I actually have a few mana rolls and I’m only around 900. I’d have to brick myself or level an alt to do this. Wish they made the item tradeable, or at least let me put it in the stash.
If it’s 100D now then it will probably be fairly cheap once more are made. It’s effectively a free item if you have spare gold for a respec and idk 20ex for some bad gear with t1 mana mods.
Couldn’t an infernalist with the infernal flame get that if they mana stack? It makes them squishy but can be easily done.
How do you get this? I’d love something new to play with!
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I mean if it’s a quest for mana users/casters why would melee care? It’s only 0.5, there will be more things
Imagine thinking everything has to be about you.
Melee got archon of chaos this patch.
Idk man I find it hard to believe there’s a whole quest locked behind an insane amount of mana stacking but ya never know
The reward for it will be.
You think they locked a story quest behind a very specific build?
How is this a story quest? It’s a secret quest you can complete for the fork basically.
It’s a green item, therefore story quest? I guess not but still.
All quest items are green. Who said green items are specifically story quests? There’s quite more in the end game, including the one for Loreweave which is expedition related as well.
Fair enough
I can’t help but wonder if this is a direct message wink wink to Conner (onemanaleft), since he is the mana stacking king from POE1 after all the videos directed to GGG before each league regarding the state of some builds and mechanics, like a way of saying “dude, we hear you”
Don’t think so, they just made a cool mana item.
As a mana stacker myself I can only get to 6-7 k …hopefully I can get this
With mana overflow from Regen from a unique jewel(can’t remember name) and mana remnants you should be able to
Mana remnants should be enough with that much mana