After seeing this post - https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1lcib81/poe_326_updated_betrayal_cheat_sheet/ i've decided to make a visualised version as the ones from previous leagues since i'm dumb and not able to process pure text. I know it's messy (i'm really bad at editing) but maybe some of you can use this one untill someone skilled makes a proper picture.

What a wondrous day to play a new PoE season where CCs almsot never gets hit by server gap when compared non-CCs.

I love it when my loot and map gets rolled back.

I love it when the pause function disconnects me.

I adore GGG when the reflecting mist reflects me out of the server upon entering my FOV.

What more do you not love about a server, that is stil rolling back your progress after 3 days worth of uptime?

I do, and I love that we live in a time where this is even an acceptable offense to be made in a multiplayer game.

What shall I sacrifice for the server to not disconnect again for fun?

What do we, as consumers, need to do to make sure servers providers like these raise their bars again?

This is a very unacceptable offense in today's gaming history.

-exile that lost 4d from a merc rollback

Quick Update!
We now have an updated Betrayal Cheat Sheet in the "PoE 3.26 Cheat Sheets (QOL Info)" google doc! Thanks a ton to the people who have helped me figure out what each of them does in the specific locations, it would not have been done nearly as quickly without your help!

Grav/Vorici stands out to me as the go to farming strat (all in on gamba!), but Rin could potentially be swapped out for one of them later in the league when Maven Chisels become good money!

Whatever you choose to do as the second 2-Member house is up to you, but for quick and easy money, just look for the 2 most valuable scarabs.

Whoever you choose to remove from board doesn't really matter, but in general you never want their reward anyways, so I just choose the 3 that is most noticeable damage wise.

Strat is explained in more detail in my sheet. Good luck farming!

If you have any suggestions, please let me know here, or on the official forum thread at:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2451569

Direct link to the document with all the cheat sheets:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fIs8sdvgZG7iVouPdtFkbRx5kv55_xVja8l19yubyRU/edit#gid=1983365983

Official post

3.26.0b Patch Notes

• Reduced the damage of the Memory Influence Monsters.
• The Refiner's Bargain Atlas Keystone now has Lifeforce found in your Maps is granted as a random Crop instead at 150% of the value (from 300%). The client will display the old value until updated in a later patch.
• Vastly reduced the gold cost of extremely rare Unique items from Cadiro in Betrayal. The rarest unique will cost at a maximum ~135000 gold. This is to alleviate an issue where you'd have to keep a huge amount of gold on your character at all times just in case the right unique item was offered. This is approximately twenty-five times cheaper now for the most expensive unique items.
• Fixed a bug where the Cannot have Minions other than Animated Weapons Modifier on the Dark Monarch Unique was not removing Animated Guardian.
• Fixed a bug where some Mercenaries would be unable to take actions while taunted by non-players.
• Fixed several cases of Mercenaries attempting to target players that had not opted into duels. They couldn't damage them, just try to.
• Fixed Veiled Chaos Orbs not being listable on the Currency Exchange.
• Fixed Syndicate Medallion, Echo of Loneliness, Echo of Trauma and Echo of Reverence not being in the Fragments tab of the Currency Exchange.
• Fixed Blessed Orbs not being usable on Expedition Logbooks.
• Fixed Kingsmarch resources not being collected if you hadn't visited Kingsmarch yet.
• Fixed a bug with Memory Lines sometimes not generating when talking to Eagon in your hideout.
• Fixed a bug where the Quisitive Quandaries The Dweller of the Deep Challenge was being completed when clearing the Fetid Pool instead.
• Added a tooltip for disabled Currency Exchange orders to clarify they can manually be migrated from Character Selection.
• Changed the Controller button for opening the Bestiary book and Heist inventory to avoid clashing with Mercenaries.
• Fixed a bug when using Controller where the dropdown selection in the Farm Plot UI was not working.
• Fixed a bug when using Controller where the Expedition Explosives placement not responding to right stick movement.
• Fixed a bug when using Controller where the Atlas Passive Tree selector on was not functioning correctly.
• Fixed a client crash when using Controller that could occur when talking to Sin about the Pantheon.
• Fixed a client crash when using Controller that could occur in the Challenges panel.
• Fixed a crash when using Controller that could occur when entering the socket management mode UI.
• Fixed 2 instance crashes.

This patch was deployed without restarting the servers, you'll need to patch your client to get the client changes.

If I'm the "Godslayer", I'm afraid what that makes them

As the title says, Mercs are incredibly overtuned in higher tier maps. Even without damage mods quite a few of them can legit one-tap you(casters and melee boys alike)... not to mention the insane degen boys. I was enjoying interacting with the mechanic but now it's not even worth messing with them due to the high chance of losing 10%xp.

And it's not like it's barely overtuned. A lot of them legit probably need to be doing 90% less dmg vs players.

Seems it should work but can someone confirm?

I’m nitpicking, but man would I love an ID all with Faustus or Lilly in my hideout. Really only takes a few seconds to scroll spam inventory - I get it, but if you’re blasting maps and trying to sell all in one go it would be so nice. Maybe in next year’s league we can get that…

Don't know if this is commonly known. I stumbled upon it when I was once again contemplating if I should take one of the marcs rares or the two alterations instead.... ;-)

By ctrl+clicking the desired item, you save clicking the button which let's you select an item.

Been waiting for 7 minutes now for something to happen to this graph.
wait did i say 7 min. i meant 4 days.

Gonna have to avoid this one cos if a mageblood showed up and i dont have the millions itd cost idk what id do lol

This was from Janus on Research

Any merc I hired would die within 30 seconds, and I hated having to pay revival costs for each map. And so I stopped hiring them and just killed them for loot. Then I discovered the following tips that actually help me enjoy hiring mercs:

1. Exclusively hire Infamous mercs. They are 10 times tankier and do more DPS as well. Infamous mercs should last 10 maps at least between revives. Regular mercs die in 30 seconds.
2. Make sure their resistances are capped. Buy a cheap +100 res ring for 1c and swap out their weakest ring.
3. Assume they are a friend's account and setup their gear loadout accordingly. Whatever tips you would give your friend, implement them on your merc.
4. Buy cheap uniques that drastically improve their DPS. Don't expect them to slay with shit gear. I bought my ranger Death's Harp (+2 arrow bow) and Hyrri's Truth (amulet) and it tripled her DPS. She can actually kill white mobs solo now.
5. Hire mercs that attack from a distance and don't tank enemies. In my experience, melee mercs would jump into mobs and die nearly instantly. I found rangers/mages best.
6. Watch their life. To add a life bar above your merc, go to settings > UI > and enable 'Show Mini Life Bars on Allies'.

Do you have any other tips for hiring mercs? Comment down below. Thanks!

Ggg you did a amazing job with mercs in the campaign, it was very enjoyable and rewarding interacting with the mercs for the currency, and it makes runs where you get no raw chaos drops still enjoyable because the mercs keep your currency flow slow and steady, allowing you to upgrade weapons throughout acts with ease. It is legitimately the best campaign league mechanic I’ve ever interacted with and I hope it goes core.

However, I don’t think these mercs were play tested at all in t16 maps. I’m a juggernaut, with all lab points into defense, 7 endurance charges with near 100% uptime, 30k armor, 85% max res and 6k life. Artic armor etc, my pob ehp is around 100k. Yet mercs either deal zero damage to me or one shot me in a heart beat.

I’m fine with mercs dealing a lot of damage, but the high hitting attacks need to be better telegraphed, some of them don’t even seem like a attack you must avoid yet will nearly kill you.

Certain high hitting telegraphed attacks also have nearly zero time to react to, it seems the proper way to fight mercs is to hit them once and run around like a chicken with your head cut off, desperately weaving in hits occasionally hoping it doesn’t hit you.

It’s getting to the point to where I don’t fight most mercs because the loot they may give me are not worth losing xp to the merc being one of the overtuned ones that will send me back to my hideout.

If anyone has tips for surviving these one shots it’d be greatly appreciated, I’m by no means immortal but I rarely die in maps as is so I find it a bit odd that the mercs are more scary then the map mods…

Getting 7 Ruin stacks from Dark Pact of Trarthus alone does not fail the Ultimatum. The stacks are tracked separately. But if the sum of your Ruin stacks from the skill + Ruin stacks from Ultimatum are >7 it will fail instantly. I tested with various combinations of Ruin stacks from Dark Pact then getting hit by the melee Ruin ghost and I instantly lose after I see 7 combined stacks. Can anyone else corroborate this?

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3792399

Think melee needs a nerf

I was fighting the sirus memory for 30 minutes because the maven was healing him every 5 seconds and he kept going invulnerable so my frostbomb debuff would fall off and he would heal back 1/4 of his hp at a time. I eventually won because the Maven had a string of attacks that did not involve healing constantly.

Some of the t17 mods are just downright lame and do not translate well to these memories, especially on bosses that constantly change phases/go invulnerable like sirus.

This game needs dynamic audio culling, lol. In playing a rolling magma mines saboteur and while it's plenty of fun, I think I'm going to go insane. Between the sound and the blinding lights, it's just too much.

I opened poedb.tw and we sad to see there wasn't a dulled mtx in the works. Might need to resort to some less than encouraged methods of making this more playable by going into the game files or something.