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First Impressions Of POE 3.20 Krangled Passives Event - Fun But Not For Everyone

Mar 27, 2023

Today, I want to talk about the Krangled Passives Event, which has been one of the March events that GGG has been running lately.

About Krangled Passives Event

This has been a fairly unique event where the entire passive tree is scrambled. What does scrambled mean? It means that all the notable passives across the entire tree are swapped with each other.

For instance, Endurance here is something that would be in a totally different spot on the passive tray normally, but it’s been moved here. All the notables are transposed with other notables. All the small nodes are transposed with other small nodes and all the keystones are transposed with other keystones. So, where iron reflexes on the normal tray would be in the south-south east area. Instead here, it is in the Northwest.

POE Endurance

Possibly of most interest, all of the small nodes and all of the large nodes within all of the ascendancies have been scrambled. So, Avatar of the Slaughter, which normally belongs to the Raider is now an option for the Inquisitor. Instruments of Zeal is also still an option for the Inquisitor.

Then you have small nodes that would belong to other ascendancies normally and they have been shoved over in this ascendancy cluster for the Inquisitor, as well. Of course, everything that you are not connected to is Veiled, as well. 

So, in order to try and scout out your passive tree that requires a substantial investment of resources or alternately, it requires cooperation with other players because all players that play this event share the same passive tree.

Now, this creates an interesting dynamic where the passive tree structure is different, but it also makes the game meaningfully harder because your character will be quite a bit weaker than they would be in the base game. Why is that?

It’s because there are a lot of nodes that don’t really do very much on the passive tree unless you are playing a build that optimizes for them. For example, I am forced to pass through Wand Attack Speed and Accuracy. My character is a Spellcaster. I get absolutely nothing from this node and there’s quite a number of these notes across the passive tree and you’ll also have to find a bunch of them as you explore.

Three Ways To Play This Event

*As I said, there are three main ways that you can play this event: the first one is that you can go in with no foreknowledge at all or with almost no foreknowledge. This is the way that I played it. 

I deliberately chose to play an Inquisitor because I knew the Occultist was the strongest ascendancy and I thought well. I don’t know anything about the Inquisitor, so I’m just going to force that to work somehow. And I’ve chosen to go with the Inquisitor ascendancy and just play around, find nodes that seem like they’re useful and spec them and then try to force a character to work. 

This has been a lot of fun, but it has resulted in a low power character. My experience has been that my character has been probably a little weaker than a character of comparable level would be in Ruthless normally and definitely far weaker than a character of comparable level would be in the base game.

*The second way that you can play it is you can have a look for major things on the tree you want to work towards. If your budget is sufficient, you can directly use POE Currency to obtain them. For instance, you might know that you want to spec a whole bunch of Mana Reservation Efficiency and Aura nodes, so you can look up a cheat sheet and get a sense of exactly where all of these are across the passive tree. These cheat sheets do exist now.

POE Krangled Passives Event

*The third way you can play it is you can see it as an optimization puzzle where you look at all of the information that’s available across a passive tree that’s been scattered out by other players and you try to build the most powerful character possible within the constraints of the event.

All these are valid ways to play it. Of course, if you’re trying to win the event, then the correct way to play it is going to be to treat it as an optimization puzzle. But alternately, it’s perfectly fine to just play it for a bit of fun the way that I’ve been doing as well.

Now, the thing that’s really noticeable in this event is that you are extremely starved for attribute points. Selling players aren’t generally used to being in short supply of in the base game. Now, in the base game, you might sometimes spec a node like Alacrity or one of the other similar nodes like Beef that will provide you with a short-term boost to a particular attribute that you need right then and there.

But generally, you’re allocating these with an idea: I’m going to allocate this in the short term and then in the medium term. I’m going to get rid of this node because it’s terrible and I want something else in its place.

Nodes You Want To Look For

In the Krangled Passives Event, you actually really want to look for these nodes. These nodes are a substantial power boost when you get them and I have Alacrity. I have Expertise and they have been absolutely fantastic nodes that I would not respect for anything. I also have a 20 strength node somewhere.

Again, one of the best nodes on my entire tree this is very different to the base game where these are filler nodes that you don’t want to take. Why is this?

POE Extractor Mentis Agate Amulet

It’s because it removes pressure on the rest of your gear. You’ll find that you’ll have a small amount of resistances on the tree because there’ are quite a lot of nodes that provide resistances. But you won’t have very much in the way of attributes on the tree. You’ll then need to gear for attributes. And in fact, I am using an amulet (Extractor Mentis Agate Amulet) that you probably would not use in the base game solely because this amulet is providing me with a total of 80 points of attributes. 

This is a huge boost for me and all the other effects on this amulet are pretty much neither here nor there. I’m using it because it’s giving me 60 points of Strength. It’s giving me 20 points of Intelligence. This is allowing me to use my gems.

Only I believe that if you’re playing this event with a goal of winning it, such as the group that does the Searing Exarch and the Eater of Worlds the fastest. You would probably be in a huge advantage if your group had an Astramentis drop for you. Because then you could have set up a situation where you’ve got one dedicated carry, who is able to use all of their gems without fear or favor and then the other players would then combine auras in order to power that character up.

Conclusion

That’s not the way that I’m playing it, though I’ve just been playing it solo and it has been a lot of fun.

Anyway, I highly recommend this event. I think that this event will get run again. This is not going to be everyone’s favorite event. In fact, I think a lot of people will give this a shot and decide it’s definitely not for them, but it will be some players’ favorite event and that makes it worth trying and experiencing.

Maybe it’s one of yours, and maybe it’s not. But either way, you’ll get a bit of experience playing the game in a very different style where you’ve got a lot less character power. But you have a lot of crazy new options.

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