My Take on Sanctum

This league my focus mechanic was Sanctum. Yes I know, silly time to make it my focus with the loot nerfs, but I would argue the opposite. I have multiple tabs of 83 sanctums purchased at 1c per. So with such a low investment it turned out to be the perfect time to dig in and git gud. I encourage you to do the same if you ever wanted to master the sanctum. Tomes are still 1c!

Anyways, I made a typical 90m zhp and ran a couple hundred sanctums. I got pretty good and fast at it which was my goal. I even levelled up some other characters in it.

That being said, the sanctum playstyle kind of blows. I think I like it even less than degenerate zoomy zdps heisting (my focus last league). Luckily with how gutted the rewards are I won't feel the need to run it ever again. I also think sanctum is definitely more challenging than mapping. That's not to say sanctum is hugely challenging, but mapping is even more brain dead once you're build is done, since the challenge is just rolling maps and clicking on loot.

For me to ever bother with sanctum again, even as someone who is zooming them, the 83 rewards would need a giga buff, and by that I mean better than pre-nerf. Double relic is basically the only half decent strat now, but it's also crazy expensive to get into it this league and would only be competitive with mapping if you lucked out with an osin (similar to heisting for simplex). The amount of runs you would need to do... nope.


TLDR; Sanctum all around sorta sucks.

Agree it's laughable now, but i did only around 30 runs (with full 2room relic setup)

Copium for proper changes in the future because at the current state they might aswell just delete it and add sanctum uniques to core drop pool.

Used to like the mechanic, alot even, now i can just ignore its existence

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Rikku#7536 wrote:

Used to like the mechanic, alot even, now i can just ignore its existence

Yeah I mean after going hard this league, I now know that I 100% don't like it. So I gotta be honest that it doesn't bother me that it's so unrewarding compared to mapping / bossing. I'll never have FOMO for sanctum in it's current state. I feel bad for those that actually want to run sanctum though,

It doesn't even work as a league start mechanic to generate currency like heist in it's current state. In the future I would just play something like chieftain and faceroll 2+ stones ignoring heist and sanctum at this point, both progressing and generating currency for later while maintaining my sanity.

I doubt I will ever go back in. Maybe if there are momentous changes and I get the FOMO, but maybe not even then lol. /shrug

Always ignored it because I don't think it fits in this type of game. Luckily it is optional...at least in POE 1.

In POE 2 it's even worse, and it's shoved down your throat because reasons.