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[mental needle]

And he's hella tanky

[craggy gyro]

Act 2. He’s Titan grotto boss. I just wanna stop losing characters to him but it could just be a skill issue on my part

[mental needle]

I always do valley of titans last. The best way I've found is to just literally sit on top of him and he won't use his knife one shot

Like actually get all up on him and grind him down

[golden condor]

if im gonna go hardcore, I'll focus on life leeching too I think lol

[mental needle]

Only back up for the red bolts and to stand behind his sword for the wipe

[rough birch]

Is there a way to not get scammed by this ability when no minion is within the suicide bomber threshold?

[golden condor]

sadly I don't have the kind of time to invest on going hardcore

[craggy gyro]

I found melee on him to be better but I run into issues with him spawning adds as he drops his sword in middle of arena or he will swipe me into them. Probably my fault for not clearing adds before they explode but the boss mechanic timing can be so rough

[mental needle]

From what I've gathered if you want to fight him the "right" way he will usually knife after he does the big sweep with his arm or does the red bolts across the arena but he CAN do it anytime.

Yeah you have to kill adds instantly

No hesitation

[craggy gyro]

Thank you for the input btw, I think going in melee and clearing adds faster

I found my monk the easiest on him so far

[golden condor]

he just stabs you out of nowhere sometimes but if you can stick to the other side of the platform you just gotta focus on dodging the debris

[mental needle]

Yeah I usually just literally ram my head against his chest and beat his hand to death, that feels safest

[golden condor]

that's what I recall about the fight with that boss

[stone narwhal]

Hi all, can anyone help me with a boss?plz

[mental needle]

Even if I'm sorc or whatever lol

[golden condor]

getting close also works as long as you don't get scooped

[stone narwhal]

Im sruck at campamento with this boss

Campaing

[golden condor]

I feel like a vegetable on a chopping board in that boss fight

[patent gulch]

When do I unlock level 5 + skills

[mental needle]

Yeah you can try to stay really far too but the rocks from the knife do so much damage and he's too far off screen to see the telegraph so it's spooky

You get level 5 skill gem guaranteed from killing the executioner

And talking to the lady you saved

[patent gulch]

Mustn’t have used it rip

Need like 4 of them

Can I not buy from store in act 2

[craggy gyro]

Trust me, as you clear after that you’ll get so many you are storing them

[golden condor]

yeah im packed with much more than I need

[patent gulch]

Damn when did you start getting lots

[golden condor]

I use rare drop rate items so maybe that's partially the reason idk

[austere olive]

why my esc button doesnt work

[mental needle]

the skill gems are just based on zone level

[austere olive]

only in poe

[mental needle]

high enoug hzone level every drop will be 5 or higher

[patent gulch]

I see

Ezpz

[craggy gyro]

I’d get a new gem then as I continued the campaign that teir and a higher one constantly dropped. I felt like I got so many as I cleared

[mental needle]

which... SHould be beginning of act 2 where you are, you should only be getting 5 or higher afaik

[tribal quarry]

can somebody help me with act 2

[mental needle]

Yeah they buffed the droprates in first or second patch idr which one

[tribal quarry]

like kinda wanna speedrun it

[patent gulch]

Sweet man I’ll kill rathbreaker tomorrow

[tribal quarry]

since it is my 2 char

[mental needle]

How many chars have you RIPed to colossus @craggy gyro

[fringe spoke]

Guys, sorry, I need an Help. Can I change Allocates from iteam? If yes, how? I'm confused

[craggy gyro]

embarrassing for me… but i may have 200 hours in already and lost 4 characters to him. I just delete and go again

Furthest I made it was act 3

[golden condor]

that's some dedication

[mental needle]

Huh? Change weapon set allocations or what?

[mental needle]

Oh that's not t hat many considering how early he is

anyone else you get killed by often?

[golden condor]

I had life leech on a grenadier witch hunter and that just took care of the issue well enough

there's also the choice of overleveling

[mental needle]

you can't really overlevel colossus

[fringe spoke]

I have an amulet with bad allocations. "Allocates Lay Siege"

[mental needle]

his knife one-shots anything

[craggy gyro]

It’s specifically that boss. I got to act 3 on my mercenary today and made a joke about getting one shot and I rolled into the boss and died. That was just me being dumb

[golden condor]

ah I guess don't get hit

[fringe spoke]

But I don't know if I can change @mental needle

[mental needle]

you can overwrite it

as long as it's not corrupted

you can overwrite the anointment

[golden condor]

but if you overlevel you can kill it fast enough

[rough birch]

So if I try to use a conditional skill but the condition is not met
I still lose the mana right?

[fringe spoke]

Is corrupted yea

[mental needle]

if you press alt while hovering a notable on the skill tree it will tell you what emotions you need.

[fringe spoke]

So I cant, right?

[golden condor]

I stacked poison gas explosion with grenades for that fight

[mental needle]

yeah u can't

[golden condor]

big Salvo explosion

[azure lava]

In the options you can change items to be permanently allocated if that's what you're asking

[azure lava]

I'm not sure what you mean by "conditional skill"

[vocal valley]

So, I just corrupted an item, got me lower than the stat req for my skills, i fixed that, but i still cannot use any fucking skills, despite htiting the stat requirements - wtf is going on?

[rough birch]

If I spam this button with no minions below the threshold

Still consumes mana I'm fairly sure

[mental needle]

No skills or particular ones?

[azure lava]

Can you open your skill page and see if any of them have error messages? If not, can you make sure you have enough attributes to equip your weapon?

[rough birch]

Also I don't get the passive stats from 2nd loadout, right? Should I be equipping something there?

[fading pike]

if a skill converts phys to fire. Would I be best of using vulrability of flamability? I'm not sure if its best to scale phy damage to get converted or if to scale the fire damge for after the converstion. Although I don't know if fire dmage would get increased afterwards. Anyone know and can explain how this would work?

[mental needle]

Only if you're swapping for a specific purpose

[mental needle]

fire damage.

[azure lava]

You do not. I wouldn't use weapon swap gear or points unless you have a purpose for weapon swapping

[mental needle]

You need to lower their fire res and scale your fire damage if you're converting from anything to fire.

[azure lava]

Hold alt and click on the damage conversion keyword (likely found in your skill)

[exotic sierra]

looks like they changedA2 lost city and buried shrines in the past few days

[mental needle]

Scaling your physical damage will do nothing other than the base damage

[rough birch]

I see. Some beginner guide youtube video thing I watched was like "You must utilize this"

[mental needle]

it's really powerful, but it's hard to utilize early game for the most part

[rough birch]

Apparently you can set skills to force weapon swaps

[mental needle]

I'd say the most widely applicable thing is just slapping a shield in offhand for active block early game

v powerful

[fading pike]

ahh I see!! that explains it really well!!

now if i add fire dmage on tree or ignite on tree would minions inherit that?

[mental needle]

no it has to specify it applies to minions

[rough birch]

I am too attached to thees bonuses on my wand

To swap to a shield

[mental needle]

no like you put a shield in second set, set active block to autoswap to 2nd set

[azure lava]

Well I have great news for you. You can use a wand with a shield. I think

[mental needle]

use it to block some arrows and swap right back to playing as normal

and yes you can wand and shield/focus

[rough birch]

I am wand and sceptre for skeletons

[arctic bobcat]

wish there was a icon to know if an enemy is electrocuted

[fading pike]

I noticed i got a 7%chance to poision gem. The hell hound i can see gains that 7% but the others i have did not so not sure why that does and others do not

[azure lava]

It looks like all you have is galvanic shards on your bar and not the crossbow shot skill. Are you just loading your crossbow and not actually firing?
What skill are you trying to use, and what are you experiencing vs what you expect to happen?

[quaint jewel]

Is there a chat where i can ask if something is worth some currency?

• I don't want to download any 3d party rn, since so many ppl get hacked..

[azure lava]

#price-check📉

[quaint jewel]

Thanks!

[azure lava]

Yeah, don't thank me yet lol

[mental needle]

what does the gem give? 7% chance to poison on attacks? oR what

[scenic salmon]

I think empyrian just came up with a price check guide

[mental needle]

I'm reading hound right now and it doesn't say anything about inheriting your stats

so either it's hidden, or the display/interaction is bugged

or it just works on all minions, but I'm 99% sure that's not true

[vocal valley]

Now it works, no idea why - seems messy as fuck, did nothing different but tried shooting again and it works... Jesus

Ty for help anyway

[frosty totem]

why the F does death at Kopec teleports me to a start of map instead of boss fight and locks the checkpoint?

[fading pike]

with and without gem equiped
But only see this on hell hound not all others

[azure lava]

In the screenshots you showed you didn't have crossbow shot on your bar

[mental needle]

well have you ever seen an enemy's hp bar turn green?

that means they're poisoned

[frigid badge]

why do i get so many support gems

[mental needle]

to test stuff out

get wacky n wild

[azure lava]

Because you kill lots of mobs. Slay, queen

[normal mesa]

Why is that I say something in chat and then I have to wait whole day ? This chat cooldown or whatever is it

[brisk sonnet]

do I have to go back to the traitor's passage to ascend again?

[mental needle]

in cruel? No

[brisk sonnet]

act 3 non cruel

[mental needle]

no you need to do the t rial of chaos

there will be a quest for it

[brisk sonnet]

ah alr

[exotic sierra]

your messages are getting delayed in this channel?

[azure lava]

The trial of chaos zone is attached to the chimera wetlands in act 3. The chimera drops the quest key for it

[normal mesa]

No no.. In game chat

[exotic sierra]

I'm not aware of any sort of slow mode ingame, it might be your connection

[normal mesa]

Dude gave me skill gems and I wanted to thank him but I couldn’t say

[azure lava]

Do you get any sort of message in chat when you try to talk?

[normal mesa]

I get like 20 ms on Frankfurt region

[fading pike]

skeletons do not poision. Hell houd does so much ignite dmage it can't hit enough to really see it

[normal mesa]

Il check after I finish

[mental needle]

Huh? the damage doesn't matter, just if it's applied, their whole hp bar goes green

[knotty vapor]

you cannot add quality on corrupted skill gems correct?

[exotic sierra]

nope

[craggy gyro]

should i 5 link charged staff first or flurry

[azure lava]

What support would you be adding? It'd depend on which one would get the most significant boost

[mental needle]

most likely flurry, charged staff is more of a supportive/background ability to proc stuff unless your setup is really investing in it.

[craggy gyro]

there are so many choices for supp gem it's honestly hurting my head

[normal mesa]

“Please wait before sending another chat message”

It’s like I can’t say anything bruh

[azure lava]

Are you using any chat macros or something? My only other guess is that you were muted in some sort of way

[fading pike]

The hell hounds ignite dmage is really fast. with a 7% chance to poision its attack speed is to low to really proc it. Everything is pretty much dead by time it gets chance to even attack so its useless

[craggy gyro]

rage or crescendo for flurry?

[normal mesa]

No im new 😂 just bought game yesterday

I can type it’s just annoying

[mental needle]

rage is more single target, crescendo more clear usually

[azure lava]

Are you at least level 25? I think you need to be 25 in order to trade

[mental needle]

hm, well idk then

[craggy gyro]

i've progressed so much in half a day

i've gone from 13k flurry damage to 80k

insane

[azure lava]

If you wanna test it, Put brutality support on the hell hound to make it unable to ignite

[mental needle]

can it poison with brutality?

and it just won't do damage

[azure lava]

I'm not sure

You can poison off of phys damage

But I don't have the brutality or hellhound tooltips in front of me

[craggy gyro]

83k now

[normal mesa]

I’m lvl16 and he gave me I didn’t send trade

[pallid anchor]

hey lads, so as someone who's been playing for the first time in poe2 i wonder why repeating the same story again ??? i mean did they ran out of anything else ?

i dont ge the point , never seen this in any other game to be honest.

[craggy gyro]

i have so much damage for clearing and not enough survivability 🤣

[mental needle]

placeholder for early access

[azure lava]

Weird. Maybe you need to be 25 to use the trade site. Maybe a similar restriction is in place for chatting

[mental needle]

also commonplace in ARPGS, especially older ones

[pallid anchor]

i see

[mental needle]

there will be full 6 acts on full release

[pallid anchor]

thanks chase

[normal mesa]

I didn’t use trade site.. he invited me in game and then sent me trade

It was in game :D

[azure lava]

Full release will have acts 1-6, no repeats

[pallid anchor]

thats great to hear

thanks alot gents

[azure lava]

I know, I'm saying that there is definitely a trade restriction until 25 and you skirted it by not using the trade site

[foggy birch]

who asked g

anyway trials getting my head in

mf just dont wanna come out

[normal mesa]

Idk man I just got here 😂 btw do you have uncut support gem ? I really need for spark

[azure lava]

I'd try relogging

[mental needle]

you been staring at rattlecage's back for 90 minutes?

[foggy birch]

https://tenor.com/view/mr-eyes-gigachad-gif-26647068

yes

[azure lava]

You'll find supports soon enough. Do quests and do side content that's pointed out on your world map

[normal mesa]

Idk man I really like begging other 😂 I just asked for skill and dude gave me a lot now I need support skill gems

[mental needle]

you don't need to fill the supports of every skill

[azure lava]

Well unfortunately begging/trading isn't allowed in this server. Sorry mate

[normal mesa]

I’m talking abt in game 😂

[arctic bobcat]

perfect response

[timber sigil]

hello, did anyone encounter issue when voltaic mark stopped exploding on death at all? mark is appearing on mob, but no explosion when it dies. also i'm not able to activate it on cast on shock, even having that 75int

[azure lava]

Yeah but you just asked me if I had an uncut support gem, so I thought it was worth mentioning

[timber sigil]

2 days ago everything was working, now it's not

[normal mesa]

Oh ye :d

[mental needle]

Is that the witch?

[timber sigil]

i bet on mercenary

[arctic bobcat]

no mercenary

[azure lava]

I didn't have any issues when I was self-casting it a few days ago

[mental needle]

lmao

[arctic bobcat]

god ngl merc is like a typical newyorker + aussie combined

[timber sigil]

i do from yesterday, it's casting, but....explosion where? (

[arctic bobcat]

calls random mobs "idiots" out of no where

[quartz patrol]

i'm in a state of overthinking, so I rather just ask, does Cloak of Flame have a good interaction with Witch Hunters sorcery ward?
40 % phys dmg taken as fire -> sorc ward "ele dmg taken from hits is taken from ward first"

[timber sigil]

at baria djina drop my mercenary said "much better than tossed coin" - i assume it's little insult for witcher xD

[quartz patrol]

yesterday I thought it wouldnt work but I dont remember why it wouldnt and I was tired anyway lol

[arctic bobcat]

can see him just saaying oi c word (used by aussies) when fighting the final boss once the full games out

[arctic bobcat]

lmaoo

yeah it seems like it

[fading pike]

Doesn't look like it. If i add bruatiltiy the poision chance is removed from tool tip. Envon doesn't seem to increase chance to help either.
Either way posion is to low and seems it doesn't affect the other minions at all so not gonna pursue that as extra damage source

[vernal torrent]

how to know if skill can be put on hand of chayula like hypothermia?

[timber sigil]

from another hand: if i use lightning rod with bow and switch to crossbow and start shooting - lightning rod blast will be counted from bow stats?

[craggy gyro]

just tried my first map(?) how do i know it is completed? what should i do once completed?

[timber sigil]

press tab - right top corner there will be notification about completed map and how much mobs left. goal is to kill all yellow elites, once you're done with them - you can keep exploring for chests or random stuff or go back

[mental needle]

it must have the "curse" or "mark" tag as the yellow text on hand of chayula says.

[mental needle]

the rod will use the stats of the bow it was fired from

[timber sigil]

aye, thank you

[quartz nest]

I'm level 16 sorcerer. Should I be bying items with +energy shield only or +energy/evasion or +energy/armor?

[mental needle]

whatever has the best affixes, you want life and resistances for the most part, maybe some ES

[frigid badge]

PoE is like the most dissapointing game when it comes to unique items
like... ever
im level 30 fight with boss, finally kill it boom legendary item
hands for level 5
im so pissed of... id rather not get any legendary than getting pissed on by devs

[tacit knot]

Cant scale gas arrows explosion with projectile Damage right

[mental needle]

read at the top, does it have the projectile tag?

[azure lava]

there's a reason they're called "unique" and not "legendary". Show me another game that calls them "uniques" and the phrase "poe is the most disappointing game when it comes to uniques" might have real meaning. Because poe is the only horse in that race as far as I'm aware

[tacit knot]

Euh yes but it seems to be broken into different parts. Shot with the projectile. Lets go of poison. Poison can be expldred

[mental needle]

it should scale with projectile damage

if you want to be 100% certain look at the explosion portion in the expanded information on the skill

look at the explosion damage

and then spec or unspec a projectile damage node

see if it changes

[frigid badge]

wartaless have unique items(weapons, armor, belts, backpacks, charms) and not legendary items, each of those have its use, some are very specific but atleast when i get those niche ones i dont want to turn off the game

[mental needle]

is levelling not a use?

[azure lava]

poe uniques have their uses, too. It's just that some of them are so niche that the odds of any individual using them are so low as to make them seem worthless

and yeah, a lot of them are meant to be used to help with leveling

[frigid badge]

tell me use of this

[azure lava]

that's actually BiS for a magic find stacker in a party

[frigid badge]

yeah lv 5 item from lv 28 boss battle

very helpfull with leveling

[shadow orchid]

also getting to use on kill effects in a party is generally good

[azure lava]

you stack a bunch of magic find and then join a party any anyone's kills in your presence get your magic find bonus

[mental needle]

yeah those are actually a very good item

[azure lava]

so you can stack really weak gear with insane magic find and your party will rake in the money

[mental needle]

Niche (only good in multiplayer) but good

[shadow orchid]

not sure if its the case yet but eventually there is gonna be a usecase for them with summoners too

[frigid badge]

yay for my only character that is SSF

[idle steppe]

Probably answered a million times, is choas acts + endgame significantly harder than normal acts

Cause act 2/3 so far have felt rlly easy

Act 1 I died loads while learning against some of the bosses

[azure lava]

most people say they're easier because you have more of a full build online by then

most people say act 1/2 normal is the hardest part of the campaign

[idle steppe]

Ah k so just rlly build dependent, makes sense

[mental needle]

the game is much easier when the pieces of your build are together so long as gear stays decent

but I've seen tons of new players get walled at Jamanra, so I wouldn't say it's easy for most

[idle steppe]

Yeah i think my current build is just rlly tanky but lower dmg than it should be (as a ranger lol)

I was tanking hits and it wasnt rlly doing much, my biggest issue rlly is mana regen atm

[tacit knot]

Ny question is, how can anyone beat that blackjaw. I have 1020 life at this point and hammers me to 10% life in no time even with capped fire res

[azure lava]

chronomancer with lightning rod and orb of storms rolled the whole campaign easy peasy, idk what all the dweebs in here are complaining about

[tacit knot]

I meam i can beat if i keep trying but this is nuts omg

[shadow orchid]

you are supposed to dodge his slams

all of them

[mental needle]

i mean lightning rod orb is really good

some people are probably trying to level with resonating shield or wahtever lol

[tacit knot]

Extremely hard to be fair lol u get hit by one in the end i guess

[mental needle]

when he does the 3 slam combo

[tacit knot]

Sometimes he throws 3 in a row

[mental needle]

roll past him

not away from him

do not be scared

[white estuary]

lightning rod + orb of storms (+ class specific extra stuff) is one of the meta leveling builds (as far as I know)

[quartz patrol]

oh damn PoE2 window/task bar doesnt blink when getting an invite? I thought it would

[mental needle]

if you run he will smell your fear and break ur back

[tacit knot]

What do u mean past, toward?

His damage is insane tho

[mental needle]

yes, past him

get in close and then roll through him

try it

[tacit knot]

Im veru tanky could face tank anything this far he just crushes me

[mental needle]

well not through him but beside him

but yes blackjaw is hard

u facetanked monke?

[tacit knot]

Im happy to hear its some type of noob test.

No walked past him aswell because i know what hed do

I seen people kill blackjaw but either with insane damage or a deadeye

[mental needle]

monke slams legit clean one shot

it's awesome

[tacit knot]

If ur slow in ur fight against him damage wise its bad lol

[mental needle]

I watched someone in cruel fight monke, they had like 10% PDR, 2500 life, and 20% damage diverted to their hellhound

instantly killed

[tacit knot]

Yea that monkey is even worse

[mental needle]

apparently he crit

[exotic sierra]

he does so much damage

[mental needle]

actually monkey is very easy to dodge, the real issue with him is his 0 telegraph roll attack that hits like a truck

[exotic sierra]

he doesn't need to crit to oneshot you

[tacit knot]

Does armour help against black or is it just rhe mechanic of the fight like w the monkey that u have to dodge

[mental needle]

so if ur in melee and not tanky you might just die unprompte by him rolling into u

armor helps a little, but not much. Armor is worse the bigger the hit is.

[exotic sierra]

black?

[mental needle]

jaw

[tacit knot]

Blackjaw

[exotic sierra]

blackjaw is the fire guy in the ancient doryani temple isn't he?

[tacit knot]

Nightmare fuel lol really gotta get good i guess

[mental needle]

yeah the lizard

fire res +10

[ripe owl]

Y'all are scaring me, lol

[exotic sierra]

then no, armour doesn't help much

[tacit knot]

Xd

[exotic sierra]

armour is for phys, so if alot of his damage is fire then armour can't help much

[tacit knot]

I owned him on my deadeye but yea shes juwt extremely fast

[mental needle]

I think his triple slam is pure phys

but still big hits

so armor no bueno

[tacit knot]

Seriously? Men that sounds bad the state of armour

[midnight briar]

does anyone have 1x 1-4 level spirit I can have

only need 1

[mental needle]

armor isn't great, but it's just not supposed to tank slams

same way in poe1 and it's fine

[midnight briar]

armor is not suppose to tank slams while 20k ES witch dancing around 🙂

[tacit knot]

So rhis is just one of the skill how so u say it, plateaus

[exotic sierra]

feels like I need to cap my res in a2 to stop getting bodied

[shadow orchid]

es is the defense designed to be stronger against big hits

[exotic sierra]

keep getting chilled and surrounded

[mental needle]

armor is good at getting swarmed

[midnight briar]

ES is designed to good at everything

xd

[mental needle]

issue is with grim feast ES doesn't care about getting swarmed because there is no recovery downside

[midnight briar]

yea u insta get it back

[mental needle]

the weakness of ES is supposed to be difficult to regen in combat without heavy investment

but right now the only inverstment is 30 spirit

[shadow orchid]

no es is just unbalanced to be good at everything. Its supposed to suck against sustained damage

[rough birch]

What do I do with this, salvage? Sell?

[exotic sierra]

pretty sure that's not how it's meant to be designed, they just only seem to have done any QA for casters before EA

[midnight briar]

it is currently good at everything

[mental needle]

TIL quarterstaff monk is a caster

[midnight briar]

since grim is just op

[exotic sierra]

hoard til you wanna play a build that can use it

[mental needle]

it's actually a really good item, you kinda lowrolled it though

Yeah I'd hold onto it if you think you might ever play anything bow related

super solid

[exotic sierra]

leveling a monk and the only reason it feels like melee is cause I keep getting caught out. when I'm not getting bodied,dw I'm obliterating everything. complete opposite of warrior, I just need to get used to using my life flask when my es is low rather than when my life is low.

[shut abyss]

whats up?

[exotic sierra]

and there really doesn't seem to be much I can do when I'm getting overwhelmed

[sacred mica]

how does finisher effects work? can i only use it on one weapon?

thinking of buying the on sale finisher effects in the store

[shadow orchid]

you put it on one character at a time but you can switch which character to use it on

[mental needle]

get swarmed drop bell click it once

bye bye

[shut abyss]

i used frostwave or whatever it is called during campaign to avoid that, and bell ofc

[mental needle]

tech said casters were the only thing qa tested so I said that

[exotic sierra]

more like: get swarmed, spam bell, die cause it never drops

casters and monk then

[azure lava]

you can only have each finisher on one weapon at a time, but you can reassign it freely

[exotic sierra]

warrior seemed like it got no QA at all

and life sustain is barely there

[sacred mica]

are the weapon finishers worth it in your opinion, also do they trigger only on enemies sometimes

[azure lava]

For me? No, I don't really enjoy finishers. They add clutter and take away points that could be spent on my 58th stash tab

but that's an entirely subjective topic

[sacred mica]

debating if i should buy the finisher vs the red glowing effect on my character

[cold cargo]

hey byron, may i ask u whats the difference between being invoker and gemling with the pillar monk build?

[exotic sierra]

they look really cool, but in my experience they can really clutter the screen and make it hard to see things. they can also cause lag if you have a lower end build.

[sacred mica]

im just thinking of what to best spend my 300 coins on in the shop ahah

[mental needle]

I've had no issues with warrior levelling on multiple warriors

[azure lava]

one is invoker and one is gemling. I don't know enough about the build to comment further

[mental needle]

late game defenses aren't great but otherwise they feel fine to me

[cold cargo]

yea… i just wanna know why not just go monk smthn like that but thanks

[azure lava]

if you want my recommendation, wait for a stash tab sale (about a week and a half away) and get a currency tab and upgrade a normal tab to premium

[azure lava]

gemling has the node that grants +20 to all attributes or something

[sacred mica]

what are the tabs what do they do new player here

[exotic sierra]

these goddamn spiders

[mental needle]

gemling gets double bonuses out of attributes

it's much better than +20

[cold cargo]

us the stab transferable in other character, or in other server when the game releases?

[azure lava]

and it's closer to that insanely strong attribute cluster at the southern tip of the tree

[rough birch]

Are these optional permabuff bosses on act maps accountwide? If I wanna try a new class can I just try to speedrun or do I have to take this long still?

[cold cargo]

so being merc is better?

[azure lava]

you get the tabs in every league

[azure lava]

I never said that

[mental needle]

so like they get 4 life per strength for example

[cold cargo]

idk what league means im sorry

[exotic sierra]

this trek to zalmarath is looking like it's almost harder than the boss fight is gonna be cause of these spiders

[cold cargo]

but which do u think is better?

[azure lava]

league is division of characters, basically. Right now you're likely in the softcore trade early access league

[azure lava]

I don't know. I don't know enough about the builds or what invoker does

[mental needle]

he doesn't know the builds

I don't suggest you go attribute stacking on your first character tbh

it isn't cheap nor straightforward

[cold cargo]

so means i can transfer it to any character smthb like that

[azure lava]

Right now there are 4 leagues, I think. Softcore trade, hardcore trade, softcore ssf, and hardcore ssf

[cold cargo]

okay thank u

[cold cargo]

got it… i just got bored with mage…

[azure lava]

and when new temporary leagues and standard league come out, those will also get your tabs

[mental needle]

I mean you don't have to play stat stacker to play monk if you want to play monk

[azure lava]

basically your tabs are with you forever and you'll never need to buy new ones for new characters

[mental needle]

invoker has tons of good builds

[cold cargo]

and so cosmetics?

[azure lava]

your stash comes with 4 tabs by default

[cold cargo]

but stat stack will do better right…?

[arctic bobcat]

@edgy timber so playing the lightning merc ive realised that it definetly feels way better and way stronger in the second half of the game once you get your skills and abilities rolling like plasma blast and shockburst rounds , the first three acts felt really rough on him but im breezing in the cruel acts so the build takes a bit to actually feel good

[mental needle]

I've seen normal ass monks kill pinnacle bosses in seconds

[azure lava]

stash tabs are additions to that. The currency tab lets you stack 5000 of each currency in it. Premium tabs make it much easier to list items for sale to trade with other players@sacred mica

[arctic bobcat]

just mentioning it to you since youre playing lighting merc as well

[mental needle]

stat stack is the highest ceiling yes, but you've just started and that's irrelevant

plus it's EA, the nerfhammer is ready, so don't get attached or flock to a build just because it's meta

[cloud maple]

Hello,
I'm planning to play with my wife in a 2-teams. What build do you recommend for us ? Monk + lighting merc ?

[rough birch]

If a yellow is with sockets, do I salvage or disenchant? Which one is priority?

[cold cargo]

got it…. by anychance is there like smthn i need to do the stat stacking, since i dont have much idea w it

[mental needle]

salvage IMO

[timber sigil]

at the moment you're getting gas grenade - it's chilly walk in the park

no matter of spec

[mental needle]

There are uniques, yes

[timber sigil]

for some reason people can't get idea to have aoe crowd control to use first and than punch controlled enemies like training dummies

[rough birch]

When I spacebar rolll, am I just quickly changing direction or is it an actual iframe?

[azure lava]

if it has 2 sockets, I usually DE it. If it doesn't, I usually sell it. Gold > regals in the campaign, imo

[sacred mica]

Will ghoul effect charcter visual effect go on sale?

[timber fjord]

first trial wish me luck

[exotic sierra]

maybe

[mental needle]

it's iframes for projectiles only

[exotic sierra]

if they have a character effect sale at some point it might be included but it's hard to say

[mental needle]

roll is the same distance covered as your movement speed but the first part is faster and the end is slower

it's to get you out of things in a pinch

don't spam

[exotic sierra]

we know they have stash tab sales every 3 weeks but the other 2 weekends in between are kind of a tossup afaik

[rough birch]

So no cheese rolling through aoe

[exotic sierra]

nope

[mental needle]

no it's not dark souls

thoug hI think there's a unique for that

[wispy zodiac]

i've complete traitor's passage but it wont complete

[exotic sierra]

there is such a thing as too much rolling. the time it takes to get up leaves you open to alot of hits

[wispy zodiac]

am I doing something wrong?

[mental needle]

if you are in cruel you can't complete it

[exotic sierra]

known bug in cruel a2

[wispy zodiac]

oh

should have asked earlier thank you

[exotic sierra]

you'll see similar in cruel a3 with the trial of chaos

[wispy zodiac]

the second one?

[exotic sierra]

also, you can do sekhema for the 4th trial as well, you don't necessarily need to do ultimatum for the last one

[cold cargo]

itd all expensive…?

[exotic sierra]

no, remember the trial quest you had to do for your 2nd ascendancy?

[mental needle]

the weapon is kinda cheap, the rest not so much afaik

[wispy zodiac]

gotcha

[mental needle]

the necklace and gloves are very expensive

[placid pond]

when talents specify "your damage is increased.." or "your penetration is increased..", that includes summons right?

[exotic sierra]

summons are not you

[mental needle]

No, there are nodes specifically for minions

[rough birch]

Pog

[cold cargo]

by anychance u can tell me how much?

[cold cargo]

• where do people check builds etc?

[quartz patrol]

hello i'm stupid and after years I still sometimes dont get "increased"
if I get the "25 % increased culling threshold" node, vs normal mobs its
30 + (1 + 0,25) = 31,25 <- the new threshold?

[mental needle]

maxroll, mobalytics, youtube, poe forums

it would be 30 x .25 so 37.5

[quartz patrol]

oh phew thank god i'm stupid

cause 31,25 seemed SO low lol

[mental needle]

Gloves are like 5 divine orbs, neck is like 80+ divine orbs, more like 90+

[cold cargo]

screw that build

[exotic sierra]

increased is additive with other sources of increased, not with the stat it is increasing. % increases will always be stat x (1 + % increase)

[cold cargo]

thanks

[mental needle]

that's what I've been saying 😭

[placid pond]

I guess I'm being a little vague if you don't bother to answer me so here's a screen of the talents I'm referring to, for my fire summons.

[cold cargo]

yea thought expensive was like 10-20exalt

[exotic sierra]

we answered you. minions are not you

[mental needle]

they won't work for your minions.

[shut abyss]

10-20 sounds expensive to me!

[mental needle]

if you want to penetrate resistances you would need to lower the mob's fire res through a flammability curse or something

[cold cargo]

it is! but 90+ divine orb is way more expensive

[mental needle]

to be fully transparent with you in case you really want to play the build the neck is like takes it over the top, but it's not needed

[exotic sierra]

anything that buffs you does not inherently buff your minions because they are a separate entity from the player

[quartz patrol]

oh my god I mistook "x" for an "+"
I shouldnt play so much vidya, brain is rotten

[rough birch]

Watched a video telling me to endlessly reset instance and farm one of the campaign bosses for gear and stuff, after finding a map that has the door to boss instance close to the map entrance itself

Is this accurate tip or waste of time?

[halcyon shoal]

Geonor is busting my nuts 😦

[timber fjord]

yes please

[mental needle]

they nerfed that

repeat boss kills have diminishing loot

[azure lava]

I think if you feel the need to farm one instance repeatedly in order to get gear to progress, you're treating a symptom of a much larger issue; you haven't been diligent about seeking upgrades for your gear

[shut abyss]

i usually simplify to "more is better"

[mental needle]

You shouldn't need to farm

yeah what byron said

they did enough loot buffs you should be able to progress with a few bumps through campaign rather than full walls

[timber fjord]

omfg the dungeon reset on accident i clicked wrong button omfg that pisses me off

why would devs put that there

[quartz patrol]

:D ye same
I just wanted to know how high culling can be on witch hunter
WH gets general culling to everything, a 25 % increase and theres a unique that gives a 100 % increase, so 125 % culling increase to every attack

[azure lava]

what button?

[quartz patrol]

seems interesting, but its 1ex so.. no idea

[timber fjord]

oh wait it saves my progress?

[azure lava]

yeah you can leave the sekhema trial between rooms

and come back

[rough birch]

My "Spam flame wall and run around in circles like a headless chicken" strat has not yet failed me

[timber fjord]

omg i was scared for second

[placid pond]

@exotic sierra@mental needle Sorry, I didn't see your messages because I was waiting for someone to use Discord's "reply" feature. I'm not English, it will take a little time to copy and paste each message individually and switch windows to use google translation to check if this message is for me or not

[azure lava]

just don't take the portal in the reward room, that's a permanent exit

[timber fjord]

i need another token though?

[mental needle]

Don't quote me on this, but I think I've seen people say it can reach 60%

[timber fjord]

got it ok

i was right at end too was scared lol

[quartz patrol]

if I did math right (unlikely) it would be vs normal enemies:
30 x (1 + 1,25) = 67,5 % hp til cunning hits lol

[timber fjord]

plus i just got 50% minion dmg buff to melt boss

[mental needle]

ornate dagger is crazy good

[mental needle]

yeah sounds right

more funny than good I think but funny is valid, lol

[quartz patrol]

with decimating strikes it makes 5 % - 30 % hp HP gone of enemies before your first hit

plus the culling

[small heath]

Is there a way to move stash tabs to the side of the stash window with a controller?

[quartz patrol]

sounds so fun in theory, but I guess theres a reason noone is doing that

[exotic sierra]

opportunity cost is probly pretty high

idk what the cull unique is but if it's got 100% increased cull range it probly doesn't have much else for power

[quartz patrol]

ye, a bit evasion, a bit mana, nothing much

"Myris Uxor Covert Hood"

[mental needle]

yeah you're saccing a lot of damage/defense for what mostly equates to very easy trash clear

which witch hunter has already with the explosion node

[quartz patrol]

ye I guess, and then stuck at tankier mobs/bosses

[exotic sierra]

you'd be getting up to 11.25% cull range on uniques/bosses, or 22.5% for rares, so, yea, not that great

[quartz patrol]

bosses:

1. spam boss til you hit that 30 % decimating strike
2. ???
3. reach 11 % for the culling
4. loot

[exotic sierra]

can only get a decimating strike at full life

so even if you do get 30%, that still leaves another 58.75% life that you need to knock down

[quartz patrol]

ye thats why spam, dont even try to fight them if its below 30 %

just pre-portal and next map

:^)

[mental needle]

like how you think funny culling man

[quartz patrol]

call me.. Cullingus...

oh wait no

dont call me that

[smoky lava]

For chill gameplay and fast way to end game better to play LA deadeye or ice monk?

[timber fjord]

yay got hell hound ssf hc

[vivid valley]

does currency exchange work while you're offline?

[mental needle]

both really good, I'd say monk has it a little rough for the first part of act 1

[vivid valley]

ty

[quartz patrol]

tough choice, fast levelling I guess LA, monk has a rough start

[azure lava]

imo, orb of storms + lightning rod > LA + lightning rod

[keen cobalt]

is there a way to use the same support gem twice in two different skills?

[azure lava]

yes, pick mercenary, ascend to gemling legionnaire, and pick the notable that lets you use two supports of the same type

[smoky lava]

Byron what you mean? I found only one build for la deadeye

[azure lava]

I made my own build for leveling day 1 and I tried lightning arrow + lightning rod and it didn't impress me like orb of storms did

[shut abyss]

rod+storm ❤️

[azure lava]

orb of storms + chain
lightning rod + martial tempo + lightning infusion

it'll carry you through the campaign

[smoky lava]

I will try to find this build maybe someone posted it

[azure lava]

I don't think anyone did. People don't seem to post builds that rely on skills outside of the weapon that's associated with that class

orb of storms is an elemental spell

the game is very young, tons of diamonds in the rough

I think orb of storms + rod is one such diamond

[mental needle]

is rod + orb good at killing packs?

I know it shreds single target

[azure lava]

in the campaign with its shitty mob density, yeah

it does well enough

[smoky lava]

Do you run bow with this?

[azure lava]

yes

[rough birch]

Does +spell damage increase damage of my summoned minions because they're kinda spells but also not I guess?

[azure lava]

orb of storms isn't for damage, it's purely for chaining beams to activate rods

[mental needle]

Nope

[timber fjord]

for summoner witch. armour/es life/armor/ or just es

[rough birch]

In that case, which do I choose?

[azure lava]

for what build?

if you're doing minions, you want a scepter

[rough birch]

Spamming flame wall for raging spirits

[mental needle]

I'm not a minion player

[azure lava]

neither am I

[rough birch]

This is my sceptre

[mental needle]

flame wall isn't much of a damage spell though

[azure lava]

but if spirits are your main goal, then I'd go scepter + focus/shield

[mental needle]

+2 noice

[azure lava]

wands don't really do much for your spirits, if anything

[mental needle]

yeah you don't need a wand to cast your spells

elemental and occult spells are not weapon bound

[rough birch]

Okay I gamble focus

[azure lava]

that's the spirit

[azure lava]

pretty shit, but at least it has some fire res

[mental needle]

decent es

lil bit

[rough birch]

Swap from wand to focus, still get +spell +fire on it

[timber fjord]

not bad for its level

[azure lava]

you can't dual wield scepters, can you?

[mental needle]

dual wielding?

in this economy?

[rough birch]

I gambled another one, I think it's even worse?

[azure lava]

no, it's better

more resists

[rough birch]

Flame wall dps I care nothing at all?

[azure lava]

I mean, I don't know your build

[rough birch]

These guys also apparently gain damage from the focus with +spell +fire

[mental needle]

flame wall damage comes from levels to buff the passthrough damage for your ranged minions

[azure lava]

are you using it solely for spirits? or are you also using it to kill?

[rough birch]

I spam it until there are no enemies left idk

[rough birch]

With the other focus

The spirits seem to be affected by the buffs on the no-res focus

[azure lava]

if you don't know what you use your skills for, then how are we supposed to help determine what is best?

also the minion tooltip is jank af

[rough birch]

Oh no

[azure lava]

just try resummoning a few without changing gear and you'll see it change on its own

[rough birch]

It's literally the build, though

Spam flame wall and make the arsonists blow up some of the flaming floating skulls

[azure lava]

okay, so it looks like flame wall is primarily for summoning spirits

do you have ranged minions to benefit from the wall?

[rough birch]

I have... arsonists

2 whole arsonists

[mental needle]

the arsonists shoot as well as blow stuff up I think?

[rough birch]

They throw bombs I think

[mental needle]

the spirit costs go down heavily with skill levels on minions

[azure lava]

yeah idk minions man. I just play my bownomancer and mess with the temporal fabric of reality. This minion shit is too complex

[rough birch]

The arsonists are 42 spirit per head I have 34 left. It's unlucky

[rough birch]

Complex? I run around and the AI plays the game for me

It's like one of those idle mobile games

[timber fjord]

getting fps drops with summoner build

[mental needle]

complex to play and understand aren't the same

[azure lava]

you don't use the minion command skill for your arsonists?

uh oh

[rough birch]

I can't because the spirits time out before they go below the suicide bomber blow up threshold half the time

I also don't like the fact that if I spam the button for arsonist command, it uses my mana even if nobody explodes

[azure lava]

you using minion instability and infernal legion?

[mental needle]

I mean are u spending mana on anything else but flamewall?

[rough birch]

Flammability

[mental needle]

oh so your entire mana pool, got it

[rough birch]

[rough birch]

Instability is on Unearth

Raging Spirits have martial tempo & fire infusion

[civic rose]

hi, how can I clear this objective?

[azure lava]

you cannot, there is a permanent vendor there

[exotic sierra]

they really need to fix these objectives

[azure lava]

I can understand why the vendor ones don't gray out, but yeah, the permanent buff ones are problematic

[civic rose]

thanks... took me 1 hour running around the map twice

[primal edge]

just seen it , how do i buy those 😄

[exotic sierra]

seems like the grand majority if not all are tied to picking up all the items dropped rather than just completeing the specified objective

[ember cave]

why does this happen

[azure lava]

pathofexile.com/trade2

[exotic sierra]

the vendor ones should still gray out. add an indicator that marks them as a vendor and let it be completed just like all the other objectives.

[mental needle]

Look at your mana flask mods

[azure lava]

that would be ideal, yeah

[primal edge]

tyvm

[timid flax]

assuming if a gems "additional effects from quality" is blank its pointless to prism it?

[ember cave]

yeah i have %hp still i spam 10 flasks nothing happens

[azure lava]

I would guess yeah, but where are you seeing a gem with no effects from quality?

[timid flax]

ghost dance

[mental needle]

it actually probably has something on it

just not listed

yeah ghost dance has something, I levelled it on my monk

[ember cave]

how can it be mana flask hp? I spam full mana flask charge and it still does not kill me

it never killed me

[mental needle]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Ghost_Dance bigger restoration

[azure lava]

did you die to a river hag's drown orb?

[mental needle]

are you saying your mana flask has the drain from life affix or not?

[ember cave]

maybe idk i cant see whats happening

[ember cave]

it has

in over 50 maps i didnt die once while fully spaming flask

[azure lava]

did your screen turn dark green at the edges?

[ember cave]

ill see the replay

[azure lava]

river hag orbs slow you and if you stay in them for ~3 seconds you just instantly die

[ember cave]

ok i did die to the flask

[azure lava]

lmfao

[ember cave]

how come it didnt happen before

i did dozens of maps before no prob

[mental needle]

did you recently swap to CI?

[ember cave]

no

[sour umbra]

hi ! I want to know what strenght mean ? When i put +5 on strenght it give me more attack ? And int ?

[azure lava]

flasks don't get used if you have full mana, I think

[azure lava]

hold alt and click underlined keywords to read more about them

[mental needle]

they all tell you, hover over them alt key

[ember cave]

i never have full mana, im runing CoMD

[sour umbra]

ok thanks i didn't know that keycaps

[ember cave]

idk maybe i was unlucky rip ill change flask then

[mental needle]

I have no clue why it's inconsistent in killing you but just swap it in case

[azure lava]

yeah it's wild that hasn't happened before

[ember cave]

idk man

have CI since I started maping

[violet gulch]

how much i should have of Rarity of Items found to see a change? not going full Rarity of Items found

[ember cave]

im runing 250 and it does increase a bit

[mental needle]

any, a little goes a long way

[violet gulch]

and u cap all resist?

[ember cave]

nah im in groupplay

42 fire 35 cold 36 lighting

will cap it eventually

[azure lava]

idk, but I started running aout 50% total in ssf and it seems noticeable to me. Most rare mobs drop at least one regal or exalt

[mental needle]

likewise, I'm at 65 and I have rares semi-regularly drop triple exalt

[fallen echo]

Hello, new to poe2, just playing casually, level 15, anyone wanna play together?

[mental needle]

#2┃looking-for-group

[ember cave]

still ahve dead maps with 220

[azure lava]

you and I almost certainly don't have the same definition of "dead map"

[ember cave]

minus than 5 exalts

per map

is dead to me tbh

[azure lava]

then we're speaking different languages and idk how to help, sorry mate

[glass maple]

whgut should i do as new player? just doing quest ?

[daring dragon]

Main and side quests yeah

[mental needle]

tbh idc about exalts in ssf right now

[ember cave]

what it does drop alot is uniques, at 200+ we get a lot of uniques per map

[mental needle]

I legit just toss them on mediocre pieces to see and don't run out

[azure lava]

the main quest line progresses the campaign and gets you to higher level areas with new rewards and bosses. Yeah

[glass maple]

ok ok

[glass maple]

well noted thanks

[mental needle]

but I don't use them on maps

would prob have a harder time if I did

[azure lava]

this is my stash so far in ssf and I have capped res, 2.2k life, and I'm big chillin in t6 maps so far. I basically regal and exalt every item that has 2/3 good mods

[sour umbra]

I dont if my unique weapon is good on early ? It look like better for late game

[azure lava]

that's a build-defining unique item, but yeah, early on it's pretty meh

if you wanted to build around it, you can, but it's not super beginner-friendly imo

requires a lot of specific stuff on gear

[mental needle]

It's good early if you have flat damage from your jewellery/gloves and invest in strength

like actually really good

[clever geode]

that's 2 divine more then what i have

[maiden summit]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[sour umbra]

got it thanks

[exotic sierra]

make sure you clear these as you go, they will be a yellow/brown colour when they haven't been cleared. the ones with a + in the bottom corner give passive buffs like resistance, health, or spirit so those are especially important.

chest means there's loot, skull means there's a fight. tho the loot might also have a fight at it as well

[mental needle]

Not really, chaos resistance is good, but accuracy is quite mediocre

[maiden summit]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[azure lava]

depends on what you have equipped already

[rugged tangle]

accuracy more important late game when mobs have more evasion

[mental needle]

you want life and resists, basically, the ring base types you really want are ruby/sapphire/topaz/prismatic/amethyst

Yeah I mean if you have a totally dead ring slot and excess gold I guess you can grab it

[civic rose]

is there a recommend drink?

[azure lava]

nope

[mental needle]

blue raspberry usually

[azure lava]

gimme a ginger ale any day

[rugged tangle]

mnt dew is perferable

[mental needle]

I'm with byron on this one

had some ginger ale + cranberry juice yday

v good

[glass maple]

thanks for the advice, currently i still on hunting grounds

[mental needle]

equipping herald of fire makes me sad when I know herald of ice and lightning are in the game 😔

[shut abyss]

why not equip all of them?

[mental needle]

me not smart me not fast

[exotic sierra]

herald of fires str req is way too high

[mental needle]

Could I interest you in some BEEF?

[zinc matrix]

la necesito

[royal ice]

Is there a potato mod for poe 2?

[azure lava]

yeah, render resolution as low as you can make it

[royal ice]

I tried that and i feel like i gotta go further beyond if possible lol

[shut abyss]

fire build eh?

[exotic sierra]

lv 14 Herald of Ash needs 133 Str
lv 14 Herald of Ice needs 73 Dex, 73 Int
lv 14 Herald of Thunder needs 133 Dex
lv 14 Herald of Plague needs 133 Dex
realistically, all heralds should have lower reqs. preferably split reqs like HoI so that they are easier to fit in, cause I shouldn't need to be half str stacker on my merc, esp when I already need so much dex for my gear. I haven't reached beef yet, but even with that I'm still gonna need a bunch of str on gear.

[empty sky]

nice divs u got there

[azure lava]

(:

[exotic sierra]

idk why they made 3/4 of them require so much of a single attr

[mental needle]

everything requires a lot of attributes in poe2

[royal ice]

Nah, temporary use of ancient laptop lol

[pallid anchor]

hi guys, is this worth 10d ? and how much should i buy it ?

[exotic sierra]

pretty sure my laptop would spontaneously combust if I tried to get it to run poe2 lol. it barely ran poe1 on the lowest settings a few years ago when I tried, and only in town.

[azure lava]

#price-check📉

[azure lava]

also #2┃after-acts-help

[eager basin]

only in town? towns in poe1 have some of the worst performance in the game

[exotic sierra]

I couldn't get it to go anywhere else lol

[mental needle]

tech flexing his NASA space taptop on us

bet he could run lioneye's watch on league start

[exotic sierra]

town performance isn't near that bad lol

[edgy timber]

how are crossbow shot lvl 10?

[mental needle]

I mean it's not as bad as like... Delirium

but it is pretty bad

[exotic sierra]

cause of your weapon

basic attacks level with the weapon

[mental needle]

it's not character level?

[golden bay]

guys im looking for a good body armour do i need chaos res on it?

[azure lava]

nope.
low level staff, high level bow

[golden bay]

or do i go for cold light and fire or something like that

[mental needle]

interesting, ty

[exotic sierra]

I assumed it was weapon level, since that seemed to be what others are saying is keeping people from getting a 3rd/4th/5th support

[azure lava]

during the campaign you don't need chaos res

[golden bay]

im on final act

[azure lava]

yep, that's still the campaign

[golden bay]

i go onto maps after this one

[azure lava]

once you do that, you can ask in #2┃after-acts-help

[mental needle]

Your chest doesn't need chaos resist, but you do. You don't need to cap it, but a little chunk helps a lot.

[edgy timber]

what are good support gems to crossbow shot i only have up to lvl 2

[proven matrix]

does pain offering boosts raging spirits?

[topaz junco]

Yes

[hearty burrow]

how do you deal damage with spark while leveling

i have leveling uniques and 4 slots of support gems

and 8 ascendancy points

170 dps

wtf

[tacit knot]

Nah sorry blackbeard is just ridiculous. No matter how hard u try he will always hit u with something

[shut abyss]

who?

[shut abyss]

bad weapon?

[hearty burrow]

what staff do you go for

i thought siphoning

then i put essence of lightning and regal it

this one has 16% cast speed

[true flower]

hello byron

[hearty burrow]

and 37% lightning damage on focus

[true flower]

guys what should i do after i finished act 3 ? do i just redo the campaign ?

[dark talon]

Can someone help me figure out what spell to cast against single target / bosses as a Witch?
I am using Essence Drain but it's a dot afaik and I shouldn't spam it. Same with Contagion.
What's my bread and butter on bosses and what support gems should it have?

[shut abyss]

iirc spells scale off from the weapon so that is the most important stat damage stat since everything else scales off that but i'm not sure

[topaz junco]

You start the cruel acts

[hearty burrow]

i also tried lifesprig thats worse

[topaz junco]

That is your single target. It gets better once you get the effigy skill

[true flower]

so act 1 2 and 3 but harder ?

[topaz junco]

Yes

[true flower]

so im not in the endgame yet

cuz i was thinking of starting to look for and craft betetr gear

[topaz junco]

Nope

You need to complete act 3 cruel

[proven matrix]

does pain offering boosts raging spirits?

[true flower]

are the bosses significantly harder? i got stuck on the second to last boss of act 3, forgot her name, it was pretty difficult

took like 10 tries

[topaz junco]

I answered you before, yes

[azure lava]

what tier of skill/support gems do you have access to?

[proven matrix]

thank you

[topaz junco]

They hit harder and have more hp

[dark talon]

level 1 so far, why?

[tacit knot]

Does anyone has any blackjaw tips? They said just try to avoid his hits but theyre insane and very quick. Its hard to avoid it

[azure lava]

because I needed to know that so I can recommend options

[tacit knot]

Always get hit by something

[azure lava]

essence drain is a tier 3 skill, so that can't be right, btw

[dark talon]

Which is my single target, contagion or essence drain?
Should I bother with contagion uptime on boss? Is it worth it

[azure lava]

they can be stacked on one target

[dark talon]

Oh sorry thought you meant support gem.

[topaz junco]

Both

[azure lava]

and spamming ED does help with damage since it has a hit component

if only slightly

[dark talon]

Ok, so I keep Essence Drain and Contagion on the boss at all time. Got it.

[azure lava]

yeah, and what tier of skill gem do you have access to?

[dark talon]

I managed to get this to so I should be a strong spell caster I think

[dark talon]

lvl 8 now

[true flower]

guys, in acts 1-3 cruel, does the additional bosses that give perm buffs still need to be beaten ?

[azure lava]

is that a magic item or a rare?

[azure lava]

yes, if they have a + icon on the map they give permanent bonuses

[dark talon]

It's orange - not sure about the terms.

[topaz junco]

Unique

[azure lava]

ah

those gloves are pretty good for DoT builds since the reduced cast speed isn't as impactful

[dark talon]

Again I am asking about single target, I understand that essence drain + contagion is my bread and butter.
But both of them have 0 support gems right now, I am open for advice.

[brazen horizon]

Hello galvanic shard build still working? Im lvl 62 in cruel act 3 and im getting blattes by mobs and bosses ?

[azure lava]

what damage nodes have you gotten in your tree? is it mostly spell damage or do you have chaos damage as well?

[native lagoon]

dammit

[azure lava]

the skill still works, your gear is likely out of date. Get your ele res to 75%

[azure lava]

defer it

[urban tulip]

I need a bit help. like the thing is in cruel difficulty , I cant unlock the trial of sekh whatever. I killed that traitor 3 times but it wont drop that green thing

[native lagoon]

ya did that

at least ill get it eventually

[dark talon]

Predominantly spell dmg, I don't see any chaos dmg right no.

[azure lava]

it's bugged in cruel, ignore it

[brazen horizon]

Il following this one https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/zgf2c0vc

There is one better v

?

[granite mountain]

just finished my 1st map, want to ask,
why there are 4 slots on the box i place waystone?

[azure lava]

@urban tulipto clarify, the bug is that the quest even reappears at all in cruel. It's not necessary for ascension

[azure lava]

#2┃after-acts-help

[azure lava]

no idea

[urban tulip]

Also ive read online there are 24 weapon set points . I got 22, that means i am missing 2. So is the bosses that drop the passive points same for everyone or different?

[azure lava]

best thing I can recommend is a weapon swap to a bow and shoot some vine arrows to add some more chaos damage over time.

[brazen horizon]

Damn

[dark talon]

Nah I rather buff Essence Drain or Contagion or use a different spell. I don't want to over complicate it. I just need to know what support gems to use

[native lagoon]

once ive deferred can i safely reroll

[dark talon]

Like is this good for Essence Drain?

[azure lava]

that is terrible with ED

[golden bay]

how much you think i can sell this for chat

[azure lava]

#price-check📉

[timber fjord]

need that : p

[azure lava]

yes

[golden bay]

waht your offer

[dark talon]

So what do I use?

[native lagoon]

how long does it usually take for items like this to reappear

[azure lava]

I'd recommend swift affliction and chain, maybe

[native lagoon]

guess im spamming rituals now

[azure lava]

the rarer the item, the longer it takes to reappear

[native lagoon]

like dozens of rituals?

[rough birch]

Do I want this unique? Can't quite tell, sounds like a good way to get myself killed idk

[dark talon]

Swift Affliction just helps the Dot, right?
But if I am casting the spell all the time does that reset the dot or stack on it, or how does it work?

[topaz junco]

Playing with edc myself (only in a2 atm) and that’s what I use

[azure lava]

it refreshes the debuff

it doesn't stack

[topaz junco]

Contagion is the increased duration and the other one that adds 6s to its cooldown

[azure lava]

expanse

[topaz junco]

That one, ty

[dark talon]

Huh`?

@topaz junco Sorry you mind expanding on it?

[topaz junco]

On what

[dark talon]

What you were using on what

[topaz junco]

The support gems

[azure lava]

I'd also recommend a second essence drain with hourglass for bosses

[dark talon]

Yeah which on what skill gem

[errant spindle]

My amulet is glitched it won’t add the spirit to my spirit?

[dark talon]

Right bosses is my only focus. It's on bosses I have a hard time

[azure lava]

can you screenshot the amulet and tell us your spirit with and without the amulet?

[topaz junco]

Essence drain has chain and swift affliction
Contagion has the one that adds skill effect duration(I forgot the name) and expanse

[errant spindle]

Wait I’m stupid I have the monk ascendency point in no spirit from equipment

[azure lava]

if you don't need damage elsewhere, maybe even put chain on your normal ED and use a second ED with hourglass and swift affliction for bosses

[craggy gyro]

hey guys

so i have a lvl 9 staff

the skeleton warrior staff

but i have only 2 skeleton warriors

why is that

[dark talon]

Why wouldn't I use Hourglasses for Contagion? By the time the cooldown is ready the debuff is gone.

[azure lava]

because then you can't use expanse with it

[azure lava]

spirit costs, I assume

[craggy gyro]

i cant put in any spirit on it cuz it a staff

so it doesnt make sense

[dark talon]

But I don't understand why would you wanna increase the dot dmg if you keep reseting the dot?

[topaz junco]

Game design. They don’t want anyone just walking around with a horde of warriors without investing SOMETHING

[azure lava]

can you screenshot the tooltip of the weapon that provides the skeleton skill?

[craggy gyro]

helmet gives extra lvl

[timber fjord]

i play ssf hc

[golden bay]

i sold it for 3

[dark talon]

Can Chain hit the same boss twice?

[topaz junco]

You don’t spam ed 24/7. just periodically cause like Byron said it does deal damage on the initial impact as well.

[azure lava]

if there is something nearby to chain off of and back to the boss, yes

[topaz junco]

2 damage is better than 0 damage

[dark talon]

But the bosses are usually alone

[azure lava]

indeed

[dark talon]

Does it do 2 dmg with chain?

[azure lava]

chain is not for helping with bosses

there is nothing else that can help

[craggy gyro]

so no one knows the reason why my staff gives less warriors then it should

sad

[azure lava]

chain is just there to help with clearing without lowering your DoT

[slow raven]

How do group trial runs work? Do we all gotta pick a modifier?

[azure lava]

what do you mean, less than it should?

[dark talon]

I need a single target spell to use on bosses where I am currently struggling since my minions die, what should I use?

[topaz junco]

No. That’s a hyperbolic statement

[craggy gyro]

last time when i had staff i had 4 warriors right

then it got changed to 2 for some reason

and if it was spirit reason it wouldve increased

[azure lava]

you're using gloves that give you 25% reduced cast speed, spells are gonna feel terrible. That's why I recommend a weapon swap to vine arrow

[shut abyss]

raging spirits+firewall since you've build for minion damage i guess

[azure lava]

and yeah, wait, are you building minion stuff or spell stuff?

[craggy gyro]

minion

[azure lava]

not you

[dark talon]

I am minion, yes

[violet gulch]

guys if got uncut skill gem level 20 but my level is 60 can I still use it ? or it will give me a gem that has Requires Level?

[azure lava]

can you screenshot the skill's tooltip for the warrior skill?

and can you adjust how many you have in the skill panel?

[dark talon]

But it's a ton of spell dmg talents with each minion

[topaz junco]

It’s not a ton

[azure lava]

I don't know what this sentence means

[topaz junco]

It’s very minimal

[frozen jay]

Will stuff like ice wall count?

[violet gulch]

guys if got uncut skill gem level 20 but my level is 60 can I still use it ? or it will give me a gem that has Requires Level?

[frozen jay]

That's kinda cool

[austere bobcat]

Anyone here on legacy of Vaal cruel I can join? My game is soft locked at stone altar

[topaz junco]

A few minion nodes have generic damage modifiers as well

[azure lava]

you can cut it and it'll be level 20, but you won't be able to socket it

[edgy timber]

this sounds pretty good

[azure lava]

they're all about 2 small nodes worth of value. Pick your poison. Literally

[topaz junco]

#2┃looking-for-group

[fiery arrow]

Is their a board for gear drops?

[craggy gyro]

i have like 4 skills that rely on spirit 2 i right click to activate rest i invest spirit

[fiery arrow]

There*

[craggy gyro]

but when i take off everything

my staff still gives 2 skeleton warriors

[azure lava]

what do you mean a board? like a place to post drops? #2┃general

[slow raven]

How do group trial runs work? Do we all gotta pick a modifier or just one person?

[azure lava]

just one person

owner of the ultimatum

[fiery arrow]

Like a place to ask for drops

[ebon moss]

The Skeleton Warriors from your Rattling Scepter you get at no spirit cost. If you unequip that Scepter, they will go away.

[dark talon]

The talent trees that give minion dmg also give me spell dmg increase.

[azure lava]

#rules-and-info not on this server

[placid trellis]

If anyone needs help with bosses or anything on JP server or just wants to join the Helping Hands guild send us an invite.

[dark talon]

Gah.

[craggy gyro]

yea but so the limit from staff u get is 2

?

[topaz junco]

Don’t use spells just because those nodes give you damage. Invest in your minions and your own survival

[topaz junco]

Please stick to guild advertising or #2┃looking-for-group

[dark talon]

What do I do on bosses that are fire resistance as a filler spell?
I thought it was Essence Drain or Contagion.
My minions just die.

[ebon moss]

Yes. If you want more, then use the Skeleton Warrior skill gem. Although those will then reserve spirit.

[topaz junco]

Why not reduce the enemy fire res then

[dark talon]

I am really struggling with bosses compared to mercenary.
I need a spell to cast, I can tell my dmg output is low.

[stone quail]

anyone know a good way to earn quick gold? im on act 2 and i've messed up my passive skills big time so need to get some gold to refund them all

[topaz junco]

Flammability curse. And exposure

[edgy timber]

do galvanic merc use a lot of mana ?

[ebon moss]

picking up and selling blue/yellow items

[dark talon]

Exposure is what?

So do I use Essence Drain and Contagion at all or do I get rid of them from my skill slots?

[topaz junco]

A debuff which also lowers enemy resistances

Get rid of essence drain and contagion

[vagrant geyser]

Is this a good build guys?
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/g0bj0le5

[topaz junco]

It seems ok as long as you play slow/safely

[dark talon]

Sorry I know I am repeating myself. But what do I use as a filler spell to keep dmg up. Running around, dodging etc.
If it's not Essence Drain or Contagion?
My minions keep dying and reviving, it's fast but it's still downtime.

[ebon moss]

Example, on a skill that Hits enemies and can Ignite them, socket Fire Exposure support gem. By default, the Fire Exposure debuff is -20%. You can stack both the -fire res from the Flammability Curse with the -fire res from Fire Exposure.

[vagrant geyser]

Do you have any recommendations for better builds? @topaz junco

[shut abyss]

are you building minion or spell damage?

[dark talon]

Like Ember Fusillade?

[topaz junco]

Are you using srs?

[dark talon]

Both(?) Every minion dmgtalent also increases my spell dmg.

[dark talon]

SRS?

[ebon moss]

Summon Raging Spirits

[dark talon]

Yes

[topaz junco]

Then that’s your uptime tool

[cold cargo]

does the game update stuff or something? even its early access