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sharp glade
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freeze probably more defensive, shock offensive

silent prawn
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would it be crazy? No
Optimal? perhaps.

with the 50% more from small nodes it is totally versatile

livid hamlet
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How does dual wielding work with slams ? Do you slam with both weapons at the same time ?

cerulean bear
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I'm a chill fan cause I liked warden freeze, but shock might be better

muted charm
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they're a bit too heavy investment now imo

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but if shock and freeze can compete

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that's fine

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stun sure as fuck can

outer marlin
maiden karma
sharp glade
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iirc skills use dual wield only if they explicitly say they do

livid hamlet
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Because if so, oh boy dual wielding 2h mace gemling liegionare hammer of gods bleed

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sounds like it can just one shot bosses

cerulean bear
muted charm
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I suppose all ignite needs is an easy prolif tool.

cerulean bear
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from what most people seem to be talking about

muted charm
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Which they seem to like giving ignite more than poison

sharp glade
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sceptres are going to be such a pain to craft

muted charm
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so theres a chance its real good sitll.

cerulean bear
outer marlin
cerulean bear
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granted they're only single prolif

livid hamlet
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I thought poison is only one stack now

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as base

cerulean bear
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yeah base

muted charm
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single prolif really doesn't matter

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your likely getting prolifed from multiple soruces

cerulean bear
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if you go big hit poison its not bad

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but then again you could just do that with ignite too

maiden karma
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So does poison use the new ailment system or is it still flat % chance

cerulean bear
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new system

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i think all ailments do

muted charm
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poison and bleed are flat

maiden karma
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I may have come up with something fucked up related to poison and warbringer

muted charm
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ignite is new system

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ele uses new system

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bleed/poison use chance

pliant pollen
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Hi there, i have a quick question fot chatula monk. Does leech only works on physical damage? Or why people talking about its good if a skill only converts xy% so we have phys to leech?

maiden karma
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Are they at least guaranteed on crit?

muted charm
maiden karma
muted charm
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its really important to remember

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poison is in addition to hti now

muted charm
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not seperate from hit scaling

cerulean bear
sharp glade
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of the game

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just wait

cerulean bear
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obviously

muted charm
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so a phys poison deadeye can just use a poison arrow with inevitable critical and corrossion, and 100% shred bsoses armor consistantly while still getting a strong singular poison because support gems

sharp glade
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uniques/affixes/tree etc

cerulean bear
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I'm talking about what we've seen so far

muted charm
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ITS CRAZY how in depth ailments are

sharp glade
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i dont liek the new system tbh

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it means dot builds have to build as hit builds

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but it doesnt matter

livid hamlet
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maybe it still happens of base damage ? Or is it confirmed that attack increases and whatnot will work

cerulean bear
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having low stack counts means they don't poison at least doesn't have to focus on attack speed

sharp glade
cerulean bear
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this promotes slower play like slams

fleet blaze
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isn't invoker more slayer like than both warbringer and titan?

cerulean bear
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sunder poison could be interesting

muted charm
cerulean bear
livid hamlet
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It honestly sounds like hammer of gods will be king with some other skill for clear

muted charm
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dot builds pretty consistantly don't like attack speed now

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and heavily prefer high crit chance

hidden tartan
# sharp glade i dont liek the new system tbh

Do you think you could put Mark,Sigil of power and Mana tempest in elemental invocation, and then put more duraiton support . And when you come to boss you press it and all 3 will pop with increased durartion?

muted charm
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which makes sense

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your trying to aim for the enemies weak point

cerulean bear
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also crit chance isn't need because you only need 1 hit to crit and then prolif that dot

muted charm
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also uhhhhh

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just wait tilll you see ailment effect qanities on weapons before you judge "They're jsut hit builds."

hidden tartan
livid hamlet
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templarLul @hidden tartan

cerulean bear
livid hamlet
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For poison i will just wait for Deathbeam to come up with a build vanity

proper pagoda
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Does anyone know how pen is calculated with exposure.

E.g.: mob has 50 fire res. I have 50 fire pen and 25 fire exposure.

Does the mob effectively have -25 res, or does the exposure apply first and pen can't go negative so effective res is 0?

cerulean bear
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exposure is a debuff first

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and then you pen the now debuffed enemy bringing you to 0

livid hamlet
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You cant penetrate into the negatives ?

cerulean bear
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not anymore

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pen stops at 0

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other debuffs can go negative

terse pendant
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I'm curious. If I am planning to go a minion-focused build. What stats should I focus for my generic stat nodes?

cerulean bear
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you mean int-str-dex?

terse pendant
cerulean bear
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either str or int, depending on life or es/mana

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but most minion skills will have int requirements so that should be more important

proper pagoda
terse pendant
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Alright. So just focus INT primarily? Is it good to hyper focus on INT, or should some still go into STR?

cerulean bear
muted charm
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@cerulean bear we've also seen skils which a large portion of their power budget is in the ailment.

cerulean bear
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could be more/better sources of res reduction

muted charm
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points at ball lightning

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that one

proper pagoda
muted charm
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that one in particular

cerulean bear
proper pagoda
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Like if ur exposure is reducing res to 0 or below then pen is a dead stat no?

cerulean bear
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so you just pick one and stick with it

muted charm
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ball lightning doesn't seem ailment pilled "Cause it hits like 8 times anyways" but thats exactly why its ailment pilled

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it already meets teh conditions from benifiting from shock. While sitll applying full power shocks

livid hamlet
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We don't know how bosses late game deal with resistance tamperation
It's possible that they will severly limit either exposure and or penetration amounts

cerulean bear
proper pagoda
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Shock chance is based on hit damage though?

raw flower
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Savage xD

cerulean bear
muted charm
cerulean bear
muted charm
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I like both

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both are iconic

cerulean bear
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Arc-lightning
Eye of winter-Cold
Fireball-Fire

muted charm
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their spark and call lightning reworks look good too

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that's something i really like about poe2 ele skills so far they all hit in unique ways

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that attacks don't really do

hidden tartan
# raw flower Yes it should work 😉

Ye I think so too would be really good to press 1 button to pop all your bursts and just melt bosses if the case, and supporting all 3 with increased duration is really nice

cerulean bear
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Yeah, all of these I'd run with archmage with arc having the most synergy, but mana tempest gives an extra boost to the others if you run lifetap

muted charm
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i actually ummm

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like the basic ice shotgun more

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😦

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i'm basic

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but the form projectile than fire at mach 5

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reminds me of ice spear

vernal ermine
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Isn't this the same as just 50% more damage with ignite from hits?

hidden tartan
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no

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in Poe 2 they changed ailments

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It scales from hit, unlike in poe 1

fathom folio
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thats what he means

hidden tartan
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ohhh sry

fathom folio
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you take 25% of the hit damage and put 75% in the effect

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75 - 25 = 50

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dunno if it maths out like that though

livid hamlet
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IIt's more and less right ??

cerulean bear
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its 31%more ignite damage

livid hamlet
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so it's 0.75 * 1.75 = 1.3125

cerulean bear
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1 * .75 * 1.75

hidden tartan
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basically if you hit for 100, you now hit for 75 and then you have 75% more effect on that 75, which is 131.25

fathom folio
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ye

hidden tartan
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so basically it does 31.25 more dmg

vernal ermine
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Ag yeah

raw flower
fathom folio
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Did anyone come up with something interesting using pyromaniac pact and the follow up nodes?

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It seems kinda lackluster

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pay 4 ascendancy points for fixing your mana + conditional 20% more damage

hidden tartan
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*120% multiplier so 72. I assume

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ye

cerulean bear
hidden tartan
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Btw, what conclusion did we reach for spirit max 180 (assumed on acts) and rest that we know is scepters and amulet 15?

fathom folio
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I assumed it wouldn't

narrow ermine
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I seem to remember somewhere that we got x ascendency points. How many +was it?

cerulean bear
alpine vigil
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8, 4 notables @narrow ermine

livid hamlet
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8

narrow ermine
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ty

hidden tartan
cerulean bear
muted charm
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Ailment effect is based.

raw flower
hidden tartan
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ye lot of unknows still

fathom folio
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unless it actually counts as mana for archmage

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which I thought it wouldnt

cerulean bear
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I'm not sure, could be an oversight on my part

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but maximum mana from being "replaced" could exchange the effects

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making you go up in flame really quickly

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similar to how lifetap and archmage would interact

near acorn
hidden tartan
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guess it's outdated coz some supports seem to have cost/ some reservation

hidden tartan
vagrant gorge
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Anyone recall if cooldown reduction applies to any added cooldown like hourglass support (8 seconds)? E.g. if I use a skill with 3 sec cooldown and have enough cdr that it would drop it to 1.5s, would I only add 4s with hour glass support or is its added time not effected

narrow ermine
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What are the weapon set skill points that the witchhunter notable is talking about?
Is it the number of passive points that can be allocated for each set of weapons you have?

For example, 80 passive tree points + 20 points per weapon means that both weapons have the same 80 base points, but have 20 additional points that you can allocate on a per weapon basis?
Thus, when you get +20 of those points the split become 60 + 40?

near acorn
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From this discord. Ofc that dude might be wrong

hidden tartan
vagrant gorge
prisma summit
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Do Titan slam skill aftershocks count as “hits” for crushing blows

near acorn
high meadow
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Do we know anything about armor break going below zero? I’m so torn between warbringer and titan

hidden tartan
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And normal skill support gems just mana cost multipliers

narrow ermine
olive tide
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titan node giving small passive skills 50% increased effect is nuts. especially if it works for the attribute nodes.

thick thunder
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how much spirit are we getting from the campaign?

silent prawn
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30 per act

narrow ermine
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Yes, you can do that with the warbringer ascendency.

silent prawn
vagrant gorge
high meadow
narrow ermine
olive tide
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man the way its worded that node is gonna be insane, take it to the bank

silent prawn
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well it is that powerful, or can be

proven quest
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Bro, lead me through grace and protect me from harm looking really strong...

sterile sparrow
viscid escarp
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Does a passive node that says "10% increased amount of life leeched" just give life leech or do you need a source of life leech to benefit from those nodes?

alpine vigil
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you need a source

olive tide
thick thunder
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did i hear right that monsters can avoid spells now so casters need to worry about acc?

viscid escarp
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Thanks guys

alpine vigil
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I assume the spell dodge/block change is just for the player

narrow ermine
hoary bolt
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spells dont need accuracy

short rover
hoary bolt
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hits not being differentiated is only for damage to the players

vagrant gorge
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Is added cooldown like from Hourglass support affected by cooldown reduction or is the flat 8s cd it adds unaffected?

proven quest
hoary bolt
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it adds a cd bound to the skill, so it should be affected by cdr

olive tide
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imo if infernalists hound can survive.. and you can build around CI, witch's will have 40% PDR with the #1 node. sounds good to me, assuming dog isnt dying left and right

sharp glade
midnight bolt
sharp glade
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with minion life investment the hound should have no issue surviving tbh

short rover
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infernalist is weird because if everything works how i assume it does its very limited. No archmage/anything mana related with Pyro Pact, no CI with demonform, one of the ascendancies literally doesnt work with another ascendancy etc

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seems odd

olive tide
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dont ping me, idk you

ancient geyser
olive tide
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he said that earlier to someone XD

clever belfry
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So thinking about Monk for starter class. However pretty unsure about asendancy. I’m a bit of a newbie in PoE1 so looking for something pretty straight forward. Would you recommend Invoker or Chayula based on that?

hoary bolt
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invoker is more straightforward

clever belfry
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Thanks!

hoary bolt
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there are stil a lot of ways to build around invoker's passives

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but acolyte of chayula is at face value a little more weird

proven quest
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Do we know anything about the small nodes on the ascendencies yet?

olive tide
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chayula will be strong if ur wanting to pick up the easter eggs

hoary bolt
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OSU simulator

ancient geyser
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wait for release ig

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at least now we know what we're gonna be building

clever belfry
olive tide
alpine vigil
olive tide
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***IF ***u can get phasing it might be nuts actually, but idk

alpine vigil
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have we seen phasing?

hoary bolt
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i havent seen phasing anywhere

olive tide
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nah just speculating

narrow ermine
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My second character is gonna be a Chayula monk, just because of the Into the Breach spell.

alpine vigil
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It looks dumb in terms of damage but defensive layers suck

frigid hill
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i was wrong about the into the breach spell, it looks pretty good

alpine vigil
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it was one of the only 2 way the ascendancy was usable imo, either make that one good or darkness good

clever belfry
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But Invoker still looks pretty solid right? Seems to be quite okay to build around.

livid hamlet
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Pickup and spawn radius will play an important part of this
Also is into the breach 100% uptime ?

alpine vigil
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darkness is still blergh but at least breach is good

alpine vigil
frigid hill
livid hamlet
livid hamlet
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It's basically 600 additional life in that case

alpine vigil
frigid hill
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Ben_ slowed down the footage we've seen, rly looks like they refresh

alpine vigil
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unless lv 80+ hp is 2000 it's pretty mediocre

proven quest
# ancient geyser wait for release ig

ya I was just hoping we'd see some mana leech node somewhere so I can feel really confident about Chayula instant leech. But invoker is looking real juicy after the full preview

frigid hill
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but EA footage yada yada

fleet blaze
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what's an ice/frost attack a monk can use that doesn't require quarterstaff?

distant dome
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I've heard you get 8 points to spend on Ascendencies...? This means the Blood Mage effectively has only 6 points, as the first two points have to be spent on Sanguimancny?

No other Ascendancy wastes 2 points like this.

alpine vigil
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bow attacks

livid hamlet
distant dome
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that's all

livid hamlet
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It's a flavour choice, you gotta be a blood mage if you get the blood mage ascendancy

proven quest
ancient geyser
# distant dome It's a waste of 2 potential decisions

https://youtu.be/8dH8WE6zIhg?si=thl1yONostpA5PU7&t=1760 this guy covers up how busted bloodmage's first node can be pretty well, included the timestamp in the link

https://www.twitch.tv/jungroan

info - https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3592012

0:00 - intro
0:24 - Stormweaver
5:10 - Chronomancer
11:31 - Titan
17:57 - Warbringer
22:24 - Deadeye
25:17 - Pathfinder
29:20 - Blood Mage
35:16 - Infernalist
40:28 - Witchhunter
43:00 - Gemling Legionnaire
47:40 - Invoker
51:52 - Acolyte of Chayula

▶ Play video
midnight bolt
fleet blaze
distant dome
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I'm not even saying it's bad btw!

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Just saying the descions you make from there are more limited

ancient geyser
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but yes, it's the only ascendancy that forces you to go through a node

distant dome
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it's fine

olive tide
alpine vigil
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We don't know if EB will convert to mana too

fleet blaze
hoary bolt
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thats just the skill gem category

alpine vigil
olive tide
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its apart of the ranger class skill gems but you can get them on any character

livid hamlet
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Honestly shaper of Winter sounds pretty great

silent prawn
proven quest
proven quest
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Also, don't sleep on 30% more damage haha

alpine vigil
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I'd rather just get the ~19.25% chaos damage that's always up and doesn't look you into darkness

livid hamlet
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What's your opinion on the Extra Damage in PoE2 ? it looks like there's not " gain % of X as Y" but just Gain % Extra Damage as Y , which sounds like they abandon the whole conversion chain and just make all the gains additive

olive tide
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does chayula monk look good for poisons? extra chaos damage to hits will scale well with how poison works now

modern tangle
frigid hill
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im not a fan of the new damaging ailments mechanics tbh

livid hamlet
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Yeah the spirit change worries me as well
Like overall it's not that bad of a setup, it just feels weaker compared to rest

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Unless Monks are just supposed to be turbo squishy

alpine vigil
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not invoker that's for sure

frigid hill
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i like MoM + instant mana leech for Chonk

alpine vigil
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I doubt breach alone will be reliable ES recovery

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you give up recharge

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oh mom can't read

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no, mom not EB

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I really can't read

proven quest
alpine vigil
frigid hill
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the current numbers for darkness dont make sense to me,
splaff suggested we can scale it with Global Defence, at least then it'd make some sense

short rover
olive tide
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what are the implications of "being considered in a breach"

proven quest
frigid hill
alpine vigil
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and only 2 points, not 4

livid hamlet
thorny path
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Breach rings don't do that anymore

livid hamlet
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i think they mentioned that they want to bring back breach rings in a decent state right ?

modern tangle
frigid hill
livid hamlet
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Oh i thought this part remained

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My bad o7

frigid hill
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iirc their quality goes to 50 or something, so can get wild resists/life

proven quest
proven quest
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We'll see if they're right

alpine vigil
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Is that damage even multiplicative with breach

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if not that's straight up garbage

proven quest
short rover
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I think Pyro Pact is a trap

alpine vigil
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you go from 240% to 270%

frigid hill
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240? isnt it 140?

distant dome
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What ways do have to apply critical weakness and what exactly does it do? I think the video I just watched said it was 0.5% base crit per stack? (base gets multiplied by increased crit chance)

alpine vigil
frigid hill
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huh

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oh i see

livid hamlet
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Wait, don't you get stunned when your stamina runs out when blocking ? Because that Turtle Charm node seems like an easy way to kill yourself , unless you block passively without loss of stamina

modern tangle
distant dome
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I saw this, but it has no spirit reservation costs so I'm guess it's eithr incomplete data, or a ascendancy mechanic, not a skill gem

alpine vigil
thorny path
frigid hill
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i thought that was with active blocking yea

alpine vigil
livid hamlet
distant dome
frigid hill
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ya warbringer block looks solid

distant dome
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any other forms of critical weakness we've seen?

frigid hill
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Eye of Winter

thorny path
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eye of winter on hit

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don't base your build on it

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It's a nice little bonus and that's it

icy turtle
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so for the life remnants skill (blood mage) do I get persistent buffs from support gems while it is on the ground?

formal meadow
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Demon Form seems like the specific non minion infernalist right?

distant dome
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I'm looking to make a high-crit bonestorm blood mage build, so anything I can tack on helps

livid hamlet
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Honestly Blood Witch sounds great even for ranged attack and even melee builds

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Crit, leech, tankiness

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Cute af

distant dome
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Melee Blood Mage Witch is going to be silly and good

thin basin
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Crit ignite, its time!

livid hamlet
icy turtle
proven quest
olive tide
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is it just me or is poison SRS not a thing anymore?

proven quest
woven sinew
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It’s too soon to tell

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Imo

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I hope it exists though I loved my poison srs

fleet blaze
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I WANNA GO SLAYER FROSTIE BOI IM THINKING INVOKER BUT I DONT WANNA USE QUARTERSTAFF REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

alpine vigil
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classes aren't tied to weapons

fleet blaze
left grail
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so they'd be additive more likely than not, being the same type of modifier

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reference:

fleet blaze
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is everyone starting HC since it's standard and you just move to softcore when you die? RIGHT?

olive tide
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chayula monk really makes me want to do poison flicker strike

livid hamlet
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Yeah i'm leaning that way, especially with Extra Damage being capitalized it makes it sounds like it's a whole new separate thing, probably additive at the end of calculations

alpine vigil
proven quest
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@left grail good to know

fleet blaze
frigid hill
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ok im convinced

fleet blaze
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HELL YEA BRUHTHER

proven quest
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Also demon form confirmed life lost, so no demon form CI 😦

livid hamlet
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Is anyone really not sold on the Meditate ascendancy point ? I guess it depends on the speed, but most bosses seemed to be actually pretty dynamic in their attacks

alpine vigil
livid hamlet
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I feel like the Mana -> Hellfire is way cooler than Demon Form

alpine vigil
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can we respec in maps?

distant dome
ancient geyser
alpine vigil
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if so, meditate at the beginning, then respec it for something just to get an initial x2 ES

livid hamlet
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especially since you can just get miniscule amounts of mana, decent fire resistance and then you can totally ignore mana as a resource

frigid hill
livid hamlet
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Which i feel like can be quite stronk

proven quest
fleet blaze
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I have no idea how to build the Invoker tree. If I wanna go melee leech frosty boi I feel like I path down south toward leech nodes.

olive tide
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meditate, cast on channeling with ice nova to keep things slowed/frozen maybe.. seems like a lot of work tho

proven quest
fleet blaze
thorny path
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there's no leech on the tree only on gear

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tree has "increased amount leeched"

livid hamlet
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So are we limited to one instance of support gem per character , or does this mean that we can put two of the same support gem in some skills ?

frigid hill
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"different skills"

muted charm
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I really want to know the viability of ignite minions.

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like does ignite effect effect your minions

thorny path
olive tide
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will frostwall+fortress+conc effect make a small ring of ice around you?

livid hamlet
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With how much supports we are supposed to have , i don't like this
The builds will be way to complicated that way

olive tide
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hmm

alpine vigil
frigid hill
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yea im a bit worried the support gem mechanics will kinda gravitate a lot of links to look the same across builds

icy turtle
fleet blaze
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people keep saying poe2 builds will be way more user friendly for newbs but i believe the opposite. it may be easier to respec and swap stuff around but making them yourself? nah

alpine vigil
frigid hill
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hmm imo it was but maybe im naive

livid hamlet
alpine vigil
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this is across all poe ninja builds

thorny path
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easier said than done

frigid hill
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i mean poeninja late in a league tends to show a lot of similar builds, im not sure if that is a good point

viscid escarp
icy turtle
thorny path
livid hamlet
proven quest
frigid hill
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anyway im happy to be proven wrong and its early days, they can still pivot

proven quest
thorny path
livid hamlet
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Honestly i would be down with limiting the amount of links then .
But yeah, we will live and we will see, maybe it works well, but i am worried about having to figure out 50 different gems for every character

thorny path
fleet egret
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Do we know if Infernalist doggo will require spirit reservation to summon or if it will be "free"?

thorny path
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all skills given from ascendancy/items are free spirit/mana cost

fleet egret
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ooo nice -- thank you

livid hamlet
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Honestly , Witch hunter, Invoker and Blood mage all sound like very well universal ascendancies

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not really pushing you into any particular build direction

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Bloodmage being spell focused just a little bit

icy turtle
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blood mage looks like it's pushing me into life stacking/crit/bleed

misty shell
frigid hill
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sunder bloodmage Bloodmage

fleet blaze
left grail
woven sinew
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Cast on crit

livid hamlet
snow sierra
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sunder bloodmage was my first thought too after seeing the tree

livid hamlet
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Of course Invoker pushes you towards elemental damage and whatnot

icy turtle
woven sinew
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I wonder if we’ll be able to do a CoC FR like build in EA

fleet blaze
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what is FR

woven sinew
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Forbidden Rite

long pebble
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Anyone know which of the 6 starting locations the Mercenary starts? I am thinking its the best ascendancy (Gemling Legionnaire) for minons but may lose out simply due to tree location

woven sinew
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I think it’s bot bot I have zero idea

velvet blade
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Is withered a single effect in POE2 rather than multiple stacks like in poe1?

ancient geyser
livid hamlet
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We still are forced into a specific direction on the tree right ? Like every class has a specific starting point it can take

woven sinew
#

I apparently have more than 0 idea

woven sinew
frigid hill
#

oh damn the warbringer warcry build is actually possible

ancient geyser
#

forbidden rite is already a headache to build around in poe1, in poe2 i don't even wanna imagine

left grail
icy turtle
#

that shows you where the class starts

livid hamlet
#

Or wait is it this little shiny cross

livid hamlet
#

that tells me where the class goes ?

modern tangle
# proven quest What do you mean in addition or instead of?
  • in addition would mean that Elemental Expression could also shoot projectiles of phys damage as 4th option. They don't need to be tied to attributes, could be majority damage type of the skill for instance.
  • Instead of fire would mean that the skill would do lightning, cold or "wind" (aka phys) which were the introduced monk elements. Str attribute would be free for phys in this case if we stick to attributes.
alpine vigil
#

this is the starting location on the actual tree

livid hamlet
#

Ooooh

#

Bruh

alpine vigil
#

in game it will be more obvious i'm sure, this is just stitched screenshots lol

livid hamlet
#

Yeah that's fair

proven quest
livid hamlet
#

Well witch pathing into melee will be a pain then, but i guess as expected LOL

icy turtle
#

bloodthirsty is gonna tempt me

modern tangle
neon kindle
#

does consuming "fully broken armour" also restore the missing armour back to the target? presumably yes?

prisma summit
#

yes

long pebble
# left grail thoughts on infernalist / reasoning for gemling specifically? (Genuinely curious...

Minion/witch rant:
I am prefacing the below with the knowledge I have played 0 hours of poe2... these are just concerns when looking at the ascendency options...

So, is it just me, or do the Witch ascendancies not feel like Witch ascendancies? Like bloodmage feels like a phys based sorceress and infernalist feels like a fire based sorceress. Neither adds options to a minion build, except the fire hound which may enable a fire based minion build to a degree, and .

When GGG said they didnt want 1 minion ascendancy I thought that sounded amazing. But these 2 ascendancies seem to force you into hybrid spellcaster/minion builds.

Beidat's Will seems like the only Ascendancy node actually made for a minion based build, and you give up a quarter of your life for it? Every other node would be just as good, or even better, on a spellcaster...

Whats more, with the weapon swapping, a lot of these nodes actively make your minions worse or yourself less tanky.
GGG has said you cannot have 2 scepters. So as a pure minion build you would go with a scepter and a shield. But every node in Bloodmage and many nodes in Infernalist want you to switch to a Wand in order to buff your spellcasting abilities through things like spell damage, spell crit, fire gem levels ETC.
But in order to switch to that wand, you either need to give up your shield, drastically reducing your survivability, or switch out your scepter, which could potentially cause you to lose somewhere between one third and one half of your minions.

#

Of all the ascendancies, for a 'pure' minion build, the Gemling Legionnaire is by far the best option. ESPECIALLY if Advanced Thaumatergy applies to spirit reservation. In early access they said we would only get 6 ascendancy points. So that would be +10 quality to every minion, +1 level to every minion, and 30% more minions...OR on the other side of the ascendancy, 3 more skill slots for wider variety of minions, double support gem use to better stack damage type for minions, and either +12 max res divided as desired or +10% quality to gems. This Sounds a ton better than, 20% damage taken as fire, Lose 25% of health for 25% more minions, and gain the infernal hound... though the 20% damage taken is taken by the hound is nice...

sterile latch
#

No

proven quest
candid garnet
#

guys is there any slam skill gem that is chaos dmg ? or any passive skill that converts physical to chaos or elemental to chaos ?

frigid hill
#

i aint reading all that but infernalist looks fine as a minion ascendancy to me

icy turtle
modern tangle
snow sierra
#

for me it seems bloodmage has anti synergie with minions

long pebble
modern tangle
snow sierra
#

I thinking about starting cronomancer minion build just for the defensive stats, cba to play gemling

left grail
frigid hill
#

it does? damn

snow sierra
#

atm demon form and minions are a no go

thin basin
#

Minion life, spell dmg, fire dmg, crit, fire crit, blood magic, hit dmg vs ailment, recoup, ignite effect 🧑‍🍳

long pebble
snow sierra
#

^this

sterile sparrow
#

Anyone know what determines damage of gas cloud explosion?

proven quest
left grail
#

wait form change removes your ... ah, just your weapons, I guess

icy turtle
left grail
#

yeah, unfortunate

candid garnet
long pebble
#

And again, if you want to cast fire spells, like most of the infernalist ascendancy uses, you would want a WAND, losing your Scepter and all your minons/buffs.

frigid hill
#

imo it will but cant promise it does

sterile sparrow
snow sierra
#

bloodmage could be rly strong for fire spells too, since it has a note that sets base crit to 15% and fire spells have a low base crit

sterile sparrow
#

It won't even necessarily be an attack that detonates it

thin basin
#

YOOOOO volatile dead is in the game? Huge

#

Screw dd back to vd

frigid hill
thick thunder
#

can elemental storm from tempest caller get support gems?

frigid hill
#

ya we can support skills given from ascendancies

thin basin
#

Can u dualw wand n sceptre? ScuffThink

silent prawn
#

but not two of each

thin basin
#

Interesting ScuffThink

#

Wait there’s a dagger implicit that give u blood magic for spell

#

Whens that coming

cinder cedar
#

So after the reveal, it looks like there's no minion ascendency choice. Infernalist has like 2 nodes related to minion but its conditional. At this point warrior and gemling has more potential lolz

icy turtle
#

I hope there is some way to make life remnants come to you instead of picking them up

silent prawn
proven quest
#

Do we know what "high" resource is yet?

frigid hill
fleet blaze
silent prawn
frigid hill
#

that said im sure gemling is a fine minion ascendancy too

static plinth
#

Where's Escape Artist on the tree?

silent prawn
frigid hill
#

gates would be cool

cinder cedar
frigid hill
#

is it really less defense though? you can scale spirit and mana/es at the same time with life

sharp glade
#

you can also go MOM with the life->mana one

cinder cedar
#

which means less ES

sharp glade
#

there are no life nodes

#

you just get lfie on items and thats it

proper pagoda
#

Is there a way to reserve life to guarantee perms pain attunement?

cinder cedar
#

then you don't get any bonus to spirit then. pointless ascendancy point

static plinth
thorny path
#

Only the infernalist nodes have life reservation so far

#

It will be called the Beidat build

#

and probably suck

static plinth
#

Its a shame you cant also take Grinning Immolation with those 4

#

If you could, that'd actually cook

proper pagoda
sharp glade
proper pagoda
#

Pain attunement with that node. Multiplicative

toxic walrus
#

Where can I see poe2 pasivve tree ascendancy etc?

cinder cedar
#

Infernalist looks way more powerful as a spellcaster instead of minions. Minions look lackluster since its all conditional and drawbacks. Not to mention, demon form won't buff minions.

viscid escarp
sharp glade
sharp glade
viscid escarp
prisma summit
#

the good passive tree site

static plinth
#

You need to get down to 35% life

#

Take all 3 Beidat nodes to be at 25%

proper pagoda
peak fox
#

could overcapped block chance be used to scale this?

cinder cedar
static plinth
proper pagoda
static plinth
#

You could maybe take only 2 Beidat nodes and Blood Magic and then when you cast you'll drop below low life but thats cursed as hell

sharp glade
#

there might be other ways to reserve life

#

some uniques maybe

static plinth
#

Midnight Bargain 🙏

neon kindle
#

is the break armour base duration known?

long pebble
#

anyone know how Beidat's Will works if you take Chaos Innoculation? Could you take 2 25% life reservation nodes and Chaos inoculation?

proven quest
#

Into the Breach: "You are considered to be in a Breach while this skill is active". WTF are the reprocussions/ benefits from this going to be?!

thick thunder
#

we dont know the base frequency of orb of storms do we?

static plinth
#

Either that or you reserve 0 life twice and get no benefit

#

Since yknow, 1 life

sharp glade
#

probably summoners will go beidat's will+beidat's gaze+mom

static plinth
sharp glade
#

they go up to 50% qual now

proven quest
#

I don't think they do that anymore

static plinth
long pebble
sharp glade
#

mom might be the play for summoners

static plinth
#

Probably nothing important, then

sharp glade
#

since they dont need to spend much

sterile latch
fleet blaze
#

WHAT IS A BIG STRONG SPELL THAT HAS A LONG COOLDOWN? PLZ RESPOND

long pebble
proven quest
static plinth
#

(or rather we dont know about any)

thorny path
#

so far*

woven sinew
#

Ah spell

fleet blaze
#

something chromie can make use of to time warp back and then BIG DAMAGE SPELL LONG COOLDOWN again

fervent dagger
#

Does anyone know if Decaying Hex can stack?

cinder cedar
long pebble
thick thunder
#

is inevitable critical the only % crit chance support gem?

snow sierra
#

blood mage has anti synergie with minions, so there is that

cinder cedar
static plinth
long pebble
snow sierra
#

Is there a minion spell with a huge cooldown ?

silent prawn
long pebble
candid garnet
#

is there any poe 2 tree out or is it the same as poe 1 tree?

static plinth
#

Oh booo there's a node locked behind the chest on Warrior

cinder cedar
long pebble
candid garnet
#

thanks!

cinder cedar
snow sierra
#

At the moment my plan gos for minion Chronomancer :P, assuming minions dont need a acendency now to be viable and chronomancer seems to have some notes that seem good no matter what

silent prawn
static plinth
#

If you use a slam, Titan isnt your only choice. If you use minions, Necromancer or Guardian were basically your only choices

#

Its a consequence of your stats not impacting minions

cinder cedar
granite tulip
#

Cast on Critical with Eye of Winter and Frostbolt, am I cooked or cooking? For applying Critical Weakness and Chilled.

static plinth
candid garnet
#

guys was there any node in poe 1 to convert either full physical into chaos damage or elemental dmg to chaos damage?

#

or any item etc

proven quest
#

Watching Jungroan video, and I thought of something. I am the Thunder/Blizzard with cast on shock/ freeze eye of winter might go really hard. Free application of critical weakness and picks up the ground affect applying it to nearby enemies

static plinth
#

20% more damage and AoE does not a slam ascendancy make

#

Earthbreaker is REALLY good, but its not "go Titan or be worthless" good

#

And the rest of the ascendancy isnt even limited to slams

royal badge
#

What will be stronger? Flicker Deadeye or Point Blank Deadeye?

ancient geyser
#

does someone know how the energy system works in poe2? if i'm using cast on crit for example, and i'm firing a skill that shoots 10 projectiles and i crit, am i generating 10 energy because i crit or am i generating 100 energy because i crit 10 times?

umbral pier
proven quest
cinder cedar
rigid shale
#

noob question here , is there a build planner in game or somewhere ? or do we just remember or write it down on paper

snow sierra
#

Bloodmage seem to be a insane melee build to me

umbral pier
#

amazon witch

snow sierra
#

Its kinda set what you pick, but seems very strong but limited

royal badge
#

Oh wait

#

Duh nvm

umbral pier
royal badge
#

Deadeye doesnt double power charge consumption, only frenzy

#

Welp pb shotgunner it is

proper pagoda
#

Why does comet say +1 second to cast time. So you can trigger it based off 100 energy but functionally it takes 2s to cast?

ancient geyser
proven quest
static plinth
royal badge
#

Is Rhoa mount for bows gonna be a real thing or a meme?

lofty grotto
#

meme, stonger skills dismount you

umbral pier
thorny path
#

real thing

thorny path
silent prawn
#

charge attacks probably

icy turtle
#

stonger be stongin

lofty grotto
#

any other than standard shooting animation

proven quest
lofty grotto
#

like jumps, leaps, charges etc.

fast slate
#

does any of this work with totems?

royal badge
#

What about normal, non-charged/channel/movement skills like lightning arrow? Won’t we be able to shoot and ride rhoa?

umbral pier
umbral pier
thorny path
#

only bow attacks that do a flip are Escape Shot and the poison one I forget the name of

royal badge
#

Does the rhoa mount scale with move speed bonuses? If so, it’s rhoa meta

thorny path
#

It's just your own movespeed I think

snow sierra
#

Can someone explain what "Recoup Effects instead occur over 4 seconds" means on the Chrono and why is it good ?

static plinth
#

In 1 its 4 seconds that can be reduced to 3

umbral pier
lofty grotto
#

those will dismount you

static plinth
cinder cedar
proper pagoda
#

Is overcharge support actually unusable as storm weaver? This would give you 100 percent less duration of shock?

snow sierra
#

Ah and in poe 2 its like 6 seconds so i would get the hp back faster

static plinth
proper pagoda
static plinth
#

Its still probably borderline unusable, though

proper pagoda
#

Yeah lol. Sad. Overcharge is basically as good as ur ascend

#

Kinda bricks stormweaver a bit

thorny path
#

or maybe just build shock duration

proper pagoda
#

Default shock is 2s?

thorny path
#

idk

proper pagoda
#

Even if it's 4s u need insane duration to be usable

static plinth
#

Stormfire could help

proper pagoda
#

True yeah

olive tide
#

with less shock duration, enervation support might generate a ton of mana.. idk tho

proven quest
distant dome
#

Cast on critical + eye of winter + trick shot + 65% pierce… might run out of mana from it sustain proccing itself? D:

proper pagoda
#

I wonder what the best skill to shock will be

velvet blade
#

Do we know the exact armour calculation for poe2?

cinder cedar
thorny path
#

no

graceful stag
#

I'm having trouble understanding infernalist what does demon flame stacks give u

#

Doesn't say lmao

distant dome
umbral pier
static plinth
graceful stag
static plinth
#

Increased

proven quest
graceful stag
#

Eternal youth to offset it could be fucking funny I just don't know if ES recharge would effect the life

distant dome
#

Does bleed stack in PoE 2? With my main damage being lots of small hits from bonestorm, bleed looks kinda meh if it doesn’t (for bonestoem)

cinder cedar
static plinth
#

The main slam of choice ive seen is Sunder which gets guaranteed crits on broken armour

graceful stag
distant dome
snow sierra
#

we cant rly say whats better or worse, but we can say bloodmage could be a good pick for melee too

graceful stag
thorny crater
#

do y'all think grenade deadeye will be a good pick?

cinder cedar
rustic arrow
#

do we know if warcrays work for totems?

static plinth
hoary plover
sterile latch
#

"just okay" pretty sure is why everyone wants deadeye

static plinth
#

Current plan is Altered, ES Beidat, Demon Form, and the crit one

hoary plover
static plinth
#

Tailwind not being action speed is very whatever

thorny crater
#

does action speed still exist?

fathom vale
#

blood mage could at least have blood offering right? Something related to sacrificing minions

winter dagger
#

Thoughts on going Stormweaver to make a Magic Archer? If Cast on Crit is in the Game shouldnt be possibl to cast Elemental Storm via my arrow skills?

sterile latch
hoary plover
#

im not going grenades but i've been very unsure on deadeye for my own build.
the proj is big, but FS/PB dont apply to me (as far as I know), frenzies seem hard to generate, and tailwind is kinda whatever.
but I have no idea how to math out all witchunter's little buffs to really compare them

thorny path
thorny crater
coral spoke
#

I'm thinking of going recoup with chronomancer. Looks like 54% damage taken is recouped, with 30% physical recouped on top. Seems great but not much chatter here. Am I overestimating this approach being tanky?

sterile latch
hoary plover
#

we dodgesouls now

velvet blade
#

Do we know if corrupting blood counts as bleeding?

thorny path
#

yea bro like 150% increased evasion? just dont get hit bro wtf ur ranged bro git gud bro

snow sierra
#

Recoup still dos not prevent you from beeing onehit 😉

winter dagger
velvet blade
#

Yeeeah, defensive strategies that require you to take damage to work probably shouldn't be your main defense

thorny crater
graceful stag
winter dagger
#

ah, gotchya, dissapointing

coral spoke
candid garnet
#

u think a chayula monk volcanic fissure slam build with convert full phys/fire to chaos with blackflame etc will be any decent guys ?

graceful stag
snow sierra
#

So the poe version of just dodge bro you dont need more then 1 hp

olive tide
#

when chonk spawns a blackflame behind something and you cant get to it to extend your buff, its gonna feel bad

snow sierra
#

Still i dont think recoup would be a good primary defense, if you have something that makes sure you dont get onehit it can be a good secondary defense

#

but i might be wrong here and poe1 like random onehits do not happen in poe2 and everything hardhitting can be dodge but doubt it since monster crits are still in the game

fresh dirge
#

what ascendancies are considered to be the most busted?

#

with the available info

snow sierra
#

my money is on bloodmage with archmage but who knows

midnight bolt
fresh dirge
#

what does blood mage want to use spirit for, minions or auras?

frigid hill
#

depends on what ur doing with the ascendancy

midnight bolt
#

i dont think u ever want to go minions on blood mage, but who knows

snow sierra
#

depends on the build but i doubt minions

frigid hill
#

we also have not seen all the ways we can reserve spirit yet

fresh dirge
#

but she will get a lot of minion buffs from the tree even if not aiming for them right

snow sierra
#

you dont have to get those ?

frigid hill
#

not really

fresh dirge
#

i thought they often come with spell dmg

midnight bolt
#

no

fresh dirge
#

and such

frigid hill
#

well yea, early nodes give both

#

but u dont have to use both

midnight bolt
#

its only few nodes on start

frigid hill
#

in poe you kind of have to specialize, doing a lot of different things at once is vry hard to scale

fresh dirge
#

i see ok

snow sierra
#

And bloodmage and minions dosnt seem to vibe atleast from what i see in the acendancy

#

considering minions are killstealing 😉

signal ingot
#

Does anyone know exactly how 'Slow' works in PoE2? I assume it is action speed reduction since its on Temp Chains. However, is it capped? And is curse effect reduced on bosses like it was prior to a change in PoE1?

#

(In case this was answered in an interview somewhere)

snow sierra
#

i think curse now have a extra line for what they do on bosses

#

There was one shown in the inverviews and it was a smaller effect

violet yarrow
#

Dot damage can't crit right? If we don't know about that in poe2 then what about in poe1?

snow sierra
#

but for slow no clue

signal ingot
#

If a DoT is derived from a hit like ignite in PoE 1

#

then the bigger hit of a crit will mean more DoT

frigid hill
signal ingot
#

the DoT itself doesnt crit though

#

but 1 has Perfect Agony which kinda sorta links crit and DoT

violet yarrow
#

thanks

icy turtle
signal ingot
#

Crit and giant damage

#

Archmage eating ur life sounds spooky though

snow sierra
#

Archmage now scales of max mana, but the mana cost is the problem, bloodmage can just put the gem in to cast with life and its solved, then there is the crit dmg etc

midnight bolt
#

unless u take blood magic you pay archmage with mana

signal ingot
#

I could see it going either way

#

like in 1

#

if I have + or - additional mana cost of a skill

distant dome
#

does this only trigger once per enemy that has broken armor?

signal ingot
#

that is treated as base cost by other modifiers

icy turtle
#

I see. so if you take blood magic then archmage scales based off your hp instead?

signal ingot
#

As opposed to like

#

a support with 150% cost multiplier which is not

#

Requires a test

snow sierra
#

No not blood magic, the gem because you want your mana form MoM 😛

frigid hill
midnight bolt
snow sierra
#

i dont rember that the support gem is called , there is one that the skill now cost life and not mana

#

And archemage dmg scaling seems very good

signal ingot
#

Yeah I meant more that despite saying "additional" the change from that mod is fed into multipliers. I'm not sure archmage will apply before blood mage cost but I wouldn't be sure it won't either

snow sierra
#

yes

icy turtle
#

but you'll still have 75% mana cost

snow sierra
#

ive seen it with 100% mana cost

#

maybe it changed

midnight bolt
snow sierra
#

Good to know, my last info was that there is a mana issue to solve atm

icy turtle
#

I think blood magic is going to be a staple

midnight bolt
frigid hill
#

Do we have info on minion respawn mechanics anywhere?

urban lodge
#

Titan or Warbringer?

midnight bolt
#

warbringer!

snow sierra
#

what do you mean by that you get one minion every 7 seconds atleast thats the info i did hear

midnight bolt
#

jade form+totems ez bossing

frigid hill
#

both look fine

snow sierra
#

And there are notes to reduce it

silent prawn
frigid hill
silent prawn
#

Basically worst case a chain reaction happens and all minions die one after the other just before 7 seconds and you are without minions.

frigid hill
#

my plan is to blow them up all at once, so no worries there

silent prawn
#

But all minions respawn at the same time

frigid hill
#

is 4 from the minions that revive others, otherwise it's all 7 seconds?

silent prawn
#

Honestly not sure. Probably needs to be tested at EA

frigid hill
#

hmm okay, thanks

snow sierra
#

where did you get the all at once respawn info ?

silent prawn
#

Visible in the witch video

fleet blaze
#

this is a silly question. i dont really watch streamers don't really support twitch but id like to watch someone who's very good at build making about a week after launch to see their ideas. think i followed a tunafish build one and a fungun build once.

silent prawn
#

There will be soo many build Guides after one week. Honestly not sure who to recommend. Just keep your eyes on the YouTube feed.

snow sierra
#

And alot of them will be a bad build in a good video to be the first

proven quest
fleet blaze
#

ive been baited by a ton of PoB baits in POE1

silent prawn
#

Zizaran for general builds, ghazzy for minion

hoary plover
#

zizaran and mathil are my go-to's, sometimes tripolarbear

silent prawn
#

Phox for Righteous fire, as soon as it exists. Mage fist for flicker strike, not sure if he creates a guide tho

hoary plover
#

aer0 has cool ideas but i look at him more for inspiration rather than something to follow

fleet blaze
#

ty

graceful stag
#

does this mean my elemental stuff can bleed? or that it merely "contributes" if reading this properly that 10% + whatever elemental i have would essentially mean all my elemental applies bleed

idk if im reading this wrong could use help

#

am i misreading something

olive tide
#

i dont think we know for sure what contributes means

frigid hill
#

without the node if u deal 100 phys and 50 fire ur bleed is only based on the phys, with the node the bleed would be based on the combined damage

snow sierra
#

ye most ppl speculate that it only adds and you need the bleed support to make a bleed build work, and bleed support now works on spells

frail jay
candid garnet
#

are there new active skill gems with the new classes guys ? and is there any place we can see what skill gems each class starts with ?

graceful stag
#

ok ty

frail jay
#

The infernalist node says all damage contributes to ignite chance because ignite chance is based on the damage, bleed chance is based on things like support gems and passive nodes and item mods

frigid hill
#

at the top there's Character Class, where u can switch what ur looking at

devout dew
#

anyone here going with Witch - into - Infernalist

candid garnet
#

thanks

frigid hill
devout dew
#

Kirvin can i have ur opinion on 1 thing

frail jay
#

Sure

devout dew
#

Minion but leaning towards Infernalist at Ascendancy

#

does this look good as a start

frail jay
#

Yeah Infernalist is likely the best minion ascendancy by a lot

frigid hill
#

spectre only? hmm

snow sierra
#

ppl speculate that gemling could be better in endgame

frail jay
#

Not really, only minion there being Spectre seems odd especially when we have 0 idea what spectres will actually be good at the start

eternal pilot
#

I find it kinda weird how people think Imploding Impacts is going to be op without even understanding what "Break armour" does? Its clearly not armour penetration?

devout dew
#

so what should i change if anything

frigid hill
devout dew
#

i want to be more fire/ignite focused

#

but minions also

eternal pilot
frigid hill
#

correct

frail jay
eternal pilot
#

We dont know the exact effect of what happens when the monster gets the state "armour broken" if I put it like that

alpine vigil
#

fully broken?

frigid hill
#

don't we? their physical damage reduction becomes 0, no?

alpine vigil
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it's probably just "physical exposure" but in flat values

snow sierra
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Gem qualtity and level is very important for minions too atleast in poe 1

alpine vigil
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and there's special allowed mechanics when it reaches 0

eternal pilot
frail jay
# devout dew so what should i change if anything

Minions is only of the things I've been considering starting. I think the strongest setup is either going to be just getting a bunch of high dps hitting minions to roll over stuff like a PoE1 build, or finding a large tanky minion and putting infernal legion + meat shield on it and blowing them up with the skeletal arsonist active (which you can scale separately and not get a downside from meatshield on the explosion). You can probably get very big ignites from the arsonist active too.

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Infernal Legion is basically RF, but on a minion

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eternal pilot
alpine vigil
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What threshold?

frigid hill
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u break away armour, when it hits 0, their armour is broken is my understanding

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLP1oODaZTE&t=790s ziggy talks about it a bit here, if that helps

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so @frail jay that image i showed u - how would i go about fixing it

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frigid hill
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yea

eternal pilot
alpine vigil
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The values are flat, you can see them on bosses

hidden siren
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any site with the new passive tree up yet?

alpine vigil
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It's not like freeze where there's a % sign during buildup

eternal pilot
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Ooh its NOT a percentage

hidden siren
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pretty sure when u break armor u deal a large amount of damage then it resets the armor

frigid hill
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only if u "consume" their broken armour afaik

alpine vigil
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Yeah only if specified

frigid hill
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thru skills or supports

frail jay
# devout dew so <@137603604105134080> that image i showed u - how would i go about fixing it

Well I'm not really sure what's going to be best, mainly because idk how much spirit we're going to have at what point and how much spirit minions cost. I think if you have a good spectre you can put infernal legion + meat shield on it and then I would also run arsonists to detonate them, and maybe cleric for faster resurrection. You can run Unearth to get some extra temp minions as meatshields. I wouldn't run Blasphemy early it's a big spirit hog. Cast on Ignite also isn't going to really do anything for you there.

hidden siren
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so would it be better to not fully break it

alpine vigil
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"Fully Broken Armour" is a keyword it seems, looks like when the enemy armour reaches 0, then you can break it

frigid hill
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otherwise their armour is broken for a certain amount of time, then it resets

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frigid hill
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u can extend the time the armour is broken thru passive skills

long trail
eternal pilot
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yeah there are nodes that extend the time the armour is broken

frigid hill
serene locust
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hey, quite new to poe and planning to start as invoker on friday. does someone maybe know if evasion rate in general is also "active" while energy shield is still up? Furthermore the physical damage reduction of "..and Protect me from Harm" from the ascendancy tree will only count for damage hitting life points or also also while energy shield up?

dawn bison
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anyone know if there's a source for shock being "more damage taken" rather than additive "increased damage taken"?

frail jay
dawn bison
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or if there's a shock tooltip screenshot floating around

thin basin
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Bloodmage

alpine vigil
# frigid hill

I think this is for all stacks, which makes it interesting in that it's not as dumb as it being infinite, but you can refresh it

shy rune
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got any mega nerds here? I've a question

alpine vigil
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Unless you can't apply "0 armour break" when at max (except TitanWarbringer)

frigid hill
frail jay
eternal pilot
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Then I actually think the Warbringer node is either negative capped at a percantage of the bosses total armor or that only the attack that triggers the fully broken armour goes into the negative

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snow sierra
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the bleed support works on everything now

dawn bison
silent prawn
shy rune
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Does the dmg removed by decimating strike counts towards concentration damage

frail jay
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frigid hill
shy rune
frail jay
alpine vigil
frail jay
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Bleed Ignite Flameblast thonk

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pure eagle
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any1 got a bow build i can borrow?

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dawn bison
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but as a stat it's additive with, for example, wither

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and i want to know if now shock is not "increased damage taken" anymore, because that's what i've heard around

shy rune
dawn bison
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because in the acse of someone already stacking wither, shock is essentially half effectiveness

brave canopy
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I'm really wanting to dual wield 2h weaps, what class/ascendancy looks best for it? I'm torn looking at all of the possibilities.

alpine vigil
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If it's like poe1, it'll say ailments and dots are not hits for instance

lyric vessel
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where are you huys getting the passive skill tree?

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shy rune
eternal pilot
brave canopy
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I'm the type of player that will even go witch and dw2h just to see if I can make it work

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thick thunder
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anyone know which is correct? left is poe2skills right is poedb

frigid hill
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bloodmage sunder Bloodmage

dawn bison
frigid hill
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dawn bison
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bruh

shy rune
alpine vigil
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Therefore it is multiplicative with your increased damage

devout dew
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@frail jay so u say Arsonists over Brutes and Warriors?

dawn bison
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you're misunderstanding what i'm actually asking

eternal pilot
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Doesnt bloodmage require crit for the blood orbs? (on bosses) thats probably going to be kinda annoying while meeting the 2h str reqs and shit

frigid hill
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sunder guaranteed crit Bloodmage

brave canopy
devout dew
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@frail jay ??

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dusty bear
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do yall think trying to play a skill around charges (quarterstaff power charge stuff or the frenzy charge stuff) would be terrible early? haven't been following streams and such

alpine vigil
brave canopy
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Ahh, just for the ea atm

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dusty bear
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nah meant like early-endgame

shy rune
alpine vigil
thorny lintel
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how many ascendancy point will we have in poe 2

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in ea

devout dew
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Igneous what are u gonna be playing

alpine vigil
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8, 4 notables

eternal pilot
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8

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dusty bear
brave canopy
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If axe and swords don't drop in ea, what weapons can drop?

shy rune
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witch hunter my beloved

snow sierra
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guys, could it be that bloodmage spawns orbs with minion kills too ? Kinda looks like it here : https://youtu.be/ZpIbaTXJD4g?t=2090

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ppl sleeping on ice shot.. my gear will be cheap

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