2┃build-planning

[plain osprey]

yeah i get that but where can i see the amount of life regen per second, the delay amount etc since those change with other attributes affecting amount regen/regen delay

[dawn spire]

I think the character page is missing a lot of stuff. I don't know if you can see that

[plain osprey]

i'm basically trying to figure out if energy shield regen attributes now affect life regeneration instead

[green elm]

does the %chance for spell kills to fire an additional projectile work on spell totems like dark effigy?

[dawn spire]

it should

[green elm]

awesome thank you!

[fallen comet]

very true! i guess i wll just look around and see what sticks out 🙂 im trying to be less a stickler with guides but theres a lot of information to absorb as a newbie lol

[plain osprey]

oh wow idk how i missed that, tyvm

[night shadow]

can someone please explain? If chill is not a chance and a build up now how this works? anyone knows?

[marsh oar]

Is grenades considered projectiles? ( I'm playing Mercnary and I shoot grenades out of my crossbow. Majority of my talents are in increase projectile damage.)

[humble sedge]

hey guys i just started the game a few hours ago and im a Monk, I started progging up the top side because I thought it would be better but I just got done refunding all my passive skill tree at level 10, any tips on whether I should progress top or botton side?

[tulip pivot]

both mercenary ascendancies seems like meh... any recommendation?
leaning towards legionnaire for skill quality, sounds like extra damage, but idk yet

[quick eagle]

If you didn't play poe 1 I could see how there is a lot to take in.

In general, you want to maximize elemental resistances as much as you can

Get either a lot of HP or a lot of ES + Chaos resistance

Find another form of damage mitigation. Armour, evade, etc

Obviously you can't have all this totally accomplished at level 10, it's just good in general to work towards

As far as damage, early on just do whatever works, even if it isn't your dream build idea. Lots of people like flame wall or totems

Later on, as you get stronger and into your ascendency, you can utilize the tools given to you there for bigger damage.

You can customize more and more later on, but early you just can't be picky. Even if you plan on being a monk with lots of energy shield later, a solid chest armour with HP when you're level 15 will go a LONG way

[cloud field]

look at the skill in the skills menu, it will tell you what things will scale it

[dawn spire]

do these answer your question?

[rancid fractal]

this might be a silly question, but I just got my ascendancy and am wondering, how do I get more ascendancy points?

[quick eagle]

Do the other trials

[fallen comet]

i appreciate the in depth answer! i will keep that in mind as i play 🙂 currently getting my butt kicked by the first act ii boss LOL

[rancid fractal]

Oh, i'll find more trials? so just keep playing until i find them?

[bright heart]

Quick Q - does anyone know how Event Horizon interacts with MoM & Eldritch Battery & Darkness? Is the damage taken directly from life, does Darkness get reserved instead or does it instead do 3% mana dmg?

[manic iron]

How do I upgrade my raging spirits?

[rancid fractal]

the NPC did mention something about coins, so i'm guessing i need to find coins for them

[marsh oar]

Thanks. FOund it. ❤️

[quick eagle]

The most common problem is people rigidly sticking to their build idea from level 1. That is a good way to feel like progress is super slow and to get stuck. It just may be that in the current state of the game, getting HP and fire damage is the best way to clear the first 2 acts.

Definitely just make the best of what you find, and focus more on specialization and customization later when you have more options. If you are a warrior and find a great bow, start shooting people anyway

[dawn spire]

find a higher tier spirit gem to cut

[limber vapor]

Do we know how many uniques are currently in game? is there one per base? or some bases have none still

[dire inlet]

Stormweaver, Sparc, No crit gem, full glascannon -> Staff or Wand + Focus?
I See more Cast Speed mods on wands, so im playing W+F rn.
Any other experiences from you Guys?

[dawn spire]

I highly doubt all bases have one. Poe1 doesn't even have a unique for every base, I think

[hushed flame]

Any Chalupa Monks and how has it been if so?

[teal sail]

Im a monk also using some elemental skills, mixed between shock/frost - is splitting like that gimping myself?

[manic iron]

How do I engrave it on raging spirits? I don’t see it when I right click on my uncut gem.

[quick eagle]

I can't think of any bases in poe 1 without a unique

[dawn spire]

there are three types of uncut gems; skill, support, and spirit. Raging spirits is a spirit gem. Uncut spirit gems are kinda rare

[manic iron]

I understand. Thanks for the explanation.

[tawny pagoda]

Venom draught important pick or just pick one?

[dawn spire]

it's pretty unimpactful imo

[night shadow]

Ty for answer, but I still don't understand fully. The Ailments are all over the place now. We have 3 types from what I see:

1. Ailments with chance. Shock for example.
2. Ailments with Buildup. Freeze for example.
3. Ailments with potency. Chill for example.

from what I'm reading in the talent tree 10% increase chance to inflict Ailments should only apply to case 1.

Do you have any formula on how they are calculated? I will like to understand them.

[short swan]

is there somewhere I can view which items can have which stats? for example on which types of items can I get attack speed stats on

[dawn spire]

no formulae as far as I know. I think the %chance nodes for ailments simply wouldn't do anything for chill, unless they're converted to magnitude under the hood

[dawn spire]

you can try poe2db.tw but it's based on datamining and could be wrong

[umbral pier]

Weapons and gloves only iirc

[night shadow]

that was also my assumtion, also they will not do anything to freeze because freeze is a build up now, no more chacne. Right?

[short swan]

ty

[gritty zinc]

So, thoughts on spark with drenched and and stormbreaker ? Hitting all the elemental.ailments with flamewall

[swift sentinel]

interesting that uniques can vary in level req, was poe1 like that too? can't remember

[dawn spire]

I believe that's correct, yes

[dawn spire]

it was

[umbral pier]

Well I think it's better, freeze doesn't do anything unless frozen, and I like knowing when they will get frozen, it synergizes with other skills

[boreal pollen]

how do i increase srs dmg when its not a spell or dmg?

i have them paired w firewall

[dawn spire]

if you can do enough damage to actually chill and ignite, I don't see why not

[dawn spire]

they're minions, so minion-specific mods will help. Also using support gems with them can help

[night shadow]

Not saying is not better, I also like it, but understanding how the contribution is calculated is good to know, so you can plan your passive tree.

[boreal pollen]

oh my bad i didnt see the minion tag for some reason

[umbral pier]

Shouldn't it get your minion buff and also the support gems of the fire skill as well?

[minor rock]

is the mana leech stuff for monk not working?

[snow mist]

How do you unlock more ascendancies?

[boreal pollen]

idk im confused of how it works

[umbral pier]

I think you are right, chance is only for the random ones like shock, buildup is for the cc, like electrocute and freeze

[devout dew]

anyone here Mercenary

[umbral pier]

Don't you notice the change when you add a different support?

[umbral pier]

Me

Lvl 30 though haha

[boreal pollen]

my question is if i get focus (item type) that has increased spell damage or spell physical damage or fire damage if it actually increases srs dmg

[winter dagger]

Lads any tips for making a Physical/Bleed Bow build? would like main damage to come from those two sources and avoid other elements.

[dawn spire]

none of that will affect srs damage

[boreal pollen]

:(

[dawn spire]

minions only benefit from minion-specific mods or things that affect allies

[umbral pier]

No, they are minions, minions are just affected by minion stuff

[boreal pollen]

ye focus dont have minion suffixes

thanks everyone ^^

[novel pine]

Does anyone know how energy shield recoup works with eldritch battery?

[upbeat crow]

guys waht do i put my attributes in int, str or dex? for mercernary

[dawn spire]

whatever you need to equip your gems/gear

[deft mirage]

Jamanra end of act 2 has far too much health -_-

[upbeat crow]

i see ty man

[dawn spire]

not for lightning rod + orb of storms chronomancer (:

[deft mirage]

I'm using arc and orb with some other stuff

[umbral pier]

No Eldritch battery in this game afaik

[misty olive]

yoyo, have a question for gas grenade, if I have multi proj and the gas clouds connect with each other, does the detonation count as only 1 explosion?

[deft mirage]

my build is probably scuffed

[marble slate]

Are there any special interactions with lightning? like cold + fragmentation, or poison + fire

[umbral pier]

Gear is very important now in low levels, get better stuff

[novel pine]

It's a keystone on the top right, states: "Converts all energy shield to mana"

[deft mirage]

I mean you say get better stuff but nothing really drops

[umbral pier]

Huh, I thought they had gotten rid of it, my bad

[grave elk]

im thinking about doing a support build with a couple friends, any ideas on what i can do? i was looking at sorceress chronomancer + Curse scaling temp chains?

[upbeat crow]

question if i get a rare gear at like lv12 and now im getter those blue gear at lvl 16 should i change my gear?

[short swan]

if the stats are better then change

[umbral pier]

Go gemling legionnaire and get all the auras and buffs

[crude hamlet]

Oh dang that's booty

[dawn spire]

that can be done alongside a normal-ass cold spell build, too. Freeze/chill + chrono debuff + temp chains looks hella good

[upbeat crow]

ok ty

[grave elk]

i just dont know what buffs are in the game that would be good with this

[neon scaffold]

do you guys think demon form infernalist and ice spells would be good? Wanted to go DF + SRS but it doesn't work .

[umbral pier]

Yeah change constantly, 1 or 2 levels could give you a big upgrade

[umbral pier]

With what? Just get them all

[grave elk]

yah thats what i was thinking, possibly doing something with shock to increase damages, but that seems like it would be alot harder than spamming cold skills

[upbeat crow]

thx

[grave elk]

btw do we know if the gemling legionare less cost of skills reduces spirit?

[umbral pier]

I dunno, sorry, I would guess no

It's not a cost but reservation

[grave elk]

rough thanks though

[devout dew]

for Mercenary - which of these 2 builds is the "go-to" ??? ----

[fair scarab]

question, im a lightning sorceress lvl 30, if i wanna switch to fire or cold, do i need to do anything other than lvling my other skills and redo the tree.. instead of making a new character?

[umbral pier]

No proven builds yet bro, no one's really knows

[glacial edge]

How do you make Cast On spells work?

[polar hull]

anyone have an acolyte of chayula build? really struggling and regret my ascendency

[umbral pier]

You can do that for sure, you have weapon specialization points if you want to have 2 builds

Well not really 2 builds, 1 build with tweaks per weapon

[fair scarab]

awesome, thank you!

[quaint python]

best early defenses for sorc? talkin < lvl 20

[umbral pier]

Energy shield, her as much as you can

[quaint python]

cool thanks

[dawn spire]

nothing beats life and resistances on gear. I have to big disagree on energy shield being good

once it runs out, you have basically no way to get it back

[tulip pivot]

does this mean i can use elemental gems on my mercenary based on dexterity instead of intel?

[dawn spire]

yes

[quaint python]

appreciate the insight

[valid minnow]

where can i find a Monk guide

[last patio]

it seems like critical hit chance nodes don't or barely effect crit chance on skills at all!?

[plain cloud]

Is there a website to check the skill videos of each class similar to the video from in-game ? I'd love to watch most of them but no idea where to find them

[dawn spire]

youtube, maxroll, or mobalytics

[last patio]

I've picked up just about 3/5ths of all crit chance nodes and I still have skills with only 10% crit chance

highest is 17%

like why can't crit chance be = to what the nodes say we'll get, this shit is a headache

[dawn spire]

crit is hard to get.

"increased crit chance" nodes only offer bonuses based on your base crit chance. Ie, if you have a skill with 5% base crit and get 100% increased crit chance on the tree, you'll have 10% crit chance overall

also your base crit sounds really low

[quaint python]

is it multiplicative increase? like base * (1 + nodemulti)

[cloud field]

Thinking of swapping from lightning sorc to cold. The comet cast on freeze shit looks so strong compared to this lmao

[last patio]

how do I raise base crit?

[dawn spire]

if you're using a spell, I don't know. If you're using a weapon, you can find a weapon with crit chance on it

[last patio]

also where can I read about all this stuff?

[dawn spire]

hold alt and hover over keywords

[last patio]

I really wish I wouldn't have chased after every crit chance node. They're effectively trash

[fair scarab]

any other use for scroll of wisdom other than identifying parts?

[dawn spire]

I mean, crits are really weak early and really strong later on

[last patio]

they don't explain shit about base crit's interaction with node crit

hmm ok

I use the hover/alt stuff constantly and it's always very vague and basic information

it's been next to useless

[keen dagger]

The realization of how few build options there actually are is really disappointing

[dawn spire]

third paragraph of the "critical hits" keyword

[last patio]

ok ty

[swift estuary]

Minion damage question:

Is the detonation ability from SRS increased by minion damage or fire damage?

[keen dagger]

Weapons outside of your class aren't accessible because they're too far on the passive tree and other options are limited by the available skill gems + stat requirements further limit options

[dawn spire]

I believe minion damage affects it. Not sure about fire

[dawn spire]

I disagree so much with this statement. I'm having massive success with bow chronomancer

[keen dagger]

Are you in maps?

[dawn spire]

not yet

[crude hamlet]

Is ball lighting bad or am I missing something. Sitting side the tint circle just means I get mobbed

[dawn spire]

but there are useful nodes all over

[quartz wolf]

does anyone know the default range for chaining? is it like 6 meters?

[dawn spire]

hold alt over the chain keyword

[cloud field]

I heard ball lightning kinda bad until like, 4l and to stick with spark, which is what I'm doing atm

[last patio]

I never thought I'd miss socket/links in gear, always fun to get those little jackpot moments. If they just took classic poe and gave it poe2's combat and bosses the game would be fantastic

[dawn spire]

@quartz wolf

[icy oyster]

no im going to ask somewhere else again. gonna see if other built in skills

[last patio]

I wasn't expecting the game to be on rails to THIS extent. But that said, I'm still early in >>

[quartz wolf]

ahhhh okay thank you i’m not home to see for myself

[dawn spire]

I'm using temporal rift and it naturally raised to 3 sometime in act 3, I think.

[sage sorrel]

guys, anyone can confirm blood mage leech is buggged?

[valid minnow]

i checked max roll for monk guide but didnt see anything... should i be focusing on enegery shield, armor, or evasion?

[icy oyster]

thanks Byron, very helpful

[dawn spire]

none of those, imo. life and resists on gear is way more important. As for the tree, it really depends. early on I don;t know how effective any of those are

movement speed on boots is also a godsend

[icy oyster]

I thought that might be the case but I hadn't gotten far enough. Ive just finished the trial of chaos and still havent it

@abstract magnet

[keen dagger]

I wanted to do Invoker CoC/CoS, but shocking requires big lightning hits, so I need fast attack + lightning conversion, and the only skills with that are on Quarterstaff. But then I also need to be ranged because Monk can't melee for clear, which means that I need to use Charged Staff. Which means that I need to stack power charges. Which means that I'm forced to path for power charges

[sage light]

will an attack gem that "converts 80% of physical damage to lightning damage" convert the phys damage that is on my weapon stats?

[warped bone]

Monks who use Glacial Cascade, how are you freezing bosses? I snagged Glaciation for more freeze build and by the time I stack enough freeze the boss is dead..

[pearl sluice]

worth the price?im in act 1 ruthless

[woven patrol]

What makes a build good at fighting bosses? That was what looked the most fun to me in the trailer

[pearl sluice]

most of my skills are projectiles

[worthy cliff]

Anyone want to trade my war banner spirit gem for herald of thunder spirit gem?

[woven patrol]

Generally like spellcasters and damage over time based builds

[dawn spire]

yes. 80% of all physical you do (mostly from your weapon in most cases) is converted

[dawn spire]

it's very early so we don't know what's best, but being able to survive helps a lot

[orchid hatch]

Surviveabilty very important in boss fights unless you can just BURN something down.

[umbral pier]

does anyone know if proj damage works on grenade explosions?

[gentle wedge]

Is there blasphemy support in poe2? Dunno how to check

[umbral pier]

there is

[gentle wedge]

Thanks!

[dreamy drift]

hey guys, new to Poe. Im curious if this skill does what i think it does? if i Freeze something, then blow up that freezed target, my crossbow reloads automatically?

[dawn spire]

if it says projectile, it's most likely yes

[heady flower]

I upgraded Quality of my staff, but my skill didn‘t get any Bonus, what did I do wrong?

[vagrant plinth]

Does this give a skill the chance to shock or does the skill have to innately have shock to be effected by it?

[dawn spire]

it doubles whatever shock chance it originally has

[vagrant plinth]

damn

[orchid hatch]

Pretty sure all lightning spells have a chance to shock built in.

[fleet blaze]

My brother is completely new to POE he's playing a Warrior on POE2 and he's lvl 17. I'm watching his stream and his damage is not consistent. Can anyone recommend a user friendly low level warrior build? Or explain what the skill combo is for warrior?

[hoary plover]

all elemental damage inherently has a chance for ailments as a function of hit damage vs enemy ailment threshold

[heady flower]

?

[dawn spire]

all elemental hits*

[dawn spire]

hold alt and hover over the quality keyword

[hoary plover]

yes i did say hit damage

[dawn spire]

yeah, true

[humble saffron]

Is there a way to remove the softlock aim? I want to hit the bell, not the dude close to it

[heady flower]

Yes it says gives specific Bonus to Granted skills, but when I Go to the skill the Bonus Shows 0%

[dawn spire]

sadly no

[humble saffron]

Dang

[narrow ermine]

Wait, I might be a moron, but the xbow is a two handed weapon?
It just hit me.

[limpid trout]

does arcane tempo make frost bomb explode sooner?

[dawn spire]

try hovering over the quality on the staff

weapon quality only gives a bonus to that weapon's physical damage

[humble saffron]

I hope they patch it, maybe give the bell higher priority when attacking or something

[trail rampart]

Guys, anyone knows how overkill damage works with culling strike ?

[humble saffron]

It just sucks that I lose time or maybe even my life trying to hit the bell

[heady flower]

No if it‘s a weapon that Grants a skill it gives Bonus to the skill instead

„Equipment that Grant skills Grant a specific Bonus to their skill…“

[silk rapids]

is is true more str = more spirit or no

[dawn spire]

it's possible it's a skill that requires more than 1 quality to show a bonus

[dawn spire]

hold alt over str to see what it does

[timid aurora]

What lvl do i get gas grenade

and how do i put 3 sockets in a skill instead of 2

[heady flower]

So you mean I have to be at x-Quality for a Bonus?

[grave elk]

You need a jewlers orb

[silk rapids]

o only from ascendancy

[dawn spire]

yeah, possibly. Like this staff has 0 to -0.5. I don't think they can do decimals past one, so I'd wager this gets -0.1 every 4 quality

[silk rapids]

o it only does it after a cerain ascendacy

[floral cosmos]

im torn on what to pick

[fleet blaze]

deadeye

[heady flower]

Ok because it has 0 (0-40%) for me and i‘m already on 9 Quality

[dawn spire]

oh. hmm

[timid aurora]

deadey eis a lot more powerful atm

[heady flower]

Could be a bug maybe?

[marsh oar]

https://i.imgur.com/AJJdles.png How does this work? Just skills are 10% better?

[dawn spire]

maybe, what's the weapon?

[worthy cliff]

i have a question, why does my galvanic shard still go up in damage even after moving the lightning infusion gem to herald of thunder?

[orchid hatch]

Does damage to the energy shield happen before or after damage reduction like armor or resistance ?

[dawn spire]

hold alt over a gem to see what it gains from gem quality

[dawn spire]

lightning infusion might not actually be boosting your galvanic shard damage if you have a lot of fire/cold damage

[heady flower]

Voltaic staff, Grants Level 8 Lightning bolt

[worthy cliff]

it is boosting it though

[real kiln]

i was thinking of getting controlled destruction support gem for ARC, will it be an issue if my ARC won't be able to crit?

[worthy cliff]

without lightning infusion:

[dawn spire]

you mean lightning infusion raises the dps of your galvanic shards?

[worthy cliff]

with lightning infusion

im just wondering why when i socket it into herald of thunder, galvanic shard goes up?

[hollow idol]

So the current meta builds are Infernalist Minion and Witchhunter Gas grenades?

[dawn spire]

that's odd. I have no idea

[dusky wigeon]

how dumb is trying a crossbow/shield&mace witchhunter with the weapon master node? Im level 29 and kinda lost in the skill tree

[dawn spire]

if anyone claims to know the meta after 48 hours, I'd give them a weird look

[deep musk]

is wind strike/wind blast any good? wanted to do a wind based monk instead of a physical one

[marsh oar]

it says skill not gem

[sly leaf]

What is the best support gem for Raging Spirits before you have access to Infernal Legion?

[worthy cliff]

side question, the debuff to fire and ice damage in this gem only applies to the skill this gem is socketed to right? it won't debuff all my other fire and ice damage right?

[sly leaf]

Minion Instability won't trigger without Infernal Legion, right?

[dawn spire]

skills come from gems (and also weapons) . So yeah, sorry, press G and hover over any skill with alt to see what quality does (at the bottom)

[heady flower]

Where could I Post this as a possible bug?

[dawn spire]

it can trigger without it. Minions can just take damage from enemies normally and explode

[sly leaf]

I mean for Raging Spirits specifically, since enemies ignore them

[dawn spire]

oh, yeah, probably

[last patio]

effectively the respec tree is just as bad. you can spend gold, but you also have to spend a few hours on gold farming to start over -_-

[dawn spire]

I'd check for something like a bug report forum

[hollow idol]

Why would one choose Bloodmage over Stormweaver for using elemental skills?

Anything that Bloodmage has that benefits spells that would be better?

[orchid current]

more defenses i think

[hollow idol]

The life leeching yeah?

[willow ledge]

anyone playing a chronomancer with the "now and again" node that can help me test something real quick? I'm wondering if the chance to not consume a cooldown works for minion abilities (like the poison cloud from skeleton sniper)

[pale jewel]

Oook so got my third and fourth ascendancy points as infernalist. I already got hellhound but I dont know what I should go for now. Im playing a SRS with Arsonists minions oc, any suggestions?

[formal night]

im stupid for using this gems am i not

[thin basin]

Looks fine?

Get new supports maybe if thats pierce

[dawn spire]

I think those are the single two most OP supports to use with orb of storms. (when paired with lightning rod)

[formal night]

the issue is that they both reduce damage

so is bad vs bosses

[dawn spire]

I used that setup + lightning rod and it carried me through all three acts

[fair scarab]

am i supposed to do anything here? at the statue?

[formal night]

nay

[weary orbit]

are fragmetnation rounds aoe or not?

[dawn spire]

no aoe tag

[weary orbit]

every other ammo has it + the crossbow shot ability itself has too

wtf

[wanton juniper]

What are you warriors doing for single target? I've been pretty much using mace strike over and over for bossing. I tried breaking armor first but it's underwhelming compared to just mace strike forever.

[sudden basalt]

any1 have some recommendations what to put in cast on shock?

[dawn spire]

depends heavily on your build

[sudden basalt]

im running full lightnig stormweaver using mainly ball lightning and spark

[candid hollow]

are all cold casters playing with frost wall and shattered crystal?

[dawn spire]

lightning warp might be hilarious, but idk what would be useful, personally

[sudden basalt]

okay, thanks 🙂

[remote dagger]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but for minion builds, how do you stop enemies from just ignoring your dudes and bumrushing you?

[hollow idol]

Fireball your ice wall

[clear root]

anybody know if Herald of Thunder can shock? I know it can't in 1, but it feels different here

[candid hollow]

but do I have to have shattered crystal?

[hollow idol]

Let me link you to a build In dm

[candid hollow]

I'm not witch

[pearl saddle]

Not sure if this is the place, but are witches kinda funneled into bleed or fire only with current ascendencies?

[turbid sable]

how do you activate elemental invocation? I cant slot in active skill gems (im probably missing something silly)

[dawn spire]

Not necessarily. Infernalist can do basically crit + anything

[remote lagoon]

Just unlocked flameblast on sorc and it's oneshotting everything, worth building around or will it fall off later?

[dawn spire]

what is that skill you're trying to slot in?

[azure maple]

What should my rotation be as blood mage lvl 41 i feel lost momenteraly

[pearl saddle]

I was thinking of doing ice as primary element but doesnt could that even work

[azure maple]

im stuck between going full fire or sticking to physical

[dawn spire]

there are loads of different builds for every ascendancy and every class. There is no set rotation

[hard slate]

whats your chronomancer bow build? seems kinda interesting

[turbid sable]

Wave of frost but I can't slot in anything I think?
buuut I'm just realising I'm an idiot and it says "spells"

[dawn spire]

yes it could. You can go the crit node to the right and bunch of the reservation stuff on the left. Stack ES and go to down

[turbid sable]

so I guess it cant activate attacks, just like poe?

[azure maple]

Any blood mage know if bonestorm is better then firebolt/wall?

[sweet halo]

The more I look at it, the less demon form looks good though

[dawn spire]

wave of frost is an attack
ele invocation can only trigger spells

[turbid sable]

yeah makes sense ty ^^

[dawn spire]

I wasn't saying you need to take demon form tho

you can do basically any ES build with the nodes on the left side

[pearl saddle]

Gotcha, think ill just continue with this and see how it is. Thanks!

[tall valley]

how do i get one of my skills back

[dawn spire]

back from where?

[tall valley]

destroyed

[pulsar cape]

Staggering palm for monk absolutely needs a freaking buff to its a duration.

It needs to be at LEAST 15 seconds.
6 seconds is beyond short

[dawn spire]

find a new uncut gem and remake it

[tall valley]

ah

[dawn spire]

then get duration nodes or link it to a duration support

[tall valley]

do i just store skills i am not using in my satchel

[pulsar cape]

Thats not good enough and you know that

[dawn spire]

I truly don't

I've never use that skill

[sweet halo]

I mean, they do look very good, but we need more gear for it to be good though. In campaign, it's most likely to be feelling underwhelming? Did you try it?

[pulsar cape]

So why speak on it?

😐

[dawn spire]

because I know that adding supports and nodes to increase duration could get it from 6 to 15 seconds

[pulsar cape]

Thats funny

[dawn spire]

..but tru tho, right?

[brazen marlin]

So uh apparently demon form is bugged

and disables srs

It can be reserved and active

[hard mauve]

is sigil of power purely a staff ability? it cannot be a skill gem?

[pulsar cape]

Not for staggering palm it isnt

[thin basin]

If ur struggling try ice wall + fireball

[brazen marlin]

It's really annoying you can have literally everything unreserved and only srs active and it still won't work in demon form for some reason

[dawn spire]

you lost me. Is staggering palm unable to be affected by the duration support and/or skill effect duration nodes?

[brazen marlin]

Like it will show active in skill panel

[dawn spire]

and you can also get more buff duration on you

[sweet halo]

I had srs and demon form, so it works.

[visual wasp]

Q:- wich stats/mechanic scale the Gas Arrow explosion?

[azure maple]

should i full respec fire then?

I'm currently physical

[brazen marlin]

Idk what to tell you I can show a video if you want me to

It's clearly active in the skills tab

[sweet halo]

Do you have a support on your demon form?

[thin basin]

Fire/cold or something like that and crit

And elemental

[brazen marlin]

no

[sweet halo]

I had that issue, and I had weird behavior yesterday with demon form getting interrupted for no apparent reason

[chrome summit]

Does seismic cry have no cooldown if you never heavy stun a target? Like it'd function same as the Warbringer ascendancy node?

[azure maple]

cold aswell? could i just do fire/crit/minion

[hoary plover]

how are all you EB/MoM guys feeling? is it thicc?

[candid hollow]

does that work without shattered crystal passive

[sweet halo]

What is the behavior you observe?

[thin basin]

Theres a suuport gem that decreases ice wall hp

Should be good enough until you struggle to kill then youll need the passive

[left idol]

if you have any projectile skill in your cast on aura it will never proc this, not sure if anyone has already found this out

[fiery wave]

so, is it a bad idea to take like 8 stat nodes to get to a spell damage cluster to get another 55% spell damage?

[candid hollow]

I cant get the passive though

[hollow idol]

Nah you can use the other elements as Bloodmage

[dawn spire]

can't say for sure. It's a lot of math and opportunity cost to calculate

[brazen marlin]

When I enable demon form SRS skulls no longer spawn from any source. Any that were already spawned will fade away.

[chilly mist]

as low level warrior, any passives i should be rushing towards?

[thin basin]

Why not

[candid hollow]

I'm not witch and it's too far

[azure maple]

@thin basinu got this right?

[sweet halo]

Ok, in your gem panel, is the spell still active?

[fiery wave]

alright i was just looking for other users experience on this. so its not out of the question thats good.

[brazen marlin]

can you post videos in here?

[sweet halo]

because shapeshiting deactivates your weapon slot, so if you rely on a fire spell from your staff to spawn them, it may interact I guess?

[brazen marlin]

If so I'll clip it

[pulsar cape]

1. Supports do effect palm
2. Nodes are too far in the tree to make a difference.

[thin basin]

https://youtu.be/H7NtheQo0lI?si=A7KYHvdW88grnSNT

[swift lintel]

Its not out of the question but first glance is it sounds horrible

[azure maple]

thank u

[swift lintel]

Maybe okay if u need the attributes

Or if theres other things u need

But generally pathing 8 points to get to one cluster u only do that if ur build literally doesnt work otherwise

[weary fog]

Holy shit is this busted?

[runic lagoon]

Does anyone know if Raging Spirits is compatable with Skeletal Arsonist?

[pulsar cape]

Using 2 supports for palm gives you roughly 9-10 seconds.

You wont get 15 seconds until your basically in endgame.

[fiery wave]

and then i got another noob question. i found a spell damage stick wit 74% spell damage boost at level 26. i basically went with spell damage, cast speed and minion respawn nodes mainly. playing around bone cage, bonestorm and base skele dudes. is it worth it to try to make that thing work? i would lose all my souls but its almost double damage.

[thin basin]

You can still annoint it but thats kind of endgame, i guess you can try getting enough fiee damage on the fireball to kill it somehow?

[swift lintel]

Sry is this a 1 hander or a 2 hander

[fiery wave]

wait let me check i assumed its 2 hander

[toxic loom]

How does Constant Gale work on Sorc? Is Arcane Surge always active or does it have to proc?

[swift lintel]

And how much spell/physical damage increases do u have atm from tree

[azure maple]

What are Ailments?

[fiery wave]

2 hands

i have i think 60% spell damage and 25% phys

[azure maple]

nvm found it

[fiery wave]

wait i have more

[atomic horizon]

What is the difference between:
x% more Maximum Lightning Damage
and
x% increased Lightning damage

[swift lintel]

Thats pretty mid for phys spell witch as the lightning skills dont work

[fiery wave]

let me check

so the 74% on phys spells is not worth?

[dawn spire]

yeah, holding alt answers most questions. You can also click keywords to pop out the text box and chain the tooltips

[brazen marlin]

https://streamable.com/j3sdat

Clearly just does not work

[dawn spire]

I'm not sure what you mean by this. it's 74% whether it's phys, cold, fire, etc

as long as it's a spell

[swift lintel]

First mod changes the roll range of your base lightning damage to be higher, second one adds on to all your other increased damage and that total multiplies your base damage

[sweet halo]

I was playing with it like 3hours ago

[azure coral]

Does anyone have any decent ideas where to travel after the getting a fair amount of mercenary nodes for plasma blast?

[hollow trail]

I have that weapon. at some point I have to think it is worth to replace? How does weapon damage effect like a lightening ranger build?

[fiery wave]

@swift lintel i got 116% spell damage in tree rn

[swift lintel]

Surely that depends on ur current weapon and whether ur getting much out of ur current setup

[hollow idol]

A mercenary using galvanic shards might be good

[fiery wave]

and like 10 or 25 phys

[hollow cave]

What’s a good first starter to get SSF set up? I’m leaning towards witch SRS

[brazen marlin]

Idk, but that is literally video evidence of it

[atomic horizon]

So getting the "maximum" one is better if we are doing lightning, since it will scale better with the rest of lightning buffs?

Trying to see if I should stretch my build down to that node.

Thank you!

[dawn spire]

that bow can be very very good in the right build, but I'd recommend looking for a replacement

[fiery wave]

alright i just try it, i was just wondering if i can use that weapon and some how still have souls and just dont realize how @swift lintel

thx for help

[hollow cave]

Want to be 100% self sufficient

[hollow trail]

Is it as easy as a rare with higher weapon damage?

[swift lintel]

I mean that depends on numbers and investment to get there, but VERY GENERALLY 1% more maximum lightning damage is better than 1% increased lightning damage yes

[sweet halo]

Your base skelly, if you don't have minions damage and everything, probably aren't going at lot for you.

[swift lintel]

Souls?

[dawn spire]

yeah basically. You can roughly compare dps in the gem window (g)

[thin basin]

When u transform the demon removes ur sceptre 100 spirit do you still have enough spirit afterward for the srs to stay on?

[fiery wave]

spirit

😂

i thought its called soul for some reason

i meant my summon reasource

[hollow trail]

Thanks

[brazen marlin]

look at left panel it's still active

its just not working

[thin basin]

It could be “enabled” as a bug

[brazen marlin]

reservation cost is 30

[sweet halo]

can you un summon all your minions?

[runic lagoon]

Does anyone know if Raging Spirits is compatable with Skeletal Arsonist?

[fiery wave]

i have like 60% minion damage and 30% respawn and i went with the hellhound as first ascendency, i think skelle boys do a decent job taking aggro

tahts the main thing

[swift lintel]

Well if ur using a sceptre atm then u need to evaluate the staff against the sceptre+other hand and what that gives u

[sweet halo]

I'm thinking that it

[atomic horizon]

Thanks, and generally (😉) is lightning penetration more or less DPS than the equivilant %lightning damage increase?

[swift lintel]

More, but its capped

[fiery wave]

alright

[brazen marlin]

They are already unsummoned I hovered over my spirit in the clip. The only thing I even have enabled at all is srs

[swift lintel]

U cant penetrate below 0% resistance in poe2

Mobs have between 0 and 75 resist

[fiery wave]

ill test it, im not involved enough to actually spreadsheet it

[sweet halo]

that's the spirit part that makes me doubt it to be honest.

[fiery wave]

and so far all content has been fairly easy to get through

[swift lintel]

U can see approx. Lighting res in right side of the mob hp bar

[brazen marlin]

?

[bold saffron]

do we only get to have 4 ascendancy points in EA?

[brazen marlin]

130/160 spirit left, and srs is the only thing I have enabled

[swift lintel]

Red lightning bolt is negative, no lightning bolt is zero, grey is more than zero but less than uh 50% i think might be a little higher, and gold is close to 75%

X% pen ignores that much res down to minimum of zero

[fair scarab]

what is weapon passive skill?

[azure maple]

How as a blood mage can i use life instead of mana?

[thin basin]

Try disabling ur other spirit cost does it work?

[bold saffron]

do we only get to have 4 ascendancy points in EA?

[swift lintel]

Yep thats fine and how u should do most things tbh

[swift lintel]

U get 8 nodes, which is 4 big notables

[bold saffron]

how to get more points

i did 2nd trial run and got nothing

[amber latch]

Can you rerun skill gems like skill points cause I have skills I don't use and I would like to upgrade my other skills.

[swift lintel]

3rd point is from either floor 3 of sanctum or uh i think its 8 rooms of ultimatum?

U can pick one

[subtle ibex]

Any1 have any experience with Invoker's Elemental Expression? The thing does literally 0 damage.

[swift lintel]

U need a coin or trial with that amount of rooms/floors first

[brazen marlin]

Here I literally don't know how to show you a better example than this. https://streamable.com/b9j7rv

no weapons equiped only thing enabled is srs

I literally only have 30 spirit to enable anything

[sweet halo]

What you want me to say ? I didn't encounter the bug, some do according to the discussion on witch tips in the help section, so i can't help you

[shell ermine]

Are the starter warrior builds in Mobalytics decent?

[ornate anvil]

Do you guys know the sources for + poison stacks? theres two in the passive tree and double stacks for pathfinder

and +1 in support

any more sources?

im reaching 8 but ive read it could go up to 12

[dusty kiln]

do you all think an "allrounder" kind of build will work?
am a gemling merc
currently pathing directly down, picking up a bunch of stat ups, and 2 handed weapon damage up mainly
my idea is to go pump most into strength, while keeping dex and int up enough to get access to most gear and skills
so i can have a really wide toolbox later to play with when it comes to skill gems, synergies and triggers

[ornate anvil]

tho im not finding any more sources

[atomic horizon]

How much spirit at max level?

[thin basin]

uniques?

[azure maple]

How do i use life instead of mana as blood mage?

for spells

[ornate anvil]

blood magic node

[muted flare]

you guys think malice or +skeletons on sceptor is better?

[azure maple]

what's that a gem?

[frail crystal]

is anyone building infernalist but not investing everything into minion nodes but rather some type of ignite or explosion build?

[ornate anvil]

no its in the tree

[tranquil hearth]

Will active blocking proc this?

[atomic horizon]

Can someone help me understand the diff between these?

[lavish mountain]

im going after a build but i cant find this one in the game anyone knows why?

[ornate anvil]

yea found a glove ty

missing one 1 stack now

[azure maple]

oh

[ornate anvil]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Snakebite

[thin basin]

I wouldnt recommend any convert for full hp cost bloodmage, your spell will cost like 400 hp per cast

[gilded kiln]

can the monk cast spells? like spark?

[ornate anvil]

doesnt double

blood magic turns the mana cost to 0

[thin basin]

It does

They tried it

[ornate anvil]

ah

mb then, dont spec into it

[vestal igloo]

whats a good 2 link sorc skill for early?

[thin basin]

Arc something

And firewall something

[brazen marlin]

When the blood magic on the skill tree is better than the ascendancy

[restive solar]

anyone know why my elemental storms are being created at my feet and not on the target?

[frozen crescent]

whats the best build for Ranger?

[deep harbor]

I get ot gives you the blood orb thing, but it's kinda crazy the first node has such a strong drawback when it coukd be hours till a player could then pickup the spell dmg leech node

[pine mulch]

All

[swift lintel]

Invocation is a manual button push, cast on shock is automatic

[half steppe]

yeo can chaos dots crit? like contagion

[atomic horizon]

I see - is invocation just straight better?

Is there any way to make invocation automatic?

[rugged chasm]

whats the reason to do the campaign a second time? shouldn't you just do endgame stuff

[swift lintel]

I dont believe you can fully automate invocation, no

They just do different things

[hollow trail]

Anyone have a lightening ranger build atm?

[atomic horizon]

Got it, makes sense. Is energy attached to my character, or to the skill?

[swift lintel]

Invocation is more for like okay boss is frozen, press button with all my buffs on it and go ham

Cast on shock just goes off when ur playing normally

[swift lintel]

To the skill, u can build energy on multiple triggers at once i understand

[atomic horizon]

Makes sense!

Can I put the same skills on both of them if I wanted to?

[karmic cargo]

How is lightning deadeye after magnetic salvo nerf?

[lofty grotto]

Biggest takeaway of today:
It's not that your build is shitty. Upgrade your weapon dumass!
Just crafted +1 arrow, 2 slotted, +4 damage types bow and stuff just melts in miliseconds

[jade kindle]

Does anyone have a lightning or ice build that isn't trash, I'm out of ideas

Can't get past the dreadnought

[lofty grotto]

it's vague term lightnining build

what class, what weapon

what you want to do with it

[jade kindle]

sorceress, with minions

using a staff for spirit

[junior stone]

god I wish
I can't even find a good weapon base

[atomic horizon]

How much spirit do we get once we have reached endgame?

[lofty grotto]

started from normal lol

got it on 3rd try

[keen dagger]

It's 100 spirit in Cruel act 3

I wouldn't touch triggers unless you're using them for an effect like Fire Wall

[azure maple]

is this really good should i remove crit chance to get this?

[chilly mist]

as low level warrior, are there any passives i should focus on or rush for? should i balance between dmg and mit or just mainline one or the other?

[lofty grotto]

Orb of Storms + Lightnining Orb melts everyting, super early rank 1 and rank 3 gems

[atomic horizon]

Can you explain why that is the case?

Im thinking of doing a shock trigger build.

[keen dagger]

What are you shocking with? It needs to be a fast + big damage lightning hit

[azure maple]

?

for fireboll

[keen dagger]

If you're Monk, it also needs to be ranged for your primary clear ability

[junior stone]

playing frost and it feels like ass because I don't have a weapon with +skill

[jade kindle]

Lightning orb isn't a level 1-3 skill..?

[keen dagger]

That leaves you with literally one option, Charged Staff, but then that means you need to invest in Power Charges

[radiant yarrow]

for monk, is it better to focus on increased critical strike chance and bonus or increased damage (lightning, ice, elemental, etc)? I don't know what the strike chance will look like in endgame/later but if it's 33%, and has around 250% bonus, it's not better then always doing 150-180% more lightning or ice damage right?

[lofty grotto]

my bad lightining rod

bow rank1 skill

[atomic horizon]

because shock is relative to damage done?

I was thinking of using:

Can you let me know if this is correct assumption:

1. Spark through firewall will ALWAYS ignite, so it stacks fast
2. Spark does low damage, so not much chance to shock

--
To address point 2, I've added all increase chance to shock nodes on passive tree. Will this be enough to trigger shock?

[random summit]

first unique

[keen dagger]

No

[lofty grotto]

very good, sadly low level

[keen dagger]

I have 7 power charge Charged Staff + all shock chance on the tree + 2400 damage and 100% increased shock chance on the last hit of Tempest Flurry and it only shocks a normal white mob maybe 1/5 times

[austere sundial]

I think this is from a sorc.. ice something (upgraded/leveled up)

[lofty grotto]

if skill doesn't have shock boost in the description, if it procs or not is % based rolled.
4% to be exact

[keen dagger]

It's based on damage of the hit according to GGG

[real kiln]

just double checking but when an equipment says "Adds x to x lightning damage to attacks" This does also include spells right?

[keen dagger]

And I'm 99% sure that's right because Falling Thunder always shocks

[sly wasp]

Are there any uniques that'd be good on spark

[chilly mist]

when leveling warrior, should i focus on damage or mitigation?

[lofty grotto]

both

[lucid marsh]

t

[mint violet]

Can conductivity bring electric resist in to negatives if you’re using pen. Or is pen and curse together a waste ?

[lofty grotto]

it can

[real kiln]

also does attack speed not work on spells?

[lucid marsh]

you want cast speed

[atomic horizon]

@keen dagger So spark will not shock really?

[keen dagger]

Unless you're investing in a ton of spell damage

[lavish mountain]

i mean im sorc tho

[lofty grotto]

attack speed - all physical weapons
cast speed - skills with spell keyword
skill speed - both

[remote lagoon]

Is flameblast bait? cant tell if I should stick to it

[dawn spire]

that's a tier 9 skill

[real kiln]

so does the word "attack" always mean physical?

[shrewd lodge]

Ngl mercenary is so good with fragmentation shot, i haven't used any other ability and I'm in act 2 lmao

[dawn spire]

no, hold alt and hover over attack

[lofty grotto]

just wording
you attack with weapon
you cast spells

[dawn spire]

I think you mean all weapons, period, for attack speed

maybe martial

[real kiln]

oh nice i was wondering how we could move our mouse over to those words

[spiral trail]

Question, does crit apply freeze in Poe2? Trying to figure out how to make a cold/freeze build with ranger and I can't quite figure it out.

[dawn spire]

yeah, you can alt+click a word to pop it out into a little window

[spiral trail]

And ice shot doesn't apply freeze but just chill

[dawn spire]

not inherently. But freeze buildup is based on the damage of the hit, so critting builds it faster by way of doing more damage

[spiral trail]

Hmmm

[atomic horizon]

@keen dagger Do I understand this correctly:

ALL spark going through firewall will trigger ignite 100% of the time?

[spiral trail]

So I'd have to build crit to make ice shot be able to freeze then?

[lofty grotto]

which is good thing becouse it stacks for more slowdown magnitude

slap with maim from dex tree

and you got yourself 60% slow

[spiral trail]

Mostly trying to make herald of ice work but for that to work I need to freeze!!!!

It's my main gripe

And so far freezing would work with freezing salvo and escape shot

[slim glacier]

is this portion of the damage scaled with more multipliers?

Detonate Dead

[lofty grotto]

you can spam escape shot and that's all when it comes to bow, also salvo off cooldown

GGG also reworked Iceshot from internal beta

in beta it dealt bonus damage to frozen targets

[keen dagger]

I don't think so? Fire Wall ignites, projectiles just get extra fire damage

Also you only get energy once per skill use

So e.g. a bunch of sparks igniting only gives energy once

[thin basin]

Yes should scale with phys spell dmg

[timid aurora]

i feel like they will nerf this gas grenade explosive grenade shit lol

[thin basin]

And aoe

[timid aurora]

seeing a lot of people delete bosses + screen

in seconds

[thin basin]

And generic spell damage

And crit if you make it crit ofc

[timid aurora]

i still want to see what Invokers are cooking up to out do grenade and lightning arrow builds by 2x

[slim glacier]

What about the support gem Heft? it increases MAX phys damage

[timid aurora]

they seem to be keeping it a secret

[mortal hawk]

does that 3% chaos dmg per minion affect minions or myself?

[static plinth]

Anyone know an easy way to give Spark even 1 point of chaos damage?

[slim glacier]

kinda weird with it yeah, because there's no damage range?

[thin basin]

It should, i dont see why not

[dawn spire]

you

[spiral trail]

It's more so because why use ice shot besides slowing enemies

[static plinth]

Yourself

[spiral trail]

If I can't freeze consistently

I could do lightning shot and STILL freeze

[timid aurora]

but yeah ill probably do Merc a lot this EA. Grenades are just fun.

[jolly osprey]

does anyone know if enfeeble is bugged? it says 6 sec duration, but it appears and disappears in < 3 seconds on my screen

[timid aurora]

Monk i didn't have much fun with too much setup and combo points or power charges. Felt like a mmo too much of a annoying rotation

I'm a fan of the simpler combos like from Warrior and Merc

[tepid wharf]

has anyone tested out ranger builds? I'm poison build, seems "okay" but I hate the play style.

[timid aurora]

yeah go lighting style arrows

and rain of arrows

[dawn spire]

I'm a chronomancer, but I'm using lightning rod and orb of storms as my main skills

[timid aurora]

and dead eye with all that

ranger and merc just absolutely stomp and are easy from the get go

monk ends up better but takes a loong time if you don't mind the pain

[tepid wharf]

Is lightning that strongest? I lowkey wanna test out iceshot, loved that in poe1

[pearl sluice]

can somone help me plan a monk build? or just a build thats fun to play?

[tepid wharf]

is that ranger?

[dawn spire]

it's very different to its poe1 version, but I wanna try to make it work, too

[brazen plinth]

What are the best bow skills to use with barrage?

And I’m just making sure that I’m reading it rright. I cast barrage. Then I cast another skill with a massively increase cooldown, but the skill I cast is cast multiple times?

I’m sorry if this sounds stupid this is just one skill. I’m just somehow missing how it works.

[dawn spire]

chronomancer is a sorceress

[toxic zodiac]

I have a question regarding a support gem, Brutality. It says it gives 35% extra physical damage. When i use it with High velocity rounds on my merc, the damage drops from 135 to 97 per shot. Am i missing something, isn't high velocity shot physical damage, shouldn't it go up on the stats page?

[static plinth]

Oh sweet i was gonna path there anyway

[timid aurora]

what build are all these top ladder infernalists using?

[dawn spire]

all shots with your crossbow use your crossbow base damage. Does your crossbow have a lot of elemental damage on it? brutality removes all non-physical damage

[toxic zodiac]

thank you, i never thought of the crossbow

[half steppe]

does anyone know how much damage doom blast does?

Seems it doesnt work when I slot enfeeble into blasphemy

[spiral trail]

im trying to cook with ice shot

and the thing is, ice shot just slows people

[orchid sundial]

hello, does infenral legion woks on SRS ?

[halcyon solar]

Does "increased damage with 2h" also apply if you use a skill like Explosive Grenade?

the node from the skill tree

[spiral trail]

freezing people itself cant be done with ice shot alone but with other abilities so to make herald of ice shatter you gotta spam escaping shot and frozen salvo

[swift lintel]

U can click on the doom blast tab for base damage info

[toxic zodiac]

from what i understand it does, if you're using a two handed weapon

[swift lintel]

In the skill

[azure maple]

Which spell has the 40% lowered mana cost gem?

[spiral trail]

which is weird because u dont need ice shot to do that, then u can just run lightning arrow and destroy with that

[swift lintel]

In terms of supports, blasphemy makes ur curses never expire

Theyre just either on the mob or not

[half steppe]

i see

ty

[swift lintel]

So doom blast does nothing

[half steppe]

ashame i thought i cooked so hard with this build

[halcyon solar]

i mean it's simply using a skill. So it should i hope. thanks

[swift lintel]

Its ok early access game lots of bad cooking expected

[austere veldt]

Hi folks, so I finally started getting my tier 3 support gem drops

[dawn spire]

doom blast also says it only works with curses you cast yourself. Blasphemy curses are not cast by you

[half steppe]

Yeah I'm just coping

[austere veldt]

annnnnd. Frostfire doesn't support flameblast for some reason?

[unborn elbow]

hey guys does anyone know if projectile damage affects the explosion damage of Gas Arrow?

[austere veldt]

I don't quite understand why it wouldn't.

[maiden karma]

Poison bow is fucking amazing once you get gas arrow and shoot it through flame walls

[timid aurora]

lol this looks so sick,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItVqtFJlEoU

[obtuse owl]

how do you get elemetanl invocation?

[dawn spire]

cut a spirit gem

[dawn spire]

I'm looking at those gems and I'm also not sure why it wouldn't work

[austere veldt]

Nope nevermind

I was wrong.

[dawn spire]

@obtuse owl

[austere veldt]

Frostfire supports FLAMEBLAST, which is what I was going.

for, not firestorm, which has a different mechanic.

which by the way

[abstract saddle]

Does anyone happen to know if contagion spreads poison? On one hand it is a chaos dot debuff, on the other it isn't explicitly stated

[austere veldt]

fire and frost has been an awesome build for me

[topaz talon]

how can I filter to maximize ele resist in general for trade?
like I remember doing it back then in poe, just saying: "show me everything that has 100 resistance when you add all the resistances it provides"

[slim glacier]

Is it a bug that aura gems "grey out" Life Remnants? It claims "not enough spirit" but i have 3 spirit leftover after putting the gem in.

Guess I could see if it just works anyways?

[azure maple]

i litteraly just had this bug

moved the gem to a different skill and it worked

[halcyon solar]

Does the effect of Oil Grenade persist if i ignite it?

[slim glacier]

fair nuff lol

[azure maple]

Where can i find this !

[dawn spire]

cut a support gem

[azure maple]

tyty

[timid aurora]

Crazy invoker caster build I just saw someone talk about,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVBzJEat3Lg

People rigging Invoker into a pure caster seems to be why its showing up so high on ladder lol. Meelee kinda feels weird imo

[azure maple]

under a specific skill or?

[dawn spire]

click äll gems" at the bottom left and search for it

[azure maple]

oh thnaks

[pulsar cape]

Tempest flurry is pretty satisfying ngl

[unborn elbow]

does anyone know if projectile damage affects the explosion damage of Gas Arrow?

[short swan]

where can I see my mana and life leech stats?

[void barn]

Anyone got tips to make ED contagion feel less janky? I'm not struggling for damage, it just feels weird.

[minor rock]

how can you swap your Ascendancy?

[dawn spire]

cast speed helps it feel way smoother

[dawn spire]

you cannot

[timid aurora]

okay i see now. The Soul Springs Eternal in Invoker + Cast on Freeze/Burn/Shock linked to Comet is what is making Invoker get really nuts in end game

[vagrant hollow]

anyone have any knowledge around the evasion / pdr invoker ascendency node?

Please dm me if you know how the pdr is calculated.

[bold oxide]

@hoary plover looking over your post again. you say to put wildshards in with gas arrow but that only works for spells btw

[random summit]

guys should i not take sanguimancy on bloodmage before i get more ascendancy points? will it actually brick my build

[wet rain]

Question: fire Invoker w/ double 2 hand mace. Yay or not?

[hoary plover]

whoops, mixed it up with scattershot. good catch

[bold oxide]

👍

dude stacking 20 clouds and deleting 50% hp of a boss as soon as they spawn while also stunning them and then doing the other 50% before they get back up is so nuts

this shit getting nerfed into the fucking ground

[hoary plover]

yeah idk whats gonna happen with balance. other stuff is getting similar damage (see jungroan video above)
i think its really that the bad skills are really bad. hopefully everything meets somewhere in the middle

[steady solar]

can any1 help me with my sorc build im lvl 21 and starting to strugle big time

[hardy willow]

Warrior's kit :(

It's all trash.

My 2h hammer has 5x the dps of all of my abilities, if not more lmao

[hoary plover]

tbh i'm just in druid waiting room. give me some dope nature spells

[hardy willow]

Really fucked that just standing there and holding mouse 1 autoattacking with basic attacks is better than a 5 spell combo

[bold oxide]

yeah the comet build is sick too

[hardy willow]

Feels like GGG shat all over his abilities because of this one node

[bold oxide]

im shadow waiting room

gimme trickster pls

[mortal cloak]

Any suggestions for a frost orb frag round build ? Like what other skills etc. planning to use frost orb, frag rounds, shock grenade with the frost and wind armor

[lean salmon]

what does this mean exactly? Playing cold stormweaver, is it related to me inducing ailments on others?

[dawn spire]

no, it's how easily ailments get applied to you

[limpid trout]

playing minion infernalist

this is good, yeah?

[dawn spire]

it gives you minions 50% increased damage

[limpid trout]

25 reduced damage reduces MY damage, yeah?

[indigo berry]

https://streamable.com/rl54bu
2 button chrono bashing

[sweet yoke]

Is there some sort of crit mechanic with gas grenade + explosive shot? sometimes it one shots mobs and sometimes it doesn't barely do any damage.

[tulip dagger]

Is there a good use case for the Painter's Servant gloves?

(33% of element is converted to cold, 33% to fire, and 33% to lightning)

[deft tulip]

did I mess this unique up?

[wet mango]

for herald of ash, does anyone know if the listed damage is the total ignite damage, or the dps? If I increase skill duration does dps go down or stay the same?

[wet mango]

you got a nothing result afaict

[karmic bronze]

anyone know if pathfinder's explosive concoction is a detonator?

[deft tulip]

Ill take it xd

[wet mango]

the skill says "detonator" or not

[dusky wigeon]

what does block chance do in poe2? Is it passive chance to block hits like in poe1?

[wet mango]

yes

[young wraith]

any1 run warrior with rob2628 build? im bit confused with his Leap slam support skill using bloodlust, which is i cant find any bleeding source from other skill.

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/hammer-of-the-gods#how-it-plays-1

[dawn spire]

yes

[dusky wigeon]

ty guys

[dawn spire]

also, hold alt to read about keywords

[humble saffron]

Where can I gamba

[dawn spire]

finn in act 1

[kindred heart]

anyone playing permafrost + herald of ice + frag rounds? what support gems are you using

[dawn spire]

there are also people in acts 2 and 3

[humble saffron]

I'm in Act 2, who's the gamba person in A2

[dusky wigeon]

tyring to cook a witchhunter with weapon master xbow/mace&shield and don't know which points to spend on the mace part

[dawn spire]

I'm not sure, but there are only like 5 npcs. I don't think it's the hooded one or the person by the map

[wet mango]

i don't think that's a combo since frag rounds consume the freeze right? doesn't that not proc HoI then?

[humble saffron]

I found it. It's Risu

[lofty grotto]

https://images-eds-ssl.xboxlive.com/image?url=MSVnmBUo_fHjbLYMjAEUQ8hxuvVvKKq5WWXWPr0sgiJ4WVHIYG.fLJ7REXBOrmdy02XJUHC9YXoVMQTTOcTKzv0E6vIQk7ACLzxlK.fiowWwKCrBeE0zV2ob7eZgeHY.dt4ppCQ4GMp_4wFl0Hqma.1LGfk4XIEyh093838eS_HYe_k5o4wf.b.tX6XEZP5xbY2jtcTVlo_aUwi8UpcE.3o9AHJy_lVKkmcVHxD8DJFaq1_S8UT6sIQwDH.NGKc3WhRtV3maklokxycfdedXhL3CLRFmVOtWUkCl3mabmUM-

oh my god

[kindred heart]

uhhh that's a good point

does hitting a frozen enemy with frag rounds not count as shattering

[dusky wigeon]

I think it does if they die from the frag rounds damage

[merry hound]

anyone know which ascend is better for minion witch build?

[dawn spire]

which minion?

[kindred heart]

i really want this build to work where i freeze stuff then hit them with frag rounds but it seems most ppl playing merc are just doing nade spam

[merry hound]

skeleton warrior/skeleton archer/fire skull/bone roaches

[wet mango]

wouldn't it consume the freeze first

[rotund horizon]

what is the best monk build. i am having trouble

[fathom stump]

which one is more dmg do you think? im playing lightning deadeye lvl 40

[dawn spire]

what other people are doing have zero impact on whether or not your build will work

[wet mango]

we don't know until people test it. there's no ground truth but that would be my suspicion.

[viral junco]

Best skill for Ignite Sorc ?

[humble saffron]

Bro my dps went from 145 to 388. Gamba success

[dawn spire]

elemental spell invokers seem to be popular, but we're barely scratching the surface

[somber orchid]

Gemling corpse exploder with focus on fire and apes (skeleton firebombers) and switching between scepter and 2h mace has been fun so far. Anyone else taking this or theorycrafted something similar?

[kindred heart]

true! i'm just kinda stupid and not smart enough to make my own build and don't have anyone else to get inspiration from

[dawn spire]

probably infernalist I'd wager

[rotund horizon]

im trying to play flurry but i just die

[wet mango]

just check in your skill menu?

[white timber]

Im sorry if stupit q
Magnitude = Multiplier?

[merry hound]

any reason why?

[dawn spire]

hold alt and read about it

[rotund horizon]

where can i find the build?

[wet mango]

no, magnitude is a thing on its own. it relates to ailments

[dawn spire]

blood mage doesn't really affect minions at all

[dawn spire]

no idea. probably streamers or youtube at this point. Nothing is set in stone yet

[merry hound]

then what it affect?

[dawn spire]

seething flame and hellhound from infernalist have some synergy with minion builds

[daring moat]

that's so good for my build damn

sick item

[vestal igloo]

what links for arc?

[dawn spire]

@merry houndbut blood mage has generically powerful defense

[deft tulip]

should I be happy that it was a "nothing result"? <33

[compact crow]

I chose gemling legionare and now want to pivot to a posion grenade ignite build, it seems like witch hunter is strictly better? I dont see any reason to use any more supports or skills since its a 2 button build,
anyone have ideas on how it could scale better with gemling

[wet mango]

it's better than a bad result

[dawn spire]

probably arcane tempo and either arcane surge, controlled destruction, or conduction

[dire lance]

I wanted to see some bolt based merc builds but it looks like lot of people are just going grenades....

[scarlet musk]

Soo..how is witchhunter?

[gaunt ether]

Does item level or item statlines matter more

For weapons

[old oriole]

does icebreaker work with eldrich battery? in passive skill tree?

[deft mirage]

anyone wanna help me kill end of act 2 boss :C

[scarlet musk]

i did too...dont mind grenades but do i have to do gamling legionare ascendancy

[sick sonnet]

Anyone think as a titan warrior that pin is good too? Or should I go all in on stun?

[deft tulip]

good to hear

[dawn spire]

normally #2┃looking-for-group would be more appropriate, but I'm blyronomancer if you want my help

[dire lance]

I saw that wudjo took that jsut for the multiple support gem perk.

[deft mirage]

❤️

[dire lance]

I am trying to decide which ascendancy to take for my merc right now :/

[scarlet musk]

Hmmm.. everyone hyped up witchhunter sort of

yea we just beat balbala

[dire lance]

Yeah for culling and the corpse explosion thing

Is it hard to hit stat requirements for gems later in the game?

[hardy willow]

:( Hopefully GGG gives warrior's abilities a pass because this ain't it guys

[shrewd tinsel]

Has anyone tried this yet? I still need the helmet

[feral halo]

hey guys little question, for the ascendancy you have to do the trial in act 2 twice to get 4 points correct? is there anything else i should know

[lofty grotto]

got unique boots but with no movement speed bonus
absolute garbage

[twin coral]

Hey do I want physical damage or lightning damage as a stormblast bolts + lightning rod mercenary?

[lofty grotto]

both are fine, however there are nodes for + lightning damage so it will scale better later on

[twin coral]

is shock burst + lightning rod good
havent seen anything about it but I thought it sounds funny

[wet mango]

you need the higher tier entry (2 floors)

[feral halo]

how do you get that?

[wet mango]

drops later on

[last patio]

what exactly makes evasion rating/energy shield better than armor or etc? and how do you determine with your own efforts whether one is better than the other for a character? And when does life and resistances take priority over ER/ES/Armor, etc

[wet mango]

they do different things

they all do diff things

you want multiple layers

part of Ev/Es/Ar calculations (for you) is what stats you have, since that affects the types of armour you are more able to wear

[feral halo]

is this it?

[wet mango]

number of trials: 1
no

[last patio]

like I would think a monk would want armor because they're melee for the most part

[wet mango]

has nothing to do with it

armour just reduces phys hits

(phys attacks?)

there are both ranged and melee

so it doesn't mean armour is better or worse if your char is melee

[scarlet musk]

for merc ranged absed or grenade build what stats stand out"?

[last patio]

Ok so basically you know which of the 3 you want based on what synergizes most with what stat your weapon seems to demand most?

aside from your passive nodes giving you a large hint

[dawn spire]

all phys hits

[hardy willow]

Either I'm doing something fantastically wrong, or GGG failed at balancing warrior

I'm literally just playing Dark Souls now. Attack with light attack twice, dodge.

Rinse and repeat until enemy dead.

None of my abilities do anything lmao

[dawn spire]

yeah, until we figure out which defenses are worth going out of your way for, your defenses are largely governed by how much you can get without going too far on your tree. Also if there are neat synergies for your ascendancy. Chronomancer, for example, has a way to restore energy shield which makes energy shield stacking more efficient than normal

[merry hound]

if i remember correctly 1 streamer 1 shotted a boss and he was charging his attack

[last patio]

hmm ok ty

[wet mango]

not synergizing with your weapon, more like "i have lots of str and dex so I guess I'm wearing str/dex armours"

[deep musk]

Can anyone give me advice on a wind-based Monk build? I don't like the look/flavour of the cold/lightning skills.

I like the idea of skills like wind blast/whirling assault

[somber orchid]

I was thinking something like this for gemling https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/jt9zo0o2

[wet mango]

yeah, feels like you're doing something wrong

shockwave totem, rolling slam, lots of good skills

[lyric helm]

Is 2H Mace for hammer of the gods the most efficient use of CD reset for chronomancer? Or are there other builds which maximize utility

[hardy willow]

And they do literally no damage

[wet mango]

what supports are you using

[last patio]

I mentioned weapon just because of all your gear it seems like the weapon most dictates which of str/dex/int you're gonna be taking the most of in passive tree

[somber orchid]

Rolling slam is great damage

[hardy willow]

Like rolling slam is fineish

[wet mango]

they should definitely be doing more dmg than light attack

[somber orchid]

Are you leveling your skills up?

[last patio]

then again....classes aren't glued to weapon choice...a monk can literally play like a ranger >>

[hardy willow]

If the gems would ever drop for me 😔

[wet mango]

yes, i'm not saying your gear and weapon will be similar reqs, I'm saying "synergizing" is the wrong word

[hardy willow]

And they are not.

[last patio]

so nevermind lol

[dawn spire]

rolling slam is based on your weapon, what's that looking like?

[last patio]

ok

[hardy willow]

Kinda ass that your skill damage is tied to RNG, not targeted progression

[pearl sluice]

what do i pick? elemental monk or the chaos monk???

[wet mango]

?? wdym you pick whatever skills you want

[fleet blaze]

Anyone got any suggestions for what to put in herald of ice? Monk. I've got 64 cold pen already and most of my damage supports are in other skills

[north talon]

What are you complaining about specirically? Warrior feels VERY strong to me, at least in the phase of the game that looks like. I have not gotten to end game

[somber orchid]

Partying up gets you better drops, even says so in the tooltip. Might be good to run some farm parties tbh

[wet mango]

you have no incr phys damage, it's a shit weapon

[dawn spire]

that's pretty garbage

[hardy willow]

Well after 25 hours its what GGG decided I get to own

[wet mango]

transmute/aug until you get one with like 70% phys dmg

you can gamble, you can craft

[somber orchid]

That’s garbage

[wet mango]

there's lots of options

[wet mango]

also what do you mean by this, you know you can craft any skill on the gems right?

it's absolutely targeted progression

[dawn spire]

Something I see people do in this channel all the time is misattribute what is making their build feel bad. People tend to blame the class first, but your gear and skill gems make the absolute most difference

[north talon]

You really want a big physical mace imo, Physical scales heavy stun and you have big bases to scale off of

[deep musk]

Can anyone give me advice on a wind-based Monk build? I don't like the look/flavour of the cold/lightning skills.
I like the idea of skills like wind blast/whirling assault

[hardy willow]

No that's fine, but you're still gated by the gems that unlocks/levels up skills dropping at all in the first place

[pearl sluice]

chaos or elemental monk?

[wet mango]

you say "if gems would ever drop" but it looks from this SS that yo7u have plenty of gems? maybe you waste them on skills that you don't need?

[orchid current]

skill gems actually drop decently frequently

[somber orchid]

They drop eventually

[orchid current]

support skill gems are a tad more rare in my experience

[north talon]

I get support gem drops faster than I can spend them

[wet mango]

how many gems do you need? I have plenty of leftover in my playthrough. you don' t need every skill to be at exactly max,you can use them for new skills

[orchid current]

i wish there was a more clear indicator of when certain level skill gems drop

[hardy willow]

Gated by gold at the moment.

[somber orchid]

Like a different color

[willow ledge]

anyone playing a chronomancer with the "now and again" node that can help me test something real quick? I'm wondering if the chance to not consume a cooldown works for minion abilities (like the poison cloud from skeleton sniper)

[orchid current]

no i mean just what level you'll get, say, level 2 support gems

[somber orchid]

That’s just part of the game. I am using a 2h as well on one of my two loads and I struggled a bit in act 2 until I got a weapon that did over 100 damage

Then was pretty easy

[hardy willow]

I mean I'm really not struggling

I'm literally just standing there holding right mouse button

and watching groups of enemies explode

bosses are slow, not impossible

[raven helm]

how do i get more ascendancy points? I just completed the sekhema trial again and got none]

[north talon]

I am leveling my 2nd Warrior atm and just got peak unique drop to carry until probably act 3-4 so... I am happy

[somber orchid]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/jt9zo0o2. For gaming minion corpse explosion build should I focus on more minion passive, fire, or is this pretty solid?

[wet mango]

yuou need the higher tier entry

[raven helm]

what do those look like?

[surreal cliff]

Azarian dead in 42 seconds

[somber orchid]

Nice, I’ve gotten four uniques and they’ve between mud only good for act 1

[wet mango]

it says like "tier: 2" or "challenges: 2" or something like that

[north talon]

This thing is very silly early on. Kills a lot of boss in a single stun

[jagged thistle]

so am on a infernal witch how to rasie my ascension points ?

[somber orchid]

Based

[rotund horizon]

does anyone have a link to a good monk build. level 22 on the verge of quitting. i have a good weapon but i feel so weak and not having fun.

all the build guides seem pretty terrible

[vivid totem]

Does Minion Pact affect the DOT portion of Essense Drain? Skill sheet only shows the bonus on the projectile Hit portion.

[last patio]

I guess righteous fire isn't gonna work quite the same lol

[raven helm]

do i need a diff sort of coin that says this?

[lyric plank]

lets go

[median olive]

Anyone figured out good supports for hand of chayula yet?
I saw someone said they were using it as their main acolyte DPS and have no idea how

[wet mango]

? why

[last patio]

it's a shame you can't have 100% resistance. It was cool being able to walk around thru lava in poe1

[wet mango]

it's the same coin/item it will just say "tiers: 2"

[wet mango]

poe1 has the same 90% cap

[deep musk]

anyone have guides/suggestion for a wild blast monk?

*wind blast

[last patio]

wtf? I swear I had way beyond 100% fire resistance with RF. Otherwise you'd slowly take damage right?

[deep musk]

you outregened it

[wet mango]

no, you balance it with regen

[north talon]

90% resists is VERY durable

[daring heron]

Just got this for my lightning sorceress

[wet mango]

you get like 2-3k regen per second

[last patio]

ooooh

[wet mango]

you're thinking uncapped fire res maybe

[last patio]

I feel like I remember looking at my fire res stat and it actually showing a number over 90% tho

[next monolith]

BEST GEMS FOR HEROLD OF ASH?

[last patio]

oh

[deep musk]

it should say something like 75% (105%)

[willow ledge]

anyone playing a chronomancer with the "now and again" node that can help me test something real quick? I'm wondering if the chance to not consume a cooldown works for minion abilities (like the poison cloud from skeleton sniper)

[last patio]

uncapped resist and regular resist T_T. I'm so confused hahaha

[last patio]

oh yeah that was probably it

[wintry knoll]

is there enough stuff in the game atm to make a thorns build work?

[last patio]

or was it*

[deep musk]

probs not

[wintry knoll]

that really sucks. guess the only option is to just build warrior like literally everyone else :/

[turbid geode]

Any tips on converting from lightinging bell monk into a chaos monk around level 35

[orchid current]

thorns is usually a meme stat anyways

[lyric plank]

legit chilling

[wintry knoll]

spoken like someone who only blindly follows build guides

[next monolith]

best herold of ash sup gems?

[last patio]

Will there be any pay off for taking this path with monk? I didn't realize % crit chance only applied to the listed crit chance of the weapon or skill -_-' so it's a % toward a %

[orchid current]

???

[last patio]

oops those nodes are all crit chance/crit damage btw

[orchid current]

unless you get like turbo insane amount of thorns on armors it's not really that good

[rotund horizon]

where can i find a good monk build.

[somber orchid]

Any feedback on gemling minion build w focus on fire and corpse explosions? https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/jt9zo0o2

[last patio]

in hindsight, it seems like going all evasion/energy shield would have been the smartest choice since all the crit etc nodes have next to no value, at least at this point

[orchid current]

invoker gets boni for critically hitting enemies

[scarlet musk]

evasion?

[orchid current]

though crit has historically been poor early game and powerful late game

[slow heron]

i'm wanting to go crit merc, but i think i will only invest in crit nodes later in the game

[last patio]

evasion rating and energy shield nodes are mostly coupled from what I saw

[brittle crow]

what is raging spirits damage based off of?

[somber orchid]

Witch Hunter?

[slow heron]

and, hey there everyone! haha

[last patio]

Ok so eating shit all early game will have payed off hopefully lol

[slow heron]

yeah, gonna go concentration nodes and culling / decimating

[mental valley]

is there a fire exploision build for sorc?

[orchid current]

i'd personally respec until later, unless you're fine with what you've got

[somber orchid]

That’s probably how I’d play it but I went gemling

[slow heron]

seems super cool, i might make one later when i know more about the skills and the game in general

[orchid current]

i personally started with the explode node

[timid wraith]

looks about as clean as you can get it , need to see it perform tho

[slow heron]

2 of the same support gem is soooo tempting

[orchid current]

though idk if it has been helping as much

[somber orchid]

I’m early in it but enjoying it a lot, playing by switching g between a 2H and a scepter

[last patio]

you mean respec now and re-add crit later?

[timid wraith]

what 2h

[brave sonnet]

do explosions count as attacks? i'm using explosive shot which explodes ice crystals/gas as secondary damage after the hit and i'm not sure anything but the direct hit will benefit from this node

[orchid current]

yes, though that's ultimately your choice

[lyric solar]

i picked gemling and have been having a great time. Being able to have gem requirements all completed by your highest stat also seems wild

[slow heron]

atm i'm running a mix of glacial bolt + fragmentation and armour pirce + high velocity

[timid wraith]

the problem is until yo uactually get gemling you gona have to pay out the ass to respec

[slow heron]

oh yeah, i didn't think about that, super easy to diversify

[lyric solar]

yeah theres so many options its pretty daunting

[timid wraith]

I assume you go Raging spirits

[slow heron]

i can imagine some choice paralysis haha

i wanted to go for somehting more simple with my first char

[lyric solar]

Ive been doing a grenade spam build setup and its been hella fun

[last patio]

I'm trying to base my build around power charges, and I suppose flicker strike. I just assumed crit would be best for that. I'm kinda bummed you can't just easily 1 shot with killing palm with enough upgrades

[mossy onyx]

guys i CANT activate "cast on minion death" aura. i can toggle it on, but it does not reduce my spirit (i have the required spirit available) and also does nothing when toggled on. it also messes with my other spirit allocation, main i can allocate way too many minions without having an effect (see pic). in other words: wtf?